Office Ladies

Dwight is Kerrigan from Starcraft.

It's like a real-time strategy game, Jenna.

This episode was so impactful on our relationship because when we got our puppy a few months ago, Jason wanted to give her the name Kerrigan.

Not only that, he found a book. There was only one in existence about how to plan the perfect garden party. It's by James Trickington.

He got it for only $2. The only copy.

He makes that clear and he's going to follow it to the letter on how to make this amazing garden party.

Jim has a talking head and guess who James Trickington is? It's Jim.

The first brownie recipe is believed to belong to Fanny Farmer.

The book's publisher was a company called Little Brown and Company, and they didn't think that the cookbook would do any sales.

The book was so popular that it is still in print over 100 years later.

It has been through multiple reprints and now it's called the Fanny Farmer Cookbook.

And when she was the principal of the school, she released a cookbook called the Boston Cooking School Cookbook.

And he thought, well, what if we put a bomb on a bus?

Lady, I could not stop laughing because I have a little bit of backstory about the album Automatic for the People.

You do know this album. You do. I promise you.

It came out while I was in college in October 1992.

Did you listen to it just so much?

It starts with this piano. The song is called Night Swimming.

One afternoon while walking home from school, quirky 10th grader Becky Walters finds a wounded pegasus in the woods, and she becomes the Horse Flyer.

The Horse Flyer, we find no listings for a publication with this exact title with the U.S. Library of Congress or the U.S. Copyright Office, and a general web search found no listings for a prominent publication with this exact title. We were given clearance to proceed.

And Jennifer Weiner is an American writer who among other things wrote the novel In Her Shoes, which was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine.

I am a huge Woody Allen fan. Although I've only seen ants, but I'll tell you something. What I respect about that man is that when he was going through all of that stuff that came out in the press about how ants was just a rip off of a bug's life, he stayed true to his films or at least the film that I saw, which again was ants.

I thought bugs life was better, much better than ants.

He's a huge Woody Allen fan. Okay, that's a surprise for Michael Scott.

Although he's only seen Ants, which is a minor animated movie that Woody Allen is only a voice in, a very weird one-off in Woody Allen's career. He didn't write or direct it or even appear on camera in it.

That's how he knows Woody Allen is from Ants.

Angie, that is the Billy Joel song, Running On Ice.

Randy said it cost us $40,000 for that song and that montage of Michael doing his Bowflex and mopping the ice.

I recently read this book and thought you would really love it as it is a whole book of deep dives written very comedically.

It's called Quackery, A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything.

I marked my favorite part about the origins of the phrase, blowing smoke up your ass.

I will never ever- Something that does nothing to help you.

I will never ever say that lightly ever again.

I haven't actually seen it, but I have seen the firm and I am planning on renting The Pelican Brief.

The movie, The Devil Wears Prada, was based on a book written by Lauren Weisberger and she's from Scranton.

In Catcher in the Rye, Holden says that his loaded grandmother has been losing her marbles a little bit and has been sending him money for his birthday multiple times a year.

It's just a happy coincidence.

It was a fantasy novel. It has dragons in it.

It was one of my favorite books of the year.

It's about like this world. I mean, you had me at dragons. And there's this gal and she has to go to this military training. And not everybody lives through the training, Angela.

And I feel like I learned so much. We can actually, we can link to it in our show notes. But just to rewatch this episode right now and hear that line, I mean, it just, yeah, it had a lot, it had a lot of added poignancy for me.

And it's just, it's a really powerful book.

It's a memoir. It's about, it's the story of this lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, and how he helps to overturn the sentence of a man who's on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But it also goes into ways that our criminal justice system is in need of reform.

This song makes me sad and so does the book, The Giving Tree. Always makes me sad.

Oh, I was in Into the Woods, another Sondheim.

Another Sondheim masterpiece.

I learned that she has read Lonesome Dove three times and that her butt refuses to quit.