Speaker 1: I Am All in again, I.
Speaker 2: Am All in Town Meeting with Suzanne French and Tara
Speaker 2: suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to another
Speaker 2: episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself, Tara
Speaker 2: and Susanne.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, and this is a special episode. It's not our
Speaker 2: usual recap. We've done a couple of special ones, like
Speaker 2: our pale Fest, our Connecticut trip, but this one's kind
Speaker 2: of interesting because, uh, we want to continue the conversation
Speaker 2: from Amy and Danielle talking to Donna from Star TV
Speaker 2: because she brought up a really interesting question. Yes, so
Speaker 2: she brought up at the end of their episode, and
Speaker 2: definitely feel free to go back and listen to the
Speaker 2: Gazette Yeah from the other day. So basically what she
Speaker 2: said is, given that Lorelai was so determined to break
Speaker 2: away from her family and create her own path, why
Speaker 2: did she choose to name her daughter after herself and
Speaker 2: her mistakes continuing the family name. And this is basically
Speaker 2: what Donna said from Start TV. And before we get
Speaker 2: into it, Suzanne, Yeah, for the fans who are going
Speaker 2: to come at us, we know that it's explained in
Speaker 2: the show, right and it was mentioned in season one,
Speaker 2: episode two, the Lorelei's first day at Chelton. So I
Speaker 2: just will kind of let you go from here, Suzanne,
Speaker 2: Can you kind of explain, because you meant you actually
Speaker 2: before we jumped on, said that it's mentioned twice in
Speaker 2: the show, right.
Speaker 3: So it's mentioned in two different places, right at the
Speaker 3: very beginning season one episode one, Season one, episode two,
Speaker 3: and in the pilot in the scene where Rory meets
Speaker 3: Dean at Childon, she drops her books all over the
Speaker 3: floor and they introduce themselves, and she says her name,
Speaker 3: and then she says, it's my mother's name too. She
Speaker 3: named me after herself. She was lying in the hospital
Speaker 3: thinking about how men name boys after themselves all the time,
Speaker 3: you know, so why couldn't women. Her feminism just took over,
Speaker 3: although personally, I think a lot of demarol also went
Speaker 3: into the decision. So that was from the pilot episode
Speaker 3: and then the very next episode, which is where they
Speaker 3: go to Chilton and they're checking in with the secretary
Speaker 3: at the desk and Laura's kind of stumbling over her
Speaker 3: words a little bit, and she says, Oh, I'm Laura
Speaker 3: like Gilmore. This is my daughter, Laura like Gilmore. I
Speaker 3: named her after me I was in the hospital all
Speaker 3: whacked out on demarol. And then then she says, but
Speaker 3: we call her Rory. It's short for Laura I or
Speaker 3: even hey you, So we know right there that it.
Speaker 3: The show explains it as like her feminism kind of
Speaker 3: took over. But it's an interesting question. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: Donna had kind of tied it into you know, Connecticut
Speaker 3: high society and the expectations of honoring your family, et cetera.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I personally, I didn't read that much
Speaker 3: into it because she also points out Donna also pointed
Speaker 3: out that Laura I was like a sixteen year old
Speaker 3: at the time, So a rebellious sixteen year old probably
Speaker 3: is not thinking about, oh, let me honor my family
Speaker 3: with this decision, like she's just gonna blurt something out.
Speaker 2: No, she probably like gave birth and she's like, well,
Speaker 2: I can't think of a name, so I'm gonna name
Speaker 2: her after myself.
Speaker 3: Right, So I think you could. I think you can
Speaker 3: interpret it on multiple levels.
Speaker 2: It's like terrible, terrible comparison. I'm not comparing people to animals,
Speaker 2: but you know, when like a kid names a puppy, right,
Speaker 2: you know, it's an interesting name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is an interesting thing to think about
Speaker 3: because when you think about Richard's mother was also Laurel I,
Speaker 3: and so there was a decision made to name how
Speaker 3: do I say, to name the Lauren Graham Laura I
Speaker 3: after the Mary and Ross Laurel I. Not to get
Speaker 3: the Laurel lies confused, but like they consciously made a
Speaker 3: decision to name their baby after his mother, which would
Speaker 3: have been you know, like, yeah, they were trying to
Speaker 3: do that, like they were trying to honor their family,
Speaker 3: whereas the younger Laurel I may not have been thinking
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: At what points did she say, but her nickname's going
Speaker 2: to be Rory.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's another question that comes up a lot, is
Speaker 3: how do you how did where did Rory come from?
Speaker 2: That's that's the thing is like I wonder if and
Speaker 2: tell me if I'm wrong or if you know, people
Speaker 2: we can have a bigger discussion on our Instagram at
Speaker 2: iam all in podcasts if you want to believe a comment,
Speaker 2: but was could it also have been like she liked
Speaker 2: the name Rory and Rory could be a spin off
Speaker 2: of Laura I. Because of the law Rory I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm like really stretching it, but yeah, like where did
Speaker 2: Rory come from?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: And and that's the one thing that is never explained
Speaker 3: in the show, Like they don't ever tell us where
Speaker 3: Rory came from. And I've seen a lot of people.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of different opinions out there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Some people think, well, maybe it came from Rory herself
Speaker 3: couldn't pronounce her own name because they are hard for
Speaker 3: little kids to say, and so maybe maybe Rory came
Speaker 3: up with Rory. You know, we don't know, so we
Speaker 3: could take our imaginations in any direction. We reade that one.
Speaker 2: Our producers, Jackie and Emma, grabbed a couple Reddit user
Speaker 2: comments because when in out Reddit has talked about everything
Speaker 2: under the sun. Yes, so I'm going to read a
Speaker 2: couple these are just from anonymous users. Someone said, I
Speaker 2: think the name also emphasizes with the fact that Laura
Speaker 2: la I sometimes views Rory as an extension of herself
Speaker 2: and wanted Rory to do the things she herself never
Speaker 2: got the chance to do, probably a coping mechanism which
Speaker 2: made it easier to give up so much in order
Speaker 2: to raise her daughter all by herself.
Speaker 3: I think that makes sense. You know, we've we've talked
Speaker 3: about already how Laurai was so independent and I, you know,
Speaker 3: she made the decision to not get married to Christopher
Speaker 3: and to do this on her own, and I think
Speaker 3: that makes sense to a certain extent, that she she
Speaker 3: wants Rory to just be hers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, here's another one. This one says and here
Speaker 2: I am with the idea for the past upteen years
Speaker 2: that Lorelai named her daughter Laurai Ilmore as a sort
Speaker 2: of second chance by giving herself a do over, a
Speaker 2: figurative a figurative clean slate, a chance at erasing all
Speaker 2: of her and her parents' mistakes and getting Laura l
Speaker 2: I right the second time around. I kind of thought
Speaker 2: that was the whole point in everything she did in
Speaker 2: raising Rory from the start of the series, which is
Speaker 2: another really interesting point.
Speaker 3: It yeah, it is. But again going back to the
Speaker 3: fact that she was sixteen at the time, I don't
Speaker 3: know that she was like, she was still so young.
Speaker 3: I don't know that she was necessarily thinking of having
Speaker 3: a do over at age sixteen. I think that would
Speaker 3: have made sense, you know it when we start the
Speaker 3: show in her thirties.
Speaker 2: Right, But as a sixteen year old.
Speaker 3: Right right, yeah, but it's a good point that could be.
Speaker 2: Another one said was she high on demarol or did
Speaker 2: she think men name babies after themselves all the time?
Speaker 2: Why can't women?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Which is which is what she said in that.
Speaker 2: Which is what she says. Yeah, yeah. And then the
Speaker 2: last one we have is I think it would have
Speaker 2: been interesting to see a flashback of her deciding on
Speaker 2: Rory as the nickname. This person's thinking, like I am,
Speaker 2: like when she saw her for the first time or
Speaker 2: did it come later, I don't know, just something I
Speaker 2: wonder about. Yeah, that's where I think I've had this
Speaker 2: thought before, but I just never vocalized it because it
Speaker 2: was just me in my room watching No More Girls.
Speaker 2: But like, truly, like I would love if I were
Speaker 2: ever in the presence of Amy Sherman Palladino. That would
Speaker 2: be my next question is why the nickname Rory? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I feel like then Amy would say something like, well,
Speaker 2: it would be really confusing if we had Laura and LOURAI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, right, but Rory is is like why
Speaker 3: not you know Laurie or Laura or you.
Speaker 2: Know something, or would have made more sense yeaeah, Like, Rory.
Speaker 3: Is a very specific name and there's a lot of
Speaker 3: there's men named Rory.
Speaker 2: So I was about to say I have a friend
Speaker 2: named Rory and he is a grown man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was an unusual choice, and I agree.
Speaker 3: I would like to ask Amy, like, how did she
Speaker 3: how did she pick that name when she was writing
Speaker 3: it all out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well, I guess the conversation can continue. I
Speaker 2: guess we can go back and forth about this a lot.
Speaker 2: I know we would love for people to head to
Speaker 2: our Instagram at im all In podcast to comment your
Speaker 2: thoughts because we really want to hear your theories, so
Speaker 2: leave it in the comments. Yes, and thanks again to
Speaker 2: Donna from Star TV, which is the brand new home
Speaker 2: of Gilmore Girls, for coming up with this question that
Speaker 2: kind of then trickled from their podcast episodes to ours.
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