WEBVTT - 204: Beltway Unbuckled 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:25.560 partnership with Higheartradios. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.160 Katie, well. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:33.120 You all listening. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.000 There was a hot second when Josh Molina and Scott 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.599 Foley were like, we should host the Scandal podcast and 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.920 Scott talked to Shonda about it, and Shanda was like, oh, 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:42.880 Katie and g you're already doing that. It's been in 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:43.840 the works for years. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.959 Oh man, what a different vibe it would have been, right, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.920 I know, I mean, it would have still been great, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:52.720 but you know. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.680 We could like let them sit in our chairs for 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.640 like maybe half an episode, like how I sit in 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.000 for Kelly Rippa, Like maybe Josh or Scott could sit 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.880 in as like a guest host further down the road 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.240 that get out of here, you motherfuckers. We don't want you. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.160 I don't want them to get too comfortable. And then 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.320 they were really funny and really good, and we're. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.919 Like, uh, well, they also have a very different relationship 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.120 than me and you. I mean, those two are just 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.119 god awful to each other. They love each other so much, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.920 but they're like they have that sort of like frat 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.960 boy relationship where they're just straight up ballbusters to each 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.560 other and Dick, so it would be a probably very 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:32.360 angry show. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.679 Oh my god, do you remember that time, Katie that 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.279 we were at sex fifth avebue. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.480 I was just gonna bring it up. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.720 We had an event at sex Fifth Avenue where the 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.640 clothing from the show right was being displayed and there 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.760 was gonna be a line of clothing from you know, 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.600 by Lin Paolo Limited. Yeah. Yeah, we show up and 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.760 there's a red car fly to New York. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.080 Yes, and they've redone the window treatments Sax fifth Avenue 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:05.120 to be all of our characters in our clothing. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.000 Yeah. So it's like mannequin's that look like, yes, in 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:08.919 our clothing. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.440 Yo, mine was hot. I kind of remember that. I 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.160 was like, dam. 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.200 Wouldn't you have been awesome if we could keep those? 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.480 Where are they? Like? Are they dressed somewhere? Like? No, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.720 someone's like that mannequin looks like I think it. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.200 Was to celebrate the launch of that the Limited was 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.400 doing a scandal clothing line that Kerry Washington and Lynn 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.400 Polo collaborated on. There was the quin jacket and this 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.360 other thing. But we all go and your parents are there. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.160 There was a huge crowd outside Sexmith Avenue, and you know, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.200 we're all doing the red carpet, the whole cast, and 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.160 Shonda's there, and then eventually we go inside where there's 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.120 a big party and champagne and there's a ton of 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.080 people in there. The cast, friends and family are all 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.520 inside mingling with us and enjoying it. And I looked 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.800 through the through the glass of sax but having my 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.800 parents are just standing outside with the crowd, and I'm like, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:05.400 you got behind. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.279 Like a red velvet rope and it's like cold outside, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.200 and I remember being like, fucking your most parents are here. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.360 Yeah, And at one point we had to go and 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.120 stand next to our mannequins and they did some pictures 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.760 of us. Remember that, Yeah, I've forgotten. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:24.040 We all like climbed in the My mother. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.680 And my father are standing outside with the crowd of 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.960 fucking fans like I like, waving at me, and I'm like, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.320 and they wouldn't outside, No, I think my brother came in. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.280 My one brother came in, and I was like, well, fraid, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.880 why aren't Mommy and Poppy like inside? And he was like, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.600 you know them, They're they're cool, they just want to 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:40.760 stay outside. They're fine. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.480 I love them. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.200 They did I don't know if they'll be listening to 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.960 this podcast, but they should know they raised the most 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.360 glorious human beings. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.880 Oh Katie, you are way too sweet, dude. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:59.440 We've got episode two oh four, Yes, Beltway, Unbundled Buckled Ye, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:00.160 which on. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.000 October twenty fifth, twenty twelve. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.839 It was written by Mark Fish, a writer that came 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.920 to us a little bit later but stayed all the 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.680 way through the end and is a Shondaland fave. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.560 And it was directed by Mark Tinker. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:18.279 Remember Mark Tinker. This director was like the coolest freaking Yeah. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.680 Well, Mark Tinker is kind of responsible for saving my 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.279 life and getting me into the Shondaland universe because he 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:32.799 was the producing director of Private Practice, and Private Practice 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.160 was the first time I was ever hired as a 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.080 guest star in the Shondaland universe, where Shonda actually like 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.119 remembered who I was, and that's why I got called 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.880 into audition for Off the Map and why I kept 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.320 getting called into audition for Scandal and all of these things. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.680 But my first job ever was the premiere of season 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.640 four of Private Practice that Mark Tinker was directing. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.160 Way he cast me and did you have a good role? 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.800 Did you have like a Duday role. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.400 Oh, this is the most fucked up shit you have 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.880 ever heard in your life. It is awful. I played 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:12.120 a mom who left her kid in the back of 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.960 the car by accident with the windows shut. I want 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.400 to get back to the car. The baby has burned 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.000 to death and is not breathing because there was no 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.160 new air and it was too hot. By the way, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.640 that is actually the cause of some infant deaths. Now 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.080 they have all of these things in new cars. I 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.800 drive a mini van and when you put the car 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.120 in park, if there's a baby or any movement in 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.680 the back, the screen of my car comes up and 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.040 says like alert, Alert, there are people in the back 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.760 of your car, which. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:44.520 Is like a new thing. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.520 And every time it comes on, I think about this 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.520 fucking episode. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.719 Of that dreadful episode. You must like, Oh my. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:58.720 God, it was horrible, horrible. But that's how I'm at 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.240 Mark Tinker, and that that's how I edged my way 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.200 into shondaland Baby Mark Tinker. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:06.520 Okay, Mark Tinker. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.360 Wait, the guest stars of this episode are superb. I'm 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.120 gonna read the top of them and g the second 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.440 because it's the most people ever it's Greg Henry as 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.920 Hollis Doyle, Deborah Mooney is Verna Thornton, Norm Lewis as 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.000 Senator Edison Davis, Brenda Song is Alyssa Susie Poor Far 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.880 as Becky Flynn, and Wendy Davis is Kimberly Mitchell. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.320 And then we have Stephen W. Bailey as Noah Elliott, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.800 Kate McGregor Stewart as Mary, Joe Holt as the Secretary 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.760 of Defense, Christen Carrey as Brooke Foster, Eve Gordon as 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.600 Janet Nystrum, and Todd Wearing is Peter Nystrum. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.200 Oh, I can't wait to talk about a lot of 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.280 guest stars. Can't wait talk about that real quick, guys. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.840 The synopsis is a missing college student turns up dead 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.440 after it's revealed that she is the anonymous Beltway Unbuckled 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.200 blogger who has scandally slept her way through Washington, d C. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.000 A diplomat pops up on the suspect list, which caused 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.360 trouble for Olivia when she's pitted up against the White House. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.080 Melly causes a scene when she gets involved with Olivia's 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.720 diplomatic scandal. Meanwhile, the relationship between Abbey and David deepens 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.720 and he gets a step closer to figuring out the 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:16.240 Quinn Perkins mystery. Okay, let's go through the app. G 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.920 what are your fave moments? What happened? What do you remember? 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:21.840 Give me some story. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.679 Oh my god, Gus. Well listen right off the top. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.160 This first scene with Fitz and Melly in the baby room, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.440 where Fitz wakes up, you know, on the couch in 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.760 the baby room with Melly. So freaking good, such a 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.840 good scene. I actually wrote in my notes, Melly, I 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.040 fits hate each other so well. I wish I could 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.320 fight that good with Mike. That's in real life. I said, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.680 I need Scandal writers to write lines for me for 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.800 my everyday life, because I mean, this is this The 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.600 words that they say are so brilliant. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.640 This is the time she says erection, and I wrote, yes, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:00.000 she writes the way Bellamy Youngler's erection. She's like my husband, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.400 it's an erection for Olivia Pope or whatever she's saying. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.200 And that they're so I wrote, they're so mean to 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.320 each other. Holy shit, it's so good. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.000 And she says, I don't want to spend my night 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.920 sleeping next to a man who gets erections dreaming of 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.640 Olivia Pope so good whoo. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.240 They are at odds and fucking hate each other and 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.440 they're so good at it. And we get into hawks 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:27.320 AA storyline where we meet the one and only Susie Porfar, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:34.000 who is incredible a gem, and she's says, nice to 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.599 meet you, whiskey, I'm cocaine. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.240 Yes, yes, Also listen, can we talk about Susie Poorfar, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.560 who I believe Linda Loewie are amazing casting director went 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.400 to see a play called Tribes that Jeff Perry is 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.680 in who plays Cyrus, and Susie Poorfar was in that 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.559 play and she saw her and that's why she brought 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.439 her in to scandal, is my understanding. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:01.160 That's what happened. She's unbelievable, and play Tribes. If it's 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.600 ever playing in a theater near you, don't walk run. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:07.880 We went to see it. Were we together when we 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.439 went to see it in New York? Remember? 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:09.840 Yeah? 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.040 I went and Susie was fucking ridiculous. I can't wait 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.439 to talk about who you liked making out with more 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:20.680 me Susie poor Far or Kimmy or Kim Jimmy. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:22.800 Your answer is you had the best time making out 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:23.440 with quick. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.920 Obviously with you. Yeah, but so Susie poor far real quick, yo, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.560 She's been in a ton of shit. I was just 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.720 watching In the Heights the other day and she's in 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:32.360 in the Heights. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.200 What does she play in that? I saw that one 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:34.400 of the. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.200 Lead characters is applying for an apartment in New York City, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.560 and she plays like a really sort of upity you 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.640 know god she It was like, sorry, you know you 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.000 have to it's taken. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.480 I remember that. I remember that. She's unrea believable. We 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.400 go into Abby and David a fucking all the time. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.000 Now they're just like and they're adorable. They're just like 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.600 adorable in this next little scene and they say, oh 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.599 my god, Abby's like, this is the last time. This 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.560 is the last time. We're not voting ever again. And 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.080 he was like, well, you said that after the fourth, eighth, ninth, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.800 and tenth time, but you didn't say it over the 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.959 seventh time, So what did I do right that time? 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.400 And you can tell they're like feeling each other, they 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:15.240 love each other. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.920 Oh yeah, but they're so complete opposites too, right, Yeah, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.040 they don't make sense to me. But then they're so 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:22.480 hot together in the sack. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.360 They really are, And I wrote the note must have 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:33.120 been cold, David hard nipples. That was my note. My 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.800 note was shit stage was cold that day because David's 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.800 topless and the scene and his nipples are just straight up, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:41.800 straight up rocks. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.800 I love that there's a shot too, of both their feet. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.200 They both have very nice feet. What's a deal breaker 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.959 for you with a partner, Like if somebody got fucked 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.080 up feet? I'm like, yo, I can't. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:54.199 I don't know. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.600 I've been married so long and I've just known Adam's 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.280 feet for fuck ever. But I think, like a no 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.640 go for me is I have like. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.080 A hair thing. Clearly my husband has like a shit 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:06.680 ton of hair. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.280 But I saw a piece of his scalp one time 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.480 it like sort of parted and I was like, I'm 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.440 picking you up, Rogane. So this is the foam you're using, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.800 This is the pill you have to take. I don't care. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.040 So I might have like yeah, And he was like, Katie, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.120 it just parted like I slept on it whatever, And 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.640 I'm like, no, I see it happening. We need to 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.760 prevent this is his dad's bald at his brother's bald. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.480 No, yeah, would you do with Adam started going bald, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:39.679 would divorce him obviously. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.800 No, okay, this all comes to that, Josh Molina at 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:48.000 Darby Stansfield, you have great feet. Congratulations on that. We 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.800 get into the procedural of the episode, which Jenny she's 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.920 a missing girl. Her parents come in because Edison says, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.559 you know, these parents are my constituents, and I'm terrified 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.320 we can't find their daughter. And so Olivia's like, fine, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.320 I'll take the case she's missing. And then Columbus Harrison 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.400 puts it together that the missing girl isn't this sort 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.960 of a student, lovely goody two shoe type girls that 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.560 they that we had been painting in the press. We 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.439 find out that she's the Beltway on Buckle girl, a 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.640 nineteen year old who would get into like high profile 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.000 political parties and just. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:27.199 And yeah and fucking date have stud and then blog 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.559 about it, blog about it. Yeah right, yeah. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.920 And so she goes missing. Oh this is what I wrote. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.000 Oh my god, I totally forgot Quinn and Harrison shared 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:35.800 an office. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.760 I did too. When I saw this episode, I was like, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.240 what they were like side by side and you went 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:42.920 to get a grape? He was like, hell, no, he's 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:43.680 smacking hand. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:44.840 Like I forgot. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:45.680 We shared an office. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:46.680 Yes, me too. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.160 We also shared a trailer. Then they moved you to him. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.760 I think yeah, because I remember from like season two on, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.880 I think I was pretty much with Columbus. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.680 Or maybe I only shared with Columbus the pilot. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.160 Maybe it was just a pilot. Maybe it was just 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.640 a pilot, because I remember always being with Columbus. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.360 Oh, that must have been it. Maybe you were always 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.760 with Columbus and I was with We have to ask 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.440 when they come on, because now the memories have shifted. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.680 But also just for our listeners, when we say share 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.040 a trailer, we weren't in the same like space together. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.000 It's a double banger, right, which means too small quarters 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.800 with a couch like a chair, a tiny desk in 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.320 a bathroom. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.679 Your poopers share a wall. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.000 Yes, your poopers share a wall. Oh my god, pooping 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.199 was so hard. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.160 In our trailers. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.520 Columbus in his trailer, like, is he in the bathroom? 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.400 Is this my chance to like take a nice, big 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.120 old dump, like. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.920 And you can hear each other flushing? 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.120 Yes, it's so. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.920 Insane, like, yes, why do we always end up talking about. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.679 Listen, everybody poops I have that book. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.760 I read it constantly. Yes, because my children are always 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.680 about potty training. They're like obsessed with poop. It's a 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:03.600 fascinating thing. Party of hell. Yeah, Okay, so they share 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.240 an office. Okay. Quinn gets a lead. We think that 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.440 we found the belt Way Unbuckled Girl in Albuquerque or something, 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:11.959 and I'm like, let's print out the picture of who 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.480 she is. And at the same time, Olivia's at the 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.760 crime scene looking is it possibly the belt Way Unbuckled Girl? 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:19.400 Yes? 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.560 And She's like, yes, please tell me. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:26.120 Can we just pause just for one moment and and 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.680 talk about how there was a fax machine in this episode? 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.200 And I was like, remember fax machines, all that fucking 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:42.400 noise they used to make real so dramatic, But Yo, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.400 we had a fax machine in this episod. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.640 That is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.240 You're a hacker? How could that not have just been emailed? 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.400 How did it just not pop up on one of 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.720 our computers. They're all standing like you, and the parents 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.480 like Jenny's parents, and I think Abbey right and Harrison 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.200 are all stand around this fact. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.880 Machine's machine, waiting for the possibility of the like a 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.560 face to come up on this slow ass printing ass 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.840 nineteen hundred facts. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.600 And then of course Olivia is at the crime scenes 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.120 of very dramatic back and forth, you know, as the 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.960 picture's coming out slowly, she's there sort of uncovering Jenny's 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.920 body at the crime scene. So it works very well 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.520 for the scene. But I was like, yo, a fucking 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:25.440 facts machine. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.880 This is not how it would go down. But it 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.640 made dramatic impact. Yes, and that's what we're all about. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.720 Yes, And once again Quinn is like, we found the girl. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.840 There's a girl. She's all excited, giving last parents false 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:39.840 hope about like this could be your daughter. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.240 She's making promises right and left that she can't keep. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.080 Mellie is screaming about being puked on by kids, and 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.600 she's talking about immunizations and she's like, give me. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.240 A seat at the adult table. 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.640 I don't want to be doing this first lady bullshit anymore, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:01.040 where I'm dealing with children and doing dumb shit that 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.040 doesn't affect our country. I'm a political animal and I 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:04.440 want to see it at the table like I had 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:05.080 on the trail. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.240 Yes, and can we just say again, Bellamy is so 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.560 freaking good in this scene. I wrote in my notes 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.880 baby puke exclamation point, and I wrote, I am one 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.440 hundred percent on Melly's side in this scene because she's like, Yo, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.360 all these little snot nosed kids coming up to me 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.440 and throwing up and touching me, and and she has 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.080 I wrote another memorable line for the scene because she 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.360 says this amazing line very quickly in her oh so 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.080 Melly way. It's so fucking good. She says that filthy 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.520 little rot with an eye patch under his glasses and 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.720 cry it's so hard, Oh yeah, and so angry. Oh, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.200 She's just so good in this scene. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:43.200 She's so good. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.080 And there's also she brings up vaccines in this scene. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.240 Do you remember that, Katie? And I was like, oh shit, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.840 what a vaccine dig because she's like, how do parents 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.280 not get their fucking kids vaccinated? How stupid can you be? 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.080 It's the twentieth century or whatever? And I was like, oh, wow, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:56.560 sort of. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.800 I can hear Shonda in that line so much because 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.480 I've I've talked with her so much about being a 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.399 mom and we've been moms together and like vaccinations and 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.160 immunizations for our kids, and we've done so much about 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.959 that on Katie's crib. But like I can hear you know, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.080 I think when you're a showrunner of a doctor show 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.159 for twenty years or however long Grais on me has 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.720 been on plus private practice, Like, I think she's just 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.280 such a she's a proponent of science, guys, which is 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.440 I hear it out of Mellie's speech where she's like. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:28.879 What the fuck is wrong with you? 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.280 This is fucking science immune, Like I shouldn't even be 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.040 spending time talking to these parents about vaccinations or whatever 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:35.600 she is doing. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.280 This is so stee, Like, what do you fucking think 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.600 and get the vaccination? Your kid is gonna get smallpox 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:40.000 or whatever? 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.600 Exactly exactly yea, And Tony says for her to suck 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.959 it up, suck it and deal with it. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.439 They're so good. We'll be right back, guys. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.199 We cut to the Morgue scene, probably to see the 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.439 Beltway unbuckled girl and get some about how she died. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.120 And it's Stephen W. Bailey as Noah Elliott. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.960 Yeah, but he is also the bartender on Grey's Anatomy. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.159 Yes, he's that guy that you've seen in movies and 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.000 ever shows, commercials. He's been in a ton of commercials, Yeah, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.520 he's just that face that you're like, oh, there's that dude. 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:21.320 Yeah, yeah, I Thod'm pretty sure. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.440 I remember talking to him on set and him being like, yeah, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.880 I went to Dartmouth with Shonda. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:28.120 We're like really good friends. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.600 And when she started Gray's Anatomy one hundred years ago, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.919 like she got me the gig is playing the bartender, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.320 hoping like maybe it'll recur, and I think he's done. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.720 Like I think that bartender did end up recurring a bunch. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.160 Yeah in Grey's Anatomy. Yeah, Grace fans would know better 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.040 than me. Okay. The next thing I wrote down is 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.200 that we learn that Verna is in the cancer wing 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.760 and no one knows because she's a Supreme Court justice. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.679 And Olivia goes to visit her at the hospital and 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.159 turns her cell phone off, which Abby thinks is like, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.080 where are you going? What are you doing? And she's like, 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.439 I have shit to do because Olivia can't tell anyone 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.320 that she visits Verna who has terminal cancer. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.160 Yeah, oh man, not to bring things down, but yeah, 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.320 just go there. My friend was doing chemo and I 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.000 went to Nashville to be with him, and I would 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.399 sit in the room with him with that machine, you know, 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.280 and he'd you know, we'd just be hanging out. And 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.919 seeing Verna so strong in that scene is so like 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.560 inspiring and so beautiful. It's so touching. But it made 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.840 me think, you know, so many people that have been 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.000 in that situation and how scary. I could relate to 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.359 being in Olivia's shoes and being the friend who's there supporting. 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.280 But then I was like, what if I was the 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.480 one getting the chemo? I don't know how I would 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.440 handle it. I would hope that, you know, you get 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.159 this sort of inner strength and you rise above you know, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.320 a lot of the fear and you just do it 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.960 and you get through it. But I just I'm like, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.600