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Speaker 1: Everybody Scott Patterson I Am all In Podcast, one of
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Speaker 1: our Walmart Journey a Walmart commercial shoot journey here entitled
Speaker 1: The Broken Door.
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Speaker 1: App joined by my own Traffic Cruises and lead us off.
Speaker 1: How did you find out about the commercial? So?
Speaker 3: I heard about the commercial when it was kind of
Speaker 3: in the planning stages, and it was it was scheduled,
Speaker 3: so like it was a secret, but it was still happening,
Speaker 3: and so you know, I obviously kept my mouth shut,
Speaker 3: so I knew kind of what was going on. And
Speaker 3: I just was so excited for all the fans because
Speaker 3: everybody is.
Speaker 2: So starved for new Gilmore.
Speaker 3: Stuff and so the fact that this was like coming
Speaker 3: together was amazing. But I heard an interesting story about
Speaker 3: that shooting day that you almost didn't make it to
Speaker 3: the set because there was an issue with the door
Speaker 3: in the trailer.
Speaker 1: No, no, I almost didn't make it out of the
Speaker 1: trailer after wrap to go home?
Speaker 2: Got it Okay?
Speaker 1: Because I went into my swanky, massive bedroom inside the
Speaker 1: trailer by the way, and I changed into my street clothes,
Speaker 1: and I got out of the Luke suit and I
Speaker 1: became a mild manner porter Clark Kent again and that's
Speaker 1: actually hilarious, and and I, uh, I'd close the door
Speaker 1: behind me, and and then when I came out, because
Speaker 1: they were filming, because they wanted to do the the
Speaker 1: TikTok thing where I go in and then appears in
Speaker 1: the Luke suit and then I go in the looks
Speaker 1: and here in my street clothes again. And it was
Speaker 1: not my idea. This was Elaine's idea to do that.
Speaker 1: And the door was jammed, it wouldn't open.
Speaker 2: I would have at.
Speaker 1: There was a small window. I didn't feel like I
Speaker 1: was in any danger. I was with my my my
Speaker 1: team and uh, Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: Wait, no, you're stuck.
Speaker 1: I'm stuck for how long? It wasn't that long, you know,
Speaker 1: And we tried to pull it and pull it and
Speaker 1: pull it and yeah, yeah, So I think Elaine h
Speaker 1: opened the trailer door and led to the outside and said, hey,
Speaker 1: can you get a couple of people in here to
Speaker 1: help deal this door? And they just you know. It
Speaker 1: was about five minutes and I was just sort of
Speaker 1: sitting in there reading a book, you know, and I.
Speaker 2: Would have been panicking.
Speaker 1: Caught off on some reading, and they came in and
Speaker 1: they dealt with it and opened the door.
Speaker 4: They first when I heard the door story, I thought
Speaker 4: it would maybe have something to do with the door
Speaker 4: at the diner.
Speaker 2: No, so this is not as good of a door
Speaker 2: story as I was hoping it would be.
Speaker 1: Actually, pretty door at the Diner was a problem during
Speaker 1: shooting really of the commercial, yes, because it stuck or
Speaker 1: it would close properly, and it kept opening up during
Speaker 1: the takes like swing open, yes. So it was almost
Speaker 1: like it was almost like the spirit of the Gilmore
Speaker 1: Girl and was telling us, please open this door and
Speaker 1: keep it open. We want more episode.
Speaker 2: Seriously, did you flub your lines or have any good bloopers?
Speaker 1: Uh? I don't think so a little bit of.
Speaker 2: A trickier line, not the Kirk part, but the other part.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think anybody flubbed their lines.
Speaker 2: I wish we could see these other versions.
Speaker 1: Why don't they just really just start like dropping them
Speaker 1: like throughout the hall.
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll hear this and do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Wait, since we have you back again, Yes, is there
Speaker 4: anything we missed it? Forgot to ask you about when
Speaker 4: we revealed the commercial. There anything you've thought of since then?
Speaker 1: Well, you know the final shot, you know, of me
Speaker 1: walking out there in the snow, and then you know,
Speaker 1: Lauren did a little thing.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's cute.
Speaker 1: She did a little shoulder. Yeah, you know with me,
Speaker 1: it's really smiled.
Speaker 4: And that was Do you ever think of like hugging
Speaker 4: or kissing? They didn't, They didn't let you do that.
Speaker 4: I thought, oh, maybe.
Speaker 1: I suggest I suggested when she came in, what about
Speaker 1: I lean over and give her a peck on the cheek.
Speaker 1: We've been married so long. Uh, And they said they're like, no,
Speaker 1: we don't need that. We get it. You know, everybody
Speaker 1: less us more kind of do Yeah. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think they wanted to have the best of both worlds
Speaker 1: because the fans know we're married and we're happily ever after.
Speaker 1: But they wanted to harken back to the days where
Speaker 1: Luke and Laurel. I were just sort of like, maybe
Speaker 1: harken back to the beginning of the series, you know,
Speaker 1: so so live in best of both worlds. So it
Speaker 1: was actually a smarter choice that the director advised we
Speaker 1: we do so. Yeah, yeah, very collaborative, very good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that big shot with a big crane shot with
Speaker 1: the camera on the going up and we had to
Speaker 1: follow it up there in the snow falling on us.
Speaker 1: It was like big budget movie action. Man. It was
Speaker 1: like this is how they do it, and it was
Speaker 1: just cool. And we did that on Gilmore too. We
Speaker 1: did a lot of crane shots with snow and this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But it was just it was so
Speaker 1: magical because it was daytime. We were dressed in our
Speaker 1: winter clothes.
Speaker 2: It really it looks wintery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did job. Yeah, they did a great job.
Speaker 2: It's like it was it not a sunny day because somehow.
Speaker 1: It looks like overcast. It was a bit.
Speaker 2: I was sort of lucky.
Speaker 1: That helps it out. I agree. Yeah, that final shot
Speaker 1: was a little winterry. I felt like I was in
Speaker 1: Colorado a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wanted to strap on the skis and say, see,
Speaker 1: I gotta go really good. I got to go crush
Speaker 1: some music with it, just like at it, like I
Speaker 1: don't know what it would have been like without the music.
Speaker 2: It just got you and your fields.
Speaker 1: The music is so powerful. Yeah, just put you right
Speaker 1: back in it, right to Yep. Then became a real
Speaker 1: job because I have to ask uh uh some of
Speaker 1: the PA's like do you have boxes and some bags?
Speaker 1: I want to take all the storm?
Speaker 2: My gosht so love the car.
Speaker 1: Everybody that was still there, Like Elaine got a box
Speaker 1: full of snacks. There was so many snacksations are just
Speaker 1: like a man. So Elaine got a bag of sacks
Speaker 1: and her daughter got a bag of snacks, and you know,
Speaker 1: there was tons of water and juices. And you know
Speaker 1: what they did. They went to airwon and just cleaned
Speaker 1: the place out.
Speaker 2: For a first of all, that is fancy.
Speaker 4: Wait, so then when you got you know what I
Speaker 4: didn't ask you when we talked about this the other day.
Speaker 2: When you got home and saw the family, what did
Speaker 2: you another happy dance was done?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What did you say when you got home?
Speaker 1: Let me see. I got home. Well, let's see, my
Speaker 1: wife was making dinner, my son was doing his homework.
Speaker 1: I came in and they turned around and said, Daddy,
Speaker 1: how was the shoot? My son came and hugged me
Speaker 1: and he wanted to know all about it. I showed
Speaker 1: him some video and some some photos that I had taken.
Speaker 1: We sat down and had a nice meal and just
Speaker 1: about a school day. Yeah, it was just like but
Speaker 1: it was like elevated, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was a cool thing. And he's old enough now
Speaker 1: to realize that this is you know how big this is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know, my wife was very
Speaker 1: proud of me. She wanted to She made a special
Speaker 1: dinner and a special dessert. You know so much.
Speaker 4: We also didn't ask you this, did you.
Speaker 2: Like, do you feel like there's more Luke in you?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Can could you play him again? Immediately?
Speaker 1: You know what? I I thought I was maybe at
Speaker 1: the end of the trail with him, but this sparked
Speaker 1: a brand new desire to revisit it. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: will be hitting the road and I will be starting
Speaker 1: a movement once again. Yes, LA.
Speaker 4: Campaigning commercial definitely makes me go. The commercial definitely makes
Speaker 4: you like, oh wow, I need.
Speaker 2: More of these people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I don't know what kind and what shape
Speaker 1: or form this will come, but my gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: what a what a wonderful gift that this has been.
Speaker 1: The twenty four years ago, I landed a a one.
Speaker 1: I landed a pilot episode of a of a show
Speaker 1: and it's turned into this after twenty four years, and
Speaker 1: it's just such a gift. I just can't even believe
Speaker 1: this is all happening. And you know, I got on
Speaker 1: that set and they treated everybody so well, and I
Speaker 1: just I kept asking a laying what the heck's going on?
Speaker 1: She goes, don't you understand? Don't you get it yet,
Speaker 1: you hard headed CEO, boss of mine? What's wrong with you? Said?
Speaker 1: You know? This is this is a big deal, Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it is. I guess it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is the show is way bigger now twenty four years
Speaker 4: later than it was when it.
Speaker 2: Aired the first time?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And that is not normal, isn't It?
Speaker 1: Just so such a pleasure to serve the fans in
Speaker 1: this way and to keep this going and to keep
Speaker 1: that fire burning and to give them as much content
Speaker 1: as we can. And it's I mean, if we hadn't
Speaker 1: done it, somebody else would it? Right, It was needed,
Speaker 1: there was a void to fill.
Speaker 2: There was a really smart Phil Walmart knew is really smart.
Speaker 4: They knew what they were doing because this is the
Speaker 4: perfect show for the holidays.
Speaker 3: I mean, what better way to sell a coffee maker
Speaker 3: right right?
Speaker 2: Or a jacket because I'm buying that. I'm buy that jacket.
Speaker 2: I need that jacket. Luke approved coffee.
Speaker 4: Well, Scott, I'm sure we'll stay tuned because we'll have
Speaker 4: more more stories and behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: But oh wonderful. It was a beautiful drive home on
Speaker 1: pch looking out at the ocean. Yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: it was actually the vision that I had at the
Speaker 1: beginning of my career how I was going to end up.
Speaker 1: You know, the vision that I was working toward was
Speaker 1: leaving Warner Brothers in a nice car and driving out
Speaker 1: to the ocean home. That was a vision I used
Speaker 1: to work with. That's the vision that I that I
Speaker 1: naturally did when it was regarding my career. It was
Speaker 1: another there was another vision too, but that's the one
Speaker 1: that that actually came true. The other one hasn't come
Speaker 1: true yet, but it will, well it will, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: So that's that's it, folks. Walmart Commercial Deconstruction Part two.
Speaker 4: And it's very funny that because you got trapped at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, right, didn't matter to me
Speaker 4: because I'm like, oh, you've already shot everything.
Speaker 1: We're good. Perhaps it was my plaintive, subconscious whale coming
Speaker 1: from within me that I did not want to leave,
Speaker 1: that I didn't want to end the day anyway, it was.
Speaker 1: It was maybe the best professional experience I've ever had
Speaker 1: in a single day, other than doing Gilmore Girls itself.
Speaker 1: But what a joy. And thanks for sharing this with me, everybody.
Speaker 1: It was quite a day. And you'll be at the
Speaker 1: next one, if there's the next one, Okay, apologize you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, anyway, best fans on the planet. We will
Speaker 1: see you on December eighteenth at Warner Brothers. Really really excited.
Speaker 1: Big surprises coming for that as well. Beyond what we've
Speaker 1: already announced and where you lead, guess what we will follow.
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