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Speaker 1: Culture Season seven, Episode twenty two, bon Voyage and joined
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Speaker 1: Susann why don't you start us off?
Speaker 3: Alrighty?
Speaker 4: Lorely and Rory arrive at the Dragonfly in and Rory says,
Speaker 4: why would Christian Almonport be hanging out at the Dragonfly?
Speaker 4: Laura says, I don't know. Rory says she wouldn't. Laura
Speaker 4: I says she is. Christian Aubunport is the chief International
Speaker 4: anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly Interview
Speaker 4: program Aubunport and PBS's Nightly Global Affairs Program. She has
Speaker 4: a reputation of being fearless. Did you know Christian failed
Speaker 4: her driving test four times as a student in England
Speaker 4: and passed the test on her first attempt after moving
Speaker 4: to the US.
Speaker 3: That maybe shows it.
Speaker 1: She obviously has a preference for driving on the right
Speaker 1: side of the road, and it's the four failures over there,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 5: So Laura Leon Rory's conversation continues as they headed to
Speaker 5: the dragonfly In. Rory says, yeah, remember the time you
Speaker 5: thought you saw Sandra day O'Connor. Laura I says, yeah,
Speaker 5: well this is different. I haven't had enough coughs I
Speaker 5: haven't had any cough syrup. Sandra Day O'Connor was the
Speaker 5: first woman to serve it as a US Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 5: after being nominated by Ronald Reagan. And did you know
Speaker 5: Sandra was the first woman to have her name attached
Speaker 5: to a law school, the Sandra Di O'Connor College of
Speaker 5: Law at Arizona State University.
Speaker 3: Ok, Asu, I see, man, do you want me to
Speaker 3: do this one?
Speaker 1: I do? I was hoping you would.
Speaker 3: Michelle didn't tell Laura that Christianne was staying at the inn.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we did see Michelle in the episode. Just
Speaker 3: I wanted to avoid yet another embarrassing.
Speaker 1: At the party. I'm really sure that he was.
Speaker 3: I think, I mean, it's a walking distance, so maybe
Speaker 3: he was.
Speaker 1: He was there.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about? You always embarrass yourself when
Speaker 3: a celebrity stays at the end.
Speaker 1: I do know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I was, you're very much Jane Paully, Harry Belafani, Marissa Tomey. Okay,
Speaker 3: good good, good names all could be at the end.
Speaker 3: Jane Polly is a TV host and author known as
Speaker 3: Barbara Walter's successor on NBC's Today's Show. She also anchored
Speaker 3: with Tom Brokaw and Bryant Gumbel. Harry Belafonte was a
Speaker 3: singer and civil rights activist who popular as Calypso Music.
Speaker 3: Actually think he passed away not that long ago. Signature
Speaker 3: songs include Deo e, which is great in Beetlejuice. It's
Speaker 3: called the Banana Boat song. It's also known as that
Speaker 3: and jump in the line, Shike, Sonora Hike. Marisa Tome
Speaker 3: is an actress who gained popularity for her comedic performance
Speaker 3: as Mona Lisa Vito and my cousin Vinnie. I love
Speaker 3: the scene where she's in the courtroom and it's the
Speaker 3: big reveal how she says, well, you know, she knows
Speaker 3: the car, and she's like gives the details of the car,
Speaker 3: and she's so good about it, and she's like these
Speaker 3: tires have whatever it is, I can't do it right.
Speaker 1: And Herman Munster is the judge, right.
Speaker 3: But and as I mentioned, did you know.
Speaker 1: He was the judge?
Speaker 3: He was?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Deo is sung in the nineteen eighty eight film Beetlejuice,
Speaker 3: as I said, and it will appear in the sequel,
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four sequel coming soon, Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice. Now,
Speaker 3: if you say Beatlejuice three times is when he comes out.
Speaker 3: So I've said it about nine times. So Michael walking
Speaker 3: into my office at any or three of them, I'm
Speaker 3: excited for the new one. Oh my god, that's it
Speaker 3: for pop culture. Oh no, no, who didn't go yet? Scott,
Speaker 3: you got.
Speaker 1: No, No, Danielle didn't go.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I'll do this one. And Rory are preparing
Speaker 2: for Rory's and pending departure from Stars Hollow, and Rory says,
Speaker 2: you honestly think I'm gonna wear a fanny pack? Lurlai says,
Speaker 2: all I know is it's on the list, and if
Speaker 2: it's on the list, I'm getting it for you. You
Speaker 2: think Tom Brokaw's Center do you think? Do you think
Speaker 2: Tom Brokaw's mother sent him off to his first campaign
Speaker 2: with no fanny pack. Tom Brokaw is a retired network
Speaker 2: journalist and author. As mentioned earlier, he's first served as
Speaker 2: the co anchor of The Today Show with Jane Pauley.
Speaker 2: He is the only person to have hosted all three
Speaker 2: major NBC news programs, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News,
Speaker 2: and briefly, Meet the Press. He retired into after fifty
Speaker 2: five years with the network. Did you Know? Tombrocaw covered
Speaker 2: every presidential election from nineteen sixty eight to two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight, and holds the record for being the longest
Speaker 2: serving anchor of the NBC Nightly News for twenty two years.
Speaker 2: There's also the Tomborocaw News Center on the NBC lot.
Speaker 3: Very short pop culture. Considering it's the finale of the series,
Speaker 3: you they might have worked in a few more, but okay,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could do a round robin here and we
Speaker 1: could talk about our favorite scene in the entire series.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't even need to rewatch the
Speaker 3: whole series.
Speaker 1: That came over again. And then you go first, I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: that's your favorite scene in the entire Do you like the one.
Speaker 3: Kenny Ortega directed it, and it had that Friday night
Speaker 3: dinner with the camera spinning.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was a yeah Bracebridge dinner.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like the uh John Frankenheim,
Speaker 1: John Frankenheimer's style.
Speaker 3: I do like where you push Jess in the water.
Speaker 3: I think that's.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: You know when you do the Warner Brothers tour, they
Speaker 5: literally like, and this is the lake that Luke but
Speaker 5: like it's literally like a stop on the tour.
Speaker 1: Oh was it really?
Speaker 5: They literally like, if you're a Gilmour Girls fan, this
Speaker 5: is the lake that Luke pushed Jess.
Speaker 3: And everyone's like, oh my god, you're right.
Speaker 5: And then and then the other side, I think they
Speaker 5: show up, they show the gazebo, but then the shed that.
Speaker 1: You know, they offered Milow a multi year contract to
Speaker 1: come out merge from the water in that wardrobe three
Speaker 1: times during those tours, and he turned he turned it.
Speaker 3: Down on other scenes that I just like a.
Speaker 1: Wonderful surprise that would have been for fans. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if you like a dry milo, you're certainly
Speaker 1: gonna like a wet one, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So what was your favorite scene in the entire one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three episodes. Don't mean to put you
Speaker 1: on the spot, but there's so much. You're so good
Speaker 1: and so steeped in Gilmour lore.
Speaker 4: There's so many though, Like it's hard one.
Speaker 1: Gotta pick one. What's your what's the ultimate scene for you?
Speaker 4: I'm probably gonna think of a different answer. It's like
Speaker 4: later tonight, but I probably the Luke and Laurel I
Speaker 4: first kiss too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dare I say I am all in that scene?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Really that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: And Amy did you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think Amy to which one.
Speaker 3: Wedding it's a great scene is when she kisses Jess.
Speaker 3: I love you idiot. That one one where it's at
Speaker 3: the wedding and it's where Morle and Chris Christopher finds
Speaker 3: out he's having the baby with Sherry and she's just
Speaker 3: comes back and then she kisses him and then she
Speaker 3: like runs away and kind of turns back to him
Speaker 3: and says, welcome home or something like that or welcome back.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I know what you're talking about. But good see, But
Speaker 5: I love you idiot? Is with Dean, right or is
Speaker 5: it Jess, it's a Dean.
Speaker 1: It was Dean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am not gonna lie. I still like when
Speaker 3: we first see Logan because I love the witty banter.
Speaker 3: It's like we see it, not the coffee cart part,
Speaker 3: but when he's at the dorm room door and they
Speaker 3: have that witty sort of back and forth, and I
Speaker 3: was like, I'm into this guy. And I love the
Speaker 3: one when they jump off the thing.
Speaker 1: You know. My favorite scene of this entire series is
Speaker 1: the very first scene of the pilot episode, her walking
Speaker 1: into the diner and then ordering coffee and then doing
Speaker 1: that scene with that guy that's trying to hit on her,
Speaker 1: and then Rory comes in and he comes back for more,
Speaker 1: and it just I just it just is such a
Speaker 1: perfect opening scene, uh, for for you know, to get
Speaker 1: this storytelling going, because you really want to know more
Speaker 1: about these characters that you've met so far, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh just just love that scene.
Speaker 2: I found this article that says the twenty five best
Speaker 2: moments and give more Girl's History, and I'm scrolling through
Speaker 2: them and I'm like, oh my god, there's so many
Speaker 2: good ones.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like trying to think of like the one
Speaker 5: that pops in my head just of the scene itself
Speaker 5: was Lorelei standing with the yellow daisies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when Max proposed to her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like just that that image is in my head.
Speaker 3: I also really like.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I think Rory's first loose was just
Speaker 5: funny in the in the grocery store when.
Speaker 2: Luke pushes just into the lake when Yeah.
Speaker 1: Favorite episode? Do you remember the episodes and you have
Speaker 1: one that really sticks out?
Speaker 4: Susannah, Well, I'm some of my favorite episodes are like
Speaker 4: the non standard ones. Like I really love the episode
Speaker 4: where they Rory goes and has lunch with the Harvard people.
Speaker 4: It's like that weird family, right. I love that episode.
Speaker 4: I love the episode with the Harvard Yale football game.
Speaker 4: I love the episode where Jess first comes to town
Speaker 4: and they have dinner at laurel Ize. Like I those
Speaker 4: are some of my favorite ones. I mean, I love
Speaker 4: all the standard ones like where Luke laurel I get
Speaker 4: together and all that, but those are some of my
Speaker 4: other favorites.
Speaker 1: Top three favorite characters, Danielle, Do you.
Speaker 2: Want me to rank in order from one, two, three?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it doesn't have to No.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna give it to you. Number one, Emily,
Speaker 2: she's my favorite character. I'm sorry, I hate to say it.
Speaker 2: She's my favorite character. Number two Jess. Jess still lives
Speaker 2: rent free in my brain and will for a very
Speaker 2: long time. And then, as you can tell from my shirt.
Speaker 2: And number three, hmmm, I have to I just have
Speaker 2: to give it to Laura Lai. She's just she's just
Speaker 2: a legend.
Speaker 1: How can you not, Susanne?
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I almost just because it's so easy for me.
Speaker 1: So no, Amy, go ahead, go ahead, because it's Luke,
Speaker 1: Logan all else.
Speaker 3: I like to Yeah, those are my faves. They make
Speaker 3: the whole series for me.
Speaker 5: Uh Tara, mine's actually the same threes as Danielle, but
Speaker 5: I brought put Lorel I first, and then Emily and
Speaker 5: then Jess. No one likes Rory, she gets annoying, but
Speaker 5: like I said, love her.
Speaker 3: She's cool and all.
Speaker 4: But in order, my favorite is Laurel I, followed by Luke,
Speaker 4: followed by by Laine.
Speaker 3: Scott. Can you even say yours?
Speaker 1: Sure? Sure? In no particular order. Gotta go with Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's tough, isn't it. M M, It's just really tough.
Speaker 3: If I said.
Speaker 2: You'd be kicked off.
Speaker 1: Which we just mute you removed from chat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Digger, Lulu, Christopher.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a fan out there or a couple
Speaker 1: of that's the Wait a minute, how about that? How
Speaker 1: about the guy the Terrible, the Max Perlock character, and
Speaker 1: then we'll do we'll do guest cast for this. Okay,
Speaker 1: So my top three main cast is it's really tough.
Speaker 1: Uh favorite characters? Well, you know it's it's Richard, Emily,
Speaker 1: Laurel I. But it's got to be. If you're going
Speaker 1: to say Richard Emily Laurel I, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: say Rory and I want Rory to be and I
Speaker 1: want Rory and Laurel at account as one.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I'll we'll give it to it's your show.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Yeah, because that just such powerful
Speaker 1: acting and powerful moments between. Uh all that all right?
Speaker 1: Now your least favorite characters?
Speaker 2: Oh, I like this one, Daniel, don't make me go first.
Speaker 2: Anybody have it?
Speaker 1: Anybody has a jump jump in least favorite?
Speaker 3: I know it's it's who's.
Speaker 1: Let's do our favorite characters that aren't in the main cast. Okay,
Speaker 1: So who wants to take a shot at Oh sorry
Speaker 1: go oh New York, you go go ahead.
Speaker 3: Vanessa's character Kristin. I always thought Tristan was like pretty great.
Speaker 1: Who's Murray working with?
Speaker 2: Dave is my number one?
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: He does?
Speaker 1: I think I think you went out of turn.
Speaker 2: Sorry I didn't.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you can't, so that will have to be thrown out.
Speaker 1: You can't use David Gal.
Speaker 2: I'll just say Adam Brody.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, it's just being used. Uh so, Tarry, your
Speaker 1: three were April.
Speaker 2: We're just picking one. Just let me pick on one.
Speaker 1: No, no pressure, no pressure, let me just re submit that.
Speaker 3: I think of who the worst was, but I kind
Speaker 3: of I gotta.
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Rune. I gotta go through.
Speaker 3: You're just still.
Speaker 5: Entertaining as annoying as he was, but he was so brilliant.
Speaker 1: It was so brilliant. T J.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, you love t J.
Speaker 1: That's why it has to be three, all right, it's
Speaker 1: actually gotta be five. You gotta have five because you
Speaker 1: gotta put Gill in there, right, you gotta have a
Speaker 1: t J. You gotta have Rune.
Speaker 3: Who else was the worst? I have others, But who
Speaker 3: was the lady that Richard had lunch with every year.
Speaker 3: She's pretty. But I don't love Kristin Ritter's character. I'm
Speaker 3: so sorry.
Speaker 1: Gus's genius. Come on, she she just chewed up the
Speaker 1: scenery ever.
Speaker 3: Mad at Ariel Cabell's character, her name's out of my
Speaker 3: head and I liked her. She was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Who is she?
Speaker 3: Her mom was kind of annoying.
Speaker 1: The long.
Speaker 3: Deans sister, Oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, who was the most annoying.
Speaker 2: Nicole's annoying.
Speaker 4: I have to go with Dean's sister.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you like her. I like her.
Speaker 1: She was great. But character character.
Speaker 3: Marty was kind of annoying.
Speaker 1: He kind of was anoying. He was kind of annoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just love it.
Speaker 3: Doyle is a great. Doyle's pretty great.
Speaker 1: I love Doyle. Yeah, Doyle's pretty great. All right, now,
Speaker 1: who do you think let's say, let's give let's give
Speaker 1: our own. I am all in Awards for Best Dramatic Actress,
Speaker 1: Best Comedic Actress, Gramatic Dramatic Actor, Best Comedic.
Speaker 3: Wow, like we're doing the Oscars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing it like the Emmy's or something.
Speaker 3: Lauren Lauren, Laura, Laura Lauren. Everything say dramatic.
Speaker 5: I'm giving it.
Speaker 3: To Paris Geller.
Speaker 2: I'm giving it to Emily, Emily and Emily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought we were giving it to the real actor. Oh,
Speaker 3: I was gonna get the character. I just give everything
Speaker 3: to Laura. I slash Lauren. To me, She's just the
Speaker 3: whole show, is her. I love everything about her, everything,
Speaker 3: the fashion, the hair, the face, the walk, the talk,
Speaker 3: the coolness.
Speaker 5: This conversation really makes me want to just get off
Speaker 5: zoom and start all over the show, maybe.
Speaker 2: To wrap this out, Scott, Like, now that you've seen
Speaker 2: every single episode before the movies, how are you feeling
Speaker 2: right now? Like, how does it feel to see all that?
Speaker 1: I feel like I got into acting because I wanted
Speaker 1: to do theater and film, but only really like kind
Speaker 1: of you know, like indie film. That's how I envisioned
Speaker 1: my career being, I'm gonna stay in New York and
Speaker 1: I'm going to do theater and I want to you know,
Speaker 1: do really great little indie films and go to film
Speaker 1: festivals all over Europe and that kind of thing. That's
Speaker 1: that's what I was planning for. It was shocking to
Speaker 1: me to end up in Hollywood pursuing TV roles because
Speaker 1: nobody I came up within the business in New York,
Speaker 1: in the theater community desired that at all. It was
Speaker 1: verboten to even talk about it or consider it. But
Speaker 1: the interesting, you know, funny thing happened on the way
Speaker 1: to the the what do they call them, the Caesar Awards.
Speaker 1: You realize you got to pay your bills. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people ended up out in Hollywood that didn't
Speaker 1: intend to end up in Hollywood. And I think I
Speaker 1: ended up in a really good place, having my original
Speaker 1: plans diverted into something that I know they always say
Speaker 1: water seats on level, you know kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: I thought the water with Gilmore Girls was pretty deep.
Speaker 1: And I just after all of this and going through
Speaker 1: this podcast and watching all these episodes, I just feel
Speaker 1: really like I was now I see what the fans
Speaker 1: are talking about. I never realized what they were talking
Speaker 1: about because I never saw the show. I didn't understand.
Speaker 1: I just thought, yeah, they do this with everybody, and
Speaker 1: you know, they watch TV and they see people, but
Speaker 1: this shows a little This is different. This is a
Speaker 1: different type of show. And I'm really proud to be
Speaker 1: a part of it, you know, And I feel really
Speaker 1: lucky to have been selected to be a part of it,
Speaker 1: because I remember the casting process was very very specific.
Speaker 1: Amy and Dan rejected a lot of big names for
Speaker 1: these roles because I think every big agency was submitting
Speaker 1: every you know, sort of even A list and B
Speaker 1: list stars that weren't working as much in film anymore
Speaker 1: for these roles. And she just wanted the perfect type
Speaker 1: of chemistry, the perfect people. She didn't care if they
Speaker 1: were known or unknown. It just had to be a
Speaker 1: perfect fit. She she Amy and Dan went with their
Speaker 1: gut one hundred percent, and I just respect the hell
Speaker 1: out of that, you know, and it gave me my
Speaker 1: a shot in the business. You know, I got my shot,
Speaker 1: and so did so many other people. You know, so
Speaker 1: many people came through that show and they've just gone
Speaker 1: on to do great things. I mean, look at Melissa,
Speaker 1: look at John Hamm, look at Adam Brody, look at Milo,
Speaker 1: look at you know, what Lauren and Alexis have done.
Speaker 1: Look at I mean, it's just just incredible stuff. Kristin Ritter, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's right, right, that's just name a few.
Speaker 1: So it was a real launching pad. I think it's
Speaker 1: sort of like Seinfeld was. If you could get a
Speaker 1: Seinfeld episode, you would have shot. And I think I
Speaker 1: think more girls had the same effect. For you know,
Speaker 1: a guest actor doing a great turn on Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 1: they had a shot. Now now that we're going to
Speaker 1: get meetings like Seinfeld did for me, I started getting
Speaker 1: more meetings, you know, I start getting more shots at things.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of proud to be associated with something
Speaker 1: like that. That was real launching pad for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, so just lucky, grateful, you know, feel
Speaker 1: pretty special.
Speaker 3: I think we could say it any better than how
Speaker 3: you just said it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a surreal. It's it's surreal. And the older
Speaker 1: I get and the more people downloaded and binge it
Speaker 1: on Netflix, the more popular it gets, and the more
Speaker 1: people come up to.
Speaker 3: Me very wild.
Speaker 1: It's wild. It is wild. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we all got really lucky the day we
Speaker 1: got that call from our agents and said they booked you.
Speaker 1: And you know, and especially in my case, it wasn't
Speaker 1: as a series regular. It was as a guest star
Speaker 1: in the pilot. And uh, you know, we played it
Speaker 1: or I didn't. If it was up to me, I
Speaker 1: would have blown blown that role because I would have
Speaker 1: taken the first two episodes they offered, and my manager
Speaker 1: was like, no, we're going to get a six year
Speaker 1: deal out of this, and we did a seven seven
Speaker 1: year deal. Yeah, so she, Uh, kudos to her, and uh.
Speaker 3: It's not over yet, buddy, right.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: And so we got four more movies, all right, kids.
Speaker 3: And then we'll see what happened.
Speaker 1: Then we'll see what happens. Yeah, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any speeches right now. I'll
Speaker 1: save it for after the movies because I'm about to
Speaker 1: get emotional. So let's just cut this off. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your support, Amy, Tara, Danielle, Suzanne. It's
Speaker 1: been a wonderful ride. I agree, you know, it's been
Speaker 1: really special. But I'll save the big speech for later. Anyway.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do with everybody best, truly mean this, best
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