Second Drink: Business Trip with Rich Sommer
5/4/20261 hr 25 min
Today we’re breaking down Business Trip. The ladies kick off this episode by interviewing Rich Sommer, who played Alex, Pam’s art school friend. Rich shares what it was like to play Alex and navigate being a character that Office fans were afraid was going to get in between Jim and Pam. Afterwards, the ladies breakdown Business Trip. Michael, Oscar and Andy go on a business trip to Winnipeg, Canada, while everyone back at the office counts down the days until Pam comes home from art school. Wendy McLendon-Covey sends in clips sharing her experience playing concierge Marie, Jenna shares some fun facts about Winnipeg and Angela deems which character is the “Office Fun Stopper” and surprise, it’s not Angela Martin. Check out Wendy’s podcast, Generation Ripe: https://www.generationripe.com 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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First 90 secondsJenna Fischer· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to your second drink of Business Trip. This is the episode where Michael goes on a business trip with Oscar and Andy to Winnipeg. He meets Concierge Marie.
Angela Kinsey· Host0:14
One of my favorite characters.
Jenna Fischer· Host0:16
Andy drunk-dials Angela, one of- Mm-hmm ... my favorite scenes, and Pam finds out she's failed art school and has to stay another 12 weeks if she wants to really graduate.
Angela Kinsey· Host0:27
Ugh.
Jenna Fischer· Host0:28
And we got to interview Rich Sommer for this episode all about his arc as Pam's art school friend, in quotes, friend.
Angela Kinsey· Host0:35
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Jenna Fischer· Host0:37
And listen, we also recently did an interview with Wendy McLendon-Covey about her time as Concierge Marie. It's episode 259 if you wanna check it out.
Angela Kinsey· Host0:46
She's delightful.
Jenna Fischer· Host0:47
Yes.
Angela Kinsey· Host0:48
Well, I mentioned in our breakdown of this episode that there were some awesome deleted scenes, specifically between Oscar and Andy. I talked all about Oscar being the fun-stopper on the airplane, and I played a little clip. Well, you guys, all of the Oscar and Andy stuff from the plane has been added back to the super fan version, including more that isn't even on the DVDs.
Jenna Fischer· Host1:10
I watched it. It's really great, and it really sets up the scene in the bar later because it's actually on the plane that Andy decides he's gonna be Oscar's wing man.
Angela Kinsey· Host1:22
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer· Host1:22
In fact, there's this whole scene on the plane where he tries to set him up with the guy sitting in the window seat of their row.