Pod Insights Office Ladies Actor Awards & Jenna’s Birthday! About this episode This week on Office Ladies 6.0, the team celebrates Jenna’s birthday with a special episode full of surprises, stories, and call sheet questions! The ladies share a behind-the-scenes look at their whirlwind experience presenting at The Actor Awards alongside some very familiar Office friends, including last-minute outfit scrambles, backstage run-ins, and a few surprising celebrity encounters. In honor of Jenna’s birthday, the team also shares meaningful book passages and heartfelt tributes. Plus, Jenna answers the call sheet questions, revealing her first acting jobs, dream travel spots, and go-to midnight snack. So grab a bowl of cereal, settle into your coziest reading nook… and enjoy!
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Transcript 0:04 Speaker 00 I'm Jenna Fisher.
0:05 Speaker 01 And I'm Angela Kinsey.
0:06 Speaker 00 We were on The Office together.
0:08 Speaker 01 And we're best friends.
0:09 Speaker 00 And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you. Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're the Office Ladies 6.0.
0:26 Speaker 01 Hello.
0:27 Speaker 00 Hi.
0:28 Speaker 01 We're just right on top of each other today.
0:30 Speaker 00 I know.
0:31 Speaker 01 That's what she said.
0:32 Speaker 00 That's what she said. I was just about to say that.
0:34 Speaker 01 Oh, boy.
0:35 Speaker 00 Oh, lordy.
0:36 Speaker 01 What will this be?
0:37 Speaker 00 It's going to be so fun. If you guys just want just like about 50 minutes of joy and fun times, stick with us. We have a great episode today. I'm super excited about it. Okay, first of all, I need to say this. Everyone listening, you know, we record a few weeks in advance, right?
0:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
0:53 Speaker 00 Yeah. Well, one reason I'm so excited about today is the week we're recording this is actually Jenna's birthday week.
1:00 Speaker 01 It's my birthday week.
1:01 Speaker 00 It's your birthday. So hello from early March. And by the time you hear this, it's going to be a few weeks after. But you know, we have to celebrate the week of your birthday.
1:11 Speaker 01 Well, Angela, you do for sure, because you love a birthday. And I love this about you. You told me you wanted to do like a fun birthday episode today. I love it. I came in and there's a plant and a balloon from Sam and a book. And Angela, there's a gift bag here and some homemade granola from Josh and a cake.
1:33 Speaker 00 And a cake and some surprises you don't even know about.
1:36 Speaker 01 What?
1:37 Speaker 00 Uh huh.
1:37 Speaker 01 Oh, my goodness.
1:38 Speaker 00 That are going to be sprinkled through. You guys, I love a birthday. When we started our company, I said, everyone gets a dessert on your birthday and some kind of fun to do. These are our rules. We go to the bathroom when we need to go. And we have a fun birthday.
1:55 Speaker 01 I love that when, you know, companies, when they're forming, they do encourage you to put together a mission statement, sort of a vision of your company.
2:04 Speaker 00 Yeah.
2:04 Speaker 01 And I love that when we did that, that two of our things were about going to the bathroom and celebrating birthdays.
2:11 Speaker 00 Yes, and I said, we'll always have snacks.
2:13 Speaker 01 I think it really captures the two of us. I said, drawstring pants. This is like, truly like lawyers. We had to open an LLC and all those things are like, what's your mission statement for your company? This is what we provided. They're like, but like, what about like, the business?
2:30 Speaker 00 Yeah, do you need insurance? No, no, no, we're going to celebrate birthdays.
2:33 Speaker 01 Yes.
2:34 Speaker 00 Okay, well, in honor of your birthday week, let's get to this episode that is called Jenna's Birthday and Call Sheet Questions.
2:42 Speaker 01 Woo!
2:43 Speaker 00 But you told me something I find intriguing, and I can't wait to hear about it. You said that you have a birthday theme for yourself. You told me this the other day. We were talking on the phone. And here's the thing I know about you. You love a theme.
2:57 Speaker 01 I love to name things. I don't know if I got this from Kendra or what, but naming things points me in a direction. But I have a theme for my 52nd year, and here's what it is. Books and fabulous women.
3:14 Speaker 00 Ew.
3:15 Speaker 01 This year, I want to read books and be around fabulous women. And I will tell you, it is already happening. For my actual birthday, I'm having a little tea party with some book-loving women. Angela, you're going to be there.
3:28 Speaker 00 I know. I'm very excited. I got a flowery dress.
3:31 Speaker 01 Oh!
3:32 Speaker 00 I just thought, that's what you wear to a tea party.
3:35 Speaker 01 I am literally throwing myself my own finer things club for my birthday. But I will also say, this has already been one of my most memorable birthday weeks, because it started with getting to present at the Actor Awards. I mean...
3:50 Speaker 00 Craziness.
3:52 Speaker 01 And talk about being on theme, getting to be with fabulous women. First off, just being with you and Ellie and Mindy, but also... Lady, we got to meet so many women that I admire when we were at the awards. But I feel like I'm getting ahead of myself. Should we talk about how that all came about? Because it was crazy.
4:10 Speaker 00 It was a whirlwind. For y'all listening, Tuesday morning, the week of the awards, I got a text at 8:15 in the morning. I'm like in my bathroom. I do like my little rose spray on my face in the morning and my eye drops. This is what's happening, right? And I, my phone pings and it's Mindy and we're in a group text and she's like, hey, ladies, I heard we might be presenting the award for best comedy ensemble at the Actors Award this Sunday.
4:39 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:40 Speaker 00 Excuse me, what? What, huh?
4:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:43 Speaker 00 And by 9:00 AM, it was locked. We were presenting. They had reached out to all the ladies of the office, the main cast. Kate Flannery was touring with Jane Lynch, so she was unable to go.
4:53 Speaker 01 Yep.
4:54 Speaker 00 Phyllis was in St. Louis and was just like, ladies, thanks for thinking of me, but I cannot get this together in time. Phyllis, I hear you. We were here in town and barely pulled it off. So it ended up being me and you and Ellie and Mindy and the scramble that started.
5:09 Speaker 01 We had five days to be award show ready. It's so crazy to me that we were just talking to Chelsea Frye about this, about how, you know, when this whole thing started in our lives, we'd get invited to things. We'd be like, how do you get an outfit? How do you pull it off? Lady, 20 years later, I am no better at it. We were just still as like perplexed.
5:31 Speaker 00 I, we don't go to fancy shit anymore.
5:35 Speaker 01 No, we don't.
5:36 Speaker 00 And we have been invited to things, you know, when we're like eh, but like an award show?
5:42 Speaker 01 Presenting?
5:43 Speaker 00 Presenting with Mindy and Ellie. That's 100% a yes, but I, we had nothing. We don't have people. We don't have like, I didn't know where I was getting anything. I was completely unprepared for also the glow up. Like, this is the thing that cracks me up. We get this information on Tuesday, three days before the award show, as we're scrambling to get outfits. Jenna sends me a picture and goes, I got those Crest white strips.
6:08 Speaker 01 Surely just two days of a 14 day Crest white strip pack will totally transform my smile.
6:16 Speaker 00 I know. I was like, oh, good idea.
6:19 Speaker 01 But then Angela, you were like, "I have a weird tan line on my arms from tennis."
6:24 Speaker 00 You guys, I have a full t-shirt tan. I have like a scoop neck around my neck and then I have short sleeves, like a full t-shirt tan.
6:32 Speaker 01 But you're like, "I'm gonna sit outside for 30 minutes."
6:35 Speaker 00 In a tank top.
6:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, and I'm thinking, "Lady, 30 minutes is not gonna fix this problem."
6:40 Speaker 00 And it didn't.
6:41 Speaker 01 As I'm sure you were like, "Good luck with your crust white strips."
6:44 Speaker 00 I know.
6:45 Speaker 01 Which, by the way, I just want to say, really work if you do them for the 14 days. Like, they do work. You just need the whole thing. I don't want to disparage crust white strips. I actually love them.
6:56 Speaker 00 I do too. I thought your teeth looked fine.
6:58 Speaker 01 Thank you.
6:59 Speaker 00 I don't know how we did it, but we pulled it all together. It definitely took a lot of effort on multiple people's parts, and I think we should thank a few people.
7:07 Speaker 01 We should, because in addition to pulling it off, we had this hilarious text thread, you, me, Ellie and Mindy. Like, the night before, we started sending each other pictures of what we were wearing, and we were weirdly magically coordinated. It was so cool.
7:24 Speaker 00 It was crazy. Also-
7:26 Speaker 01 Like, black and plum was where we landed.
7:29 Speaker 00 I tried on three dresses. Only one really fit me, so that's the one I went with. You guys all saw it.
7:35 Speaker 01 That's what Ellie said, too.
7:36 Speaker 00 Yeah, and I loved it.
7:38 Speaker 01 Yeah, loved it.
7:39 Speaker 00 And then, I love, your jumpsuit was so cool.
7:42 Speaker 01 Well, let me tell you what I did, lady. I reached out to my friend Lindsay Price, who I did splitting up together with. I have reached out to her before. She has dressed me before from her own closet. She is my personal stylist. This is who I go to.
7:57 Speaker 00 It is such a cute thing about y'all's friendship, because she's so fashionable. And every friend group needs one gal that knows fashion. This is your person.
8:08 Speaker 01 She's the Carrie Bradshaw of my friend group. She has the amazing closet of clothes. And I wrote to her because I knew she had this suit that I had worn. When we did our book tour.
8:20 Speaker 00 I know.
8:21 Speaker 01 And I thought, can I borrow the suit? I know it fits. It's fabulous. She was like, I'll send the suit, but I have another idea. And she sent me this sequined jumpsuit. And she said, this is what I think you should wear.
8:34 Speaker 00 It was so cool. It was like beaded. It was strapless. It had this velvet like sash. It was very chic. I loved it.
8:42 Speaker 01 She added the sash.
8:43 Speaker 00 She did.
8:44 Speaker 01 Yeah. She was like, sending you this sash because I think it'll elevate the outfit. She thought of that.
8:49 Speaker 00 The sash made it.
8:50 Speaker 01 I love the sash.
8:51 Speaker 00 I would have never thought of the sash.
8:53 Speaker 01 Same.
8:53 Speaker 00 I know.
8:54 Speaker 01 But then, one problem, I couldn't sit in it. I couldn't sit down, really. I had to sit at an angle. It was an interesting car ride to the event.
9:03 Speaker 00 You had to lean back.
9:04 Speaker 01 Yes. And so after we presented, I changed into the suit. I did a wardrobe change. I've never done that before.
9:12 Speaker 00 You were very badass.
9:13 Speaker 01 I did.
9:14 Speaker 00 I was like, where's Jenna? Ellie's like, she's in that tent, like they had a little area backstage. Where you could change.
9:20 Speaker 01 Yes.
9:21 Speaker 00 Yeah. My dress, I want to shout out my friend Kimmy, who's a stylist. And she's such a busy gal. She does so many high-end things. And I just reached out to her and I told her, like, on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., Kimmy, I'm going to be presenting. She's like, oh my God, oh my God. And she brought over three dresses for me. And the one I wore was a loner. I borrowed it just for that night, which is also like stressful a little bit because I'm like, can't get anything on this.
9:50 Speaker 01 That's true. Yeah.
9:51 Speaker 00 This is going back to someone. It's got to look good.
9:54 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:54 Speaker 00 But thank you to the ladies that came together. I thought we all looked fantastic. Gosh, I felt really glamorous, you know?
10:01 Speaker 01 I did too. It was fun and the whole night felt special.
10:04 Speaker 00 From the minute we got there, we skipped the red carpet, guys.
10:08 Speaker 01 We skipped it.
10:09 Speaker 00 Me and Jenna and Ellie were like, not doing it.
10:12 Speaker 01 It gives me anxiety.
10:13 Speaker 00 We got to go into the artist entrance.
10:16 Speaker 01 Yes.
10:17 Speaker 00 But that was really cool.
10:19 Speaker 01 It was cool.
10:19 Speaker 00 And then the minute you go backstage, there's the green room. This was like the glitziest green room. Hanging out with the other presenters, I felt like I was in the cool club I'm never normally a part of.
10:33 Speaker 01 The first people that I saw when I walked in the green room was the entire cast of One Battle.
10:38 Speaker 00 Minus Leo.
10:39 Speaker 01 Of One Battle After Another.
10:41 Speaker 00 He's filming in Rome or something. I looked it up.
10:44 Speaker 01 They did say he wouldn't be there.
10:46 Speaker 00 Yeah.
10:47 Speaker 01 But I got to meet Tiana Taylor.
10:48 Speaker 00 Yes, we walked right past her. She looked amazing.
10:52 Speaker 01 Also, she is so warm and kind and lovely and brought her daughter. And I had sort of a list in my head of people that I hoped I could say to them, "I loved your work this year," and she was one of them. And I did get to say that, and that was really cool.
11:10 Speaker 00 Yeah. She was lovely, just inside and out.
11:14 Speaker 01 But we also got to meet Odessa Desaiyan from Marty Supreme. She was another one on my list and-
11:20 Speaker 00 But do you know what I said to her, by the way?
11:21 Speaker 01 What?
11:22 Speaker 00 Because I've worked with her mom, Pamela Adlon, was her mom. And so I was like, "Oh, my gosh, will you tell your mom I said hi?" And then I was like, "What am I saying?" I just turned into like that, like, dorky aunt.
11:33 Speaker 01 So she was on my list as well. And another person on my list was Wunmi Mosaku from Sinners.
11:38 Speaker 00 She was lovely.
11:41 Speaker 01 And seven months pregnant.
11:42 Speaker 00 Seven months pregnant. She and I chatted about being really pregnant at an award show. I was super pregnant at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. That's what they were called back when we were nominated as a show. And she and I talked about just like navigating that night in like a big, long, flowy dress and just like, "Get me home."
12:01 Speaker 01 Well, she is amazing in Sinners. If you guys haven't seen it-
12:05 Speaker 00 Yeah.
12:05 Speaker 01 She has this one scene in particular that just blew me away.
12:10 Speaker 00 Talk about someone who can command a moment.
12:12 Speaker 01 Yes. Yes. And lady, you chatted with Gwyneth Paltrow. I look over, who's so tall.
12:18 Speaker 00 She's very tall. Well, next to me, too.
12:20 Speaker 01 Big difference. Hey! Well, I mean, it was a striking difference. She's really so tall.
12:26 Speaker 00 And I had on three-inch heels, so-
12:28 Speaker 01 I'm right in the middle of you guys.
12:30 Speaker 00 Well, here's the thing. When we walked out on stage, they had an order. I walked out first, and then Jenna, and then Ellie, and then Mindy, right? We walked out in this order. So I'm the first one walking out there by myself, and I was like, The person I locked eyes with, I'm standing right in front of is Gwyneth Paltrow. And I look right at her and I make this kind of smile like, hey, and she smiled right back. And then I sort of left my body because then I looked at the whole room and I was like, oh, my gosh, what are we doing? And I got a little nervous for a second. But after the word show was over, we were walking like towards the exit together. And I turned to her and I said, Gwyneth, I'm Angela Kinsey. And she was like, hi. And I said, I just wanted to say thank you. I locked eyes on you right as I walked on stage and I was a little nervous and I kind
13:15 Speaker 00 of gave you this dorky smile and you smiled right back and it just kind of settled my nerves. And she was like, oh, my goodness, you guys were fantastic. And she was really nice.
13:24 Speaker 01 Well, you know who I locked eyes with as I walked out on stage? Right in front of me, Connor Story.
13:31 Speaker 00 I know.
13:31 Speaker 01 Sitting right there next to Sarah Paulson and I locked eyes with him and I went, ah.
13:38 Speaker 00 It was okay. You're a fan of his work.
13:41 Speaker 01 But then later, like you, crazy, this is a crazy moment for me. We ended up sharing a chair.
13:49 Speaker 00 You did because we, you know how like in the commercial breaks, people get up and chat?
13:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:54 Speaker 00 So we got up and we were chatting and then when the show starts back, you quickly have to sit down wherever you are. It's like musical chairs.
14:00 Speaker 01 It is.
14:01 Speaker 00 And I sat in Sarah Paulson's chair. Sarah, sorry, I took your chair. And Sarah crouched on the ground next to me. I was like, Sarah, I'm so sorry. And you quickly sat down and you and Connor sat.
14:13 Speaker 01 We sat on the same chair, same chair. Oh, but you guys, it was just, it was amazing. I'm sorry if we're going on and on, but we haven't been to one of these in a real long time and it was just so fun. I finally got to meet Quinta Brunson, which was another highlight. And we got to hang out with Paul Muskel and Jessie Buckley. Oh, my God.
14:34 Speaker 00 Backstage, Jessie Buckley offered to take our picture. I was like, what is happening?
14:39 Speaker 01 Yes, we were like, can we get a picture with you?
14:44 Speaker 01 And at the party afterwards, we saw Rose Byrne, who I love.
14:48 Speaker 00 And Catherine Hahn, who I've been friends with for so long.
14:50 Speaker 01 And Rea Sehorn was at our table with her son.
14:53 Speaker 00 Her son. She was wonderful.
14:56 Speaker 01 And Sterling K. Brown.
14:57 Speaker 00 Who called me Ange.
14:58 Speaker 01 I know.
14:59 Speaker 00 And I was like, Sterling, my family calls me Ange. How do you know people call me Ange? And he said, well, my sister's name Angela and I call her Ange.
15:05 Speaker 01 Well, there you go.
15:06 Speaker 00 And I was like, Sterling, you can call me Ange forever.
15:08 Speaker 01 We've dropped so many names.
15:10 Speaker 00 We have.
15:11 Speaker 01 Sorry, but all of these people were wonderful. So if you want to know what they're like, the answer is wonderful. And maybe most wonderful of all, not that it's a contest, sweet darling Oliver Hudson with the crazy tattoo. We ran into him.
15:26 Speaker 00 He's so fun. And here's the thing about Oliver, you know him way better than I do. Obviously y'all did a show together, but when you meet him, he's one of those people where you feel like you've known him your whole life.
15:36 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:36 Speaker 00 He's so.
15:37 Speaker 01 No affect.
15:38 Speaker 00 No, he's just so easy to be around.
15:41 Speaker 01 And he told me, this is what's crazy. Guess what? I said that this night was full of fabulous women. Guess what? Books made their way in because Oliver Hudson is a voracious reader.
15:53 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah. We actually got, I won't say reprimanded is the right word, but there was a security man that said, you need to leave now because we, everyone had to exit into the party that you spill into this party next door. And you two were talking about the books you were reading and you were so invested in this conversation. I was like, y'all need to walk and talk.
16:14 Speaker 01 Yeah. And then the next day, just texting about books. So Oliver is going to be my book friend this year, I think.
16:22 Speaker 00 He also said he's going to come on the podcast. We think we need to play two truths and a lie with him.
16:26 Speaker 01 I think we do, too.
16:27 Speaker 00 All right. Congratulations on your birthday theme of fabulous women and books.
16:32 Speaker 01 Yes.
16:33 Speaker 00 We have some fun surprises planned for you. I think we should take a quick break, have some birthday cake. And when we come back, we're going to do the call sheet questions in honor of your birthday.
16:43 Speaker 01 Great.
16:54 Speaker 00 All right, we are back. And before we kick off the call sheet questions, I have two fun things we're going to do in honor of your birthday.
17:00 Speaker 01 Okay.
17:01 Speaker 00 The first thing is, I'm going to share with you some trivia from March of 1974, the year you were born, Ms. Fisher.
17:11 Speaker 00 The number one grossing movie the month of March in 1974 was The Great Gatsby, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow.
17:19 Speaker 01 Oh, wow. You know, I've never seen it.
17:22 Speaker 00 Really?
17:23 Speaker 01 Yeah, I saw the Leo DiCaprio one.
17:25 Speaker 00 You should see the original, since it was the big hit the month you were born.
17:29 Speaker 01 Done. I'm gonna do it this weekend.
17:31 Speaker 00 The top television shows the month you were born in 1974 were All in the Family and Sanford and Son.
17:40 Speaker 01 Wow.
17:41 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
17:41 Speaker 01 Those are two really cool shows.
17:44 Speaker 00 The number one song the month you were born was Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jackson.
17:50 Speaker 01 Well, the music was moody. The film was kind of romantic and over the top. And the television was very cutting edge.
17:59 Speaker 00 Yes.
18:00 Speaker 01 Hmm. I like it. I like the artistry of my birth year.
18:05 Speaker 00 You are meant to be an artist, is what it tells me. All right. And now are you ready for a little birthday surprise? We've had birthday trivia. Now it's birthday surprise.
18:13 Speaker 01 Okay.
18:14 Speaker 00 I reached out to Matt and Sam, and I said, Jenna loves books. This is part of her birthday year theme.
18:21 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
18:22 Speaker 00 I want us each to read a little passage from a book that we love. That means something to us.
18:28 Speaker 01 I love this.
18:29 Speaker 00 And then, lady, you are going to be getting the books we talked about.
18:33 Speaker 01 Ah, this is so exciting.
18:35 Speaker 00 Yes. All right, Sam, why don't you go first?
18:38 Speaker 02 Sure. Okay, so this is a poem, actually. It's only six paragraphs long, but I've heard the end of it my entire life, but I just recently heard the entire thing. It's by Dylan Thomas. It's called Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. So do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at the end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning, they do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their failed deeds have danced in a green bay, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang in the sun in flight, we learn too late they grieved on its way. Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death,
19:23 Speaker 02 who see with blinding light, blind eyes could blaze like meteors and gay. Rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there in the sad height, curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage against the dying of the light. So that was written by Dylan Thomas, and I want to say 1940, but he reminded me of you. I am naturally very complacent. It's a Wisconsin upbringing. I'm very docile and very easily will fall in line with things. But you strike me as somebody who knows exactly what they want out of life, is very particular and isn't afraid to change the things in their life to get what they want. I've always really admired that about you. I think in this 52 years you've been alive,
20:07 Speaker 02 I think you are successfully raging against the dying light.
20:11 Speaker 01 Sam, first of all, I love that you picked poetry because it is a sect of literature that I'm less familiar with.
20:19 Speaker 02 Yeah, me too.
20:19 Speaker 01 And I would love to know more. So I'm excited that poetry is coming my way.
20:24 Speaker 00 You're getting the book, The Poems of Dylan Thomas.
20:26 Speaker 01 Oh, and I love that poem. And everything you just said, that just means so much to me.
20:32 Speaker 02 Oh, great. Happy birthday. I love you.
20:34 Speaker 01 Thank you. I love you.
20:36 Speaker 00 That was so beautiful, Sam. Damn you. But Matt, you have a book. Now, this is a book Jenna already has. So Jenna, you're going to be getting two books.
20:45 Speaker 01 Okay.
20:45 Speaker 00 Because this one, we believe you have. But Matt, I'll let you take it from there.
20:49 Speaker 03 Well, yeah, when I first came on the show, we were reading the same book, A Marriage at Sea. And I really thought that was so cool. You, me, and Barack Obama, because it was on his book list for the year.
21:01 Speaker 01 Oh.
21:02 Speaker 03 But I just thought that was awesome. And I was like, oh, cool. We have a shared love of this book. We're reading it at the same time. So I picked a quote from that, and this is from A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst, which was a great book about a couple surviving at sea together. And the quote is, "I believe in all human beings, there is a desire to love and be loved, to experience the full fierceness of human emotion, and to make it a measure of the success of one's life." And I really love that, to quote Rent, "to measure your life and love." So, yeah, I hope it's a wonderful year for you with lots of love.
21:37 Speaker 01 Thank you, Matt. And I love that you threw a little theater into there as well. That's, I love it. Yeah, that, that's a beautiful passage. And that book is really incredible. And now I know if I ever meet Barack Obama, I can bring up this book.
21:51 Speaker 03 You can talk books.
21:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:54 Speaker 01 Thank you.
21:55 Speaker 03 Okay, Angela, your turn.
21:56 Speaker 00 Okay, my turn. So I brought a book in, because, you know, I love show and tell. But this book is really special to me because it was one of my dad's favorite books. And when he passed away, my mom gave me a bunch of his favorite books. My dad was always reading a book. He had a lot of long hours that he traveled back and forth to the rig, and he would read when he traveled. So this is one of his favorite books, and there's a connection to my hometown as well. This is my dad's copy of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. And it won the Pulitzer. So this was really amazing for me to go back. Written in here, it says, "Given to Billy Kinsey for his 50th birthday in Archer City, Texas, on July 26, 1985."
22:40 Speaker 00 And I don't think you have this book.
22:43 Speaker 01 I don't.
22:44 Speaker 00 Okay. So it's this epic Western novel, written by Larry McMurtry, who's from Archer City, from my hometown. And we all grew up knowing his family. My mom is very good friends with his sister. I went to To school with his nephew. My dad went to school with Larry for a while. So this is very rooted in our hometown. But more than that, the book is just a really beautiful story about love and loss and friendship and the end of the Old West. It's got a huge, large cast of characters and it really centers around Augustus McCray and Woodrow Call, who are these Texas Rangers and they're on this very dangerous cattle drive from
23:25 Speaker 00 Texas to Montana. But there's so much love and life that happens to them and the people around them along the way. And there was two things that I like, and I find that I like the things Augustus says. He is such a bigger-than-life personality. But one of the things he says in the book that I liked is, "If you want one thing too much, it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk and feisty gentlemen." And then the other one, a lot of people like when you look up, like, quotes that people love from this book, this is one that a lot of people say, but I loved the idea of just being comfortable with everyday
24:07 Speaker 00 things. And that is you to me. You really enjoy just, your cup of coffee in the morning makes you so happy.
24:13 Speaker 01 It does.
24:14 Speaker 00 Sitting in your cozy nook and reading a book, or going for a walk with Lee. Those are the things that just fill your bucket, right? An afternoon with your kids, just hanging out in the backyard with your dog Maggie, and just those little moments are you. And this one is one other quote I'll share. "It ain't dying, I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." And I see you embrace that all the time, especially the journey you've been on the last few years. You know, you want to make now matter.
24:50 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm. Oh, wow.
24:52 Speaker 00 Yeah. So you will be getting a copy of Lonesome Dove.
24:55 Speaker 01 I'm very excited, you know. I particularly love stories, like On a Prairie. I love prairie life stories.
25:04 Speaker 00 I didn't know that.
25:05 Speaker 01 Well, they have a very kind of survivalist aspect to them.
25:09 Speaker 00 Yes.
25:10 Speaker 01 Because like, so much of the day is just about... Gathering food.
25:16 Speaker 00 Survival.
25:16 Speaker 01 Yes.
25:17 Speaker 00 Yeah.
25:17 Speaker 01 You know, and cooking the food and trading the food. So I love prairie stories.
25:22 Speaker 00 Well, this is-
25:23 Speaker 01 So I think I will enjoy this. It sounds like there's some ranching in there. I'm here for it.
25:27 Speaker 00 There's a lot of ranching and there's a lot of just life and really interesting characters.
25:34 Speaker 01 If someone drinks coffee like out of a tin cup that's over a fire, I'm gonna love it.
25:38 Speaker 00 You're in. And Lady, my last gift for you is to just honor your heart for service. You volunteer, you donate a lot of your time and resources to helping the unhoused people in your area.
25:54 Speaker 01 This is true.
25:55 Speaker 00 You never talk about it. You don't brag about it, but it is a wonderful thing that I know about you. So in honor of your birthday, Lady, I made a donation to the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.
26:06 Speaker 01 Thank you.
26:07 Speaker 00 You're welcome. I just thought, you know, I want to support this part of you that I love. And the Library Foundation of Los Angeles provides critical support to the Los Angeles Public Libraries. That results in free programs, resources, and services available to millions of adults, children, and youth. And by supporting the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, you help transform lives because your generosity is ensuring that the public library thrives for generations to come.
26:36 Speaker 01 Well, that means so much to me. Thank you, guys. Oh, my gosh. You know what has been so special about this is how very seen and known, I feel, right now.
26:48 Speaker 00 I'm so glad.
26:49 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:49 Speaker 00 I'm so glad.
26:50 Speaker 01 Thank you.
26:51 Speaker 00 I feel like as we age, birthdays, they just mean different things, you know?
26:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:55 Speaker 00 And we're not in our "let's go out and party" birthday phase.
26:58 Speaker 01 No.
26:59 Speaker 00 We're like, and let's just be around the people that we love and know us.
27:03 Speaker 01 Yeah. Aw, thank you. Thank you, guys.
27:06 Speaker 02 Happy birthday.
27:06 Speaker 01 Thank you.
27:07 Speaker 00 Happy birthday. All right, now it's time for the call sheet questions with Jenna. You all listening know the call sheet questions. We've talked about them many times. They were the questions on the back of our call sheets while we were working on the set of the office. Kind of a fun way to get to know you. And we're gonna ask them to Jenna today. Number one, what was your first entertainment job?
27:30 Speaker 01 Well, I think I've talked about both of these on the podcast before. So my very first time being paid- To act was Murder Mystery Dinner Theater in St. Louis, Missouri. And it was in the summer after I graduated from college. And I got paid $50 a show. And I did this two-person, partially improvised Murder Mystery Dinner Theater, you know, in the haunted bed and breakfast restaurant where I saw the ghost and all that. But that was truly the very first time someone paid me to perform.
28:07 Speaker 00 Did you have to play multiple characters or were you just one?
28:10 Speaker 01 I played one character and then the man that I worked with, he played multiple characters. So what was interesting about that was that every time he left the room to change clothes, I had to keep it going. Yeah, I had to vamp with all the people in the room. Yeah, so I played the lady of the house. It was my dinner party that I was throwing. And then he played Jeeves, the butler. He also played the inspector who came to say that a murder had happened. He also played like my dopey brother who maybe was the murderer. But the murderer was always someone in the room because everybody got a part.
28:47 Speaker 00 And so he must have had different accents and things and...
28:51 Speaker 01 Different accents, different costumes. He was very tired at the end of the night.
28:55 Speaker 00 I bet, I bet. I find it so amazing that, one, your first paid acting job was theater, which is your true love.
29:03 Speaker 01 Yes.
29:04 Speaker 00 And two, it was a dinner party.
29:08 Speaker 01 Yes, and it was in St. Louis. It was in my hometown, which is really cool to me that I didn't even have to leave in order to get paid to do what I love. And then when I came to Los Angeles, my very first acting jobs were all background work. And I told the story of having to ride the Jurassic Park ride for 11 hours to shoot that commercial. And I did background work on the movie Pleasantville with Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. That was like a two-week job.
29:35 Speaker 00 That's an amazing gig.
29:37 Speaker 01 Yeah.
29:37 Speaker 00 And you got to wear like the period kind of piece outfit.
29:40 Speaker 01 I did. That was a crazy one because there's a scene in the movie where, you know, it's the 19... 50s and people are necking in the cars, you know, the old timey cars. You're like necking, you've gone parking is what they call it.
29:54 Speaker 00 Right, right, right.
29:54 Speaker 01 They're making out. Yeah, and so they had to sweep past all of these cars of people making out until they got to, I think it was Reese Witherspoon and someone, I can't remember now. But you just got paired up with a person in the background, like pool.
30:13 Speaker 00 You were in the car making out?
30:14 Speaker 01 I was in one of the cars, but.
30:17 Speaker 00 Were you fakie making out?
30:19 Speaker 01 Yeah, fakie making out.
30:20 Speaker 00 Where you just hug, basically.
30:21 Speaker 01 Exactly, but the thing was, everybody wasn't total strangers because we'd all been hanging out in the background area for like so many weeks. But then it was just kind of funny because they just sort of paired us up with someone. They're like, you're in car A, you're in car B. And this like little thing just went past and I was like, oh my, this is so weird.
30:41 Speaker 00 If we watched that scene, will we like see your ponytail or something?
30:45 Speaker 01 No, I got cut out of it. I don't think I'm in the movie at all. Like I was all over the place. I was in the background of the soda shop. I was in one of the cars. I would walk down the street. I'm nowhere to be found.
30:55 Speaker 00 Hey, anyone out there listening that has seen this movie, if you think you spotted Jenna, will you do a screen grab and like tag Office Lady's pod?
31:02 Speaker 01 Incidentally, I had one outfit, so we never changed clothes. So in the soda shop on one day, in the car, walking down the street, I'm always in this yellow outfit with a ponytail. So they gave us one piece of wardrobe and we wore it for two weeks in the background.
31:19 Speaker 00 All right, y'all, look for Jenna in her yellow outfit. Okay, now question number two is a little bit of a buffet. There's three that they list and usually you just answer one. I'm going to make you answer all three.
31:30 Speaker 01 Okay.
31:31 Speaker 00 Okay. Do you speak any other languages?
31:33 Speaker 01 En peu de français.
31:34 Speaker 00 Oh, okay. Mais oui. Do you play a musical instrument?
31:40 Speaker 01 I do not.
31:41 Speaker 00 You tinkered with a guitar for a hot second.
31:45 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:45 Speaker 00 You made me walk through an airport carrying it.
31:48 Speaker 01 I carried it.
31:49 Speaker 00 I know, but I had to hold it while you went to the bathroom.
31:54 Speaker 01 Yes, I thought I was going to play guitar, but then I broke my back on that trip and I bruised my elbow. And by the time I was healed, I was over the guitar thing. I wish I played the guitar and I learned piano growing up, but I quit too early. So no, no musical instruments.
32:11 Speaker 00 It's never too late, lady. It's never too late.
32:14 Speaker 01 I feel like it's too late.
32:15 Speaker 00 Okay, it's too late. Forget it.
32:16 Speaker 01 It's too late for me.
32:18 Speaker 00 And do you have a favorite book you've read?
32:22 Speaker 01 This is a tough one.
32:23 Speaker 00 This is gonna be such a difficult question for you because I feel like there's at least once a month where you leave me a message where you're like, Angela, this book changed my life.
32:32 Speaker 01 I know, I know. I love every book almost that I read. But I'll say my favorite book that I read last year that keeps coming up for me and has actually impacted my life, you were talking about some of the work that I do for the unhoused community, which I have done for a long time, but was reinvigorated after reading Demon Copperhead.
32:56 Speaker 00 Yeah.
32:57 Speaker 01 I absolutely loved that book. And within that book, it's, you know, about the struggles of this young man who ends up losing both of his parents and he's put into foster care and he's hungry a lot. And along the way in his life, it get emotional, even just thinking about it, like he's such a real person to me. Along the way, there are just every once in a while, someone's kind to him and just creates a human moment with him.
33:25 Speaker 00 That's the thing you shared with me is like giving someone a moment of humanity.
33:28 Speaker 01 Yeah. And so that became sort of a goal of mine is just, there's a lot of unhoused people in Los Angeles. And just the idea that maybe for a brief moment,
33:46 Speaker 01 If they encounter me,
33:49 Speaker 01 I just create that moment of kindness and offer help and support, along with working with some organizations that help with housing and outreach and clothing and things like that. But for me, it's a very personal, one-on-one thing. And it's really due to that book of just the moments when, in the book, someone would offer him food. And I would just be so happy that someone was kind to him.
34:17 Speaker 00 Yeah.
34:17 Speaker 01 And I felt it so deeply. I thought, oh, my God, I just, I want to be that for somebody if I can.
34:23 Speaker 00 Right.
34:24 Speaker 01 So that book just is a great book. It's a great story. And if I'm making it sound heavy, one of the amazing things about the narrator of the book, who is the boy, is he's funny and he is hopeful. And so it's just a really powerful book and entertaining and easy to read. So I loved it. And now I am reading another of her books.
34:47 Speaker 00 Barbara KingsOliver?
34:48 Speaker 01 Yes.
34:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
34:49 Speaker 01 I am reading The Poisonwood Bible, which is also just great so far. I mean, I'm 40 pages in, but very excited.
34:59 Speaker 00 Great. Well, I think that's fantastic recommendation, you guys out there listening. We all need to read it.
35:05 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's great.
35:07 Speaker 00 All right. One of my favorite questions whenever we have a guest, because I'm just so curious about where people love to go in the world.
35:15 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
35:16 Speaker 00 What's a place you've been to that you absolutely loved?
35:19 Speaker 01 All right, I'm going to divide this into domestically and internationally.
35:22 Speaker 00 Oh, great.
35:24 Speaker 01 Domestically, Oklahoma City and Chicago. Last year, I got to go to both of those cities for different projects.
35:33 Speaker 00 And you got to really live in both of those cities.
35:36 Speaker 01 Yes.
35:36 Speaker 00 Like you had an Airbnb and you lived there and you had your market and you met people and your cafes.
35:42 Speaker 01 Yes. I absolutely fell in love with Oklahoma City and the people of Oklahoma City. Their crazy, wackadoodle weather, where it's like an ice storm and then 36 hours later, it's 78 degrees. I was like, what's happening here? And there's like tornado sirens going off. And also, the people locally, they're like, yep, we love it.
36:04 Speaker 00 Yeah.
36:04 Speaker 01 And I'm like, I get it. I don't know, there's something about it. You're like, And maybe it's because we live in the perpetual sunshine of Los Angeles. But this idea that the weather could be literally anything tomorrow.
36:17 Speaker 00 Yeah.
36:18 Speaker 01 Was very cool and exciting and weird.
36:22 Speaker 00 Exactly. And you know, my family in North Texas is kind of in that same corridor. That Oklahoma City is in, and it brings community together. Cause you're like.
36:30 Speaker 01 Yes.
36:30 Speaker 00 A bunch of trees are coming down because of this wind. Okay, everybody, let's. And then, you know, all of a sudden there's a heat wave and then it's like pray for rain. And it's like, you know, you just never know.
36:39 Speaker 01 Yes. But also the food. The food was so good. Everywhere I went to eat was so good. There was like this little taco place near our Airbnb that, I mean, we ordered from constantly. And this ramen place that was so good, but all the restaurants everywhere we ate was great. Uh, Lee had to go back recently and I was so jealous because I wanted to go with him. He had to do a screening of the movie for the crew.
37:06 Speaker 00 New Year's Rev.
37:07 Speaker 01 New Year's Rev. It's coming out this year, although I think the name is changing.
37:10 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah?
37:11 Speaker 01 Yeah. Once it's final, we can talk about it. But yeah, he did a screening for the crew and I was like, oh my God, are you going to eat here? Are you going to, he was only there for two days. I was like, where are you going to eat? Because the food was so good. And then of course I have gone on and on about Chicago. I just fell in love with that city as well.
37:28 Speaker 00 Love Chicago.
37:30 Speaker 01 So those are my domestic loves. And then internationally, I loved Copenhagen.
37:37 Speaker 00 Tell me about Copenhagen. I've never been.
37:39 Speaker 01 It is such a charming city. We went as a family and in the middle of the city, they have an amusement park called Tivoli Gardens, which Angela, you would love because it's also like a botanical gardens. And you can buy a ticket just to walk around or you can buy a ticket that includes rides. So I bought the walk around ticket. Lee and the kids bought the one for rides. They've got this old roller coaster that is like so old that there's a man that sits in the back and can, does a break for when you go around turns.
38:14 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh.
38:15 Speaker 01 Isn't that crazy?
38:16 Speaker 00 I hope he's paying attention that day. Oh my gosh.
38:20 Speaker 01 But there's also like a loop-de-loop, like a more modern roller coaster. It's great. I guess it's supposedly the amusement park that Disneyland was originally based on, and I get it. But it's just super cute. But we also went to a soccer game there, a football, excuse me.
38:36 Speaker 00 Yeah, a football game.
38:37 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm, which was really cool. And we also rented like a little electric boat and brought a picnic dinner out on the canals and we like putted around the canals. But it was great. It's a great walking city. It was just cool. And again, had great food. If you have good food, I'm gonna come to your city.
38:56 Speaker 00 Chilla's gonna visit.
38:57 Speaker 01 Exactly. So tell her where to eat, she'll be there.
39:02 Speaker 00 Okay, well, I love those answers. And number four is, what do you like to do on the weekends?
39:09 Speaker 01 Well, I run a small taxi service for two very demanding clients every weekend.
39:16 Speaker 00 Your clients are how old?
39:17 Speaker 01 They are 14 and 11.
39:19 Speaker 00 Okay.
39:20 Speaker 01 They have a lot of extracurriculars. So truly, when I say I run a car service, you know, I do the scheduling, which driver, we've got two drivers, me and Lee.
39:33 Speaker 00 Right. So you have two kids with very different interests.
39:35 Speaker 01 Yes.
39:36 Speaker 00 And you're driving them all over town. I feel like-
39:38 Speaker 01 That's all I do all weekend.
39:39 Speaker 00 Half the time on the weekend, you and I trade messages. You're like, well, I'm back in the car.
39:44 Speaker 01 Yeah. All over the city. That's basically my weekend, every weekend, is just shuttling kids to things. But-
39:53 Speaker 00 I'm sorry, I think the question is, what do you like to do on the weekends? Not what you actually do on the weekend.
40:00 Speaker 01 Okay, you're right. Okay, well, I have been able to carve out sometimes both on Saturday and Sunday, but at least one or the other, I sleep in, which I really like.
40:11 Speaker 00 Yeah.
40:11 Speaker 01 By sleep in, I mean like 8:00 a.m., maybe 8:30 if I'm lucky. That's kind of cool. And then I get my cup of coffee and I go upstairs to my reading nook and I read my book for a long time. If I get to read- During the week, maybe it's only for 15 minutes. But on a weekend, I create the space where I get to just sink into my cozy chair in my little nook at the top of my stairs with my fabulous chairs and my wallpaper.
40:42 Speaker 00 Your wallpaper. This nook, okay, so you've had that house a long time, but y'all, this nook was like that little kind of square off the top of your stairs.
40:50 Speaker 01 It's like the little landing. It's next to the linen cabinet.
40:52 Speaker 00 Yeah. And you're, for years, you're like, wait, I don't know what to do with this space. I don't know, I don't know what it is. I don't, it's not big enough like to really put too much in it. And then it just kind of became a catch all a little bit. And then you made it this cozy nook. And lady, it's brought you so much joy.
41:07 Speaker 01 It's where I read now and I love it. It's where I did all my prep for the play. I really like it. It's my quiet spot. So yeah, that's what I like to do. And I make sure that my weekend, one of the days, sometimes both includes that. And I'll sit there from like 8:30 to 10 o'clock.
41:23 Speaker 00 Oh, wow. That's amazing.
41:24 Speaker 01 And then I have to, then I have to start.
41:26 Speaker 00 Then you have to start driving.
41:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
41:27 Speaker 00 You have to go drive your clients around town.
41:29 Speaker 01 Exactly.
41:30 Speaker 00 All right. Last call sheet question. What is your favorite midnight snack?
41:35 Speaker 01 Well, I think it's cereal. If I'm gonna have a snack, and I'm interpreting midnight snack as just.
41:42 Speaker 00 Like 9:00 PM?
41:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, exactly. Like my midnight.
41:46 Speaker 00 Yeah, we're not up that late anymore.
41:48 Speaker 01 Pre bedtime snack. If I'm gonna get hungry and want to eat something, it's gonna be cereal. And currently, I'm into Frosted Mini Wheats.
41:57 Speaker 00 Oh, really?
41:58 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm. I know. It used to be Lucky Charms, but now Frosted Mini Wheats.
42:03 Speaker 00 Your cereal always has a little punch of sugar in it.
42:05 Speaker 01 It does. It packs a punch. But when I was younger and I really did eat things at midnight, my two favorites were like a big tub of frozen yogurt or, you know, Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Or for a very long time, I would watch TV and eat Easy Cheese on top of Wheat Thins.
42:29 Speaker 00 That's hilarious. Well, lady, all of those answers are so authentically you. And you're really fun to hang out with.
42:37 Speaker 01 Hey, thanks.
42:38 Speaker 00 Yeah, you're a good hang, as they say. Why don't we take a break? And when we come back, I think we should have an Around the Town and then end with an Office Question of the Week.
42:48 Speaker 01 Let's do it.
42:58 Speaker 00 All right, Sam, we're back. How about some around the town action?
43:06 Speaker 01 Our first message comes from Julia H. in Connecticut, who said Julia and Sarah, who have been friends since 2016, when they joined the University of Connecticut marching band as clarinet players, celebrated their 28th birthdays over the weekend. They hosted a, quote, "Bob party", where their friends, who are also clarinet players, came dressed as characters who would have Bob haircuts. The party also included pizza and ice cream cake for dessert.
43:39 Speaker 00 That is hilarious. I have never heard of a Bob party.
43:42 Speaker 01 Julia, I wish you would have told us who all the Bob haircut people were.
43:47 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh, I wish we had a picture. Like, my first thing I think of is that scene in Fleabag.
43:53 Speaker 01 Yes.
43:54 Speaker 00 His sister gets a haircut and she's like, "I look like a pencil."
43:58 Speaker 01 I'm not, and I don't know if this is a Bob, but I did think of Meryl Streep's character from The Devil Wears Prada.
44:05 Speaker 00 Oh.
44:05 Speaker 01 Is that kind of a Bob?
44:06 Speaker 00 That's a sassy Bob, yeah. Or isn't the famous Bob right now your friend?
44:12 Speaker 01 Leslie Bibb, her character in...
44:14 Speaker 00 White Lotus.
44:15 Speaker 01 Yeah.
44:15 Speaker 00 Yeah.
44:16 Speaker 01 Exactly.
44:17 Speaker 00 Okay. Our next around the town is from Ashley B. in Kent, Ohio. Ashley says, "Hi, Jenna and Angela. The Akron Zoo in Akron, Ohio threw a 25th birthday party for their tawny frog-mouthed owl. His name is Buzz and he is one of their animal ambassadors, so he does not have a public exhibit. But you can see the decor, which I think you'll very much enjoy, on their social media. Hopefully this link will work."
44:43 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh. It's amazing. It is an owl sitting on his perch, and behind him is a banner that says, "It is your birthday."
44:54 Speaker 00 And then there's all the sad balloons. Partially like, oh, deflated balloons. That is hilarious.
45:01 Speaker 01 Yes.
45:02 Speaker 00 I will share that in stories. Oh, my gosh.
45:04 Speaker 01 Thank you for sending that, Ashley. I loved that. And now, Alicia W. from Norfolk, Nebraska, said, "At the parking lot of our local Chipotle, there is one of those little strips of grass and landscaping, and instead of going around this, people would drive straight through the grass."
45:23 Speaker 00 They would just drive right over the median, kind of thing.
45:26 Speaker 01 Yes.
45:26 Speaker 00 Yeah.
45:27 Speaker 01 So, to combat this, the owners decided to place a large boulder amongst the landscaping. Unfortunately, we rural Nebraskans are such creatures of habit that not one, but several cars have actually driven their same route through the landscaping and gotten their vehicle stuck on the rock.
45:47 Speaker 00 My gosh.
45:48 Speaker 01 It was such a sensation that some people actually created a Facebook group called "The Rock of Norfolk" and named the rock Ron, for "Rock of Norfolk." Ron's group has 5,800 members, which is 23% of our town's population, and I counted pictures of five or six different vehicles that got stuck on him. After the drama, they finally added a protective circle of poles around Ron, but you can still go visit him, and he has officially been added to Google Maps as a tourist attraction.
46:26 Speaker 00 Well, Alicia, we love this story so much. I actually found a news station that covered it, their local in Nebraska, and it's really funny. They show all the pictures of the vehicles that have been stuck on this rock, and the rock is big.
46:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
46:42 Speaker 00 There's no way you're gonna drive right at it and think, "I'm gonna go over that."
46:46 Speaker 01 It's clearly muscle memory.
46:47 Speaker 00 Yeah.
46:48 Speaker 01 People are forgetting the rock is there.
46:51 Speaker 00 It's big. Anyway, I'm gonna put the news broadcast in our stories. Thank you, guys, all so much for writing in. I love around the towns.
46:59 Speaker 01 All right, well, now it's time for our office question of the week.
47:03 Speaker 00 It comes from Phil H. in Spring, Texas, which is right outside of Houston. Phil says, "The series showed the wedding of Pam and Jim and Dwight and Angela. Was there a reason why the wedding of Michael and Holly was not in an episode of The Office?"
47:18 Speaker 01 There is, and it's probably a pretty boring reason.
47:21 Speaker 00 Right.
47:22 Speaker 01 Because, man, that would have made a great episode.
47:25 Speaker 00 I would have loved to seen their wedding.
47:27 Speaker 01 Oh.
47:27 Speaker 00 Because, you know, Michael's gonna be bridezilla.
47:30 Speaker 01 You think?
47:31 Speaker 00 Yes, and I think Holly's just gonna let him have his moment. But I think Michael's gonna have really strong feelings about his wedding day.
47:38 Speaker 01 Do you think they would have traded vows, like in a Yoda voice?
47:42 Speaker 00 Oh, I think they would have for sure written their own vows.
47:46 Speaker 01 Which I would have just loved to hear.
47:49 Speaker 00 Oh, Mindy, Mindy Kaling, can we call her and be like, will you write these right now so we can read them on the podcast? Yeah, I think at some point in the wedding vows, there would have been some type of like accents, character impersonations.
48:02 Speaker 01 Yes.
48:03 Speaker 00 Things like that.
48:03 Speaker 01 I feel like there would have been maybe some like princess bride references.
48:08 Speaker 00 Oh.
48:09 Speaker 01 Like, marriage.
48:10 Speaker 00 Marriage.
48:11 Speaker 01 Brings us together.
48:13 Speaker 00 Yeah.
48:14 Speaker 01 Yeah.
48:14 Speaker 00 The Holy Spigot.
48:16 Speaker 01 Yeah.
48:18 Speaker 00 For sure.
48:19 Speaker 01 I don't know. There just would have been a lot of voices.
48:23 Speaker 00 Marry you, I will.
48:24 Speaker 01 Yeah, there you go. But it would have been really joyous. We'll tell you why it didn't happen. It was because, first of all, Steve Carell was no longer under contract with the show, you know? Michael marries Holly somewhere in season eight or nine. When he shows up for the finale, you know, it's years later. So that wedding happened off camera, but both Amy and Steve had already left the show and were doing other things. And so we just didn't get to see their wedding. But man, I so wish that we could have.
48:54 Speaker 00 Yeah. I mean, I think he would have had to make Dwight his best man.
49:00 Speaker 01 You think?
49:01 Speaker 00 Yeah.
49:01 Speaker 01 He wouldn't have tried to make like Ryan his best man or Danny Cordray. One of the last handsome ones.
49:08 Speaker 00 He would have tried and but I think it would have ended up being Dwight. I do.
49:13 Speaker 01 You do?
49:14 Speaker 00 Yeah, because he would have taken care of Michael and made sure it was all of Michael's favorite things. But there would have been at least one moment where he went too big. And Michael would have been like, damn it Dwight. I think there might have been a full choir that sings.
49:28 Speaker 01 Mm hmm, I could see that.
49:29 Speaker 00 Right?
49:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
49:30 Speaker 00 Yeah, they would have done the cut the cake thing and they're both such dorks. The cake theme, what would the cake have been?
49:37 Speaker 01 Oh, that's a good question.
49:39 Speaker 00 Just all the little touches would have been so fun.
49:42 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's too bad.
49:43 Speaker 00 Oh, you know what I think last thing? Because now I'm just so excited, just kind of envisioning the Michael and Holly wedding. I think for sure the two of them would have spent weeks working on a choreographed first dance.
49:57 Speaker 01 Yes.
49:57 Speaker 00 They would have performed for everyone.
50:00 Speaker 01 Yes, but I also think Michael would have insisted that everybody lift him up on a chair. Even though it was not a Jewish wedding.
50:08 Speaker 00 Yeah.
50:09 Speaker 01 He would have wanted that tradition.
50:10 Speaker 00 The moment.
50:11 Speaker 01 Yes, because he had seen it in a movie or something.
50:14 Speaker 00 Or they would have like entered their reception in like, like a ye olde carriage.
50:22 Speaker 00 I was at a wedding one time where the bride and groom entered in a horse drawn carriage.
50:28 Speaker 01 They entered the indoors?
50:30 Speaker 00 Like a Cinderella carriage, they entered a ballroom.
50:33 Speaker 01 With actual horses.
50:35 Speaker 00 One horse pulling like a little Cinderella round wrought iron carriage that they sat in.
50:41 Speaker 01 Do I know these people?
50:43 Speaker 00 No, no, this was a huge Dallas, Texas wedding.
50:47 Speaker 01 Wow.
50:48 Speaker 00 Yeah, and I literally like the big doors open and then you're clip, clap, clip. I was like, what is happening?
50:55 Speaker 01 Am I an old lady? Because when I hear that, I think, oh, what a waste of money.
51:00 Speaker 00 No.
51:00 Speaker 01 You should just... You know what? Use that for some good bed linens.
51:05 Speaker 00 Well...
51:06 Speaker 01 You know what? Double up on all your sheets. That's a better way to spend your money on splurge.
51:12 Speaker 00 Get the good towels.
51:13 Speaker 01 Yeah, exactly.
51:14 Speaker 00 That carriage.
51:15 Speaker 01 I'm like, you'll use the towels forever.
51:17 Speaker 00 Yeah. Also, you know, the number of mishaps that can happen getting in and out of that carriage in your dress with your fancy shoes.
51:24 Speaker 01 Yeah.
51:25 Speaker 00 Go get the towels.
51:27 Speaker 01 We're practical ladies.
51:28 Speaker 00 We are. But also, if you want a carriage at your wedding, you do you.
51:33 Speaker 01 Yes, that's right. I don't judge, I just can't relate. It's different.
51:39 Speaker 00 Stitch that on a pillow.
51:40 Speaker 01 I don't judge, I just can't relate is actually a really great pillow.
51:45 Speaker 00 It is.
51:46 Speaker 01 Well, you guys, this has been really great. Thank you. I feel so celebrated. Angela, when your birthday comes up, we're gonna have to do the same thing. You have to answer the call sheet questions now. It was your idea. You started it.
51:59 Speaker 00 Okay.
52:00 Speaker 01 Now you have to do it.
52:01 Speaker 00 Oh, great. All right. Sam, Matt, what are your birthdays? I'm not the only one doing this.
52:06 Speaker 01 And maybe we'll come up with some tribute to you that's like, I'm thinking, maybe tennis related. Do we have to share our favorite tennis moment from history?
52:17 Speaker 00 Mine was a surprise to you.
52:19 Speaker 01 Okay.
52:20 Speaker 00 Our shared moment was a surprise. You have to surprise me.
52:22 Speaker 01 Okay.
52:23 Speaker 00 I don't want to know.
52:24 Speaker 01 Okay.
52:25 Speaker 00 But I get to pick my own theme, lady. You don't get to pick my birthday theme.
52:27 Speaker 01 Okay, you pick your theme, and then that will point us in a direction. I like it.
52:31 Speaker 00 Okay.
52:32 Speaker 01 Well, thank you, everybody. This was really fun.
52:34 Speaker 00 All right. We'll see you guys next week. We hope you had a great one. Thanks for writing in. We appreciate you all so much.
52:39 Speaker 01 See you next week. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.
52:46 Speaker 00 Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
52:52 Speaker 01 Our senior producer is Matt Beagle. And our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer.
52:56 Speaker 00 Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis.
52:59 Speaker 01 Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz.
53:02 Speaker 00 Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.
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