308: Vermont Is For Lovers, Too w/ Shonda Rhimes
Unpacking The Toolbox
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The one-and-only Shonda Rhimes joins the podcast this week to talk about her favorite moments of Season 3, the season she lovingly calls “The Hell Or High Water” season. Plus, did Shonda and the writers know where the series was headed? And then Katie and Guillermo break down the most horrific episode of Scandal yet!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Unpacking the toolbox is a production of Shondaland audio in partnership with IHeartRadio. |
| 0:32.6 | Is this? We do not be able to beaes in Kadylose and Katie Lowe's. |
| 0:43.3 | We do this stream of consciousness thing sometimes randomly for episodes of unpacking the toolbox. We learned it from the lovely Hannah Simone because we did a crossover episode on her new girl podcast and she did ours. |
| 0:50.6 | And she did this freaking fun-ass thing where she just she was like I did a stream of |
| 0:56.0 | consciousness while I was watching the episode and she just wrote down what popped into |
| 1:00.6 | her head while she was watching the episode and me and Katie fell in love with it and this is |
| 1:04.4 | the first time I'm doing it about a person and not an episode so but also like reading it back |
| 1:10.5 | Katie I was like this is giving, but also like reading it back, Katie, I was like, this is giving |
| 1:13.1 | me poem also. Like I did stream of consciousness, but then there's like, are you a fucking poet? |
| 1:18.4 | I was like, what am I doing? I sound like Alan Ginsberg. Yeah. Look out. All right. So here goes. |
| 1:26.4 | Shonda rhymeshymes. |
| 1:33.8 | A collector, an observer, a watcher of lives of minds, of things good and bad, a quiet human, a quiet soul. |
| 1:45.2 | I have never met a more quiet woman with the loudest mind and the loudest brain and with the bestest skill to weave those collections she collects into stories that mesmerize us, that move us, |
| 1:49.7 | that make us stand by the coolers at work and chatter with our friends and even foes about what we watched the night before and what we'll watch on Thursday at night after four. |
| 1:55.2 | Ah, that Thursday stuff changed my life. She took a chance on me and shined a light on my quietness, |
| 2:01.9 | on my weirdness, and turned it into a character, or rather she created this character and then chose me to play it, |
| 2:06.8 | and I melted into him. Shonda, I have never felt more intimidated by someone in my life, |
| 2:11.8 | but that is only because I want to do good by you, by your brilliance, your words, from |
| 2:16.4 | McSeevy and McDreamy to |
| 2:17.8 | O'Litz and O'Lake and finally with the win of Huckleberry Quinn, from you so much more |
| 2:23.1 | to come out there for the take. |
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