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Speaker 1: I Am All in again, I.

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Speaker 2: Am All in Town Meeting with Suzanne French and Tara

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Speaker 2: suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to another

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Speaker 2: episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself, Tara

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Speaker 2: and Susanne.

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Speaker 3: Hello.

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Speaker 2: Hello, and this is a special episode. It's not our

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Speaker 2: usual recap. We've done a couple of special ones, like

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Speaker 2: our pale Fest, our Connecticut trip, but this one's kind

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Speaker 2: of interesting because, uh, we want to continue the conversation

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Speaker 2: from Amy and Danielle talking to Donna from Star TV

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Speaker 2: because she brought up a really interesting question. Yes, so

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Speaker 2: she brought up at the end of their episode, and

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Speaker 2: definitely feel free to go back and listen to the

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Speaker 2: Gazette Yeah from the other day. So basically what she

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Speaker 2: said is, given that Lorelai was so determined to break

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Speaker 2: away from her family and create her own path, why

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Speaker 2: did she choose to name her daughter after herself and

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Speaker 2: her mistakes continuing the family name. And this is basically

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Speaker 2: what Donna said from Start TV. And before we get

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Speaker 2: into it, Suzanne, Yeah, for the fans who are going

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Speaker 2: to come at us, we know that it's explained in

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Speaker 2: the show, right and it was mentioned in season one,

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Speaker 2: episode two, the Lorelei's first day at Chelton. So I

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Speaker 2: just will kind of let you go from here, Suzanne,

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Speaker 2: Can you kind of explain, because you meant you actually

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Speaker 2: before we jumped on, said that it's mentioned twice in

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Speaker 2: the show, right.

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Speaker 3: So it's mentioned in two different places, right at the

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Speaker 3: very beginning season one episode one, Season one, episode two,

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Speaker 3: and in the pilot in the scene where Rory meets

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Speaker 3: Dean at Childon, she drops her books all over the

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Speaker 3: floor and they introduce themselves, and she says her name,

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Speaker 3: and then she says, it's my mother's name too. She

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Speaker 3: named me after herself. She was lying in the hospital

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Speaker 3: thinking about how men name boys after themselves all the time,

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Speaker 3: you know, so why couldn't women. Her feminism just took over,

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Speaker 3: although personally, I think a lot of demarol also went

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Speaker 3: into the decision. So that was from the pilot episode

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Speaker 3: and then the very next episode, which is where they

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Speaker 3: go to Chilton and they're checking in with the secretary

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Speaker 3: at the desk and Laura's kind of stumbling over her

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Speaker 3: words a little bit, and she says, Oh, I'm Laura

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Speaker 3: like Gilmore. This is my daughter, Laura like Gilmore. I

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Speaker 3: named her after me I was in the hospital all

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Speaker 3: whacked out on demarol. And then then she says, but

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Speaker 3: we call her Rory. It's short for Laura I or

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Speaker 3: even hey you, So we know right there that it.

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Speaker 3: The show explains it as like her feminism kind of

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Speaker 3: took over. But it's an interesting question. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: Donna had kind of tied it into you know, Connecticut

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Speaker 3: high society and the expectations of honoring your family, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I personally, I didn't read that much

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Speaker 3: into it because she also points out Donna also pointed

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Speaker 3: out that Laura I was like a sixteen year old

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Speaker 3: at the time, So a rebellious sixteen year old probably

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Speaker 3: is not thinking about, oh, let me honor my family

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Speaker 3: with this decision, like she's just gonna blurt something out.

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Speaker 2: No, she probably like gave birth and she's like, well,

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Speaker 2: I can't think of a name, so I'm gonna name

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Speaker 2: her after myself.

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Speaker 3: Right, So I think you could. I think you can

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Speaker 3: interpret it on multiple levels.

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Speaker 2: It's like terrible, terrible comparison. I'm not comparing people to animals,

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Speaker 2: but you know, when like a kid names a puppy, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's an interesting name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is an interesting thing to think about

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Speaker 3: because when you think about Richard's mother was also Laurel I,

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Speaker 3: and so there was a decision made to name how

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Speaker 3: do I say, to name the Lauren Graham Laura I

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Speaker 3: after the Mary and Ross Laurel I. Not to get

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Speaker 3: the Laurel lies confused, but like they consciously made a

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Speaker 3: decision to name their baby after his mother, which would

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Speaker 3: have been you know, like, yeah, they were trying to

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Speaker 3: do that, like they were trying to honor their family,

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Speaker 3: whereas the younger Laurel I may not have been thinking

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Speaker 2: At what points did she say, but her nickname's going

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Speaker 2: to be Rory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. That's another question that comes up a lot, is

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Speaker 3: how do you how did where did Rory come from?

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Speaker 2: That's that's the thing is like I wonder if and

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Speaker 2: tell me if I'm wrong or if you know, people

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Speaker 2: we can have a bigger discussion on our Instagram at

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Speaker 2: iam all in podcasts if you want to believe a comment,

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Speaker 2: but was could it also have been like she liked

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Speaker 2: the name Rory and Rory could be a spin off

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Speaker 2: of Laura I. Because of the law Rory I don't know,

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Speaker 2: I'm like really stretching it, but yeah, like where did

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Speaker 2: Rory come from?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: And and that's the one thing that is never explained

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Speaker 3: in the show, Like they don't ever tell us where

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Speaker 3: Rory came from. And I've seen a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of different opinions out there.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Some people think, well, maybe it came from Rory herself

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Speaker 3: couldn't pronounce her own name because they are hard for

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Speaker 3: little kids to say, and so maybe maybe Rory came

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Speaker 3: up with Rory. You know, we don't know, so we

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Speaker 3: could take our imaginations in any direction. We reade that one.

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Speaker 2: Our producers, Jackie and Emma, grabbed a couple Reddit user

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Speaker 2: comments because when in out Reddit has talked about everything

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Speaker 2: under the sun. Yes, so I'm going to read a

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Speaker 2: couple these are just from anonymous users. Someone said, I

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Speaker 2: think the name also emphasizes with the fact that Laura

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Speaker 2: la I sometimes views Rory as an extension of herself

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Speaker 2: and wanted Rory to do the things she herself never

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Speaker 2: got the chance to do, probably a coping mechanism which

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Speaker 3: I think that makes sense. You know, we've we've talked

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Speaker 3: about already how Laurai was so independent and I, you know,

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Speaker 3: she made the decision to not get married to Christopher

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Speaker 3: that makes sense to a certain extent, that she she

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Speaker 3: wants Rory to just be hers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, here's another one. This one says and here

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Speaker 2: I am with the idea for the past upteen years

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Speaker 2: that Lorelai named her daughter Laurai Ilmore as a sort

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Speaker 2: of second chance by giving herself a do over, a

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Speaker 2: figurative a figurative clean slate, a chance at erasing all

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Speaker 2: of her and her parents' mistakes and getting Laura l

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Speaker 2: I right the second time around. I kind of thought

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Speaker 2: that was the whole point in everything she did in

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Speaker 2: another really interesting point.

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Speaker 3: It yeah, it is. But again going back to the

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Speaker 3: I don't know that she was necessarily thinking of having

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Speaker 3: a do over at age sixteen. I think that would

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Speaker 2: Right, But as a sixteen year old.

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Speaker 3: Right right, yeah, but it's a good point that could be.

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Speaker 2: Another one said was she high on demarol or did

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Speaker 2: she think men name babies after themselves all the time?

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Speaker 2: Why can't women?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Which is which is what she said in that.

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Speaker 2: Which is what she says. Yeah, yeah. And then the

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Speaker 2: last one we have is I think it would have

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Speaker 2: been interesting to see a flashback of her deciding on

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Speaker 2: Rory as the nickname. This person's thinking, like I am,

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Speaker 2: like when she saw her for the first time or

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Speaker 2: did it come later, I don't know, just something I

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Speaker 2: wonder about. Yeah, that's where I think I've had this

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Speaker 2: thought before, but I just never vocalized it because it

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Speaker 2: But like, truly, like I would love if I were

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Speaker 2: ever in the presence of Amy Sherman Palladino. That would

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Speaker 2: be my next question is why the nickname Rory? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but I feel like then Amy would say something like, well,

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Speaker 2: it would be really confusing if we had Laura and LOURAI.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, right, but Rory is is like why

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Speaker 3: not you know Laurie or Laura or you.

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Speaker 2: Know something, or would have made more sense yeaeah, Like, Rory.

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Speaker 3: Is a very specific name and there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: there's men named Rory.

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Speaker 2: So I was about to say I have a friend

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Speaker 2: named Rory and he is a grown man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was an unusual choice, and I agree.

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Speaker 3: I would like to ask Amy, like, how did she

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Speaker 3: how did she pick that name when she was writing

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well, I guess the conversation can continue. I

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Speaker 2: guess we can go back and forth about this a lot.

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Speaker 2: leave it in the comments. Yes, and thanks again to

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Speaker 2: Donna from Star TV, which is the brand new home

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Speaker 2: of Gilmore Girls, for coming up with this question that

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