Calling all Gladiators! It’s time to reunite with your Scandal family. And since it’s been nearly five long years since we had to part ways with Olivia Pope and her team of crisis-fighting badasses, we’re thrilled to unveil a brand-new podcast from Shondaland Audio, Unpacking the Toolbox, airing Thursdays beginning on February 9 and hosted by two of our favorite Scandal alums, Guillermo Diaz and Katie Lowes — aka Huck and Quinn, aka Huckleberry Quinn.

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Unpacking the Toolbox is the perfect companion to rewatch one of the most popular dramas on television in the last decade. Lowes — who already hosts the hit Shondaland Audio podcast Katie’s Criband Diaz will do a deep dive on every episode in order to rehash Scandal’s most memorable moments. The former B613 duo will share behind-the-scenes stories, little-known facts, and on-set shenanigans and will even be inviting their co-stars, writers, crew members, and maybe even superfans (we’re looking at you, Gladiator) to reminisce and relive the making of Scandal together.

Special guests include Tony Goldwyn, better known as Fitz to the Pope crew; Liza Weil, who played Amanda Tanner; Ms. Pope herself, Kerry Washington; and, naturally, the woman behind it all, Shonda Rhimes, who shows up in the premiere episode.

Also, given how prone fans were to live tweet every OMG moment during the series’ run, our trusty hosts will take us down memory tweet lane to relive some of the best fan reactions. So, pour yourself a big glass of red wine, grab some popcorn, and tune in as your hosts take you back in time and back to the fierce fighters of OPA.

Listen to new episodes here when they start dropping on February 9, and be sure to subscribe to Unpacking the Toolbox at Apple, iHeart, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.


Valentina Valentini is a London-based entertainment, travel, and food writer and is also a senior contributor to Shondaland. Elsewhere, she has written for Vanity Fair, Vulture, Variety, Thrillist, Heated, and The Washington Post. Her personal essays can be read in the Los Angeles Times and Longreads, and her tangents and general complaints can be seen on Twitter at @ByValentinaV.

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