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Speaker 1: Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in

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Speaker 1: partnership with Iheartradiotshas Katie.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever smoke cigarettes?

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Speaker 1: No, only in like movies. I would sort of a

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Speaker 1: few days before a week before I because I wanted

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Speaker 1: it to look real, and I did it, But I

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Speaker 1: never got hooked. I never smoked them in real life.

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Speaker 2: Wow, oh yeah you did. Oh yeah. My early twenties

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Speaker 2: was just like me thinking I was cool and like

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Speaker 2: doing theater and being in like theater, majoring in theater.

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Speaker 2: And it was like at experimental theater wing where we

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Speaker 2: would just roll around the floor naked and keep taking

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Speaker 2: cigarette breaks.

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Speaker 1: Make noises, like become like different animals and trees.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like making out and everybody was like had

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Speaker 2: very fluid sexuality. I love your shirt. I'd like to

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Speaker 2: also note at the airing of this podcast that Gambo's

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Speaker 2: wearing the most wonderful shirt that says homosexual tendencies with

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Speaker 2: a like a skeleton.

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Speaker 1: Explain this the skeleton with a leather jacket and a

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Speaker 1: leather hat. Smoking a joint. I say it's a joint.

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Speaker 1: It could be a cigarette or a cigar. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a joint.

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Speaker 2: Who is the brand.

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Speaker 1: It's from a Lockwood fifty one. It's a queer brand

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Speaker 1: that does a lot of really cool, sort of edgy provocative,

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Speaker 1: like real sort of skateboarding. You know, Cake, gay Quel,

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Speaker 1: all that skateboarding you do, Yeah, for all that skateboarding

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Speaker 1: at but they have really really cool cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: Hey, but you know what we do do? That's a

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Speaker 2: nice scandal. Do you do what we do?

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Speaker 1: Do?

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Speaker 2: Dooty, what do we do? We are fucking good scooters

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Speaker 2: scooting people.

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Speaker 1: We do give a good scoot we do.

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Speaker 2: And this is a nice scandal. Fun fact. Scott Foley

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Speaker 2: is a rap gift or a season premiere gift, I

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Speaker 2: can't remember. One of the fucking greatest, smartest, most amazing

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Speaker 2: gifts ever. He gave everybody a razor I think, yes, yep,

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Speaker 2: which is like adult scooter. And our base camp was

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Speaker 2: like a little bit further from our stages, and so

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Speaker 2: we scooted from stage to base camp where are where

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Speaker 2: our trailers are. And it's the greatest, it's one of

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Speaker 2: the best. See you live in the hills, g you

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Speaker 2: don't get to do this. But I use that scooter

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Speaker 2: a couple times a week because I scooted with Ali.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, you have to come scoot with me.

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Speaker 1: My scooter's been in the garage for years because you're right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fine because it was on a shelf that was

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Speaker 1: so good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you Scott Foley for this gift. But

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Speaker 2: my son is a huge scooter person. He scoots with

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Speaker 2: his little fucking helmet. He's fast, ast shit. He does tricks,

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Speaker 2: he does circles, he does squatting one leg, I believe it.

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Speaker 2: And I scooted with him everywhere on that Scott fully scooter. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys wear helmets? Oh? Yeah, fuck that shit.

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Speaker 1: I would wear a helmet too. I'm just thinking back

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Speaker 1: in like Washington Heights, like on a skateboarder, So we

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Speaker 1: didn't even have scooters back then or skates, like no

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Speaker 1: elbow pads, no helmets, nothing. People were scraped up and

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Speaker 1: falling on their heads.

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Speaker 2: And I like to scoot without a helmet. I like

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Speaker 2: to run on the danger sign. But to be honest,

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Speaker 2: then Albi goes, how come you're wearing I have that helmet?

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Speaker 1: And you do? I think I think it's it's necessary.

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Speaker 2: And he's actually taken some fucking spills, so I'm like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: which is fine. I don't mind scraped ups. But like

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Speaker 2: he's wearing a helmet.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hell yah. There's another gift from Scott Foley

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Speaker 1: and it's a framed photograph of my parking spot.

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Speaker 2: God damn it, Scot Foley. Those were two exceptional gifts.

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Speaker 1: They were like like unique and creative.

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Speaker 2: Did they super aarty, black and white big prince of

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Speaker 2: our parking spots with our name on it? Wait? Did

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Speaker 2: your say mindsets k dot load?

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Speaker 1: Did you're saying just yeah, that's it? Yeah, But it's cool.

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Speaker 2: And it's such a statement, like you know, when you're

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Speaker 2: It's such a status symbol of making it that you

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Speaker 2: a parking spot on a Hollywood studio a lot that

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Speaker 2: and it is such a god it's such a moment.

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Speaker 1: Well you think, all right, this is this is permanent.

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Speaker 1: That this is pretty permanent. I mean, of course they

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Speaker 1: our heads we think, all right, they like us, they

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Speaker 2: They like me, you really like me. It's the same

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Speaker 2: as the status of getting a back of a chair. Also, Hollywood,

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Speaker 2: if you're on a show, you get your cast chair

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Speaker 2: that you sit in while you're waiting until your scene

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Speaker 2: is ready to shoot. And also along the back of

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Speaker 2: it is usually your name.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have mine right here? Did you keep your

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Speaker 1: you do? Yeah? I have a director in my room.

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Speaker 2: Oh you do.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to reach back because I'm going to

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Speaker 1: fall on my head. Yeah, I have it right, I

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Speaker 1: have it right here beyond you. And it says scandal

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Speaker 1: and like the you know, like when you yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the red shredded paper.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, gave them to us. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: After we wrapped, we also had scandal warming coats.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh I didn't keep that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't either, and god damn it, I wish I had.

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Speaker 2: But look, we keep it real here on unpacking the

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Speaker 2: toolbox up. Now, tell the people, Tell the people, Tell

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Speaker 2: the gladiators what we're talking about today, which is episode

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Speaker 2: two eight entitled Happy Birthday, Mister President, which aired on

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Speaker 2: December sixth, twenty twelve.

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Speaker 1: And it was written by the Shonda Rhymes.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's why this one's so fucking hot, okay.

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Speaker 1: And it was directed by Oliver Bolckelberg, who was our cinematographer,

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Speaker 1: bunch of episodes. He's amazing.

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Speaker 2: That's right, he's amazing. It was guest starring Kate Burton

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Speaker 2: as Vice President Sally Langston, Norm Lewis as Senator Edited

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Speaker 1: Kavita Pattil as Doctor Number four, Kiko a Jenna as

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Speaker 1: Press Secretary Britta Kagan, Troy Winbush as Mars Lcott, Stephen

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Speaker 2: Wow. I'm very excited to talk to me about this

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Speaker 2: episode because Shonda, she wrote the shit out of this episode.

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Speaker 1: It's an oldie, but a goodie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a banger. It's really fucking chock full, as

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Speaker 2: they all are but this one really okay, let's remind you,

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Speaker 2: let's jog you gladiators and your memory banks about what's

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Speaker 2: going on. So this is what's happening. In two o eight,

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Speaker 2: Happy Birthday, Misster President, the hospital is a buzz. In

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Speaker 2: the aftermath of Fits being shot, Olivia remembers the end

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Speaker 2: of the campaign trail and a significant pin she gifted

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Speaker 2: to Fits during his inauguration. In the present, Sally Langston

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Speaker 2: makes a play for a position as acting president, which

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Speaker 2: Cyrus and Olivia must shut down.

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Speaker 1: In the past, we follow Fitz and Olivia's escalating affair

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Speaker 1: during the days following Fitz's election, with some frightening results

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Speaker 1: as Hollis takes care of a reporter looking into defiance.

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Speaker 1: The tension the affair and the lengths that Hollis and

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Speaker 1: Cyrus will go to scares Olivia into resigning.

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Speaker 2: And finally, as Sally has sworn in his acting president,

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Speaker 2: we see who the suspected shooter is. Well. The episode

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Speaker 2: starts we're right where President Grant was shot, and we

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Speaker 2: and the whole perspective is from Olivia's and Bogelberg does

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Speaker 2: the best fucking cinematography DP work where he just slow

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Speaker 2: blood dripping on the floor, she's seeing Melly fucking screaming

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Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, he does. And he does that, like

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Speaker 1: you said, with the camera work. Even the shooting of

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Speaker 1: It's almost sped up, right, Yeah, like he speeds up.

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Speaker 1: It's the film shooting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like really weird. It's so powerful though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you see it's like the blood spray too,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god. And we see Edison calls Olivia and

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Speaker 2: Carrie's dress is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I didn't look up who made that dress,

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Speaker 1: but the dress is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so ridiculous, Lin Paolo, It's like

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Speaker 1: In the front right on her booby. It's so fucking

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Speaker 1: fucking Edison. I was like, Oh, here's Edison again. I

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Speaker 1: do they have to stay in that bunker? Those people

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like if this were to well, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: if this were actually happened, this has actually happened. I

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Speaker 2: like I think they probably have to that's probably be

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna trust the scandal writers and say that this

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Speaker 2: shit is based in truth. They probably have to take

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Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House and they have to take

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Speaker 2: Congress or I don't know, and throw them in a

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Speaker 2: like the whole place isn't under attack.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, also, because the shooter is still

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Speaker 1: at large, right, they didn't catch the shooter so in

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Speaker 1: that case, I could see how they have to hide

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Speaker 1: these people away because if they're all killed, then we're

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Speaker 1: just you know, thrown into chaos.

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Speaker 2: Chaos.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, sometimes nobody shot and we're still in chaos.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So then we see what causes the whole backstory

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Speaker 2: to unlock, is that we see the pin, this beautiful

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Speaker 2: American flag pin that fell off, you know, during the shooting.

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Speaker 2: We see what the origin of this pin story is,

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Speaker 2: which is Olivia gave Fits this pin on his inauguration day,

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Speaker 2: and we learned that the pin was actually an Eisenhower pin,

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Speaker 2: and it's so fucking smart, Shonda rhymes, of course she

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Speaker 2: wrote this episode.

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Speaker 1: It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful. But of course, the

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Speaker 1: minute that Mellie walks in and sees the pin in

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Speaker 1: the flashback, you know scene on fits his lapel and

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Speaker 1: she's like, oh, where'd you get that? And he was like,

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Speaker 1: oh was Eisenhower's motherfucker's lying to her already, Ja.

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Speaker 2: Is lying to Melly. She's just like, where's this pin from?

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Speaker 2: And they don't even say like, oh, Olivia got it

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Speaker 2: for me, or.

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Speaker 1: Katie tell me, is this the scene where she says,

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Speaker 2: The best acting on the show is coming right now.

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Speaker 2: So she gets in his face in the hallway and

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Speaker 2: It is the garden scene Gladiators, that's what we're talking about,

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Speaker 2: I can't live like this. All I live, breathe and

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Speaker 1: this guy really really loves me. He fucking he nails

432
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,880
Speaker 1: this scene. I mean they both do, him and Olivia,

433
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: but it's this. This was my favorite scene in this episode.

434
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 2: Me too. This is the winning scene. This is krem

435
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 2: dela Creme and honestly one of the best, most passionate.

436
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 2: You know why this scene is so amazing and why

437
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 2: it's because we believe and know that they love each

438
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 2: other so much despite race, fite president not president, despite

439
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 2: despite it all, it's like they are sick in love

440
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 2: with each other, and like they're acting and her writing

441
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 2: and the commo of it all and being a prose

442
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 2: garden is like till the end of time people were

443
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 2: olits through and.

444
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: Through and again we've we've mentioned there's a million times,

445
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: but the chemistry between Tony Goldwin and Kerry Washington is

446
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 1: just it's you know, it's spectacular, like if that wasn't there,

447
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 1: And of course including Seanna's writing and the act all

448
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: of it, but their chemistry is just so present. It's

449
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: so real that you can't you can't look away. You

450
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 1: believe it, You believe it one hundred percent, you know

451
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: what I mean.

452
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 2: Oh god, Tony's acting, it's so good. You own me,

453
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 2: you own me, I belong to you.

454
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,239
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sick too.

455
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 2: I can't eat, I can't think, I can't like all

456
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 2: this shit.

457
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: Is made me cry. Oh my, oh man, it's so good.

458
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: But again, and Olivia has that look on her face

459
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: like like she cannot believe the words that are coming

460
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 1: out of his mouth, but she's loving.

461
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: We should start. I just had a real brain inspiration.

462
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 2: I think we should start re enacting other characters scenes

463
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 2: from this, says Quinn and Hauck, or is just Katie

464
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: and Geirmo because I love.

465
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: That so much and I think our listeners will love it.

466
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: Just think.

467
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 2: Joe Morton, some of those monologues.

468
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,920
Speaker 1: I want to be Sally Langston, like sh talk about

469
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: great acting. You hate her more than ever in this episode,

470
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: like she is a hateful, hateful double woman.

471
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 2: That's horrible to tell you, guys, what Sally Langston is

472
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: doing in this fucking episode. So she was promised on

473
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 2: the campaign trail that she was going to nominate the

474
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: next Supreme Court justice. But ha HAA a little bit

475
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 2: of a conflict here is that Verna Thornton was promised

476
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 2: for being part of the goons who rigged the election,

477
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: that she would be the next Supreme Court nominee. So

478
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 2: they've got a lead little bit of an issue, and

479
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 2: fucking Cap Burton has a monologue where she comes into

480
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: Cyrus and Olivia where they have killed her Supreme Court nominee.

481
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 2: They've put in some like they let it be known

482
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 2: that he was arrested when he was fifteen, So there's

483
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: no way that her nominee would be elected. And she

484
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 2: comes in and she's so pissed. She was like, they

485
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 2: found this on campounds that's supposed to be locked, and

486
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 2: I know who did it. It was you. It was

487
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 2: you, you did it.

488
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: And her voice Katie reaches a pitch that I have

489
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: never heard before.

490
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 2: It was yes, it's like very animalistic rage.

491
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, wait he got very.

492
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 2: What you said animalistic like an animals like it was crazy.

493
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 2: It was so crazy.

494
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: And it was It also made me think, okay, homegirl

495
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: says a Supreme Court justice nominie cannot come back from

496
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: that I'm air quoting scandal, which was like he committed

497
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: a little crime when he was fifteen. Meanwhile, now thinking

498
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: too thousand fucking you know twenty twenty, twenty two, twenty three,

499
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: like the shit, that's the scandals that are happening within

500
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court justices and they're already on the bench

501
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: and nothing. Nobody's bat in an eye, you know what

502
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean. Shit is still moving along like always. Nobody's

503
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: getting kicked off. So it's just funny to see these

504
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: scenes in this you know, here and nowhere.

505
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: It was like people are they they were writing the

506
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: show to have some moral compass. Of course, we even

507
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 2: though Olivia Pope kills someone with a chair, but like whatever.

508
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: But also Katie, like, during this time, it still wasn't

509
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: crazy in our world. So it was it was real,

510
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? This shit was it was real.

511
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: Yes, And then Sally's all pissed. They go to Melly

512
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: and they say, Sally Langston is making a play for

513
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 2: the White House. She just landed on the lawn. Go

514
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 2: leave this hospital, find something to wear, get on the

515
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 2: podium and tell the American people that we don't need

516
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: Sally Langston. Our president is still alive in kicking. Don't

517
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 2: pretend like he's not. And my god, does Melli it

518
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 2: up her pull on her bootstraps.

519
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: Yo, tell Mellie that she can maybe not be in

520
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: the White House anymore, and that bitch will be like,

521
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: what do I have to do? She like she like

522
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: she conjured up some inn and was like, yeah, I'm

523
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: gonna shut this down.

524
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 2: Animal, she's a political animal. But getting ready for that,

525
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: Olivia has to go and get her clothes of what

526
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 2: she's gonna wear, and so she walks past all of

527
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: Fit's clothes and he's like in the midst of possibly dying,

528
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 2: and she sees that navy sweatshirt, you know, the one

529
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 2: that says Navy on it, and she just gives it

530
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: a whiff and cries.

531
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: Oh, she said she gave it, gives it a whiff

532
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: and cries, she sure does.

533
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 2: Man.

534
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: That's another there's a lot of powerful scenes in this episode.

535
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: When she takes that whiff from that that sweatshirt. Yo, Katie,

536
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: did you notice? And that see she breaks down, but

537
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: then she has this moment where she's like, she stiffens

538
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: up and she's like, I cannot do this shit. Pull

539
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: it together, Olivia, And she pulls herself together, and she

540
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: shakes the sweatshirt and folds it really sort of sternly

541
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: and puts it. Oh it was so good.

542
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's she's so amazing, bringing it back to the

543
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: Sally Hemmings Thomas Jefferson line of it all when she

544
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: is smelling the navy sweatshirt. After that, we flashed back

545
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: to inauguration time and Fitz has invited Olivia to look

546
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: at the Constitution and they touch it and it says

547
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 2: we the People. And at the time of the Constitution,

548
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 2: black people weren't included in We the people, and I

549
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: can't help but think, like that's what was so cool

550
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 2: about this episode is like Fitz is like touch it

551
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 2: and she's like, no, I'm not going to touch it,

552
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: and he's like touch it, and it's like so cute,

553
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 2: how the whole dialogue is so durable, and she's like, no, you,

554
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: let's touch it together, and he's like, I already touched

555
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 2: I already was the person who touched it.

556
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: I already touched it, touching it.

557
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 2: I've been touching it. And then she touches it, and

558
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: I don't know, like I really had a moment like

559
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: to see a TV show where a black woman touches

560
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: the constitation you see her finger, like yes, yes, you

561
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: see her finger touched the Constitution where it was like

562
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: all these white men who wrote it, and I don't know,

563
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 2: I'm so glad Shonda wrote this episode and wrote it

564
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 2: like this. And I mean I was moved like multiple

565
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: times over. I just was like super moved and really

566
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: felt and proud.

567
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: I felt really proud, yeah to be on the show

568
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: because in moments like this.

569
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: Like I was such a small cog in the wheel

570
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: of this show that was yes, it was like you know,

571
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 2: water cooler and OMG moments and binge worthy and we

572
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 2: were tweeting and all the things. But what's so great

573
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: about Shonda Rhymes is that she was actually also like

574
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: moving the needle in the way that she knows how

575
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 2: you know.

576
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was some real stuff in these in these

577
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: episodes that were lessons too or or reminders that people

578
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: needed to be reminded of certain things, and she does

579
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: it in such a beautiful way. But I feel like

580
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: there's a story behind when they shot that scene. Did

581
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: they shoot that? I feel like, did they shoot that

582
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: scene in They couldn't have shot that in DC? Right?

583
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 2: No?

584
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: That I don't think is that recreated that?

585
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 2: Yeah? Totally, I think. I mean I could be wrong,

586
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: but I think I don't think we ever. I don't

587
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: think anyone ever went to d C until the final

588
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 2: the second to final episode of the whole series.

589
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: I don't know.

590
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 2: But it was fucking real. Yeah, I mean did they

591
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 2: did a great job. And when they do touch the Constitution,

592
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 2: she cries and says, I'm in love with you too,

593
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: and it's over the Constitution and it's so lovely.

594
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Constitution made her say it.

595
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, she's like, my boyfriend took me on a

596
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 2: date to touch the Constitution.

597
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: I love you, and that's where the pin goes miss right.

598
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 2: So the pin goes missing in that constitution scene, and

599
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: then Melly comes to Olivia and says, oh, I wanted

600
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: to give this back to you, and how told me

601
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: that Fitz didn't bring his wife to see the Constitution.

602
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: He chose to bring you. And it's the first.

603
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: Which because I would have wanted to be there, been there.

604
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 2: And then she has the most amazing dialogue that's like

605
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: we all did This is all passive aggressive too. She's like,

606
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: we all did what we needed to do to get

607
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: fits in office, and now it is our job to

608
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: keep him there, meaning like I will keep playing wife,

609
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: you keep playing mistress, whatever we have to do to

610
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: keep the president president. And it's like this is all flashback,

611
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: but this is when the whole charade and all the

612
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: cards start to crumble. It's a combination of like Melly

613
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: knowing and Olivia of being like, this is the most

614
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: fucked up shit in the entire world. Hollis gives the

615
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: okay to blow up Cytron and kill seven people just

616
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: so that the election rigging storyline doesn't get out, and Cyrus.

617
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: She goes to Cyrus says, Hollis is a fucking problem.

618
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 2: He killed seven people, that's on us. And Cyrus has

619
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: this huge monologue where he's like, those people died, they

620
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: are patriots.

621
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: They're patriots, they died for us, for fits to be

622
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: have been in office, die for.

623
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 2: A greater cause. And Olivia is just looking around like

624
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: all these people are fucking out of their minds.

625
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: And he also Cyrus mentions Lindsay Dwyer, which is Quinn

626
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: Perkins of course, and says she's gonna you know, she

627
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: she's doing her country a service.

628
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: Lindsay Dwyer is doing her country services, doing her patriotic duty,

629
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: all for the greater good of this country.

630
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: But also it all goes back to Olivia again because

631
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: Olivia is the one that gives the Jesse Tyler name

632
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: right to Hollis Doyle, which Huck gives to her because

633
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: she knows that somebody has been sort of meddling and

634
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: asking questions and sort of in there, so she wants

635
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: them out. So it all goes back to Olivia. So

636
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: Olivia is somewhat responsible for this explosion, for Jesse Tyler dying.

637
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: It's why she saves Lindsay Dwyner because she feels so sad. Yes,

638
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: she will not let another person die for this sin

639
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: that she did, this choice she made of bringing the election.

640
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 2: She will not let anyone else go and that's why

641
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 2: she sends Huck to get Lindsay.

642
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: Oh man, we'll be right back, guys.

643
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: Okay. In the ending of the episode, Olivia resigns. She

644
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: writes a resignation letter she signs Olivia Pope. She includes

645
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 2: the Eisenhower pinn that she gave on the inauguration day.

646
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 2: She leaves it on the fucking desk of the O office.

647
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: She pieces out and she starts Olivia Fucking Pope and associates.

648
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: Yes, uh so good. But do you think that Olivia knew?

649
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: Because Lindsay Dwyer slash Quinn Perkins is an exceptional worker

650
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: at OPA, do you know what I mean? She has

651
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: that drive.

652
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: I didn't know.

653
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: So do you think she knew or she just took

654
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: a chance. She just wanted to save this girl.

655
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: Because I hope she wanted to save her and felt like,

656
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna keep her in my keeper round, under

657
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 2: my wing, to keep her around to make sure she's safe.

658
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 2: And then it sort of like ends it up that

659
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 2: all right, Like now this is just how it is,

660
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 2: Like I'm watching this girl like she's mine.

661
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: Oor man score for Olivia that Quinn Perkins ends up

662
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: being this freaking you know boss Chiller.

663
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so crazy. And the very very end of

664
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 2: the episode they're swearing in Sally Langston and like the

665
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 2: BackFlash of his pin that fell off. They have the

666
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: pin and Melly picks it up off the floor in

667
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 2: the hospital where it fell off where he's like bleeding out,

668
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: and she puts it next to his shot up body.

669
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: And then the very very end, the last two minutes,

670
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: you know how he scanned do those last fucking thirty

671
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: seconds they go but crazy that they dream at it's

672
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 2: Huck that shot the press?

673
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: Oh man, how did you like Huck's work?

674
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 2: At the end?

675
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,479
Speaker 1: I really liked it. Again, this was one of those

676
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: scenes where I had to learn how to assemble and

677
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: disassemble a motherfucking rifle, which is so not me. I

678
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: can barely send like a video text to someone like I'm.

679
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 2: Just scared for links for Google link because he doesn't

680
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 2: know how to get it off his phone. He doesn't a.

681
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: Picture of me and I'm the most impatient person. When

682
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: I get frustrated, I'm not good at something and I

683
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: can't learn it. I get frustrated and I get mad,

684
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: and I remember being there and be like, Okay, let's

685
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: do it again. I was just so because I wasn't

686
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: getting it. And God bless Jeff Props, who just was,

687
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, the nicest and the most patient person, and

688
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: just little by little, one piece by one piece, and

689
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: I learned how to. You know, Thank God for our

690
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: wonderful editors too, because they edited the shit out of this.

691
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: Like you had an assemble of an automatic rifle.

692
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but I I love it. I love that moment.

693
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: I love the moment where he Huck turns around to

694
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: look for the bullet and you see that it's Huck. Oh.

695
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: I was so excited. Man, this is gonna get good.

696
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: And this is also I think this is where the

697
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: hashtag what the huck started. Oh, this is really one.

698
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: And then the next episode is where it's sort of

699
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, a lot because people were like, oh, what

700
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 1: the heck, oh.

701
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 2: Oh oh, let's see if there are any fun fucking facts.

702
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: Yeah.

703
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 2: Well, Mark Harrolic did not reprise his role as Press

704
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 2: Secretary Marvin Colegate. Did he get fired.

705
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 1: From the season. I don't know. You know, sometimes people

706
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: get jobs.

707
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that that's what happened because he's so talented.

708
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: I've worked with them before. He's amazing. And he's also

709
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 2: friends with a casting director and Jeff. I feel like

710
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 2: they've worked together a million times.

711
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: And listen, when you get it, when you get a

712
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: curring role or a you know, a featured role or

713
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 1: a guest starring role, there's no guarantee of continued work.

714
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 1: So as an actor, you have to continue searching for work.

715
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: And he probably booked a show or a movie where

716
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: he couldn't get off and he was working, so they

717
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: have to recast it.

718
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: And that's when they replaced him with Keko a Gina,

719
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 2: who replaced him as press secretary Britta Kagan, who tragically

720
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 2: in this episode her character was killed as a result

721
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 2: of your fucking girlfriend, Becky.

722
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: What a bit bitch. But also, can I just take

723
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: a moment and speak about Kaiko I hope I'm saying

724
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: her name right. Kaiko A Jenna, who is another regular

725
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: on a beloved show of mine, Gilmore Girls. She's one

726
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: of the leads in gilmart Girls. Yeah, play your name

727
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: is Keiko Keiko. She plays Rory's best friend Lane on

728
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls.

729
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 2: For she did one hundred and kidding me, one hundred and.

730
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: Fifty four episodes on Gilmore Girls. And that girl can

731
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: talk faster than any of us.

732
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I remember auditioning for Gilmore Girls and they

733
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: would tell me to talk faster, and then the casting

734
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: director gave me the note, you talk out of the

735
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 2: side of your mouth.

736
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 1: Two. So does Milo into Meglia, what is she talking about?

737
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: He's the biggest side mouth talker in the world and

738
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: it's the sexiest thing ever.

739
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: I remember auditioning for Gilmore Girls and they were like,

740
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: you need to talk faster, and I was like, oh honey,

741
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 2: I got this and I'm talking so fast. She was like, also,

742
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: you only talking to the side of your mouth? Can

743
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: you not do that?

744
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: Are you cute? I'm so confused right now because again, Miglia,

745
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: who is a regular on Gilmore Girls. Who's hot Rory's

746
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, boyfriend? For is any Yes, he's on this

747
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: is us and he's on a name Vinimiglia. I could

748
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: be KAMLEI.

749
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: I think that's right. I think that's it.

750
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: I could be completely wrong, Lea, but I think it's

751
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: Vini Meglia. But homeboy has the cutest lisp and he

752
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: just talks out of the side of his mouth. Is

753
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: always funny that you know they were telling you, producers

754
00:38:58,280 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: was telling you not to do that.

755
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 2: Okay, Keo is killed and I'm so bummed. She should

756
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 2: have had like a much bigger party. And then I

757
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 2: have continuity error. Referenced in Dirty Little Secrets, we learned

758
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: that as a part of the Defiance Conspiracy Lia deal,

759
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: Verna Thornton was to receive a seat on the Supreme Court,

760
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: the first Supreme Court justice to be nominated by the

761
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 2: Grand Administration. But in season one, episode two, a news

762
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 2: anchor reports that Patrick Keating is to be the president's

763
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: first Supreme Court nominee during his term. That's a continuity.

764
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 2: That's a continuity error, people, That's what that is.

765
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: So how do we expect these writers to keep all

766
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: these facts together? Like that's a teeny tiny continuity or

767
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: that I would never catch unless our producers for this

768
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: podcast told us, you know what you read.

769
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: And also we're not even in season five six yet.

770
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 2: I bet these continuity errors are going to get imagine

771
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 2: if you were on Gray's Anatomy like season twenty.

772
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?

773
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: No, I can't. I cannot imagine. Guess what time it

774
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 2: is now? Scandal Scandal, Scandal Scannel tweets of the talent.

775
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: Oh, I get very gassy when we do our tweets

776
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: at the time portion of this podcast.

777
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: Katie, me too, Germo and hungry. Okay, Yes, the Scandal writers.

778
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I forgot that the Scandal writers had

779
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: their own handle.

780
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were.

781
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 2: Yet god, everybody was so everybody was on Twitter. It

782
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 2: was the costume department, the wardrobe, the hair, the makeup,

783
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 2: the writers, everybody, Scandal writers wrote, The Scandal writers just

784
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 2: watched tonight's episode together on a big screen and it

785
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: is amazing. Ten nine Central people, big screen not required.

786
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 2: That is such a writery writ tweet. I've upseid.

787
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: Really, it's so well written. Yes, okay, and then we

788
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: have Chan at my friend Chan tweets one thing you

789
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: won't do is text slash call me while Olivia Pope

790
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 1: is on I need to find out who shot her

791
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: boo hashtag scandal agreed, Chan agree.

792
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: Reed at Dresshon on December sixth, tweeted first lady set

793
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 2: him up at jerm meets World. Fits done, been shot,

794
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 2: dead to the earth. Who y'all think did it? Hashtag

795
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 2: scandal I love and this person thinks the first lady

796
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 2: set him up, which, by the way, we haven't really

797
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 2: talked about that.

798
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: That's right.

799
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, they really did make it seem like she did it.

800
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 2: You think, how well, what before he gets out of

801
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 2: the car, she says, yes, yes, we shouldn't go. We

802
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 2: shouldn't go. I have a weird feeling, let's not go.

803
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 2: And then when he gets shot. They did a shot

804
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 2: in this episode where she lifts up her head and

805
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: she's like looking around kind of weirdly. I don't know.

806
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: I think they kind of framed her a little bit.

807
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: I never thought that when she's in the limo in

808
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: the previous episode saying let's not go. I don't want

809
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: to go. I just chalked that up to woman's intuition,

810
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: Like I thought, she feels something, she feels something's off,

811
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel right. I almost respected her and loved

812
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: her even more because of because of that little piece

813
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: and that in the limo where she didn't want him

814
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: to go. I never equated that with her possibly setting

815
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: him up. Interesting, but well that that also speaks to

816
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: this next tweet by Focus at Shabina three, she says

817
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: that's why she didn't want to go to the dinner.

818
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: She knew he was getting shot. Hashtag scandal, which she's

819
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: speaking about Melly of course, which, well, there you go,

820
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: there you having another person thinks that she was possibly involved.

821
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: People thought that Mellie was possibly doing it. At Marvine

822
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 2: XO tweeted with hashtag scandal, Milly I love when people

823
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 2: call her Milly. Milly knew some shit was gonna go down.

824
00:42:58,320 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care.

825
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: I don't care, I don't care. He just tweeted IDC period,

826
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 2: IDC period, which is I don't care, and I never

827
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 2: knew that till today period. Yes.

828
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, but also you'll check it out. It's funny how

829
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: it's all women that are saying this about another woman.

830
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: I wonder as a guy, I thought, oh no, she

831
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: just she feels something's off, so she doesn't want to go.

832
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: I never But of course the women are like, mmm,

833
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: she knew something was up.

834
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 2: She's yeah, right, that's right, Oh yeah, I mean yeah.

835
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: At Samantha D. Godwin tweets, haha, you know it's a

836
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 2: spicy episode. When at Scandal four, when one informs everyone

837
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 2: to not tweet at Tony Goldwyn tonight, well done, sir,

838
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 2: well done. Hashtag scandal.

839
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: And then we got that about I don't know not

840
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: to tweet Tony tonight. I don't know what that. I

841
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: don't know what that.

842
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 2: Oh, because it's so sexual. This episode was so sexual.

843
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: Oh, perhaps well. And then we have Golden Girls six

844
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: seventeen and she says, everyone at work is trying to

845
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: figure out who shot the president hashtag scan So it

846
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: was me, everybody, it was a Huck.

847
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: You guys all remember, like we're about to go down

848
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: a really dark journey with Huck. We're talking warderboarding. We're

849
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 2: talking dark and dark darkness underneath the Pentagon and what's

850
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 2: really going underneath the streets of DC. The next episode

851
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 2: we have up is called blown Away.

852
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: Little did I know that I was gonna venture out

853
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: into the world of nudity on prime time television.

854
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 2: You guys just weren't lucky enough to see it. But

855
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 2: everybody who was in the room who shot with Huck

856
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 2: that day when he was getting tortured Sawyrbo's dick and balls.

857
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: My country breakfast, two eggs and a Dolson.

858
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 2: You've never heard that.

859
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: You're welcome, Katie qlows, You're.

860
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:51,720
Speaker 2: Welcome a country breakfast, country breakfast. Look out. I'm teaching

861
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 2: that to my son right away because I think it's

862
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 2: fucking hilarious. He's not gonna get it.

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Speaker 1: Folks, this has been a pleasure and a dream.

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Speaker 2: We can't wait to be back again for Blown Away.

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Speaker 2: We may or may not have a guest. You may

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Speaker 2: or may not hear about the country breakfast that Hucks

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Speaker 2: serves up while he's getting tortured in the Pentagon. What

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Speaker 2: a dream?

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Speaker 1: What is awesome? Thank you, Thank you guys, Thank you

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Speaker 1: gladiators for listening and going on this journey with us.

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Speaker 1: This is like creating Hello.

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Speaker 2: Should we say, oh, Fiva la vida, everybody, Viva la vida.

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Speaker 2: And thank you Shonda Rhymes for writing this episode or

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Speaker 2: this episode was five years This is.

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Speaker 1: A good one. Go watch this. If you guys haven't

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Speaker 1: watched it and you heard the podcast episode, go to

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Speaker 1: the episode on Hulu.

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday, mister President. Could you imagine doing that? Mister President?

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Speaker 2: Say it again? And then he says, wait, no, what

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Speaker 2: did you say say?

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Speaker 1: I like it?

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Speaker 2: What you say say it again. Oh good. So you'll

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Speaker 2: play Olivia and I'll play fits.

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Speaker 1: We gotta put we gotta do that, We gotta pitch that.

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Speaker 1: If we could like read.

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Speaker 2: That scene me, I belong to you.

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Speaker 1: That was so good, That was so good. I got

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Speaker 1: cho Bye, y'all, bye everybody. Thank you guys for joining

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Speaker 1: us on Unpacking the Toolbox. If you enjoyed the show,

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Speaker 1: please subscribe, share with your friends, rate, or leave us

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Speaker 1: a review.

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Speaker 2: Scandal is executive produced by Sandy Bailey, Alex Alcea, Lauren Homan,

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Speaker 2: Tyler Klang, and Gabrielle Collins. Our producer and editor is

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Speaker 2: Vince de Johnny, with music by Chad Fisher.

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Speaker 1: Scandal is a production of ABC Signature, and you can

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Speaker 1: follow along by rewatching Scandal on Hulu.

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Speaker 2: Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in

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Speaker 1: Ye