Second Drink: Blood Drive

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.8 • 88.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re breaking down Blood Drive! Michael throws a Lonely Hearts Club party at the office for Valentine’s Day, hoping the woman he met earlier at the blood drive shows up. Meanwhile Jim, Pam, Phyllis and Bob Vance (of Vance Refrigeration) go on a double date that ends in Phyllis needing to chug a bunch of water. Katie Aselton sends in clips on what it was like to play the mysterious glove women, Jenna does a deep dive on blood drives, and Angela discusses the new controversial trend of solo moons. This episode is so great, it’s going to inspire single people to hop back into the marina and get hit by cupid’s sparrow.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to our second drink of Blood Drive. In this episode, we get to hear from
0:07.9	Katie Azleton who played the adorable gal in the Bloodmobile with Michael, and we got some really
0:13.6	great behind-the-scenes tidbits from producer Randy Cordray. All right, well, let's start
0:18.7	with this question from Romano H from Northridge, California.
0:22.9	Hi, Angela and Jenna. I was watching the superfan version of Blood Drive, and Phyllis talks about
0:27.1	how she won't let Bob send her flowers to work on Valentine's Day. It was so funny, were there any
0:33.3	alts for it? Okay. First of all, don't you just love that people like, Jenna, they just know the language of the show. They're like, were there alts for it. Okay. First of all, don't you just love that people like, Jenna, they just know the
0:39.1	language of the show. They're like, were their alts? Yes. They know candy bag. All of it.
0:44.8	You started background catch, which we get in letters. I love it. I love it too. Well, Romano,
0:50.4	thank you so much for writing in. You know, I hadn't seen the superfan version of this episode, but after reading your question, I went and watched this talking head specifically.
0:59.3	It's super funny, and I actually want to hear it, and then we're going to discuss. Okay.
1:05.1	I learned my lesson years ago. No flowers on Valentine's Day. This place is full of player haters.
1:12.6	Oh my gosh. It's so funny because, yes, there's that Valentine's Day episode where flowers just keep coming to Phyllis.
1:22.0	Yeah, and everyone gets really pissed at her. Okay. Well, Romano, to answer your question, that talking head that's been added
1:29.3	back into the superfan was actually the one and only candy bag alt that they wrote for Phyllis,
1:36.7	and they picked it over the written one. Here's how it was scripted. Phyllis talking head about
1:42.6	flowers. I learned my lesson years ago. No flowers on
1:46.3	Valentine's. Not around here. Too much hate. It's no wonder they're all alone.
1:51.3	Oh. Okay. Same idea, different spin. Same idea, but maybe they went with the less snarky one.
1:58.6	Well, we also got this question from Natasha S in India who said,
2:02.8	was there an alternate storyline where Michael unexpectedly meets the girl from the blood drive?
2:09.5	Like, was there going to be a happy ending, basically? I know. I mean, I was so hopeful for that,
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