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IAAI Town Meeting: How Does a Mattress in a Truck Become Iconic in Gilmore Girls? (Season 4 E2 “The Lorelai’s First Day at Yale”) · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I Am All in again. Oh that's you.
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  Speaker 2: I Am All in Town meeting with Suzanne French and
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  Speaker 2: Tara suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back another
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  Speaker 2: episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself, Tara
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  Speaker 2: and Suzanne.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Today we're talking about season four, episode two, The
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  Speaker 2: laurel Ized First Day at Yale, which aired September thirtieth,
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and three.
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  Speaker 4: We are officially at Yale.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, finally we've made it.
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  Speaker 1: I love this episode.
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  Speaker 3: It reminds me of like my own moving into college day.
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  Speaker 2: See, I lived at home for college, so I never
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  Speaker 2: had that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was I thought it was pretty accurate. How
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  Speaker 3: you like you're but you're scared at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: and so like you're.
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  Speaker 4: I can only imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I What was really funny is I because we finished
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  Speaker 2: season three and then I went to go start it
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  Speaker 2: and I clicked episode two and it was like it
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  Speaker 2: started at Friday night dinner, and I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: is how it starts. And then I realized I was
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  Speaker 2: watching season three, episode two after I was like five
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  Speaker 2: minutes in, because suddenly Jess was kissing what's her name, Jane. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was like Jess came back. I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: has to be wrong. I my bone to pick with
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  Speaker 2: this episode. I never realized it before until our conversation
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  Speaker 2: last week.
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  Speaker 4: Was the entire divorce conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was so intense for being married for forty
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  Speaker 2: eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. And it kind of again talked about last time,
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  Speaker 3: like why is this a divorce and not in an
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  Speaker 3: Almo Like it seems like it would have been so
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  Speaker 3: easy to just unwind the whole thing. It doesn't need
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  Speaker 3: to be all this paperwork and three different and the.
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  Speaker 2: Lawyer was like, I need to talk to your lawyer,
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  Speaker 2: And then he brings two guys into the diner and
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  Speaker 2: they're like basically just like camping out at Luke's and
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  Speaker 2: it just feels a lot.
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  Speaker 4: But then, yeah, I wonder if it.
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  Speaker 2: Was to make us dislike her even more because she's
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  Speaker 2: doing all this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I don't know. Luke seemed to not understand
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  Speaker 3: why it needed to be that big of a deal.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I didn't understand why.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Not to blame Luke.
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  Speaker 3: My bone to pick with this episode. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I loved this episode, but I never realized until this
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  Speaker 3: time how whiny Rory is in this episode.
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  Speaker 1: It really bothered me how much.
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  Speaker 3: She was whining and the whole thing, you know, with.
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  Speaker 4: It took you three full seasons to realize.
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  Speaker 3: Well, just i't I didn't remember.
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  Speaker 2: It's because you think of her as an adult now
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  Speaker 2: that she's in college.
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  Speaker 4: That's probably why, right, And.
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  Speaker 3: I guess just it just the whole vocal whining, like
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  Speaker 3: the actual physical whining bothered me.
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  Speaker 4: Like the way she speaks, yeah, like she can't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. She It just was weird how she
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  Speaker 3: couldn't even go you know, like an hour without being
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  Speaker 3: with her mom. And she even admitted that she's like
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe I need my mommy with me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The whinning just really got on my nerves in this episode.
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  Speaker 3: But I get it, like I understood. I remember, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I only went to college like thirty miles forty miles away,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not like a big deal, but I remember,
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  Speaker 3: like it was. It was kind of scary that first
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  Speaker 3: night when my mom you know.
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  Speaker 4: We had we had was still not close, yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And I didn't have a car, so it wasn't like
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  Speaker 3: I could go home if I wanted to, but so
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  Speaker 3: I get that, but it just it was a little
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  Speaker 3: over the top having Laurel I spend the night on
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  Speaker 3: her floor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I also just laughed at the outfit with the with
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  Speaker 2: the sweat I wrapped around like it was such a
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  Speaker 2: like moving day outfit. Yes, it was such a like
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  Speaker 2: I have crap to do around the house outfit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I did the whole mattress thing, like is so iconic,
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  Speaker 3: like just that whole.
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  Speaker 4: Ex with the with the truck and all that right.
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  Speaker 3: Over and over with the mattress and that was one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite little details that they had at Holidays
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  Speaker 3: made here is what they got Luke's truck, and it
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  Speaker 3: had a mattress.
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  Speaker 4: A mattress.
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  Speaker 2: It was so specific, but it's such a like such
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  Speaker 2: an important moment, I think because of the Lorali Luke
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  Speaker 2: of it all, and like, yes, you know it's the
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  Speaker 2: next chapter of Rory's life.
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  Speaker 3: Right right, And you just mentioned the Luke and Loreli thing,
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  Speaker 3: Like now we're in season four and so that like
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  Speaker 3: that train is on the tracks and we know how
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  Speaker 3: the season ends, so now you know they're they're starting
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  Speaker 3: to do that, you know, put that foundation in place.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, even the little thing of Loral like coming
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  Speaker 2: in to like she was like it was like the
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  Speaker 2: list and she's like, I can't read it. He's like
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  Speaker 2: turn it upside down. I was like, well, obviously she's
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  Speaker 2: not that dumb. So she just did it just to
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  Speaker 2: like come back to say I had luke.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, though, and the whole thing about the truck, the
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  Speaker 3: truck being I don't know the truck in reality, you
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  Speaker 3: can tell by looking at the truck wasn't the stick.
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  Speaker 3: They were just making that up.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the truck didn't look that old like
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  Speaker 2: they act like it's like the oldest car on the planet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's probably I don't know, but it's
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  Speaker 3: probably two thousand.
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  Speaker 4: And three that were in so it was probably like
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  Speaker 4: a like a nineties car.
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  Speaker 3: Oh No, the truck I think is more from the seventies.
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  Speaker 3: You think, Yeah, my parents had a truck when I
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  Speaker 3: was little and it looked like that.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I didn't really I don't know cars, but.
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  Speaker 3: I think I don't think it's as old as the sixties.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's probably from the seventies. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to research that. But yeah, one thing I
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  Speaker 3: have to give my husband credit for because he actually
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  Speaker 3: noticed this. So he noticed this on the first run
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  Speaker 3: through when they when Luke goes with Laurel I to
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  Speaker 3: Yale and he's putting money in the parking meter. If
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  Speaker 3: you look behind him, you can see the gates. You
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  Speaker 3: can see the piece of wood that they used to
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  Speaker 3: prop up really like that brick wall. They propped it
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  Speaker 3: up from the back and you can see like it
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  Speaker 3: was like.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's not brick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was face pretty funny. And that's also if
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  Speaker 3: you look closely, that is the same gate that they
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  Speaker 3: used for Harvard when they shot at UCLA. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: were standing outside the gate looking in. It's the same gate.
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  Speaker 3: I think they changed, like the piece on the top, it.
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  Speaker 4: All looks the same apparently.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they must have like thrown it in storage for
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  Speaker 3: the past couple.
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  Speaker 4: Of years, probably found in the back of the prop department.
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  Speaker 3: And can I just say I love Tuna. I think
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  Speaker 3: she's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I think she is exactly what I needed as a
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  Speaker 2: college roommate.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the complete polar opposite of.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and then we have Paris by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We can't not have Paris. Dad made sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to make sure. But it was kind
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  Speaker 2: of like the way she just like bulldozed in and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that's the hat. That's how you tell
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  Speaker 2: everyone that Paris is coming to Yale. There's no like
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  Speaker 2: light introduction. It is like, all right, Paris is here, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, and she's, you know, she's she's saying that she's
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  Speaker 3: like turned over a new leaf and changed her life,
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  Speaker 3: but she really hasn't. She's she's pretty much the same Paris.
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  Speaker 3: And then all the food. I don't know, I guess
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  Speaker 3: it goes back again to the to the part about
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  Speaker 3: Rory being so shy that she can't do anything without
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  Speaker 3: her mom, and her mom has to man, you know,
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  Speaker 3: order all this food and then bring all the dorm
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  Speaker 3: people in.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like between this episode and then what we'll
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  Speaker 2: see in the next episode, like aged backwards, she's like
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  Speaker 2: suddenly like a freshman in high school and can't like
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  Speaker 2: order her own food or do anything on her own.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it did. It definitely does seem like a regression.
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  Speaker 3: And when she first meets Tana, like she they come
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  Speaker 3: back from the tour and she walks in and Tna
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  Speaker 3: walks in behind her and sits down and Rory just
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  Speaker 3: looks at her and then like she doesn't say hello
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  Speaker 3: or introduce herself. She goes and hides in her room
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  Speaker 3: until Laura Lai comes in and tells her what to do.
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  Speaker 3: That was I don't know, that was just weird. She
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  Speaker 3: definitely is not her normal stars hollow, confident.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's that like in the script it was like
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  Speaker 2: we got to get her out of her comfort zone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't think it's reading that way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm sure that and not to like not to
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  Speaker 2: like crap on, you know, Alexis bladell. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 2: the acting direction mm hmmm, because I feel like if
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  Speaker 2: it was read a different way instead of like maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's the whining that you mentioned, Like maybe it's because
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  Speaker 2: the whining, yeah, that we're like, oh, she sounds like
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  Speaker 2: she's fifteen not eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't know, but I still I still
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  Speaker 3: love it. I still it's This is one of the
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  Speaker 3: episodes that when you're just looking for something to have on,
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  Speaker 3: or I'll put it on when I'm ready to go
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  Speaker 3: to bed and I just need some sound to fall
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  Speaker 3: asleep too, Like this this is an episode that I
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  Speaker 3: will pull up and just watch out of the blue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like a oh my god episode, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice like, all right, let's get the ball
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  Speaker 2: rolling into this new season exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And then I also, now that I'm you know, at
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  Speaker 3: a different stage in my life, I can also relate
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  Speaker 3: to the very end of it when Laurel I comes
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  Speaker 3: home and realizes her house is empty.
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  Speaker 4: You just went through that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So my youngest moved out around November. I want
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  Speaker 3: to say it was like November first, and so like
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  Speaker 3: it is kind of it's it's an adjustment and you
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna be that big of a deal
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  Speaker 3: at first, and then you're like, wait a minute, it's
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  Speaker 3: so quiet, like where is everybody? So I could relate
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  Speaker 3: to that too. And there was also the pillow in
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  Speaker 3: that scene too.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see. I didn't see that one.
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  Speaker 3: The very last scene. Yeah, when she came in, when
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  Speaker 3: she came in and she's looking.
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  Speaker 4: Around because it's okay, it's right by the door there.
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  Speaker 3: So but yeah, I mean, overall, a solid, solid episode.
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  Speaker 3: I did have to laugh at you know, sometimes we
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  Speaker 3: call out, you know, the things that are not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: correct for the time period. Now. When they were on
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  Speaker 3: the tour and the freshman Hitler comment, oh no, that
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  Speaker 3: was a good one too. But when they when the
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  Speaker 3: freshman counselor said, get an Internet ID, even if you
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  Speaker 3: think you won't use.
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  Speaker 4: It, Oh my god, I know. I was like, what
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  Speaker 4: the times are? Times are changing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, like you go into it anywhere there's just
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  Speaker 2: free Wi Fi.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you literally, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like how would you not use your your Internet ID
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  Speaker 3: in college?
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I actually had to pause and be like,
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  Speaker 2: what is the Internet ID?
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  Speaker 3: I mean because she said it's your name at Yale.
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  Speaker 3: I guess she was talking about like your email name
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  Speaker 3: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now that I think about it, When I was
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  Speaker 2: in college, my account was what I logged like for
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  Speaker 2: the Wi Fi I logged in with my account.
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  Speaker 4: Is that considered Internet ID?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe? I don't know. You have to remember we didn't
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  Speaker 3: have the internet when I went to college, so I
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  Speaker 3: am of no how help.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't allowed to use a laptop in class
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  Speaker 2: in college.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I would type my essays and stuff, yeah, and submit
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  Speaker 2: it online, But in class you were only allowed to
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  Speaker 2: have a notebook and pen, and that was twenty.
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  Speaker 4: I went to college twenty eleven and twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well not that long ago.
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  Speaker 2: No, there was one class my senior year where they
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  Speaker 2: started letting everyone like use their laptops and it was
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  Speaker 2: like the beginning of the semester. They were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well like try it, and that by like three weeks
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  Speaker 2: then they're like, no one used it, No one's paying attention.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone was just scrolling the and myself included.
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  Speaker 2: I was like opening up emails and yeah, looking at
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  Speaker 2: god knows what, like scrolling like Instagram. Yeah no, actually
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  Speaker 2: Instagram didn't have desktop, so I was like literally probably
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  Speaker 2: like just looking at like e news, like board.
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  Speaker 3: And now, like when my son started college in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one, they issued every freshman an iPad.
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  Speaker 4: But it's an iPad from school, so it's.
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  Speaker 3: But it's to use in class.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm saying, like, is it like what's it called
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  Speaker 2: like a kid like a child lock where you're only
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  Speaker 2: allowed to like put school stuff on there?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And then when he graduated, it was his te keip.
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  Speaker 4: What that is so nice? Mm hmm. But do they
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  Speaker 4: track it? Can they track it?
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  Speaker 3: I think they turn that off when you graduate like
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  Speaker 3: when you're an undergrad.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I remember when we were allowed to bring
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  Speaker 4: our laptops. No one was paying attention. Everyone was just
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  Speaker 4: sitting there and typing.
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  Speaker 2: And it was when I message you could at it
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  Speaker 2: on your like laptop officially, so I'd be texting. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't even like scrolling for the most I think I
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  Speaker 2: was just talking to people.
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  Speaker 3: I have to say, that's one of my favorite things
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  Speaker 3: is being able to text people from my laptop.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most convenient for work when I need to
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  Speaker 2: like send a file real quick, and it's like I
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  Speaker 2: just drag it.
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  Speaker 4: It's so convenient.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, like my phone's in front of me, but
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  Speaker 2: like sometimes I throw it on the couch and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting here and I'm like gonna skin.
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  Speaker 4: Still see yeah, yeah exactly. Anyway, it was a great
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  Speaker 4: episode though, Yeah, it was good.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Next week we'll be talking season four, episode three, the Hobbit,
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  Speaker 2: the Sofa, and Digger Styles.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see you next week meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Adjourn everybody, and don't forget.
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  Speaker 3: and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.