WEBVTT - You've Been Gilmored: Aaron Berman

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<v Speaker 1>I Am all In.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's you.

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<v Speaker 3>I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In podcast. iHeartRadio

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<v Speaker 1>one eleven Productions a one on one interview with Aaron Berman,

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<v Speaker 1>who's a former editor writer for USA Today. He's a

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<v Speaker 1>freelance writer and editor with background covering technology, publishing, and entertainment.

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<v Speaker 1>Gilmore Girl's Companion released July twenty fifteen. Since we first

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<v Speaker 1>peeked into Stars Hollow, Connecticut, October fifth, two thousand, Gilmore

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<v Speaker 1>Girls has delighted people worldwide. The Gilmore Girls Companion takes

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<v Speaker 1>you behind the scenes of the classic television series from

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<v Speaker 1>first glimmer with the idea of making this series finale.

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<v Speaker 1>Based on more than forty interviews with cast and crew, Aaron,

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to this show. Tell us a little bit about

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<v Speaker 1>your book, what inspired it, and what do you find

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<v Speaker 1>most intriguing about the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much for having me, Scott. That book

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<v Speaker 2>was a labor of love from the very beginning. Basically,

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<v Speaker 2>like most Gilmore fans, I fell in love with Stars

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<v Speaker 2>Hollow and everybody in it, and I at the time

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<v Speaker 2>I was actually working on a making of book about

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<v Speaker 2>the seventy sitcom soap, And this was like thirty years

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<v Speaker 2>after the fact, and I was talking to people who

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<v Speaker 2>could barely remember a lot of what happened during the

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<v Speaker 2>making of that series, and there was also a lot

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<v Speaker 2>had passed away by the time I was doing that book.

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<v Speaker 2>And the first thing that struck me was I'd waited

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<v Speaker 2>a few years to see a book on Gilmore Girl

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<v Speaker 2>come out, and nothing had come out. And I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, I really don't want this to happen

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<v Speaker 2>to Gilmore Girls.

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<v Speaker 3>It's such a special show.

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<v Speaker 2>And what inevitably happens is, you know, memories get fuzzy,

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<v Speaker 2>and people forget how things were put together, and especially

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<v Speaker 2>the way Gilmore seemed to have been brought together, the

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<v Speaker 2>writing and just you know, everything that came together. I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't want that story to be lost, and so I

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<v Speaker 2>went to my publisher and pitched it and said, nobody's

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<v Speaker 2>done a book about this.

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<v Speaker 3>Let me just start making some phone calls.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, So what what first brought you to the show?

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<v Speaker 1>When did you discover the show?

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<v Speaker 3>My memories are hazy, but I think I saw that.

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<v Speaker 1>Hazy memories.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's gonna be a lot of gee,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't remember.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm afraid it was. It was a long time ago.

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<v Speaker 2>My memory isn't what it should be, but I think

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<v Speaker 2>I saw it from the pilot, and I think it was.

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<v Speaker 2>It was just the promo for it, that that iconic

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<v Speaker 2>shot of Stars Hollow with the church and and and

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<v Speaker 2>everything else.

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<v Speaker 3>It's it instantly puts you, gives you a.

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<v Speaker 2>Sense of home that I think a lot of people

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<v Speaker 2>don't have but wish for. There's a there's a word

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<v Speaker 2>that I can't think of for, but the definition is

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<v Speaker 2>a nostalgia for something that you never actually experienced yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think that is the key to that show.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we all want a place that we can

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<v Speaker 2>call home and no, but very few people actually come

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<v Speaker 2>from a place that feels that that special.

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<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm. You know a lot of those places in

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<v Speaker 1>the Northeastern United States. I came from a place like that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I came from a place like Stars Hollow. Where'd you

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<v Speaker 1>come from?

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<v Speaker 3>I came from the suburbs of Washington, d C.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing like that, Nothing like it, nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing, nothing at all like that. And in fact, the

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<v Speaker 2>funny thing is that the reality of it is every

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<v Speaker 2>time you talk to somebody who said, so, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I grew up in a small town. The first thing

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<v Speaker 2>I did was get the heck out of there.

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<v Speaker 1>That's exactly what I did. That's exactly what I did.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. See, it's the fantasy without the other part. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>everybody knows everybody's business in a fun, warm way in

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<v Speaker 2>Gilmore Girls. In the real world, it's why does she

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<v Speaker 2>know my business?

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<v Speaker 1>Mmmmm, well, you know, yeah, they're pros and cons of

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<v Speaker 1>small towns. Right when you're growing up and you're not

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<v Speaker 1>having the best experience, or even if you are having

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<v Speaker 1>a great experience growing up in a small town, everybody

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<v Speaker 1>knows your business. You know, there's a big, wide world

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<v Speaker 1>out there. You want to you want to dive into it,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, if you have any kind of curiosity. And

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<v Speaker 1>but I found out that most people from the town

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<v Speaker 1>that I grew up and ended up staying there. If

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<v Speaker 1>they went away to college, they came back. They found

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<v Speaker 1>a way back. I think that stars hollowing it. You're right,

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<v Speaker 1>that's one of the main hours of this show. If

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<v Speaker 1>not for all the jokes, you'd still have a show.

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<v Speaker 1>What kind of a show do you think would be

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<v Speaker 1>without the humor, without the jokes, do you think it

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<v Speaker 1>would be pretty barren? Would it be empty? What do

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<v Speaker 1>you think?

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's the idea of stars hollow that draws

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<v Speaker 2>you in, but it's the writing that keeps you there

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<v Speaker 2>and coming back week after week. And it was particularly

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<v Speaker 2>interesting to me putting this book together, right, Actually it

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<v Speaker 2>was during and a little bit after putting the soap

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<v Speaker 2>book together. Soap was was. The showrunner was Susan Harris,

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<v Speaker 2>who was a real trailblazer in the seventies for you

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<v Speaker 2>didn't have female showrunners in those days for the most part,

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<v Speaker 2>and she wrote half the series before she even took

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<v Speaker 2>on a writing partner. And going from talking to her

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<v Speaker 2>and her experiences, and then talking to people who worked

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<v Speaker 2>on Gill and were very familiar with Amy's Amy's ways

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<v Speaker 2>and her writing process, and then Amy and Dan, there's

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<v Speaker 2>there's just something about both of those. Those people had

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<v Speaker 2>a love of language that comes through in the scripts.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean Gilmour especially. You can spot certain references that

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<v Speaker 2>you know, people have spent the last twenty some years

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<v Speaker 2>tracking down the references, and it makes you feel like

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<v Speaker 2>you're part of a club when you do.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, without question, you know, I don't know really anything

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<v Speaker 1>about Dan's background. But I know a little bit about

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<v Speaker 1>Amy's background, and she had an interesting upbringing, didn't she.

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<v Speaker 1>If did you interview Amy.

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<v Speaker 2>For this were there were people I reached out to

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<v Speaker 2>that that I spoke with about forty people for this book.

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<v Speaker 2>There were there were some people that, for lack of

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<v Speaker 2>a better phrase, I couldn't get past the gate keepers,

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<v Speaker 2>which I mean that they're there for a reason. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>if all you're doing is fielding interviews, you have very

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<v Speaker 2>little time to work.

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<v Speaker 3>She was. She and Dan were two that didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Get to speak with, But I spoke with enough people

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<v Speaker 2>had worked with her and also just indeed her her background.

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<v Speaker 2>She was the daughter of Don Sherman, who was this

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<v Speaker 2>famous Cat Skills comic who also acted and wrote for

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<v Speaker 2>a number of big, big shows in the day.

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<v Speaker 3>And you can tell.

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<v Speaker 2>Very early on, actually you can see, especially in The

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<v Speaker 2>Marvelous Missus masl after Gilmore, you can see basically Amy's

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<v Speaker 2>life recreated in a lot of those episodes. There is

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<v Speaker 2>actually an episode or two that takes place in the

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<v Speaker 2>Cat Skills and it's like you can see you can

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<v Speaker 2>see the continuity between Gilmore and that show.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, that was the show she was on Earth

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<v Speaker 1>the right that one you think, you think it's Gilmour,

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<v Speaker 1>but that was really her right.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>If you were to choose a character in Gilmore that

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<v Speaker 1>you thought represented Amy and Dan, who would they be?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>My, I think that's always that's always a kind of

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<v Speaker 2>a trick question, because every writer will tell you that

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<v Speaker 2>there's a little bit of them in every single character.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd say, if a gun into my head, probably.

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<v Speaker 1>Rory oh really yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>First part of her life, and probably Laura Lai afterwards.

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<v Speaker 1>Kay. So who did you interview from the cast?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>My?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh, the late ed Herman, Kelly Bishop, Sean Gunn, Kiko

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<v Speaker 2>Kiko just quite quite a just went.

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<v Speaker 3>Down the line.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Winners was I think was the first person I

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<v Speaker 2>spoke with for the book.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Talk to both her and at Herman. It's it's not

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<v Speaker 2>even being in the presence of royalty, but just people

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<v Speaker 2>who are so professional and have seen so much and

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<v Speaker 2>have done so much. I felt very humbled just being

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<v Speaker 2>able to speak with them. But it's it's I don't

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<v Speaker 2>get starstruck very often, but I think Ed Herman, especially,

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<v Speaker 2>he spoke so well and was so warm that and

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<v Speaker 2>knew so much that you feel like, Okay, well, this

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<v Speaker 2>is my one chance to learn the secret of the universe.

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<v Speaker 2>What question do I need to be asking?

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<v Speaker 1>Uh huh? And what did he reveal to you that.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we bonded over, you know, speaking of iHeart

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<v Speaker 2>radio ed. Herman hearted radio big time, especially at old radio,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think we we bonded over that. His his

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<v Speaker 2>favorite was Bob and Ray back in the days. But

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<v Speaker 2>that love of radio is really a love of theater,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think that's something that comes across really quite

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<v Speaker 2>a bit in Gilmore Girls. There is a theatricality to

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<v Speaker 2>it in the love of language, which everything always comes

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<v Speaker 2>back to the love of language with Gilmore.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I just watched this episode. You know, you miss

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<v Speaker 1>a lot because you're laughing too much, So I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have the time to rewind. But I think people stop

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<v Speaker 1>it if they're rewatching it and rewind and to get

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<v Speaker 1>what they didn't, you know, that passed them by. So

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<v Speaker 1>this happened three or four times while I was watching

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<v Speaker 1>this particular episode. It's just so chock full of jokes

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<v Speaker 1>and great ones and great situations. What did Ed reveal

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<v Speaker 1>or Kelly reveal any behind the scenes drama they give

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<v Speaker 1>you any juicy tidbits, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Wouldn't call them juicy tidbits. That the one story I

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<v Speaker 2>came away with from from Ed really really hit home

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<v Speaker 2>for me was just the way that he kind of

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<v Speaker 2>took a Lexus Fladell under his wing during this time

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<v Speaker 2>she was she was so young and so inexperienced, and

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<v Speaker 2>so out of her element.

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<v Speaker 1>She was.

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<v Speaker 2>She'd I think she was living in an LA apartment

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<v Speaker 2>on her own, her away from Texas where she was from,

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<v Speaker 2>and just being thrown into not just a TV show

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<v Speaker 2>for the first time, but you know, carrying a TV

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<v Speaker 2>show as a co star with Lauren Graham, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is a lot to put on a kid who I

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<v Speaker 2>think she was like eighteen at the time. And the

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<v Speaker 2>way he spoke of her, it was very much like

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<v Speaker 2>a you know, a grandfather or a father would would

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<v Speaker 2>talk about somebody just saying, you know, I didn't want

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to protect her from things I wanted to,

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<v Speaker 2>but at the same time, I wanted her to appreciate

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<v Speaker 2>what she was experiencing at the time, you know, walking

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<v Speaker 2>in the footsteps of these these great stars that came before.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting. Yeah, so he gave her that perspective. Did he

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<v Speaker 1>say that that changed her experience in a positive way.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think he ever really knew if it did,

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<v Speaker 2>but he felt that it was. It was kind of

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<v Speaker 2>his role in all of this to do that. And

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<v Speaker 2>I believe he said that the producers had also asked

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<v Speaker 2>him to just kind of keep an eye on her

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<v Speaker 2>just to make sure she's okay. And I appreciate you

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<v Speaker 2>asking me these things because I'm starting to remember little

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<v Speaker 2>little tidbits. I think Kelly Bishop had said she was

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<v Speaker 2>amazed at l Lauren Graham for the way she interacted

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<v Speaker 2>with Alexis physically like a mother would a daughter, and say,

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<v Speaker 2>I just think it's wonderful how you touch her all

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<v Speaker 2>the time, and you know, you really get the sense

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<v Speaker 2>of affection. And Lauren said, most of the time it

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<v Speaker 2>was I was just gently trying to guide her to

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<v Speaker 2>her mark because she was she was she was stepping

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<v Speaker 2>outside her mark and she was gonna be blurry. So

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<v Speaker 2>so but she they came up with this kind of

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<v Speaker 2>very this shorthand that was very much utilitarian, but it

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<v Speaker 2>was also getting across a very warm relationship between this

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<v Speaker 2>mother and daughter, and Kelly Bishop at one point says,

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<v Speaker 2>you know that there's a point in in the show

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<v Speaker 2>where she just brushes some hair away from Rory's face,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's it's something that pops up in the opener,

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<v Speaker 2>and she says, I don't know if that was to

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<v Speaker 2>do something to discuss you wanted to get the hair

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<v Speaker 2>out of her face, or if it was a loving,

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<v Speaker 2>nurturing gesture. But this is this is how you would

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<v Speaker 2>want your mother to be with you, Just constant reassurance.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she uh, yeah, that first year was something. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>she was at NYU and film school and she had

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<v Speaker 1>no prior acting experience from what I can gather, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>she was an acting class. She was living in New

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<v Speaker 1>York obviously and modeling on the side, right, and went

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<v Speaker 1>in for the audition and I believe she was sick,

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<v Speaker 1>she had the flu or something, and she was stuff stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>stuffy and sneezy and coldy and fluey. So I think

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<v Speaker 1>she appeared a bit dismissive towards Amy and just kind

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<v Speaker 1>of wanted to get out of there. They hired her

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<v Speaker 1>for it because of it. She flipped was like she

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<v Speaker 1>flipped and she was great in the park, right. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think there's anybody's so vulnerable, such a such

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<v Speaker 1>a vulnerable soul right there on your screen, right, no artifice,

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<v Speaker 1>no tricks now, I mean, what you see is what

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<v Speaker 1>you get. Yeah, But as she got through that first year,

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<v Speaker 1>so imagine going from that to the isolation of being

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<v Speaker 1>by yourself in a new situation and working that many

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<v Speaker 1>hours every single Monday through Friday and not getting any

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<v Speaker 1>rest and just this is all you do. So at eighteen,

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<v Speaker 1>that must have been very heady.

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<v Speaker 2>Stuff, definitely, And it's one of the things I was

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<v Speaker 2>going to say about your work, Gilmour, was I thought

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<v Speaker 2>you were one of the few people that wasn't really

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<v Speaker 2>a character in terms of I felt like your performance

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<v Speaker 2>was so naturalistic that, you know, everybody had this kind

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<v Speaker 2>of a little bit over the top character except for Luke.

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<v Speaker 2>And Luke you could see as just being a person

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<v Speaker 2>that you would know. And I was always I was

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<v Speaker 2>always flummexed by that because I was like, you know, there, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>Luke can be grumpy, and Luke Luke has his secrets

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<v Speaker 2>and all, and you know, maybe he isn't as sure

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<v Speaker 2>as of himself as as he may come across. But

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<v Speaker 2>at the same time, you know, he wasn't Kirk, he

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't Taylor, he wasn't you know, he didn't have this

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<v Speaker 2>characteristic you could just pin down. And I thought that

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<v Speaker 2>was really cool that, you know, you feel like you

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<v Speaker 2>could go into this any town and you and Luke

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<v Speaker 2>would actually be somebody that you you would meet.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting. Interesting. How how has the book uh changed your

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<v Speaker 1>life or has it changed your life at all?

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<v Speaker 2>I think it definitely definitely changed it at the time

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<v Speaker 2>that I was writing it and that it first came out.

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<v Speaker 2>And keep in mind, this was this was I was

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<v Speaker 2>working on it in the early twenty tens, so Facebook

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<v Speaker 2>was a thing, but it was still kind of growing.

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<v Speaker 2>It was still kind of stuck in Farmville and Mafia

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<v Speaker 2>Wars and didn't quite know what it wanted to be yet.

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<v Speaker 2>And so during the writing of this whole book, I

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<v Speaker 2>kept a blog and would just post what was going

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<v Speaker 2>on with the you know, I spoke with so and

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<v Speaker 2>so today, or this occurred to me, you know, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>this is something. And I heard from a lot of people,

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<v Speaker 2>and not just in the US. One of the most

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<v Speaker 2>fascinating things to me is I heard from fans around

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<v Speaker 2>the world regularly. I mean they became friends, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, how are you, How are you watching Gilmore

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<v Speaker 2>Girls in Croatia?

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<v Speaker 3>How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, I had one person in Germany who

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<v Speaker 2>they were broadcasting it in Germany in German.

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<v Speaker 3>But it'd be late.

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<v Speaker 2>And after a while she got so hung up on

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<v Speaker 2>the show that she didn't want to wait for the

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<v Speaker 2>dubbed German version, so she put together what English she could.

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<v Speaker 2>She would somebody would upload the show and this is

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<v Speaker 2>you know, two thousand and six, two thousand and five,

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<v Speaker 2>so it would upload show to the internet. She would

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<v Speaker 2>get up, set her alarm, get up at like two

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<v Speaker 2>or three in the morning, download it, go back to sleep,

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<v Speaker 2>and then watch it in the American version the next morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's that's how dedicated she was.

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<v Speaker 2>And when you think about how American Gilmore Girls is,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the references are almost all you know, American

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<v Speaker 2>pop culture, you know, obscure bits of American history, and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I would go on to the blog and

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<v Speaker 2>people would be like, oh, this is this is kind

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<v Speaker 2>of cool.

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<v Speaker 1>So this this, this brings me to my next question, why,

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<v Speaker 1>Aaron do you think this show is not only as

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<v Speaker 1>popular as it's ever been, but it seems to be

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<v Speaker 1>getting more and more popular as the years go by.

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<v Speaker 1>Why why is that happening?

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's because.

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<v Speaker 2>The world is getting tougher rougher, a place that you

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<v Speaker 2>don't really want to be at least, and I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's become a star's hollow, is becoming this place that

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<v Speaker 2>you know, if we all just dropped our differences for

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<v Speaker 2>a minute, maybe we could This is what we could have.

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<v Speaker 1>Final question, Sure, what do you hope fans take away

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<v Speaker 1>from your book?

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<v Speaker 2>I hope that they get past just the actors and

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<v Speaker 2>the stories themselves and actually get an appreciation for all

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<v Speaker 2>everything that went into creating this show. There was a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of behind the scenes drama just to get it

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<v Speaker 2>going and to keep it going, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>people yourself in concluded, worked very hard to do this

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<v Speaker 2>day in, day out, eight day schedules for seven years,

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<v Speaker 2>and the creative process, to me, has always been so

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<v Speaker 2>much more interesting than just kind of the soap opera

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<v Speaker 2>aspect of what's going on on screen, as much as

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<v Speaker 2>satisfying as that is, because if you think about it,

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<v Speaker 2>to get that many people to cooperate for any length

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<v Speaker 2>of time to do anything is a momentous feat. And

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<v Speaker 2>to get them to do it so consistently well for

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<v Speaker 2>so long as you know, hats off to.

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<v Speaker 1>Him, Aaron, thank you so much for coming on. The

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<v Speaker 1>book is called The Gilmore Girls Companion, A very thoughtful

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<v Speaker 1>trees stay on one of the iconic shows produced in

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<v Speaker 1>Hollywood in the last well forever. I guess huh it's

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<v Speaker 1>looking like anyway, Thanks so much for your time, Thank you.

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<v Speaker 3>So much for having me so a pleasure talking to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Pleasure talking to you too, And everybody, get out there

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<v Speaker 1>and by Aaron's book, I'm going to get it, and

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<v Speaker 1>it looks like a fascinating read. I want to see

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<v Speaker 1>what all these people have to say. Anyway, thanks for

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<v Speaker 1>your time, eron and good luck with everything.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, you too, Thank you so much.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, take care, bye, all right, bye bye, da

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