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Speaker 1: I am all in again. Let's us you. I am

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Speaker 1: all in again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey everybody,

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Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, I am all in Podcast one eleven productions. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia,

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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts. Today is a recap of the Lauren Graham

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Speaker 1: Walk of Fame ceremony October third, and I am joined

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Speaker 1: by the illustrious, the wonderful, the gifted, the talented mister

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Speaker 1: James Pettitt, who is the executive director of Content, Sales

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Speaker 1: and Marketing at Warner Brothers Discovery Studios. James, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Got all that Heck are you how you doing, buddy?

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Speaker 2: I'm still uncloud nine from that amazing star ceremony. It

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Speaker 2: was so good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, it was just all feel good. Tell us

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Speaker 1: about it, tell us take us through it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So shall we start from the very beginning?

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Speaker 1: We start from the very beginning. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So Scotty gets a car that is like the size

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Speaker 2: of I don't know, two buses. It's this big, black,

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Speaker 2: beautiful sedan and he pulls up this is an suv

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Speaker 2: W hotel and like opens the door and there I

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Speaker 2: am so super excited to see you. We are going

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Speaker 2: to do this, but not just us, Like all types

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Speaker 2: of people started coming from the show, from the twenty

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Speaker 2: five years ago, from you know, even fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Amy and Dan walked in, and Amy and Dan and

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Speaker 1: embraced us like long lost cousins.

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Speaker 2: And I must say Amy looked fantastic. She did right,

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Speaker 2: The skin is so nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah she looked good. Yeah, good, she looked happy and.

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Speaker 2: And like, gosh, she's smart. So we walk in, we

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Speaker 2: go to the w hotel. We're greeted by a ton

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Speaker 2: of security and they're like, okay, we're going to walk

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Speaker 2: you through the crowds and get you all the way

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Speaker 2: over to you know, where the star is being laid.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there's like all this chipped away cement

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Speaker 2: on the sidewalk and they're starting to like place the

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Speaker 2: letters and they did all that like the day before,

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Speaker 2: and it's like dried, I guess or whatever. But we

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Speaker 2: where like where everybody is. So we do that with Dan,

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Speaker 2: with Amy, Sam Pancake, that's the person that like was

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Speaker 2: doing like the ceremony m seat. So so we walk

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Speaker 2: all out. Of course, you talked to so many fans

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Speaker 2: and like was like fist bumping and all that.

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Speaker 1: So that was so many people showed up, Mike, so.

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Speaker 2: Many And the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is the one

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Speaker 2: who puts this on. So there's like seven hundred members

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Speaker 2: so and it's all that. It's not like, oh, I

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Speaker 2: So what we did was we tried to get as

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Speaker 2: many casts to come back for the star ceremony. And

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Speaker 2: then there are fifty seats, so that's that's the limit.

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Speaker 2: That's all they ever do. It's fifty seats, and for

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Speaker 2: us to be like two of those seats was just

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Speaker 2: such an honor. It was beautiful. Yeah, And so we

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Speaker 2: got our seats and we found out where we were

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Speaker 2: because our names weren't them, And then they took you

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Speaker 2: to photos in front of the like step and repeat

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Speaker 2: as they call it. You walk the red carpet along

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Speaker 2: with the other actors. And who did you get to

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Speaker 2: like reunite.

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Speaker 1: With, well, you know, Amy and Dan in the in

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Speaker 1: yes we're not drinking drinks.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we have pepsi products by the way, that's right.

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Speaker 1: They were very specific about that, you remember, I mean

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Speaker 1: right right, and yeah, it was just so so many fans. So,

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Speaker 1: and we were chatting them up, and he said, you guys,

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Speaker 1: Right, exactly exactly, because they do when they do this,

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Speaker 1: I'll be lucky to get a crack on the sidewalk,

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Speaker 1: not even Hollywood. You know, I'd like to have a

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Speaker 2: Well they did. They also do it in Palm Springs.

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Speaker 1: They really I don't need a whole square. I could share,

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Speaker 1: you know, it could be a complex crack and I

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Speaker 1: could share it with others maybe you, you and me.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, me, you and the gang. But okay, so

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Speaker 2: They started the ceremony, yes, which was really well tight

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Speaker 2: They're like, we have ten thousand live viewers. Wow, whoa.

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Speaker 2: And then I think Sam started and then Amy came

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Speaker 2: It was like just her brain like firing on all cylinder.

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Speaker 2: She started to read her phone, you know, she wrote

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Speaker 1: Right, she went off script, she said, script, she started

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and told some really funny stories. Yes, yes, And

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Speaker 2: then how the casting of Loralai happened? That amazing? Do

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like they couldn't find the girl, the right girl,

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Speaker 1: and like forever Lauren had a contract, she was committed

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Speaker 1: vacation and she didn't you know, Cassie people told her

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Speaker 1: about Lauren, and Amy said, no, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: So and WB Network at the time, Oh yeah, we're there.

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Speaker 2: And then they couldn't find the right Laura line like

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Speaker 2: they had found all you like before. So when they

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Speaker 2: out of that other pilot like totally got out of it.

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Speaker 2: You all went to Canada to shoot correct.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we went to Toronto.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is way different than Warner Brother's backlot.

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Speaker 1: And way different, way different. Uh huh, you actually need

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Speaker 1: a jack there exactly. Like it's got real weather. You know.

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Speaker 2: She told some really great stories. She was presenting the

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Speaker 2: Commerce head came up. I forgot his name. Very nice gentleman,

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Speaker 2: and like then they did the whole star lifting, which

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Speaker 1: They have a wooden star and it's got five pieces

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Speaker 2: And they pull the rope up and heavier.

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Speaker 2: Right, the name is revealed and it's like oh, and

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Speaker 2: then I think Lauren came up and then she got

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Speaker 2: really emotional too about the whole and can I tell

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of it's very star worthy. Oh yes,

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Speaker 2: And then YouTube got together for photos right after that reveal,

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Speaker 1: They did they really did? They really they love seeing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they love it. You reunited and it felt so good.

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Speaker 1: So what stood out for you the most, James, at

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Speaker 2: Lauren herself just how gracious she was about how the

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Speaker 1: So back in your early days working at Warner Brothers

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Speaker 1: together with Lauren, did you ever imagine she'd be getting

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Speaker 2: I hope Sarah Michelle Geller gets a star, you know,

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Speaker 2: James Vanderbeek, maybe, but everyone was so young and like

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Speaker 1: Were, did James gelt One? I don't think So it's

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Speaker 1: So right, Well, here's a question that the staff prepared.

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Speaker 1: I think it's for me. How has Lauren impacted your

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Speaker 1: what Lauren confirmed for me, James, is that I was

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Speaker 2: And you took that with you to your movies and everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything I do. Yes, And it's always a joy

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Speaker 1: I heard very collaborative, very.

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Speaker 2: My biggest memory, oh after party. So yeah, both you

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Speaker 2: You wanted to do a speech for her? Now you

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Speaker 1: You've never you've never seen so many Luke shirts in

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Speaker 1: Listen, buddy, thank you, so thank you very much. You're

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Speaker 1: Right here, right here, he might be the straw that

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Speaker 1: is amazing. He's mister everywhere, mister everything. My good friend,

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Speaker 1: James Pettitt, thank you for your time and we look

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Speaker 2: My brother Okay, sending love all right, love your problem

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Speaker 2: fans too.

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Speaker 3: Bye everybody, Bye, everybody, and don't forget.

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