Speaker 1: Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with Iheartradiotshas Katie.
Speaker 2: Did you ever smoke cigarettes?
Speaker 1: No, only in like movies. I would sort of a
Speaker 1: few days before a week before I because I wanted
Speaker 1: it to look real, and I did it, But I
Speaker 1: never got hooked. I never smoked them in real life.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh yeah you did. Oh yeah. My early twenties
Speaker 2: was just like me thinking I was cool and like
Speaker 2: doing theater and being in like theater, majoring in theater.
Speaker 2: And it was like at experimental theater wing where we
Speaker 2: would just roll around the floor naked and keep taking
Speaker 2: cigarette breaks.
Speaker 1: Make noises, like become like different animals and trees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like making out and everybody was like had
Speaker 2: very fluid sexuality. I love your shirt. I'd like to
Speaker 2: also note at the airing of this podcast that Gambo's
Speaker 2: wearing the most wonderful shirt that says homosexual tendencies with
Speaker 2: a like a skeleton.
Speaker 1: Explain this the skeleton with a leather jacket and a
Speaker 1: leather hat. Smoking a joint. I say it's a joint.
Speaker 1: It could be a cigarette or a cigar. I think
Speaker 1: it's a joint.
Speaker 2: Who is the brand.
Speaker 1: It's from a Lockwood fifty one. It's a queer brand
Speaker 1: that does a lot of really cool, sort of edgy provocative,
Speaker 1: like real sort of skateboarding. You know, Cake, gay Quel,
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Speaker 2: Hey, but you know what we do do? That's a
Speaker 2: nice scandal. Do you do what we do?
Speaker 1: Do?
Speaker 2: Dooty, what do we do? We are fucking good scooters
Speaker 2: scooting people.
Speaker 1: We do give a good scoot we do.
Speaker 2: And this is a nice scandal. Fun fact. Scott Foley
Speaker 2: is a rap gift or a season premiere gift, I
Speaker 2: can't remember. One of the fucking greatest, smartest, most amazing
Speaker 2: gifts ever. He gave everybody a razor I think, yes, yep,
Speaker 2: which is like adult scooter. And our base camp was
Speaker 2: like a little bit further from our stages, and so
Speaker 2: we scooted from stage to base camp where are where
Speaker 2: our trailers are. And it's the greatest, it's one of
Speaker 2: the best. See you live in the hills, g you
Speaker 2: don't get to do this. But I use that scooter
Speaker 2: a couple times a week because I scooted with Ali.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you have to come scoot with me.
Speaker 1: My scooter's been in the garage for years because you're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine because it was on a shelf that was
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you Scott Foley for this gift. But
Speaker 2: my son is a huge scooter person. He scoots with
Speaker 2: his little fucking helmet. He's fast, ast shit. He does tricks,
Speaker 2: he does circles, he does squatting one leg, I believe it.
Speaker 2: And I scooted with him everywhere on that Scott fully scooter. Wow.
Speaker 1: Do you guys wear helmets? Oh? Yeah, fuck that shit.
Speaker 1: I would wear a helmet too. I'm just thinking back
Speaker 1: in like Washington Heights, like on a skateboarder, So we
Speaker 1: didn't even have scooters back then or skates, like no
Speaker 1: elbow pads, no helmets, nothing. People were scraped up and
Speaker 1: falling on their heads.
Speaker 2: And I like to scoot without a helmet. I like
Speaker 2: to run on the danger sign. But to be honest,
Speaker 2: then Albi goes, how come you're wearing I have that helmet?
Speaker 1: And you do? I think I think it's it's necessary.
Speaker 2: And he's actually taken some fucking spills, so I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: which is fine. I don't mind scraped ups. But like
Speaker 2: he's wearing a helmet.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hell yah. There's another gift from Scott Foley
Speaker 1: and it's a framed photograph of my parking spot.
Speaker 2: God damn it, Scot Foley. Those were two exceptional gifts.
Speaker 1: They were like like unique and creative.
Speaker 2: Did they super aarty, black and white big prince of
Speaker 2: our parking spots with our name on it? Wait? Did
Speaker 2: your say mindsets k dot load?
Speaker 1: Did you're saying just yeah, that's it? Yeah, But it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's simple, it's like you know, it's it's clean, it's crisp,
Speaker 1: it's it's such a cool, very arty, it's such a
Speaker 1: cool piece.
Speaker 2: And it's such a statement, like you know, when you're
Speaker 2: an actor coming up and it's a real shit show.
Speaker 2: It's such a status symbol of making it that you
Speaker 2: don't even realize how huge it is until you get
Speaker 2: a parking spot on a Hollywood studio a lot that
Speaker 2: has your name like spray painted onto it. That's your
Speaker 2: parking spot. No one else is allowed to park in it,
Speaker 2: and it is such a god it's such a moment.
Speaker 1: Well you think, all right, this is this is permanent.
Speaker 1: That this is pretty permanent. I mean, of course they
Speaker 1: got paint over that shit in two seconds. But in
Speaker 1: our heads we think, all right, they like us, they
Speaker 1: really like us, they want us to stay.
Speaker 2: They like me, you really like me. It's the same
Speaker 2: as the status of getting a back of a chair. Also, Hollywood,
Speaker 2: if you're on a show, you get your cast chair
Speaker 2: that you sit in while you're waiting until your scene
Speaker 2: is ready to shoot. And also along the back of
Speaker 2: it is usually your name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have mine right here? Did you keep your
Speaker 1: you do? Yeah? I have a director in my room.
Speaker 2: Oh you do.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to reach back because I'm going to
Speaker 1: fall on my head. Yeah, I have it right, I
Speaker 1: have it right here beyond you. And it says scandal
Speaker 1: and like the you know, like when you yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the red shredded paper.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, gave them to us. Yeah.
Speaker 2: After we wrapped, we also had scandal warming coats.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh I didn't keep that.
Speaker 2: I didn't either, and god damn it, I wish I had.
Speaker 2: But look, we keep it real here on unpacking the
Speaker 2: toolbox up. Now, tell the people, Tell the people, Tell
Speaker 2: the gladiators what we're talking about today, which is episode
Speaker 2: two eight entitled Happy Birthday, Mister President, which aired on
Speaker 2: December sixth, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: And it was written by the Shonda Rhymes.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's why this one's so fucking hot, okay.
Speaker 1: And it was directed by Oliver Bolckelberg, who was our cinematographer,
Speaker 1: our DP for years and then he started directing a
Speaker 1: bunch of episodes. He's amazing.
Speaker 2: That's right, he's amazing. It was guest starring Kate Burton
Speaker 2: as Vice President Sally Langston, Norm Lewis as Senator Edited
Speaker 2: Edison Davis, Bryan Lesher Is Tom Samantha Sloyan as Janine,
Speaker 2: Stony Westmoreland as Hal Virginia, Louise Smith as Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: Kavita Pattil as Doctor Number four, Kiko a Jenna as
Speaker 1: Press Secretary Britta Kagan, Troy Winbush as Mars Lcott, Stephen
Speaker 1: Collins as Reed Wallace, and Tyreese Allen as Doctor Carroll.
Speaker 2: Wow. I'm very excited to talk to me about this
Speaker 2: episode because Shonda, she wrote the shit out of this episode.
Speaker 1: It's an oldie, but a goodie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a banger. It's really fucking chock full, as
Speaker 2: they all are but this one really okay, let's remind you,
Speaker 2: let's jog you gladiators and your memory banks about what's
Speaker 2: going on. So this is what's happening. In two o eight,
Speaker 2: Happy Birthday, Misster President, the hospital is a buzz. In
Speaker 2: the aftermath of Fits being shot, Olivia remembers the end
Speaker 2: of the campaign trail and a significant pin she gifted
Speaker 2: to Fits during his inauguration. In the present, Sally Langston
Speaker 2: makes a play for a position as acting president, which
Speaker 2: Cyrus and Olivia must shut down.
Speaker 1: In the past, we follow Fitz and Olivia's escalating affair
Speaker 1: during the days following Fitz's election, with some frightening results
Speaker 1: as Hollis takes care of a reporter looking into defiance.
Speaker 1: The tension the affair and the lengths that Hollis and
Speaker 1: Cyrus will go to scares Olivia into resigning.
Speaker 2: And finally, as Sally has sworn in his acting president,
Speaker 2: we see who the suspected shooter is. Well. The episode
Speaker 2: starts we're right where President Grant was shot, and we
Speaker 2: are in the hospital, and we're seeing the whole gore,
Speaker 2: and the whole perspective is from Olivia's and Bogelberg does
Speaker 2: the best fucking cinematography DP work where he just slow
Speaker 2: mows the entire hospital scene, so that Live is seeing
Speaker 2: blood dripping on the floor, she's seeing Melly fucking screaming
Speaker 2: at people, she's seeing Cyrus, she's seeing like everything is
Speaker 2: slow mo. And you and I was brought to like
Speaker 2: an emotional place.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, he does. And he does that, like
Speaker 1: you said, with the camera work. Even the shooting of
Speaker 1: the president is done in such an amazing, like innovative way.
Speaker 1: It's almost sped up, right, Yeah, like he speeds up.
Speaker 1: It's the film shooting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like really weird. It's so powerful though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you see it's like the blood spray too,
Speaker 1: when you see them sort of get hit by the bullets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god. And we see Edison calls Olivia and
Speaker 2: he's they're throwing him in the bunker and he's calling it.
Speaker 2: He's like, what's going on? Live, Like they're putting me
Speaker 2: in the bunker. And then I just wrote the line
Speaker 2: Carrie's dress is amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I didn't look up who made that dress,
Speaker 1: but the dress is amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so ridiculous, Lin Paolo, It's like
Speaker 2: it's insane, and she's got her hair all pressed out,
Speaker 2: and she's got this like ridiculously beautiful, flowy white of
Speaker 2: course dress that has like sparkly.
Speaker 1: In the front right on her booby. It's so fucking
Speaker 1: fucking Edison. I was like, Oh, here's Edison again. I
Speaker 1: had a question, had not Edison again? Jeez? How long
Speaker 1: do they have to stay in that bunker? Those people
Speaker 1: like they're like, let's go, We're gonna hide you guys away,
Speaker 1: which happens in real life? Like this is crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like if this were to well, I'm like,
Speaker 2: if this were actually happened, this has actually happened. I
Speaker 2: have no idea what protocol looks like in terms of
Speaker 2: like I think they probably have to that's probably be
Speaker 2: I'm gonna trust the scandal writers and say that this
Speaker 2: shit is based in truth. They probably have to take
Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House and they have to take
Speaker 2: Congress or I don't know, and throw them in a
Speaker 2: fucking bunker to make sure democracy like isn't right and
Speaker 2: like the whole place isn't under attack.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, also, because the shooter is still
Speaker 1: at large, right, they didn't catch the shooter so in
Speaker 1: that case, I could see how they have to hide
Speaker 1: these people away because if they're all killed, then we're
Speaker 1: just you know, thrown into chaos.
Speaker 2: Chaos.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, sometimes nobody shot and we're still in chaos.
Speaker 2: Okay. So then we see what causes the whole backstory
Speaker 2: to unlock, is that we see the pin, this beautiful
Speaker 2: American flag pin that fell off, you know, during the shooting.
Speaker 2: We see what the origin of this pin story is,
Speaker 2: which is Olivia gave Fits this pin on his inauguration day,
Speaker 2: and we learned that the pin was actually an Eisenhower pin,
Speaker 2: and it's so fucking smart, Shonda rhymes, of course she
Speaker 2: wrote this episode.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful. But of course, the
Speaker 1: minute that Mellie walks in and sees the pin in
Speaker 1: the flashback, you know scene on fits his lapel and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, where'd you get that? And he was like,
Speaker 1: oh was Eisenhower's motherfucker's lying to her already, Ja.
Speaker 2: Is lying to Melly. She's just like, where's this pin from?
Speaker 2: And they don't even say like, oh, Olivia got it
Speaker 2: for me, or.
Speaker 1: Like he just said, oh, it belonged to Eisenhower and
Speaker 1: that was it.
Speaker 2: She but that pin she learns in this episode having
Speaker 2: an affair.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she learns.
Speaker 2: This is the episode where Melly figures it out because
Speaker 2: of that fucking pin, so he's sworn in. We see
Speaker 2: a fight between James and Jeff James and Jeff James
Speaker 2: and Cyrus because James can't go to the inaugural balls
Speaker 2: because Cyrus isn't out yet that he's in a committed relation,
Speaker 2: committed homosexual relationship.
Speaker 1: And Olivia is sort of lurking in the hallway like
Speaker 1: hearing this argument right.
Speaker 2: Right, And then Fitz goes to the inaugural balls and
Speaker 2: all that, but guess what he leaves early and he
Speaker 2: meets Olivia Pope in the oval Oof office and she says,
Speaker 2: mister President, I could never shoot a scene like this
Speaker 2: with a straight face.
Speaker 1: Doesn't he say say it again or something like that,
Speaker 1: mister President?
Speaker 2: She say it again and she says, mister President.
Speaker 1: Trying to get those inaugural balls worked up?
Speaker 2: Yeah's right? Then the ass inaugural old balls. All the
Speaker 2: crazy thing is like I the whole time, this scene
Speaker 2: is so hot because and we know because we had
Speaker 2: Shonda Rhimes as guest on this first and the first
Speaker 2: episode of this podcast we ever did, and she said,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have Olivia and Fitz have sex on the
Speaker 2: desk in the Oval office. Well, here you have it, folks,
Speaker 2: because Fitz gets down on his knees and he goes
Speaker 2: to sloppy third yo.
Speaker 1: But if first, Olivia is a resisting, resisting, resisting, and
Speaker 1: she's like, we cannot do this anymore. She even says,
Speaker 1: look at where we are. We can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: We have to stop. And I love when Fitz is like, no,
Speaker 1: I can't stop. I'm not gonna stop. Can you stop?
Speaker 1: And she's like m mmm. And that's when she saddles
Speaker 1: on the desk and he just that skirt up real cute,
Speaker 1: real slow. She's like, oh so hot.
Speaker 2: Could they have shot this scene? I would have broken
Speaker 2: one thousand, wouldn't have made it past calling him mister
Speaker 2: President with a straight face like there's no fucking way
Speaker 2: in hell. So kudos to carry Washington.
Speaker 1: Kudos, yes, But it's it's a steamy, steamy, fucking scene.
Speaker 1: It goes there like she's unbuckling his belt, he has
Speaker 1: her hand up her skirt like you could see it.
Speaker 1: It's it's super like it.
Speaker 2: Was for like network television. I mean the ones are
Speaker 2: where a ten PM show?
Speaker 1: No wonder we were, I mean.
Speaker 2: It was it was really really hot, and I was uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: I like look away a couple times because I was.
Speaker 1: Like, I know these people, you know what Katie I
Speaker 1: did the how stupid? I was like, how stupid are you? Girmo,
Speaker 1: why are you like looking down? Like I literally caught
Speaker 1: myself looking.
Speaker 2: Down at it too. It was like too much to ta, Yes,
Speaker 2: it's too much to take. I think I wonder if
Speaker 2: our gladiators listening felt that way. They probably were right
Speaker 2: there with them. But I think it's probably because we
Speaker 2: personally know the two of them and it's fucking weird,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I mean, it's just bizarre. And then we
Speaker 2: backflashed to the present day. Sally's acting president and it's
Speaker 2: all on news channels and she fucking lands on the
Speaker 2: front lawn of the White House, which is such a
Speaker 2: power play move. She lands on the front steps and
Speaker 2: Olivia steps up and she starts fixing. She basically leaves
Speaker 2: Opa and all the White House staff comes in and
Speaker 2: they're like, are you back, And she's like, go to
Speaker 2: my house, get my suits, get my outfits. Get my
Speaker 2: toothbrush on back.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Yo, I wrote in my notes Homegirl listed off
Speaker 1: like eight things. I was like, wait, what bring my suits,
Speaker 1: my stockis, my socks, my toothbrush, my my my onesie, like.
Speaker 2: What my songs, my underwear, my toothbrush, my flat iron,
Speaker 2: my Cricks concealer, my moistrising. And that's funny because I
Speaker 2: heard it and I was like, oh wow, that's really not.
Speaker 1: A lot like conservative. You were like yeah.
Speaker 2: I just was like, oh wow, that's like exactly what
Speaker 2: someone would need to be at work for four or
Speaker 2: five days and nothing more. And also they listed no makeup,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, yeah, Kerry Washington doesn't need any makeup.
Speaker 2: She's fucking perfect.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: There's tons of going back to after he's been elected president,
Speaker 2: but he's preparing for his inauguration day and he's preparing
Speaker 2: for his inauguration speech. They go and move to Camp
Speaker 2: David to prep his inauguration speech. And the reason they
Speaker 2: do this is because that night on the Oval office
Speaker 2: in the desk was caught on the camera and Fitz
Speaker 2: is running with his navy shirt and Hal is like,
Speaker 2: there are cameras, sir, and he's like what He's like,
Speaker 2: there's cameras, and Fits is like, where am I going
Speaker 2: to go to? Like, yeah, fuck my woman as much
Speaker 2: as I.
Speaker 1: Want, yes, but I love that Fits has sort of
Speaker 1: his first reaction is like, oh shit, there's cameras. They
Speaker 1: saw everything. But then he's like, Okay, where are there
Speaker 1: not cameras? Like he's like, I want to know where
Speaker 1: I can screw in the White House. I was like, oh.
Speaker 2: Man, they move Cyrus, Olivia and Fits but not Melly
Speaker 2: to Camp David so that they could just like write
Speaker 2: and work on his speech and his plan of his
Speaker 2: first hundred days and do it.
Speaker 1: This is all in the flashback, right.
Speaker 2: Flashwake, But like there's gotta be cameras in Camp David.
Speaker 2: This is total bullshit. I call bullshit on this, right.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't fucking know. But also, is that like
Speaker 1: a you know what I mean? Is that like fucking
Speaker 1: with someone's privacy if the cameras are like inside like
Speaker 1: in the bedroom, and like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe there aren't. Maybe there are cameras.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah in the bedroom, in the bathrooms they can
Speaker 2: now right there's there, yeah, right, so that they could
Speaker 2: they couldn't screw in the bedrooms in the White House
Speaker 2: because Melly's in there. Right, that's right, I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. Okay, okay. So they're having so much
Speaker 2: sex and it's so cute. They're laughing, they're coming up
Speaker 2: with his plans for the first hundred days. They're arguing, but.
Speaker 1: It likes up against the wall.
Speaker 2: She's pushing against no you, no you, no you gives
Speaker 2: me a gag.
Speaker 1: But it's hot. It's hot. They're naked, like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's so steamy, it's so it's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's really cute. And then that all comes to a big,
Speaker 2: fat end because Nelly shows up at Can't David with
Speaker 2: a nice cooked lasagna.
Speaker 1: This motherfucker said, h I live.
Speaker 2: She's like, how the dinner? The kids went to school,
Speaker 2: and I figured I would just like check up on
Speaker 2: how it's going.
Speaker 1: And it's that look on his face like, oh God,
Speaker 1: I did this is not my doing.
Speaker 2: Live and Live is like feels like the other woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really is the other woman.
Speaker 2: She feels really bad, and so he's pissed. She's pissed.
Speaker 2: She's pissed. She's pissed, and they haven't really spoken in
Speaker 2: a few days. They returned back to the White House.
Speaker 2: They're not talking, and this is actually a huge moment
Speaker 2: for Scandal, I feel like, because fits is like, what's wrong,
Speaker 2: what's going on? And She's like, you know what I'm feeling,
Speaker 2: just really Sally Hemmings Thomas Jefferson about this?
Speaker 1: Is that what was? Tell me what that? Tell me?
Speaker 1: What that is?
Speaker 2: Well, Sally Hemmings was the black slave that Thomas Jefferson
Speaker 2: was in love with. Oh sh and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: I want to say she had some babies, but she
Speaker 2: is the black slave that Thomas Jefferson was sleeping with
Speaker 2: for I think a really long time. I think he
Speaker 2: was like in love with her.
Speaker 1: And they loved each other, like they truly loved each other.
Speaker 2: So Sally Hemmings had five babies with's Thomas Jefferson. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so what I think is so amazing about Scandal
Speaker 2: is like, this is episode two oh eight, and so
Speaker 2: we've been watching an affair between a white president and
Speaker 2: a black woman for fifteen episodes, and this is the
Speaker 2: first time that Shonda is bringing up this very very
Speaker 2: very famous relationship that in some ways like really mirrors
Speaker 2: what's going on here. I remember being on the show
Speaker 2: at the beginning and being like, I wonder if it's
Speaker 2: ever going to be addressed, Like I wonder if race
Speaker 2: is ever going to be addressed in dialogue, Like is
Speaker 2: Carrie ever going to say or Olivia ever going to
Speaker 2: say something like, oh, my god, not only you are
Speaker 2: a president and I'm a civilian, but like I'm a
Speaker 2: black woman and you're a white guy. And it was
Speaker 2: not mentioned until this line, And my god, Shonda nails
Speaker 2: it so hard. They're in this horrible fight and she's like,
Speaker 2: for the first time, I'm feeling like a fucking piece
Speaker 2: of shit, Like I'm feeling like like a slave to you.
Speaker 1: But also, if I'm not mistaken, Katie, it was. Race
Speaker 1: was never brought up again. I mean, it might have been.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: It was really they made it a thing which I really.
Speaker 2: Loved, not in their relationship. We did it for the
Speaker 2: lawn Chair episode with forty b bands. We talked about
Speaker 2: police brutality, We talked about that there.
Speaker 1: If it's in.
Speaker 2: Olivia, no, this is I want to say. I mean again,
Speaker 2: guys listening, we've only watched the first two seasons of Scandal,
Speaker 2: so we'll correct ourselves if when we're wrong, but it's
Speaker 2: really my only memory of it too. We will be
Speaker 2: back with more after the break.
Speaker 1: Katie tell me, is this the scene where she says,
Speaker 1: we can't do this? Like and fit has this ridiculously
Speaker 1: fucking the best acting I've seen, so fucking that's coming.
Speaker 2: The best acting on the show is coming right now.
Speaker 2: So she gets in his face in the hallway and
Speaker 2: she says, like really quietly, like in his face, like
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm feeling really sallly hmming is Thomas
Speaker 2: Jefferson about this whole thing right now? And he is
Speaker 2: taken aback, like you see him like this, And then
Speaker 2: again we don't see them together until like the fucking
Speaker 2: winning scene of this episode, in one of the greatest scenes.
Speaker 2: It is the garden scene Gladiators, that's what we're talking about,
Speaker 2: and he to Tony Goldwin's acting in this is.
Speaker 1: You can see his like lip quivering and his eyes
Speaker 1: are watery. It's like beyond like fucking kiss.
Speaker 2: I didn't write some of the writing in this, that
Speaker 2: Shonda rope, but it's like she Olivia is saying to
Speaker 2: him and the Rose Garden like I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 2: I can't live like this. All I live, breathe and
Speaker 2: thinking is your thoughts. You own me, and it's all
Speaker 2: about this slavery thing. It's like bringing about this slavery situation,
Speaker 2: like you own me. She says, like I can't do
Speaker 2: anything you want me. I'm there. You want me to
Speaker 2: next to you, I'm there. You tell me to meet you,
Speaker 2: I meet you like I've lost myself.
Speaker 1: You owe me sooga. But then Fitz says, and I
Speaker 1: did write down some of these lines.
Speaker 2: He tell me, maybe tell me, tell me belongs.
Speaker 1: You own me. You're the love of my life. I
Speaker 1: belong to you. And he oh, looks so fucking good.
Speaker 1: And she's like, what the fuck? But you know, at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's making her fall in love with
Speaker 1: him even more. Oh my, because she's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this guy really really loves me. He fucking he nails
Speaker 1: this scene. I mean they both do, him and Olivia,
Speaker 1: but it's this. This was my favorite scene in this episode.
Speaker 2: Me too. This is the winning scene. This is krem
Speaker 2: dela Creme and honestly one of the best, most passionate.
Speaker 2: You know why this scene is so amazing and why
Speaker 2: it's because we believe and know that they love each
Speaker 2: other so much despite race, fite president not president, despite
Speaker 2: despite it all, it's like they are sick in love
Speaker 2: with each other, and like they're acting and her writing
Speaker 2: and the commo of it all and being a prose
Speaker 2: garden is like till the end of time people were
Speaker 2: olits through and.
Speaker 1: Through and again we've we've mentioned there's a million times,
Speaker 1: but the chemistry between Tony Goldwin and Kerry Washington is
Speaker 1: just it's you know, it's spectacular, like if that wasn't there,
Speaker 1: And of course including Seanna's writing and the act all
Speaker 1: of it, but their chemistry is just so present. It's
Speaker 1: so real that you can't you can't look away. You
Speaker 1: believe it, You believe it one hundred percent, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Tony's acting, it's so good. You own me,
Speaker 2: you own me, I belong to you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sick too.
Speaker 2: I can't eat, I can't think, I can't like all
Speaker 2: this shit.
Speaker 1: Is made me cry. Oh my, oh man, it's so good.
Speaker 1: But again, and Olivia has that look on her face
Speaker 1: like like she cannot believe the words that are coming
Speaker 1: out of his mouth, but she's loving.
Speaker 2: We should start. I just had a real brain inspiration.
Speaker 2: I think we should start re enacting other characters scenes
Speaker 2: from this, says Quinn and Hauck, or is just Katie
Speaker 2: and Geirmo because I love.
Speaker 1: That so much and I think our listeners will love it.
Speaker 1: Just think.
Speaker 2: Joe Morton, some of those monologues.
Speaker 1: I want to be Sally Langston, like sh talk about
Speaker 1: great acting. You hate her more than ever in this episode,
Speaker 1: like she is a hateful, hateful double woman.
Speaker 2: That's horrible to tell you, guys, what Sally Langston is
Speaker 2: doing in this fucking episode. So she was promised on
Speaker 2: the campaign trail that she was going to nominate the
Speaker 2: next Supreme Court justice. But ha HAA a little bit
Speaker 2: of a conflict here is that Verna Thornton was promised
Speaker 2: for being part of the goons who rigged the election,
Speaker 2: that she would be the next Supreme Court nominee. So
Speaker 2: they've got a lead little bit of an issue, and
Speaker 2: fucking Cap Burton has a monologue where she comes into
Speaker 2: Cyrus and Olivia where they have killed her Supreme Court nominee.
Speaker 2: They've put in some like they let it be known
Speaker 2: that he was arrested when he was fifteen, So there's
Speaker 2: no way that her nominee would be elected. And she
Speaker 2: comes in and she's so pissed. She was like, they
Speaker 2: found this on campounds that's supposed to be locked, and
Speaker 2: I know who did it. It was you. It was
Speaker 2: you, you did it.
Speaker 1: And her voice Katie reaches a pitch that I have
Speaker 1: never heard before.
Speaker 2: It was yes, it's like very animalistic rage.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, wait he got very.
Speaker 2: What you said animalistic like an animals like it was crazy.
Speaker 2: It was so crazy.
Speaker 1: And it was It also made me think, okay, homegirl
Speaker 1: says a Supreme Court justice nominie cannot come back from
Speaker 1: that I'm air quoting scandal, which was like he committed
Speaker 1: a little crime when he was fifteen. Meanwhile, now thinking
Speaker 1: too thousand fucking you know twenty twenty, twenty two, twenty three,
Speaker 1: like the shit, that's the scandals that are happening within
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court justices and they're already on the bench
Speaker 1: and nothing. Nobody's bat in an eye, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Shit is still moving along like always. Nobody's
Speaker 1: getting kicked off. So it's just funny to see these
Speaker 1: scenes in this you know, here and nowhere.
Speaker 2: It was like people are they they were writing the
Speaker 2: show to have some moral compass. Of course, we even
Speaker 2: though Olivia Pope kills someone with a chair, but like whatever.
Speaker 1: But also Katie, like, during this time, it still wasn't
Speaker 1: crazy in our world. So it was it was real,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? This shit was it was real.
Speaker 2: Yes, And then Sally's all pissed. They go to Melly
Speaker 2: and they say, Sally Langston is making a play for
Speaker 2: the White House. She just landed on the lawn. Go
Speaker 2: leave this hospital, find something to wear, get on the
Speaker 2: podium and tell the American people that we don't need
Speaker 2: Sally Langston. Our president is still alive in kicking. Don't
Speaker 2: pretend like he's not. And my god, does Melli it
Speaker 2: up her pull on her bootstraps.
Speaker 1: Yo, tell Mellie that she can maybe not be in
Speaker 1: the White House anymore, and that bitch will be like,
Speaker 1: what do I have to do? She like she like
Speaker 1: she conjured up some inn and was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shut this down.
Speaker 2: Animal, she's a political animal. But getting ready for that,
Speaker 2: Olivia has to go and get her clothes of what
Speaker 2: she's gonna wear, and so she walks past all of
Speaker 2: Fit's clothes and he's like in the midst of possibly dying,
Speaker 2: and she sees that navy sweatshirt, you know, the one
Speaker 2: that says Navy on it, and she just gives it
Speaker 2: a whiff and cries.
Speaker 1: Oh, she said she gave it, gives it a whiff
Speaker 1: and cries, she sure does.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: That's another there's a lot of powerful scenes in this episode.
Speaker 1: When she takes that whiff from that that sweatshirt. Yo, Katie,
Speaker 1: did you notice? And that see she breaks down, but
Speaker 1: then she has this moment where she's like, she stiffens
Speaker 1: up and she's like, I cannot do this shit. Pull
Speaker 1: it together, Olivia, And she pulls herself together, and she
Speaker 1: shakes the sweatshirt and folds it really sort of sternly
Speaker 1: and puts it. Oh it was so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's she's so amazing, bringing it back to the
Speaker 2: Sally Hemmings Thomas Jefferson line of it all when she
Speaker 2: is smelling the navy sweatshirt. After that, we flashed back
Speaker 2: to inauguration time and Fitz has invited Olivia to look
Speaker 2: at the Constitution and they touch it and it says
Speaker 2: we the People. And at the time of the Constitution,
Speaker 2: black people weren't included in We the people, and I
Speaker 2: can't help but think, like that's what was so cool
Speaker 2: about this episode is like Fitz is like touch it
Speaker 2: and she's like, no, I'm not going to touch it,
Speaker 2: and he's like touch it, and it's like so cute,
Speaker 2: how the whole dialogue is so durable, and she's like, no, you,
Speaker 2: let's touch it together, and he's like, I already touched
Speaker 2: I already was the person who touched it.
Speaker 1: I already touched it, touching it.
Speaker 2: I've been touching it. And then she touches it, and
Speaker 2: I don't know, like I really had a moment like
Speaker 2: to see a TV show where a black woman touches
Speaker 2: the constitation you see her finger, like yes, yes, you
Speaker 2: see her finger touched the Constitution where it was like
Speaker 2: all these white men who wrote it, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm so glad Shonda wrote this episode and wrote it
Speaker 2: like this. And I mean I was moved like multiple
Speaker 2: times over. I just was like super moved and really
Speaker 2: felt and proud.
Speaker 1: I felt really proud, yeah to be on the show
Speaker 1: because in moments like this.
Speaker 2: Like I was such a small cog in the wheel
Speaker 2: of this show that was yes, it was like you know,
Speaker 2: water cooler and OMG moments and binge worthy and we
Speaker 2: were tweeting and all the things. But what's so great
Speaker 2: about Shonda Rhymes is that she was actually also like
Speaker 2: moving the needle in the way that she knows how
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was some real stuff in these in these
Speaker 1: episodes that were lessons too or or reminders that people
Speaker 1: needed to be reminded of certain things, and she does
Speaker 1: it in such a beautiful way. But I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a story behind when they shot that scene. Did
Speaker 1: they shoot that? I feel like, did they shoot that
Speaker 1: scene in They couldn't have shot that in DC? Right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: That I don't think is that recreated that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Totally, I think. I mean I could be wrong,
Speaker 2: but I think I don't think we ever. I don't
Speaker 2: think anyone ever went to d C until the final
Speaker 2: the second to final episode of the whole series.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But it was fucking real. Yeah, I mean did they
Speaker 2: did a great job. And when they do touch the Constitution,
Speaker 2: she cries and says, I'm in love with you too,
Speaker 2: and it's over the Constitution and it's so lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Constitution made her say it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, she's like, my boyfriend took me on a
Speaker 2: date to touch the Constitution.
Speaker 1: I love you, and that's where the pin goes miss right.
Speaker 2: So the pin goes missing in that constitution scene, and
Speaker 2: then Melly comes to Olivia and says, oh, I wanted
Speaker 2: to give this back to you, and how told me
Speaker 2: that Fitz didn't bring his wife to see the Constitution.
Speaker 2: He chose to bring you. And it's the first.
Speaker 1: Which because I would have wanted to be there, been there.
Speaker 2: And then she has the most amazing dialogue that's like
Speaker 2: we all did This is all passive aggressive too. She's like,
Speaker 2: we all did what we needed to do to get
Speaker 2: fits in office, and now it is our job to
Speaker 2: keep him there, meaning like I will keep playing wife,
Speaker 2: you keep playing mistress, whatever we have to do to
Speaker 2: keep the president president. And it's like this is all flashback,
Speaker 2: but this is when the whole charade and all the
Speaker 2: cards start to crumble. It's a combination of like Melly
Speaker 2: knowing and Olivia of being like, this is the most
Speaker 2: fucked up shit in the entire world. Hollis gives the
Speaker 2: okay to blow up Cytron and kill seven people just
Speaker 2: so that the election rigging storyline doesn't get out, and Cyrus.
Speaker 2: She goes to Cyrus says, Hollis is a fucking problem.
Speaker 2: He killed seven people, that's on us. And Cyrus has
Speaker 2: this huge monologue where he's like, those people died, they
Speaker 2: are patriots.
Speaker 1: They're patriots, they died for us, for fits to be
Speaker 1: have been in office, die for.
Speaker 2: A greater cause. And Olivia is just looking around like
Speaker 2: all these people are fucking out of their minds.
Speaker 1: And he also Cyrus mentions Lindsay Dwyer, which is Quinn
Speaker 1: Perkins of course, and says she's gonna you know, she
Speaker 1: she's doing her country a service.
Speaker 2: Lindsay Dwyer is doing her country services, doing her patriotic duty,
Speaker 2: all for the greater good of this country.
Speaker 1: But also it all goes back to Olivia again because
Speaker 1: Olivia is the one that gives the Jesse Tyler name
Speaker 1: right to Hollis Doyle, which Huck gives to her because
Speaker 1: she knows that somebody has been sort of meddling and
Speaker 1: asking questions and sort of in there, so she wants
Speaker 1: them out. So it all goes back to Olivia. So
Speaker 1: Olivia is somewhat responsible for this explosion, for Jesse Tyler dying.
Speaker 2: It's why she saves Lindsay Dwyner because she feels so sad. Yes,
Speaker 2: she will not let another person die for this sin
Speaker 2: that she did, this choice she made of bringing the election.
Speaker 2: She will not let anyone else go and that's why
Speaker 2: she sends Huck to get Lindsay.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we'll be right back, guys.
Speaker 2: Okay. In the ending of the episode, Olivia resigns. She
Speaker 2: writes a resignation letter she signs Olivia Pope. She includes
Speaker 2: the Eisenhower pinn that she gave on the inauguration day.
Speaker 2: She leaves it on the fucking desk of the O office.
Speaker 2: She pieces out and she starts Olivia Fucking Pope and associates.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh so good. But do you think that Olivia knew?
Speaker 1: Because Lindsay Dwyer slash Quinn Perkins is an exceptional worker
Speaker 1: at OPA, do you know what I mean? She has
Speaker 1: that drive.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: So do you think she knew or she just took
Speaker 1: a chance. She just wanted to save this girl.
Speaker 2: Because I hope she wanted to save her and felt like,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna keep her in my keeper round, under
Speaker 2: my wing, to keep her around to make sure she's safe.
Speaker 2: And then it sort of like ends it up that
Speaker 2: all right, Like now this is just how it is,
Speaker 2: Like I'm watching this girl like she's mine.
Speaker 1: Oor man score for Olivia that Quinn Perkins ends up
Speaker 1: being this freaking you know boss Chiller.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so crazy. And the very very end of
Speaker 2: the episode they're swearing in Sally Langston and like the
Speaker 2: BackFlash of his pin that fell off. They have the
Speaker 2: pin and Melly picks it up off the floor in
Speaker 2: the hospital where it fell off where he's like bleeding out,
Speaker 2: and she puts it next to his shot up body.
Speaker 2: And then the very very end, the last two minutes,
Speaker 2: you know how he scanned do those last fucking thirty
Speaker 2: seconds they go but crazy that they dream at it's
Speaker 2: Huck that shot the press?
Speaker 1: Oh man, how did you like Huck's work?
Speaker 2: At the end?
Speaker 1: I really liked it. Again, this was one of those
Speaker 1: scenes where I had to learn how to assemble and
Speaker 1: disassemble a motherfucking rifle, which is so not me. I
Speaker 1: can barely send like a video text to someone like I'm.
Speaker 2: Just scared for links for Google link because he doesn't
Speaker 2: know how to get it off his phone. He doesn't a.
Speaker 1: Picture of me and I'm the most impatient person. When
Speaker 1: I get frustrated, I'm not good at something and I
Speaker 1: can't learn it. I get frustrated and I get mad,
Speaker 1: and I remember being there and be like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it again. I was just so because I wasn't
Speaker 1: getting it. And God bless Jeff Props, who just was,
Speaker 1: you know, the nicest and the most patient person, and
Speaker 1: just little by little, one piece by one piece, and
Speaker 1: I learned how to. You know, Thank God for our
Speaker 1: wonderful editors too, because they edited the shit out of this.
Speaker 2: Like you had an assemble of an automatic rifle.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but I I love it. I love that moment.
Speaker 1: I love the moment where he Huck turns around to
Speaker 1: look for the bullet and you see that it's Huck. Oh.
Speaker 1: I was so excited. Man, this is gonna get good.
Speaker 1: And this is also I think this is where the
Speaker 1: hashtag what the huck started. Oh, this is really one.
Speaker 1: And then the next episode is where it's sort of
Speaker 1: you know, a lot because people were like, oh, what
Speaker 1: the heck, oh.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, let's see if there are any fun fucking facts.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, Mark Harrolic did not reprise his role as Press
Speaker 2: Secretary Marvin Colegate. Did he get fired.
Speaker 1: From the season. I don't know. You know, sometimes people
Speaker 1: get jobs.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that that's what happened because he's so talented.
Speaker 2: I've worked with them before. He's amazing. And he's also
Speaker 2: friends with a casting director and Jeff. I feel like
Speaker 2: they've worked together a million times.
Speaker 1: And listen, when you get it, when you get a
Speaker 1: curring role or a you know, a featured role or
Speaker 1: a guest starring role, there's no guarantee of continued work.
Speaker 1: So as an actor, you have to continue searching for work.
Speaker 1: And he probably booked a show or a movie where
Speaker 1: he couldn't get off and he was working, so they
Speaker 1: have to recast it.
Speaker 2: And that's when they replaced him with Keko a Gina,
Speaker 2: who replaced him as press secretary Britta Kagan, who tragically
Speaker 2: in this episode her character was killed as a result
Speaker 2: of your fucking girlfriend, Becky.
Speaker 1: What a bit bitch. But also, can I just take
Speaker 1: a moment and speak about Kaiko I hope I'm saying
Speaker 1: her name right. Kaiko A Jenna, who is another regular
Speaker 1: on a beloved show of mine, Gilmore Girls. She's one
Speaker 1: of the leads in gilmart Girls. Yeah, play your name
Speaker 1: is Keiko Keiko. She plays Rory's best friend Lane on
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 2: For she did one hundred and kidding me, one hundred and.
Speaker 1: Fifty four episodes on Gilmore Girls. And that girl can
Speaker 1: talk faster than any of us.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I remember auditioning for Gilmore Girls and they
Speaker 2: would tell me to talk faster, and then the casting
Speaker 2: director gave me the note, you talk out of the
Speaker 2: side of your mouth.
Speaker 1: Two. So does Milo into Meglia, what is she talking about?
Speaker 1: He's the biggest side mouth talker in the world and
Speaker 1: it's the sexiest thing ever.
Speaker 2: I remember auditioning for Gilmore Girls and they were like,
Speaker 2: you need to talk faster, and I was like, oh honey,
Speaker 2: I got this and I'm talking so fast. She was like, also,
Speaker 2: you only talking to the side of your mouth? Can
Speaker 2: you not do that?
Speaker 1: Are you cute? I'm so confused right now because again, Miglia,
Speaker 1: who is a regular on Gilmore Girls. Who's hot Rory's
Speaker 1: you know, boyfriend? For is any Yes, he's on this
Speaker 1: is us and he's on a name Vinimiglia. I could
Speaker 1: be KAMLEI.
Speaker 2: I think that's right. I think that's it.
Speaker 1: I could be completely wrong, Lea, but I think it's
Speaker 1: Vini Meglia. But homeboy has the cutest lisp and he
Speaker 1: just talks out of the side of his mouth. Is
Speaker 1: always funny that you know they were telling you, producers
Speaker 1: was telling you not to do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Keo is killed and I'm so bummed. She should
Speaker 2: have had like a much bigger party. And then I
Speaker 2: have continuity error. Referenced in Dirty Little Secrets, we learned
Speaker 2: that as a part of the Defiance Conspiracy Lia deal,
Speaker 2: Verna Thornton was to receive a seat on the Supreme Court,
Speaker 2: the first Supreme Court justice to be nominated by the
Speaker 2: Grand Administration. But in season one, episode two, a news
Speaker 2: anchor reports that Patrick Keating is to be the president's
Speaker 2: first Supreme Court nominee during his term. That's a continuity.
Speaker 2: That's a continuity error, people, That's what that is.
Speaker 1: So how do we expect these writers to keep all
Speaker 1: these facts together? Like that's a teeny tiny continuity or
Speaker 1: that I would never catch unless our producers for this
Speaker 1: podcast told us, you know what you read.
Speaker 2: And also we're not even in season five six yet.
Speaker 2: I bet these continuity errors are going to get imagine
Speaker 2: if you were on Gray's Anatomy like season twenty.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
Speaker 2: No, I can't. I cannot imagine. Guess what time it
Speaker 2: is now? Scandal Scandal, Scandal Scannel tweets of the talent.
Speaker 1: Oh, I get very gassy when we do our tweets
Speaker 1: at the time portion of this podcast.
Speaker 2: Katie, me too, Germo and hungry. Okay, Yes, the Scandal writers.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I forgot that the Scandal writers had
Speaker 2: their own handle.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were.
Speaker 2: Yet god, everybody was so everybody was on Twitter. It
Speaker 2: was the costume department, the wardrobe, the hair, the makeup,
Speaker 2: the writers, everybody, Scandal writers wrote, The Scandal writers just
Speaker 2: watched tonight's episode together on a big screen and it
Speaker 2: is amazing. Ten nine Central people, big screen not required.
Speaker 2: That is such a writery writ tweet. I've upseid.
Speaker 1: Really, it's so well written. Yes, okay, and then we
Speaker 1: have Chan at my friend Chan tweets one thing you
Speaker 1: won't do is text slash call me while Olivia Pope
Speaker 1: is on I need to find out who shot her
Speaker 1: boo hashtag scandal agreed, Chan agree.
Speaker 2: Reed at Dresshon on December sixth, tweeted first lady set
Speaker 2: him up at jerm meets World. Fits done, been shot,
Speaker 2: dead to the earth. Who y'all think did it? Hashtag
Speaker 2: scandal I love and this person thinks the first lady
Speaker 2: set him up, which, by the way, we haven't really
Speaker 2: talked about that.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they really did make it seem like she did it.
Speaker 2: You think, how well, what before he gets out of
Speaker 2: the car, she says, yes, yes, we shouldn't go. We
Speaker 2: shouldn't go. I have a weird feeling, let's not go.
Speaker 2: And then when he gets shot. They did a shot
Speaker 2: in this episode where she lifts up her head and
Speaker 2: she's like looking around kind of weirdly. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think they kind of framed her a little bit.
Speaker 1: I never thought that when she's in the limo in
Speaker 1: the previous episode saying let's not go. I don't want
Speaker 1: to go. I just chalked that up to woman's intuition,
Speaker 1: Like I thought, she feels something, she feels something's off,
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel right. I almost respected her and loved
Speaker 1: her even more because of because of that little piece
Speaker 1: and that in the limo where she didn't want him
Speaker 1: to go. I never equated that with her possibly setting
Speaker 1: him up. Interesting, but well that that also speaks to
Speaker 1: this next tweet by Focus at Shabina three, she says
Speaker 1: that's why she didn't want to go to the dinner.
Speaker 1: She knew he was getting shot. Hashtag scandal, which she's
Speaker 1: speaking about Melly of course, which, well, there you go,
Speaker 1: there you having another person thinks that she was possibly involved.
Speaker 2: People thought that Mellie was possibly doing it. At Marvine
Speaker 2: XO tweeted with hashtag scandal, Milly I love when people
Speaker 2: call her Milly. Milly knew some shit was gonna go down.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care, I don't care. He just tweeted IDC period,
Speaker 2: IDC period, which is I don't care, and I never
Speaker 2: knew that till today period. Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but also you'll check it out. It's funny how
Speaker 1: it's all women that are saying this about another woman.
Speaker 1: I wonder as a guy, I thought, oh no, she
Speaker 1: just she feels something's off, so she doesn't want to go.
Speaker 1: I never But of course the women are like, mmm,
Speaker 1: she knew something was up.
Speaker 2: She's yeah, right, that's right, Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 2: At Samantha D. Godwin tweets, haha, you know it's a
Speaker 2: spicy episode. When at Scandal four, when one informs everyone
Speaker 2: to not tweet at Tony Goldwyn tonight, well done, sir,
Speaker 2: well done. Hashtag scandal.
Speaker 1: And then we got that about I don't know not
Speaker 1: to tweet Tony tonight. I don't know what that. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that.
Speaker 2: Oh, because it's so sexual. This episode was so sexual.
Speaker 1: Oh, perhaps well. And then we have Golden Girls six
Speaker 1: seventeen and she says, everyone at work is trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who shot the president hashtag scan So it
Speaker 1: was me, everybody, it was a Huck.
Speaker 2: You guys all remember, like we're about to go down
Speaker 2: a really dark journey with Huck. We're talking warderboarding. We're
Speaker 2: talking dark and dark darkness underneath the Pentagon and what's
Speaker 2: really going underneath the streets of DC. The next episode
Speaker 2: we have up is called blown Away.
Speaker 1: Little did I know that I was gonna venture out
Speaker 1: into the world of nudity on prime time television.
Speaker 2: You guys just weren't lucky enough to see it. But
Speaker 2: everybody who was in the room who shot with Huck
Speaker 2: that day when he was getting tortured Sawyrbo's dick and balls.
Speaker 1: My country breakfast, two eggs and a Dolson.
Speaker 2: You've never heard that.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, Katie qlows, You're.
Speaker 2: Welcome a country breakfast, country breakfast. Look out. I'm teaching
Speaker 2: that to my son right away because I think it's
Speaker 2: fucking hilarious. He's not gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Folks, this has been a pleasure and a dream.
Speaker 2: We can't wait to be back again for Blown Away.
Speaker 2: We may or may not have a guest. You may
Speaker 2: or may not hear about the country breakfast that Hucks
Speaker 2: serves up while he's getting tortured in the Pentagon. What
Speaker 2: a dream?
Speaker 1: What is awesome? Thank you, Thank you guys, Thank you
Speaker 1: gladiators for listening and going on this journey with us.
Speaker 1: This is like creating Hello.
Speaker 2: Should we say, oh, Fiva la vida, everybody, Viva la vida.
Speaker 2: And thank you Shonda Rhymes for writing this episode or
Speaker 2: this episode was five years This is.
Speaker 1: A good one. Go watch this. If you guys haven't
Speaker 1: watched it and you heard the podcast episode, go to
Speaker 1: the episode on Hulu.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday, mister President. Could you imagine doing that? Mister President?
Speaker 2: Say it again? And then he says, wait, no, what
Speaker 2: did you say say?
Speaker 1: I like it?
Speaker 2: What you say say it again. Oh good. So you'll
Speaker 2: play Olivia and I'll play fits.
Speaker 1: We gotta put we gotta do that, We gotta pitch that.
Speaker 1: If we could like read.
Speaker 2: That scene me, I belong to you.
Speaker 1: That was so good, That was so good. I got
Speaker 1: cho Bye, y'all, bye everybody. Thank you guys for joining
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