Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren z E Ma comedy from the
Speaker 1: Home Office in Austin, Texas. We are such huge fans
Speaker 1: of our guests.
Speaker 2: I know you just said the word home Office.
Speaker 3: And it's so perfect for this time because Kate Flannery
Speaker 3: iconically played Meredith, the redheaded spitfire on the Office, and
Speaker 3: of course she's done so many other comedic projects. She's
Speaker 3: been on Dancing with the Stars. She was just revealed
Speaker 3: to have been on this season of The Mass Singer.
Speaker 3: She was the starfish. So we're going to talk to
Speaker 3: her about everything from her time on the Office to
Speaker 3: whether the rumors are true.
Speaker 2: Is an Office reboot.
Speaker 3: In the works. Kate Flannery, It's so good to see you.
Speaker 2: See you.
Speaker 4: How's it going so good?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remembered me.
Speaker 3: I interviewed you for Entertainment tonight when you were on
Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars, and I told you that and
Speaker 3: i'll tell you again now. And I used to go
Speaker 3: to your Lampshades shows, which I always love it.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you remember me, but when
Speaker 1: you were the Bachelorette, I was hosting that season, and
Speaker 1: when you had sex with those five guys in the
Speaker 1: hot tub that one night.
Speaker 4: Who you expect me to remember all those guys, chrisy
Speaker 4: you crazy?
Speaker 1: No, No, that was my job. I kept track of
Speaker 1: the names of the guys you were sleeping with. I
Speaker 1: would never expect that from you. It's so good to
Speaker 1: see you again.
Speaker 4: I used to see you. How's it going.
Speaker 1: It's so good. So you had your you met Kate
Speaker 1: through entertainment tonight.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it's also weird when you and Kate. I
Speaker 3: actually think Chris has been told the same thing. So
Speaker 3: I feel fine telling you something you've You've probably heard before.
Speaker 3: But it's weird when you interview someone but you also
Speaker 3: fall asleep to them every night, Like I fall asleep
Speaker 3: to the office every night.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean because it's boring, because I know
Speaker 3: how this comes across.
Speaker 4: The comfort thing. I totally got it.
Speaker 2: Do people tell you that all the time?
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean not all the time, but some of
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: But it is weird when people come up to you
Speaker 1: in an airport, it's like, Oh, my wife and I
Speaker 1: we crawl in bed and we was like, you realize
Speaker 1: that visual now that I'm thinking of, and what.
Speaker 4: Do you like ambient?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Or it's like we hit pause and then
Speaker 1: we have sex and we turn it back.
Speaker 2: On, and then we turn the Bachelor back on, and
Speaker 2: then we're turned on.
Speaker 1: By it, and then I'm wondering, is it just my face?
Speaker 1: And So I met Kate, so her and Jane Lynch,
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about. They do, they do stuff together,
Speaker 1: they do these shows together. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember, but the first time I met Kate, we
Speaker 1: were backstage for ari Ari Emanuel who owns runs Endeavor
Speaker 1: and now William Morris en Deavor the agency.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So these are the things you do in Hollywood that
Speaker 1: are really glamorous. We're doing a Jewish school fundraiser. Jane Lynch,
Speaker 1: Kate Flannery, Chris Harrison, big names on the stage for
Speaker 1: a Jewish junior high high school. By the way, this
Speaker 1: school there's only like, there was like ten thousand people
Speaker 1: in attendance.
Speaker 5: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: The so obviously The Office was on at that time. Yes,
Speaker 3: so Kate, I'm going to sell him out right now,
Speaker 3: but like it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: You know. He never watched the Office until about a
Speaker 2: year ago. Ever, this is true.
Speaker 1: No, I'm so late to this, and no, it's all right.
Speaker 4: I mean I get it. You know, you're you're a
Speaker 4: little busy.
Speaker 1: No, but I came. But now that I came to it,
Speaker 1: it's embarrassing how much I watch it.
Speaker 2: You waited too long.
Speaker 1: It truly is embarrassing.
Speaker 2: But then we binged it and now he loves it.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Steve Croll was dead the whole time
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, the whole series, he was dead and nobody knew.
Speaker 2: That's the reveal. Well, you know, no one can go.
Speaker 1: Back and watch it, but it is. It is funny,
Speaker 1: how I And what I find interesting is that it
Speaker 1: is just as relevant and it hits in the same
Speaker 1: place is probably it did the day it was created,
Speaker 1: which talk about the mark of a great show.
Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely, it is timeless, and it's like, I know, also,
Speaker 6: there's so much truth in comedy, you know. It's like,
Speaker 6: that's why I'm so bummed that, you know, comedy is
Speaker 6: just they're losing their bravery and everyone's in microscope and
Speaker 6: it's just such a bummer.
Speaker 3: But I love hearing that from you, Kate, because I mean, look,
Speaker 3: I think we all it's funny, and again this is
Speaker 3: a Hollywood mess up. They're out there giving us the
Speaker 3: reboot of this and the sixth sequel of that, And
Speaker 3: then you see how much and you hear from how
Speaker 3: people are I think crying out for like rom coms
Speaker 3: to be back, for our rated comedies to be back
Speaker 3: in the theater.
Speaker 2: We've been through a lot.
Speaker 3: People want to laugh, and why is that not happening.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's because, I mean, your career comedian.
Speaker 3: Is comedy really hard to do now? And what do
Speaker 3: you think needs to change?
Speaker 6: I think people are hyper sensitive and I think they
Speaker 6: don't feel like comedy is safe, which is bummer.
Speaker 4: Because I feel like.
Speaker 6: It's like an equal opportunity offender if you look at
Speaker 6: all comedy like someone is being made fun of. But
Speaker 6: at the same time, we all have these moments where
Speaker 6: we get to laugh at our own expense, and we
Speaker 6: don't have the ability to laugh at ourselves.
Speaker 4: We're really in trouble as a culture.
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting what's happened here in Austin. Love him
Speaker 1: or hate him? Joe Rogan left California, created this thing
Speaker 1: called the Mothership down here. They were in the Vulcan room,
Speaker 1: which is this bar here in Austin, and he bought
Speaker 1: a place and people have left all around the country
Speaker 1: to come to Austin because it is it's this place
Speaker 1: for free comedy, and I mean free, I mean you're
Speaker 1: free to do it. They lock up your phones. I've
Speaker 1: been to a couple of the shows.
Speaker 2: I love that they lock.
Speaker 3: Up the phones because I think that's what's probably scary
Speaker 3: as a comedian, Right, You're testing out an act and
Speaker 3: then a little snippet of it goes and it doesn't
Speaker 3: come across well in your life's.
Speaker 4: Right's out a context, the moments out of context.
Speaker 1: And these great comics have either moved here or they
Speaker 1: are just coming to perform here and work on their
Speaker 1: acts before they do a Netflix special or whatever. And
Speaker 1: it sells out immediately. It's killing here in Austin.
Speaker 4: Right, No, I totally get it.
Speaker 6: I mean it's it's just a strange time and I'm
Speaker 6: just so happy to be on a show that I
Speaker 6: feel like treats the audience so intelligently. I think that's
Speaker 6: why kids are really into it too, even though though they'd.
Speaker 4: Never worked in an office.
Speaker 6: And there's some like a boss and a teacher and
Speaker 6: people in desks that you didn't pick. You know, nobody
Speaker 6: picks next to sit next to Dwight. You know, it's
Speaker 6: like there's something so relatable. Fortunately, and I don't know,
Speaker 6: I just I just hope we can get back to
Speaker 6: new content without major hyper awareness.
Speaker 3: Okay, but Kate, I have to ask you. And I
Speaker 3: was just saying, no more reboots, but no more reboots.
Speaker 3: But Kate, here's the thing though, the rumors have been around,
Speaker 3: and then there were rumors that there was like meetings
Speaker 3: and table readings happening in January. Where are we at
Speaker 3: on the Office reboot? Because my god, are people crying
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 6: I'm I've not been a part of any any any
Speaker 6: I mean, if it exists.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if it exists. And maybe maybe
Speaker 4: I'm being replaced by m A. Stone. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, amistone will be quite a compliment.
Speaker 1: But now we know who she would want to play her.
Speaker 6: Yes, well there's a there's there's like I think Darryl,
Speaker 6: played by Craig Robinson, makes a comment about like is
Speaker 6: it just me or is is Meredith kind of given.
Speaker 4: An Emma Stone vibe?
Speaker 6: Totfully that's like an office reference but yeah, I don't
Speaker 6: think whatever.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm a little older than Emma Stone.
Speaker 5: And yeah, you know I was.
Speaker 1: I was shocked and correct me if I'm wrong, because
Speaker 1: it feels like it was longer. The Office is nine years,
Speaker 1: a nine year run, yep, that's that seems crazy. Doesn't
Speaker 1: it feel like it was around for so much longer?
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's spills that way because people are
Speaker 3: still watching it and talking about it all the time.
Speaker 2: I mean, nine years is a great run, but it's just.
Speaker 1: People still watch Friends and Stuff and Seinfeld. But I
Speaker 1: feel like those shows ended. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I feel like the audits because you just found it
Speaker 2: this is a year that's not true.
Speaker 3: I don't know more and are welcome, Chris, Well, you guys,
Speaker 3: just do you just give us a little mini reboot
Speaker 3: in this AT and T commercial that y'all did you?
Speaker 3: And Rain Wilson and Jenni Fisher and a bunch of
Speaker 3: people are in it. It's so funny. How did it
Speaker 3: feel to be back together, to be filming something together?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, this is the thing you do nine
Speaker 6: seasons with people you either never speak to them again
Speaker 6: and if they're coming towards you on the street you
Speaker 6: turn around and go the other way, or you are
Speaker 6: a family, and we are fortunately a family.
Speaker 4: So it was so great to work with each other.
Speaker 6: And you know, I mean, obviously we're not doing the Office,
Speaker 6: it's a commercial, we're playing ourselves, but such a shorthand
Speaker 6: with all of us, and such a joy to be
Speaker 6: back together.
Speaker 1: It fell right back into place, totally, totally, like.
Speaker 4: No time had passed the best.
Speaker 3: I do feel like whenever I hear interviews with any
Speaker 3: of y'all from the cast, people talk about what a
Speaker 3: special like, not just that it being a hit show
Speaker 3: that has lasted and the content was good, but what
Speaker 3: a special work experience it was? What was the Office
Speaker 3: doing right at a time when so many people are
Speaker 3: frustrated with their work experiences or the environments that we
Speaker 3: have today.
Speaker 2: What was what was right about the work environment?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, it always starts at the top, and
Speaker 6: our showrunner Craig Daniels and our lead Steve Corral were
Speaker 6: really good. They're good human beings, and they also put
Speaker 6: the show before anybody's ego, so it was always about
Speaker 6: the work. And you know, you can't act like a
Speaker 6: douchebag at the leads, not acting like a douchebag.
Speaker 4: If the guy who has more lines than anybody, you know.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and also I always felt like we were
Speaker 6: treated like there was no hierarchy. We knew the was
Speaker 6: a hierarchy, but information was the seminated actually, like we
Speaker 6: all knew a lot of the same things, like which
Speaker 6: is unusual. Sometimes there's tears of knowledge and shut out
Speaker 6: and have to have a certain contract to know that
Speaker 6: or whatever. And I, especially for the first few years,
Speaker 6: I felt like we always were just just treated like
Speaker 6: a family, like we were all in the same room
Speaker 6: together for so much, so many you know, so many years,
Speaker 6: and and uh, it really felt like everyone cared.
Speaker 4: About each other.
Speaker 1: I always found when I got to ABC, it was
Speaker 1: like the end of an era. And but it was
Speaker 1: the same way where like John Ritter was doing his
Speaker 1: show and everybody fell in line because he was that guy.
Speaker 1: And then like in My People, Yeah, it's like every
Speaker 1: show had a patriarch or a matriarch that really set
Speaker 1: the tone. And then when the ensemble craze happened of
Speaker 1: Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives and all that, it like
Speaker 1: all that dissipated and it blew up because everybody was
Speaker 1: fighting for themselves.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. You're so right about.
Speaker 3: The secrets thing too, and the like. It's like if
Speaker 3: people are being used to pit against each other, which
Speaker 3: you know a little bit about that from The Bachelor,
Speaker 3: but you it creates, well, people are angry at each other,
Speaker 3: they're resemful, they're scared, and it's not and it ultimately
Speaker 3: makes the product stuffer.
Speaker 4: I think I think so too, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean, and when I say that we were all
Speaker 6: in the same room, we were we all had to
Speaker 6: do background work. But you know, but also like you know,
Speaker 6: even if I didn't talk in a scene, sometimes I
Speaker 6: would still get a laugh because of my expression, And
Speaker 6: I thought, like, this is just a great thing to trust.
Speaker 6: So the process was just so interesting. And literally the
Speaker 6: first season, Greg Daniels, our show runer, asked us to
Speaker 6: bring real paperwork, so literally we were doing taxes because
Speaker 6: you know, you wanted it to feel like it was
Speaker 6: a real work environment, and so when the camera came
Speaker 6: to you, you were already working.
Speaker 4: You weren't like acting like you were working.
Speaker 6: You were working. So that's like that was another thing
Speaker 6: that sort of informed what was going on. So I
Speaker 6: don't know, and I just you know, I'm one of
Speaker 6: seven kids. I'm I'm I was born into an ensemble.
Speaker 1: Realizing that, yeah, you and your twin you were the youngest, Yes.
Speaker 4: The youngest of seven. Yeah, my sister and I don't
Speaker 4: look alike that much. Win and I don't look alike.
Speaker 1: I saw you said she's actually funnier or she's the
Speaker 1: funny one.
Speaker 4: It is. She is way funny than I'm for sure.
Speaker 3: For sure, I have to use this opportunity to ask you.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is a tough subject
Speaker 3: to talk about, but I listened with intent to. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna forget it. The guy who plays Kevin what is
Speaker 3: his real name, Brian? Yes, I absolutely loved his like
Speaker 3: in depth retrospective podcast that he put out a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, and it was kind of the first
Speaker 3: time I heard people talk about when Steve left. So
Speaker 3: it's just coming into my mind because you're talking about
Speaker 3: like there were no secrets and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But what was that moment, Like, was that a departure
Speaker 3: from how it had been losing your patriarch?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 6: It was extremely emotional, for sure, for everybody including Steve.
Speaker 4: He didn't really want to go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I god, I just feel like I just.
Speaker 4: Thought the writers handled it so well and it allowed us.
Speaker 6: All to process together, which is, you know, unusual, So
Speaker 6: it kind of felt like it was all sort of
Speaker 6: happening in real time. But I'll never forget they Creed
Speaker 6: and I were doing a satellite radio tour or TV tour.
Speaker 4: Breast tour in the morning, and they had announced it
Speaker 4: like that morning, and we didn't even know that Steve
Speaker 4: was leaving. So I was like, uh, I think we
Speaker 4: lost the feed. Like I can't asked a question about it.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I can't. I can't see it for you because
Speaker 6: I didn't know what to say. Yeah, you know, but yeah,
Speaker 6: it was so emotional, and I don't know, I just
Speaker 6: think everything evolves, and you know, good things come to
Speaker 6: an end.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, TV does eventually end, except if you're on The Simpsons.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it happened at some point.
Speaker 3: But to me, and this is just my opinion, that's
Speaker 3: just I'll never understand why they let him go. Like
Speaker 3: you said, he didn't want to go, and it's just
Speaker 3: we're kind of, you know, we're like all Hollywood.
Speaker 2: We're all experienced here.
Speaker 3: That's just one of those Did somebody higher up just
Speaker 3: make the dumbest decision in the world.
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 6: I think so they didn't renew his contract. I don't
Speaker 6: know what, and everyone's like trying to figure out what
Speaker 6: the hell was going on.
Speaker 1: You get in these shows sometimes and you're like, the
Speaker 1: only people that can ruin this is us, and they
Speaker 1: do and they do like they can't help themselves. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it happened on it. It happened a show I was
Speaker 1: involved in one time.
Speaker 2: It was just but you're the reality TV Steve.
Speaker 1: KROWBP, you can have Creed who did more with less
Speaker 1: than those two Creed it was like the line like
Speaker 1: sometimes one or two lines, yeah, oh, and they would
Speaker 1: own the episode with one or two lines.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, Like, that's that's a lesson to all actors.
Speaker 6: You don't need to count your lines in your script
Speaker 6: and get upset if you don't talk a lot.
Speaker 4: Got to make the most of what you got. And
Speaker 4: also just like trust that sometimes less is more.
Speaker 3: Chris, you know what, Actually so many similarities. You were
Speaker 3: often in that position with the Bachelor, like you have
Speaker 3: like one line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, and I came to a whole
Speaker 1: different obviously, you know, Kate was second city and improv
Speaker 1: and comedy, and I came through this to local news
Speaker 1: and sportscasting. But the first lesson I ever learned, and
Speaker 1: I tell all journalism kids, get over yourself. It's not
Speaker 1: about you. You're not the story. And it is and
Speaker 1: probably I guess comedy and acting is the same way.
Speaker 1: It's not about you. If you're good, people are going
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 6: Right right, and also if it's I don't know. I
Speaker 6: just think there's so many performers who hijack everybody before.
Speaker 4: They you know, yell action and they have to tell
Speaker 4: a joke and they have to put somebody down. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like they have to claim their power ownership over
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 3: Kate, do you have a favorite since it was you
Speaker 3: and Creed in that corner, do you have a favorite
Speaker 3: Creed line from the show?
Speaker 4: I liked the he wanted to Creed one time says
Speaker 4: to Meredith, did we.
Speaker 1: And with those two you fully believe maybe they did
Speaker 1: and they forgot did they can't?
Speaker 4: She said? She said, we did.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll ask you one more time and I'm going
Speaker 3: to hope I get a different answer, but I think
Speaker 3: I won't. You were just together for the for the commercial.
Speaker 3: Were you all talking about the potential of a reboot
Speaker 3: at all? Like, was there any discussion? Has anyone heard anything?
Speaker 2: And would you all be.
Speaker 1: In because I know there's a text thread, there is
Speaker 1: the office text thread that you guys are all on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's nothing on the text thread. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I you know, I also have a big mouth,
Speaker 6: so maybe people just don't tell.
Speaker 2: Me anything that they don't trust you.
Speaker 6: Thinking about the mask saying or was it you literally
Speaker 6: wear like a sweatshirt that says talk to me and
Speaker 6: you're walking around rehearsing, I'm like, this is hell.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to everybody.
Speaker 1: And by the way, for those that don't know, she
Speaker 1: was just okay. It was just revealed on the mass
Speaker 1: Singer the star the Starfish.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I still have my well this is my commemorative.
Speaker 1: Face mask and snorkel.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: It looked like you I'm not gonna say miserable, but
Speaker 1: you could You couldn't even move in that damn thing.
Speaker 4: It was fun though, it was a challenge. I literally
Speaker 4: felt like there was a rubber band around my knees,
Speaker 4: like it was a little like it was like I
Speaker 4: felt like very short, you know, very short, short legged.
Speaker 1: And you're, by the way, you're a damn good singer.
Speaker 1: I've heard you sing like you're a good performer.
Speaker 6: Thanks, I'm more of a jazz singer. And this was
Speaker 6: a little more poppy. But I felt taken care of
Speaker 6: and I felt like the arrangements were good. It was
Speaker 6: really fun and I liked all the songs, and yeah.
Speaker 4: I could have I could have stayed longer, but you
Speaker 4: know what, sometimes less is more. Maybe the three episodes
Speaker 4: is great.
Speaker 3: I've actually to take away from this from this podcast
Speaker 3: less more do and do.
Speaker 2: More with less.
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart was smart. He's like, I'm out, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: dress up like book and I'm out. In the first episode,
Speaker 1: like peace out, did you you you were singing alongside
Speaker 1: a former bachelor Culton Underwood.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean you. I guess you had no idea
Speaker 2: who else the other people were.
Speaker 4: I had no idea who anybody was.
Speaker 1: They're very careful to keep you guys sequestered, and like
Speaker 1: the privacy on that show is done well.
Speaker 4: It is intense. Yeah, it is really intense. It's awesome.
Speaker 4: You even have to wear gloves because if you wear
Speaker 4: jewelry or like, if you have two on your hand, like,
Speaker 4: you cannot you can't. And the same thing.
Speaker 6: When my boyfriend was there, he had to wear the
Speaker 6: whole get up too because he was an EMBAC photographer.
Speaker 6: He's a TV photographer for everything, so he knew the crew.
Speaker 4: So I was like, oh no.
Speaker 2: So when he had to wear a costume, he was hidden.
Speaker 4: You just had to wear the Don't Talk to Me
Speaker 4: sweatshirt with them funny and the and the gloves.
Speaker 3: I have a big question because this podcast is about
Speaker 3: relationships and takeaways that we can all have. You have
Speaker 3: this incredible, unique experience of maintaining a friendship with a
Speaker 3: group of co workers for well over a decade at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 2: What advice do you have?
Speaker 3: What have you all learned about how you stay in
Speaker 3: touch and stay a family even from afar once that
Speaker 3: thing that kept you together is over.
Speaker 6: Well, I think you have to keep your expectations in
Speaker 6: check because people get busy, their lives change. But I
Speaker 6: think that if you can hold the space for them
Speaker 6: with your heart and not you know, not have resentments
Speaker 6: about their lack of availability. I think you know, you
Speaker 6: have to. You have to have compassion for where everybody
Speaker 6: is now because everybody's life changes.
Speaker 4: It's just how it is. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 4: kind of asking you.
Speaker 6: To step up and be a little mature and realistic
Speaker 6: and have compassion for yourself because I'm not in the
Speaker 6: same space as I was. So yeah, and I think
Speaker 6: just and also just rooting for each other and remembering
Speaker 6: like comparison is the thief of joy.
Speaker 4: You have to really remember.
Speaker 6: That each of us has our own lane. We don't
Speaker 6: get the same stuff. Even if you want what somebody
Speaker 6: else has, that's you know, it's that's a that's a
Speaker 6: lousy place to live. Yeah, you know, just if you
Speaker 6: can just kind of be happy for them if they
Speaker 6: have something that you think is cool, but remember that
Speaker 6: like somebody else might be feeling that way about you.
Speaker 3: Who from the cast shot you text about being on
Speaker 3: the mask singer?
Speaker 6: Uh, well, I was gonna say the only gosh, no,
Speaker 6: I didn't tell them.
Speaker 4: I didn't tell them, But.
Speaker 2: I mean, do they know now did you just send
Speaker 2: a text to me?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Now? Now, I mean, like Angela, it.
Speaker 6: Was so great shot, and Angela and Jenna both posted
Speaker 6: and then I'm Jane Lynch as well.
Speaker 4: So that's so sweet.
Speaker 1: And I know you're still We'll let you go because
Speaker 1: but I know you have stuff coming up with Jane.
Speaker 1: You guys are still traveling and doing the show together,
Speaker 1: and yell, are this Christmas?
Speaker 4: For sure? Yeah.
Speaker 1: If there are two funnier women in the world, I
Speaker 1: dare you to find them.
Speaker 2: In the office, rebould be the two of them running
Speaker 2: an office.
Speaker 1: I just like being backstage with them, just hang with
Speaker 1: them for a little bit because, by the way, there's
Speaker 1: no off switch. They're just the friend of you. Of course,
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 4: Chemistry, Chris, it's it's chemistry.
Speaker 6: We've committed chemistry you'll truly do from another myster That's
Speaker 6: what it is.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you it's so fun to get to
Speaker 4: play with your friends like little.
Speaker 6: If you get to if you trust people and you
Speaker 6: get to take you know, take it to the it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: It's the best talk.
Speaker 1: It's like a masterclass in comedy. Just brilliant women doing
Speaker 1: it at a very high level. But y'all seem to,
Speaker 1: just like you said, they seem to just have such
Speaker 1: joy in it and so much fun. If you ever
Speaker 1: have a chance to see Jane and Kate, please go
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 4: Thanks, thank you guys so much, so nice to talk
Speaker 4: to you. To you too.
Speaker 1: I was good to see you. And uh we will
Speaker 1: continue to keep up with what's going on. And uh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait till she's going to be on Special
Speaker 1: Forces on Fox. No, I'm just kidding, she's not going
Speaker 1: to do it. From the Mass singer Tim, what's next?
Speaker 1: See you're in the Camo crawling through the woods.
Speaker 2: I would be rooting for you. Love about the Traders.
Speaker 2: Can't go on Traders.
Speaker 4: I don't know you guys. I like to sleep in
Speaker 4: my own bed.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 1: We'll please give Jane or love. And it was great
Speaker 1: to talk to you. We will see you soon.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys so much. Take care of Thank you.
Speaker 1: Who did it?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 2: Did we did?
Speaker 1: We?
Speaker 4: We did?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 1: Was damn good to see you again.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Really hope to see him.
Speaker 1: I know you.
Speaker 4: Take care, Yeah you too, Thanks again.
Speaker 3: Bye, Well babe, did we We most certainly did.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Thanks to Kate Flannery and her
Speaker 3: and Jane Lynch. They do such great work. With the
Speaker 3: Alzheimer's Association in Southern California. They will be doing their
Speaker 3: Magic of Music gala again this May, So we just
Speaker 3: wanted to give them a shout out for all the
Speaker 3: awesome work that they do. Jane's aunt was affected by Alzheimer's,
Speaker 3: and as she has astutely said many times, who doesn't
Speaker 3: know someone who is affected by Alzheimer's? So I just
Speaker 3: so love and appreciate the women that they are like
Speaker 3: bringing us joy and doing great work in the world.
Speaker 2: What gems one of the.
Speaker 1: Things I you know that the old adage of you know,
Speaker 1: don't meet your heroes, you might you're going to be disappointed.
Speaker 5: With Kate.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we do interviews like this and we get
Speaker 1: a chance to expose people like the podcast world does,
Speaker 1: because she is such a good human and a dear person.
Speaker 1: And the few times that I've been able to interact
Speaker 1: with her and hang out for an evening, her and Jane,
Speaker 1: You're just like God, y'all are just so unaffected, such
Speaker 1: kind people that truly start asking about you, and they
Speaker 1: truly care. You realize their success is not an accident.
Speaker 1: They are They are brilliant at.
Speaker 4: What they do.
Speaker 2: God I hope we get the Office beabs.
Speaker 3: It's the only thing I can get behind because it's like,
Speaker 3: they're all such good people.
Speaker 2: I want them to be working again. I want them
Speaker 2: to bring all of us joy.
Speaker 1: You know, you and I we talk about Lauren and
Speaker 1: I talk about everything privately, like reboots and sequels and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, And often there is a line that
Speaker 1: you and I use of, like who asked for this?
Speaker 1: Nobody asked for this? Why are they giving us this
Speaker 1: sequel and this whatever? This is one of those things
Speaker 1: in life everybody is asking for this.
Speaker 5: Please, I'm throwing.
Speaker 1: This out there to the powers that be, whatever gods
Speaker 1: there are of the Office, please give this to us.
Speaker 1: Our thanks to Kate Flannery. Thank you so much. It
Speaker 1: was such a joy talking to her, and it's always
Speaker 1: a joy talking to you. And we will do it
Speaker 1: again next time because we have a lot more to
Speaker 1: talk about. Thanks for listening. Follow us on Instagram at
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