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Speaker 1: Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaline Audio in

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Speaker 1: partnership with Iheartradiots das Katie Tho.

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Speaker 2: I just logged on and noticed that Giermo for this

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Speaker 2: episode is wearing a very very very sexy red hoodie.

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Speaker 2: Why would you be wearing a red hoodie today?

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Speaker 1: Because in this episode, Huck tries to go incognito into

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Speaker 1: a hotel. Well, he doesn't even realize he has to

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Speaker 1: go incognity. He just happens to be wearing a red hoodie.

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Speaker 1: Who's been wearing flannels? Like how many episodes?

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Speaker 2: Stupid? I'm sorry, scandal, I love you all.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden he's like, he's like, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: rock this bright red hoodie.

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Speaker 2: Because they couldn't have like further down the line, being

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Speaker 2: like the most wanted man in America is wearing a

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Speaker 2: poop brown flannel. Right, it's like the most wanted man

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Speaker 2: in America is wearing a red hoodie that like sticks.

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Speaker 2: Although I honestly, until this episode, has Huck ever worn

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Speaker 2: the color red.

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Speaker 1: No, only when there's blood spatter on him does he

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Speaker 1: have red on his body. But he has not worn

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Speaker 1: the color red or any other color for that matter,

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Speaker 1: I mean you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were always like all fucking dull and shit, boy,

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Speaker 2: you looked cute in this you're dull. Well, we have

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Speaker 2: a great episode because I love this episode, and we

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Speaker 2: have very special guests who we're going to tease you

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Speaker 2: about later. But wait, wait, wait, wait really quickly, I

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Speaker 2: wanted to tell you that I got a text from

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Speaker 2: Shonda Rhymes this morning.

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Speaker 1: You did. I love it? What did she say? Does

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Speaker 1: she love us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she loves us. She's obsessed with us. She's going

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Speaker 2: to put us in all of her shows from now

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Speaker 2: until the end of time. But Shonda wrote, she sent

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Speaker 2: me the Prince tweet? Did you know that Prince ever

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Speaker 2: tweeted us?

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Speaker 1: I did not, don't. I feel like if I would

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Speaker 1: have known that, we would have ran with that shit.

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Speaker 1: How did we? I didn't know? Did you?

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Speaker 2: I did not know? And this she sent me a

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Speaker 2: picture of Prince. He tweeted a picture We're going to

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Speaker 2: post it when this episode comes out of himself dressed

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Speaker 2: and it says a gladiator in a suit, and it's

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Speaker 2: Prince in like a beautiful suit. My god, from his

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Speaker 2: fucking own personal.

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Speaker 1: Oh coount, my god.

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Speaker 2: I'm showing this to g right now on the phone, Like,

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Speaker 2: can you even handle this for one second?

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Speaker 1: Katie?

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Speaker 2: This was when he was alive.

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Speaker 1: We have to retweet this like when this episode as

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Speaker 1: this is amazing.

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Speaker 2: This is how I never how did I know?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: But to be honest, Katie, remember it was like a

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Speaker 1: whirlwind of things happening around us when shows were airing.

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Speaker 1: In the tweeting, it was a lot going on in

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Speaker 1: our worlds, right, Like there was a lot of shit,

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Speaker 1: So we probably just missed it. But it's Prince. How

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Speaker 2: The fact that he even sat somewhere and watched anything

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Speaker 2: of me doing anything is like absolutely fucking insane to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we have somebody coming on so special for you gladiators

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Speaker 2: out there, and my mouth is already watering because she

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Speaker 2: could win the award for bringing the best salads and

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Speaker 2: the best fucking food that in seven years of scandal

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Speaker 2: that we ever saw this person.

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Speaker 1: And I first bonded over cum quats because she has

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Speaker 1: the most amazing cum quats that she grows in her

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Speaker 1: backyard and she brought me some and she used to

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Speaker 1: put them in her salad, and ugh, now I can't get.

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Speaker 2: Enough of her constant watering. She is incredible. She would

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Speaker 2: come in to work sometimes with dirt under her nails,

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Speaker 2: earth because she's so fucking real.

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Speaker 1: She is uh the best.

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Speaker 2: Born and raised in a little town off of Alaska,

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Speaker 1: Do you know that? Yes, yes, yes, And I'm.

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Speaker 2: Convinced it's why she's such an incredible actress because she literally,

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Speaker 2: in my head, she just grew up playing imagination all

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember she told me a story once that she, uh,

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Speaker 2: On, she is incredible. She's also the inventor of the

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Speaker 2: eye hug. Yes, we're going to talk to you about yeah,

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Speaker 2: because she needs to explain to you all what that

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Speaker 2: is in all its glory. She was the last person

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Speaker 2: hired of the series regulars on Scandal. We were waiting

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Speaker 1: That's a very good fun fact, Katie. Yeah, hell yeah,

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Speaker 1: she was the last one.

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Speaker 2: Who the hell was going to be playing? Yeah, Abby Wheeling. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And we are here today hanging out with one of

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Speaker 2: our true true other gladiators from Olivia Popan Associates, the

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Speaker 2: one and only Darby stanch Oh. Oh yeah, I'm honestly

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Speaker 2: going to be emotional.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, dubs, Miracle you guys, dum.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you. We've had other people on Carrie, John

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I don't know, because if we

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Speaker 2: Right, we were like more in the trenches or something like.

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Speaker 2: I just feel like I feel like the three of us.

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Speaker 2: And then of course the first three seasons Columbus were like.

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Speaker 1: It was special. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It reminds me a lot of the same that I

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Speaker 4: feel with people I did an MFA program with, Like, Yes,

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Speaker 4: we've seen each other in absolutely every single state of mind,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like I know you guys better just

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Speaker 4: by looking at you. That's the words that I know

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Speaker 4: most people. Yes, familiarity.

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Speaker 2: I completely agree. Can we just stay for the record

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Speaker 2: that you are so beautiful? It is a show like

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Speaker 2: it is a shock to the system, Like she's here

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Speaker 2: much amazing material. And by the way, this just occurred

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the secretary I know, which was like a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you became red right, like the.

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Speaker 4: Nicknames, and then I had that big TV hair and

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Speaker 2: First, tell us your origin story of how you joined

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Speaker 4: I remember that you guys, I had been binging Damages

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Speaker 4: Wenda lay. Betsy says, that's a great suit. And as

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Speaker 4: how Steven smells like apples and man, wow.

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Speaker 2: Well god, we see it all over your face in

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Speaker 4: Anyway, we did the scenes and I got done and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty intense.

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Speaker 4: That's mostly what I remember. And then I had to

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Speaker 4: to see with my hair down and can she cry

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Speaker 4: and stuff like that. So he did another little round.

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Speaker 4: But at that point I could tell.

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Speaker 1: This all happened very quickly though, right Darby, because I was.

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Speaker 4: The last one to be cast.

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Speaker 4: And then okay, and I have two very specific memories

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Speaker 4: of you guys really. But first was so I get

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Speaker 4: cast and we go to the Prospect Studios Prospect Studios, right,

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Speaker 4: and you guys are we're all waiting for like screen

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Speaker 4: to the where all this is happening, and Katie, you're

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Speaker 4: one of the first ones I see. Do you remember this?

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Speaker 4: What I remember like yesterday and you're sitting there. I

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Speaker 4: you have this sunshine face. You have the most beautiful,

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Speaker 4: kind eager like I can't wait to meet my new classmate,

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Speaker 4: you know, my new show.

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Speaker 2: I felt, I.

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Speaker 4: Know, and you were so I just remember your radiance

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Speaker 2: I remember that moment so well. I was sitting at

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Speaker 2: and you can walk in, and you were wearing your

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Speaker 2: Me and Carrie used to say this about you. Only

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Speaker 1: We enjoyed watching your salads. We just.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, that's a wonderful thing to be obs

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Speaker 4: a show that's very magic or kind of light horror oriented.

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Speaker 4: So it was all very very different from Scandal. The

443
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Speaker 4: world of it, well.

444
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Speaker 2: Except for another Scandal cast member who is on Lock

445
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Speaker 2: and Key, Brendon Brendan Hines, Mister Tatiana Maslani or to grow,

446
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 2: mister Xana Bayou. Gideon Wallace also was on Lock and Key.

447
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 2: Working with Darby. Was that so crazy?

448
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Speaker 4: It was crazy. It's so funny. I every once in

449
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 4: a while I'll still text him a picture of us

450
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Speaker 4: rolling him up in the carpet. Remember, yeah, he dies,

451
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Speaker 4: there was a photo that we have, or the whole

452
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Speaker 4: all of it are standing over him. Katie, you're so bloody,

453
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 4: you're in air. Yes, and we literally roll home up

454
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Speaker 4: in this carpet. So I'll just send him out without

455
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Speaker 4: any words.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

457
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 4: Back to the good old.

458
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Speaker 2: Days, hilarious. Earlier on, when we were recording these episodes,

459
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Speaker 2: I was the one that told Giermos, like, guess what

460
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: Brendan Hines did in COVID He got married Tatiana Maslani,

461
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Speaker 2: and Geirmouth thought, I said, Oxana by.

462
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Speaker 5: Lesle what So it sends us down a real long

463
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Speaker 5: imagination train of what what Idi and on Oxana's children

464
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Speaker 5: would be like or something.

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Speaker 2: Darby, will you do something with us? When we get

466
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Speaker 2: to the synopsis? Would you do us the biggest solid

467
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Speaker 2: If I read the first paragraph, g is going to

468
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Speaker 2: read the second, and you'll read the little third paragraph,

469
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Speaker 2: and we're going to try.

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Speaker 6: Yours.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, we only got a year, and it's remarkable

472
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 2: how far we have fallen, you guys. To day we

473
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Speaker 2: were talking about we have Darby Stanchfiel here, the one

474
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Speaker 2: and Only Abbey Wheel and we're talking about episode two

475
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Speaker 2: oh nine, which was titled blown Away. It aired on

476
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Speaker 2: December thirteenth of twenty twelve, and it.

477
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Speaker 1: Was written by Mark Wilding and directed by Jessica Yu.

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Speaker 2: It was guest starring Susan Porfar as Becky Flynn, Kate

479
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Speaker 2: Burton is Vice President, Sally Langston, Greg Henry is Holly.

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Speaker 6: Bally Doya, Dan Bucatinski is James Novak, George Newburn our

481
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Speaker 6: Georgie as Charlie, Deborah Mooney as Vernon Thornton, Shannon Cochrane

482
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Speaker 6: as Attorney General, Susan Sawyer, and Kate McGregor Stewart as Mary.

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Speaker 2: Here's the synopsis, Sorry, Ready, here we go. Olivia and

484
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Speaker 2: the OPI team are shocked Whenhuck reveals that he's the

485
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Speaker 2: person the FBI are looking for in connection with Fitzest shooting.

486
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Speaker 2: As the team gets to work uncovering the truth about Becky,

487
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 2: Huck spirals and denial until Becky asks Huck to run

488
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Speaker 2: away with her, admitting the truth of her involvement and

489
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Speaker 2: and her background.

490
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Speaker 1: As Huck struggles with the decision to run away with Becky,

491
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Speaker 1: Olivia and doors fittest potential funeral planning, and Cyrus looks

492
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Speaker 1: into exactly what James knows about defiance. As Huck finally

493
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Speaker 1: decides to stay Becky anticipates his betrayal and kills the family.

494
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Speaker 4: Howkwak Holostyle is up to even more tricks as he

495
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 4: gives Sally Langston and nothing inform mentioned about Berna Thor

496
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Speaker 4: to put her off the bench. But Verna has plans

497
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Speaker 4: of her own when she offers to resign or give

498
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Speaker 4: it the name of the person who wanted for shooting

499
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Speaker 4: the president.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like.

501
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 2: Riding a fuck you guys my heart right now?

502
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Speaker 4: Yay, that's anxiety and.

503
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Speaker 2: You have that in spades, yes, oh yeah. First and foremost,

504
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 2: the biggest scene from this episode that shows the emotion

505
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Speaker 2: is like you said, it's the fingers in his mouth.

506
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Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Darby? Was that your idea?

507
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Speaker 1: Was that in the script?

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm so glad you asked this farm because that

509
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 4: I have been asked this question so many times from fans,

510
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Speaker 4: from fans and from you know, like every time we

511
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Speaker 4: do press interviews. That was one of the questions I asked,

512
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Speaker 4: which prizes me because we were so bound to the script.

513
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 4: And I remember after a table reached on and I said, Okay,

514
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 4: I'm gonna write the scene you know how she does.

515
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 4: I'm gonna write the scene for you guys, and we

516
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 4: get the scene and there's no words. What we did

517
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 4: is exactly what she wrote. What we werehearsed it just

518
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 4: like you would, you know, some sort of stunt, whether

519
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 4: it's violence or sex or whatever those sort of sequences

520
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 4: in TV land. You know, it was very technical and

521
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 4: it was very much like a dance, like you put

522
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 4: your foot here, you put your fingers here, go on,

523
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 4: and so it was really really clinical and it was

524
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Speaker 4: all shown it. She was all that she wrote under.

525
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Speaker 2: Why did she ever say.

526
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Speaker 4: Why I didn't ask her about the scene. I didn't

527
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 4: discuss it with her. I almost felt like it was

528
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 4: so powerful on its own. I just wanted to do it,

529
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Speaker 4: execute it kind of without thinking. It goes back to

530
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Speaker 4: what I was saying about, you know, finding more about

531
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Speaker 4: Abbie's backstory, and this is the first I mean, what's

532
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Speaker 4: so astonishing for me about the scene is it's the

533
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Speaker 4: first time you see Abby's maybe her past domestic abuse,

534
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 4: violence stuff sort of creep up in her life in

535
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Speaker 4: a present day way that she's initiating and it's like, yeah,

536
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Speaker 4: it's tied up with.

537
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Speaker 2: Her lover, her trauma.

538
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Speaker 4: There's so many questions about that and he accepts it.

539
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: And he's so submissive to you. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an astonishing scene. There's so many questions.

541
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Speaker 1: But Darby, what about the smacking? You really smacked him?

542
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Speaker 1: I thought me and Katie have a scene where she

543
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Speaker 1: smacks the shit out of me like three times. I

544
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: lost my hearing for about twenty minutes. But I was

545
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: in Katie's defense. I was like, smack me for real,

546
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: do not play smack me? And then I was like,

547
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Speaker 1: what what did you say? But it looked like you

548
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: really smack Josh. Did you guys have a conversation about that,

549
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: about smacking him, how that was going to be, how

550
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: that you were going to do that.

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Speaker 4: I don't really recall. I don't except that it was

552
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 4: just like this sheet that John had written all of

553
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 4: these actions, and it was just try and remember one

554
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 4: thing in the saint, you know, in the right order,

555
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Speaker 4: and do it with no words.

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Speaker 2: First we come in first, I do this. Then I

557
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: shot up him twice. Then we pull apart. Then I

558
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: put fingers down, and then I lift my skirt. Then

559
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Speaker 2: I pushed it out.

560
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Speaker 4: It was three fingers. I think it was so specific, you.

561
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Speaker 1: Know, But you guys did it so well. You could

562
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Speaker 1: have done all that, and it could have been a

563
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: shitty scene. But the reason that people remember it is

564
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: because you guys played it so well, so.

565
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Speaker 2: Real, so good, so good, He's so good, and it's

566
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Speaker 2: so you can see her feeling like embarrassed and then powerful,

567
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: and then hating him and then wanting to be with him,

568
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 2: and then being sad for where they were, what their

569
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 2: relationship could have been, and just like there's so much

570
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 2: and then she literally lifts her skirt up. You have

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Speaker 2: sex with them, and then there's this whole moment where

572
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 2: you stand up and you repull your skirt down over

573
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Speaker 2: these amazing tights, thank you Lyn paw Right. They're thigh

574
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: highs kind of thing, and then you flip your red

575
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: hair in like a sexy way, which was incredible, and

576
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: then you just pull your skirt down, fix your sort

577
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 2: of jacket, and then you like walk out of the

578
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 2: apartment and just fucking leave his ass.

579
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Speaker 1: But that look she looks back at him and has

580
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Speaker 1: this face where she's like about to cry, but no,

581
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: fuck you, I'm not gonna cry.

582
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 2: So emotional. Like other huge moments of this episode, this

583
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 2: is the episode where Becky, played by Susie poorfar. She

584
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: finds out that Huck might be framing her to be

585
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 2: caught for shooting the president, and to get back at Huck,

586
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 2: she shoots his family. Yes, and I remember being at

587
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 2: the table read because she shoots the two little girls,

588
00:30:58,720 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: the mom, the dad, and the.

589
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: Dog, and people were more upset about the dog. People

590
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: were like, remember that bitch. Yeah right. This was the

591
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: first episode that I I mean, and I did this

592
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: several times after this that I called my managers and

593
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: I told them what I was going to be doing

594
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: in the episode because I was so excited and what

595
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: was happening in the episode, Like I've never done that

596
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: with another job, Like on this job, I feel like

597
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: I did that a lot.

598
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really really cool. It's really sweet.

599
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: And the fact that Seanda went there with that scene

600
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: of you know, we see that whole family dead.

601
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, but I didn't need to pull back on it.

602
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

603
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 4: And we're talking season two, so everything was so shocking. Yes,

604
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 4: it's almost like season one establishes the show. It feels

605
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 4: quite procedural, and season two it just goes off.

606
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: The rail, totally off the rails. At the end of

607
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 2: this episode, they take Hawk under the Patriot Act and

608
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: so we start the whole journey of him being like

609
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 2: waterboarded and orchard in the Pentagon and all that kind

610
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: of shit. But there's also just such great stuff in

611
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: this episode, as per usual, with just God, you worked

612
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: so much with Columbus, Like what was that You guys

613
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: really were the core of OPA, because Quinn's really the

614
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: newbie and Huck is a fucking weirdo beyond and not

615
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: that Abby and Harrison aren't, but Abby and Harrison are

616
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 2: sort of like the stronghold, like, and I see that

617
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 2: so much in this episode because this episode, Olivia's kind

618
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: of moved back into the White House and she's.

619
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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's back and forth. It did feel like in

620
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 4: season two more and more Abby and Harrison were being partnered,

621
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 4: but they were being assigned more together, and so you know,

622
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 4: it kind of worked, I think great in that Harrison

623
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 4: was so sort of charismatic and loose and charming and

624
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 4: Abby is like such a smart ap and a cut

625
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 4: you know, like they just seem like opposite. So I

626
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 4: remember having they're being nice, nice scenes. They're written for

627
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 4: those characters where you can really feel the opposites.

628
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Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking about this, like your Josh Molina stuff was

629
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 2: so amazing in seasons one and two. I mean, Josh,

630
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 2: Abby and David Rosen were really the first couple that

631
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 2: they wrote on Scandal, other than the ones that had

632
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 2: already been established, Like we'd already had Fits and Olivia,

633
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: we already had Cyrus and James. Yes, yes, but when

634
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: he breaks you up because Olivia is telling Harrison like

635
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: your one job is to make sure that David and

636
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: don't ask me why, but David and Abby can't be

637
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 2: together because the two of you are going behind your

638
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: back and putting the pieces together about Cytron and the

639
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: election rigging. He breaks you guys up, and you have

640
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: this amazing scene during the case of the Week is

641
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: like the really really rich millionaire crazy guy. But there's

642
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: a whole episode where you do are on a stakeout

643
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: and you slow dance to some people at a jazz

644
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: You're gonna find a nice guy because he sets David

645
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: Rosen up to make it seem like he had abused

646
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,479
Speaker 2: his past women and.

647
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 4: You want so bad with Alby's background for her to

648
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: be happy, and then you know yes, and then you

649
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 4: know Harrison, it's such a good guy in terms of

650
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 4: them working together and well, that seems to be a

651
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 4: common theme in this show, doesn't it. You know, the

652
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 4: the things that we our characters do for power or

653
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 4: for you know, to fix something, either in a good

654
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 4: way or or because of being blackmailed or because of

655
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 4: hunger power. It's I remember that, Yeah, I remember.

656
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,439
Speaker 1: That by any means necessary. Right, we got we got

657
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: shit done. Can we talk about you and josh Joshua

658
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Speaker 1: Molina on set? How he would push which he was

659
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: such a ask to.

660
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: You mag your sides down, which, by the way, he

661
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 2: did to me too. He's a fucking turd.

662
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: Not to me, because I would have been like, look, motherfucker.

663
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: He told josh we said the only people you were

664
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 2: scared of was gear. He never fucked with Germo, really did.

665
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 4: He never rank you.

666
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: He pranked me that one time, and then after that

667
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: he didn't do it again. And I could tell you

668
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: what happened. I don't know. I think he could just

669
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: tell that I was not I was not going to play.

670
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: I was like, don't play with me. But I remember

671
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: I remember him at one point we were in oh

672
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: Pa and we were on wheelie chairs and he would

673
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: grab you while you were sitting down and roll you

674
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: like twenty feet away from everybody. And he would do

675
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: this over.

676
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 2: Over six scenes with this asshole.

677
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: You were such a good sport.

678
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 2: We had him on and I said to him, you

679
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: were the most polarizing person of the Scandal crew.

680
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 4: And what did you say?

681
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: He was psyched about it. He was like, he was like,

682
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: give me all the edge. He loves it.

683
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 4: He loves to be the troublemaker does he wants that

684
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,439
Speaker 4: to be his reputation. The thing that I've was most

685
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 4: humored by, I think, is that every once in a

686
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 4: while we'd have some really neaty scene, you know, I

687
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 4: mean just it would be immediate relationship scene where we're

688
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 4: breaking up, or you know, something a three four page scene,

689
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 4: lots of words, scandal pace, we're in the makeup trailor

690
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 4: he hasn't looked at at once because he has a photographic,

691
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 4: freaking photographic memory, so he just live in the makeup

692
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 4: care We ran the lines once or twice, and he

693
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 4: knows it like that, where I, on the other hand,

694
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 4: for the last forty eight hours or whatever long and

695
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 4: has this really dissecting this thing I've been I mean

696
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 4: not to say that I'm a slow learner. I think

697
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 4: anybody could be qualified as a slow learner and be

698
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 4: unscandaled for seven users. I think we all learned to

699
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 4: memorize quite quickly, but my process was just so different

700
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 4: from his. I think I got such a big kick

701
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 4: out of that that he he's so good. I mean,

702
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 4: he's such a mass at the verbose role that he played,

703
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 4: and you know, the thoughts are very clear. He executes

704
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 4: it so well. It's so brilliant. But we just would

705
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 4: approach it such different ways, and he'd learned it in

706
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 4: like ten minutes and then, you know, be off to

707
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 4: prank someone else.

708
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 2: So we will be back with more after the break.

709
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 2: Oh you know what I want to talk to you about.

710
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 2: Remember I've talked about it on this podcast before, like

711
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: the goodbye process of like like I have to hug

712
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: everyone and say goodbye and all this stuff. And Darby

713
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 2: was a person who like never moved shit into her trailer.

714
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: I remember at the end of season one or something,

715
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 2: you were like, oh, I won't be here when we're

716
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: all saying goodbye, like I'm out, thank you, Yeah something

717
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing. Yeah, yeah, can you talk about that a

718
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 2: little bit.

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00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I do remember what you're saying. And it

720
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 4: was at the end of season one. Okay, we shot

721
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 4: seven episodes and we didn't know if we were coming back,

722
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 4: right we were shooting for as a mid season replacement.

723
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 4: So we're we're on the last scenes together in the room,

724
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 4: and it felt like most actors were, you know, we're

725
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 4: really into saying goodbye and getting emotional and hugging a

726
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 4: lot and talking about what it meant to them that

727
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 4: I think it's just a habit that I it's it's

728
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,479
Speaker 4: really just kind of a muscle that I've developed over

729
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 4: time being in this business. Not too high, not too well,

730
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's a protection or a diplomatic you know.

731
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 4: I had a great time, but I'm not I'm not

732
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 4: going to count any chickens before the hatch. I'm not

733
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 4: going to assume that I'm back. I'm not going to

734
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 4: celebrate before it's happened, you know, and even when something

735
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 4: is awarded. My management team said this about me, like,

736
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 4: you're really a funny one because you don't ever get

737
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 4: to I don't burst into tears when I you know,

738
00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 4: when I got scandal or book something huge, O, my god, beautiful,

739
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 4: But that's beautiful and I admire that. And that's the actors.

740
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 4: I mean, we're feeling and we're right. I mean, Katie,

741
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 4: I love your hugging and not letting go. Belly is

742
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 4: very much the same. You're that that kind of love

743
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 4: where you just want to show someone and you're feeling it.

744
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 4: It's so beautiful. Sometimes I was more like that.

745
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 2: But you know, we're we're a perfect Matt Darby Stanfield.

746
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 4: But I do like it. We're all so different too.

747
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 4: I think that makes it more interesting. You know, you're

748
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 4: all the same. It would be it would be. Yeah,

749
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 4: back to my thing about Josh Wullia. So I think

750
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 4: I enjoy working with them because.

751
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 2: It's just such a different derby. I promise these people.

752
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: Can you tell us right quick? What's an eye hug?

753
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 4: Yeah?

754
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 2: She's doing it right now, folks, Yeah, right now?

755
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 4: Who invented that? We were at all of us? We

756
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 4: were in the conference room. Maybe was it Carrien?

757
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: I thought it was you. Yeah, you were the eye

758
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: hug inventor.

759
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 4: I was probably because I'm like kind of like lest contact.

760
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: You were like, don't touch me, stay open there. I'm

761
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: gonna hugging with my eyes.

762
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 2: But that's so sweet. Would we would all stand around

763
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 2: the O PA table and it would be fucking late

764
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: at night, we will have been shooting for a million hours,

765
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 2: and then we would just look across and do like

766
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 2: a really nice slow blank to me and say, you know,

767
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 2: she's sending me an eye hug beautiful. Okay, I'm giving it.

768
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: Let's give it.

769
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: Darby Stansfield was the inventor of she created it.

770
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take it.

771
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 2: Before we do some tweets at the time really quickly. Gee,

772
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 2: is there any scenes from episode two O nine that

773
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: stick out to.

774
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: You some of the stuff that sticks out? His stuff

775
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: with James and Cyrus. James is back on his ship

776
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: with the side on card and defiance and all of that,

777
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: and there's just such great moments with those two they have.

778
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: They have a scene where they both have sandwiches in

779
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: front of them, and the thing that bothered me the

780
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: most and not one of them to bite that damn

781
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: sandwich fuckers.

782
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: We always don't like when any actors don't eat.

783
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: Yeah.

784
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: Their whole storyline in this episode is that James is

785
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 2: on the tail of Defiance and is sort of working

786
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 2: with David Rosen and Cyrus to get him off. The

787
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,720
Speaker 2: scent is like, I got you your baby. We adopted

788
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 2: a baby. He's like dangling the baby in front of

789
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 2: James's face to make him stop. And Verna Thornton and

790
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: Sally Langston have an amazing scene in this where Sally

791
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 2: comes and figures out that Verna has terminal cancer. Yeah, like,

792
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 2: I want your fucking seat on the bench.

793
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,439
Speaker 1: You want to to step off?

794
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so much happens.

795
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my god.

796
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 2: By the way, that's every Scandal episode in forty two minutes.

797
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 2: The amount of plot. Yeah, had incredible writing that goes on.

798
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 4: Is no wonder we're going at stand apace.

799
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to so insane.

800
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: This is also the first time you see Huck have

801
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: sex with with Becky.

802
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: Yes, I was just going to say that. Yeah, I

803
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 2: wrote Becky and Huck fuck on picks because they're sexces

804
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: on top of all these photos.

805
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 4: You want to know something, that's something I really love

806
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: the way that was shot. Yeah, you're on top of

807
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 4: all those pictures and they're laid out at like a rainbow,

808
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 4: I mean, and have sex and roll all over these pictures.

809
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 4: I thought that was really I thought that was a

810
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 4: really neat scene.

811
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jessica you, and Becky sort of saying I want

812
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: to be with you, and Huck is saying, well, what's

813
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 2: your name?

814
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: And she what's your real name? Yeah, and she won't.

815
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 2: Tell him, which means like she's being shady.

816
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tell for Huck, He's like, oh, you

817
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: don't really love me.

818
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the episode ends. Verna goes to Sally and says,

819
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up my bench. I won't give up

820
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 2: my seat on the bench, but I can give you

821
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 2: the name of the man in the Red Hood who

822
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: shot Fits. And then the swat team comes to Opa

823
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,760
Speaker 2: and takes drink under the Patriot Act. Yeah, oh my gosh,

824
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 2: it's a little bit time right now. Darbzy's for tweets

825
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 2: of the time. Tweetetetweeteto, tweetoto, tweetwet two tweets of the time.

826
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: Things were insane at dc PsyD on December fourteen, twenty twelve.

827
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 2: Had to repost this and it's a picture. Chicks be like,

828
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 2: I can't stand infidelity, but on Thursdays they'd be like,

829
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 2: oh yeah, because Scandal really made infidelity hot. I've never

830
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 2: seen more fans be more into cheating and loving that

831
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 2: Fits is just a cheating piece of shit?

832
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 1: Yep, I remember Sue Tanner this this one gladiator. She's

833
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: an old g gladiator. Yes, she tweeted at Scandal ABC.

834
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: I hear there's a buve that will be going around

835
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: in January. The Gladiator flew hashtag scandal, hashtag what the huck. Also,

836
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: this is the episode where hashtag what the huck came

837
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: into plate way.

838
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 4: Yes, and I think didn't that hashtags stay around for seasons?

839
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: Yes? It did.

840
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 2: What were your ship? Did you have any hashtags? Darby?

841
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 4: Abby?

842
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: Oh?

843
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 2: Sassy Abby? That's right?

844
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, not like what the heck?

845
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 4: Not like that? And Quinn, what was yours? Was it yours?

846
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: Oh?

847
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: I'm Quinn, bitch. Yes, in response to a monelogue that

848
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 2: I have to you where you're like Lindsey the whole

849
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 2: first season, You're like lindsay this and lindsay that. And

850
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 2: then I turned to you in the bar and I'm like,

851
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: I am not Lindsey. My name is Quinn Perkins. Then

852
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 2: I actually walk away and it's actually Harrison who looks

853
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: to you and says she's Quinn bitch.

854
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: Oh.

855
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 4: We were all waiting for Quinn to do that. Abby

856
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 4: was just such a Pilber.

857
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: I was too. Let me tell you something. I watched

858
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 2: Quinn in the first season and I'm like, Jesus, let's

859
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 2: get the Carol of Kara.

860
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 4: Nuts from Deetrough the truth. Counts Abby handled her business

861
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 4: and got up and walked out. You go, girl, such

862
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 4: a scandal. And I think she's referring to that scene

863
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 4: that you guys were talking about.

864
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh it's so good, so so good. Melody Baker

865
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: at Evan GML, she tweets Harrison in charge, get your

866
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: ass back here now. She's referring to when he calls

867
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: Olivia and he's like, get back to the office because

868
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: because Huck has the rifle that shot the president and

869
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: he yells at her on the phone, get your ass

870
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: back here now, which is the first time we see

871
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: him like talk to her like that that episode. It

872
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: was it was episode.

873
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 4: Factor Carter Away at the end after Families and good

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Speaker 4: Yeah happen right, Oh just a little water boarding.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's week. We're about to go on like

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Speaker 2: a whole Hawk journey.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, let's just talk about Hawk and water.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Just the water your camel.

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Speaker 2: It's awful.

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Speaker 1: Remember when you stopped.

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Speaker 4: Showering and the rain.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and all you guys make those faces every time

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Speaker 1: I come around or you guys, are you stink?

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Speaker 4: But remember later on there's like a whole water episode

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Speaker 4: where you're under.

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Speaker 2: Like stuck in a car in a trunk.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So between that the showering, the water, I did

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Speaker 1: two weeks of rehearsal in a pool with an instructor

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Speaker 1: for that episode. Anyway, this podcast is about Darby stanch Field.

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Speaker 2: Darby, I just want to say we love you, thank

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Speaker 2: you for Unpacking the Toolbox of episode two nine.

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Speaker 1: Darby, we love you. You're the best. Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 4: It's an honor to be on your podcast.

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Speaker 2: Yay. The next episode we have next week is called one.

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Speaker 1: For the Dog, well for the dog, bitch, and.

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Speaker 2: I think we're talking about the dog that Becky Beck

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Speaker 2: just sh yes. Gladiators, We're so happy that you tuned in.

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Speaker 2: I hope you loved hearing from Darby Lee STANSFIELDO.

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