Speaker 1: I Am all in again. Oh that's you.
Speaker 2: I Am All in Town Meeting with Suzanne French and
Speaker 2: Tara suit an iHeartRadio podcast. Hi guys, welcome to a
Speaker 2: special episode of I'm All in Town Meeting.
Speaker 3: We are literally in the town in the town we
Speaker 3: are in, well, we're saying.
Speaker 2: A little bit outside of New Milford, Connecticut, but we
Speaker 2: are by the way. It's Tara and Suzanne. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we are in a town called dan Berry, staying at
Speaker 2: hotel a little bit outside of New Milford, Connecticut, where
Speaker 2: there is a Gilmore Girls big event convention this weekend
Speaker 2: called a Weekend in the Life, put on by this
Speaker 2: company called Decade Days, And this kind of came up
Speaker 2: out of nowhere. We saw the event and we knew
Speaker 2: Scott was coming and Amy was like, you guys should
Speaker 2: go to the town. And obviously we know that different
Speaker 2: parts of Connecticut were inspired by the show. When Amy
Speaker 2: and Dan were creating the show, they.
Speaker 1: Came the other way around. The show was a show.
Speaker 2: It's been a long day. We've been walking all day.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the show was inspired by towns in Connecticut.
Speaker 2: So we're here and we yeah, it was a fun day.
Speaker 2: This was day one of the event. It's three days.
Speaker 2: We're staying for two of them. And today we had
Speaker 2: a meet and greets and we got to explore the town.
Speaker 2: And I guess, Susanne, where do you want to start?
Speaker 3: We could start at the beginning, I guess. So we
Speaker 3: arrived in the morning and the first thing we did
Speaker 3: was head to check in. Now I have to say
Speaker 3: I have never ever been to Connecticut before either. I've
Speaker 3: not really spent I've been to Boston a couple times,
Speaker 3: but I've never been anywhere else in New England.
Speaker 2: So it's gorgeous.
Speaker 3: It's gorgeous, and we kept saying, I bet this is
Speaker 3: so pretty in the fall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really gloomy. It's like for two Californias. It
Speaker 2: is forty It was like forty five degrees all day.
Speaker 2: We were cold, but we were walking, so it was
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, fine, it was manageable, but it's kind
Speaker 2: of like the trees are dry, gloomy. So it's gorgeous.
Speaker 2: But we were just saying, the fall must be amazing
Speaker 2: here with the leafs.
Speaker 3: So we pull into the town and the first thing
Speaker 3: we saw was the church with the white steeple. We're like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, now we get it.
Speaker 2: Part of me at first I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers did it after like this town. But it's
Speaker 2: clearly like Susanna was saying, like there are other parts
Speaker 2: like in Connecticut that look kind of the same. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's there was like a main road and the
Speaker 2: whole time I'm like, where where is it going to
Speaker 2: feel like stars hollow? And we turns into the street
Speaker 2: and it literally was like the town square. There was
Speaker 2: a post office, there was a library. Where was the
Speaker 2: place that we did check in? It was the town
Speaker 2: town hall. There was a bank that's now like a
Speaker 2: bank into a banquet, but yeah, it was so we
Speaker 2: went and checked in, we got our lanyards, and we
Speaker 2: got a T shirt, and then we started roaming the town. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they have.
Speaker 3: Different different opportunities scheduled, so a lot of the town
Speaker 3: on their own, the different shops and locations came up
Speaker 3: with their own things like the library is doing trivia,
Speaker 3: and there there's these different pop ups, like there's a
Speaker 3: Luke Steiner pop up, and there's a Star's Hall of Books,
Speaker 3: and just all around the town market.
Speaker 1: A Dozey's Market.
Speaker 3: And then on top of that, there's the celebrity part
Speaker 3: of it where you could get a selfie or an
Speaker 3: autograph or a photo op, which is with a professional photographer.
Speaker 3: So we spent a lot of time like trying to
Speaker 3: plan out the best way to see everything. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: wanted to see and we didn't even get to everything.
Speaker 3: So we're doing more tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I told Susanne, like when we're leaving, I was like,
Speaker 2: can we come back tomorrow and do like one more
Speaker 2: like lap We did go to all this. I think
Speaker 2: we went to every single store though.
Speaker 1: I think we did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. Minus we didn't go into the cafe,
Speaker 2: which we should gogether coffee there tomorrow, right.
Speaker 3: We didn't make it to the Dragonfly either, Oh.
Speaker 2: Because we had to drive there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well it wasn't walking. I mean, I guess it was,
Speaker 2: but there's like it's just roads. I don't want to
Speaker 2: walk on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the first thing we did was we walked into
Speaker 2: what was a Dosie's Market and we were so shocked
Speaker 2: because we just thought, like, this is like just a
Speaker 2: small town. Yeah, we didn't know the town was going
Speaker 2: to fully commit to filmore Girls. Yeah, so we walk
Speaker 2: in and I at first, it's funny. I wanted a
Speaker 2: hot tea. I ended up not even getting it because
Speaker 2: I got so distracted by everything. So they were like
Speaker 2: these candies and stuff, and they were all packaged by
Speaker 2: like characters. It was like Miss Patty's peppermint or peppermint
Speaker 2: patties or whatever it was. And then like Richard had
Speaker 2: like a cocktail nut mix, which was like so Richard,
Speaker 2: And then it was Laura. I had licorice, Rory's was
Speaker 2: gummy bears, Emily's were these dark chocolate cookies, and then
Speaker 2: I think there was also a Lorelei like lemon cookie.
Speaker 3: It was Lane, sorry it was, and then Luke's salad topping,
Speaker 3: like a crunchy topping.
Speaker 2: And they had a little bag you can put it
Speaker 2: in that said like Loral and Rory's like movie night,
Speaker 2: like very cute, very detailed. And then there were candles,
Speaker 2: and the candles were all based on like like Friday
Speaker 2: night dinner. Yeah, and we noticed that we're not going
Speaker 2: to give you every single detail. I feel like we
Speaker 2: could go through every store of what we saw. But
Speaker 2: there was another store that I ended up buying candles from,
Speaker 2: which also had like a star's hollow candle and then
Speaker 2: Oi with the poodles already and and so it's just
Speaker 2: people in the town got very creative. Like the local stores.
Speaker 2: There was also a store that sold Susanne and I
Speaker 2: both bought an ornament that someone hand painted. I mean,
Speaker 2: how many you think were there? Like one hundred? Yeah,
Speaker 2: she probably hand painted like one hundred ornaments of what
Speaker 2: is the gazebo and then it says stars Hollow, Connecticut.
Speaker 2: And everyone was a little different because it's hand painted.
Speaker 2: But yeah, people really committed to this town, really committed
Speaker 2: to this convention, and it's it's really really to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we went to we had dinner at a
Speaker 3: little restaurant that had Gilmore specific menu items. So they
Speaker 3: had I had Suki's Magic Prisota, which was really good.
Speaker 3: It was shrimp and scallops. It was just it was
Speaker 3: really good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had the it was a part and on the
Speaker 2: menu it's haid Independence and so it looked like it
Speaker 2: was like the menu. And then I had from the
Speaker 2: little Gilmore section, I had the Lobster bisk which was fabulous.
Speaker 2: And then for lunch, we went to a pizza place
Speaker 2: and they had Lorealize ten foot pizza.
Speaker 1: Yes, lorealized birthday pizza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which it was funny. I was talking to the
Speaker 2: owner and she's like, oh, this delivered last night. I
Speaker 2: had to assemble it myself. But it was so funny
Speaker 2: because she like, it's not like the event put it
Speaker 2: on right. The town committed to it like on their own.
Speaker 2: And then they were playing Gilmore Girls at the pizza
Speaker 2: place while we were eating, So we were like watched
Speaker 2: an episode while we ate lunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: We talked to so many like store owners and people
Speaker 3: like they were so excited to be a part of it,
Speaker 3: and you could tell a few of them hadn't like
Speaker 3: weren't familiar with Gilmore Girls, but they're like on the bandwagon,
Speaker 3: like they wanted to, you know, make it a good experience.
Speaker 2: I kind of wonder now as we talk and I
Speaker 2: say this out loud, I wonder if like there are
Speaker 2: little bits of stars hollow they leave here, Like I
Speaker 2: wonder if like the candles, Yeah, like I wonder if
Speaker 2: they just delivered or even like the way they package,
Speaker 2: like the candy, you know what I mean? Maybe not
Speaker 2: maybe not the things on the they were like signs
Speaker 2: in the window, oh in the bookstore, Oh, my god.
Speaker 2: The bookstore was so cute. There was a whole section
Speaker 2: for Gilmore girls. But there was a girl checking out
Speaker 2: in front of us and she had Even the girl
Speaker 2: working at the store was like, where did you find this?
Speaker 2: And it was a it was a board game. I
Speaker 2: can't remember what it was called, but it was like
Speaker 2: some It was like someone created like a homemade board game.
Speaker 2: And I was like that would be sold at Stars Hollow,
Speaker 2: Like it's so obvious. Yeah, And they were just like
Speaker 2: cute outfits, like little shops, a lot of mugs. You
Speaker 2: know what's funny is I I did the damage in
Speaker 2: shopping today. Suzanne had to watch me carry I think
Speaker 2: I have like six bags that are sitting behind you.
Speaker 2: I bought jam I bought a hat, I bought candles.
Speaker 2: I bought a little trinket tray that's Lukes. It's a
Speaker 2: lux mug. And I had like pink books. It was
Speaker 2: very cute. I probably put like my jewelry in there.
Speaker 2: And then I bought gummy bears. I did some and
Speaker 2: I feel like I missed a lot, Like I really
Speaker 2: wanted like a mug, but I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can travel back with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was The limiting factor for me is that
Speaker 3: I do not have a lot of room in my
Speaker 3: little tiny suitcase. So I had to really like rain
Speaker 3: myself in on what I bought because I could have
Speaker 3: really done.
Speaker 2: We have one more day and I have a carry
Speaker 2: on and I have a backpack. So yeah, I feel
Speaker 2: like by the end, I'm gonna leave with a mug.
Speaker 2: I just need to be because I really wanted one
Speaker 2: of those glass containers, but that's gonna break, so maybe
Speaker 2: a ceramic mug might be the way to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we did our meet and greets too, which I've
Speaker 2: never done a convention meet and greet, like I've been
Speaker 2: to a convention with Scott. Scott and I went to
Speaker 2: one that he was doing. I think it was twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. It was two years ago in North Carolina
Speaker 2: and that was fun, but I've never been there. So
Speaker 2: the tickets we bought came with them. So Suzanne May
Speaker 2: met Yunique and I met Chad. Chad had a very
Speaker 2: long line that took a while, but we met some
Speaker 2: fun people in line. We met who we met at
Speaker 2: the pizza place and also they were in line behind me.
Speaker 2: There was a mother and daughter named Gabby and Gail,
Speaker 2: and I remember it because the G and g and
Speaker 2: they had their kids with them, and they were very,
Speaker 2: very sweet. They drove from Indiana. They drove, like they
Speaker 2: said they drove. I think it was thirteen hours. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they drove the whole way. And so they came for
Speaker 2: this event. And then I met that's a long way
Speaker 2: to drive with little Yeah. I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: The kids were pretty good though.
Speaker 2: They were like they were kind of it was so funny.
Speaker 2: One of them was like reaching out to like hold
Speaker 2: like for me to hold her in the like, no,
Speaker 2: I just want to hold you.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: It was there, very friendly. And then when I was
Speaker 2: in line for the photos, there was a mom and
Speaker 2: a daughter in front of me. I don't remember the
Speaker 2: daughter's name, but the mom's name was Amanda and they
Speaker 2: were from Houston, Texas. And I kind of asked. I
Speaker 2: was like, how, you know, how did your thirteen year
Speaker 2: old daughter start watching Gilmore Girls? And she's like, well,
Speaker 2: it's funny, She's like I was laurelized. She's like, I
Speaker 2: have a thirty two year old, so my age difference
Speaker 2: is like she has a thirteen year old and a
Speaker 2: thirty two year old and she's like I and she's like,
Speaker 2: I live that life. And she said, my mom is
Speaker 2: literally Emily Gilmour and then she said that she was
Speaker 2: just watching The Household the Times. The thirteen year old
Speaker 2: started watching and she was dressed in like a Chilton
Speaker 2: outfit with the Luke's backpack and the mom had the
Speaker 2: Luke's coffee mug lounge fly. Yeah, we got to meet
Speaker 2: and there was a two girls we met who were
Speaker 2: from Toronto who literally stopped us on the street. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they saw Jackie posted one of the photos we texted
Speaker 2: Jackie and people noticed us. There was another girl who
Speaker 2: stop us in a store.
Speaker 3: Were Yeah, the name was it Leanna.
Speaker 1: I probably got that.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you're sorry if I uph you remember you.
Speaker 1: And we were so cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They had met Scott before over Zoom and.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah they were on the podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah, so we met some great
Speaker 3: people and it was it was a good day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we we were talking to those girls
Speaker 2: from Toronto and they had been here since like it's
Speaker 2: today's Friday. They've been here since Wednesday, so they've had
Speaker 2: time to they it was funny. They did all the
Speaker 2: shopping and the stores. I did like the day before,
Speaker 2: and we think that everything that I bought was going
Speaker 2: to be sold out tomorrow because it's the weekend and everyone.
Speaker 2: But they were talking to people around the town and
Speaker 2: the one thing they said is they spoke to someone
Speaker 2: who worked, I think at the library and they were
Speaker 2: asking about town meetings and they're like, the town meetings
Speaker 2: here are exactly the town meetings at Stars Hollow, Like
Speaker 2: they argue over stu things and it is by a vote,
Speaker 2: like everyone just raises the man. And it makes me wonder,
Speaker 2: Like the people who live here, have they all watched
Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls? You think?
Speaker 3: I probably a lot of them have, maybe not all
Speaker 3: of them, but hardly enough.
Speaker 2: Everyone has had to watch at least one episode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure you have people coming in town, not
Speaker 2: just for this event, but coming into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's people that will just drive around the area,
Speaker 3: finding small towns to remind them of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 2: I mean that that gazebo, which then they said that
Speaker 2: the gazebo, they don't call it a gazebo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a whole big controversy apparently over whether it's
Speaker 3: a gazebo or a bandstand. Because I heard other people
Speaker 3: talking about it when I was in line to meet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so apparently it's.
Speaker 2: Quite the cool and apparently goes back for years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: trying to think what else, what else did we do?
Speaker 2: We just had a lot of walking and yeah, see
Speaker 2: everything was.
Speaker 1: Just really well done.
Speaker 3: There a lot of a lot of places had their
Speaker 3: windows painted for whatever, you know, pop up they were
Speaker 3: doing it.
Speaker 2: Everyone had a creative sign. Yeah post it on Instagram
Speaker 2: already if you want to go look and scroll. But
Speaker 2: everyone had like those little like blackboards outside and they
Speaker 2: had like cute, little super cute gilmourrisms which I did
Speaker 2: buy a book in the bookstore that was a pretty
Speaker 2: thick book and it has pop culture moments from every
Speaker 2: single episode. So I don't know if they sell that anywhere,
Speaker 2: probably like Amazon, but in the moment I felt like
Speaker 2: I should buy.
Speaker 1: This from stars Allow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was it was great. We're looking forward
Speaker 3: to tomorrow. So tomorrow is actually at most of what
Speaker 3: we're going to be doing is at a different venue.
Speaker 3: There's the Connecticut Sports Arena, and that's where the like
Speaker 3: the celebrity panel is going to happen. More of like
Speaker 3: kind of the meet and greet photo ops stuff is
Speaker 3: going to happen there too, So we're gonna go check
Speaker 3: that out and then we'll have another report.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna talk about what goes on at the panels. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know you guys liked our Payleyfest episode. It's I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's gonna be like that, but yeah,
Speaker 2: probably a lot of fan questions.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so there's there's two different panels.
Speaker 3: There's one that's a celebrity panel, and they haven't exactly
Speaker 3: listed all of the celebrities that will be on the panel,
Speaker 3: but I assume it's gonna be all of them.
Speaker 1: They're there tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So the people who are the talent from the show
Speaker 2: who is here is there's Scott Chad, Michael Murray, Matt Zukrie.
Speaker 2: But Matt Zuker is only here at least as far
Speaker 2: as we know, he's only doing the Sunday appearance. And
Speaker 2: then John Cabrera is here, Yanique Trusdale, Todd Low. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it says like Guanique is here all weekend, John is
Speaker 2: here all weekend, Todd's here all weekend, and Scott is
Speaker 2: Saturday Sunday. So yeah, people are buying meet and greet.
Speaker 2: It's in selfies and yeah, everyone's just really excited to
Speaker 2: be here and everyone's so friendly. Everyone has been very friendly.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so we are. We'll be posting more on
Speaker 2: Instagram so you guys can see. But I think that's it.
Speaker 2: It's funny. It's it's eight o'clock here where we are
Speaker 2: right now, and Susan and I are both ready for.
Speaker 1: That if we're done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like as we're looking at each other recording this,
Speaker 2: we're like, yeah, we're real time.
Speaker 3: Just funny because at home it's only five pm right now.
Speaker 3: But I feel like it's I feel.
Speaker 2: Like we were just over stimulated all that.
Speaker 3: Like my body just automatically adjusted because I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: You know, we did, we did go to bed pretty
Speaker 2: early last night. We well so also we flew into
Speaker 2: JFK in New York, and then we rented a car
Speaker 2: and we drove to Connecticut, which was at first I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, it's going to be a rough drive,
Speaker 2: like mentally, but you know what, it was not bad.
Speaker 2: It in traffic. It was like just under two hours.
Speaker 2: We went and stopped at a cheesecake factory, dinner at
Speaker 2: dinner at cheesecake factory last night, and then we went
Speaker 2: to bed. I think I was asleep at four nine pm, so,
Speaker 2: which was like basically six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went to bed a little later. I went
Speaker 3: to bed at ten, but still.
Speaker 2: And I slept in. I felt like it still wasn't enough. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, guys, we will be back to tell you
Speaker 2: more about this weekend in the life event tomorrow YEP
Speaker 2: meeting adjourn.
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