Pod Insights Office Ladies Office News & Blackmail About this episode This week on Office Ladies 6.0, Jenna and Angela catch up on some Office news, celebrating the release of the Season 9 Superfan episodes, and share a few of their favorite newly restored moments. Next, they break down the webisode “Blackmail” which follows Creed’s attempt to blackmail his coworkers with their deepest secrets—starting with Oscar, moving on to Andy’s shocking “Nard Dog” tattoo reveal, and eventually recruiting Kelly to fuel his scheme with office gossip. Along the way they share behind-the-scenes memories from their Office Ladies retreat, and a truly unforgettable story about a celebrity’s regrettable nautical tattoo. Enjoy!
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1:03 Speaker 01 I feel like the guys on my holiday gift list are always the hardest to shop for because I don't know, I don't know, like, what's the trend? What do they want? I have teenage boys, it can be tricky.
1:14 Speaker 00 No, my husband, my dad and my son are my three hardest to shop for. And I don't want to go the gift card route. This year I am determined, I'm going to get each of these fellows something great. And I've got a good place to go to give me some ideas. You know it, it's the Macy's Online Gift Guide. You know what they have right now? They've got the Levi's 578 baggy jeans. Like, those are in, those are in.
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2:11 Speaker 00 I'm Jenna Fisher.
2:12 Speaker 01 And I'm Angela Kinsey.
2:13 Speaker 00 We were on The Office together.
2:15 Speaker 01 And we're best friends.
2:16 Speaker 00 And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you.
2:20 Speaker 01 Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes details, and lots of BFF stories.
2:28 Speaker 00 We're the Office Lady 6.0.
2:32 Speaker 00 Hello.
2:33 Speaker 01 Hey there.
2:34 Speaker 00 I need an update, a late to the party update. We haven't discussed if anyone finished Heated Rivalry, if Sam started Heated Rivalry.
2:44 Speaker 02 I'm one episode in.
2:45 Speaker 00 One episode in.
2:46 Speaker 02 It is incredible. I see, I see the allure. Sorry, I'm late.
2:50 Speaker 01 Oh, well, also, you guys, really quickly, we have a little bit of an Earwolf family reunion. Jordan is here, our dear Jordan Duffy. Jordan, are you watching Heated Rivalry?
3:01 Speaker 03 Oh, I have seen it and I've watched it over and over again.
3:04 Speaker 00 Jordan, my friend who recommended it to me, has watched it three times.
3:09 Speaker 01 Oh, wow.
3:10 Speaker 03 I've watched it like three to five times. It's insane. It's that good. I really love it.
3:15 Speaker 00 I finished it.
3:17 Speaker 01 I know you did because we were together on our company retreat. You guys, I have to tell you, the next morning, I'm like, how'd you sleep? Jenna was like, I was just gonna finish one episode. I had like 20 minutes left and then it rolled over into the next one. And then all of a sudden, you watched it till midnight.
3:30 Speaker 00 I stayed up till midnight because you cannot watch five and six broken up. You can't. Don't try.
3:37 Speaker 01 I'm not there yet.
3:38 Speaker 00 When it's time, make sure you leave yourself room to watch both of these episodes. Guys, it started off kind of just like super sexy time.
3:49 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
3:50 Speaker 00 But it ends like deeply moving. Am I right, Jordan?
3:56 Speaker 03 100%. You're right.
3:57 Speaker 00 Dear God.
3:58 Speaker 01 All right, I gotta catch up. Matt, how's it for you? Where are you at?
4:01 Speaker 04 Well, I got caught up with another late to the party sexy time thing, so I'm a bit on hold. But I started watching Industry.
4:09 Speaker 01 Oh, I don't know it.
4:10 Speaker 00 It's sexy?
4:11 Speaker 04 It's also super sexy time in a different way, but some of the same ways as Heated Rivalry. So I got a little caught up with that.
4:18 Speaker 01 I don't know anything about Industry.
4:20 Speaker 04 It's about bankers in London.
4:22 Speaker 01 Sounds hot. Sounds really hot.
4:26 Speaker 04 It's very good. I recommend it.
4:28 Speaker 01 All right. Well, there's our late to the party. Why don't we kick off this episode, lady? Today's episode is really fun. We're going to give you some office news. We're going to share a little bit about this blackmail webisode featuring Creed Bratton. And of course, we've got some chit chats. Why don't we start with the chit chat?
4:46 Speaker 00 All right. This one's coming from Carolyn M. in Vermont.
4:50 Speaker 05 Hi, Office ladies. This is Carolyn from Vermont. I don't know what cold and flu season has been like in California, but in Vermont, it's been the pits. Whenever we're sick, I like to make soup. I had the pleasure of interviewing Angela and Josh about their cookbook, and the first recipe that I made was the Italian wedding soup that's in the book. I know Angela made that for Josh when he was sick, when they were first dating, and now it's our go-to recipe when my family is sick. So I was wondering what your go-to soup recipe is when you're sick.
5:20 Speaker 01 I just love this question. I didn't pick it, you guys, I promise. Jenna picked this one. But I did love it. And here's the funny thing. I made Josh this soup. You guys, I destroyed my kitchen because I didn't know how to cook at all at the time. And I had no idea how many steps and how many ingredients. And so my kitchen was a hot mess. But I show up to Josh's apartment with this big pot of soup. And he says that was the moment. He was like, oh, my gosh, I have to marry this woman. She's going to make me soup for the rest of my life. And of course, like, he is the cook of the family. But I loved this question. Jenna, you love soup. Is there one that's your go-to?
6:02 Speaker 00 Well, I have a go-to soup, but it's different than the soup I like to eat when I'm sick.
6:08 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
6:09 Speaker 00 So when I'm sick, I just want a chicken noodle.
6:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:12 Speaker 00 You know?
6:13 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
6:13 Speaker 00 Although Josh made me some delicious, kind of a spin on a chicken noodle that was kind of a lemony chicken orzo.
6:21 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
6:21 Speaker 00 That you guys gave me when I was doing chemo.
6:24 Speaker 01 That's right.
6:25 Speaker 00 Oh, I loved that. That was great. But my favorite soup to make is a soup that I made up myself.
6:32 Speaker 01 Isn't that so rewarding?
6:34 Speaker 00 Yeah.
6:34 Speaker 01 When you can make soup just like on your own.
6:38 Speaker 00 Well, I listened to this podcast by Kendra Adachi, where she basically says you can make soup without a recipe, and I'm going to tell you how. Now, you wouldn't think that you could learn how to make soup without a recipe by listening to a 15-minute podcast, but you can, and I did. She explains, like, pick your veggies, pick your protein, pick your broth, and I'm going to tell you what order to put it in. Pick your aromatics. Here's how you make soup. And she's like, and you can just change it up whenever you want. You don't need a recipe. She's so right. So I use a turkey sausage. I use kale, spinach, celery, carrots, onions, garlic, some oregano, a little basil, and a pinch of red pepper flakes.
7:23 Speaker 00 I'll tell you what I don't put in my soup, though.
7:25 Speaker 01 What?
7:27 Speaker 00 Bay leaves. Do you remember those?
7:30 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, because I've made some soups where you add them at the end. You kind of fold them into the soup at the end. You don't like it?
7:38 Speaker 00 My mom would always make this veggie soup when I was a kid. And you're supposed to put them in, and then you leave them in for like a long period of time, I think. And then before you serve the soup, you're supposed to take them out because they're not edible.
7:52 Speaker 01 No, you, yeah.
7:53 Speaker 00 You take them out.
7:54 Speaker 01 You take them out.
7:54 Speaker 00 They're just for soaking.
7:56 Speaker 01 And the flavor.
7:57 Speaker 00 Right. But my mom would always forget to take them out.
8:00 Speaker 01 Oh.
8:01 Speaker 00 So then you'd go to take a bite of your soup, and inevitably, someone would end up with the bay leaf. And you'd have to like fish it out of your mouth.
8:09 Speaker 01 This is like finding like the baby Jesus in a king cake.
8:13 Speaker 00 A little bit.
8:14 Speaker 01 Okay, but so maybe you don't mind the flavor of bay leaf. Maybe you just don't want to eat it.
8:19 Speaker 00 Well, I got curious about bay leaves when I knew we were going to have to answer this question because I was like, what are they? And what do they taste like? Because I haven't missed them. So I looked it up, and it says bay leaves are from the bay laurel tree, and they add aromatic tones to the soup, and that the flavor is kind of like herbal tea or a minty clove.
8:45 Speaker 00 And by the way, there are a gazillion Reddit threads and articles dedicated to the question, do you really need a bay leaf in your soup? It's like a whole thing in the soup community.
8:57 Speaker 01 That's the internet I'm here for.
8:59 Speaker 00 Yeah, I read tons of articles about it.
9:02 Speaker 01 Yeah, well, I don't mind it, but Sam, anyone else have a soup that they like?
9:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, when I'm sick, I like Campbell's Bean Soup and Sprite and Saltines. That's the perfect meal.
9:16 Speaker 01 Do you crush up the Saltines in the soup? You don't? Oh, I love to crush.
9:20 Speaker 00 Do you dip them?
9:20 Speaker 02 Nope.
9:21 Speaker 01 Oh, on the side, Sam.
9:24 Speaker 02 I know, I'm wild.
9:25 Speaker 01 I love a salty cracker crushed up in a soup.
9:28 Speaker 00 Crushed in it?
9:29 Speaker 01 Well, you know, you crack it and I don't want to stick the whole square in my soup. I break it up.
9:35 Speaker 00 I only like those little oyster round things in a clam chowder.
9:39 Speaker 01 I get so excited if I'm at dinner with someone and they get clam chowder and they don't want those, I'm like, you're gonna, you're gonna eat those? Yeah. Pass them over here.
9:47 Speaker 00 Those are great.
9:48 Speaker 01 Right, Jordan?
9:49 Speaker 03 I also like a chicken noodle, but in mixture, I do crunch up the crackers and put them in because they like thicken up.
9:56 Speaker 01 Yes, they do, Jordan. Yes, they do. I see you.
10:00 Speaker 00 Matt, you want to weigh in on the soups?
10:03 Speaker 04 I do. I'm a big Mexican soup guy, so pozole is my go-to when sick. I make it with chicken. Are you all familiar with pozole?
10:13 Speaker 00 No, is it spicy?
10:14 Speaker 04 Maybe a little bit, but it's with like tomatillos and meat. It's usually with pork, but I make it with chicken. And then you put hominy in, which is like the puffed corn, which is rare, but really featured in this dish. And it just, it's amazing. It's like a soup that has that magic in it.
10:30 Speaker 01 Hmm, that sounds great. My, my favorite is the Josh's Chicken Lemon Orzo Soup. So you know what, guys? I'm going to share in our stories. Everyone send me their link for their soups and anyone listening who loves a soup, it'll be in our Insta stories. And I'll share Kendra's episode where she talks about soup.
10:48 Speaker 00 Yeah, because then you can make any soup you want.
10:50 Speaker 01 That's right.
10:51 Speaker 00 All right, well, that was fun. Why don't we take a break? And then when we get back, we're going to discuss some office news and blackmail.
10:58 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
11:05 Speaker 00 We are so excited to be collaborating with Audible because audiobooks are a big part of my life, my life and my kids' life.
11:14 Speaker 01 Same. Josh has used Audible for years and now the kids use it and now he's got me so into it, too.
11:20 Speaker 00 It is awesome. I listen in the car. I listen while I'm working out. I listen while I'm walking the dog.
11:26 Speaker 01 Same. And I have a hard time, I guess, sitting still to read. So I love to listen to a book and I am listening to Project Hail Mary.
11:36 Speaker 00 Oh, that's a good one.
11:38 Speaker 01 I know. And I really wanted to hear it before I saw the movie. And I know I'm late to the party, but it's a great listen.
11:44 Speaker 00 I just finished You Like It Darker by Stephen King. That was our book club book and it is read by Stephen King.
11:51 Speaker 01 Oh, that's really cool.
11:52 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
11:53 Speaker 01 Well, you can obviously tell we love Audible.
11:56 Speaker 00 Audible, stories that speak to you.
11:59 Speaker 01 New members can start listening with a 30 day free trial at audible.com/office.
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12:13 Speaker 06 It's a show where three friends get together, we laugh, we talk about our lives and we have fun playing games. It's really just that simple. There's not a lot to it.
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13:08 Speaker 00 I love Topo. I ordered their Terra Venture sneakers.
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13:43 Speaker 00 All right, we are back. And, you know, we've been breaking down the paper for the last nine weeks, and we wanted to come back and hit you with some office news. Because a lot has happened in the universe of the office. We have a lot to share. So let's start things off with a conversation about the fact that the season nine Superfan episodes are out.
14:05 Speaker 01 Yes, Dave Rogers has finished them.
14:08 Speaker 00 He's finished? Superfans of the whole series.
14:12 Speaker 01 Bless his heart. That was a lot of work. That was a lot of work.
14:15 Speaker 00 I know. He said he spent his whole summer on it.
14:17 Speaker 01 Yeah. Well, I want to tell you guys how to find them, because Dave worked so hard, and he did a fantastic job. They're over on Peacock, but I want to tell you how they're labeled. They made this whole graphic. It says, "The Office Superfan Episodes." And then in like huge letters, it says, "Complete Collection."
14:35 Speaker 00 Because they're done.
14:35 Speaker 01 Because they're done.
14:36 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. Well, Dave sent me a list of highlights of the new stuff they added, and it's pretty great. I'm gonna just tell you a few. In episode "Here Comes Trouble," Andy sings his signature song, "Faith," at the end.
14:53 Speaker 01 Get out.
14:53 Speaker 00 Yeah. So you can see that. In "The Target," they added back that deleted scene of Thanksgiving at the office.
15:02 Speaker 01 Oh, wow. So officially, there is an Office Thanksgiving moment.
15:06 Speaker 00 Now there is. He said there's also some great ads with Jim and Phyllis and Stanley going to lunch, being at the restaurant. And there's a lot more of Angela and Trevor talking in the van.
15:22 Speaker 00 He said, "There's also a new talking head from Pam where she talks about taking risks and wakeboarding, which I love," he said.
15:32 Speaker 01 I want to see that.
15:33 Speaker 00 I know. I don't even remember doing a talking head about wakeboarding.
15:36 Speaker 01 Pam wakeboards?
15:38 Speaker 00 Well, I don't know. I haven't gone in to look at the details.
15:41 Speaker 01 We'll have to dig into it.
15:42 Speaker 00 Okay, also, in episode 12, there is a new cold open that is a deleted scene where everyone is absorbed in their phones. I remember shooting that.
15:52 Speaker 01 I do, too.
15:53 Speaker 00 And I know they wrote that because we all used to come to set around this time, and we were all absorbed in our phones. And I felt like it was a little, like, subtle.
16:01 Speaker 01 Like a dig.
16:02 Speaker 00 Yeah, like, they were making fun of us.
16:04 Speaker 01 Well, come on, we're old. We all, like, over one summer, switched from flip phones
16:09 Speaker 00 Yep.
16:10 Speaker 01 to, like, BlackBerrys, and then we finally got...
16:12 Speaker 00 That was, like, the very first version of a smartphone.
16:15 Speaker 01 Yes.
16:16 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
16:16 Speaker 01 And we were like little kids.
16:18 Speaker 00 I was BlackBerry for a long time.
16:20 Speaker 01 Same.
16:21 Speaker 00 I was very resistant to changing because I liked that the keys actually clicked.
16:26 Speaker 01 Me, too. Like, you felt the resistance when you touched them.
16:29 Speaker 00 I still hate the, like, typing on my iPhone.
16:34 Speaker 01 Do you have the setting where it clicks so you hear it?
16:39 Speaker 00 No.
16:39 Speaker 01 No.
16:40 Speaker 00 Do you?
16:41 Speaker 01 I used to, but it drove everyone crazy around. But I think it's because it's a holdover from the BlackBerry. I liked the little click, the little sound.
16:51 Speaker 00 So my problem is two things. When I go to hit the letter "N," sometimes I hit the spacebar instead, and it bothers me. Or sometimes, when I mean to hit the spacebar, I accidentally hit the period. And that really messes me up, because when I'm trying to Google something or search for something, if I put a period instead of a space, it thinks I want to go to a website, and then it tells me that you're making no sense, lady.
17:19 Speaker 01 Yeah.
17:20 Speaker 00 So it's, I still don't like it. I wish the period was somewhere else. I don't know.
17:25 Speaker 01 Can y'all move the period?
17:27 Speaker 00 I'd appreciate, how about that for an update that I actually want? You know what update I didn't need?
17:32 Speaker 01 What?
17:33 Speaker 00 Is making my screen look like glass.
17:36 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
17:37 Speaker 00 I don't want to look at glass.
17:39 Speaker 01 I also don't like the photo update, like, where your photos are kept. It's all different. I don't like it. Sam, Jordan are nodding. They're nodding. What's happening?
17:49 Speaker 02 No, I was nodding with furious agreement.
17:51 Speaker 00 Oh, thank you.
17:52 Speaker 02 My phone's, I hate it now.
17:54 Speaker 01 Yeah, I hate it.
17:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:56 Speaker 01 I do remember, I have such a strong visual lady of being on set with you. And we would want to like, oh, should we answer this email or something like maybe we needed to respond to something? And you'd be like, I'll do it. And you're the fastest thumb typer in the world.
18:12 Speaker 00 Wow.
18:13 Speaker 01 You, you just won that award. There's your Dundee.
18:18 Speaker 00 Okay, I have a few more things to share about the superfan episodes. Dave said episode vandalism has a ton of great ads throughout, especially with Pam Dwight and Clark in the warehouse. He said there is also just more Nate overall, including an ad lib that led to the famous blooper. Frank Did It Did It?
18:39 Speaker 01 Yeah.
18:40 Speaker 00 Here is a really good one, though. Episode 17, more Bob Odenkirk.
18:46 Speaker 01 Really?
18:47 Speaker 00 He said there's extra scenes of me and Bob and they're really great. And finally, he said the finale has a lot more cool moments, including just some Easter eggs for us of other people who were part of the show. And he said, it's really fun to see and maybe fans will also appreciate them. Especially now that they know like a lot of people's names.
19:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:07 Speaker 00 And what their jobs were. Now you can put a face to the name.
19:11 Speaker 01 Dave, I love this list. It's making me all nostalgic.
19:15 Speaker 00 I know.
19:16 Speaker 01 To like go back and re-watch. Well, thank you, Dave Rogers, for all of the time you put into these superfan episodes. I really now have a few I want to go back and watch.
19:25 Speaker 00 For sure. I have to watch Andy sing Faith.
19:29 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:30 Speaker 00 That's my number one, I think. All right. Well, now we have some news from our Office universe. This Friday on March 20th, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitzky's new show is coming out. You remember these guys. They wrote on The Office for many, many years. They wrote Dinner Party.
19:48 Speaker 01 They wrote Dinner Party. They also played Leo and Gino.
19:52 Speaker 00 Yes. They've been on the podcast. Well, you might remember a few years ago, they had that amazing show Jury Duty. It was a fake documentary about a trial where everybody was an actor, except one person was real.
20:06 Speaker 01 Right. And he wasn't in on it. Everyone else was in on it. He thought it was a real trial happening.
20:12 Speaker 00 Yes. It was amazing.
20:15 Speaker 01 Critically acclaimed.
20:16 Speaker 00 Well, they have a season two and a new concept, and it is absolutely brilliant.
20:21 Speaker 01 It's brilliant. Lee sent Jenna and I the trailer, and it is hilarious. I'm already hooked.
20:27 Speaker 00 It's called Company Retreat, and the new premise is that cameras are following this newly hired employee at a small business. And shortly after he gets hired, the whole company is gonna go on a company retreat.
20:41 Speaker 01 Yes.
20:42 Speaker 00 And everyone at the business is an actor, except for the new employee. You guys, I wrote Lee, and I was like, this is brilliant. I feel like this is what it would be like if you could go be transported into an episode of The Office.
20:58 Speaker 01 Exactly. Like, if you were the new employee and you had to go to beach games.
21:02 Speaker 00 Yes, exactly.
21:04 Speaker 01 And that's like part of your first week of work.
21:07 Speaker 00 But one of the brilliant things about it is the owner of the business is about to turn the business over to his son. And the son is just like full nepo baby.
21:19 Speaker 01 Yes.
21:19 Speaker 00 Hot mess, hilarious.
21:21 Speaker 01 But then, as the company retreat unfolds, you see all the different personalities of the coworkers, because they have to do these ridiculous exercises, like walk on the hot coals, that type of stuff, right?
21:32 Speaker 00 Yes.
21:33 Speaker 01 Not to go back to beach games, but I couldn't help but think of that episode as I watched the trailer.
21:38 Speaker 00 I'm sure it's gonna be amazing. Jury Duty was amazing.
21:41 Speaker 01 No, it's gonna be a big hit. I can't wait to watch it.
21:44 Speaker 00 So we just want to wish them, congratulations, everybody. You can check it out. The first three episodes debut this Friday, March 20th, on Prime Video.
21:52 Speaker 01 Congrats, Lee and Jean. We love you guys. Well, not on the same level, but Jenna and I actually just had our very own company retreat.
22:01 Speaker 00 We did. It was a two-person company retreat.
22:03 Speaker 01 It was just me and Jenna, we went to a hotel about, I don't know, like 40 minutes away.
22:08 Speaker 00 Yep.
22:09 Speaker 01 And we brought our laptops, and we just worked and worked, office ladies. And it was so fun, because we also have BFF time.
22:17 Speaker 00 Yeah.
22:17 Speaker 01 Mixed in with all that. And... We have decided a bunch of fun stuff, but one I want to share today, which is, we want to really start hearing from you guys during our second drinks.
22:29 Speaker 00 Yeah.
22:30 Speaker 01 You know, so many of you write in and you will tell us a favorite moment, a favorite scene, and we thought, what a better way to feature those than in our second drinks. We're going to call them fan favorite moments. We'll put up some folders as our episodes roll out. Please write in and tell us your favorite scene from these upcoming episodes. So be on the lookout. We're going to give you prompts in our Insta stories for whatever episodes are coming out, but we would love to hear your favorite scenes and we're going to talk about them.
22:57 Speaker 00 You know, lady, we've just been incorporating all these ways that we get to hear from people now with the fan chit chats and the around the towns, and I really like it. I feel like it was really inspired from your trip to the Office convention when we got to hear all the audio from people and when I was recording people at the stage door in Chicago. And we talked about it, we were like, we like this.
23:20 Speaker 01 Yes. And then I think the other thing that happened is we found out that we could get audio clips on our website.
23:27 Speaker 00 Yes, that you can upload them.
23:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, that was a game changer.
23:31 Speaker 00 Yeah.
23:32 Speaker 01 Shout out to Squarespace. Sorry it took us so long, you guys, to get caught up with that technology, but we really love hearing from you and can't wait to hear your favorite moments from upcoming second drinks.
23:42 Speaker 00 We also have a couple of social media updates for you. First of all, I want you to know that I have updated our links in bio.
23:52 Speaker 01 Way to go.
23:53 Speaker 00 On Instagram. Angela, you handle all the posting, but my job is the links in bio. So I'm going to do better, everybody. These links will be more extensive and take you places you want to go. So I just want to put that out there.
24:08 Speaker 01 Very proud of you.
24:09 Speaker 00 Thank you.
24:10 Speaker 01 Very proud of you. And the other thing we're excited to share with you is that we have partnered again with Cartoon Radio. You know, they do amazing animation of podcasts and they are going to do the first six episodes from season one of our re-watch of The Office, and they're going to do sort of like the highlights of things that we talked about, and they're so fun. They're up on our YouTube page, our Office Ladies YouTube page, and you can watch them. And we hope you like them.
24:37 Speaker 00 Yeah, the cool thing about it is that we were able to add our personal photos. So it's like a 10 minute highlight of each episode. But like, for example, in the pilot, we flash up all of our personal photos from the pilot. And Angela, I have to share something. So when we were looking for what to share visually from Diversity Day, we talk a little bit about like how great the script was and how I still have my script. And so I thought, oh, I know, I'll take a picture of my script from Diversity Day so we can flash it up in this video.
25:13 Speaker 01 Right.
25:13 Speaker 00 So I went digging for it. And first of all, my script from Diversity Day is on blue paper.
25:20 Speaker 01 Oh, so that was the second version.
25:22 Speaker 00 Yes, I was gonna explain. That's how they would distinguish the different drafts of a script. So first, they would give it to us on white paper. And then they would either give you a whole new printout on blue paper, or if there were just a few changes, they'd just give you blue pages.
25:40 Speaker 01 Right.
25:40 Speaker 00 And then it was your job to go in and take out the white page and put in the blue page for the rewrite. And then the third draft would be pink pages. And then I think it was like yellow, green. And then I feel like it went back to white.
25:54 Speaker 01 No, I think every once in a while we got to orange, but that was very rare.
25:58 Speaker 00 Yeah.
25:58 Speaker 01 And those were usually loose pages.
26:01 Speaker 00 Yes.
26:01 Speaker 01 They weren't the whole script.
26:02 Speaker 00 But sometimes by the end of the week, you'd have like this multi-colored script. Well, anyway, this script was all blue. So I guess they did one big rewrite and they printed it out on blue. I don't have any other color pages. However, at the very end of my script, I have five white pages.
26:22 Speaker 01 You guys, I want you to know Jenna brought her script in. She's holding it. I'm looking at it. And what did you write on the front of it? Did you write Pam?
26:29 Speaker 00 Pam. I wrote Pam.
26:31 Speaker 01 So everyone knows that's your script. That's so cute.
26:35 Speaker 00 Well, that was the thing back then. Like if you didn't put your name on it.
26:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
26:38 Speaker 00 Anyone might pick it up.
26:40 Speaker 01 It's true.
26:41 Speaker 00 Well, I was like, what are the white pages at the end? Do you know what it is, lady?
26:47 Speaker 01 No, what is it?
26:48 Speaker 00 It's my Pam document. I printed it out, I three-hole punched it, and I attached it to the back of my script. And I remember I did that for season one of The Office.
27:01 Speaker 01 Lady, your theater nerd heart.
27:03 Speaker 00 I know.
27:04 Speaker 01 Is so wonderful.
27:06 Speaker 00 And I'm so excited I found this because I couldn't find it on my computer. So this is now the only copy I have, is this hard copy that I printed and attached to the back of my Diversity Day script. And I have to read you something from it.
27:22 Speaker 01 I want to hear all of it.
27:24 Speaker 00 I mean, I wish I had this for All About Pam Beasley.
27:28 Speaker 01 Oh.
27:29 Speaker 00 But here we go. I have this section where I'm really trying to figure out Pam and Roy's relationship. And so I wrote this prompt, "What was your biggest fight?" I wrote, "Our biggest fight ever was the time that I told him that if I found out that he committed a murder, that I would turn him into the police." Like, if they didn't know who did it and he wasn't planning to turn himself in. He got really, really mad and said that families are supposed to protect each other. And I said, "Yeah, but not from murder." He said, "What if he was really, really sorry and I could tell that he would never murder someone again?" I don't know. I still think I'd probably turn him in.
28:11 Speaker 01 That's amazing.
28:12 Speaker 00 Yeah.
28:13 Speaker 01 That's amazing. And it's such like one of those hypothetical bullshit things that you get in a fight about because the real things aren't working.
28:22 Speaker 00 Yeah.
28:22 Speaker 01 So you don't talk about the real things and then you have all of this pent-up stuff about a hypothetical.
28:28 Speaker 00 Well, I think it kind of touched on a type of disconnect in their like fundamental values.
28:36 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
28:37 Speaker 00 You know?
28:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:39 Speaker 00 Like Roy values family loyalty over everything and Pam sort of...
28:42 Speaker 01 Is a rule follower.
28:44 Speaker 00 And feels like she has a sort of moral obligation to the world that sometimes could...
28:51 Speaker 01 Supersede the family.
28:52 Speaker 00 Yes.
28:52 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:53 Speaker 00 I was like, "That's really interesting." I also wrote, "I used to be an illustrator, but Roy told me it was time for us to get regular jobs. I used to just be a receptionist on the side while I drew and tried to get work as an illustrator. I'm artistic, but I've given it up to have a more stable life and job."
29:12 Speaker 01 That is great. Because for me, that fills in that question of like... Why is Pam there? Why is she the receptionist? Why does she seem so beat down in this job? On top of everything else, it seems like a real step back for her, just being there.
29:31 Speaker 00 Yeah, I felt like I needed to answer those questions for myself when I started the job.
29:39 Speaker 01 Theater students out there, how about that? Background work, building your character, things people don't ever see.
29:48 Speaker 00 It's true. Well, thank you very much to Cartoona for asking us to dig around in our personal photos. Because now I have my Pam document back.
29:57 Speaker 01 And you guys, I'll share in our stories where you can find our animated highlights of the first six episodes of Office Ladies.
30:03 Speaker 00 And you can also find them at the link in bio.
30:05 Speaker 01 Oh, yes, because Jenna's updated the link in bio.
30:08 Speaker 00 Yes, I have. All right, well, Angela, now I'm very excited. I'm going to turn it over to you. You watched the webisode "Blackmail."
30:16 Speaker 01 Yes, I did, and it is so delicious. It features Creed. First of all, I want you guys to know where you can find these. All of the webisodes are on Peacock, but they're labeled a little different. You have to go to the tile that says "The Office," like the original Office, not the superfan versions. And then, under that, you have to click on a little tab that says "Collections." And then, under that, scroll down, and there's a little thing that says "Digital Series."
30:45 Speaker 00 I don't want to get in their business, but I guess I do. Why are you making it so hard to find these?
30:53 Speaker 01 Yeah, you do have to dig. And also, we always called them webisodes, so I guess they call them digital series. But that's where they live, and there's a bunch of them, and they're fantastic. And today, I want to highlight "Blackmail." It is a series of four around two-minute clips, and you just watch them all in a row. Clip one reveals Creed has decided to blackmail his coworkers. The first person he's going to try to blackmail is Oscar. So, the opening scene is Oscar watching a video on a laptop of Creed, and then Creed walks in behind him in real time. It's all in the conference room. I want you guys to hear it.
31:33 Speaker 07 If you're watching this video, you've been a very naughty person. I have learned some of your deepest, darkest secrets. And with this knowledge, I have the ability to ruin your world. But it needn't come to that. It's possible I could forget a thing or two if you're willing to compensate me. I'm 100% serious. Pay me now, or I will share this with the world. Are my eyes blue?
32:01 Speaker 06 Are you trying to blackmail me?
32:03 Speaker 07 Blackmail is an ugly word. I prefer extortion.
32:06 Speaker 06 Why are you doing this?
32:07 Speaker 07 How much will you pay me to find out?
32:09 Speaker 06 Creed, this is low.
32:10 Speaker 07 Easy on the sass. We're just two amigos having a conversation. Comprende? Se lo comprendo. What? Let's switch back to English for a second.
32:17 Speaker 06 Just spit it out. What do you have on me?
32:20 Speaker 01 So, first of all, Creed saying "easy on the sass" made my whole day.
32:27 Speaker 01 But what we find out that Creed has on Oscar is a video of Oscar getting picked up from work by his boyfriend. It's so uninteresting. It's so normal. And Oscar just dismisses it and leaves. So now Creed has to move on to someone else.
32:44 Speaker 00 Well, everybody already knows about Oscar and Gil. I mean, remember after Gay Witch Hunt? They get to leave on like a 12-week vacation.
32:53 Speaker 01 Right.
32:54 Speaker 00 Paid for by the company.
32:55 Speaker 01 Right.
32:56 Speaker 00 So this isn't news, Creed.
32:58 Speaker 01 Exactly. And Oscar just dismisses it.
33:01 Speaker 00 Yeah.
33:01 Speaker 01 So now he's got to move on to Andy. And he hands Andy this green envelope. Andy takes a look inside and completely is thrown. He is shaken by whatever is inside this green envelope. That is sort of the cliffhanger that takes you to clip two. Clip two starts with Andy freaking out. Creed has given him an ultimatum, and he clearly has some good dirt on him. But Andy says, "I don't know what to do yet." And then we learn a tough decision that Andy had to make in the past. Let's hear it. I'm freaking out. And I haven't freaked out about a decision like this since
33:37 Speaker 01 I had to choose between "Here Comes Treble."
33:40 Speaker 02 Treble in Paradise, The Treble Shooters,
33:45 Speaker 02 and The Finger Lake Maestros.
33:48 Speaker 01 That was his decision. He had to pick between these a cappella groups. And I just think about our writers sitting there pitching different names for a cappella groups, and they're all so amazing.
33:57 Speaker 00 You know, they spent way too many hours on those name pitches.
34:00 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. I bet there's a ton more that we didn't even get to hear. So, anyway, Creed is going to keep pressuring Andy, and then Andy just decides he's got to take matters into his own hands. And he is going to make this huge announcement to the bullpen about what Creed has on him. Any guesses, lady?
34:17 Speaker 00 I can't think of anything.
34:20 Speaker 01 I was not prepared for this. He lifts up his shirt to show everyone he has a tattoo on his lower back. And it looks like it's written in sort of a different language. And he shares that it means Nard Dog. Kelly starts teasing him, says he has a tramp stamp. And Andy says he doesn't regret it, but he is having it lasered off. So, lady, Andy, this is his other tattoo? Because he had Nard Dog.
34:47 Speaker 00 Well, he gets Nard Dog.
34:48 Speaker 01 Exactly.
34:49 Speaker 00 So, is this webisode between now and when he gets Nard Dog?
34:54 Speaker 01 It's gotta be, but it's just hilarious to me that Andy has such mishaps with tattoos.
35:01 Speaker 00 Well, this is his snip, snap, snip, snap moment, then. He had a Nard Dog tattoo that he got lasered off, and then he went and got another Nard Dog tattoo.
35:09 Speaker 01 Exactly. But remember that trend where people would get different sayings or messages in like a different language?
35:17 Speaker 00 I don't know the tattoo trends.
35:19 Speaker 01 What, Sam? Are you there? This was, I remember in my improv days, there would be like some dude with like some type of character type writing on their arm, and it would mean like truth.
35:31 Speaker 02 That and tribal tattoo goes in and out of popularity every decade. Yeah.
35:35 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:35 Speaker 00 Do you remember the armband tattoo?
35:37 Speaker 02 I do, yes.
35:38 Speaker 00 That Pamela Anderson got, the barbed wire?
35:40 Speaker 02 Yeah, those are in style again.
35:42 Speaker 00 Are they back?
35:42 Speaker 02 Yep.
35:43 Speaker 00 I always liked those.
35:44 Speaker 02 That and tramp stamps are officially back.
35:46 Speaker 00 Tramp stamps are back.
35:48 Speaker 01 Well, Andy had one in a language. He wasn't really sure what it was, but it said Nard Dog. That's the thing. I always was like, if it's not the language you speak and you don't speak that language, how do you know? How do you know what's getting tattooed on you?
36:01 Speaker 02 Yep.
36:02 Speaker 00 You gotta really trust your tattoo artist.
36:05 Speaker 01 Yeah, you do.
36:06 Speaker 00 You guys, I have a story of a famous guy. I'm not gonna say who it is.
36:11 Speaker 01 Oh, come on.
36:12 Speaker 00 But only because he would tell this story. If we had him on our podcast, he would tell this story.
36:19 Speaker 01 Okay.
36:20 Speaker 00 But I was working on a project with him and he wanted to get a tattoo. And he came to set and he was like talking about what he wanted. And it was like a nautical thing. And he had other tattoos, so this wasn't his first. And he was kinda going over it. And then eventually, he got it. And he came and he showed it to us. And it was nothing at all like what he had kinda been describing to us that he wanted.
36:53 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
36:53 Speaker 00 And it wasn't great. I'm gonna also say like, it's not that the tattoo work wasn't great, but the design.
37:00 Speaker 02 Where on his body was it?
37:02 Speaker 00 God, I think it was like on his bicep.
37:04 Speaker 02 Okay, good.
37:05 Speaker 01 And I- Why does, wait, Sam, why, why is that okay?
37:08 Speaker 02 I wanted it to be visible and prominent. Visible and prominent.
37:12 Speaker 00 Yeah, it was. Like, short sleeve shirt.
37:14 Speaker 02 Good.
37:15 Speaker 00 Here it is.
37:15 Speaker 02 Yep.
37:16 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh.
37:16 Speaker 00 And we're all looking at it and none of us know how to react. And so we're all kinda like, huh. And he goes, I know. I know. And we're like, it's just different than what you said. He goes, I know. I, when I got there and he showed me the drawing, I didn't like it.
37:43 Speaker 01 What?
37:44 Speaker 00 But I felt bad, so I just let him do it.
37:47 Speaker 01 Tattoo it on my body forever?
37:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
37:50 Speaker 01 Because you felt bad?
37:51 Speaker 00 Cause he was like, he didn't want-
37:53 Speaker 02 Didn't wanna speak up?
37:54 Speaker 00 Yeah, he just like, didn't wanna disappoint.
37:57 Speaker 01 The tattoo artist?
37:59 Speaker 00 Yeah. And then we were like, dude, it's on you forever.
38:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, you gotta push back a little.
38:05 Speaker 00 And he was like, I know, I really regret not saying something.
38:10 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh.
38:11 Speaker 00 What? And we, then we just teased him incessantly about it.
38:16 Speaker 01 I wonder if he ever got it lasered off?
38:18 Speaker 00 I don't think so.
38:19 Speaker 01 Did he pull an Andy?
38:21 Speaker 00 I couldn't ask him, I guess, but maybe he likes it now. I mean, maybe it grew on him. But you guys, it looks like something, like a nautical logo on the menu of a fish restaurant.
38:37 Speaker 01 That's
38:38 Speaker 02 At Sharkies in Redondo Beach.
38:39 Speaker 00 Something like that.
38:40 Speaker 02 Yeah.
38:40 Speaker 00 Something like that. Just super basic.
38:44 Speaker 01 Oh. I don't know how long it's been since you've spoken to this person, but if you did out of nowhere, let's say, text him and say, hey, remember that random nautical tattoo you got? Did you have it lasered off?
38:58 Speaker 00 I'll do it.
38:58 Speaker 01 Would he think it's odd and would he respond?
39:00 Speaker 00 I'll ask him.
39:01 Speaker 01 Oh, my God, she's texting right now.
39:04 Speaker 00 I mean, this is super random. Let's see, the last time we texted was last October.
39:09 Speaker 01 Oh, that's not bad.
39:10 Speaker 00 Yeah, okay.
39:12 Speaker 01 What is Jordan laughing about? I can hear Jordan laughing.
39:15 Speaker 02 I just said I wanted to be like Ben Affleck or somebody with a
39:20 Speaker 00 Does Ben Affleck still have that giant?
39:23 Speaker 02 Yes, on his back.
39:24 Speaker 00 It's real, right?
39:25 Speaker 02 It's a phoenix, yeah.
39:25 Speaker 00 And that wasn't?
39:27 Speaker 02 Nope.
39:27 Speaker 00 It's not?
39:28 Speaker 01 What? I always thought that was for a movie.
39:30 Speaker 02 No, it's real and it is on there full time.
39:32 Speaker 00 And it's full color.
39:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, it's bad.
39:34 Speaker 00 And so, Sam, you've had tattoos, like full color, that's a multi-
39:38 Speaker 02 That's multiple sessions, yeah.
39:41 Speaker 01 Wow.
39:41 Speaker 02 And multiple thousands of dollars.
39:43 Speaker 00 Do you have any tattoos that you have soured on since you got them, Sam?
39:48 Speaker 02 Yes, I have the word truth written in Latin on my left arm.
39:51 Speaker 00 Oh, my God, no, you don't.
39:52 Speaker 01 Sam, Sam, I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now, there was a guy in my improv days that had truth on his forearm written in like Mandarin.
40:03 Speaker 02 Well, this is an old thing. It's just, they just don't like the placement of it. It's blocking other bigger tattoos.
40:08 Speaker 01 Okay, that's amazing. Well, while we wait for Jenna's mysterious famous person with the lame nautical tattoo to get back to us, we are going to move on now to clip three of the blackmail webisode series. Now Creed, Andy's sort of big announcement worked. Creed has to move on to someone else and it's Kelly. He hands Kelly a green envelope. Kelly looks inside and it's a picture of her kissing a girl. She's completely unfazed. She's like, Creed, this is my MySpace profile picture. And she really loves the attention it's getting her. I have to give a shout out right here to the fellows on How We Made Your Mother,
40:50 Speaker 01 because they shared with us that they love our old tech callouts during our re-watch of The Office, and they have added one. They have one called "old ref", which is like an old reference, and I think MySpace is both old tech and old ref.
41:06 Speaker 00 Yep.
41:08 Speaker 01 So Creed is gonna try again with Kelly because he's desperate now, and he's like, "All right, fine, I've got something else on ya." And we find out that Kelly skipped work to go to a Jonas Brothers concert.
41:21 Speaker 00 Oh.
41:21 Speaker 01 And then Kelly caves. She's like, "Ugh", and Creed lists off his demands. Let's hear them.
41:29 Speaker 07 If you want me to be silent, I'm gonna need a little something from you.
41:31 Speaker 05 Creed, I cannot lose my job. I have so much credit.
41:34 Speaker 07 I want a helicopter.
41:36 Speaker 05 I can't afford that.
41:38 Speaker 07 Well, then, I want commodities. I want gold, oil, political capital, four-leaf clovers, bones, information, uranium.
41:47 Speaker 05 Do you mean information like facts?
41:49 Speaker 07 No, like gossip.
41:51 Speaker 05 What do you want to know?
41:53 Speaker 01 I mean, Kelly can play ball on gossip.
41:55 Speaker 00 Yeah, well, now he can use what she tells him to blackmail more people.
42:00 Speaker 01 Exactly. This cuts immediately to Creed, walking through the whole bullpen, passing out green envelopes left and right. He gives one to Angela, then he gives one to Meredith. Meredith opens hers and says, "Who's Pastor Jim?" And then Creed's like, "Oh, wait a second", and he grabs that one and hands it to Angela, and Angela's all flushed.
42:19 Speaker 00 Oh!
42:20 Speaker 01 I know!
42:21 Speaker 00 Did Angela hook up with Pastor Jim?
42:23 Speaker 01 We don't know, but that's as far as that moment goes, because then Oscar's like, "Wait, we've got to take care of this." Next clip is clip four. So Oscar has dug up a bunch of stuff on Creed, and they all confront him with it in the conference room. There's like a list of all sorts of stuff. Two that stood out for me was that Creed introduced the walking snakehead fish to the North American ecosystem?
42:49 Speaker 01 And he has it on good authority that Creed throws raves in the warehouse and is known by partygoers as Papa Smurf. What does that mean, Sam, by the way, if you're known as Papa Smurf at a rave?
43:02 Speaker 02 I don't know.
43:05 Speaker 01 I thought maybe it meant something.
43:08 Speaker 02 No.
43:08 Speaker 01 I don't, I, it could mean that you're, like, you give people, like-
43:12 Speaker 02 In all my years of going to raves and doing drugs, I've never been labeled Papa Smurf.
43:16 Speaker 01 I didn't think you had been labeled, but I didn't know if at a rave, listen, all I know about raves is from John Wick movies.
43:23 Speaker 02 That's all you need to know. That's all that's going on.
43:25 Speaker 01 It's where assassins go to, like, run through the crowd.
43:28 Speaker 02 Shoot each other in their suits, yeah.
43:30 Speaker 01 Anyway, ultimately, Andy is like, what are we doing? You guys, they look and see that the amount of money Creed is blackmailing them for, any guesses?
43:42 Speaker 00 What?
43:43 Speaker 02 No.
43:44 Speaker 01 Six dollars.
43:46 Speaker 00 What does he want to get?
43:48 Speaker 01 Wait, wait, he says six dollars are the equivalent in postage stamps or canned goods. And Andy's like, this just kind of makes me feel bad. He clearly needs the six dollars. So they all just cave in and they give Creed the money. It ends with Creed super happy. He's at his laptop and there's an image on his computer. It's a toy helicopter. But Creed clearly thinks it's a real helicopter.
44:17 Speaker 00 Hmm.
44:17 Speaker 01 And he takes his six dollars and you guys, he shoves it into the floppy disk feet, like he thinks it's gonna spit out the toy-
44:25 Speaker 00 Like a vending machine.
44:26 Speaker 01 Yes. And he explains that he's so excited, he's gonna fly his new helicopter to Brazil to see the world's largest library.
44:35 Speaker 00 Oh.
44:36 Speaker 01 And that is the end of blackmail.
44:40 Speaker 01 There are some great scenes that I didn't even get into because some of them are visuals. They're so funny. You guys, I really recommend this one. It's a fun watch.
44:51 Speaker 00 Well, that was delightful, Angela. Thank you for breaking that down for us.
44:55 Speaker 01 I just thought it was so fun. I loved filming these webisodes and it was always just a skeleton crew and a group of us on the weekends and we got to just play around. So it kind of brought me down memory lane.
45:08 Speaker 00 Well, I haven't heard back from my famous friend, so why don't we take a break? When we come back, we've got Around the Town and our Office Question of the Week and maybe also an answer about this tattoo.
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48:43 Speaker 00 We are back. Still no news from my friend, everybody.
48:47 Speaker 01 Wow.
48:47 Speaker 00 Sorry to leave you hanging, but now it's time for...
48:54 Speaker 00 Our first bit of news is from Michelle G. in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Michelle wants us to know Stratford has a lot going on this year. We have been named a top 10 list of places in Canada to visit. We have our chef's school running fun courses for anyone to attend. Our theater is in its 73rd year. We have a chocolate tour, a bacon and ale tour, and audio walking tours. We are also dealing with the most snow that we have had in years. Well, Michelle, I'm jealous of all your snow. The skiers in my family have been chasing snow. It's not in any of the usual places this year. So I guess it's come to you.
49:39 Speaker 01 Well, I just want to go to the walking tours. I mean, a bacon and ale tour?
49:44 Speaker 00 Bacon and ale.
49:45 Speaker 01 Chocolate tour?
49:47 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
49:48 Speaker 01 Yes, please.
49:50 Speaker 00 I know.
49:51 Speaker 01 All right, our next around the town is from Becca B. Becca says, "Every year around National Golden Retriever Day, Golden, Colorado hosts an event called Goldens and Golden. Thousands," and she put that in all caps, "thousands of golden retrievers or imposters and their owners gather to celebrate all of the good boys." Isn't that adorable?
50:14 Speaker 00 Golden Retriever Day?
50:17 Speaker 01 Yes.
50:18 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh.
50:19 Speaker 01 I have actually seen on Instagram, like, these golden retriever gatherings where people all get together with their golden retrievers. I know there are several different dog breeds that do this, but it's pretty frickin' adorable.
50:32 Speaker 00 All right, I looked this up. The article says, "Over 5,500 golden retrievers gathered in Golden, Colorado on February 7th to enjoy the annual Goldens and Golden celebration." Wow, I want to go.
50:48 Speaker 01 My friend has a golden retriever, and whenever, like, there's a group of them, like, we'll go on a hike, and then they all, like, say hi to each other. I don't know, it's just so cute, you guys. It looks like they smile.
51:01 Speaker 00 Lady, you have to post about this because I'm looking at this article, and the photos are incredible.
51:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, I've seen on Instagram. It's just amazing. We'll share in our stories.
51:16 Speaker 01 It's way bigger than you could even imagine. I mean, I know we're throwing out numbers, but when you see everybody together, you're like, "Holy moly."
51:25 Speaker 00 All right, well, our last bit of Around the Town comes from Natalie D. in Kansas City, who said, "I have been competitive bowling since I was 13 years old." Natalie is now 28 and finally got her first 300 perfect game last week.
51:43 Speaker 01 Natalie, congratulations.
51:45 Speaker 00 Thanks to The Office ladies for providing entertainment on long car rides to tournaments. That is a big deal.
51:52 Speaker 01 That is a big accomplishment, 300.
51:55 Speaker 00 My grandpa was a bowler, and I remember when he got his 300 game. It was huge. It was like such a big deal. That is, how many? 12 strikes in a row? Because the 10th frame is three?
52:11 Speaker 02 Yeah, I think so.
52:13 Speaker 00 Wow. Well done.
52:15 Speaker 01 That is amazing. Natalie, my bowling is I either get up there and I just roll the slowest moving ball that hits the pins, and it's like, "Puh, puh, puh," and I get a strike, and everyone's like, "What just happened?" Or I gutter ball it. Those are the only two, that's my skill set.
52:34 Speaker 02 That's incredible.
52:36 Speaker 01 I know, it's pretty amazing. Sign me up for your team. All right, up next, everybody, is our Office Question of the Week. This comes from Nadia H. in Michigan. Nadia says, "Hello, Office ladies. I have been wanting to write you all for over a year now, and I am beyond excited that I am now caught up with the podcast episodes and can share how much you two mean to me. The Office is my favorite show. I own all of the DVD box sets, tons of merch, and I even have an Office comforter that I use every night. You two are truly some of the most special people in the world, and thank you so much for all the hard work that you put into the Office Ladies franchise." Aw, that's so sweet.
53:17 Speaker 01 Nadia goes on to say, "I am a neurodivergent individual who lives in a world that is not always friendly or accepting of people like me. This can be very hard and overwhelming at times, but whenever I listen to your podcast, I feel so heard, seen, and just at peace. I could go on for ages about how much you two mean to me, but in summary, I just want you to know how much I love you both." And then Nadia sent in a bunch of questions, and one of the ones we want to answer today is, "Do you guys ever feel weird seeing your face on merchandise or wallpapers?"
53:52 Speaker 00 And she also said, "P.S. Angela, I love your diary. It's one of my favorite things ever." [laughing] Nadia, first of all, we just want to say thank you for all those kind words.
54:03 Speaker 01 Yes.
54:04 Speaker 00 I can't even tell you what it means to me that the podcast brings you peace and comfort.
54:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, and that you feel seen and heard. And we love doing this podcast, and we really love our office ladies' families. So thank you so much for being part of it.
54:20 Speaker 00 And also, yes, it is weird seeing my face on merchandise and wallpapers. I'm not sure I've ever gotten used to it.
54:27 Speaker 01 It's just weird, and it's, it pops up in the most random places. I think I've shared this before. One time, my sister Janet texted me, and she was at TJ Maxx, and she said, "Anne, your face is on a shot glass."
54:42 Speaker 00 Yeah.
54:42 Speaker 01 Yeah, it is just really wild, and it's, has just kept going all these years.
54:49 Speaker 00 Well, did you hear now they're turning the office characters into Fortnite skins?
54:54 Speaker 01 I did hear this. My sons told me.
54:57 Speaker 00 Well, Dwight and Michael are out. Jim and Pam are coming out. I don't know if they're gonna do more. And, you know, something I want to let everyone know is that I found this out in the news. Like, nobody asked me. I didn't have to give permission. I don't get paid anything for it.
55:15 Speaker 01 Well, none of us do.
55:16 Speaker 00 No.
55:17 Speaker 01 The whole entire, whatever, whoever they feature anywhere doing stuff, we don't get paid for it.
55:22 Speaker 00 No, which is also weird, because you just feel like your face is everywhere. But I was like, really? I don't get anything for my face as a Fortnite skin? And I guess it's quote unquote Pam. It's not me. But I'm like, but just because it's my face in a pink sweater? Like so anytime you take my face and put it in a pink sweater, it's not me, it's Pam. And then I don't get anything for it. NBC gets the money. I find that weird. I'm sorry. I find it weird.
55:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
55:57 Speaker 00 I don't understand why we don't get a cut of that.
56:00 Speaker 01 It is weird. It's just weird every time. Well, you know, it's like, sometimes it's just so clearly our face, you know, it's like so like.
56:11 Speaker 00 It's literally a picture of us.
56:13 Speaker 01 Yeah. But anyway, Nadia, it is kind of odd. It is. And I think what's always interesting to me is the different ways they find to put our faces on things like this Fortnite skins and a shot glass or a bath towel.
56:29 Speaker 02 Do either of you remember the first thing that you saw your face on? Like when the office, you know, like season one, season two, like when merch started rolling out?
56:37 Speaker 00 Oh, gosh.
56:40 Speaker 00 That's a good question. I know that the NBC store in New York had like a Jim and Pam mug or something. And it was around Valentine's Day. And I remember John and I went to New York and we did like a little press thing and we were in the NBC store. And I was like, oh my gosh, John, we're on this mug.
57:04 Speaker 01 Yeah.
57:05 Speaker 00 So maybe that was the first time I saw myself as merch.
57:10 Speaker 02 Okay.
57:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, I think for me, it was NBC put out these little Valentine's cards.
57:14 Speaker 02 Oh, okay.
57:15 Speaker 01 And it had Dwight and Angela. It had the ladies all around Michael Scott. He's holding up a heart.
57:21 Speaker 00 Yeah.
57:21 Speaker 01 And there were these little Valentine's cards you could buy. And I was so tickled by it. I really was just so delighted. And I think the thing, Nadia, I would want you to know, it's like, I love fans that find creative ways to recreate our characters. I love all the fan art so much. And I think sometimes though. You feel like you're part of some big corporate machine when it's like Fortnite skins. It's different. It's a little different, you know?
57:47 Speaker 00 Yeah.
57:48 Speaker 01 But I love fans' interpretations of the characters on the show. And I love it when people make us stuff and send it to us. It's really cool. But when you're out just walking around somewhere and your face is on like a TJ Maxx shot blast, you're like, wait, how did that happen?
58:06 Speaker 00 I think that's a good point, Angela. I am here for every Etsy shop where a fan has interpreted our characters and made some super cool thing.
58:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
58:17 Speaker 00 And usually that stuff is way cooler, too.
58:20 Speaker 01 Yeah.
58:20 Speaker 00 I think you're right. It's like when the big mega corporation is getting a bunch of money because they put your face on something and then it's just another big mega corporation splitting all the funds. Like, I'd much rather some, like, cool Etsy artist get some moolah.
58:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
58:39 Speaker 00 You know what I'm saying?
58:39 Speaker 01 Absolutely.
58:41 Speaker 00 Yeah. So Etsy folks, we're here for you. Keep it up.
58:44 Speaker 01 Yeah.
58:46 Speaker 00 All right, well, listen, that's all we've got, except we have one more thing.
58:52 Speaker 01 Did the anonymous celebrity with the lame nautical tattoo get back to you? I've seen you texting over there.
58:58 Speaker 00 He did. He did. And first of all, he wrote, yes, I still have it. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And then he said, the tattoo artist was so handsome and cool, I didn't want to disappoint him.
59:14 Speaker 00 And then he said I could reveal who he is and he sent me in some audio.
59:20 Speaker 01 No way. Oh, my gosh. Exclusive celebrity with lame nautical tattoo is?
59:26 Speaker 00 Oliver Hudson.
59:28 Speaker 01 Oh, I would never have guessed.
59:30 Speaker 00 Here we go. So I've wanted to get a tattoo for my kids for years and didn't really know what it was. I knew I wanted something nautical because of my love for the ocean.
59:41 Speaker 06 I wanted something a little different, something cool, not your standard old school anchor.
59:48 Speaker 06 And I went to this guy, I don't want to say his name, because I don't want to diss him. He's an incredible artist. Like, there's no doubt. It just wasn't his forte, I guess. Anyway, I went there.
1:00:00 Speaker 06 He put the stencil on me that he sort of came up with. And it just, well, I wasn't really feeling it, but he was so cool and extremely handsome and all tatted up that I felt like insecure about making any changes. And I said, well, what if we did this? And he did something else and put another stencil on. I was like, yeah, even though I was like, oh, my God. No. And then I get on the table, four hours later, I have it on my arm.
1:00:34 Speaker 06 And it looks like a chandelier. It doesn't look like an anchor. It looks like a grand chandelier in a beautiful ballroom.
1:00:43 Speaker 06 But it's on me forever now. And I was depressed for a long time. And now I only get depressed every once in a while.
1:00:52 Speaker 01 He's probably like, thanks for bringing it back up.
1:00:57 Speaker 00 You guys, I'm so glad he said that in because I just need you to know that is the delight that it is to work with Oliver Hudson. If, if you just want to have the best, most fun project, you want to hire Oliver Hudson. And he's so talented too. Like, he's so funny. He's so good with drama. I adore him so much.
1:01:21 Speaker 01 And you should share, you guys work together on splitting up together.
1:01:25 Speaker 00 Yes, for two seasons of a TV show. And we ended our show on like this giant cliffhanger because we got canceled. We had this big cliffhanger. We were all sure we were going to get a season three and then they canceled us. And it was such a bummer. We were, I worked on that with Bobby Lee.
1:01:40 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:01:40 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:01:41 Speaker 01 Great group. Oliver, thank you so much. I really need to see a picture now. I don't know if he'd be up for sending us a picture, but chandelier is not the image I had in my head this whole time.
1:01:52 Speaker 00 I know. I, maybe I didn't describe it very well. My memory.
1:01:55 Speaker 02 You described it perfectly.
1:01:56 Speaker 00 Did I? Okay.
1:01:59 Speaker 01 Oh my gosh, Oliver, thank you. And you know what? You gotta come. You gotta come hang with us on Office Ladies.
1:02:05 Speaker 00 He really does. It would be the absolute best time.
1:02:08 Speaker 01 Well, you guys, that was Office News and Blackmail. We hope you enjoyed it.
1:02:13 Speaker 00 Yeah, check out the link in bio for all kinds of cool stuff. Oh, here it is. I'm sorry. He just sent it. He just sent it.
1:02:23 Speaker 01 I want to see it.
1:02:24 Speaker 00 He just sent a photo.
1:02:26 Speaker 01 I need to see it.
1:02:27 Speaker 00 I'm sorry.
1:02:28 Speaker 01 Turn it around, Sam Jordan.
1:02:31 Speaker 00 It's worse than I remembered.
1:02:36 Speaker 00 I'm sorry. Do you see it?
1:02:38 Speaker 01 I do.
1:02:38 Speaker 00 It's like multiple anchors.
1:02:40 Speaker 01 It's multiple anchors hanging.
1:02:43 Speaker 02 It's like adorned with jewels.
1:02:45 Speaker 01 It's like multiple anchors hanging off an anchor with like also the letter H.
1:02:50 Speaker 00 Well, because he has three kids. So I think.
1:02:54 Speaker 01 It's three anchors.
1:02:55 Speaker 00 It's so large, you guys.
1:02:57 Speaker 01 So much of his arm. Can I see? Oh, my God, it's enormous. It's his whole bicep.
1:03:02 Speaker 02 And I like if you zoom in, he's grimacing just a bit.
1:03:06 Speaker 00 Oh, Oliver, I love you so much. I love you so much.
1:03:10 Speaker 01 I want to say a quick thank you to Jordan Duffy for coming in today. She is going to be here whenever Sam has to travel or go out of town. Jordan, thanks so much. It was great to see you.
1:03:20 Speaker 03 It was so great seeing you guys, too. I'm so happy to be helping out when I can.
1:03:24 Speaker 01 Yay.
1:03:25 Speaker 00 All right, everyone. We'll see you next week.
1:03:27 Speaker 01 See you then.
1:03:32 Speaker 00 Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.
1:03:34 Speaker 01 Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
1:03:39 Speaker 00 Our senior producer is Matt Beagle. Our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer, and our associate producer is Ainsley Bubaco.
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