Speaker 1: I am all in Again.
Speaker 2: I am All in Again with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Joined by the hunts Burgers. Hello Greg, Hello Leanne hell st.
Speaker 1: It is just so good to see the two of you,
Speaker 1: and what a reaction you had up there on stage.
Speaker 1: What did you think of this whole thing?
Speaker 3: I was saying to Greg, I was just gobsmacked when
Speaker 3: we walked out there and there are without many people
Speaker 3: out there. I was stunned. And I know that you
Speaker 3: had said on the podcast a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: there would be five thousand people, and I was like, yeah, right, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I mean this is amazing. The the the love they
Speaker 3: have for this show. Oh, it's just extraordinary and wonderful
Speaker 3: and fun to be a part of. And I'm grateful. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Greg, you've done this, you did this last year, you
Speaker 1: did this, You've done You've done a couple of rounds
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: How's this in your eyes? How has it grown?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it bigger exponentially?
Speaker 4: I mean it's yeah, it's it's it's much bigger than
Speaker 4: than it was. And I can't remember if it was
Speaker 4: one year or two years ago that I did it,
Speaker 4: but uh, but it's and it the whole town sort
Speaker 4: of you know, all decorated up and people sort of
Speaker 4: enjoying different parts of the the town of Stars Hollow.
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's really inventive and fun and uh and
Speaker 4: a sort of theater piece that everybody's a part of.
Speaker 1: You know. I wanted to thank David Finch for putting
Speaker 1: this all together. He's the guy with all the great
Speaker 1: ideas for all the shops and how they're situated and
Speaker 1: what kind of merch to put in, and he's in
Speaker 1: the tours division, and Danny Kahn as well. They did
Speaker 1: a remarkable job. Told me to buckle my seat belts
Speaker 1: when I when I got here, before I got here yesterday,
Speaker 1: because you're going to be shocked.
Speaker 2: And I didn't think they could.
Speaker 1: Outdo themselves, but they outdid themselves. And my gosh, right
Speaker 1: down to every little detail of you know, the the
Speaker 1: the uh work of the late girl working in the dragonflane,
Speaker 1: greeting people that check in and being an actress, a
Speaker 1: very accomplished actress and sort of acting out everything and
Speaker 1: as fans come in and and they have all of
Speaker 1: these sort of sort of cause players of the characters
Speaker 1: and all over the town, so it's just a wonderful experience.
Speaker 2: A fortune teller and a.
Speaker 3: Fortune and she was all glammed up.
Speaker 1: I loved it right right. They even had when Lindsey
Speaker 1: threw Dean out of the house forget to chummy with
Speaker 1: uh Rory again and threw all his clothes out of
Speaker 1: the second floor, second story, and those clothes are hanging down.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a hanging down from the from the balcony.
Speaker 1: They have Luke's uh they've they've taken Luke's boat and
Speaker 1: all of his fishing gear and all of his other
Speaker 1: gear that he's had stored in the in the garage,
Speaker 1: and it's outside of the garage now, so fans can
Speaker 1: go by and kind of kind of rifle through it,
Speaker 1: you know, they can sort of go to touch it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and it's just it's like a living museum
Speaker 1: of the show.
Speaker 2: Did either of.
Speaker 1: You, suspect and I know you've both had long, distinguished careers.
Speaker 1: Did and you've worked with some great directors and some
Speaker 1: great writers. Did you did you recognize this show when
Speaker 1: you originally started working on the show as something that
Speaker 1: had a chance to become something like this, or it's
Speaker 1: just one of the here's a better question. Why do
Speaker 1: you think it's such a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 3: Well, just from my perspective, because I do think it
Speaker 3: starts with the writing, and I do think that, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of having like several storylines going together,
Speaker 3: tying together as they go through and the thread that
Speaker 3: you follow all the way to the end of the
Speaker 3: season or whatever it is. And so for me, I
Speaker 3: appreciate picking up what's happening over here because I come
Speaker 3: from a soap opera world part of the time too,
Speaker 3: so you know, we're used to having storylines that play
Speaker 3: out over a longer time. And I just think that
Speaker 3: because the writing is so tight and because you have
Speaker 3: to be so on your toes, it really gives you
Speaker 3: an appreciation for being an actor and some of the
Speaker 3: training that we probably had in the beginning, so that
Speaker 3: we can utilize the skills that we learned back in
Speaker 3: the day. And it's for me, it's just been a
Speaker 3: lovely experience because, like I said, I had no idea
Speaker 3: the extent of the fandom and how much everybody does
Speaker 3: appreciate it. It's really been love I.
Speaker 1: Think you make a great point. It's very challenging for
Speaker 1: any writer, any writing team, to weave in multiple storylines
Speaker 1: and to keep an audience engaged at the level that
Speaker 1: the Pallatinos do in that crack writing stuff. Believing, I
Speaker 1: mean is it is one of the joys. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to be. It's not my kind of television.
Speaker 1: I never watched it. It just was like, didn't interest me.
Speaker 1: But when I got when I started doing the podcast
Speaker 1: watching the episodes, this is extraordinary, yeah, storytelling, and I
Speaker 1: was hooked right away.
Speaker 2: I was just riveted by it.
Speaker 3: And I had to go back and watch some of
Speaker 3: it again too, and I have to say I got caught.
Speaker 3: And now it's on every night at ten and eleven.
Speaker 3: I watch a couple episodes before I go to bed,
Speaker 3: and it's a lovely thing to go to bed on
Speaker 3: instead of something with murder in it or something that
Speaker 3: I usually watch, some crime drama. But this is a
Speaker 3: lovely way to go to sleep. I don't have nightmares.
Speaker 3: It's like there's faith in humanity, kind of an idea
Speaker 3: when you away campaign.
Speaker 1: There is a medicinal and therapeutic quality to these episodes,
Speaker 1: isn't there? Yes, Yes, I think I think it is
Speaker 1: highly addictive in that regard where nothing can really go
Speaker 1: wrong and if it does, it's gonna mend itself in
Speaker 1: some way. Greg, what have you been doing since in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I know you work with
Speaker 1: the Sean Gunn's brother from time to time in some
Speaker 1: of those big Marvel movies.
Speaker 2: Tell us about that a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I worked with James uh uh since Slither, which
Speaker 4: was his sort of first directing gig, and I did
Speaker 4: Super as well, and then I did The Guardians. And
Speaker 4: it's just a great joy to have him call up,
Speaker 4: you know, no matter what it is, even if it's
Speaker 4: a grand father, Yes, you know, it's it's it's a
Speaker 4: great joy to be a part of his his wild,
Speaker 4: wonderful imagination.
Speaker 3: And uh.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, he's another guy, you know, he's another writer
Speaker 1: that weaves in multiple storylines so beautiful. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: just keeps you engaged the whole time. And he uses
Speaker 1: humor very well, extremely well, very funny, very funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's life, because if it's if it's morose
Speaker 1: and too serious, it's not reflecting life. And if it
Speaker 1: is reflecting life, it's not really a life. I want
Speaker 1: to watch, you know what. I'm saying James has that
Speaker 1: gift as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's.
Speaker 4: And he's just prolific. He just turns it out. And
Speaker 4: the same can be said for.
Speaker 2: Amy, Amy and Dan.
Speaker 4: I mean they really you know, they really churn it
Speaker 4: out and and and the writing is always, uh, it's
Speaker 4: always a cut above. It's you know, it's it's talent.
Speaker 4: It's a very special, special brand of talent.
Speaker 1: What do you think it is. You think it's something
Speaker 1: that I mean, I know he grew up he was
Speaker 1: obsessed with the comic books, and that genre obviously influenced
Speaker 1: his writing. I think it informed his directing. I think
Speaker 1: he thinks like a directory, thinks like a comic book artist,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he maps it out and plans
Speaker 1: it out like it's a comic book. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: it's so impactful and so entertaining. I'm mixed with all
Speaker 1: that humor and this this the brilliant structure that he
Speaker 1: brings to bear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a huge fan. From the time he was
Speaker 4: a kid, a huge comic book fan, sort of created
Speaker 4: his own comic books. He wrote his own novel before
Speaker 4: he even wrote screenplays. And for you know, he's like
Speaker 4: uh uh uh, he was funny. I teased him. He's
Speaker 4: he lives in Aspen and now has as ass and
Speaker 4: Aspen and uh and uh we were up there, uh
Speaker 4: when he got married and his uh and his family
Speaker 4: was there and I'm saying I run into him in
Speaker 4: the morning out by in front of the hotel and
Speaker 4: I'm like, ah, yeah, this is great. You're up here
Speaker 4: in the great outdoors. James must be Levy and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's inside writing.
Speaker 1: Just like you know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's no accident that he he rose to the
Speaker 1: heights that he has wrisen. It's not an accent. He's
Speaker 1: been doing it as whole. And I think Amy and
Speaker 1: Dan are like that as well. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Amy grew up in that culture of you know, her
Speaker 1: dad is you know, was Alan Sherman. He was a
Speaker 1: nightclub comic and he was on the comedy tour and
Speaker 1: all her household was filled with the top comedians.
Speaker 2: Of the day. They were all friends.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, it's inevitable these these types
Speaker 1: of people in these careers, when they apply is a
Speaker 1: discipline to their there's obvious talent and skills.
Speaker 2: It's it's inevitable.
Speaker 1: It's just inevitable and you get these high quality products. Uh,
Speaker 1: you've been very lucky. You've worked been We've worked with
Speaker 1: two of the best, the best.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as lucky as can be.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, And you might argue with this, I
Speaker 4: don't know, but it's like there there's like a style
Speaker 4: to her writing. It's like it's got a rhythm, it's
Speaker 4: got a it's got a musicality to it. And and
Speaker 4: people that are in the writer's room, you know, they
Speaker 4: can imitated. But you know, the last season or or so,
Speaker 4: when she wasn't on it, I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: is it cinnamon, what's it missing? It's it's it's it's
Speaker 4: you know, it just wasn't quite the same. You know.
Speaker 1: That's a tall order.
Speaker 4: That's a tall orders and that's just a special sauce
Speaker 4: that they have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's incredible.
Speaker 1: Well, the fans have been delighted to see you guys
Speaker 1: and to get to talk to you, and it's been
Speaker 1: a pleasure of mine, Uh to talk to you Leanne
Speaker 1: year and please keep coming back and Greg your perennial,
Speaker 1: keep coming back.
Speaker 2: As as we do this.
Speaker 1: Great catching up with you guys and all the best.
Speaker 1: Everybody thanks for the downloads and remember where.
Speaker 2: You lead, we will follow. Stay safe, everyone, Hey everybody,
Speaker 2: and don't forget.
Speaker 1: Follow us on Instagram at i Am all In podcast
Speaker 1: and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.