WEBVTT - Forget I Asked (S3 E3 "Application Anxiety") 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:18.440 I am all in. I am all in with Scott 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.280 Patterson and I Heart Radio podcast. All right, everybody, Scott Patterson, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.279 I'm all in podcast. I Heart Radio, one of leven productions. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:33.360 We have had a tsunami, a tsunami of responses emails 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.000 coming in over the last recap episode haunted leg and 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.560 I wanted to address it. I I really think it's 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.040 important to address it because, as I said to Amy 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.320 in our initial phone call, Um, when I pictured the idea, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.800 which I thought was such an original idea of a 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.960 of a rewatch podcast, I didn't know there were thirty 0:00:55.280 --> 0:01:00.840 thousand of them already on you, which it just shows 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.520 you how slow my brain works. Um. Um, you know, 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.040 I said to her, the most important thing to me 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.880 is that the fans are served here that we cannot 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:18.480 usurp or you know, try to grandstand or or in 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.360 any way, um walk into the Church of Gilmore and 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.720 defy all the place. And I think I did that 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.880 on this last episode. And I want to first and 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:35.440 foremost apologize to you, Amy for talking over I think 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:37.960 I don't want to get into an argument and talk 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.039 over you. When I'm trying to apologize, I interrupt you 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:45.720 every every episode. I see your comments, I see your comments. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.160 I get excited. I can't help myself, right, but we 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.600 just get excited. We care. Here's the thing. And I 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.680 don't mean to trash guys, but if it was a 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.880 bunch of guys reacting oh this, that I would go. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.240 You know, I understand guys when men, I think I 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.160 place women higher than I do. Man, I just do. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.360 They're more emotionally intelligent, they're more in tune with shows 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:15.000 like this. This fan base is is mostly women. It's 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:21.280 most it's like women. And uh, my entire life, I 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:27.120 have been guided by emotionally mature, intelligent women. Otherwise I'd 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.440 be a total wreck. And women have saved my ass 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.720 countless times in my life. And when women speak out 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.760 and say, Scott, check yourself a little bit, I listen. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:46.079 So I'm listening to you. I appreciate this. I love you, guys, Daniel. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.400 I apologize if I have been talking over you. I've 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:56.239 been too aggressive. You're so nice. So after we taped 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.680 the episode that aired, Scott called me the next morning 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.040 and call to me to apologize, and I was like, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.959 you have the whole thing to apologize for, Like nothing 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.400 is more fun for me. Than when we're talking about 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.800 these episodes, because it's like we were so passionate about 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.160 this show, Like I love this show so much, so 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:22.560 it's like nothing. I do enjoy hearing a different perspective too, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.680 you know, like it wouldn't be fun if it was 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.160 just the same perspective, like exactly like seeing from your lens, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.520 even though ours was totally right and Scott correct, we 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.440 want to hear it. I'm just kidding, a lot of 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.280 people agree with you. You know, people don't like Christopher. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.640 I happen to love him, so I think that's the 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.160 other thing. It's like you don't care for Christopher, where 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.040 I'm just like Doe ide for Christopher. I love him, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.640 But it doesn't give me the right to to stop 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.400 listening to you because you're not agreeing with me. And 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.760 I want to be better at that. So I want 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.560 to appreciate that. But I think you always listen. But listen. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.240 We I told you in that initial phone call. The 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.760 fans are gonna shape this. We're going into this kind 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:10.080 of blind I know this. I know this show is 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.080 is sacred to people. It gives them a great deal 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.200 of comfort. The last thing I want to do is 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.520 gives them any kind of stress. UM, I just happened 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.440 to be UM. And there's a lot of reasons for it. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:26.400 UM A little bit forceful sometimes, UM. And you know 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:32.040 we also are passionate. You look are Luke. So whether 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.800 you are an actor portraying Luke over these many years, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.640 like you are Luke, you care about him so much 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.039 so we want to hear what Luke has to say. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.600 So here's here's what I'm gonna try to do. I'm 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.480 gonna try to and I think and one comment really 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.760 open my eyes. And I'm telling you, the comments are 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:58.080 so intelligent, they're so insightful, and it's amazing this fan 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.040 base read them as we read them. I didn't read 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:02.480 them all. I couldn't get through them all I was. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.599 You know, I almost had a breakdown. I couldn't. I 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.320 got through about four of them, what I said, all right, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.480 another one for me, another one. I read them all 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.200 that for some reason, if someone missed last week, you 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.120 might want to go back right now and give it 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:23.000 a clicker too, because it got hot. But I gotta 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.680 tell you, I love doing this. I've never had so 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.400 much fun doing anything in my professional career. And I 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.720 love you guys, and we are having such a good 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:39.000 time doing this. I do get passionate. I think what 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.200 I'm going to try to do. It's one of the 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.280 comments that I was I was about to comment on 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:48.080 is try to separate, And it was such an insightful comment. Um. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.960 It was trying to separate Luke from Scott and try 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.120 to look at a little more objectively like a fan 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.159 would look at it. I'm looking at it. It's like 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.039 too much inside baseball kind of thing. But that's what 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.920 we like because I get it. But it doesn't because 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.720 you may have seen from my background acting, which was 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.279 a lot better than I give your credit for, I 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.479 just got a little jealous, very bad. It was very 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.840 very bad because I know I can't do it like that, Um, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.960 which is why I never attempted background acting. Um, but 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.520 I'm listen. I hear you, I hear you, Gang, I 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.200 hear everybody, and you should be able to listen to 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.360 this podcast about this fantastic show filled with people that 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.640 I truly love. Um. It's an experience and it continues 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.640 to change my life and improve my life for the better. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.280 And if you're saying this, then I'm gonna work on 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.560 myself and I'm going to try to to be a 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.640 little less um forceful with my opinion. But I think 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.400 I think opinions. If you know, I stand by my opinions. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.880 It's just it's it's it's not having the opinion, it's 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.920 how the opinion is is served. And I just think 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.200 I'm serving the opinion a little hot. I'm gonna take 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.039 it out of the oven sooner, let it cool off, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.520 and then I'll serve it. Ready, I mean, let's do it. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.480 Let's do it today. I can't wait to see what 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.360 he's thinking. Anyway, greatest fans in the world. They are 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.800 the smartest, nicest people, by the way, I agree, they 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.720 are so nice. But the comments are so so smart, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.120 Like keep them coming. They do. They know this show 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.960 a heck of a lot better than I do. And 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:35.000 I was in it. It's like not even a fair fight. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.840 But thank you, thank you for the comments. And we're 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.720 gonna we do want to make this UM a fan 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.160 friendly event. Every single time you tune in. We don't 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.880 want you to feel like there's going to be any 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.960 kind of toxicity. So we've got an expert coming in. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.120 They're going to clear out the toxicity and then we're 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.480 going to continue anyway. I almost I almost shout a 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.280 team low again because you can't help. But like, you're 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:05.760 still going to have a show, and we're not all 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.400 going to agree. Like I am going to be team Logan. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.440 I do love me some Jess, but I'm always gonna 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.520 be team Logan. So it's like we're gonna disagree on 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.560 things we are. That's fine. I can't wait to see 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.120 you about this episode because I have like some get 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.160 into it because I have something. Okay, I after this 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.000 episode was over, Uh and we're wait a minute, so 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:33.560 who's who's going to do our synopsis? Take the synopsis away. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.840 So this is season three, episode three, Application Anxiety, original 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:43.080 air day, October eight, two two. When Rory's Harvard application arrives, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.040 her confidence disappears, and soon three generations of Gilmore girls 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:51.160 share one giant anxiety attack. Plus Dean starts to wonder 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.640 what will happen with their relationship when she takes off 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.680 for college, and Taylor convinces the town to open an 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.440 old fashioned soda shop next to Luke's diner. At the 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.440 end of this episode, at the end of Application Anxiety, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.520 you know what I said to myself, what I said, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.160 who the hell wrote this? So I went back and 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.480 I looked at it. Is that good or bad? Oh? 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:20.080 That's good, I said to myself. Daniel Palladino wrote the 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.560 hell out of this episode, because man, you talk about 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:30.000 snappy dialogue, and Gail man Cuso directed it. And I 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.679 remember Gail and she was always so great to work with, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.160 and she masterfully guided us through this and kept our 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:42.440 pace at breakneck speed throughout this entire thing. I just 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:47.840 thought that this was a masterful episode. I was completely engaged. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.880 I wanted to get up and and get some more food, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:57.040 but I wouldn't allow myself to know I just right. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.520 That happens to me with Gilmore Girls constantly, where I'm like, oh, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.360 I'm just gonna watch like fifteen minutes of it and 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:03.520 then I'll go do something else, and then all of 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.480 a sudden, it's like I'm a zombie. Just like. I 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.480 was so hooked into this because the dialogue was so great, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.360 and the and the banter back and forth was so great, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.800 and the timing was so great. Everything was just bum 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.360 bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Well, you know 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:24.200 what hooked me right from the start, The Brady Variety Hour, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.560 Like do you guys, do you guys know what that is? Genius? Yeah, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.640 Brady Bunch, me too. But so that's what is so 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.480 genius about this show. They weren't watching The Brady Bunch. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:42.840 They were watching the fairly cheesy like Pam The Brady 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.880 Variety Hours. So in the seventies, Danielle was not very 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:52.080 born in are you joking me? Sorry? You weren't born 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:57.920 till the nineties. The first year, well, I was born 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.000 in the seventies. So in the seventies is the Variety 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.600 Hour was like a total thing, like it was the 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.319 heyday of Donnie and Marie. So the fact that Rory 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.520 and Lorla are watching The Brady Variety Hour, who even 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.800 knows how they got it at the time because it 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.360 wasn't on. It was like a song and dance thing 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.880 with all the Bradies, except where I think Jan bugged out. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.520 I think Jan did not partake. That was so hilarious 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.640 that they were watching that I was dying, and then 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.840 that that kind of became that bit because her application 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.280 came while they were watching. They Now, did you guys 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.320 notice something about the mailman? He didn't close the door. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.439 He left the door wide open, And I just came 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.800 in the house. But that's small town. That's like small town, right, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:55.719 They're all, hey, Eddie. I'm like what yeah, Like I 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.920 live in a little small town and my alarm would 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:03.120 be going off if somebody to open the door, you know. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.240 I mean, you know, my mailman, I wave and I love, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.000 but he doesn't open my door. We used to get 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.320 We used to have a milkbox out in front of 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.880 our front door, and the milkman would come by and 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.280 put the glass bottles of milk and milk balls. And 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.840 then we used to have god, I sound old, don't 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.600 I um? And then we had a Charles Chips used 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:31.480 to come by and put potato chips into our potatoes. Yes, yes, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.000 it was a weekly delivery. The old joke so like 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.880 Daniel is too young for this too. The old joke 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.560 would be like, oh was it the milkman. Like remember 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.520 when people would have like Shenanigan's on the side, and 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:50.800 or like Milkman's baby exactly because the milkman. I'm too 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:58.079 young for the milkman. Sorry, Scott, the puffcorn relieved because 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:03.240 I was suspicious, you know, guy, Yeah, can they bring 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.439 back the chip guys? And the guy just delivered bags 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.599 of potato chips. I mean what it was both. I 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.840 mean it was like get them both in court. You know, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:15.679 it's like, what are you gonna do? Chip guy? It's like, okay, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:23.800 it could be one or the other. Alright, So back 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.720 to the show. So what do you guys think her 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:30.440 Harvard application has come? Um, you know, I love that 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:35.680 they talked about the dead souls and go Goal reading 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:43.520 the bleak Russian authors who are all quite brilliant, and uh, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.800 you know, it was just a funny bed. It was 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.640 a funny way to open it. What should we do? 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.480 Should he could have brilliant? Yeah, it was a funny 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.719 way to open it, very literally, because they're watching the 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.680 show being so ruy lorla, and then here comes the 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.880 baby Harvard application. It's like, here's here's present day culture 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.880 watching the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, and then there's a 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.520 Harvard coming in, and then there's Googel right, so okay, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.280 So then we come into the kitchen and out pops Lane. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.200 And this is a very important storyline. Lane wants to 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.400 be in a band, so she's got this ad. So 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.040 that's big because as we know, that becomes major throughout 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.080 the series. So Danielle, I'm jumping ahead, But what did 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.640 you think when you saw did you know his voice? 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.640 When you heard on the voice smail the guy calling Lane? 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.400 Do you know what I'm talking about? No? Yeah, yeah, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.800 I know what you're talking about. But no, I didn't 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.440 recognize the voice. Who was it? You didn't recognize when 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:48.360 Dave Regowski calls for the first time? Negative? Okay, don't 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.840 want it. Okay, I'm jumping ahead, so we'll get back 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.080 to it. But this is major okay, So anyway, alright, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.160 so we're in the kitchen, Lane pops out. Any thoughts 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.840 on that scene? Um was wondering what the music was 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.880 in the background. I liked the music in the background, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.200 and then she popped out and I said, oh, that's 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.280 the music in the background. Okay cool? Um yeah, but 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:15.520 uh yeah again uh the pace of the dialogue and 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.040 you really have to focus in and concentrate on what 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.160 she's sang because you can't pick up all of it. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.480 It's so fast. So it really does get you in 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.600 this heightened state of awareness where you need to be 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.480 completely focused or else you're gonna miss something. And that's 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.680 why people watch this so many times over and over 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.080 again because it's like I missed that. I want to 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.960 get that. I want to experience this again because it's 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.600 it's faster than life. Yeah, that is really true, especially 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.400 in this episode, and it makes it kind of thrilling, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.120 and it really its speeds up life. It's like life 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.960 and fast forward somehow or a higher speed. And I 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.280 had I had felt like we hadn't had a Lane 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.960 episode in a bit, like either she'd been missing or 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.080 she was sort of insignificant where I was happy to 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.120 see her at the forefront again. Yeah, I was happy 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.280 to see her doing she loved and she and she 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.640 loves that. Um so that was good. It was refreshing. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.360 It was refreshing to see her. Okay, so we get 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.880 into Luke Steiner, so it's almost like she's another she's 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.680 another of laurealized daughters, where it's like that's where she belongs, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.760 or she's an alter ego of Rory somehow. Yes, Oh, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.280 very interesting. I do feel that she has a very 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.400 mother daughter relationship with Laura la friends but bordering on 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.080 their very close agree She's just be bopping in their 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.160 house all the time, and as we know then she 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.200 takes the calls out there. I mean She's free to 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.840 come and go like it's her home. I had. I 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.880 had My best buddy was like that. He used to 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.960 just come over any time, and he was welcome to 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.920 just go into the fridge and come into the house. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.120 And you know, because he had a he had a 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.480 tough family life, so he would come in and hang. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.280 I mean I I wouldn't be there. He'd come in 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.360 and talk to my mom, and my mom would Isn't 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.480 that the best? It's the best for him and for you? Yes, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.560 And we're still super close to this day. Oh I 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.360 love that. Yeah. Okay, So we go into Luke's diner 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.000 and this is my favorite line. Do they let kids 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.440 drink coffee before school? I think it might lead to 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:12.640 harder stuff Latte's cappuccinos. Yeah. Now, what did you think 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.679 of Dean and Rory that that morning? Um? What they 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.000 had that little scene at the table, right? I thought 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.640 they looked very comfortable and very content and things were 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.719 kind of back on track for them. Yeah. Yeah, I 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.280 felt that way too about this episode, and it was 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.399 sweet right there. Sweet together. They're very sweet together. He 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.679 was less annoying and no jess in this episode, So 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.960 maybe that makes us sort of like, like Dean more, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.919 how do you guys feel about Dean right now? I 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.280 feel bad for the guy. I do feel bad. But 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.080 this episode I was like, oh, okay, there's a shift 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.520 in this episode, which we can talk about later because 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.560 the ending scene, you know, one of the final scenes, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.359 you kind of get a glimpse into what's going on 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:07.640 in Dean's rain. You know, Yeah, Dean was Dean later on. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.960 although interesting that he sort of was thinking ahead to 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:16.520 it so realistically where she really wasn't. But we'll get 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.000 to that. Yeah. I thought they seemed very cute in 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:24.200 this scene, and you know, she wanted to make plans 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:25.800 and he was like, all right, you gonna be writing 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.680 your essay. And that's when we learned she put school aside. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.280 You know, she was like no, like you know, like 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.600 I want to hang out with you. She thinks she's 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.400 going to write about Hillary Clinton, and she's all good 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:44.680 to go, and we see Taylor taking the photo hysterical, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:57.399 and then he got he knew, Luke. He's so good. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.800 He is. I mean, he just puts that in his 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:05.080 body that way, and he's hysterical. God, he's so good. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:09.840 He's so good. Okay, So then we had to Chilton 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.160 for the assembly. What do you guys think of Paris 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.760 and Rory at the Assembly and everything that ensued, they're 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.399 interviewing Jim Romaine from Princeton and Rose Samuel's the college consultant. 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.560 I like how it started because the guy who was 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.199 running the place told Paris, look, look, this isn't the 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.600 Beatles at Chase Stadium. Relax. It's like finally somebody you know, 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.480 but stood up door and didn't get bulldozed and said, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.760 what's what's with this stuff? You know? She wanted to 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:44.040 black everything black background with spotlights and the whole thing, 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.159 and she wanted what she wanted to look like firing 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.879 line or something like that, or Charlie Rose screen. She 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:54.640 wanted to look like Charlie Rose. That's where she does 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.480 her Hillary Clinton dig too. And I just kind of 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:03.399 had to chuck out that or He's like right, right, God. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.320 I also thought there was a couple of words. They're like, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.359 we don't like perfunctory answers, and I'm all, Google, what 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:14.280 is perfunctory? Like, uh yeah? And bad printing. They didn't 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:19.879 like bad printing. I was like, yeah, that was funny stuff. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.840 The looks on both of their favor Their reactions were priceless. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.760 Oh my god, when you jump ahead, I liked Paris 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:29.720 a little more in this because I got to see 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.800 a different color or she wasn't so sure. I liked 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.560 Paris so much in the scene ahead when she calls Rory. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.840 We'll talk about that. So, so now we're at Friday 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.919 night dinner and we can go backwards, but embarrass So, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.040 first of all, Roy has a cell phone. Does you 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.480 guys noticed that she does? She has a cell phone now, 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:52.800 so I believe it's the first time we've seen Rory 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.879 with a cell phone. I think Lorela had had one before, 0:20:54.880 --> 0:21:01.200 but Roy has one now, embarish. Now I was about 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:11.160 to heave. Okay, so talk about it. We're at Friday 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:16.240 night dinner and Emily obviously has the magazines for school. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.320 And then this is where we see both Rory and 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:25.240 Lower Life freaking out. Oh um, hysterically funny scene. Uh 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:29.439 you know they you know that's that's a hell of 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.199 a thing when you realize how much competition there is 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.879 and there's so many, you know, thousands globally, thousands of 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.919 people with the same qualifications, if not better, And how 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.400 are you going to differentiate yourself. And uh, I thought 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.080 all of their answers and and Dan, Dan researched this beautifully, 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:47.840 you know, I think it was you know, he probably 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.040 had to call the Harvard missions border get somebody to 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.280 talk to him, and they told him, you know, they 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.520 gave me the inside track on on how they do 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.239 these things. Um. What was scary for me is that 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.960 they you know, they're they're so that the admissions officers 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.639 know that everybody is the same the same qualifications, so 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.639 they put a stack on the rejects, and they just 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.880 put a stack on the yeses, you know, and there's 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.560 far fewer yeses and rejects, and they just that's how 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:14.840 they do it. Sometimes. Maybe I don't know that that 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.479 was kind of frightening to me. I hope that's not 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:23.560 the case. Um, but getting into college is so hard. 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.920 The difference between even when Rory was going to college 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.840 twenty years ago and now, I mean, these kids cannot 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.920 get into college now. So nobody can get into college. 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:35.560 You have to have like four point five to get 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.680 into like the I mean, to get into Harvard and Yale. Now, 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.479 I don't even I don't I can't even think about it. 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:44.640 I think it's like to have a five point out 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:48.040 does exist you have to be a unicorn to get 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.199 into heart. Well, it's all I mean, it used to 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.399 be in my day. All s, A T S and 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:58.720 a C T of course, you know. And yeah, so 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:04.280 they was very accurate even twenty years ago. And now 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:06.960 it totally plays because this is what these kids are 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:12.000 really going through, like freaking out about getting into college. Well, 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:13.800 we had a we had a kid in in my 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:20.040 group of friends who who got accepted to Yale um 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.600 really yeah, and he did premed and he became an 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.399 anestesil just the whole thing. Oh my god. But you know, 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:29.560 growing up, you know, he knew anatomy and physiology like 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:33.640 the back of his hand when he was ten, eleven, 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:37.760 twelve years old. You know, he knew it. And he 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.480 was grounded all of the time. His dad was always 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.560 rounding him. So he just strict parents, just studied, very 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:46.159 strict parents. Yeah, and he studied and studied and studied 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.000 and studied, and that's what it takes. It's interesting because 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:51.640 when you think about Chiltern, like these kids are competing 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.960 at such an extraordinary level, extraordinary level that they are 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:58.840 considering Yale Harvard, Prince and all these schools. It's like 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:07.280 it is intense. It's just it's the first time that 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:13.359 Laurelie realizes, oh gosh, this is not as a shoe 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.560 in as this might not happen. There's a lot of 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:21.040 special kids. The Gilmer women are freaking out, all three 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.760 of them. What I thought was interesting, and I will say, 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:27.960 is that Loureli called the headmaster and gets connected to 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.480 the guy, you know, the guy that went to Harvard. 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.280 Where what's interesting is this is where they really should 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.920 have leaned on Richard. Even though he's a Yale man, 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:40.359