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Speaker 2: Oh it's just you.

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Speaker 3: I Smell pop Culture with Eastern Allen and I Heeart

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Speaker 3: Radio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Ah do you smell that?

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Speaker 2: Everybody that smells like pop culture? My name is Easton Allen.

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Speaker 2: You just heard Scott Patterson say it. This is the

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Speaker 2: I Smell pop Culture Podcast, a subsidiary of I Am

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Speaker 2: all In one eleven productions. iHeart Radio, I heart Media,

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Speaker 2: I heart podcasts. Here's what we do here, people, We

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Speaker 2: explore the pop culture references in Gilmore Girls. We look

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Speaker 2: at the people that made them real, the songs, the movies,

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Speaker 2: the institutions, the ideas that are in these pop culture

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Speaker 2: references within the world of Gilmore, within Stars Hollow that

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Speaker 2: continues today. Thanks for joining us. This is really exciting.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of pressure with this guest we're talking

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Speaker 2: to this week. There's a lot of pressure here. I

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Speaker 2: feel so scared. Not because she's mean, no, no, by

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Speaker 2: all counts. This is a very nice person. But we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk to miss Manners, Miss Manners, and I

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Speaker 2: need to make sure that I greet her correctly and

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Speaker 2: we run this. I have to run a very tight

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Speaker 2: ship over here, because this is the master of etiquette.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to miss Manners for a very specific reason.

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Speaker 2: That's because she was referenced in season one, episode eighteen.

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Speaker 2: This is the third Laura Lai and if you remember correctly,

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Speaker 2: let's go back to season one here, there's a scene where,

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Speaker 2: kind of early in the episode, Laura is working at

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Speaker 2: the Independence End, Emily calls her to demand the hat

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Speaker 2: rack back. She gave Laurlai that hat rack five years

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Speaker 2: ago for Christmas, and it was gifted to Emily by

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Speaker 2: Richard's mother, and she's coming over and she's going to

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Speaker 2: notice that hat rack isn't there. So once Laura I

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Speaker 2: realizes that she was the victim of a regift, she says,

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Speaker 2: little dramatic. It was still in the crate. LAURLI responds,

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Speaker 2: You know what, I can't be bothered. Let's give her

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Speaker 2: and Laura I says, well, what would Miss Manners say

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Speaker 2: about that? And Emily replies, well, if she met your grandmother,

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Speaker 2: she'd understand. So that is in reference to if you

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Speaker 2: don't know Miss Manners. Miss Manners is the queen of etiquette.

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Speaker 2: She started a column in nineteen seventy eight called Miss Manners.

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Speaker 2: People write in with their etiquette questions and Miss Manners

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Speaker 2: answers them. This was carried in over two hundred newspapers worldwide.

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Speaker 2: She's written multiple books about etiquette, about Manners, about politeness, customs.

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Speaker 2: She is a fascinating person, and we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: to her and her daughter, Bina, who is also Mismanners.

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Speaker 2: We've got two generations of Miss Manners joining us today,

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Speaker 2: and they are here right now. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: to them and find out. We're gonna get answer that question.

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Speaker 2: First of all, we're going to find out what Mismanners

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Speaker 2: would say about Emily's attempt to take back this gift.

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Speaker 2: But Judith Martin and being a Martin aer here, Hi, guys,

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Speaker 2: how's it going good?

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Speaker 3: Are you hello?

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Speaker 1: So great to see you, Nice to see you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for doing this. We are so excited.

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Speaker 2: I am fascinated by you and your career and everything

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Speaker 2: you've done for American culture.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say that right off the top.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: So, first of all, there's something I need to clear

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Speaker 2: up with you. This is a question that has gone

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Speaker 2: unanswered for fans of the show Gilmore Girls for twenty

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Speaker 2: four years now. You were mentioned in Gilmore Girls in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and one, and the question is a character

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Speaker 2: is asked by her mother to give back a gift.

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Speaker 2: Her mom calls her and says, I need the hat

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Speaker 2: And so then Loreli, the character, she says, what would

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Speaker 2: Miss Manners say about this? I see two problems here,

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Speaker 2: two questions here. First of all, is regifting, okay, can

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Speaker 4: Regifting in general means giving away something that you got.

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Speaker 4: This is not exactly this example you cited. In that case,

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Speaker 4: Mean that's the idea is her mother would be upset.

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Speaker 4: it puts the hat rack back, why not. I mean

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Speaker 4: if you can get away with it, fine, but make

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Speaker 2: That's a crucial element there. So let's go back to

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Speaker 2: the beginning here. You started as a journalist, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I didn't start that way. I started as a copy girl,

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Speaker 4: and you don't even know what that is. Who gets

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Speaker 4: I was a reporter, and then I was critic, and

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Speaker 2: How did the calling begin? How did you discover this past?

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Speaker 4: Like my parents were very interested in history and archaeology

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Speaker 4: like at a different time, look at their rules. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's very fast. I mean, I find it

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Speaker 4: The rules can be very different. I make a distinction

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Speaker 1: Yeah, forgive this question.

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Speaker 2: I'm just curious though, like when you when both of

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Speaker 1: For you to cut? Like I got to make sure

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that used to be when I I mean, I'm

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Speaker 3: I guess I have to watch my manners. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the whole point of manners is you don't

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Speaker 4: And if people say that exactly what Beata sidate, they

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Speaker 4: to tears, but I usually say if you did something wrong,

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Speaker 4: I would be too polite to notice.

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Speaker 1: All right, I love it.

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Speaker 2: And that raises another question like if you if you

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Speaker 4: If that person is your minor child, yeah, everybody else's

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Speaker 3: I mean it depends too, though what kind I mean

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Speaker 3: a you know, a table dinner table violation, of course not.

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Speaker 4: Or defending ourselves.

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Speaker 3: Yes, right exactly. So it depends on what kind of

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Speaker 4: Nor are we letting people trample all over us.

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Speaker 4: Of course it has, of course it is, but and

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Speaker 4: it says stop whatever you're doing and pay attention to me.

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Speaker 4: People have now come to realize that if you just

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Speaker 2: For example, something that drives me crazy and I don't

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Speaker 2: be so upsetting and right, well, yeah, that's the I mean,

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Speaker 2: so is that on me to like tell my friends like,

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Speaker 2: I don't I find this disrespectful? Can you put your

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Speaker 4: If they use the phone, No, you don't go around

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Speaker 3: And it's so tempting. I mean, if you ever watch

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Speaker 2: We have two miss Manners here, two Mismanners with us,

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Speaker 2: My name is Easton All. I'm here with miss Manners,

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Speaker 3: don't know what the rules are, and so they feel like, oh,

435
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Speaker 3: I guess if I cared, then I'd have twenty brides

436
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Speaker 3: maids who are dressed exactly alike and they have to

437
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Speaker 3: buy a thousand dollars dresses. Otherwise I don't care, like

438
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Speaker 3: you know. So trying to dispel a lot of that

439
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Speaker 3: and just make it a fun party that doesn't have

440
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Speaker 3: to be the best day of your life. You hope

441
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Speaker 3: it's not. You hope you'll have many more and that

442
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 3: you get to keep your friends afterwards was seemed to

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Speaker 3: us to be a worthy goal.

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Speaker 4: We did have a good time, didn't we did.

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Speaker 3: I tried all the cake I could get my hands on.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love it.

447
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 2: That's such a anyone listening that is in the process

448
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Speaker 2: of getting married, that's pay attention to those words, because like,

449
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Speaker 2: I have such fun memories of my wedding too, And

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Speaker 2: that's what it's all about.

451
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Speaker 1: What do most people.

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Speaker 2: Get wrong about put together a wedding? Like, what's something

453
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Speaker 2: that everyone misses the mark on?

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Speaker 4: Well, the number one thing I hate is, oh, well,

455
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Speaker 4: it's their day and they can do whatever they want.

456
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Speaker 3: There are no.

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Speaker 4: Etiquette free days. And if you're getting married, you have guests,

458
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Speaker 4: you have family, you have to be considerate of them. Yes,

459
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Speaker 4: but people turn it into fundraisers, they turn it into bioepics.

460
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 4: Here's all about us, and I find all kinds of

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Speaker 4: strange ways to alienate their families and friends.

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Speaker 3: And this is what again, the industry wants you to think,

463
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Speaker 3: but that the venue, the food, the decorations, all of

464
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Speaker 3: that is more important than the people who attend. So

465
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Speaker 3: you hear constantly people saying, well, I mean, sure, small wedding, lovely.

466
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Speaker 3: But if you're like, well, we're keeping it small because

467
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Speaker 3: we want to go to Aruba and you know, have

468
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 3: caviaar or whatever, it's a little hard to sympathize and

469
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: people get insulted. We get letters all the time of

470
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Speaker 3: people like, you know, this is my niece and I

471
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Speaker 3: wasn't invited, or I was invited to the video, you know,

472
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Speaker 3: to the to a zoom version of it, and it

473
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Speaker 3: just seems like a present grab. And so I think,

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Speaker 3: in service of what my mom just said of it

475
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Speaker 3: being my perfect day and I get to be celebrity

476
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Speaker 3: for a day, people ignore the people that they love

477
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Speaker 3: supposedly and treat them horribly.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I again, I appreciate hearing that, because you hear

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Speaker 2: that thrown around a lot, like oh, it's it's their

480
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 2: day or it's our day. We can do whatever we want.

481
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Speaker 2: I heard about a friend of mine did one of

482
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Speaker 2: those Disney weddings and there was no food because they

483
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Speaker 2: spent so much of the budget on having Mickey come

484
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Speaker 2: out to do the first dance.

485
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Speaker 3: Who knew Mickey was so expensive?

486
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Speaker 1: Wow? Yes, like twenty five grand for Mickey to come

487
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Speaker 1: out and dance.

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Speaker 3: With you what?

489
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Speaker 1: Whychie the budget of my entire wedding. I was insane.

490
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Speaker 3: Yes, I gotta get that gig right, Wow, no one

491
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 3: will ever know who it was me inside.

492
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like that. Gosh, I'll dance with whoever.

493
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Speaker 2: So this is a podcast about Gilmore Girls, and it's

494
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Speaker 2: that's a show that's ultimately about the relationship with a

495
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Speaker 2: mother and a daughter. And I mean, I just from

496
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 2: talking to you guys today, you get along so well.

497
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 2: That's so fun to see mothers and daughters that have

498
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Speaker 2: this kind of a relationship.

499
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Speaker 1: Have you guys always been close?

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Speaker 3: We have?

501
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 4: And the thing is continued. Bina has a wonderful relationship

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Speaker 4: with her daughter.

503
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 3: I love you, Yeah, I have. I have a teenager

504
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: who refuses to be like a teenager. She still likes

505
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 3: me and is kind to me and other people, and

506
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Speaker 3: she's she's wonderful.

507
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Speaker 4: What are families for?

508
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Speaker 3: If you're don't exactly well, I feel it necessary to

509
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: say too that Gilmore Girls is pretty much responsible for

510
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Speaker 3: the birth of my daughter because my husband and I

511
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: bonded uh even before our first date. We started talking

512
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: about how much we both loved Gilmore Girls and famously

513
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 3: in our relationship. He said, well, I have all the

514
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 3: DVDs if you want to borrow them, and I was like, no,

515
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 3: I'm good, and he was like later he was like,

516
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 3: I was trying to make a move and you ignored it.

517
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 3: As I kind of like to watch things several times,

518
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 3: although Ben we did, and then we watched it during

519
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: the pandemic, we watched it as a family. So Gilmore Girls,

520
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 3: and and I so appreciate how the writers did when

521
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 3: we did get those reference manners references, because so often

522
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 3: it's it's used for evil, it's you. And obviously the

523
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 3: Paladinos understood what manners, you know, what what mismanners represents

524
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: and was not using it as like this snooty thing

525
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 3: to make people feel bad, was Laurel I really just

526
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 3: saying most of the time I think that, Yeah, they

527
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 3: just kind of being like, no, you got to be

528
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 3: nice to people.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

530
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: That makes me so happy, Like when when you saw

531
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: that in Gilmer Girls. I mean, first of all, mismanagers

532
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: is a cultural icon. Mismanners is popped up everywhere. But

533
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: like seeing Gilmer Girls, was that? How did that feel

534
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: for you? Being a like seeing it on a show

535
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: you love, Like, was that exciting?

536
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 4: Oh?

537
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so fun and it felt I mean

538
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 3: not that she was more than than validated, but yeah,

539
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: and something that I really love when it was used,

540
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 3: well yea was Yeah, it was a joy.

541
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: I love that so so much.

542
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: And I love that you that there's multi generations of

543
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: this close mother daughter relationship being here. Is your daughter

544
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 2: going to take on the mismanners mantle? Does she have

545
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: any interest in that?

546
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 3: I mean, we were trying to indoctor Rainer.

547
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 2: For both of you with this empire you've built. Does

548
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 2: it get You can be honest with me, It's just

549
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: it's just us here, Okay, no one else is listening?

550
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: Uh? Does it?

551
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 4: Ever?

552
00:29:58,760 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: Does it get irritating?

553
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: Like when you're at a party or you're at the

554
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: bank to someone pull you aside and go, hey, how

555
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: can I cancel on my friend's birthday? You know, like

556
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: you must get those questions all the time in your

557
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 2: personal lives.

558
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 4: Right, No, No, occasionally, but I answer them as best

559
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 4: they can.

560
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I love it.

561
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 3: I mean I I don't. I don't think people my

562
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 3: name is on the byeline, but I don't. I don't

563
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 3: think I'm as readily associated with it. But I mean, actually,

564
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 3: you know when I say that, and every once in

565
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 3: a while, I do have a friend who but they

566
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 3: do it very kindly. They're like, I know I shouldn't

567
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 3: abuse the relationship, but I have an etiquette problem. I'm like, yeah, sure,

568
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 3: hit me.

569
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 4: And we might sell our friends about their areas of expertise.

570
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: I mean absolutely, thank yeah, it's like having a friend

571
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: as a doctor, you know exactly.

572
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 3: I was going to say that, I'm like, you don't

573
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 3: want to abuse it, but it's there as a resource of.

574
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 4: Uncle who got really tired of people telling them parties

575
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 4: telling him their medical things. And he would say, Okay,

576
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 4: let's have a take your clothes off and I'll have

577
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 4: a look.

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00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: I love it so much.

579
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 4: Nowadays they probably would though.

580
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, seriously.

581
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: So, uh, this is this has been so much fun

582
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 2: talking to you guys. And the column is still I mean,

583
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: like people can find it online. Uh and uh, what's

584
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: the You've written so many books, I mean, what what's

585
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 2: if there's is there one book you would recommend to

586
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: people that want to improve their etiquette overall?

587
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: One of your books, Well, there's a kind of encyclopedic

588
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 4: one called which is the original one, and then I

589
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 4: did a revised version of it, Miss Manners Guide to

590
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 4: Excruciatingly Correct Behavior. But their individuals are getting married, the

591
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 4: wedding book.

592
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: There's a third Miss Manners. Mister Manners. My brother and

593
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 3: they wrote a book on mind your business.

594
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 4: Yes, Miss Manners, minds your business. Yeah, I just keep

595
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 4: turning them out.

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Speaker 1: I love it. You guys are so cool.

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00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 2: This is Judith Martin and her lovely daughter Being and Martin,

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Speaker 2: Miss Manners together. Thank you so much for joining us

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Speaker 2: today on I Smell Pop Culture. Please, everybody, you would

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Speaker 2: be so rude if you don't check out these books.

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Speaker 2: If you don't read this column, that's me saying that.

602
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: Not then that's me saying you're going to be rude.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, you guys, it's been the best.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was fun. Thank you you enjoyed so nice

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Speaker 3: to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks hey everybody, and don't forget Follow us on Instagram

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Speaker 2: at I Am all In podcast and email us at

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Speaker 2: Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com