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Office Ladies | Episode 314 - Clark Duke Returns
Jenna [00:00:04] I'm Jenna Fischer,
Angela [00:00:05] and I'm Angela Kinsey.
Jenna [00:00:06] We were on "The Office" together,
Angela [00:00:08] and we're best friends.
Jenna [00:00:09] And now we're doing the ultimate Office lover's podcast, just for you.
Angela [00:00:13] Each week we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes details, and lots of BFF stories.
Jenna [00:00:21] We're the Office Ladies 6.0.
audio cue [00:00:00] [musical sting]
Clark [00:00:00] That music was rousing.
Jenna [00:00:01] Yay!
Angela [00:00:02] It's Clark Duke! Back in the studio with with us, you guys.
Jenna [00:00:06] This is pretty cool.
Clark [00:00:07] Thank you for having me. It's nice.
Jenna [00:00:08] You're looking really sharp.
Angela [00:00:09] You are.
Clark [00:00:11] Thank you!
Angela [00:00:11] You have great hair. It's doing a swoop.
Clark [00:00:14] It's got a lot of volume today.
Angela [00:00:15] It does.
Clark [00:00:16] Yeah, I just got it cut yesterday, so you never know. That next day is a total crapshoot. So I'm happy that this worked out.
Angela [00:00:22] You got good day two hair going.
Clark [00:00:24] But you know what I mean? It usually takes a couple weeks to kind of really be peak haircut.
Jenna [00:00:28] To settle in.
Angela [00:00:29] For your haircut to settle in, exactly.
Clark [00:00:31] The Botox and the haircut. They need time.
Jenna [00:00:34] They need a couple weeks.
Angela [00:00:35] They need little bit. Listen, I want you to know, people loved your episode the last time you were on.
Clark [00:00:40] Yeah?
Angela [00:00:41] Oh yeah, I have some comments I thought I'd share.
Jenna [00:00:44] I love comments.
Angela [00:00:44] What do you guys think? Ready?
Clark [00:00:45] I hope they're mean.
Angela [00:00:46] They are not mean. One might be a little snarky, but it's not at you. So don't worry. First of all, people had this to say, "Clark looks exactly the same."
Clark [00:00:59] Great.
Angela [00:00:59] Many people said that. You're defying age and whatnot. And folks loved the episode. One person said, "That was one of my favorite episodes today. What an absolute treat."
Clark [00:01:10] Wow. I didn't know my mom had an account to leave comments.
Jenna [00:01:15] I appreciate her.
Clark [00:01:17] [laughing] I do, too.
Angela [00:01:17] Okay, how about this one? "I listened to this today and Clark may be your best guest yet. The three of you lighten the mood so much while I was stuck in traffic. Great episode."
Clark [00:01:27] Has anyone pitched a permanent third chair position?
Angela [00:01:31] This is what's happening. Look, in all caps. "WHY HAS HE NOT AGED?" Okay.
Clark [00:01:37] I'm actually 58. People have no idea.
Angela [00:01:41] People have no idea you're a vampire.
Clark [00:01:43] I'm full of preservatives.
Angela [00:01:44] And then, you guys, people thought you looked fabulous. Okay, we've already said that. Jenna, people went on and on about your hairstyle. You got red flames. And then this one gal had this to say, "I love that Angela looks like the county just took away two sacks worth of her cats." And so, I went to the picture, and this was a day I drove to work with wet hair, and you know what? You know what, that person isn't wrong. I do look like the county took away my cats.
Jenna [00:02:17] [giggling] Oh, lady, I just looked at it.
Clark [00:02:18] You do not.
Angela [00:02:19] [laughing] I do. Maybe I should've blow-dried my hair. Lastly, I'll end on this. This is from Lynn K. who said, "This was one of the best interviews on the show. I listened to it twice while on the road for work." So Clark, welcome back!
Jenna [00:02:37] Welcome back.
Clark [00:02:38] Thank you. I hope to not disappoint Lynn K. on this one.
Angela [00:02:43] I don't think you will.
Clark [00:02:45] We'll see. A lot of time left, a lotta game left to play.
Angela [00:02:48] It's true, it's true.
Jenna [00:02:50] Angela, you've been saving something fun. I'm very excited to finally hear about it. You wanted to share it when Clark was here.
Angela [00:02:56] I did. Okay so Clark, you know, we've been starting the show with a chit chat.
Jenna [00:03:00] We usually get a suggestion from a listener for our chit-chat, but Angela has a suggestion today.
Angela [00:03:07] And I really wanted to do it today, Clark, with you here, since we're gonna be talking about your film and filmmaking. So this is a little bit of an inspo for the chit chat question of the day. But first, I wanna give you guys some backstory. One of my tennis gals, Francette... Stay with me, Clark.
Clark [00:03:24] Mhm.
Angela [00:03:24] Francette was telling me this story about her brother-in-law, Ralph, and he and his pals from growing up, they're childhood friends, they loved the movie "Jaws" growing up. They decided to do a shot by shot remake of the movie Jaws. They filmed it in their hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. It took them years to complete this, you guys. And their version is titled "Quincy Jaws," maybe for legal reasons, not sure. But it's called Quincy Jaws.
Jenna [00:03:55] Are you familiar with this?
Clark [00:03:55] I am familiar with this.
Angela [00:03:56] You are?!
Jenna [00:03:57] I see you nodding.
Angela [00:03:58] OK, alright. So I told Francette I wanted to share about this. She said that they're so excited. I found an interview that they did on a local station, talking about their journey of making this movie. I have two clips I want to share with you guys. So this is filmmaker Tim Degust and Ralph Richardson with Eileen Mahar on the Milton Access TV show talking about the movie. This first clip is them saying how it all came about.
interview clip - Eileen [00:04:27] Are you guys all from Quincy?
interview clip - Tim Degust [00:04:28] Yes we are.
interview clip - Eileen [00:04:29] Alright. So tell me about it. Whose idea was it?
interview clip - Ralph Richardson [00:04:33] Growing up, like, we all fell in love with the film. It had just came out when we were all like 10 or 11 years old. Just fell in love with it. I personally loved it. I started doing Jaws parties and Jaws fests.
interview clip - Ralph Richardson [00:04:47] That's how the whole thing started.
interview clip - Eileen [00:04:50] What would a Jaws party be like?
interview clip - Ralph Richardson [00:04:50] We would just watch the movie and do trivia. I'd do $100 to who could answer the trivia but everybody could answer it because everybody was just a Jaws junkie. We started in local bars, bus trips, boat cruises, and it just got big. I did it for maybe, I don't know, maybe six or seven years? The last one I had was in 2016. The director, Rob Lamonica, who would plays Quint, we were all feeling pretty good. He says, "We're just gonna start filming. We're gonna start filmin' this movie." In the beginning, I was like, "Ah, yeah." It was just in the back of my mind.
interview clip - Tim Degust [00:05:26] Yeah. It sounded like just talk.
interview clip - Ralph Richardson [00:05:28] Yeah, it's just talk from drinking and it exploded. That summer it took off.
Angela [00:05:37] Okay, it started with Jaws parties.
Jenna [00:05:42] But then it was just talk from drinkin'.
Clark [00:05:44] We've all been there.
Angela [00:05:47] And then they committed to it, you guys. It took them so long to make this, and I just sort of love the spirit of that. They didn't give up. I need you to hear how long it took them all together.
interview clip - Eileen [00:06:01] Two years?
interview clip - Tim Degust [00:06:02] No, it took seven years to film and a year to edit. So in those seven years, we would go back and be like... The Indianapolis scene for instance, right? So we recorded a lot of it in one take and then it'd be like, "Oh, well, we forgot this part." Like, a year later. "We can go back and do that."
interview clip - Eileen [00:06:24] So we're very strict about absolutely following scene by scene? You wanted every scene in the film?
interview clip - Ralph Richardson [00:06:30] There were certain things, as Jaws fans, we really wanted to say and do.
interview clip - Eileen [00:06:35] For example what?
interview clip - Ralph Richardson [00:06:36] We missed a lot of stuff, too. But again, we watched it after and we're like, "Ah! We forgot." Or like, "Oh no, there's a light on in the back." You know what I mean? Then you would have to stop. Here we are, you now, all fathers of kids, going to hockey or something like that. So sometimes we wouldn't get together for another three months or two months, like "Oh, I'm coming!" "I can't make it."
Angela [00:07:01] Okay. So he mentions that it might be a year later that they realized they forgot a shot. And he said that-
Clark [00:07:07] That's not even that crazy, honestly.
Angela [00:07:09] Really?
Clark [00:07:10] I mean, yeah.
Angela [00:07:11] As a filmmaker?
Clark [00:07:12] Totally. There's a scene in "Stranglehold" that we shot a year later in my garage.
Jenna [00:07:18] Really?
Clark [00:07:20] I just came up with an idea. I was like, "Man, I really wish I had this here." And then I was, like, "Alright, let's just do it." Have you seen this Jaws?
Angela [00:07:27] I have. Okay. I'm gonna get to it.
Jenna [00:07:29] So have you seen it?
Clark [00:07:29] No.
Jenna [00:07:30] I haven't seen it either.
Clark [00:07:30] I remember this story though, but I have not seen the actual film.
Jenna [00:07:33] Of this town of people who recreated it.
Clark [00:07:35] That's super fun. He just f*cking loves Jaws. "You know, we just we love getting together and talking about Jaws."
Angela [00:07:42] They also had to make all the props themselves, you guys. And so it would be like, "Who has a boat? So we'll go film on his boat."
Clark [00:07:51] We're in New England. Everybody's got a boat.
Angela [00:07:52] Everyone's got a boat. And then, like they said, they would look back at footage and be like, "Remember you had a beard," because it'd be like a year later. And then they'd be, like, "Well, I don't have a beard now," or it'd three months later. So we said sometimes they would just tape hair onto their face or use a Sharpie. So as you watch the movie, you some hair in different spots.
Clark [00:08:10] There's some continuity issues, yeah.
Angela [00:08:12] They also had to make a giant shark head that lived in one of their garages for so long. My friend Frances sent me a picture like, "There's no putting a car in there. It's just a massive shark head." I guess the director Rob Lamonica really took that on and made it out of all kinds of different stuff. But you guys, I have seen it. My friend Francette had a Jaws party and she invited everybody and I saw Quincy Jaws. Took my kids to this viewing party. It was in her backyard. It's amazing. We watched the original and then we watched theirs and we're like, "Pretty damn good." They f*cking crushed it.
Clark [00:08:49] Wait, is- is your friend really- did I- hear that right?
Angela [00:08:52] This is her brother-in-law, Ralph.
Clark [00:08:54] Her brother-in-law is the guy?
Angela [00:08:55] Yeah, one of the two guys that's...
Clark [00:08:56] But he's one of the makers of the film?
Angela [00:08:58] Yes, yes, it's her brother in- law.
Clark [00:09:00] Oh, wow.
Angela [00:09:00] And this is their hometown, yeah. So it's a big deal. I am gonna share in our Insta stories where you can watch Quincy Jaws. They have a website. The cool thing is you guys, on their website you can find the movie and watch it. They also have t-shirts and all the proceeds are helping raise funds for disabled vets. It's really cool. So it's such a heartfelt thing, though, to see this community of people and childhood friends come together and start out on this journey as filmmakers and finish it, you know?
Clark [00:09:32] And not get sued by Steven Spielberg or Universal.
Angela [00:09:36] Let's hope not. But this brings us to our chit chat question of the day, which is, if there was a movie that you're a fan of that you could film with your friends and do a shot by shot remake of, what would it be?
Clark [00:09:50] Whoa.
Angela [00:09:51] This is open to the whole room, everybody.
Jenna [00:09:54] We have Jordan with us today.
Clark [00:09:55] This is a tricky proposition because I mean you're kind of... I feel like it's really like when Gus van Zandt remake Psycho and everybody really hated it. This is a trick proposition.
Angela [00:10:05] This is for your friends though. Maybe not on a public platform.
Clark [00:10:09] But most of my friends are actors.
Angela [00:10:10] Yeah.
Clark [00:10:11] Does it have to be a shot-for-shot or can it be an interpretation, like a version? Because that happens a lot and is really interesting, but you're saying I would be doing a shot for shot?
Angela [00:10:18] Yeah, you're a super fan and you wanna do a shot for shot remake. And it can take you eight years.
Clark [00:10:27] "Casino." I would do Casino.
Angela [00:10:29] Oh, Casino! Wow, that is really ambitious!
Clark [00:10:33] Yeah, I don't know how we're gonna do it. I mean, it's gonna be hard.
Angela [00:10:35] Okay. We'll be in it.
Clark [00:10:37] I'm just gonna film it in the local, like, L.A. Casino. Like Commerce and Hollywood Park and stuff.
Jenna [00:10:40] Yeah, well that's part of it
Clark [00:10:43] Yeah, Morongo. [laughing] We're gonna do it all in Morongo. My Casino is set in Morongo, the whole thing.
Angela [00:10:49] Oh, you know what? I think this is a great add on, which is you have to do it in your hometown.
Clark [00:10:54] Oh, wow.
Angela [00:10:56] And that could be L.A.
Clark [00:10:59] Current hometown. Okay, yeah, that's still gonna be hard though That might change my... You know what? If it's in LA. I would do "The Long Goodbye."
Jenna [00:11:08] What is The Long Goodbye? Remind me.
Clark [00:11:09] It's a Raymond Chandler novel and they made a version in the 40's or 50's and then Robert Altman did his version in the 70's. It's an Elliot Gould movie. It's one of my favorite movies.
Jenna [00:11:17] Oh yeah. Yeah.
Clark [00:11:18] It's really great detective movie.
Angela [00:11:19] Okay, I've never seen it.
Clark [00:11:22] It's great, highly recommend, one of my favorites.
Angela [00:11:24] Highly recommend, okay. Alright, Jordan, I'm gonna put on my headphones.
Jordan [00:11:28] So with the change of the hometown, my hometown is Worcester, Massachusetts. My movie has to be "A League of Their Own."
Clark [00:11:35] That's a good one. Oh, that's a really good one.
Angela [00:11:37] And that'd be fun to do with your friends, too.
Clark [00:11:39] Yeah, yeah, exactly. I picked Long Goodbye because it's mostly the one guy and it seemed doable. It seemed more feasible
Angela [00:11:47] This is a true filmmaker brain.
Clark [00:11:49] [laughing] Yeah, I'm just thinking logistics.
Angela [00:11:50] Yeah, you are.
Clark [00:11:51] I'm not really in the spirit of fun of the game.
Angela [00:11:55] Jenna, what about you?
Jenna [00:11:56] I think I would have to do either "Grease" or "Grease 2."
Clark [00:12:01] Wow.
Jenna [00:12:02] Grease 2 (as we know because we broke it down) opens with a seven minute dance routine.
Angela [00:12:09] With a couple hundred people.
Jenna [00:12:11] So I'm not really sure how I'm accomplishing that. I wasn't thinking practically like you are, Clark.
Clark [00:12:16] But it's still just people.
Jenna [00:12:18] It's people. Yeah.
Clark [00:12:18] It's not special effects.
Jenna [00:12:20] That's right.
Clark [00:12:21] Who was the lead in Grease 2?
Jenna [00:12:23] [in unison with Angela] Michelle Pfeiffer.
Clark [00:12:23] That's what I thought, yeah.
Angela [00:12:26] But you would have to figure out how you're gonna do the car that floats away and all that business.
Jenna [00:12:32] We'll figure that out. That's at the end of Grease. Grease 2 has the crazy motorcycle dream sequence and the jumping of the motorcycle and all that. Angela, what are you remaking?
Angela [00:12:44] Well, I wasn't thinking with my filmmaker brain, Clark, because I would do "Pride and Prejudice."
Jenna [00:12:50] Oh!
Clark [00:12:51] Interesting.
Angela [00:12:51] It's my favorite movie.
Jenna [00:12:52] In Texas? Would you film Pride and Prejudice in your home town?
Angela [00:12:55] In Archer City?
Jenna [00:12:57] Yeah. Well, I mean, that's a version I'd like to see.
Angela [00:12:59] Well, you know, "The Last Picture Show "was filmed in Archer City,
Clark [00:13:03] Was it really?
Angela [00:13:03] And so was "Texasville." Mhm. Larry McMurtry. Peter Bogdanovich was there. Cybill Shepard.
Clark [00:13:10] I got to meet Bogdanovich a handful of times and talk to him a little bit. It was so awesome, because I'm a huge fan. Does it look like The Last Picture Show still?
Angela [00:13:20] Pretty much, yeah.
Clark [00:13:20] That's great.
Angela [00:13:21] It hasn't really changed much. It's kinda crazy. I'll show you pictures later.
Clark [00:13:25] Okay.
Angela [00:13:25] So Pride and Prejudice, but I would either do it in Archer City, Texas or the San Fernando Valley.
Jenna [00:13:35] I'm a hundred percent making Grease 2 in St. Louis, Missouri, my hometown. I think it will support it well and I think I need to get all the people that I did my high school musicals with.
Angela [00:13:46] Oh, that'd be fun.
Jenna [00:13:48] To come and fill in the background.
Clark [00:13:50] I think it'd be good for morale for the city since they lost the Rams, you know, I think it would be kind of a good thing for the community.
Angela [00:13:55] That's what they've been waiting for.
Clark [00:13:58] [laughing] Yeah, it's kind of the elephant in the room. I'm glad you finally you're talking about it.
Jenna [00:14:02] Thank you. Matt, did you want to weigh in virtually?
Matt [00:14:06] Jenna, I'm right there with you with Grease.
Angela [00:14:08] No, wait!
Clark [00:14:09] You gotta take a different one.
Matt [00:14:11] I'd have to do Grease one. I'm not as familiar as you are with two.
Jenna [00:14:15] Well, I think you should do Grease, and I'll do Grease 2.
Matt [00:14:17] Oh, perfect. We can see who's comes out better.
Jenna [00:14:20] It makes sense.
Clark [00:14:20] You can shoot them both at once.
Angela [00:14:24] Alright you guys, well I'll see you all in eight years for our screening of these movies.
Clark [00:14:29] Honestly, that's not even that crazy a timeline for an indie film.
Angela [00:14:32] Oh my gosh.
Jenna [00:14:33] Hey listen, it's true. We're gonna take a break and we're going to come back and we are going to talk about your film, Strangehold.
Clark [00:14:38] Stranglehold.
Jenna [00:14:39] Stranglehold, I'm sorry.
Clark [00:14:40] It's okay.
Jenna [00:14:41] As soon as it came out of my mouth, I was like, "I just said it wrong."
Clark [00:14:44] Maybe it's better.
Angela [00:14:45] No, stop it.
Clark [00:14:46] There's still time.
Jenna [00:14:48] It does have a strange hold on me, I'm not gonna lie. It has had a strange hold on since I watched it.
Clark [00:14:53] Good. That's what I want.
Jenna [00:14:56] Stranglehold, but it's true. I mean, how long did it take you to make Stranglehold?
Clark [00:15:00] A long time!
Jenna [00:15:01] From writing on the page until now?
Clark [00:15:05] Oh, I mean, since 2020, because the COVID happened. I don't know if the listeners know, COVID lasted about eight years out here in LA. Then I got it off the ground again, and the strikes happened and were like 18 months long. And then we finally shot it. The movie's set at Christmas, so it had to come out at fall, minimum. It can't come out in February. So we missed last Christmas. So yeah, it's been, like, six years.
Angela [00:15:30] Yeah.
Clark [00:15:30] So me and the Jaws guy (the remake Jaws, not Spielberg),
Angela [00:15:34] The Quincy Jaws guy.
Angela [00:15:36] Yeah, me Quincy Jaws are kind of on similar timelines here, sadly.
Jenna [00:15:39] You are.
Clark [00:15:40] The next one I'm gonna speed up. God willing, the next one, yeah.
Angela [00:15:44] Well, yeah, let's knock on wood and all the things that you don't have to do with strikes and
Clark [00:15:48] Acts of God. Yeah.
Jenna [00:15:50] Let's take a break, we're gonna come back, we're going to hear more about it.
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Angela [00:15:57] Alright, we are back with fabulous filmmaker, Clark Duke (our friend) and we're gonna talk about your movie, Stranglehold. That we both got to see!
Clark [00:16:06] Yeah.
Jenna [00:16:07] And now everyone can watch it because it's out.
Clark [00:16:09] Yes, it is available everywhere you can buy movies and on demand.
Angela [00:16:13] So exciting, and you said it took six years? So this is a big moment for you.
Clark [00:16:17] Yeah, I mean, it shouldn't have taken six years. But yeah, between the COVID and the strikes and the holiday delays of it all, it took a while.
Jenna [00:16:25] Clark, I really enjoyed this movie. It stars our Office friend, Jake Lacy, in a really amazing role and he's really good in it. He plays a drunk, barely-employed guy.
Angela [00:16:39] Ex-military-ish.
Jenna [00:16:42] I loved getting into your mind as I was watching this movie, it was very fascinating to me. This movie does a lot of twists and turns. It keeps you on your toes. I did not know who was going to "win it all."
Angela [00:16:57] Yeah.
Clark [00:16:57] Good.
Jenna [00:16:58] But also, Ashley Benson. She plays the female lead. She plays a stripper, she's a mom, she really needs medicine for her daughter, they don't have the money.
Angela [00:17:12] She's a reluctant stripper, though. She doesn't really want to be there. She has dreams of California.
Clark [00:17:17] She has dreams, yeah, but nobody makes her work. I mean, the interesting stuff, thematically, to me is just seeing her watch stuff on social media and how she's influenced by it.
Angela [00:17:28] Mm-hmm.
Clark [00:17:28] You know, the kind of more glamorous people. She's seeing their Christmas on her phone. That flattening out effect that that the internet has had on... When I was in high school in Arkansas, there was still kind of a regional culture, and I feel like now with social media that doesn't really exist anymore. I mean, it's really more of a monoculture than ever. It's weird. Like, the Super Bowl is the only thing everybody watches still and everything's very divvied up, but at the same time it flattened everything out. So it was interesting to me that these people in these rural places are still watching the same content as these people in West Hollywood. And what does that do to your psyche?
Angela [00:18:07] Right.
Clark [00:18:08] And Christmas heightens everything. The movie's set at Christmas time and like...
Jenna [00:18:11] It is.
Clark [00:18:11] Yeah, Christmas makes everybody bonkers.
Angela [00:18:14] Right, because you wanna make sure you get everyone the great gifts, and you decorate, and you look around, you're like, "Oh, our stuff is all crap."
Clark [00:18:22] You're comparing your life to other people's lives more than ever at Christmas. If you're lonely, it heightens that. If you you're sad, it heightens that. If your desperate, if you want to rob a strip club, it heightens that.
Jenna [00:18:33] Which brings us to...
Angela [00:18:34] I wasn't gonna say that part.
Clark [00:18:36] That's not a spoiler. That's the premise of the movie.
Angela [00:18:38] Okay, okay, okay.
Jenna [00:18:38] Yeah, well why don't you... You'll do a better job of explaining the premise of the movie. Give it to us.
Clark [00:18:43] I mean you've basically already done it, but it's about a stripper who, at Christmas time, is down on her luck and tired of her life. Decides to rob the strip club she works out with the help of her former military husband who was played by the Office's Jake Lacy. Who really does do just an awesome job of the movie. Like, he's so fun.
Angela [00:19:00] Your cast is phenomenal. You have Justin Long. That performance was amazing. When he first came on screen, it took me a minute. And then I realized who it was.
Jenna [00:19:08] Same.
Angela [00:19:09] And then also you have Ron Perlman, which is amazing. Martin Fisher. I mean, I could go on and on. This cast is really good.
Jenna [00:19:15] Yeah, I wanna shout out two of the other women in the movie that blew me away, who are Cody Kennedy and Elle King. Just great performances by all the women in this film.
Angela [00:19:24] I was also rooting for the gal with the neckbrace.
Clark [00:19:27] She's really who I'm rooting for. That's Elle King. Do you guys know, you know, she's a big country music superstar. Do you guys know her?
Jenna [00:19:33] I don't.
Angela [00:19:33] I knew her name.
Clark [00:19:34] She's awesome.
Angela [00:19:35] Yeah, but I didn't realize she acted.
Clark [00:19:37] She really hasn't before. I just asked her out of the blue. It just jumped out at me. I just had a feeling.
Angela [00:19:42] I was really rooting for her. We also want to shout out Angela Duke as the pharmacist because she crushed it.
Clark [00:19:47] So that was all improv, by the way.
Angela [00:19:49] No way!
Jenna [00:19:49] Stop it.
Clark [00:19:51] That was only scripted as one line and my mom goes, "Can I try something?" And I go, "You do anything you want. I'll put two cameras up."
Jenna [00:19:58] Her on the phone was all improv?
Clark [00:20:00] Whole thing, none of that scripted.
Angela [00:20:01] Wow.
Clark [00:20:02] I just said, "Do anything you want. I'm gonna put two cameras up so you can talk over each other, whatever. Jake will keep up with whatever you do."
Jenna [00:20:08] She takes multiple phone calls and puts people on hold.
Angela [00:20:14] She must have had a whole vision for her character.
Clark [00:20:15] She did, yeah.
Jenna [00:20:16] Is your mom an actor?
Clark [00:20:17] Not professionally, but she is SAG-eligible now, having been in my two films.
Angela [00:20:21] I feel like you have to cast your mom in every movie you make.
Clark [00:20:24] Yeah, the next one I don't know if there's a part for her, but I agree. She's also good.
Angela [00:20:31] She's really good. Before I knew it was your mom, we traded messages. I was like, "I love the pharmacist lady."
Jenna [00:20:36] We have to talk about the pharmacist lady.
Clark [00:20:36] That's great!
Angela [00:20:36] And then Jenna wrote a note. "Oh, it says her name's Angela Duke. I wonder if there's any relation." And then I'm like, "It's his mom."
Jenna [00:20:44] Yeah.
Angela [00:20:45] And then your brother's in the movie as well, and you co-wrote it with your brother. So what's it like working with your family members like that?
Clark [00:20:52] It's nice, you know, it's interesting. I mean, the relationship with my brother has been really great and kind of started during COVID. Right when COVID started, I had just rented these office spaces for us. So me and him and his friend and writing partner from college (Billington, who wrote the movie with us) just kind of start getting together every day for like, a year or whatever. We banged out multiple scripts. So now we kind of have this backlog of scripts, which is great. But it was good, it was... The intensity of it and just the routine of it kind of gave me a work ethic and a type of approach to the writing that I had not had before, of just kind of being workman-like and job-like about it. And nobody will be more honest with you, or brutal with you, than your brother.
Angela [00:21:33] Right.
Clark [00:21:33] If it sucks, he's gonna tell you it sucks. If it's good, he'll tell you its good. And you can believe it, cause he just told you you suck.
Angela [00:21:40] Right, right.
Clark [00:21:40] So yeah, it's been a really great, rewarding, creative partnership we've had. He's going to be in the next one. The next one, we co-wrote and he's gonna be in.
Angela [00:21:48] That's so great.
Jenna [00:21:49] Now, we should say you are not in this movie, but you also are.
Angela [00:21:53] Your Instagram is in it.
Clark [00:21:55] Yeah, that's my cameo in the film, is Jake's character DMs me on Instagram.
Angela [00:22:00] DM's the real-life Clark.
Clark [00:22:01] DMs the real... Yeah, the meta real-life Clark Duke.
Jenna [00:22:04] And he's asking for money.
Clark [00:22:06] Mm-hmm, it was based on a real DM that I got.
Jenna [00:22:08] I was going to ask you about that. Have you ever received a DM like that?
Clark [00:22:11] I have. I have received that DM, including the angry follow-up ones.
Angela [00:22:16] Really?
Clark [00:22:18] Yeah. This is what I had just got on Instagram, because I never had Instagram until 2020 when I made the first movie, "Arkansas." And Lionsgate had asked me why I didn't get it, because I'd never read any social media, because I just wasn't that interested. But they asked me to get one, so I did. You get this inbox full of just like...
Angela [00:22:34] A lot.
Clark [00:22:34] Yeah, it's a lot. You get crazies, you got all kinds of stuff. Most people are really nice, but for the most part, I think that's bad for you too, so I try to just avoid all of it. Because I think the really complimentary stuff is probably as unhealthy as the really mean stuff. But yeah, that was all that was based on a real DM I got.
Jenna [00:22:53] I kept thinking that at the very end of the movie that his phone was gonna light up and you would have sent him $1,000. I waited all the way to the end of the credits, Clark.
Angela [00:23:02] And then, after the credits, there is a phone. I said, "Jenna. That's it." But he was cheating, the guy.
Clark [00:23:17] Yours may be better, to be honest. I think your pitch may be better.
Jenna [00:23:21] Oh, well...
Clark [00:23:22] There's nothing I can do about it now, but that's a good one.
Jenna [00:23:24] Call me next time.
Angela [00:23:27] We were like, "It's gonna pay off, it's going to pay off," and Jenna was like, "I don't think so." Then I was like, "No, there's a phone, there is a phone." We were trading messages.
Clark [00:23:35] Well, I feel like we closed that storyline because that rejection that Tim gets from Clark Duke, leaving him unread, is the final rejection. That's sort what pushes him over the edge.
Angela [00:23:47] It does, he's like, "No one cares about us. I don't feel seen." Seen but not seen.
Clark [00:23:56] So I feel like it would have been overkill to do it, but no... That would have worked. That would've worked.
Jenna [00:24:00] To be fair, it would have been a little bit of a cheap joke.
Clark [00:24:02] I'm on the fence.
Jenna [00:24:04] You're on the fence about it?
Clark [00:24:05] I'm 50-50. Yours may be better.
Angela [00:24:09] You know what? What would Ralph and Tim say? They'd say, "Go back."
Clark [00:24:14] "Let's reshoot it," yeah.
Angela [00:24:16] It's a phone in a field.
Clark [00:24:17] Honestly, I shot that phone shot in my yard. We built a fire and wafted it, and I set a tripod up and filmed that.
Angela [00:24:25] Here in L.A.?
Clark [00:24:26] No, we actually did that in Arkansas over Christmas. I shot a lot of stuff in the movie. I shot all the driving stuff, most of the exteriors, setups, establishing shots and stuff.
Angela [00:24:35] That opening shot when she's driving, I was like, "That's in the south."
Clark [00:24:39] That's all Arkansas. That's real, yeah.
Angela [00:24:40] Cause you know what? I saw a Dollar General.
Clark [00:24:42] Yeah, that's all in Arkansas. I just went home at Christmas and took a camera. My mom was driving around with me, filming out the window.
Angela [00:24:50] That's so great. You're mom must get such a kick out of all this.
Clark [00:24:53] I think so.
Jenna [00:24:55] Well, where did you film the bulk of the film? Like, the strip club, for example. So much of the story happens there. You have to really destroy it. Was that a set or was that a place?
Clark [00:25:07] That was a real strip club in rural New Jersey. I had never been to rural New Jersey and it's like being in the South. It's wild.
Angela [00:25:16] It was very wooded.
Clark [00:25:17] No, I had no idea. I know upstate New York is rural, but this felt like the South, it was interesting. But for tax reasons we had to go shoot in New Jersey.
Angela [00:25:30] I had a question. I don't know if you call it a stunt or a gag, but there are some intestines.
Clark [00:25:36] Yeah, those look great.
Angela [00:25:38] They were so gruesome! I was like, "Oh my god!"
Jenna [00:25:43] That was a surprise.
Angela [00:25:44] That was really well done!
Clark [00:25:45] I'm not gonna lie, those surprised me. When the special effects makeup lady showed up on those on set and showed it to me, I burst out laughing. I was like, "This is so much more gruesome than I expected." Yeah, I did not expect them to be that gruesome either. It really made me laugh. I mean, it was awesome.
Angela [00:25:59] Well, applause for your makeup and everything. I was like, "Wow." I thought that had to cost so much money.
Clark [00:26:08] I don't think so. I think that was just skill and craft.
Angela [00:26:10] Skill and craft.
Clark [00:26:12] But no, I agree, those look really good.
Angela [00:26:14] So we should mention that this is rated R to our listeners, right?
Clark [00:26:18] Yeah, it's for mature audiences.
Angela [00:26:19] It's for mature audiences, yeah.
Jenna [00:26:21] Who are some of your influences, as a filmmaker?
Clark [00:26:25] I mean, my favorite is Robert Altman, who did The Long Goodbye. Steven Soderbergh is probably my favorite current living filmmaker, the guy that I would most like to emulate career-wise, just as far as the chances he takes, and the different genres, and the way that he does everything himself, the editing. Sean Baker, big fan, and I've been friendly with him a little bit. He's a really nice guy, too. Yeah, those are probably my two favorite current guys. But at all time, I would say Coen Brothers, Scorsese, Altman.
Jenna [00:26:55] What are you hoping people will take away from this film? My husband's a filmmaker and people always ask him that question. But I think when you set out to tell a story, you do hope that you're communicating something. Even if the takeaway is just, "I gave people 90 minutes of great entertainment and laughs," but where are you coming from with this movie?
Clark [00:27:16] I think the common thread between this movie and my first movie (and I kind of didn't realize this after the fact) is that they're both kind of about the state of the American dream, or the death of the American dream. Specifically what that is like for younger people in the South. Watching them back, it struck me that Arkansas was very much a movie about millennials, and this feels like a movie about Gen Z and just their economic outlook in this microcosm of a strip club. The point of the movie is the heist and the action, the explosions is not the interesting part. The interesting part is for me, the dialog that you have from the characters, like Ron Perlman's character and Jake's character talking about their world views. Because I feel like they're both guys that are probably pretty similar, politically, ideologically, but just because of the generation difference are coming at it from really different places. So I don't know if I answered your question, at all.
Jenna [00:28:15] You did very much answer my question.
Clark [00:28:19] It's fun for me to make and for my brother to just write about real people and places in a place we know. Besides Billy Bob, I don't know of anybody that made a bunch of movies set in Arkansas. Or the middle of the country, in general. I think it's pretty fertile ground. I like being able to make something that's sort of laughing with the South and not at it, too. I'm certainly not glorifying really any of the characters in the movie, but you're also, I think (I hope), very sympathetic to the characters and understanding of the character. I always go back to my North Star, and this is back to your question about my influences, I would say "The Sopranos" is probably my biggest and the most influential thing in film or TV to me. Just cause you're always with Tony. No matter what he does. I never once thought of him as a villain and that's a really great place to attack a character from.
Angela [00:29:18] Mm-hmm.
Clark [00:29:18] I try to do that. I know in Stranglehold, Ron Perlman's character's supposed to be the, I guess the villain, or the antagonist or something. But he kind of makes more sense than they do. From his point of view, he's way more sympathetic than they are. They're robbing him, you know? So I like that kind of stuff.
Angela [00:29:34] I found myself wanting him to make it.
Clark [00:29:37] Yeah, me too. Good.
Angela [00:29:39] That's how I feel about Tony Soprano. When you talk about Tony, I want to believe my own ending of that series.
Clark [00:29:46] I like the complicated characters.
Angela [00:29:48] Yeah, they're all really flawed. I love what you said about filming in the middle of America, too, because there's some great filmmakers out of Texas and different places (obviously in the South) but my favorite thing is when they show that part of their life and not a Hollywood version of it. If that makes sense.
Jenna [00:30:10] Yeah, totally. I love that too. Well listen, the movie is really fantastic. I really loved it.
Angela [00:30:16] Yes! Congratulations, Clark. Alright, well, why don't we take a quick break and we will be back with some The Office talk.
Jenna [00:30:23] Yeah, I got a few questions.
Angela [00:30:25] Yeah.
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Jenna [00:30:29] Clark, do you mind since we have you here, if we ask you a few Office questions?
Clark [00:30:32] Of course.
Jenna [00:30:33] Alright.
Angela [00:30:33] Aw, yay, Clark.
Clark [00:30:35] What if I was like, "Absolutely not?"
Angela [00:30:36] That would also be fine.
Jenna [00:30:39] We would be very disappointed.
Angela [00:30:39] You might not get Lynn K. leaving a comment. Oh, there was a few people that wrote "Clarkensaw."
Clark [00:30:45] That's a good one.
Angela [00:30:46] Yeah, I thought that was a good one.
Clark [00:30:47] I had thought about that as a production company name, years and years ago. But then remember that guy, was it Wes Clark? That ran for president 20 years ago? He was a retired general. Anyway, he used Clarkensaw for something.
Angela [00:31:01] Damn it!
Clark [00:31:02] But the fact that neither of you remember...
Angela [00:31:04] You know what? People might not remember.
Clark [00:31:04] Yeah, this was like 20 year ago and neither of you remember who he is. I think I'm safe.
Angela [00:31:09] I don't think he zeroed in on that.
Clark [00:31:12] I think I'm going to bring this back.
Jenna [00:31:14] Alright, here's your first Office question. Would you rather go camping with Dwight or vacation with Jan?
Clark [00:31:23] [laughing] Oh, vacation with Jan.
Jenna [00:31:26] That wasn't... You don't think that would be a tough call?
Clark [00:31:28] That's not hard at all. No.
Jenna [00:31:29] Okay.
Clark [00:31:30] That's easy. Are we talking about Clark the character, or Clark me, Clark?
Jenna [00:31:35] Either.
Clark [00:31:37] I think both the answers are the same. I think they're both still Jan.
Angela [00:31:40] You don't think Clark regretted his trip with Jan?
Clark [00:31:42] I think he was exhausted.
Angela [00:31:44] He was exhausted.
Clark [00:31:45] I don't know if it was regret, just so much as fatigue.
Jenna [00:31:50] Alright, who is more technically proficient, you or your character of Clark? For example, could you Clark, teach someone to use PowerPoint?
Clark [00:32:02] No, I could not. Character Clark is absolutely more proficient.
Jenna [00:32:06] I see.
Clark [00:32:06] I do occasionally use Apple keynote, which is Apple's free fake PowerPoint that comes built in. But I'm the only person I've ever met that uses Apple keynote. I use it like off-label, I make pitch decks with it and stuff. You can do a lot with it. It's great. There's nothing even to teach. I mean, anybody could use this thing. I've never met another person that's clicked this this icon before.
Jenna [00:32:33] Where is it? It's on every Mac?
Clark [00:32:35] It's free! It's on every Mac.
Angela [00:32:36] Is it on my iMac?
Jenna [00:32:38] Oh yeah! I know what you're talking about. It's like PowerPoint, but it's not PowerPoint.
Clark [00:32:42] It's just fake PowerPoint, it's just their fake PowerPoint. But you can load anything up. I also use Apple Pages, which is their fake Microsoft Word. They have all this sh*t on there for free. They have the bootleg, they have their Sam's Club, Dr. Thunder versions of every app.
Jenna [00:32:59] I gotta go to a Genius Bar or something.
Clark [00:33:02] This is not even a genius bar...
Jenna [00:33:04] You're like, "Just spend an hour with your computer, Jenna! You gotta just take a minute."
Clark [00:33:10] This is like, I don't know what's between idiot and genius? What's the word?
Angela [00:33:15] Meh.
Clark [00:33:15] Meh. This is the Meh Bar.
Angela [00:33:19] "We'll sort of meh explain it." OK, we have one. In the episode, "The Whale," all the men try to grow mustaches in support of Movember. Clark's mustache isn't great. It's not really happening. Can you grow them?
Jenna [00:33:34] Did they ask you if you could grow a mustache?
Clark [00:33:36] They did.
Jenna [00:33:38] Before they wrote it?
Clark [00:33:39] I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause Jake's was real. I think mine was fake, first of all.
Jenna [00:33:44] That was my question.
Angela [00:33:45] Yeah.
Clark [00:33:45] I think it was fake. So here's the thing: at the time, I had never attempted to grow a mustache. So I was, my real answer was like, "I don't know."
Angela [00:33:56] In your whole life?
Clark [00:33:57] Well, I have now. I ended up having one, I grew one for my first movie, Arkansas, that I was in. I had a mustache in that movie. Then after that, I kept it for a while just cause I thought it was funny. And because frankly, it's weird, but it was like a disguise. I instantly went kind of unrecognizable in public. I was like, "Oh, this is crazy. The mustache and glasses children's cartoon works." The fake mustache really works? But it did. So the answer is, yes, I can grow a mustache, but it takes a while. Because they were like, "You have a week" or whatever to film.
Jenna [00:34:33] What can you do?
Clark [00:34:34] What can you do in a week? What I can do in week is about what you saw in the episode, which is not much. Although it has got, now that I'm older, it is faster now.
Angela [00:34:42] But you still have such a baby face though, you do.
Clark [00:34:46] Yeah.
Angela [00:34:46] But that's a good thing.
Clark [00:34:46] Yeah, I don't think I can grow a beard, but I've also never tried because it's so... This is why I'd never tried the mustache, is the in-between period is so bad. It's so awful. I look like an eighth grade... It's just really bad for like a month.
Angela [00:35:01] Yeah.
Clark [00:35:01] Like, it's a rough three weeks there.
Angela [00:35:03] It's like growing out your bangs. It's just gonna get really yuck for a bit.
Clark [00:35:09] Occasionally now I will, if I had a part or something that was appropriate I would regrow the mustache. I kept it for years after Arkansas, but at the time, no. I couldn't grow mustache today in a week, probably, either. Probably, I would need like three weeks.
Jenna [00:35:21] And your memory is that they made something for you?
Clark [00:35:25] Or maybe they just touched it up? Maybe there was mascara on whatever sad, one week worth of mustache I had. Something like that. I don't think it was a fake mustache, I think they just doctored the sad wispy hairs.
Jenna [00:35:41] Alright, would you pretend to be a couple to get a couple's discount? The character of Clark goes with Nellie, right? Don't you guys go to the nail salon or something and you're pretending to be a couple for couple's discount? Let's say, we're gonna get to the root of something here. Would you, for example, pretend to a couple with someone to get a really cheap dinner on Valentine's Day, that's like a couple's discount.
Clark [00:36:09] Well, first of all, I would never choose to go to dinner on Valentine's Day if I didn't have to. That's like trying to go out on New Year's Eve, it's amateur hour.
Angela [00:36:17] Right, or going to brunch on Mother's Day. That's gonna be a sh*t show.
Clark [00:36:20] Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be so crowded, it'll be awful. So probably in that situation, no. You know, I don't think I would. I have a buddy that pretends something's wrong with him so him and his girlfriend can go to the front of the line at Universal and Disneyland.
Angela [00:36:29] No.
Clark [00:36:31] I'm not gonna name his name, but he'll hear this and he'll know. My brother is gonna hear this, and laugh his ass off, because he also knows him.
Jenna [00:36:40] You know, my dad on a family trip to Hawaii when I was young, was body surfing and he dislocated his shoulder.
Clark [00:36:48] Oh my god. From boogie boarding?
Jenna [00:36:50] From boogie boarding, he got slammed into the surf. When we got back to St. Louis, he went to the doctor and he had to have his arm in a sling for a period of time. My dad also traveled a lot for work. While he had his arm on the sling, he noticed that they let him board the airplane first because he needed extra time to get his bag situated. So I don't want to get it wrong, but I think for years, whenever he had a business trip, he would bring the sling and he would put it on in the bathroom so that he could board earlier.
Clark [00:37:24] [laughing] That's awesome.
Angela [00:37:24] This is very Larry David. This feels like a "Curb" episode.
Jenna [00:37:28] That's Jim Fischer for you.
Clark [00:37:29] You know what, it sounds like, if I'm understanding this story right, he didn't say anything. He didn't ask them to board early. He just had the sling on.
Jenna [00:37:38] And he walked up and he got to board early. He doesn't do it anymore.
Clark [00:37:42] When people would ask how he broke the arm, would he say something cooler than boogie boarding?
Jenna [00:37:47] I'm not sure. I haven't asked. I'll ask him.
Clark [00:37:49] Would he be like, "You should see the other guy?" Nobody wanted to say "boogie boarding."
Angela [00:37:54] "You should see the water that hit me hard."
Jenna [00:37:57] Exactly.
Clark [00:37:59] I don't think I would pretend to be a couple for the discount.
Jenna [00:38:06] Would you pretend to wear a sling to board a plane early?
Clark [00:38:10] I might. Flying's rough. All bets are off at the airport. Yeah. Honestly, the airport is such a no man's land. I might do anything at the airport.
Angela [00:38:18] Alright, last Office question. Is there any part of you that wishes that you were on the work bus with us?
Jenna [00:38:25] Did you and Jake discuss that day, or the next week, did he download you on everything that happened on that bus?
Angela [00:38:33] You know the lore? That we call it "death bus?"
Clark [00:38:34] I don't think I do.
Angela [00:38:36] Oh my god.
Jenna [00:38:38] You don't know about death bus?
Clark [00:38:38] I don't think so.
Angela [00:38:39] Okay.
Clark [00:38:39] Did something happen?
Jenna [00:38:39] You don't know that we almost died three times?
Angela [00:38:41] Did something happen?! Oh my God!
Clark [00:38:43] I don't think I know then.
Jenna [00:38:44] This is not hyperbole we almost died three times.
Angela [00:38:47] Yeah, okay -
Clark [00:38:49] What happened?
Angela [00:38:50] First of all, here's the first time. Poor Brian Cranston. It's his week off from "Breaking Bad," and he's like, "Great. I'm going to be inside air-conditioned in an office." No, we're putting you on a bus. It's 110 degrees out, and that's what we filmed in, outside. It was so hot.
Clark [00:39:09] I remember that. I remember the bus. I don't remember everyone almost dying on the bus.
Angela [00:39:12] Okay, so imagine the bus is full of desk lamps.
Clark [00:39:17] Did I get off the bus at some point? Because I remember with Cranston, very specifically, he was trying to get me to do this really big physical gag. I just said (and this is the lamest, most actory thing I'll say, but I was like), "Clark would not do that." "I don't believe this. I would not do this." So I remember being on the bus. I don't remember everyone almost dying.
Jenna [00:39:36] Well, because you leave. You stay behind, and you teach Daryl PowerPoint.
Clark [00:39:41] Yes, yes, yes.
Angela [00:39:41] You and Creed get off the bus.
Clark [00:39:45] Yes, okay. And then after that, you guys almost died?
Angela [00:39:46] No, no, no. Okay, let's set it up. I'm just going to say two things. We're driving down the road. A stunt driver makes a hard right. We were supposed to pretend like we're being jostled.
Clark [00:39:56] Yeah, they're like "Everybody go to the right!"
Angela [00:39:57] Yeah, and it didn't work. So they're we're gonna put the stunt driver in he's gonna take a hard right. He takes a hard right, we all go -
Clark [00:40:02] You're not stunt passengers
Angela [00:40:04] And nothing's nailed down. So everything goes flying. Everything.
Jenna [00:40:08] You were in the bus. You saw how much sh*t was in that bus.
Angela [00:40:11] So imagine Creed being covered by a bookshelf and paper, Phyllis on the ground.
Jenna [00:40:16] Me on top of her.
Clark [00:40:18] Was that real? That just happened on accident? Like, that was not planned?
Jenna [00:40:21] That was not planned.
Angela [00:40:21] That was not planned.
Clark [00:40:23] [laughing] Wow, no, I did not know this.
Angela [00:40:25] So there were some injuries, we had to get off, they had to redress the bus, they had help people who got injured.
Clark [00:40:31] Wow! I did no know this, this is wild.
Angela [00:40:33] This is the big one. Then we're on the bus and it's hot and they're trying to figure out how they can cool us off. They put a big tube of air coming in, great, we're getting cooled off.
Jenna [00:40:43] They were dragging an air conditioning unit behind the bus.
Angela [00:40:46] They attached it, had a tube coming in.
Jenna [00:40:49] Guess where the intake of that machine was? Wanna guess?
Clark [00:40:53] Right next to the diesel engine?
Angela [00:40:54] And the vent was right over Jenna's head, right? I'm in the front of the bus. Jenna's like, "I smell something. Something smells weird." One of the camera people gets lightheaded. Jenna's like, "I smell something," and we're like, "No, it's nothing." Then Brian Cranston comes in, stands on a chair, and Jenna points. He goes, "Everyone off the bus right now." We were getting carbon monoxide poisoning.
Clark [00:41:14] Wow. Yeah, no that really could have killed everybody!
Jenna [00:41:16] I know!
Clark [00:41:17] Whoa.
Angela [00:41:18] So anyway, were you glad-
Jenna [00:41:19] But do you kinda wish you were there?
Angela [00:41:20] Yeah, yeah, do you?
Clark [00:41:22] [laughing] No! No, not at all. That sounds awful. Wow.
Angela [00:41:26] We thought, for sure, Jake would have come to you the next day at work and been like, "Oh my god."
Jenna [00:41:32] He didn't say anything?
Clark [00:41:33] No!
Jenna [00:41:35] Wow.
Clark [00:41:36] [playfully] Maybe he's just not a big complainer.
Angela [00:41:37] Ooooooook.
Clark [00:41:41] No, I'm glad I was not on this bus though, and I had no idea. This is wild.
Angela [00:41:45] Yeah, we all call it death bus. Well, you guys, please go check out Clark's movie. Clark, this is so fun.
Clark [00:41:54] Thank you.
Jenna [00:41:54] Thank you for coming.
Clark [00:41:55] Of course.
Jenna [00:41:56] Everyone, it's really great and it's unique and it is a story you haven't seen. I can promise you that. It's visually interesting and funny and it filled with really, really superb performances.
Clark [00:42:08] Thank you. That's very important to me. That is nice to hear. And it's got a great Christmas soundtrack. So all the music in the movie is original Christmas music by Theresa Wayman of the band "Warpaint," who are kind of indie rock legends. And then Elle King, who is in the film, is also singing on "Jingle Bell Rock."
Angela [00:42:25] Oh, so cool.
Clark [00:42:26] Yeah, and the soundtrack will be out, I believe, November 6th.
Jenna [00:42:30] Oh, that's fantastic.
Clark [00:42:30] So pretty soon for everybody listening, you should be able to find that on Apple and Spotify. There will be the score and the separate soundtrack release, which I'm gonna do dialog interstitials, kind of a 90's soundtrack where it's got dialog clips and then the song, so it's sort of like you can listen along to the type of thing.
Angela [00:42:46] Send us that.
Clark [00:42:47] I will.
Angela [00:42:47] I'll share it when it's out, for our listeners. I would love to just wrap up with one last comment from the last time you were on. This is Melanie C. who said, "I cannot wait for y'all to get fax machines and fax each other. I would also love to have a landline again."
Jenna [00:43:06] We never did that.
Angela [00:43:07] We never got fax machines.
Clark [00:43:08] I have a landline.
Jenna [00:43:10] Well, I have a landline, we discussed.
Clark [00:43:11] Yeah, I still have it. So I'm saying, we can still get them.
Jenna [00:43:13] We were gonna get our fax machines and hook them up to our landlines.
Clark [00:43:19] We can still do it. I'm not getting rid of it.
Jenna [00:43:20] Same.
Clark [00:43:21] I'm going down with the landline ship. Do they still make fax machines? Some doctors still use them. I think, right?
Angela [00:43:30] Doctor's offices? Yes, they do.
Clark [00:43:30] Yeah, so someone must make them. I gotta go to Staples after this, I'll text you.
Angela [00:43:36] Scope it out.
Jenna [00:43:37] Yeah, if you see any fax machines, let us know.
Clark [00:43:38] I'll see what the inventory is like.
Jenna [00:43:39] I wanna throw something out there. This is just part of being a good prepper, with our landlines. Do you have a wheelbarrow?
Clark [00:43:48] I don't.
Jenna [00:43:49] You should get one.
Angela [00:43:50] Why?
Clark [00:43:51] I have a shovel.
Jenna [00:43:53] A shovel is good, but I think you could use a wheelbarrow. I was reading this book, it's called "The Wall," and it's about a woman who gets stuck behind an invisible wall. She only has herself, a cow, a dog, and a cat. It's great. It's this old novel. It's really, really good. There's only so much farming she can try to do for her own survival, and the moving of hay to feed her cow. She has to drag it all, because she doesn't have a wheel barrow. It occurred to me, a wagon or a wheelbarrow in end of times would be, possibly, very helpful. Just something to think about. So I'm gonna put it out there.
Angela [00:44:27] I'm gonna piggyback on that and say, do a wagon, not a wheelbarrow. I don't know when the last time you pushed a wheelbarrow was, but I did recently on our farm. They f**king suck. Because if they get heavy on one side or the other, you're wobbling. It's just a real pain in the ass.
Clark [00:44:42] It's a weird design.
Angela [00:44:43] I hated it.
Jenna [00:44:43] So maybe wagon then.
Clark [00:44:45] Did they make a two wheeled wheelbarrow, with two on the front?
Jenna [00:44:50] Why haven't they?
Clark [00:44:51] Like, why does it have the one wheel? There's like construction worker listeners right now that are just yelling at their phones.
Angela [00:44:57] Just yelling at us. I mean, it is easy with the two arms to dump the wheelbarrow.
Jenna [00:45:03] The single wheel.
Angela [00:45:04] The single wheel is easy to dump things, but I found it to push really annoying.
Jenna [00:45:09] But you can also pull it behind you.
Angela [00:45:11] Yeah, but it's not great.
Clark [00:45:12] Who's doing that?
Angela [00:45:13] No one, no one. You pull a wheelbarrow. Oh, wait, there's a two wheel! Jordan found a two-wheel-barrow, yes.
Clark [00:45:21] That looks like a way better design.
Angela [00:45:22] Okay, so don't use ye olde wheel-barrel. Use the new modern one.
Clark [00:45:26] I don't really have a big enough garage for that thing, that looks like it takes a big footprint, that's like the size of a motorcycle.
Angela [00:45:33] You don't have time for that.
Clark [00:45:35] Not yet, I gotta get a bigger house. My biggest take away for this is that I gotta make more money.
Angela [00:45:40] You got to make more money.
Clark [00:45:41] I gotta get a bigger house, so I can get the wheelbarrow.
Angela [00:45:43] When you go on a talk show someday and you're like, "Oh, do you want f**k you money," say, "No, I want wheel barrow money. That's what I want."
Clark [00:45:50] Filled with cash.
Angela [00:45:50] That's it. Yeah, that's it, Clark, we love you so much!
Clark [00:45:53] I love you guys. Thank you for having me.
Angela [00:45:54] Thanks for being here.
Jenna [00:45:55] Thanks, Clark.
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Angela [00:45:59] Well, thank you again to Clark Duke for coming back on Office Ladies. That was so fun.
Jenna [00:46:06] So fun. I love him. Everyone, you can check out his new movie, Stranglehold, on digital and video-on-demand as of October 2nd. So it is out.
Angela [00:46:14] Clark's movie also has an Instagram, so I'll put that in our stories. It has the trailer and links to where you can watch it. Lastly, huge shout out to Quincy Jaws and the childhood best friends who loved the movie so much, they decided to all chip in and remake it in their hometown. I'll share a link to their website as well.
Jenna [00:46:32] Alright, everyone, thanks for listening.
Angela [00:46:34] See you next week!
Jenna [00:00:17] Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.
Angela [00:00:19] Office Ladies is a presentation of Audacy and is produced by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey.
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Angela [00:00:32] Audacy's executive producer is Leah Reis-Dennis.
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