Second Drink: Heavy Competition

This week we’re breaking down “Heavy Competition” and it’s the “Office Ladies” 100th episode!!! As Michael tries to steal Dwight’s customers, the ladies celebrate this very special podcast milestone. Angela pops some Champagne, the ladies listen to a very special fan song and Jenna demonstrates the skill needed for that super fun cheeseball opening. So as you’re deciding whether “Pachelbel” is a better wedding song than “You Can Call Me Al”, enjoy this episode and thank you for listening! Listen to Creed Bratton’s song, “Breathe Easy”: https://music.apple.com/us/album/breathe-easy-single/1590302298 Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion 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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  Welcome to our second drink of heavy competition. This was our 100th episode of Office Ladies. We celebrated with champagne, gifts, a little bit of Dr. Peter Thibodeau stats.

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  Yes, the Office Ladies Facebook fan page sent us a song to celebrate our 100th episode. We listened to it together for the first time on the podcast. It's so fantastic. It warms my heart.

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  I'll never forget that moment. It's so wonderful. And so many of our Office Ladies community wrote in to share about their joy of the office and of the podcast. I wanted to share this one. This came in from Mao T. They started listening to the podcast around 2022. They wrote to say, "I was very late to the party when I got to the 100th episode. I also cried during the fan song. I freaking love your show and have been listening to the podcast as much as I can until I catch up with the corresponding episodes." Mao went on to thank us for the hard work we do and to congratulate us on the success of the show. And we just wanted to say, "Thank you Mao." And we also wanted to share your

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  letter because it really sat with me how timeless the office is and that our rewatch podcast will always be there for you. Whenever you find it in your office journey, you will never be late to the party.

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  That's right. We're big believers and you're never too late to go to the party.

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  Yes. Well, let's dig into some second drink tidbits. I have something fun to share about this episode. In early drafts, this episode was called Corporate Spy.

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  Oh, so mysterious. Well, I'll kick off our mailbag with this from Maureen in Grand Rapids. Maureen said, "Hi, Angela and Jenna. I have listened to the podcast all the way through and I've just started my second pass. I love the candy bag alts. And by the way, I love that I know the lingo of the show. But ladies, is there one from this episode that you liked?" Okay, so Maureen, I love it when anyone asks us about the candy bag. You know, you've listened to our whole show. You're on your second pass. So you know I love a good candy bag.

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  Can I tell you something quickly?

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  What?

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  Because it's funny to me that Maureen knows what a candy bag alt is, but I was in like a meeting with some folks at a network and they were asking about my time on the office and about the podcast. And I said, "Oh, we recorded this episode called Boom Roasted and we dig into all the candy bag alts from Michael's roast." And they're like, "What are candy bag alts?" And I'm like, "Oh, my gosh. It's not like an industry term. It is an office-specific term."

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  And they don't listen to our podcast, clearly.

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  Clearly not. But Maureen does.

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  That's right. Well, Maureen, I actually found a section in the candy bag alts that I want to share with you. Are you ready for the title? It's titled "Other Stuff Cheese Puff."

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  Oh, no. Is this cheese puff alts? That scene where we're throwing the cheese puffs in each other's mouth?

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  Exactly.

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  Oh, my gosh.

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  It's just a list. Are you ready?

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  Yeah.

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  Michael does a quote, "No look" toss into Pam's mouth. Michael throws it between his legs. Michael goes deep and catches one over his shoulder. Michael juggles three, all three cascade into his mouth. Michael blows one out of his mouth and catches it again. Pam simultaneously throws a puff into both Ryan and Michael's mouth. Michael walks in for the morning, taking off his coat. He catches a puff in his mouth.

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  Oh, my gosh. That is so funny. We shot so many options, but the one, and we talk about it in our breakdown, we talk all about this, is like how excited we were when the three-way toss actually worked.

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  That was brilliant.

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  That was like real joy.

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  Yeah. That's like a sports moment.

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  It kind of is.

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  Yeah. Okay. So there were also some alt endings and I wanted to read one for you guys, but I'm going to need some help. Okay. So I'm going to read Michael and Ryan. Jenna, you read Pam. And Sam, can you read the stage directions?

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  Sounds good.

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  Okay. Michael starts. All right, let's do it. No look this time.

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  Michael reaches into the puff jar. There's not a lot left.

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  We're getting low.

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  He holds it for everyone to take another puff. Pam pulls something weird and furry and round, about the size of a puff, out of the jar.

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  Oh, my God. What is this? Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.

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  Is that a mouse?

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  Ah!

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  All three of them have very strong grossed-out reactions.

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  And scene.

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  Oh, my gosh. So this would have ended with us realizing we'd been eating cheese puffs out of a bucket with a dead mouse in the bottom?

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  Yes.

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  Okay, we never shot that. That did not, we never, we never did that one.

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  Well, there is so much in the candy bag alts for this episode that I didn't even dig into. There are pages and pages of Michael talking heads. They are so funny. We might have to investigate this candy bag further, lady.

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  Mmm. Well, you know I love a bonus candy bag episode.

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  I know. So put this one on our list.

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  All right. Well, everyone, please enjoy your second drink of heavy competition.

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  I'm Jenna Fisher.

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  And I'm Angela Kinsey.

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  We were on The Office together.

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  And we're best friends.

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  And now we're doing the ultimate office rewatch podcast just for you.

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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.

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  We're the Office Ladies.

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  Hey kiddos, it's Uncle Creed here. Buckle up because the Office Ladies just hit 100 episodes. Amazing.

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  100 episodes, baby!

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  I am already starting to cry.

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  This is amazing. I brought champagne. I'm gonna open it up. Look at this.

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  We're drinking again before 10 a.m.

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  We are, because it's 100 episodes and we could not have done this without you guys. We wish you were all here with us.

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  Oh, my gosh.

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  Okay, Jenna, don't be afraid. I've opened champagne before.

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  I'm slightly scared.

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  Oh, you know what? I shouldn't point it towards the glass. Sam, I won't point it towards the glass.

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  I appreciate that.

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  Okay, here we go.

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  Congratulations, Jenna. Congratulations, Sam, Cassie, Cody, Colin, Marissa, Eliana, Hannah, Aisley, everybody that helps us make this show.

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  Oh, my gosh. We're going to be celebrating with our team later after we record.

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  Yes, and we got some fun gifts.

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  Oh, we do.

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  Speaking of fun gifts, the, I promise you, the bags are unrelated to the gifts, but under the table there, to all of you, those are for you. Happy 100.

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  Sam!

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  Oh, my God.

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  Oh, Sam.

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  Is a Domino's pizza bag?

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  I promise you, the bag, it's the only bags.

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  Did you get us pizza?

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  The bags are unrelated.

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  How do you have Domino's pizza?

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  Sam, get out. Sam, you are the cutest person on the planet. You guys.

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  Okay, how do we describe this? It's one of those tornado, no, it's one of those volcano bowls.

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  Oh, my gosh. It's like Pam's art school. It's Pam's art school bowl.

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  Congratulations, guys.

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  Oh, my God.

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  Sam, and he has little bottles of alcohol and straws. Sam, this is the cutest, most thoughtful thing. You are so sweet.

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  Now, remember, the key to a punch is it's literally whatever you want.

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  Oh, my gosh. We can't have a volcano bowl and...

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  Okay, we're gonna have champagne today. We'll save the volcano bowl for our company get-together.

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  Sam, I love it. That is so sweet. Surprise gift under the table.

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  Under the table. This is like Oprah when she's like, "Look under your chair. You get a car. You get a volcano bowl." Sam, thank you. And we have something for you guys. I can't wait for you to see, but we're going to give it to you all at the same time.

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  That's right. Because Cassie's on Zoom today.

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  Hi, Cassie on Zoom.

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  Hi, guys.

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  You're missing champagne, Cassie.

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  I know.

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  Cheers, Jenna.

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  Cheers, lady. I've got a glass of champagne and a cup of coffee. A nice way to start the day. Listen, today we will eventually be discussing heavy competition, but we would like to dedicate our fast facts to Office Ladies today, to our 100th episode.

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  That's right.

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  So should we get into it?

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  I can't wait.

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  Fast fact number one, Office Ladies podcast debuted on October 16, 2019. So here we are, just a little over two years later, having released 100 episodes.

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  100.

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  And in December of this year, we will hit 200 million downloads.

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  What? I'm getting on the table.

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  Oh, no.

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  200 trillion downloads. I'm on the table. This isn't from champagne. This is excitement.

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  It's an audio program. They cannot see.

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  I'm on the table. Now I don't know how to get down.

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  She's tangled.

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  Oh, Jesus.

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  Oh, my gosh, you're my mom. It's Lucy.

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  I'm your mom with your glasses.

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  You're Lucy-ing our studio. You just full-on Tom Cruise, that lady.

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  Oh, Tom Cruise. Cruzed it. Oh, the couch.

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  Oprah's couch.

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  I know.

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  You did it. Um, listen, when we started this podcast, we never could have imagined that it would grow this big. I did not imagine it.

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  No.

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  Or that it would be as popular, or that it would resonate with people, or that we would have this community that we have. And it means so much to my life. It means so much to me. It has changed my life. In all the ways that The Office changed my life, this has changed my life as well, because it has brought me a job that brings me closer to my family and closer to my best friend.

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  Oh, lady, don't make me cry.

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  Well.

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  I feel the same way. I am just deeply grateful.

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  Me too.

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  Truly grateful. You guys, we're so thankful for you, for all of the comments and messages you leave us every week, the things that you share with us. It just means so much to us, and we love doing this. We love it.

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  I love it. I have a really fun fast fact, number two.

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  A fun fast fact. I'm gonna take a sip of champagne while you say that.

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  I love our mail.

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  Mm hmm.

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  I go through a lot of our mail with Ainsley.

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  Yes.

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  You go through a lot of our physical mail, Angela.

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  If you write a letter to the Earwolf offices and send things, I go through that. Jenna and Ainsley go through our digital mail.

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  Yes.

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  That's how we divide it up.

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  In our digital mail, we got a letter from Dr. Peter Thibodeau.

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  Dr. Thibodeau. I know a lot of Thibodos in Louisiana.

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  Here's what he said, Angela.

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  Okay.

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  My wife, daughters, and I noticed how much you both love saying two things on your podcast.

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  Oh, no. What?

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  Lady. And amazing. So, I tracked down just how many times that comes up in the podcast.

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  Oh, Dr. Thibodeau.

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  Lady, he tracked it.

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  Was it amazing?

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  It was amazing. He was only able to track up to our 92nd episode.

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  Okay.

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  But over the last 92 podcasts, we have said lady 636 times.

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  Oh.

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  And we have said amazing 786 times.

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  Wow.

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  But he broke it down with charts. The charts are incredible. On average, we say the word amazing nine times per episode, and we say lady seven times per episode. He said there was a stretch from episodes 31 through 47 where our use of both words really went up. We said amazing and lady a total of 34 times in the cocktails episode.

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  What was up with us that day?

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  Well, I looked it up, and episodes 31 through 47 ran from June of 2020 to September 2020.

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  Summer is summer vibes.

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  It was also right in the heart of the pandemic. We were recording from home in our closets. I think we were coping. I think we were throwing out the ladies to cope.

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  Amazing, because we were in closets. We're like, this is amazing.

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  I think so.

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  Or, you know what I think?

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  What?

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  I think doing our podcast felt amazing, and it was such a great healing thing for us through the pandemic, really and truly.

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  It was an escape.

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  It was an escape. Like, every time I walked into that closet, I was like, I get to hang out with Jenna today.

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  Yeah.

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  And we get to talk about really fun things.

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  And that's really when, like, Cody and Cassie and Sam and you, like, became my best friends, because you were the only people I ever saw on that Zoom.

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  100%.

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  Yeah.

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  We would start our podcast just sort of sharing.

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  Yeah.

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  Like in school, where you have circle time and you share.

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  Yeah.

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  That was the first part of every podcast Zoom.

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  I think that's why we thought they were so amazing.

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  I agree.

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  Well, our biggest lady episode was the coup. We said it 19 times.

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  Made me snort laugh.

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  Our biggest amazing episode was traveling salesman. We said it 20 times. But then, this was my favorite thing.

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  Oh, my gosh.

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  That Dr. Thibodeau wrote.

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  Dr. Thibodeau.

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  He said, sadly, there were a few times when the Office ladies weren't feeling amazing, and we only used it one time.

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  What episode?

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  Diversity Day, Boys and Girls, and Take Your Daughter to Work Day.

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  Wow.

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  And then he says, and lady, there were four podcasts where there was no use of the word lady at all. And those were sexual harassment, booze cruise, Dwight's speech, and customer survey.

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  I find it hard to believe that we didn't say lady one time.

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  Yeah.

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  But Dr. Thibodeau has the stats.

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  Well, we had to ask Dr. Thibodeau, why? Why track it? I mean, we love to track stuff, but what compelled him to track all of this? And he said, I am a PhD scientist, and I love tracking data of any kind.

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  Jenna, this is like your soulmate.

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  Am I a PhD scientist on the inside, and I don't know it?

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  You love to track things, lady.

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  Maybe I'm a PhD scientist.

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  Maybe you are.

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  He said, for whatever reason, this is something that my family and I caught on about early, and I took this on just to see how it went. And I will do this all the way to the end, and I will never miss an episode.

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  Dr. Thibodeau, we have got to send you a lady sweatshirt.

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  We're gonna send your whole family lady sweatshirts.

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  Yeah, everybody gets a lady sweatshirt. Thank you.

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  Thank you so much, Dr. Thibodeau. I, that piece of mail, it made my day.

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  I want to see the bar graph chart. I want to see it. We gotta put it.

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  We'll post it.

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  Oh, we'll put it in stories.

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  And his daughter made some graphics to go along with the facts, and we can put those up as well.

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  I love this family.

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  Same. Now, Angela, you said, save me a fast fact.

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  Mm hmm.

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  So you are fast fact number three, and I don't know what it is.

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  Yes, Jenna, I am fast fact number three, and I want to give a huge shout out to our Office Ladies Podcast Fan Page over on Facebook, and they submitted a song to celebrate our 100th episode. We have to hear it.

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  Okay, now, have you heard this yet? Because I have not heard this.

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  I have not heard it. I wanted us to hear it together in real time for the first time.

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  All right.

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  So here we go.

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  584,800 seconds. That's how many seconds are in the podcast.

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  Ah.

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  584,800 seconds.

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  It made me cry.

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  We've all been listening every Wednesday in fast facts.

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  And deep dives.

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  With guest stars and Cantapedia.

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  New plans and perception.

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  And heartbreak in the break room. 584,800 seconds. That's like watching The Office only two times. You have a bunch of cats.

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  And one ate a bird.

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  You helped us with our backpacks.

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  And showed us just what we're worth.

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  You've inspired us all. We thank you so much.

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  Inspired us all.

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  For all who worked on the pod.

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  Inspired us all.

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  100th episode celebration. Celebrate. Celebrate from your Office Ladies Facebook Fan Page. You've inspired us all.

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  So beautiful.

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  You've inspired us all, ladies.

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  Inspired us all.

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  You've inspired us all, ladies.

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  I can't really talk.

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  Hey, just checking in, we're all crying, right?

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  We're all crying. That was so, so kind. Um, my goodness, that was so great. Thank you so much. I really want to give a big thank you. That was a group effort, and I'm going to read off who all was part of that amazing song. Um, these are happy tears, guys. These are happy tears. So Hannah Byers had the idea for it. Michaela and Zach Dodge, who are a husband and wife team, performed it. And Nattis Sefoni and Michaela Dodge wrote the lyrics. Isn't that wonderful? And I also know a lot of you guys on the Facebook page are sending in messages. Thank you so much. Michelle, Nikki, and Brad are helping

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  me, and we're going to put all of your messages over the next few days into our Insta stories. Thank you so much, Office Ladies Facebook Fan Page.

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  I'm still kind of speechless.

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  I know.

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  I pretty much wept through that whole thing. You really got me with the cat eating the bird and, and the backpack. That's a reference to a bonus episode that we did where I shared a little about my social anxiety and my coping mechanisms. And that was a really vulnerable thing when I shared that, and I questioned doing it. And just to, um, anyway, that just meant a lot. Thank you.

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  I know, lady, I know. And just when you had us crying, you told us that basically, if you've listened to Office Ladies, you've only watched The Office twice.

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  I love that.

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  Okay, well, gosh, I think we need a minute.

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  I think we need a minute. Let's take a break, and when we come back, we will dedicate the rest of this episode to breaking down heavy competition.

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  All right, we are back. We've had a laugh. We've had a cry.

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  We've had a little champagne. It's really good.

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  Thank you.

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  Champagne. It is brute classique.

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  Well.

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  By Francois.

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  I'm always classique, baby.

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  You know what? My eyesight's so bad, I can't read it.

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  It's all right.

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  But it's very good.

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  It's Francois. That's what we need to know. By the way, during break, both Sam and Jenna were just making fun of me getting on the table.

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  Well, because it's, um, you know, it's a podcast.

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  I know it's a podcast.

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  We appreciated it.

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  200 million downloads. That's a big deal. I knew I had to do something. I was like, I gotta do something. What do I do?

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  I appreciated the energy. I did. I appreciated it. You always show up with that.

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  Thank you. Sam videoed it. Cassie took photos. It'll go on the pod stories.

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  Should we break down heavy competition?

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  Do it.

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  This is season five, episode 24, written by Ryan Coe and directed by Ken Whittingham. I'm going to give you a summary.

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  Do it.

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  Michael forces Dwight to choose between either his loyalty to Charles Minor and Dunder Mifflin or Michael. And this results in the two of them going to war.

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  Yeah.

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  And Michael trying to steal Dwight's top clients.

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  It's gonna get ugly.

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  It's a heavy competition.

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  Yeah.

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  And still hurting from his breakup with Angela, Andy suspects that maybe Pam is being controlling of Jim, maybe mistreating him. So he starts offering Jim a bunch of unsolicited advice, which backfires when Jim pranks him into confiding that things are terrible between him and Pam. It starts this whole runner.

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  Yeah.

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  But this episode begins with a very famous cold open. The cheese puff cold open.

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  It is. I titled it the cheese puff.

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  I loved doing this cold open so much.

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  So many questions for you. I have so many questions.

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  Should we describe it?

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  Describe it.

• 22:08Speaker 00

  All right. It's Pam, Michael and Ryan tossing cheese puffs into one another's mouths in various ways.

• 22:17Speaker 01

  Right. It's like the things you see on like YouTube of where the guy bounces the basketball off like the back of a wall and it hits the other side of the wall and it goes in the hoop. That's what you guys are doing, but you're doing it with cheese puffs. And I love the callback because remember, this is what Michael took when he ran out of Dunder Mifflin on that last day.

• 22:36Speaker 00

  You have questions. We got a fan mail flurry about this. So first we reached out to writer Ryan Coe to find out like, what was the inspiration for this cold open? His response was so funny.

• 22:51Speaker 01

  It's so good.

• 22:51Speaker 00

  I actually spit out my coffee while listening to it.

• 22:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, we gotta play it.

• 22:55Speaker 07

  Hi Jenna. Hi Angela. Thanks for letting me talk about my episode. Jenna, you had mentioned that you love shooting that cold open with the cheese balls and you were wondering where it came from. I remember that it was most of all a product of exhaustion. I'll back up a bit. Yeah. You know, for the first draft of my episode, I had written a cold open about how Ryan thought Pam had a crush on him and no one liked it. So it was tossed out and we needed a new cold open. And at this point in the season, all the writers were really exhausted. In season five, as you recall, we did 28 episodes and they were shot in a 10 consecutive weeks of production, then a break so Steve could do a movie and

• 23:36Speaker 07

  then 18 straight weeks of production. Other shows I've been on, I've told them that there was a stretch of 18 straight weeks of production and they do not believe we did that. And sort of sitcoms, it's more common to do two or three weeks on of production and then one week off so that the actors can recover and so the writers can catch up and don't get totally burned out. And so 18 straight weeks is a total death march. And I remember at that time, a writer was going to go down and check out what was going down on set. Paul or someone was like, do not go down there. The actors are tired and are acting like huge ass. So yeah, I remember this was sort of rough time. And so for the last half

• 24:17Speaker 07

  of season five, we were always behind and I feel like we were working 11 or more hours pretty much every single day. I remember Mindy was really mad that it meant she had no social life and said something like, I'm going to die alone because of this damn show. So anyway, we were all very spent and we were trying to come up with a new cold open and it was either Aaron Schur or Paul. They were both the guys that were really good at making something out of nothing. One of them said, I don't know, they're throwing cheese balls at each other. And everyone's like, great. We don't have to write anything. That's awesome. Okay. That's the cold open cheese balls. All right. Next. As far as anything else about writing the episode, it was a long time ago and I don't really remember because

• 25:02Speaker 07

  I was tired.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  Ryan, that made our day.

• 25:09Speaker 00

  I mean, I look at this amazing piece of comedy that came out of just everyone being so tired.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Fatigue.

• 25:17Speaker 00

  Yes. You guys might remember Ryan is our writer who wiped out while running past the speed reader sign.

• 25:25Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 25:26Speaker 00

  So Ryan, thank you so much for sharing your memory with us of the cheese ball cold open. And now.

• 25:31Speaker 01

  And sorry if we were assholes that week. I guess we were all tired and grouchy.

• 25:37Speaker 00

  I guess so. Lady, you said you had some questions.

• 25:42Speaker 01

  I do.

• 25:43Speaker 00

  I'm here to answer questions.

• 25:44Speaker 01

  All right. So I know from other episodes where anytime we had to throw something, you don't get it on the first take.

• 25:50Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 25:51Speaker 01

  But that shot of Steve throwing the cheese puff ball at you, you caught it, you chomped it, you looked right to camera. And I was like, my girl, look at her. I was so proud. I was like, okay, Sidney Bristow on Alias, can you do that? Jenna, this is like your moment.

• 26:10Speaker 00

  All right. I'm going to tell you something.

• 26:11Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 26:12Speaker 00

  When I was in high school, I did not have a vibrant social life.

• 26:18Speaker 01

  So you threw cheese balls at your face?

• 26:21Speaker 00

  No.

• 26:21Speaker 01

  What?

• 26:22Speaker 00

  I watched a lot of movies.

• 26:24Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 26:25Speaker 00

  And when I watched the movies, I would eat popcorn and I started throwing the popcorn up in the air and catching it.

• 26:32Speaker 01

  By yourself?

• 26:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 26:34Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 26:34Speaker 00

  Listen, it paid off later in my life.

• 26:37Speaker 01

  It sure did.

• 26:37Speaker 00

  So don't feel sorry for me.

• 26:39Speaker 01

  I'm not feeling sorry.

• 26:40Speaker 00

  I also saw tons of great movies and I have a great mind for the cinema.

• 26:46Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 26:47Speaker 00

  So I am really good at catching food in my mouth.

• 26:51Speaker 01

  I know.

• 26:52Speaker 00

  Also, my sister and I would throw popcorn at each other.

• 26:56Speaker 01

  Sure, sure.

• 26:56Speaker 00

  So when I read this cold open, I was like, I'm gonna nail this. And then I got really scared that they were going to want to CGI it.

• 27:05Speaker 01

  Cause you were like, guys, I got this.

• 27:06Speaker 00

  It's not CGI.

• 27:08Speaker 01

  No, I know.

• 27:08Speaker 00

  I want everyone to know, those are real cheese balls. We had the best time shooting this.

• 27:15Speaker 01

  It looks like it. I was just delighted by every moment of it. Jenna, I'm great at catching food in my mouth as well. But just because I have good hand eye coordination, because I'm a little bit of a sporto.

• 27:28Speaker 00

  Why have we never thrown food at one another?

• 27:30Speaker 01

  Why, what do we have in here? Can we throw something at each other?

• 27:33Speaker 00

  We have a little bit of granola bar.

• 27:35Speaker 01

  We have granola bar and alcohol. That's not gonna work.

• 27:39Speaker 00

  Well.

• 27:40Speaker 01

  Next time, we're bringing popcorn.

• 27:43Speaker 00

  We can film that. Sam's going to the kitchen. So maybe we'll get some food in a second. It did take us a whole afternoon to shoot this and the one that took the longest was the three way where.

• 27:57Speaker 01

  You just phrase that differently.

• 28:00Speaker 00

  I'm gonna phrase it how I want to.

• 28:02Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 28:07Speaker 01

  Okay. The one that took the longest was the three way, as you were saying. Continue.

• 28:12Speaker 00

  You know, the one where.

• 28:14Speaker 01

  Yes, I know.

• 28:15Speaker 00

  We're each throwing a cheese ball into a different person's mouth.

• 28:17Speaker 01

  You had to time it out.

• 28:19Speaker 00

  And, oh.

• 28:21Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 28:22Speaker 00

  We have some Rice Krispie treats.

• 28:24Speaker 01

  Sam brought us Rice Krispie treats. Will these hurt our teeth?

• 28:27Speaker 00

  Are they gluten free?

• 28:31Speaker 01

  This is gonna hurt.

• 28:33Speaker 02

  That's all we have. I mean, don't throw them hard.

• 28:35Speaker 00

  Here, you gotta pull a little piece.

• 28:37Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 28:39Speaker 00

  Okay, ready?

• 28:39Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 28:41Speaker 00

  One, two, three. Oh, as a terrible.

• 28:44Speaker 01

  What was that toss?

• 28:45Speaker 00

  That was a terrible.

• 28:46Speaker 01

  Okay, wait, wait.

• 28:46Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 28:47Speaker 01

  Okay, ready?

• 28:47Speaker 00

  Yeah. The problem is it sticks to your thumb as you're trying to throw it.

• 28:53Speaker 01

  You're throwing it so low.

• 28:54Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 28:54Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 28:55Speaker 00

  Here we go.

• 28:59Speaker 01

  She hit me in the eye.

• 29:01Speaker 00

  Oh, my God. Okay, you try to throw to me.

• 29:03Speaker 01

  Wait, these are so sticky.

• 29:05Speaker 00

  That's what I mean. You try to throw it. You can't. It won't leave your finger.

• 29:08Speaker 01

  We might need something other than Rice Krispie treat bars.

• 29:12Speaker 00

  Ah.

• 29:13Speaker 01

  But can I just say that was a really good toss?

• 29:15Speaker 00

  It was a good toss.

• 29:18Speaker 00

  Why are we doing visual gags on our podcast?

• 29:20Speaker 01

  Okay, stop. Okay, we're gonna stop. Okay, we got one, you guys. We got one.

• 29:24Speaker 00

  Okay. Ribbiting content.

• 29:26Speaker 01

  Well, throwing Rice Krispie treats is a little difficult. You were talking about the three-way.

• 29:31Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, that was the hardest one. You know that reaction that you see at the end when we finally make it?

• 29:37Speaker 01

  Yes, because you were probably genuinely excited.

• 29:40Speaker 00

  That was real. I think you can see the look on my face. I knew I caught mine, and then I had to look and see if they really caught theirs. And then we were genuinely excited. That was the only time we ever got that toss correct.

• 29:53Speaker 01

  And they got it on camera.

• 29:54Speaker 00

  They got it on camera, but we spent a whole afternoon on the cheese puff sequence. We got a fan question from Erin B. At the end, when the cheese ball lands in Pam's hair so perfectly, was that in the script or just pure luck? That was pure luck. It was just supposed to be that each of those guys throw a cheese ball at me when I yawn.

• 30:14Speaker 01

  Right.

• 30:15Speaker 00

  I didn't even know it was stuck in my hair.

• 30:17Speaker 01

  It's so perfect because you look directly at camera, thinking you brushed the other one off.

• 30:21Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 30:21Speaker 01

  Your cheese ball free.

• 30:23Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 30:23Speaker 01

  And then one little dude's hanging in your hair.

• 30:25Speaker 00

  Ah, without a doubt, this was one of my favorite sequences to shoot ever on The Office. And I feel like it bonded me and Steve and BJ.

• 30:34Speaker 01

  I would think so.

• 30:35Speaker 00

  In a real way.

• 30:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:36Speaker 00

  It was a very, very fun day at work.

• 30:39Speaker 01

  Well, now the episode is gonna start. Jim, Pam, and Andy are in the break room. I don't even know what to title this break room scene. Shopping over misery? I don't know.

• 30:52Speaker 01

  So Andy is showing them photos of wedding cakes. He's playing them wedding music. Basically, he's trying to sell off things he paid for for his wedding to Angela.

• 31:01Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's trying to get Pam and Jim to buy these elements from his not happened wedding.

• 31:07Speaker 01

  Failed wedding, yeah.

• 31:10Speaker 00

  And one of the things that he plays for them is a song that Pam could walk down the aisle to.

• 31:16Speaker 01

  By his a cappella group.

• 31:18Speaker 00

  Yes, it's sort of a combination of Pachelbel that morphs into Call Me Al.

• 31:25Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 31:26Speaker 00

  Should we hear it?

• 31:27Speaker 01

  I think we need to. Randy Cordray sent us in the whole song. Let's hear it.

• 32:18Speaker 00

  That's right. Andy tells Pam she can walk down the aisle to this song for the low price of $9,000. Which Pam says seems like a lot for an a cappella group from a college that neither her or Jim attended.

• 32:34Speaker 01

  Yeah. Wait, before we move on, I just want you guys to know, I played that this morning in my kitchen and literally was dancing. And Ed's guitar a cappella solo will never, ever disappoint. If you're having a day where you're down in the dumps, listen to Ed Helms as Andy go. Like, it's so good.

• 32:57Speaker 00

  Do you think anyone's ever actually walked down the aisle to this?

• 33:01Speaker 01

  Oh, I hope so.

• 33:02Speaker 00

  Me too.

• 33:03Speaker 01

  Oh, I hope so. If you walk down the aisle to this, will you tag Office Ladies Pod?

• 33:07Speaker 00

  Please. We got a fan question from Harjan V. Did Ed Helms do all the voices in this a cappella song? No. No, he did not. He got together a group of his friends to perform this piece. He called John Michael Higgins, who did the arrangement and the solo voice in the first section. You guys know him. He's from all of the Christopher Guest movies. He was also in that movie, The Breakup, with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, where he's in an a cappella group called The Tone Rangers. But he has also appeared, or his voice has appeared, on a previous episode of The Office.

• 33:49Speaker 01

  That's right, you guys. He was in Launch Party. He and Ed sang Take a Chance on Me to Angela in that episode over speakerphone.

• 33:58Speaker 00

  Yes. So he did the lead vocals on this. Ed did that bassline. They recorded it in a studio at Universal Studios. Randy told us that they did this in three takes.

• 34:10Speaker 01

  Amazing. Amazing, Dr. Tibido. Amazing. Well, after this episode aired, they updated the Angela and Andy wedding website. They posted the whole song along with an advertisement for the a cappella group for the wedding services for $9,000, just like Andy says in the scene.

• 34:30Speaker 00

  That's incredible. Well, next up, we see Dwight in a white, long-sleeved shirt.

• 34:39Speaker 01

  This scene was so funny to me. I thought Rain was so funny, the way he kept struggling in the long sleeve and saying how it was like affecting his attack readiness.

• 34:48Speaker 00

  He said it was like a straitjacket.

• 34:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:51Speaker 00

  He's in the kitchen. He's talking with Phyllis. I guess this is Charles's new dress code.

• 34:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:58Speaker 00

  I had something happen to me when I was watching this scene.

• 35:01Speaker 01

  What?

• 35:01Speaker 00

  And I want to apologize for it in advance because it became a little bit of an obsession as I watched this episode.

• 35:07Speaker 01

  What?

• 35:08Speaker 00

  It didn't happen to me until my third time watching the episode.

• 35:11Speaker 01

  What happened?

• 35:13Speaker 00

  I became obsessed with what I believe was my observation that Dwight's sleeves are too short.

• 35:23Speaker 01

  Oh, Lord.

• 35:24Speaker 00

  They're too short. I think they're not long enough. And I found an article that breaks down exactly how long a man's dress shirt should fit. It has illustrations.

• 35:35Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 35:36Speaker 00

  So I created a photo, side by side.

• 35:40Speaker 01

  You really did get obsessed.

• 35:42Speaker 00

  I mean, I spent way too long on this. Here is their illustration, Angela, of just right, too short, and then Rain's arm.

• 35:51Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 35:53Speaker 00

  Now, I know that photo is not super convincing. I know that. But I tracked it through the whole episode, and I have more evidence.

• 36:01Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh, you and Dr. Tibido. Well, I actually, it's so funny that you bring this up because I became obsessed with Charles Minor's shirt.

• 36:12Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 36:12Speaker 01

  If you look at his shoulders, there's an extra stitching across his shoulder, and I think it's because his shoulders were so broad. I don't even understand why they would do that, except that maybe Idris had such broad shoulders, they had to have an extra stitch.

• 36:31Speaker 00

  I'm gonna have to go look at that.

• 36:32Speaker 01

  I'm gonna show it to you. I will find it because once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it. Okay, I have a picture of it. Jenna, please look at this extra stitch and pleat on his shoulder.

• 36:46Speaker 00

  What is that?

• 36:48Speaker 01

  What is that? See?

• 36:52Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 36:52Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 36:53Speaker 00

  We did get a fan question for this scene from Evan T. and Pearl C. At 2 minutes 49 seconds, when Dwight says his shirt is a straitjacket, and then he bumps into some wooden sticks and coffee mugs, was that scripted or did that happen by accident? Because Phyllis's reaction is so genuine.

• 37:14Speaker 01

  I looked at the script.

• 37:16Speaker 00

  It was scripted that he would knock over the mugs while struggling.

• 37:19Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 37:20Speaker 00

  When that happens, that means there is a person off camera to reset all of those mugs. They will take a picture of what that little credenza looked like before the scene starts. And then after he knocks it all to the ground, they will meticulously reset each item so that when they're in the editing room, they can use any part of the top of the scene, that there's not like a mug over on the far side that used to be on.

• 37:44Speaker 01

  No bogies.

• 37:45Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 37:46Speaker 01

  No random straw where it shouldn't be. I loved Dwight's talking head, though, when he said, when Michael was in charge, this place was like the Roman Empire and the Wild West and war-torn Poland and Poland. There was just a lot going on. So what you wore to work was the least of anybody's worries, and in that chaos, I soared.

• 38:06Speaker 00

  In this talking head, you can totally see his watch because his sleeves are too short.

• 38:11Speaker 01

  Okay, okay.

• 38:13Speaker 00

  I just want you to know.

• 38:14Speaker 01

  All right.

• 38:15Speaker 00

  Well, now Michael is gonna meet Dwight outside by the dumpster.

• 38:21Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 38:21Speaker 00

  Dwight tells Mike that Ed's.

• 38:23Speaker 01

  Mike?

• 38:26Speaker 00

  All right. Dwight tells Michael that Ed's tires is looking to make a change. So Dwight is.

• 38:33Speaker 01

  He's helping him out.

• 38:34Speaker 00

  He is.

• 38:34Speaker 01

  He's giving him some intel.

• 38:36Speaker 00

  Inside info.

• 38:38Speaker 01

  And Michael gives him $6 for his trouble.

• 38:40Speaker 00

  Well, Dwight says he doesn't need compensation, but he does remind Michael that he owes him $10.

• 38:47Speaker 01

  From four years ago.

• 38:49Speaker 00

  I know. I loved that. I had to know if that was scripted because I thought Steve was so funny when he was like, "That was four years ago. Why won't you let that go?"

• 38:57Speaker 01

  Was it scripted?

• 38:58Speaker 00

  It was. I also want you to know at three minutes and 30 seconds, you can clearly see Michael's shirt sleeves coming out of his suit jacket, but you cannot see Dwight's.

• 39:07Speaker 01

  Jenna, you're on to something. You're on to something. Listen, Idris had broad shoulders and Rain's shirt was.

• 39:14Speaker 00

  It was too short.

• 39:14Speaker 01

  Too short.

• 39:15Speaker 00

  You believe me.

• 39:16Speaker 01

  I believe you.

• 39:16Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 39:17Speaker 01

  Back inside, Andy is gonna tell Jim that he's worried, you know, Pam bosses him around. He's really worried that their relationship maybe isn't so healthy. And he says, "Listen, I know a few things about love." Horrible, terrible, awful things.

• 39:30Speaker 00

  Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here. Andy is projecting his own hurt onto Jim because Pam shot down this idea of using any of Andy's wedding stuff and he thinks Jim was bulldozed.

• 39:44Speaker 01

  Right.

• 39:45Speaker 00

  So he's turned this into a whole story.

• 39:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, and Jim sees his opportunity now for a day long of pranking.

• 39:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, because I think Jim's a little offended.

• 39:55Speaker 01

  Well, it is ridiculous.

• 39:57Speaker 00

  Yeah. He's making a lot of assumptions. So now Michael is going to take this info that he got from Dwight. He's headed back to Michael Scott Paper Company and he tells Pam to give Ed's tires a call.

• 40:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 40:12Speaker 00

  Here's what she needs to say. She needs to say that Michael Scott Paper Company has fewer clients so they can spend more time with each of them and also somehow mention she distrusts women. And he recommends she do it over Indian food.

• 40:25Speaker 01

  Pam's like, "I'm not gonna say that." Ryan's like, "I can get there."

• 40:28Speaker 00

  That made me laugh out loud. This is a little foreshadowing for something that's gonna come up later, which is that Michael takes kind of meticulous, detailed notes about each client and he knows.

• 40:38Speaker 01

  Meticulous?

• 40:38Speaker 00

  Well, he knows little details about each one.

• 40:42Speaker 01

  I feel like when I saw Michael's Rolodex, Jenna, it reminded me of my note cards.

• 40:48Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 40:49Speaker 01

  Because I usually put a few words that mean something to me, right? Now, I put it all in a document, but if you look at my notes, I give myself words that only mean something to me. Look next to Jim's talking head. What does it say?

• 41:02Speaker 00

  Boo. Why does it say boo?

• 41:05Speaker 01

  Because I don't.

• 41:06Speaker 00

  You know what that means.

• 41:07Speaker 01

  I don't like Jim in this moment. I think he's being mean to Andy, so I wrote boo. And then right here, what does that say?

• 41:14Speaker 00

  Trophy.

• 41:15Speaker 01

  That means something to me. We'll get to it. But I was like, "Oh, my gosh, I'm Michael Scott. I have like a few keywords."

• 41:24Speaker 00

  Well, you know, in my early actor days, when I would go to casting offices, I would come home and I had a little card file, like a Rolodex, where I would write down little notes about anything like that, like loves chocolate chip cookies. So that the next time I went into that casting office, I could have something that might spark a moment of connection.

• 41:46Speaker 01

  You're like, "Hi, Tammy. Had any good chocolate chip cookies lately?"

• 41:49Speaker 00

  Pretty much. Yeah.

• 41:50Speaker 01

  So casual. Yeah. Okay, so back to the scene.

• 41:54Speaker 00

  I have a little thing I spotted. At 5 minutes, 9 seconds, there is a poster hanging in the background of the scene. It's over to the left of Michael's desk. It says, "Diversity." So that poster was made by Phil Shea using the hands of our hair and makeup crew.

• 42:13Speaker 01

  Yes, that is their hands and like, I guess their arms, right?

• 42:16Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 42:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:18Speaker 00

  So now Pam has a talking head. They've done their little chant.

• 42:22Speaker 01

  Their cheer.

• 42:23Speaker 00

  Their mourning, "You ugly" cheer.

• 42:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 42:26Speaker 00

  And she just said, "Listen, she's here. She's part of this now."

• 42:29Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 42:30Speaker 00

  And I had a little catch at 5 minutes and 16 seconds.

• 42:34Speaker 01

  What's up, background catch queen?

• 42:36Speaker 00

  This is a on my face catch.

• 42:38Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 42:38Speaker 00

  Did you notice in this episode that I have a darker, pigmented lip and eyeshadow? It's a much richer color.

• 42:45Speaker 01

  No, I did not notice.

• 42:46Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh. Okay, I noticed because this was a huge thing.

• 42:50Speaker 01

  Listen, when you had dark nail polish out of nowhere, I noticed, but your lipstick, I didn't quite notice.

• 42:56Speaker 00

  We usually alternated between two neutral lip shades, but my makeup artist, Laverne, she said, "I really think we could go a little bolder for Pam. She made her first sale last week."

• 43:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, she's got her blazer.

• 43:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 43:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 43:11Speaker 00

  So how can we continue to tell the story of her growing confidence? So we went with a bolder lip.

• 43:18Speaker 01

  I like it.

• 43:19Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 43:20Speaker 01

  Our next scene is Charles and Dwight. They're in Charles's office. Note his shoulders, please.

• 43:27Speaker 00

  Mm hmm. Also, please note that Rain's entire watch is exposed because his sleeves are too short. It's at 5 minutes, 39 seconds.

• 43:34Speaker 01

  All right. So basically, Charles wants to know if Dwight is happy at the company, you know? And he invites him out to drinks.

• 43:41Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 43:42Speaker 01

  So in the background of this scene, you can see Jim. Jenna, John has angled his computer because he's clearly like surfing the internet or checking email or something. So while I was watching the scene, the first time I just watched it just to watch it, then I was like, "Wait a second. John's doing email in the background and the way back." This scene also has a line I love when Charles says to Dwight, "You're so focused." And Dwight says, "Like a wolf. Thank you."

• 44:12Speaker 00

  Well, Rain was asked in an interview what he thought drinks between Dwight and Charles might entail.

• 44:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 44:18Speaker 00

  And this was his answer. He said, "Probably Charles getting really bored after about eight minutes and making up an excuse to leave." He was also asked about his decision to choose Dunder Mifflin over Michael Scott Paper Company.

• 44:33Speaker 01

  What'd he say?

• 44:33Speaker 00

  He said Dwight is loyal to whoever values loyalty the most. And in this case, Dunder Mifflin honors loyalty with an actual paycheck. And that is why he chose Dunder Mifflin. I also want to point out in this scene that Charles is still drinking out of his Satcoy Steel Insulated Coffee Mug. And I have to say, I think it's a betrayal. You're out of the steel business, Charles.

• 44:58Speaker 01

  Let it go.

• 44:59Speaker 00

  Get a Dunder Mifflin insulated mug already.

• 45:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:03Speaker 00

  What is your attachment to your Satcoy Steel mug?

• 45:05Speaker 01

  You know corporate gave him a mug, but he's not using it. That's a choice.

• 45:09Speaker 00

  That's what I'm saying.

• 45:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:11Speaker 00

  I think Michael knows this guy, he's a steel man at heart.

• 45:14Speaker 01

  Right.

• 45:15Speaker 00

  This next scene is amazing.

• 45:18Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 45:19Speaker 00

  Michael calls Dwight to ask about Dunder Mifflin's pricing for Ed's tires. He wants to undercut them.

• 45:26Speaker 01

  Right.

• 45:27Speaker 00

  And this is when Dwight's internal conflict begins.

• 45:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, he starts to waffle.

• 45:31Speaker 00

  Well, because Charles has invited him to drinks. Michael never invited him to drinks.

• 45:35Speaker 01

  I know.

• 45:36Speaker 00

  So he tells Michael something's come up.

• 45:38Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 45:39Speaker 00

  And Michael's like, "Oh, my gosh. Is it Mo's? Did you cover up the well? What is that backstory?"

• 45:45Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 45:46Speaker 00

  Has Mo's fallen in the well?

• 45:48Speaker 01

  Of course he has. He's probably fallen and been gone for like two days and then they find him in the well.

• 45:53Speaker 00

  I love comedy like that. It's there and then it goes away.

• 45:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, you just throw it away. Michael's not getting it.

• 46:00Speaker 00

  He's not. Dwight starts kind of talking in code. He's kind of like, "Things are changing fast and, you know."

• 46:07Speaker 01

  There's a cool new guy.

• 46:08Speaker 00

  And I don't think he'd like it if I helped even my personal hero. And Michael's like, "What are you talking about? What are you talking about?" So Pam and Ryan are like, have to write on a notepad to help Michael understand what Dwight is saying.

• 46:23Speaker 01

  And then Steve is Michael, reads the notepad. All the expressions that come over Steve's face as Michael figures this out. I was blown away. I said, "Give Steve all of the awards and that's why I drew a trophy."

• 46:40Speaker 01

  Seriously, though, this is an amazing performance. It's so subtle and nuanced. And Steve, I loved every single thing you did as Michael being clueless and then not believing the note they're holding up, but then figuring it out and then being like, "Oh, my God." And then being betrayed, like all of it.

• 46:58Speaker 00

  It is really hard to play realization as an actor.

• 47:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:02Speaker 00

  Because you know the information. You had to memorize it. You had to read the script.

• 47:07Speaker 01

  You know where the scene is going.

• 47:08Speaker 00

  Yes. And so to play all of that, it is like one of the hardest things to do as an actor. And then to do it comedically, amazing.

• 47:17Speaker 01

  Amazing.

• 47:18Speaker 00

  We got a fan question about this scene from Kelton O, who said, "How is it that Pam and Ryan can hear both sides of this phone call?"

• 47:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:29Speaker 00

  They seem to hear Dwight so clearly through the phone. Well, this is very funny, Kelton, because Rain was actually right off camera.

• 47:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:40Speaker 00

  Doing his side of the phone call. We could totally hear him. Rain actually had to come into work that day. He did not have anything else to shoot. All he did was stand off camera and read his side of the phone call. It's actually a thing. It's called doing off-camera work. And that is often how different sides of a phone call are done. We did not have the capability to like call into that office.

• 48:05Speaker 01

  Right.

• 48:05Speaker 00

  Like we did upstairs.

• 48:07Speaker 01

  Because it was a closet and a fakey phone.

• 48:09Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 48:10Speaker 01

  I thought I could see how they were cheating it a little because Michael is kind of holding the phone out. So you would assume if he had the volume pretty high up, it's a tiny room that you guys could probably hear.

• 48:21Speaker 00

  We also had a fan catch from Maya R, who said this, Angela.

• 48:25Speaker 01

  What?

• 48:26Speaker 00

  This went right to my heart. She said, "I noticed a Paper Pro stapler on Pam and Ryan's table and my mom actually works for the company that sells these staplers. It originated in Pennsylvania before merging with Bostitch. Could this be why the stapler was used in this episode? I don't know, Maya, but I brought my Paper Pro stapler today."

• 48:51Speaker 01

  You did? I gotta try it out.

• 48:53Speaker 00

  All right.

• 48:55Speaker 01

  I brought champagne. Jenna brought a stapler.

• 48:57Speaker 00

  Here it is. Now watch.

• 49:01Speaker 01

  Do I get to do it?

• 49:02Speaker 00

  Yes. I am gonna do it with a single finger.

• 49:05Speaker 01

  Wait, wait, here.

• 49:06Speaker 00

  Now, I wish I'd brought a regular stapler. I had meant to bring a regular stapler.

• 49:10Speaker 01

  I'm sure there is one.

• 49:11Speaker 00

  Okay, ready? Watch this.

• 49:14Speaker 00

  Can you hear the clicking mech? Listen to the air pressure.

• 49:19Speaker 01

  I heard that.

• 49:21Speaker 00

  It is amazing. Try it.

• 49:23Speaker 01

  Okay, I'm gonna try it.

• 49:24Speaker 00

  Staple something.

• 49:25Speaker 01

  I'm gonna staple something.

• 49:26Speaker 00

  It's not a regular stapler where you get a It's like

• 49:32Speaker 01

  Okay, that's very hard.

• 49:33Speaker 00

  You don't, you can do it with one finger.

• 49:34Speaker 01

  Okay, ready?

• 49:37Speaker 01

  Oh, yes. I see what you're talking about. There's like a spring or something.

• 49:43Speaker 01

  I see. Shut up.

• 49:44Speaker 00

  I bought you a Paper Pro stapler. Sam, I have one for you.

• 49:48Speaker 02

  Oh, my God.

• 49:49Speaker 00

  Cassie, I have one for you.

• 49:51Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh. Thank you.

• 49:53Speaker 00

  You need to have it. Here's the last thing I'll say about the stapler, I think.

• 49:59Speaker 01

  I don't think you're done talking about it. Don't make that promise.

• 50:03Speaker 00

  Sometimes when we do these acting jobs, you acquire a new skill, maybe that you didn't have before. When I did Blades of Glory, I had to train with a ice skating coach. I learned how to be quite a good ice skater.

• 50:16Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 50:18Speaker 00

  When I did Walk Hard, I took a little bit of horse riding lessons. It's like a fun perk. You get these skills.

• 50:25Speaker 01

  Right.

• 50:25Speaker 00

  Sometimes you get introduced to an item. I remember when I did Splitting Up Together, there was just this amazing set of pajamas that I'd never heard of before. And after wearing them on the show, I bought three pairs.

• 50:38Speaker 01

  I am now a lifelong fan of sass shoes.

• 50:41Speaker 00

  Exactly. That is what this Paper Pro stapler was for me. And it was all thanks to Michael Scott Paper Company.

• 50:48Speaker 01

  Well, there you go.

• 50:50Speaker 00

  Before we go to break, I have one more thing to point out about this scene. It's at 6 minutes 11 seconds. It is a very good shot of our second goldfish.

• 51:00Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 51:01Speaker 00

  Our first goldfish was orange. That goldfish is gone this week. It is a red, orange, white, and black spotted fish. And we got a letter from Jess L., who said, "I spent 10 years working in pet stores as an aquatic specialist, and pet industry employees have been wondering for years whether or not the changing of the goldfish were a planned bit." Now, we said last week it was.

• 51:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:26Speaker 00

  But she goes on to say, "Anyone who works in fish departments knows goldfish deaths are common." And a lot of us in the industry assume that the props people chose to make a bit out of the situation. And just so you know, goldfish should have about 10 gallons of water per fish, and it requires filtration to truly thrive in captivity. She, I think, wanted us to know that because any of you out there with goldfish, trying to keep them alive, that could really help.

• 51:56Speaker 01

  I think that's solid advice.

• 51:58Speaker 00

  All right, that's all I got.

• 52:00Speaker 01

  Well, I have something delicious coming up with Jim and Andy that I can't wait to share.

• 52:05Speaker 00

  Ooh.

• 52:06Speaker 01

  It just brought me so much joy. And why don't we take a break and I'll come back with that?

• 52:11Speaker 00

  I can't wait.

• 52:21Speaker 01

  All right, we are back. I love this Jim and Andy scene. Jim is gonna approach Andy, and he's, he's gonna say, "Hey, Andy, you know what? I've been thinking about what you said." Andy's like, "Noish." And Jim's like, "I just don't know if I can do it." Andy's like, "That's interesting, because I hear what you're saying is that you want to do it, which means you can do it. Believe me, I broke up with Angela, and I'm like the happiest guy ever. I mean, I am so happy. I am so happy. Like, total freedom, you know? And Jim says, "It's just that Pam gets me through the day. Like, I really rely on her. I'm pretty emotionally needy." And Andy says, "And you know what? I'm here for you. Let me be your traveling pants."

• 53:06Speaker 01

  That was all scripted. And in the script, it says that Jim and Andy do a little knuckles bump.

• 53:11Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 53:12Speaker 01

  And they just simply say, "Knuckles." And that's the end of the scene.

• 53:16Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 53:16Speaker 01

  Well, in our version, Jim goes to give the knuckles, and Andy leans in and puts his cheek in front of the knuckles. And Jim just starts to laugh. And he's like, "Dude, you know I meant knuckles." And he's like, "Yeah, knuckles." All right, so Ed just improvised that, that whole moment. Go to 8 minutes 26 seconds. John is laughing at Ed because he didn't know Ed was gonna lean his face into the knuckle bump. And it made it in. And it just brought me joy, because I just see these two guys, and I see their friendship at 8 minutes 26 seconds.

• 53:51Speaker 00

  Well, when Andy said, "I'll be your traveling pants," that made me think of our director, Ken Quappus, who directed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

• 53:59Speaker 01

  Yes, and you and I went together to go see it.

• 54:02Speaker 00

  I remember watching that movie because there was this really

• 54:06Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 54:06Speaker 00

  handsome.

• 54:08Speaker 01

  It made us want to go to Greece. Remember after that movie, we're like, we should go to Greece.

• 54:12Speaker 00

  We really should. We should still go to Greece.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  We should.

• 54:15Speaker 00

  Well, now we have another scene out by the dumpster. Michael is gonna meet Dwight again, but guess what? It's a setup.

• 54:23Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 54:24Speaker 00

  Charles is there. And Charles is gonna tell Michael to leave Dunder Mifflin alone and to stop pestering Dwight for info.

• 54:32Speaker 01

  I have two things to point out about this scene.

• 54:34Speaker 00

  What are they?

• 54:35Speaker 01

  The first one is from the shooting draft script, and it's something that did not make it in the episode, and I really wish it had. Michael immediately notices Dwight's shirt.

• 54:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:46Speaker 01

  Yeah. And he says, "Why are you dressed like that?" And he turns to Charles and goes, "Are you making him wear that? What about his attack readiness, you fool?"

• 54:55Speaker 00

  Oh, what a great callback.

• 54:57Speaker 01

  I know. I thought it was so sweet that Michael was like, "Oh, yeah, Dwight has to wear short sleeves so he can attack someone."

• 55:02Speaker 00

  Yes. I had asked James Carey if he would send me the call sheets for this episode. There were a few things I wanted to investigate. And I noticed that there was a note for this scene that said, "We need to shoot this scene at 3:30 PM with three exclamation points." I asked Randy about this. Why?

• 55:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:24Speaker 00

  Did Idris have to go somewhere?

• 55:26Speaker 01

  Why 3:30?

• 55:27Speaker 00

  What was it?

• 55:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:28Speaker 00

  He said, "It was the light."

• 55:30Speaker 01

  Ah.

• 55:31Speaker 00

  That this section of the alleyway was on the far side of Stage 2, and it was kind of a deep canyon, he said, between the stage and the hedges.

• 55:40Speaker 01

  It was on the far side of the warehouse, where we filmed the warehouse scenes.

• 55:44Speaker 00

  Yes. And he said, "It's really, really difficult to hide lights there, so you have to use natural light. And if you shoot it too early or too late, the sun is blocked by the hedges or by the warehouse. But I guess at 3:30, the angle is just right."

• 56:01Speaker 01

  So I guess at 3:30 is when we had our bird funeral?

• 56:05Speaker 00

  It must have been.

• 56:06Speaker 01

  3:30 in the alley. I am thinking of how many scenes I had in that alley. That's where Angela and Dwight would meet, and she gave him Sprinkles list of ointments and things like that. And years later, that's where I say Jazz is stupid.

• 56:20Speaker 00

  Must have been at 3:30.

• 56:21Speaker 01

  3:30 in the alley.

• 56:22Speaker 00

  You can set your watch by it.

• 56:24Speaker 01

  Well, Michael's gonna return to Michael Scott Paper Company, and he's gonna try to tell them what happened. And basically, he got a pee-filled water balloon thrown in his face. That's what he tells Pam and Ryan.

• 56:35Speaker 00

  Yes. I mean,

• 56:37Speaker 01

  They're like, clearly, what are you saying?

• 56:40Speaker 00

  That actually happened, right?

• 56:42Speaker 01

  Must have.

• 56:43Speaker 00

  Oh, that's terrible.

• 56:45Speaker 01

  Well, they have to really decipher what that means. So they can figure out what the heck is happening.

• 56:50Speaker 00

  Well, Michael's gonna call Dwight. And he says, "I'm gonna steal all your clients, and I'm gonna kill them in front of you."

• 56:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:58Speaker 00

  A little intense.

• 56:59Speaker 01

  I'm gonna come at you, and I'm gonna come at you hard.

• 57:02Speaker 00

  And then both Dwight and Michael try to call Dwight's biggest client.

• 57:06Speaker 01

  The whale, Mr. Schofeld.

• 57:09Speaker 00

  From?

• 57:10Speaker 01

  Harper Collins.

• 57:12Speaker 00

  Harper Collins, who is publishing our book, Office BFF.

• 57:17Speaker 01

  I know. Jenna, when I rewatched this, I was like, "Oh, my gosh, this is synchronicity."

• 57:21Speaker 00

  Does this mean our book is gonna be printed on Dunder Mifflin paper?

• 57:24Speaker 01

  What? That would be amazing.

• 57:27Speaker 00

  I mean, that's, they're a client, right? Our book is being published, like, on the East Coast.

• 57:35Speaker 01

  It was really cool, though, because of all the book publishers out there, we're with Harper Collins. And then Dwight says Harper Collins, and I was like, "Oh, my gosh."

• 57:43Speaker 00

  I know. Should we give a book update, by the way? I want everyone to know, we made it through that crazy document.

• 57:50Speaker 01

  I figured it out.

• 57:51Speaker 00

  Angela figured it out.

• 57:53Speaker 01

  That's saying something. Listen,

• 57:54Speaker 00

  She didn't think she was gonna figure it out, and I said, "You can do it."

• 57:57Speaker 01

  I really had a moment, you guys, like, for real, where I was like, "Um, this isn't gonna happen, and I'm sorry. This is, I can't do it." But then I did it.

• 58:06Speaker 00

  You did it.

• 58:07Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm. I made myself a little cheat sheet that I kept by my computer.

• 58:12Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 58:13Speaker 01

  I mean, listen, I hope I did it.

• 58:15Speaker 00

  I know. We haven't gotten any feedback on it yet.

• 58:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, maybe we're gonna get, like, a note back that was like, "Well, way to go, ladies. You completely effed it up."

• 58:22Speaker 00

  I know. And, okay, so we have two more rounds of that, and then the book is, like, locked, and it goes to the printer.

• 58:29Speaker 01

  Oh, lordy.

• 58:30Speaker 00

  So, yeah.

• 58:31Speaker 01

  Can't make any changes.

• 58:33Speaker 00

  I know. It's coming up.

• 58:36Speaker 01

  I showed it to my kids.

• 58:37Speaker 00

  Yeah?

• 58:38Speaker 01

  I showed them the photo layout, and they were like, "Oh, my gosh, because it's finally a book." Do you know what I mean? It's not just like you and I turning in all these pages.

• 58:45Speaker 00

  Yes. It looks like a book visually in a PDF. I showed it to Lee, and I said, "Oh, do you want to see how the photos kind of lay out?" And I thought he would look at it. Honestly, I thought he would like

• 58:59Speaker 01

  Just glance at it.

• 58:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, that he would be like, "Oh, my God, it looks cool." He went through every single page, like, but like, he was compelled to. He was like, This is amazing.

• 59:08Speaker 01

  Aww.

• 59:09Speaker 00

  He was like-

• 59:10Speaker 01

  Dr. Thibodeau Lee said amazing.

• 59:11Speaker 00

  Lee said amazing. He said, "It's so personal." It's wow. He's like, "These pictures..." He already knew the stories.

• 59:22Speaker 01

  Right.

• 59:23Speaker 00

  And he just was like, "People are gonna love this." That's what he said. And it meant so much to me because we've, you know-

• 59:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 59:29Speaker 00

  Sometimes you make something in a bubble and you don't know.

• 59:31Speaker 01

  Right.

• 59:32Speaker 00

  We like it.

• 59:33Speaker 01

  We love it.

• 59:34Speaker 00

  So to me, that, oh, that was such a confidence boost.

• 59:37Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 59:38Speaker 00

  That's what I needed to try to figure out the formatting document. I needed that boost.

• 59:43Speaker 01

  Oh, I needed a glass of wine.

• 59:45Speaker 00

  Well, let's get back to the episode. Michael does finally get Mr. Schofield on the phone by promising him a set of tickets to the Penguins game.

• 59:54Speaker 01

  The Wilkes-Barre Penguins game. Look what I'm wearing.

• 59:58Speaker 00

  And Angela is wearing her very own personal Wilkes-Barre Penguins hockey jersey with her name on the back.

• 1:00:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm number one, Kinsey. So in 2007, I went to the office convention with Craig Robinson, Kate Flannery, and Brian Baumgartner, and we all went to a Wilkes-Barre Penguins game. We got to go out on the ice.

• 1:00:21Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 1:00:21Speaker 01

  We got to meet Tux, their mascot, and we all got a jersey. I've kept it all these years, and I wore it today for our 100th episode.

• 1:00:28Speaker 00

  That is so cool.

• 1:00:30Speaker 01

  Here's our picture, Jenna. I'll show you. Look at us on the ice.

• 1:00:34Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:00:35Speaker 01

  Is that cool? It was such a fun day.

• 1:00:37Speaker 00

  Were you nervous when you were walking on the ice?

• 1:00:40Speaker 01

  I was.

• 1:00:41Speaker 00

  Because you just wear your regular shoes.

• 1:00:42Speaker 01

  I was, and I had these little boots on, and I was like, "Dear Lord, please don't let me bust my butt in front of all these people."

• 1:00:47Speaker 00

  Did they have little carpets down or no?

• 1:00:49Speaker 01

  At the beginning, but then we walked all the way to the center, and there was no more carpet.

• 1:00:53Speaker 00

  Yes. I got to go to the All-Stars game in St. Louis.

• 1:00:58Speaker 01

  Oh, so cool.

• 1:01:00Speaker 00

  And I got to be like a coach on the sideline. It was really fun, yes. And then, at the end, I had to walk out on the ice.

• 1:01:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:01:07Speaker 00

  And I was so nervous-

• 1:01:09Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:01:09Speaker 00

  -that I was gonna fall. And David Pasternak from the Boston Bruins, he came over and he, like, gave me his arm. And it was like a big fangirl moment for me.

• 1:01:21Speaker 01

  Well, I held Kate Flannery's arm.

• 1:01:25Speaker 00

  Who did the Penguins play that day?

• 1:01:27Speaker 01

  Oh, they played the Albany River Rats.

• 1:01:29Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 1:01:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:01:31Speaker 00

  I just love hockey. I can't say it more than-

• 1:01:33Speaker 01

  I have to say, it was a really fun time.

• 1:01:36Speaker 00

  Well, Michael's thing with the tickets is gonna work because Dwight is gonna get a call from Mr. Schofield, and he's gonna say he's leaning toward Michael Scott Paper Company. So Dwight calls Michael. He's like, "I will agree to meet you 100 feet from our original meeting place." They're not gonna meet at their same secret location.

• 1:01:54Speaker 01

  No, no, no. Mix it up, guys. 100 feet away at high noon.

• 1:01:58Speaker 00

  Yes, and Michael tells Dwight to walk 100 feet toward the sun.

• 1:02:03Speaker 01

  But it's right above you.

• 1:02:05Speaker 00

  It's not possible.

• 1:02:06Speaker 01

  Dwight's clearly confused. I have a whole thing about Dwight's undies.

• 1:02:11Speaker 00

  Oh, yes. We're gonna see some green undies on Dwight.

• 1:02:15Speaker 01

  Of course, of course we will. Not just undies, but a whole torso, the whole shebang.

• 1:02:20Speaker 00

  There is nothing Rainn Wilson loves more than exposing his torso.

• 1:02:24Speaker 01

  It's exposing Dwight's belly.

• 1:02:26Speaker 00

  It's true.

• 1:02:28Speaker 01

  I had to know. I took a screen grab. I texted it to Rainn, and I said, "Rainn, are these your green undies? Were they actually yours?" And this is what he wrote back, and I quote, "Those were provided by wardrobe, my love."

• 1:02:42Speaker 00

  Aww.

• 1:02:43Speaker 01

  So I said, "Oh, my God, Rainn, you had to have a wardrobe meeting about underwear, and these were the pair that were picked."

• 1:02:50Speaker 00

  It's interesting because if you look, there are a few other times on the show where Dwight is in his underwear, like when he's sleeping on the couch.

• 1:02:57Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:02:58Speaker 00

  We had a fan question from Joanna K., Margaret F., and Natalia L. During the scene where Dwight is buckling his pants, after showing Michael that he isn't wearing a wire, "Do I hear a rooster crowing in the background?" Yes, guys. Yes, you do. It's at 13 minutes 34 seconds. There was a house-

• 1:03:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:03:19Speaker 00

  -in our vicinity, and they had some chickens and a rooster, and it was a challenge.

• 1:03:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:03:24Speaker 00

  Because you can't make a rooster not crow when it wants to crow.

• 1:03:28Speaker 01

  Also, Jenna, do you remember the year that there was like a flock of parrots?

• 1:03:32Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:03:33Speaker 01

  That like were living in that tree? And they, parrots are so loud, you guys. They're like, "Ah, ah, ah." So I was like-

• 1:03:40Speaker 00

  And when they're in a group, they get a bolster of confidence.

• 1:03:44Speaker 01

  They really do. They're super chatty. I remember this because I was like Kenneth Paul, who did my makeup. I was like, "There is a flock of parrots." And he said, "Angela Faith," because he always called you by your first and middle name, "He said, Angela Faith, don't you mean a pandemonium of parrots?"

• 1:04:00Speaker 00

  Is that what a group of parrots is called?

• 1:04:02Speaker 01

  I guess so.

• 1:04:03Speaker 00

  Oh. We also had a fan question from Charlotte M. She's wondering, "Where the heck is Rainn Wilson's mic pack?" Right?

• 1:04:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:12Speaker 00

  I'll tell you what, there was no mic pack. They had to capture all of his sound on a boom microphone only.

• 1:04:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, they couldn't fit it under his paws, so.

• 1:04:21Speaker 00

  What has happened to you?

• 1:04:24Speaker 01

  That champagne.

• 1:04:24Speaker 00

  That's the champagne talking. That crept up on us.

• 1:04:28Speaker 01

  It did, slowly. Champagne sneaks up on you. That's the problem with champagne.

• 1:04:33Speaker 00

  Champagne makes me fun.

• 1:04:35Speaker 01

  It does?

• 1:04:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:04:36Speaker 01

  What can I expect from this afternoon?

• 1:04:39Speaker 00

  I don't know. I had to stop drinking it because I have to drive home. Lady, we skipped something a while back, and I want to bring it up. It's when Andy's in the kitchen, and Jim enters, and he's doing like this whole melodrama of messing up a sales call. He's beating himself up and he-

• 1:04:57Speaker 01

  It's like he's in a soap opera.

• 1:04:59Speaker 00

  Yes. And then he like drop kicks his lunch across the room.

• 1:05:03Speaker 01

  And steps on it?

• 1:05:04Speaker 00

  Yes. We got some fan mail. People wanted to know if that lunch bit was an improv. It was not. In fact, in the script, it said, "Jim drop kicks his lunch bag." So I just want to say what that means. When there's that simple line in a script that says, "Jim drop kicks his lunch bag," when Phil Shea is going through a script-

• 1:05:24Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:24Speaker 00

  -and he sees that sentence, he's gonna highlight that.

• 1:05:27Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:05:28Speaker 00

  He's gonna go to production, and he's gonna say, "How many takes of this scene do you think we'll do? How many lunch bags do I need to make?"

• 1:05:36Speaker 01

  How many sandwiches do I need to make?

• 1:05:38Speaker 00

  All of it.

• 1:05:38Speaker 01

  He'll probably also go to John and say, "What are the odds you improvised taking a bite of it after you kick it? What kind of sandwich do you want in there?"

• 1:05:46Speaker 00

  Everything. He would be so meticulous, and then he would have to make a bunch of identical lunch bags. And then, like before, we would have a crew member off camera, ready to fly in, that's the lingo, fly in a new lunch bag.

• 1:06:04Speaker 01

  And they would also probably have John try to kick it into the same corner every time.

• 1:06:08Speaker 00

  Yes. That is how that little bitty sentence affected a bunch of people. Now, lady, it's time to go to Alfredo's.

• 1:06:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:17Speaker 00

  Michael, Pam, and Ryan are gonna go to Alfredo's. They're supposed to be meeting Dwight there because they're supposed to be like reconciling at Alfredo's Pizza Cafe.

• 1:06:27Speaker 01

  Dwight is such a good liar because I feel like the lying is in the details.

• 1:06:33Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:06:33Speaker 01

  And he knew he was never gonna meet Michael for lunch.

• 1:06:37Speaker 00

  No, he's actually putting a fish in their ceiling.

• 1:06:40Speaker 01

  Yes, he's sabotaging them. He loves to sabotage.

• 1:06:43Speaker 00

  He's stealing Michael's Rolodex.

• 1:06:45Speaker 01

  Right. He knew he wasn't gonna go, and Michael said, "How about Cooper's?" And Dwight's like, "No, I had fish last week. Alfredo's." Like, this is really sneaky.

• 1:06:57Speaker 00

  Very much so.

• 1:06:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:59Speaker 00

  Well, Randy told us that the vent where Dwight throws the fish was not real, and it was actually kind of difficult to construct, that Michael Gallenberg had to consult with our builder, Tim James, and they had to like drop the ceiling and create this vent. And they also had to build in sort of like a plastic receptacle to catch that fish because the fish was real.

• 1:07:25Speaker 01

  What?

• 1:07:26Speaker 00

  It was a real fish. It was not a prop fish. No.

• 1:07:29Speaker 01

  It was a real dead fish?

• 1:07:31Speaker 00

  I mean, it was like a fish they bought at the store.

• 1:07:34Speaker 01

  Right, so it was a dead fish.

• 1:07:35Speaker 00

  It was a dead fish, yeah.

• 1:07:37Speaker 01

  Stinky dead fish. Wait a second, let me understand this correctly. They had to build a fake ceiling-

• 1:07:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:07:41Speaker 01

  -with a fake drop down-

• 1:07:43Speaker 00

  With a fake vent.

• 1:07:44Speaker 01

  -that could also hold dead fish.

• 1:07:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, it would have fallen through otherwise.

• 1:07:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, I can't believe we didn't use a fakie fish.

• 1:07:51Speaker 00

  I was shocked.

• 1:07:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:07:53Speaker 00

  Randy said it was a real fish. I wasn't there. You know, later, when we come in and discover it, we're totally faking that we smell it. It was gone by then.

• 1:08:01Speaker 01

  So wait a second. At the end, in that montage, you guys take the fish out of the ceiling. Did you have to touch a real dead fish?

• 1:08:10Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh, lady. I-

• 1:08:13Speaker 00

  First of all, I did not remember that we did that scene, even though I watched this episode three times. I was clearly so distracted by Dwight's sleeves.

• 1:08:22Speaker 01

  You didn't notice you touched a fish?

• 1:08:24Speaker 00

  And I have no memory of it. But I mean, I guess we did. According to Randy, I guess I did touch a dead fish.

• 1:08:31Speaker 01

  Have you ever done a prank like that?

• 1:08:33Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:08:34Speaker 01

  No?

• 1:08:34Speaker 00

  I don't like pranks.

• 1:08:36Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:08:36Speaker 00

  You know me.

• 1:08:37Speaker 01

  I know you. I, in college, I had a group of friends who got really into pranking. They were like next level pranksters. Here's an example. They took a dead fish and they put it in the back of this guy Nick's toilet. They lifted the back of the toilet and they put that fish in the toilet water, you know, that's in the back? No one ever lifts that thing. Unless your toilet's not flushing and you've got to jiggle that little thing. No one lifts the back of the toilet, right?

• 1:09:05Speaker 00

  No, no.

• 1:09:06Speaker 01

  That fish was there a long time.

• 1:09:09Speaker 00

  Did it get so stinky?

• 1:09:10Speaker 01

  It got so stinky. We would go over to Nick, he lived in a house with a group of guys, and we'd be like, God, Nick, your house stinks. He's like, I know, it's the plumbing or something. I've had three different guys out here. Couldn't figure out what it was for like a month.

• 1:09:27Speaker 00

  Oh, this is so disgusting.

• 1:09:28Speaker 01

  It's so disgusting. And then there's a certain point where the smell really zeros in on one area. And he finally lifted the back thing and it was so foul. It was like maggots and disgustingness.

• 1:09:43Speaker 00

  He wasn't noticing that like the water in his toilet was affected?

• 1:09:48Speaker 01

  I don't know what to tell you, lady. I don't know what to tell you.

• 1:09:51Speaker 00

  Did Nick find this amusing?

• 1:09:53Speaker 01

  Oh, it was on. After that, it really, the pranking got really out of control. They got really into pranking.

• 1:10:00Speaker 00

  Here's my thing about pranking.

• 1:10:01Speaker 01

  What?

• 1:10:02Speaker 00

  For me personally, to like get through a day.

• 1:10:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:06Speaker 00

  Just with my own thoughts in my head and everything life is throwing at me.

• 1:10:12Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:10:12Speaker 00

  You know what I don't need?

• 1:10:13Speaker 01

  A prank.

• 1:10:14Speaker 00

  Your prank.

• 1:10:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:15Speaker 00

  I don't need it.

• 1:10:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:18Speaker 00

  Although I did do one Christmas prank once.

• 1:10:20Speaker 01

  What?

• 1:10:20Speaker 00

  To someone.

• 1:10:20Speaker 01

  What?

• 1:10:21Speaker 00

  It was like, you know, a group thing and you were specifically supposed to do a joke gift.

• 1:10:27Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:10:28Speaker 00

  And I had to come up with like a joke Christmas present. So what I did was the roommate of the person's name who I picked.

• 1:10:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:38Speaker 00

  I said, over the course of one month, will you slowly just sort of steal things from your roommate, like a single shoe? Like I gave him a list of things.

• 1:10:47Speaker 01

  Oh, yours is a slow play.

• 1:10:48Speaker 00

  Yeah. I was just like, have little things go missing. Like maybe favorite coffee mug. And then at the very end, toothbrush. And then at the Christmas party, I had wrapped up all of the missing items into a box. And then that was the gift.

• 1:11:05Speaker 01

  Oh, that's kind of fun.

• 1:11:06Speaker 00

  All your stuff that's gone missing for a month.

• 1:11:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:11:09Speaker 00

  That was my joke gift.

• 1:11:10Speaker 01

  I like that. I am not much of a prankster. I'm a lame pranker.

• 1:11:14Speaker 00

  Well, I'm glad you're a lame pranker lady because I don't want pranks in my life and you're my BFF. And so I'm happy that I don't have a BFF that is like devoted to pranking.

• 1:11:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, that would really suck, wouldn't it?

• 1:11:25Speaker 00

  It really would. I have a location breakdown for Alfredo's Pizza Cafe.

• 1:11:30Speaker 01

  Let's hear it.

• 1:11:31Speaker 00

  This was a restaurant in Woodland Hills, California called Nicola's. And it is owned by a husband and wife that were friends with our set designer, Michael Gallenberg.

• 1:11:41Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:11:42Speaker 00

  And Randy said that we did not have to do much redressing of this restaurant at all. We were able to pretty much just use it as it was.

• 1:11:50Speaker 01

  That's great.

• 1:11:51Speaker 00

  Randy would also like you to know that Nicola's has the best chopped salad in the valley. I looked it up. It looks really good and it costs $16.

• 1:12:01Speaker 01

  I would love a chopped salad right now.

• 1:12:03Speaker 00

  I know. That's what we should do after. Let's swing by Nicola's or something.

• 1:12:07Speaker 01

  And have a chopped salad?

• 1:12:08Speaker 00

  Have a chopped salad. Well, in order to shoot this scene, we had to get there at 6:30 in the morning and we had to shoot at 7:30 because we had to do it before the restaurant was open. But after this, BJ and I just got to go home. That's all I had to do that day. I remember I was back home by like 10 a.m. My work day was done. Steve and the rest of the crew did a whole day of locations. But while I was looking at the call sheet, I saw this fascinating detail, which was the van schedule.

• 1:12:38Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 1:12:38Speaker 00

  Do you remember these van schedules when we would shoot on location, lady?

• 1:12:43Speaker 01

  No.

• 1:12:44Speaker 00

  You don't? Oh, see, this is the thing I used to love to do where I read every detail of a call sheet.

• 1:12:49Speaker 01

  Yes, you would. I would show up and be like, why is Access Hollywood here? And you'd be like, Angela, it's on the call sheet.

• 1:12:55Speaker 00

  And they sent, put a memo in your trailer probably last week.

• 1:12:58Speaker 01

  I stepped right over that.

• 1:12:59Speaker 00

  She really would. There'd be a pile of memos on her floor.

• 1:13:02Speaker 01

  I'd kick the papers to the side.

• 1:13:03Speaker 00

  All right. So when you shoot on location, you park your car and they have the hair and makeup trailers in a big parking lot and they call it base camp. This is where the caterers will set up their food tent. It's where you eat lunch. But a lot of times base camp is really far away from the actual shooting location. And that was the case here. It was about a 15 minute van ride to get from base camp to Nicola's restaurant. So they had to have a van schedule to shuttle all of these people to set. And here's what it said. It said breakfast would be available as of 5:15 and then you could take one of

• 1:13:40Speaker 00

  six vans to set. They left at 5:42 a.m., 6 a.m., 6:12 a.m., and they designated this van for our grip and electric crew, 6:30 a.m. And then there was one last van at 6:42 a.m. And in all caps, it said, this is the late van.

• 1:14:01Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 1:14:02Speaker 00

  You did not want to be on the late van.

• 1:14:03Speaker 01

  Don't do it.

• 1:14:04Speaker 00

  No, no, no, no. There were also additional shuttles for the cast and the background actors that were set to leave at 7 a.m. So the idea was the crew would get there, set up all the lights, and then the actors would land. The hair and makeup folks would ride with the actors. That's the van schedule. That was Randy's job to make that van schedule.

• 1:14:23Speaker 01

  He did a fantastic job. So Dwight never makes it to the restaurant. He calls and says he hit a bear.

• 1:14:29Speaker 00

  And Michael just believes it.

• 1:14:32Speaker 01

  Not just Michael. I will have you know that Pam and Ryan don't even raise an eyebrow. They don't even look up from their menu when Michael says Dwight hit a bear, but he's on the way. How many bears has Dwight hit? Why is this so believable?

• 1:14:47Speaker 00

  They get back to Michael Scott Paper Company. They discover they've been robbed. Dwight calls. Michael is like, I don't have time to talk. We've been robbed.

• 1:14:56Speaker 01

  And once again, Pam and Ryan are like, it was Dwight.

• 1:15:00Speaker 00

  Yeah. This is when Dwight is going to start poaching the clients off the Rolodex. And to get back at him, Michael is going to eat his meatball parm that he brought back for him, which is so funny because Dwight says, I knew you were going to do that. And that's why I made you order it because it's the worst thing on their menu. And then the way Steve is so disgusted by it. Why is it so funny to watch Steve eat food that he's disgusted with?

• 1:15:24Speaker 01

  Anything with food. It's hilarious.

• 1:15:26Speaker 00

  Well, in Casual Friday, he's going to eat everybody's lunch and it's very, very funny. I can't wait to get to that.

• 1:15:30Speaker 01

  There's some good bloopers from that, too. Listen, there was a deleted scene as Dwight is poaching everyone's clients. He really crosses the line with Ryan because Ryan's uncle chooses Dwight over the Michael Scott Paper Company.

• 1:15:45Speaker 00

  What?

• 1:15:45Speaker 01

  Yeah. And there's some really good Pam sass. We got to hear it.

• 1:15:49Speaker 05

  Dwight just got Howard Family dry cleaners.

• 1:15:52Speaker 00

  Uncle Dave?

• 1:15:53Speaker 05

  That jerk is undercutting us big time. He is actually taking a loss and paying the difference out of pocket.

• 1:15:59Speaker 00

  That's my family. When you mess with my family, I can't be responsible for my actions. When are you ever responsible for your actions? Get off my ass, you hag.

• 1:16:08Speaker 05

  Hey, hey, hey. Something about that seems inappropriate.

• 1:16:11Speaker 00

  Something about that seems inappropriate. He can't put his finger on it.

• 1:16:16Speaker 01

  I love the Brian Pam like rivalry. I just live for it.

• 1:16:22Speaker 00

  I love it too. I mean, I just loved working with these guys for this period of time.

• 1:16:27Speaker 01

  I bet it was so much fun.

• 1:16:29Speaker 00

  Well, now we're going to get into a pretty fun bit where Michael is going to walk in to Harper Collins.

• 1:16:37Speaker 01

  With Dwight on the phone. He's like, I'm going to let you listen to me still, your biggest client. And Dwight's like, no, and takes off. And he gets in the car all the while listening. That was so funny. Rain in the car when he was like, paper is the manure and on time delivery is the soil.

• 1:16:57Speaker 00

  I wrote down that quote, too. Do I need that on a mug?

• 1:17:01Speaker 01

  We might need it on a mug. Paper is the manure.

• 1:17:05Speaker 00

  We had a fan question from Sydney S. who said, how did you guys film that scene of Dwight driving to Mr. Schofield's office? Was Steve really on the other end of the phone? No, Steve was not on the other end of the phone. And I talked with Randy about this. Rain is really driving. He's free driving. He is not hooked up to anything.

• 1:17:26Speaker 01

  It looked like it to me, just the way he pulled into the parking lot.

• 1:17:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, the whole time. So they had LAPD officers on motorcycles.

• 1:17:34Speaker 01

  So no one would sort of interfere with the shot or Rain driving.

• 1:17:38Speaker 00

  Yes, correct. And there's also a crew van following behind. But here's how they got that shot. Matt Stone, our camera operator, was in the front seat.

• 1:17:47Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:17:48Speaker 00

  Filming Rain. Our sound engineer, Ben Patrick, was in the backseat, recording sound. And our director, Paul Feig, was also in the backseat.

• 1:17:56Speaker 01

  That was not a big backseat. I have been in that car. That is tiny.

• 1:18:01Speaker 00

  I know. And Randy said, we did not have a two-way phone setup. It was just too unreliable. And so Randy's guess is that Paul Feig was reading Steve's dialogue so that Rain could react to it.

• 1:18:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:18:15Speaker 00

  Amazing.

• 1:18:16Speaker 01

  I wish we had a picture of those four guys in the car.

• 1:18:18Speaker 00

  Can we talk about what happens when Dwight arrives at Mr. Schofield's office? Finally?

• 1:18:23Speaker 01

  I lived for this. I had to know if this was scripted or improvised. So Dwight is gonna run in. First of all, he's changing into his mustard shirt.

• 1:18:32Speaker 00

  I loved that detail.

• 1:18:33Speaker 01

  Love that detail. And then when he gets to the receptionist, he does this crazy spin move. And then Dwight says, spin move. And I was like, did Rain improvise that? I've got to know. Jenna, it was 100% in the script. Everything, even the spin move, all of it.

• 1:18:50Speaker 00

  I found an old interview with Rain where he said that one time, he did a somersault. And he said he thought that it would look extra stealthy.

• 1:19:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:19:00Speaker 00

  When they watched it back, it looked, quote, "like a manatee doing ballet at SeaWorld."

• 1:19:07Speaker 00

  He also said they did about five takes. I also have a little guest star breakdown for Mr. Schofield's receptionist. She was played by Angela Campola Sanders, who was our casting associate on The Office since season four. This is her only acting credit.

• 1:19:24Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 1:19:25Speaker 00

  But she played Mr. Schofield's receptionist.

• 1:19:28Speaker 01

  Pretty much everyone in our casting office made it into the episode at some point.

• 1:19:32Speaker 00

  I love that.

• 1:19:32Speaker 01

  I do, too. Dwight is about to dig himself into a big old hole because he doesn't understand Michael's Rolodex, or Michael's color coding info. Michael has a talking head where he says, I color code all my info. I wrote gay sun in green. Green means go, so I know to go ahead and shut up about it.

• 1:19:50Speaker 00

  Yes. And orange means, orange, you're glad you didn't bring it up.

• 1:19:53Speaker 01

  Most colors mean, don't say it.

• 1:19:55Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:19:55Speaker 01

  But Dwight doesn't know that.

• 1:19:57Speaker 00

  Yeah. So Dwight is basically saying all the things that are color coded to not be said.

• 1:20:02Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:20:03Speaker 00

  Well, before we wrap up this heavy competition between Mike.

• 1:20:09Speaker 01

  Wait, this.

• 1:20:10Speaker 00

  Mike.

• 1:20:10Speaker 01

  This episode, that's the champagne.

• 1:20:13Speaker 00

  I know.

• 1:20:13Speaker 01

  And the champagne, you have a nickname for everyone, and your champagne brain.

• 1:20:16Speaker 00

  Mike.

• 1:20:17Speaker 01

  Mike.

• 1:20:17Speaker 00

  Dwight.

• 1:20:20Speaker 01

  Um, okay.

• 1:20:22Speaker 00

  I think we should go back and wrap up this Andy Jim storyline.

• 1:20:28Speaker 01

  Okay. We both had to stop drinking champagne, by the way.

• 1:20:32Speaker 00

  We did.

• 1:20:33Speaker 01

  It just, it's so interesting. Scotch and Splenda was like, woohoo, woohoo. But champagne, we're like, I can't talk right now.

• 1:20:40Speaker 00

  Yeah, I still really do love the Scotch and Splenda.

• 1:20:43Speaker 01

  Me, too.

• 1:20:44Speaker 00

  I have to say. It's a really good drink. And we got some letters from people who said, it's basically an old fashioned. If we'd added a few orange bitters, and that's what it tasted like to me.

• 1:20:53Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 1:20:54Speaker 00

  Because I guess you would add like a sugar.

• 1:20:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:20:57Speaker 00

  A muddled, kind of sugary syrup to the Scotch. And so that's what the Splenda is doing.

• 1:21:03Speaker 01

  Yeah. But champagne just makes us go, what? What are we talking about? What's happening?

• 1:21:07Speaker 00

  I know. All right.

• 1:21:10Speaker 01

  See?

• 1:21:11Speaker 00

  I know. I'm like, what am I talking about? Okay, so Andy and Jim. Andy is gonna tell the whole bullpen that Jim is upset. And Phyllis is gonna be like, um, Andy, I think Jim is just messing with you.

• 1:21:25Speaker 01

  And then there's that smug shot of Jim in the kitchen, looking out through the blinds with that grin on his face.

• 1:21:32Speaker 00

  We had a fan question from Rhea H. and Punnett B. Can we talk about how douchey Jim is being in this episode? Andy was being really supportive and genuinely cared for Jim. And while Andy's concern might have been misguided or nosey, I think it came from a good place. We'd really like to get your take on this prank that Jim pulls on Andy because we think the prank might have been a little mean spirited.

• 1:22:00Speaker 01

  I didn't care for it.

• 1:22:01Speaker 00

  I didn't either. I do think this is a mean spirited joke. I mean, we already know I don't like pranks. And I don't love, especially pranks that.

• 1:22:09Speaker 01

  At someone's expense.

• 1:22:11Speaker 00

  That play with their emotions.

• 1:22:12Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:22:12Speaker 00

  I think it was too big of a reaction to Andy's kind of nosey meddling.

• 1:22:19Speaker 01

  And he does have this nice speech, Jim, at the end to Andy. He's like, listen, I know Angela broke your heart. But you're going to find someone else. You really will. So I feel like that was the moment where the writers were like, you know, Jim's not a bad guy. Maybe he was trying to show Andy something. But I just didn't like the prank.

• 1:22:37Speaker 00

  Me either.

• 1:22:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:38Speaker 00

  Well, I'm glad we discussed that.

• 1:22:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:40Speaker 00

  We're with you. So this episode ends with more cheese ball fun. Michael, Ryan, and Pam, they're trying to see how many cheese puffs can they fit in their mouth?

• 1:22:49Speaker 01

  Thirty-two.

• 1:22:50Speaker 00

  That's the record.

• 1:22:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:52Speaker 00

  And then the phone rings, and Michael answers it. And he's got a mouthful of cheese puffs. And we're all laughing. And while this is happening, you can hear a Michael talking head where he's saying he wanted to start a company and not a war. Well, this talking head was added later. This was not in the original script. Steve shot this a couple of weeks after we shot the original episode. And all of this footage of us doing this cheese puffs bit.

• 1:23:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:23:18Speaker 00

  This was originally gonna be at the end of the cold open.

• 1:23:22Speaker 01

  So was all of that was gonna live at the top of the episode?

• 1:23:25Speaker 00

  Yes. But they thought it would be funnier to end the cold open on Pam getting the cheese puffs while she's yawning.

• 1:23:32Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:23:32Speaker 00

  And then they gave this episode this new tag with the cheese ball bit. This was not the original tag for the episode.

• 1:23:40Speaker 01

  So instead of this bookend of cheese puffs at the beginning and end, there was a tag. And we did film it. And I want to share it with you guys. So Andy is in the conference room, and he is selling off his wedding stuff. He's determined.

• 1:23:54Speaker 00

  Still.

• 1:23:54Speaker 01

  Still, well, you know, he didn't get buyers from Jim and Pam. So in the tag, he's selling it to the rest of the gang. And they're all bidding on things. Stanley buys the rice bags. And Creed decides to get in on the action, too. I thought we had to hear a little bit of it. Why are you here, Stanley? I'm here for the rice.

• 1:24:13Speaker 03

  Boom, sold. Hundred bags of rice. Stanley Hudson. Creed, how would you like a crispy new tuxedo for your funeral? I'll take the bottom half. I want to go out the same way I came in, shirtless.

• 1:24:26Speaker 01

  And everyone else starts making bids, too, asking questions on things. Angela is not in the scene. But she walks by and had this talking head. It was in the shooting draft. I don't know why I'm down. I guess I always thought that Andy would save the stuff from our wedding, just in case. Now, it's stupid. Just in case I married someone else, and he decided to throw us a wedding. I told you it was stupid.

• 1:24:57Speaker 00

  I guess there were some things in there that Angela liked.

• 1:25:00Speaker 01

  Yeah. And maybe she hoped would make a comeback.

• 1:25:03Speaker 00

  Ah, so there you have it, guys.

• 1:25:06Speaker 01

  100 episodes.

• 1:25:08Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh. Listen, Ange, we got this letter, because you know, I said I was going through the mail.

• 1:25:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:13Speaker 00

  From Susanna G. And I wanted to share it. I really appreciated it.

• 1:25:18Speaker 01

  Okay, let's hear it.

• 1:25:20Speaker 00

  Susanna says, not sure you'll see this, but I wanted to say something to you both. First, you are my people. You are silly, loud, honest, organized. Jenna, me, too. And just so relatable.

• 1:25:34Speaker 01

  She didn't put Angela in there for organized. It's okay, Susanna.

• 1:25:37Speaker 00

  But more importantly, I noticed your value of mental health, mainly depicted to me by the breaks that you take sometimes between podcast episodes. Not all podcasts do that. And as a fan, I always look forward to listening to next week's episode. So when I hear rerun content, at times, it's initially a bummer. However, it's always followed by thoughts of, well, perhaps they needed more prep time, so that they didn't have to sacrifice family time or self-care. And as a hustling mom with a career of my own, two small children, and a law enforcement hubby with crazy schedules, demands, and stresses, my life is chaotic,

• 1:26:19Speaker 00

  to say the least. But I'm learning more and more, my stability and that of my family comes from not sacrificing those two things. So I commend you for staying committed to your values and still getting to do what you love, and with your best, Steve. What a blessing. Maybe I got all this wrong, and that's not what's going on at all. But if I'm on the nose, I simply want to offer encouragement to keep it up your way. I'll be waiting for next week's episode, whenever you get to it. Sending virtual hugs to you both.

• 1:26:52Speaker 01

  That is so sweet.

• 1:26:55Speaker 00

  Susanna, you got it 100% right.

• 1:26:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, I feel seen, Susanna.

• 1:27:00Speaker 00

  Yes, it really meant a lot to me. Because I feel like Angela and I are two gals with a very strong work ethic. We love making this show. But it is also important to us that we reserve holiday time, a little spring break time, a little summertime, just for our families.

• 1:27:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:27:19Speaker 00

  For our mental health breaks. And so we do take time off for that. You know, it also means that our team here gets a break.

• 1:27:26Speaker 01

  That's right. Everyone gets a break.

• 1:27:28Speaker 00

  So thank you, Susanna. I really appreciate it. And just know that we will put some fun stuff at the top of those rerun episodes, so that we don't leave you hanging on those breaks.

• 1:27:38Speaker 01

  That's right. And you guys, I really want to say thank you so much to Creed Bratton as well, for doing that sweet little intro for us. And you guys, he has a new single that just dropped. It's called Breathe Easy. It's available on Apple Music. And I thought we could listen to a little bit of it as we say goodbye. Happy 100th episode.

• 1:27:57Speaker 00

  Happy 100.

• 1:28:41Speaker 00

  Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink.

• 1:28:43Speaker 01

  This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf.

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  Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Our senior producer is Matt Beagle.

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  Our Second Drinks episodes are produced by Molly Nugent.

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  Our audio engineer is Sam Pfeifer.

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  Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis.

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  Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz.

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  Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.