Chapter 1: What heartfelt stories do Jenna and Angela share about their moms?
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I'm Jenna Fisher. And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together. And we're best friends. And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you.
Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0. Hi, lady. Hi there. Hi, everyone. Welcome to a little Friday chit chat. You guys, I'm really excited because we're talking about moms.
Yeah, this is our special early Mother's Day bonus episode. We're going to share about our own moms. We're going to share about ourselves. And we're going to share about your moms because you wrote us all about your moms, and it was pretty awesome.
And we thought a special way to kick things off would be to hear from our moms. I don't know what Jenna's mom sent in, and Jenna doesn't know what my mom sent in, but we did two different questions for them.
Yeah, I asked my mom, what do you love about being a mom? Because lady, I love being a mom. I just love it.
And I know you do too.
It's one of the ways that we connect through our love of parenting. And I wanted to hear, what does my mom like about it? Or what did she like about it when we were little or anything? That was my prompt. So here's what she had to say.
Happy Mother's Day, everyone. This is Jenna's mom, and I'd like to share with you some of my fond memories of being a mother when my two girls were at home and they were little ones. First of all, I was so excited to have a girl the first time. Oh my gosh, I was just beyond happy. And the second time, I was even happier than that, if that could be so, but I really was.
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Chapter 2: What audio messages do Jenna and Angela play from their mothers?
And I got to see a little window into my best friend's childhood through the eyes of her mom.
Oh, I loved that. It's funny that she mentioned the roughhousing in the family room because- With the dogs. With the dog, because I have such memories of that. And they were this really joyous time in the evenings. And we had one of those kind of sunken living rooms, you know, where you had to step down into it with the green shag carpet. Oh my gosh. The wood paneled walls.
And yeah, my mom would put on a record, usually like Barry Manilow was her favorite. Yeah. And she would sing, and then we would wrestle my dad, but we'd wrestle—the dog would get in there, and we would just kind of sing and wrestle. And my little sister was like such a daredevil. She wanted to do the airplane game, you know, where— Oh, yeah.
My dad would lay on his back, and he would put her up in the air like an airplane, and she'd be flipping around and— We would joke, like, when we would wrestle, she would throw her whole body into it. He'd be like, oh, geez, Emily, come on. So all those memories came flooding back in. I loved having my mom answer that question. It's something that I'd never asked her really before, you know?
Yeah, it's just so special. I mean, our moms, of course, they're just like whole, fully realized people. And you think as a kid, you know everything about your mom, but there's so many treasures still to learn, right? Well, lady, what did you ask your mom? Okay, so I asked my mom, what was something your mom did that inspired you that you then carried on when you became a mom?
And, you know, my grandmother's name was Viola May. And I was really curious to hear what my mom would say because I know my mom misses her so much. So shout out to my sister, Janet, who helped record this with my mom. And here's what she had to say.
I think one of the most amazing things my mom did to inspire me and teach me is every school year, she would get the catalog down, probably Sears and Rosebuck or whatever that is, and she would tell me, pick out what you want, skirts, shirts. We didn't wear pants to school. And I would pick out... The prettiest patterns. I mean, I'd just go there and I'd see a picture and I'd pick it out.
And she would make me the exact copy of what I picked out. And every year, and if I needed anything else during the year, she would tell my sister Bess.
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Chapter 3: How do Jenna and Angela describe their childhood memories with their moms?
Bess would get the fabric and Mom would make it. Like in Home Ec, you know, we had to make things back then. But my mom, every year, she would sew for me my whole school wardrobe. And I was one of the best dressed kids in school. That's the amazing thing. And it probably sparked the same thing in me because I made everything for you girls until blue jeans come in.
Then I quit sewing for you mostly. But Billy and Janet, you know, they'd come in from school when they were in high school or even going to church camp. They'd have to have like two outfits a day. And I'd make those, sometimes staying up at one or two o'clock in the morning. And then Billy come home like they were going to have something in high school.
And she said, Mom, I really need this like tomorrow night. So I don't know. I'd figure out a way to make it. And that's my mom. That's what she has. She inspired me. That's just one of the ways, though. I love her to pieces.
I love it. Is that what you expected her to say?
No, I had no idea. You know, I really didn't. My mom comes from a really big family and they would all pitch in and help. But I had no idea what she was going to say specifically about her mom. But I loved it. I did not know the catalog story that they would get the Sears catalog and flip through it. I'd never heard that before. So that was just like I got to spend a little moment with my mom.
And my grandmother. Oh, that's so special. I loved hearing it.
Well, lady, I want to share one other audio clip if it's okay. Yeah. So I knew that my mom wasn't going to be able to figure out how to record herself. So I got my dad on board. And, you know, he is a former engineer. So he took this assignment very seriously. And he sent me a test audio before he recorded my mom. Oh, my goodness. Lady, that is so sweet. And I have to share it.
I asked him if I could because it's just kind of amazing.
Okay, so this is a test to see how this works and to see if it can be sent when I finish. Actually, I'm reading a text from Jenna. It's about flights. I'll take a look at that when I get done doing this, but this is 24 seconds at this point. We'll see what it's like for about 90 seconds, and then I'll send it. So I got my grass cut today. I'll do Emily's lawn tomorrow.
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Chapter 4: What inspiring lessons did Jenna and Angela learn from their mothers?
Our neighborhood had like tennis courts where you could like enter tournaments. And mom won it. And all those other women have been playing for a long time. She also decided that she was going to learn how to paint. And she's an amazing artist. I have her paintings hanging in my house. So those are just very small ways to show you guys that She is a curious person and she loves to learn.
And there is no age limit to that. And she's still learning new things. I mean, I can't tell you how deep on Pinterest my mom has gone. She loves like YouTube tutorials on how to make things. So I just love that. She's almost 88 and still wanting to learn new things. That's awesome.
And you're like that too, lady. I love that.
This is just making me so happy.
What is your number three? So my number three is that my mom is the person who gave me the courage to pursue a career in acting. Yeah. And I'm going to get a little emotional, but, you know, even though we lived in the middle of the country, very far away from Hollywood, and even though we didn't know anyone in the entertainment industry before,
From a very early age, when I expressed interest in wanting to have a career as an actor, she took me seriously. And she never treated it like a dream or like a fantasy. She treated it like something I could achieve. She never said, oh, that's silly. Instead, she said that she felt a calling in life to be a teacher. And she loved her job.
And she said, if you feel called to be an actor, then that is what you should try to do. And I know that kind of belief in me from such a young age was a big boost to my ability to succeed in this business because I never had to justify my choice. I never had to push back against an unsupportive family. One of my friends that I moved to Los Angeles with
Her family were constantly fighting with her, telling her she should come home, telling her she should lead a more traditional life. She was so conflicted. She was depressed. It was so much work for her to be self-expressed. Like if she didn't book a job, her family would say, well, I guess you should come home. But if I didn't book a job, my mom would say, you'll get the next one.
Just hang in there. Just hang in there. You can do it. And it created a strength in me that I'm so grateful for. And I realized how lucky I am to have a mom, a parent who listened and accepted me for who I was and didn't try to change me.
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Chapter 5: What tributes do listeners share about their own mothers?
You know, I am looking at that empty nest. It is on the horizon for me for two of my kids. And then we'll have one at home. And Josh and I kind of joke that one is going to get so much attention. He's going to be like, back off. But what a joy it is to share these stories and to hear your stories. And so many people wrote in. And Jenna and I read all of them.
Just so you know, we read every single one. And we would have loved to share every single one. They were all wonderful. So thank you so much for sharing your tributes about your moms and grandmas.
Yes. And thank you, everyone. We hope you have a great Mother's Day in a couple of weeks. And thank you, Macy's, for sponsoring this bonus episode. I know. It was a real joy. All right, everyone. We'll see you next week. See you then.
Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
Our senior producer is Matt Beagle and our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer. Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis. Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz.
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