Gilmore Girls Gazette: Alexis Bledel On Why She’s Grateful for Her Gilmore Girls Fans

0:00 I am all in.

0:03 Again!

0:10 Gilmore Girls Gazette with Amy Sugarman and Danielle Romo.

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0:25 How are you doing on this beautiful, beautiful day?

0:28 Well, that is such a nice way to start, and I am super irritated, and I will explain why. But first, I need to know why when I put my headphones on, did I hear Jackie saying, did you take Pepto? Which makes me think, did you have diarrhea before we started this podcast?

0:44 No, she is trying to seek some advice from my last bout of diarrhea.

0:53 Back in the day when i returned here for diarrhea other than get it out let it ride.

0:57 That's what she asked me she's like what did you do when that happened i said i just let it just.

1:02 Get it right well my son had it oh and of course i'm here cleaning it up and everything he he got.

1:09 He had to be picked up from is he potty trained.

1:12 Almost but for this there was no way diarrhea at this at the preschool yeah and so then i had to pick him up and now i have it there.

1:21 Is a Oh, you probably have, what's that one?

1:26 That's what she was asking.

1:27 What's the one that gets passed around, everyone gets diarrhea?

1:30 Oh, norovirus.

1:31 Norovirus, thanks. I almost said E. coli, and then I was like, it's not E. coli. This is the thing I like about diarrhea. It's fast. You get the pain. You're like, ow, I'm not right. I'm not right. But in 10 minutes, I'm probably, oopsies. Yeah, there's no discomfort. In 10 minutes, I'm going to be okay.

1:50 Yes, yes. So I had rice yesterday, crackers.

1:54 Oh, you got to do the brat diet.

1:56 Yeah, yeah, like kombucha.

1:59 Bananas, rice, applesauce, toast.

2:02 I went to bed at 8 o'clock.

2:03 You can also do like a very, very like plain chicken.

2:07 Yeah.

2:08 Really plain chicken, maybe some broth.

2:10 Plain chicken does not do it for me. Chicken broth, I will say.

2:13 You think plain chicken would give you more diarrhea?

2:16 It's just not, I don't want to eat that.

2:18 I know, but if you're starving. But just bone broth is great. Just a basic rotisserie chicken is even okay.

2:24 Yeah.

2:25 Like don't eat the skin part, but just like the innards of the rotisserie chicken. Well, I'm fired up. Who wants to know? I do. Okay. Bless everybody. That's what I'm going to say. But a very nice person hit my car. I think I told you guys.

2:41 Oh, I was going to say another car.

2:43 No, no, no.

2:44 This is the same vehicle.

2:46 Okay. I wasn't in it. Wasn't in it. I was in my house. It was on the street. Zero fault. There's photographs. The car was right up on the curb, proper 18 inches or whatever it's supposed to be.

3:03 Whatever.

3:03 It was six inches from the curb. It was way close to the curb. Wasn't in it. Let me tell you what happened. Bless. And I hope they all sponsor us. All the insurance companies.

3:15 They're asking you all these questions about the accident that you don't know because you weren't there.

3:19 The guy is also saying at the shop, this is what it's going to cost to fix it. And the insurance company's like, we're going to pay this much. And it's not the same number.

3:30 It's not the same number.

3:31 And that's why the last accident I went in, they considered it a total loss. Even though you can drive the car, it's just... the value of the car was not worth the amount of repair. And so the insurance company was like, well, sorry, you just get this check and you got to deal with it. And it's like, you can buy a new car for $ 7, 000. What did you do?

3:52 What did you do?

3:52 You just, I got, I think it was, I think I got $ 7, 000 for it. Anyone that is buying a car right now knows that is not even.

3:59 A fraction of what you need.

4:01 I just put the $ 7, 000 on an, on another car. And now I, and at that point I had paid off my car. No, you've, I traded that bad boy in.

4:11 God.

4:13 And then you just have a car payment again.

4:15 Awful.

4:15 It's so awful.

4:17 But was it your fault?

4:19 No, I was at a red light. I was at very similar, except I knew what happened. I was at a red light.

4:26 Such a nightmare. It's truly like, I think there should be a rule. That if you hit someone, and I understand this is made up, this rule can't happen. If you hit someone, you have to give them your car.

4:42 You're so dumb.

4:43 Then they have to deal with your car. Do you know what I'm saying? You get what I'm saying?

4:47 They should deal with repairing your car back to its original condition.

4:51 They have to drive it. Like I have to get my mom to drive me. And then like my friend's coming up to visit and she needs to borrow a car. So she has to borrow my mom's car. Like the whole thing is so unhinged and like.

5:03 And forget dealing with a rental car. They're like, you only have $ 5 for a rental car and it costs $ 75 a day.

5:09 I don't even know what's going to happen. I haven't even gotten into that yet. So it's just like out of pocket, out of pocket, out of pocket.

5:17 Yep.

5:17 Do I send, this is probably a no, but do I send an email to the nice lady who hit me? Hey, this is a real pain in the butt, lady.

5:28 But here's the thing. That's what insurance is for. They'll be like, sorry, you have to connect with my insurance.

5:33 Right. They don't care.

5:34 Should I TP your house?

5:35 It's not that they don't care, but they're not going to just write you a check for 60K for your new car.

5:40 I would never joke, guys. Save your letters. I'm not going to TP your house. Just a joke. And if she gets TP'd, it wasn't me. Like, there's nothing you can do. You just give up.

5:49 You have to just bite it.

5:51 And I don't want to call my insurance because they'll, like, I'll get punished if I call them.

5:56 No, why would you get punished? The whole point is that they're your insurance.

5:59 So then you want my insurance to fight their insurance?

6:02 That's what you're supposed to do.

6:04 I know, but I think that irritates the insurance company.

6:06 That is what you've been paying them for years to do.

6:09 I don't like to talk.

6:11 Amy, that is the whole point.

6:12 But what if they raise my rates or drop me?

6:15 They're not going to. Because it's not your fault.

6:18 This segment is brought to you by insurance. So I call my insurance and say.

6:24 Here's what's going down. You haven't reported this to your insurance yet?

6:28 I did.

6:28 I reported it, but I didn't make a claim. So they have all the info. They know the details. But I was like, hold, because I wasn't even in the car. So now I'm going to have to just... You should just ask them.

6:41 But since it's not your fault.

6:43 And allegedly, I won't name the insurance companies, but according to the car guy, my insurance is better than her insurance. So at the end of the day, maybe my insurance is going to handle it. But I don't want to get dropped. I don't want to get my rates raised.

6:58 Your insurance.

6:59 The whole point of it is to insure your vehicle.

7:02 My insurance is baller, yo.

7:04 Baller.

7:05 Amy, you need to have your insurance deal with this.

7:08 Okay, I'll call my insurance. I can't just call the other one and go.

7:11 No, you should just be like, look, I tried doing this on my own and it's becoming a big hassle. And I need my insurance to step in to fight this because I'm at 0% liability.

7:21 Zero, yeah. Good knowledge. All right, well, Insurance Talk is brought to you by.

7:27 What?

7:27 There's going to be somebody that sends a comment that's like, do not listen to Danielle.

7:32 All her advice was garbage. Do not call your insurance company, whatever you do.

7:38 No, the last.

7:39 I'm just speaking on an experience where I got hit on the red light and at 0% light.

7:43 I'm going to have diarrhea now with all the stress. And look at that gray popping out.

7:47 Wow. All right, it happens.

7:48 Getting that fixed tomorrow. I think I might have diarrhea now. I kind of want to. No one's listening anymore. Everyone has hung up.

7:58 I know. They're like, please don't tell me about car problems when I'm in the car.

8:01 Or diarrhea. But let's talk about the fact that it is Gilmore, Gilmore, Gilmore.

8:06 It's officially fall.

8:07 Officially fall.

8:09 No kidding, because Alexis Bledel talked about Gilmore.

8:14 I know.

8:15 I know.

8:15 I know.

8:16 How did they get her? She doesn't even do anything. So this is on that list of, I thought it was Time Magazine, but I guess it's the New York Times. Pardon me. Pardon me for being wrong.

8:26 You know, every single person on our group chat sent this.

8:30 Just over and over again.

8:31 And that's over and over and over and over again.

8:33 No one's reading the group chat. They're just contributing to the group chat. So Alexis Bledel, pardon me, Alexis Bledel, Rory, our very own Rory, gave an interview to the New York Times after it was revealed that they were in the top 100 TV shows of the 21st century. They're ranked number 99, low ranking, but they've only revealed 81 to number 100. Now, 21st century. So let's think about what that is.

8:56 The 2000s.

8:59 So like family ties, not eligible because it was in the 1900s.

9:03 Right, right.

9:05 So 21st century means only shows that were in the 2000s. That is gnarly for me to accept that 25 years of my life don't count now of television shows.

9:20 Right, right, right.

9:20 I mean, they count. I get it. But in this very thing. Someone said something so crazy that we're a quarter of the way through The 2000s. Oh, wow.

9:31 Yeah, we are.

9:32 That's crazy. Plus when someone's like, 20 years ago. And I'm like, 20 years ago? You mean the 80s?

9:40 You know what's weird? When you think of the 1900s, doesn't that feel so far away? Like the people that are going to be born in 2100 is going to be like the 1900s or the Ice Age.

9:53 I know.

9:54 You know, we're living that right now. That's kind of crazy.

9:57 Danielle, I'm from the 1900s. I technically am too. I'm born and raised. I know, but I really spent a lot of time in the 1900s. I get that.

10:07 I get that.

10:07 I spent as much time in the 1900s as I spent in the 2000s. I am exactly halfway equal.

10:11 1900s, 2000s.

10:19 Yeah. That's kind of gnarly. It's just weird.

10:22 I feel like if you think of the early 1900s, they didn't have cell phones. They didn't have- The early.

10:27 1900s, first of all. First of all, Danielle.

10:31 What?

10:31 They didn't have cell phones in the late 1900s.

10:34 Fair. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. 1900s, vehicles, no cameras, things like that.

10:41 Danielle, when I was born, there was no VCR.

10:46 Okay, fair.

10:46 Do you know what that is?

10:47 Yes, I do.

10:48 I grew up on Disney VHS.

10:50 VHSs?

10:51 VHSs.

10:52 VHSs. I was thinking of the network. VHSs was a thing that used to play music.

10:56 Videos for old people. No, when I was born, there was no answering machines. That was a huge thing when we got an answering machine.

11:05 Right. I'm just curious to see what people born in 2100, I hope whoever has a podcast in 2100 clips this. And uses it to answer.

11:14 Your kids could be alive in 2100.

11:15 I know.

11:15 They probably will be. They will be.

11:18 They'll be 70-something.

11:19 They're only going to be like 75. And people can live to be like the hundreds now. We've talked about that. Jackie, jump on. Let's just keep it real. Were you born in the 1900s? Yes, I was 85. Okay, so I'm 74.

11:29 So you spent a good amount of time in the 1900s.

11:31 Oh, yeah.

11:31 Danielle, when people... In the 1900s, they didn't have cars. I think the car was invented in the 1900s. Oh, I have a crazy one. This is crazy. So my great-grandma, she's not alive anymore, but when she was born, the only mode of transportation was the horse and buggy. And when she died, she lived to be well in her 90s.

11:55 People are in space. Boom. How about that knowledge? Dropping the bomb.

12:02 It's crazy.

12:03 She started with a horse and buggy. And people were in space.

12:08 I know.

12:08 That's insane.

12:19 Alexis Bledel. Let's talk about it. Do you want me to read her quote or would you like to?

12:24 Yeah, read her quote.

12:25 I'm really working on my voice. So, you know, I have that menopause issue with my voice. And then I think I got RSV or COVID. And so now... I'll read it. I'll read it. No, I just do this. I talk a little higher, but you read it. I'll read it.

12:41 I started working on Gilmore Girls when I was 18, so I'm very grateful for it. I appreciate fans sticking with us as we evolved and grew within our roles. There's so many timeless elements to the show as well. The fast-paced dialogue, which is reminiscent of the 30s and 40s classic films. Teen angst is also timeless single mom life, romantic scenes, multi-generational family drama. I think that's what keeps people coming back.

13:04 Well said. Oh, she also ranked her top TV shows, Black Mirror, The Crown, Downton Abbey, which how badly do you want to say? Downtown Abbey.

13:15 I know, I know.

13:16 Downton Abbey. Fleabag, Insecure, My Brilliant Friend, Normal People, Orphan Black, Succession, Veep. Good list. She got a highbrow list there. There's no, like, none of your jumps on there.

13:26 None of my Housewives, none of my The Valley.

13:30 That list is even pretty, like, fancy for me. Because I would be, like, West Wing, but that's 90s, so I don't know.

13:36 Do you expect anything less from this list, though?

13:38 I don't.

13:39 No, she got the list we would expect, and it's a good list.

13:43 Good list.

13:44 Yeah.

13:44 Yeah.

13:45 Can I know what the other TV shows were?

13:47 81 to 100.

13:47 Oh, thank you, Jackie.

13:51 Okay.

13:51 I'm ready to rock it.

13:52 Scandal.

13:54 Agree.

13:54 Agree.

13:56 Let's explain.

13:57 This is number 100. Scandal.

13:59 Gilmore Girls was ranked number 99 out of 100.

14:02 Right.

14:03 So we're going backwards from 100.

14:05 I agree.

14:06 I just said that. The OA, number 98. Never heard of it.

14:10 Never heard of it.

14:11 Never heard of it. So, okay, keep going. Community, fine, fine. Love Joel McHale. Wasn't that Joel McHale's? 96, Halt and Catch Fire. The girl looks familiar, but I don't know that show. 95, House.

14:25 Agree.

14:25 Brilliant show. Super brilliant. I want to go back. 94, The Diplomat. New, but I am into it. I've paused it as I've been doing Fear the Walking Dead, but... 93, Station Eleven. What was that? Can somebody text me this list also so I can just start going backwards from 100? 92, The Night Of. Don't know it. 91, Catastrophe. Heard of it, never watched it.

14:48 I don't know any of these.

14:49 90, Eastbound Down.

14:51 Nope.

14:52 89, Baby Reindeer. Nope. 88, Dexter.

14:55 Totally agree.

14:56 Totally agree.

14:57 Really good. 87, Reservation Dogs. Nope, but okay. I'm going to watch it. 86, Shogun. Now, I know that won a bunch of awards, but never watched it. 85, The Great British Baking Show. Now, interestingly, Danielle, your shows could have made this list because if that made it, 84, Planet Earth. Okay. 83, Justified. Now, I never watched it, but let me tell you, Timothy Oliphant, hello, you look great. 82, Better Things. Oh yeah, that has Pamela Adlon, which whenever I think of Pamela Adlon, I think of Grease 2.

15:30 81.

15:30 This was good.

15:32 Who is that lady?

15:33 And she looks so, she looks.

15:35 Like a doll.

15:37 Anya Taylor-Joy. Is that her real face?

15:39 Yeah.

15:40 You never saw that show before?

15:41 She looks like the most cutest lady. What in the world?

15:46 That show was really good.

15:47 80, How To With John Wilson. Literally, I've never heard of that.

15:51 Never.

15:52 79, Good Wife. Totally agree. Totally agree. It's on my list.

15:55 Above Gilmore Girls?

15:57 No.

15:58 Gilmore Girls is shockingly low.

16:00 Yeah.

16:00 Shockingly low. So is that it? Are there any more?

16:03 Let's go to the top 10. I want to see top 10.

16:05 No, no, no.

16:05 Wait.

16:06 We can't go out of order. We have 79. Look, this will be the whole episode. Oh, my God. We're going to go through all these? Look, they've heard about insurance talk. They've heard about diarrhea, and they're just getting a list of shows. But look, write this crap down. So 79, The Good Wife. We like it. 78, It's Always Sunny in California.

16:21 California.

16:23 Who am I in Philadelphia? Have you been to Philadelphia? I have. Oh, nice. 77, Modern Family. I'm going to agree. 76, Somebody Somewhere. Never heard of it. 75, Ted Lasso.

16:36 Fine.

16:36 I don't watch it, but I know people love it.

16:38 74, The Bear.

16:39 Don't watch it, but I'm going to.

16:41 73, Barry. Agree.

16:42 I started it. It's very good. 72, Squid Game. Now, I never watched this.

16:45 Did you?

16:46 No, but that was a big thing. I couldn't get into number 71.

16:50 Which is Beef. What is it? Is it scary or funny?

16:53 No, it's not scary at all. I just never got into it. I couldn't hang on.

16:58 I love Steven Yeun from The Walking Dead. I don't know where The Walking Dead is, but it's going to make the list. 70, The Shield. Didn't watch it, but learned some very nice things about Michael Chiklis. He's so sweet.

17:08 69, Anthony Bourdain.

17:10 No reservations. Didn't watch it, but 68, Ozark. Never finished it, but really good, the parts I got. 67, The Handmaid's Tale. I'm sorry, this should be way higher. The Handmaid's Tale. Oh my gosh, so Alexis Bledel's got two.

17:24 Two on the list. Yeah, Gilmore and Handmaid's Tale.

17:26 Wow, all right. 66, The Rehearsal. Never heard of it. 65, Mare of Easttown. One season, watched it.

17:34 Good.

17:34 64, another Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown.

17:38 All of Anthony Bourdain's stuff is incredible.

17:40 I never watched it. So like, are they good? Loved, loved. Okay. 63, The Thick of It. Never heard of it. 62, Slow Horses, still on, and I know people love it, and I think Gary Oldman was nominated. 61, RuPaul's Drag Race. See, Danielle, your shows could be on here.

17:57 Let's keep going. Let's see if Real Housewives of Orange County makes the list.

18:00 Have we reached the end so far?

18:02 Yes, because they're only revealing by 20.

18:04 So next week we'll do more.

18:07 Yeah, I can list them more for next week. Great.

18:10 Well, that was fun. So Melissa McCarthy is on the cover of Variety wearing a really cool white dress and a cool white hat. And then this like.

18:29 Ruffle.

18:31 Now I could never wear any of what she's wearing. And the reason is I would be so hot. I can't wear long sleeves.

18:39 She's wearing a long sleeve, long dress.

18:42 Now that might breathe.

18:43 It's like 40 pounds.

18:44 The fur thing is like, or the ruffle thing is like, The warmest, coziest blanket, but yet she has to wear it.

18:53 Right.

18:53 But she looks cool as heck. She looks incredible. And again, it's just for the photo. I don't think she's wearing that to dinner. Right, exactly. McCarthy's stepping outside comedy to play Patsy Ramsey, and we are in. We are so in.

19:09 You know, she also talks about Gilmore Girls.

19:10 Oh, yeah.

19:11 There was like a click-baity headline. It was like, Gilmore Girls is so hard or something like that. And then is there a joke to it?

19:17 She said that 93-page scripts were normal.

19:20 Of course, yeah.

19:21 And it was no surprise if when you showed up to work, you got a 10-page script. And we're like, okay, I memorized this before. Totally. So there's a lot of that. So that was really hard. But she loves that Amy Sherman Palladino fought for her own show and that she had her own style and that she had this vision that was very authentically her. I love all that. And they asked if she had seen the show before or if her kids have. And she goes, no, but there was a time that she had the flu. and her daughter and Melissa were at home sick and they watched Gilmore Girls so they watched a couple episodes and her daughter was like why is your voice like that and it was a full circle moment because in the last

20:05 season of Gilmore Girls Melissa McCarthy was hiding her pregnancy with that daughter So it was cute. Cute full circle moment there.

20:14 So I like this quote a lot. Very interesting. This is a juicy quote. When asked what she thinks could have happened to JonBenet, my heart says no one in the family could have done that. I don't have the ability or probably the right to say that, but that's what my gut says, which I'm probably not supposed to say.

20:30 That's juicy.

20:31 Pretty juicy.

20:32 Yeah. Wow.

20:33 Just to close the Gilmore circle, she says she's still really close to Lauren Graham and Yannick, which we know that. But she says, we've gone on vacation with Yannick. We're really close. So I love that they're so tight.

20:49 They really are good buds.

20:50 Yeah, they really are buds. And then the last thing is she doesn't know if Gilmore Girls will ever return in any capacity. She says, I always wonder, will something else happen with that? She said, I don't know anything about it.

21:04 They all say that. And I actually think they don't. I think that they're not being coy. I think they actually don't know. Yeah.

21:13 Hmm.

21:14 I know.

21:15 Sad.

21:16 But I get it. I know what people want. They want the show. Like, everyone's happy about the, look, everyone's happy about the documentary. They're happy about the book. They love, you know, all the Gilmore things that are happening right now. But I get it. They want more show.

21:34 So do I.

21:34 I would be pretty stoked on the show. Why don't we say that's the news. Hopefully you bear with us. And look, maybe we helped you. Maybe tonight when you have diarrhea.

21:47 You know to have a brat diet.

21:49 And when you need to call your insurance, you know what to do.

21:55 You know what to do.

21:56 And that's the news.

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