Second Drink: A Benihana Christmas with Rashida Jones & Jen Celotta

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.8 • 87.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Break out the nutcrackers and fire up the karaoke because we're breaking down A Benihana Christmas. This is a supersize episode and we're bringing on not one but TWO amazing guests! Actress Rashida Jones and writer Jen Celotta join us to share their memories and insights of this episode. We deep dive on the history of Benihana, and we talk about The Party Planning Committee v. The Committee to Plan Parties. Finally, we answer fan questions around Angela Martin’s siblings, some continuity errors, and who got a Dundie for 'Tallest Music Dude’. Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion Follow Us on Instagram: OfficeLadiesPod Follow Us on YouTube Follow Us on TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to our second drink of a Benihanna Christmas.
0:04.9	We had two amazing perspectives on this episode.
0:08.0	Yes.
0:08.8	Rashida Jones joins us to talk about this episode and her time on The Office.
0:14.1	Anne writer Jen Salada answered fan questions.
0:17.4	Well, I'll kick us off with this fan mail flurry, Angela.
0:20.5	In our breakdown, you shared about going to Belize with Rashida to help with ocean preservation. And you talked about how many boats the two of you were on together. So many boats. Yes. You and I both comment that you and I have never been on a boat together. Very confidently. Very confidently. Yeah. I'm like,
0:39.7	yeah, Jenna, you and I've never been on a boat. You're like, we never have. Well, Lady Bailey Kay and many
0:45.0	others wrote in to say that we were in fact on a boat together for about a week in the Boos Cruise episode.
0:50.7	It made me laugh. I know. Why didn't we think of that?
0:54.3	I don't know.
0:55.0	I don't know.
0:55.5	We had just broken it down.
0:57.0	I know.
0:57.7	We also talked about how many deleted scenes there are for this episode.
1:02.0	I wanted to share with you that many of them made it into the Peacock Superfan version.
1:06.7	That version is actually 47 minutes long.
1:10.5	Wow. I know. That is six more minutes long. Wow.
1:11.0	I know.
1:11.5	That is six more minutes of footage added to an already pretty big episode.
1:16.5	But, Angela, you said that you found something new on the DVD box set that you were all excited about.
1:22.1	Guys, she left me a message about the DVD box set.
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