Prince Family Paper

I used to have this idea of what home security was.

I thought it was like an alarm that goes off after someone tries to break in and that scares off the intruder.

Maybe it gets your neighbor's attention.

But what I learned is that's really a reactive approach.

By the time the intruder's in your home, it's too late.

And you know, that's one of the things I really love about Simply Safe because their system is designed to be proactive, not reactive.

And here are ways that they are proactive.

They use smart, AI-powered cameras to identify threats lurking outside your home and immediately alert SimplySafe's professional monitoring agents.

You also might be wondering, how do I design my home security system?

And I can tell you from personal experience, their website is so easy to use.

They literally have a toggle that says build my system and you click on it and you go through all the different features that they offer and there are so many.

I've found that really helpful.

Some of the cameras they offer are like the outdoor cameras, the video doorbell pro,

which that one I really like because you can see who's coming right up to your front door.

Visit simplysafe.com slash office ladies to claim 50% off a new system.

That's simplysafe.com slash office ladies.

There's no safe like simply safe.

Make every day a Disney Plus and Hulu Day and get everything you love in one plan.

Start your day with Monday Mayhem and watch episodes of Bob's Burgers.

How about a touchdown Tuesday with the hilarious new comedy, Chad Powers?

Or a whodunit Wednesday with high potential and everyone's favorite amateur sleuths in the hit series, Only Murder's in the Building.

Maybe you're in the mood for a thrilling Thursday.

Grab some popcorn and stream huge blockbusters like Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts on Disney Plus.

Or get caught up with the most enthralling news on what you need to know.

Gather the fam for a flashback Friday and binge all episodes of Modern Family or Gray's Anatomy.

So discover something every day on Disney Plus and Hulu.

It's the movies and shows you love every day.

18 and up only, offer valid for eligible subscribers only.

Terms apply.

I'm Jenna Fisher.

And I'm Angela Kinsey.

We were on The Office together.

And we're best friends.

And now we're doing the Ultimate Office Rewatch podcast just for you.

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.

We're the office ladies.

Hi, Angela.

Hey, Jenna.

How's it going?

It's going good.

Are you ready to destroy a small family business today?

Oh, Prince Family Paper.

The Prince Family?

They're the sweetest family.

Well, we're going to take them down.

I guess we are.

So awful and cringy.

Oh, there's a lot of cringe in this one.

There sure is.

Guys, it's season five, episode 13, Prince Family Paper.

Written by BJ Novak and directed by Asad Kalada.

Here's your summary.

Oh.

David Wallace calls Michael Scott on the phone.

It's so funny to me.

I'm so sorry to interrupt your summary that I acted surprised that I was going to read a summary.

You're like, here's a summary.

I went, oh,

well, look, whose sassy pants has a summary.

She has one every weekend.

Just

expect it.

Okay, go.

David Wallace calls Michael Scott on the phone.

He wants to get his help gathering intel on a rival paper company called Prince Family Paper.

Michael takes Dwight along as his backup.

And meanwhile, the gang debate whether or not Hillary Swank qualifies as hot.

Yep.

Yep.

All right.

I have to say one thing.

I just got to get this out.

Get it out.

There used to be a magazine.

I don't know which one.

You know who you are.

They would do this thing.

Who wore it best?

Oh, yeah.

And they would put two people side by side in like the same dress or a skirt or pants.

And there was always one person that wore it best.

Right.

You know?

And they would have a percentage.

Like people voted.

People voted.

And you might have worn it best because you were tall and not 5'1.

Okay.

Okay.

And maybe you knew to wear the right kind of heels and someone else wore flick-flops with it.

I don't know.

Right.

I'm just saying

to that magazine and people that like to compare who wore it best or who's hot or who's not, I say suck it.

Thank you, Angela.

That's all I'm going to say.

Well, that was clearly a general comment.

Nothing based on personal experience, I can tell.

I'll have you know, I've also been the subject of a who wore it best.

Mm-hmm.

So I feel that.

Yeah.

You know what?

You all wear it best.

We all wear it how we wear it.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's how I wore it.

That's my body.

That's how my body wears stuff.

How about who wore it?

Me.

I wore it.

Yeah.

100% to me for wearing it.

And you know what?

I got dressed this morning.

You're welcome.

As you can tell, this episode might have triggered something for us.

As you can tell, two gals are sitting here, not super appreciating debates on who's hot or who's not.

Yeah.

Kevin has a lot of thoughts about it.

This might be the most Kevin ever spoke in a whole episode.

Yes.

I think, is this his most line count ever?

Possibly.

Well, I think we should get to some fast facts.

I agree.

Here we go.

Fast fact number one, new director alert.

Yeah.

Assad Collada.

Yes.

So our line producer, Randy Cordray, had worked with Assad before, and he told us that Assad was actually originally supposed to direct an episode in season four,

but that season got cut because of the writer's strike.

Oh.

And so they slotted him for season five instead.

So we could have almost gotten to work with this man earlier.

And I tell you what, he is a delight.

You guys, he's like television legend.

He's directed everything.

Yes, he has directed 77 episodes of The Facts of Life and 117 episodes of Who's the Boss.

I know who's the boss.

If your name is Angela, you know who's the boss.

What?

So the female leads character's name, Angela.

You guys, this show was out in the 90s.

I was in college in the 90s.

I cannot even tell you how many people left this on my answering machine.

Angela?

I had that on my voicemail, I would say on a monthly basis.

That's crazy.

Let me finish telling you a little bit about Assad.

We loved working with him.

I found an interview he did where he said this, which I thought was so great.

He said that the most essential thing for making a successful comedy is casting.

He said that is because, quote, you cannot make the actor be funny.

Comedy is all about rhythm, timing, pace, and energy.

I agree.

I thought that was so well said.

Yeah.

All right.

Fast fact number two.

We got a lot of fan questions about the hot or not storyline.

This one comes from Joe S.,

who asked, what inspired the subplot of the debate about whether or not Hillary Swank was hot or not?

Was it a magazine that said who who were at best?

It wasn't.

It wasn't.

Bij Novak did an interview with Indie Week and he said that he was on a flight and two of the in-flight movies were P.S.

I Love You and The Great Debaters.

They were both Hillary Swank movies.

He was tasked with coming up with a B plot for an episode and he thought, quote, why not debate about Hillary Swank?

And then he decided that the characters could debate whether or not she is attractive.

We got more questions from Amy J and Rohit R.

How does Hillary Swank feel about this episode?

Oh, wow.

Good question.

Very good question.

Well, she did an interview with Time magazine shortly after this episode came out.

She was asked if she had seen the episode and she said this.

I'm not a big television watcher, but definitely everyone made me aware of it.

Oh, geez.

I think it's flattering anytime someone mentions you, but I don't think of myself in terms of that.

Meaning, like she doesn't lead with if she's hot or not.

Right.

Later on in the interview, she was asked about women in Hollywood in general, and she replied, There is so much put on the way we look, which is interesting going back to your office question: Are you hot or are you not?

It really does a disservice because there's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

We love you, Hillary, Hillary.

Well said.

Well said.

Fast fact number three, Hillary Swank is a badass.

Would you like to hear a little about her?

Yes.

All right.

She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.

She competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington State Championships in swimming.

And she ranked fifth in state in all-around gymnastics.

Wow.

All-around gymnastics.

That's the one where you have to do all the things.

You do all the things.

She ranked fifth in the state.

Okay.

Her parents separated when she was a teenager and she really wanted to be an actress.

So her mom moved with her to Los Angeles when she was 16 years old.

And she's spoken a lot about this.

They did not have a lot of money for a while and they lived out of their car.

They did eventually find a place to live.

She enrolled in school.

And then when she was 20, so four years after she moved to LA, she landed the starring role in the next karate kid.

Julie Pierce.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know all about this, Ange.

I do because you guys,

I got really into Cobra Kai this past year.

Are you guys watching Cobra Kai?

It's so good.

I'm not watching it.

Should I be watching it?

I am loving it.

It's also just major like 80s nostalgia.

It's so good.

Is this something I can watch with my kids or is it more adult-y?

I've heard it's a little bit skews older.

It skews older.

Than my kids.

Yes.

I'm not watching it with my kids.

Oh, this is your time.

Yeah.

Okay.

Josh and I watch it together.

I'm sure there's, you know, teenagers that watch it, but Josh and I watch it together.

So basically, it's sort of picking up where they are now, right?

With the two lead guys.

And John Hurwitz, who's the co-creator, they reached out to me to play one of the kids' moms.

What?

Yes.

And I wanted to do it, but it was filming in Atlanta.

And you basically have to go to Atlanta for a while.

And I couldn't do that.

I couldn't be away from my kids for that long.

Yeah.

You know, it wasn't like an in-and-out.

But listen, John Hurwitz, if you ever move to Los Angeles, if you ever decide to film here, I am there.

People have been speculating, will Julie come back?

Because they're bringing all the characters back.

And this is what John Hurwitz said in an interview.

They discussed the possibility of bringing Julie Pierce on the show.

He said, in our writer's room, we speak about literally every character that has appeared in the Miyagi verse.

They call it the Miyagi verse.

So it's obvious we've spoken about Julie Pierce.

As to whether or not she'll return to the series, that's something you'll just have to wait to find out.

Ooh.

I'm here for it, John.

Bring her back.

Also, a little bit of office crossover.

Jen Salata has directed several episodes of Cobra Kai.

Wow.

Yeah.

I would love it if Hillary's like, Hillary, go back.

Go do a guest star on Cobra Kai.

It'd be so good.

And then maybe there's like some little bit you could do in her episode.

Yes, Hillary, maybe I could be your best friend.

This is it.

And then I could go just for a week, John, just like four days.

Yeah.

Okay.

There, we worked it out.

Jin Slata.

Jenslada took us it.

Make it happen.

Well, Hillary Sank was 20 years old when she was a next karate kid.

When she was 25 years old, she did the lead role in Boys Don't Cry.

Wow.

And she won an Oscar.

She is one of the youngest women to ever win an Oscar.

She also won an Oscar for her lead role in Million Dollar Baby.

That movie destroyed me.

Ugh.

I mean, both of those movies.

I mean, they're.

Ugh.

There are only 12 other actresses who have won two or more lead actress Oscars.

Those are both lead actress Oscars.

So she's in a very impressive club there.

She sure is.

So that's Hillary Swank, y'all.

Well, Hillary, we are here for you.

We should take a break and we come back.

There is a classic gym prank.

So, you know, Boar's Head has been dedicated to crafting premium deli meats and cheeses for more than 120 years.

They know what they're doing.

And you're going to love their Boarshead Sweet Bees Honey Barbecue Glazed Chicken Breast.

It's honey drizzled and barbecue sizzled.

It's got all the things.

It's so good.

I love some barbecue.

And are you ready for this?

It is slow roasted and crafted with layers of proprietary glaze and a zesty dry dry rub, then infused with the delicate sweet wildflower honey.

Boar's head, sweet bees, honey barbecue, glaze, chicken breast.

It is perfectly balanced.

It is all the flavors you want.

Barbecue and real hickory smoke.

You can get it sliced fresh at the deli.

Do you hear how excited I am about it?

Get me that sandwich right now.

I love it.

And it's made with wildflower honey, which just gives you that little bit of sweetness.

And then you've got barbecue.

You've got some smoked paprika, some garlic powder.

Come on, get me to the deli counter.

Try Sweet Bees Today and experience the flavor of authentic barbecue at your local Boarshead deli counter.

Boarshead, committed to craft since 1905.

Are you ready?

Because it is Macy's big ticket sale.

What does that mean?

That means...

you can get up to 60%

off.

These are the lowest prices of the season on furniture, mattresses, and rugs.

So let me break it down a little bit.

Mattresses are 20 to 60 percent off.

Outdoor furniture, 50 to 60 percent off.

This is the area I will be clicking on.

Definitely need some new outdoor chairs.

Ours are a little rough looking.

Also, indoor furniture, 10 to 60 percent off.

Rugs, 55 to 65 percent off.

There are great financing options and white glove delivery.

Macy's big ticket sale runs August 27th through September 15th.

Shop now at macy's.com or in store.

As a young adult, finding the right path to your future can feel overwhelming.

It starts with Year Up United's tuition-free job training program Career Pathways.

If you're without a bachelor's degree but have a high school diploma or GED, you can get skills-first training to succeed in the industries you're passionate about, all while earning a weekly educational stipend to offset basic expenses.

From there, you'll have access to internships and hands-on experiences with Fortune 500 companies.

And with Europe United's job placement services and personalized coaching and mentorship, you can put your knowledge, skills, and most importantly, confidence into practice.

Apply to Europe United today and take the first step toward achieving the career you want.

Visit europ.org to learn more.

This episode opens with everyone just working at their desks.

We're just working.

Just a normal day.

No biggie.

But then Dwight discovers a red wire that's plugged into his computer.

No other computers have red wires.

What is it?

Yeah, it's a new wire.

It's never been there before.

Yeah.

Well, he starts tearing at this wire.

Yeah, he wants to know where it's coming from.

Yeah.

In the script, it says Dwight pulls the wire off the floor and follows it to the wall.

It goes over a doorframe under Phyllis's desk, and Dwight crawls under Phyllis's desk.

Oh, we did it a little differently.

We did it a little differently.

First of all, you can't crawl through Phyllis's desk because there was like a backstop, right?

So it doesn't go all the way through to Stanley's desk.

And in the script, Phyllis says, Dwight, get out of there.

And that's pretty much in the episode.

And then Dwight would have said, Shush, shush, shush.

But I think Rain improvised, shut up, Phyllis.

So Dwight's going to follow follow this wire into the hall yeah all the way outside and up a telephone pole which we can see over Jim's shoulder in Jim's talking head right and it is a real telephone pole it's a real telephone pole Jim says he got 500 feet of red wire at a flea market for 20 bucks How long did this take him?

Jim has a lot of extra time.

He gets to work so early.

Cam is like, you know what?

I know we were going to carpool, but you've got that Dwight prank and you've got to go at three in the morning and I'm going to sleep in.

Yeah.

Like, what's the real life

side of that?

I reached out to Randy to find out how we did this stunt of rain up on this telephone pole.

Right.

He can't climb a real telephone pole.

That's not safe.

No, because what he told me was that the pole over Jim's shoulder really is an actual working utility pole that's embedded in our sidewalk, you know, right out there.

Folks, don't go climb it for a photo.

Don't climb it.

Yeah, it carried high-voltage electricity.

They couldn't even have a stunt person dressed as Dwight climb that pole.

Yeah.

So our production designer, Michael Gallenberg, and his construction team rented a matching utility pole.

You can do that, I guess.

Where is that?

I mean, seriously.

How do they know these things?

This is the crazy part of Hollywood magic.

Oh, you know what I'm going to do today?

I'm going to rent a fakey telephone pole.

Yeah.

That's huge.

Huge.

Well, they put it up in our parking lot between the two sound stages and they put like a green padded platform around it.

In case you fell.

Yep.

And they put up a big green screen behind the whole thing.

And then they brought Rain out.

along with like a stunt coordinator and a safety officer and they had rain climb up.

It was only a few feet that he had to climb.

And then in post-production, they had their visual effects team digitally add rain to the real pole over Jim's shoulder.

They superimpose like one pole onto the other.

Yes.

Got it.

Even though rain was really only a little bit off the ground, they could like hike it up so it looked like he was like halfway up the pole.

Yeah.

That's movie magic, folks.

That is some good movie magic.

But here's the thing that gets me about that.

That's like real special effects, kind of like stunty stuff for our little TV show about a paper company.

Like I never really thought hard about how much work it took to do that gag until we went to break it down.

Yeah.

Right.

Like it's such a quick little blip.

And you're like, that was like two weeks of figuring that out.

Of prep.

Yeah.

I feel like every week we are learning how much Michael Gallenberg, Kyle Alexander, Phil Shea, our wardrobe department, set designers, how they all made these little moments happen and made it seamless.

Yeah.

I know.

So much work goes into these little things.

It's amazing.

The fruit fly wrangler.

We had to know their like mating cycle.

Craziness.

That's crazy.

Well, that was the cold open.

Now we start this episode.

Michael's in his office.

He's on the phone with David Wallace.

I feel like David's really playing Michael here because he dangles out that regional supervisor job.

He's like, you know, I still haven't filled that slot yet.

And Michael's like, oh.

And then he asked Michael to go do this thing.

Yeah.

To go spy on this tiny little paper company.

I know.

To do some field work.

Michael's so excited.

Oh, yeah.

During this scene, I was really struck by the toys on Michael's desk because they would rotate them.

They would, you guys.

Every once in a while, there'd be some new toys.

Here's what was on his desk.

A Rubik's cube.

Not finished.

A tiny pool table.

Yes.

A colorful plastic expanding ball thingy.

You know that thingy?

Yeah, yeah.

That's a staple.

Yes, and also the wind-up teeth.

Those are always there.

But the pool table had moved, so he's clearly played it recently, and it's on top of all the stuff in his inbox.

He can't get to anything in his inbox.

It's not important.

The pool table is number one of things to do.

Yeah.

It made me laugh.

A miniature pool table.

in his inbox says everything you need to know about Michael Scott's work ethic.

That's right.

Stanley and Phyllis are going to start having this conversation about whether or not they think Hillary Swank is hot.

And the rest of the gang gets involved.

I feel like these kind of moments happen in small offices.

You sort of start to debate things, like you pick a soccer team during the playoffs, and people debate about the players, and it can become a whole thing.

And it's just a way to fill the boredom.

Oh, for sure.

I have a bone to pick with Jim.

Why is that?

At three minutes, 18 seconds, I titled this moment, What the Hell, Jim?

What is the moment?

Jim suggests they put it to a vote in the bullpen.

Angela says she isn't voting.

And Jim says nobody cares.

Oh,

what the hell, Jim?

That's some gem sass.

Jim sass.

Did you notice what Pam said?

What did Pam say?

Pam says, did you see her with her bangs?

Oh!

And lady, this made me laugh out loud because...

I have just recently gotten bangs.

And people have a lot of opinions about it.

They do have opinions about my bangs.

But what made me laugh was that before I got my bangs, I of course googled images of people with bangs.

You have to do research.

You don't just, you got to look at all the pictures.

You googled people with bangs.

You texted me, I think I'm going to get bangs.

Yeah.

To which I replied, oh no.

I said, I think I'm going to get bangs right now.

Because like I was getting a haircut in the moment.

By the time you replied, it was done.

I know.

I was like, oh, I was busy with the kids.

I decided we were going to paint.

I bought the canvas and all the paint stuff.

We're outside.

We'd made this huge mess.

I'd set my phone aside so I didn't get paint on it.

And then I just thought I'd check in, see what's happening.

And I see this text from you that's half an hour old that says, I think I'm going to get bangs now.

And I was like, oh no, I didn't get to weigh in.

But lady, I think they're adorable.

I think they're super cute because they're curly.

I'm loving it.

I bring it up because one of the people I saw in my research was Hillary Swank with bangs.

So when Pam said this in the scene, it made me laugh.

But I really based my bangs bangs on some like Mia Farrow from Hannah and Her Sisters.

You look very 70s, kind of like beachy wave with bangs.

A little bit of Terry Garr.

Terry Garr wore some bangs like no one's business.

But my main inspiration

was probably Stevie Nicks.

And I will admit that after getting my bangs, I did style my hair in a full Stevie Nicks, and then I took pictures and I put them side by side.

I was too shy to post.

I want to see the side by side.

Do you want to see my Stevie?

Oh my gosh, do you have it on your phone?

Yeah, I mean, I really did this.

Oh, my God, Jim.

This is amazing.

Oh, you kind of did the same mouth.

I tried it.

I put on the same necklace.

I did like a whole thing.

Oh, you did?

We got to put that in Office Ladies Pod Stories, please.

It's okay.

I mean, I'm doing a whole pouty mouth, so I got a little bit like shy.

You even did the dark eyeliner.

I did.

I'm telling you, she was my inspo.

This was a whole afternoon.

I thought I knew your life.

This was a whole day.

I didn't know what was happening.

I mean, I had to take off my glasses for the picture.

I know.

Which actually made it a little hard to take the picture.

Because I couldn't see through.

Tell me about it.

I can't tell you how many photos I've taken of Josh and the kids because, you know, when you're like a family, one parent has to take the picture.

And half the time I don't have my glasses because I'm not good about wearing them.

And Josh will be like, babe.

These are out of focus.

And I'm like, I can't tell.

I just click.

I love how we literally could not be more off topic, right?

We are so off topic.

Okay.

All right.

We'll get back.

Let's get back on topic.

All right.

All right.

All right.

So we are now, oh, God, you guys, we are about to talk about a scene I absolutely loved.

It's a driving scene between Dwight and Michael.

They're headed to Prince Family Paper.

Did you notice how much they bicker in this scene?

They're like an old married couple.

I loved it.

They bicker about who would seduce the fictional daughter.

They don't even know if this person exists.

Yeah.

And they bicker about Denny's and IHOP.

They bicker about the clouds.

Dwight says, get your clouds right.

Michael tells him to shut up.

But I have a background catch.

What is it?

Oh, it sent me down a Google path, Jenna.

All right.

So whenever we have driving scenes, we always look for palm trees, right?

Yeah.

Spot the palm tree.

In this one, I recognized the street they were on.

It's Chandler Boulevard.

It's a residential street.

And guess what else I recognized?

What?

It was trash day.

And there were blue recycle bins in every driveway.

I took a few photos.

Okay.

I'll put those in pod.

So then I thought, is that what the recycled trash bins look like in Scranton?

So that took me to the recycling laws for Lockawana County.

Oh, hang with me because there's a woman named Barbara who I am now fascinated by.

First of all, that is not what recycle bins look like in Lackawanna County.

So theirs are like these blue round tubs.

Okay.

Unless they've changed, you guys can correct me.

Ours are these like skinny rectangles with lids.

Yep.

So here's an article I read from April of 2019.

Barbara Giovanoli is the recycling coordinator for Lackawanna County.

Barbara shared that the recycling center in Lackawanna County accepts plastics and glass bottles and jars, aluminum steel cans, as well as newspaper.

It is a dual-stream system.

They have containers, bottles, jars, and cans in one, and paper fibers separately.

They do not accept plastic bags, takeout containers, or pizza boxes.

And apparently, lady, the recycle centers get all kinds of wacky things.

People put all kinds of crazy things in the recycle bins.

Barbara has a tip for you.

She wants you to know.

She says there's an easy way to remind yourself what can and cannot be recycled at the Lackawanna County Recycling Center.

Quote, ask yourself, is it a bottle?

Is it a jar?

If the answer is no, that means it has to be thrown away.

I want to meet Barbara.

I want to meet Barbara.

I want to meet Barbara.

It's real simple.

Ask yourself: is this a jar?

Is this a bottle?

No.

Trash.

Wow.

We have to meet her.

We have to meet her.

Anyway, this was a random thing I noticed in the background.

No palm tree sighting, several recycle bins.

Also, in the scene, for those of you guys keeping track of how many times Michael Scarn is mentioned in the series, this is one of them because it's going to be Michael's alias.

And then they get into a real heated argument.

I mean, that has history about denny's and i hop yeah they're gonna rendezvous after they get the info michael says at i hop and dwight's like i did not agree to i hop

socialist yeah he's like you socialist i'm going to denny's and michael's like you are going to i hop and you will have pancakes and you will like it What do you like?

Do you have strong feelings about IHOP or Denny's?

I really don't, but I would say I've had IHOP more because there was one right on campus when I went to college, basically like across the street.

And we would walk over there.

And there's also one by my kid's pediatrician office.

So yeah, I've just been to IHOP more.

I would say that if I'm looking for a pancake, I hop is going to come to mind.

Yeah.

But I want to say these words to you.

Oh, what?

Moon's over my hammy.

Oh, is that a Denny's special

special?

And it's real good.

Okay.

So if I'm wanting more of an egg sandwich, I'm going to have to head to Denny's.

Now I'm just craving breakfast.

I know me too, kinda.

Well, these guys do eventually get to their destination of Prince Family Paper.

It's in like a little strip mall.

Right.

And I got a location alert.

Let's do it.

We rented an empty mini mall.

near the corner of Laurel Canyon and Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.

We rented a whole mini mall?

I guess we did because Randy said our location manager, Kyle Alexander, had to find a location where we could have some sort of office front that had all windows because we assumed that if they were going undercover, they couldn't bring a documentary crew with them.

Oh, that's so smart.

I didn't even think about that when I watched.

Every single shot is through the glass.

Yes.

And so they had to be able to have a total glass front on this office.

But then we also needed this giant parking lot.

So he was able to find all of that in this little empty mini mall.

I want Kyle to come on the show.

Me too.

He's like the master of every amazing location.

So good.

Get this.

We had to bring all those cars.

And did you notice the fake snow residue?

We put fake snow residue on all the cars.

They're still dirty from last week.

I know.

And then our production designer, Michael Gallenberg, had to create the entire Prince family paper offices from scratch.

Michael, we want you on too.

Michael and Kyle, we want you on.

We're coming for you.

So they're they're in the car and Dwight's got a little pair of binoculars and they're coming up with their plan.

Dwight's binoculars are like industrial looking.

They look like they have night vision.

Yeah.

And then here is my question.

Through this whole scene, they are eating.

What are they eating?

Is it a giant can of nuts?

I tried to zoom in.

What is it?

I did.

Did you see it?

I did.

I did take a picture.

I actually love the blooper for this scene so much that I filmed the blooper and I sent it to Rain and texted him and I was like, what are you guys eating?

And he was cracking up.

He said, And I am pretty sure those were smoked almonds.

Yeah, they looked like almonds, but they had like stuff on them.

Yeah.

He said he was pretty sure they were smoked almonds.

And while they're eating these almonds, they decide on a signal.

that they need to give each other if there's danger.

They need to get out of there.

And Dwight says, you got to lick your lips.

And Michael does a quick lick.

Meanwhile, they're eating these almonds the whole time.

And Dwight goes, no, like this, and does this big like

thing.

Yeah.

And in the process of doing this, they started laughing.

And when they did, Rain in his laughter, in his goofa, he spit like projectile almond.

It like flew and hit Steve in the face.

I have the blooper clip.

We're going to need a signal to bolt out of there at the slightest sign of danger.

Okay, okay, then that signal is lit your lips.

What it's saying.

No, no, no.

Like this.

Oh no!

Oh dude, I'm so sorry.

Oh

I'm so sorry dude.

Okay.

He sprayed the side of his face with a wet, half-chewed almond.

I mean, you can hear it come out of his mouth.

You really can.

And then rain felt so bad and he grabs like a tissue and he starts in the moment just reacting.

He just starts wiping Steve's face.

Oh my gosh, it's so good.

It's so good.

Michael then has a talking head where he says that in nature, there is a food chain where the bigger shark eats the littler shark and so on.

Until it gets to the single-cell shark.

Exactly.

And basically, you know, that's what they are.

They're sharks.

And then as he's getting out of the car, he's doing the whole jaws thing.

Dunnin.

Dunnin.

Yeah.

He goes into Prince Family Paper.

He introduces himself as Michael Scarn.

And he sits down and he starts having just

the most wonderful conversation with Mr.

Prince.

Michael's doing kind of a good job.

He is.

And, you know, he completely charms Mr.

Prince.

He does.

He's a lawyer who knows a lot about paper because he is a genius

about some things, but not everything.

Not everything.

What's this?

Is this a phone?

Is this a phone?

Mr.

Roger Prince can't get enough of it.

He's cackling, laughing.

He also learns that Prince Family Paper is a three-person operation.

Mr.

Prince, his wife Linda, and his son.

Yes.

And his granddaughter, Rebecca, sits in the corner.

Angela, I did a guest star breakdown.

for the members of Prince Family Paper.

Oh, great.

So Roger Prince, the father, was played by Dan Desmond.

And I found this really interesting.

From 1990 to 2001, he was in five different episodes of Law and Order, and he played a different character each time.

Let me tell you, I love Law and Order, and they do that.

They bring people back.

One time you're a police officer, the next time you're a judge.

I was literally just watching a Law and Order Marathon, and I swear, Jeremy Sisto

was like just a guest star, like a guy.

And then in the next episode, he was a police officer and like a series regular.

No, I don't.

Did that happen?

I feel like the rules of Law and Order are sort of like a soap opera.

Yeah.

You can come back in many different forms.

Well, they loved Dan Desmond over at Law and Order.

He was also in the movie Bruce Almighty and most recently in the miniseries Little Fires Everywhere.

Gung Gung.

Roger Prince Jr.

was played by Dan Backendahl.

You might recognize him for his recurring roles on Veep or the Goldbergs or Space Force.

He was also a regular on Life and Pieces.

He has also been on Law and Order, but just one episode.

Okay.

Linda Price was played by Sharon Blackwood, who recently appeared in two episodes of Ozark, has never been on Law and Order.

None of them have been on Monk.

What?

None.

Craziness.

Okay, wait.

I have a Law and Order story.

What is it?

It's one of my more embarrassing audition stories.

You auditioned for Law and Order?

I did.

Shocker didn't get it.

You'll know why.

You guys, I was so excited.

I love Law and Order.

I would watch the marathon on TNT.

I loved it.

Yeah, same.

I still watch the marathon.

I still watch it.

If it's on, I'm watching it.

All right.

I got an audition.

I was so excited.

And I was very new to auditioning, okay?

I had only booked a few commercials.

It was to be a real estate agent.

You know how the guys at the top of the show would like interview people while they were at work?

And they're always too busy.

They're always too busy.

I got to get somewhere.

Yeah, yeah.

Like

this murder you're investigating is a big inconvenience to me.

I have to show a house.

Yeah, exactly.

Are we done?

Are we done?

Exactly.

I had just watched an episode where they were questioning these guys that were loading trash into like a garbage truck.

Yep.

They did not stop loading their trash.

No.

They're going to keep, they're annoyed.

I'm busy here.

I got to keep the truck moving.

Always.

Always.

I had this in my brain.

In the script, it said, they question a real estate agent as she is setting out her signs for the day with the little flag, her showing signs.

Yeah.

Right?

You know those things.

Lady.

I'm not even joking.

I think I literally just saw this episode.

Are you kidding?

Yeah, there was a blonde woman and she had to be blonde because that was part of the plot.

Yeah.

By the way.

Yeah.

And she was talking to them while putting out the little sign for selling the house.

Okay.

Oh my God.

I saw the part you didn't get.

Okay.

So I go in there and I'm like, okay, I got this.

So it's the casting agent.

She's sitting across from her desk.

I was so nervous, but I was like, I got this.

I got this.

Literally, it's three lines.

It's like three or four lines.

That's it.

All I had in my brain was, you will not interrupt me from putting out my real estate sign.

Yeah.

That's the energy.

Jenna in this woman's office, I moved two chairs out of my way.

Her chairs.

Her chairs.

I had to put up your sign.

I moved them.

And then when we started the scene, I am setting things out, setting it out, moving things.

Busy.

Busy.

I'm moving things.

And it must have been really distracting.

She said, you know what?

I'm going to stop you.

Oh, no.

You never want to hear that.

No.

She was like, you're doing too much.

Okay.

You're doing too much.

Stop moving things around and just deliver the lines.

And I said, okay.

This went into my brain as don't touch her chairs, but do some great space work.

Yeah.

Mime it.

Now I mime putting out real estate signs.

Mime, mime, mime, mime, mime, mime.

I must have just looked ridiculous.

Yeah.

I didn't get the part.

I did too much business.

You know who's been on Lawn Order?

Who?

Rain Wilson.

Oh.

He plays a creepy janitor.

Oh, I need to see it.

During one of my marathons, I was just sitting there and I was like, oh, it's Rain!

Rain, there he is.

You know who else has been on?

Jackie DeBoten.

Ah!

Yeah, she was just on in the marathon I watched.

Jackie?

Well, if I ever get to audition for Law and Order again, I'm not going to do a lot of business.

Don't do it.

Finally, Rebecca Prince, the little girl, was played by Emily Evan Ray, and she's going to come back in a couple of episodes, actually.

Emily recently produced and directed a documentary called Stop the Bleed about the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

My gosh.

Emily was born and raised in Parkland and she made the movie to give a voice to the family, friends, and the community who were affected.

She won the Audience Award at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival for Best Documentary.

Wow.

Yeah, that's what she's been up to.

That's amazing.

Yes.

Well, on that note, I think we should take a break and then we'll be back to join the group at Dunder Mifflin because they have more to say.

There's a big debate going on.

This podcast is sponsored by Squarespace.

Today I had lunch with Ileana, who does our website, and we talked about the shop feature on our Squarespace website.

We can't wait.

We have some new merch coming and we're going to have a new little dropdown feature.

But this is the great thing about Squarespace.

We have been using it for years and it continues to grow with our business.

There's so many great templates and tools on Squarespace that you can design the perfect website for your business.

It's really an all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online.

Whether you're just starting out, which we were years ago, or as you start to evolve your brand and add more things to your website, Squarespace is there for you.

They make it easy to create a beautiful website, engage with your audience, and sell anything from products to content to time, all in one place.

And you know, every dream needs a domain.

Squarespace Domains makes it easy to find the best name for your business at one fair, all-inclusive price.

No hidden fees or add-ons required.

Head to squarespace.com slash office ladies for a free trial.

And when you're ready to launch, go to squarespace.com slash office ladies to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.

The State Farm Personal Price Plan gives you options to choose from to help you find the right amount of coverage for you.

And you know what?

Choosing from options?

You know I love options.

They make me happy.

You know why I love mini desserts?

It's because I don't want to pick one thing.

Options.

This is what's so cool about State Farm, because they help you make the right choice for you and to help you save for the things you really want because of the options.

The State Farm Personal Price Plan can help you create an affordable price when you choose to bundle home and auto insurance.

You have options to choose from to help best fit your needs.

Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with the personal price plan.

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state.

Coverage options are selected by the customer.

Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state.

Well, we're back in the bullpen, okay?

And the debate is still going on, the hot or not.

There's a whole debate about what is attractive hot.

Right.

Kevin has a lot to say, the most ever.

But first, Jim is going to comment that, you know, sometimes we forget to think of celebrities as real people.

Kevin sort of says it's a gut thing, right?

And then Jim gets all up in Kevin's ear and gives like a husky whisper.

Soultry paints a picture of Hillary Swank coming up to him.

We got so much mail about John Krasinski's husky voice to Kevin in this episode.

It was like

just,

I was too shy to put it in my document.

Oh, come on.

Give me one nugget, something you remember someone saying.

One nugget.

Basically, this woman said,

what?

John Krasinski could debate anything in my ear if he uses that voice.

It was so funny to me.

But I did write down this one because Laura B.

needed a soapbox moment, so I thought I'd give it to her.

Okay, Laura.

Laura says this: It always bothers me that when Stanley asks why they're making a distinction between beautiful and hot, Kevin says,

A painting can be beautiful, but I don't want to bang a painting.

But later in the episode, Kevin turns around and tells Jim to respect the game after Jim narrates the saucy scenario with Hillary Swank.

And Kevin says, no, it's, is she hot?

Not would you bang her?

But he just used the same phrase to explain why he wouldn't bang a painting.

Kevin, you can't use the same argument on different sides.

That's what Laura B says.

She says, you respect the game, Kevin.

Yeah, Kevin.

Laura, we hear you.

Angela has been over in accounting.

She hasn't wanted to participate, but she can't take it anymore.

All right?

Kevin holding court like this, she's had it.

She gets up and she says, okay, I wasn't going to dignify this discussion by getting involved, but I don't even get the discussion.

Hot is a temperature, people, but Kevin deserves to lose for what he said.

So yes, she's hot.

She's hot as heck.

She's a female Boris Becker.

I love that Boris Becker is it for Angela Martin.

Who knew?

I know.

I didn't even realize Angela Martin was a tennis fan.

Clearly.

Yeah.

Well, y'all, Boris Becker was a German tennis player who shot to stardom when he won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 1985.

It was significant because he was only 17 years old and he was the first unseated player and the first German to win the Wimbledon singles title, as well as the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion.

It was huge.

I watched watched it with my mom.

My mom's a big, big tennis player.

She's phenomenal.

She was ranked by the USTA by her age group.

I spent my whole childhood on a tennis court.

Wow.

Yeah.

My mom is.

I did not know that about your mom.

My mom's a badass tennis player.

We're a big tennis family, guys.

There are two things that are always on at our house, either the weather or tennis, because my mom has the tennis channel.

Yeah.

And we'll watch old games.

Oh, I'd love it when Boris Becker would play Stefan Eggberg because my mom had shown me old games of Bjorn Borg and he was the other big Swede.

There was Stefan and Bjon Borg and Bjon Borg would play John McEnroe.

Speaking of, Boris Becker played John McEnroe and it's one of the longest games in tennis history.

It was the Davis Cup.

It was six hours and something minutes.

Can you imagine playing tennis for six hours?

No.

Unbelievable.

I can't imagine playing tennis for six minutes.

So

anyway, Boris Becker does it for Angela Martin.

I think we should go back to Prince Family Paper, lady.

We forgot to mention that Dwight has come in.

He's going to pretend to get a job there.

He says, fire your son.

I'll be your son.

You can visit him on the weekends.

I know.

He comes in like a bull in a china cabinet.

And he's going to explain to Mr.

Prince just how awful his current boss is, you know, because he says, why are you looking for a new job?

And he's like, well, my current boss is cruel, terrible.

Meanwhile, Michael's kind of walking around.

He wants to get a photograph photograph of their kind of territory map over there by Mrs.

Prince.

Yeah.

And then he offers to help her granddaughter with a math problem.

I have to say, when I was watching these scenes, I was just so impressed with the detail that went into this little set.

I know.

Well, I was emailing with Michael Gallenberg about this particular set, and he said everything you see, they had to bring in.

Crazy.

Crazy.

I loved all the details, too.

Well, I noticed on that little girl's desk, did you see it?

She had her own name plate.

I know.

It says Rebecca.

I know.

And also on the desk are all of these little like hand-painted ceramic animals, like the kind that your granddaughter would give to you.

And also I noticed on the wall, there was one of those photo collages, love framed photos.

They had clearly asked the actors to bring in some pictures.

And all of those details to me just like really set this up as a family business, and it made the whole storyline even more heartbreaking.

No, they had a whole family photo wall.

I zoomed in, one is like a wedding photo,

and then there's like your grandson in his baseball uniform holding his baseball bat.

Yeah, and then there was a big painting like your kids do at preschool where they take their hands and put it in paint and then they make their handprints into flowers.

Yes, just like the most amazing details.

I feel like this is Michael's true dream office because it is a real family.

Yes, Angela, you're so right.

He wants his office to be his family.

And this office is a family.

I know.

Well, that's going to weigh on his heartstrings.

Well, as he wraps up his visit, he gets Mr.

Prince to just hand him a list of their top clients.

Oh, Mr.

Prince, he's just so trusting.

He's like, listen, if you want to see we do a good job, here's all of our references.

Here's all of our clients.

Well, Dwight and Michael immediately start licking their lips.

Yeah.

Time to get out of there.

Time to get out of there.

Dwight says, sir, can you give me a ride home?

Michael's like, yeah.

And then they sprint.

They walk.

Hurry, hurry, hurry to the car.

Get out, peel out, peel out.

Because they know they got all the info.

Yes.

Well, as they're trying to flee, Michael runs over like the parking curb.

He runs on with a bumper.

Yeah, I don't know what you call that.

What do you call that?

It's like a partition.

It's like the cement block so you don't go into the other spot.

I've done it.

I've done it, but I haven't backed back over it.

No, of course.

Once you realize you go over it, just keep going.

Just keep going.

Well,

I asked Randy, how did we do this stunt?

What did he say?

He said we had two different identical cars.

One that was totally normal and one that was pre-rigged with a damaged bumper.

So Steve never damaged a car.

And if you notice, the camera stays inside the car on Dwight and Michael.

So what Steve was actually driving over were just a couple of sandbags.

Well, it totally sold it.

It did.

And they had to add all that kind of crunching effect in editing.

So yeah, fakey cement thing was actually sandbags and sound effects.

The Prince family hears this commotion and they come running out.

And of course, Mr.

Prince, because he's so sweet, offers to fix the bumper.

And they're like, no, no, no, wait, well, wait, no, please let us, we'll get a tow truck.

And he's like, oh, no, they're too expensive.

I got it.

And Jenna, this scene made me think of my dad.

It made me think of my dad, too, because of the duct tape.

My dad would fix anything with duct tape.

Same!

My dad did this with my first car.

The handle on my glove box broke.

Okay.

My dad duct taped it.

You know what it's making me think of?

What?

Josh's duct tape is zip ties.

All over the house.

Your husband zip ties it.

Our dads would duct tape it.

Yeah.

My dishwasher tray has been zip-tied for four years.

It finally fell apart.

We had to get a new dishwasher.

But you can pretty much fix anything with duct tape.

Pretty much.

Including a whole bumper.

So now they're in the car.

They're going to head back.

Dwight still is celebrating.

He wants to do high-fives.

He calls them the soccer family.

I know.

Dwight is that like young kid on the soccer field who doesn't know when to stop.

Yeah.

Like you scored the goal.

Now stop taunting.

Yeah.

All right.

Exactly.

Michael is having some regrets.

Yeah.

Dwight tries to high-five Michael and Michael's like not having any of it.

So back in the office, Toby is studying Hillary Swank.

Pamba's going to make a speech.

She's going to appeal to the ladies of the office.

Yeah.

What?

Are we going to let the Kevins of the world decide things for us?

And then Oscar projects this picture of Hillary Swank's face with all this grid on it, right?

Yeah.

And he talks about coinophilia.

The symmetry, right?

Right of the face.

So coinophilia is this,

stay with me here, evolutionary hypothesis for explaining why certain animals seek mates that look a certain way.

And it proposes that animals, including humans, find the symmetry of features most attractive.

I read all about it.

I barely understood it.

Okay.

It was very wordy.

But in ancient Greece, they created something called the golden ratio of beauty, or phi.

It's a mathematical equation.

And it says if your face possesses a specific set of ratios of distance between the different features on your face, They believed it could be mathematically proven that you had a perfect face.

This equation is what Da Vinci used when he was creating his Virtruvian man.

Oh.

That is what Oscar's, I think, really talking about.

I think he's talking about ratios.

I don't think he's really talking about coinophilia.

Stanley's going to address the group, and he makes a really moving speech about how he's trying to be more optimistic in life.

And in years past, he might have been critical, but he's not going to be that person anymore.

No, I liked this speech.

I did too.

You know, he's saying, why are we doing this to one another?

Let's just live our lives, basically.

Yeah.

Andy calls for a final vote on Hillary Swank's hotness.

It's another tie.

We discover, like, this is what happens.

People just argue their position.

They don't listen.

That's what Oscar says.

Yeah, no one's moved.

No one's moving.

But.

Michael gets back to the office during all of this.

He's clearly worked up.

He goes in his office with Dwight.

They shut the door.

He doesn't want to go through with it.

Yeah.

Dwight knows that Michael is bailing, so he's going to try his best to convince Michael that what they did was right.

And of course, he's going to use the one argument that will clearly point this out to Michael, which is a Lord of the Rings analogy.

Dwight says there was a terrible war.

Ugh, so many died.

Far too many died.

But if Frodo hadn't destroyed the ring, then goodness itself might have died.

I didn't understand that.

I was Michael.

I have questions.

I wrote them down.

Okay, I thought you might.

Listen, I am not a Lord of the Rings expert.

I don't want to get mail, guys.

I just am a fan.

I've seen the movies multiple times.

I've read some of the books.

It's a big commitment to get through them all.

Okay.

I have not gotten through them all.

Okay.

Well, here's my first question.

Okay.

Who is the Lord of the Rings?

Okay.

Is it Frodo?

No.

Is it the guy with the beard?

No, it's not like a one person.

What is the ring?

Well, it's called the One Ring, right?

The One Ring to Rule them all.

Okay.

Oh, Lord.

Okay.

All right.

Where do I even start?

First of all, here's what I want to say.

I know the battle that Dwight's referencing.

I'm pretty sure it's the Battle of the Black Gate, right?

Which is the big major battle for the War of the Ring.

They fought it right in front of the gate, and they were trying to distract the Eye of Sauron because the Eye of Sauron tracks whoever holds the ring, and Frodo had the ring, and Frodo was trying to get to Mount Doom to drop it into the lava lake thing, right?

That's the one place it can be destroyed.

Why do we have to get rid of it?

Why is he destroying it?

Okay, because it's innately evil.

I'll explain.

Okay, so it's called the Lord of the Rings,

but it's one ring.

So it shouldn't be, why it's not called Lord of the Rings.

Okay, okay.

Okay, so Bilbo Baggins, right?

Oh, my God.

He found the ring.

Gollum had been hiding it.

This is a really bad overview from me.

Anyway, he gave it to Frodo.

And, you know, Gandalf realized that Bill Baggins, like when he had the ring, it kind of made him a different person.

So Gandalf was like, something's up with that, you know.

But

there was this inscription.

When you take the ring and you put it in the fire, because just fire can't kill it.

Dragon fire can't kill it.

Not even dragon fire.

No, it won't melt the ring.

But when you put it like in the fire, it has an inscription and it's written, I think is it in elfish, guys?

Okay, don't write me.

I believe so.

Thank you, you, Sam.

When it's translated, the inscription says, and I did look this up, so I got it right, one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

So the ring is essentially evil in nature, because it's an extension of Sauron, okay?

And Sauron's like, bad.

He's bad, bad.

But anyway, Frodo ultimately,

you know, puts it in the lava lake thing, and it finally is destroyed.

So, lava is hotter than dragon fire.

Well, no, it had to go to Mount Doom specifically.

It's a special lava because that's where Sauron made it.

Oh, so it had to go back to where it came from, right?

Sort of.

Yeah, it could only sort of melt into its original source material.

Yeah, I think so.

Here's a cool thing.

You know, can I just, before, I know we're talking about the ring, but at the end of this, are you going to tell me who the Lord of the Rings is?

No, because it's the the rings.

It's no one lord.

It's not one lord.

Sam.

Okay, well, so originally they make a bunch of rings.

Yes.

There's nine.

There are several rings.

Nine for the men, some for the elves, some for the dwarves.

Right.

And the one ring can rule them all.

That's what makes it so dangerous.

Right.

And I guess, I mean, technically, the lord of all the rings would be Sauron, who made it.

Well, because he made the one ring.

Yes.

If you were to get this ring, you would be the lord of all the rings, but it will corrupt you and make you evil.

And that's what happens.

It damages people.

Smeagle the golem.

It'll.

Yeah, and the humans, the humans, it makes them like...

Yeah, it makes you insane and murderous and jealous and awful.

I mean, that sounded good, actually, Sam.

That was, you made that interesting.

Oh, my God.

I'm sitting right here.

I mean, I was like, while I was listening to that, I was like, huh, that sounds like really Shakespearean and sort of like, maybe I'd like it.

Maybe read the books.

Maybe you'd like the books better than the movies because you lose interest when things get fantastical and you could just flip a few pages past that.

I don't know.

Well, Michael is not moved by Dwight's Lord of the Rings logic.

Yeah, he's like you.

He's like, nah, I don't know.

Okay, whatever.

I mean, you know, he's going to sprint out of the office with the piece of paper.

He's going to destroy it.

I assumed he was going to run to the shredder.

Yeah.

No.

He runs all the way outside to his car.

But shoot, he forgot his keys.

Meanwhile, Dwight is chasing him, trying to get it from him.

He gets his keys and then goes back out.

And we know how elaborate it was to shoot that because all of those places, the stairwell, the hallway, they're all in different locations in different buildings.

Oh, yeah.

So they would have to reset up and then make those guys run and then move and set up and make those guys run.

They did such a good job of selling how tired they were because they only ever really had had to run for short distances.

Right, right.

It was not actually all tied together.

In the end, Dwight is like, Michael, you have to do this because if we don't do this, someone will do this to us.

It will happen.

Yeah.

Did you see the piles of faky snow outside in the parking lot?

I did.

Nice touch.

Nice touch.

Ultimately, Michael agrees to call Wallace and give him the Prince Paper Client list.

And he realizes he's not a shark.

No.

it broke my heart that he gave him the list.

I know.

I was really rooting for Michael to destroy the list.

There's going to be a callback to it.

Oh, it's brutal.

Brutal.

Michael has a talking head.

He shares it's a bittersweet moment.

There was an alt-talking head.

I have to play it, guys.

It's in deleted scenes.

The last line of it made me spit out my iced tea as I was watching it.

Okay.

I've always been intrigued with the idea of ruling with an iron fist.

And it is good for ruling.

But you know what it's not good for?

For caressing the face of a child.

Or making love to a woman with your hands.

Or thumb wrestling.

Or

hanging out in the rain.

Or if you walk through a magnet store, you get covered in magnets.

Oh.

well

i'm done

no more iron fisting for me

oh he is so ridiculous

how did steve get through that i don't how did he get through the line about walking through a magnet store i don't know

All of it.

It's so ridiculous.

It made me laugh.

I was like, everybody wants to hear this.

How would they pick?

How would they, all of these are so good.

How do they get in the editing room?

They have to pick one.

We have to ask Greg about that sometime.

I want to hear more about their process.

Pick things.

I mean, I know they would bring us in sometimes and ask our opinion, but it feels like every episode they were having to make these decisions.

Well, Michael ends up ultimately being the tiebreaker.

So we do have a winner.

Yes, he very casually says, she's hot.

Yeah.

And then our team wins.

Our team won.

And we had a lot lot of tangents in this guys.

We did.

We hope you enjoyed it.

This is just a window into our search history, guys.

You're welcome.

We will be back next week with stress relief, part one, and an epic cold open that I can't wait to talk about.

Save Panda!

I can't wait.

We'll see you next week.

See you next week.

Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.

Office Ladies is produced by Earwolf, Jenna Fisher, and Angela Kinsey.

Our show is executive produced by Cody Fisher.

Our producer is Cassie Jerkins.

Our sound engineer is Sam Kiefer.

And our associate producer is Ainsley Bubico.

Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.

For ad-free versions of Office Ladies, go to stitcherpremium.com.

For a free one-month trial of Stitcher Premium, use code Office.

So, one of the hardest parts about business-to-business marketing is reaching the right audience.

And when you want to reach the right professionals, you need to use LinkedIn ads.

LinkedIn has grown to a network of over 1 billion professionals, and that's where it stands apart from other ad buys.

You can target your buyers by job title, industry, company, role, seniority, skills, company revenue, all in one place to reach the professionals you want to reach.

So you can stop wasting budget on the wrong audience and start targeting the right professionals only on LinkedIn ads.

You know how sometimes you get an ad and you're like, Was this for me?

Who was sending this to me?

Well, with LinkedIn ads, that's never going to happen.

LinkedIn will even give you an extra $250 credit on your next campaign so you can try it yourself.

Just go to LinkedIn.com slash office.

That's linkedin.com/slash office.

Terms and conditions apply only on LinkedIn Ads.