Second Drink: The Convict

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.8 • 87.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This week we’re breaking down The Convict. We reached out to this episode’s director, Jeffrey Blitz, and actor Wayne Wilderson, to get their memories and insights of this episode. We start with a haunted hotel story, the ladies discuss Pig Latin and Jenna explains the language of Ab. Then we get the origins of Prison Mike, and the scoop on how hard it was to get through those conference room scenes without breaking or sweating. To wrap it up, we discuss the scene with Andy singing Rainbow Connection and get some final insights from Jeffrey Blitz. Tanks for listening! It’s been a good life! 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	Hello and welcome to your second drink of the convict.
0:05.2	You guys put on your purple bandanas because it's time for prison mic.
0:09.2	Oh, prison Mike, who might be one of Michael Scott's most legendary alter ego characters.
0:15.8	I mean, if we're going off of Halloween costumes, I would say that's one I see a lot.
0:19.4	A lot for sure.
0:20.5	Well, we got a letter from
0:22.1	Warwick S in Springville, Utah. It was the most wonderful letter. Thank you so much. And it included
0:30.0	an amazing deep dive based on one of your shares from when we broke down the convict, Angela.
0:36.0	So I'm sure you remember that you explained that there was a deleted talking head
0:40.2	where Michael talks about the time a person dressed as an owl came to his school.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:45.9	And this is going to explain sort of the origin of prison Mike.
0:50.0	Well, they added this to the Peacock Superfan episode of The Convict.
0:54.9	In our breakdown, you read it, but I thought maybe we should hear it.
0:58.3	Okay.
0:58.6	When I was just a little kid, we had an assembly at school, where a giant owl came out and gave a very impassioned speech about giving hoots and not polluting.
1:18.6	And you know what? I never polluted again. It was right then that I realized the power of saying things as a character.
1:29.9	People listen to you when you were wearing an elaborate costume or speaking in a voice that is not yours.
1:43.2	It was an amazing find, Angela, and I love that they've added it back to the Peacock episode.
1:49.1	It explains so much.
1:50.3	I know.
1:51.3	Well, Warwick wanted us to know that this owl character is real.
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