Speaker 1: I Am all in again. Oh, I.
Speaker 2: Am all in Town meeting with Suzanne French and Tara
Speaker 2: suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome to a very
Speaker 2: special episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with my
Speaker 2: Solfatara and Suzanne. Hello, Hi, we are Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: set the scene as a group of people walk by
Speaker 2: us up holding a microphone. We are in the parking
Speaker 2: lot of the Dolby Theater after attending the Pailey Fest
Speaker 2: of Amy Sherman Palady Knows Multiverse.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're sitting in my car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in Suzanne's car. Yeah, this is This is
Speaker 2: actually pretty funny. I've never done a podcast were board.
Speaker 2: I know, we really should, we really should. So we
Speaker 2: are in Hollywood, California. We just attended Pailey Fest. O
Speaker 2: Susan Saga selfie And for people who don't know what
Speaker 2: Pailey Fest is, it's this really cool event put on
Speaker 2: once a year by the Paley Center and they bring
Speaker 2: out some of the actors of your favorite shows, like
Speaker 2: this year they did Severance, Hacks, Handmaid's Handmaid's Tale, and
Speaker 2: the final night tonight was Amy Sherman Paladin Knows Multiverse,
Speaker 2: which includes Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Missus Maisel, and her
Speaker 2: latest show or the upcoming show is Tall at Twall,
Speaker 2: And they touched on bun Heads, and they touched on
Speaker 2: bun Heads because it was Lauren Graham, Emily Bishop, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: Kelly Fish mixing of her names Kelly. It was a
Speaker 2: lot of information and I was just like on the
Speaker 2: edge of my seat the whole night. And then we
Speaker 2: had Rachel and Alex from Bunheads as well as Luke,
Speaker 2: and then the two lead actresses from Eatoll Suzanne. Yes,
Speaker 2: when they did that sizzle reel, and oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: Amy and Dan were there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot. I shouldn't leave them out.
Speaker 2: But when they showed that sizzle reel in the very beginning,
Speaker 2: I wanted to I kind of want to cry.
Speaker 1: I that was awesome. It was so what it was.
Speaker 1: If you are not familiar with the term sizzle reel,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a highlight reel, and it they
Speaker 1: hit the highlights of all of her big shows, including
Speaker 1: a few scenes from Roseanne. Yeah, which I don't think
Speaker 1: I knew. Yeah, I knew if that was her first job.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, like specifically what she wrote within the show.
Speaker 1: But I remember, like I watched Roseanne with my mom
Speaker 1: in high school, so I enjoyed that. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: was basically like a highlight of her whole career and
Speaker 1: it was amazing. And I remember I was watching and thinking,
Speaker 1: I hope they like released this somehow so that we
Speaker 1: could like watch it, because it was really good.
Speaker 2: I did. I got in trouble, but I did sneak
Speaker 2: a couple of videos from the panel. Well whatever I got.
Speaker 2: I got some videos. I'm sure people up in the
Speaker 2: back they were not whatever, It's fine. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: they brought out everyone. It was a giant panel. I
Speaker 2: think roughly the whole panel was about an hour and
Speaker 2: thirty forty minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be honest with you, Like I turned to
Speaker 2: Suzanne at the end, I was like, I could have
Speaker 2: sat here for five more hours. Like Amy is She's
Speaker 2: an icon, Like I don't even know how else to
Speaker 2: put it. She is everything you would have imagined as
Speaker 2: a person of Like if you love Gilmore, if you
Speaker 2: love Mazel, if you love butN Heads, like she is
Speaker 2: all that love and magic in one human being. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's so cool to watch her, like I can
Speaker 2: just it's so funny because she was talking about out
Speaker 2: that with one of the girls from her latest show
Speaker 2: who speaks barely in English, she speaks French. She's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I would just talk to her like and talk at
Speaker 2: her basically, and she didn't know what I was saying.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, in that moment, I was like, I
Speaker 2: would kind of like, I think it's my new dream
Speaker 2: to just have like Amy Sheirympella, you know, just talk
Speaker 2: to me for like five hours. And she could just
Speaker 2: say she could read the like dictionary what, I don't
Speaker 2: care what it is. Like, I just wanted to like
Speaker 2: be in her presence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was so good. And one thing
Speaker 1: I loved was she mentioned she mentioned her mom, ye,
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, her mom has done you. Everyone
Speaker 1: probably knows her mom has done a few bit roles
Speaker 1: in Gilmore and she mentioned her being in the audience
Speaker 1: that night, and so so they they said, you know,
Speaker 1: where is she? And so she stands up and she's
Speaker 1: wearing like this, it's a puffer jacket.
Speaker 2: But it was it's flee bit dazzled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was insane, and she's waving and she's trying
Speaker 1: to yell stuff from the audience, and no one can
Speaker 1: hear her. Amy keeps saying, we can't hear you, and
Speaker 1: then so finally, like the whole audience quiets down and
Speaker 1: her mom heels out.
Speaker 2: I hope this pays off, because she had also said that, like,
Speaker 2: my mom still wishes I was like a ballerina basically, right.
Speaker 1: Because she started out as a dancer. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 1: was not like kind of veered off into writing.
Speaker 2: And you know, I have to say, like I love
Speaker 2: her relationship and like the vibe between her and Dan, Yes,
Speaker 2: like Dan just lets her be who she is and
Speaker 2: it's so exciting to watch and just it's kind of
Speaker 2: Luke and Lorelai. Yeah, yeah, you know what, You're right,
Speaker 2: it really is. She is Lorlai. And at one point
Speaker 2: she did say in the panel, she was like, I'm
Speaker 2: Lauren is basically me. Yeah, so like they're like long
Speaker 2: lost twins.
Speaker 1: She said they were like twins. And what did she say,
Speaker 1: Lauren got the beauty and the brains or something.
Speaker 2: She said, Lauren got the beauty and brains and then
Speaker 2: like Amy got everything else.
Speaker 1: And then she she compared it to that movie where
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
Speaker 2: Oh, Yeah, oh it was.
Speaker 1: It was great. It was a great panel, very informative, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we learned some new things. One thing that
Speaker 1: I did not know talking about bun Heads. So Kelly
Speaker 1: Bishop was in Bunheads. I didn't realize she wasn't in
Speaker 1: the pilot. They shot the pilot with some other actress
Speaker 1: and Amy just conveniently didn't tell the network that she
Speaker 1: was going to swap the actors out, and so when
Speaker 1: they when Kelly Bishop was freed up to do it,
Speaker 1: then they reshot the pilot. So I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know it. I you know, I know
Speaker 2: Amy and Amy and Danielle on our show. They just
Speaker 2: finished watching bun Heads. But it made me really want
Speaker 2: like this whole Okay, I know we're rewatching Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 2: we rewatch all the time. This panel tonight made me
Speaker 2: want to just go home and watch everything that Amy's
Speaker 2: ever worked on, like and not sleep for the next week.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like, I just need to catch up on
Speaker 2: my Amy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna watch Mazel. I think I've mentioned
Speaker 1: it on the podcast before. I've watched the first season,
Speaker 1: but I didn't see the rest of it. I definitely
Speaker 1: want to rewatch it now. I really loved Rachel, like
Speaker 1: she seemed like such a genuine person. Yeah, and of
Speaker 1: course Alex Borstein, like she's completely amazing. So yeah, really
Speaker 1: I want to see all of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've watched all of Mazel. I think
Speaker 2: I kind of fell off the last season because with
Speaker 2: the pandemic, everything just got kind of delayed. And I remember,
Speaker 2: like I don't know, I kind of like forgot when
Speaker 2: it came out, to be honest with you, but I
Speaker 2: remember when Mazel came out like every year, and I
Speaker 2: remember it was always near Christmas, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 2: and I would just sit there and binge it because
Speaker 2: it would come out like all TYD episodes at once
Speaker 2: the whole weekend, like let's do it. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: makes me really want to go back and see it.
Speaker 2: And also this I know, sorry we're jumping around. We're
Speaker 2: just like I feel like by the way Say and
Speaker 2: I were walking out and I started to saying, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm really trying not to talk to you right now
Speaker 2: because like I just have to say everything on the podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it this panel made me really, really really excited
Speaker 2: for the new show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Unique is in it. Also, yes,
Speaker 1: they didn't mentioned, but they didn't mention, but people around
Speaker 1: us started freaking out because I don't think they saw
Speaker 1: the trailer before, and they're like, oh my god, it's Michelle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't see the trailer, it came out
Speaker 1: this week, you can google it and find it. It
Speaker 1: looks like it's going to be really good. It's gonna
Speaker 1: yeah Prime April twenty fourth, I think they said yes.
Speaker 2: And they shot the whole thing in France. Yeah. Which
Speaker 2: something that was really interesting that they said was Warner
Speaker 2: Brothers gave them no money and I thought I was
Speaker 2: cracking up at how much. Okay, So just so you
Speaker 2: know that I know we're picky. I'm like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: the freeway in Burbank, California. Literally, Amy on stage night
Speaker 2: made a reference. She's like, I had no money, So
Speaker 2: Lauren was just walking in circles in Bourbank, California, and
Speaker 2: the mountains behind it made it. We said it's Connecticut
Speaker 2: and just called it a day. And I'm like, that's exactly.
Speaker 2: I feel so validated, Like I felt so validated that
Speaker 2: she was like, oh, we just made Lauren walk in
Speaker 2: circles in Burbank.
Speaker 1: That's why they walked around the square so much, because
Speaker 1: they couldn't afford to walk anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then she said with Masiel, they had a
Speaker 2: budget and obviously, you know, so much money. And then
Speaker 2: it made me think like that now they had a
Speaker 2: budget to go all the way to France. So I
Speaker 2: can't even imagine what it's gonna look like with this
Speaker 2: budget in France.
Speaker 1: And and that trailer. It looks like a movie, a movie.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like a TV show. It absolutely looks
Speaker 1: like a film. So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be really And we watched it like they
Speaker 2: played the trailer for us again, like on this big screen,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of like I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I could sit in like a theater.
Speaker 1: And watch this. Yeah, absolutely, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: I know Suzanne had some notes. I saw her like
Speaker 2: taking notes on her I was.
Speaker 1: Frantically taking notes on my phone during it. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else did I want to say? Oh? One thing
Speaker 1: I thought was cute. They talked about when she pitched
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls, so she actually didn't pitch it to Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: The studio she pitched it to WB the network, and
Speaker 1: she actually was in the room to pitch something else,
Speaker 1: which she didn't really elaborate on what that was, but
Speaker 1: she could tell the people that were listening to her
Speaker 1: presentation weren't really paying attention to her. And they said
Speaker 1: at the end, they're like, well, do you have anything else?
Speaker 1: And she says, well, there's a thing about mothers and
Speaker 1: daughters and their friends and whatever, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't really have a mother daughter relationship, they're
Speaker 2: more like friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then the network was like, okay, well we'll
Speaker 1: take that, and so she walked out of the room.
Speaker 1: But she didn't have Gilmore Girls. Like that idea just
Speaker 1: like had come to, you know, into her head, and
Speaker 1: so they had to That was when they then went
Speaker 1: to Connecticut and kind of created the whole like what
Speaker 1: is this show going to be? Yeah, and that's how
Speaker 1: they came up with Gilmore Girls. So it wasn't even
Speaker 1: like she pitched Gilmore Girls. It was like the afterthought.
Speaker 2: And I think Dan at that point or someone maybe
Speaker 2: it was the person moderating it was like that doesn't
Speaker 2: happen these days, like you have to have it fleshed out.
Speaker 2: But I think there's a magic to that of it
Speaker 2: was so like effortless, literally and it became this whole world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: A cool story here. There's she had so many stories
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I know you mentioned earlier we were like,
Speaker 2: I want to like rewatch this, like I wish this
Speaker 2: was Like, I don't know if it's out the public,
Speaker 2: I don't know maybe if, like I know, you can
Speaker 2: become a paiy member, so I don't know if like
Speaker 2: pale members get access like rewatching these. I'm sure they
Speaker 2: have like archives, And I would literally pay to go
Speaker 2: back and watch this because I was like, there's so
Speaker 2: much I want to talk about on the podcast, but
Speaker 2: obviously we don't. Yeah, have all the time in the world.
Speaker 1: Right right. It was it was so good and it
Speaker 1: was what else did I oh? One, they took two
Speaker 1: audience questions that were pre screened, so it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, the mic in the audi wich I'd
Speaker 2: like to I like to preface. I turned to Suzanne
Speaker 2: and I went because I've been to many Paley Fests
Speaker 2: for Grades Anatomy and nine one one, and all these shows.
Speaker 2: They used to literally set up microphones in the Dolby theater,
Speaker 2: and then people would like basically run to the mics
Speaker 2: to ask questions, and it was the most annoying questions
Speaker 2: like can I take a selfie? That's not a question,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, but these two questions
Speaker 2: were really, really great.
Speaker 1: So the first question was specifically about Gilmore girls, and
Speaker 1: so that's that's why I wrote it down so I
Speaker 1: could tell you guys. She asked Amy what her Ironically,
Speaker 1: of the two questions, this question came from the person
Speaker 1: that happened to be sitting next to me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which was funny because there's thousands of people in this theater. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She asked what Amy what her favorite pop culture reference
Speaker 1: was in the show, which was a great question.
Speaker 2: I literally was like, I feel like this was made
Speaker 2: for us to talk about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And now I have to admit I don't know
Speaker 1: what this reference is, so I'm gonna have to google it.
Speaker 2: By on the next town meeting, we'll we'll talk about it, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I needed to dig because I actually don't remember.
Speaker 2: It was a Chilton scene.
Speaker 1: Yes, so probably say it now. Should I keep it
Speaker 1: a secret until our next town meeting? Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: feel like we we'll look it up, or should I
Speaker 1: say it? You could just say who it was about.
Speaker 1: Because Amy didn't really fully give it away. She also like,
Speaker 1: she's like, I can't remember, but she couldn't remember the context,
Speaker 1: but it was a reference to Oscar levant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all we'll say, and then Susan and I
Speaker 2: will research this get back to you because I was like,
Speaker 2: but then again, like most of the pop culture reference,
Speaker 2: not most half of them, they like completely like just
Speaker 2: went like right over my head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot that I don't get. So I'm like, it.
Speaker 2: Could have we could have already watched it for all
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't specifically remember.
Speaker 2: She did make a joke and she was like, there
Speaker 2: are six gay men who were waiting for that joke,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to please them. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what Amy's won for the people?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so we'll figure that one out. And then
Speaker 1: the second question I didn't write it down, but it
Speaker 1: was basically asking her how her writing is. Does she
Speaker 1: have the same writing process for all of her shows
Speaker 1: or did the process change from show to show to show?
Speaker 1: And I did like Amy's answer, She said, you know,
Speaker 1: your process is your process, but you really have to
Speaker 1: mold it around the actors that you're working with. So
Speaker 1: it's basically like you have a framework, but you have
Speaker 1: to customize it for each each show.
Speaker 2: Honestly, and like, I mean, I'm not a writer, so
Speaker 2: I especially a TV writer, so I didn't ever thought
Speaker 2: about that. And then when she said, like it was
Speaker 2: so funny. She was like for Lauren, like there are
Speaker 2: these little things and she kind of did these like
Speaker 2: hand gestures and I was like, wow, that is literally
Speaker 2: like Laura. And then she she didn't really give an
Speaker 2: example for Kelly, but I feel like Kelly is Kelly,
Speaker 2: so you know, writing for her, yeah, And then she
Speaker 2: said for like, you know, for Rachel, she came in
Speaker 2: with like a notebook of like who her character is
Speaker 2: and like all these things and recipes and Alex was
Speaker 2: like just trying to get to the end of the day.
Speaker 2: And then with the newer girls from the new show,
Speaker 2: like it was also their quirkiness and and so it's
Speaker 2: very you know, it made me think during the panel,
Speaker 2: does Amy have a book that she has Amy ever
Speaker 2: written a book?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I know that there is a
Speaker 1: book about her, but she's never written a book herself.
Speaker 1: She's not that I know of.
Speaker 2: If that, if Amy ever writes a book, if anyone
Speaker 2: could get this message to Amy, don't know who you are,
Speaker 2: but if she wrote a thousand page book, I would
Speaker 2: read every word. Yeah, Like she has stories for day.
Speaker 2: By the way she on this panel, she spoke the
Speaker 2: most out of everyone, and I was okay with it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I think everyone else on stage was okay with
Speaker 2: it too.
Speaker 1: It was it was great to get a glimpse inside
Speaker 1: her mind, like she brought us these shows that we
Speaker 1: all know and love, and it's just amazing to see
Speaker 1: kind of her inner working. Like it was a privilege. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was also I don't know if you were paying
Speaker 2: attention with people were walking in, Like everyone had like
Speaker 2: a little bit of like a Gilmore merch item, like
Speaker 2: Suzanne came with her really cute that I've never seen
Speaker 2: a really cute lounge fly that had like ice skates
Speaker 2: and like her little Lukes yugs and a gazebo. And
Speaker 2: then I saw a girl with I saw a girl
Speaker 2: with a jean jacket that said stars Hollow. I saw
Speaker 2: someone with the Luke's staff shirt that I literally have
Speaker 2: from the event and then by the way, at the end,
Speaker 2: we're jumping all around. But at the end we were
Speaker 2: walking out, I ran into my friend Carly, who I knew,
Speaker 2: and then she was speaking so girls, like, oh, I
Speaker 2: think you guys know each other. And she's actually the
Speaker 2: girl who runs the Gilmore's only Instagram account, so sweet.
Speaker 2: It was so cool. I was like, we're gonna dmu.
Speaker 2: So I feel like we should have her on at
Speaker 2: some point. But it's just really fun to see like
Speaker 2: this community and like not even just Gilmore, but like
Speaker 2: Amy Sherman Palladino created a community.
Speaker 1: For people exactly. Yeah, yeah, like it all just came
Speaker 1: out of her head. Like that just amazes me. I
Speaker 1: am not a creative person even remotely, so the fact
Speaker 1: that somebody can just make that up is, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: just boggles my mind.
Speaker 2: I would like to think I'm creative. I'm definitely the
Speaker 2: only reason why I say that is because I minored
Speaker 2: in creative writing. So I would like to think, like,
Speaker 2: when I minored in creative writing, I always wanted to
Speaker 2: work in TV. Funny, I ended up not working in TV,
Speaker 2: but like in my mind, I was like, maybe I
Speaker 2: can do it, and I didn't go that route, but
Speaker 2: like then I see the way people think and I'm like,
Speaker 2: how does your brain work that way? And it's so
Speaker 2: cool because like we're all we all have our own talents.
Speaker 2: Like whether it's you know, you're a lawyer, you're a doctor,
Speaker 2: or you're it doesn't matter what you are, Like everyone
Speaker 2: has their own quirks and talents, and to see someone
Speaker 2: else's talent brought to life is so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're trying to think do we have any housing
Speaker 2: little remark.
Speaker 1: I had one fun statistic I wrote down. They said
Speaker 1: on the at the event tonight that on Netflix. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls has had just Gilmore Girls has had five
Speaker 1: hundred million viewing hours. Is that what I typed there?
Speaker 1: Five hundred million.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think they said over they said over
Speaker 2: five hundred million.
Speaker 1: That's mind boggling.
Speaker 2: And that's like anyone listening to us speak right now,
Speaker 2: Like I don't think you'd be even tuning into this
Speaker 2: podcast if you didn't watch the show so like.
Speaker 1: At least three or four times.
Speaker 2: Like the person who's tuning in right now, you are.
Speaker 2: You are part of the part of the problem. But
Speaker 2: also I didn't know that you could look up statistically
Speaker 2: like that on Netflix. Now I'm so curious, like it
Speaker 2: is Gilmour number one on Netflix? Like I don't know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, very curious. I wonder if there's a
Speaker 2: step you.
Speaker 1: Work for a major media company, you could probably not Netflix.
Speaker 2: So it's it's not Netflix.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be like ratings or something you Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, but then it's so funny because I
Speaker 2: think of like the other shows and like I have
Speaker 2: my I have like my comfort movies. That's not a
Speaker 2: show that's I'm like, all right, two hours and we're done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, how many hours have I put into
Speaker 2: like some of these movies? Yea, how many hours have
Speaker 2: we collectively you and I put into Gilmore? Yeah it's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's certainly true, but I think it was. It was
Speaker 2: really fun. I'm still cracking up that we're sitting in
Speaker 2: Suzanne's car, yeah, doing this episode, and I wonder if
Speaker 2: the people who walk by are really confused, They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we've gotten some looks, we've gotten some looks, and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's cute. They're starting a podcast in the car. But
Speaker 2: I guess also we can kind of tell people. I wonder,
Speaker 2: Susan and I are going to Connecticut in a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. I guess we'll announce it now. I just
Speaker 2: decided that we are going to a really exciting event
Speaker 2: revolved around Gilmore Girls, and we're gonna be in the
Speaker 2: town that was inspired by Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: Right, it was was somewhere some close.
Speaker 2: I mean, we both have never been to Connecticut, so
Speaker 2: that alone will be fun. But so yeah, we'll bring
Speaker 2: a couple more of these fun little impromptu discussion. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we could be in a car, we could be not
Speaker 2: on a plane. I would say not on a plane.
Speaker 2: We distract everyone and also you probably couldn't hear us.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll have some more fun events. And I
Speaker 2: think that's all we have for this one.
Speaker 1: So is this where I say meeting adjourned I think
Speaker 1: so from Suzanne's car meeting adjourned
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