Second Drink: The Surplus

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8 • 88.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week we’re breaking down The Surplus! When Michael announces to the Scranton Branch that they have a surplus, the office fights over whether to use the leftover money to buy new chairs or a new copier. Meanwhile Dwight “helps” Angela and Andy plan their wedding. Angela tells us about shooting on Disney Ranch which was once known as Golden Oak Ranch, Jenna does a deep dive on Iowa State Farm's butter sculptures, and the ladies gush over one of the best Hank scenes in the entire run of The Office. But most importantly, it’s Angela’s work birthday! Will she actually get a cake at work this year? 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 surplus. This is the episode where Oscar explains to Michael
0:08.8	that he has to spend the office surplus, and it kicks off this big debate over what the bullpen
0:14.3	wants to spend it on, chairs or a new copier. This is also when Dwight takes Angela and Andy to
0:20.6	shrewd farms. It was a very fun episode of the office, one of my favorite to shoot, and This is also when Dwight takes Angela and Andy to Shrewt Farms.
0:21.6	It was a very fun episode of The Office, one of my favorite to shoot, and also one of my favorite
0:26.2	episodes of Office Ladies.
0:28.5	So listen, lady, I was revisiting this one, and I did this deep dive on butter sculptures
0:33.9	at the Iowa State Fair because when Angela is talking about planning her wedding,
0:38.9	she says she wants a cat butter sculpture.
0:41.8	I remember when we did our stories, you sent me all of these pictures you found of
0:46.6	butter sculptures.
0:47.7	Yes.
0:48.2	Well, guess what?
0:49.3	I have an update.
0:51.0	Okay.
0:51.5	A butter sculpture update.
0:53.5	I want everyone to know that the Iowa State Fair will be going
0:57.1	on this year from August 13th to 23rd, and yes, there will be a butter cow per usual. And it will be
1:05.6	sculpted by Sarah Pratt, who has been making the butter cow since 2006. Her two daughters, Hannah and Grace,
1:13.0	are now her apprentices. And listen, I'm telling you, I got so interested in these sculptures,
1:18.2	again, that I ended up watching some videos of Sarah and her daughters from last year's fair.
1:24.5	And they use their hands a lot to do the sculpting. I don't know what I was expecting.
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