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I Am All In…Again: Emily is Flying off the Handles (Season 5 Episode 1 “Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller”) · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all in.
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  Speaker 2: Again!
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  Speaker 1: I am all in. Again!
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  Speaker 2: With Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Scott Patterson. I am all in podcast. One
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  Speaker 1: love productions. I heart radio media. I heart podcasts. Season five,
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  Speaker 1: episode one. And we have a very special guest. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Henry joins us.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Mike. Hi, Mike. He's an actor, comedian, writer, best known
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  Speaker 1: for his work on Family Guy, 400 episodes, over 400 episodes.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cleveland show is on screen credits also include.
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  Speaker 1: The Orville, Ted, American Dad, Gilmore Girls. And you played
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  Speaker 1: Ed for four seasons. Welcome, Mike. You were in three
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  Speaker 1: episodes of season four. That's right. And one in season
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  Speaker 1: six as a Stars Hollow resident, Ed. Ed. Always visiting
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  Speaker 1: Luke's diner. How was watching this episode for you?
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  Speaker 2: It was great. You know, I'll be honest. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: watched these in a while. And it was nice. I
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  Speaker 2: watched it yesterday. And What a great show, and I
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  Speaker 2: understand the staying power when I watch it. It's got
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  Speaker 2: so much heart, and it's smart, and it's cool. Everybody's flawed,
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  Speaker 2: but you're rooting for everybody. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Seth MacFarlane, you know. Yeah. You know from Family Guy.
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  Speaker 1: He made a guest appearance on Gilmore Girls Season 2
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  Speaker 1: during Lorelei's graduation. How did you get the role of Ed?
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 2: So I was a writer and voice actor on Family Guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still a voice actor on Family Guy. And Dan
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  Speaker 2: Palladino was running Family Guy for a little while. And
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  Speaker 2: he just called me one day and said, hey, do
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  Speaker 2: you want to play Ed? And I said, sure. And
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  Speaker 2: it was cool. You know, like I love going on
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  Speaker 2: studio lots. And, you know, for me, it was not
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  Speaker 2: really a bucket list thing, but it's cool to go
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  Speaker 2: to all the different studios. And I've been fortunate enough
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  Speaker 2: to play on, on most of them. And, uh, it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was just great. And I just, it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: And you were cool. You were, you had clearly so
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  Speaker 2: much on your mind trying. I mean, I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: the volume of lines you guys had to, to go through.
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  Speaker 2: It was, it was soap opera esque. I would imagine. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so you were always pretty intense, but you're always very kind.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good to hear. Good to hear. All right. Say
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  Speaker 1: goodbye to Daisy Miller. Air date, September 21, 2004. The
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  Speaker 1: night picks up where we left off, season four finale,
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  Speaker 1: Rory and Lorelai aren't getting along because of a reaction
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  Speaker 1: to Rory's decision to bed down with Mr. Dean, who
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  Speaker 1: is married. Luke and Lorelai are awkwardly moving forward. Emily
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  Speaker 1: finally admits she and Richard are getting separated and is
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  Speaker 1: ready to take off to Europe for the summer. But
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  Speaker 1: in this synopsis is not included Well, I mean, Luke
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  Speaker 1: and Lorelei are awkwardly moving forward. I would say that
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  Speaker 1: is an understatement. Directed by Amy Sherman Palladino, written by
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  Speaker 1: Amy Sherman Palladino. All right, let's get into Dean, Lindsay, Rory.
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  Speaker 1: This is such a troika. We get another point of
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  Speaker 1: view of Rory and Dean together. They say, I love
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  Speaker 1: you to eat. and they pick a song post-coital. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as Lorelei comes home, Dean leaves and stops to listen
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  Speaker 1: in on the argument between mother and daughter. Mike, it's
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  Speaker 1: who opined on such adolescent urgings and bad decisions. I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean to put you in an awkward situation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: How did this hit you?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was a little... surprise, you know, it hits,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're, you don't usually root for the adulterer
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  Speaker 2: or adulteress and, um, you know, it, but I think
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  Speaker 2: that's just a credit to, to the writing and Amy
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  Speaker 2: and it's, uh, you know, these are flawed people. We're
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  Speaker 2: all flawed and she just going through it like we
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  Speaker 2: all do. And when she stopped and listened in, you know, you,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't, She didn't have to act much. She just
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  Speaker 2: had to just be there. And it puts you right there.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Dean, being used as a character, a pawn on
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  Speaker 1: the chessboard to show how desirable Rory truly is. He
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  Speaker 1: comes home to his wife, Lindsay, and he blows up
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  Speaker 1: on her unreasonably, I would say, over his phone, having
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  Speaker 1: a pretty advanced case of the guilts. I am not
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  Speaker 1: going to ask for any commentary on that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you some.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm sorry, I don't remember his wife's name, but... Lindsay.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay was, you know, you fell for Lindsay, but we're
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  Speaker 2: all rooting for Rory. And so it's all very confusing,
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  Speaker 2: like life. So, you know, Dean, just too many babes,
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  Speaker 2: as they would say, you know, two beautiful women. And
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  Speaker 2: he's just a young man trying to figure out his
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  Speaker 2: game as well.
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  Speaker 1: So Rory meets up with Dean again to discuss the
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  Speaker 1: night before, but as youth will have it, they end
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  Speaker 1: up sleeping together again, this time at Miss Patty's.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, youth. Youth, youth, youth. How much fun was that?
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  Speaker 1: What would Miss, yeah, it was pretty fun. What would
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  Speaker 1: Miss Patty do if she walked in on him, do
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  Speaker 1: you think, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing how amorous her personality is.
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  Speaker 2: There could have been some kickboxing.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I think she would have done? I
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  Speaker 1: think she would have opened the door, seen those two.
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  Speaker 1: Had she not disturbed them, she would have closed the
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  Speaker 1: door and left and left them to it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think, Miss Patty? Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. Or who knows? Maybe all his wildest fantasies could
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  Speaker 2: have come true in that moment. But that's a different show.
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  Speaker 1: Cover your ears, fans. You did not hear that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm teasing. That's my job. I'm supposed to make jokes.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Rory tells Lane about what happened and continues
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  Speaker 1: to be distant with Lorelai. Lane's reaction was pretty funny.
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  Speaker 1: She yelled at her own band to just chill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're in a band with the girl. This comes with
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  Speaker 1: the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. I thought that was very funny.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty funny. Asserting her leadership capabilities... All right, as Rory's
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  Speaker 1: on her way to lunch with Emily and Lorelei, she
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  Speaker 1: sees Lindsay in an argument with the butcher, upset about
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  Speaker 1: her roast beef and how she wants to prepare it
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  Speaker 1: at night for her licentious husband. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the episode, Lindsay serves Dean the roast beef, and he
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  Speaker 1: likes it. She is cheerful, and he seems kind of
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  Speaker 1: like he's maybe coming around a little bit. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think of this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think she was living through the roast beef
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You know, she wanted to be just right.
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  Speaker 2: She was trying to please her man. She was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: visibly excited at how well it had turned out. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you feel for her. And, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: for him, too. You know, like he's torn. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know what's up. And am I wrong? Did Rory call
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  Speaker 2: it off with him prior to all of this? Was
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  Speaker 2: she the one that broke this off, or was it
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  Speaker 2: just sort of mutually awkward? Is that why they stopped
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  Speaker 2: being together originally?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. She dumped him. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then, so, yeah. So, clearly, he just never lost
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  Speaker 2: the love there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. No. He took it hard. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He took it hard. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This roast beef, very symbolic roast beef, maybe. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you think, Mike, that that roast beef represents most? Lindsay, Dean, Rory,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe all three. Served right, sliced up, tastes good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I'm going with all three because you
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  Speaker 2: can hit it from all three angles.
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  Speaker 1: Turning into a Peter Greenaway podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I do crave roast beef right in this moment
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  Speaker 2: as we're talking about it. I may need to go
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  Speaker 2: get a roast beef sandwich with some horseradish.
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  Speaker 1: I think I will, too. I think I might join you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. At first, did you think– do you think
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  Speaker 1: Rory and Dean don't realize what they have done?
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  Speaker 2: I think Rory is realizing what she's done. I think
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  Speaker 2: she realized it when she saw– I'm sorry. Is it Lindsay?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Buying the roast beef. I think she– I think it
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  Speaker 2: hit her right then.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: All she needed was an invitation to go to Europe
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  Speaker 2: at that point.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think it's unrealistic to expect teenagers to
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  Speaker 1: behave like adults. You know, of course, they aren't taking
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  Speaker 1: any accountability. Teenagers don't take accountability for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying all, I'm just saying most. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just sort of, it's what they do. Judge not, lest
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  Speaker 1: ye be judged. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: They're lost in their little worlds. You know, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta see people in the roast beef
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  Speaker 2: shop to start getting a sense that it's not all
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  Speaker 2: about you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah all right emily let's move on emily and richard
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  Speaker 1: um you know they're arguing and she rushes downstairs to
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  Speaker 1: grab her luggage because she's heading off to europe alone
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  Speaker 1: uh we haven't seen these two like this have we
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  Speaker 1: uh We've seen little dust-ups, but this seems serious. She
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  Speaker 1: gets locked in the basement, yells for Richard to unlock
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  Speaker 1: the door, and escapes out the window without her skirt on.
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  Speaker 1: The neighborhood security catches them outside their house and writes
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  Speaker 1: them a notice. What did you think of this? Was
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  Speaker 1: this funny? Was this annoying? What was this?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was funny. I actually didn't realize that
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  Speaker 2: she didn't have her skirt on because she was wearing
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  Speaker 2: a slip. But, you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: I think she was embarrassed. This is all getting public
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  Speaker 2: now in the neighborhood, nonetheless. And now there's an official citation.
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  Speaker 2: So what a disgrace. You can't have a disgrace like
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  Speaker 2: this when you're well-to-do.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So now Emily comes back to Stars Hollow
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  Speaker 1: for lunch with Rory and Lorelai, as Lorelai promised. And
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  Speaker 1: it's awkward and quiet. And now she officially tells Rory.
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  Speaker 1: And Lorelei, that she and Richard are separated. And she's
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  Speaker 1: leaving for Paris that night and invites Rory to come along.
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  Speaker 1: Who accepts?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, and Lorelei thinks it's an okay idea. All right.
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  Speaker 1: At the airport, there's still this tension between mother and daughter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they sort of say goodbye. And then Rory's off
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  Speaker 1: to gay Paris.
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  Speaker 2: It was like the Friends finale.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Was it?
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  Speaker 2: Will she get on the plane?
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, is that what they did?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what happened. And then there was another
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  Speaker 2: one that ended the same way at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember what show.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Um, so Emily had, had a line at the,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that scene. Uh, well then buy
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  Speaker 1: me a boa and drive me to Reno because I
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  Speaker 1: am open for business.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Risqué. Putting it out there.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge me. Uh, is seeing this side of Emily surprising
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  Speaker 1: or expected because of what she's gone through lately with
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  Speaker 1: her marriage to Richard, do you think, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's surprising, but then when you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: it's expected. People start to lose it a little bit
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  Speaker 2: when the things they've been doing with their whole life
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  Speaker 2: start to really prove to not be what they want
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  Speaker 2: them to be in that moment. So I think it's
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  Speaker 2: certainly a fun thing to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she's really flying off the handle, isn't she?
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say she's done, but she's going to go
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  Speaker 1: spread her wings a little bit. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she's just going to Paris. She's not really
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  Speaker 2: going to Reno.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: Before we continue, I just want to say thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all the birthday wishes. I turned 68. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe it myself. I have been on the planet
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: for 68 years. And guys, I still feel like I'm 20.
• 13:18
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• 13:26
  Speaker 1: So go check it out. It's my new business with
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  Speaker 1: my good buddy, Dr. Adam Kilpatrick. And you'll see what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. Well, now we have Luke and Lorelei. we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to deal with these two, Mike. This
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  Speaker 1: is heavy, heavy stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know it better than me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I think you might know it better than me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember a heck of a lot. Uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we begin by seeing Kirk on the couch, half asleep
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  Speaker 1: with an apparent injury. Luke is taking care of him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, informs Lorelei that he's going to need
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  Speaker 1: some Bactine and some bandages. Uh, um, Suki comes in,
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  Speaker 1: kind of finds out what the heck went on between
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  Speaker 1: Luke and Lorelei. And here we see, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is the amazing part. We see Suki or Melissa McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: in all her glory. All of those comedy chops, all
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  Speaker 1: that physical comedy, you know, coming to the fore here.
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  Speaker 1: there's really nobody that does it like her.
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  Speaker 2: That was so fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. And I just, you know, I'm watching this
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  Speaker 1: scene and I'm just, boy, I'm, I'm acting with one
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  Speaker 1: of the greats and it's just so fun. And it
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  Speaker 1: was so apparent back then. And that's 2004. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that really grates on me is how hard she
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  Speaker 1: had to struggle to, to get any kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, film career. Because the skills were apparent. The
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  Speaker 1: likability is off the charts. Yeah. And then she has
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  Speaker 1: to fight to get Mike and Molly, which is the
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  Speaker 1: thing that really kind of launched her, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: before that, she's just like Suki on Gilmore Girls, and
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to be enough. Or Ed.
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  Speaker 2: Ed on Gilmore Girls wasn't enough either. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you meant Ed Herman.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about your character. Of course. No, no. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm joking.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to save the last 20 minutes just talking.
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  Speaker 2: To you about your character. Oh, that's nice. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. But isn't it amazing, this business, how there's
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  Speaker 1: casting people, producers all crawling all over town. They're everywhere. Yeah. Right?
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  Speaker 1: Or at least they used to be. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they're everywhere now. How did it take so long
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  Speaker 1: for Melissa to get discovered? Why did it take years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years and years? And she's also giving
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  Speaker 1: performances weekly at the Groundlings that are knockout funny. Characters
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  Speaker 1: she created. It's amazing to me.
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  Speaker 2: If you were to ask her, I don't think she
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  Speaker 2: would change a thing. Like, by the time she really
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  Speaker 2: got her shot, like, you talk about ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: She had 10,000, 20,000 hours. Like, she was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a superstar when the light shined on her. So... You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same for everybody. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: went through it. I've been through it. We're all still
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  Speaker 2: going through it as we're trying to do different things.
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  Speaker 2: And you just do what you can. And it's going
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  Speaker 2: to line up at some point if you keep going.
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  Speaker 2: So I have so much respect for her. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously hilarious. And the chops, the perseverance.
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  Speaker 1: Lorelei heads back to the inn and everyone is taking
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  Speaker 1: care of Kirk. And he admits to Suki he saw
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  Speaker 1: Luke and Lorelei kissing, as we have just discussed. She
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  Speaker 1: gets super excited. Luke tells her this is key not
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  Speaker 1: to say anything because he doesn't know how Lorelai is
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  Speaker 1: going to feel about this. He's still considering her feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Luke leaves the next day without talking to Lorelai, but
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  Speaker 1: they have a sort of a nighttime phone call as
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  Speaker 1: he's heading out or heading back. Suki pulls Lorelai into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen and And it's basically screaming, again, another scene
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  Speaker 1: where we're seeing this sort of 4th of July fireworks
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  Speaker 1: comedic skills going on inside of Melissa. It's so much
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch. And it looks so easy for her
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  Speaker 1: to do it, but then it's just who she is, right?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is easy for her.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's easy for her, but
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  Speaker 1: it seems like it's easy for her.
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  Speaker 2: It's natural.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right. But she's so damn happy. And ask Lorelai
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  Speaker 1: if she's happy about it, too, and that she should
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  Speaker 1: tell Luke. As a fan of the show, how are
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you feeling about this right now, these Luke and Lorelai
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  Speaker 1: getting together like this?
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  Speaker 2: You'll love it. That's what you want, you know? We're
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: all just protecting our hearts through life, and you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to share too much because you might get stung. And,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: you know, as you guys are easing each other in
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  Speaker 2: or yourselves in....
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: It's great.
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  Speaker 2: You're rooting for it the whole time. And it's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you watch that and you're like, you feel good.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: You think the fans are celebrating this or they're on
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the edge of their seats hoping that it pans out
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  Speaker 1: the way maybe they want? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Fans who aren't too jaded or too stung to... to
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: root for it. You know, you want to keep in
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: love alive.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: That's what you imagine rooting against it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm sure some people, our family guy probably made jokes.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Sorry if we did.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, did you?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: No, I, I, you know what? We probably didn't because
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: of our, our ties to the show. But if it
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: was any other show, we probably would have. Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I imagine there's a couple sort of Christopher fans out
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: there that are They're not in a great mood at
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: this point in the series, right?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine how. I just can't imagine how. But, hey,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to each his own. Lorelei calls Luca to the diner.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And this is that phone call. Have you ever had
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a phone call like this, Mike, where something happens and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: then the next day she calls or you call her
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and there you are?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: And you don't know where you are. You know, everybody's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: hopeful and Little scared. Isn't that nice too?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: It's so nice. And you're in this bubble, you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: you're in this world stops for a moment and you
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: connect or you're wanting to connect. And it was really great.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I was just bummed that Ed wasn't in the diner.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: You know, I was like, what the heck?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: That's what was missed.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I knew Ed had opened the door to the room.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, I fought for you.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a screaming match.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Where the heck is Ed here? This thing ain't working.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: There was something missing.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: That's right. I'm going to call Dan when we get
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: off of this.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's, let's get Dan on the phone. But yeah,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: but what a night. I mean, Luke's still being, giving
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: her an out. Like still being a gentleman. Still being like, Hey,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I know, you know, this could have been
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: just some impulsive thing and gosh, I don't want to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: force my G shocks and.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Luke's been hurt before.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'm okay. Right. He's protecting himself as much as he's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: protecting himself.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. That's what we got to do.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Interesting observation. All right. Now, after dropping off Rory and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Emily at the airport, Luke leaves messages for Lorelei saying
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he has to help his sister and TJ at the fair.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And he's on his way already. But he did get
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a cell phone. Big moment. For the show. Big moment
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: for that character getting his cell phone.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It was that time of our society. People got cell phones.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Right. She calls him and they start chatting. And they
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: have another little awkward call. Yep. A little less awkward,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: but you know, I guess they're a couple now.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It was sweet. It was sweet.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: They're playing. All right. So the first half of this episode,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: viewers aren't Sure, if Lorelai is happy about the kiss,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but we can all breathe a sigh of relief when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: she finally does call him back, right? And obviously they're
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: both nervous about where this is going. And so everybody's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: on their best behavior. Let's circle back to Lorelai and Rory. Mike,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: do you think the lines are starting to get blurred
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: here between Lorelai being a mother and a friend to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Rory at this point? At 19 years old?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. You know, I have a son in
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: his 20s. I get it. You're trying to be cool
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and you're also trying to guide them. And yeah, again, great,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: great writing. I mean, again, these characters are so flawed,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: but you're rooting for them. They're funny. They're making dumb decisions.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And they're all just wanting to... what Luke and Lorelei
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: are toying with at this point. Everybody just wants that love.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And it's the dance of it all, which is just
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: so well presented.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Right. And she's trying to be a mom, you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: questioning Rory's decision. She's, you know, giving her little mini lectures,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: but she still wants to talk to her about it
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: as well as friends. Right. So, yeah, I guess there
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is a little, indecision there, a little awkwardness, maybe.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Well, and she's seeing herself through Rory. You know, she
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: doesn't want her to hurt herself or hurt other people.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. All right. Let's talk a little bit
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: about Family Guy. 400 episodes.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: You know what? I think it's almost 500 actually at
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: this point.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And you're still going strong?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I moved out here from New York
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: in 98. I had met Seth. I was trying to
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: get on SNL. I was getting kind of close. And
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: then Seth called, and I had helped him with the
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: pitch for Family Guy. It was some jokes. So I
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: moved on out here, and it's been 28 years.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: You know, we had a little cancellation, actually. When I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: was on the Gilmore Girls, Family Guy had been canceled.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And it was brought back after a couple years due
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: to high ratings and DVD sales. So, yeah, man, it's
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: just rolling on. I was a writer at the beginning
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and then got on the official voice cast a couple
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: of seasons in. And then we spun off Cleveland, who
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: was a character that I created and voiced for a while.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And now I'm just on the voice cast on Family Guy.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: So it's it's a it's a pretty sweet job at
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: this point.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say. And how many years now since 98,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: 28 years? Yeah. 400 episodes approaching 500 episodes. Yeah. You
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: might be in possession of perhaps the best job in
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the business.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't take that lightly and I don't disagree.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't take much time. And, you know,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: just and also if I were on a live action show,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: this this popular, I'd have to deal with fans. No
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: one recognizes me. It's the greatest. Like, you know, I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: am under the radar. And, you know, we actually just
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: started working on the Stewie spinoff. Stewie is, you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the most popular character on Family Guy. And he's being
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: spun off. And so I'm on that show as well.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And that'll come out, I don't know, in a year
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: or so. But, you know, hopefully that one rolls for
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a while, too.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Gosh, where do I sign up? How do I get
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: an audition? Jeez.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Alex, you know, Alex Borstein, she'll get you in, too.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Was Alex on the show, too?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Alex is one of the regulars. She's, yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Has she been doing it since 98? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I remember when it started, I was a little starstruck
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: because she was on Mad TV.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Right. That's the reason she had to drop out of
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls is because Mad TV wouldn't let her out
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: of the country to film the show. So that's how
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Melissa got her shot. Yeah. And after seeing the pilot with, uh,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: with Alex, nobody could envision anybody replacing her.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Alex is so good.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: She just hit it out of the park.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Um, and then, you know, migrated over to, to Maisel
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and did that thing that she did and won all
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: those awards. I mean, uh, and then Melissa shows up. So, um, Well,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that's just fantastic. Did you do stand up? Did you
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: ever do stand up? I did.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I did some stand up way back. I did stand up.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I did some Groundlings classes. I actually, I just shot
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: my own commercial parodies because I wanted to be on SNL. So,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: you know, my brother and I would shoot these things.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: We got in with Lorne Michaels and we shot a
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: bunch of shorts for a project he did. And that's
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: right around the time that Family Guy happened. And then
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I just started doing other random stuff like kicked in
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the nuts. I don't know if you ever saw that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: That was like an internet. That was one of the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: first viral things. It's me in an orange wig and
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: a jumpsuit and it's all staged, but we're pretending to
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: man on the street, kick people in the nuts. And
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: then they're thrilled to be on TV. Um, once they
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: realize they're on the show. So, um, that was just
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: a silly thing that I was doing right at the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: same time as Gilmore girls. And, um, done a bunch
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: of other stuff. I'm, I'm may crank up a little
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: podcast myself and I've got a, a live action thing
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: that I'm writing and honestly just enjoying life and trying
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: to live a long time working out.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Who, who do you like today that's out there, uh, uh,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: doing standup? Anybody, anybody spring to mind?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Uh, let's see. Well, of course the big dogs, you know, um,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: who are the big dogs? Well, Dave Chappelle and, um, uh,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Why am I spacing on his name? The bald Irishman.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Bill Burr? Yes.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: He's so freaking funny. The Philly rant. You would appreciate that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: You're from Philadelphia. Did you hear the Philly rant ever?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: No.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: What's the Philly rant? You have got to... Oh, it's filthy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Should I Google it?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if the fans should Google it
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: because it's so filthy. Honestly, it's 12 of the funniest
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: minutes you as a Philadelphian will ever see on YouTube.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But he's a Boston guy, right?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: He's getting booed. He's getting heckled. And he just decides
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to say... the worst possible things about Philadelphia and, and
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: just relishes counts down the time he has left. You've
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: got it. Just, I'm telling you, you will, you will
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: love it. Uh, those guys are great. And then, um, yeah,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Some other friends of mine, Adam Ray
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: is pretty funny guy. And I don't know. I don't
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: watch a whole lot of standup.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: All right. Mike, Henry, thanks for coming on. Much appreciated.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Please revisit us, uh, um, It was fun talking to you.
• 28:34
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• 28:37
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• 28:41
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• 28:45
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