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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am all in again.
- 0:17Speaker 2: I am all in again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all in Podcasts one
- 0:25Speaker 1: of them productions. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia, iHeart Podcast. Episode recap. We
- 0:34Speaker 1: are going to be discussing season one, episode sixteen, Starcross,
- 0:38Speaker 1: Lovers and Other Strangers with none other than Kaylin Bell.
- 0:46Speaker 1: And you may know her from The Bachelor and The
- 0:48Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise, but since then, she's built a strong
- 0:53Speaker 1: presence in the lifestyle and travel space, sharing her adventures
- 0:57Speaker 1: and insights with fans. But you might want to know
- 1:01Speaker 1: that she's also a huge Gilmore Girls fan, So we
- 1:06Speaker 1: like that. We like that very much. We're excited to
- 1:08Speaker 1: have her here to recap this episode and dive into
- 1:11Speaker 1: her love for stars. Tala, Welcome, Kaylin, Thank you.
- 1:16Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be here. I got a text
- 1:19Speaker 2: from one of your producers, Emma, while I was at
- 1:21Speaker 2: dinner with my husband, and I was like, you have
- 1:23Speaker 2: no idea how big of a deal this is. I'm
- 1:25Speaker 2: so excited.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Well, we're glad to have you. We're glad you're excited.
- 1:30Speaker 1: And what'd you think of the episode? What'd you think
- 1:33Speaker 1: of this episode.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Oh, it's such a good episode. And I've seen Gilmore
- 1:38Speaker 2: Girls all the way through so many times, so I
- 1:40Speaker 2: was rewatching this one, and so much goes on, so
- 1:43Speaker 2: I feel like it's a perfect episode to chat about.
- 1:46Speaker 1: All right. Well, here's a little synopsis for you. And
- 1:48Speaker 1: the original air date was March eight, twenty twenty one. Ouch,
- 1:53Speaker 1: that was a long time ago, Caylen. I imagine you
- 1:56Speaker 1: were maybe still in diapers in two thousand and one.
- 2:02Speaker 2: I'm six, all right.
- 2:05Speaker 1: So Dean confesses his love to Rory. And isn't that
- 2:09Speaker 1: the remarkable thing about the Gilmore Girls fan base? It
- 2:11Speaker 1: just keeps getting younger and younger and younger. Every new
- 2:14Speaker 1: generation is discovering your testament to that wonderful to have
- 2:19Speaker 1: you on. All right, So Dean confesses his love to Rory,
- 2:22Speaker 1: leaving her unsure of how to respond. Quite stunned, was she? Meanwhile,
- 2:27Speaker 1: Loralai indorsed and awkward dinner with her parents an unexpected
- 2:32Speaker 1: blind date, which was hilarious. Elsewhere in Stars Hollow, Luke
- 2:36Speaker 1: is caught off guard when in an old flame maybe
- 2:40Speaker 1: the flame resurfaces, stirring up emotions from his past. Leslie
- 2:45Speaker 1: Linka Gladder, who directed the pilot, directed this episode and
- 2:50Speaker 1: the Teleplane story. John Stevens, Linda Louise Guzik, and Jony
- 2:58Speaker 1: binder Weiss wrote it, Uh, what'd you think overall of
- 3:03Speaker 1: the episode?
- 3:07Speaker 2: It was it was such a great episode to rewatch
- 3:10Speaker 2: because even from the very beginning, before the intro song
- 3:13Speaker 2: comes on, I was like, this is why I love
- 3:15Speaker 2: this show is because it's so wholesome, and I love
- 3:19Speaker 2: the small town feel where pretty much everyone's coming together
- 3:22Speaker 2: for every small event, no matter what it is, like
- 3:24Speaker 2: Miss Patty telling the story of stars Hollow. But then
- 3:28Speaker 2: you've got, you know, drama with Dean, and you've got
- 3:31Speaker 2: drama with Laura La and her parents, so you kind
- 3:34Speaker 2: of got a little bit of everything.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Well, we open up with Dean waiting at the bust
- 3:39Speaker 1: up Rory. Rory alters her Friday night dinner plans for Dean.
- 3:44Speaker 1: I mean it's a big discussion with Laura. I's yeah,
- 3:46Speaker 1: Laura has to get permission from Emily, of course, and
- 3:50Speaker 1: surprisingly Emily agrees to it without any kind of stress
- 3:56Speaker 1: and then provides for some nice comedy when more license
- 4:00Speaker 1: and Luria's going to need me to know, I'll expect
- 4:03Speaker 1: you at seven, thanks by right. And I thought her
- 4:07Speaker 1: particularly a strong episode for Lauren Graham in terms of
- 4:13Speaker 1: she got a lot of laughs out of me. I mean,
- 4:14Speaker 1: I just I just enjoyed watching her try to navigate
- 4:20Speaker 1: her childhood home with those two and was so good.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Strange guy. It was so good, wasn't it. I Mean,
- 4:27Speaker 1: that's like something you would go back and watch and
- 4:29Speaker 1: watch again just to get the last from what she
- 4:32Speaker 1: was doing. And testament to all those people they're straight
- 4:36Speaker 1: lines and playing it straight like that. Just fantastic, just
- 4:41Speaker 1: great comedy, great comedy.
- 4:42Speaker 2: The actor who played Chase, he did such a great
- 4:45Speaker 2: job at like the weirdo aspect saying what shall we like?
- 4:50Speaker 2: He was just so awkward and he's like no, no, Lorelai, no, no.
- 4:53Speaker 1: He was. He was so that breed, he really was.
- 4:57Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about privilege, wo wow, yes, dripping
- 5:02Speaker 1: in it and Miss Patty smoking her cigarette with cigarette
- 5:07Speaker 1: holder during story hour and telling the kids and then
- 5:12Speaker 1: finally saying something about being in a cage in nineteen
- 5:16Speaker 1: sixty six with Tito Plente. You know, there's always a
- 5:21Speaker 1: singer from right from our pop culture expert Amy Sharn
- 5:26Speaker 1: Pelatino and her husband that they throw in a singer.
- 5:30Speaker 1: So that shows the quirkiness of stars Hollow. Now the
- 5:34Speaker 1: steaks are we know what the steaks are. Now the setup,
- 5:38Speaker 1: we know what's going to happen here. But do we
- 5:42Speaker 1: really as soon as we get into Emily's house? How
- 5:49Speaker 1: many funny gags did did Lauren do with the coffee cup? Oh?
- 5:55Speaker 1: My gosh, shoving it in the right like just find
- 6:01Speaker 1: like she looking for a place to throw it away,
- 6:04Speaker 1: and you're like, oh god, if she throws it away
- 6:07Speaker 1: outside in one of the planters, Emily's gonna find it
- 6:11Speaker 1: and give her hell right, So what she gonna do?
- 6:13Speaker 1: So she knows she can't do that, sticks it in
- 6:15Speaker 1: her purse.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Do you know how much of that was improv and
- 6:18Speaker 2: how much was scripted? I don't Was there a lot
- 6:21Speaker 2: of improv in the show or not?
- 6:23Speaker 1: Really? Absolutely none? Oh wow, No, I'm sure that was scripted.
- 6:27Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, wow, that's impressive.
- 6:29Speaker 1: There's nothing. There's nothing improved. I mean from my experience
- 6:35Speaker 1: when I was on set and it was a lot,
- 6:37Speaker 1: there was no improv.
- 6:39Speaker 2: It just like speaks to the writing and the quippiness
- 6:42Speaker 2: of everything, Like the banter is just so perfectly timed.
- 6:45Speaker 2: And perfectly written.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Yeah. It really wasn't often when somebody would stop and say,
- 6:51Speaker 1: wouldn't it be better if I said no, it's just
- 6:53Speaker 1: it really didn't happen because it was just such you know,
- 6:56Speaker 1: you're staring at these pages and it's gold. It's just yeah,
- 7:00Speaker 1: you can't wait to get at it right. I mean,
- 7:02Speaker 1: there's there's nothing you can do to improve it. You know,
- 7:05Speaker 1: you just have to spit the lines out quickly and
- 7:08Speaker 1: run into the furniture.
- 7:09Speaker 2: That's fun because as a fan, I kind of thought
- 7:11Speaker 2: you guys just had this amazing relationship where you would
- 7:15Speaker 2: just banter off each other. But it really is the
- 7:18Speaker 2: writing that's amazing.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the writing. Yeah, it's there, it's on the page.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:23Speaker 1: And you know, you know, we had this dialogue coach
- 7:30Speaker 1: and he'd come in your trailer and you'd run lines
- 7:32Speaker 1: with him until you were cold on the lines. And
- 7:36Speaker 1: you know, everybody was just stone cold knew their stuff. Wow.
- 7:41Speaker 1: And it was and it was a great way to
- 7:42Speaker 1: work because you know, you get it, you relax, you
- 7:47Speaker 1: go on set, you have fun with it. You know,
- 7:51Speaker 1: somebody forgets a line here and there, not often, and
- 7:55Speaker 1: it's just it's just kind of a fun day going
- 7:57Speaker 1: through all these great lines and great scenes, because you know,
- 8:00Speaker 1: it's like it's like every single scene you're doing is
- 8:06Speaker 1: as good at writing as it gets, and the actors
- 8:11Speaker 1: that you're acting with are as good as it gets,
- 8:15Speaker 1: and it's just fun. It's fun to be in that
- 8:19Speaker 1: kind of environment where you know everybody is a list
- 8:24Speaker 1: in terms of their ability.
- 8:25Speaker 2: I was thinking while rewatching, I mean, i've again, I've
- 8:28Speaker 2: seen it so many times, but I rewatch like nineties
- 8:31Speaker 2: and early two thousands shows, and some of them are
- 8:35Speaker 2: so unbelievably cringey, and this show is so timeless in
- 8:39Speaker 2: so many ways, Like I don't feel like there's any
- 8:42Speaker 2: Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't feel like there's
- 8:43Speaker 2: really cringe moments in gil Mar Girls. There are a
- 8:46Speaker 2: couple maybe I'm forgetting those.
- 8:49Speaker 1: There are a couple of scenes that don't that that
- 8:51Speaker 1: didn't age well, and I think I think, Emma Jackie,
- 8:57Speaker 1: if you want to chime in, I don't recall specifically,
- 9:01Speaker 1: but there's some there's some stuff in there that doesn't
- 9:03Speaker 1: age well, but it's it's so rare, it's so rare. Yeah,
- 9:08Speaker 1: I agree, I just think it ages well because it's
- 9:11Speaker 1: so smart. Yes, it's just so smart. It's just such
- 9:14Speaker 1: good writing. And I don't know that there's any been
- 9:17Speaker 1: anything like it on television ever.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Yeah, even like the wholesome aspect, I don't feel like
- 9:22Speaker 2: we have anything like that. And that's why I love it.
- 9:25Speaker 2: It's just such a feel good show. It's so wholesome.
- 9:27Speaker 2: I don't feel I just it's so great. It's like
- 9:30Speaker 2: you feel like you're with people that.
- 9:31Speaker 1: You love, right, But it's it's it's but there's this
- 9:37Speaker 1: it's melded. It's like this hybrid wholesome small town show,
- 9:42Speaker 1: but with this utter sophistication in the writing and in
- 9:45Speaker 1: the delivery. And I think it Emily and Richard really
- 9:49Speaker 1: helped that out. Like they sort of set a standard
- 9:52Speaker 1: of behavior and elocution and diction and vocabulary and and
- 9:57Speaker 1: you know, basically just how they speak and what they know,
- 10:02Speaker 1: and it all trickles down so they get away with
- 10:07Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of pop culture references. Yeah, so
- 10:11Speaker 1: we have we have Rory. Right. Have you ever been
- 10:17Speaker 1: in a situation like that when you were younger? You know,
- 10:23Speaker 1: I think fifteen years and the guys, you know, I've
- 10:27Speaker 1: been there. I remember the awkward moment when you say
- 10:31Speaker 1: that I love you and it just hangs out there
- 10:33Speaker 1: and returned like a big Manza ball, and you're like,
- 10:35Speaker 1: oh no, oh.
- 10:37Speaker 2: My gosh, I think I was the dean when I
- 10:39Speaker 2: was younger. I was just so eager and he was
- 10:42Speaker 2: so eager, just so excited. He's like, I remember our
- 10:45Speaker 2: second anniversary, our second month anniversary, I remember our third month.
- 10:48Speaker 2: And Rory's like, I had no idea, you know.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Right, So we we go to the junk yard. They
- 10:56Speaker 1: sit in the car. He's making her a car. He's
- 10:58Speaker 1: building her a car, and that is what a guy, right,
- 11:03Speaker 1: But it's just a little too much for r Rory, right.
- 11:08Speaker 1: She doesn't know what to make of this. It's like,
- 11:10Speaker 1: who builds anybody a car? Who can even build somebody
- 11:13Speaker 1: a car? Right? And why is he building me a car?
- 11:16Speaker 1: And is it going to be safe? And like what
- 11:18Speaker 1: kind of a is it going to be? A junkie car?
- 11:20Speaker 1: I mean, what is he building me a Rolls Royce?
- 11:21Speaker 1: What is he doing? And then they sit in the
- 11:23Speaker 1: thing and when is it a little Corbert? So it's
- 11:25Speaker 1: kind of like a Corvet type car, which are kind
- 11:29Speaker 1: of cool cars actually, eight great little cars to tute
- 11:32Speaker 1: around in a in a small town, that's for sure.
- 11:35Speaker 1: And then he just says it, man, and it's like
- 11:38Speaker 1: I forgot the scene and I kept saying and I
- 11:42Speaker 1: said to myself as I'm watching, and I said, oh no,
- 11:44Speaker 1: he's gonna tell her he loves her, and it's going
- 11:46Speaker 1: to ruin the whole thing.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Don't do it.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Don't do it. Keep your mouth showed, buddy. Uh But
- 11:52Speaker 1: he you know, he's he's a lovely guy, right, he's
- 11:56Speaker 1: turned into uh, you know that they knocked the the
- 12:00Speaker 1: Chicago out of him a little bit. Now that he's
- 12:02Speaker 1: in Star's Hall, he's kind of getting into the flow
- 12:04Speaker 1: of the place and he just like, he just says it,
- 12:11Speaker 1: and she doesn't know what to do. What is Have
- 12:15Speaker 1: you ever been in that situation?
- 12:17Speaker 2: No? Again, I think I was just so eager for
- 12:19Speaker 2: love that I was on the opposite end where I'm
- 12:21Speaker 2: just like you.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Were the dean.
- 12:23Speaker 2: I was the dean, you were the dean. Yeah. But
- 12:27Speaker 2: so speaking from experience, it's not a good feeling, right,
- 12:32Speaker 2: But I do think in that scene, Alexis is so good.
- 12:36Speaker 2: You can see every emotion. She's so young. But the
- 12:39Speaker 2: camera work in it too. Where they just hold it
- 12:42Speaker 2: on Rory's face for a bit to see every emotion,
- 12:46Speaker 2: because it's like, we don't really need to see Dean's
- 12:48Speaker 2: face in this. We know what he's feeling, and they
- 12:50Speaker 2: just hold it for I noticed for like an extended
- 12:52Speaker 2: period of time, which is I thought, a great, great
- 12:56Speaker 2: tactic by the camera people.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Yeah, Alexis really is just like she's like water, isn't she.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Every little vibration ripples through her face. You can see it.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:08Speaker 1: And it's also you know, nothing's forced about it. It's
- 13:11Speaker 1: all just kind of gentle. Yeah, she's easy to watch.
- 13:16Speaker 1: She's very very easy to watch, very very easy. Okay, Laura,
- 13:21Speaker 1: let's get into some cooking aspects. You have a lifestyle,
- 13:26Speaker 1: a brand happening that you're building up. Laurla really wants
- 13:32Speaker 1: to cook. She chooses Hamburger helper, which which tells us
- 13:36Speaker 1: at what level she is in the cooking ladder. Have
- 13:41Speaker 1: you ever used hamburger helper?
- 13:43Speaker 2: Oh, it's funny you say that, because I remember being
- 13:45Speaker 2: in the third grade and visiting a friend and her
- 13:47Speaker 2: mom made it and I went home and I was like, mom,
- 13:49Speaker 2: she's so good. She's such a good cook. And my
- 13:52Speaker 2: mom would never. My mom's very healthy, so she never
- 13:54Speaker 2: touched that stuff. And it was so funny to Laura
- 13:57Speaker 2: lies like I want to be a chef and arguably
- 13:59Speaker 2: one of the easier meals in the world, and she's like,
- 14:02Speaker 2: I can't make this.
- 14:03Speaker 1: You know, well I have had it, and I always
- 14:09Speaker 1: found it to be quite delicious, but it is. I
- 14:14Speaker 1: didn't repeat the experience too often because you know, my
- 14:20Speaker 1: mom was quite a health nut to we. We liver
- 14:24Speaker 1: once a week. It was good. It tastes actually pretty good. Yeah,
- 14:29Speaker 1: so once a week we had them. Yeah, we weren't
- 14:31Speaker 1: looking for those nights. But I try to pretend like
- 14:33Speaker 1: I didn't like it. But I liked it because my
- 14:37Speaker 1: siblings were like, oh no, god, liver, he really mom,
- 14:40Speaker 1: you know, so see.
- 14:41Speaker 2: How to go along with them?
- 14:43Speaker 1: Absolutely all right. So Laurel is kind of missing Max.
- 14:49Speaker 1: She goes in the diner, she sees Luke. They have
- 14:52Speaker 1: their banter. You know, we think something might be happening.
- 14:55Speaker 1: They're really coming together. They're united in their hate of things.
- 14:58Speaker 1: You know, he does a little she's on a rant.
- 15:02Speaker 1: You know, they're both kind of tense and and they're
- 15:07Speaker 1: sort of relieved to be in one another's presence and
- 15:09Speaker 1: they you know, they get the fent. You know, Laura
- 15:12Speaker 1: I is just not in the mood for all the
- 15:13Speaker 1: love and the la la laws and all this stuff,
- 15:16Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, kind of in a crabby boat,
- 15:18Speaker 1: goes in the diner. She's met she's met her her
- 15:21Speaker 1: match and Luke, who has an equal amount of of
- 15:25Speaker 1: hatred inside him, maybe even more. And you know, here
- 15:30Speaker 1: we go again, here the writers again throwing these two together,
- 15:33Speaker 1: and right at the moment when they're getting together, boom,
- 15:36Speaker 1: they drop a bombshell on us in the form of Rachel.
- 15:41Speaker 1: What'd you think of Rachel? What did you think of
- 15:43Speaker 1: that whole scene?
- 15:44Speaker 2: I was just picturing myself as Laura Lai and being
- 15:46Speaker 2: like crushed because I mean, as a viewer, you're just
- 15:49Speaker 2: like when will they be together? You know it's only
- 15:51Speaker 2: season one, but you just it's like the timing is
- 15:54Speaker 2: never right between the two of them, and the way
- 15:56Speaker 2: that Luke is able to bring her out of this
- 15:58Speaker 2: mood or like intensified in the best way. And then
- 16:02Speaker 2: you're just like hit with this shock. This Rachel, who
- 16:05Speaker 2: she's heard about because of the sweater, but she doesn't know,
- 16:08Speaker 2: you know, she's never seen her face to face.
- 16:10Speaker 1: But she's not showing that. She's not showing any kind
- 16:13Speaker 1: of devastation or shock. She's not playing that. She's playing like, oh,
- 16:18Speaker 1: you know, like she doesn't care. She's throwing it all away, like, eh,
- 16:20Speaker 1: you know whatever. Luke's a friend And what's your opinion
- 16:25Speaker 1: on that? You think she's interested in this guy or
- 16:29Speaker 1: do you think she just doesn't care and really does
- 16:31Speaker 1: miss like she likes the friendship aspect of it now.
- 16:34Speaker 1: I mean because it heats up every once in a
- 16:35Speaker 1: while in the first season and people keep telling her
- 16:39Speaker 1: friends like Luke, Luke, Luke, and I think you'll like him,
- 16:42Speaker 1: what do you think? And she's like, no, you know.
- 16:45Speaker 1: But so in your opinion as a fan, is she
- 16:47Speaker 1: even considering this now or is it just like this
- 16:50Speaker 1: passing thing and she doesn't take it really seriously and
- 16:52Speaker 1: it's like, nah, she's not feeling it.
- 16:55Speaker 2: What's your From my view, I think she never really
- 16:58Speaker 2: considered it. She likes the their friendship, the little bit
- 17:01Speaker 2: of flirtation, but the more people egg her on, the
- 17:05Speaker 2: more she's open to its kind of how I'm viewing
- 17:08Speaker 2: it right, because then she comes back and she's like,
- 17:10Speaker 2: why did I say that I'm so stupid? You know
- 17:12Speaker 2: about the coffee pots.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Right, right, Yeah, I kind of agree with you because
- 17:16Speaker 1: she's just kind of playing it off and it's not
- 17:18Speaker 1: a big deal Rachel and all stuff. I think she's
- 17:22Speaker 1: she's curious. I think, yeah, I think she's curious as
- 17:25Speaker 1: a as a lifelong friend like that, she cares on
- 17:30Speaker 1: that level. I don't know that it's I mean, but
- 17:34Speaker 1: they had a couple of moments, didn't they. Yeah, like
- 17:37Speaker 1: behind the counter when they were looking at what his
- 17:40Speaker 1: dad wrote on the on the side of the counter
- 17:42Speaker 1: so many years ago when they were painting the place,
- 17:45Speaker 1: you know, in the previous episode or two, and they
- 17:48Speaker 1: had that moment where they locked eyes, right and yeah,
- 17:51Speaker 1: and it was like are they well there, won't they?
- 17:54Speaker 2: For me, it was always like Luke was ready ish
- 17:58Speaker 2: or more open to it, and then Laura Lai was
- 18:01Speaker 2: slowly opening up to the idea.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not there. Yeah, she goes home.
- 18:06Speaker 2: She calls Max, right, which is and it's the timing thing.
- 18:10Speaker 1: She talks about Max.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Well she calls yeah at the end, at
- 18:13Speaker 2: the end she calls but then hangs up because of Rory.
- 18:16Speaker 2: But I think every time. It's like Laura lies in
- 18:19Speaker 2: a relationship. So then Luke finds something or accept something.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Is kind of the pattern we see throughout and vice versa.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Right, we see him pining and suffering when she has
- 18:29Speaker 1: a new guy, but when you know, a significant Rachel
- 18:35Speaker 1: and she's described by Suki as like it's like Elle
- 18:38Speaker 1: Macpherson with a camera, you know, this kind of thing, right, right,
- 18:42Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to face her. She doesn't really doesn't really,
- 18:44Speaker 1: she doesn't really seem to care. So she's not invested
- 18:47Speaker 1: in him in that way at this point, which is
- 18:50Speaker 1: probably a smart way to play it because if you're
- 18:52Speaker 1: all gaga, where do you go from there? So she's
- 18:57Speaker 1: thinking about Max, you know, she talk to Ry about Max.
- 19:01Speaker 1: You know, she's she's very open about it. Well, it
- 19:14Speaker 1: seems that laurla I is in a love triangle. All right,
- 19:18Speaker 1: here's the question. Does Laura I forgetting about Max means
- 19:24Speaker 1: she is over him or is just distracted by Luke
- 19:28Speaker 1: and Christopher? Does that make any sense to you?
- 19:31Speaker 2: So do we think she's fully over Max?
- 19:33Speaker 1: She's obviously not, yeah, right, but her attempt at forgetting
- 19:38Speaker 1: about him, right, Obviously she's not over him.
- 19:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think there's confusing and conflicting feelings because
- 19:48Speaker 2: you have Christopher saying I'm ready you know what was
- 19:51Speaker 2: that the episode before ready to be in your life
- 19:53Speaker 2: and then saying I want to marry you. But she
- 19:56Speaker 2: also is getting attention from Luke, so maybe she is
- 19:59Speaker 2: kind of using that as a distraction or she's just distracted.
- 20:03Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Here's a question for you. Do you think Emily enjoys
- 20:08Speaker 1: making laurel I uncomfortable?
- 20:10Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, and I love it. I love Emily so much,
- 20:15Speaker 2: and she just she's so good, not only as an actress,
- 20:19Speaker 2: but like she's such a good like gets under Lorelei's
- 20:23Speaker 2: skin in the best way.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Oh she's cold blood, isn't she. Yes, she's toys with
- 20:27Speaker 1: her daughter.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. It's amazing.
- 20:30Speaker 1: It's so cruel. Yet it's very fun to watch, isn't it.
- 20:33Speaker 2: Yes. I was watching this episode and I was like,
- 20:36Speaker 2: I just am sad about their relationship where she walks
- 20:40Speaker 2: in and she's not really sure how to approach her dad,
- 20:42Speaker 2: you know. But I did love that moment of bonding
- 20:45Speaker 2: that they had at the end over the weirdo guy.
- 20:49Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, when she was climbing out the window. Yeah,
- 20:53Speaker 1: he let her go, but then there was that look
- 20:56Speaker 1: he had of sadness, like, that's my daughter. Yeah, now
- 21:01Speaker 1: she's in this predicament again, and she's running away again.
- 21:04Speaker 1: He got triggered, poor guy.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Anytime, like, I love their banter in the way that
- 21:09Speaker 2: they interact, But anytime there's a moment of bonding between
- 21:12Speaker 2: the parents and lor Lai, I love it.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's always that feeling of loss. There's always
- 21:22Speaker 1: that what could have been? That look in either Emily's
- 21:26Speaker 1: or Richard's eyes, you know, that expression, it's like, what
- 21:28Speaker 1: could have been? What could have been? Yeah, there's always
- 21:31Speaker 1: a sense of loss and tragedy in that in unforgiveness,
- 21:36Speaker 1: they just like can't get over what she did. Yeah. Yeah,
- 21:40Speaker 1: they're having a hard time still accepting how their lives
- 21:44Speaker 1: turned out as parents of an only child because they
- 21:48Speaker 1: had so much hope. But what a great jumping off
- 21:50Speaker 1: point for storytelling, isn't it? Oh yeah, just so powerful
- 21:54Speaker 1: peeling back the layers all right. One of the most
- 21:58Speaker 1: stomach churning scenes I think I've ever seen in my
- 22:01Speaker 1: life is watching Tristan make out with that girlfriend on
- 22:07Speaker 1: Paris's I had to turn it off. I mean I
- 22:12Speaker 1: didn't turn it off. I had to turn away. I
- 22:13Speaker 1: could watch it. Yeah, I I turned into such a
- 22:17Speaker 1: prude at that moment. But it was just like I
- 22:20Speaker 1: think it was who rather than the what, so there
- 22:24Speaker 1: we are And Paris didn't say much or have to
- 22:30Speaker 1: say much in order to steal the scene. It was
- 22:33Speaker 1: just the look she gave. It was like, somebody is
- 22:36Speaker 1: going to die. That's steal. He gazed.
- 22:42Speaker 2: Another phenomenal actress. Oh my gosh, she is so funny.
- 22:46Speaker 1: You know, isn't it amazing about this show? And I
- 22:49Speaker 1: said this last week too, It's like when you try
- 22:53Speaker 1: to decide who's the best actor or in the whole thing,
- 22:58Speaker 1: it's like, is anybody better better in their role than
- 23:02Speaker 1: anybody else? Right, It's like it's like it's like Liza's
- 23:06Speaker 1: as good in her role as Emily is in her
- 23:09Speaker 1: role as Sean Gunn is in his role as Miss Patty,
- 23:13Speaker 1: and Sally Struthers are in their roles as Ed Herman
- 23:18Speaker 1: is in his roles as Jannique Trusdale and his roles
- 23:21Speaker 1: and Keiko and just on down the list, right, I mean,
- 23:25Speaker 1: it's like a murderer's row of greatness there.
- 23:28Speaker 2: And I think that's another reason it's so great to
- 23:31Speaker 2: watch and you never get sick of it, is because
- 23:33Speaker 2: it's very rare that you find something that's perfectly cast,
- 23:36Speaker 2: and this was to a tee. Everything is perfectly cast.
- 23:39Speaker 1: It really truly is. You know, Amy really knows or
- 23:45Speaker 1: new what she still does, and her current shows what
- 23:49Speaker 1: she wants. I love it, and she doesn't compromise. It's like,
- 23:53Speaker 1: that's what I want. That's it, no need to see
- 23:57Speaker 1: anybody else. Let's go and she moves on. It's it's uncanny.
- 24:01Speaker 1: It's just uncanny, all right. How do we feel about
- 24:05Speaker 1: this moment? You know, I thought one of the most
- 24:08Speaker 1: interesting moments in the whole thing, and I think it
- 24:12Speaker 1: happened in the beginning, was when Laurel I was was
- 24:14Speaker 1: almost injured by a falling star, you know, that very
- 24:18Speaker 1: heavy plaster of Paris or a heavy cardboard star that
- 24:22Speaker 1: found I mean it really crashed down. That would have
- 24:24Speaker 1: hurt her. I mean it could have killed her if
- 24:27Speaker 1: it hit her in the head, right, It would have
- 24:28Speaker 1: hit her in her head, and it was that's a
- 24:30Speaker 1: heavy thing. Why do you think they did that? Why
- 24:33Speaker 1: do you think the writers did that? Because that was
- 24:36Speaker 1: a scary moment, right, And do we in this show
- 24:39Speaker 1: do we want to feel like that? I mean that
- 24:42Speaker 1: this isn't a show that deals with death. I mean
- 24:45Speaker 1: every once in a while, you know, we got a
- 24:47Speaker 1: little Richard in the hospital thing. So they deal with
- 24:49Speaker 1: it in a human way, but in an accidental way
- 24:52Speaker 1: like that, right, And.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Was it like because it's an episode about love and
- 24:57Speaker 2: Laura Lai is just surrounded by people in love. Everywhere
- 25:00Speaker 2: she turns, everyone's in love. And then her mom puts
- 25:03Speaker 2: her on this blind date without her knowing, and she's
- 25:06Speaker 2: having these potential feelings about Luke. She's having these questioning
- 25:10Speaker 2: about Max. So is it just like kind of struck
- 25:13Speaker 2: her like I don't want to die alone? Or is
- 25:15Speaker 2: that too deep?
- 25:15Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't maybe, But what kind of
- 25:20Speaker 1: a mood was she was? She was in a Luke mood, right,
- 25:23Speaker 1: She wanted it, she was she was in her mood
- 25:25Speaker 1: to go to the diner and just rant.
- 25:27Speaker 2: A little bit because she just saw Suky, right, and
- 25:30Speaker 2: then she just it's.
- 25:32Speaker 1: Like it's like love, love, love, let me get out
- 25:34Speaker 1: of this. And then boom almost hit by that star,
- 25:38Speaker 1: that falling star. Well, that was an interesting moment for me. Yeah,
- 25:44Speaker 1: you don't. You don't normally see that on this show.
- 25:47Speaker 1: But all right, let's talk about Rachel a little bit.
- 25:51Speaker 1: What do you think of this? You like them together?
- 25:54Speaker 1: You think this is a do you hate this? As
- 25:56Speaker 1: a fan? Is this like?
- 25:58Speaker 2: Is this is this.
- 25:59Speaker 1: April level April Nardini level cringe for the fans?
- 26:05Speaker 2: Rachel April for me was just like, come on, we're
- 26:07Speaker 2: so close. We're still in the beginning stages. And what
- 26:10Speaker 2: I do appreciate about the writers and this show is
- 26:13Speaker 2: they didn't give us what we wanted, Like we really
- 26:15Speaker 2: have to work for it. We really have to wait
- 26:19Speaker 2: a while for what we want. But I think with
- 26:22Speaker 2: every relationship, we're just proven. We're shown, like Laura Lai
- 26:26Speaker 2: and Luke are meant to be together. So you have
- 26:28Speaker 2: Rachel and Luke talking, they have some banter, it's fine,
- 26:32Speaker 2: and then the second Rachel walks away, Laura LII sits
- 26:34Speaker 2: down and it's just so comfortable and it exudes happiness,
- 26:39Speaker 2: like they bring out the best in each other. So
- 26:40Speaker 2: it's you're working for it, you're working towards it, and
- 26:43Speaker 2: you're aware the show.
- 26:45Speaker 1: These episodes I like a baseball game on a Saturday afternoon,
- 26:51Speaker 1: it's ninety degrees and in the old days before all
- 26:56Speaker 1: these rules and timers and clocks that were applied to
- 26:59Speaker 1: the sport, where it just unfolds and it's going to
- 27:03Speaker 1: unfold the way it unfolds and nobody's in a rush.
- 27:07Speaker 1: I like that even it really just feels like and
- 27:12Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons fans love it
- 27:14Speaker 1: so much, is because they know they can relax inside
- 27:17Speaker 1: this world, that there ain't no rush get into anything,
- 27:20Speaker 1: even though you know, Laura I seems to be rushing
- 27:23Speaker 1: around all over the place. The pace, the overall pace
- 27:27Speaker 1: of this show contradicts her personality, which is it creates
- 27:31Speaker 1: a wonderful tension, and it's really a relaxing, very pleasant
- 27:38Speaker 1: sit you know, like if you just want to go
- 27:40Speaker 1: watch a baseball game, because man, sometimes that stuff takes forever.
- 27:44Speaker 1: And it's okay because it's a Saturday afternoon and you're
- 27:48Speaker 1: watching a baseball game, right and you don't know what's
- 27:50Speaker 1: going to happen, and anything can happen, all right. Have
- 27:54Speaker 1: you ever seen Luke so flustered?
- 27:58Speaker 2: No? And I loved it. It's the best totally caught
- 28:02Speaker 2: off guard.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Well, they must have. He must have really gone through
- 28:07Speaker 1: something there.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Huh yeah, and we got we got little teasers of
- 28:12Speaker 2: it with Laura II wearing that sweater earlier in the season.
- 28:15Speaker 1: But right, exactly right, right right. Do you think there's
- 28:20Speaker 1: any type of tension between Rachel and Laura I did
- 28:24Speaker 1: you sense anything?
- 28:26Speaker 2: No? Not really, And even Rachel asks Luke up front
- 28:30Speaker 2: and she's she's like, well, let me know, like is
- 28:32Speaker 2: this is there something happening here or is there something
- 28:35Speaker 2: happening there? And Luke's honest with her, He's like, I
- 28:38Speaker 2: think maybe sometimes, but I don't know. And another thing
- 28:42Speaker 2: I love about this show is we're not really pitting
- 28:44Speaker 2: women against women, which we often see, especially in this time.
- 28:48Speaker 2: You know, it's like, do I really really appreciated that?
- 28:52Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, that's a good point. Excellent point. All right, So,
- 29:05Speaker 1: you know, I know we're jumping around a little bit,
- 29:07Speaker 1: but there's some important tidbits. You know. We see we
- 29:14Speaker 1: see Laurel I missus Max. We see Lane coming over
- 29:17Speaker 1: to see Rory before her date with Dean, before that
- 29:19Speaker 1: whole thing blows up. And I really thought that that
- 29:22Speaker 1: was a great use of Lane's character as a supportive friend,
- 29:28Speaker 1: as funny, as bubbly as you know, harangued by her
- 29:33Speaker 1: mother to go on another blind date with somebody who's
- 29:36Speaker 1: a chiropractor and not a doctor because she really doesn't
- 29:39Speaker 1: maybe she lowered her expectations for her own daughter. At
- 29:43Speaker 1: this point, she's a lost cause. So it'll just like
- 29:47Speaker 1: it was funny. It didn't lean on on the you know,
- 29:54Speaker 1: having sympathy for poor Lane. They didn't play into that.
- 29:57Speaker 1: It was just more of the comedic aspects of it,
- 29:59Speaker 1: which is really the soul of comedy, right because it
- 30:02Speaker 1: has to be so real and it is with her
- 30:08Speaker 1: and the relentless matchmaking style and missus Kim is wont
- 30:14Speaker 1: to do all right, now we're let's let's let's and
- 30:18Speaker 1: we're in the spirit of jumping around. We meet Chase
- 30:21Speaker 1: Bradford at at the dinner, Lorelai comes in. Uh, Richard
- 30:27Speaker 1: isn't terribly interested in talking to her. He's reading the paper.
- 30:31Speaker 1: She gets a drink. She's extremely funny through this entire
- 30:36Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anybody plays discomfort better. I
- 30:40Speaker 1: mean that whole spiel about the the glass little miniature
- 30:46Speaker 1: class figurine bunnies, yes, and that of course she dropped
- 30:50Speaker 1: them in the perfect way. And I mean it just hysterical.
- 30:54Speaker 1: She's hysterical.
- 30:55Speaker 2: She's so funny, and I almost think like her and
- 30:58Speaker 2: Roy are so good together. But it's funny to see
- 31:00Speaker 2: her away from Rory in that setting because it's even
- 31:04Speaker 2: funnier somehow.
- 31:05Speaker 1: It kind of is, oh my gosh. And one of
- 31:09Speaker 1: my favorite episodes so far is the episode where she
- 31:13Speaker 1: smells snow yeah, and because she's alone, she's pretty much
- 31:17Speaker 1: by herself through going through that episode with no conflict
- 31:20Speaker 1: and she and it's not that it's funny per se, right,
- 31:24Speaker 1: but it's it's just it's just like going through this
- 31:27Speaker 1: episode with Laurel I and it's just such a treat anyway. Uh,
- 31:34Speaker 1: Then we get the big surprise that Emily has, unbeknownst
- 31:39Speaker 1: to anyone, set laurelay up on a blind date and
- 31:43Speaker 1: here comes Chase Bradford. He shows up and he adores children.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Away, little kids.
- 31:53Speaker 1: They're right away.
- 31:57Speaker 3: And Laura just gives a look to Emily like come on,
- 32:01Speaker 3: And you know, Chase is the kind of guy who
- 32:03Speaker 3: just sort of drones on and on about his job
- 32:06Speaker 3: and he's he's.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Just extremely boring and condescending and snooty and richistic very much.
- 32:13Speaker 1: So yeah right, I mean you can just tell yeah, man,
- 32:19Speaker 1: imagine life with that Laurelize Like wow, it's like and
- 32:24Speaker 1: this really shows, I mean, if there isn't, if there
- 32:28Speaker 1: isn't this chasm between you know, Laurlized perspective on life
- 32:34Speaker 1: and how she wants to live her life in Emily's
- 32:36Speaker 1: now we really see it between Chase and laurel I
- 32:40Speaker 1: can because I mean you can kind of imagine them
- 32:42Speaker 1: as mother and daughter and they you know, there's some
- 32:45Speaker 1: similarities there, but there are no similarities between laurel I
- 32:48Speaker 1: and Chase. I mean there's just not even a chance
- 32:50Speaker 1: these two.
- 32:50Speaker 2: Are getting together, right, no chance.
- 32:54Speaker 1: And she just handles these dinner table scene was hysterical
- 32:59Speaker 1: and she gets up and she says, Mom, can I
- 33:02Speaker 1: talk to you in the conversation in the kitchen and
- 33:08Speaker 1: it's like, what are you crazy? What are you thinking about?
- 33:10Speaker 2: My favorite is Richard Like, are you crazy? I'm not
- 33:13Speaker 2: having more than one drink? And then he's like give
- 33:15Speaker 2: me a drink, right, I'm going to need to.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Just hilarious, great stuff. It really is just sort of
- 33:23Speaker 1: like a really good film. The writing, the acting, This
- 33:27Speaker 1: is really like top of the line Hollywood film acting.
- 33:33Speaker 1: You know, it's just so good. Obviously, Emily has eight
- 33:37Speaker 1: out outdated ideas of what should look like for laural
- 33:42Speaker 1: I and her good old dad helps her escape the house,
- 33:47Speaker 1: and that's a good dad. So the question is from
- 33:51Speaker 1: the producers, would I do that for my daughter? Well,
- 33:56Speaker 1: I don't have a daughter. I have a son, and
- 34:01Speaker 1: life gets you know, life can get complicated as your
- 34:06Speaker 1: children get older. But I would like to say no,
- 34:12Speaker 1: I would never be that out of tune with my
- 34:14Speaker 1: own child that I would even be in a situation
- 34:18Speaker 1: like that. But you know, you never know, right, Yeah,
- 34:22Speaker 1: you never know. But yeah, I would definitely do what
- 34:26Speaker 1: Richard did I for my son, or if I had
- 34:29Speaker 1: a daughter, Yeah, I'd help her escape a situation like that,
- 34:33Speaker 1: Like what else can you do? Force her downstairs?
- 34:36Speaker 3: Right?
- 34:36Speaker 2: I'm trying to imagine anyway that that could happen with
- 34:39Speaker 2: your son. Maybe he goes on a meet someone on
- 34:41Speaker 2: a dating app and then needs an escape, so he's like, Dad,
- 34:45Speaker 2: help me.
- 34:46Speaker 1: But I really think that's the point of the entire scene.
- 34:48Speaker 1: I mean, we get all this wonderful stuff, all of
- 34:52Speaker 1: this disconnection and comedy and tension between everybody and that
- 34:56Speaker 1: scene Chase and the parents and Laura. I I think
- 35:00Speaker 1: the whole point of the scene was to set up
- 35:02Speaker 1: that moment between mother and daughter, father and daughter where
- 35:07Speaker 1: he allows her to escape, doesn't write her out, and
- 35:10Speaker 1: then has that moment of regret.
- 35:12Speaker 4: What could which is it?
- 35:14Speaker 1: Maybe I could have been a better dad, Yeah, you know, right,
- 35:17Speaker 1: maybe back then I should have been more like I
- 35:20Speaker 1: am now and defend my.
- 35:22Speaker 2: Daughter more understanding, Yeah, you know. And the way that
- 35:27Speaker 2: it arcd from him not even paying attention to her
- 35:30Speaker 2: being in the newspaper to then, you know, showing a
- 35:34Speaker 2: little bit of love to her was special.
- 35:36Speaker 1: That was a beautiful That was a really really rich
- 35:38Speaker 1: moment in the entire storytelling so far. It was just beautiful. Yeah,
- 35:44Speaker 1: God writing.
- 35:46Speaker 2: I think we needed that, like, we needed that empathy
- 35:50Speaker 2: from one of the parents, you know, because Rory gets
- 35:53Speaker 2: all the love from the grandparents, and we just needed
- 35:55Speaker 2: Loralai to have a little bit of love.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Right. But it's such a just a brief moment, and
- 36:02Speaker 1: it was so fraught with meaning. It was so filled
- 36:05Speaker 1: with a lifetime of disappointment and what could have been
- 36:09Speaker 1: and and regret. He was even questioning his own choices
- 36:15Speaker 1: back then and how he could why wasn't he a
- 36:17Speaker 1: better father? It was just such a moment. Yeah, I
- 36:21Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know a lot of actors that
- 36:23Speaker 1: could pull that off. That's why he was so special.
- 36:26Speaker 1: They gave him. He made that moment full man.
- 36:31Speaker 2: And with this show, there's just so many small moments.
- 36:34Speaker 2: If you like, turn your head away, you'll miss it.
- 36:37Speaker 2: And I love that.
- 36:38Speaker 1: This is why, this is why people keep rewatching it,
- 36:41Speaker 1: because every single frame is filled with all of these details.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
- 36:47Speaker 1: It's just just an amazing show. Okay, so Dean again,
- 36:52Speaker 1: we're jumping around. I really enjoyed the dinner scene. Yes,
- 36:57Speaker 1: it was a great setup, you know, everything so hard. Oh,
- 37:01Speaker 1: he was just man spending a lot of dough on that.
- 37:06Speaker 2: Yes, I know where did he get that money?
- 37:08Speaker 1: He's a working man, right, It's true.
- 37:10Speaker 2: He must have been saving up.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Doesn't he He works, right, he works at those yeah,
- 37:16Speaker 1: you know, and he's being you know, very charmingly awkward,
- 37:19Speaker 1: and you know it's just really really something. Then he
- 37:25Speaker 1: takes her to the salvage yard and the whole thing
- 37:28Speaker 1: blows up with the with the ill advised I love you. Yes,
- 37:36Speaker 1: one in doubt, shut up right right, that's my dad's
- 37:40Speaker 1: its son. One in doubt. Don't say anything.
- 37:44Speaker 2: That's great advice.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Okay, so let's hop over to the bonfire. H looks
- 37:51Speaker 1: like Suki and Jackson are are enjoying each other. That's
- 37:54Speaker 1: that's very sweet stuff.
- 37:57Speaker 2: I really loved this scene where no one's speaking. It's
- 37:59Speaker 2: just the Troubadour playing, which I wish he lasted longer, honestly,
- 38:04Speaker 2: but they set it up so perfectly where nobody's speaking.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Laura Lai walks by, she looks at Suki and Jackson,
- 38:12Speaker 2: and then I feel after that there's like a quick
- 38:17Speaker 2: combo with Suki and Jackson. Then we moved to Rachel
- 38:20Speaker 2: taking photos of them, and then you see Lane somberly
- 38:24Speaker 2: walking by with her date and the parents following. It
- 38:27Speaker 2: was it flowed perfectly, like you got everything you needed.
- 38:30Speaker 1: It's just so good. Rachel's taking pictures of the bonfire.
- 38:37Speaker 1: She sits next to Luke. They have their little conversation,
- 38:43Speaker 1: pretty heavy conversation right away, so we see that this
- 38:47Speaker 1: is a deep and meaningful relationship for both of them.
- 38:52Speaker 1: It went awry for some unknown reason. While she just
- 38:55Speaker 1: laughed he's heartbroken, but he seems pretty open about giving
- 39:02Speaker 1: it another shot. So that's the feeling I'm getting, and
- 39:05Speaker 1: I think she is too. That's why she came back,
- 39:07Speaker 1: just to sort of take the temperature of the room.
- 39:10Speaker 1: So anyway, she goes off to get some Founder's Day punch, right,
- 39:17Speaker 1: Isn't that what she was getting? Founder's Day punch? The
- 39:20Speaker 1: ever popular Founder's Day punch?
- 39:22Speaker 2: Is that Miss Patty's punch that made everyone drunk when
- 39:25Speaker 2: Rory was in college.
- 39:26Speaker 1: I believe it was, Yeah, I believe it was. I
- 39:29Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I believe it was, yes. And
- 39:32Speaker 1: you know, she was asking Luke what's the deal with
- 39:34Speaker 1: Laurelai this kind of thing. So now we see Luke
- 39:39Speaker 1: getting a little attention and we haven't seen him like
- 39:43Speaker 1: this really before, and he doesn't really know if he
- 39:49Speaker 1: wants her to stay, but I think he kind of does, yeah,
- 39:53Speaker 1: which further ratches up the tension between Luke and Laureli
- 39:57Speaker 1: because I think the audience is going, hey, you know,
- 40:01Speaker 1: I want to get back on that train. Let's let's
- 40:04Speaker 1: see where that goes. But we're gonna we're gonna take
- 40:06Speaker 1: a little detour here.
- 40:08Speaker 2: But I wonder how Luke would have been if Laura
- 40:10Speaker 2: Lai showed him that attention he needed, or like leaned
- 40:13Speaker 2: in a little bit more, if he would have still
- 40:16Speaker 2: picked Rachel, or if he would have been like, oh,
- 40:18Speaker 2: I want to explore this instead.
- 40:19Speaker 1: That's an interesting point. I don't know what would have.
- 40:23Speaker 2: Done, because I mean to the audience where like he
- 40:26Speaker 2: loves her, he loves Laura Lai, but Rachel was the
- 40:30Speaker 2: great love of his life. So it's kind of tricky.
- 40:32Speaker 1: M all right. So Laura I calls Max Medina we're
- 40:37Speaker 1: at home now, But before she leaves a message, Rory
- 40:42Speaker 1: walks in and says, with that look on her face, right,
- 40:45Speaker 1: you can read you can read the expression pretty pretty accurately.
- 40:51Speaker 1: It says they they broke up, Dean and Dean and
- 40:53Speaker 1: Rory broke up, and Mom just hugs her and uh,
- 40:59Speaker 1: let me let me let me ask you this. Why
- 41:02Speaker 1: do you think Laurel is calling Max? Do you see
- 41:05Speaker 1: it as a step forward for her or a step back?
- 41:07Speaker 2: I see it as a response to Luke, Like she
- 41:11Speaker 2: knows that Luke is pursuing Rachel, and she doesn't want
- 41:14Speaker 2: to keep feeling alone, so she's calling Max. But also
- 41:19Speaker 2: in that same sense she's been thinking about them all episode,
- 41:21Speaker 2: so it could be viewed as a step forward.
- 41:25Speaker 1: Well, all in all, wonderful episode, so good, really really wonderful.
- 41:29Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about before we go. We
- 41:32Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes here about what you're doing now,
- 41:35Speaker 1: your lifestyle and travel brands. You're building up this sort
- 41:41Speaker 1: of lifestyle situation for yourself. Tell us about it.
- 41:45Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, my husband, my husband's name is Dean, which
- 41:48Speaker 2: I love. Ties in with the show. We moved to Colorado.
- 41:52Speaker 2: We're outside of Aspen and just it's the best being
- 41:56Speaker 2: a achel that's my magic place. Oh my gosh, it
- 41:59Speaker 2: is so magical. We wake up to like thirty elk
- 42:02Speaker 2: in our yard, yes, deer and oh it's it's the best.
- 42:06Speaker 2: So still traveling a bit, but we're also trying to
- 42:08Speaker 2: have kids, so we're cutting back a little bit and
- 42:10Speaker 2: trying to focus on that. But life is fun in Colorado.
- 42:14Speaker 2: I love it.
- 42:14Speaker 1: You big skier.
- 42:15Speaker 2: This is my fourth season. My husband has been skiing
- 42:18Speaker 2: since he was two, so he's trying to teach me,
- 42:20Speaker 2: but it's it's hard.
- 42:21Speaker 1: As he does he where does he take it? Does
- 42:23Speaker 1: he take you to Ajax or buttermilk? I hope buttermilk.
- 42:26Speaker 2: I love buttermilk. Buttermilk or snow Mass. He says, I'm
- 42:29Speaker 2: not good enough for Ajax or Aspen Mountain yet, so
- 42:32Speaker 2: we'll see.
- 42:33Speaker 1: Yeah, Ajax is steep and it's too.
- 42:37Speaker 2: Much of a party scene too. I just I like buttermilk,
- 42:41Speaker 2: but well.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Yeah, buttermilk is yeah.
- 42:43Speaker 2: Uh, it's just I actually ran into j Lo there
- 42:46Speaker 2: two weeks ago and I was like, you're at our
- 42:48Speaker 2: local mountain.
- 42:48Speaker 1: That's surprising, right, Well, everybody puts their kids in ski
- 42:52Speaker 1: school there.
- 42:53Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what she was. She was putting her son
- 42:54Speaker 2: in everybody.
- 42:55Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, such a great place. Four Mountain take your pick. Yeah,
- 43:01Speaker 1: you know, high Lands and Snowmouths. It's just such a
- 43:05Speaker 1: great place.
- 43:05Speaker 2: And we're just twenty minutes so we can like pop
- 43:08Speaker 2: in for lunch and come out. It's great.
- 43:10Speaker 1: Yeah, perfect, it's perfect. Yeah. We've been going out there
- 43:13Speaker 1: for twenty five years. Yeah. Oh wow. We go every winter.
- 43:17Speaker 1: We spend as much time out there as we possibly
- 43:18Speaker 1: can go in summer too. They say, you know, the
- 43:22Speaker 1: winners will get you there, but the summers will keep
- 43:25Speaker 1: you there. Right.
- 43:26Speaker 2: Yes, we got married in the fall and we had
- 43:28Speaker 2: been out in the summer, and so after our wedding,
- 43:30Speaker 2: I was like, we're moving. I can't, I can't live
- 43:32Speaker 2: anywhere else.
- 43:33Speaker 1: Oh? Really, were you in La?
- 43:35Speaker 2: We were in La for a bit and then we
- 43:37Speaker 2: moved to Vegas to save money in taxes, right, and
- 43:41Speaker 2: then we moved here. Good, it's good for you, best
- 43:45Speaker 2: place in the world.
- 43:46Speaker 1: Good for you. And you don't have any issues like
- 43:50Speaker 1: with mud season or or anything like that.
- 43:53Speaker 2: No, we're kind of high up the mountain, but not
- 43:55Speaker 2: in a scary way, right, so we feel pretty protected
- 43:59Speaker 2: the only air of fires.
- 44:01Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Well but anyway,
- 44:07Speaker 1: so tell us tell us a little bit more about
- 44:09Speaker 1: your your lifestyle, Bran, How are you building that up
- 44:12Speaker 1: through social media? You're traveling a lot, You're doing the videos,
- 44:16Speaker 1: You're doing sponsorships, all that kind of thing.
- 44:19Speaker 2: A lot of social media. A lot of time is
- 44:21Speaker 2: spent behind my laptop even when we are traveling, just editing.
- 44:26Speaker 2: And we used to have a podcast with iHeart that
- 44:29Speaker 2: is no longer but hopefully starting a new one soon
- 44:32Speaker 2: with just my husband and I.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Okay, but yeah, just.
- 44:36Speaker 2: Just fun random things here and there. But right now
- 44:38Speaker 2: our main focus is on children, so figuring out it's
- 44:42Speaker 2: it's taken a long time. We've been trying for six months,
- 44:44Speaker 2: so just uh.
- 44:45Speaker 1: Hanging to your kids, hang in there, It'll happen. Yeah.
- 44:50Speaker 1: It's weird when you have that intent, you know, sometimes
- 44:53Speaker 1: take a while. And it's also interesting that you know
- 44:58Speaker 1: when you're not thinking about all of.
- 44:59Speaker 2: A sudden bo that's what Web says. So I'm like,
- 45:02Speaker 2: let's take the pressure.
- 45:03Speaker 1: Off, right right, right, it'll happen. Yeah, Well, where can
- 45:10Speaker 1: people find you? What's your Instagram handle? So people go
- 45:13Speaker 1: go check out your your Instagram page.
- 45:17Speaker 2: Yeah, people can find me on at Kailan Bell just
- 45:20Speaker 2: my first name and last name. I love to read.
- 45:23Speaker 2: I pretty much post a lot about books and shows
- 45:27Speaker 2: that I love, like Gilmore Girls. So yeah, Kaalan Bell
- 45:30Speaker 2: on all platforms.
- 45:31Speaker 1: Live in the Dream out in Colorado out one of
- 45:34Speaker 1: the most beautiful spots on the planet. Yeah, I mean
- 45:38Speaker 1: that is that is such a beautiful place out there.
- 45:42Speaker 1: The people that originally discovered that it was an old
- 45:45Speaker 1: silver mining town, you know, they really knew what they
- 45:48Speaker 1: were doing when they when they said let's turn this
- 45:51Speaker 1: into a ski resort. I mean, you get to the top.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Have you been to the top of HX and seeing
- 45:59Speaker 1: maroon bells in a sunny day. Oh yes, take your
- 46:02Speaker 1: breath away.
- 46:03Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 46:04Speaker 1: It is. It is an amazing place. It never gets old,
- 46:07Speaker 1: it doesn't, it doesn't.
- 46:09Speaker 3: Man.
- 46:09Speaker 1: I want to I want to get there. I'm gonna
- 46:11Speaker 1: come there tomorrow.
- 46:12Speaker 2: Oh when do you come? Let us know. I feel
- 46:15Speaker 2: like you and my husband would hit it off.
- 46:17Speaker 1: Oh man, he can ski his ass off. Huh yes, good,
- 46:20Speaker 1: then he can hang with us. Yeah, because I ski
- 46:23Speaker 1: with locals and I'm like, okay, here we go.
- 46:26Speaker 2: Oh he'll take you back country?
- 46:28Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I know these are serious dudes. Man.
- 46:31Speaker 1: It's like these are serious backcountry people.
- 46:34Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome.
- 46:35Speaker 1: I My entire workout is geared toward keeping up with
- 46:39Speaker 1: these guys when I get out there.
- 46:41Speaker 2: Just a lot of ski conditioning. That's awesome.
- 46:43Speaker 1: It's like the pressure's on because man, they'll leave you behind.
- 46:47Speaker 1: It's like, you know, you better keep up. Oh yeah,
- 46:50Speaker 1: and they go man, And it's scary. Yes, it's really scary.
- 46:54Speaker 1: But anyway, lovely chatting with you, Good luck with everything.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Thank you, and uh yeah, let's hope you get another
- 47:02Speaker 1: I hope you get a podcast. You know that'd be
- 47:04Speaker 1: fair you know.
- 47:05Speaker 2: Yeah, fun job you have.
- 47:07Speaker 1: It's not bad. It's not bad, Kaylin Bell. Thank you
- 47:13Speaker 1: so much for your time and for breaking it down
- 47:15Speaker 1: with us. Okay, take care of everybody out there. Thanks
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