Second Drink: The Duel

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8 • 88.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re breaking down The Duel! When Michael tells Andy that Angela and Dwight are having an affair, Andy and Dwight challenge each other to a duel for Angela’s hand! Jenna does a deep dive on duels, Office writer Ryan Koh calls in to share a behind-the-scenes racing accident, and Angela breaks down all the fakey items used to create the duel scene. There’s also talk of a casting sheet filled with cat headshots! And Jenna may have worn something in real life that Meredith wore in this episode… So enjoy The Duel! And remember, always keep an eye out for a Prius slowly trying to crush you. 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, everyone, and welcome to your second drink of The Duel. This might be one of my all-time
0:08.5	favorite episodes of The Office. I know I say that so often. I also just really happen to like
0:14.3	season five. Yeah, it's really solid. Well, there's just so many great moments in the duel. I love the Andy and Dwight
0:23.1	duel over Angela, but there's also all the scenes with Michael and David Wallace in New York.
0:28.6	I'm very curious to hear what the fan favorite moment of this episode was. Well, we got this letter
0:33.9	from Melissa Kay. Melissa says, hi, ladies, absolutely love your show. And one of my
0:39.3	absolute favorite scenes from the whole show is at 10 minutes and 53 seconds when Michael is talking
0:44.7	about his philosophy to David Wallace and says, don't ever for any reason, do anything to anyone, for
0:52.8	any reason. It goes on and on with this line. I love this line so much,
0:58.3	and it completely captures the moment when you're asked a question you don't know the answer to
1:02.4	and you have to make it up as you go. Was all of that improvised or was it fully scripted? Thanks,
1:07.8	Melissa. Okay, so Melissa, we talked about this in our breakdown, how Steve
1:12.0	improvised a lot of this, but we didn't play it. And I pulled a clip from the superfan version
1:17.3	because there is an extra joke at the top and it really cracked us up. Let's hear it.
1:23.2	My philosophy is basically this. I like to sell paper for more than I bought the paper for.
1:32.4	That's obviously obvious.
1:33.7	But here's the thing, and this is something that I live by.
1:37.6	And I always have, and I always will.
1:40.5	Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what,
1:51.0	no matter where or who or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you are going or where you've been ever for any reason whatsoever.
2:08.6	Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where's going.
2:12.6	I just hope I find it along the way.
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