Speaker 1: I am all in again.
Speaker 2: Oh let's kiss you. Hi am all in again with
Speaker 2: Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 1: Hi everyone, this is Susanne. We're doing a quick episode
Speaker 1: of Stars Hollow Journal Happy New Year from the Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers Studio in beautiful downtown Bourbank. Well we're not downtown,
Speaker 1: but beautiful Burbank, California. It's we're recording this. It's January,
Speaker 1: first rainy day in Los Angeles. It was really raining
Speaker 1: this morning on the parade. I felt bad for all
Speaker 1: the marching bands. But we're getting a break right now.
Speaker 1: It's cloudy but not raining, so hopefully that holds a
Speaker 1: little bit. We're sitting here in the in Scott's trailer
Speaker 1: away eating Scott's arrival for his daily visit to holidays
Speaker 1: made here, which there's a ton of pictures on social media.
Speaker 1: It's everybody's having a great time, including us. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're just going to have a conversation here before
Speaker 1: Scott gets here. So I'm sitting here with my husband
Speaker 1: John Hello, and he's he's part of the team here.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of helping with pictures and everything going
Speaker 1: on with Scott's visits at the at the set, so
Speaker 1: I thought it would be interesting to have a conversation
Speaker 1: because one of the things that has struck me. I mean,
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls typically is geared to a female demographic across
Speaker 1: multiple generations, but there's a lot of men that like
Speaker 1: to watch it too, And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: men kind of start out just seeing bits of it
Speaker 1: here and there as their significant others are watching it,
Speaker 1: but then they end up actually liking the show themselves.
Speaker 1: Which I don't want to speak for you, so I'll
Speaker 1: let I'll let you tell your story of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 3: Yes, that I think is true. I know I've seen
Speaker 3: the show at least twice through. Now i'd say because
Speaker 3: of you sounds a little harsh, but uh, I think
Speaker 3: as a result of your fandom.
Speaker 1: I would say that's accurate, because I do remember the
Speaker 1: first time I watched it through and I was so
Speaker 1: completely enamored of it. I was like, you need to
Speaker 1: sit down and watch this with me because I'm immediately
Speaker 1: rewatching it and you're gonna do it too.
Speaker 3: So and I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I have enjoyed it. It's it's a fun show to watch.
Speaker 3: All the characters are great, they're they're hysterical, they're moving there,
Speaker 3: they're fun. Just to listen to the speech pattern. Everybody
Speaker 3: talks about how it's so fast, and it is and
Speaker 3: I don't know how they get through it. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: would be stumbling over my words like crazy tr oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Scott has talked about how it's just like pages and
Speaker 1: pages of text. You know, usually a script has like
Speaker 1: stage directions and things like that, so it you know,
Speaker 1: the pages don't have a lot of actual dialogue on them.
Speaker 1: But Gilmour, it was just paragraphs and paragraphs that they
Speaker 1: had to learn.
Speaker 3: That would be how they people do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so yeah. John is is sort of at
Speaker 1: the point in his Gilmore Girls evolution where he could
Speaker 1: quote the show almost as well as I can, and
Speaker 1: he actually pulls out quotes that I don't even remember,
Speaker 1: and I'll see, what's that from. He's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: from Gilmore. Like he may not necessarily remember which episode
Speaker 1: it was, but he knows he heard it somewhere, so he's, uh,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: It's something parasit or something one of the other characters.
Speaker 3: Necessarily I like to pull off like Kurt quotes and yes,
Speaker 3: goofy things that you may not remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So it's it's kind of cool, like because
Speaker 1: a lot of people that were meeting during the meet
Speaker 1: and greets are talking about how I watched this with
Speaker 1: my mom and my grandma and my daughter, and but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of couples that
Speaker 1: are watching it too, which I think doesn't get talked
Speaker 1: about that often. But it's it's pretty cool, like everybody
Speaker 1: can enjoy the show, and we are seeing here at
Speaker 1: the event, we're seeing a lot of you know, spouses
Speaker 1: or you know, boyfriends, whatever, partners that you know, they
Speaker 1: want to get their own picture with Scott because they're
Speaker 1: just as much a fan, you know, as whoever they
Speaker 1: got dragged to the event with. So so yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just been fun to watch. I think it may have
Speaker 1: been talked about in a different episode, but there was
Speaker 1: a social media video of I think it was the
Speaker 1: first day, a whole group of men in plaid shirts
Speaker 1: and backwards baseball caps that were waiting outside the women's
Speaker 1: room for their for their friends to come or their
Speaker 1: partners to come out, and it was just really funny
Speaker 1: that there were all these lukes sitting there outside the
Speaker 1: lady's room. So yeah, I think the character of Luke
Speaker 1: specifically resonates with lot of people, like I don't see
Speaker 1: I don't see any Jesses walking around or any max
Speaker 1: Is certainly no Christopher's. But yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: that that people like the Luke character and everybody's you know,
Speaker 1: happy to come in and uh take the picture with
Speaker 1: Scott and and there was I was going to talk
Speaker 1: about the rest room. So the restrooms. On the first day,
Speaker 1: the lady's room had a huge line, which you know,
Speaker 1: is we're all used to that. And so then the
Speaker 1: next day they had converted the men's room to a
Speaker 1: women's room and they brought in porta potties, so the
Speaker 1: men had to use the porta potties.
Speaker 3: Three outside for the men and now the women's rooms
Speaker 3: two actual restrooms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so it works, And yeah it did cut
Speaker 1: down the line.
Speaker 3: I have no issues with that. Yeah, that was pretty.
Speaker 1: Another thing that really has struck me just being at
Speaker 1: the meet and greets is how like where people have
Speaker 1: traveled from. We are meeting people from all over the
Speaker 1: country and all over the world. And when I was
Speaker 1: here the other day there Scott was talking to a
Speaker 1: group that had come from Italy and the group of
Speaker 1: people standing next to him was from Poland, Like, it
Speaker 1: was just insane. And you met Elaine, you met people
Speaker 1: yesterday from the UK. We've met people from Canada, Australia, Brazil.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's amazing to me that this little show,
Speaker 1: you know, it was little at the time that it aired,
Speaker 1: has just mushroomed into this giant global phenomenon. And you know,
Speaker 1: people are coming from all literally all over the world
Speaker 1: to see the set and to meet Scott and to
Speaker 1: get their picture taken at the gazebo and go see
Speaker 1: Laurelized house. And it's it's just it's amazing how people
Speaker 1: have connectedly.
Speaker 3: Incredible to see all these people that have told us
Speaker 3: that they planned their trip around coming to this event. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's not like they're doing this because they're already in
Speaker 3: la right, this was the reason that they have come here.
Speaker 3: And that's like mind blowing. Yeah, that's the pull of
Speaker 3: the show, which is amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's and it's crazy. And I'm seeing
Speaker 1: comments in some of the Facebook groups but also on
Speaker 1: Instagram where people will post their pictures and then other
Speaker 1: people will comment saying where is this happening? I need
Speaker 1: to go to this, like they you know, the word
Speaker 1: didn't get out to them or whatever, and they're they're saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing this next year, and they're tagging their friends saying,
Speaker 1: we have to do this next year. So it's it's
Speaker 1: just it's really cool to to have this thing that
Speaker 1: everybody is kind of bonding over, and it's it's very
Speaker 1: fun to walk around stars Hollow in the backlot area
Speaker 1: because everybody is happy to be there, and you know,
Speaker 1: some things do have some lines, but but you line
Speaker 1: up and the people that you're standing in front of
Speaker 1: her standing behind you're all there for the same thing,
Speaker 1: and you strike up conversations and you get to know people,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's really cool. It's just a good phenomenon.
Speaker 3: The whole town has done so well. Yes, it really
Speaker 3: looks like what it did in the show, so you
Speaker 3: feel immersed in it, right, and the shops are the same,
Speaker 3: and they rebuilt Miss Patti's and then the tree lighting
Speaker 3: and the lights of it. It's amazing to walk around.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful at night to see everything lit up, and
Speaker 3: people have described it as magical, and it really is.
Speaker 3: It's amazing to walk around and see that. You got
Speaker 3: to remember, you're not in a real town, right. This
Speaker 3: is so well done that it almost looks you feel like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is a really cool place. I wonder where I
Speaker 3: can live here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And they've really expanded it this year.
Speaker 1: So they have on the backside of what we know
Speaker 1: as stars Hollow High, there's a row of stores back there,
Speaker 1: and that's where stars Hollow Video is in the show.
Speaker 1: That's where Western's Bakery is, and they've brought they've recreated
Speaker 1: all of those, So I hope that when people are
Speaker 1: here that and they walk into Weston's Bakery, I hope
Speaker 1: they realize that's the actual room where they shot the
Speaker 1: Western's Bakery scene. So you can like look around and think, oh,
Speaker 1: that's where you know, Lauren and Alexis were sitting there
Speaker 1: when they did this scene. And this is where Alexis
Speaker 1: and Jared were sitting when they did that scene, and
Speaker 1: they're yes, just the pie, see he just did it.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. So I hope they're appreciating
Speaker 1: that that, like, these are the actual locations where our
Speaker 1: favorite stars were sitting when those scenes happened, which is
Speaker 1: crazy to me. To think about, and that's that's part
Speaker 1: of the magic of being here at Warner Brothers is
Speaker 1: this is where it all actually happened, Like these are
Speaker 1: these are the streets that they walk down, and that's
Speaker 1: the gazebo they sat in. And some things are recreated,
Speaker 1: so like the dragonfly is not in the original building
Speaker 1: because that building doesn't exist anymore and it wasn't even
Speaker 1: on this lot anyways, it was down the street. But
Speaker 1: so some things are recreations, but there are you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of it is where the actual scenes took
Speaker 1: place in the show. And for me, that's the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: Like there's you know, various conventions and things all over
Speaker 1: the country, and you know, if you listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, Tara and I went to one back in
Speaker 1: April that was in Connecticut and it was super fun,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's really cool to be in a small
Speaker 1: New England town that looks just like stars Hollow and
Speaker 1: be with other Gilmore fans. That was a great experience.
Speaker 1: But it's different to be here where it actually occurred,
Speaker 1: even though it's not I mean, we're in la it's
Speaker 1: it's not you know, New England, but it's i don't know.
Speaker 1: To me, That's what I love about it is that
Speaker 1: like this is where everything Like you can look at
Speaker 1: the at your screen and be like, I want down
Speaker 1: that street. I stood next to that fire hydrant. You know,
Speaker 1: I got back, Yes, the coffee and luke Bar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's going back to the thing about Weston's. It's
Speaker 1: Luke's is the same way, Like you get to go
Speaker 1: inside Luke's and you're standing there looking around like you know, well,
Speaker 1: like we were talking to a couple maybe last week sometime,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the Thanksgiving episode where they're sitting
Speaker 1: there and you know, Laurel I takes the marshmallows off
Speaker 1: of Luke's plate after she sends him to go get more,
Speaker 1: and you know, this is where the four of that
Speaker 1: this table right here is where the four of them
Speaker 1: were sitting having their Thanksgiving dinner. And you know, thinking
Speaker 1: of all the times that Laurel I and and Rory
Speaker 1: were sitting at the bar and you know, having something
Speaker 1: to eat or having some coffee or whatever like that
Speaker 1: all happened like right in this location. And it's just
Speaker 1: it's just really cool. So if you ever get the
Speaker 1: chance to do this, I highly recommend it. And this
Speaker 1: year the merchandise is off the hook, like there's a
Speaker 1: crazy amount of merchandise and it's all super cool. And
Speaker 1: I have basically just emptied my bank account into the
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers bank account.
Speaker 3: That is the truth.
Speaker 1: And it's just really cool. And you know, all of
Speaker 1: Scott's products are here. There's there's coffee, there's hot chocolate,
Speaker 1: there's pancake mix, there's tea, there's jam it's all Scott's products.
Speaker 1: And I will say the candy cane coffee. So we have,
Speaker 1: you know the Christmas episode where they wouldn't serve Laurel
Speaker 1: I candy cane coffee because it was December twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: You can get candy cane coffee in Weston's Bakery today
Speaker 1: and it's it's We actually went and bought more, like
Speaker 1: I had a bag, but we went and bought more
Speaker 1: because it is. It's really good.
Speaker 3: And there's other those are flying off the shelves.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's yeah, it's just going like gangbusters. They're Also
Speaker 1: if you're in the LA area and you don't have
Speaker 1: tickets for the event the studio tour gift shop, you
Speaker 1: don't need a ticket for you can just park and
Speaker 1: walk in and shop to your heart's content. And they
Speaker 1: have the coffees there as well. But so Elean, what
Speaker 1: are the flavors. There's there's the candy Cane, there's tailors
Speaker 1: in no ice cream, pecan, yes, Cozy Blend. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I have to try that one. I have a bag
Speaker 1: of the whole being espresso. I have to give that
Speaker 1: one a shot. Locations, yeah, right, So the the merchandise
Speaker 1: locations are kind of broken up by themes. So obviously
Speaker 1: like stars Hollow Video, you can buy Stars Hollow Video
Speaker 1: t shirts and magnets and things like that. The tea's
Speaker 1: are available at the Dragonfly, and then outside of Lukes
Speaker 1: there's a little stand where you can place your order.
Speaker 1: You can buy the bags of coffee there, and then
Speaker 1: there's more in Dosi's market, so they're kind of like
Speaker 1: placed around. And then there's a larger store that's the Mercantile,
Speaker 1: and that's where there's a ton of Luke's merchandise and
Speaker 1: also like general Stars Hollow kind of things. And that
Speaker 1: is if you think of Bootsy's news stand, that is
Speaker 1: the building where Bootsy's news stand was. So the news
Speaker 1: stand was actually just in front of the building. It
Speaker 1: wasn't inside the building, but that's where the merchandise stores.
Speaker 1: It was also just to go kind of off topic,
Speaker 1: it was also the cafe in La La Land where
Speaker 1: I can't remember the character's name where she worked, but
Speaker 1: Emma Stone. Yeah. So anyways, so yeah, there's just really
Speaker 1: a lot of ways to spend your money here today.
Speaker 3: I think one of the just to kind of change
Speaker 3: Topic's one of the fun things that they did this
Speaker 3: year that I don't remember them doing before is that
Speaker 3: they've hired actors to play different towns people. Yes, so
Speaker 3: there's a Michelle, there's Suki, there's the Troubadour, there's different.
Speaker 1: There's a Taylor and a Miss Patty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in different spots playing those roles, and it's
Speaker 3: really fun because it adds to the flavor of the town.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you do a really good job of it too.
Speaker 1: I think that was definitely a good ad because it
Speaker 1: really does make it feel like stars hollow. They I
Speaker 1: think everybody probably knows by now. They rebuilt Miss Patti's
Speaker 1: just for this event, and then they have town meetings
Speaker 1: going on I think every hour, every half hour something
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, and they're led by a Taylor and
Speaker 1: Miss Patty, and clearly these actors, you know, watch the
Speaker 1: show or at least parts of it to kind of
Speaker 1: get in their role, because they really do a good
Speaker 1: job of picking up those characters. And you know, on occasion,
Speaker 1: Luke busts into a town meeting with a rant about
Speaker 1: something and he and Taylor just play off of each
Speaker 1: other like it's just it's so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And there's you know, a lady sitting outside the knitting
Speaker 1: store and if you ask her what she's doing, she says,
Speaker 1: she's she's knitting. She's knitting hats for Lane's twins or
Speaker 1: something like that. And there's a couple of different troubadours
Speaker 1: I've seen. I've seen two different troubadours walking around the
Speaker 1: Suki at the Dragonfly. She she is brilliant. She was
Speaker 1: really channeling Suki. And then they even have the characters
Speaker 1: at the in Dosie's Market when we were there, when
Speaker 1: I was in there on the preview day, Taylor was
Speaker 1: in there and you know, being Taylor, So yeah, it
Speaker 1: was it was good. There's just they've put so much
Speaker 1: creativity into it, and there's there's things, Oh, there's a
Speaker 1: gypsy too. There's Gypsy over at the at the auto repair.
Speaker 1: There's things I haven't even seen yet. There's like Richard
Speaker 1: and Emily's they kind of recreated their dining room and
Speaker 1: apparently there's one of Emily's maids is in there, so
Speaker 1: we'll have to go check that out. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just hats off to Warner Brothers. It's just been
Speaker 1: such a fun experience and everybody, without fail, everyone that
Speaker 1: works here is so nice and they're so helpful, and
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm sure it's busy and stressful for them,
Speaker 1: but you would never be able to tell that from
Speaker 1: your interactions with them, because they are just they seem
Speaker 1: like they're having as good of a time as everybody else.
Speaker 1: And their their hospitality towards us has been very appreciated, accommodating, friendly,
Speaker 1: they've been taking good care of us. So yeah, So
Speaker 1: any of any final thoughts before we wrap this up.
Speaker 3: No, this has been really fun. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: it's kind of a drive going back and forth, but
Speaker 3: it's it's good.
Speaker 1: It's fun because it helps that it's a holiday week
Speaker 1: so the traffic isn't too bad.
Speaker 3: Yes, and you know, it's always funn hang out Scott anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's Scott. Like we said, Scott's gonna Scott.
Speaker 3: Scott's gonna Scott. Johnny good Times that's me. That's my
Speaker 3: new name. Everybody, Yes, Johnny good Times.
Speaker 1: Anyway. So that wraps it up for this episode of
Speaker 1: Stars Hollow Journal. Happy New Year, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: all soon.
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