Second Drink: Did I Stutter?

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8 • 88.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re breaking down Did I Stutter? When Stanley snaps at Michael, Michael tries to stand up for himself as his manager. Meanwhile Dwight buys Andy’s car, and Pam has to forgo contact lenses and wear her backup glasses to work. Angela rocks her original Did I Stutter? shooting draft, Jenna does a deep dive on Mad Libs and the ladies reveal The Office writing staff’s mantra: “small, real, relatable”. This is a wonderful episode that definitely doesn’t sound like noise coming out of an ugly scientist. 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 Did I Stutter?
0:05.7	I wanted to kick us off, Jenna, because we got a lot of mail about this episode.
0:11.2	Many people wrote in to say that the phrase, did I stutter, is offensive and should not be used.
0:17.3	Some people said that while they could see a buffoon like Michael Scott using this phrase,
0:23.0	they were surprised that Stanley used it. And it's the title of the episode. Yeah. I mean,
0:30.8	I think that's all valid. Yeah. I do too. It's definitely an outdated phrase, for sure. And, you know, it makes me think of something else from my childhood that people also used
0:42.9	to do if you couldn't hear them.
0:44.8	Like, if they said something and you said what.
0:47.9	Okay.
0:48.7	Right?
0:49.0	Because that's what happens in the episode.
0:50.6	Yeah.
0:51.1	And then Stanley's like, did I stutter?
0:53.3	Right.
0:53.9	Another thing that someone might do is sort of like mimic the vocal pattern of a deaf person,
0:59.3	like to mock you for not being able to hear them or whatever.
1:02.2	Right.
1:02.7	Well, you know, my sister wears hearing aids.
1:06.4	So did my grandfather and my aunt and uncle were deaf.
1:08.7	And it always kind of like, I don't know,
1:11.5	I didn't like it.
1:12.7	Right.
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