Pod Insights Office Ladies Family Feud & Angela's Birthday About this episode This week on Office Ladies 6.0, it’s Angela’s birthday! We’re celebrating with a special episode filled with some of Angela’s favorite things: family, friends, and tennis. After looking back on their unforgettable appearance on Family Feud, the ladies hear from Angela’s tennis friends, who reveal what happens when sweet, thoughtful Angela steps onto the court and becomes someone else entirely. Plus, Angela answers the call sheet questions, sharing stories about her first acting job, her favorite places to travel, and her favorite “midnight” snack. Along the way, there are birthday donuts, wedding shout-outs, and plenty of laughs. So grab a glazed donut, watch out for Angela’s backhand and enjoy. Happy B-Day Angela!
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1:04 Speaker 01 I'm Jenna Fischer.
1:05 Speaker 02 And I'm Angela Kinsey.
1:06 Speaker 01 We were on The Office together.
1:08 Speaker 02 And we're best friends.
1:09 Speaker 01 And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you. Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of the office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details and lots of BFF stories. We're the Office Lady 6.0.
1:25 Speaker 01 Hello.
1:27 Speaker 02 Hi there.
1:28 Speaker 01 Hi. And welcome to today's episode that is in honor of Angela's birthday.
1:34 Speaker 02 It's my birthday. It's my birthday week.
1:36 Speaker 01 It's your birthday week. You are surrounded by presents and balloons and sweet treats. Sam and I both went balloons this year.
1:46 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm, skipped flowers.
1:48 Speaker 01 I know.
1:49 Speaker 02 They're beautiful and festive and I thank you. And is this a box of donuts?
1:53 Speaker 01 Lady, it is. A box of donuts.
1:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:57 Speaker 01 Cause I was like, listen, you are married to a man who can make you the best cake or pie or whatever. And I thought, what is a sweet treat that you love that Josh does not make for you? And it's donuts.
2:13 Speaker 02 That's right.
2:14 Speaker 01 So. I did check in with him. I wanted to make sure I knew your favorite.
2:19 Speaker 02 Did you get just like, I'm a basic bitch. It's just glazed.
2:22 Speaker 01 Glazed.
2:23 Speaker 02 That's it.
2:24 Speaker 01 It's glazed.
2:24 Speaker 02 Damn.
2:25 Speaker 03 Yep, that's very you.
2:26 Speaker 02 Thank you.
2:26 Speaker 03 It's very on brand.
2:27 Speaker 01 Yep. So that's from my local donut shop that I love.
2:30 Speaker 02 Oh, I love a local donut shop. Give it to me. I love one too, where you go in and it's like, donuts or would you like a burrito? I'm like, okay.
2:40 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
2:41 Speaker 02 You know what I mean?
2:41 Speaker 01 Sure.
2:42 Speaker 02 And then it's like, also, we have some egg rolls. Fine. Great.
2:45 Speaker 01 Yep.
2:46 Speaker 02 Give it all to me. This is just donuts. I'm fine with that. I'm just saying, I love a local donut shop.
2:53 Speaker 01 Well, listen, lady, you planned such a fantastic birthday episode for me this year. You set the bar pretty high, so I hope you like what we've planned.
3:02 Speaker 02 It's already off to a great start.
3:04 Speaker 01 Okay, good, good.
3:05 Speaker 02 There's donuts.
3:06 Speaker 01 Well, everyone, later in the episode, Angela's going to answer the call sheet questions. I'm very excited for that. But you know, at the top of my birthday episode, we had a really fun dish session. We talked about going to the SAG Awards.
3:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
3:20 Speaker 01 And I thought, I feel like we need a fun dish session for your birthday too. But then I was like, is there a fun story that we have not told on the podcast?
3:30 Speaker 02 I mean, after all these years, it's getting slim.
3:33 Speaker 01 It is. I feel like we've reported everything.
3:36 Speaker 02 Everything. But you know, Jenna, you had a theme for your birthday, which really helped me when I was shaping your episode. You said books and fabulous women. And so I was able to latch on to that, but that got me thinking. If I was to set a theme for my birthday, I think it would be family, friends and tennis. Because those are three things I want to spend more time enjoying. And then I was going through old photos and I found some from our time on Family Feud with our sisters and your mom. And I know we mentioned this years ago, you know, on the podcast when we went on the actual game show, but lady, we never really dished, you know what I mean? We never really got down to it.
4:16 Speaker 01 Well, you told me your theme. You told me this idea and I said, I love it. Let's dish. Family Feud.
4:22 Speaker 02 Let's dish. Okay. First, I think we need to explain how it all came about. And Jenna, if my memory serves, didn't you get an email from the folks at Family Feud saying like, would your family like to go on? And like, compete for a charity?
4:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's right. They asked me if I might like to go on with some of my office co-stars or my family. They kind of said, build a team. And I thought it would be really fun, since your sister is a teacher and my mom is a teacher and my sister is also a teacher. I thought that we could all go on together and we could play for AdoptAClassroom.org.
4:56 Speaker 02 I mean, that's a win-win. I was so excited. And for those of you guys that are unfamiliar, Adopt a Classroom is an amazing national nonprofit that connects people who can donate to help out pre-K through 12th grade educators to provide funding for school supplies. And their goal is to help teachers from having to spend their own money on essential learning materials for their classroom.
5:18 Speaker 01 Well, this was really cool because we got to do something fun with our family members and also honor their years of teaching. But we only got the money if we won.
5:27 Speaker 02 That's right.
5:28 Speaker 01 We got like a little bit of money for our charity just for showing up, but we wanted the big dollars.
5:32 Speaker 02 That's right. Oh, and also, wait, we have to talk about the fact that the minute we said yes.
5:38 Speaker 01 Yep.
5:39 Speaker 02 We all then got on a text thread because we had to coordinate outfits.
5:42 Speaker 01 Yes. They suggest that you coordinate your outfits. Like, if you watch Family Feud, some people get like whole, like, special sweatshirts made and all that, but we didn't have time. So, we came up with
5:54 Speaker 02 Get ready for this, guys.
5:57 Speaker 01 Blouse with black slacks.
5:59 Speaker 02 Fancy blouse with black slacks.
6:01 Speaker 01 And we tried to all do the same color blouse, if you remember. But we couldn't find a color that we all had.
6:08 Speaker 02 Your mom and I had kind of a green color.
6:10 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:10 Speaker 02 You had sort of like a pink. Your sister was like a reddish pink. And then my sister Janet was blue.
6:17 Speaker 01 Well, because we settled on jewel tones.
6:20 Speaker 02 Yes.
6:21 Speaker 01 We wrote, we wrote them back and we said, we'll be doing jewel tones with black slacks.
6:26 Speaker 02 I know. When you wrote that back, I was like, they think we're crazy.
6:30 Speaker 01 So, once we figured out what to wear, our family flew out to LA from St. Louis and Texas. I also want to share that my dad came along. He was in the audience on tape day, which was very special to me.
6:42 Speaker 02 And we should also say who we were going up against. It was Scott Foley and his family. They were all so nice, by the way, and we were absolutely turned by Scott Foley.
6:53 Speaker 01 Well, you know, he's also from St. Louis.
6:55 Speaker 02 Yeah.
6:55 Speaker 01 So, we were all chatting St. Louis backstage. He took pictures with all of us.
7:00 Speaker 02 My sister Janet was like, "He is so handsome."
7:02 Speaker 01 Oh, my mom was swooning.
7:03 Speaker 02 I know. I also want to mention, there were lots of snacks backstage. I always clock a good snack area.
7:10 Speaker 01 Yes.
7:10 Speaker 02 There was tea and coffee. The folks at Family Feud took great care of us, but my sister Janet maybe should have skipped the coffee, because I looked over at her, and you guys, she had this glazed look in her eyes, and I was like, "Are you okay?" And she was like, "My heart is racing." She said, literally, "I can feel it beating outside my chest." And then she proceeded to drink two more cups of coffee, which she never does. So, I think the coffee, paired with her nerves of being on national television, was not a great mix. I literally thought she was going to bounce right out of that green room.
7:40 Speaker 01 Well, I was really nervous backstage, too, speaking of nerves, because my mom was telling stories about me as a little girl to, like, my hair and makeup people and any production assistants that came by, and I was like, "Oh, my God. I hope she doesn't tell these on Family Feud." I'm, like, in a semi-spiral backstage. My sister is cracking up.
8:03 Speaker 02 Emily seems so calm.
8:05 Speaker 01 Yes. She's a go-with-the-flow person. And what was really cool was that they got to get glam treatment backstage, and it was especially cool for my sister, because, I mean, as a teacher, she does not get the fancy treatment that often, and so that was cool for me, too, to kind of treat them to a glow up.
8:23 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:23 Speaker 01 And it was also cool for me to get to give them, like, a little bit of an insider's look at what it takes to be on TV, you know? They were both like, "Wow, it's a lot of waiting."
8:35 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:35 Speaker 01 But they also loved the snacks.
8:37 Speaker 02 Right?
8:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:39 Speaker 02 Snacks and a glow up and lots of waiting.
8:41 Speaker 01 That sums it up.
8:42 Speaker 02 But then it was time to play. I remember how we were lined up on stage. It was you first, then me, then your mom, then your sister, and then my sister all the way at the end. And I was like, oh, I was immediately slightly worried because whoever's at the end, they're the last one to guess when all the good answers have kind of been used up.
9:03 Speaker 01 It's the hardest position in the line, for sure.
9:06 Speaker 02 And she'd had two cups of coffee.
9:08 Speaker 01 But wait, do you remember backstage while they were lining us up? We were like one minute to curtain or whatever.
9:16 Speaker 02 They were like 50 seconds.
9:17 Speaker 01 Yeah, they're like, oh, you have to make a tableau. You have to pose.
9:21 Speaker 02 We're like a tableau.
9:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's gonna start in a shadow and you need to have a tableau and then the lights will come up on you, come up with something. And we panicked. And the best thing that we could come up with was all of us resting our hands on our chins.
9:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:35 Speaker 01 With like a weird slight bend in our knees.
9:37 Speaker 02 You couldn't tell what we were doing.
9:39 Speaker 01 What were we doing?
9:40 Speaker 02 Like the tableau and the shadow, it just looks like a bunch of people hunched over.
9:44 Speaker 01 Yes, it was ridiculous. And then I remember like Scott Foley's team had this cool like Charlie's Angels thing, like some people's arms were up, some people were to the side.
9:54 Speaker 02 We were just like leaning over.
9:57 Speaker 01 We totally choked. We did.
9:59 Speaker 02 A little bit.
10:00 Speaker 01 It just all went by so fast. And then I remember, okay, lights are up. We're walking to our podium. Steve Harvey came out. The energy in the room was so amped. We start the game immediately. Like you just dive right in.
10:12 Speaker 02 Yeah. And you were head to head with Scott Foley.
10:14 Speaker 01 I know, I had to go first.
10:16 Speaker 02 It was very exciting. I do also want to say Steve Harvey, man, like his energy the minute he hits that stage.
10:22 Speaker 01 I know, and he has to be so quick on his feet.
10:25 Speaker 02 He's so quick, he's so entertaining. All of it was so fun. But let's hear our very first round.
10:31 Speaker 04 All right, let's go, guys. Top eight answers on the board. We asked 100 women, name something that would look good, smeared all over your ex's car.
10:43 Speaker 04 Uh, condiments. Condiments.
10:49 Speaker 04 What? What? Whip cream? Whip cream.
10:58 Speaker 04 Pass it to her. Play, play. We wanna play.
11:04 Speaker 04 All right, Angela. We asked 100 women. Name something that would look good smeared all over your ex's car. How about some eggs? Some eggs.
11:23 Speaker 04 And darling, wonderful to have you here. We asked 100 women, name something that would look good smeared all over your ex's car.
11:30 Speaker 05 Paint.
11:31 Speaker 04 Come on now. Now we talking. Black car, red paint.
11:39 Speaker 04 Paint.
11:47 Speaker 04 Emily? We asked 100 women, name something that would look good smeared all over your ex's car. Lipstick.
11:56 Speaker 04 Lipstick.
12:04 Speaker 04 That's a schoolteacher. We're gonna go to the other schoolteacher. Janet? 100 women, name something that would look good smeared all over your ex's car. The kids are listening.
12:13 Speaker 06 Crash marks.
12:16 Speaker 06 You know, hammer marks, crash marks.
12:19 Speaker 04 Janet, okay.
12:22 Speaker 04 Hammer marks. Can't wipe them off.
12:27 Speaker 04 Crash marks, hammer marks.
12:33 Speaker 04 Jenna? We got two strikes now. We gotta be careful, Foldy Family can steal.
12:39 Speaker 06 Poop.
12:45 Speaker 04 Fresh. Fresh.
12:50 Speaker 04 Poop.
12:57 Speaker 04 Hey, we got two strikes now, Angela. We gotta be careful again. Foldy Family can steal. Talk to 100 women, name something that might look good smeared all over your ex's car. Your trash.
13:09 Speaker 04 Your trash.
13:18 Speaker 02 So then it went back to Foley's team.
13:21 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:21 Speaker 02 To steal.
13:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, but they didn't steal it. So we got it.
13:24 Speaker 02 So we got it.
13:26 Speaker 01 Mm hmm. It's so funny because my first instinct was to say poop, but I was afraid to say poop.
13:35 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:36 Speaker 01 And so I didn't say poop first, but then when it came back to me, I'm like, I gotta say it. I mean, it's clearly gonna be some sort of like poop or pee.
13:45 Speaker 02 Yeah, for sure. Um, did you hear my sister Janet leave her body when she said crash marks? Hammer marks? You guys, she said that she just was thinking about like, if you were mad, what would you do to a car?
14:00 Speaker 01 Yeah, of course.
14:01 Speaker 02 About the item you put on top of it.
14:04 Speaker 01 Of course. She was thinking vandalism in general.
14:06 Speaker 02 Exactly. But she said she was just like, time stood still and those words came out of her mouth. And then she was like, ah. But anyway, what happened was, guys, then you go to the next round, which is like the main round, and our team won enough points that we were in for the fast money bonus round.
14:25 Speaker 01 Yes, this is when we got the chance to win up to $25,000 for our charity.
14:30 Speaker 02 Yeah, because we'd already beat the Foley's.
14:32 Speaker 01 We beat the Foley's. Sorry, Scott Foley and family. You were lovely.
14:36 Speaker 02 You were so nice. So here's how the fast money bonus round works for those of you who are unfamiliar. I had never played it. So I mean, I learned it that day. You have two family members who are selected to play. One of you leaves the stage, right? Where you can't hear.
14:50 Speaker 01 Yeah, you go to like a soundproof booth.
14:52 Speaker 02 Yeah, that was me. I left the stage. So Jenna was gonna go first. She was gonna have to answer five rapid fire survey questions. And then after Jenna answers, it's my turn. They bring me out of this booth where I haven't been able to hear anything. And then I have to answer the same questions as Jenna.
15:09 Speaker 01 But you can't say the same answer I said.
15:12 Speaker 02 Exactly.
15:13 Speaker 01 And we have to try to get up to 200 points.
15:15 Speaker 02 And that's how you win.
15:17 Speaker 01 I have to ask you, what was it like in the soundproof booth? I've always wondered.
15:21 Speaker 02 You literally can't hear anything.
15:23 Speaker 01 Is it weird?
15:25 Speaker 02 I mean, you just stand there for a bit by yourself.
15:27 Speaker 01 Does it feel like it's going on forever?
15:29 Speaker 02 No, not really. It didn't. I mean, because you only got 20 seconds on the clock.
15:33 Speaker 01 That's true.
15:34 Speaker 02 So by the time I got back there, I mean, it was almost time for me to come back out.
15:38 Speaker 01 It's funny, you feel like I had the tougher round, but I feel like you had the tougher round. Tougher round because there were five answers that were now no longer allowed. That you don't know. I just got to go with my first instinct.
15:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, but you had 20 seconds and I had 25 seconds. And you know what we had to hope for is that your brain and my brain don't think exactly alike. But if this podcast has taught us anything, the odds were in our favor, lady.
16:04 Speaker 01 Well, let's hear my round and then hear your round.
16:07 Speaker 02 Okay.
16:09 Speaker 04 Besides popcorn, name something people buy at a movie theater concession stand.
16:16 Speaker 01 Soda.
16:16 Speaker 04 Tell me how many TVs you have in the house.
16:19 Speaker 01 Three.
16:20 Speaker 04 Name a part of the body that people throw out a joint.
16:23 Speaker 01 Their back.
16:24 Speaker 04 Fill in the blank, cry, blank.
16:29 Speaker 01 Pass.
16:30 Speaker 04 Tell me the US state that starts with North.
16:33 Speaker 01 Dakota.
16:34 Speaker 04 Cry, blank.
16:36 Speaker 01 Crybaby.
16:37 Speaker 04 Boom.
16:43 Speaker 02 So then Jenna, I guess they added up all your points and you did really well.
16:47 Speaker 01 Um, but let's see how you did, lady.
16:49 Speaker 02 Now, and also guys, just know I had to run like across this long stage to meet Steve Harvey on the front. And I was running in heels. Okay. So just, I'm a little winded.
16:59 Speaker 01 Okay.
17:03 Speaker 04 Angela. Yeah, that was a long way to run in heels. Yeah. Your bestie over there played the game. She got out of 200. What?
17:18 Speaker 04 186.
17:29 Speaker 04 That is so good. Yo, you need 14 points. I got this.
17:43 Speaker 04 You ready? All right, let's remind everybody of Jenna's answers.
17:48 Speaker 04 25 seconds on the clock.
17:51 Speaker 01 Okay.
17:52 Speaker 04 Here we go.
17:53 Speaker 01 Okay.
17:54 Speaker 04 Besides popcorn, name something people buy at a movie theater concession stand.
18:00 Speaker 01 Soda pop.
18:01 Speaker 04 Try again.
18:02 Speaker 01 Um, oh, uh, chocolate.
18:06 Speaker 04 Tell me how many TVs you have in the house.
18:08 Speaker 01 Four.
18:09 Speaker 04 Name a part of the body that people throw out a joint.
18:12 Speaker 01 Their neck.
18:13 Speaker 04 Fill in, fill in the blank, cry, blink.
18:16 Speaker 01 Me a river.
18:19 Speaker 04 Tell me a US state that starts with North.
18:22 Speaker 01 North Dakota.
18:24 Speaker 04 Try again.
18:24 Speaker 01 Um, oh, Lord Jesus. Jesus.
18:28 Speaker 04 No.
18:31 Speaker 04 N- North Jesus?
18:35 Speaker 01 I was saying, I was saying, oh, Lord Jesus.
18:39 Speaker 04 I was going, wow. I ain't been paying attention in school. Where is North Jesus?
18:52 Speaker 04 All right, let's go.
18:56 Speaker 04 We need 14 points. Besides popcorn, name something that people buy at a movie theater concession stand. You said? Chocolate. Survey said?
19:18 Speaker 02 So we won, and you guys, our reaction to winning, there's this great screen grab. We're just like bear pile, like your mom, your sister, my sister, we're like, ah, it's like we won the Super Bowl.
19:30 Speaker 01 I was so excited that we won and that we won the money for the charity. It was just, it was awesome.
19:36 Speaker 02 It was so much fun, and lady, one of the things you and I talked about right after we filmed this was the pandemic.
19:45 Speaker 01 Oh, it happened, you're right, very shortly after. In fact, I feel like when it aired, we were during the pandemic.
19:53 Speaker 02 We were.
19:54 Speaker 01 And we couldn't watch it all together.
19:56 Speaker 02 Yeah, we had wanted to do a viewing party, and so you're so... Sister, so sweet, made us T-shirts.
20:03 Speaker 01 Yes, her friend of hers that she works with did like a really cool piece of artwork of the five of us standing behind the Family Feud like little podium.
20:13 Speaker 02 Yeah, it's really cool and they put it on a T-shirt and instead we all remotely had our viewing parties and we all wore our T-shirts.
20:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, that was really sweet. Aw, well, and I loved reminiscing about that. I hope y'all liked it, but I think it's just the perfect way to start an Angela Kinsey birthday episode because she loves her family and her friends and she loves to play games and she especially loves to play tennis.
20:38 Speaker 02 Y'all.
20:39 Speaker 01 Which we will be discussing.
20:41 Speaker 02 Oh, no.
20:43 Speaker 01 When we come back from our break.
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21:04 Speaker 01 It was less than $50 and I needed something that was nicer for summery outfits.
21:13 Speaker 02 Well, guess what? I have decided this is my season of the cardigan.
21:17 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
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21:31 Speaker 01 I like the buttons.
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21:58 Speaker 01 All right, we are back. Lady, I'm going to kick off this section of the podcast with a little trivia.
22:06 Speaker 02 Okay.
22:07 Speaker 01 You told me the movie and the song that were popular during my birth month and year, and so I'm going to do the same for you. The top grossing movie in the week of June 1971 was Love Story, starring Ally McGraw and Ryan O'Neal. That's the movie that made the name Jennifer so popular. Her name was Jennifer, AKA Jenny. That name blew up after that movie. The number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1971, it was a double sided hit by Carole King. One side was It's Too Late, and the other side was I Feel the Earth Move.
22:47 Speaker 02 Oh, Under My Feet. I love that song.
22:50 Speaker 01 Yes, that stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. I also thought you might like to know that the number one television show was All in the Family.
22:58 Speaker 02 I love All in the Family.
23:00 Speaker 01 All right, lady, you love tennis. You sort of formulated my birthday episode around my love of books, but I'm going to lean into your love of tennis. So here's the thing, lady, when you ask people to read a passage of their favorite book for my birthday, it just made my day. But I didn't know, like, how do we honor this piece of you that is a tennis player? Because we can't, like, all show you our favorite tennis clip. That didn't seem fun. And none of us really know you as a tennis player. In fact, you have often said to me, and I'm quoting you, Jenna, I am a totally different person on the court.
23:45 Speaker 01 You've said this to me repeatedly. And I'm like, what does that mean?
23:49 Speaker 02 It's a side of me that you and Sam don't know.
23:52 Speaker 01 Yes. Or Matt out there in San Francisco. Well, with your permission, I reached out to your tennis ladies, as you call them. These are the women that you play tennis with. This is Betsy, April and Rebecca. Yes. You guys play like three times a week, right? Yeah, I mean, we are traveling here and there, so we have other people that fill in. We also have a Sunday group. That's amazing. Debbie and Francesette and Julie. But my regular game is with April, Rebecca and Betsy. And I gave you their information and I'm a little scared. Well, I reached out to these ladies and here's what I asked them. I said, Angela has told me that she has a whole other side to her that I don't know.
24:35 Speaker 01 That it's a competitive side that comes out when she plays tennis and that you all have nicknames for her. Oh, gosh. She has given me permission to do a little digging and I was wondering if you could share a little bit about this other Angela that I don't know. Oh, lady, they had fun with this. They got together, the three of them. Oh, my gosh. Betsy's in England. They got together on a Zoom and they recorded this message for you. I was laughing so hard the whole time I was listening to this. So, okay, first of all, let's listen to how they described your tennis alter ego.
25:12 Speaker 06 Okay, so we're here to talk about our friend Angela and her tennis life, which is rich. She basically, her whole life revolves around that. I mean, her kids, obviously Josh, but the podcast, but it's mostly tennis. If she could have her way, it would just be tennis, wouldn't you say? Yes, absolutely.
25:31 Speaker 01 Totally agree. Yes.
25:32 Speaker 06 And, and you know, I think you, you put it really well, April. There's a side of Angela you don't know unless you play tennis with her.
25:41 Speaker 01 Well, yeah, that's right. Like she, so she'll, she'll show up to play tennis in the Angela that we all know and love, right? Where she like arrives and she has like a granola from Josh and some little gift for us and some sweet story and she's like- She got t-shirts made for everybody. He sure, she brought me a hummingbird feeder and like, you know, like all these beautiful things. Here's the new tea I have. You have to try it.
26:06 Speaker 06 The most considerate person ever.
26:09 Speaker 01 Considerate, yes.
26:10 Speaker 06 Literally like the kindest, sweetest, most considerate.
26:13 Speaker 01 And then we get on the court, right?
26:15 Speaker 06 She's like the Hulk.
26:19 Speaker 06 She is. There is a Jacqueline Hyde. Yes. But not like, she's not mean. She's just really competitive and in cutthroat. So she has this shot and we call it the angola. Cause it's a really good shot. She's got a very good forehand and she has this shot where she does a really deep angle and it's very, very difficult to get to. And, um, you know, okay. That's fine. And the first like three times she does it and scores points. By the way, when she's up, like,
26:59 Speaker 06 like in the game we play, you know, the winner wins 11. Like when her team is up like seven, two, she's still doing that. And that's when I get really mad.
27:11 Speaker 06 I get mad like three or four, I'll say.
27:16 Speaker 06 I'm a little earlier. And I, I'm actually mad and I'll go, keep it up. Keep it up, Angela. Let's see where that gets you. And I'm so clearly mad and she's like,
27:27 Speaker 06 she has no idea that I'm really mad. It's like, I'm gonna kill you.
27:33 Speaker 06 Or the other thing she did to you Rebecca, the little like, sometimes she like a little tip of the hat and you're like, Yeah. Oh, don't do that. It's like she'll do a really wicked shot and then almost curtsy to you.
27:47 Speaker 06 She does. She has a little leg kick. She has a little like a leg kick. Where you're like, are you adorable?
27:55 Speaker 06 We had a fill in fourth. This woman who is only in town periodically and she's Danish and she is hilarious because she curses in Danish. And, uh, Angela hit two shots back to back. One was an angola and then one was this really mean uh, backhand drop shot. Charlotte cursed at her in Danish and I have no idea what she said. And I was on the same side as Charlotte. And I said, oh my gosh, I'd love to know what you said. And she was like, you really don't want to know. And I was like, it's okay. I was like, it's okay. We cursed at her in English all the time. You can actually, you can actually tell her what you said. Angela.
28:40 Speaker 01 Can you see it, Sam?
28:42 Speaker 03 I can absolutely see the curtseying thing. I know exactly the leg kick.
28:46 Speaker 01 I know the leg kick. Yep, all of it.
28:51 Speaker 03 But the hulking out, I can't picture.
28:53 Speaker 02 What? I mean, I'm always like, our purpose is to win, right? I'm here to win.
29:01 Speaker 01 Yes.
29:02 Speaker 02 So what's the problem?
29:08 Speaker 01 Yeah, I think they're looking for like a type of sportsmanship.
29:12 Speaker 02 What?
29:12 Speaker 01 Where when you're ahead so far, you know, you do maybe a little bit of what I-
29:19 Speaker 02 Take your foot off the gas.
29:20 Speaker 01 Yeah, you know, they call it like a gentleman's serve, right? Or like a-
29:24 Speaker 02 I know. Sometimes I really do try to do that. And then other times you just see the court and you see the shot and you take it. And you forget that you're up seven two. You just see the shot, so you take it.
29:36 Speaker 01 I think it's fine.
29:37 Speaker 02 You know?
29:37 Speaker 01 I'm on your side.
29:38 Speaker 02 Listen, you have to know, the two people that influenced my tennis career, one was Coach Lund in high school. He coached basketball. All he cared about was basketball. We went to state and we won state for men's basketball. So this was a big legacy of his. And then someone just told him, oh, and you also have to coach tennis. And he was probably like, what the hell? Because he could give a shit. But he would drive me to matches. And right before I left the van to go to my game, as I got out of the van, he'd say, Kinsey, victory or death? That was it. Those are my only options. And then he would nap in the van, not even watch my match. And then after the match, I'd get in the van, he'd be like, victory or death? And if I said death, he'd say, stinkin' Kinsey.
30:24 Speaker 02 Stinkin' Kinsey. Okay, so you have Coach Lund. And then the biggest tennis influence in my life is my mom. My mother was amazing, amazing tennis player. I'll never be as good as she was. And I just grew up watching her matches. And she has a very dear friend who she played tennis with, who is from the Netherlands, Karina. And her and Karina would say to each other before a doubles match, stick it in their ear. And so my mom will say to me before a match, go stick it in their ear. When I retell the story, I have to remember to really pronunciate ear. Because for a long time, my tennis friends thought I was saying, stick it in their rear.
31:00 Speaker 01 Okay.
31:01 Speaker 02 Stick it in the rear. So you hear it?
31:03 Speaker 01 I hear it.
31:03 Speaker 02 Anyway, so I have victory or death and stick it in their ear. This is where I come from.
31:10 Speaker 01 This is as you step onto the court.
31:13 Speaker 02 These are, this is what's in my brain.
31:15 Speaker 01 Well, that makes sense for this next clip, maybe. Do you have it in your head even when you're warming up?
31:22 Speaker 02 I guess so.
31:23 Speaker 01 Even when you're warming up?
31:25 Speaker 02 I, why? This is a leading question.
31:28 Speaker 01 I don't know. Do you remember the injury?
31:30 Speaker 02 The in, oh no.
31:32 Speaker 01 Let's hear it.
31:33 Speaker 02 Oh no, oh no.
31:35 Speaker 06 April, you, uh, you're the only one here. I think she's actually wounded.
31:39 Speaker 01 Yeah, I think so. I think so. And I'm gonna add during a warm up. Like during a warm up. Not even, yeah, no reason to come at me with like that, that fierceness. But yet she did. So.
31:55 Speaker 06 You went in that, right? And she hit really hard.
31:59 Speaker 01 Like right into my eye. Yeah. Like there was, I could not get my racket up in time.
32:05 Speaker 06 And you gave you a black eye.
32:07 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, she did. She, she did do that.
32:12 Speaker 06 And then after that, like, I think it was maybe your first time back after that or whatever. I was on her team.
32:19 Speaker 02 Obviously a little skittish.
32:21 Speaker 06 And, you know, we were all like, okay, it's okay, April. So you, you know,
32:26 Speaker 06 if you're not the Hulk, then you're like, I'm gonna not hit it at April as much as I can. And if I do accidentally hit it towards you, I'd, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. You know, sort of an understanding. And the Hulk just kept coming back at you.
32:41 Speaker 01 Yes, she did. Yes, she did. It was more like an opportunity to keep scoring.
32:48 Speaker 06 The thing is amazing about her also is it's impossible to actually make her mad. Have you noticed that? And I try.
32:55 Speaker 02 That's a good point.
32:57 Speaker 01 Yeah, that is a really good point.
32:59 Speaker 06 Yep. If you come.
33:00 Speaker 02 Back at her with the shots that she hits at you. She just will tell you good shot.
33:05 Speaker 06 Oh, it's so irritating.
33:10 Speaker 02 Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry. I'm laughing.
33:13 Speaker 03 So you busted this woman's face and then smelled blood in the water.
33:17 Speaker 02 Okay.
33:17 Speaker 03 And then pounced on the opportunity.
33:19 Speaker 02 First of all, one of the things they didn't mention, and ladies, how dare you, is that was a backhand. It's really, I am, my backhand is not great. It's very inconsistent. So I'm always like, I can't believe that was a backhand. Like.
33:36 Speaker 01 That's your takeaway from the story?
33:38 Speaker 03 I'm sorry.
33:39 Speaker 01 Is that, but the thing they didn't mention is how impressive that is for a backhand.
33:45 Speaker 02 For me. But no, I, of course, I felt horrible. And then a week went by and then April had a shiner. And I was like, oh, my God, April, I'm so sorry. I just felt so bad. And then the next time we played, it was the same shot, a backhand, like, and it, I almost hit her again. And I was like, oh, my God, that's it. I can't, I'm like, I didn't, you don't mean to hit someone ever in tennis.
34:11 Speaker 01 Of course not.
34:12 Speaker 02 I mean, really, you don't. I mean, I think there's some people that go at people on purpose, but I don't. I wish I had the accuracy. I don't. I mean, I don't wish that I had the accuracy to hit someone.
34:23 Speaker 01 It's coming out a little. The Hulk is a little here.
34:27 Speaker 02 Also, do you know what is really annoying is that now they're going to call me the Hulk and I'm so pissed. I now have a new nickname.
34:36 Speaker 01 Well, lady, in addition to playing with your tennis ladies, you also started this year playing with USTA.
34:42 Speaker 02 Yes.
34:42 Speaker 01 Do you want to tell people about it?
34:44 Speaker 02 Yeah. I mean, I think you guys out there probably know USTA. It's the United States Tennis Association and it's really fun. And I'm at the very beginning of this journey, but some ladies are really nice and some are total bitches.
34:58 Speaker 01 Kind of commiserate after the fact of like, wow. Well, I met a very nice lady who played you. I was in Tokyo and I was waiting for Lee and our daughter to get off of the 10th tallest roller coaster. And a woman came up to me and she said, hi, are you Jenna Fisher from the office? And I said, yes. And she said, well, I just wanted to say that I played tennis with Angela Kinsey at USTA and she's just the nicest person ever. So just so you know, you did leave a very good impression at USTA.
35:33 Speaker 02 I am nice, you guys. I am nice. I'm just there to win. And again, April, I'm so sorry about your eye and I love you. Before we start the call sheet questions, there was one thing I was surprised the ladies didn't share, which is a lot of times when I do that little drop shot or the angle shot, they call me a [BLEEP].
35:54 Speaker 01 I think they were afraid to curse.
35:56 Speaker 02 But it's the highest form of praise. Like if any of us gets called that, we're like, thank you. Thank you very much.
36:04 Speaker 01 All right.
36:04 Speaker 02 Yeah. In fact, we got Betsy a necklace. It looks like a gold charm, but if you get really close, it says [BLEEP]. And she'll wear the necklace when we play. And when one of us does a shot, she's like, come kiss the necklace.
36:19 Speaker 01 Well, Angela, I think now it's time to move on to the call sheet questions. This is special for your birthday and I'm very excited to hear your answers. All right. What was your first entertainment job?
36:31 Speaker 02 All right. Well, we've talked about this a little bit on the podcast, but I've never shared, I think this part, which is the very first time I was paid to act was during my improv days in my twenties. There was this guy who would put together improv groups to go into like corporate offices or corporate retreats. And lady, it was so awkward. It was so cringey. Like, we would have to do improv games with like, a sales team, you know? And try to incorporate whatever like, of their company philosophy was, but then play like, yes and games and...
37:05 Speaker 01 This was a thing.
37:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
37:07 Speaker 01 I remember this. This was like, a big thing. And as an actor, you could get hired to do these corporate retreats.
37:15 Speaker 02 Yeah.
37:15 Speaker 01 Team building.
37:16 Speaker 02 Team building. I mean, we went to one that was like, way up, like, in the hills of Malibu, at some retreat. They were always just super cringey. Cause it's like, all of a sudden, I'm doing an improv game with like, Bob from Human Resources.
37:31 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
37:31 Speaker 02 And Bob thinks he's hilarious, and he's trying to do bits, and you're like, "Bob, you're not yes-anding."
37:38 Speaker 01 This feels like a real-life Michael Scott conference room meeting, in a way.
37:43 Speaker 02 Oh, 100%.
37:44 Speaker 01 Where you started.
37:45 Speaker 02 It is. That's why they felt so familiar to me. And then also, I did a ton of commercials, but my first paycheck for being in like, a television show, was the TV show Step by Step. And I think I've chatted about it before.
37:57 Speaker 01 Is this the wedding?
37:58 Speaker 02 Yes, I found a clip of it.
38:00 Speaker 01 Oh, let's hear it.
38:01 Speaker 02 Okay, so you guys, to set it up, this is season seven, episode 12, titled Going to the Chapel. I got the part, not because of my amazing acting talent, but because I was the exact same size of one of the leads, Stacy Keenan. She played Dana, and we were both petite, had blonde hair. Hers was much shorter, so they made me wear a wig, lady. And the wig looks ridiculous. Um, Carol, who was played by Suzanne Somers, thinks her daughter Dana has eloped, and crashes in on a wedding. And this is what we hear. Get ready to be dazzled, really, by this performance.
38:39 Speaker 02 And so now, by the powers vested in me... Stop! Stop the wedding!
38:46 Speaker 02 You're not Dana, or Rich. No, we're Larry and Simone. But thanks for ruining the most special moment... Of our lives.
38:55 Speaker 01 Oh, gosh, I'm so sorry. Please don't forgive me and lots of luck.
39:02 Speaker 02 There you go.
39:04 Speaker 01 Aw, first time on TV.
39:06 Speaker 02 Thanks for ruining the best day of our lives.
39:09 Speaker 01 Was your family so excited, though, that moment when they got to turn on the television? And there you were that they'd sent you off to Los Angeles. And now you've come back through their television.
39:20 Speaker 02 They were. My mom was really excited because she loves Suzanne Somers. And we had all watched all of her shows.
39:27 Speaker 01 The thigh master.
39:28 Speaker 02 Oh, my gosh.
39:29 Speaker 01 I had a thigh master.
39:30 Speaker 02 Did you really?
39:31 Speaker 01 Of course. Did you not have a thigh master?
39:33 Speaker 02 I didn't, but I think one of my sisters did because I remember seeing it sitting on the floor.
39:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
39:39 Speaker 02 But of course, you had a thigh master, lady. Even back then, you were buying the gadgets. People were like toting for like how to like improve yourself.
39:49 Speaker 01 If there was an infomercial, I bought it. But this isn't about me, lady. This is about you. And I'm moving on to the second call sheet question, which is, do you speak any other languages? This is a three parter, right?
40:00 Speaker 02 Yes, I made you answer all three.
40:02 Speaker 01 Yeah, so we're starting with, do you speak any other languages?
40:05 Speaker 02 Would you guys all know I speak Bahasa Indonesian?
40:08 Speaker 01 And also a little bit of Spanish.
40:10 Speaker 02 And a little bit of Spanish.
40:12 Speaker 01 Quite a bit of Spanish.
40:13 Speaker 02 I mean, I can get around, yeah. But I would say what I've retained the most over the years is Indonesian.
40:20 Speaker 01 Okay.
40:21 Speaker 02 Yeah.
40:22 Speaker 01 Do you play a musical instrument?
40:24 Speaker 02 I think I've mentioned this too, but I did not until we moved to Texas. And I was the new kid from Indonesia and I was a weirdo and I was trying to fit in. And my friend Shannon played the trombone. And we were in a very small school and if everyone didn't participate, we didn't have a band. So they were like literally like, you want to play something? Here you go. So I played trombone.
40:50 Speaker 01 Do you have a favorite book you've read?
40:53 Speaker 02 Okay, so here's the thing I wanted to tell you. It's not so much a favorite book I've read, but I have a genre that's my favorite. And that is, I love to read a book that takes me somewhere else. Like, it needs to be an escape for me. It's harder for me to read things that are likely to happen. So I like to be taken to a different time in history. I like to be taken to a different country. For example, I loved a book and I'm rereading it. So I read this book a long time ago. And recently I got a new bookshelf for my living room, you know, lady, and I now have a real place to put books. So I started going through bins of books that I've had for a long time. And I came across Howard's End by E. M. Forster.
41:38 Speaker 02 And I had remember loving it when I read it a long time ago, and I've started rereading it.
41:43 Speaker 01 Oh, wonderful.
41:44 Speaker 02 Love it again. Just even how it starts is so great with this letter from Helen. And I'm already like, oh, God, what's Helen got to say? It's everything I love, lady. It's Edwardian society. You know, it's also talking about social class and what the normal mores were at the time. And I don't know, I just love it.
42:04 Speaker 01 That is your wheelhouse. You like that in movies as well.
42:07 Speaker 02 Yeah.
42:08 Speaker 01 I mean, your favorite movie, Pride and Prejudice.
42:10 Speaker 02 Yes.
42:11 Speaker 01 Sounds very similar. This is on brand for you, this book choice.
42:16 Speaker 02 It is.
42:17 Speaker 01 All right, number three, what's a place you've been to that you loved?
42:21 Speaker 02 Okay, so you did domestic and international.
42:23 Speaker 01 I did.
42:24 Speaker 02 So domestic, I would say, I just love nothing more than a road trip with Josh where we pack our snacks. And one of my favorite ones we've ever done is we went to the redwoods. The coastal redwoods, I mean, they're the tallest trees on earth. They grow up to like 380 feet. I just remember just being so amazed by them and humbled, and I felt so small in the world. And we did this really cool thing where we went ziplining in the redwoods.
42:54 Speaker 01 I remember this. You were nervous, though.
42:56 Speaker 02 Because I don't like heights.
42:57 Speaker 01 No.
42:57 Speaker 02 But I love the redwoods. So, and I wanted to be game. It was the whole family. And they did this ropes course and I did ziplining. And you're way high in the canopy of the trees, going from tree to tree. It's so cool.
43:12 Speaker 01 Wow.
43:12 Speaker 02 I'll share in stories where we went.
43:15 Speaker 01 That sounds like an amazing trip.
43:16 Speaker 02 Yeah. The noise of the world goes away for me when I'm in nature. You know, and I'm sure that's with everybody, right? But it's just so wonderful and you just take all the like emphasis off you and your life. And you're just surrounded by this wonderful, amazing creation.
43:34 Speaker 01 It's funny that you say the noise of the world. disappears for you when you're in nature and you sort of assume like you're like, of course, I'm sorry, like, yes, that's must be everyone, but I don't think that is everyone. Because the noise of the world disappears for me when I'm in New York City, the noisiest place in the world. There's something about like confronting noise with noise relaxes me. I get a little antsy out in the woods.
43:57 Speaker 02 Oh, so funny.
43:58 Speaker 01 It's a little harder for me to relax. And I know that about our friendship too, because when we talk about what is our life like after our kids are up and out?
44:08 Speaker 02 Yeah.
44:09 Speaker 01 Where are we in the world?
44:10 Speaker 02 Right.
44:11 Speaker 01 You are always very nature-y.
44:14 Speaker 02 Based somewhere with lots of access to nature. That's where I want to be.
44:18 Speaker 01 You daydream about.
44:18 Speaker 02 Yeah.
44:19 Speaker 01 Yeah.
44:19 Speaker 02 And you love big hustle bustle cities.
44:22 Speaker 01 I know, I'm like, will I live in London or New York? Yes, Tokyo now, like, yeah.
44:29 Speaker 02 Oh, well, I'll come visit.
44:31 Speaker 01 Well, I, listen, I love nature. I love that.
44:34 Speaker 02 What's our limit, though? Because maybe for me.
44:36 Speaker 01 How long?
44:37 Speaker 02 It's like four days in a busy city with you. Not with you, it's the city.
44:41 Speaker 01 Yes.
44:42 Speaker 02 Are you four days in nature? Can you make it longer?
44:44 Speaker 01 Four days sounds about right.
44:45 Speaker 02 Right? So we'll see each other, we'll keep it tight.
44:48 Speaker 01 Okay.
44:49 Speaker 02 And then internationally, you guys, that was really tough for me because I grew up in Southeast Asia and so many beautiful places in that region feel like home to me. And I love dearly, like, deep in my core. I love that part of the world. And I couldn't pick just one. So I decided to pick a place and part of the world that I had never been and was totally foreign to me, and it blew me away, and that is Iceland. Let me tell you, if you love nature, if you love hikes, if you love waterfalls, if you want to meet some of the nicest people in the world, go to Iceland. We went to so many beautiful places there. I'll shout out one waterfall because it's one of my favorite family photos from the trip.
45:34 Speaker 02 It's Skogafoss, if I'm saying that correctly. It's like 60 meters tall. It's 25 meters wide. It's like a full curtain. Imagine the most massive curtain of water that is just raining down. And you can kind of hike behind it and look at it. So you see the waterfall from the front, then you hike behind it and see it from behind. It's like you're inside the waterfall. And we saw it at sunset. So we were looking at the sunset through this curtain of massive water. And like, we were wet, like we got drenched just from the spray coming off of it.
46:11 Speaker 01 Wow.
46:12 Speaker 02 Iceland, guys.
46:13 Speaker 01 You loved that trip.
46:15 Speaker 02 I loved it. And it's only a four and a half hour flight from New York City, lady.
46:18 Speaker 01 Mmm, look at this.
46:19 Speaker 02 I know.
46:20 Speaker 01 This is how we combine both our loves.
46:22 Speaker 02 I would go back to Iceland in a second.
46:24 Speaker 01 Well, come spend four days with me in New York City.
46:26 Speaker 02 Hustle, bustle, hustle, bustle.
46:28 Speaker 01 And then we'll head over to Iceland for four days.
46:30 Speaker 02 Nature. Yay.
46:34 Speaker 01 All right, lady, next question. What do you like to do on the weekends?
46:38 Speaker 02 Well, I'm really simple. I just love to spend time in my backyard, especially in the morning. You know, the birds are chirping. I like to go check in on all my plants, see how they're doing, see if anything needs attention, pruning, or you know, I don't know, I just, it's my happy place. And I love it when Josh grills in the evening and the kids are all home. And it's just kind of this giant happy chaos, you know? And now that I play USTA tennis, I usually have a match on the weekend. And so that's super fun, too.
47:10 Speaker 01 All right. Last one. Favorite midnight snack?
47:14 Speaker 02 I mean, who's up at midnight anymore?
47:16 Speaker 01 Well, this is, we're using this as to mean favorite snack indulgence?
47:22 Speaker 02 It made me laugh, though, because we've asked this question to so many people and they're all like, who's up at midnight? And then when I read it, I was like, who's up at midnight?
47:29 Speaker 01 I know.
47:30 Speaker 02 Um, here's the thing, I do have a favorite snack. And I probably, God, I don't know, I don't have one every day, but probably, I mean, I have one almost every other day.
47:42 Speaker 01 What is it?
47:44 Speaker 02 Lady, I take a piece of bread. Just one piece. I smear it with peanut butter. Then I drizzle it with honey. Then I fold it on top of itself.
47:55 Speaker 01 Oh.
47:56 Speaker 02 And I love it. Peanut butter and honey sandwich.
47:59 Speaker 01 Yeah.
48:00 Speaker 02 And I just do half.
48:01 Speaker 01 It sounds good.
48:02 Speaker 02 I keep it civilized. I just do half. I don't go crazy. It's such a good snack.
48:07 Speaker 01 It is a good snack. You get a little protein in there, a little sweet.
48:11 Speaker 02 Mm hmm.
48:12 Speaker 01 What time do you eat the snack? Not at midnight.
48:15 Speaker 02 Anytime I want.
48:16 Speaker 01 Yeah. When it moves you.
48:17 Speaker 02 10:30 in the morning. 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
48:21 Speaker 01 Okay.
48:21 Speaker 02 Mm hmm.
48:22 Speaker 01 You don't have a snack time?
48:23 Speaker 02 I don't. Snack time is every, all the time.
48:27 Speaker 01 Snack time is all the time.
48:29 Speaker 02 Snack time is all the time. Ah. I have a nickname called Snacks Kinsey. You know this.
48:34 Speaker 01 Yes. I, so of course Snacks Kinsey would say snacks time is all the time.
48:39 Speaker 02 That's right.
48:40 Speaker 01 Hmm. Put that on a pillow. Put that on a mug. All right, lady. Well, that was your birthday segment. How do you feel?
48:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, I hope this was fun for you guys to listen to. I'm like, am I so boring? I just like tennis and gardening, guys. And my friends and family.
48:59 Speaker 01 Lady, you are not boring. And I'm not going to let you call yourself boring on your birthday podcast.
49:05 Speaker 06 This was fascinating.
49:06 Speaker 01 Also, Matt, you were having some technical difficulties earlier. And I know you wanted to shout out a happy birthday to Angela. Before we move on to break, you wanted to say something.
49:17 Speaker 06 Hi, Angela.
49:18 Speaker 02 Hi, Matt.
49:19 Speaker 06 Happy birthday.
49:21 Speaker 02 Thanks, buddy.
49:21 Speaker 06 You're so awesome. I love working with you. I was thinking how, when you call, because we'll hop on the phone to chat here and there to work something out, how your, your little iPhone emoji is like this bright flower.
49:34 Speaker 02 It's a hydrangea. They're my hydrangeas.
49:36 Speaker 06 Ah, there you go. But that's always how I feel when I see your name lighting up on my screen. I'm like, I'm excited and bright and just excited to chat with you and catch up and get down to work. And it's just so great working with you. I hope you have an awesome day and year. And I'm hoping I can get you on the pickleball court at some point this year.
49:57 Speaker 02 I will begrudgingly play pickleball.
49:59 Speaker 06 There it is.
50:01 Speaker 01 All right.
50:01 Speaker 02 All right.
50:02 Speaker 01 We'll see the Angela. On the pickleball court.
50:04 Speaker 02 I don't know. I don't know how to do the Angela on the pickleball court.
50:06 Speaker 03 Perfect. God, imagine how hard she would hit on a pickleball court.
50:10 Speaker 02 Yeah, it's like a little ball, right?
50:11 Speaker 03 I'm saying, could we, us four, get, you know, book a court? Let's go.
50:15 Speaker 02 Sam, do you play pickleball?
50:16 Speaker 03 I've never played before. I'm ready. Perfect.
50:18 Speaker 02 All right. Well, I'm gonna-
50:19 Speaker 01 Do you play, Matt?
50:20 Speaker 03 I play.
50:21 Speaker 01 Okay, we'll have to figure out how to divide up the teams because I've started playing as well.
50:25 Speaker 02 All right. Well, I don't want it to mess up my tennis game, so I'm only gonna play with y'all one time.
50:30 Speaker 03 I agree, one time.
50:31 Speaker 01 Mess up her tennis game. Listen to that.
50:33 Speaker 02 It'll mess up the timing. The ball bounces different, the racket, you know, come on.
50:37 Speaker 01 Okay.
50:38 Speaker 02 We had a lady who played with us, and she left to go play pickleball. And when she came back, we were all like, what happened? She's terrible.
50:48 Speaker 01 All right, listen, why don't we take a break? And then when we come back, we'll do a little around the town, a very special around the town in honor of Angela's birthday, as well as our office question of the week.
50:57 Speaker 02 And I'm gonna have a donut.
50:58 Speaker 01 Great.
51:05 Speaker 02 I am in the process of going through my closet and really looking at items that look great, but that I haven't worn in a long time because maybe they're not my season anymore.
51:15 Speaker 01 Okay.
51:16 Speaker 02 You know, I'm a little older, and some of my looks, I don't know, they're not for me anymore, but they're still really great pieces. So I have been looking into Vinted because my sisters love it.
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51:52 Speaker 02 I know. Isn't that fantastic?
51:53 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
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52:11 Speaker 02 Okay, we are back. It's time for Around the Town. And this week, we're going to dedicate our Around the Town to all of you guys that are getting married. So many of you have sent us the most beautiful weddings, save the dates, and invitations, and we wanted to shout out a few. Jenna, you said we should call this Wedding Around the Town.
52:29 Speaker 01 I did? I don't remember that. I said I thought this was very fitting, because your favorite part of our mail is opening wedding invitations. So this fit perfectly in your birthday episode.
52:43 Speaker 02 I do get very excited.
52:44 Speaker 01 Yes. Every time I see a wax seal on an envelope, I set it aside for you.
52:50 Speaker 02 Well, here's the thing, you guys, about opening these invitations and save the dates, is you get to witness a moment of someone's joy. It's a joyful occasion, and you get to be a part of it in a small way.
53:03 Speaker 01 Exactly. All right. So first up, congratulations to Whitney and Alexander, who will be tying the knot in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania this summer. Whitney included a note that said she'll be walking down the aisle to "Forever" by Chris Brown, and that she will remember to take some mental pictures during her hectic wedding day. She said that she knows 100% she has found the gem to her Pam.
53:30 Speaker 02 Aww. And congrats to Gina and Brady, who are getting married in Las Vegas, Nevada. They made their invite look like an airplane boarding pass. It's the cutest thing.
53:40 Speaker 01 Aww.
53:41 Speaker 02 I know. And then Brady wrote us a letter saying how much his bride-to-be loves The Office and loves office ladies. He said their wedding day is a celebration of those everyday moments that turned into something extraordinary. It's about laughter, loyalty, and finding your person, even if it takes a few awkward pauses, inside jokes, and perfectly timed one-liners along the way, mostly from The Office. He wrote this, as Michael Scott once said, "I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious, and we feel a little stitious that sharing this with you just might bring a little extra magic to our day."
54:18 Speaker 01 We also want to send a big congrats to Lauren and Eric, who will be getting married this summer at Red Rocks in Colorado. Lauren said, "Office ladies played a very important role in their relationship. We started listening on a road trip through Spain and always save the newest episode for our next adventure. Because of the podcast, we've been to conventions, pop ups, and have won two office trivias." Wow. Congratulations, Lauren and Eric.
54:47 Speaker 02 And lastly, we're sending our love and congratulations to Josie and Hunter, who got married in an intimate ceremony in Sorrento, Italy. They included a note to us that said, "As we celebrate our marriage, we're grateful for the things that brought comfort and joy along the way. This podcast kept us company during long distance drives and provided comfort during difficult seasons like our miscarriage. Grateful for the joy you bring into our lives."
55:14 Speaker 01 Well, congratulations, all of you, and to everyone who sent in your wedding invites. We open them all and we look at them all. So we can't shout them all out, but believe me, we have shared in your joy and we're sending you our congratulations.
55:26 Speaker 02 Yes, Jenna, and we love this so much. From time to time, we'll be doing a wedding around the town.
55:32 Speaker 01 All right, now it's time for our office question of the week. This one comes from Thais in Brazil. Thais says, "I would like an honest response from both of you ladies. From all of the managers after Michael, which was your favorite? And if you could pick an actor to take the position, who would it be? Love you, ladies."
55:58 Speaker 02 I know.
55:59 Speaker 01 Okay, I'm going to tell you who popped in my head.
56:01 Speaker 02 Okay.
56:01 Speaker 01 But I don't think he was a manager.
56:04 Speaker 02 Is it Joe Bennett? Because Joe is not a manager, but she was my favorite.
56:08 Speaker 01 Okay, I loved Robert California.
56:10 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
56:11 Speaker 01 I just, when James Spader, and I would not choose anyone but James Spader, when he came in, there was like this energy shift.
56:21 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
56:21 Speaker 01 That was so fun to play with. Like, his whole vibe, his
56:26 Speaker 02 His timing is
56:28 Speaker 01 Yes.
56:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
56:30 Speaker 01 It was just fun. It really spiced it up at a time when, you know, we were losing this person, you know, this character.
56:39 Speaker 02 Anchor.
56:39 Speaker 01 Yes, that, you know, the show had really revolved around and it was like, oh, what are we gonna do? And here comes this super interesting nuanced actor-y actor.
56:51 Speaker 02 Mm hmm.
56:52 Speaker 01 So, yeah.
56:53 Speaker 02 And a really delicious character, Robert California. Come on. Yeah. Well, I love Joe Bennett. I just, everything Kathy Bates did, and the same thing, the minute she stepped on stage, I was like, whoa, electricity, you know?
57:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
57:08 Speaker 02 I couldn't wait to just watch her do her thing.
57:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
57:12 Speaker 02 Okay, so who would you pick, though?
57:14 Speaker 01 Well, you know, I had a pitch for who I thought should come in to be manager after Michael Scott.
57:19 Speaker 02 Who?
57:20 Speaker 01 That I just thought would be kind of fun. I thought Debra Messing. She's just so funny.
57:25 Speaker 02 Yeah.
57:26 Speaker 01 And I thought it would be a cool energy and I thought it would be fun to have a woman as manager.
57:31 Speaker 02 Do you know who I always wanted? Wanda Sykes.
57:35 Speaker 01 Oh.
57:35 Speaker 02 Would she have been amazing?
57:37 Speaker 01 So good.
57:38 Speaker 02 She's so funny. She would have come in there. Oh, I would have loved to have had a scene between Dwight and Wanda Sykes as manager. She just would have handed him his ass on a platter. Well, that was such a fun question. Thanks so much for writing in.
57:54 Speaker 01 Well, listen, before we go, lady, you were so generous. In my birthday episode, you made a donation to the Library Foundation of Los Angeles in my honor, and I'd like you to know that a donation has been made in your honor. Now, I know the charities that you already support, and I wanted to support a place that made me think of you, that I thought captured your spirit. And I'm gonna get choked up when I think about it, but something about you that you have to know you to know.
58:28 Speaker 01 Is that you take a very active and personal advocacy role in a lot of people's lives, in your life, friends and family members. I experienced this when I went through my breast cancer treatment, the ways that you advocated for me and protected me in our workplace. But you do elements of this that go even further. So I don't want to share your personal life, but let's say, for example, you have a friend, English is their second language. When that friend fell ill, you went to those doctor's appointments and you took notes and you called
59:08 Speaker 01 the insurance companies. You did that kind of work to make sure that your friend was getting the best care. You do that for so many people in your life, all the time. And it's really moving. And there's an organization called CASA. And what CASA volunteers do is they are trained to work as child welfare advocates and family advocates. So they're not social workers. It's a volunteer organization. And they kind of go beyond what a social worker is able to do, because social workers are stretched so thin.
59:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
59:45 Speaker 01 So a CASA volunteer will get matched with a family or a child, and they advocate for them in a very personal and a direct way. So they will sit in the courtroom. If that child needs dental care, they'll find the dentist. They will try to get that covered, however it can be covered. They support them educationally. Anything having to do with their physical or mental health, their safety, their permanency goals, that's what these volunteers do. And that reminds me of you. And so a donation has been made in your name to this organization.
1:00:21 Speaker 02 Thank you so much, lady. That means so much to me. It's a great organization. I actually have a friend who works with them. I didn't know that you were making a donation, but that's wonderful. And I really appreciate that. That's special. You know, what are we here for if not to care for others and be kind? And, you know, we're all in this together. We really are.
1:00:42 Speaker 01 Yeah, but Lady, you do like real high effort work for the people you love. You know, you make the phone calls, you figure out the appointments, you go the extra mile. Well, thanks, everyone. Thank you so much for this birthday episode, you guys. I just have had the best time. I left you a message on the drive in that I was so excited. Well, I hope you feel celebrated. Everyone, thank you for listening and we love you. We'll see you next week. Yeah, see you then.
1:01:12 Speaker 01 Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Our senior producer is Matt Beagle and our audio engineer is Sam Pfeifer. Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis. Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schulz. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.
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