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Unpacking The Toolbox

REBROADCAST 107: Grant: For the People w/ Kerry Washington

Unpacking The Toolbox

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8590 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In an emotional episode, Katie and Guillermo welcome Kerry Washington to dive into life at the end of the first season, and what the future held for the Scandal fam. Kerry shares her casting story, how she felt destined for the role and the importance of being true to yourself on the screen. Plus, Kerry jokes how her romance with Fitz was her second-longest relationship after her husband, and Katie discovers a brand new nickname for Guillermo. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.4

Unpacking the toolbox is a production of Shondaland audio in partnership with IHeartRadio.

0:31.6

It's the scandal we watch podcast show with the R-O-Dias and Katie Close.

0:38.1

Hi, G. Hi, Katie. Hi, G.

0:39.6

Hi, Katie.

0:41.0

Hi, Kukkak, Kherly. Curly.

0:42.8

Kik, Kik, Krily.

0:43.9

Krily.

0:45.1

My second grade teacher used to always Mrs. Kailish.

0:48.9

She was so mean.

0:50.6

But she would always sing Kukkak, Katie, my beautiful Katie. There's some fucking song like that I don't even remember. I know. To you, she would sing it to you? To me when I entered the classroom. Geremo, was there any childhood song where Giermo is a name in the song? Hell no. Remember Romp Aroom? I mean, you're much younger than I am, but there was a show called romper room.

1:12.2

And the host in the beginning would look into this magical mirror and be like,

1:17.1

I see you Tommy and Katie and John and Barbara and Ted.

1:21.6

And not Guillermo.

1:23.1

Never.

1:25.4

Like, how about in New York when you go into the trinket stores? Oh, never. You can get a little license plate or a little pencil with like, Katie's always on there. And it's always in a variation of spellings. Yeah. I might get K-A-T-I-E, which is how I spell it. There might be K-A-T-Y, whatever. But you are just straight up fucked.

1:45.8

No.

1:46.3

They would be like, well, get a William.

1:47.9

William.

1:48.5

William is Guillermo?

1:48.8

I'm like...

1:49.6

Is William Guillermo?

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