WEBVTT - I AM ALL IN: Where you Lead 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:17.720 I am all in. Thank you. I Am all in 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.439 with Scott Patterson, an iHeart Radio podcast. All right, everybody, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.680 we have a very special episode here. We have a 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:30.040 very very special guest. And by the way, Hi, this 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.880 is Scott Patterson and this is the I Am All 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.640 In podcast with iHeart Radio. As I was saying, we 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.280 have a very very special guest today. Her name is Maya, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.519 and she's coming to us from a children's hospital in 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:52.720 Denver and she has her own radio show and her 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:58.600 own podcast inside that hospital. Ryan Seacrest spent millions and 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.240 millions of dollars of his own money building state of 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:06.440 the art recording facilities and studios inside of many, many 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.800 children's hospitals across the country. So good on them for that. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.960 And Maya is one of these lucky kids that has 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:17.880 a chance to have her own podcast within one of 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.800 these children's hospitals, and we're going to talk to her. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:26.360 And there she is. Hi, Maya, how are you, I'm dead? 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.479 How are you? I'm doing great? Nice to meet you, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.000 and we're very excited to talk with you today. So 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.440 thank you for asking us and reaching out to us. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.319 You emailed us and had a few questions for us. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.839 And we're excited to talk to you. So, oh, I'm 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.920 so excited to be talking to you. This is just great. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:54.200 So tell me a little bit about why you're there 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.600 and how you got involved with doing your own You're 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:02.120 doing your own podcast, right, yeah, I'm well, it's notoppedly 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:09.280 a podcast, it's just it's at the studio that it 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:19.320 broadcasts to all the patients rooms and then yeah, and 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:24.440 then I record, they record my interviews so I can 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.559 upload them to my YouTube channel. Wow, that is just fantastic. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.440 So also, all the patients over there, all those kids, Hi, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:39.040 everybody love you. And uh, I am so honored to 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.000 that you reached out and wanted to talk to us, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.200 and we're very excited. Can I ask you a couple 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.440 of questions before we turn over the floor to you 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.200 so that you can interview me, because I know you 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.440 wanted to interview me and you had a lot of questions. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.680 But can I ask you a couple of questions? First? Yeah, okay, okay. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.640 So first, first and foremost is is why are you there. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:08.720 I was diagnosed with a brain tumor before I was 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:13.800 three years old, so I had surgery and then two 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:20.360 and a half years of chemotherapy, and then I was 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:27.840 cancer free. But then I still had a ton of 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:34.120 doctors appointments for other shoes that would cause But then 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:41.920 in January, in January, I was diagnosed with another brain tumor, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:48.080 and so I had six weeks of radiation and now 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:56.280 scans every three months. Okay, how's it looking Okay, looking good? Yeah, yeah, 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:02.600 it's stable. There's ship Now there's their issues. Now there's swelling. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:08.320 Like the radiation I caused swelling, So now I'm having 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:16.440 treatments to control to stop the swelling. Well, we wish 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.320 you the best, and you are very very strong and 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.240 very talented young lady, and you have a lot to 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.159 offer the world. And like I said, it's really an 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.200 honor to be on with you, and thank you so 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.560 much for reaching out to us, because you know, I 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.599 can already tell this is going to be my favorite 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.359 episode that we will record in the whole history of 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.919 this the podcast, however long it goes. This is really 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.920 exciting to talk to you and tell us a little 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.479 bit about have you met Ryan Seacrest? Have you talked 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:53.200 to him? My mom and my sister and I were 0:04:53.200 --> 0:05:01.200 actually at the hospital when the Seacrest studios opened on accident. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.919 It was, and it wasn't actually me that had the appointment, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.920 it was my sister, and so we were there when 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.880 it opened, so we got to meet Bryan Seacrest and 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:22.440 everybody that was there, and then my mom had would 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:27.120 have to make sure we had time either before my 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.960 appointment or after so we could go into the so 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:38.560 I could go into the studio. And then yeah, that 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.440 So it opened when we were in sixth grade, and 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:48.680 then a year later I found out patients could do 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.080 their own show. So then in seventh grade I started 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.960 my show. And then in eighth grade I started reaching 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.800 out to people. Wow, what a spirit you have? Huh 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.159 get you know, well you have a brain tumor. And 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.600 then uh, yeah, but I want to do my own show. Okay, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:16.200 my god, how strong are you? Unbelievable? How amazing for you? 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.960 I mean, just it's absolutely amazing that you can handle 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.480 all this all I mean, because you know, I know 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.240 what I go through to try to to prepare for 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.640 our We're doing two a week now, and it's just 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.840 like I have no free time. I can't even imagine 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.120 how you do it or how you find the time. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.680 So it's it's it's it's really a testament to you 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.200 and your intestinal fortitude and your and your life drive. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.920 It's it's really remarkable. Okay, so thank you Ryan Seacrest. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.920 Incredible human being, uh, generous human being with a heart 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:53.360 as as big as a mountain. That guy. And I 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.920 am going to turn over this podcast to you because 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:03.559 you have questions for me, So go ahead. Well my 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.240 first well, first of all, I just wanted to say 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.080 thank you so much for having me on. I've been 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.840 so excited for this so well, it's it's our pleasure 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.000 and it's our honor to have you on. Trust me. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:23.840 Thank you. So my first question for you is when 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.600 was the moment you first knew you wanted to be 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:34.120 an actor. Oh, that's an interesting question. I'm you know, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.480 I was, I was. I used to play professional baseball, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:45.360 and I remember I was dating I was dating an 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:51.560 actress and she was on a show. She was on 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.760 an Errand spelling show, and I was, you know, this 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.640 was a long long time ago, by the way. This 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:01.600 was I don't know, nineteen eighty five and I was 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.200 still playing professional baseball, but in the offseason I'd come 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.920 to La to stay in shape in the good weather. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:12.000 So I'd spend my winters in Los Angeles, you know, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.000 training and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, so 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.520 I met this this this actress at a restaurant and 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.920 we began dating and I would read her. I would 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.880 read with her for her next day's work, right that 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.320 she had to go shoot. And she stopped me once 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:29.840 and said, you know what, you're pretty good at this. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.160 You know, maybe you should consider doing this after your 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:38.120 baseball career. And I know, and you know, I never 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.080 really thought about being an actor. I mean, I really 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.360 wrote more than anything, and I enjoyed, you know, the 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.920 arts very much. I wrote poetry and I wrote short 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.600 stories and you know that kind of a thing. And 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.320 uh and I read, you know, I read plays like 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.880 everybody does in high school. And my mother was an 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.200 actress in the local plays and players are in the 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.880 town I grew up in. So the word was she 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.480 was very talented, and but she had four kids to raise, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.320 so she couldn't really put that much time into it. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.040 But I'd never really thought about it. And then I 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.120 started thinking about it when my girlfriend at the time 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.600 in nineteen eighty five, suggested I do it. So I 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.560 took an acting class. That's the first time. I I 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:31.160 went to the Stella Adler Conservatory in LA and took 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.000 an acting class. And then when I a year later, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.560 I retired from baseball and moved to New York and 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:42.400 studied in New York. So am oh cool. So when 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:48.040 you read the role of Luke for Gilmore Girls, did 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:55.600 you connect with Luke right away? Yeah? Yeah I did. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:03.080 I two things went through my mind simultaneously after I 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:08.480 finished reading that script, is that I don't want anybody else. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.880 The first one was I have no chance of getting 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.600 this role because it's just too good a role. The 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.640 script is too good. And at that time, in two thousand, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.480 they were starting to hire, you know, film actors with names, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.800 real names, were starting to do television. That's when it began. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.280 I mean a lot of them were crossing over into television. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.480 It wasn't taboo anymore to do it because they were 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.600 usually separate. You were either a TV actor or you 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.680 were a film actor. And very few film, if any, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.520 film actors to television, and very few TV actors were 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:52.480 lucky enough to do film. But so I thought, hey, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.240 I don't have a chance to do this because they're 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.960 going to hire a big name film actor and the 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.240 second thought was, I don't anybody else to play this role, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.800 so I went for it. So I really prepped it 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.400 and I worked on the one scene that I thought 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.720 I had one and nailed it. And they wanted me 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.360 to do another scene that I hadn't prepared because they 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.360 made a typo and it said Duke instead of Luke 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.079 on the pages that they gave me for the audition, 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.880 and they said, well, would you mind going outside for 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.280 a little bit five minutes and prepare the second scene? 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.120 And I, you know, I didn't think I had a 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.440 chance anyway, so I didn't care, and I said sure. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.720 So then I went in and I did that scene 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.120 pretty well, and by the end of the day I 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.680 had the job. So yeah, it was pretty fast. It 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.000 was shocking and fast, but it was just a guest 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.800 star role in the pilot. It wasn't to be a 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.880 serious regular. It was just to go up and be 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:51.960 in the pilot. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, turned turned into 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:58.320 something pretty nice from humble beginnings, right, yeah, So did 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:03.000 you ever wish that Stars Hollow was a real place. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.400 It is a real place. There are there are places 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:11.400 like that. Uh. The Northeast has many many small towns 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.920 that are that are wonderful, beautiful, eccentric and and just 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.680 great places to grow up. And all over the country 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.360 there are actually places like that that is not a 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:28.840 stretch by any imagination of the imagination, but it's it's 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:34.360 it's really a very accurate depiction of many, many small 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.840 towns in America. So I don't I you know, I 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.240 kind of grew up in a place like that. It 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.320 was a little bigger than Stars Hollow, but you know, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.880 we had our eccentric people, and we had our odd balls, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.240 and we had our small town mentality and our communities 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.760 and you know, our sense of community, and everybody knew 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.160 each other's business, and you know, everybody was accountable. So 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.800 it sort of dictated how people your people would behave 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:06.840 and you know, so wonderful experience. Yeah, oh cool. Yeah, yeah. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:13.080 I have been watching Gilmore Girls. I mean I always 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.959 watch it, but during Quarantine especially, I've just been rewatching 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:23.520 it and just I just always wish like I lived 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:28.160 in Stars Hollow, Like I just I just want to 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.840 live there, so you can there are many places that 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:36.120 are like that. Yeah, I my mom and I were 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:42.000 talking about it than how like I just I kind 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.160 of just want to live in a small town, and 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.280 my mom said she thinks my anxiety would probably be 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.440 better in a small living in a small town. So 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.400 I was like, Okay, we're going to move to stars Hollow. Then, well, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:07.679 you know, there are many historic, wonderful, beautiful, quiet small towns. Uh, 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:14.200 you know in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, I mean, 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.839 Rhode Island, I mean all over the Northeast. I mean, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.480 if you what part of the country. Oh, oh, so 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.080 you're in Denver. I mean they have they have places 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:27.720 in and around Denver that are like that. So you 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.920 know they're they're they're not It's not that hard to 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.479 find a place like that. They really do exist. I've 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.920 been to many of them, and they always remind me 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.600 of Starsoul. I've been to many of them since I 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:48.960 filmed the show, and it's a lot like Starsoul. What 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:54.880 was the most challenging part of reprising the role of 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.720 Luke after so many years for Gilmore Girls, a year 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.840 in Well, so much had happened in those nine years. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:13.520 I'd lost both my parents and it changed me a 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:21.520 great deal. I got married and had a son in 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:28.720 twenty fourteen, and then twenty sixteen came rolling around and 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.880 we were doing the reboot, and I had a two 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:35.040 year old son, and I was married, and it's just, uh, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.760 you know, I had mellowed a great deal and my 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.440 heart had opened up a great deal, which is what 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:52.120 happens when you have a child. And I just didn't 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:57.880 really feel like the character anymore. But there was you know, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.000 we're similar in some way, so I kind of leaned 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.120 on that and depended on that to get me where 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.080 I needed to be. I remember the first and I've 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:10.479 told this story before, but I'll tell it to you. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.160 You know, the first day of rehearsal, I just did 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.280 not feel the first day of shooting. We're in rehearsal 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.760 and before we were shooting, and I just did not 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.840 feel like the character at all, and I was in 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.960 trouble and I just you know, I said to the director, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.920 I need to take a walk, you know, give me, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.520 give me five ten minutes to walk around stars Hollow 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.120 because they rebuilt the set the back a lot of 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.240 Warner Brothers where we shot the original series, so that 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.480 was familiar to me. So I was hoping that would 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.040 trigger the old you know, get the trying to get 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.760 the old scent back, as it were, and that worked. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.600 You know. I walked around and I thought the thoughts 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.520 and I had the memories and walked back into the 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.560 diner and said, okay, I'm ready to shoot. I felt 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.400 like the guy, you know, a nine year old version 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:03.880 of the guy. You know. Well, I'm really sorry about 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.320 both of your parents. It's part of life, you know, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.760 I had. I had fifty great years with my mom 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:16.600 and uh rest rest are soul and uh and my dad. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:22.280 My dad passed about passed in twenty thirteen. And it 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:28.560 it just changes you. It's it really really changes you. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.800 You know. Shooting the reboot was was a lot of 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.880 fun because we knew it was a finite period of time. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.800 It wasn't like we were on a series again year 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.960 after year after year. It was three and a half 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.320 months of shooting and then we were out. So I 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.280 think it made everybody happy that and plus we got 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.640 some closure. If it would indeed be the last time, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.280 I don't know that it will be the last time 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:57.800 we shoot anything. I don't know anything. But it was 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.879 nice to catch up and so many people had changed 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.960 yet they'd stayed the same, and it was it was 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.679 just fun, you know. It was just a lot of 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:13.360 fun every day. Oh cool. Yeah, So what was your 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:19.639 favorite episode two film of Gilmore Girls. Well, it's always 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.480 the pilot for me because it was the most surreal 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:28.280 and it was the most enjoyable time I've ever had 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:33.040 on a set, and because I knew something magical was 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:38.760 in the air, I knew something special was happening, and 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.320 it felt like it was happening, and it felt very special. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.199 And uh, and I know that first scene I did 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.840 with Lauren at the counter, you know, please please please 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.399 more coffee and I said, she you're a junkie and 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.560 you have a problem, and that kind I just after 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.960 just rehearsing that scene with her before we started shooting, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.199 I thought, boy, this is this is wonderful. You know. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.000 I thought she was wonderful and her timing was great 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.720 and her delivery and every you know, everything, the physicality 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.399 of the character, that the Laurel character was just absolutely 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.760 specific and wonderful, and it gave me so much to 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:22.320 play off of. And I just knew it would work. 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.119 I just knew the relationship would work between Luke and Laureline. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.040 I knew that I was the guy, and I knew 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.440 that this pilot was just sort of a heat check 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.199 between Lauren and I to see if I was going 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.320 to be the guy, you know what I mean, Because 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.600 it wasn't me, it would have been somebody else, but 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.520 I was. I was very very pleased with that experience 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.200 of shooting the Pilot, and especially that first scene because 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.440 that was the first thing I shot when I got 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.399 to Toronto, because we shot to Pilot in Toronto, Canada. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.080 We shot the series of Warner Brothers in Burbank, California. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.480 But very special. Yeah, it was very very fond, wonderful 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:05.119 war memory. Yeah. Cool. So I know that you have 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:14.520 your own coffee company and how how did Scottype's Big 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:21.280 Mug Coffee come about? Well, I'm very entrepreneurial and as 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.879 nice as it is and as easy as it is 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.720 to be an actor and not have any ownership position 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.399 in the project that you're doing, just being purely an 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.439 independent contractor is is nice because you show up for 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.639 work and they pay you, and that's as simple as 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.560 it is. You don't have to worry about anything else 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.960 except just showing up doing your work and then you 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.440 collect your paycheck. And it's a tremendous amount of fun 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.520 on top of that. So but I always wanted to 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.760 own something, you know, be have my own company and 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.280 build it up from scratch and build it up over 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:00.679 time and do it the right way, you know, in 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.520 small steps, and not try to bite off too much 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.720 and grow too fast and all that. So I thought, well, 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.000 you know, Warner Brothers has done you know, sixteen seventeen 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:20.320 years of international marketing for me personally and has gotten 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.760 my name out there with the Gilmore stuff. And I 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.040 serve coffee on the show, and I'm kind of known 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.040 for being a coffee pusher on TV. So I figured 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:35.240 coffee was the natural way to go because we'd already 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.360 you know, on the marketing side, had already had established 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:43.280 that that character did that, So coffee was the natural choice. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.280 I'm a big coffee nut, so I searched far and 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:53.320 wide for great coffee and uh and have some wonderful 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.600 partners and and we're just you know, we're just having 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.760 a great time selling coffee. We love it. So is 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:07.080 a line from any Gilmore Girls episode that stuck with 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:13.879 you and has had a big impact on you. Well, 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.280 the one that resonates with me the most is what 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:20.480 I named the podcast after. I am all in you 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.840 know where I grew up and where I'm from, you know, 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:29.760 friendship and loyalty was very, very important. And there's another 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.840 expression that was not used in Gilmore, but it's an 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:34.960 expression I heard growing up a great deal. It's called 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.920 in for a penny, in for a pound. And what 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.200 it means is in terms of friendship and loyalty is 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:47.000 if you're gonna be somebody's friend, be their friend, you know, 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.040 don't dance around the edges, and you know, be an acquaintance, 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:55.760 be a friend, you know. And so that I am 0:22:55.800 --> 0:23:00.760 all in really represents me as a person and always 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:04.679 has and it really impacted me because I think, you know, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:09.280 the writing really nailed it in that circumstance with Laurela 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.199 because he's laying his cards out on the table and 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:15.320 it's like he's not messing around. It's like, I am 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:17.400 all in. I want you to know that I am 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.639 all in, and that means you can trust me, and 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:25.080 that you means you know, I'm gonna stick it out 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:27.680 through the thick and tin, because all relationships have up 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.800 and ups and downs. You can't avoid them, you know, 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:37.159 And you know, you want you want a solid, solid person. 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.440 You want to you want to be with a solid 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:41.960 person who's willing to make that commitment. Who's in for 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:44.720 a penny or who if they're going to be in 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:46.280 for a penny, they'll be in for a pound, you 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:55.000 know what I mean. So, is there someone from Gilmore 0:23:55.200 --> 0:24:03.160 Girls that you've remained close friends with? Yeah, Sean gun 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:10.679 Uh probably the closest, Yanni Trusdale a little bit. I 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:12.760 just saw CaCO. We just had her on the shelf, 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:18.240 so that was nice. Yeah. So what is your biggest 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:24.080 pet peeve? People that aren't considerate of other people. I'm 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:28.720 I'm a big stickler on manners. I like it when 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:34.600 people are considerate of other people's feelings and considerate of 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:42.040 other people's space and are polite and classy. I I 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:44.159 like that. You know, there are a lot of people 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:50.240 that are you know, they appear to be, you know, 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:53.639 nice people and honorable people, and then they turn around 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:56.680 stabby in the back. I mean that's everybody has experienced that, 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.480 and sometimes it really surp rises you. And sometimes it's like, 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.479 well I kind of figured that's gonna happen. You kind 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.080 of know who those people are and they're just not 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.040 your people. It doesn't mean they're evil people. It's just 0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:11.720 that they're not your people. So you guys just have 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:16.399 to find your people. And uh, but yeah, I'm big 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:22.240 on on consideration, you know. I think it's it's it's 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:27.600 pretty much the glue that holds our society together. Yeah. 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:32.679 So what is Luke's biggest pet peeve? Why? I believe 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:38.080 it's cell phones, which means his biggest pet peeve is 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:42.160 technology and change. He doesn't want to change. He doesn't 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:43.840 want to leave that town. He doesn't want to see 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:50.760 that town change. And maybe another one of his, maybe 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:53.439 a bigger pet peeve of his, is that anybody who 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:57.320 dates Laurela he doesn't like that because he wants it. 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:01.880 But again, and he's wrestling with he's wrestling with all 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:04.600 those questions about well if I if I date her 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:06.560 and it goes bad, she won't come to the diner anymore. 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:09.359 It could change the complexion of the town. So in 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.880 a practical sense, as a businessman and as a responsible 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:16.159 citizen of a very small town, maybe it's not a 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:18.720 good idea to get together with her. And it could 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:23.119 disrupt Rory's education, It could disrupt Rory's world. So I 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:28.320 think he's so selfless and his needs are so much 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:32.520 on the back burner that I think maybe there's a 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:35.760 part of him that feels like the town is better served, 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:38.840 He's better served Rory and Laurel I are better served 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:42.960 with him just keeping the relationship on a friendship level. 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:49.000 But then circumstances propel him into like other guys she's dating, 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:51.560 kind of makes him jealous, so he you know, he 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:55.080 wants to ask her out, and you got to be brave. 0:26:55.960 --> 0:27:01.240 Is there a fine line between where odd Patterers and 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:06.480 ends and Luke Danes begins. I think in some aspects 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:09.760 there is a fine line, but in other aspects there's 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:17.240 a there's a wall. Uh if you will, Uh, yeah, 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:22.920 I mean to draw the similarities are he's very hard 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:27.159 working and and and I am too. I've I've never 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.840 nothing has ever been handed to me. I have always 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:33.679 had to work extra hard for anything I've ever gotten. 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:39.040 And uh, and that's I learned that very early on 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:43.679 in life, that when you you must work hard to 0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:47.640 acquire a skill set and then take advantage of any 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:51.119 opportunities that come your way and apply those skill sets 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:55.960