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Speaker 1: I Am all In.

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Speaker 2: You, I Am all In with Scott Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast, Want

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Speaker 1: of Production, iHeart Radio, iHeart Media, iHeart Podcast. One on

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Speaker 1: one interview with mister Chase Kim. He was in one

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Speaker 1: episode of the show. He played Lane's uncle Joe in

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Speaker 1: just like Gwen and Gavin. He was born in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and raised in other countries as well. He initially

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Speaker 1: chose to pursue a career in business and graduated from

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Speaker 1: University of California, San Diego with a BA in History

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Speaker 1: and political Science in nineteen ninety seven. However, after spending

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Speaker 1: more than six years at his job in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: New York, Dallas, in Chicago, Chase decided to switch careers

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Speaker 1: and became an actor and Steady debuted in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three in an uncredited guest star role as a

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Speaker 1: Korean handler in the series The West Wing, and went

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Speaker 1: on to be cast in dozens of other roles since then.

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Speaker 1: His roles included Criminal Minds, Magnum p I, Hawaii Five O,

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Speaker 1: Ritzolian Isles, and Bosh, Let's bring Him in Here. He

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Speaker 1: is Chase Kim Chase. How you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm great. How are you, Scott?

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Speaker 1: Good? Good good, Nice to meet you and thanks thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on. First off, how'd you get your role

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Speaker 1: on Gilmore Girls?

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Speaker 4: Well, it was pretty much the very standard auditioning process.

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Speaker 4: This was pretty early in my career, so I started

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Speaker 4: acting kind of a little bit later in my life.

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Speaker 4: I think I was in my late twenties at the time,

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Speaker 4: and this was pretty much one of my kind of.

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Speaker 3: First TV roles and I just audition.

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Speaker 4: I had to pre read with probably fifty other guys,

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Speaker 4: guys that kind of looked like me, and then I

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Speaker 4: got the call back and went to the bungalow over

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Speaker 4: there at Warner Brothers. And the funny story about that

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Speaker 4: audition is that I was getting ready to go in

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Speaker 4: and Mara Casey, who is who was one of the

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Speaker 4: casting directors on the show, came out before I read

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Speaker 4: and pulled me aside and said, Hey, everybody really loved

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Speaker 4: what you did on the in the first call, but

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Speaker 4: you need to talk faster. And I said, okay, I'd

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Speaker 4: never gotten a note like that before, and she just said, no,

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Speaker 4: you just have to fly through the words like no pausing,

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Speaker 4: You just have to talk faster, and I remember thinking, man,

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Speaker 4: that's a really odd note to give to an actor

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Speaker 4: that's about to go into an audition, But I tried

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Speaker 4: my best to kind of speed through it and and

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Speaker 4: I got the call that had gotten the role, So

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Speaker 4: that was pretty exciting.

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Speaker 1: Was that one of your first gigs that you booked.

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Speaker 4: I want to say that was probably like my second

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Speaker 4: or third TV gig that I'd booked, but it was

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Speaker 4: definitely like the biggest one that it was the first

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Speaker 4: one that had a name for sure, right, because all

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Speaker 4: the other ones were like just like a description of

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Speaker 4: a character, like cop Number one or something like that,

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Speaker 4: and this was the first character that had an actual name.

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Speaker 1: And had Were you familiar with the show? How had

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Speaker 1: you been aware of the show?

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Speaker 3: I definitely was aware. I was.

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Speaker 4: I don't I wouldn't call myself a fan of the

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Speaker 1: How did your family react when you told them that

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Speaker 1: you booked, Because I know you came from the business

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Speaker 1: world and into acting late A little later in life,

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Speaker 1: I did the same thing. Actually, yeah, And how did

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Speaker 1: your parents react to that or your siblings or siblings?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's funny because in the Lane Scare Lane

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Speaker 4: and my family is definitely very stereotypically Korean, and my

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Speaker 4: mom is like very stoic, and even at that point,

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Speaker 4: she probably wasn't all that supportive of me being an actor.

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Speaker 4: She was probably just like ah, But when she started

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Speaker 4: she started to kind of accept it. But to this day,

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Speaker 4: like Korean moms are not very easy with the compliments,

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Speaker 1: You know. Staying on that subject, how did you feel

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Speaker 1: that Koreans were depicted in Gilmore Girls? Did you were

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Speaker 1: you ever at all offended by stereotypes or did you

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Speaker 1: think it was a pretty accurate depiction. No.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was definitely a very accurate depiction. I

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Speaker 4: of cultural gap for the first generation Korean Americans definitely exists.

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Speaker 4: So I thought it was done very accurately. And I

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Speaker 4: found the wedding episode to be very humorous because it's

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Speaker 4: very accurate, like they go to the ceremony and they

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Speaker 4: all basically just eat and they want to go home.

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Speaker 1: I was particularly moved when Lane was back in the

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Speaker 1: and they had that and Lane stood up for herself

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Speaker 1: the mother said, Lane, come down here right now, and

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Speaker 1: they shared some ceremonial drink. And is that part of

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the drinking.

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Speaker 4: There's a heavy drinking culture in Korean and the Korean culture, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean that particular ceremony is that is did that, Sarah?

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Speaker 1: Because we speculated on what that really meant because that

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Speaker 1: just happened a couple episodes ago. Okay, so was A

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Speaker 1: what what were they drinking? And B was that a

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Speaker 1: rite of passage? Was that a ritual that that families,

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Speaker 1: Korean families do once their children they feel their children

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I don't think there's like an official thing,

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Speaker 4: but what they were drinking is probably more than ninety

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Speaker 4: like a rice wine, okay, and it's kind of like vodka.

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Speaker 4: A lot of times in this day and age day,

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Speaker 4: places that don't have a full liquor license will use

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Speaker 3: Cocktails and whatnot.

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Speaker 4: And then but there is definitely a time when it

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Speaker 3: And it's like when.

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Speaker 4: You're young, it's kind of not looked upon favorably, but

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Speaker 4: like when you become an adult, I think you definitely

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Speaker 1: No very moving scene. That's one of my that's my

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Speaker 1: favorite Lane and Missus Kim scenes. And there are a

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Speaker 1: lot to choose from. Yeah, so Stars Hall, it was

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Speaker 1: all dressed up for the Winter Carnival for your day?

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Speaker 1: How did that feel when you walked onto the set?

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Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: I mean the way they go all out obviously, like

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Speaker 4: actually was pretty. It was I want to say, it

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Speaker 4: was like right around this time of year when we shot,

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Speaker 4: and it was at night, and I remember being unseasonably

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Speaker 4: cold for California and so being out there and you

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Speaker 4: Because I know I've talked to people that have been

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you had to do it as well, where

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Speaker 4: it's like it doesn't feel real because it's so high outside.

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Speaker 4: But on the night the Knights that I shot, it

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Speaker 1: So we were we were discussing the scene. We were

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Speaker 1: discussing the scene with you and Zach at the bottle toss. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I did, I mean, but it was funny because that

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Speaker 4: and I just go out there and I'm like softly

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Speaker 4: tossing at the balls and he here he comes, just

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Speaker 4: like firing the balls at the bottles, and the balls

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Speaker 4: bit of when Sally Strether's character is like, oh, you're

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Speaker 3: There was a little bit of that because he was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked like he's got a good army.

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Speaker 3: They were bouncing all over the place, so it was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh and coincidentally, he had a role on

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Speaker 1: The OC for three episodes and was that booked around

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Speaker 4: I booked the OC after that, so I want to

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Speaker 4: was actually supposed to be in the wedding episode of Gilmore,

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Speaker 3: Do it right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which which whose wedding? Which wedding?

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Speaker 3: Uh for a Lane's wedding.

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Speaker 1: Oh Lane's wedding gotchah.

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Speaker 3: So I was supposed to.

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Speaker 4: Be one of the career Yeah, the Korean family members

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Speaker 4: coming back to the wedding, And I doubt I had

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Speaker 4: a whole bunch to do at that episod, But I

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Speaker 4: certainly wanted to do it because, like I said, it

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Speaker 1: What was it like working with Keiko?

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Speaker 3: And it was great.

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Speaker 4: You know, she is such a such a just a

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Speaker 4: through other friends. I became really good friends with Sean Gunn,

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Speaker 4: became very friendly afterwards. But she was so nice to

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Speaker 4: so I was like, you know, just trying to not

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Speaker 4: get anything wrong. When I was on set, I was

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Speaker 4: just kind of like, all right, I just want to

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Speaker 4: make sure I don't mess up.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to, you know.

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Speaker 4: So it was definitely you know, I would treat it

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Speaker 4: a lot differently, you know, if I was on a

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Speaker 1: Right, So Zach called you the Korean Brad Pitt, which

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Speaker 1: is like, yeah, I would say that's a compliment.

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Speaker 3: There's two little references.

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Speaker 4: I think there's a reference to George Clooney and there's

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Speaker 4: a reference to Brad Pitt.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So you basically covered all the bases there for

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Speaker 1: Oceans the Oceans films exactly. What's your favorite memory from

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 4: I mean the absolute favor is just getting that call

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Speaker 4: from my agent that I had booked it, obviously, but

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Speaker 1: Oh nice, So you're going to go to Sundance and

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Speaker 3: I doubt it. I didn't have that big a part

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Speaker 1: for what.

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Speaker 3: Is it's a movie called Thelma. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna do a little thing called rapid Fire. Not.

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Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have to be quick with your answers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to trigger your Gilmore anxiety here? How

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Speaker 4: If I'm drinking coffee, it's gonna be probably just black.

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Speaker 1: Are you Team Logan, Team Jess or Team Dean?

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Speaker 4: My wife told me if if anybody asked me that,

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Speaker 4: I got to say team Logan.

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Speaker 1: There you go, smart woman. We like Logan a lot

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Speaker 1: over well, we like them all, but we really like Loagan.

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Speaker 1: Who's your favorite? The Gilmour girls couple, Luke and LARELEI

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Speaker 3: Oh, Luke and Laurel I thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Would you rather work with Michelle or Kirk?

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Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna have to say Kirk because he's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, there you go. What would you I

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Speaker 3: I saw him like three weeks ago at a party,

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Speaker 3: I think, and he's doing great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. What would you order at Luke's Diner?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm just gonna do an omelet.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do a kind of an omelet with Chrispy

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Speaker 1: You got it, buddy, coming right up. Would you rather

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Speaker 1: hang out with Paris or Lane? I think we know

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Speaker 3: Lane.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Paris, she's too much get It's like getting the

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Speaker 4: I think the Koreane Mey's gonna have to go with

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Speaker 4: Ivy League and let's go with Yale.

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Speaker 1: Good choice. Would you rather attend a dar event with

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Speaker 4: I always found the town meetings to be kind of

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Speaker 1: Alrighty uh Gilmore Girls. Character that you would want as

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Speaker 3: Don't know about this one. I'm gonna have maybe you

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Speaker 1: There you go, no one in style now yeah, going

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Speaker 1: on the private jet. Something in your life you are.

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Speaker 3: All in on. I am all always all in on

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Speaker 3: Dodger Baseball.

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Speaker 1: I'm a huge Then you're then you're in heaven right now.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling pretty good right now.

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Speaker 1: Uh, Chase Kim, pleasure to talk to you, get to

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Speaker 1: know you a little bit. We enjoyed your work on

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Speaker 1: the episode, and best of luck to you, and look

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Speaker 1: out for Thelma the Sundance Film Festival debut. Uh and

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Speaker 1: in your local theaters. Thanks for stopping by.

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Speaker 3: All the best, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Pleasure, hey everybody, and don't forget follow us on Instagram

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