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Meet Me at Miss Patty's: Destination Stars Hollow · 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 3: More, more, more.
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  Speaker 2: I want to kiss you more. More, more, more.
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  Speaker 1: I want to kiss you more.
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  Speaker 2: Meet me at Miss Patty's with Easton Allen. Hi, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Meet me at Miss Patty's. It's Easton Allen. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been on quite the journey here on I Am
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  Speaker 2: All In. I have. talked to luminaries from the world
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  Speaker 2: of pop culture. I have explored the seedy underbelly of fashion. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: now my life takes me to a new destination. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I am now your local gossip expert. I am Miss Patty.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I have become Miss Patty. Uh, we're doing this new
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  Speaker 2: show here. This is so exciting. It's called meet me
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  Speaker 2: at Miss Patty's and we're exploring the and talking to
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  Speaker 2: the people that put these incredible Gilmore Girls events together.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many awesome, there's conventions, there's meetups, there's,
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  Speaker 2: the cast just shows up and does a comedy show.
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  Speaker 2: There's all this great stuff that is Gilmore adjacent, Gilmore related,
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  Speaker 2: going on all over these great 50 states and around
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  Speaker 2: the world. And we are going to cover it all
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  Speaker 2: just for you. I'm going to give you all the information.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you all the, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read the dates multiple times. Okay. If you
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  Speaker 2: didn't catch it the first time, I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: it again. And we're going to interview the people that
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  Speaker 2: are putting these things together. These are the true hardest
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  Speaker 2: workers of the world of Gilmore.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: These people are putting their own blood, sweat, and tears
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  Speaker 2: into these events so that you can come and meet
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  Speaker 2: the cast and do something cool and see a new place.
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  Speaker 2: So last week, we went to Connecticut for a weekend
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  Speaker 2: in the life. And we're heading to the Midwest this time.
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  Speaker 2: There's a really great event going on September 26th and
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  Speaker 2: 27th in Brighton, Michigan. It is called Destination Stars Hollow.
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  Speaker 2: And this event is so, so exciting to me because it's...
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  Speaker 2: A lot of these places, it's like, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: turn our town into Stars Hollow. And that kind of
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  Speaker 2: is happening here in Brighton, Michigan, but mostly it's about
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  Speaker 2: celebrating the beauty and the joy and the community and
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  Speaker 2: the magic of living in a small town. So if
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  Speaker 2: you live in a big city or if you grew
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  Speaker 2: up in a small town or you've always been curious
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  Speaker 2: about what life in a small town is like, this
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  Speaker 2: is the place for you. You want to get yourself
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  Speaker 2: to Brighton, Michigan, September 26th and 27th. we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk to Kathleen London. Okay. She is the mastermind behind
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  Speaker 2: this event. She's put it all together. And I think
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  Speaker 2: you're really going to appreciate and admire what she has
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  Speaker 2: to say about the magic of this event. Destination stars hollow.
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  Speaker 2: Kathleen is waiting in the waiting room. I can see
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  Speaker 2: her digitally banging on the door, begging to be let in.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're running out of oxygen in there. So
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  Speaker 2: let's bring her in right now. Oh, you know, actually,
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  Speaker 2: before we do that, I'm going to play a commercial.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry. Bye.
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  Speaker 2: It's Meet Me at Miss Patty's. My name is Easton Allen.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us. I am here with
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  Speaker 2: Kathleen London. She is the mastermind. She is the big boss.
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  Speaker 2: She is in charge of Destination Stars Hollow, which is
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  Speaker 2: going on September 26th and 27th in Brighton, Michigan. I...
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  Speaker 2: Oh my... Okay, let me tell you something, Kathleen. I
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  Speaker 2: have never been more jealous of everyone. Like, I need
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  Speaker 2: to go. I need to be there for this. Because this...
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  Speaker 2: The coolest thing that stood out to me about Destination
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  Speaker 2: Stars Hollow is that it seems like 99% of it
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  Speaker 2: is just free.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Free to the people that show up in Brighton, Michigan. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so set the stage for me. You are transforming this
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  Speaker 2: town in Michigan into Stars Hollow. And how does that happen?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me.
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  Speaker 3: So I probably have to back up the scene for
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  Speaker 3: a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an actual small business owner. And I also grew
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  Speaker 3: up in a small town. So I kind of have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Lorelei vibes about me. And the world
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  Speaker 3: has been really hard for small business with Amazon and
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  Speaker 3: TikTok shop and all this stuff. And four years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I was looking in my main street where I had
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  Speaker 3: a business. And I thought, how do we get to
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  Speaker 3: people and tell them to put their phone down and
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  Speaker 3: put their... computers down and step away from their TVs
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  Speaker 3: and step into the real life that is Stars Hollow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so I realized that we needed to remind people
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  Speaker 3: why they use Gilmore Girls as like chicken soup, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We needed to remind people. So I hosted an event
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  Speaker 3: and I said, if you wanted to visit Stars Hollow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, these are archetypical places. things in town. And
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  Speaker 3: here's our map, our version of what that is. Because
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  Speaker 3: in a funny way, Gilmore Girls copied Small Town. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, I mean, if you look at
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  Speaker 3: any small town in the country, they all have weird
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  Speaker 3: little fundraisers for a soccer team or a baseball team.
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  Speaker 3: They all have like a weird ice cream social or
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  Speaker 3: historic society, like all crazy, obsessed, like power hungry leader.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's so many things that happen in small town
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  Speaker 3: if you are a small town person. And so what
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  Speaker 3: we did, did was we said, if you wanted to,
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  Speaker 3: for a minute, explore this idea of being in small town,
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  Speaker 3: come to our small town. We don't look anything like
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  Speaker 3: Stars Hollow. We have no gazebo. But we have small
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  Speaker 3: businesses and we have crazy characters. And we have people
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  Speaker 3: who are sitting there every day waiting to meet you
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  Speaker 3: 365 days a year. So we said, hey, for this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: pretend just for one minute that our small town is
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  Speaker 3: your small town. So we did that. And then we
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  Speaker 3: did it again with a little more thought. We got
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  Speaker 3: all the stores like more formally involved and said, OK, everybody,
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  Speaker 3: let's just do this map. Let's do it for real.
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  Speaker 3: And so we did. And 40,000 people showed up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Which is insane.
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  Speaker 2: What's the population before that?
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  Speaker 3: 7,000. Oh, my God. And pretty much the locals were like,
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  Speaker 3: peace out. Like, this is too much. So I can
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  Speaker 3: come down 365 days a year, 363 days a year.
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  Speaker 3: So what happened was we had this moment and then
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  Speaker 3: all these other events were like, hey, we could do that.
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  Speaker 3: We could do that too. So we started to see
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  Speaker 3: other events transforming from the Comic-Con format and that festival
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  Speaker 3: format into this more immersive format that we had established.
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  Speaker 3: So year two or three, excuse me, was really our
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  Speaker 3: year to get our feet underneath us and say like,
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  Speaker 3: how can we do this for a longer weekend? And
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  Speaker 3: we started planning our weekend, but adding a half day
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  Speaker 3: of like kind of some VIP activities and another full
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  Speaker 3: day of free activities. Everything is free because we want
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  Speaker 3: you to shop.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: So, right. Support local business. These are the people who
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  Speaker 3: pay for your kid's hockey team or soccer team or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever your kid's fundraiser at the high school.
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  Speaker 3: So we started planning and ring-a-ding-ding, Mr. Scott Patterson called
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  Speaker 3: us and actually back that up. It was actually Rose Abdu. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: She's a Michigander and she had just been on Scott's
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  Speaker 3: podcast and they were like, they brought 40,000 people to
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  Speaker 3: a town where, Without us, they hurt. How did they
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  Speaker 3: do that? I mean, ask Scott the story. It's on
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  Speaker 3: I'm All In. They talk about it. And so they
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  Speaker 3: were like, what's going on? So Rose called us. Scott
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  Speaker 3: called us. We had chats with them. And we were like, well,
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  Speaker 3: this is about small town, but we'd love to have you. Sure. Sure.
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  Speaker 3: So in they came and we immersed them into the town.
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  Speaker 3: You don't go away and come back. It's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of part of everything. It's a church, which is this
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  Speaker 3: beautiful welcoming church. And then another location has this other,
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  Speaker 3: it's really beautiful. It's like a coworking space right downtown
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  Speaker 3: and they have a gazebo behind their building. It's very pretty.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's Brighton Lighthouse and the First Presbyterian Church
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  Speaker 3: just threw open their doors and the actors went in
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  Speaker 3: there and signed autographs and met people. And you took
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  Speaker 3: selfies with your cell phones because we didn't. We were like,
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  Speaker 3: have fun. And they did that. And we sold those
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  Speaker 3: tickets out. But yet the town was still free and
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  Speaker 3: the activities were still free. And we really wanted people
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  Speaker 3: to have a free moment. because the world is really
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  Speaker 3: hard right now. And we want people to feel like
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  Speaker 3: they can have an experience just like you do in
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  Speaker 3: any small town, right? You should be able to walk around.
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  Speaker 3: And if you only spend, you know, $ 25, but it's
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  Speaker 3: a really precious item that you got during this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we want for you. So yeah, so that's
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  Speaker 3: how this all happened. So we're now on year four
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of other towns and events, Comic-Con type
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  Speaker 3: people are looking at our format and saying, oh, that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool. Maybe I can take some of those
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  Speaker 3: ideas and copy them. And here we are, right? A
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  Speaker 3: lot of small towns are seeing the love and the magic.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it so much. I'm from
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  Speaker 2: a small town as well.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I find that community to be so magic.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one of those things where like, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: can make a difference. You can do something to improve
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  Speaker 2: the community in a small town like that. And everybody
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  Speaker 2: knows everybody and everyone's got each other's backs. It's really
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful thing. Do you find that most people that
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  Speaker 2: are coming to Destination Stars Hollow, are they people that like,
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  Speaker 2: live in a big city and they want to see
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  Speaker 2: what a small town is like are they people that
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  Speaker 2: grew up in a small town and want to capture
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  Speaker 2: that magic like what do you find from I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it's a little of both I think because our
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  Speaker 3: event is so genuine and it's focused on your experience
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  Speaker 3: overall and And I mean, I love Scott and I
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  Speaker 3: loved Rose and I haven't met Sean yet. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to meet him. And we have Kelly Bishop coming.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm super excited for everyone to be. And but
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm most excited to introduce them to small town. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like a real small town. Yes. A Midwest town. Small town.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where you are. Are you in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: You're in L.A.? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm from Northern California. That's where I grew up. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a small town in coastal California. So, you know, different.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, very cool.
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  Speaker 2: So different than the Midwest, though, which is something that
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  Speaker 2: I find so interesting. And I would like to experience.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the thing, you know, where, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: spent a big part of my career in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of people from New York and L.A.
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  Speaker 3: that I used to work with were like, oh, the
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  Speaker 3: flyover states. And if you really think about Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 3: and shows like Gilmore Girls or One Tree Hill or
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  Speaker 3: Dawson's Creek, you name these shows, right? That have great
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  Speaker 3: small towns. What they have in common is they're talking
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  Speaker 3: to us in the Midwest. We are their market, right?
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  Speaker 3: So I think what happens is we get people from
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  Speaker 3: all over the world because I think they want the
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  Speaker 3: genuineness of what we're presenting. And I can't really... I
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  Speaker 3: can't really put my finger on it because we're not
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  Speaker 3: Comic-Con people. We're not event people. Part of what we
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  Speaker 3: did too, you being from a small town, you'll get this.
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  Speaker 3: You know when there's a festival and they put all
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  Speaker 3: the tents on the street and it's like hot dog
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  Speaker 3: vendors and, I don't know, elephant ear vendors and like
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  Speaker 3: a candle maker and a, I don't know, bead bracelet person.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, something. And it's all up and down
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  Speaker 3: the street. So there's this tunnel and you're in a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of tents. Well, as a small business, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, great. All these people are here, but they
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  Speaker 3: can't see my store. They're seeing the tents. The people
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  Speaker 3: who are popping up for one weekend and I'm here
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  Speaker 3: every weekend.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 3: So what we did was we ripped that artifice away
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  Speaker 3: and we highlighted the actual brick and mortar businesses. So
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  Speaker 3: there's almost nothing on the street other than people and
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  Speaker 3: fans and people meeting up with each other and connecting.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what's really fun to see because... the fans,
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  Speaker 3: I think you mentioned it in another podcast. They're like,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't meet a lovelier group.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the best. They're the best.
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  Speaker 3: The best. And they're like mother, daughter, grandmother. Right. And
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  Speaker 3: then we have girlfriends who've flown in from different areas
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  Speaker 3: to meet each other there and spend the weekend just
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  Speaker 3: goofing around because it's free. If you want to upgrade
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  Speaker 3: and you want to meet an actor or you want to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get a swag box and like a VIP lounge, um,
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  Speaker 3: to have your own bathroom and things like that. We
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  Speaker 3: set that up, but it is not the core. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's a lovely, elegant way to make it a little
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  Speaker 3: more judged, right? To give yourself that slightly more elegant experience.
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  Speaker 3: But honestly, the festival is free and you can drive
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  Speaker 3: in and you can experience everything and you might get
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  Speaker 3: a sneak peek at the actors. We try and make
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  Speaker 3: that happen. So it really... it's very embedded and immersed
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  Speaker 3: in that concept of getting rid of the tents. We
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  Speaker 3: don't have all the vendors. We really focus on the businesses,
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  Speaker 3: the people, why you're there. And we hide like Easter. I'm,
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  Speaker 3: I'm quote, I'm doing air quotes because I know we're
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  Speaker 3: Easter eggs all over town that you can stumble upon
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  Speaker 3: and find that are like, Oh my gosh, stop it.
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  Speaker 3: That thing, like whatever it is. Right. So it's, in
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  Speaker 3: no way, shape or form are we Stars Hollow. Like
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  Speaker 3: in no way, shape or form. But then again, Stars
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  Speaker 3: Hollow was us. Yes. In essence, right? Stars Hollow, those writers,
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  Speaker 3: all were looking at these small towns and being like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's funny. Let's do that. Oh, that's cool. Let's do that. Right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So those are archetypes that we've just kind of brought
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  Speaker 3: back to town and use Stars Hollow as our metaphor
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  Speaker 3: for why we should all be friends.
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  Speaker 2: That warms my heart, Kathleen. I love that. I get
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  Speaker 2: chills just hearing that. There's so much more to get
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  Speaker 2: into with Destination Stars Hollow, but please join me in
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  Speaker 2: jogging in place while we play a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a commercial, okay? That's what this is about.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Bye. And we're back. It's Meet Me at Miss Patty's.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Easton Allen, in case you cannot read
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  Speaker 2: your podcast screen right now. I'm talking to Kathleen London.
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  Speaker 2: She is the mover and shaker. She's the big cheese.
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  Speaker 2: She is the boss of Destination Stars Hollow. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're mentioning that the event is free. Again, this is
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  Speaker 2: the 26th and 27th of September in Brighton, Michigan. Get
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  Speaker 2: your tickets now. But it's mostly free. But Uh, as,
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  Speaker 2: as previously mentioned, Sean Gunn involved, an early adopter, uh,
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  Speaker 2: our beloved Scott Patterson. And this is so exciting. Kelly Bishop,
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  Speaker 2: Emily Gilmore herself. She's going to be there. How did
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  Speaker 2: you get Mrs. Gilmore involved? How did that happen?
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  Speaker 3: It was odd, honestly, and not in a bad way.
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  Speaker 3: We love Scott. And honestly, we would love to do
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  Speaker 3: the Scott show. We would love to bring all of
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  Speaker 3: you guys out here and throw you in all our
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  Speaker 3: weird businesses and be like, you guys do this and
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  Speaker 3: you guys do that. We would love to do a
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  Speaker 3: whole Scott thing. We'd love to bring the podcast. We'd
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  Speaker 3: love to do that. But you kind of have to
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  Speaker 3: offer people differences, right?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: And we knew there was stuff brewing on Kelly's plate.
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  Speaker 3: She'd written the book and we've heard rumors about you know,
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  Speaker 3: her meeting up with Amy and Lauren. And of course,
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  Speaker 3: like we love them. And, um, and so we just
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  Speaker 3: got to be in our bonnet and we, we worked
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  Speaker 3: the angle. We just emailed and worked the angle and
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  Speaker 3: finally got to the right person. And once we explained
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  Speaker 3: our event that we're not like a con, like we're
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  Speaker 3: a big, you know what I'm saying? Like we're not that,
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  Speaker 3: that we're this like fun little thing. Um, she was in. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's really cool. It's really fun. So she's
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  Speaker 3: doing a, um, a Q and a.
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  Speaker 2: The third Gilmore Q and a, it looks like it's
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  Speaker 2: sold out. Sorry, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you went all access, we had a
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  Speaker 3: few this year because we had Scott and Scott was
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  Speaker 3: offering his coffee dates, which was really, I think, cool.
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  Speaker 2: So fun.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, And Sean was too, but then Sean and
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  Speaker 3: Scott were doing the meet and greets and then they
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  Speaker 3: do like a Q and a. So we thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: what if people wanted to do like all the meet
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  Speaker 3: and greets and all the Q and a's what if
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: we put it all together in a package and we
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  Speaker 3: offered that as kind of your whole weekend pass to
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  Speaker 3: all the actory things. So we kind of bundled it.
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  Speaker 3: And then so the only way to get some of
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  Speaker 3: those tickets was through this bundle because we I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to laugh at us, but our, um, our
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  Speaker 3: theater seating seats, 350. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: This is an intimate show. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: It is, but you know what? That's the point.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: We're doing multiple. So we probably get to the same
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: amount of people through doing it multiple times, um, instead
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: of one time, but it's super intimate. And the space
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: that Scott and Sean are in is super intimate. And, um,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: you know, Scott, um, and Sean get taken care of
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: by these lovely church volunteers that, um, from first Presbyterian,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: who bring them diet Cokes and feed them and, um,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you know, help them. So it's, it's really, um, community.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: And we would love to do this in any, like
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: we kind of created something that we realized, like we
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: would love to bring, um, To any community. And I
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: think we kind of understand the magic and we understand
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: the way it works. Ironically, we've had a few of
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: the other festivals try and like steal our social media person,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: which is really funny because it's like my friends. Right. Like,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: so like, we're not a business. We're like a group
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: of friends that want to save small business.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it so much. Where are
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you doing? Like, what is the venue for like the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Q and a, you said that this venue of 350
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: seats is.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: A church sanctuary sanctuary.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: But it's like amazing. And we had somebody with, here's
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: a fun story. So the first time we did it,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: we were like, I don't know. We don't want it
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: away from town. So we put it in the church
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: and it was really funny because we heard like from
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the church that a bunch of people came through and
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: walked up to the volunteers and were like, I haven't
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: been in a church in like 15 years. This has
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: been amazing. You guys have been so welcoming. Thank you
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: for hosting this and bringing us in. Like, I think
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: there was this disconnect of like what church was.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? And to be in this
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: like really welcoming environment that wasn't proselytizing or talking like
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: they were just welcoming you in as human beings. And
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: this was the venue, right? It just was the venue
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: in this old, it's an older church they've added on
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: and it's this crazy layout, but it is, yeah, it's
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: a church. And then the other venue we have is
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: this coworking space that is a historic home and it's
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: a coworking space and it's a historic home. And so
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: it's in this, kind of outdoor part of this historic
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: home so it's all embedded in town because we don't
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: want you having to get on a bus and go
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: across town to someplace else and then come back like
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: you're in town to be here so be here and
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: and um that's what we do so it's silly and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: fun and friends are made Oh yeah. Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Friends are made, relationships are formed, memories are the last lifetime.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: And I think about, you know, there's so many cool
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: conventions that happen all over the country and they have
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: their place and everything. But when I think about like
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: experiencing something like this, where you get to hear, you
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: get to talk to the actors and hear from them, it's,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: you can either be in a conference room at a
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Radisson Inn, like outside of Chicago, or you could be
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: in a church in Brighton, Michigan. I just think what
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a great venue for that to happen.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Super fun. And I'll tell you one other really funny thing.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: We've had two people this year reach out, three actually,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: men who want to propose on that weekend in town.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we have a jewelry store involved and they're
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: getting involved and people, because year one, before we even
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: had the actors here, somebody did propose just spontaneously and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: bought the ring at the jewelry store.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: And it was like a whole thing. So now it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: become this thing. People want to propose, like buy our
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: mill ponds. or I don't know, I don't even like,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: it's adorable. Adorable.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I love that. And, uh, like if you're, you guys,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: if you're going to, uh, to, uh, Destination Stars Hollow,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: which is September 26th and 27th, right in Michigan. Um, it's,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I think about like the, local businesses and local community
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: being the core of this event is just so special. And, uh,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: there's a, so I'm from, I'm from a town in
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Northern California called Santa Cruz, California.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: And, um, Oh, Santa Cruz is beautiful.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I love it with all my heart.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: And, um, I, my niece went to UC Santa Cruz.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Go slugs.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Um, so we, we had an organization there called think
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: local first. And, uh, this, we used to throw this
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: stat around and I loved it and I have it here. It's,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: When you spend $ 100 at a non-locally owned business, you
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: know the stat, $ 14 stays in the community out of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: that $ 100 from a non-local business. But if you do
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: it at a local business, it's $ 50. And in many
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: cases more because that business is employing people. They are
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: getting supplies from town. It's just like you're literally investing
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: in your community. So what a better way to do that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Well, think about you as a kid in Santa Cruz.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Your first job is a small business.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: So, you know, the Kirk's of the world start in
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: small towns and the Luke's and the Lorelei's. Those are
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: all people who started their journey because someone took a
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: chance and hired them in a small business. Exactly.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: It's cool.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: It's so cool. And this event is so cool. I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: so grateful you're putting it on. Thanks. I'm going to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: try to get out there myself. Scott Patterson will be there.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Sean Gunn will be there. All your friends, Kelly Bishop
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: will be there. And this is Destination Stars Hollow. I'm
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: going to say it one more time. September 26th and 27th,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: destinationstarshollow.com to get all the information. Kathleen, you're a delight.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: You are a shining star.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: You are too. You're a delight. And you tell Scott,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: we want you to come. He should just throw you
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: on the plane with him, maybe in his luggage.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I'll sneak in his carry-on. I'll be there.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Sneak in his carry-on.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get him the Diet Cokes this time. We'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: give those church volunteers a break. There you go.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. For sure.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for taking the time, Kathleen. And
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: best of luck.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you for inviting me. Ah, thanks. We hope to
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: see you.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Thank you.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: All right. Thanks, Ethan. Okay. Bye-bye.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Bye-bye, Kathleen. Hey, everybody, don't forget, follow us on Instagram
• 25:11
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• 25:15
  Speaker 2: gilmore at iheartradio.com.