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And now we're doing the Ultimate Office rewatch
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Office Ladies. Hello. Hey
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there. How's
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it going today? Pretty
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good. I'm pretty cozy. I
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see. We've both shown up in our robes
1:43
today. I am in my pajamas. I
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slept in this top. I just put a
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bra on for you so I wasn't sloppy-sloppies.
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I want everyone to know we did not plan
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this, but moments before we were set to start
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this recording, we're recording from home today. We did
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not come into the studio. our robes. But
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moments before I texted Angela and I
2:03
said, it's been a crazy
2:05
morning and I don't have
2:07
time to get dressed. I will be doing this
2:10
podcast in my pajamas in a robe. And
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you wrote back, same lady, same. Yes.
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I, when I record from home, I record in our
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little closet, you know, but the closet doesn't have a
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vent so it doesn't get any heat.
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So it's really cool. So I always bundle
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up and so we're cozy in our robes.
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Well, I'm in my pajamas and robe today
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because I am full-on Pam. Lee
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is out of town. And we
2:36
have talked about what happens to me when
2:39
he is gone. And this
2:41
is what happens. He
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is off skiing with the kids. I don't
2:45
even have the kids. And
2:48
I had such a show
2:50
of the morning with just the pets
2:52
that I did not
2:54
have time to get dressed. But
2:56
it made me think Angela, whenever we would come into
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the studio or come on a zoom and we would
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be like, I had the most insane morning. I don't
3:02
even know what kind of mood I'm in. Sam
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would always say, oh, these are my
3:07
favorite podcast. When y'all come
3:09
in with this energy, he's like, this is
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gonna be great. This
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is no makeup in our robes energy.
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So here we go. We are here
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today to talk about Junior Salesmen. It
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is season 9 episode 13 written
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by Carrie Kemper and directed by
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Dave Rogers. Give me
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a summary pajama, Jenna. Here
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it is. When
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David Wallace tasks Dwight to
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find a temporary replacement for
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Jim, he interviews all of
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his friends and family in
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an effort to avoid hiring
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Clark and instead create a
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desk cluster alliance against Pam.
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This is really an episode with
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just an A story. Yeah. Well,
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didn't start out that way. We'll get to it.
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That is true. Alright,
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today. Today, Fast Fact 1, 2, and 3
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is one Fast Fact. And
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it is called, We Are Halfway Through
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Season 9. Oh my
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gosh. Halfway through. Yeah.
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I mean... Halfway through. Then
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there's... That's the show. Yes.
4:18
If this season was a day of the
4:20
week, we have just hit Wednesday evening. Thank
4:22
you for putting it in that analogy for
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me. You're welcome. We're
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on hump day. In case everyone out there didn't
4:29
know what halfway meant. Well, listen,
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we've been getting a lot of mail from people
4:34
on the subject of our rewatch coming to
4:36
an end, and I wanted to share some
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of it today. I'm so
4:40
excited about this because you've
4:42
told me there's some great letters. There
4:45
sure were. First up, we got
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this letter from Mackenzie C. in
4:49
Atlanta, Georgia, who said, I've been
4:51
listening to your podcast since the first episode,
4:54
and I've gone back and re-listened just like
4:56
I rewatched the show. It's
4:58
so funny to go back and listen
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to earlier episodes where y'all were apologizing
5:02
about deep dives or going off on
5:04
random tangents. Now the deep
5:06
dives are everyone's favorite parts. Well,
5:09
side note, Mackenzie, we have gotten letters from
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people who have said when we go on
5:13
our tangents, it makes
5:16
them want to throw their phone.
5:19
There was that guy, but I'm thinking of the guy
5:21
who wrote us and said he was going to drive
5:23
his car off the road. He couldn't take it anymore.
5:26
Yeah, he really does not like them. Yeah,
5:30
there's been a few. Yeah, but thank
5:32
you. I think for the most part, people
5:34
enjoy them. But Mackenzie went on
5:36
to say, and do you remember
5:38
when y'all didn't have this amazing feature on
5:40
your website? We all just had to email
5:42
in our questions. It's crazy
5:45
how far this podcast has come. Thanks,
5:47
Mackenzie. I mean, yeah, it's definitely been
5:49
a lot of learning curves, right, Jenna?
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It's come a long way. And I feel
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like it's always evolving. As soon as I
5:56
think we've found some formula, we mix it
5:59
up, which I... love. Yeah,
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me too. And I feel like the audience
6:03
has been on this learning journey with us.
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Yeah. Well, you know,
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Mackenzie, speaking of re-listening
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to the podcast, we have
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Jenna gotten comments also on
6:15
our Instagram, like Mackenzie
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at Michelle Goldrun's trails said,
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we have been listening to them for so long,
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I might just go back and re-listen to their
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rewatch. And at
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X fan, not sure if I'm saying
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that correctly, said, how are we
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already at season nine? I don't want
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it to end. I've been re-listening to
6:36
their rewatch five times. That's
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amazing. We love you guys. That
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is so awesome and
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humbling. And oh my gosh, thank
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you. Well,
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before we finish our rewatch,
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people have some suggestions for
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us, Angela. This is a
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suggestion box section. I
6:57
cannot wait to hear these. Karen
6:59
W from Sharon, Massachusetts said, I would
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love to hear you both interview Alison
7:03
Jones. I would too.
7:06
Yeah. Karen said, I just listened to the interview with
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Zach Woods where he talks about her and I want
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to learn more about her. Thanks for
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your show. That's a good suggestion.
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She is wonderful. And you know, I just ran into
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her. Remember I was running errands and then I sat
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down, had a cup of tea with her and it
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was so lovely. All right. That's
7:23
gotta happen. Nicholas J
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from Alton, Illinois said, have you
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considered interviewing someone from standards and
7:30
practices? Oh
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man, I would love to interview the
7:37
person who was always snarky to Randy
7:39
Cordray. We gotta do that. Well,
7:42
you know, I did that commercial
7:44
with those guys, that AT&T commercial
7:46
and in the commercial, Brian Baumgartner
7:49
has a little pug dog.
7:52
Guess who brought the pug? Bob
7:54
Dunn. Bob Dunn
7:57
animals. Yes. And
7:59
I was chatting. them up and
8:01
I told them we talk about them on the
8:03
podcast and I said would you ever
8:05
come on we want to interview you and
8:07
this is not Bob Dunn but this is like
8:10
the guy who works for Bob Dunn he was
8:12
like sure I remember coming to the office he
8:14
said man you know the hardest animal that we
8:16
had to work with for you guys was that
8:19
goose and I was like save it for
8:21
the podcast not
8:23
giant bandit the biggest cat I've ever
8:25
held I was shocked but I
8:27
was like I'm now I'm so intrigued
8:29
this guy's gotta have so many stories
8:33
lady there's so many people we
8:35
still want to talk to about the office
8:38
I still really want to talk to Timothy Oliphant and
8:40
I want to talk to Kathy Bates and
8:43
I want to talk to Jerry Miner and I
8:46
mean there's so many I agree
8:48
I need to hear from them all right
8:51
listen more than anything Angela
8:53
we got a lot of mail from
8:55
people asking us to just keep podcasting
8:58
in general oh for
9:00
example Olivia Kay from Cleveland said
9:02
dear office ladies my question is
9:05
more of a plea and
9:08
then in all caps Olivia wrote
9:10
please don't stop your podcast when
9:12
you run out of office episodes
9:14
Olivia went on to say I've loved
9:17
listening to you over the years your
9:19
sunny personalities and sweet relationship truly brighten
9:21
my day every time I listen you've
9:24
also had a huge influence on the way
9:26
I watch all my favorite shows I'm
9:29
constantly wondering new things as I watch and
9:31
I'm often thinking I wish Angela and Jenna
9:33
would do a podcast about this show too
9:36
so if you need an idea for
9:39
continuing your podcast here's my pitch the
9:42
rewatch ladies you
9:44
could rewatch popular movies and TV
9:46
shows together and do summaries deep
9:48
dives interviews all your usual great
9:50
stuff or you could even talk about paint
9:52
drying and I would still listen oh I
9:56
love that the rewatch ladies we got
9:58
it okay that's gotta on our list.
10:01
All right, we've got another pitch from
10:04
Emma Grace from Texas. Hey
10:06
ladies, will you please add the
10:08
edge to your breakdown list? I
10:12
watched it because of Jenna and it
10:14
is one of my all time favorite
10:16
movies. She's right. So inspirational. I
10:18
know it would be stressful, but I'll do it for
10:20
you guys. And
10:23
finally, Larry P from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
10:26
said, please do at least one
10:28
whole episode of The Office Ladies
10:30
Burn It to the Ground. You're
10:34
both so kind and polite and
10:36
diplomatic, 99.999% of the time,
10:38
but surely there have been
10:42
occasions when you could have said more
10:44
but chose not to. After all these
10:46
years, aren't you entitled to have a
10:48
say? Let it out, ladies. Love you
10:52
both. That's
10:55
awesome. So
10:58
we have a lot of ideas here, Angie. We have
11:00
a lot of ideas. We really do. Well, here's the
11:02
thing I know, Jenna. I
11:04
don't want to stop podcasting. I just, I
11:06
love it. I love doing this with you
11:08
and I love our Office
11:11
Ladies family. I love that
11:13
I get to spend each week with you all.
11:15
It's just such a wonderful community and I loved
11:18
getting to know everyone and I don't want it to
11:20
stop. I agree.
11:22
This is my happy place, Angie.
11:25
It is. It really is. Look at me. I'm in
11:27
my robe and I
11:29
just love reading all those letters. I love podcasting
11:31
with you. And Angie, I'm going
11:33
to say something. I'm going to put it out there. Okay.
11:36
You know how I feel about putting stuff
11:38
out there. Put it out there. What are
11:40
you going to put out there? I'll come
11:42
in agreement with you. Would
11:44
it be totally insane for
11:47
us to go back and rewatch
11:49
it again and just keep
11:52
talking about it? Because listen, I
11:54
am genuinely curious to
11:56
go back and watch season one again. I
11:59
want to. see it now that I
12:01
have the scope of the whole series
12:04
in my head. I mean, this is what people
12:06
do. They go back and rewatch. Why can't we
12:08
just go back and rewatch and keep talking about
12:10
it? I mean, you're not crazy.
12:12
There are people that have written in and said
12:14
this. I have a comment right here. Oh, it's
12:17
from at Brisa Rodriguez. They
12:19
said, I really need you guys to
12:21
start from the beginning again. I'm not
12:23
ready to move on. I mean, I
12:26
know. And you know
12:29
what? I think about all
12:31
the stuff we didn't have in the beginning.
12:34
Like I didn't have the DVDs. I didn't
12:36
have the deleted scenes. We didn't have all
12:38
the cold sheets. We didn't have some
12:40
of the candy bag alts and the
12:42
shooting drafts. Like we have gathered information
12:44
as we've gone. And I
12:46
know some of those early episodes, we would
12:48
have more to share. Well, lady,
12:51
just the other day we were out to
12:53
lunch with Dave Rogers. And he
12:55
reminded us of a behind the scenes
12:57
tidbit from Garden Party that we had
13:00
completely forgotten about. And I'm
13:02
not even going to say it right now. Just
13:04
in case we really do rewatch it again, I'm
13:06
going to save it. We already have a Garden
13:08
Party tidbit is what I'm saying. That's true. We
13:10
were so excited at lunch. And
13:13
then I feel like there's just so many more
13:15
things that are in the world of the office.
13:17
There's the webisodes, for example. Yes,
13:19
people have asked us to break those down.
13:21
I would like to do that. You want
13:23
an Emmy for that. I did
13:26
for the accountants. Yeah. And then you and
13:28
I both loved the original version. Yes.
13:30
Why are we not breaking down the
13:33
British office? Of course.
13:36
And you know what else? Oh, how about this?
13:39
Because I don't know if this one was
13:41
blown up, but mine was blown up because
13:43
there's some new tidbits about the possible spinoff slash
13:45
reboot. I mean, they haven't started shooting or
13:47
anything, but there's a big update. Yeah,
13:50
you should tell people. All right. So
13:52
writer Michael Komen has joined Greg
13:54
Daniels to co create the new
13:56
office spinoff. Some of you might
13:58
know Michael because he co-created the
14:00
series Nathan for You alongside Nathan Fielder.
14:02
That show is so funny. It's so
14:05
funny. Did you watch it? It's so
14:07
funny. Nathan is so funny. It
14:10
just sounded like my mom. We both
14:12
did. That was a funny
14:14
show, people. Oh, I laughed. Oh my
14:16
goodness. We turned into the two old
14:18
aunties on that one. Michael
14:20
has also worked on the Colbert Report,
14:23
Mad TV, Late Night with Conan O'Brien,
14:25
and a little tidbit. Both
14:27
Michael and Greg got their starts as
14:30
writers on Saturday Night Live. But Jenna,
14:32
we know Michael. We know
14:34
know Michael. Yeah, we know him
14:36
very well because he is Ellie
14:38
Kemper's husband. I'll tell
14:40
you a sweet thing about Michael. When
14:43
I was in New York and I
14:45
was shooting Mean Girls with my broken
14:47
shoulder, when it was time for me
14:49
to leave town, I
14:51
couldn't get my bag down to
14:53
the car. And Michael, who
14:56
was nearby, hopped over
14:59
and grabbed my bag for me and took it
15:01
down to my car for me. Such
15:03
a sweetie. Do you see what I'm
15:05
saying? So nice guy, and also very
15:07
funny. And also someone we
15:10
could say, hey, we're gonna break down
15:12
the reboot. We should do it. We
15:14
have to break down whatever the reboot
15:16
spin-off ends up being. We definitely need
15:19
to podcast about that. We will go
15:21
on set and we will
15:23
talk and take notes. Sorry,
15:25
guys. We're coming. Get ready.
15:28
And then here's the other thing. I love
15:31
doing our Dear Office Ladies episode. I loved
15:33
when our call to action was right in
15:35
about your workplace dilemmas. That was so
15:38
fun. I would love to do more
15:40
Dear Office Ladies. We could do
15:42
a lot of themes. We could do BFF advice
15:45
or wedding advice. I mean, I
15:48
feel like we could have guests come on
15:50
and help give us advice. I
15:52
don't know. This is a lot of options. What
15:55
we know is that we are not going
15:57
to stop podcasting. We know that. So
16:01
how do we pick? I
16:03
don't know how we pick. I don't know. But
16:05
can we do all of them? I don't know.
16:08
Maybe we can. Maybe we are. I
16:11
don't know. Guys, maybe we'll put a poll in
16:13
stories. What do we do? We do the,
16:15
we rewatch the office again. Are
16:17
we rewatch something else? Or we
16:20
do Dear Office Ladies? Are
16:22
we do a hybrid? I mean,
16:24
for me, my top
16:26
contenders are rewatch
16:28
the office again. I can't believe I'm saying
16:30
that. I know. When we started, I didn't even
16:33
know if we'd finished and now I want
16:35
to do it again. I would
16:38
want to watch other office centered
16:40
content and
16:42
Dear Office Ladies. But
16:45
also maybe a bonus episode where we watch
16:47
The Edge. Yeah, I don't
16:49
know. That's not a poll anymore. That's doing it all. Well,
16:53
wait, Cody is
16:55
saying something. Cody, what are you saying? Cody, hop
16:58
on the mic. Cody, as our
17:00
executive producer, what are your thoughts? Well, I
17:02
love Dear Office Ladies, number one. But second,
17:04
it was like when we were starting the
17:06
podcast, we were trying to find the vibe
17:08
of the show, what listeners liked. And I
17:10
was like, well, we could probably redo the
17:12
first 1015 episodes to make them
17:14
in the style of this episode. And not like
17:16
the first ones were bad, but it's like, but
17:18
the styles changed. I don't know. You guys come
17:21
at it in such a fun, unique
17:23
way that like we found as we went along,
17:25
you know, I don't know, just a thought, pick
17:27
it or leave it. All right.
17:30
We like it. I take it. We take
17:32
it. We redo the beginning. All
17:35
right, to sum up, we love you all. And
17:37
we want to hear from you. We do. We
17:40
are halfway through season nine. And we want
17:42
to hear what you want us to do
17:44
next. We're here for you. We should probably
17:46
start making a plan. So we'd
17:48
love to hear your thoughts. For
17:50
now, why don't we take a break? And
17:53
then when we come back, we will start
17:55
talking about junior salesmen. Let's do
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18:22
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this is why doing the Airbnb thing was so
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we were staying with told us that
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they listed their house on Airbnb back
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This episode starts with
21:01
such a juicy moment.
21:04
The camera is rolling but it's sitting
21:06
on the floor and from
21:08
the waist down we see like two
21:11
sets of legs and feet right and
21:13
it's Pam and the boom operator Brian
21:15
and Pam is kind of
21:17
apologizing to him for getting him into trouble
21:19
and he's saying you know
21:21
how are you and Jim doing and
21:24
then Erin says Pam you know you have a phone call
21:27
and she kind of leaves Meredith
21:29
of course has to hit on Brian the boom
21:31
guy which apparently she's been doing for a while
21:33
because he's like Meredith you know what they're telling
21:35
us we can't really talk to you guys anymore.
21:37
It's true.
21:41
I have one quick background catch
21:44
at 33 seconds I'm calling this
21:46
a sensible shoe catch. What
21:48
is it? Did you see Pam's heels? I
21:51
mean is it 1960? I feel like
21:54
my grandmother who loved a sensible
21:57
shoe. Lena McKenzie loved a sensible
21:59
shoe. I feel like she
22:01
would be like, that's a very sensible high
22:03
heel, Pam Beasley. That
22:06
is a working woman's shoe. It's
22:09
a sensible shoe catch. We got
22:11
some fan mail about this cold open, Angela.
22:14
Oh, I bet we did. This
22:16
first one is from Shaley D.
22:18
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hi, Shaley. You
22:20
write in every episode. Every episode
22:23
you've got this question. Multiple
22:25
questions. And they're always so good.
22:27
Yeah. Shaley said,
22:29
does Pam make sure to
22:32
ask about Alyssa when she's talking
22:34
to Brian just to let the
22:36
viewers know that nothing happened between
22:38
her and Brian? Was
22:40
Brian's original storyline going to be that
22:42
he would have been trouble for Jim
22:44
and Pam's relationship? Oh,
22:47
Shaley. Yes. Yes. Tell
22:51
us, Jenna. Spill the tea. Well,
22:54
that's what they say, right? You spill the tea.
22:57
Do you serve the tea? No,
22:59
you spill it. You spill the tea. Is
23:02
it because when I was drinking my tea, you
23:04
told me such a good gossip moment that I
23:06
spilled it? Is that what spilling the tea
23:08
is? I don't know,
23:10
but it doesn't matter though. It doesn't matter.
23:12
I did just learn what the ick is.
23:15
What's the ick? The ick. Okay.
23:18
My teenagers told me, it's like if you like someone
23:20
and you're like, oh my gosh, they're great, they're great.
23:23
And then all of a sudden they do something and you're like
23:26
ick. That's the ick. If you like them, but
23:28
then maybe you go on a date and they
23:30
chew with their mouth open, that's the ick. Yeah.
23:33
Then all of a sudden it's like the
23:35
ick. Anyway. Anyway. Anyway,
23:38
I don't think Pam has the ick about
23:40
Brian. I think Pam cares
23:42
for him as a friend. Yes, that
23:44
is true. And originally in the script,
23:46
in fact, in this scene, as scripted,
23:51
Pam tells Brian she talked
23:53
to Alyssa about what's
23:55
going on with her and Jim and
23:57
that Alyssa sort of took Jim's life.
24:00
side and they have a
24:02
whole banter about how that's
24:04
typical of Alyssa and they kind
24:06
of laugh about it and what
24:09
we were trying to do with that storytelling
24:11
was express that Alyssa and Brian
24:13
are like couple friends with Jim and
24:16
Pam. Yeah. And that Brian
24:18
comforting Pam was like as if
24:20
your friend's husband was comforting you
24:23
in a difficult moment.
24:26
But we ended up cutting it out and
24:28
making it simpler and just having Pam reference
24:30
Alyssa. I think that's good. I
24:32
think that was a good cut. Yeah.
24:36
We also got mail from Clara
24:38
D in Germany who said probably
24:40
not a very niche opinion but
24:43
the Brian storyline dot dot dot
24:45
it feels physically painful to watch.
24:48
Do you remember the fan reactions when these
24:50
episodes first came out? Oh wow
24:53
Clara. From
24:55
the moment Brian appeared fans
24:58
went completely berserk. I
25:01
mean they lost their minds.
25:04
Their reaction was so much stronger
25:06
than we ever expected and we
25:09
actually started scrambling and pulling back on
25:11
some of the plans we had because
25:13
just this spy shot of the two
25:15
of them talking where Pam even references
25:18
Alyssa. People got so
25:20
upset. You know our
25:22
long time editor Dave Rogers who Jenna and
25:24
I just had lunch with he directed this
25:26
episode right? And we were catching up
25:28
with him and we told him we were about to
25:30
break down this episode. He's gonna share
25:33
a bunch of audio clips but the
25:35
first thing we asked him was about this Pam
25:37
Brian storyline and here's what he had to say.
25:39
I have a pretty
25:41
strong opinion on the Pam Brian arc.
25:43
I don't have any issues with
25:46
Brian being a potential threat
25:49
to Jim and Pam's relationship. He's
25:51
supposed to be. He's supposed to you know
25:53
that's what he was there for was
25:55
to you know be someone like oh is this
25:58
is this gonna put a deeper wedge in
26:00
between Jim and Pam who were already fighting.
26:04
But that never bothered me. I
26:06
had no issues with that. And I
26:08
had no issues. I loved how Brian shows up
26:11
for the first time. I loved the reveal of
26:13
Brian. To me it's mind blowing. It's like, oh
26:15
my God. And we left the episode at the
26:17
end of that and then it's, you know, what's
26:20
going to happen next. And that's
26:22
what I have issues with, that we
26:25
kind of retconned him in, that suddenly
26:27
we have this character that we've never
26:29
seen before that Jim and Pam have
26:31
had this relationship with. And
26:34
that bothered me. Like that they knew him and
26:36
that they were friendly with him and his wife.
26:39
I just had a lot of trouble with that. It
26:41
didn't feel real to me. Like we know so much
26:43
about them. We were with them
26:45
every day, you know, we're watching the show
26:47
and all these components of
26:49
their life. And then suddenly there's this,
26:52
you know, this character that supposedly has
26:54
been there the whole time. And I
26:56
guess it's plausible, but I struggled with
26:58
that. Dave, I
27:00
hear you. I hear what you're saying. And
27:03
we did discuss this when we were kind
27:06
of playing out this storyline. And
27:09
I guess the excuse we came up
27:11
with is that we
27:13
haven't really followed any of Jim
27:15
and Pam's real life friends unless
27:18
they showed up at
27:20
an occasion like, for example,
27:22
the christening or
27:26
maybe how like Jim's friend came in to
27:28
play a prank on Dwight. Like we don't
27:30
know a lot about their personal
27:32
lives or their personal friends. So
27:35
that's how we thought we could get away with it. I
27:38
would even say there's times where we've gotten
27:40
a little nugget even in deleted scenes that
27:42
like Jim might make his
27:44
usual salmon and we're like, Oh, Jim
27:46
makes salmon. We really don't know about
27:48
their lives at home. Like, yeah.
27:52
So that wasn't as big a jump for
27:54
me. It was just
27:56
weird though to see such a
27:58
cutie patootie. Who
28:00
had been I guess there with Pam all along
28:04
He's very fit. He's
28:06
like super fit Yes, the
28:08
cutie patootie that you are referring
28:10
to is Chris Diamantopoulos who played
28:13
Brian the boom operator And it
28:16
occurred to me that I hadn't done a good Introduction
28:19
of him because we're hoping to have
28:21
him on the pod Yes, but
28:24
I will say I did read
28:26
with him I did auditions with all
28:28
of the final contenders for Brian the
28:30
boom guy and this was one
28:32
of those times When just
28:35
like when I read with Rashida for
28:37
Karen It was like
28:39
oh, it's you of course. It's you
28:41
like he ran away with it and
28:44
he was so wonderful and You
28:46
know, here's a little tidbit of trivia
28:48
about him. He does a ton of
28:50
voiceover work Like yeah,
28:53
and he is the voice of Mickey Mouse
28:56
No way. Yes, if
28:59
you go to Disneyland and you ride
29:01
the ride Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway
29:04
That's him as Mickey Mouse But
29:06
he's like the current voice of
29:08
Mickey Mouse and all kinds of
29:10
animated stuff That is
29:13
making my brain go what? Because
29:16
I just picture him I don't
29:18
see that voice that's crazy Yeah,
29:21
and I would make him talk to
29:23
me as Mickey Mouse on set because
29:26
it was I mean, it's
29:28
crazy if you close your eyes It's
29:30
Mickey Mouse. That's wild I
29:33
don't know if he comes on the pod if he'll be
29:35
allowed to do it or not Oh,
29:37
he might not be allowed to but we
29:39
can like play a little bit of Mickey
29:42
Mouse like oh But we can find an
29:44
audio clip of him doing it. Okay. Yeah.
29:46
Yeah Just know
29:49
That's Mickey Mouse crying the boom
29:51
guy. Does that make it easier to like
29:54
him knowing that? Maybe when
29:56
you watch the show feel like I can't
29:58
hate Mickey Mouse. Oh, man But
30:00
they definitely can hate Brian the Boom guy.
30:03
I felt bad for him. It was like
30:05
him and Lindsay, man, they got so much
30:07
heat for playing these characters. I
30:10
think that Chris, Lindsay, Rich Summer, and Rashida
30:12
Jones should all go out to dinner sometime
30:15
and talk about what it's like to play
30:17
a character trying to come between Jim and
30:19
Pam. I'd
30:21
love to record that dinner. Yeah. Well,
30:24
this episode is going to start with
30:27
Clark approaching Dwight in the break room.
30:30
He heard that Dwight is going to be
30:32
interviewing people for a new sales position and
30:34
Clark would like to get the job. Yeah.
30:37
Basically, Dwight has to find someone to
30:39
temporarily take Jim's place while Jim is
30:41
in Philly. And
30:44
Dwight is really excited. He's
30:46
looking forward to having someone at his desk clump
30:48
that really gets him, you know? Yeah,
30:51
he says, you know, like someone who knows
30:53
the difference between a slaughterhouse and a rendering
30:55
plant. Duh, Jim. I
30:58
looked it up. Did you really?
31:01
I mean, I knew what a slaughterhouse
31:03
was because it's in the name. You
31:06
know, that's where
31:09
you slaughter animals. But
31:12
I was like, what's a rendering plant? Do
31:15
you want to know? Is that where
31:17
they repurpose parts of the animals? Yes.
31:21
Yes, that's exactly right. Didn't
31:24
know that. Neither did Jim. That's
31:27
right. I
31:29
have a call sheet tidbit for you. What
31:31
is it? Our first day of filming
31:33
this episode was Monday, December 12th, 2012. The
31:37
high was of 68 degrees and the low
31:39
was 47. That would
31:41
be our average weather for this whole entire week.
31:45
And I want you to know when Steve Burgess
31:47
sent me the call sheets, he included a photo
31:49
from his yard. So I sent him back
31:51
one of my yard. And we now do
31:53
this every week. We sent each other a snapshot
31:55
from our yard. I asked him if I could
31:57
share them and he said yes. Oh,
32:00
well, lady, we've started doing this as
32:02
well. When I sent him
32:04
my fan questions and production questions, he
32:07
now sends me back a photo as
32:09
well. So I love it. Is this
32:11
fun? He's the cutest
32:13
human. Clark is really
32:15
going to pitch himself for this job.
32:17
He reminds Dwight of some of the
32:19
sacrifices that he has gone through for Dunder
32:22
Mifflin in his short time here. But
32:24
Dwight has a talking head where he says
32:27
Clark has no chance. Dwight
32:29
is going to interview Rolfe, who
32:32
fishes with hand grenades and Trevor, who
32:34
will laugh so hard you'll puke your
32:36
pants. Here's something
32:38
that Dave shared with us on our
32:40
lunch, Jenna, which is that in
32:43
the initial draft, Rolfe wasn't included.
32:45
Remember? Yes. And
32:47
that Dave was like, what? You can't
32:49
not have Rolfe. And Dave pitched so
32:51
hard to have the character of Rolfe
32:54
be in this episode. And
32:56
I have to say some of my favorite moments are
32:58
of Rolfe. Well, on that
33:00
note, I have a little tidbit that Dave
33:02
shared with us for a scene that comes
33:04
later. I'll save it. Save
33:06
it? It's about Rolfe. It
33:08
is. I need everyone to
33:10
go to two minutes and 20 seconds. What
33:13
for? Dwight has
33:15
super flat, like,
33:18
flatty flat bangs, like super
33:20
flatty bangs. Did he
33:22
have a hat on? No. Sure something. I
33:25
think maybe someone got a new flat iron
33:27
in the hair and makeup
33:29
trailer. Please note, flatty
33:31
bangs at two minutes, 20 seconds.
33:33
They're real flat. Well,
33:36
next up, Dwight and his flatty bangs
33:38
are going to antagonize Jim and Pam.
33:41
He's going to tell them there's going to be
33:43
a new alliance and it's going to be Dwight
33:45
and a friend against Pam. Pam
33:48
is sort of worried. Jim has
33:50
a talking head. I don't know. It
33:52
kind of annoyed me. I felt like he was a
33:54
little bit flippant. He
33:57
says things between me and Pam are
33:59
delicate. So adding more Dwight to her life
34:01
could only make things worse. What
34:04
bothered you about that? It just
34:06
seems like a little blasé about the state
34:08
of affairs, if you will. Like
34:11
a little bit of like to the camera
34:13
like, oh, things are kind of crappy with
34:15
the missus. Whoop-o.
34:18
Bippa-doo. Whoopsies. Oh, boy. You
34:24
do not usually get so hot to trot about,
34:26
Jim, but here you are. It's
34:28
because I'm in my cozy pajamas in my
34:30
robe. It's starting. Sam,
34:33
if you're listening, it's starting. Yeah,
34:35
Sam. So
34:38
Clark and Rolf are now in
34:40
the conference room and they're waiting
34:42
to interview. This is now the
34:44
waiting room. Although Rolf
34:46
says to Clark, you're
34:49
interviewing, I'm getting the job, which
34:52
was very funny. Yeah. Dwight
34:54
now has a talking head where he says Rolf is his
34:57
best friend and he's the man. Cool,
34:59
calm, collected, sweet guy, can't
35:01
be rattled. And
35:04
then this cuts to a scene where
35:06
Rolf is just yelling, like yelling at
35:09
the sweetest little bunny. He's like, he's
35:11
bending over in the grass yelling at
35:14
a bunny. We got a
35:16
fan question from Stacy S. in Santa
35:18
Cruz, California, who said that Benny that
35:20
Rolf is yelling at at three minutes
35:22
and 36 seconds is perfect. Please
35:25
tell me about the bunny actor and how the Wranglers
35:27
got the bunny to turn away from Rolf as he
35:29
is yelling at it. Well,
35:31
Stacy, Steve Burgess
35:33
told me that the bunny was from Bob
35:36
Dunn. And if
35:38
we get to interview Bob Dunn, we will ask them,
35:40
how do you train a bunny to disregard someone who
35:42
is yelling at them? I
35:45
don't have that answer now, but Steve said
35:47
that Bob Dunn not only brought the bunny,
35:49
but they also brought the rabbit poop. What?
35:53
Yeah, that was surrounding the bunny. Steve
35:56
Burgess says the bunny was $150. The
36:00
train will see was $600. Transportation
36:03
for the bunny was $250 and the poop was
36:05
free. The
36:08
transportation costs more than the bunny.
36:12
Yes, it was more expensive to
36:14
transport the bunny than
36:16
the bunny charges to appear.
36:18
Yeah. Yeah. It's a good
36:20
thing the bunny can't read. He
36:24
didn't get a good deal. He
36:26
didn't. Everyone else made more money. Jim
36:29
is now on the phone. He's assuring his
36:31
athlete teammate that he will talk to David
36:33
Wallace today but says, don't get your hopes
36:36
up. And we learned
36:38
that athlete lost a really big investor
36:40
last week and his co-workers want Jim
36:42
to ask David Wallace for
36:45
some money. That's going to be
36:47
awkward. Yeah. So he
36:49
says they lost a big investor last week.
36:52
Remember, they also lost a big investor
36:54
when Jim couldn't drive home for the
36:57
recital. So have they lost two big
36:59
investors now? I'm worried
37:01
for athlete. I know. Well,
37:04
Rolf and Dwight now loudly, very
37:07
loudly approach the desk clump where
37:09
Dwight and Jim and Pam sit.
37:12
Dwight's saying, that chair is going to be
37:14
yours and this desk. And Jim's trying to
37:16
talk on the phone. And
37:18
Jim's like, I'm on the phone. And Dwight
37:20
goes, no, doi. Who says that
37:23
anymore? Who says no, doi? Is
37:25
that out? I think that's out. You know
37:27
what that is? That's an ick. That's an
37:29
ick. Well,
37:32
Rolf says to Pam, you better like
37:34
Norwegian black metal because I don't wear
37:36
earbuds. So that's
37:38
what's in store for Pam. If
37:41
Rolf gets the job and
37:43
you know, Pam tries to brush it off.
37:45
She says, you know what? It's just a
37:47
seating arrangement. It doesn't matter. And that
37:50
kind of hits Jim. He's like, ooh. Well,
37:53
next up in Andy's office, Dwight is
37:56
going to look over Rolf's resume. This
37:58
was my favorite interview. of all the ones
38:00
that Dwight did, and I think we need to hear it.
38:04
So, I've got your resume here, but it's
38:06
not telling me everything. A lot of information
38:08
is private. How do I know you're qualified
38:10
to evaluate me? I'm the one offering
38:13
the job. What are your credentials? I've worked here for 12
38:15
years. I won Salesman of the Year. I'm an assistant to
38:17
the regional manager. I think I've heard everything I need to
38:19
hear. Wait, wait, no. I mean, if you need to know
38:21
more, you can call David Wallace. I'm sure he'll give a
38:23
reference. Thank you, Dwight. I'll be in touch. Well,
38:27
they can all be winners. I
38:31
love it so much. I really
38:33
want to have an interview where
38:35
I hand over a resume, and
38:37
I've redacted it. There's like redacted
38:40
those bars, black bars. Yeah. How do
38:42
I know you're qualified to know these
38:44
things about me? I
38:47
just loved it. James Urbaniac is so great
38:50
as Ross. That's another person I would like
38:52
to talk to on the podcast. Yes. See,
38:55
next time we rewatch this episode,
38:57
we'll have James Urbaniac on. That's
38:59
right. The redo of the rewatch
39:01
is writing itself. Well,
39:03
next up is Trevor. Yeah. And apparently,
39:05
Trevor is a real professional who loves
39:08
to jump on people. Like he actually
39:10
jumps on people. Yeah.
39:13
In his interview, Trevor seems
39:15
blindsided by the fact that he's
39:17
going to be asked questions. He
39:21
has clearly never interviewed for anything
39:23
before, I guess. And
39:26
we got a fan question from
39:28
Carly O. in Chicago, Illinois, who
39:30
said, wouldn't Oscar recognize Trevor and
39:33
be mad that he's interviewing at Dunder
39:36
Mifflin after trying to break his kneecaps?
39:38
Yeah. Carly, if you
39:41
look in the background over Trevor's
39:43
shoulder, kind of through
39:45
the blinds, you can see
39:47
Aaron and Oscar at reception looking
39:49
in on the interview. So I
39:52
think that this was meant to
39:54
express Oscar's concern. Yeah, I think
39:56
you're right. Clark and Jim are now going
39:58
to have a moment. He calls Jim
40:00
for permission to review the price sheets before
40:02
his interview. And Jim wants
40:05
to see if Clark's going to be a good
40:07
desk mate for Pam. And
40:09
he's liking him. And of course
40:11
Dwight sees this and he does not like
40:13
that. He says, you know what? I
40:16
can't hire Clark. He may look like a shrewd, but
40:18
he thinks like a Halpert and he acts like a
40:20
Beasley. That's right. Clark
40:22
is now in Dwight's office and he
40:24
is doing a good job at
40:27
this interview that Dwight is really trying
40:29
to make him fail. That's
40:31
right. He's asking him a whole bunch of
40:33
questions. And then Clark
40:35
says, that's just a classic
40:37
no one situation. So I'd Kobayashi Maru
40:40
it. And Dwight says, damn
40:42
it. Perfect answer. Again.
40:45
Were you wondering what that meant? I was.
40:49
Well, then you'll be happy that we got
40:51
a letter from Anne Marie Kay in London
40:53
because Anne Marie Kay, thank you very much, is
40:55
going to explain it to us. Is
40:58
it Kobayashi from the usual suspects?
41:01
No, it is a Star Trek reference.
41:05
Oh, Anne
41:08
Marie said this is a very quick
41:10
exchange between Dwight and Clark. But since
41:12
my husband is a huge Star Trek
41:14
fan and I am an office fan,
41:16
I got him to explain this
41:18
reference and I did a deep dive for
41:20
you. Thank you. The Kobayashi
41:22
Maru is the name of
41:24
a stranded ship from a
41:27
Star Trek training simulation. In
41:29
this training simulation, the ship has
41:32
lost power and it is drifted
41:34
into enemy Klingon space. Crossing
41:38
into enemy space will be seen as an act of
41:40
war, but it's not a real ship.
41:43
This is a simulation. It's a
41:45
simulation. However, in the
41:47
simulation, if you don't cross into
41:49
this enemy territory, a hundred people
41:52
will die. In real life or
41:54
in the simulation? In the simulation.
41:56
So the simulation is asking you,
41:58
what do you do? do? What
42:00
do you do when there's no good right
42:02
answer? Oh, you
42:05
Kobayashi Maruit. Yes,
42:07
Captain Kirk famously hacked
42:09
the simulation, lowering the
42:11
Klingons attack shields so
42:13
that he could win so that he
42:15
could pass into the territory without 100
42:17
people dying and also without
42:19
starting a war. And so
42:22
this is the sort of cheat
42:24
that Clark is calling out in his
42:27
interview. But no one was ever in
42:29
harm's way because it was just a practice. Lady,
42:32
I will tell you again, because you
42:35
have been worried. I'm
42:37
it is a simulation the whole
42:39
time. You will not accept
42:41
that it was a simulation. Okay, okay.
42:44
No one was ever gonna be
42:46
harmed, lady. All right. Also, if
42:49
it wasn't a simulation, it's still
42:51
a TV show. Well,
42:53
yeah, so in either
42:57
scenario, simulation or not,
42:59
it's just a television
43:01
show storyline.
43:04
And everyone was always safe.
43:06
Everyone's okay, including people from
43:08
this made up universe that
43:11
doesn't exist. Okay, thank you.
43:13
Good. Don't worry. I needed to
43:15
get that out of the way. You're so
43:17
sweet. And you're worried about them. Well,
43:22
Jenna, on that note, I think we should
43:24
take a break. And
43:26
when we come back, I have
43:28
a mallard update. No, you do not.
43:31
I do. We get to find out
43:33
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43:35
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43:37
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we are back and I've never been
45:49
so excited for an update about something
45:51
in my life. No pressure. Well,
45:55
this is definitely going to be a let
45:57
down. put
46:00
that out there. Or maybe you
46:02
tell me. So a few weeks ago we
46:04
got a question about the mallard duck in
46:06
the suit warehouse episode. We did a side-by-side
46:08
is it the same duck that Dwight used
46:11
to spy on Jim? And then we got
46:13
a request to do a little deep dive
46:15
on mallard ducks which I did and I
46:18
shared a stat that I found
46:21
on allaboutbirds.org that said the oldest
46:23
known mallard was a male at
46:25
least 27 years and seven months
46:27
old and he was shot in Arkansas in 2008 and
46:29
then the
46:31
stat went on to say that he had been
46:33
banned from the state of Louisiana since 1981.
46:36
This made Jenna and I both go, what?
46:38
Why is he banned? But I didn't look
46:40
it up so I promised to follow
46:43
up. Well, yeah.
46:47
I have been keeping myself from
46:49
googling it all this time and
46:51
do not Google it. I didn't.
46:54
Okay. Because I
46:56
got to the bottom of why this
46:58
bird was banned and it's pretty embarrassing.
47:01
What? Not
47:04
for the mallard. Oh. But
47:07
for me. What is it?
47:10
Well, you know when I
47:13
finish my document each week for the
47:15
podcast I go through and
47:17
I do a misspelling and typo path. No.
47:19
No. And
47:23
well, Microsoft Word suggested
47:25
the correct spelling and
47:27
I hit fine. Here's
47:29
how it actually read on the
47:31
website. No. The mallard had been
47:34
banned from the state
47:36
of Louisiana since 1981.
47:38
Banned not
47:40
banned. I
47:45
want to apologize to the mallard
47:48
bird community for that typo. And
47:51
I then had to find out what it
47:53
meant for a bird to be banned. And
47:56
here's what I found out. Waterfall
48:00
are banded only by federal and state
48:02
agencies. They basically get this
48:04
little band around their leg with a scanner
48:06
code thingy so you can track them. One
48:09
of the primary motivations for banding ducks
48:12
is to identify the wintering areas and
48:14
migration routes. They can also
48:16
learn about the mallard's annual survival,
48:19
their population, hunting behavior, harvest,
48:21
and so much more.
48:23
And probably
48:25
because I felt so bad, I then went
48:27
on YouTube and watched a lot of videos
48:29
about duck banding and how it's done and
48:31
what you learn from it. And
48:34
the one I found very informative was from
48:36
the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
48:39
and I will put a link in our stories to
48:41
those videos as well. You
48:44
are speechless. This update
48:47
exceeded my expectations.
48:50
So basically what
48:53
we learned was that this bird had
48:55
migrated from Louisiana
48:59
to Arkansas, not been
49:02
thrown out. He had not been kicked
49:04
out of the state of Louisiana. He
49:06
just flew to Arkansas. His
49:08
mistake though, he was
49:10
doing okay in Louisiana. He'd lived
49:12
a ripe old age. Yeah. Thank
49:16
you so much. Because
49:18
you know what? If I had googled band
49:22
mallard from
49:25
Louisiana, I
49:27
wouldn't have gotten the answer because
49:29
it never happened. I want
49:31
you to know I typed in
49:33
the band mallard ducks from Louisiana in
49:36
1981 and I searched and
49:39
I searched and I couldn't find anything. And it
49:42
kept referring me back to this all about birds,
49:45
you know, article. And
49:47
then finally I looked and it said,
49:49
oh my god, it says banded. Anyway,
49:54
there you go. One letter can make a difference,
49:56
guys. It's a one story. This
49:59
is a good reason to
50:01
continue to do mailbag episodes. Because
50:05
we got a question for me to look
50:07
up mallards. Yeah and look where it led.
50:10
Oh I want you to know I
50:12
feel very well versed on banding birds
50:15
now. Sort of
50:17
like because of my shame I
50:19
really went deep into bird banding
50:21
and watching videos about migration. Thank
50:23
you so much for that update
50:26
Angela. You're welcome. Should we
50:28
get back to this episode? We
50:30
should because in the conference room a
50:33
real cast of characters is gathered waiting
50:35
to interview. They're all of Dwight's friends
50:38
plus Mo's. We
50:40
got a fan question from Vicki S. in
50:42
Little Elm, Texas who said I would love
50:44
to hear the story behind bringing back all
50:47
the amazing characters in this episode for job
50:49
interviews. This felt like such
50:51
an Avengers ensemble moment in the best
50:53
way. Please give us all the details.
50:56
Vicki I was so excited about this too and
50:58
here's how it was described in the shooting draft.
51:01
Interior bullpen. The office is staring
51:04
with concern at the conference room
51:06
where Dwight's army of freaks is
51:08
assembled. Nate, Mo's,
51:10
Gabor, Zeke, Trevor, Wolf, Malvina
51:13
and Sensei Ira. Some
51:15
are looking over notes preparing nervously to
51:17
be interviewed. Others are stretching pointlessly or
51:20
taking photos of everyone in the office
51:22
with a cell phone. Someone
51:24
eats a lunch marked Stanley.
51:27
Mo's combs his hair alfalfa
51:29
style. Troy under bridge is
51:31
at the water cooler filling a ziplock
51:33
sandwich bag with water. He sees
51:35
Dwight. Wow. Dave
51:38
Rogers also talked about this scene and what
51:40
it was like to have everyone back. Here's
51:42
what he said. God it
51:44
was a that was a pretty fun
51:46
episode getting all these people together all
51:48
these people from Dwight's past. It's
51:51
kind of like if this is your life for Dwight. It
51:53
was pretty fun. This was something Greg
51:55
Daniels really wanted to have all these
51:57
weirdos together in one room and see
51:59
them. interact with each other and with
52:01
Dwight. I really liked
52:04
having Rolf return and you know,
52:06
Mo's and Nate and even
52:08
Trevor who was you know just on
52:10
recently who's just great great to see
52:12
these guys and interacting with with Troy
52:14
Underbridge and Melvina got
52:16
Beth Grant from the dinner
52:18
party episode came back and Sensei
52:22
Ira from I think
52:24
that was a fight where
52:26
he originally showed up and
52:29
you know we got some some great
52:31
newcomers with Gabor and Wolf and
52:33
Cousin Zeke. Yeah this was a
52:35
this episode was actually a delight to direct it
52:37
was it was really fun and
52:40
all of the actors were really
52:42
really up for it they were
52:44
just excited everybody was so excited to be there
52:46
and they knew we were kind of doing something
52:48
special just having all of these you know Dwight
52:51
friends together side
52:54
note James Urbaniac who plays Rolf is
52:56
originally from New Jersey and his father
52:58
Frank ran the Marlboro Recreation Summer Camp
53:00
program that I went to for many
53:02
summers as a kid so
53:04
we chat a little bit about his dad and
53:06
the camp that I went to. That's
53:09
quite the cast of characters
53:11
I will also add that ultimately
53:13
he day interviews as well.
53:16
Yes well I asked Steve
53:18
Burgess about how this came about as well
53:20
and he said that Greg and the writers
53:22
made a list of everyone that they would
53:24
want for the episode and
53:27
like you mentioned earlier Angela we shot this
53:29
during the second week of December but
53:32
Alison Jones started reaching out to
53:34
people the week before Thanksgiving. We
53:37
almost never reached out to people that early for
53:39
things but Steve Burgess
53:41
said Alison and her associate Ben
53:44
did an amazing job of trying
53:46
to coordinate everyone's schedule to
53:48
see who could be available this same
53:51
week of shooting. Steve said
53:53
they booked 19 non-regular
53:55
actors for this episode and
53:57
in the end basically what they did was
54:00
they wrote for who they could
54:02
get. So there
54:04
were some people that they were trying to get
54:06
that they did not ultimately get. Steve
54:08
Burgess also said that the most
54:11
difficult person to schedule
54:13
was Mike Schur as Mose because
54:15
he was actively working on Parks
54:17
and Recreation, but they made
54:19
it work. I'm sure Mike was
54:21
so excited to get dressed back up as
54:23
Mose. I know. Well,
54:25
everyone else in the bullpen is looking
54:28
in to the conference room and they're
54:30
not happy about it. They
54:33
say they don't want to judge, but these
54:35
people smell. Meredith says, hey, if I ever
54:37
get that bad, will you tell me? And Kevin goes,
54:39
I tell you this all the time, Meredith. I
54:42
know. And she says, walked right into that one. I
54:45
love that exchange. Well,
54:47
we asked Dave about directing this episode and
54:49
any shots that stood out to him. And
54:51
he mentioned this scene. Here's what he had
54:53
to say. You know, from
54:56
a directing standpoint, I don't really have
54:58
any groundbreaking shots or any crazy camera moves
55:01
or even, you know, strange
55:03
editing things in this episode. You
55:05
know, most of the action takes place in the
55:08
conference room, the bullpen and Andy's office. But
55:10
I will say, do get a kick out
55:12
of the shots of the weirdos in the
55:15
conference room where the main cast is just
55:17
looking at them from the bullpen. It's
55:19
like they're looking at a zoo or
55:22
a fish tank behind the glass window.
55:24
And they're just, yeah, it's like
55:26
looking at a zoo. I
55:30
totally get that. Yeah. Moses
55:33
up next for his interview and
55:35
he's really patted his resume. So
55:38
I'd like, why would you put this on
55:40
there? We live together. I know everything about
55:42
you. Yes. So most does
55:44
what most does and he runs away.
55:47
Yes. Steve Burgess said we
55:49
had to use a photo double for
55:51
that part. That's not Mike. Sure. Running.
55:53
No way. They really got
55:55
the most rundown whoever they were. I
55:57
know. Clark watches most out the
55:59
window. and then he's gonna ask everyone how
56:03
they heard about this position. Nate's
56:05
response is my favorite line in the
56:07
entire episode and I'm gonna play it.
56:10
Okay. So how'd you guys
56:12
hear about the position? My
56:14
mom. Dwight called my house but he
56:17
didn't realize that I had already moved out because
56:19
my mom and I are quarreling because I can't
56:22
stay out of her stuff. Yeah
56:25
I can't stay out of her stuff. It
56:29
made me laugh so hard. Like what
56:31
is he getting into? Her Tupperware? Like
56:33
what is he messing with that she's
56:35
like you're out? We're
56:37
also gonna learn in the
56:39
scene that Dwight attended a special
56:42
school where he would learn to
56:44
harness his mutant abilities. Mm-hmm.
56:46
And it just turned out to be run by a
56:49
con man. Go figure.
56:53
No kidding. In
56:56
this next scene
56:59
Angela is not having it now. She
57:01
says someone needs to do something before
57:03
I am stuck working next to one of these
57:06
people for the next 20 years.
57:08
20 years? Angela
57:10
Martin is in it for the long haul. She
57:13
sure is. And now
57:16
everyone's about to turn on Jim.
57:18
Yes. It's because of Jim that now
57:20
they might have to work with one of these oddballs
57:22
that Dwight's bringing in. Well we
57:24
got a very impressive fan catch from
57:27
Maddie N in Cocoa Beach, Florida who
57:29
said around 11 minutes and 30 seconds
57:32
when everyone is talking around Pam's desk
57:34
about who the next hire will be
57:36
Pam says quote I'm in a position
57:39
to vote for Nate and that just
57:41
feels wrong but
57:44
her lips move differently like what
57:46
she's really saying is that
57:49
just feels weird. Am
57:52
I crazy for seeing that? Am I completely
57:54
making this up or did Jenna actually say
57:56
weird instead of wrong and have to fix
57:58
it in a voiceover? Maddy,
58:01
I watched it. That
58:03
last word of my line is 100%
58:05
dubbed. It's a dub catch. Why?
58:10
Why were you dubbing? I don't
58:12
know because I looked at the script and
58:15
my line was supposed to be... That
58:18
just feels off. I
58:20
was supposed to say off. I wasn't
58:22
supposed to say weird or wrong. Huh.
58:25
I don't know why we did this. I
58:27
don't remember going in and doing any kind
58:29
of dubbing so I think they must have
58:31
grabbed that word from a different take and
58:34
put it on this take. Yeah.
58:36
That's what I think. That's a good
58:38
catch. It's a really good catch. Oh
58:41
my gosh, the next scene is
58:44
just cringe at Jim's desk
58:47
with the call with David Wallace. Oh
58:50
yeah. Oh my goodness.
58:52
This is when Jim calls David
58:54
Wallace because he's trying to get
58:57
some say and who is hired
58:59
so he can protect Pam. Yeah.
59:01
But instead he is gonna learn
59:03
that number one, David Wallace
59:05
is gonna cut his pay in half
59:07
to pay for this replacement and
59:10
two, he tries to
59:12
ask David to be an investor,
59:14
an athlete and David cuts him
59:17
off mid-sentence. I know. Oh. And
59:21
Dwight is just rolling on the
59:24
floor. He's so happy. Mm-hmm. Pam
59:26
has gotten set up and decides to
59:28
go to the warehouse. She's down there.
59:30
She's gonna be working on her mural and
59:33
he has a lot of
59:35
notes for her. Yeah. And
59:37
she's like, you know what? Thank you. Why don't
59:40
you go upstairs and interview
59:42
for the new position? They're hiring.
59:45
He's genuinely thankful. He's like, thank
59:47
you for this information. I will.
59:49
We're now gonna see a montage
59:51
of all of Dwight's odd friends
59:53
doing things around the office. One
59:55
is drying his pants in the
59:57
bathroom. Another one is... at
1:00:00
the vending machine, one tries to touch Daryl's
1:00:02
hair, and the rest of the co-workers have
1:00:04
had it. Jim Nellie and Daryl find white
1:00:06
in the kitchen and they confront him about
1:00:08
it. Yeah. So
1:00:11
we got this fan catch from Chris
1:00:13
Kay in Vancouver, British Columbia who said,
1:00:16
at 13 minutes and 55 seconds, is
1:00:19
Phyllis sitting in the back annex
1:00:21
by HR? Why would she be
1:00:24
back there? And I looked at it,
1:00:26
Angela, and she is. She's sitting right there.
1:00:29
Yes. Well, I have the answer for
1:00:32
you. There was a really big storyline
1:00:34
for Aaron, Pete, and Phyllis in this
1:00:36
episode. It went through the
1:00:39
entire episode and the whole thing
1:00:41
was cut. There's a
1:00:43
lot of it in deleted scenes if you have
1:00:45
the DVDs. I'd like to play you two clips
1:00:47
from it that really set up the storyline. Great.
1:00:50
The storyline all starts because Aaron is
1:00:53
trying to get a bank account, and
1:00:55
Pete is helping her online set it up.
1:00:58
And here are the clips. Now
1:01:01
you just need a password. It needs to
1:01:03
be six letters long, at least one capital,
1:01:05
and a number. A, B,
1:01:09
C, D, E, F, Washington,
1:01:12
D.C., six. Pete
1:01:14
is helping me get a bank account online.
1:01:16
It's official. I'm a nerd now. So,
1:01:19
security questions. What was
1:01:21
your mother's maiden name? I
1:01:24
don't know. Okay,
1:01:26
how about... What's
1:01:28
your father's occupation? No clue. I don't
1:01:30
know who my dad is. Oh,
1:01:33
that's right. I'm sorry. What
1:01:35
is the middle name of your oldest sibling? I
1:01:38
don't know if I have one. What street was
1:01:40
your first home on? Hmm.
1:01:43
Wow. They do not make these orphan friendly, do they?
1:01:45
Uh-uh. Aw, I know. So then Aaron decides to approach Phyllis
1:01:48
because she knows Phyllis had a child
1:01:54
the same time Aaron was born, and
1:01:56
maybe Phyllis might have some
1:01:58
clues as to Aaron's origins. origin story.
1:02:00
So they approach Phyllis. Phyllis says
1:02:02
she's sorry. She can't remember anything and
1:02:05
she can't help them. But then she
1:02:07
remembers, oh wait, my mom videotaped my
1:02:09
childbirth and I was at the hospital.
1:02:11
Maybe there's something in this video footage
1:02:13
that will be a clue for Erin. And
1:02:16
then there's a scene in the break room.
1:02:18
It's got a major old tech alert
1:02:21
because it says an old TV
1:02:23
is hooked up to a Betamax
1:02:25
machine. Phyllis, Pete and Erin watch Phyllis'
1:02:27
videotape. You never see what's on the screen.
1:02:29
You just see them reacting to it. And
1:02:31
Erin goes, how long does this go on
1:02:34
for? And Phyllis says, oh, I was in
1:02:36
labor for 56 hours. And then
1:02:38
Daryl walks in and he's like, what are you
1:02:40
guys watching? And he's like, freaked
1:02:42
out. And then it ends with
1:02:44
like a video tour of the nursery
1:02:46
of all the babies and there's a
1:02:48
little red headed baby. And they
1:02:51
kind of all freeze the TV and look at
1:02:53
each other like, oh my gosh, is that Erin?
1:02:56
So it was a huge storyline. Well,
1:02:58
I remember Angela and when I read
1:03:01
that fan question, I went to the
1:03:03
script as well. And after
1:03:05
they see the video,
1:03:07
they realized she was born at this
1:03:09
one particular hospital. So her and Pete
1:03:11
go take a walk in the neighborhood
1:03:14
near the hospital and they, they
1:03:16
wonder like, oh, is this maybe where
1:03:19
she grew up? Is this her
1:03:22
background? Right. Her neighborhood. She, there's
1:03:24
a very sweet line where on
1:03:26
the, in the nursery on the crib,
1:03:29
the name just says St. Margaret's
1:03:31
and Erin goes, oh, my
1:03:34
original name was St. Margaret's. I guess I
1:03:36
was a really religious baby. And Phyllis
1:03:39
was like, no, honey. I think
1:03:41
that's the church. Well,
1:03:45
we asked Dave Rogers about this and
1:03:47
he sent us in an audio clip
1:03:49
explaining why this entire storyline, this very
1:03:51
elaborate storyline was cut. Here's what he
1:03:54
had to say. You know,
1:03:56
often in our episodes, we have scripts that
1:03:58
are way, way longer. then
1:04:01
the time allotted to the final broadcast
1:04:03
of the television show. So a lot
1:04:05
of stuff gets cut out. Sometimes
1:04:08
there's a beat here and there or a
1:04:10
runner or a scene or
1:04:12
multiple scenes. In this case, we
1:04:15
ended up removing an entire storyline from the
1:04:17
episode, which had Aaron and Pete
1:04:20
exploring Aaron being an orphan. They
1:04:23
go to talk to Phyllis. This was a tricky
1:04:25
story. I think we all did our best to
1:04:28
execute it and Jake and
1:04:30
Ellie do a great job. We really
1:04:32
get to see them connecting in a nice
1:04:34
way. But ultimately, the story
1:04:36
deals with Aaron being an orphan and not
1:04:38
getting any closer to finding her parents or
1:04:40
any other real information. It
1:04:44
wasn't very satisfying. There's
1:04:46
also a sad undertone between her being an
1:04:49
orphan and Phyllis giving up a baby. It
1:04:53
might have worked better in a supersized episode where the
1:04:55
beats are a little bit more spread out while we
1:04:57
have the comedy of the Dwight story. But in a
1:04:59
21-35 minute episode, it just felt really heavy. I
1:05:05
did let Ellie and Jake know that we ended up cutting
1:05:07
it and I explained the same reasons
1:05:09
I'm telling you now. I reassured
1:05:11
them that what they were doing together was great and
1:05:13
to keep doing it as their
1:05:16
storyline keeps moving on. But
1:05:18
this was just a matter of this particular story
1:05:21
and the time that we had for the show and
1:05:23
that we just couldn't trim out a
1:05:25
beat here or there in their story. It was
1:05:27
like every beat depended on the beat before. It
1:05:29
was very linear. So that's
1:05:32
what happened. We ended up cutting this
1:05:35
whole storyline out and
1:05:38
just focused more on Dwight and
1:05:40
his freaky friends and
1:05:42
had a little room in there for
1:05:45
the Pam, Brian, Jim relationship arc.
1:05:52
It is so like Dave to
1:05:54
reach out to us if
1:05:56
he ever had to cut something that we had
1:05:58
done. He would always
1:06:01
reassure us. He is so
1:06:03
thoughtful. Just so you know this wasn't your performance. Yeah.
1:06:06
This was a story thing, this was a time
1:06:08
thing, this was a whatever. We
1:06:11
just didn't have time to tell this story. Yeah,
1:06:14
he's a standup guy that way. Yeah.
1:06:17
Now Dwight is gonna interview Wolf, but
1:06:19
this interview goes off the rails really
1:06:22
quickly. Yeah, it really does.
1:06:24
And I think Dwight's starting to get
1:06:26
nervous. He's now gonna interview Hide. And
1:06:29
that doesn't work out either. So
1:06:32
Dwight is in the conference room and he's got
1:06:34
this sort of like cork board and he has
1:06:36
the name of all the different applicants on the
1:06:38
board. And he's saying,
1:06:40
I just can't seem to decide.
1:06:43
Here's the little tidbit I teased earlier. And
1:06:45
remember when we were at lunch? With
1:06:48
Dave, yeah. Yes. And
1:06:50
he told us how they didn't
1:06:52
confirm Rolf for the episode. They
1:06:54
didn't have James Urbaniac confirmed
1:06:56
to be in the episode until after
1:06:59
we already started shooting the episode. Yeah,
1:07:01
he wasn't even on set till like
1:07:03
day two or something. Yes. But
1:07:06
Dave told us he was so hopeful that
1:07:08
it would work out that he
1:07:10
shot this scene with a blank
1:07:13
note card up in the corner and he
1:07:16
wrote Rolf on it in post. That's
1:07:19
right, that's right. He put
1:07:21
a little placeholder just in case they got
1:07:23
him on that cork board. Yes. Dwight's
1:07:26
in a tough spot now. He's actually kind of
1:07:28
rolling around on the floor in Andy's office. And
1:07:31
Melvina wants to know if he needs to
1:07:33
be changed. He says no, he does that
1:07:35
himself now. And she says, well,
1:07:37
are you going to have a decision soon because
1:07:39
I've been double parked for five hours? And
1:07:42
Dwight's like, no, your car's been towed by now. And
1:07:46
then a few more of his friends come in and
1:07:49
they promise, listen, no matter who
1:07:51
you choose, we'll still be your
1:07:54
friend. And Dwight's like, yeah, I
1:07:56
mean, even if I choose none of
1:07:58
you. Well,
1:08:01
that wouldn't happen. You wouldn't drag us all
1:08:03
down here and waste all of our time
1:08:05
to pick none of us. Yeah,
1:08:07
that would be insulting. So
1:08:09
Twite is gonna have to team up with
1:08:12
Jim. Yes, he's gonna seek out
1:08:14
his enemy because he has no choice. And
1:08:17
he says, Jim, will
1:08:19
you please pick someone? And
1:08:21
he basically says, I don't
1:08:23
want to hire any of these people. You
1:08:25
can hire Clark, but you have to break the
1:08:28
news to everyone. And we're gonna make it seem
1:08:30
like it was your decision. Twite
1:08:32
says, it turns out my standards for
1:08:34
co-workers are higher than my standards for
1:08:36
friends. You couldn't imagine any
1:08:39
of them in the old golden gray. And
1:08:42
yes, he did design uniforms for
1:08:44
Dunder Mifflin. Okay, as a talking
1:08:46
head, he shows us the uniforms.
1:08:48
They are summer, winter, jungle, and
1:08:50
formal. We got a
1:08:52
fan question from Megan B. in Toronto
1:08:55
and Martha B. in Malta who said,
1:08:57
Who drew the Dunder
1:08:59
Mifflin uniforms and were they given any
1:09:01
instructions by the writers? Well,
1:09:03
this was such a quick pop, but I loved it so
1:09:05
much. I went to the script.
1:09:08
There was not a description for these drawings
1:09:10
in the script. Steve
1:09:12
Burgess thinks that Alicia, our costume
1:09:14
designer, might have drawn these. And
1:09:17
we asked Dave Rogers. He couldn't remember who
1:09:20
drew them, but he did have a fun
1:09:22
tidbit to share. Here's what he
1:09:24
said. One of the
1:09:26
things that was really fun was Twite's
1:09:29
talking head where he shows off sketches
1:09:32
of Dunder Mifflin uniforms that
1:09:34
he designed. I do
1:09:36
remember giving small notes to color them
1:09:38
in so they'd read better on camera,
1:09:40
that they weren't just pencil
1:09:42
sketches. What's really
1:09:44
interesting is that when we got into editing, Greg
1:09:47
actually thought they were too fashionable,
1:09:50
and he had us reshoot with new versions. And
1:09:53
so we had alternate versions. We
1:09:55
shot a new version of the talking head
1:09:57
where the uniforms really leaned more and more.
1:10:00
into the military. The
1:10:02
summer outfit was practically a
1:10:05
geely suit, but
1:10:08
after seeing the new costumes, he changed his mind.
1:10:11
And so he liked the original costumes better,
1:10:13
and that's what you see in the show.
1:10:16
I think I have pictures
1:10:18
of the alternate ones. I will send
1:10:20
that to you guys. So
1:10:23
Dave is so amazing. And you know
1:10:25
what? He saves everything too, Jenna. We're
1:10:27
kind of both like that. You are
1:10:29
digital clutter buddies. We are, except his
1:10:32
are organized. It's
1:10:34
true. But you know, I looked
1:10:36
at all of those sketches, and they did
1:10:38
remind me so much of the sketches that
1:10:40
I saw Alicia do over the years. Me
1:10:43
too. Such a good artist, and it had
1:10:45
her sort of style. So I feel like
1:10:47
they were hers. But I will put
1:10:49
them in story so you guys can all see. Next
1:10:51
up, Jim is going to break the news
1:10:54
to all of the applicants. He says, I'm
1:10:56
hiring none of you. Dwight
1:10:58
pretends to be outraged. Jim's like, tone
1:11:01
it down. Tone it down. Yes, exactly.
1:11:04
Ralph is like, I know what this was.
1:11:06
I know you're behind this.
1:11:09
I wouldn't open any suspicious packages.
1:11:11
Or maybe you should open them.
1:11:13
You do not want to cross Ralph. You do
1:11:16
not. All of Dwight's friends start to leave,
1:11:18
and they're kind of unsure what they're going to do for
1:11:20
the rest of the day. Then they
1:11:22
decide to go paintball without Dwight. He
1:11:24
is bummed. And Creed, as
1:11:27
they leave, kind of sneakily joins them
1:11:29
in leaving. Yes, we
1:11:31
got a fan catch from Emily B.
1:11:33
in San Diego and St. Louis, who
1:11:36
said, I'm not the best at fan catches.
1:11:38
So I was pretty darn proud of myself
1:11:40
for noticing this one. Dwight's friends all
1:11:43
leave to play paintball, and we see
1:11:45
Creed run out after them, presumably to
1:11:47
join them. But when Dwight later gets
1:11:49
an email with a picture of the group,
1:11:51
Creed isn't in the photo. Maybe
1:11:54
Creed just used the opportunity to get out
1:11:56
of work early. Emily,
1:11:58
I think you're right. was
1:12:00
just a plain hooky. No,
1:12:02
ladies. He actually went.
1:12:06
But he's not in the picture. I know.
1:12:09
Here's how it was in the shooting draft. There
1:12:11
was a tag written for the episode where they
1:12:13
all go and play paintball, and
1:12:16
it said, exterior paintball field day.
1:12:19
Creed is on his knees, begging for
1:12:21
his life as Wolf holds a paintball
1:12:23
gun to his head. Gabor stands nearby.
1:12:25
It's also in deleted scenes,
1:12:27
and I'm going to play it for you. Okay,
1:12:59
I'll talk. The Hobbit and the
1:13:02
old woman are hiding in the
1:13:04
porta potty. Oh
1:13:08
my gosh. So I knew about this tag
1:13:10
lady, but I didn't know Creed was in
1:13:12
it. Yes. And
1:13:14
Creed ultimately gives up Melvina and Troy. I guess
1:13:17
they were hiding in the porta potty, like he
1:13:19
said. But here's my theory. I
1:13:22
think Creed took the picture. Oh,
1:13:24
that's good. Uh-huh. I
1:13:27
like that. That's why he wasn't in it. And
1:13:30
you know, when we had lunch with Dave,
1:13:32
he told us shooting these paintball tag scenes
1:13:34
were his favorite. He loved it so much.
1:13:37
He said it was just so fun to shoot something
1:13:39
that had some action, you know? But
1:13:41
they ultimately didn't use it. But it is all
1:13:43
in deleted scenes. Listen,
1:13:45
I think that the episode ends
1:13:48
perfectly. I think that this tag
1:13:50
was probably really funny. And
1:13:53
fun to do, right? They all got to be
1:13:55
outside running around. But ooh,
1:13:57
the way it ended was so powerful. We're
1:14:00
almost there. We are almost there. Clark gets
1:14:02
the job and Jim is going to help
1:14:04
him get all set up at his desk.
1:14:07
Pam comes back from the warehouse. She's
1:14:09
very happy that it's Clark and not
1:14:11
one of Dwight's friends. Jim's
1:14:15
going to leave and go back to Philly. Yeah,
1:14:18
Jim kisses her goodbye and he
1:14:21
leaves. They're sitting there
1:14:23
in their new clump and Clark says to Pam,
1:14:25
hey, I'm going to the kitchen. You want anything?
1:14:27
I think that's a good desk mate. Very
1:14:30
nice. Pam says
1:14:33
she's okay. Dwight says, I would love some
1:14:35
more coffee, but then Clark
1:14:37
says, oh, sorry. You
1:14:39
have to be this tall for coffee.
1:14:41
He calls back that little bit that
1:14:43
Dwight did to him to break room
1:14:45
earlier. Yeah, Dwight's not cool enough for
1:14:47
coffee. Yeah. So Pam sees
1:14:49
that Dwight is sad and she says, hey, do
1:14:51
you want to haze the new guy? Dwight
1:14:54
is so tickled. Pam's like, okay, here's some
1:14:56
Saran wrap. Next time Clark goes to the
1:14:59
bathroom and Dwight interrupts her, he's like, no,
1:15:01
no, don't worry. I know what to do.
1:15:03
And they kind of get tickled. And
1:15:05
then Clark returns to his desk and
1:15:08
Dwight covers his face in Saran wrap.
1:15:11
He's a neat, cute, cute, cute, neat,
1:15:13
the toilet trick. So lady, I
1:15:15
remember reading this and I remember thinking,
1:15:18
we're going to kill Clark. We're
1:15:21
going to kill him because I mean, Rain admitted
1:15:23
that he would
1:15:25
really go for it in scenes like
1:15:27
this. Yes. He goes all out. Yes.
1:15:30
So when we were planning this scene, I was
1:15:32
like, we need a signal. We
1:15:35
need a safe word. We
1:15:37
need some way that we
1:15:39
know the difference between Clark acting
1:15:42
and Clark actually suffocating. We
1:15:45
also asked Dave about this scene and here's what he
1:15:47
had to say. Rain
1:15:49
fully commits to being Dwight in his
1:15:51
performance every time. And I remember being
1:15:53
a little nervous when reading
1:15:55
the script and it said Dwight was going to
1:15:58
wrap Clark's head in shrink wrap. So of course
1:16:00
we get the. to set and everyone is there
1:16:02
telling me, we need to watch Clark and make
1:16:04
sure he can breathe. Like everybody's just anxious and
1:16:06
nervous. So it builds up all this anxiety for
1:16:08
this, you know, really small, I mean,
1:16:10
I wouldn't call it a stunt, you
1:16:12
know, this physical action between two actors,
1:16:15
you know, on a controlled set or a little
1:16:17
office set. I will say that
1:16:19
they shot take one. It looked pretty good to
1:16:21
me. And when we cut, they
1:16:23
were both laughing. And then Rain asked, you know, you okay?
1:16:26
Clark was like, oh yeah, that was fine. You can go
1:16:28
even more than that. So, you
1:16:30
know, they did several takes. The two of
1:16:33
them really had fun doing the gag. Clark
1:16:35
was never in any real danger, but
1:16:38
he sold it that he was, you
1:16:40
know, choking and suffocating and, you know,
1:16:42
it was just, to me, I was really happy with
1:16:45
how it came out. It came out, you know, really,
1:16:47
really funny. It was
1:16:49
so realistic to me. I had forgotten this moment, you
1:16:51
know, and then in our rewatch, I felt like
1:16:53
I saw it for the first time. And I was
1:16:55
like, ah, I
1:16:57
was in full panic attack mode the entire time
1:17:00
we shot this scene. Oh, I bet. My
1:17:03
performance is my real
1:17:06
reaction. All
1:17:09
right, are we ready for the final
1:17:11
moment? Yeah, here
1:17:14
it comes. Jim is
1:17:16
gonna have a talking head. He
1:17:18
says, of course it matters who
1:17:20
sits next to Pam. Who you
1:17:23
sit next to is who you spend your life with.
1:17:26
He fell in love because he spent all those
1:17:28
years staring at Pam. And
1:17:30
then the camera reveals
1:17:33
Brian holding
1:17:35
a boom over Pam and
1:17:37
just looking at her with such
1:17:40
adoration and smiling. And
1:17:42
Jim's last line of his talking head is,
1:17:45
that stuff definitely matters.
1:17:49
I mean, people lost
1:17:51
their minds. Mm-hmm, yeah.
1:17:55
Turns out maybe Brian and
1:17:57
Alyssa's marriage isn't. As
1:18:00
strong as we thought it was. He
1:18:03
definitely likes looking at Pam. I
1:18:06
have one funny behind the scenes detail
1:18:08
about this moment. What is it? I
1:18:11
remember when you guys were doing it, we were
1:18:13
there. I was over in the accounting nook. You
1:18:15
don't end up seeing us, but
1:18:17
I'll never forget Chris. He was so funny and
1:18:19
charming and he was having to
1:18:21
hold that boom over his head. He's
1:18:25
a super fit guy, but
1:18:27
his arms after take after take started
1:18:29
to shake. He was
1:18:31
like, I gotta rest this
1:18:34
boom. We all had
1:18:36
such appreciation for our boom operators, but
1:18:38
I think Chris above all were like,
1:18:40
wow, you guys are so damn strong.
1:18:43
Now that you say that, I do remember
1:18:45
that. Chris was very committed. He's one of
1:18:48
those actors. He's like, if I'm playing a
1:18:50
boom operator, I'm going to hold the boom.
1:18:52
I don't know if you noticed in the
1:18:54
first scene, he's doing all
1:18:56
that business, like wrapping up chords. He
1:18:58
learned that. He
1:19:01
was like, I want to look like
1:19:03
a real boom operator. He was all
1:19:05
very committed. Very method. There
1:19:08
you have it, everybody. That
1:19:10
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1:19:13
big thank you to Steve Burgess
1:19:15
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1:19:17
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1:19:20
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1:19:22
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1:19:24
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