Pop Culture Minisode (S4 E1"Ballroom & Biscotti”)

good color blocking going on right now. Ye looks. Thank you, thank you so much. I have. It's very early again, we're taping a little early for me, and I have not showered. I just woke up. Um. All right, here we go. Uh. Laurel and Roy get out of the airport shuttle back from their European trip, and Laurel I says that Van Ryde felt longer than our trade rind

from Paris to Prague. And we had that group of French boys singing skater boy and smelling like a sucker field sitting all around us, spelled s K eight E R B O I Most of Avril Levine's songs from this era were about real life situations culled from her personal experience, and this song skater Boy is in fact Avril herself, and she has merely swapped the gender to hide the fact that the skater Boys experience is hers. Yes, you just Sorr. Sorry to cut you off, but you

just saw Avril. We we rocked and rolled together, we rocked out is so iconic and this song is so iconic it is taking everything of me not to sing it. I am going to spare everyone's ear drums that are listening, but this is amazing song. Yeah, it was a great weekend, my god, really really great. Perfect reference. Yeah, and honor of the song is twenty anniversary. Averl said she plans to make Skater Boy into a movie that should be exciting.

Never happened, I know, it never happened. But she's really having a moment right now. You got to give it to her. She went off, you know, like you know, it was kind of a way for a little bit, and now she's back and she's crushing it performing music. I mean, maybe skater Boys coming in. Yeah, she just said, give her some time. It takes a long time to to gather up some funds to make a movie. You

know that she is. She's totally back. She's totally back, alright, but Bet is freaking out over Rory and Laurela coming back later than scheduled. Babette says, I thought you'd been Should I do the voice now? No, No, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna take that and hurt myself. I thought you'd been kidnapped by some crazy Sandinistas or something. The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party

in Nicaragua. The party is named after Augusto Caesar San Dino, who led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States the United States occupation of Nicaragua in the nineteen thirties. There's a little history lesson for you, Rory and Laurela. I forgot to get Luke a gift from Europe. They say they needed to get something from stars hollow Um. Rory says, everything you buy here has a Hello Kitty stamp on the bottom. Hello Kitty a Japanese brand that was founded

in nineteen sixty two. I did not know that. I thought I'm going strong love Hello Kitty All of my stuff in school, like Hello Katy, I went to the Sanrio store. Who did you like? Which of the I liked? Hello Kitty? Oh, I don't know. There's well, there's all like there's like six different characters. There's so many good ones. But Chaco is Chaco's cue Scott continue? Then? Can I continue? Yes? Thank you, thank you for allowing me to. We'll definitely have more to say about Hello k No. I'm that's

why I shut up. I wanted to hear it. I was. I mean, I didn't know. I'm getting an education here. Uh nineteen sixty two by Yuko Schumizy and owned by the company Sanrio. Today, the brand is worth seven billion, with in her face adorns over fifty thousand products available in more than sixty countries, including official branded wines and a limited edition Fender Hello Kitty Stratocaster, which is a guitar Fender guitar Um thought to be worth at least

twenty thousand dollars. Wow. Crazy. Have you been to the Hello Katy Cafe? I personally have not. So there's one in Irvine that's a full cafe and you can do high tea or you can do like get like little Snacks. And then in Vegas, in Vegas, right by T Mobile Arena, there's that little car way we should have gone. I know there's a little car and it's a it's the mini version of the Hello Katy Cafe. Oh my gosh, thank you all right, Jackson telling Laurela and Rory he

doesn't want to know the sex of the baby Jackson. Hey, in the old days, the guys would pace back and forth in the waiting room until a pretty nurse and a nice white outfit would come out and say, congratulations, it's insert your choice chosen sex here. Ricky Ricardo didn't know, Dick Van Dyke didn't know, and by gum, if it was good enough for Rick and Dick, it's good enough for me. That was the funniest part. He said that, uh huh. Ricky Ricardo is a character name from the

show I Love Lucy. On the show, Ricky had a little Ricky and his wife Lucie. In real life, Desi Ernez has had two kids, Lucy and Desi Ernez Jr. With Lucille Ball Iconic the iconic duo um. The show was so popular that more people tuned into view Little Ricky's birth than Dwight Eisenhower's presidential inauguration fifty three. Uh. Dick Van Dyke starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show from one to nineteen sixties six. What a great physical comedian he was or is still that? Sorry? What a

great physical comedian he is? Um, and I bet you can still do it. He's still he's still cranking, man. And yeah, he was dancing. He was honored at the Kennedy Center and Derek hef did this tribute and I think he was dancing in it. Yeah, that guy is amazing. Yeah. Rory is agreeing with Jackson about not knowing the sex of the baby. Jackson says to Rory, welcome to nineteen fifty four. Rory says, here about that whole sput Nick thing.

Jackson replies, Oh, Eisenhower is on top of it. Spuck Nick is the first Russian satellite that launched on Octoberenhower is thirty four president from sixty one. Jackson is referring to events that happened in the fifties because he doesn't want to know the sex of the baby. Uh. Laura Lie telling Luke, would you guys, has anybody I guess nobody's a baby here except for me, some of our team, but none of us. One of us. Um Laura, I tell, well,

let's do a hypothetical. Would you want to know, Danielle the sex of your baby? Absolutely? I have way too much anxiety not to know the sex of the baby, Like I need to plan and I need to know. I get mad. Props to the people that stick it out until you know the baby is born to find out, Sara, Sara, what do you think half to I'm way too organized to not I can't do his birth the moment. I would want to not know, Like I like the idea of that, like, but I wouldn't be able to do it.

Do you know what I'm saying? Like I just wouldn't be able to do it. Like I always read the end of the book first. I always like, you know what's going to happen, so I want I like the theory of it, but I don't think i'd be able to pull it right right. So so having a baby, to you, it's a lot like reading a book. It's gonna comogy, gonna know. The one that was going in my brain was worse because when someone dies on walking dead, I always google it first, and I felt that that

was not a good comparison. Way, Scott, did you know if you're sure? Yeah, we could. We could see his uh you know, we could see his penis and all the sonograms there was Well, can't hear that about laughing? If your wife was like, I don't want to know this act of the baby because you can't really unless you're a doctor, like you know, kind of hard to read those things. But if your wife was like I don't want to know, would you be a game for it or would you kind of persuade what you do?

Like Jackson where you didn't know? Do you know what I mean? What like they're doing? You're asking mat No, I wanted to know. We got to plan ahead, got to get the room ready. You didn't and she did. Do you think you could pull off what Jackson and Suki are doing? No way, I don't know that I

would want to create any kind of stress. You know, during that time, I think whatever is easy, and like whatever my wife chose to do, like I don't want to know, I would go along with it if she if she wanted to know, I said, yeah, let's do that. I don't why do you want to create. Jackson is

going to stumble into the shed accidentally. I think he's not going to make it, not knowing well, you know, different strokes for different folks, all right, Laurela telling Luke on their European trip that they went to Ireland because you two owns a hotel there and Bono is known dying out. It's so good, Laureli. So when we jumped on a train we headed Ireland. Incredibly beautiful. By the way, We sat in a bar for two days and did nothing but eat soda crackers and funky cheese, and he

never showed Luke. Okay, Surah Okay. Surah was just used in season three, episode twenty. It means whatever will be will be, um And it was a hit song I believe by who was it Doors Day, Doris Day? I mean maybe our crack staff can. It was a big hit song on the radio. Arm Okay, So whatever well be anyway. Uh. Taylor is mad at Rory for not participating in his ice cream Queen delegation. Taylor, No, I understand You're no lawnger a little stars hollow, Rory Gilmore.

You belong to the ivy leagues right now, it's time to cut those small town ties and go off and do something important, like go to drama school. I have one of those high class naked parties with the Bush girl. Was I right? Okay? The The Pundits is a secretive society at Yale University, and they initiated the nude parties, which profess to be non sexual in nature, in the

mid nineteen nineties. Open to a select few. The society claims that President George Bush's daughter Barbara, attended a naked party during her second year in two thousand and two. Rory is bothered by Taylor. Can we discuss that in any shape? Uh? Barbara Bush at Yale naked? I think there's something to be riffed about about. I. They're quite smart, those girls. Yeah to Yale. He went to Yale. Yes, he did go to Yale. And I think his dad, the senior, I didn't know. I will find that out

while you all talk. I met the senior U. I shook his hand, very nice there and uh, um, yeah, anyway, I think I met senior, not George W I met senior. Yeah. Um. Rory is bothered by Taylor telling her she isn't about her town anymore, and Rory responds, I don't want to change. I don't want to be the any town girl I'm not. Daria. Daria is an American adult animated sitcom. The series ran

from March three to January oh two on MTV. It focused on the title character, Daria Morgendorfer, an intelligent, cynical high school student voiced by Tracy grand Staff. The plants of Dairy largely concerned at juxtaposition between the central characters jaded, sardonic cynicism and the values preoccupations of her suburban American

hometown of Lawndale. Um, Rory, sorry, it was, it was it was they went there, Yeah, right right, Um, I just remember the senior in a in a with a big, big turtle mixt sweater with a Y on it in black and white. Oh yeah, Rory. Laurel I rushing around town to finish all the errands needed before Rory goes off to Yale. Uh. Laurel I says, I'm so wiped. I shouldn't have taken that third Excentrian PM last night. Rory says, third, Why did you take three? Loreli says, oh, well,

originally I took two. Then somewhere around four in the morning. I woke up and had a major Maryland moment, and now I'm ready to sleep with Kennedy's Okay, I think we all know what it means. Um, Rory. I heard carry is still available? Huh what is that? Guys? You want to chime in a little bit. I was I didn't totally follow. Are they talked about carry from the movie Carry? The promm? No? No John carry? Oh John Carry? Well that's what I think. So I heard carry is

still He didn't win carry Kennedy. Kennedy is a seventh child of proper carry Carry Kennedy got you? Yeah, I mean I went to a whole different place. But I woke up and had a major Maryland moment. Now I'm ready to sleep with Kennedy's Roy. I heard Carrie is still available? Um the Maryland moment, Laura I referred Marilyn Monroe often cracked open nembutall capsules, added a chloral hydra tablet, and washed them both down with a tumbler of champagne.

To a stake insomnia that is very well researched. This is a particularly lethal cocktail, not only because each of these drugs increase or potentiate the power of the other. But also because people who take this combination off and forget how much they previously consumed and whether they took him at all, and soon reached for another dose. Yeah. Yeah. Before Maryland's death, it was rumored that she was having affairs with both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy.

Although hard for me in a game of would you rather, but not appropriate. I mean Jackie had had enough. Um let me see, carry Kennedy's a seventh child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Scagell Kennedy. And uh, you know, uh, there's there's enough there. Who's who's the Kennedy. What's his name? Who is the environmental activist? That's is he is? He's usband. But that's Robert. That's another Robert Kennedy, right, that's Robert Kennedy's son, Robert Kenny or whatever. You almost ran him

over in Colorado a couple of years ago. He just ran no, no, no, no no no no. We were going skiing, but he was when we were in the town and he just ran across this because they go there for years, they've been there for decades and deca, no, no, he just ran He just ran out and I wasn't driving. I was a passage. Oh my god. And he turned and looked at us and it was it was Kennedy. That could have been a headline or what do you think they do? Look? You can they all have a

They're very very distinctive looking for sure. Yeah. Um uh Carrie Kennedy is a seventh well already read that. Um. When Rory and Laurels split up errands and Rory has to walk past taylor soda shop grand opening, Uh, Laura, la you better walk really fast like warp speed. Mr Sulu kind of fast. Warp speed. Mr. Suli is a classic line from the Star Trek franchise when the captain wanted the spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light.

I'm telling you one of those writers love Star Trek because there's so many Star Trek references in Gilmore Girls, and I respect it. Oh yeah, Caru Kato Sulu is a fictional character played by George and a national treasure because he's still alive and we love him. Yeah, I do, uh, I do some some of these conventions that I do. He's there he's there. I bet he's massive. He knaps very well. He's usually on a couch and he's like snoozing away. Almost fell over. I could see him being

so popular. I did it. I did one in God. I think it was North Carolina, but Shatner would crush. Shatner was there and Takai was there. Um. I think it was New York Comic but anyway, Yeah, it's kind of kind of trippy. See, and there's two guys or um. All right, So Rory giving Richard his gift she and Lorelai got for him in Europe. Rory says that they had a whole set of Alice in Wonderland pipes that Mom wanted to get, but they were way too expensive.

We just got the Queen of Hearts. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland commonly Alice in Wonderland's an eighteen sixty five English novel by Lewis carrollty Tears the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropo market anthrope promorphic creatures, anthrope pro morphics. Sorry, um, young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. The Queen of Hearts is the main antagonist in the

book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She's a childish, foul tempered monarch whom Carol himself ascribes as a blind fury who was quick to give death sentences at the slightest offense. Um A, speaking of monarchs, did you guys watch this? Uh, the Queen's funeral? Did you guys? Of course, wasn't just stunning, just unbelievably sad and but at the same time so beautifully respectful and sorree on everything. But did you see David Beckham waited suit and then, because you're not supposed

to turn your back on the queen, he side stepped away. Yeah, he received an m b E from her, and he said he said that he wanted to cue with the people because his grandfather would have frowned upon him cutting the line like so many politicians did. Right. Um that his grandfather, his grandfather, who you know, I guess played a huge part of his upbringing. I would have disapproved if he had to cut the line. So he was being a good Victoria is a lucky lady. Let me

isn't he great? Just like the nicest guy and the greatest guy. And the other moment that just made me cry my eyeballs out when all the grandchildren during the queue or whatever they call, all the grandchildren came out and like bow their heads as people. I was I don't even know these people, just bawling. Oh God, that was just so powerful, that whole thing. I mean, that is something that has I mean that hasn't been done in a hundred years. I mean to that degree, that

kind of funeral. My god, Oh man, it was beautiful to watch. Just the respect paid to somebody who served humanity for seventy plus years and she was the queen of the world. She just wasn't Queen of UK. She was queen for so long, for so long, just giving her life over to that just wow. Rory calling Laurel I saying Emily is taking her hostage and won't let her leave Friday night dinner. Rory, this is I ran in nineteen seventy nine. You're Jimmy Carter. Uh they I ran.

Hostage crisis happened in nineteen seventy nine, during Carter's last year in office. He lost the election in because people lost faith in Carter after this incident. Um. Rory is referring to Lorela being Jimmy Carter because he failed to rescue the hostages and it took four hundred and forty four days to negotiate. Um. I remember that very vividly. Uh. Emily is making Rory watch ballroom dancing videos after dinner. Emily. That's Corky and Shirley Ballace. I love them, were so talented.

Quirky and Shirley Ballace are Latin ballroom dancing champions, and Shirley is currently the head judge of Strictly Come Dancing on the BBC. If you did not listen to the recap this week, you're gonna want to, especially the end. It is so good. Uh. Corky and Shirley Ballace are the parents of current Dancing with the Stars pro Mark Ballace, who is competing this season with Charlie di Amilio. That's what did I say? That's what I said, Amelio. But

it's kind of Damelia. Whatever, Charlie, that's not gonna happen. No matter what I thought, it won't happen. It's not gonna happen. I know, I know who she is. I mean, you know, she's a he's a really good dancer, right. She made it funny that like this episode watching is like the exact moment that Mark comes back on Dancing with the Stars and so crazy. No, but I know who this I know who she is. I know who she is. I've seen her videos. She made the Forbes List. Okay,

so uh. Corky and Shirley also helped raise and trained julian and Derek Huff, who moved to England to compete. Yeah. They literally like took them in their household and so Mark and Julianne and Derek all grew up there and they're kind of like siblings. Yeah, and they're still kind of like siblings. What a story? A story? And Darek is currently uh judging the season Dancing with the Stars and we love them all. We love them. Yeah, great

great people. Uh, Laurea l I picking up Rory from the Gilmore's and Laura Lai telling Emily she's kept Rory here for hours. Lorealis, Mom, She's been here for hours. Patty Hurst had a short her incarceration. Patty Hurst is the granddaughter of the Hearst Publishing magnet William Randolph Herst. She was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberal Liberation Army the s l A, and didn't return until a year later, when she was caught participating in an armed robbery in

San Francisco and l A on tape. She was caught in her San Francisco apartment and found guilty of armed robbery, but later pardoned in two thousand one. Laurel I is referring to Emily kidnapping Rory to keep her there because Laurel I didn't show up for Friday night dinner. Um, Laurel E is laughing about Rory being kept with Emily while Richard is already sleeping. Laurel I says, oh you know, uh okay. Lorealized laughing about or being kept with Emily

while Richard is already sleeping. Laurel I says, oh you know you You've got Rory locked in there with the Mambo Kings, and um dad went to bed. The Mambo Kings is a film from story Antonio Banderas and Armand Sante. The film is about two brothers who move to America from Cuba to bring mambo music to a dance club and ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of pop culture. Yeah, there was some funny current like things that make sense today. That's what I always say. These people know what they

were doing back then. Okay, so the next episode is gonna be uh season four episode to the laurel Ized favorite day at Yale. I have to make a confession. I started watching episode two and I kept going and I went episode like six. No, No, you did not, did you? You went ahead? Yeah? I like, we have to post sanctions. Their sanctions coming your West seasons want to do that. We all want to do that. You can't break from the team. And I know, I know.

I mean, I've seen it though, so I'm not really breaking it all right, But listen to Amy Amy, Amy Amy. We have to we have to have a meeting tonight. Yeah. Let's we're gonna have to gather and we get hr. We're going to have to decide what the sanctions will be. She's now, she's got all this this knowledge, she's got a future knowledge. She's gonna wipe She's gonna wipe up the floor with us on these podcasts. Now, everyone can watch ahead of us. You have to get us each

a box of malamr's it's almost Malamar season. Ye. Sorry, guys, it's a good season. Let me tell you what. Okay, we don't want to hear it. You cannot such such a home goodness. This is huge. But I texted you guys this because I was I don't know why. I was just revisiting it. But rob estes he did randomly good. I know because it was because I was doing a deep dive on the Instagram. So I saw our post with him and I'm like, oh my god. And ladies and gentlemen, this is the segment where Amy waxes and

ways seriously a hunky guy. Here we go. If you're not following us on Instagram, you should be because you can see you can from her bed, from her bedroom, you'll have to see us, but you can also see Robusters. I'm all in podcast. Yeah he was so great. Yeah, he's great. He's you know that. There's there's no, um mystery as to why he became a star. You know, it's like you talked to him, you see up and it's like, Okay, yeah, that's that's gonna be. That's gonna

work out. He's gonna be one of those guys, right, it's like it's instant. You know. Some people you're like, I don't get it, you know. And we have some amazing interviews coming up, guys, so tell us, tell us, yeah, you're you're doing them all. Season four is going to be our biggest ever for interviews. So oh man, this is exciting, very exciting. Alright. So next episode, season four episode to the Laurel Eyes first day at Yale. Uh so that's that's because it's full circle from Chilton exactly.

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