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loved that not only were there these new pairings of characters, but also of writers. It's just so interesting. Yes, yes, ang, and so much comes out in this episode when you put these different people together for the first time, really. A, so you guys, i don't know if we need to start some sort of a petition, but we really want to create, i know, a feature of the show called inspiration with gregg. And will lend us an audio clip of the inspiration behind every episode. And there's like piano music, gregg will tell us the inspiration, and then kent tells us the nuts and bolts of how he made that inspiration happen. Gregg is listening right now and is like, ladies, what are you signing me up for? Exactly what is fasfack number two? Well, angelo, speaking of cantipedia, fastfact, two is called locations. Locations. Locations. So for this episode, because we actually shot it in conjunction with the return, we did something called cross boarding. It's the little lingo that they use in the biz,

lingo alert.

Sho islingo alert. So cross boarding is when you shoot two s at once. We normally shot one episode each week, but we shot these episodes over a ten day period, from october sixteenth two thousand six to october 20 seventh two thousand and six. And the main reason for this was because of locations. We just had a lot of places to go in these two episodes. And having the flexibility to shoot it over a two week period was rea helpful. Yes. And they would also do a thing you guys, they call it shooting out a location. So for example, every scene that happened in that coffee shop, they would film in one day, and then they could close out that location. They don't have to pay for that location for multiple days. So sometimes when you cross board, it's a great way to save money, cause you can shoot out a location. Yes, have we bored you to tears with ellow behind the scenes? Lingo. Lingo alert. Shoot out a location. So since you brought up the coffee shop, angelo, we had a fan question from briana kernan, harshita verma and molly ottawa. Did pam and angela go to the same coffee shop that jim and karen end up going to later? And is the coffee shop location the same one used in later episodes? Yes, yes, and yes, yes and yes. And here's a little tidbit, jenna, i don't know if you remember, that coffee shop was next door to the place we filmed the tattoo parlor scene. What? Yes, an upcoming episode with andy. That tattoo parlor was next to the coffee shop. It must be some little all that ken just had good favor with, so he was like, ok, we'll take that we'll take that. Well, here's what kent told me. He said the coffee shop was a real location. We filmed at a place called java groove coffee. It was on victory boulevard in van eyes. Yes. However, it has been closed and replaced by a printing company. So iam, sorry, if you come to l a, you cannot get cup of coffee any more at java groove coffee. Well, we'll have to find out if they can get a tattoo next door still. Yes, perhaps. What a fun office secter that would be. You could go see the outside of dunder mifflin, grab a cup of coffee and get a tattoo. I mean, if you're a die hard fan. Ray, yes. But now you can just get something printed and then get a tattoo. All right. Well, i am not done talking about fast number tw angela, i'm sorry. More locations. We have so many our locations. This is a question from cilan hadley and jordan simpson. Were all the sets that the salesmen travelled to local office buildings, or were they built in the warehouse set, like the fancy stamford branch was? All right, are you ready? They were not a set. They were cation but they were all the same location. Here's what they did. The building where jim and dwight are in the parking lot, and dwight's like, pumping himself up, that was in van eys. It was at the panorama medical plaza. Plaza. Saint louis. Was it at the plaza? It was at the plazza. Oh my gosh, that's so saint louis. Saints. Oh my gosh. Have a saint louis catch later in the episode. But that's, that's the first lor plaza, plaza. So at the panorama medical plaza, they found a completely vacant floor, and they dressed five different spaces to be the various offices that everyone visits. Isn't that amazing? They took one location and made it five different places. But there's more.

Oh, more.