Second Drink: The Merger

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy

4.8 • 87.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week we're breaking down The Merger, and the ladies reach out to director Ken Whittingham, and writer Brent Forrester, who share their memories and insights on this episode. Then we chat about Pam's plants and homemade sexy sweater, and we get the lowdown on that Staples shredder in the original airing of this episode. Finally, we get a little heartbreak in the breakroom (and maybe a new country song?), Tony's firing and reappearance in Threat Level Midnight, and we dig into that last hilarious last scene between Dwight and Andy. We hope your mama knits you a sexy sweater after this episode. 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 the second drink of the merger.
0:04.3	Director Ken Whittingham joins us for this episode.
0:06.9	And one of my favorite things he shares with us is how strategic they were with where all of the new employees would sit in the Dunder-Mifflin bullpen.
0:16.3	You know, and that really helps shape some of these new storylines with the Stanford branch joining the Scranton branch.
0:22.2	I love that as well.
0:23.2	I thought that was one of like when I think about our whole series rewatch and different interviews we did with people, I felt like that was one of like a key nugget.
0:33.5	Yeah.
0:34.5	You know, we also talk about who can see each other from their desks and which characters are no longer in each other's line of sight.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:42.4	Loved that.
0:43.4	Loved that.
0:44.4	Jenna, you shared how you realized that Pam will no longer look up and see Jim at his desk anymore.
0:50.4	Yeah, his back is to her.
0:51.7	That's right.
0:52.3	And there was a deleted scene between Jim and
0:54.9	Pam, where they're all flirty flirt and it's annoying the crap out of Ryan. Because Pam has basically
1:00.8	walked up to chat to Jim because his back is to her. So she can't, like, make eye contact with him.
1:07.3	We talked a little bit about this moment, but we didn't play it, and I think we should hear it.
1:13.6	This is weird with you facing the other way.
1:16.9	Yeah, I never even knew that part of the office existed.
1:22.6	Hey, who's that guy?
1:24.4	That's Stanley Hudson.
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