WEBVTT - 216: Top of the Hour 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:27.640 partnership with Iheartradiots. Katie loves. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:44.120 Gulieremo Katie, Katie loves he g Olalla Yes yo. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.720 Recently I started watching a bunch of Elvis movies. I've 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.000 seen them before, but not all of them, but there's 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.519 a bunch of them on one of the streaming networks 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.680 and I love them so much. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:58.320 What have you seen the most latest, Austin Butler? Elvia? 0:00:58.640 --> 0:00:59.600 Is it amazing? Yeah? 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.920 I really really liked it. He's really good. He doesn't 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.600 look like Elvis at all in my opinion, but that 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.280 doesn't matter because he has like his essence. He's really 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:08.920 fucking good. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.240 Wow, so good. I have not seen it. I should 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.840 watch that. Yeah, bad actor. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.120 Yo, Katie. Isn't it funny when you're I remember being 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.000 in college and being, you know, whatever age you are, 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.840 when you're like second year of college, I was, I 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.600 don no, twenty twenty one, I don't fucking know. But 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.839 there was a girl in one of my acting classes. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.080 And I went to a business school, but of course 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.319 I took like the three like acting classes that there 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.440 were in the school, and there was a girl in 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.560 my class that was like thirty two, and I remember 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:44.680 all of us being like, yo, she's thirty two. We 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.240 were flabbergasted that she was in her. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.400 Thirties and this person we never met, but. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.480 I remember all of us being like, it was like 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.840 the school. It was like this drama. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.640 People were like, oh my god, he was thirty creature doing. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.360 Here, and we love her. We loved her. But of 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.880 course now I'm fifty two and I'm like, hey, you 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.160 know that's two so young? What? Yeah? 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.639 No, wait, in business school? Did you take business classes? 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.880 I took some. I went to Baroque College, which is 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.760 the college that Jaylo went to. Yes, it's on like 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.320 twenty third in Lexington. I knew I wanted to be 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.640 an actor, but I wanted to go to have something 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.080 to fall back on, get a degree in business, just 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:29.720 to have something to fall back and my two older 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:30.519 brothers went there. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:36.320 I cannot imagine you running, like doing a regular life job. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.480 Can you fucking imagine my dumb ass trying to do 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.040 somebody's fucking taxes or some bullshit that has to do 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.960 with money or something that's not artistic? 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.160 Noumb you're incredibly smart. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.960 Well listen, I can be dumb sometimes, I like not, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.560 that's so not my brain. It doesn't work that way. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.840 We're not traditional like that, like you can't do a 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.760 job like that, Like that is not Oh so both 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.920 your brothers went to Baruch, so you were like, all right, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:02.880 I'll just do this. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.280 Yeah yeah, yeah. But luckily, you know, at the second year, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.960 like the middle of the second year, I got an 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.640 agent and I started booking, and I was like, see 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.880 you peaking was out of there, peace out. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.359 You must have come into Baruk and they must have 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.200 been like, wow, give this dude. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.200 All the leads yep, Like they were like this motherfucker 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.919 could act. All those business majors were terrible actors. So 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.320 my scrawny ass was like I could do it, and 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:30.639 they were like they're amazing. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.760 Oh my god, I can't imagine. I'm just like dying 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.680 over the image of you, like having a sliding doors life, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.240 where like you didn't get an agent and you graduated 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.200 book and you're in like some already shitted suit and 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.880 you can't wear all your shirts and your leather suspenders 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.560 and you have to like report to an office and 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.040 like do taxes or something like what would you. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.400 Have done that is disgusting. I would never. I would never. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.960 You wouldn't have survived. I little Giermo Diaz going to 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.600 Beru colleges. This is the greatest thing in the entire world. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.040 To make it crazy like it would have, I can't. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:09.200 You were not meant to do that. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.320 I wouldn't change it for the world. You know. It 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.400 was such a great experience. And I met so many 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:14.720 There was a professor, there, a names. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.880 You met that thirty two year old old hag. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.240 Yeah, that old hag. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:26.160 Wow. Today's episode is two sixteen. We are nearing the 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.600 like we are in the final third of the second 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.159 season where shit gets ramped up and fucking crazy. This 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.919 episode is called Top of the Hour and it aired 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.520 on March twenty first of twenty thirteen. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.200 And it was written by Heather Mitchell and directed by 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.720 Steve Robin. Check it out. Okay, March twenty first is 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.080 the day before my birthday. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.680 Continue, Oh, the best day in the world, the day 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.840 that we all, we all need to be celebrating. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:53.279 March first. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.800 Second guest starring Scott Foley as Jake Bellard, Sharmila Devar 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.760 as Lauren Wellman, Kurt Fuller as great In Osborne, Samantha 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.479 slow And as Janine Locke, Alexander Greer as Patrick White, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.400 house staffer, Denorka Wildcott as reporter. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:10.239 Carol Reesrios as reporter, Peter J. Jackson as news anchor, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.040 Lisa Edelstein as Sarah Stanner love her. J. Carnes as 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:15.760 Phil Stanner. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:21.000 This is a beautiful name, and it's saida. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:28.200 Eureka as Samantha Wells. I hope I did not butcher 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:28.599 her name. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.360 Who is Samantha Wells in it? 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:31.760 Who the fuck knows? 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.680 I don't you remember who Samantha Wells was? 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.279 I don't remember. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.400 All right, we're gonna get into it, so will so. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.760 Samantha Wells was the secretary that is seats is seated 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.960 outside of Fitz's office, where Melly is like, tell me 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.640 we all his meetings, please? Oh god, damn it. I 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:49.680 fucked up. You're right, that's. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:54.440 Lauren Lauren Wellman, who is the who is the secretary 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:55.960 who's in charge of Fitz's schedule? 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:02.120 And right, yes, sorry, I apologize, guys, says a real 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:03.880 doozy of an episode. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.960 It's kind of a classic. We've got a case of 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.719 the Week, and we've got a lot of b storyline 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.840 going on in the White House Synopsis. Olivia and her 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.960 OPA team find themselves once more in the middle of 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.760 a media firestorm. This time they go to head to 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.800 head with the White House after their new client, high 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.599 powered CEO Sarah Stanner, is accused of having an affair 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.279 with President Fitz's nominee for the Supreme Court. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.280 Olivia delivers a hot tip to Jake Ballard as their 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.120 flirtations continue. In pursuit of the White House, mole Huck 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.920 teaches Quinn how to be a professional stalker with mixed results. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.640 Me Yeah, hey, wait a minute. Meanwhile, Cyrus and Mellie 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.080 battle for the President's attention, and Abby confronts Harrison over 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:46.880 his role in her and David Rosen's breakup. Whoa wow? 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:53.440 Okay, So to Jog y'all's memory. Lisa Edelstein portrays the 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.080 case of the week, Sarah Stanner, and she's fucking unbelievable. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:04.080 Her acting is ridiculous. She's so good, it's amazing, Like 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.159 she plays this high powered female ceo. They have two kids, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.600 this like sort of perfect life, a lovely house and 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.840 then her daughter. They're like setting up dinner at the 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.400 beginning of the episode and You're like, oh my god, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.920 what a lovely family. And then all of a sudden, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.120 it's like ding dog and then a little daughter goes 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.560 to run pizza, and the little daughter runs to the 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:28.200 front door, and it's like ooh. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.840 And it's like all these reporters and right outside the door. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.960 Clashing bulbs and your your mother, you know, like do 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.720 we want to talk to Sarah Stanza. She's been having 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.560 an affair with the Supreme Court nominee. And what we 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.360 learn is the case of the week is that Fitz's 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.480 Supreme Court nominee was having an affair we think with 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.080 Lisa Aiedelstein's character a million years ago, but it turns 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.520 out what we learn is that affair was like going 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.000 on for like a way. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.240 Much longer, much much longer. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.280 She was almost even kind of in love with them. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:00.160 Her husband puts it together like is our daughter even mine? 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.600 Am I the father? Anyway, their performance is amazing, and 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.520 so it's sort of like the White House going head 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.800 to head with Opa because we rep Lisa Aiedelstein's character 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.760 and the White House is trying to protect the Supreme 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:19.200 Court nominee, and so they're tearing Lisa Aidelstein's character apart 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.560 in the press, like showing all these pictures of her 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 in college, like she was like a slut, and like 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.280 releasing emails where she was like basically supposedly like begging 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.480 him to have sex with her. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.679 And of course, and Cyrus is like, wtf, Olivia, what 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.800 the hell are you doing? Leave this alone? And she's like, nope, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.120 I'm this this is my client. Too bad, And I 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.640 love what she delivers. One of my favorite lines where 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.720 she tells Cyrus take a breath, Cyrus, I don't want 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.760 to be responsible for a heart attack, Like you're going 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.640 to have a heart attack. Because Cyrus is losing his 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:53.640 shit over this. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.679 Yeah, such foreshadowing, because Cyrus does have a heart attack 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.760 at some point. I can't remember what season that is. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.040 Definitely has a heart attack. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:01.560 And some times. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:08.680 We will be back with more after the break. Okay, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.200 let's consult on notes. Let me look at the notes 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.720 of like my favorite best scenes and all this shit. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.640 There's so many in this one, so many I. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.760 Know, they're so great, and there's a lot of oh, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.920 oh god, I just had a really big flashback. Okay, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:31.400 we'll get there to Okay, Olivia brings information on the kidnapped. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.640 Are they army people who are kidnapped? 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.720 Who's I believe they're military folks. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.640 The military folk have been kidnapped. And Fits is trying 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.800 to figure out. But there's a mole and Jake Is 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.920 and Olivia are like flirtatious as all hell. Olivia goes 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.600 to visit Jake at his office and we see some 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.959 adorable photo of like with him and a camel getting 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.319 looked in the face and Jake in his like hot 0:09:53.480 --> 0:10:02.480 sexy uniform and all that kind of thing. Melly doesn't understand, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.880 like what the fuck is going on? She sees that 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.520 in Fits his schedule, three meetings a week are going 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.800 on late at night, and she goes to Cyrus and 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.800 is like, your boys cheating on us? I know. She's like, no, no, no, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.600 forgive me. Are boys cheating on you? He's meeting with 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.199 someone three nights a week and I don't know who 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.000 it is, and Cyrus, you don't know who it is? 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.839 And Cyrus is supposed to know everything about us, what 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.040 the president is doing? 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:27.480 Yes, what else? 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.079 G what are Oh? There's so much good Quinn. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.000 Hawks, so much good stuff. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.800 Really like the beginning of Quinn. It's a lot of 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.800 Quinn Hawk shit, Like you know what I remember, g yeah, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:38.960 can you remember any of it? 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.120 You know what I remember from about this episode is 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.200 how much I enjoyed shooting it, because whenever we were 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.600 on location, it was just fun. We were out out 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.280 of you know, the studios. We weren't in the OPA office, 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.840 which was you know, that was fun too, of course, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.800 but when we got to go outside and be like 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.400 in downtown La or in Pasadena, and the fact that 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.400 it was just you, me and you shooting this episode, 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.160 like I think it was pretty much you and I 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:06.520 together this whole episode. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.840 Yeah, this is the whole work. We're following. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.080 We're following the mole, the White House. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.280 Mole who's great in Osbourne, played by Kurt Fuller, and 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.040 and you're not really helping, like you're saying, I'm like, okay, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.360 well he's going to make the drop in plane daylight, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.520 and so I'm like following him around and we stop 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.800 at a dry cleaners, and you're letting Quinn do the 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.120 whole stalking work. But Quinn like keeps fucking. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.720 Yeah, he wants he to get her feet, he wants 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.440 her to get her feet wet and just you know, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.440 get in there, really dive in and experience what it's like. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.760 And so she waits, my love it. She waits behind 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.559 Grade and Fuller in the line for the cleaners, and 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.920 she's like, holy shit, I feel like he's making the drop. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.240 There's like sketchy shit going on. And they're like, okay, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.240 next customer, what would you like to drop off for 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.640 your dry cleaning? And Quinn's like ugh, and she just 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.840 gives her her shirt off of her back. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.319 The next shot we see it's just you in a. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:00.320 Bra, just made a bra. And I'm like walking to 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.040 the car, like so mortified and embarrassed and made such 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.720 a rookie ass mistakes. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.240 Isn't like, see you weren't prepared. You should have been 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.160 prepared or something like that. How did you feel shooting 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.200 that shooting that scene? 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.240 Were you like, well, I remember so stupid. I remember 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.200 being so wildly insecure because I was like fitting with 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:22.080 Lynn Paolow, like what I would be wearing the. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:25.800 Yeah and my. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.120 Boobs and like how high up were they? How low 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.040 were they? And I just remember being like, ugh, being 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.520 a girl is so stupid. Like it was just like 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.839 very like I felt a little bit. I can remember 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.640 feeling insecure about my like chest or what it looked like. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.280 I can remember that feeling. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.360 Of course, I wish we were all able to Like now, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.760 looking at these episodes that we shot so long ago, 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.720 I'm like, damn, you look pretty good, gear, Imo, you 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.199 look like but in the moment, you know what I mean, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.400 we're all so overly critical about our look looks or 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.960 our weight or whatever. And then years passed and you're like, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.679 wait a minute, motherfucker. You look. Why didn't I enjoy 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.760 myself a lot more when I was in that time, 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:10.400 you know what I mean? 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.520 Macket photos all the time before I had two kids, 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.920 and I'm like, why was I upset? 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.719 Like? Yes, it was. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.440 My body was great, nice, I had nothing to worry about, Like, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.880 I can't believe I was so much harder on myself 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:27.839 than It's so weird. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.800 Oh yeah, you know what else I remember from this episode? Also, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.560 Katie is is again being on location and shooting, you know, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.240 outside of the studio. But also I remember always being like, oh, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.720 what food places will be around here that I can 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.880 go to when we break for lunch instead of having 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.040 the catered lunch. Is there a good pizza shop? Is 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.920 there like a McDonald there a good. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.240 Burger place, So you are ridiculous of you. Wait, were 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.240 we in Pasadena for the dry cleaning? 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.160 Maybe? I think it was Pasadena. I want to say, yeah, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:58.640 I feel like I was it too. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.440 That's so fun And you're just scoping out, like, oh, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.360 what lunch spot? Am I going to go pick up 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:04.800 my ship? Like and all you can eat buffet? 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.320 Oh? Yeah, there's nothing better than a fucking all you 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.280 can eat bffet. There's one up here near where I live, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.280 at a hotel near Universal Studios. Have you ever been 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.360 to it? No, it's right up the hill, like right 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.200 past the entrance to go with you. What do you 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.080 get everything, Katie? They got crab legs, they got oysters, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:27.440 they got Chinese food, they have creams, they have water addict. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.240 They have Mexicans like twenty four to seven, all of 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.560 these options or like this comes out at five. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.760 It's only on the weekends. You have to make reservations 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.000 like two weeks in advance because it's super popular and 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.160 it gets super packed. It costs like seventy five bucks ahead, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.800 but it is so worth it, and you could get 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.920 Bloody Mary's or whatever liquor you want. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.320 Yeah, everything it was very cute. And then quinnin Hawk, 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.440 she does pick up the dry cleaning and she checks 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.640 his suit pocket and in fact there is a big, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.240 thick envelope filled with cash, and so they feel like 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.080 it is the confirmation that he is the mole. There's 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.040 money being exchanged for information. This guy is guilty, and 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.320 we're like super on the trail. But now I have 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.520 to like have this little monologue where I have to 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.160 make sure he doesn't know that we're onto him, so 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.359 I have to return the dry cleaning. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.800 Which you're so good in that scene. You're so good. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.720 You're like, oh, I'm such a dummy, Like I picked 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.880 up my husband's dry cleaning, but I should. It's not 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.600 gonna be ready till Saturday. And oh, you're so good. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.120 It's such it's such a fun cute little scene. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.960 Gee, Okay, we see that Fits and Olivia, who have 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.160 been on the outs for many an episode that Fits 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.520 calls Olivia because he's so fucking pissed about the Supreme 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.040 Court nominee not going through, and it's basically he just 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.200 feels like his entire presidency thus far has been a 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:47.960 total shit show. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.120 Yeah, a joke. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.240 It's just been awful, Like it's an embarrassment. They've gotten 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.680 like nothing successful to pass through. They don't have the 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.960 rest like the people who've been kidnapped, they don't have that. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.840 They have had a Supreme Court nominee. Like it's a 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.680 total mess. And he calls Olivia and I feel like 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:05.880 he's drunk, right. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.480 Yeah, because he's drinking his whiskey. Yeah, he's buzzed for show. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.280 And while they're calling, Live is watching Lisa Aiedelstein and 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.840 her character's husband like fighting through the window of their 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.760 house and you can just see like how broken both 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.000 of these relationships are, and liv just says like or 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.560 he says, you ruined me. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.280 Yeah, yeah, and then she's like he says something else 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:30.760 to her, and then she says, I'm going to hang up, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.800 and he's like, yeah, you do that, and then he 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:33.840 hangs out before her. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.000 Oh so mean. He's so like, I don't give a 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.480 fuck about it, and he's so upset obviously, just to 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.720 remind listeners out there, he's so upset because he knows 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.960 that Live rigged the election. Yea, he knows that he's 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.680 not the president that people voted for. And how do 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.040 you live with yourself knowing that everyone you trusted betrayed you, 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.200 and the country that you're supposed to run you didn't 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.200 win fair and square. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.880 Yeah, And I love in this episode to that the 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:01.960 what's happening with. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.680 Uh, Lisa's character and her yeah, and. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.720 Her husband is sort of mirroring, you know, the strife 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.920 that Olivia and Fits are going through. It's it's it's 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.159 really nice, and it's throughout the episode. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.600 Yeah, throughout the episode. The two relationships are totally parallel 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:17.840 mirrors to each other. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:18.960 Yes, yes, Yes. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.840 And then Lisa has the most incredible monologue after this 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.200 phone call between Fits and Lives. She goes in and 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.479 Lisa's just like sitting at the table by herself. Her 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:33.320 husband has requested a praternity test to know if the 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.520 daughter is his legitimate daughter, and Lisa is just fucking 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.120 drinking wine out of the bottom of the bottle. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.879 I love it. Yeah, And she breaks out another bottle 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.119 and she's like, Olivia, you're gonna drink with me? And 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:46.960 Livy's like, no, I can, I'm on the job. And 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.800 She's like, girl, you are gonna drink with me? 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.639 Yes, And it's such a great monologue, and Lisa's just 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.560 so pro level it like looking like she's holding back tears, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:17:59.960 Like how do her eyes do that? 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:05.160 They was weld up the whole time. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.480 Huge blue eyes that are perfect. That just the well 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.000 up and not the release. And I so appreciate that 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.880 skill set as an actor. I'm like, oh my god, 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.600 it looks like she's on the verge of crying, but 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.520 she's holding herself back and it's taking all of her 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.080 guts to hold herself back. It's so good. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.400 This actresses is, I mean a pro. She She's been 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.159 in so much shit. Look, she's been in Seinfeld, La 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.520 law Er, Frasier, Homegirl, was in the movie The Doors. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.600 She had a really small role in the Doors, which 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.720 is really memorable. She plays like the makeup artist to 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:40.040 uh to nol Kilmer. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, but yeah, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.160 she's she's a stellar actor. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.680 And also this huge she's a huge theater actor. Huge yeah, 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.159 huge New York theater actor. And then she had this 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.359 show Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce. Oh I Got, which she's 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.760 not like, right after Scandal, which she was the lead of. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:01.560 Really yeah, didn't Adelstein husband show or her ex husband? 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.280 I think the one she divorces. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.360 The actor that plays her husband. His name is Jay 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.280 Carnes and he's amazing too. He was on the Shield 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.639 for forever. He did eighty nine episodes of the Shield, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.280 and I did an episode of the Shield called Blood 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.560 and Water. So I got to work with him like 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.000 years ago when I first moved to La Yeah, he's 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.479 he's wonderful. And he was also when I was, you know, 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.680 doing my research, he was in a movie with Madonna. 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.080 Yes, movie of Madonna's was he. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.800 Called the Next Best Thing, which was the biggest piece. 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:38.159 And shit, it's a the worst movie. Madonna's in it 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.919 and the lead. She's the lead, she's one of the leads. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:43.960 But yeah, it's a terrible movie. But I thought it 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.159 was so funny and so interesting that Jake Carnes is 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:48.440 was in that film with her. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:54.600 Can we take a strong left turn at how amazing 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.120 Madonna was in a league of their own? 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.000 Oh man, that's one of my favorite movie. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.760 I mean, she was astounding. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.159 She really was. She really was. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:13.560 Joy and gravitas and dancing and ball busting and her 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.680 and roso' donald. I could watch the two of those 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:22.199