Pod Insights Office Ladies Second Drink: Weight Loss, Part 1 About this episode Today we’re breaking down Weight Loss. To kick off Season 5 and this two part episode, Angela shares that the DVD commentary features commentary from The Office crew! The crew gives the lowdown on how they shot this episode that spans over an 8 week period. It was a continuity nightmare with fruit flies, goatees, and a cast member that had to have their shirt digitally altered in post. The ladies also break down an old tech alert that caused camera interference and we find out what’s going on with Meredith’s sunburnt face. Enjoy this episode now, so you can get in bed with your nice comforter, several cozy pillows, read a chapter of your book and have lights out by 8:30. That’s how you sleep at night.
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2:06 Speaker 01 Hello and welcome to your second drink of Weight Loss, Part One.
2:09 Speaker 00 Well, I was going through our mail for this episode and we had three fan mail flurries on this episode. First, you know, Angela, how there are some episodes that people skip when they do a rewatch of The Office?
2:21 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, like Scott's Tots.
2:22 Speaker 00 Exactly. Well, I found out some people skip Weight Loss.
2:27 Speaker 01 Oh.
2:27 Speaker 00 They find this episode triggering. Just the whole idea of a weight loss competition and especially the dramatic measures that Kelly is taking. They can't watch it. They have to skip it.
2:40 Speaker 01 I mean, I do get that. And also, I don't think most companies are making their employees enter a weight loss competition these days. Like, who's doing that?
2:48 Speaker 00 No, we have definitely evolved since this episode aired in, like, what, 2008? Well, we also got a lot of mail. Our second fan mail flurry was just people thanking you, Angela and Kelly Cantley, for explaining why Meredith's face is all red in this episode.
3:06 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
3:07 Speaker 00 You know, those are some of my favorite moments on this podcast, when we can solve little lingering questions for people.
3:13 Speaker 01 I love it now, and we've talked about this before, where we meet people and they love the podcast, but they, they say, "Thank you, because now we know your crew."
3:23 Speaker 00 Yes.
3:23 Speaker 01 And we know what people do, what their jobs are, and they know names. They know Kelly Cantley.
3:28 Speaker 00 In her letter, she said, "Thank you to Angela and Kelly Cantley."
3:30 Speaker 01 I love that.
3:31 Speaker 00 Well, finally, this was our first episode back in person, doing the podcast after the pandemic.
3:37 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh, that's a big day.
3:39 Speaker 00 Our first time in studio. And we got this letter from Jessica B., who said, "The giddiness in your voices at the beginning of this episode was perfection. It was so cute to hear you two that excited just to be in the same room together." And we just got a lot of mail, people commenting that they felt like our chemistry was just off the charts and they were so happy we were all together again.
4:00 Speaker 01 Oh, that makes me happy. I mean, we were emotional that day for many reasons. We were super happy. We were also just like, the journey we had all been through collectively. Yeah, lots of feelings.
4:13 Speaker 00 Well, this brought up a question that I have for you, Angela.
4:16 Speaker 01 Okay.
4:17 Speaker 00 Do you remember? In the early days, you would come to the podcast with all your note cards and you'd spread them out all over the table.
4:25 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, like the first couple of months.
4:27 Speaker 00 Yes.
4:27 Speaker 01 When we were in studio.
4:28 Speaker 00 Of course, but then when we had to go remote and move into our closets, you didn't have room for your note cards. You were like balancing them on all kinds of stuff.
4:37 Speaker 01 I know, you know, at the start of our podcast in 2019, we had this huge table, like you said, and I could spread them all out. And then I moved into Josh's closet, right by all of his baseball hats.
4:51 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
4:52 Speaker 01 And I did, I tried to balance my cards everywhere. I would drop them, I'd be shuffling through them.
4:57 Speaker 00 Yes.
4:58 Speaker 01 Because I couldn't spread them out. And I migrated to a document.
5:01 Speaker 00 You did. Okay, so this is my question, because we talked about that, how you now worked off a document.
5:07 Speaker 01 Mm hmm. Well, lady, I will tell you, you have seen my documents. They are in all different colors.
5:13 Speaker 00 It's true, they're color coded.
5:15 Speaker 01 Yeah.
5:16 Speaker 00 You have highlighted portions.
5:17 Speaker 01 So like I would, in my note card days, I would have yellow note cards and pink ones and green ones, and they kind of meant different things to me, like my blue note cards for like deleted scenes. So I would know, okay, I put all the deleted scenes on blue note cards. And then, you know, little tidbits or fan catches or background catches. So I do that now. I go through my document and I have green sections and red sections. And I used to print out my documents, and I don't know if you've noticed, but now I just read off my laptop.
5:45 Speaker 00 Yeah.
5:46 Speaker 01 You want to know why?
5:46 Speaker 00 Why?
5:47 Speaker 01 I keep running out of ink.
5:48 Speaker 00 You're running out of the colored ink?
5:49 Speaker 01 Yes. I'm like, Josh, I need more colored ink. I'm paperless now.
5:53 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh, you went from note cards to a document to paperless.
5:57 Speaker 01 Well, today, you and I are recording a bunch of different things. And so I have a combo. I'm paperless, but then look what's on my keyboard.
6:06 Speaker 00 You have four sticky notes.
6:07 Speaker 01 I have.
6:08 Speaker 00 To remind you of things.
6:09 Speaker 01 Yes. So, so I guess I still, every once in a while, go back to a little Post-it that I stick onto my laptop to remind me of a few things.
6:18 Speaker 00 Hmm. Well, you know, people are always curious, how do we prepare our podcasts? And we put a lot of time and effort and research into them, whatever the subject is. And we share a little bit with each other, like, I'll tackle this, you tackle that. But we like to surprise each other as well.
6:35 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:35 Speaker 00 So we also keep separate documents.
6:38 Speaker 01 You know, my daughter said something the other day. She's working on a paper. She's a junior in high school and she knows you and I do our documents, you know? And she said, wow, Mom, you know, one thing you and Jenna have in common? And I was like, what? She goes, you guys are both really good research writers.
6:54 Speaker 00 That is a high compliment. I appreciate that.
6:58 Speaker 01 And I said, that means I do really enjoy that part of it. I love to see what you're gonna dig up and vice versa. And we kind of build the show together.
7:06 Speaker 00 Yeah.
7:06 Speaker 01 And we both like to dig in and research new things.
7:09 Speaker 00 We do. All right, well, listen, everybody, that's all we got. Now here is your second drink of weight loss, part one.
7:20 Speaker 00 I'm Jenna Fischer.
7:21 Speaker 01 And I'm Angela Kinsey.
7:22 Speaker 00 We were on The Office together.
7:24 Speaker 01 And we're best friends.
7:25 Speaker 00 And now we're doing the ultimate Office rewatch podcast just for you.
7:29 Speaker 01 Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind the scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you.
7:36 Speaker 00 We're the Office ladies.
7:39 Speaker 00 Hi, everyone.
7:40 Speaker 01 Hey.
7:41 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh. We are kicking off season five of The Office with Weight Loss Part One.
7:48 Speaker 01 Season flipping five.
7:50 Speaker 00 Yeah.
7:51 Speaker 01 We're here.
7:52 Speaker 00 Here we are.
7:52 Speaker 01 Let's do it.
7:53 Speaker 00 This is season five, episode one, written by Lee Eisenberg and Jean Stepanitsky, directed by Paul Feig.
8:02 Speaker 00 We stopped talking. We already don't know what we're doing in here.
8:06 Speaker 01 You know what I was gonna do? I was gonna go boo boo boo boo boo. And then I was like, no, that's annoying. So then I said nothing. And then you said nothing. And then we just stared at each other. You know why? Because we can.
8:17 Speaker 00 There might be a lot of long pauses in this podcast today. I'm gonna move us into a summary. The gang at Dunder Mifflin participates in an eight-week, company-wide weight loss competition. Pam begins her three-month design program in New York City. And Andy attempts to get Angela to commit to wedding plans, but she's busy. She's having an affair with Dwight, an affair.
8:45 Speaker 01 I know. She is stressed the F out. And the minute Andy asks her about the wedding, she runs to Dwight.
8:52 Speaker 00 Yeah. I have a question about that. Why can't you guys like have sex at home? Like after work? Are you guys having sex at home after work or is it only in the warehouse?
9:04 Speaker 01 That is such a good question I've never thought about. I mean, I definitely see their hookups in this episode whenever Angela is spiraling.
9:12 Speaker 00 Yeah.
9:12 Speaker 01 Maybe she's happy at home with all of her cats and maybe she doesn't let Andy come over. So she doesn't need Dwight to cope.
9:19 Speaker 00 Yeah.
9:20 Speaker 01 Or maybe they're just shagging everywhere. I don't know.
9:23 Speaker 00 Well, we'll discuss more later.
9:24 Speaker 01 Discuss more.
9:26 Speaker 00 Guys, this was the start of our fifth season, like we said, and to make up for the shorter fourth season that got interrupted because of the writer's strike, NBC ordered 28 episodes for season five. So this season has the most episodes of any Office season.
9:44 Speaker 01 Oh, my God, I didn't know that.
9:46 Speaker 00 Yeah.
9:47 Speaker 01 Some good Office trivia, my lady.
9:50 Speaker 00 Thank you. Thank you. Well, it's going to move us into fast fact number one, which is a little complicated. I'll tell you why.
10:00 Speaker 01 Okay.
10:01 Speaker 00 Back at the end of season three, we said that Rashida Jones left the show and stopped playing Karen Philippelli because she had to go do Parks and Recreation.
10:13 Speaker 01 Was she not going to do Parks and Rec then?
10:15 Speaker 00 She wasn't, Ange, because Parks and Recreation did not exist yet. Parks and Recreation does not exist until the middle of season five of The Office.
10:23 Speaker 01 Oh, farts. We got that wrong, my lady.
10:26 Speaker 00 We did.
10:27 Speaker 01 Why am I saying my lady?
10:29 Speaker 00 I don't know. Is the milady the new lady?
10:31 Speaker 01 I hope not because people right now are like, my ears are bleeding. Stop saying my lady. Wait, so Rashida, was she leaving to do a different project?
10:39 Speaker 00 No, she left because they finished the storyline of Karen, Jim and Pam. It was a storyline thing. I mean, she did go on to do more projects. She did a bunch of movies in that time.
10:50 Speaker 01 Right, right.
10:50 Speaker 00 But no, it was a storyline thing. Similarly, I'll have you know that we wondered during Branch Wars,
10:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:58 Speaker 00 if the photo of Hillary Clinton in her office was a nod to Leslie Knope loving Hillary Clinton. We thought that it was. It wasn't because again, there was no Leslie Knope. There was no Parks and Rec yet.
11:10 Speaker 01 We were determined to pull up Parks and Rec by a few. Two years.
11:14 Speaker 00 Well, I love Parks and Rec, so.
11:15 Speaker 01 I know. Okay. Well, there you go. We got that wrong.
11:19 Speaker 00 So this is important for two reasons. One, we need to know the timeline of Parks and Rec.
11:24 Speaker 01 Clearly.
11:25 Speaker 00 And number two, Greg Daniels, who created the American version of The Office, he created Parks and Rec, along with one of our writers, Mike Schur. So midway through this season five, we're gonna lose both Greg and Mike because they're gonna be working on Parks and Rec. And that is why Jen Salata and Paul Lieberstein take over as the showrunners for season five.
11:50 Speaker 01 All right.
11:51 Speaker 00 There you go. Now, Mike Schur moved to Parks and Rec full time. Greg was doing both shows. Greg did a little bit of Parks and Rec. He did a little Office.
12:00 Speaker 01 He bounced back and forth.
12:01 Speaker 00 He did. Yes. Just wanted us to get that timeline correct.
12:06 Speaker 01 Yes.
12:06 Speaker 00 All right. Fast fact number two. Writer of this episode, Jean Stupnitsky, said that the idea for a weight loss episode had been on the writer's wall for a really long time, but they couldn't figure out how to do it in one day. Because remember, they had that rule where they tried to have plotlines that only cover one workday.
12:25 Speaker 01 Right.
12:26 Speaker 00 When NBC asked for the premiere of season five to be an hour long, Greg Daniels had the idea that we could do the weight loss episode as a sort of summer retrospective.
12:37 Speaker 01 Right, because we never see the characters over the summer.
12:39 Speaker 00 Yeah, Jean said this was a really cool opportunity to see the characters over their summertime, and that they almost called this episode "summer."
12:48 Speaker 00 You might notice also for this episode, there is no cold open. It just starts with the opening credits. Jean said that there was a cold open in the script. It was written that way, but they actually just folded it in to the plot. And he said that the pacing of this episode is a little quicker than previous seasons. This is gonna become kind of our new pacing moving forward. And that this was a change they made so they could fit in more jokes and more supporting character storylines.
13:18 Speaker 01 I mean, I definitely noticed. I felt like it clipped along.
13:21 Speaker 00 Yes. Fast fact number three. This episode has an all crew commentary. Angela, take it away.
13:30 Speaker 01 It does. You guys, when I started listening to this DVD commentary and realized it was all crew, I called Jenna right away. It was one of the best DVD commentaries I have listened to up until now. It's so good.
13:42 Speaker 00 And you've listened to all of them.
13:44 Speaker 01 I have, and I want to share with you guys who is on this DVD commentary for Weight Loss. Okay, it's phenomenal. It's great. So much information. At the beginning of the DVD commentary, everyone in the crew went around, said their names and their job title for this episode.
14:00 Speaker 00 Okay.
14:00 Speaker 01 Randy Cordray, our brand new line producer. Michael Gallenberg, our production designer. Brian Whittle, our boom operator. Nick Carbone, our sound utility. Ben Patrick, our production sound mixer. Alicia Raycraft, our new costume designer. Kelly Cantley, our first assistant director. And Jake Oust, our post producer.
14:23 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh. What was it like to hear all of their voices again?
14:28 Speaker 01 It was so wonderful. And you know, Kelly Cantley, I loved her so much. And Jenna, we still are on each other's Christmas card list. We send each other Christmas cards every year, and I just adore her. And I texted her, I said, Kelly, I can't tell you how wonderful it is. I just spent an hour with you, like, listening to your voice. I miss you so much. And she was like, Ange, I miss you too.
14:47 Speaker 00 Ange, I get her Christmas cards too, from her and her husband Kevin and their two dogs. I look forward to them every year.
14:54 Speaker 01 There is so much awesome information about the making of Weight Loss 1 and 2. First thing I want to share with you guys, that this was Randy and Alicia's first episode that they ever worked on on The Office, and what an enormous, huge way to start their time on the show. So normally, one episode, as Jenna said, is one day. They had to take our show over the course of eight weeks in one episode. It was a continuity nightmare. For Alicia, wardrobe had eight changes. And Jenna, you and I love tracking things. Well, guess who else loves tracking things?
15:28 Speaker 00 Alicia.
15:30 Speaker 01 Kelly Cantley.
15:30 Speaker 00 Oh, boy.
15:32 Speaker 01 Kelly Cantley, she listed off all of the things that they would have to track over Weight Loss 1 and 2. I loved it so much, I wrote it down and I began to track it as well. Number 1, 8 wardrobe changes. Number 2, 8 set dressings of the main office bullpen. Number 3, was it raining or not raining outside the windows depending on the scene? Number 4, they had 3 different goatee beards on Michael, Ryan, and Dwight. Number 5, Meredith's sunburnt face, we'll get to that. Number 6, the dry erase board with everyone's weight loss stats. Number 7, the fruit flies. And number 8, the rotting of fruit.
16:15 Speaker 01 Wow. That's what they were keeping track of. So many things. And then lastly, this episode was a huge challenge for the editing department. Do you remember in Goodbye Toby, how I had the script, I had the shooting draft, and I kept telling you how the scenes were all rearranged differently for the episode that actually aired?
16:36 Speaker 00 Yeah.
16:36 Speaker 01 Well Jake shared in the commentary that Greg and the writers were very used to being able to just move scenes around and kind of change how the episode would take shape. And they could not do that in this episode because it's week to week and everything progresses week to week within one episode. And you can't move around that story.
16:56 Speaker 00 No, and our clothes are changing, right?
16:59 Speaker 01 Yes.
16:59 Speaker 00 Like you'd notice, but there is, I saw a little flub.
17:03 Speaker 01 Yes, well you'll have to bring that up. And they also address, and I'll bring this up when it happens, a character that they had to keep digitally changing their shirt.
17:13 Speaker 00 What?
17:14 Speaker 01 Yes.
17:15 Speaker 00 I'll share when we get to the moment. Angela, I think you need to do Fast Facts more often because that is possibly one of my favorite Fast Facts we've ever done. I'm giving you Fast Fact #3 from now on.
17:29 Speaker 01 Oh, I bet you are. Thanks.
17:30 Speaker 00 I know. You guys, Fast Facts are really hard.
17:32 Speaker 01 Fast Facts are really hard. Jenna created Fast Facts for herself and then was like, Angela, these dang Fast Facts. I wish every week the crew did the DVD commentary is what I wish because it's the best commentary. It was the most insightful, interesting, the best background trivia. Fast Fact 3 was easy because of our crew's commentary.
17:51 Speaker 00 I cannot wait to watch that payoff as we break down this episode. Let's take a break. Shocker, I need to go to the bathroom.
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22:04 Speaker 01 All right, well, we are back. Everyone is in the conference room. They are having a feast. I mean, there is a buffet of food happening here.
22:12 Speaker 00 Yeah, well, Michael tells everyone they better eat up because it's their last meal. They're going to start this weight loss competition, but first they're trying to bulk up.
22:20 Speaker 01 So that when they lose weight, the number is big. There's a big difference.
22:24 Speaker 00 Yes, exactly. Dwight has also told people they can't even use the bathroom. You're going to have to hold it. They want maximum poundage on the scale.
22:33 Speaker 01 And the stakes are high because Michael explains that this is a corporate weight loss challenge and the branch that loses the most weight wins three whole extra vacation days. Everyone's excited. Yeah.
22:46 Speaker 00 I paused and I went frame by frame and I made a list of all the food I could see.
22:51 Speaker 01 Love this. This is reminding me a little bit of my pizza by Alfredo moment. Is it going to be 10 minutes?
22:58 Speaker 00 No, there's not that much food.
23:00 Speaker 01 Okay, let's hear it.
23:01 Speaker 00 All right, there is a chocolate fondue fountain. There is a cheese fondue fountain. There are marshmallows, fried chicken, ribs, maybe some waffles, cornbread muffins, donuts, lots of soda, mac and cheese dumplings. I swear someone has mashed potatoes and gravy on their plate. And then Jim has some strawberries on his plate, probably for the chocolate fountain, but I was surprised to spot a bit of healthy food. Not surprised to see it on John Krasinski's plate, however. He was such a healthy eater.
23:35 Speaker 01 He was. Jenna, do you know what I remember about this scene?
23:39 Speaker 00 What?
23:40 Speaker 01 How funky that cheese got.
23:42 Speaker 00 Yeah.
23:43 Speaker 01 It got real smelly.
23:45 Speaker 00 Yeah.
23:45 Speaker 01 Kelly shares on the DVD that they could only keep that cheese melted for three hours.
23:54 Speaker 01 It would start to like coagulate or whatever. It got so gross.
23:58 Speaker 00 I mean, that really makes me think twice about any cheese fondue fountain.
24:03 Speaker 01 The fountain food.
24:05 Speaker 00 I might be done with fountain food. When I was in college, I had a boyfriend and we read that there was like this protein shake company that was going to give a $10,000 prize to whoever lost the most weight and like gained the most muscle by like using their protein shake.
24:22 Speaker 01 Right. So the idea is to like get healthy, lose weight, and here's your incentive is a bunch of money or something?
24:28 Speaker 00 Yeah. So we entered.
24:30 Speaker 01 You and your boyfriend?
24:31 Speaker 00 Yeah.
24:31 Speaker 01 You did the shake challenge?
24:33 Speaker 00 We did. Here's the thing. We did the same thing where like in the week before.
24:38 Speaker 01 You carved up?
24:40 Speaker 00 We did. We ate a bunch of food. I probably gained about five pounds.
24:44 Speaker 01 In one week?
24:45 Speaker 00 Yeah, because we just like ate pizza and burgers because we were like, this is great. I mean, we'll start out with more weight and then we'll lose it all and more.
24:55 Speaker 01 And we'll win $10,000.
24:57 Speaker 00 Yeah. I mean, we took pictures of ourselves. I still have it.
25:01 Speaker 01 Oh no.
25:02 Speaker 00 I mean, somewhere I have it. I know because I was cleaning out some old photo albums and I found it and it jogged this memory. You had to prove the day, you know, of the weight loss start. So you had to hold up that day's newspaper. I mean, like a hostage photo.
25:18 Speaker 01 Oh my God.
25:19 Speaker 00 So I've got this picture of myself.
25:21 Speaker 01 This was before you could Instagram. Now you can Insta or Instagram and it's a timestamp, but back then you had to hold up like a newspaper.
25:28 Speaker 00 Yeah. And take it with a regular old camera. I'm in like a sports bra and some like sport shorts and I'm holding up a newspaper and I will tell you what, not only did we not win, I did not lose any of the weight.
25:43 Speaker 01 That you gained carb loading?
25:44 Speaker 00 That's right. After the eight weeks, I mean, we gave up so quickly. We were all in for the first week of the fitness challenge. And then all that happened was from all of this is that I gained five pounds and then I held up a newspaper. The end.
26:04 Speaker 00 So that memory came flooding back as I was watching us in this conference room scene. So Stanley, Meredith and Creed have plans for their leftovers. You know, Stanley really wants to take some of these dumplings home, but Dwight is like, "No, no, you cannot take any of this food home. We're eating healthy now." And he starts spraying what looks like an insect repellent all over all of the food. We had a fan question from Chelsea B, Alice R. and Henry F. What was in the bottle that Dwight is spraying on the food?
26:36 Speaker 01 Well, guess who knows?
26:38 Speaker 00 You?
26:39 Speaker 01 Me. Thanks to our crew. It was not real bug spray, of course. This was a prop bottle that Phil Shea had designed. He had this made and it was full of aerosol water.
26:53 Speaker 00 Oh.
26:54 Speaker 01 So he was just spraying water.
26:56 Speaker 00 You know, I assumed that's what it was, but it didn't look like water. I mean, it looked so real.
27:01 Speaker 01 I thought it looked real and I thought everyone's reactions were really good. Great acting, folks. You sold it.
27:08 Speaker 00 Well, now the gang is gonna go down to the warehouse. They're gonna weigh in.
27:11 Speaker 01 Yes. And Jenna, at 1 minute, 5 seconds, there is a great shot of the big scale that we're all gonna get weighed on. And I have a prop breakdown.
27:22 Speaker 00 Give it to me.
27:23 Speaker 01 Okay. That scale was custom made by Rice Lake Weighing Systems. They made it specific to our requests and they were able to program the little computer screen with whatever the writers wanted them to put on it, right? It was like part of the joke. Our weight. That was all like a writer's joke.
27:42 Speaker 00 My mind is being blown right now that that was not a real scale.
27:46 Speaker 01 No, the scale didn't exist. It was made just for us. And Rice Lake Weighing System didn't ask for any credit or any company plug. They were huge fans of the show and they did come to set the day we filmed this. And everyone on our crew said they were so nice. And after this episode aired, that scale stayed in the warehouse as part of the warehouse set.
28:08 Speaker 00 That I remember. Now during this weigh-in Angela, what's up with Meredith's face? Did you notice? Her face is all red. We got a lot of mail about it. They want to know what's going on? Was there a storyline that was cut or something?
28:23 Speaker 01 Oh, yes. I want you guys to know, I took a photo of Kate's face as Meredith looking like that. And I texted it to Kate last night and I said, Kate, you know what? You should win team player award for the run of the office. Cause her character was always getting into some kind of mishap, which resulted in Kate being in the hair and makeup trailer forever.
28:42 Speaker 00 Yeah.
28:43 Speaker 01 Right? And here was the storyline and it's shared in the deleted scenes. Meredith gets severely sunburned. And here is her explanation. Sam, can you play the clip?
28:55 Speaker 02 These guys took me out on a fishing boat. I don't think I caught anything.
29:00 Speaker 03 Hello, hello, hey. Your face is almost back to normal.
29:04 Speaker 02 If one more kid calls me Hellboy, I swear to God.
29:07 Speaker 03 Oh, you wish. Hellboy's a hero.
29:10 Speaker 01 Oh, wow. Yeah, she went out on a boat, got super, super sunburned. And this was something they had to watch in continuity of which stage of the sunburn was her face at. Then the whole storyline got deleted, but they couldn't take out Kate's face. You know what I mean?
29:26 Speaker 00 Yeah.
29:27 Speaker 01 So they just had to leave it in. And Kate said, the day after the show aired, Steve came up to her on set and was like, you know what, Kate? I still thought it was funny. You know, I kind of love that Meredith has this mystery about her.
29:39 Speaker 00 Yeah.
29:39 Speaker 01 She has this whole other life we don't even need to explain. And Kate said it made her feel so good that Steve was so thoughtful to come over and say that.
29:47 Speaker 00 Yeah. That was hard when you had a storyline and then you'd watch the episode. They wouldn't warn you a lot of the times. You'd just watch the episode and it was gone.
29:56 Speaker 01 Yeah. And you know, with supporting cast, we were often, you know, in the BRC story. And those really got moved around a lot.
30:03 Speaker 00 Yeah.
30:04 Speaker 01 And trimmed and edited and it did happen. But Kate, man, such a good sport.
30:09 Speaker 00 Wow. Guys, also in this scene, Michael throws Pam off the scale because she's gonna go away to art school. So he doesn't want her extra poundage. Now, they've already weighed in, and then Pam gets off the scale, and a new weight is displayed.
30:24 Speaker 01 So embarrassing. Everyone is clocking this number change.
30:29 Speaker 00 Yeah. We got some fan mail from Kim C., who said, "During the group weigh-in, it becomes clear that Pam weighs 126 pounds. Jenna, did the writers consult you about your actual weight when they added this fact, or did they just guess how much they thought you might weigh? And were you comfortable with sharing this speculation about your weight?" Well, I'll tell you guys, actually, in the script, the original table draft, Pam weighed 145 pounds. And I said, "You guys, this is, I feel like, a weird thing for me to split hairs about, but I don't weigh 145 pounds. It's not accurate. Why
31:10 Speaker 00 don't you just put my real weight?" Which, at the time, was 126 pounds. I don't weigh 126 pounds anymore. But at the time, that was my weight. And so, they changed it.
31:22 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:23 Speaker 00 But yeah, when they speculated about my weight, they put me at 145, and I just, I don't know, I just corrected it. I thought it should be correct.
31:31 Speaker 01 I have no problem with that. Well, Jenna, that scene made me laugh, just because your performance, your reaction. You watch everyone doing the math, and you're just standing there.
31:39 Speaker 00 Yeah.
31:40 Speaker 01 And it was very funny, the way you played that moment. Now, it's week two of their weight loss contest. Oscar and Andy arrive. They're gonna hold the elevator for Stanley. And Stanley says he forgot something, and then he takes the stairs, without them knowing. And he has a great talking head, where he shares that he's been losing weight on his own, and he just noticed some of your speed and fire, that he's lost a little bit of his pick-up-and-go. And he's doing this for himself.
32:06 Speaker 00 Yes. And in this talking head, he shows an old photo of himself. Well, we got some mail about that. People wanted to know, what is this picture? Is this from Leslie David Baker's real life?
32:19 Speaker 01 Yes, is this young Leslie in this photo?
32:21 Speaker 00 It is young Leslie in the photo.
32:23 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh.
32:24 Speaker 00 I texted Leslie and he gave me all the info.
32:27 Speaker 01 Oh, let's hear it.
32:29 Speaker 00 It's a Photoshop picture. He does not know any of the other people in the picture.
32:33 Speaker 01 Got it.
32:33 Speaker 00 They photoshopped him into it using one of his old prom photos.
32:38 Speaker 01 Oh, Leslie, I love that.
32:41 Speaker 00 Yeah.
32:42 Speaker 01 Well, they're really taking this whole get healthy fitness thing seriously. Holly is running a yoga class in the conference room. I only saw three people in attendance, Creed, Kelly, and Michael. I didn't see anyone else.
32:54 Speaker 00 Oh.
32:54 Speaker 01 Yeah. And then Michael is so excited. He runs up to Jim as Jim is going into the bathroom and is like, did you see Holly's butt? And Jim's like, no. You know why? Because we don't do that. Friends don't talk about other friends butts, right? And Jim is really trying to get Michael to have a little growth, right?
33:13 Speaker 00 Yep.
33:13 Speaker 01 And he's like, what have you learned about her? And Michael says, I learned that she broke her left leg twice in one year. I learned that she's allergic to sesame seeds. I learned that she has read Lonesome Dove three times. And that her butt refuses to quit, you know? And Jim's like, I give up. Little sidebar moment for you.
33:32 Speaker 00 What's that?
33:33 Speaker 01 Lonesome Dove was written by Larry McMurtry, who is from my hometown of Archer City, Texas.
33:38 Speaker 00 Yes.
33:39 Speaker 01 And I knew Larry and I know his family. And Larry was this amazing prolific writer. I got so excited just to see one of his pieces of work mentioned on The Office, knowing that I grew up going to his bookstore.
33:50 Speaker 00 That is so cool.
33:52 Speaker 01 Love it. You guys got to know, there's only like 1,800 people in Archer City, so everybody knows everybody.
33:57 Speaker 00 We got some fan mail from Brittany.
33:59 Speaker 01 Uh huh.
33:59 Speaker 00 She did her own little mini deep dive.
34:03 Speaker 01 On?
34:04 Speaker 00 On sesame seed allergies.
34:06 Speaker 01 Oh.
34:07 Speaker 00 Yeah.
34:07 Speaker 01 She did a deep dive?
34:08 Speaker 00 She did. She said that she would like us to know that sesame seed allergies are actually the ninth most common type of food allergy.
34:17 Speaker 01 I did not know that. Do you have any allergies?
34:20 Speaker 00 I do. I'm allergic to sweet potatoes.
34:22 Speaker 01 Crazy.
34:23 Speaker 00 Yeah. I found that out late in life because my mom would only make sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving. And I'm sorry, Mom, but they always looked really gross to me, so I just never even ate them. I don't know if I had some sort of like visceral kind of instinct that I shouldn't eat them. Yeah, but I never ate them. And then my first Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, I couldn't go home. I couldn't afford it. So me and my friends, we had our own Thanksgiving and someone brought some sweet potatoes that looked effing amazing. So I had some, the next day I got super sick. I wrote it off. I had taken some of those sweet potatoes home as a leftover. I ate them again, got super sick again. That's when the doctor
35:07 Speaker 00 was like, I think you should stop eating sweet potatoes. I got an allergy test and I am allergic to sweet potatoes.
35:15 Speaker 01 My daughter has a mild allergy to dairy.
35:17 Speaker 00 Hmm.
35:18 Speaker 01 But you can really tell, like if she's had, you know, ice cream and stuff, she'll get really stuffy.
35:23 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah.
35:24 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:25 Speaker 00 A lot of people have like a lactose intolerance that causes like some kind of like diarrhea.
35:30 Speaker 01 Well, this is our spinoff podcast. It's called
35:34 Speaker 00 What Foods Do to You?
35:36 Speaker 01 Body Fluids and Other Stories.
35:38 Speaker 00 I mean, since we're on the subject of milk and stuff, I just want to say, guys, don't give milk to cats.
35:44 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, it makes them sick.
35:46 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's like a thing that's been passed down in these cartoons forever. You give cats a dish of milk. They are allergic to the dairy and milk. Don't give it to them.
35:57 Speaker 04 Can I add to your milk with cats thing?
35:58 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
35:59 Speaker 04 Don't give bread to ducks.
36:01 Speaker 01 Oh, bread to ducks.
36:02 Speaker 00 You know what you can give them?
36:04 Speaker 01 What?
36:04 Speaker 00 Peas.
36:05 Speaker 01 Oh.
36:06 Speaker 00 And bird seed.
36:07 Speaker 01 Okay. More food talk for you. 3 minutes 49 seconds. Dwight is replacing the junk food in the vending machine with fruit. Now, Kelly Cantley said, this scene, which I timed, it's seven seconds, took them one hour to shoot.
36:26 Speaker 00 Because of the like banging the fruit in with the hammer?
36:29 Speaker 01 Just all of it, ripping everything out, resetting it, putting the fruit in. It took them an hour to do a seven second scene.
36:36 Speaker 00 Coming up is a really awkward scene in so many ways.
36:39 Speaker 01 So many.
36:40 Speaker 00 Oscar is gonna offer to set Holly up with his yoga instructor.
36:45 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
36:46 Speaker 00 I feel like that was awkward, number one.
36:49 Speaker 01 I mean, it's jumping in real quick, being matchmaker.
36:53 Speaker 00 Yeah, I always feel like you wait for someone to ask you to set them up because there are so many assumptions you're making about their life and their preferences when you offer to set them up, right?
37:09 Speaker 01 Yeah.
37:10 Speaker 00 I don't know.
37:11 Speaker 01 Also, like, how long has he known her? Have they hung out? Like, what does he know about Holly?
37:14 Speaker 00 Right.
37:15 Speaker 01 Right. This takes us to front reception, and Jim is making sure Pam is all packed for New York. He's holding a box of her items she's gonna take with her. Did you notice at 4 minutes 47 seconds, what is in the box that is so important? It's gotta travel to New York City with Pam.
37:33 Speaker 00 Apparently, her weird, spindly, plasticky desk decoration. She can't live without it.
37:40 Speaker 01 I put the multicolored sphere bobble thing.
37:43 Speaker 00 Yeah, we've talked about it on the podcast before. I get that maybe she needed to clear her desk for whoever's filling in for her. Just leave the box.
37:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
37:54 Speaker 00 Put it in a storeroom and get it out when you get back. There's nothing in that box you need at Pratt, Pam. Nothing. But Pam has a talking head. It's super cute. I loved doing it where I say, "What up, 212?" I hate to tell you, Pam, the area code for Pratt, which is located in Brooklyn, is 718.
38:14 Speaker 01 No, Pam.
38:16 Speaker 00 But it's okay. You're trying to be all New York-y.
38:19 Speaker 01 You're trying to be cool.
38:20 Speaker 00 Yeah, that's the Manhattan area code.
38:22 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm. Well, at 5 minutes 13 seconds, there's gonna be a storyline that starts, which is Andy and Angela wedding planning. There's lots of delicious stuff. There's lots more in deleted scenes. All of this wedding planning is just absolutely stressing Angela out and making her more and more irritated at Andy. This is how he walks up to her. Ange, Ella, Ella, Ella, Ella, under my Andarella, Ella, Ella, Ella, eh, eh. What?
38:53 Speaker 00 I loved it so much.
38:55 Speaker 01 That's how they're starting their conversation.
38:57 Speaker 00 And he's excited. He says every little boy fantasizes about his fairy tale wedding.
39:03 Speaker 01 And ding ding ding, this is when they had to go in and digitally change his shirt and tie in post-production because the writers wanted to move this talking head here. It had been in a different place in the story. His tie and his shirt are digital.
39:20 Speaker 00 Because they had to make it match the scene with Angela?
39:23 Speaker 01 That's right.
39:24 Speaker 00 My mind is blown.
39:25 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. They had to change all of that in post so they could move this talking head up.
39:30 Speaker 00 Well, in the scene with Angela, he is suggesting that they get married at The Breakers in Rhode Island, this famous estate. Angela doesn't like it. He said this is really important to his family because this is where his parents decided not to get divorced.
39:45 Speaker 01 How romantic.
39:46 Speaker 00 Yes, that's where you want to get married. I looked this place up. It was built back in 1893 as a summer home.
39:56 Speaker 01 Wow.
39:56 Speaker 00 Not even a main residence. It was built by the Vanderbilt family. It cost $7 million to build back then.
40:03 Speaker 01 Back then?
40:04 Speaker 00 Back then. It took two years.
40:07 Speaker 01 Is it massive?
40:08 Speaker 00 Yeah, there are 70 rooms in the house. The great hall.
40:13 Speaker 01 70 rooms for their summer residence?
40:16 Speaker 00 Right. And the great hall has 45-foot ceilings. There's a gold room.
40:23 Speaker 01 Okay.
40:24 Speaker 00 That was actually built in Europe and then shipped to the United States and reassembled in Newport.
40:30 Speaker 01 Good lord.
40:32 Speaker 00 It is estimated to be worth $150 million today.
40:36 Speaker 01 That one room?
40:37 Speaker 00 No, the whole house.
40:38 Speaker 01 Oh.
40:39 Speaker 00 I know. I see how you went there because of the way I structured that.
40:43 Speaker 01 Oh my gosh.
40:45 Speaker 00 So.
40:46 Speaker 01 $150 million?
40:48 Speaker 00 Yeah. It now belongs to the Preservation Society of Newport County. It is available for tours. It gets about 300,000 visitors annually. But get this, great grandchildren still live there on the third floor during the summer.
41:04 Speaker 01 Oh my God.
41:05 Speaker 00 But you can't tour their private residence area when you tour the house.
41:09 Speaker 01 This is like going to Buckingham Palace.
41:11 Speaker 00 I always wonder about that.
41:13 Speaker 01 Like you live there, but there's tours.
41:15 Speaker 00 Yeah. What is that?
41:16 Speaker 01 I don't know. 70 rooms. Maybe you don't even know.
41:19 Speaker 00 Are you not giving tours of your home, Angela, to tourists while you live there?
41:24 Speaker 01 You're welcome to come over. The hall bathroom, you have to jiggle the handle. It's a double flusher. You know, it doesn't quite do it the first time. Well, all of this wedding planning stresses Angela out and she immediately pages Dwight. And they rendezvous in the warehouse. Angela comes out of the little warehouse. I don't even know what you call it, storage room where they meet up. And she says, look, that was the last time I have a fiance I very much like. All right, Jenna, there are deleted scenes that throughout Weight Loss 1 and 2 really show Angela struggling between wanting to be excited for the wedding and also that Andy is driving her crazy. And then she runs to Dwight. It's sort of this love triangle.
42:08 Speaker 01 And the documentary crew clearly decided to ask her about it. And here was her response. It's in the deleted scenes. No, I'm not cheating on anybody. I have one fiance and I have physical relations with one man. Hmm. Keeps it separate. One guy she'll marry and one guy for the shag. I guess Angela Martin is like, you know, once I'm at the aisle, it's done.
42:37 Speaker 00 Yeah. Once I speak my vows, I'll stop sleeping with Dwight. But for right now, I am engaged. This is a period of, I guess. Non-commitment, but commitment? I don't know.
42:49 Speaker 01 I don't know. I don't know how she's gonna deal with how bat crazy Andy makes her once they're married. What will her outlet be? But yes, I thought that was interesting because there's that moment when she comes out of the storage room with Dwight where she sees the camera.
43:05 Speaker 00 Yeah.
43:05 Speaker 01 Right? And this talking head would have happened immediately after where they would have confronted her, which I thought was pretty ballsy for the documentary crew.
43:12 Speaker 00 Well, they need to follow up on these things.
43:15 Speaker 01 Yeah.
43:16 Speaker 00 Now, we have a scene where Michael through his window sees that Pam is getting into her car. She's getting ready to drive to Pratt and he has not said his goodbye.
43:28 Speaker 01 No, he hasn't. And I want you to know, I know whose office it was that he was in.
43:33 Speaker 00 Was it Paul Lieberstein's?
43:35 Speaker 01 No, it was Jen Salatas.
43:36 Speaker 00 Okay.
43:37 Speaker 01 There you go. If you're curious, that's the writer's room that Michael was in. And poor Michael, he practically wipes out two flights of stairs trying to get to Pam.
43:47 Speaker 00 It's so funny.
43:48 Speaker 01 So he could say goodbye.
43:49 Speaker 00 It's so funny. And he wrote her a poem, but he left it upstairs. It ends with the word seagulls. Here's what I have to say about this scene. Pam is gonna drive to New York in a pencil skirt?
44:01 Speaker 01 Also, here was my question. Where's she gonna park her car? There's nowhere to park your car in New York City. You have to pay for a parking spot.
44:08 Speaker 00 Well, she's going to Brooklyn. She's going to like a college campus.
44:11 Speaker 01 You think they have a spot for her?
44:13 Speaker 00 I think they do.
44:14 Speaker 01 Oh, okay.
44:14 Speaker 00 I think there's a campus parking lot.
44:16 Speaker 01 Okay, okay, okay.
44:17 Speaker 00 I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about, why did she come into work even for a half day? Why didn't she change her clothes? She's gonna arrive at Pratt in a pencil skirt and pantyhose.
44:29 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
44:30 Speaker 00 Really?
44:31 Speaker 01 Really.
44:31 Speaker 00 Pam?
44:32 Speaker 01 I hope there's parking. Well, listen, I wanted you to know, Randy Cordray shared that this parking lot scene took place on an incredibly hot day. It was like triple digit weather in Los Angeles. And, you know, Steve runs hot anyway. And he had to run into this scene and it was super hot in a suit. Well, Phil Shea found a cooling vest that Steve could wear under his suit to help keep him cool. It's the type of vest that marathon runners and athletes have. They use it to cool their body temperature down. It has these little frozen gel packs. And Steve had that on under his suit.
45:10 Speaker 00 I've never heard of this thing.
45:12 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
45:12 Speaker 00 Which makes sense to me because I would never seek it out. I would never think, how can I be colder?
45:18 Speaker 01 No.
45:18 Speaker 00 In any situation.
45:19 Speaker 01 No, never. It's a whole thing. I Googled it. There's many different types of cooling vests that you can get. Athletes use them, soldiers use them. I mean, you know, it's like a whole thing.
45:30 Speaker 00 You know what I do own?
45:31 Speaker 01 What?
45:32 Speaker 00 A warming vest. I have a vest and you put little hot packs in it.
45:36 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
45:36 Speaker 00 And it keeps you warm. I bought it so that I could watch my son play ice hockey outdoors.
45:42 Speaker 01 Yeah. Well, we used to stuff those little hot pocket thingies. What do you call them?
45:47 Speaker 00 Not the food hot pockets.
45:49 Speaker 01 What are they called?
45:50 Speaker 00 I love the idea of us having a vest filled with hot pockets, though. Cause then if you get hungry.
45:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
45:56 Speaker 00 It's a snack as well. It keeps you warm and full.
45:59 Speaker 01 Listen, on The Office, I had one skirt that had two little stitch pockets in the back. And I had one little tiny stitch pocket in the front. They would give us those little hot pack things.
46:09 Speaker 00 Little hand warmers?
46:10 Speaker 01 Little hand warmers. I would stick two in my shoes. I would stick one in that front pocket, two in my back pocket. I'd stick a few in my bra.
46:18 Speaker 00 Same. Yeah, I remember that.
46:19 Speaker 01 Yeah. And if my sweater had pockets, I'd stick them in there. I'd stick so many of those on my body when we were filming outside when it was cold. One time, our camera operator, Matt Stone, was like, Ange, just don't take this the wrong way, but I can see lumps in your butt on camera. Like, they don't look human, like, human lumps. I was like, dang it. And I had to take my little heater things out of my pockets.
46:41 Speaker 00 Well, I can't believe that they got a cooling vest, and I'm glad they did.
46:45 Speaker 01 I am too. I thought that was so smart.
46:47 Speaker 00 Mm hmm. Well, it's time for another weigh-in. Big announcement. They lost 31 pounds.
46:53 Speaker 01 Wow.
46:54 Speaker 00 Michael and Holly are so excited. They're gonna do a rap.
46:57 Speaker 01 It's the most adorable thing, because they're so dorky and cute together.
47:01 Speaker 00 Well, a little rap trivia is that they have about 10 minutes of them rapping, even though the part that you see in the show was completely scripted. Even down to Holly, like, rubbing her jacket.
47:13 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, the Wiki Wiki what? All of that was scripted.
47:15 Speaker 00 All of that was scripted, but they did go on and on. And Amy Ryan gave an interview where she said this was her favorite scene to shoot because they had so much fun.
47:25 Speaker 01 The crew said the same thing. They said it was so much fun that those two just went off and that the chemistry was just so apparent.
47:32 Speaker 00 I think this was the scene when they were shooting when they realized, oh, yeah, these two, true love.
47:39 Speaker 01 Yeah.
47:40 Speaker 00 Well, now it's week three and there is a new receptionist in town.
47:45 Speaker 01 Yes, Ronnie.
47:46 Speaker 00 Yeah, Ronnie, played by Dale Raul. She has been in a ton of stuff. She was Maxine in True Blood.
47:53 Speaker 01 Oh, Maxine Fortenberry. I love True Blood. She was fantastic.
47:57 Speaker 00 Of course, you would know that.
47:58 Speaker 01 Yes. I have a crossover connection with Dale.
48:01 Speaker 00 Tell me.
48:02 Speaker 01 We were both on Fresh Off the Boat.
48:04 Speaker 00 Well, there you go.
48:05 Speaker 01 Not Monk, surprisingly, but Fresh Off the Boat.
48:08 Speaker 00 Well, she will come back in season six. This is not the last we're gonna see of Ronnie. Meanwhile, we're gonna see Pam in her first class.
48:17 Speaker 01 She looks so cute. She has like, I'm calling it the college ponytail. She wears this really cute ponytail at school.
48:24 Speaker 00 All right, the ponytail is the only thing that's cute about Pam.
48:28 Speaker 01 Are you kidding? I thought you looked so cute in all of your college scenes.
48:31 Speaker 00 Did you notice how young everyone else is in the class?
48:35 Speaker 01 Oh, you stop it.
48:36 Speaker 00 No, but this was a deliberate choice.
48:38 Speaker 01 Well, okay.
48:39 Speaker 00 Pam is in her late twenties.
48:40 Speaker 01 Do you like how immediately I like stand up for my best friend? I'm like, you stop it. You are beautiful.
48:46 Speaker 00 You look just as young as those other ones.
48:48 Speaker 01 And you are smart.
48:50 Speaker 00 Thank you.
48:51 Speaker 01 You're welcome.
48:51 Speaker 00 Um, I want you to know I was not being down on myself. I was just pointing out a deliberate production choice. Pam is in her late twenties and they made sure that everyone in this class, that the background performers were all much younger. They're just starting off in college, right? Pam's going back to school. And they did wanna create this story for Pam that she is kind of, you know.
49:14 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm. Yeah.
49:16 Speaker 00 I don't know. What am I saying?
49:17 Speaker 01 What do they call it? A non-traditional student?
49:19 Speaker 00 There you go. Well, not only that, she's in the wrong class.
49:22 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
49:23 Speaker 00 The teacher, who was played by Sandra Lowe, Professor Monahan.
49:28 Speaker 01 She's got that zinger of a joke about Zaff Chancery, you know?
49:33 Speaker 00 Yeah.
49:34 Speaker 01 Which, by the way, I read a Reddit thread where people were like, that doesn't apply. It's wrong.
49:39 Speaker 00 Oh, oh my. Well, Pam does not end up leaving the class. And we got some mail. People were like, Pam has been so good about standing up for herself. Why doesn't she just leave the class?
49:50 Speaker 01 I don't know. I sympathized. I felt like she's new here. She feels out of place. She just got singled out. She's gonna tuck her head down and know she'll do it right the next time.
50:00 Speaker 00 Yeah, but I guess it's gonna mean she misses her actual first real class.
50:07 Speaker 01 Back in the office, Holly hears this coughing, right?
50:11 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
50:11 Speaker 01 She's at her cubicle. Kelly is coughing. She sounds sick. Did you notice on Holly's desk what her nameplate says?
50:19 Speaker 00 Yes.
50:20 Speaker 01 Hollis.
50:21 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
50:21 Speaker 01 And then in quotes, Holly P. Flex.
50:25 Speaker 00 Mm hmm. I did notice that.
50:26 Speaker 01 So that's her real name.
50:27 Speaker 00 Her name is Hollis.
50:28 Speaker 01 Hollis.
50:29 Speaker 00 Kelly has a talking head where she says she's on the third day of her cleanse diet, where she's doing the lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper and water. That's all she's allowed to have. Angela, have you ever done any of these fad diets?
50:43 Speaker 01 I haven't, but I had a roommate who did something with cayenne pepper and water. And I think it just gives you the runs, right? You just poop.
50:51 Speaker 00 You know, I got approached to do an ad for this diet tea.
50:54 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
50:55 Speaker 00 That's supposed to flatten your tummy.
50:57 Speaker 01 So you drink the tea?
50:58 Speaker 00 And it flattens your tummy.
51:00 Speaker 01 How?
51:01 Speaker 00 By making you poop a lot.
51:03 Speaker 01 Wow.
51:03 Speaker 00 But it was like a cleansing tea. And I was like, well, first of all, I'm not going to do an ad for anything I don't believe in.
51:11 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
51:11 Speaker 00 So send me the tea and we'll see what happens.
51:14 Speaker 01 Did you drink the tea?
51:16 Speaker 00 I was doing Splitting Up Together at the time, and I was talking to Oliver Hudson about it. And he said, I'll do it with you. Let's both do the tea and see if we get flat tummies.
51:24 Speaker 01 He's so funny, but I can so hear him saying that because he's just like, let's do it.
51:29 Speaker 00 He was all in. So I asked for two packages of the tea. Oliver and I started doing it. Angela?
51:35 Speaker 01 Did you poop?
51:36 Speaker 00 First of all, I gained weight.
51:38 Speaker 01 What?
51:39 Speaker 00 Second of all, we're just pooping and farting.
51:43 Speaker 01 Oh, no.
51:44 Speaker 00 We're trying to work and do our scenes.
51:46 Speaker 01 Oh, no.
51:47 Speaker 00 The crew was like, stop drinking the tea, you guys.
51:49 Speaker 01 You're like farting them out.
51:51 Speaker 00 They're like, seriously, we cannot have the two leads of our show drinking this tea.
51:57 Speaker 01 Being so flatulent on set.
51:59 Speaker 00 Ruining everything. So I just, I don't know. I just don't do this stuff.
52:04 Speaker 01 Well, you know, my husband, he's super healthy and he just makes really good choices about what he eats. And he exercises. It's really annoying, his ability to be so consistent. My hardest struggle is consistency, you know? Just like making that space for myself. And I think it's even like when you peel back the layer, it's like making that time for yourself. And it's just a hard thing to do.
52:28 Speaker 00 Yeah. Well, I think we should take a break because I need a moment to center myself before Jan comes into the office.
52:35 Speaker 01 Oh, oh, yes. And there's some really good Jan stuff I want to share.
52:40 Speaker 00 All right, we'll be right back.
52:48 Speaker 01 Lady, have you ever invested in something that seemed really amazing at first, but then did not live up to the hype?
52:55 Speaker 00 I once got this kind of fancy jacket that looked amazing in the store, but then I wore it out once and I realized it was not comfortable. And now it just lives in my closet, collecting dust.
53:08 Speaker 01 LinkedIn has a word for that: bullspend.
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56:01 Speaker 00 So lady, you know that my son started his own kind of like small business.
56:08 Speaker 01 I know.
56:08 Speaker 00 Having to do with sports card trading.
56:11 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm. Our sons have this in common because my son had a fresh drink business this summer. Like a fruit smoothie stand.
56:20 Speaker 00 And so I went to canva.com and I made up these business cards.
56:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
56:27 Speaker 00 That said, "Thank you for your purchase." And then it included a discount code for future purchases. And they were so lovely. They were really nice. My son made a logo for his business. And we put those inside of every one of his packages.
56:43 Speaker 01 Well, you know what? Canva is amazing and they do so many fantastic things. And it's so user-friendly. I'm actually making a deck for one of my daughter's projects right now. And guess what? What will you Canva today? Well, I'm Canvaying a deck.
56:58 Speaker 00 Well, that's the question. What will you Canva today at canva.com?
57:07 Speaker 00 We are back and so is Jan.
57:10 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
57:10 Speaker 00 Jan enters the office and tells Ronnie to make her some copies of a document on Canary Yellow Paper.
57:16 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. She walks in like she owns the place.
57:17 Speaker 00 She also does not acknowledge that she's speaking to a person she's never met.
57:21 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, that's true. This made me wonder if Jan is entertaining Michael being in her life again so she can just use him and use the office. She's getting free copies, right?
57:31 Speaker 00 Yeah.
57:32 Speaker 01 Well, in the deleted scenes, there's a little bit of a runner about this. She is giving Michael like a list of things she needs him to do. All her errands, go to the dry cleaners. She hands him a bag and like grocery shopping, et cetera, like Michael is her personal assistant. And then when he kind of boxes anything, she's like, well, I thought you wanted to help.
57:53 Speaker 00 Wow.
57:53 Speaker 01 So to me, I feel like Jan is using him.
57:56 Speaker 00 For sure.
57:57 Speaker 01 Jim has this talking head where he says, "Michael led us to believe he was the father of Jan's baby by telling us he was the father of Jan's baby." Well, this talking head would have continued and they had to trim it. And Jim then holds up an email and says, "But then Jan sent this email to everyone." And here's what Jan's email said. "Hi, everyone. Jan here, writing to share some wonderful news and to squash a rumor. First, the great news I am expecting. The beautiful baby girl inside me will be ready to meet the world this fall, just a few months before the launch of the new Serenity by Jan line. Shameless plug, I know. Don't hate me. LOL. Anyway, I also wanted to clarify that
58:41 Speaker 01 the father is not anyone that you or I have ever met. Remember, no matter how excited someone is about my baby, it does not make them the father. Best, Jan. P.S. Hope to ship you something soon."
59:00 Speaker 00 That's amazing.
59:01 Speaker 01 Yeah. So she sent that email to everyone in the office.
59:04 Speaker 00 Well, Holly would like to know, who is Jan?
59:07 Speaker 01 She says, "Who's that woman in Michael's office with the feet?"
59:10 Speaker 00 Because Michael is rubbing Jan's feet.
59:13 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
59:13 Speaker 00 Oscar explains that she's Michael's... Ex-girlfriend and Holly immediately decides, yes, you can give your yoga teacher my number. I want to date your hot yoga teacher.
59:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
59:27 Speaker 00 His hot, hot yoga teacher because he teaches hot yoga and he's hot. So.
59:32 Speaker 01 I'm sure he's very bendy.
59:33 Speaker 00 Yeah.
59:34 Speaker 01 Yeah.
59:35 Speaker 00 Then Holly overhears Angela berating Kevin for being an idiot. And Holly is going to come to Kevin's defense because remember Dwight told Holly that Kevin was there as part of a special work program.
59:48 Speaker 01 Yeah. When Dwight was hazing her.
59:50 Speaker 00 Yeah.
59:50 Speaker 01 Oh, she runs over to Angela and she's like, how dare you? You don't speak to him like that.
59:56 Speaker 00 And this is when everyone realizes, including Kevin, what Dwight told Holly.
1:00:01 Speaker 01 Angela is so delighted by this moment.
1:00:04 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:00:04 Speaker 01 She can't stop smiling.
1:00:06 Speaker 00 No, she loves that Holly has been humiliated.
1:00:09 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
1:00:10 Speaker 00 Poor Kevin, he's crushed. This means that Holly has not been paying attention to him because she wants to date him.
1:00:16 Speaker 01 No.
1:00:16 Speaker 00 He's realizing. Well, now Andy is going to approach Angela in the kitchen. He has made non-refundable deposits at four different wedding locations.
1:00:27 Speaker 01 Hot air balloons over Napa Valley.
1:00:29 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:00:29 Speaker 01 World famous Walt Disney's Epcot Center.
1:00:32 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:00:32 Speaker 01 Scuba diving wedding in the Bahamas and the Wilkes Barre Marriott Ballroom C. To which she replies, dangerous, tacky, sharks, haunted.
1:00:44 Speaker 00 And no.
1:00:45 Speaker 01 And.
1:00:46 Speaker 00 Just in general.
1:00:47 Speaker 01 And no.
1:00:49 Speaker 00 And of course, this means Angela and Dwight are going to hook up again. We had a fan question.
1:00:56 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
1:00:56 Speaker 00 Kayla would like to know, when Dwight slaps Angela's butt, was that scripted because she thought your reaction was very genuine? You were surprised.
1:01:06 Speaker 01 No, that was improvised.
1:01:07 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:01:08 Speaker 01 That was Rainn Wilson. But now, listen, you guys, Rainn and I were very, very good friends. And we would always do a few takes where we would try to surprise each other a little bit within the boundaries of what I knew would not make anyone uncomfortable and vice versa.
1:01:21 Speaker 00 Right.
1:01:21 Speaker 01 And so, no, that was rain, just mixing it up and catching me off guard, which is why my reaction is so earnest.
1:01:29 Speaker 00 We also got mail from Alice, who would like to ask Angela, in your talking head afterwards, was any of that improvised? Because it's one of my all time favorites.
1:01:38 Speaker 01 You know what? People quote this talking head to me and it was completely scripted. And it read like this, "I have a nice comforter and several cozy pillows. I usually read a chapter of a book and it's lights out by 8:30. That's how I sleep at night." Completely scripted.
1:01:57 Speaker 00 You go to bed at 8:30.
1:01:58 Speaker 01 I know. I have lots of cats to take care of. They get up early. Well, now Jim and Pam are going to talk via video call. You guys, old tech alert. This was a real big deal. This was an actual live iChat. Remember iChat?
1:02:15 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:02:15 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:02:16 Speaker 00 This is before Zoom. This is before FaceTime.
1:02:19 Speaker 01 And you know, Dwight is annoyed. Michael is so excited and picks up the computer and wants to show Pam all around.
1:02:25 Speaker 00 I know, which is making her a little sick. She's like, can you please put me down? I thought it was so cute. Guys, this happened in real time. We had some questions from Alice R. and Brianna P. How'd you shoot the video chat scenes? Well, it was live. They built a little set over on the warehouse set to look like my dorm room at Pratt. And I sat there and we did this live. It was really cute.
1:02:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:02:53 Speaker 00 And I have to say, I was really excited because during most of this episode, I was not on our set. I was really filming on location to film Pam's art school. And so for this day, I just remember how excited I was. Even though I was all the way on the warehouse set, I was able to come over for hot snack. I stayed for lunch.
1:03:14 Speaker 01 Yes, this was one of the hardest things for us as BFFs is when you were at the Pratt School of Art.
1:03:20 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:03:21 Speaker 01 You were not on our set. You were on location. So I was so excited you were there. And one thing I want to share about this that Randy talked about in the DVD commentary is that this live iChat, Jenna, caused all kinds of technical problems.
1:03:35 Speaker 00 I remember.
1:03:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, I remember because we had to start and stop. Here's what happened. The wireless microwave system on the side of the cameras would get triggered whenever Steve picked up the laptop and walked around with you.
1:03:48 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:03:49 Speaker 01 It would shut the cameras off, which meant we got to hang out a little bit because they had to sort that out.
1:03:55 Speaker 00 I just remember shooting the talking head and I thought it was so cute, the way they put the computer on the chair.
1:04:00 Speaker 01 I did too.
1:04:03 Speaker 00 Well, now the gang is gonna weigh in again, and guess what? They've gained five pounds and then Kelly passes out.
1:04:11 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:04:12 Speaker 00 And we go to commercial.
1:04:13 Speaker 01 We come back with some real Phyllis sass.
1:04:16 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
1:04:16 Speaker 01 Phyllis is super smug with Angela and, you know, she's planning Stanley's birthday party and she's just giving Angela marching orders.
1:04:24 Speaker 00 She is. She would like to get some cake.
1:04:26 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:04:27 Speaker 00 And anytime Angela seems like she might disagree, Phyllis just kinda gives a little look, like, "We will be doing it this way and here's why."
1:04:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, and there was more Phyllis sass in the deleted scenes. She was giving Angela grief this whole episode.
1:04:43 Speaker 00 Well, we talked about this at the end of Goodbye Toby. Phyllis catches Dwight and Angela getting it on in the office and we wondered, "What does this mean?"
1:04:53 Speaker 01 Well, it has gone to Phyllis's head. She has power.
1:04:56 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. Holly suggests that they do fruit instead of cake. Michael comes in, he's gonna weigh in. He suddenly has a goatee. No explanation.
1:05:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:05:08 Speaker 00 But he has a goatee.
1:05:10 Speaker 01 Kelly Cantley said that goatee took an hour to put on, so they had to factor that into the day.
1:05:15 Speaker 00 He didn't just grow a goatee?
1:05:17 Speaker 01 No, none of their goatees were real.
1:05:19 Speaker 00 No.
1:05:20 Speaker 01 That's what she said.
1:05:22 Speaker 00 No. None of them?
1:05:25 Speaker 01 They were all put on and then they had to keep track that they were the right shape and size goatee throughout the episode for continuity. And Kelly said at the time this aired, they got some mail that a few of the goatees were off.
1:05:41 Speaker 00 Oh my gosh. Oh, well, Michael is gonna take his goatee into the conference room and he's gonna call a meeting.
1:05:49 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:05:49 Speaker 00 Because he wants everyone to know what is the leading cause of death. It is obesity caused illness. He wants everyone to take this more seriously so they don't die of obesity.
1:06:00 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:06:01 Speaker 00 Jim pledges to lose 65 pounds. He's being sarcastic. Michael doesn't get it. He's thrilled. He says if everybody loses five pounds, that in addition to Jim's 65, we're gonna win this thing.
1:06:12 Speaker 01 Well, Angela has presented Andy with her list of criteria for her wedding. It's pretty challenging. Here are the things she has to have in order to marry Andy.
1:06:22 Speaker 00 Okay.
1:06:23 Speaker 01 A thousand year old church in the continental United States. There has to be a rainbow. 24 hour veterinarian on call. And then she pages Dwight to meet her downstairs because she just can't really stand being around Andy.
1:06:37 Speaker 00 But Andy tells Angela, you know what? I don't care where we get married because all I care about is spending the rest of my life with you.
1:06:46 Speaker 01 This melts Angela's cold, cold heart.
1:06:48 Speaker 00 It does. And she does not show up for her rendezvous with Dwight in the warehouse.
1:06:53 Speaker 01 She gives Andy a little kiss.
1:06:55 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:06:56 Speaker 01 And of course, he has to make a noise.
1:06:57 Speaker 00 Mm.
1:06:58 Speaker 01 He makes like a boo.
1:07:00 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:07:01 Speaker 01 Well, there's a very sweet deleted scene that shows Angela trying to bond with Andy over the wedding. It's in the break room. And I titled it overly animated Angela? Hmm.
1:07:14 Speaker 06 We could get a cake shaped like your cat.
1:07:19 Speaker 01 They can do that?
1:07:20 Speaker 06 Yeah.
1:07:21 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:07:22 Speaker 06 For you, my love, I will find the finest cake smith in all the land. And if de la bring me sir bake salat of frosting ham forest.
1:07:34 Speaker 01 What about one shaped like, I don't know, a little box?
1:07:38 Speaker 06 The hayo.
1:07:39 Speaker 01 Right? I mean, is it gross or wonderful? Ah, I don't know.
1:07:42 Speaker 06 I'll be at my desk. Page me if you need me.
1:07:44 Speaker 01 Thank you.
1:07:47 Speaker 00 Who are you?
1:07:48 Speaker 01 I know. Ah, I don't know. Who is this person?
1:07:52 Speaker 00 I don't know.
1:07:54 Speaker 01 Oh, overly animated Angela.
1:07:57 Speaker 00 She was trying. Maybe he should just do some Mad Libs. You love those.
1:08:02 Speaker 01 I love Mad Libs and keep suggesting cakes that look like cats or cat accessories.
1:08:07 Speaker 00 It's a way to your heart.
1:08:08 Speaker 01 Well, Jim has arrived at Pam's dorm room. Did you notice that Pam is the resident advisor?
1:08:14 Speaker 00 I did.
1:08:14 Speaker 01 She's the RA. It's so perfect.
1:08:18 Speaker 00 It's perfect, but it's also like Pam.
1:08:21 Speaker 01 Take on a job.
1:08:23 Speaker 00 Come on.
1:08:25 Speaker 01 Well, Jim tells the documentary crew, you know what? Why don't you go check out Pam's art over there? And when they turned to look for it, he quickly shuts the door, right?
1:08:32 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:08:33 Speaker 01 And at 18 minutes, 31 seconds, you hear the cameraman sigh.
1:08:37 Speaker 00 You hear Randall Einhorn sigh.
1:08:39 Speaker 01 Yes, that's Randall.
1:08:41 Speaker 00 And that was improvised. He just did that and they loved it and they kept it in.
1:08:46 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. So fun.
1:08:47 Speaker 00 I would like to say Pam, thank you for finally wearing a hoodie or any kind of casual clothing here at art school. I feel like she just has been overdressed since she got there.
1:08:58 Speaker 01 We are on two different pages on this. I think that Pam has looked amazing for art school.
1:09:03 Speaker 00 I love her ponytail. I just think, and this was a choice, that I should say that this has all been a choice. It's on purpose. It's all to make her stand out a little bit, to be like,
1:09:15 Speaker 01 Right.
1:09:15 Speaker 00 she isn't dressing the way the young people dress today.
1:09:19 Speaker 01 Right.
1:09:19 Speaker 00 Okay, so like, I'm giving her grief about it, but you guys, we planned this.
1:09:23 Speaker 01 Right. And also her affected speech, how she's like, top of the morning to ya. Shall we walk over here? Perhaps we'll sit here. Let me cross my legs and my stockings.
1:09:33 Speaker 00 What are you talking about?
1:09:34 Speaker 01 That's how she talks.
1:09:35 Speaker 00 No, she does not. What are you doing?
1:09:38 Speaker 01 I'm just messing with you.
1:09:39 Speaker 00 I really got worried. I was like, what?
1:09:41 Speaker 01 I am messing with you. I don't know how long Jim and Pam got to hang out and smooch, but Pam got a knock on her door. There was some girl mad at another girl because someone took someone's soy milk. And now Jim is in like the dorm room common area at 18 minutes, 55 seconds.
1:09:58 Speaker 00 Yeah, he's watching a baseball game.
1:10:01 Speaker 01 Yes. And Jenna, you can very faintly hear some sort of baseball commentators, like announcers, sports announcers.
1:10:08 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:10:09 Speaker 01 Those were played by our very own producer, James O'Carry and Eric Colgen.
1:10:13 Speaker 00 All right. See, I wondered, is that a real baseball game? So it's obviously real baseball footage, but then we put our own commentators on it?
1:10:21 Speaker 01 That's right. So Jenna and I have been in touch with James. He is fantastic. He was that guy that could like get you anything on set. If you needed it, James got it. And we had lots of questions for him and he answered them for this episode. He even had the shooting draft. James, thank you so much. I feel like we might have a Jamesapedia.
1:10:39 Speaker 00 Yeah, it couldn't come at a better time.
1:10:41 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:10:42 Speaker 00 You know, because we don't have Kentapedia anymore. James, James Carey, will you, will you be our Jamesapedia?
1:10:52 Speaker 00 Should we talk about Stanley's birthday?
1:10:55 Speaker 01 I mean, it looks a little sad. Everyone's standing around eating fruit. Ronnie wants to know if anyone wants to dance. By the way, my Dolly Parton fans, did you catch the song playing?
1:11:05 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah.
1:11:06 Speaker 01 Here you come again.
1:11:08 Speaker 00 I love that song.
1:11:09 Speaker 01 I love that song, too.
1:11:10 Speaker 00 I went and listened to it after I watched the episode. It's not the song I would play at a birthday party.
1:11:16 Speaker 01 No, no, probably not.
1:11:20 Speaker 00 But I love that song. People are gonna sneak off from this party and they're gonna have some cake in the warehouse. The warehouse is the sneak site, clearly.
1:11:32 Speaker 01 Clearly. And I mean, isn't Ashla uncomfortable being in that room with all those other people, including her fiance?
1:11:41 Speaker 00 She doesn't have any guilt about it.
1:11:42 Speaker 01 I guess not.
1:11:43 Speaker 00 She has no problem sleeping at night. We've established that.
1:11:46 Speaker 01 That's true.
1:11:47 Speaker 00 Stanley is in the room with the cake, but he's not even eating it. He said his tastes have changed. Now all he likes is baklava, which I thought was a really interesting thing to say because baklava is very, very, very sweet. Like if you've lost your sweet tooth, I mean, it's nutty. I love a baklava.
1:12:04 Speaker 01 I do too. It's dense, though. It's a dense, sugary treat.
1:12:08 Speaker 00 I know. And I often eat too much of it and I get a stomach ache because, you know, they give you a tiny piece and I'll eat like five of them because they're just so good.
1:12:18 Speaker 01 Well, that's what happens with you. You're always like, Ange, look how cute. It's so tiny.
1:12:23 Speaker 00 I know.
1:12:23 Speaker 01 And then you're like, Ange, I have a stomach ache.
1:12:25 Speaker 00 I know. Dwight, Holly, Michael, and Ronnie spy on the group.
1:12:30 Speaker 01 Dwight's like, they should not be in there.
1:12:32 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:12:33 Speaker 01 You know why he's saying that.
1:12:35 Speaker 00 And Michael says, we should have our own party. Let's all go play mini golf.
1:12:39 Speaker 01 Ronnie and Michael and Dwight and Holly, that foursome.
1:12:44 Speaker 00 Oh, I wish that happened.
1:12:45 Speaker 01 Me too.
1:12:47 Speaker 00 Well, Holly can't go because she has a date tonight.
1:12:50 Speaker 01 Hmm. And then Michael has the sweetest talking head. He's like, Holly doesn't need any luck. Everyone who meets her instantly loves her.
1:12:58 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:12:58 Speaker 01 So cute. I want these two kids to get together.
1:13:02 Speaker 00 Angela, I have a question for you about the next scene, which is when Dwight busts in and he kicks over the cake.
1:13:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:13:08 Speaker 00 I wasn't there. I'm at art school. What was it like to shoot that scene?
1:13:12 Speaker 01 Here's the thing. That room was like, I mean, Jenna, it was like six feet by six feet. It is really small and we were all in there. They tried to put chairs in so that we could sit, but not everyone could sit, obviously.
1:13:26 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:13:26 Speaker 01 We were pretty crammed in. I remember I couldn't look at Phyllis or I would laugh.
1:13:30 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:13:31 Speaker 01 Whenever she had her exchange with Michael, she would kind of, you know, start to break a little. And then Rain kicked over that cake with such like force.
1:13:40 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:13:41 Speaker 01 Flying. We all got cake on us. And then they would have to clean it up. We couldn't do it very many times because we were like, Rain, do you have to kick it that hard? So pretty much I just remember being crammed in and trying not to laugh.
1:13:55 Speaker 00 Well, I thought that scene looked like it was a lot of fun to shoot. And I know, don't ask Rain Wilson to kick something unless you really want it kicked.
1:14:02 Speaker 01 Yeah, unless you want it to go flying.
1:14:04 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:14:04 Speaker 01 I don't think they anticipated that that much cake would travel because it was quite a cleanup.
1:14:10 Speaker 00 Well, now it is week five of the weight loss competition. The Scranton branch is not doing very well. Holly tells us that corporate has now upped the prize to five vacation days, but things are breaking down between people. I mean, Kevin's in the kitchen. He's making himself a peanut butter bagel. Creed and Kelly are glaring at him.
1:14:30 Speaker 01 Oh, there's a deleted scene where Meredith and Kelly and Holly are working on the dry erase board.
1:14:36 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:14:36 Speaker 01 And Kelly goes, I'm doing a blood type diet. And Meredith goes, who gives a [BLEEP]? And Kelly goes, what'd you say whore? And Holly goes, I got it. Okay, hey, hey, hey.
1:14:46 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh.
1:14:47 Speaker 01 I mean, things are getting really intense.
1:14:49 Speaker 00 They're so intense that Kelly says in a talking head that she swallowed a tapeworm last night that Creed gave her from Mexico.
1:14:57 Speaker 01 Kelly, why would you swallow a worm Creed gave you?
1:15:01 Speaker 00 I know Creed says it wasn't a tapeworm. Angela, I'll have you know, I looked it up.
1:15:06 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:15:07 Speaker 00 The tapeworm diet is a real thing.
1:15:10 Speaker 01 Oh, God, really?
1:15:12 Speaker 00 Well, it's obviously illegal in the United States and it's totally dangerous.
1:15:17 Speaker 01 Where are they doing it?
1:15:18 Speaker 00 I don't know, but I guess you can buy pills that have a tapeworm egg inside of it.
1:15:24 Speaker 01 Don't do this.
1:15:25 Speaker 00 No, I read on Healthline that it doesn't even work. Because yes, it feeds off your body's nutrients, but it feeds off the good stuff too, right? It doesn't just eat your fat, everybody. It eats everything and you get really sick. You can get diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, fever, weakness. You can also get bacterial infections. You can get neurological issues. Most of these pills are a scam. Okay, they do not really have a tapeworm. But a woman in Iowa swallowed a real one and she got super sick and she had to confess to her doctor what she did. He had to report it to the State Department. It was a whole crazy thing. He didn't even know how to kill it. It was a whole thing.
1:16:11 Speaker 00 Guys, do not swallow a tapeworm on purpose. Our words I'm saying just in case anyone out there thought they should.
1:16:20 Speaker 01 You know Jenna, I have a tapeworm story. But you know, I'm gonna save it for the finale. When we are done with the whole run of the office, you will remember. I don't want to spoil it. There is a scene in the finale. I don't want to spoil it. You'll remember Jenna. Rain and I traded tapeworm stories. I'm saving it for the finale.
1:16:43 Speaker 00 Guys, if you've ever had a reason
1:16:48 Speaker 00 to tune in to at least our finale episode of Office Ladies, you have it now.
1:16:54 Speaker 01 There is a real life Angela Rain moment that happens behind the scenes of the finale. It involves a tapeworm. We'll get to it.
1:17:04 Speaker 00 Well, guys, that's Weight Loss Part One. We will be back next week with Weight Loss Part Two, when Jim has a big surprise for Pam. We're gonna tell you all about it.
1:17:16 Speaker 01 Aww. Jam fans, you don't want to miss it.
1:17:20 Speaker 00 See you then.
1:17:20 Speaker 01 See ya.
1:17:25 Speaker 01 Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink. This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins. And our audio engineer and associate producer is Molly Nugent. Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis. Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.
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