Meet Me at Miss Patty's: A Weekend in the Life

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Meet me at Miss Patty's with Easton Allen. Hey everybody, what's up? It's Easton Allen with Stars Hollow Style. Wait a second. No, it's not. No, it's not. Stars Hollow Style is effectively dead. Say your prayers. I'm sorry, you guys. There will be no more episodes of a colorblind straight man fumbling his way through outfits. But thank you for coming along on the ride with me. But we're doing something really exciting now, okay? We're shifting gears. We are fixing the recipe. This is the debut. This is the premiere of what we are calling... Meet me at Miss Patty's. Now, we love Miss Patty on Gilmore Girls. She knows everything that's going on. She knows everybody's business. She's getting in everywhere.

She knows all the events going on. And that's going to be me. That's going to be Easton Allen, okay? I'm going to be the Miss Patty of your life when it comes to Gilmore Girls themed events. Gilmore Girls centered stuff going on, okay? So here's what you can expect on this iteration of our fine little program here.

We are going to be talking to some big time Gilmore Girls influencers. We're going to be talking to the people that run these conventions all over the country that Scott Patterson is going to be at. And that's something we'll be talking about today. We're going to be talking about other events and stuff that you can celebrate Gilmore going on all over the country, all over the world.

It's going to be your one-stop shop for all that information. And it's going to come from the sweet, sensual voice of me, Easton Allen. And I'm so excited for you guys to come along on this journey. Okay, and today we're kicking it off with a bang. We're kicking it off with a whole mess of fun. This first episode, next weekend, as you're hearing this, not this coming weekend, this is going to be on Friday morning you're listening to this, okay? Put yourself in the mindset. But the following weekend, September 4th through 6th, New Milford, Connecticut, That's if stars hollow was a real place, it would be new Milford, Connecticut. Okay. That is effectively. That's where it is.

It starts all Connecticut. That's not real. New Milford is a weekend in the life is going on September 4th through 6th. They, this is not your typical con.

Okay.

This is not your normal convention. They transform the entire town of new Milford, Connecticut to be this magical wonderland. It feels like you're stepping right into stars hollow and There's a gazebo. There's activities. There's special food. The whole town comes out for it. It's really awesome. And if you love visiting small towns in America, this is the place for you. Again, that is September 4th through 6th.

And it's not just... immersive themed activities. You guys, here's, who's going to be there. We got some celebrity guests coming to a weekend in life in new Milford, Connecticut. We got Sean gun. He'll be there all weekend. Okay. Sean gun all weekend long. We got Scott Patterson. We love Scott Patterson. He's my favorite on Gilmore girls. He'll be there Friday and Saturday. Chad, Michael Murray is going to be there on Sunday, Friday, Matt Zuckrey also on Sunday and Greg Henry will be there all weekend. He's been on this show a number of times. Uh, Katie Walter also appearing, Olivia hack, Yannick Truesdale. We love him. Uh, Nick Holmes, John Cabrera, Colin Egglesfield, and tank say it will be there, uh, in a weekend in the life.

You can meet them. You can get your autograph. You can get a photo with them. It is such a fun time. Uh, I know some people and you know, some people too, my friends, your friends, uh, Tara and Suzanne who are on this feed as well. They went last year. They said it was the coolest thing they'd ever done. Okay. You, you, you, you fly into JFK airport, you drive a couple hours, then you're all of a sudden you're just transported into this fall wonderland, a weekend in the life. And, uh, I know what you're thinking.

I know what you're thinking. Easton, I want to go to this, but I don't trust you. I don't. I need information from someone who knows what's going on. We'll never fear, my friends. In just a few short moments, we will be speaking to Autumn Nairodi. She is the founder of Decade Days. They put on Weekend in the Life.

She's the head honcho. She is in charge of it all. This is her show. She's putting it together, and we are going to talk to her after these words. We're back. It's Meet Me at Miss Patty's. My name is Easton Allen, and I'm here with Autumn Nairodi. She is the mayor, the person in charge, the mastermind behind A Weekend in the Life. It's going on September 4th through 6th in beautiful New Milford, Connecticut. Oh my God.

Okay.

As we record this, a few days away from the kickoff of the event, how are you feeling right now? What's on your mind at this very moment?

It's always really exciting.

Obviously the nerves always come because it's a big event and it's kind of like.

A weekend in the life is our baby.

So, you know, there, there's always butterflies, but it's exciting because we get to go to this town that we love. And New Milford is so beautiful is we don't really go like during the foliage time, but you kind of get the good weather right before it turns fall. So it's really nice right after, you know, summer and Labor Day week. And we kind of wanted to make it a four day thing easier for fans to get there.

They have like a four day weekend and, Yeah.

So we're, we're, we're nervous, but we're always excited and we hope that it goes well and that the fans have a great time and the talent has fun.

Also, I know some people that have been before and they said it's like the absolute best Gilmore experience you can get. Uh, so if you are thinking about going to a weekend in the life, you better get your tickets now. Um, how long have you been doing this? How many years is this?

So, um, for decades, the one I own, it's been about almost two years fully. And then I worked for another convention company and a couple other ones for about 15 years now. Wow.

I'm so fascinated by the world of conventions. It's something that really draws in my imagination and my soul. How did you get involved? What made you want to make the jump from, I assume you were a fan going to these things, and then you wanted to get involved behind the scenes. Is that right?

Yeah, that's correct. I think it was, oh my gosh, I think I was.

It was 2021 when I went to my, no, I was, no, I was 18 when I went to my first convention.

It was Megacon in Orlando.

Wow.

And I was a, I'm a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

All right.

So I went to go meet Spike from Buffy and I was freaking out. I was so excited.

And from that moment on, when I went to that convention, I just knew how I felt meeting him.

I wanted to make other people feel that way too.

I love it.

It's so special. So that's pretty much how I got into it.

And then I, you know, I just kind of, you know, you, you can start off volunteering and then you know, you just meet people and here I am now.

And it's really a blessing.

Now, something that I really love about a weekend in life is that, like you said, there's conventions in Orlando. There's so many in Los Angeles. There's so many in New York. There's places around the country where like, it makes sense that these things are going to happen. New Milford, Connecticut, not on that list, typically. This is a small town in one of the smallest states in the Union, but you are transforming it into Stars Hollow for this weekend.

Why New Milford? Where are you from originally, and what drew you to this part of Connecticut for this event?

So I grew up in small towns. My dad I was a Sergeant Major in the Marines. So we just moved around all the time, but it was always, you know, like Bluffton, South Carolina, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, very small little towns.

And I've always loved them.

So, you know, when we knew that like certain shows were based in New Milford, we were like, oh, maybe that would be a good place to go and check it out.

So, you know, we went up there and it was just gorgeous. And it was so cute.

And doing things in a small town is so nice because the town wants to be involved. And I always say that when you go to a convention like Megacon, you are going into a convention center and it's not really.

It's still fun, but it's not, you don't get to go explore.

You kind of just, you get, you get to eat a hot dog and wait in lines and you still wait in lines at our show, but we try to make it so that when you're not waiting in lines, you also can go downtown.

I love it. And what's waiting for people downtown when they, when, if they go to a weekend in the life, what can they expect to find down there?

So New Milford really is getting involved and we love that you can do, they have, you know, bookmark paintings, stuff, you know, photo ops at the gazebo. face painting, just the whole town is decorating.

We have a passport program where all the donations go to the local charities. And I mean, the town just gets into it. They have paintings of the gazebo you can do. They have trivia at the library. They have, I mean, it's just, it's so much stuff.

And the point of everybody going into a small town too is to help the town in times where.

It's not busy. So it's really great that we get this opportunity to do that.

That is so fun and so special and an important thing you're doing to help out small towns like this, you've got the lineup of guests coming to Weekend in the Life is wild. I'm just, I'm looking at the list here. It's staggering. We got Sean Gunn. We got Scott Patterson. I can't remember who he is, but he's someone from the show. We got Chad Michael Murray. We got Matt Zucchi. We got Greg Henry. Yannick Truesdale. So many of our favorite people from Gilmore Girls are coming out for this. Is there one person in particular that you are like really looking forward to?

I honestly, this whole, the whole cast of this small town show is just amazing.

They're all so kind and generous.

And I haven't met Sean yet.

So we're pretty excited about that.

This is.

His first show with us. So we, we think that he's going to be great. I've heard he's really funny. So we're excited to meet him, but everybody is always great. We haven't met Greg either. And I actually watched scandal. So I'm, I'm really excited about, you know, seeing him as well.

There's so many great guys. I mean, yeah, Sean Gunn is hysterical. I'm so jealous. I would want to meet him and he's going to be there all weekend. at a weekend in life, September 4th through six, the new Milford, Connecticut. Um, okay. You're a, you are a hardened, uh, convention person. You've been, it sounds like you've been to a lot. You've been running this incredible event for the last couple of years.

Have you, have you seen the fans bring in stuff to get signed by the, by the talent? That's like, that's a thing. What's the weirdest thing you've seen someone bring in to get signed? Have you ever seen something like totally off the wall?

Oh my gosh.

At our shows? Not really.

Um, I don't want to say which actor I know at Chris for the Christmas shows. Um, I think we had somebody try to get like, I'm trying to think cause.

Like their, their underwear signed.

I don't know.

That's like probably, that's probably like the weirdest thing.

I'd say that counts. Yeah.

I've seen some crazy things.

Um, and other shows people, you know, I know that they stop. I mean, people would bring in I think one time somebody brought in a poster the size.

Of like a whole entire wall.

Wow.

Just, and they were getting assigned by all the Marvel people.

Yeah.

But anything too weird? I don't, not, not so far, not so far. And I'm, thank goodness.

That's the thing about Gilmore fans. They're, they're all pretty, uh, they're, they're nice, respectable people. They're not going to bring in like a dead fish or something for someone to sign.

Right.

You know, um, so, uh, the, you're doing some, like, uh, some celebrity Q and a panels too. It looks like those are sold out. Is that right? For this weekend, the panels are sold out.

So we, because we're in a small town, we like to be at a, um, high school and we had a different venue last time.

It didn't really work out.

So we started doing the high school thing, which actually is really great. Yeah. And they have an amphitheater, but it only fits about 700 people.

So we have the point where you got the panels are now sold out and we'll, we'll have extra space if, you know, some people don't like the panel.

So some people don't show up. So there's extra seating.

But yeah, the panel is, the panels are pretty much sold out and we have, you know, um, Scott doing his on Saturday and then Chad and Matt are doing one.

Together on Sunday. So it's going to be really fun to see like the interactions with everyone.

That's an experience you can't get anywhere else. I mean, like seeing these guys up on stage, interacting with each other like that. It's like, you're right back in the show. Who is, who's your favorite character on Gilmore girls? You personally.

Personally. I mean, I always have to say Luke.

Yeah, of course.

I just think he, you know, character growth, you know, the way that he was, he was so funny, witty and just, you know, dry sense of humor.

I love that.

Yeah. I I'm, I'm with you there. I am absolutely with you there.

Um, Okay.

In this position, the big cheese of decade days, I'm curious, what's the biggest challenge you run into putting these cons together, these events, like what, what is really the biggest challenge there?

I think the biggest challenge in a situation like this is to, to, we, we want every fan to leave happy. I think that is our biggest goal and we want them to enjoy their experience. We want them to feel immersed. I think the biggest challenge is when you have over, I mean, even if you have 500 people making everybody happy is always really hard of course so i think yeah that's the biggest challenge is to make sure everybody's happy and we try to do our best but it not everybody can't be happy but i think that the majority of these fans want to have a good time which is really great and that's what that's what we strive to achieve.

I love it and i i feel like you're gonna and you're definitely gonna hit that mark uh this weekend or next weekend at a weekend in life uh what is something, if someone's never been to an event like this before, like what are some tips you have for them, especially if they're coming out to new Milford, Connecticut?

Or a couple of tips. Let's see.

I would definitely say that we're good shoes because you know, there are lines and you know, we're, we're trying to make it easier, you know, as we go on and we learn how to do our own things to make the lines not as bad, but you know, with people like sky, he takes his like time with everybody and that's what everybody wants, you know, to, to get that moment.

And so, even if you're last in line, it's going to be wonderful once you get to the front and these actors are so wonderful that they're going to take the time with you and they're going to get a selfie and the autograph and they're going to, you know, ask you questions and they're just, they're just really great.

So another tip is just, you know, a couple of snacks are always great during the day. We're going to have food trucks, but you know, just make sure that you you're, you're fed, you have water.

So yeah, just, just simple things like that. Don't, don't be nervous because these people are also like the actors are great. They're going to make you feel comfortable once you start.

To meet That's good tips. Those are good things to remember. And okay, so if someone, before we let you go here, if someone wants to come out and come to Weekend in the Life, smalltownconvention.com, is that the best place to get tickets?

Yes.

All right, great. And people should be prepared for a whole weekend of whimsy and Gilmore Girls themed fun in New Milford, Connecticut. Right before we started here, we were talking about the hidden pizza celebrity of the Connecticut area, New Haven specifically. But you had pizza when you just got there today, right? Have you had pizza yet?

Yeah.

We went to Sally's and it was really good.

I mean, it was I mean, I and I and I just found out about the pizza last night because I thought pizza was like a New York thing. Yeah.

But apparently it's a New Haven, Connecticut thing and it's really good. They like coal it like wood fire.

It's amazing.

All right.

Well, if you're flying in for this, make sure you get some pizza on the way. Autumn, this has been so much fun talking to you. I am so jealous of everyone that's going to be there. It sounds like it's just going to be such a blast, a weekend in life. September 4th through 6th, then you can get your tickets at smalltownconvention.com. Thanks so much, Autumn. Best of luck with the event. I hope it's so much fun.

Thank you so much. I hope you should come next time.

I will. I'll be there next year.

Definitely.

All right, cool.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, Autumn.

Hey everybody, don't forget, follow us on Instagram at I am all in podcast and email us at Gilmore at I heart radio.com.

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