Pam And Angela Are Starting Their Own Podcast About The Office
Source – Get your Dundie Awards ready: The Office alumni Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) and Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin) are hosting a new podcast breaking down every single episode of the NBC show. The podcast “Office Ladies” will premiere Oct. 16 on the Stitcher network Earwolf, according to a Wednesday press release. On “Office Ladies,” Fischer and Kinsey will break down each episode of The Office on a weekly basis, sharing their memories from set and answering fan questions.
“As we close in on the 15th anniversary of the show, it seemed like a great time to share our stories and behind-the-scenes trivia with fans,” Fischer said in a release. She added that they’d also chat on the podcast about things like their friendship over the years and going on Target runs together. “Office Ladies” will be available on all major podcast networks, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
I’m still gonna subscribe, but we’re definitely gonna need to rotate other characters in here if we’re gonna make this work. That said, I’m also gonna say that I’m starting to worry about The Office’s legacy because of this and other shit like this tampering with it. Remember the “reboot”? What a train wreck that was. John Halpert and Jenna Fischer literally both said that no one even contacted them about it, THEN there were whispers about it still being called “The Office” but with all new characters? Um, what? Are we really giving this show the Sandlot 2 treatment right now? We’re seriously gonna let Oscar keep doing these State Farm commercials while Angela tries to sell us all hair-dye? Just genuinely disappointing stuff all across the board.
Special edition part 2 of this blog:
Now look, me and you can sit here and go basic bitch together talking about how we spend 15 minutes searching on Netflix only to watch The Office every night or about how we use it in our Hinge profiles as live bait, OR we can go the path less taken and talk about the time I gained inside access with Steve Carrell and the boys for Make-A-Wish when I was a kid. Pretty rollercoaster sentence back there, but if you wanna feel sorry for me there’s a million reasons to other than that. Long story short – there was one point in my life where my existence was on the line and my last request was to meet up with Dwight and the boys and that’s exactly what dying me did. Here’s some of the highly-secret insight that Stevie (what his friends call him) and the cast/crew gave me:
1) During the talking heads segments, Michael is one of the only characters who’s filmed in front of a window facing the outdoors as opposed to one facing towards the inside of the office. This is to symbolize that he’ll be making his way out of the office and onto bigger and better one day.
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Once the writers made it clear that Jim and Pam had a future together (with potential to make it out of the office) they started getting the outdoor window treatment too.
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2) Toby, Ryan, and Kelly are all placed in the annex because they’re the writers of the show. When scenes were taking place on the main office set, they got to stay off-camera in the annex so that they’d be able to idea-shoot and finish their scripts for next week.
–2b) Toby is also the EXACT same person on the show as he is in real-life. I’ll never be able to forget when I met him. Steve Carrell said, “Paul, this is our Make-A-Wish guest for today,” to which Toby replied “Oh hey….everything going good? (award-winning awkward pause) I mean…everything going good here, not in real—” Steve cutting him off “—Paul why don’t you head back to the annex.” Great stuff. Love when we all used to chop it up together.
3) Weird fact but when I was snooping around I realized that the window behind Michael’s desk is fake.
It’s an actual window, but there’s a weird screen with a blue sky and buildings painted on it. This is because the floor of the building they film on is the 1st floor and not the 3rd or whatever it’s supposed to be in the show. Whenever they have to do scenes involving that window, like when Michael smashes it with a chair during the fire, they have to use Michael’s replica office, located a floor above, to film it.
–3b) The elevator doesn’t actually elevate. The doors just open and close. The more you know.
4) It doesn’t take someone with Insider access to tell you this, but I can confirm for you all that the actual Poor Richard’s is a straight dive in real life.
Some of the camera guys said they’d have to go to actual Scranton a couple times a year to get shots of the sign/outside and that the regulars would bitch to them about turning their dump into a tourist attraction. Perfectly reasonable complaint honestly. The employees at PR’s also noted that every time the out-of-owners pop in for a photo they are wildly disappointed to see nothing but a woman biker drinking Knob Creek neat at noon.
5) This is one that’s made its way to Uber Facts since my Wish trip, but still at one time was an Intern DC exclusive – Jim and Ryan were childhood friends growing up. They split ways over time and eventually both wound up meeting again on set after all those years. I don’t mean to go BuzzFeed Jonathan on you but just imagine you and your buddy from grade school both hitting it big and getting reunited that way. Don’t tell me that’s not wild god damnit.
6) One of the writers told me that Meredith was originally supposed to DIE after Michael hit her with his car. Dark, but Michael rushing the altar at her funeral to give his impromptu eulogy would have been laugh out loud funny and you know it.
8) As Stevie and I were shooting the shit, he mentioned that Phyllis used to be an NFL cheerleader. Now, I love Phyllis like an aunt so I mean no disrespect, but you have to understand why I initially thought Steve was looking into my eyes and lying when he first broke the news. He then had to awkwardly convince me that he wasn’t kidding by showing me some suspiciously handy pictures of her from her heyday.
9) I’m pretty sure I was the 1st person to ever ask Ellie Kemper for a picture in her career. Almost was hesitant to say that because I still wanna be treated like everyone else. I visited them before the new season at that time had aired, which was Erin’s debut season, and had no idea who she was since she hand’t been introduced on the show yet (also this was obviously before Kimmy Schmidt and Bridesmaids). When I asked her she literally froze in her steps and said, “wait..you want a picture..with me?” Such a pure and genuine reaction that I now have no choice but to love everything she puts out. Not necessarily a mind-fucking fact for you, but it’s always been a solid first day of class icebreaker for me.
(Honestly couldn’t find the picture of us anywhere after I wrote that part, but it did happen.)
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That’s all I got. We’ll meet again once “Office Ladies” drops. Fingers crossed and pray.
PS- If you want to know a little more about this, specifically the me dying part, here’s an old episode of Dog Walk I was on.