Speaker 1: I am all in again.
Speaker 2: Oh that's you are.
Speaker 3: Gilmore Girls Gazette with Amy Sugarman and Danielle Romo, an
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio podcast. We are back for another episode of Gilmore
Speaker 3: Girls Gazette. You got Danielle and Amy and we are
Speaker 3: bringing you the breaking views.
Speaker 1: You're getting so good at that, daniel Are you Christiane Amanpour?
Speaker 3: I'm Christian almen bor you are just saying very correct.
Speaker 3: I would like to start off this episode by telling
Speaker 3: all of our listeners that we are thankful for you
Speaker 3: and we hope you have a very awesome holiday week
Speaker 3: for those that celebrate, and.
Speaker 1: So grant what we're gonna say and.
Speaker 3: What and we just love you guys, so thank you
Speaker 3: for everything.
Speaker 1: We had a meeting a couple of days ago about
Speaker 1: something that's coming up, and literally in the meeting with
Speaker 1: a bunch of corporate executive talked about like how much
Speaker 1: we love you. And I don't mean you, Danielle, I
Speaker 1: mean you, you in your car, listening, you on a walk,
Speaker 1: you vacuuming the house for Thanksgiving tomorrow. You and we
Speaker 1: gave we did a whole speech about it.
Speaker 3: Meeting like we have the best fans on the planet
Speaker 3: and it's and we all make fun of Scott for
Speaker 3: saying that.
Speaker 1: Everybody's such a good line.
Speaker 3: It is such a good line, and it's very true,
Speaker 3: so so true.
Speaker 1: Wait, how many things will you be like Rory and
Speaker 1: Loralai going to multiple Thanksgiving only It's okay, anyone be
Speaker 1: like Suki frying turkey well Jackson.
Speaker 3: Oh so, and and I'm going to say this, and
Speaker 3: y'all are going to think my parents are divorced. Now there,
Speaker 3: we just go to both sides of the family. So
Speaker 3: the first thing we do is we go to my
Speaker 3: mom's side of the family. Then we go to in
Speaker 3: like like twelve o'clock. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, twelve o'clock.
Speaker 3: And then that evening around like four or five o'clock,
Speaker 3: we go to my dad's side, and then the next
Speaker 3: day we do my husband's side.
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna say, So you really should
Speaker 1: be squeezing in three in a day, because you should
Speaker 1: do your mom's side, your dad's side, and John's. But
Speaker 1: some and is that always every year they always get
Speaker 1: the day after.
Speaker 3: It's been like that for the last like four years. Yeah,
Speaker 3: John's family, my husband's family is so chill and they're
Speaker 3: like we don't want the pressure of the holiday. Let's
Speaker 3: like that's not fun. Like I kind of maybe will
Speaker 3: adopt their method with uh, with my children one day.
Speaker 1: What will your don't say children child? Guys? First of all,
Speaker 1: she can totally say children. But literally every day, every
Speaker 1: day I talk to Danielle if she has any kind
Speaker 1: of like, oh, hey, I got to tell you something,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're pregnant. You're pregnant. I'm just preparing for it.
Speaker 1: I'm prepared. I think if I say it and then
Speaker 1: for it, then I won't be so like shocked. Wait,
Speaker 1: are you going to dress the baby?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 1: Do you still call my baby's a toddler?
Speaker 3: Now he's technically a toddler, which is gary so scary weird?
Speaker 1: Do you dress the baby up in like a Thanksgiving garb?
Speaker 1: Like will you be like I'm not saying yes to
Speaker 1: you know, turkey on his head, but like a special on.
Speaker 3: Song like what are those things called suspenders? Like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: we don't wear a very cool hip like a neutral
Speaker 3: tan knit sweaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's very Thanksgiving me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we don't do like the trousers with the
Speaker 3: white button up like I want him to be comfortable.
Speaker 3: He's about to total.
Speaker 1: He's elastic waste, right, elastic waste. Come on. My house
Speaker 1: is a very confused house right now because it doesn't
Speaker 1: know if it's Christmas or Thanksgiving. My table is very Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: my front door is Thanksgiving, but my front yard is Christmas,
Speaker 1: and half my trees are up, so it's like my
Speaker 1: house is like what are we right now? I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that so much.
Speaker 1: And then the day after Thanksgiving, the Thanksgiving comes down
Speaker 1: and the Christmas goes up everywhere. But I can't do
Speaker 1: it in one day, so I have to do it ahead.
Speaker 3: Do you do lights like the around your house?
Speaker 1: I do it on. I have a big tree in
Speaker 1: my front yard now. Normally I do do it on
Speaker 1: Do do I said do Normally I do do it
Speaker 1: on the whole house. But my house is under some construction,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't do it on the house. I sound
Speaker 1: so Gilmoury right now. I sound like Richard and Emily
Speaker 1: like I'm under construction. And I will say we're having
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving at the club.
Speaker 3: Ooh, that is.
Speaker 1: Very You're very lorelyon Rory, and I'm very Richard and Emily,
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: So enough about Thanksgiving because we got because oh omg
Speaker 3: omg with exclamation points.
Speaker 1: So did you guys see Lauren's Instagram yesterday, Scott's Instagram.
Speaker 3: Our show Instagram.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, so there is something big happening and it
Speaker 1: is coming on December third.
Speaker 3: It is a bruin. Let me tell you, there are
Speaker 3: too many Easter eggs for my heart to handle.
Speaker 1: That's a coffee teaser. It is a bruin. Something is
Speaker 1: hot in the cup today. So let's go over what
Speaker 1: they posted. So we know that Scott posted a picture
Speaker 1: of a Luke's mug with the like check next to it.
Speaker 3: I feel like we need to read captions.
Speaker 2: Do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, stand by, stand by, Then me pull up Scott's.
Speaker 3: So Scott's has a picture of Luke's mug a checkbook
Speaker 3: seemingly Luke's diner. Please seriously yes, and Scott says back
Speaker 3: at Luke Steiner for something special tune in December third.
Speaker 1: And then Lawrence was on her story. Okay, so she
Speaker 1: posted I've got something brewing tune in twelve three, hashtag
Speaker 1: Walmart partner and she's in stars Hollow obviously walking, walking
Speaker 1: and you see a lot of stars hollow. There's snow.
Speaker 1: That's all we get from hers. You see Luke Steiner.
Speaker 1: She's walking past Luke Steiner and she's just walking walking,
Speaker 1: and there's a cable on the ground. So I would
Speaker 1: assume that means something maybe is being shot. You can
Speaker 1: see a cable on the ground.
Speaker 3: Okay, Then Sean Gunn's Instagram, Okay, I go. Is the gazebo,
Speaker 3: the iconic stars hollow sign covered in snow like everything
Speaker 3: just looks winter, winter, winter, and he his caption is
Speaker 3: Kirk's sixty third job question Mark find out on December third.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I know. So from what I've gathered, Scott,
Speaker 3: Lauren Sean doing something real cute.
Speaker 1: Something is happening.
Speaker 3: Something's happening. So here's what we need to tell you
Speaker 3: involves Gilmore girls, because here's what we.
Speaker 1: Can tell you. We do know that on December third,
Speaker 1: we have been told to wake up very very very early,
Speaker 1: like y bizarrely m and be on our microphones ready.
Speaker 1: And so that is all we know that we we
Speaker 1: might know little, just we might know a little. But
Speaker 1: what we do know is that on on December third,
Speaker 1: we have to be awake at the crack of dawn
Speaker 1: and on our microphones there's some sort of delivery coming
Speaker 1: to our house this weekend, so we know that too.
Speaker 1: There's some sort of delivery coming to our house this weekend,
Speaker 1: and we need to be up and ready.
Speaker 3: On December third, Lauren's Instagram story makes me very, very
Speaker 3: stressed because I need to know. I need like her
Speaker 3: like her Instagram story. Literally it gets me all hot inside,
Speaker 3: like I need to know what that's about.
Speaker 1: Well, stay by your phones wherever you get your podcasts,
Speaker 1: because we will know very early in the morning on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait. And Scott's been like he's been
Speaker 3: a bault. He's been keeping a little secret.
Speaker 1: Well not that well, because I think I kind of.
Speaker 3: Know a lot. We know, but we don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know. That's correct. We know things, but we
Speaker 1: don't don't know. Yeah, don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh I can't wait to no, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, you do do. Okay, So let's get into
Speaker 1: the first story. It's kind of fits for Thanksgiving in
Speaker 1: that basically there's been studies that Gilmore Girls is good
Speaker 1: for you, it's good for your health.
Speaker 3: I did not need a study to tell me that
Speaker 3: that's duh.
Speaker 1: I mean, how great is.
Speaker 3: That instantly puts you in a good mood. Sometimes it's
Speaker 3: in a bad mood when extaphr comes about, but for
Speaker 3: the most part, in a good mood.
Speaker 1: You know, he never bothered me.
Speaker 3: I know, he doesn't bother you.
Speaker 1: He bothered you all he I mean, he had his
Speaker 1: moments where I.
Speaker 3: Liked him up until season seven. Season seven just really
Speaker 3: downward spiral.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But the New York Post have a story recently
Speaker 1: that a therapist wrote talking about how a comfort show
Speaker 1: like Gilmore Girls is good for your health. The therapist
Speaker 1: was named Lewis, Doctor Lewis. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: a doctor, but he's a certified group therapist, so not
Speaker 1: a doctor. He runs multiple interpersonal process groups working on
Speaker 1: their feelings, assertion, impact on others. This is very therapy talk,
Speaker 1: impact on ourselves and healthy conflict. And he cites the
Speaker 1: show Gilmore Girls humor is funny, lighthearted and uplifting.
Speaker 3: I get it, like I get by shows like this
Speaker 3: instantly put you in a good mood. We have felt
Speaker 3: that for the last few years of doing this podcast.
Speaker 3: Every time we record an episode where like, you know
Speaker 3: what we're talking about a good fun show.
Speaker 1: And he said that because you've watched it before and
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen, you don't have to invest
Speaker 1: as much mental energy and you get to enjoy it
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I also saw a study recently
Speaker 1: that said, you know how they sometimes say like, oh,
Speaker 1: you need all quiet before you go to bed. I
Speaker 1: saw a study that said it is okay to watch
Speaker 1: TV before you go to bed.
Speaker 3: More of the story is, if you're having a bad day,
Speaker 3: put on a Gilmore Girls episode. If you just feel
Speaker 3: just better, binge it this holiday season?
Speaker 1: You do youhen you're cooking all weekend or at least
Speaker 1: tomorrow and the next day, and then the leftovers the
Speaker 1: next day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally hoop it on.
Speaker 1: I like it. So okay, so this is kind of
Speaker 1: something I liked. So I did find this. So if
Speaker 1: you love Gilmar Girls, here are ten other shows you
Speaker 1: could binge watch this weekend or enjoy this weekend that
Speaker 1: are shows that if you love Gilmar Girls, you'll love
Speaker 1: these shows. So do you want to read? You read
Speaker 1: the list?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So at number ten is Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist.
Speaker 1: I have watched this a little bit. Yes, I have.
Speaker 1: It's Lauren Graham, isn't it. It's about a girl who
Speaker 1: like hears songs in her head and then they actually
Speaker 1: like perform the musical numbers, so it's sort of a musical. Oh,
Speaker 1: Jane Levy was the star Skylar Aston who you know
Speaker 1: from like Pitch Perfect. It's a good show. I couldn't
Speaker 1: get into it, but I know people that totally watched it,
Speaker 1: like binged it, loved it. I definitely enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: might give it another try.
Speaker 3: Fair enough Well. Up at number nine is Ginny and Georgia,
Speaker 3: which I will give my stamp of approval on this
Speaker 3: episode or on this show.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Oh, it is so good. I love this series and
Speaker 3: I cannot wait for season three to come out next year.
Speaker 1: To watch it because people love it.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to give it a watch one episode.
Speaker 1: No, I'm going to put this on my list.
Speaker 3: You will love it. You will love it. You will
Speaker 3: love it. It is great mother daughter show but has
Speaker 3: so much juicy drama.
Speaker 1: It's like a little edge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is great, A plus A plus.
Speaker 1: And Ginny and Georgia good good.
Speaker 3: Up at number eight Dawson's Creek.
Speaker 1: You know that makes me think of I don't want
Speaker 1: to wait the theme song want.
Speaker 3: To work for a Last stupe Over.
Speaker 1: Never got into Dawson's Creek, but I know people love it.
Speaker 3: Neither. We do love Katie Holmes, though we do.
Speaker 1: Love the cast is so good, Michelle Williams, Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? James Vanderbeek, Josh Jackson, which, weirdly, I am
Speaker 1: watching Doctor Odyssey, which is like Gray's Anatomy on a boat.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. Well, up at number seven is New Girl.
Speaker 1: See, I did love New Girl. I was thinking about
Speaker 1: rewatching it again. I just love Max Greenfield and Jake Johnson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so much so I think I would rewatch this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and New Girl's not bad. Up at number six
Speaker 3: Dash and Lily, starring Austin Abrams and Medori Francis on Netflix.
Speaker 1: She actually just well, I won't say something just happened
Speaker 1: to her and Gray's Anatomy if you aren't caught a
Speaker 1: people don't like spoilers. Yeah, Crazy Girlfriend. Rachel number five, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rachel Bloom, which I also know people loved. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of shows on here I haven't seen,
Speaker 1: so I've got a lot.
Speaker 2: To so good.
Speaker 3: I have seen this series. But number four is the
Speaker 3: Summer I Turned Pretty and Holy how that is so good.
Speaker 3: If you have not seen one episode, you better turn
Speaker 3: on your Amazon time. I need to watch it today.
Speaker 1: It is It is a great Community Joel McHale. That
Speaker 1: was a comedy, which I haven't watched either. We've got
Speaker 1: like a lot to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get some work. I do love Allison Bree
Speaker 3: who's in Community's She's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of shows on here.
Speaker 3: I can enjoy it. Number two is one that you've
Speaker 3: approved shrinking.
Speaker 1: It's really funny, it's really good. You can totally crank
Speaker 1: it out. I mean, who doesn't love Harrison Ford, Jason Siegel.
Speaker 1: The cast is awesome. It's really really good.
Speaker 3: And then up at number one, The Marvelous Missus Masel.
Speaker 3: Obviously that makes sense since it was created by Amy
Speaker 3: Sherman Palladino.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good. It's totally, totally, totally good. It's basically,
Speaker 1: you know, very gilmoury kind of what she probably sort
Speaker 1: of I thought she was kind of getting on the
Speaker 1: path too with with butN Heads, and then she just
Speaker 1: hit a home run with it with Marvelous Missus Maisl,
Speaker 1: it's so good.
Speaker 3: One thing, I do think we should just go back
Speaker 3: up to the top and say where you can watch
Speaker 3: each of these, because I did get a DM from
Speaker 3: somebody saying, you guys say so many good shows, but
Speaker 3: I never know where to watch it, So I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna be through the Yeah. So, Zoe's Extraordinary Extraordinary Playlist
Speaker 3: you can watch on Apple TV and Prime Video. Jinny
Speaker 3: and Georgia you can watch seasons one through two on Netflix.
Speaker 3: Dawson's Creek you can watch on Hulu and Prime Video.
Speaker 3: New Girl you can watch on Hulu, and Peacock Dash
Speaker 3: and Lily you can watch on Netflix. Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Speaker 3: Prime Video. The Summer I Turned Pretty on Amazon Prime Video.
Speaker 3: Community you can watch on Netflix, Shrinking on Apple TV,
Speaker 3: and lastly, The Marvelous Missus Maisel on Amazon Prime Video.
Speaker 1: We should give a shout out to Collider for putting
Speaker 1: that list together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great job.
Speaker 1: Okay, now here's something juicy. Tune in to this story.
Speaker 1: If you are half paying attention, you're gonna want to focus.
Speaker 1: So I need to see this. But there's a moment
Speaker 1: from Gilmour Girls that has gone viral on TikTok as
Speaker 1: People losing their minds?
Speaker 3: Can we watch it really quick?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So during season three, episode nineteen, the episode was
Speaker 1: keig Max, a TikTok user named Notorious AHB caught a
Speaker 1: moment between Alexis Bladeaux and Milo vent Amelia. The camera
Speaker 1: is focusing on others in the scene. Alexis is staring
Speaker 1: at Milo before tucking his hair behind his ear. Milo
Speaker 1: gives her a small smile before snapping back into the scene. Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to see this.
Speaker 3: I did too, And you know, I remember when we
Speaker 3: were recapping the series. The first time you guys told
Speaker 3: me that Milo and Alexis dated, I was like start
Speaker 3: like I was flabbergasted. So I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Okay, there they are cute and are they
Speaker 1: they're not together yet? Or are they Maybe they're not
Speaker 1: together yet.
Speaker 3: Let's do some math once we stop watching this. Oh again,
Speaker 3: so let me do some maths. Season Oh it's like.
Speaker 1: They were thought they weren't on camera.
Speaker 3: Season three Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: Year because they're acting like they aren't quite together. This
Speaker 1: is episode I think this is the episode where Dean
Speaker 1: fights Jess because this is at the band practice at
Speaker 1: the party. Oh, this isa is literally something everyone needs
Speaker 1: to watch because I think they thought they weren't on so.
Speaker 3: Them give you the timeline. So they began dating in
Speaker 3: late two thousand and two into or in real life
Speaker 3: they begin they began dating in late two thousand and two.
Speaker 3: Season three premiered September two thousand and two. So what
Speaker 3: that means is they probably filmed this in in April
Speaker 3: May June.
Speaker 1: So season three they fit. They start filming in July, okay, June, July, August, sorry, July, right.
Speaker 3: As they were starting to really date. Yeah, so they.
Speaker 1: Weren't together yet fully in the show, right because I'm
Speaker 1: more concerned about what's happening in the show at this.
Speaker 3: And I care more about real life.
Speaker 1: Might because how I want to do detective work? Because
Speaker 1: is she doing it as Rory or is she doing
Speaker 1: it as Alexis? And I think she's doing it as Alexis?
Speaker 3: Okay, so keg Max, let's see.
Speaker 1: I think it's the episode where Jess and Dean fight,
Speaker 1: but were was this.
Speaker 3: Lady Band makes its debut at a big bash where
Speaker 3: Jess and Jean's long standing animosity erupts into a brawl.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Jess and so they were together, So it
Speaker 1: is a very affectionate move, but it's unclear. We're gonna
Speaker 1: need people to weigh in their opinions if if she's
Speaker 1: if she's rory or if she's a luxus.
Speaker 3: I think she's rory.
Speaker 1: I think she's a little both. My take is she's
Speaker 1: a little of both. Okay, if you.
Speaker 3: Must be crazy to blur lines like that, like where
Speaker 3: you're a character, you're acting this person that's supposed to
Speaker 3: be so in love with this character, but then how
Speaker 3: do you?
Speaker 2: How do you?
Speaker 3: That's why I can't never date it that an actor?
Speaker 3: No way, absolutely an actor, because what happens if you
Speaker 3: break up and then you're still together on the show?
Speaker 1: Ooh horrible? Oh?
Speaker 3: But also like what it like? Uh okay, using in
Speaker 3: Milo terms, Milo, Mandy and this is us were love
Speaker 3: they were and you know, endgame whatever, YadA, YadA. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I could be married to Milo knowing
Speaker 3: that he is in love with Mandy Moore. Yeah, even
Speaker 3: though acting I would feel a certain kind of way
Speaker 3: for sure, I know myself.
Speaker 1: I think that's why, like celebrities have so many issues.
Speaker 1: I get it, because like get it, that would not
Speaker 1: be easy and then they always end up dating their
Speaker 1: co star good exhibit a graaty.
Speaker 3: I cannot do that. All power to people who are
Speaker 3: married or dating actors or you know, can make it work.
Speaker 1: Well, this is true exciting Gilmore Girl's Gazette toda because
Speaker 1: we have a special guest.
Speaker 3: Yes we do. And you thought we weren't gonna have
Speaker 3: a little surprise for you.
Speaker 1: We do, we do, we do. Guess who has the
Speaker 1: number one movie on Netflix right now?
Speaker 3: Our guest Thisscal's a straight queen.
Speaker 1: So while Marla Soakeoloff figures out how to unmute, hopefully
Speaker 1: Jackie can help her and turn on her camera if
Speaker 1: she wants to. It's a safe space. You don't have
Speaker 1: to have your camera on here if you're not camera ready.
Speaker 1: It's number one on Netflix. So I started watching it?
Speaker 1: Did you start watching I did?
Speaker 3: It is very spicy in the best way.
Speaker 1: Buy it very spicy and also which we will ask
Speaker 1: Marl about. Chad Michael Murray's character is named Luke.
Speaker 3: I know good. It's so good.
Speaker 1: I cannot And he's crazd like a handy. He's a
Speaker 1: little Lukash.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: He's wearing a plaid shirt now I don't know she
Speaker 1: did that intentionally. I'm gonna assume she did not, but
Speaker 1: I am going to ask her about that.
Speaker 2: Mar You guys, that was so embarrassing. I was literally like,
Speaker 2: this is not I am not new to the world
Speaker 2: of zoom. Why can't I was pressing on mute, I
Speaker 2: was pressing start my video, and nothing's happening.
Speaker 3: You're a good.
Speaker 1: Safe space here. Second of all, your background looks amazing.
Speaker 3: And the sweater and the sweater.
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be the number one movie
Speaker 1: on Netflix? I can't It's so oh my god, you guys,
Speaker 1: It's so crazy.
Speaker 2: I just can't explain it in a way that would
Speaker 2: not make me give everyone the ick. But it's just
Speaker 2: one of those things that I feel. There's so many
Speaker 2: moments in this business that stuck and have been really hard.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for so long, and I've cried
Speaker 2: so many tears, and to just have this moment of
Speaker 2: people like congratulating me is weird, Josh, really.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we have so much to talk to you about,
Speaker 1: which my main thing is the cast of this movie,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that in a second. You reference
Speaker 1: working for so long, which obviously we know you because
Speaker 1: we email and text you all the time. Hey, can
Speaker 1: you do this for us? Can you do this for us?
Speaker 1: Can you? Was full House one of your earliest jobs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Amy, I actually mentioned to you yesterday
Speaker 2: to my publicist Laura Ackerman. I know, because it has
Speaker 2: been just pouring it out as long as I have. Really,
Speaker 2: let's be honest.
Speaker 4: You're just like a You're even a little longer than
Speaker 4: me because we started as a kid. Yeah, and we
Speaker 4: have been pals for over thirty years because you've been
Speaker 4: working forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, what was the question the cast?
Speaker 1: So the full House was that one of your first
Speaker 1: first full house?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I lived in San Francisco, I.
Speaker 1: Know, because that's how I think we bonded over that
Speaker 1: because that's where I'm from.
Speaker 2: Right, So, where are you from the actual city?
Speaker 1: So I'm from Rinda Lafayette area? And then I remember
Speaker 1: one of the first times we met, we we bonded
Speaker 1: over that we're both from here. Yeah, and where did
Speaker 1: you grow up in the city proper?
Speaker 2: No, I grew up in Danville when Danville?
Speaker 1: Okay, so right by me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that where the Danville's chocolates is from?
Speaker 1: So Marla, we go to Danville Chocolates. We love it
Speaker 1: so much. I don't know if it was there when
Speaker 1: you were there, but it is the chocolates here, and
Speaker 1: so we get all are like, you know, like if
Speaker 1: we were going to get a Marla chocolate, they can
Speaker 1: write like your name or your project on there. And
Speaker 1: so we get them do all our custom chocolate, and
Speaker 1: then we drive it down to La.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is a shout out to Danville Chocolates.
Speaker 2: That's amazingly.
Speaker 1: They need a married gentleman chocolate to keep going. So
Speaker 1: full house. So obviously that.
Speaker 2: It was kind of one of those things that I
Speaker 2: lived in Danville. I did a bunch of community theater.
Speaker 2: I did theater in the city at Act and then
Speaker 2: an agent said to my mom, you know you should
Speaker 2: take her to La And my mom said to me,
Speaker 2: you get one month in La. You will try this
Speaker 2: pilot season thing. And I got full house.
Speaker 3: Amazing gosh.
Speaker 1: And then I really discovered you on the practice. I
Speaker 1: just was like, this show is brilliant. You were amazing.
Speaker 1: Our friend Jessica Capshaw, we were just earlier today about
Speaker 1: the practice.
Speaker 2: Oh do you know Jessica Cashcaws set my husband and
Speaker 2: I up.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: You know, she's like, she works with us, she has
Speaker 1: an amazing podcast, and she's one of our total pals.
Speaker 1: We love her. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Love me some Jessica Capsu and I love that podcast.
Speaker 2: I listened to their podcast.
Speaker 1: They're amazing. Wait, how did she do that?
Speaker 2: So we were on the show, and then it was
Speaker 2: her husband's thirtieth birthday, which is even crazy to think
Speaker 2: that any of us ever turned thirty. Seems like so young.
Speaker 3: It was like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Just thirty. Don't let Danielle laugh. Like, Danielle, you're a child.
Speaker 3: I know I'm thirty four and thirty feels like sixty.
Speaker 1: I tell her, wait till menopause and she can just
Speaker 1: give me a ring. But anyway, keep going. Wait, this
Speaker 1: is amazing funny.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and then my husband was there, but I
Speaker 2: had just broken up with somebody. I was like just
Speaker 2: not interested. And he was there and he said to Jessica,
Speaker 2: who's your friend and she was like, oh, it's my
Speaker 2: friend Marla. We worked together, and then the next day
Speaker 2: she said, on Wednesday, I think this was like a Sunday.
Speaker 2: She's like, Wednesday, you're meeting Christopher and I at Georgio's
Speaker 2: and my friend Alec is coming, and I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, we all know Jessica, we love Jessica, but
Speaker 2: Jessica's not someone you could say no to very easily.
Speaker 2: You came and so I was like, no, but okay,
Speaker 2: I know you're gonna bully me into this, and I
Speaker 2: went and it was now it's my husband.
Speaker 3: That is awesome, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I cannot We're gonna text her immediately after this. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now onto the number one movie on Netflix, the Cast.
Speaker 1: Let's just begin. First of all, we were we were
Speaker 1: in at Chad Michael Murray, Yes, I don't I want
Speaker 1: to know how much influence. Now this is for everyone listening.
Speaker 1: This is Marla's story. She wrote this story and she
Speaker 1: also is starring in it. Britt Robertson. But here's where
Speaker 1: I lost my mind. Michael Gross, the dad from Family Ties.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, the aunt Beth Broderick Ant from
Speaker 1: Sabrina the Teenage Witch. But here's where, here's where I
Speaker 1: fell over. Maxwell Callfield.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he's honestly one of my favorites in the movie, right, Like,
Speaker 2: he's just so good.
Speaker 1: So for people that might not know the name, you
Speaker 1: know him from a few ways, but for me, he
Speaker 1: is the star of Grease too.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't think you're gonna say that one for Dynasty?
Speaker 1: What do you think I was gonna say? Do you
Speaker 1: think I was gonna say dynasty?
Speaker 2: Isn't he in like Empire Records or something? Hold on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he was.
Speaker 2: And you know he was like nine o two to one,
Speaker 2: Oh you loved us.
Speaker 1: He was like the older man that dated Brenda On
Speaker 1: like the early first season of nine O two one.
Speaker 1: Oh total, guys, this is the TikTok world and cool
Speaker 1: writer has had a real moment on TikTok and Maxwell
Speaker 1: Cawfield is the cool writer. Like, so when you see
Speaker 1: Michelle Pfeiffer on your TikTok jumping over the ladder, she
Speaker 1: is singing about Maxwell Caullfield. So did you have any
Speaker 1: say in the cast, Like how much did you have
Speaker 1: to surrender after you wrote it?
Speaker 2: You know, I had to surrender because that's what you
Speaker 2: do as a writer, right You just kind of give
Speaker 2: it to your director and they put their spin on it,
Speaker 2: which as they should, you know, to have him put
Speaker 2: his you know, take on the movie. But he did
Speaker 2: tell me that actually you know what it was in
Speaker 2: one of our first notes meetings with Netflix and they said,
Speaker 2: you know, we had lunch, we ch had Michael Murray
Speaker 2: yesterday and I was thinking this would be a perfect
Speaker 2: project for him. I was like, yeah, of course, it
Speaker 2: would be absolutely perfect.
Speaker 1: For him, Like he is perfect in it.
Speaker 3: We can't get over that his name is Luke and
Speaker 3: the reason being. The reason being is this podcast is
Speaker 3: Gilmore Girls, you know, centered, and our host, Scott Patterson
Speaker 3: is Luke.
Speaker 1: So we're so doing a CW show with which as
Speaker 1: we speak, oh.
Speaker 2: We see on the Sullivan's what it is. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's so funny. Yeah. By the way, like just when
Speaker 2: I saw the Gilmore Girls podcast come up in my schedule,
Speaker 2: I was so excited because I am a late bloomer
Speaker 2: to the More Girls. I didn't watch it when it
Speaker 2: was on the air, but now that I have two daughters,
Speaker 2: we have watched it and it is so good.
Speaker 3: It's so so we need to have you on, like
Speaker 3: with Scott too, we need more.
Speaker 1: I would like to watch an episode and then you
Speaker 1: can like break it down. So here's my question for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did this idea come to you? Were you just like,
Speaker 1: you know what we need at the holidays a lot
Speaker 1: of shirtless gentlemen.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that is what we need. A but
Speaker 2: b it actually was an idea that was pitched to
Speaker 2: me and I was hired to write it. It was
Speaker 2: a producer that I loved, this wonderful man named Jeff Shank.
Speaker 2: He called me one day and he said, I have
Speaker 2: this idea for a movie. I've written for him before,
Speaker 2: so he knows that I write, and some of the
Speaker 2: things that I've written for him have been produced. And
Speaker 2: he said, you know, like full Monte Magic Mike, but
Speaker 2: with a Christmas element. And I'm like, I know what
Speaker 2: those elements are because I've written Christmas movies before. So
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm on it. I got it. And
Speaker 2: I mean the original draft was definitely more kind of
Speaker 2: spicy than what it is now. We had to tone
Speaker 2: it down.
Speaker 1: I would love to see that too. This one's very
Speaker 1: wonderful and sweet and all the Christmasy things, but I
Speaker 1: could see it being a bit sus hear even mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like you know, first of all, all those guys
Speaker 2: were camera ready to show whatever body parts they needed
Speaker 2: to which I was just so amazed. So we could
Speaker 2: have put them any.
Speaker 3: Nail carbs on the on their diets. That is crass.
Speaker 1: Zero. Your boy, Chad Michael Murray is really bringing the
Speaker 1: A game. Because here's what I'll say. Yeah, shout up
Speaker 1: to Netflix that promoted this movie very well. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like I've been counting down the days to this
Speaker 1: movie for a really long time. And Chad Michael Murray
Speaker 1: with his calendar, just doing all the things and she's
Speaker 1: not ready to wear those pants just a little bit low.
Speaker 2: Like, oh yeah, he's not dumb. He's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I know what you want to see, so I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna show it to you. I mean, my twelve year
Speaker 2: old came with me to the screening and they were
Speaker 2: there was like a table with all the calendars and
Speaker 2: she was like hording, like I'm like, you cannot take
Speaker 2: that many. It's so embarrassing. She left with like six
Speaker 2: of them, and then we went to another screen last
Speaker 2: night and there were more calendars to take. It's I
Speaker 2: don't know if she's like wallpaper in her room or
Speaker 2: what the deal is. But to your point about Chad
Speaker 2: and how you know the Gilmore Girls, connection is so
Speaker 2: interesting because when he got cast, I told my daughter, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy Chad Michael Murray's gonna be the lead in
Speaker 2: the movie that I wrote. And she was like, Chamucha Murray. What.
Speaker 2: I'm like, how do you know him? It was so
Speaker 2: confusing to me. And then I remembered that he was
Speaker 2: on Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: He's sort of the original love interest for Rory Murray. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's some edge to him on Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: But so I'm loving I don't want to you know,
Speaker 1: we look, people are starting to watch it. They're they're
Speaker 1: all just jam into it on Netflix. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to like Ruin too much. But it is so darling,
Speaker 1: Like it's cute, there's goofy pratt falls, you know, say,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we kind of start to see their crush
Speaker 1: right out the gate, Like you're not making me suffer
Speaker 1: through that too much in the beginning there, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: right from the start, I'm like, Okay, this is going
Speaker 1: to have everything I want. There's a struggle, you know that,
Speaker 1: there's a struggle. There's love, there's a cute family, there's holiday,
Speaker 1: there's shirtless men. So okay, so is it pretty much
Speaker 1: the version you wrote that we're seeing in that second round,
Speaker 1: So the start was a little sassier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny that you said. I love that it's
Speaker 2: just right off the back because in my original draft,
Speaker 2: I think we spent more time in New York, you know,
Speaker 2: really saw her as like this girl who was you know,
Speaker 2: lived her lifelong dream of being a dancer on Broadway.
Speaker 2: There was more time spent there. But you know, one
Speaker 2: of the first notes I did get was like, let's
Speaker 2: just get right into it, let's get let's start. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that it was so helpful, you know. And when
Speaker 2: we when I first saw the movie, the way that
Speaker 2: it was cut was it just was done so well,
Speaker 2: and it just made it real much quicker, and moments
Speaker 2: that I was sad were gone. I'm like, they didn't
Speaker 2: need to be in there, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's what I want to know from you. Okay,
Speaker 1: So first, I love that you're an actor and Marla
Speaker 1: is in this. When did you become a writer, When
Speaker 1: did you start doing that? And when you get notes
Speaker 1: from the network notes and quotes? How do you not
Speaker 1: get hurt by that? I think I would be crying
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: I mean, luckily because I'm an actor. I have no soul.
Speaker 3: You're used to it. I was going to say, you're
Speaker 3: used to feedback, whether it's good or bad.
Speaker 2: It's like, what market do you really tell me? It's
Speaker 2: to hurt my feelings? It's all been said. So I mean,
Speaker 2: do I love a lot of notes?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: But is a part of the job. Yes, I've always written.
Speaker 2: I've always had little scripts that I've written on my
Speaker 2: computer in my off time. And it was probably about
Speaker 2: eight years ago, eight or nine years ago I kind
Speaker 2: of decided I was really focusing on the wrong side
Speaker 2: of being, you know, on wrong side of the camera.
Speaker 2: And then I wanted to direct and write more than
Speaker 2: I wanted to act.
Speaker 1: So I was going to ask you, I was actually
Speaker 1: surprised you didn't direct this. Did you think about it?
Speaker 1: Did you talk about it? You know, the.
Speaker 2: Director was already attached when I started writing it. So,
Speaker 2: and he's amazing, this man, Peter Sullivan. You know, he
Speaker 2: was already attached and I love him. And he's actually
Speaker 2: somebody who helped me get into directing. I shadowed him
Speaker 2: and he directed a came in, so I'm so grateful
Speaker 2: to him. But yeah, so once I started deciding that
Speaker 2: I wanted to direct. It was even more important for
Speaker 2: me to write the things that I was going to
Speaker 2: direct because there was also the other element of like,
Speaker 2: maybe I'll be in it too, So it all kind
Speaker 2: of went together.
Speaker 1: Audition or could you cast yourself and just say hey,
Speaker 1: I wrote and so so Marla plays Britt Robertson's sister,
Speaker 1: So you've got a big part in this. But you know, like,
Speaker 1: how did that happen?
Speaker 2: It was so funny. I didn't even think I was
Speaker 2: going to be in this movie. Like I said, wrote it,
Speaker 2: you know, we went through a couple of drafts, sent
Speaker 2: it off, never thought about it again really, and then
Speaker 2: I did get a call saying do you have Marie?
Speaker 2: And I was so excited, And then I realized I
Speaker 2: totally wrote this part for myself. I didn't know I
Speaker 2: did it, but I did, because oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: Crazy, that's so interesting.
Speaker 2: I was like, why wouldn't I Marie? Of course? So yeah,
Speaker 2: it was really it was really fun, and it was
Speaker 2: also really fun to be on set for a movie.
Speaker 2: I wrote that I had to do nothing other than
Speaker 2: play one of their roles, because you know, as a director,
Speaker 2: you're doing soody. Then You're like it was off.
Speaker 1: You know, can you imagine Marla floves are lines like
Speaker 1: you wrote.
Speaker 3: It, girl, I forgot my lines.
Speaker 1: Alena Gome's mom I think is in it from Wizards
Speaker 1: of Waverley Place.
Speaker 6: Like the cast, Oh, Maria is so baller Like it's
Speaker 6: just filled with all our holiday It's just a gooey,
Speaker 6: lovey holiday treat where you're just like, I love the cast,
Speaker 6: I love the story, I love the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Perfect timing. I think they it's we're ready.
Speaker 3: There is nothing I love more than a holiday movie.
Speaker 3: Nothing I love more. I think that's really why bringing them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's why these movies are drinks so well.
Speaker 2: And particularly this year. It's like we haven't had an election.
Speaker 2: You know, there's been there was a pandemic, We're coming
Speaker 2: off of a creator strike. There's just been so much
Speaker 2: that it's like, I personally don't want to sit around
Speaker 2: and deal with that stuff, so I like to brush
Speaker 2: it to the side and watch holiday movies.
Speaker 1: There one that you bring up the strike too, because
Speaker 1: you know that's been challenging for so many people. So
Speaker 1: it's amazing that you got this, that you wrote it,
Speaker 1: got it done, Like how long between writing it do
Speaker 1: you find out, like, hey, we're making this.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I looked at the scripts the other day.
Speaker 2: My first draft was in October of last last year,
Speaker 2: so that is just a year ago. Basically. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: have another project. I have another project that I sold
Speaker 2: when I was six months pregnant and my daughter's about
Speaker 2: to turn three, so it's like, gosh, that's more what
Speaker 2: I'm used to. So yeah, this one was really quick
Speaker 2: and we went I wanted to say we found out
Speaker 2: in January that it was going to get January February
Speaker 2: somewhere around there that it was sold.
Speaker 1: To laugh, because people are always recording their Christmas albums
Speaker 1: in like July, because that's kind of when you have to.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, what yeah, no, look,
Speaker 1: we have so much respect for that, because this is
Speaker 1: how we do it. We got on the zoom ten
Speaker 1: minutes ago and here we go, and then it'll go
Speaker 1: out tonight and it's done. Like we work in Live,
Speaker 1: you know, basically live. So to have a project that
Speaker 1: takes years and years and years and years, you have
Speaker 1: to have so much patience and motivation too. It's like, oh, and.
Speaker 2: You have to have multiple projects. Really is the reality
Speaker 2: of this age. You can't just be betting on that
Speaker 2: one because nine times out of ten, and that's what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I feel. So I'm just filled with so
Speaker 2: much gratitude today because of the fact that I have
Speaker 2: had literally twenty other things that never saw the land
Speaker 2: of day that were in production in development, got sold.
Speaker 2: We're even like so close to like being in prep
Speaker 2: and still didn't get made. So to have something get
Speaker 2: made and then have people watch.
Speaker 3: It and it'd be number one.
Speaker 1: I know, number one, which is a big deal and
Speaker 1: like so much support. I will say I have loved
Speaker 1: every second of the promotion for this from the trailer drop,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, hey, like it's fun.
Speaker 2: And also every actor was willing to do so much,
Speaker 2: like Chant did so much and Print did so much.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes they think that hurts these movies when
Speaker 2: you know the actors aren't as participatory as they've been.
Speaker 2: They've just been really gung ho and amazing, and it's
Speaker 2: just everything is spell pretty easy on this movie, which
Speaker 2: you know always makes me a little suspect, But.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you do? We'll leave you with
Speaker 1: this question because we love, you know, all the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. What do you do with your script, like
Speaker 1: your first draft of the script, do you keep that?
Speaker 1: And what do you do with the final version? Like
Speaker 1: we know from Tori Spelling that Aaron Spelling Candy had
Speaker 1: all Aaron's I think pilots leather bound and in a
Speaker 1: you know, one of their libraries. I don't expect that
Speaker 1: you have a sixty thousand square foot house to keep
Speaker 1: it all. But what do you do with your script?
Speaker 1: Like do you get everyone to sign it?
Speaker 2: Like? That's so, that is such a cute idea.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I haven't printed out I have
Speaker 2: all my scripts. I'm like such an like an old
Speaker 2: school person. When I read script, I have to print it.
Speaker 2: I cannot read on a totally.
Speaker 1: So I don't work anymore either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that's a cute idea to get everybody to
Speaker 2: sign it. I wish I would have thought about that.
Speaker 2: Owners saw everybody.
Speaker 1: Especially when you're in it, like you're in it, you're there.
Speaker 1: Was it fun to make?
Speaker 2: So fun to make? I mean? And like I said,
Speaker 2: the main thing that was fun to make, I mean,
Speaker 2: the main part of it was that I didn't have
Speaker 2: much to do besides take care of Marie and that
Speaker 2: you know, for the past few years has not been
Speaker 2: my experience on set, so it was like really relaxed.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, my gosh, tell me where
Speaker 2: to stand, like so exciting. I don't have to do
Speaker 2: any of that.
Speaker 1: And here's what we know. We know that everyone listening
Speaker 1: they love content tied to Gilmour Girls in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, meaning a writer, a producer, a cast member,
Speaker 1: so they will watch like so these people are just
Speaker 1: super happy that their favorites from their favorite show Gilmore
Speaker 1: Girls have a project that they can watch. And this
Speaker 1: one is, like I said, it's a total treat. It's
Speaker 1: just so fun. I was watching it as I was
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, doing little things, and it
Speaker 1: was just like I just wanted my popcorn and oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. You know the scene that's so cute, and
Speaker 1: this is in the beginning ruining it when she's with
Speaker 1: all her Christmas She's got all her Christmas decord. This
Speaker 1: is when she's still in New York, She's got the
Speaker 1: big bowl of popcorn. She's just it's very holiday and
Speaker 1: gets you in the mood. So I think it's the
Speaker 1: perfect thing for people to start watching all month long.
Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. I love seeing you. You're the best
Speaker 1: mar a life.
Speaker 2: We're so happy for you see you.
Speaker 1: And I love like look Danny all and I love
Speaker 1: like baller girl, like just a girl doing her thing
Speaker 1: and like it's so awesome.
Speaker 2: And like also, I mean I posted this on my
Speaker 2: Instagram a few hours ago, but Lady Shivert is also
Speaker 2: in a Netflix holiday movie. Yes, I'm like, she's another one.
Speaker 2: Like we have crime lunches together about jobs and boyfriends
Speaker 2: and pregnancies and all these things, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: am so honored to like share any space with her.
Speaker 2: But it was just really it's so and Chad too,
Speaker 2: because it's like we've all been just plugging away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really, it's really just so great. I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: Christmas, Happy Holidays. I love seeing you.
Speaker 2: I hope I see you soon.
Speaker 1: Yes, literally absolutely well. I love hearing that story. We're
Speaker 1: going to text her immediately. And also I hope you
Speaker 1: will come back and maybe watch maybe ask your daughter
Speaker 1: her favorite Gilmour episode and then you all you can
Speaker 1: watch it with Scott and like talk about all the
Speaker 1: scenes and everything.
Speaker 2: Please let me come back. I would love it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love seeing you. We'll talk to you,
Speaker 1: sincengrats can.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Yiah.
Speaker 1: I love her so much.
Speaker 3: I know she's so cute, she's.
Speaker 1: So great and it's great. So you guys, it just
Speaker 1: dropped on Netflix line last week. If you're cooking, it's
Speaker 1: a perfect It's that's what's so perfect. If you're cooking
Speaker 1: or cleaning the house or doing those little things, pop
Speaker 1: it on like it's it's that kind of movie, like
Speaker 1: it's real.
Speaker 3: Cute and and you know this weegest Thanksgiving, but as
Speaker 3: of this Friday, it is. It is Christmas season, guys,
Speaker 3: it is holiday season. So you turn on that Netflix
Speaker 3: and you turn on the merry gentlemen and have yourself
Speaker 3: at ball.
Speaker 1: You could even do a little, you know, at night
Speaker 1: there when the kids are down, make yourself that bowl
Speaker 1: of popcorn. You didn't know where you were gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Do you think I was gonna do something weird? Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're alone and you like Chad Michael Murray, this
Speaker 1: is the movie for you know. I wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: dirty dirty. Imagine if if fine get your glass of wine.
Speaker 1: I always think, how about I don't I've never had
Speaker 1: any alcohol, so I'm always like, get your cocoa. I
Speaker 1: also can't have dairy so even have coco anymore.
Speaker 3: But whatever, it's to have a good old Kamamel tea.
Speaker 1: Your water, and your email.
Speaker 5: Okay, everybody, as forget.
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