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Speaker 2: Is the Sash as Katie. The SNL did a parody
Speaker 2: of Olivia Pope. Cecily Strong played Quinn and who played
Speaker 2: Hauck I.
Speaker 1: Don't I don't remember this, but he's he's a great actor.
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, but he was so good.
Speaker 2: It was unfucking believable, Like I was losing my mind.
Speaker 1: That's the first time we were like, oh, We're like
Speaker 1: like this is crazy, Like we're on SNL.
Speaker 2: No, this is zeitgeis like, this is like a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 2: If you get parodied on SNL, you've made it, folks,
Speaker 2: you have made it.
Speaker 1: Or your or your life is over because you're like,
Speaker 1: you know Wiener, the guy that showed his Wiener to
Speaker 1: the world or whatever, the political guy.
Speaker 2: We literally did an episode of scandal on the Wiener thing,
Speaker 2: like sending Dick pics. We had like a guy that
Speaker 2: had to get fixed for sending, tweeting and sending out
Speaker 2: too many testics.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, there is so.
Speaker 2: Much to talk about. I'm honestly giddy, like I feel.
Speaker 1: I love it. Me too, me too.
Speaker 2: Very I love you very much.
Speaker 1: Gmod. I love you too, Katie.
Speaker 2: Okay, Germo Diaz and I are just going through paperwork
Speaker 2: right now because.
Speaker 1: You have like a I have a fucking book. I
Speaker 1: wrote down you own book.
Speaker 2: Okay. We're so fucking pumped to be completely honest.
Speaker 1: So guys, here we have episode one oh two. It's
Speaker 1: titled Dirty Little Secrets. We all have some of those,
Speaker 1: don't we. It first aired on April twelfth, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: That's a long ass time ago. It was written by
Speaker 1: the awesome Heather Mitchell and directed by rox and Dawson.
Speaker 1: Remember Roxanne, she was one of my first obviously one
Speaker 1: of the first directors.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I think she was our producing director that season,
Speaker 2: but we'll get into that later.
Speaker 1: She was, yeah, yeah, And this episode is guest starring
Speaker 1: Mimi Kennedy as Sharon Marquette, John Gets as Patrick Keating,
Speaker 1: and Megan Gallagher is Stacey Keating.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take you through this synopsis of the
Speaker 2: episode at scandal pace because we need to get into
Speaker 2: this episode and we cannot be bothered with all these logistics.
Speaker 2: But I just want to say it really quickly in
Speaker 2: scandal paste speed, so that you know what the hell
Speaker 2: was going on in the episode. So the synopsis is,
Speaker 2: Olivia must protect a new client who's under investigation by
Speaker 2: the US Attorney's Office. Quin runs into trouble with the
Speaker 2: Manda Tanner when a charming reporter Gideon Wallace approaches Quinn
Speaker 2: at the hospital trying to get information. Meanwhile, at the
Speaker 2: White House, President Grant is just nominated his first Supreme
Speaker 2: Court justice, a man who has crosspads with Olivia's most
Speaker 2: recent client.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Katie, that was way too fast. I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like it might be a little
Speaker 1: too fast for the listeners. Like, I get it, you know,
Speaker 1: we're so used to as scandal past. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it. I'm going to try to just, you know,
Speaker 1: slow it up a little bit for the listeners.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me give it. Let me hear you.
Speaker 1: Olivia must protect a new client and their investigation by
Speaker 1: the US Attorney's Office. Quin warns is druggle with Amanda
Speaker 1: Tanner with a charming reporter, Gideon Wallace approaches Quinn at
Speaker 1: the hospital trying to get information. Meanwhile, at the White House,
Speaker 1: President Grant has just dominated his first Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 1: a man who has cross passed with Olivia's most recent client.
Speaker 1: God damn it, we can't stop scandal pacing. What is
Speaker 1: wrong with us? Every job I did after Scandal they
Speaker 1: were like, uh, can you please just take your time?
Speaker 1: Like slow it down?
Speaker 2: We are ruined as actors. Thank you so much, Sean Rhimes.
Speaker 2: But like, yes, first of all, we must note Geramemo,
Speaker 2: that was really fucking fast. And I always won the
Speaker 2: award as the fastest scandal Pace speaker on the cast,
Speaker 2: and you just gave me a run for my money.
Speaker 1: That was pretty fast. Huh.
Speaker 2: It was really fast. And also we have to give
Speaker 2: such applaud to Hawk because not only did you master
Speaker 2: scandal pace, but you would normally have to speak at
Speaker 2: scandal pace whilst saying absolute hacking jargon like QR facial
Speaker 2: recognition software.
Speaker 1: Yes, I had no idea what it meant or what
Speaker 1: it was. I you know, Huck is is this tech
Speaker 1: savvy like character. Obviously everyone knows, but me Ghirmo Diaz
Speaker 1: is like, where do I go on my phone to
Speaker 1: turn on the light? Like I'm the worse.
Speaker 2: I think even for this podcast, someone sent you a
Speaker 2: link for us to like open up our first meeting
Speaker 2: on this podcast and you're all texting me like, can
Speaker 2: you like text me that link? I don't know if
Speaker 2: I can get it on my computer or my phone.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, Guillermo, I sure did.
Speaker 1: I Sure did. I was like, Katie, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So that's what happened in the episode.
Speaker 2: But like sitting down and rewatching episode two gave me
Speaker 2: such fucking vibes because it's just so classic early Scandal.
Speaker 2: It's a case of the week. The case is Sharon Marquette,
Speaker 2: who's played by Mimi Kennedy, and she's like, I'm DC's
Speaker 2: finest madam, is what she says. She's based running a
Speaker 2: whorehouse for like all these politicians where they get their
Speaker 2: fancy ass hookers. Yes, and it's the first episode, you know,
Speaker 2: once we got picked up. Wait, by the way, how
Speaker 2: long was this between shooting the pilot and when did
Speaker 2: we start this? Do you remember?
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that because one of
Speaker 1: the first one of the things that like stuck out
Speaker 1: for me in this episode was Carrie's wig. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we got some money. Now They're like, okay, we want
Speaker 1: to order like seven episodes or six because we had
Speaker 1: done the pilot, but I was like, that way got
Speaker 1: spruced up. It looked like she went through the Emerald
Speaker 1: City makeover that Judy Garland goes through, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, she got this like fancy, like curly like up.
Speaker 2: Like you know, everyone is listening. When you shoot a pilot,
Speaker 2: it's like they don't give you. I mean, they give
Speaker 2: you money, but it's not like if it's series and
Speaker 2: it goes to series, they're gonna like commit a little
Speaker 2: bit more. So, Yeah, Harry's wig and when she comes
Speaker 2: on this show, we have to have like a whole
Speaker 2: conversation about wigs because I know she made a lot
Speaker 2: of character choice is based on whether her hair was
Speaker 2: curly or straight. But I think that we see a
Speaker 2: major upgrade in this episode. Yes, in the first couple
Speaker 2: minutes of this episode, we're already listening to Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 2: It's already like yeah, down down, down, down down, And
Speaker 2: you and Abby are in the Madam's apartment. You know,
Speaker 2: Steven played by Henry and Cusick is out on the
Speaker 2: street on the phone with Olivia, and David Rosen drives
Speaker 2: by and we're on a ticking time clock where like
Speaker 2: you guys, gotta totally take over whatever's in her apartment.
Speaker 1: Before the cops get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, and it just seems so cool. Record scratch
Speaker 2: to Quinn standing waiting for the elevator to come up
Speaker 2: like a freaking loser.
Speaker 1: She's like, what the hell is going on? Well, Quinn
Speaker 1: is also the audience, right, Quinn is the one that's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's what's going down here? Like fill me in? And
Speaker 1: no one's like really filling her in, and they're just
Speaker 1: like you gotta learn, Like you gotta just watch and learn.
Speaker 2: Yes. In this episode, Olivia is pissed because she has
Speaker 2: found out that her dude, her love of her life,
Speaker 2: Fitzgerald Grant the Third, is fucking Amanda Tanner and now
Speaker 2: she's pissed, and now Amanda try to kill herself and
Speaker 2: now here we are where she's like, oh, Amanda Tanner,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get this bitch to be my client. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: A couple other things about this episode that need to
Speaker 2: be mentioned that are in some notes G and I
Speaker 2: take notes people. G takes them on paper. I take
Speaker 2: them on the notes in section of my phone.
Speaker 1: I'm old school. Yep.
Speaker 2: He played a hacker and he can't do anything technologically savvy. Okay. No,
Speaker 2: David Rosen calls Olivia by her whole name, Olivia Carolyn Pope.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: Do you remember where Carolyn came from? Hell?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Okay. I texted Carrie yesterday and I said, do you
Speaker 2: remember where Carolyn comes from? And she's like not no,
Speaker 2: But I remember being one and everyone being like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, like it's so lovely that her middle name
Speaker 2: is Carolyn, because that's I want to say Shonda's middle name,
Speaker 2: but I could be do not remember this at all?
Speaker 1: I don't remember this at all.
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm texting. I'm gonna text Shana right now and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask her. I really feel like it was
Speaker 2: a special nod to something.
Speaker 1: This is also I remember in this in that scene
Speaker 1: where he says her middle name is the first time
Speaker 1: he goes to sort of poker and Huck steps up
Speaker 1: and he's like, do not touch her. And it's the
Speaker 1: first time you see Huck. He sort of like, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's like Olivia's like protective, like pitbull, like he's like
Speaker 1: her protector. And I love that moment because he was like,
Speaker 1: I will snap your neck.
Speaker 2: Modifuga it was really that's when you realize that, like,
Speaker 2: these aren't just lawyers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Quinn walks in in episode one and says, so you're
Speaker 2: all lawyers, and you're like, no, lawyers are for losers.
Speaker 2: Like we're fixers, we're crisis managers. It's a whole package
Speaker 2: of different kinds of people. And I always thought in
Speaker 2: episode two when David Rosen goes to touch Olivia and
Speaker 2: you're like, do not touch her, You're like, holy shit,
Speaker 2: these people are. Yeah, they're like a whole mixed bag
Speaker 2: of crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have scary baggage.
Speaker 2: This is also the episode where we meet Morris, Yes,
Speaker 2: who we've got to have on this podcast. I love
Speaker 2: him so much. Morris is the White House security guard
Speaker 2: at the security gate that checks people in, and he's
Speaker 2: so lovely and so wonderful and again, such a secret
Speaker 2: sauce to this show because our guest stars are co stars.
Speaker 2: Our people with one line are just fucking killing it.
Speaker 2: We meet Morris, and then right with Morris, Olivia Pope
Speaker 2: is not getting checked into the White House right Like
Speaker 2: they're not letting her in. In this episode, I can't
Speaker 2: remember why do you remember?
Speaker 1: Why? G that Cyrus thinks that Olivia is not on
Speaker 1: the President's side anymore. So he's like, he revokes her
Speaker 1: past to the White House.
Speaker 2: That's right. And so then we meet Billy Chambers who's
Speaker 2: in line right behind Olivia, and he's like, oh, hold on,
Speaker 2: let me just call the front gate and like let
Speaker 2: you in, and she's like, thanks so much. Billy. Did
Speaker 2: Billy know at that time that he was going to
Speaker 2: be the Billy Chambers He couldn't have, right, No.
Speaker 1: None of them, Well, none of us knew, right, like
Speaker 1: all the crazy stuff that we do on the show,
Speaker 1: none of us knew till like the table read in.
Speaker 2: This episode where we're dealing with the Madam. Abby's all
Speaker 2: pissed because Steven. She finds out Steven's sleeping or has
Speaker 2: slept with whores and paid prostitutes.
Speaker 1: In the Madams book. Yeah, as one of her clients exactly.
Speaker 2: And when you guys have those scenes where you're going
Speaker 2: through I don't think Huck is there, but it's Harrison
Speaker 2: Wright and it's Stephen and they're talking about what sunny
Speaker 2: day is, what hard like speaking Greek and then around
Speaker 2: the world, around the world, So like for those of you,
Speaker 2: I was laughing and Abby Darby does such an amazing
Speaker 2: job of being uncomfortable and asking like, well, what's hardwood floors?
Speaker 2: Like in her snarky ass way, and who what's the answer.
Speaker 2: The answer is so brilliant.
Speaker 1: It's it's when there's nothing to match the the the
Speaker 1: carpets don't match the drapes or something like.
Speaker 2: That, it just means that she's bald.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, Like she's yeah, yeah, she got that Brazilian wax.
Speaker 2: She's but like full, full throttle, full full full bald headed.
Speaker 2: That's terrifying. Okay. Then she's like, okay, fine, sunny day
Speaker 2: and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, you don't have to wear a raincoat?
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is guys, I'm so lame. I'm sitting on
Speaker 2: my bed. I'm like hysterical laughing. Can you imagine being
Speaker 2: a writer in the writer's room coming up with this bullshit?
Speaker 2: I do not. This is what I love about Scandal,
Speaker 2: especially these this early, these early skittles of why it
Speaker 2: gives me like just such it makes me giddy is
Speaker 2: that the show is fucking funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then I also love in this episode that Olivia
Speaker 2: Pope says, all cylinders people, let's go yes?
Speaker 1: Is that the first time we hear her say that,
Speaker 1: I think it might be.
Speaker 2: By the way, listeners, we're dealing with only forty two
Speaker 2: minutes of television. This is the second round of forty
Speaker 2: two minutes, and we're already giving you such hashtaghs. Yes,
Speaker 2: such T shirts, Yes, such sayings. I mean all cylinders, people,
Speaker 2: let's go. Who says that?
Speaker 1: And also, speaking of T shirts, Katie and I are
Speaker 1: wearing I think this was our first like merch that
Speaker 1: we got gifted from Shonda and the producers. Right, it's
Speaker 1: like a long sleeve black, really nice shirt that says
Speaker 1: scandal on the front where like your you know, your
Speaker 1: booby is chest pocket would be where your boob is ye,
Speaker 1: And then on the back it says do you want
Speaker 1: to be a gladiator in a suit? Right? Or does
Speaker 1: it say I can't stand that? Turn around you you
Speaker 1: turn around? Are we here?
Speaker 2: What was this saying?
Speaker 1: It says, oh, yeah, do you want to be a
Speaker 1: gladiator in a suit? Which is so awesome.
Speaker 2: Ah, so this shirt bravo to Geirmo and I because
Speaker 2: this shirt is twelve ten years old or someone and
Speaker 2: we are wearing it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Well, And I was telling Katie I cannot
Speaker 1: dry this shirt because if I dry it, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, you know, it's it's not gonna go over
Speaker 1: my belly.
Speaker 2: Garmo and I. Over the course of this podcast, we
Speaker 2: have a lot of vintage pieces that will be coming out.
Speaker 2: They might be clothing, they might be gifts, they might
Speaker 2: be shit we stole from the Scandal set. They might
Speaker 2: be clothing I stole from the Scandal set. But this
Speaker 2: shirt is so special and I would never wear it
Speaker 2: in public because it is way too fucking tight.
Speaker 1: Totally, totally. You know what's funny. I wore it. I
Speaker 1: had to go to the grocery store to get detergent,
Speaker 1: and I have the shirt on and I was in
Speaker 1: an aisle looking for you know, looking for it which
Speaker 1: one I was gonna pick, And a guy was like
Speaker 1: kept staring at me, and I was like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I loved you on Scandal and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh god, I'm wearing a Scandal's shirt.
Speaker 1: I was like, how how cheesy?
Speaker 2: No, No, it's sweet, and everyone listening, so, you know,
Speaker 2: I get recognized, but I really look like everyone else,
Speaker 2: Like I really think I'm like a pretty average in
Speaker 2: size and height and in brown hair, brown eyes, like
Speaker 2: you got to really know. I don't Gamo fucking Diaz
Speaker 2: cannot go anywhere, like anywhere, I mean traveling around with you.
Speaker 2: I don't know how Mikey does it. I don't know,
Speaker 2: because you stick out like a sore thumb, like you're
Speaker 2: just so special. You don't look like anyone else. You
Speaker 2: have a vibe about you. You have a look. And
Speaker 2: the greatest treat about that is that a lot of
Speaker 2: times when Gamo gets recognized for Scandal, he also gets
Speaker 2: recognized for Half Baked, and people are just passing you weed.
Speaker 1: People want to get me high everywhere I go. We
Speaker 1: were in Israel and people were like, you want to
Speaker 1: get high?
Speaker 2: Everywhere you go, people want to get you high. We
Speaker 2: were at the White House Correspondent dinner and everyone's trying
Speaker 2: to get you high. Like everyone just wants to say
Speaker 2: to their group of friends, yeah, I got stoned with
Speaker 2: Germo Diaz from Half Baked, or I got stoned with
Speaker 2: Huck or like whatever, You're just.
Speaker 1: Cool, you know. Very early in my career, Katie, I
Speaker 1: learned that you have to be kind to your fans.
Speaker 1: So I can't say no, you know, so I'm I
Speaker 1: just you know I have to kindly exist.
Speaker 2: I will give you that memory. I will give you
Speaker 2: that memory. Please, it's not it's okay, it's not too
Speaker 2: much off my back. What else did you love about
Speaker 2: this episode?
Speaker 1: One of the things that I loved about about this episode, Katie,
Speaker 1: that stuck out also was the sets. It's the first
Speaker 1: I mean, you see the sets of course in the pilot,
Speaker 1: but this was the first time that you see the
Speaker 1: recreated actual set where we shot the pilot at an
Speaker 1: actual location in downtown at La in this old old
Speaker 1: building where those panels that those window panels that we
Speaker 1: have on our show, those cracked, flawed window panels were
Speaker 1: all real. And our amazing you know Scandal team that
Speaker 1: works on the sets at the stages where we shot
Speaker 1: the show recreated that place like perfectly, and it looks
Speaker 1: so freaking good in this episode.
Speaker 2: That is such a great point, And what blessing did
Speaker 2: they give us because the real one downtown, the real
Speaker 2: OPA the hallway was actually insanely long, and when they
Speaker 2: recreated it on the stages, it was like still long,
Speaker 2: but half the length. Because Quinn is constantly walking up
Speaker 2: and down the fucking hallway getting a people of coffee,
Speaker 2: like I don't think you had to deal with this.
Speaker 2: And I hate wearing high heels, and my feet are
Speaker 2: an issue at all times.
Speaker 1: And those pencil skirts that kept like twisting on you.
Speaker 2: You remember, am I spanks. Every time I took a step,
Speaker 2: my pencil skirt would just like rotate. I spent eighty
Speaker 2: hours a week complaining about my feet, which Kerry Washington
Speaker 2: never did. And she's wearing like literally six inch every
Speaker 2: single high end fashionable shoe. And I think I was
Speaker 2: in Jessica Simpson like low priced shoe because I you know,
Speaker 2: when we did fittings, I would say like Quinn doesn't
Speaker 2: have what Olivia Pope has, like I shouldn't be in
Speaker 2: Prada and all this shit. Yeah, but anyway, they they
Speaker 2: made the hallway half the length when they recreated it,
Speaker 2: and I remember being like, oh, thank you God, because
Speaker 2: this will just log me like less steps where my
Speaker 2: feet and my pencil skirt are just just ridiculous, like
Speaker 2: my feet were hurting so badly.
Speaker 1: Do you also remember, Katie, the window panels that I
Speaker 1: mentioned a little bit ago, where we would have to
Speaker 1: put up people's photos. I think you know this, Katie.
Speaker 1: But when we wrapped the series. I asked Mary Howard,
Speaker 1: who was one of our producers. I asked her, Hey,
Speaker 1: is there any way I can get one of those
Speaker 1: window panels? And they sent me. They delivered one to
Speaker 1: my house and it's with the iron around it, Katie.
Speaker 1: It weighs like a tongue. You didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Nowhere is it in your house?
Speaker 1: It's in that right at the entrance of the house,
Speaker 1: like on the wall right there. It's like one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things that I have in my house. And
Speaker 1: I was like, thank god I asked for this.
Speaker 2: I'm seemingly jealous.
Speaker 1: They literally took one of those things and delivered it
Speaker 1: to my house.
Speaker 2: Giermo, that makes me like sleep better at night knowing
Speaker 2: that you have one of the window panes.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, And our OPA conference table desk is the main
Speaker 2: conference room table at Shondolin Offices in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Oh way, I didn't know that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was there once before COVID and I walked past
Speaker 2: the big conference room and it's the OPA conference table
Speaker 2: that you and I boned on, Yes, where.
Speaker 1: We would hide all our sides on the chairs and
Speaker 1: then we'd scooched them into the table and we boned
Speaker 1: on that table. We sure did. We'll be right back, guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, Quinn has one job. You all are working on
Speaker 2: the Madam case. You're all trying to have her not
Speaker 2: give up her list to David Rosen of all the
Speaker 2: people in DC horse sleeping with prostitutes. I simultaneously, I'm
Speaker 2: doing this b story where I'm never supposed to let
Speaker 2: Amanda Tanner out of my site because we know that
Speaker 2: Gideon Wallace, who's a reporter from the Sun, has been
Speaker 2: sniffing around and Olivia Pope doesn't want that getting out.
Speaker 2: So I'm just supposed to be watching this girl. And
Speaker 2: Quinn's like, I don't want to watch this girl. And
Speaker 2: then Olivia is like, don't let her out of your site,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, right, don't let her out of your site,
Speaker 2: don't let her side, don't let her side, don't let
Speaker 2: her out of my site.
Speaker 1: She's gone. How the hell did she get out there
Speaker 1: that quickly?
Speaker 2: And also is that allowed? Don't you have to be discharged? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It's fine? Yeah, And then I go to your office
Speaker 2: and I say, I'm gonna barf. How do I find
Speaker 2: something that's gone missing? And You're like, go check her house,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, check.
Speaker 1: Her house, check her house. Oh, like yeah, and.
Speaker 2: It's already you know what's so lovely? Also going back,
Speaker 2: it's already like I can see what the writers were
Speaker 2: seeing about Huck taking Quinn under his wing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 2: You can already see. Like I always go to you.
Speaker 2: Abby is just like so meanto Quinn. It's insane and
Speaker 2: great and lovely and I love it and like Harrison
Speaker 2: just doesn't have time because he's just like mister man
Speaker 2: about town and you're really the only person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the left that we'll talk to her.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that we used to talk while we
Speaker 1: were filming the show, like how do the writers know?
Speaker 1: And how does Seanda know our relationships? Because you and
Speaker 1: I started to get really close and then we'd be like, dude,
Speaker 1: are there microphones like in our trailers? Like on and
Speaker 1: then we'd see it in the scripts reflected in the scripts, right,
Speaker 1: we were.
Speaker 2: Like always we would be like, no, they have got
Speaker 2: to have bugged the makeup. So on sets, makeup trailers
Speaker 2: is where a lot of shit talking gets done, and
Speaker 2: that's mostly because you're there at five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: You know, your makeup and hair people are the ones
Speaker 2: that are closest to your face at all times, like
Speaker 2: when you're on your period, when you've had a rough night,
Speaker 2: when you're like so, the makeup trailer just sort of
Speaker 2: becomes this place, and I always like, this shit has
Speaker 2: got to be because we would talk about we would
Speaker 2: like have relationships forming and like trust things happening, and
Speaker 2: then we would see them one hundred percent reflected in
Speaker 2: scripts down the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also what we would do in the trailer I was
Speaker 2: going to say was we were really studious and we
Speaker 2: would drill lines.
Speaker 1: Well, we had to write. We had to because we
Speaker 1: had to. We had to scandal pace our dialogue, which
Speaker 1: I don't know if people know we should say that
Speaker 1: it first started because the scripts were so long, right,
Speaker 1: and there were so many words that I think it
Speaker 1: was Shonda that said, you guys have to talk fast
Speaker 1: to get all this stuff out, and that's I think
Speaker 1: where it started. But then we all I think discovered
Speaker 1: little by little that the faster you you speak, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the intention and the we're still acting under
Speaker 1: the fast pace. But every time it made that scene better,
Speaker 1: every single time, even beyond Scandal. Sometimes I'm on sets,
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all gotta speed that shit up.
Speaker 2: And not only did we have to have scandal pace,
Speaker 2: but we had to be word perfect.
Speaker 1: This wasn't a show that you were like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know in throwing an improv like that didn't happen on Scandal, which.
Speaker 2: By the way, Germo Diaz brilliant improv actor from Dave
Speaker 2: Chappelle show.
Speaker 1: God No, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we had to drill lines.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In fact, when I watched these episodes back, the amount
Speaker 2: of material Kerrie Washington.
Speaker 1: Had, oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Most hour long scripts, I want to say, are like
Speaker 2: fifty to sixty pages. Some of our scripts were eighty
Speaker 2: nine fucking pages.
Speaker 1: That's really long.
Speaker 2: Crazy to think that that would fit in forty two
Speaker 2: minutes and shoot in nine days.
Speaker 1: We would cut up and have fun and laugh and
Speaker 1: do all that stuff on set, but most of the
Speaker 1: time I feel like we'd be like, let's run lines,
Speaker 1: let's run lines. It was NonStop that we were like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's run that scene, Let's run lines, because we just
Speaker 1: wanted to get it right. We couldn't. There was no
Speaker 1: room for, you know, to.
Speaker 2: Mess up, and we were like that on each other.
Speaker 2: I mean, I felt like we were all not goody
Speaker 2: two shoes, but we all really believed in the show
Speaker 2: and wanted to do a good job, and so everyone
Speaker 2: did didn't want to be the person in the scene
Speaker 2: to fuck it up, because a lot of the OPA
Speaker 2: scenes are like those theater scenes where you're in an
Speaker 2: ensemble you're holding like tossing a volleyball up between all
Speaker 2: of your lines, and if you're the dick that sucks
Speaker 2: up the take because you go up and you forget
Speaker 2: the line, it just made the take not usable for
Speaker 2: everybody else, And like, no one wanted to be that person.
Speaker 2: So it was like we were all, can we run them?
Speaker 2: Can we run him?
Speaker 1: Come we run?
Speaker 2: No, I don't want to be the one that like
Speaker 2: drops the ball. We have that whole monologue where Olivia
Speaker 2: and I dropped my jaw down to the ground, which
Speaker 2: I feel like is really a poor acting choice on
Speaker 2: my head. And Olivia says, slip your number in the door.
Speaker 2: She's gonna call you, and it is your job to
Speaker 2: get her to be our client. And I'm like, oh shit,
Speaker 2: And so I put the number down and she does call.
Speaker 2: Because Olivia is a genius and she knows what's going
Speaker 2: to happen, and so Amana Tanner and I meet, I
Speaker 2: think on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and we
Speaker 2: get a glimpse into Quinn's past, which is Lindsay Dwyer
Speaker 2: and I say, Quinn says something like I was in
Speaker 2: trouble once. A lot of people wanted to I was
Speaker 2: in trouble. I was alone and it was awful. Now
Speaker 2: you think we're getting a glimpse into Quinn Perkin's past,
Speaker 2: But at that point, the writer's room did not know
Speaker 2: what Quinn's past was.
Speaker 1: I always forget that they did it right. Nobody knew
Speaker 1: where that was gonna go.
Speaker 2: They didn't know. Oh my god, they didn't know. So
Speaker 2: what I think is interesting is that things were already
Speaker 2: being built. But I also sometimes wonder if I had
Speaker 2: played it differently, Like I played it as true, like
Speaker 2: Quinn does have this thing, this like secret, But I
Speaker 2: could have played it as like I'm tricking her, like
Speaker 2: I'm making.
Speaker 1: It up right just to get it to be a client.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Olivia told me to. And I always am like, wow,
Speaker 2: had I been playing that with things have been different?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 1: Hey? Speaking of that scene, at the Lincoln Memorial. We
Speaker 1: should talk about how that we shot this show in CA, California,
Speaker 1: in LA at some stages, at sunte Gower stages. But
Speaker 1: the CGI, what is it called the green screen? What
Speaker 1: is it considered CGI? The you know the backgrounds. I
Speaker 1: think so because when you see when you see the
Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial and other you know, historical sites in DC,
Speaker 1: like that's all green screen. And and the team that
Speaker 1: did that were so freaking talented too, because I remember
Speaker 1: remember people would come up to us all the time
Speaker 1: and be like, you guys shoot the show in DC.
Speaker 2: People still think that now, yeah.
Speaker 1: And we'd be like, no, it's green screen. They'd be
Speaker 1: like what, because it's good. It's really it was really
Speaker 1: really good, Like they did an amazing job.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We would always be outside in parks all over
Speaker 2: LA and then they would have this like massive green
Speaker 2: screen that they would then superimpose like you're saying the
Speaker 2: Jeffremanson Memorial, Ling Memorial, whatever the mall. Yeah, and we
Speaker 2: would be dressed in coats, sweating balls.
Speaker 1: In California where it never gets cold except for today.
Speaker 2: And Lynn Pallow we're gonna have her on too. She's
Speaker 2: an amazing costume designer Lynn Pallow she I think just
Speaker 2: set the world. I don't know if that was her
Speaker 2: choice or Shawna's choice that it was just a forever fall.
Speaker 2: I think it's just like forever fall, which means we're
Speaker 2: just always in pea coats, a scarf. Olivia's obviously like
Speaker 2: in the most incredible gloves you've ever seen in your
Speaker 2: entire life that go up to her elbow. But most
Speaker 2: a lot of times we would be in like one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten degrees in a wool code.
Speaker 1: You having to act.
Speaker 2: Des I mean the chafing that was going on in
Speaker 2: my pencil skirts. I deserve all the acting awards people.
Speaker 1: And I was in freaking flannels, remember flannels, and then
Speaker 1: a leather jacket on top of that and boots.
Speaker 2: Oh, later on down the road, it used to be
Speaker 2: like a war of like Lynn would be like, well,
Speaker 2: we can't, we need to have different flannels on quinn Hockah.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. We started dressing. They started dressing
Speaker 1: us very much alike. You were in freaking black leather
Speaker 1: boots and leather jackets and flannels and yeah you love
Speaker 1: that though, right, Oh I can't. Yeah, it was so sexy.
Speaker 2: We'll get there. That's how the should I took.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'll get there. I did too.
Speaker 2: Okay, How Sharon Marquette gets off is Olivia staring at
Speaker 2: the board, which, by the way, that's what we call
Speaker 2: that glass wall that we put up the cases and
Speaker 2: all the people's pictures. We called it like who's at
Speaker 2: the board? So Olivia's staring at the at the board,
Speaker 2: and she has this brilliant idea. Let's call all these douchebags.
Speaker 2: Let's call all these dudes to the table and say like, look, guys,
Speaker 2: this is all going to come out and your life
Speaker 2: is screwed. Unless we all pool together our.
Speaker 1: Resources, we're all trifling.
Speaker 2: Bill Withers comes on, call me, mister pitiful. Best song ever.
Speaker 2: I love the soundtrack of this entire show, especially this episode.
Speaker 2: And Harrison goes around and he's like, hey Wooden Floors,
Speaker 2: Hey you, hey, Sonny Coat whatever.
Speaker 1: That music montage scene is the best. And Harrison Man
Speaker 1: is the dude like, I'm like in love with him.
Speaker 1: He's so good. Love Columbus Short is so freaking cool
Speaker 1: and good and sexy and.
Speaker 2: Sexy, and and he's flipping his phone and he's walking
Speaker 2: the walk and he's solving the cases and he's out
Speaker 2: there and they're playing fucking awesome music and he just
Speaker 2: makes it look effortless.
Speaker 1: Oh so so good, so good Columbus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So they all come in and they get Sharon
Speaker 2: Marquette off, praise be we cut two fits wasted in
Speaker 2: the Oval, and he's on the seal and he's in
Speaker 2: a scene with Cyrus and he tells Cyrus like, I
Speaker 2: love Olivia Pope. We're not talking about this tomorrow, but
Speaker 2: I'm in love with Olivia Pope.
Speaker 1: I mean he's whipped. He got whipped.
Speaker 2: He's so whipped. And at those in those beginning times,
Speaker 2: like especially episode two, this early on in the in
Speaker 2: the series, I just feel like it was such separate shows.
Speaker 2: Like we never went over there. They never came over
Speaker 2: to us. We only saw them at table reads.
Speaker 1: Yeah there, remember, I mean moving forward, you know, closer
Speaker 1: to other seasons, we'd have our characters eventually sometimes go
Speaker 1: to the White House. But it was such a big
Speaker 1: deal for us, right we'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be at the White House. I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm acting with Bellamy or with Jeffer Tony. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: we never we never you know, encountered them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was two separate worlds, completely, two separate worlds, and
Speaker 1: ours and ours was better, Oh like way better, way
Speaker 1: more anyway, I'm just saying yeah and cuter.
Speaker 2: I think before we were really going over there, and
Speaker 2: maybe even before we really started to have storylines intermingle,
Speaker 2: Tony came over and and we would he directed an
Speaker 2: episode or two, and he'd always like hate love directing
Speaker 2: OPA because he would be like, what the fuck is
Speaker 2: He'd be.
Speaker 1: Like, you guys, you gotta focus.
Speaker 2: Stop singing, stop dancing, Like Columbus Short is the best
Speaker 2: dancer ever. He like choreographed Britney spears like a world
Speaker 2: tour she had like a million years ago. Like he's
Speaker 2: an amazing mover. And if like it's even you can
Speaker 2: even see it in this episode when he like anytime
Speaker 2: he solves the case, the way he walks, the way
Speaker 2: he handles his props, his phones, it's like fucking cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I just think when Tony came over he was
Speaker 2: in shock at like not that we're unprofessional, we're just better.
Speaker 1: But I remember that he was like I felt like
Speaker 1: he was like a substitute teacher who was like you know,
Speaker 1: and the kids were just out of control, like you
Speaker 1: could not get us to stop talking. But you were
Speaker 1: the best, Katie. You were. I remember you. We'd be
Speaker 1: like blah lah lah talking and then they'd be like, okay, rolling,
Speaker 1: but you still be talking about la la la lah
Speaker 1: and they'd be like close to act. You'd be like, Olivia,
Speaker 1: I need to go to the You were so good
Speaker 1: at going from like you know what I mean, from
Speaker 1: reality to like Quinn, you were so good at it.
Speaker 1: I'm so honored you were so so good at it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we talked about the Lincoln memorial part and
Speaker 2: then the end of the episode is that Gideon walks
Speaker 2: in and Amanda Tanner is there and she's now become
Speaker 2: our client and and she's like, you don't have a story,
Speaker 2: and he's like, well, I wasn't sure, but now that
Speaker 2: I've just walked in here and Amanda Tanner is here
Speaker 2: and you're here, now I do.
Speaker 1: What a freaking turd? Right? I was like, you're a
Speaker 1: little turd. Like he's so annoying in this episode.
Speaker 2: Ugh.
Speaker 1: I was like, you little bitch, Like what is wrong? Oh?
Speaker 1: Who's this? Is that your best friend. Is she just
Speaker 1: try to kill herself? Oh wow or whatever? The hell? Oh?
Speaker 2: When he walks in and he's saying to Quinn like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, Well, you know what's funny. When I
Speaker 2: first met Gideon, who's.
Speaker 1: An amazing actor, He's doing this is what he needed.
Speaker 2: He's an amazing actor. And by the way, do you
Speaker 2: know who he's married to. Gideon Wallace, who is played
Speaker 2: by Brendan Hines. Yes, during the pandemic, married Tatiana Maslani,
Speaker 2: who play who's the lead in Orphan Black. She won
Speaker 2: the Emmy for Orphan Black.
Speaker 1: Do you know, I swear I was going to say
Speaker 1: the Russian ice skater. I'm not even kidding Oksana Bayoul
Speaker 1: I was thinking, ok Sana, I was like, that motherfucker
Speaker 1: married the Russian ice skater. I'm so dumb. Wait, he
Speaker 1: married a Russia skater.
Speaker 2: No, Gideon did not marry Axana by you. That's the
Speaker 2: stupidest thing. Oh God, I hope this podcast comes out
Speaker 2: and we just start that rumors about you. I hope
Speaker 2: she's okay.
Speaker 1: She's okay, she's okay, but wait, he married this lovely woman.
Speaker 2: He married Tatiana Masslani. No, she's like literally one of
Speaker 2: the greatest actresses of our time.
Speaker 1: I know exactly who that.
Speaker 2: Is outstanding, and they're both Canadian, and I think there's
Speaker 2: like living this phenomenal life. Wow, blessed Gideon, like bless
Speaker 2: I mean bless Brendon Hines and blessed.
Speaker 1: By That is a wrap on. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: We will be back with more after the.
Speaker 1: Break, Benitos, I'll unpacking the toolbox.
Speaker 2: Wait, how do you say unpacking the toolbox in Spanish?
Speaker 1: I don't freaking know.
Speaker 2: That's hard.
Speaker 1: I don't know something like that. Yeah, welcome back, Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 2: I remember coming to the Prospect offices to read episode
Speaker 2: two when we had heard we were picked up, and
Speaker 2: Sean is sitting down next to me and being like,
Speaker 2: that's going to be your love interest, like right there,
Speaker 2: Brendon Hines, and I remember being like, huh, oh my god.
Speaker 2: It's not that he's so handsome and like a great actor.
Speaker 2: I just was like not ready to like have a
Speaker 2: love interest. I wasn't like comfortable yet. I felt like,
Speaker 2: oh god, fuck, that's what Quinn's going to be doing.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think your first one of your first thoughts,
Speaker 1: which was for all of us, because when I first
Speaker 1: found out that Huck was going to have a love interest,
Speaker 1: was like, am I going to have to have my
Speaker 1: shirt off? Do I have to stop eating? Do I
Speaker 1: need to work out? What the fuck are they gonna
Speaker 1: have a shirt? Because it's scandal, so you knew they
Speaker 1: were gonna end up screwing race.
Speaker 2: So ten PM show people, Yes, fucking was on the table.
Speaker 2: I mean not cable, not cable sex.
Speaker 1: Not cable sex, but yeah, ten pm sex.
Speaker 2: Which is more than Grays at nine pm. And we
Speaker 2: had all seen Grays. We knew we were gonna be
Speaker 2: pushing the envelope little more than that. Yes, So it
Speaker 2: wasn't that it was like, oh no, Brendan Hines. It
Speaker 2: was more like, oh no, wait, shit, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: a love interest. I'm gonna have to to be doing
Speaker 2: stuff like I didn't have a lot of experience with that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Gideon Wallace the turd, Yes.
Speaker 2: He's turtish in the episode in that he just is
Speaker 2: like trying to uncover the case and it might be annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And also a little piece of information about
Speaker 1: Brendan Hines is that he did lock and Key with
Speaker 1: Darby he's in that show with Darby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well get on board because Brendan Hines and
Speaker 2: Gideon Wallace are a big part of season one.
Speaker 1: That's a lot going on.
Speaker 2: We are going to be talking a lot about Brendan
Speaker 2: Hines and Xana Bayule and the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: But the scandal Rewatch podcast Unpacking the Toolbox. Yes, fun
Speaker 2: facts about the episode. This is funny. We talked about
Speaker 2: the Stevie wonder of it all and the songs, which
Speaker 2: I feel like are perfect. The episode was referenced in Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and this I love.
Speaker 2: There is a small continuity error people.
Speaker 1: You know, some of those Twitter fans are going to
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I know that, My god.
Speaker 2: The continuity error is Patrick Keating is the President's first
Speaker 2: Supreme Court justice nominee during his presidency. But in season two,
Speaker 2: episode eight, Happy Birthday as a President, we learned that
Speaker 2: it's part of the Defiance conspiracy deal. Verna Thornton was
Speaker 2: to receive a seat on the Supreme Court, being fits
Speaker 2: his first Supreme Court justice nominee in his term. We
Speaker 2: need to get someone on this show because I think
Speaker 2: most writers' room have not a dramater, but like a researcher,
Speaker 2: isn't there someone in the room whose job it is
Speaker 2: is to keep all this shit straight?
Speaker 1: But at some point that stuff has to kind of
Speaker 1: go out the window, and there's got to be creative
Speaker 1: like light what is it called creative license or whatever
Speaker 1: it's called, to just be like you know what, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that, But listen, there's five hundred freaking episodes
Speaker 1: like give us a break. Listen. I'm a huge Golden
Speaker 1: Girls fan, and in some episodes, Blanche has, you know,
Speaker 1: one daughter and then the other one. She's got two daughters,
Speaker 1: and one of them is named this and that. The
Speaker 1: names change and I'm like, who cares. It's a great show,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, stuff is continuity. Stuff is all screwed up
Speaker 1: on that show.
Speaker 2: And I think I'm on great shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For example, my first screen test was for Guiding Light,
Speaker 2: which is like one or I don't think it's not anymore,
Speaker 2: but it was like the longest running soap opera, and
Speaker 2: I was coming on to test to just be someone
Speaker 2: else who already existed in that role. Like that's how
Speaker 2: much people don't give a shit?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's where it started. You're right.
Speaker 2: They were like, you're auditioning to play like like Abby,
Speaker 2: like if I was going in, and just like, you're
Speaker 2: just replacing Abby. She played the role for twenty years
Speaker 2: and now she wants to retire or we can't make
Speaker 2: ends meet in her contract or whatever, so will you
Speaker 2: just come on and be this person? And you're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: wait what, like no one's care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the audience somehow accepts it, right, Like they
Speaker 1: don't make a big deal about it, and people just
Speaker 1: just accept it because it's you know, the show is
Speaker 1: still really great. Guiding Life was an amazing show. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, you know what.
Speaker 2: I didn't get that part. And guess who did? This
Speaker 2: amazing actress named Melli Melissa Fumero who was one of
Speaker 2: the lead girls on Brooklyn nine to nine. Oh way,
Speaker 2: and right now she's on that show Blockbuster.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, and.
Speaker 2: She's a wonderful working actress. And we went to NYU
Speaker 2: together and at the time I was so bummed. I
Speaker 2: was like, I can't believe she's replacing Aubrey or whatever.
Speaker 2: The character's name was a Guiding Light, and she like
Speaker 2: right out of the gate, got like a four year
Speaker 2: contract on a soap opera and like made money.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I used to tell myself like, oh, whatever, you don't
Speaker 2: want to be pigeonholed into being a soap opera actor
Speaker 2: because then that's all you'll ever be. Well, guys, that's
Speaker 2: not true because Melissa Favo's doing great.
Speaker 1: But at the time that's like, it means so much.
Speaker 1: Writing you're like, oh god, this would have meant the world.
Speaker 1: But look at you now, look at you now play
Speaker 1: Quinn on Scandal.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Oh my god. I just heard back from
Speaker 2: the Queen herself, Shonda Rhymes, and I wrote, again, why
Speaker 2: was Carolyn Olivia Pope's middle name? No presh doing the
Speaker 2: podcast now three heart emojis? Oh no? And then I added,
Speaker 2: is that your middle name or something? That's what I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember being on set and someone saying that this
Speaker 2: is Shonda's middle name. I am like, literally, I'm making
Speaker 2: shit up that none of that is true. None of
Speaker 2: it is She wrote back, Nope, it just came out
Speaker 2: of my head one day in writing the show. Wow,
Speaker 2: you heard it here first, folks.
Speaker 1: Also, just so everyone knows, I do not have Shonda
Speaker 1: Rhime's phone number.
Speaker 2: Go on, Katie, go on, continue, I'm gonna give it
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Please don't, please don't. I don't want to send her
Speaker 1: something by mistake and be like, oh my.
Speaker 2: God, no. But I'm going to bring it to all
Speaker 2: of you, all of you listeners. I am going to
Speaker 2: bring you the good stuff. I will reserve it and
Speaker 2: not text her anymore unless it's unless it's deefcon for
Speaker 2: all cylinders people, let's go. But no, out of her
Speaker 2: brilliant head, Olivia Carolyn Pope, can we just sing the
Speaker 2: song we used to sing yes whenever Olivia Pope Opa
Speaker 2: was handling a case. Pope, Pope, Pope it out, uh.
Speaker 1: Poo, that's Folksana bayou. Oh y'all, Brendan Haines, congratulations, May
Speaker 1: your love last forever.
Speaker 2: But before we go, like real quick, we gotta read
Speaker 2: some tweets at the time. You all know, all you
Speaker 2: super fans, all you og gladiators that are listening, you
Speaker 2: know that Twitter was the backbone and party. Every single
Speaker 2: Thursday night, ten pm East Coast time, Mountain time, Pacific time,
Speaker 2: whatever fucking time. Twitter was going off and G and
Speaker 2: I thought it would be really funny if we could
Speaker 2: go back and find any tweets because it's such a
Speaker 2: time capsule. Yeah, we have uh three here that I
Speaker 2: they're not that great, but they're gonna get great.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these tweets at the time are okay, But I
Speaker 2: know this, this segment will pay off in later episodes.
Speaker 1: This is just the begin This is when people are
Speaker 1: just starting to get their like Twitter feet wet so
Speaker 1: all the way.
Speaker 2: In April twelfth of twenty twelve, Miss Cassia, who is
Speaker 2: at sivon Black quotes I'm a gladiator in a suit.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was her, but on Twitter
Speaker 2: and some fan on Twitter hashtagged the first gladiator as
Speaker 2: being like that's the name of fans who watch Scandal,
Speaker 2: which stuck and still sticks to this day. Like I
Speaker 2: have people come up to me and they're like, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't get it, like I'm a gladiator, Like I'm
Speaker 2: a gladiator, and I'm like, I believe you. I believe you.
Speaker 2: They're like, no, I'm like an og gladiator, like from
Speaker 2: the beginning, from day one, I'm like, I believe you're
Speaker 2: a gladiator.
Speaker 1: I need to get my groceries. I believe you're a gladiator.
Speaker 2: And then from that we change it to like Gladiator
Speaker 2: in pajamas, Gladiator in whatever, Gladiator in doctor clothes, gladiat
Speaker 2: like people would change it for whatever they needed.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Bonnie Smith at Bonbon Fabu on April twelfth of twenty
Speaker 2: twelve wrote, Thursday Night Primetime is the place to watch strong,
Speaker 2: intelligent women kicking ass and taking.
Speaker 1: Names Freedom Major Paine forty four. She retweeted Scandal, ABC.
Speaker 1: Do you think Amanda Tanner is telling the truth about
Speaker 1: her affair with the president hashtag scandal? The President is
Speaker 1: a liar. He's a liah. That's what she wrote.
Speaker 2: The President is a liar.
Speaker 1: He is a freaking liar. Like what it's in this episode.
Speaker 1: There's so many references to to you know, the Monica
Speaker 1: Lewinsky built Clinton scandal as well. And Cyrus has a
Speaker 1: line to the President in this episode dirty Little Secrets,
Speaker 1: and he says, don't don't Clinton talk to me or
Speaker 1: something like that, And I thought I caught that yesterday
Speaker 1: when I was rewatching it. I've watched this episode like
Speaker 1: twelve times, but I was like, oh, that's such a
Speaker 1: great line.
Speaker 2: These tweets will get crazier and crazier.
Speaker 1: They have to they have to be like the nastiest,
Speaker 1: like crazy tweets ever.
Speaker 2: Right, I spent a whole night on Twitter in one
Speaker 2: of the episodes talking about my ass, and I went
Speaker 2: to work and I told Oliver Bockelberg, our amazing DP.
Speaker 2: We were doing some episode where there was a mansion
Speaker 2: and they did a wide angle shot to show this
Speaker 2: is what I tell myself. Did a wide angle shot
Speaker 2: to show the mansion and the back of Quinn is
Speaker 2: what walked us into the shot. And this was insane
Speaker 2: what was shown on national television. And I spent the
Speaker 2: entire episode just reading tweets about my butt. No yeah,
Speaker 2: and like ninety eight percent of them were complimentary. And
Speaker 2: I'll take it, honey, I will take it. We got
Speaker 2: to find But look, we're just getting started on the
Speaker 2: Scandal rewatch podcast Unpacking the Toolbox. This is we're just
Speaker 2: starting the unpacking of the toolbox. So like things are
Speaker 2: gonna get crazy. The series keeps getting more insane, intense, wild,
Speaker 2: so will this podcast. Yes, we're gonna about different shirts.
Speaker 1: Yep or no shirts for some of the podcasts.
Speaker 2: I'm down. I love early og Scandal though, like I
Speaker 2: just am both psyched to be on this ride with
Speaker 2: everybody listening and with you Gearmo. I love you so much.
Speaker 2: But I'm so happy to be watching these early episodes.
Speaker 2: They have such a fucking place in my heart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're literally reliving this experience right like. It's pretty
Speaker 1: We're pretty lucky. This is awesome. I'm super excited. And again,
Speaker 1: this is just the beginning, y'all. This is just episode
Speaker 1: two of Unpacking the Toolbox.
Speaker 2: And next week come back listen to us talk about
Speaker 2: season one episode three.
Speaker 1: Yes, y'all, please come back. The episode is called hell
Speaker 1: Hath No Fury And if you want to hear me
Speaker 1: and Katie like a tug shit and cut up and
Speaker 1: crack up where we're crying, come back and listen to
Speaker 1: the next episode.
Speaker 2: Yes, and listen and tell your friends I'm talking to
Speaker 2: you all you gladiators out there, og gladiators in suits,
Speaker 2: gladiators and doctor pants, gladiators in sweatpans, gladiators with wine glasses,
Speaker 2: gladiators on spin bikes, gladiators with popcorn. Whatever gladiator you
Speaker 2: find yourself to be current or in the past. Come
Speaker 2: be part of the Scandal fam and tune in next week.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. I Love you, Guiero Diaz.
Speaker 1: I Love you, Kitty Lose. Bye. Hi guys, Thank you
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