Office Ladies Live: Fan Mailbag

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So earlier this year, we recorded our first ever Live Office Ladies episode. People flew in from all over, it was so crazy. This is some of our like OG Office Ladies fans that have been with us from the very beginning. We got to meet so many of you.

This collaboration is kind of perfect because later on in the episode, we are gonna talk about kisses.

Yeah, that's right.

We dive back into the debate about a certain first kiss on the office, but first, let's talk about a different kind of kiss.

Well, you know, the holidays are a time to break out your best outfits, and when it comes to candy, I'm sorry. But is there a better dressed treat than a Hershey's kiss with its sparkling festive foils?

This holiday season, you and your family will delight in decorating the house with kisses, chocolates. Dressed in shining red, green, silver foils. Their snowmen foils are even Santa hats.

The Santa hats are so cute.

My mom stole my bag of Santa hat kisses, she did story for later.

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All right.

Are you guys ready?

Yeah, okay.

Sam Can we get a scene song?

Here we go.

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 you guys.

Thank you all for being here. We know a lot of you traveled to be here. We cannot tell you how much we appreciate it. This is tears here in the first row.

Tears We have some tears.

Yeah, I know. Yeah, wait, we don't have tissues.

We don't have tissues.

That's the one thing we didn't think of, Ange.

Okay.

So this is our very first time recording a podcast in front of a live audience. Yeah, so.

Amazing, yeah.

So it might be clunky, but we'll get through it. But just seeing your faces here is just making my heart beat so fast.

This is so special.

You know, I have to document it for office ladies. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Hi hi, everybody.

So today we are going to do our Mailbag fan appreciation episode. That is why you're here. Yes, yes.

You know, so many of you have written in over the years and have just shared your stories with us.

I'm so emotional.

And we just thought it would be really fun to open up our office, ladies mailbag with you all, and we're just so happy you're here.

Yes, but first, we want to introduce you to our team. Yes, our office ladies.

All right, so first of all.

Our senior producer, Cassie Jerkins.

Cassie.

And we also have our editing and mixing engineer, Jordan Duffy.

Jordan Yay.

Our in-studio engineer, Sam Kiefer.

Sam.

And our associate producer, Ainsley Bubbaco.

They're around the corner somewhere. We have a reception little party planned for after, so you'll get to meet everyone. Everyone that helps us make the show mean so much to us, our merchandise team, Ileana, who does our website, everyone here at SiriusXM that helped make this happen today.

So we thought we would kick things off with a piece of mail about our team, a particular team member. I've gotten a lot of these letters.

You got a fan mail flurry about it.

I got a fan mail flurry about it. This one is from Marnie W. from Dallas Baby. Is that what she wrote? Dallas baby?

Dallas Baby.

Yes, Marnie said hi. In the last episode, I listened to. You said our associate producer is Ainsley Bubbaco rather than Ainsley Bubbaco, as you have been pronouncing it in all of the previous episodes.

Oh, Marnie got ya.

Did Ainsley let you know you've been saying her name? I've been intrigued by her name ever since I first heard it on your show. And I want to know all about this. Please, Marnie, I'm gonna tell you.

Yeah.

I have known Ainsley for going on 10 years. We had the same acting coach. When I was working on my book, The Actor's Life. She was one of my readers, she did the transcriptions for me. We've been friends a long time.

Because, listen, this is a Southern thing. My mom's friend is Sue Dean. Her last name is Dean. We all say Sue Dean. that's her name, Sue Dean.

Hi Sam Kiefer. Hi. Never had occasion to do this until we are at a party celebrating our 100th episode of Office Ladies, Yes.

We threw a fun dinner party because we love a party and Jenna and I thought we would get up and thank our team. And that's when Ainsley was like, by the way, you've been saying my last name wrong for a lot of episodes, I was like, Ainsley, you've been listening to them?

You've been transcribing them, Ainsley, come here.

So you didn't know any better?

And three, the show is, you know, a train that has left the station.

It's already documented. So I just thought, Why mess up a good thing?

Well, I'm very happy we are now pronouncing your last name correctly.

But oh, it is actually Babico.

No, come on.

No.

Yeah, you know what?

We're gonna open up a lot of mail with you guys, woo.

I wanna start off with something that I know you're gonna love Angela.

Okay.

This is a letter from Jovian Oregon, who did an in-depth breakdown of what it costs Jim to prank Dwight.

Yes.

For the entire series, yes, I'm always saying this like, how does he have the time?

How does he have the money? These are big pranks.

Okay, he does not break down the time, okay, but he does break down the actual cost. But he made a few caveats, so I'm gonna tell you first, he only tallied the cost of Jim's Pranks played on Dwight.

Okay, just Dwight.

He also did not factor in any loss of sales commissions.

Oh.

Due to the time spent on pranking, yes, yes, okay. And he did not consider any costs that would be part of, like office supplies or office expenses, right?

Right?

Pencils were free.

Okay, he just used office supplies, he raided the supply cabinet. Yeah, okay.

He also did not include Jim's Gooten pranks during Dwight's Bestest Munch Festival.

Okay.

In the finale, Okay, okay, all right. Finally, his prices are based on 2023 dollar value.

Okay, Joe, it's okay.

Okay.

Like, which ones?

Like the pencil one I told you about.

Oh, because of the supply cabinet, yes.

For example, in all of season one, the total amount of money spent was only $1.

So maybe I didn't have to be so grumpy at Jim. Maybe he's not blowing his salary on pranks.

Well, I don't know, you tell me in the end. Over all nine seasons, he spent $1,889.11 on pranks.

That's ridiculous.

That's ridiculous. What happened to like?

Like, just like silly string.

Well, that would have cost probably what? $1.50..

I guess it adds up, it does, it adds up.

Pranking adds up, that's right, is the moral to this story. The most expensive pranking season is season eight. In that season, Jim spent $634.25..

Wow.

Do you want to know what the single most expensive prank was? Can you guess?

Is it in season eight?

It's not, it's in season three.

Is it all the gift wrapping when he gift wrapped the whole when he made the Fakie desk?

No, I'll give you a hint. The single most expensive prank was in season three. Can you guess anybody out here have a guess?

The power line.

The cable, nope, it was not the power line. It was when he shipped Dwight's desk to Roswell, New Mexico. Oh my gosh.

Way to go, Joe, that is like, amazing.

Yes.

And the second most expensive.

Was in season eight in Free Family Portrait Studio. He estimates that, you know, when he switched Dwight's suit with a tearaway velcro suit.

Yeah.

He thinks that cost about $310. Because he had to buy a suit, he had to have a tailor sew velcro into it, and he had to tip the dry cleaner.

I am gonna title my section Y'all are so crafty. Because over the years, you have sent us so many things. From scrunchies for our pets to cross-stitched items, drawings, personalized drinkware, jewelry, homemade stationery, that's just to name a few. I'm gonna put a bunch of stuff in stories, we love to see what you guys make.

We make homemade craft.

We do not as well as these crafts.

That's true.

But I wanted to highlight Linda C because she got super crafty over the holidays. And she made us each these little ugly Christmas sweater ornaments. And Sam and Cassie, she made you one too. Wait, wait, look.

I can't.

Look at Phyllis, Santa and then Little Sweater, and then wait, hold, look, look, it's a cat, it's a cat.

Let me see this.

Oh my gosh, how cute is that?

So cute, that segues me very well into something that I received for us. Angela. I'm excited to share. We each got beautiful handmade cardigan sweaters. They are from Michelle.

That is my criteria for purchasing clothing.

Is it comfortable? Michelle goes on to say I know you gals are always cold, so hopefully this will keep you warm. This is good news. Plus, they have pockets and they are made in Winnipeg.

That looks like not something that a person could make.

Angela, here is yours, ah, I love it.

Oh, I don't know, I'm like, Oh, fly.

All right.

Well, I wanna share about Rowan, Rowan wrote in. Rowan is 16 years old and wanted to share with us that. In high school, she had really bad anxiety and she would turn to the office on rough days. In particular, season four, episodes seven through 10. And Rowan went on to say that the show feels so calming and familiar, and that because she knows the show so well. It feels like revisiting a childhood memory. I thought that was really sweet.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, Jenna, she sent you a crocheted cactus because she said you had a hard time keeping plants alive, but this one can never die.

Thank you.

And she made me a kitty cat.

That is so cute, I'm gonna put that on my desk at home. I know I have managed to keep my one plant alive that I would put in my podcasting closet when we were podcasting during the pandemic. It's the peace lily.

That's amazing, Jenna.

Thank you, we're very proud of you. thank you so much.

You know, your next challenge is an orchid. I've done an orchid lady, you've kept one alive.

Yes, because someone told me the secret, what's the secret? One ice cube once a week.

Yes, and it works. And like filtered light.

Oh, I didn't get that, no. What is filtered light?

Well, like, it's not like the blaring sun, but it's maybe like through the blinds kind of light.

Oh, okay, yeah, okay.

So that way, your orchid doesn't end up like a little stick with a hair clip. You know, well, it will do that.

It will fall off, but then it will re-bloom. Have you ever had an orchid re-bloom? Yes.

Same when was it like a monumental time in your life?

Because I kept putting the ice cube in once a week and it was months, months. But then all of a sudden a re-bloom. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life.

No, I had an orchid that was a stick with a hair clip for years and I didn't give up on it. And I was not super happy in my life. And then I moved and I put it in a new window, and maybe it was new beginnings for me, and all of a sudden it bloomed.

New beginnings for the orchid, new beginnings all around.

New beginnings, all right?

What is next, lady?

I want to talk about Catherine, who made us handmade leather journals. Do you remember I talked about Catherine and that she makes handmade leather journals? Well, she was so thrilled that she sent us each our own handmade leather journal. But I want to read you guys what she put on the envelope, she said. Attention office ladies care of Angela Kinsey.

And it's detachable so you can wear it.

Mine has a vintage cat button that she has been saving for this very moment. Also, she said. PS podcast, Idea Journal, BFFs, and people read from their old journals. She said I'll go first call me.

Oh, that's a great idea.

All right, you have a little Fakie flower.

Oh, this is beautiful.

She did say, Angela, you can write all the ridiculously stupid things you want in your journal.

Oh, and there's a place for a pencil or a pen.

I know, and these are all. This is like her hobby.

Hold on, let me find something here, Angela, because I was going to share a little bit about journaling.

You are, yes.

This is because earlier this summer I was reading The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson. You know this? This is the story of Winston Churchill's time as prime minister during World War II. And while I was reading it, I learned about something called the Mass Observation Project in England.

Okay.

It is a journaling club.

No.

Yes.

Come on.

Yes, and it's fascinating, it is fascinating. Listen to this. The Mass Observation Project was a social research organization that was started in 1937 and its purpose was to record the everyday lives of British people. Through a panel of 500 volunteer observers and journalers, they kept diaries and they replied to open-ended questionnaires about everyday life.

Right?

The mass observation project is still going on today, so if you wanted to start doing it, I just wanna say. You can go to their website. They post their prompts seasonally, and you can even go back and see all the prompts from the past. So, like, for example, in winter 1982, do you know what you're gonna be journaling about food and gardening?

Okay, yes.

Right, they had all these questions about what food do you buy? what food do you prepare? Do you prepare different food for a special occasion? Angela You could describe the bagel.

I would describe the bagel, you would, and then I might write about some hummingbirds. It all fits. Let me tell you about my rufus that keeps coming by and shoving everyone else out of the way.

His name is Rufus No, it's a type of hummingbird. oh, the Rufus hummingbird.

The Rufus Hummingbird.

I thought you had started naming them, Have you started naming them? do they have names?

No, I call them mostly like buddy, and then I have little Lady and then I need to do better with names.

Okay, you don't do you like, call somebody like Blue Belly?

Mr. Fast Wings No i No.

Like, by their personality, I'd be like, Oh, here's shy guy.

Yeah.

Yeah, you know.

That's like how my sister names her cats, like she has garage kitty because it showed up in her garage, Oh.

Yeah.

That's it, it's garage kitty.

I would maybe do that. Yeah, well, anyway, I just found it really fascinating. You know, we've always talked about, we even talked about with Billie Eilish, the value of journaling, and you read from your journal, and it's always so great. But look at this.

I absolutely love it.

Anyway, everyone keep journaling. I love journaling.

I love journaling, it's healthy, it's good for you. Also. It comes back around years later, so all right.

I'm sorry.

Oh.

Listen, I know people were mad when I didn't know what a Jedi was, I know well, I was asking earnest questions.

Well, we got a fan mail flurry about your lack of Jedi knowledge, and I'm gonna share some of it. But first, I'm gonna give a shout out to someone in the audience who made us adorable mini baby Yodas Shay.

Woo.

They are so cute.

What? oh, you have one with you, Oh my gosh.

They are so adorable. Mine hangs in my office, I see it every day, I love it, mine's on my bookshelf.

Same.

I love it. I didn't want to put it on the tree because I didn't want the cats to mess with it. It lives in my office. And also I want to read a few letters from folks who have my same passion for Star Wars that Jenna does not.

Okay.

Lauren wrote in and said Angela, if you were a Jedi, what color would your lightsaber be? and where would you be from? Oh, Lauren, Oh Lauren. Well, you know, some say that the color of your saber identifies you, right? Like Darth Vader's was red.

I'm a total geek for Star Wars.

So roundabout. Answer Lauren Yellow I would like a yellow lightsaber, please. And then as far as location, you know, I'm kind of a sucker for old school, like Forrest Moon of Endor, because I wanna hang out with the Ewoks.

I wanna go up in the trees, I wanna see their village.

And I know, listen, I know, on Kashyyyk, there's like a Tree village thing, too, but I gotta go with the Ewoks. But, you know, Jenna has no idea what I'm talking about, so.

I will admit that I don't understand a lot of what you said.

What?

Sam, you might wanna come in here for this.

What does Sam know about it?

No.

You're bringing Sam in from the booth.

I'm bringing Sam in from the booth.

Did you meet Mark Hamill? What?

Luke Skywalker.

I know who Luke Skywalker is because this lady watched Star Wars.

Stop it.

So, you know, with my broken shoulder, I have to ice several times a day.

Yeah.

So this week, while I was icing my shoulder, I watched all of Star Wars from beginning to end without falling asleep. Once in 30 minute increments, No.

You watched all the.

When you say all of all the movies, my God, no.

Okay, so Jenna Julia.

I watched Star Wars, Colon, A New Hope.

Okay.

Which I want you to know is very confusing for me as I was scrolling through all of them. Well, I have questions. Okay, I have questions, but I watched the whole thing.

Okay, and I'll say this, okay.

Because I have questions, but I want you to know I liked it.

What?

Good, what?

How many years have you been on this planet? And you were, I mean, how long have we been friends?

And you have been throwing shade at Star Wars for years. Oh my God, I really liked it so much, so that I have started Empire Strikes back.

Come on.

Which is so good, okay?

So so, what are your questions?

Here are my questions. First of all, I don't. I was like, I don't believe that she liked it. I can't, first of all.

I want to say something in my defense. So the first 23 minutes of the movie, because I looked, has no human protagonist. You meet Princess Leia for a hot second, right? And then everybody is in a costume that covers their face.

Tatooine Tatooine is a tough pill.

To meet Luke Skywalker, it takes a while. So I will say this. I was attached to R2-D2 immediately, like when they were gonna maybe not buy him.

I know he's very cute.

So I was able to hook in, but in my childhood, I never made it to Luke Skywalker.

You never made it 23 minutes.

I didn't make it 23 minutes.

Too many robots?

Because I remember, I had memories of the sand and all of that, and then I had no memories. Until the trash compactor, I think I woke up because I remembered from the trash compactor to the end.

Okay.

The middle part is great, the movie, yeah, but here are a few of my questions, okay?

Or the general?

The guy who's calling all this, the one who blows up the planet.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the death star lady. I know you're expecting us to react more, it's just that we've seen it.

Yeah, I know this is new, I know.

I know this is new to you.

Yeah, he does.

He blows up the planet.

Yeah, we're like, Yeah, it's crazy, he's a bad guy, yeah.

Yeah, that's wild. So one of my questions is, why do they wear the white outfit?

The stormtroopers mm-hmm.

Why?

Easy visibility, I guess, to be shot at.

This is not the question I saw coming from you, yeah.

Well, it's not armor, cause you can shoot right through it very easily. It seems cumbersome. They seem to move more slowly because of it, they're less agile.

You're going to have to let go of logic, yeah.

Okay, you're going to have to keep watching until they get to the Clone Wars.

Yeah, which is a whole movies about the stormtroopers and why they're the same height.

Oh well, that will be explained to me eventually if I keep going.

By the way, you watch really closely, by the time you get to that point, you're going to hate it, yeah.

I guarantee it.

If you watch really closely, I think it's in Empire Strikes Back, my friend, and I would like, watch it and rewind, watch it and rewind. One of the stormtroopers is just a little bit taller than everybody else and they're all marching through the tunnel. And he hits his head and he goes all the way back and comes back like a rubber band, like bonk.

Oh, cause he was a little bit too tall for the tunnel, yeah.

Background catch.

I have a background catch from Star Wars and I wonder if any of you noticed.

What?

One of the guys, one of the leaders of the rebels.

Mm-hmm.

That's the term.

Yes, correct.

Is explaining the information that they have gotten from the Archie.

Right, where to shoot the Death star in the middle, that's right.

He says, Princess Leia.

Oh.

He calls her Princess Leia, he doesn't call her Leia. Oh, but they left that in.

Yeah, rude, he got her name wrong. Love, love.

Well, there you have it, guys. Well, I'm honored. I'm honored that you watched it and you thought of me, yeah.

I can't believe it, Sam.

I'm in the middle of Empire Strikes back. He just fought off the wormy creature and he's looking for Yoda, yeah.

YoDa Mm-hmm. yeah, it'll soon be clearer, Sam. We need to discuss.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

We've been friends for how many years? How many years have we been friends? I don't know.

Enough?

I don't want any merch. Get ready.

I have the cutest Star Wars pajama bottom.

Oh boy, uh-huh.

I got them at target a few years ago, I don't know if they still make them, but get ready for Star Wars pajamas.

I don't want to wear it, I don't want to wear it twinning, but I might this Halloween, what?

Oh, that's a great.

The white outfit with the braid and then the necklace.

There is a chance someone might mistake you for a bride.

No.

It's kind of bridey vibe, it's a little bridey vibe.

I'm sorry if you know the movie, you won't mistake me. Oh, shade.

Now, now there's Star Wars Shade. Okay, all right.

All right, well, I think we should take a break, because when we come back, we have an audience. Question from Charles.

Yay.

You know, that traditional holiday cookie? It can be a little bit boring, but the ones with hershey kisses on top are sure to be a huge hit.

Oh, Angela, you know all about this.

You know, I do, you guys. My husband Josh made the cutest cookies, so here's the recipe He did a gingerbread cookie, right with a little bit of spice in it.

That's the one, that's the white with the little red swirl. Yes, it's my favorite, that one is my favorite.

I will bring some of these cookies in for you guys, and then everyone out there listening, I will put the recipe in our stories. It's so festive and cute, you're gonna love it and delicious.

Well, Josh is baking with kisses. I decorate with kisses because all the wrappers are so cute, you know, like they have the one with the little snowmen. And remember earlier when I said that my mom stole my Santa hat kisses.

Yeah.

So the folks at Hershey's sent both of us these amazing gift baskets full of kisses, and I had it in my kitchen. My mom came to visit me and she goes, Where did you get this bag of Santa hats? My store was out of Santa hat kisses. I need these.

She stole my bag of Santa hats. I just love that she put them in her purse. She did. She's like, these are going home with me.

It was a huge bag.

Well, you know, we took all of our Hershey kisses out of our basket and our cat Oreo took over the basket. Aw, so I got to keep the kisses, but she stole the basket.

Well, if you wanna decorate with kisses or if you wanna bake with them, check out Hershey's website. They also have a recipe on there for this adorable melting snowman cookie using the kisses.

Hershey's Heartwarming the world. Learn more at www..hersheyland..com.

Well, we are back. And, like Angela said, we have a question from Charles in our audience. Charles, I loved this question. Yeah, where are you?

There you are, hi.

All right, Charles asked, Which one-off character or guest star do you wish had a longer story arc? and what do you imagine that arc might be?

Such a good question.

This is who came to mind to me immediately.

Okay.

Michael's improv teacher Chris.

Yes.

He was played by Michael Naughton. I just I would have loved to have seen more of the improv class, but then I thought, what if in order to try to manage Michael in the improv class? Chris started reaching out to Dunder Mifflin employees to learn more about Michael, just if he invited Jim to lunch.

Yeah.

What might they talk about? I don't know.

I would love to see that lunch.

But there was another one, too. Another storyline that never went anywhere that I just wanted to see more of was Pam's administrative mentor Sue over in Vance Refrigeration, the one that Phyllis hated?

Yeah, Phyllis doesn't like her outfit.

I wanted to see more of Pam and Sue, I wanted to see Phyllis sabotage this relationship. I don't know, I would have loved to have seen that.

I love that. Okay, well, here's what I thought, Charles Okay, do you guys remember? In season six? It's St. Patrick's Day and everyone is staying late because Joe is there and Michael's like, feeling like, Oh, I can't let everyone leave. And they're there so late that the cleaning crew comes in with like music blaring.

Yes.

And then they're like, Oh, sorry, sorry. I want to know more about this cleaning crew. I was like, is there any footage of them? Did the documentary crew capture them? I want to know more about what they do after hours.

Yes, or like when Dwight would sleep on the couch, did they clean around him? Exactly exactly.

And then also, you know, we recently watched Trivia in season eight. I am obsessed with the receptionist at Sabre. Same Stephanie, like everything, she says, when she's like, That must be so frustrating for you.

Charles, We want to know if you have an answer to your question.

Thank you for having me. I kind of want to know what happened to Kevin McHale's character after he was kidnapped.

Yes, did they refuse to ever deliver pizza to us again? Yes, yes. How does he tell that story? To others? Yes.

I like it, that's a good one, I like it.

Thank you so much.

One of the things I loved about that question, too, is it just really made me think about all of the characters. That just had one-offs over the course of the nine seasons. And there are so many rich, amazing day players that came on the show.

I did also think of Maura Tierney as Mrs. California, yeah, and how much I would have loved for them to have. Maybe I don't know what if Mrs.

I know in the parking lot, I know.

She throws out the possibility.

No, I don't see it, I don't see it, but I would have loved to seen more of Mrs. California.

Yes.

So I would love to give a shout out to everyone that sends us invitations to their weddings. We get so many, I open every single one. You know, we divide up the mail, but we go through it all. I had a stack of wedding invitations.

We do divide up the mail, and I want you to know that I always make sure that Angela gets all the wax seals.

I'm very excited about that. I love a wax seal and then I also love all the little details. I'm going to share two really quickly. I just appreciate so much the thought that people put into their invites.

I really love a magnet as a save the date.

Me too, because you're not going to miss it.

No.

Yeah.

And you get a photo of people you care about, and then this, I thought, was so cute, this envelope says, with love from the future Fritzes.

And please show the wax seal. Did I say? yes, did I say?

Sorry, yes, wax seal, oh, applause for wax seal.

I love it.

I love it. So this is Katie and Jared, and they're the future fritzes. And they have a few items here, but it's all paper clipped with a little letter F.

That is so cute.

Isn't that so cute?

These are things I get excited about you guys. I don't know what it says about where I'm at in life, but you send me a paper clip in the shape of your last name, I'm going to get excited. And oh my goodness, this is something that I really want to share. So we also, obviously we get a lot of invitations to baby showers and graduations. So many young people graduated this year from high school and college and sent us their graduation invitations.

AW, that means so much to me, too, you know, Spencer? In my own way, I can relate a little bit. Back in April, I broke my shoulder, which I am still rehabbing. I've got tape on it today. It's gonna be about a year, they said, before I'll have a fully functioning shoulder.

Yeah.

Post long Covid, post surgery. And so I just wanna say to you Spencer, keep fighting, I'm over here fighting my fight. I know there's a lot of other people out there doing their thing to fight their fight. We all have something right.

Love you guys.

You know, as my dad would say, I just sit in. Gratitude a lot, you know? I'm very thankful for our friendship and that we get to do this now. I do wanna share also about couples that listen to our podcast in their courtship.

It means so much to me.

I just think it's so adorable and a lot of you write in about it, especially when you send your wedding invitations and save the dates. And I got one also, Jenna, about our audio book, So Josh and Jenny wrote in from Madison, Wisconsin. They are getting married this summer.

Bop bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop bop.

I actually, when I was going through our mailbag, I got a lot of letters from people who had never watched the office until after they read our book. Really, yeah, so, do you remember when we did the? Sharon says. So book club? Yeah, yeah, we did a Zoom.

I'm so glad, I'm so glad.

Now they've gotten like nine seasons of entertainment.

I can't even believe that that's crazy.

Yeah.

Speaking of books, you know, lady, for a long time we have talked about starting a book club. I might have our very first book.

Okay, you told me that you were gonna do this, so I want you to know. I don't know what her book is. I also have a book. Oh yeah, okay, all right.

Well, there's no way you can guess my book, there's no way.

You're never guessing my book this. well, you're not guessing my book, okay?

Okay.

Okay.

She said Dear Angela, I work at a library, and when I first saw this title, I immediately thought of you.

I'm very intrigued.

It's hot to trot, hot to trot.

No, yep, Mary goes on to say, Maybe it will inspire a plot for Mom Detective.

Which she's very much looking forward to, and I'll tell you why, Mary, I cannot wait to read this book.

Hot to Trot is part of a mystery series. No, it is not by M..C. Beaton.

Here's the summary for Hot to Trot, which, by the way, has a little mystery spyglass thingy on the front, and it says Queen of the village mystery. Here we go. Private detective Agatha Raisin immerses herself in the glittering lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy when Sir Charles Fraith is accused of murder and Agatha is named as his accomplice. A high society wedding, a glitzy masked ball and an introduction to the world of international show jumping, where the riders are glamorous, the horses are beautiful, and intrigue runs deep, leaving Agatha with a list of suspects as long as a stallion's tail.

I was gonna ask you if the hot to trot meant angry, or if it meant the other thing. How I know it to mean. But it clearly is in relation to the horses trotting.

Well, Hot to Trot is about this glitzy world of show jumping, but it's also about James Lacey being back in her heart. She's hot to trot.

Yes, can I share my book with you?

Yes.

Okay, this was a tip sent in by Leah W. after our interview with B..J. Novak.

Okay.

Mr. Maybe.

Oh, you don't wanna be a Mr. Maybe? Yeah, because in our interview, I said, I don't want a Mr. Maybe.

You did well. There's a book called Mr. Maybe I bought it. I think it came out back in, like, 1999, early 2000s, and the plot is a little dated. Okay, so here's what it says.

Okay.

And it says to Libby Mason, Mr. Wright has always meant Mr. Rich. Oh yes, so here's the thing.

Sexual prowess.

Yes, against Ed's luxurious lifestyle and unlimited retail therapy. So Libby's trying to decide between these two guys.

Oh my god, Libby, Libby, Libby.

LIBBY I just have to say, sexy, tender hearted. this is not a hard decision. you're going with sexy, tender hearted. Yeah, okay, yeah.

Well, of course we are.

I would say, yes, yes, I can't speak for everybody.

Well, I don't know.

Someone might want stodgy with benefits, I don't know, stodgy and an unlimited bank.