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Speaker 1: I Am all In.

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Speaker 2: Let's you.

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Speaker 3: 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. iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: one eleven Productions a one on one interview with Aaron Berman,

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Speaker 1: who's a former editor writer for USA Today. He's a

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Speaker 1: freelance writer and editor with background covering technology, publishing, and entertainment.

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Speaker 1: Gilmore Girl's Companion released July twenty fifteen. Since we first

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Speaker 1: peeked into Stars Hollow, Connecticut, October fifth, two thousand, Gilmore

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Speaker 1: Girls has delighted people worldwide. The Gilmore Girls Companion takes

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Speaker 1: you behind the scenes of the classic television series from

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Speaker 1: first glimmer with the idea of making this series finale.

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Speaker 1: Based on more than forty interviews with cast and crew, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: welcome to this show. Tell us a little bit about

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Speaker 1: your book, what inspired it, and what do you find

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Speaker 1: most intriguing about the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me, Scott. That book

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Speaker 2: was a labor of love from the very beginning. Basically,

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Speaker 2: like most Gilmore fans, I fell in love with Stars

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Speaker 2: Hollow and everybody in it, and I at the time

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Speaker 2: I was actually working on a making of book about

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Speaker 2: the seventy sitcom soap, And this was like thirty years

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Speaker 2: after the fact, and I was talking to people who

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Speaker 2: could barely remember a lot of what happened during the

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Speaker 2: making of that series, and there was also a lot

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Speaker 2: had passed away by the time I was doing that book.

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Speaker 2: And the first thing that struck me was I'd waited

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Speaker 2: a few years to see a book on Gilmore Girl

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Speaker 2: come out, and nothing had come out. And I was like,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I really don't want this to happen

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Speaker 2: to Gilmore Girls.

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Speaker 3: It's such a special show.

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Speaker 2: And what inevitably happens is, you know, memories get fuzzy,

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Speaker 2: and people forget how things were put together, and especially

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Speaker 2: the way Gilmore seemed to have been brought together, the

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Speaker 2: writing and just you know, everything that came together. I

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Speaker 2: didn't want that story to be lost, and so I

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Speaker 2: went to my publisher and pitched it and said, nobody's

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Speaker 2: done a book about this.

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Speaker 3: Let me just start making some phone calls.

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Speaker 1: Right, So what what first brought you to the show?

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Speaker 1: When did you discover the show?

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Speaker 3: My memories are hazy, but I think I saw that.

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Speaker 1: Hazy memories.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's gonna be a lot of gee,

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid it was. It was a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: My memory isn't what it should be, but I think

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Speaker 2: I saw it from the pilot, and I think it was.

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Speaker 2: It was just the promo for it, that that iconic

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Speaker 2: shot of Stars Hollow with the church and and and

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Speaker 3: It's it instantly puts you, gives you a.

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Speaker 2: Sense of home that I think a lot of people

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Speaker 2: don't have but wish for. There's a there's a word

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Speaker 2: that I can't think of for, but the definition is

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Speaker 2: a nostalgia for something that you never actually experienced yourself.

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Speaker 2: And I think that is the key to that show.

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Speaker 2: I think we all want a place that we can

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. You know a lot of those places in

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Speaker 1: I came from a place like Stars Hollow. Where'd you

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Speaker 1: Nothing like that, Nothing like it, nothing.

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Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing at all like that. And in fact, the

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I did. That's exactly what I did.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the idea of stars hollow that draws

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Speaker 2: interesting to me putting this book together, right, Actually it

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Speaker 1: Oh, without question, you know, I don't know really anything

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Speaker 1: If did you interview Amy.

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Speaker 2: For this were there were people I reached out to

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Speaker 3: She was. She and Dan were two that didn't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was the show she was on Earth

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Speaker 1: If you were to choose a character in Gilmore that

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Speaker 2: My, I think that's always that's always a kind of

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Speaker 2: I'd say, if a gun into my head, probably.

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Speaker 1: Kay. So who did you interview from the cast?

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Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's fascinating. What was it like interviewing Kelly Bishop, to.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Interesting. How how has the book uh changed your

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Speaker 2: I hope that they get past just the actors and

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Speaker 1: Him, Aaron, thank you so much for coming on. The

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Speaker 1: book is called The Gilmore Girls Companion, A very thoughtful

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Speaker 1: looking like anyway, Thanks so much for your time, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: So much for having me so a pleasure talking to you.

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Speaker 1: Pleasure talking to you too, And everybody, get out there

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Speaker 1: and by Aaron's book, I'm going to get it, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like a fascinating read. I want to see

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Speaker 1: what all these people have to say. Anyway, thanks for

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Speaker 3: Okay, you too, Thank you so much.

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