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Speaker 3: I am all in again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Hey Everybody. Scott Patterson Island Podcast, one of eleven productions

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Speaker 1: iHeart Media Radio, iHeart Podcast. We have Here comes the

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Speaker 1: sun SLN Recap Season three, episode twenty one, Big Episode,

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Speaker 1: Big Episode, and we have Asha Davis here. She's an

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Speaker 1: actress who was in two Gilmour episodes of Susan, one

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Speaker 1: of Rory's New Yale French. She also is known for

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Speaker 1: work on Friday Night Lights, South and Nowhere, Drunk History,

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Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy, and the upcoming Higher Love. Welcome, Asha Davis.

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Speaker 1: Nice to see you. How are you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I'm great. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 2: be here.

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Speaker 3: It's just a pleasure to be here talking about one

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Speaker 3: of my favorite series.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we're glad to have you, Glad to have you.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's the synopsis. Rory is stressing out about

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Speaker 1: the end of the year. She also is named Valde

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Speaker 1: Victorian Jess visits his dad the Understatement of the Year,

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Speaker 1: visits his dad and quotes in Venice, California, and asked

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Speaker 1: to crash for a while. Emily and Lurla continue their

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Speaker 1: feud with No Dinner Planned Insight, No Dinners Planned Insight.

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Speaker 1: Directed by Amy Sherman Palladino, Written by Amy Sherman Palladino.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of Palladino here coming at you. Rory

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Speaker 1: is studying for finals. She's been up for hours making

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Speaker 1: lists of things and to do before graduation. Asha, do

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Speaker 1: you think Rory deserves a little more closure than this

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Speaker 1: when how she finds out about that Jess is gone?

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Speaker 1: And I know we're we're going to jump around a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and this jumps in an episode, but what

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Speaker 1: about have there been a situation like this? And how

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Speaker 1: do you feel about how Rory reacts?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, you know, it's so funny because these days

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Speaker 3: I'm more in tuned with like the motherhood part of it,

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Speaker 3: And when I see my son, who's a teen right

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Speaker 2: Don't want to really dump more on top of like.

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Speaker 3: All the finals and the things that he's got going on.

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Speaker 3: So I could kind of understand why she was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: when is going to be the perfect time to tell

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Speaker 3: her you know that this happened. So, you know, we

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Speaker 3: I think she should have like really sat her down.

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Speaker 2: And then I just love how they like go through

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Speaker 3: Cop just cover I have, you know, But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is how it happened.

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Speaker 1: Luke shows up trying to get lorealized attention in the

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Speaker 1: He turns away. He has to gather himself, right, he

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Speaker 1: She goes after school and meets Selene.

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Speaker 2: What a character.

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Speaker 1: What a character? Right? Only out of the brain of

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Speaker 1: Amy Sherman Palladino could such a character spring? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to Jess going to Venice, California, getting off

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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially like I have to clear it with Sasha.

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Speaker 2: Now? He's like, I'm just not the dead type. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I know they're trying to launch a pilot episode out

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Speaker 1: episode from this with such a horrible character exactly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: The daughter in the cupboard reading the books and pretty

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Speaker 1: that's really where it comes home. And it's just like

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Speaker 3: Wow, Oh he has this his leather jacket's super cool, right,

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Speaker 3: I see what they were trying to do there with

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Speaker 1: But firsts, first attritions really important. I don't know how

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Speaker 5: He's such a nice guy and he's you know, but Jesus, he's.

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Speaker 3: Just like tormented, like what am I gonna do? My

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like, oh man, regardless, it's just por chess,

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Speaker 1: all right, Lorele Paris, Emily Lorelei gets the Yale letter.

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Speaker 2: That's a plot school in La.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, another complication here.

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Speaker 2: I've filled out those financial aid forms.

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Speaker 1: Rough, yeah, all right, Larela has a table with Paris

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Speaker 1: for grad the grad night cruise. Okay, really a prestigious

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Speaker 3: I love Paris though, and her whole That little awkward

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Speaker 1: Right right, all right. And then Laura I comes over

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Speaker 1: That's like dropping a bomb right on Grandma. Yeah, here's

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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, look, I just want to let you know

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Speaker 1: if you want tickets to the Midnight Highway Tour. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the band and I are going out on tour pretty soon.

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Speaker 3: Let's have a nice dinner. Let's you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Even Grandpa was pretty funny when he walked in and

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Speaker 3: You know, It's like I knew it, you know, lord, Lies,

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Speaker 1: Out with me. Have you seen all the episodes? Have

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Speaker 2: No? No, not all. I've come and I've come and gone.

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Speaker 3: And it's something great that you could watch with your kids,

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Speaker 2: And like, right, and that's rare these days.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is rare.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about you. Okay, you played

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Speaker 1: one of Rory's Yale friends when she first moved in.

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Speaker 1: Tell us. How did you get the role?

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Speaker 1: such a regular guy, right, It's the best anyway. Listen,

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Speaker 1: check out ash is Higher Love. It's our upcoming project.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time, but please come back,

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Speaker 1: please please please, and we'll take We'll get a little

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