12/7/2023 0 Comments Awkward office chitchat nytJenna For years, my agents would pitch me as a Maura Tierney type. So much so, when you see her over an accounting, do you see me just, like, laughing, like, Hi. Jenna She is the coolest lady.Īngela I just remember having a girl crush on her and really wanting her to like me. California.Īngela Is she the coolest or what? Fast fact number one: Maura Tierney as Mrs. Meanwhile, Dwight opens a gym in the building and coaches his reluctant first member, Darryl. Here is your summary: Andy is confused when Robert California charges him with the task of finding a job for his wife, Susan, while simultaneously insisting she not work there under any circumstances. This was his first Office script and it was directed by Charlie Grandy, who I got to talk to about this episode, and I've got some really fun information to share.Īngela Aw, I love Charlie. He had previously worked on The Simpsons. It was written by new writer alert, Dan Greaney. Jenna Well, this is season eight episode nine. California was- His performance was amazing. I thought Ed Helms as Andy being caught between Mr. Jenna Are you ready for this week's episode, Mrs California?Īngela I am. Jenna And now we're doing the ultimate Office rewatch podcast just for you.Īngela Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind the scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you. Jenna We were on The Office together.Īngela And we're best friends. That guy’s still a subscriber today.Office Ladies | Episode 172 - Mrs California “She texted me later after the event and said he spent the whole event just reading our newsletter in the corner and kept referencing it in conversations with others that night and he loved it. “She arrived with all of these high rollers and was talking to the host casino’s head of marketing who was putting on the event and he didn’t even know what was going on with March Madness,” Senior explains. Senior had shared a beta newsletter with her friend who worked at an East Coast casino and was attending a Law Vegas-based March Madness casino kickoff event. But they were coming up to us and talking about how much they liked it.” ![]() “It’s one thing to ask someone if they read it and then they say it was great. “People were reading the newsletter and talking to us about it,” Senior says. Their families gave them the expected stamp of approval and support, but they began getting positive feedback from less likely sources. ![]() So they began creating email newsletters to send to friends and family for feedback. It’s knowing that Peyton Manning sucks in the snow.” “It’s not just knowing that Denver’s playing. “It’s the things that are more nuanced that people really care about,” Danneman adds. “It’s written for people who don’t know seven points is a touchdown and an extra point,” Senior says. Senior, who earned her writing chops as a staff writer for The Harvard Crimson, created the content and Danneman made sure it was readable and attractive to the non-sports fan. They began a “very iterative” process of creating weekly newsletters to send to family and friends. The duo began researching platforms to share quick news hitters and landed on digital newsletters. ‘WRITTEN FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW SEVEN POINTS IS A TOUCHDOWN AND AN EXTRA POINT’ Senior was a voracious consumer of sports media and Danneman was the one wanting to converse about it but also didn’t want to take the time to become an expert. ![]() Indeed, Senior seemed like the ying and Danneman the yang. “It could be in a career setting or at a bar or on a Tinder date, or to your Uber driver-whatever.” “We wanted to increase the level of participation for people who are not necessarily interested in sports but want to be part of a conversation,” Danneman explains. ![]() Instead of overly complicated technical or scientific problems, Senior says, this was a universal people problem they could solve-helping people talk about sports who don’t actually care that much about sports. TALKING SPORTS WHEN YOU DON’T REALLY LIKE SPORTS “And most of those ideas were either not solvable or not solvable by us.” “Last fall I think about three times a week Britt had a problem identified that she thought she could solve,” Senior remembers, laughing. “I said it to somebody not too long after and his reaction was, ‘you’re right, he does, that’s so smart,’” Danneman recalls.ĭanneman, who came to HBS keen on entrepreneurship and starting her own venture was like a bloodhound sniffing out startup possibilites. And so it was one of those early conversations as the two were walking through the snow when Senior told Danneman that “Peyton Manning sucks in the snow.” The words stuck with Danneman and she thought she’d try them out on another group of friends.
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