September 8, 2025 • 35 mins
This may be one of the most iconic episodes of Gilmore Girls.
You know her from Baywatch, Nicole Eggert, joins Scott to recap Season 2 Episode 18 “Teach Me Tonight.”
From “A Film by Kirk” to Jess crashing Rory’s car, Nicole and Scott unpack the heartbreak and tension in this episode.
Plus, Scott takes us behind the scenes about filming a heated showdown with Lauren Graham.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am all in again.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's just you, h I am all in again with Scott
Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all in Podcast, one
of them productions. iHeartRadio Media, iHeart Podcasts. Recap Season two,
episode nineteen, Teach Me Tonight with the one and only
Nicole Eggert. Yes, Ladies and gentlemen, she is here. She's
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an actress best known for role as Jamie Powell in
the sitcom Charles in Charge and Summer Quinn on Baywatch.
He's also guest starred on shows like The Super Mario Brothers,
Super show Boy Meets World End, Yes, Gilmore Girls. In
case you missed it, she played Aubrey, one of the
DR members in season two episode seven, Like Motherlike Daughter.
We're really excited to have her here today as we
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dive into this episode Teach me today, Nicole, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm well, thank you? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
No, I'm doing exceedingly well. Great to have you. We're
going to dive into this episode. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.
Whenever there's a film by Kirk, I'm so there for it.
You know, it's just it's just too funny for words,
and that may have been the best film by Kirk
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ever made. That might be the one, but anyway, let
me let me do this synopsis. Luke learns that Jess
is flunking out of school and ask Roy to tutor him.
But a break during study session takes an unexpected turn
right into a poll actually, and that sends Roy to
the emergency room. Directed by Steve Robin, writer Amy Sherman Palladino,
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The Inevitable. So we start out with Taylor coming in
the diner, barging in Laurel I wanting to usurp his power, no,
actually in his own storet in Dozie's Market as they're
choosing or Dosie's tailor, Josie's chosen the Yearling for a
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movie night, Laurel I ob Jackson and so Taylor is
just so fed up with gatting resistance that he puts
her in charge of selecting this year's movie, that year's movie.
So he complicates things when he gives the list of
movies available for movie night, and she ends up choosing Yearling. Anyway,
and you know this iconic universe that has been created
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here easton one of our segment producers and actually starring
in his own segment on this On this podcast, he's
spoken to one of Kirk Film's story Mary Lynn Rask.
She's brilliantly funny, talented Nicole. What do you think is
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opening movie in the Square night? Is such a fun idea?
Have you ever been to something like that?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes? Well, you know, I'm always up for a movie
at the pool, you know, any kind of outdoor I
went to Clueless and they the premiere of Clueless and
it was on the beach. Like I love an outside
gathering and watching of a movie. It's always a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So you've been in a lot of iconic films in
your career. If you had to pick one of the
films that you've been in for Stars Hall of Movie Night,
what would it be?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh gosh, I'm not really sure. Okay, I guess I
would go with an oldie, but a goodie, rich and
famous Candice Bergen, Jack Limbusset. Wow, directed by George Coocker. Right,
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go with that one.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It was a fun movie. So, yeah, I played a
young Meg Ryan. I remember Conic for me?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, that was oh wow. All right, Jess, this is
a big episode for Jess. He's got some issues. Luke
has to go on the principal and Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
tells me or Luke that Jess, as smart as he is,
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is flunking out. He just stinks showing up. He's not
putting in the effort. And nobody cares how smart you
are if you don't show up and put in the effort. So,
you know, Luke confronts him about it, and and Jess
just kind of blows him off and has that devastating
line as he's leaving, well maybe I'll end up a
diner owner, you know What's just like wow, you want
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to smack him or what. Luke then asked Rory if
she will tutor Jess, and she agrees, and this sets
in motion this major storyline and he's kind applications. Nicole,
do you think I mean, it's it's pretty obvious that
Rory feels something for Jess. Or do you think that
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it's more about for Rory, more about rebellion?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Listen. I think he is very entrepreneurial. I think he's
a kid that I would like in real life. He's
not that into school, that's okay. I think he's putting
in the effort and I think he's willing to put
in the effort anywhere that is not at school or
that he's not told. So if he's interested in her
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or not, maybe maybe the idea of it, it's just
it's something he knows he's not supposed to be doing.
So I feel like he's all in right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, he's very cleverly positioning himself as you know, the
next guy in her life. You know, he's not I mean,
he's being pushy, but at the same time not being
too pushy. He's being laid back and aggressive at the
same time, you know. And and it's it's fun to watch,
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you know, it's fun to watch her just sort of
eventually kind of see him and look at him and like, hmm,
this guy made me smile. She smiles a couple of times.
She really approves of this at a certain point.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And I think we see him listen and get her
too a little bit, Like he starts to appreciate her
and like for what her values and what you know,
she's interested in, and it sort of wakes that part
of him up too.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So yeah, these two, these two are nervous around one another.
He's playing it really cool. She's playing it trying to
play it cool, but they just you know, they're falling.
They're falling for each other, and it's kind of it's
nice to watch, isn't it? Well acted, well written, beautifully written,
and you know you just man, I found myself just
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sort of going right into the screen and like, yeah,
all right, this is gonna work. These guys really, you know,
they they they make each other nervous and it's fun
to watch. So Luke tries to avoid telling Larela about
asking Rory to be the tutor. If he knew what
it make her up, that it would make her upset,
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why did he still ask?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, she's a bit of a helicopter parent, right, so
I feel like she's gonna she's gonna say no, even
if it's a good idea for him not you know,
it's always better to ask for forgiveness, right than to
ask her permission. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I think they're both justified. I think she's right and
he's right. He doesn't want just to fail, so he's
gonna ask Rory, and yeah, I'm for that, And and
Laura is gonna bat him away because you know, she
knows what he is. She knows he's trouble. She knows
it's not gonna app well, so they're kind of both
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in the right. Yeah. Yeah, I think Rory, to answer
this question, is excited to spend more time with Jess.
She's just being she's just trying to play it, play
it off in front of her mother. But but she
sees it. Laurel I sees it, and it's like, kid,
you're not fooling me. She's and Laurel is in a
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tough spot. She knows there's really nothing she can do
or say to stop it. She can just try to
mitigate the dam I'm make sure the time spent on
funny scene in the Dina when she's delaying leaving, not
allowing the tutorial to begin, and Jess sees that. You know,
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he works that into his routine, all right, the tutoring session.
The actually we have you ever been so excited to
see a tutoring session on television. It's like, you know
what's going to happen, you know, just he does just
about everything to not study, and it's driving Rory a
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little bit crazy. And then they go for an ice cream.
They take a little study break and in the car,
Rory asks Jess White doesn't try and school. He's so
much potentially so smart. Obviously, he says there's He says
there's no point because he isn't going to college and
that I don't know how that make you feel.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I mean, I'm not a I don't think you need
to go to college anymore. I don't think that if
you want to go and you know what you want
to study, great, If you don't, you can still be
very successful in life without it. So that's where I
stand on the subject.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Rory tells jes her plans to go into Harvard and
becoming a journalist. He tells her her plans seem a
little too rough for her being a war correspondent or
wanting to have Christian Poor's career, and she's she's not
She's not tough enough for that. That's too rough for her.
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What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, that's a whole other conversation to be had, right,
But you know, the funny thing about it is, I
feel like maybe she didn't really think about it, and
she had a moment of like, oh, maybe I didn't
put a lot of thought into that part of it.
There was that aspect she had a moment of like, yeah,
I didn't really think about all of that, but you
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know he needs to be straightened out. Women women can
do this job.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, I say, can, and they must. So Jess actually
gives Worthy the option of going back to Luke's study
or turning right to drive around a little more. He
really wasn't offering her an option. He was just enticing
her to more fun banter, which of course she agreed to.
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So she tells him to turn right, and and just
like Laurel, I was afraid of it's being around Jess
influencing Rory to be rebellious.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Well, she shouldn't let him drive. I mean, let's be honest.
It was her car she's driving, right, women, You know,
women can drive too, They can have these news jobs
and they can drive. I mean, I think it's those
are the red flags flailing right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Maybe Rory's driving and the action is caused by Jess
leaning over to try to kiss her or something. I
don't know. I'm not going to rewrite it. Rory seems
drawn to Jess's edge here, and you can really see
it in this scene, in her silence and the way
she looks at him. I mean, did you go through
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a bad boy face? Do most women go through a
bad boy face? Or what is that all about? What
is Jess's function in her life here? I mean, what
is going on with this kid?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right? I think everybody has to experience one. You have
to to know that it's bad, to know that it's
not for you. You know, you have to give into that
enticing bad boy, but you know you soon realize it's
it's not the way and good guys are are the
better option. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, now she's at the hospital and she calls her
mother and she's gotten into an accident with Jess swerving
to avoid hitting an animal Okay, a squirrel or a
rat or whatever it was. Uh, Laurel. I rushed at
the hospital and the doctor tells her Rory's wrist is fractured.
That's a little bit devastating for a parent, you know,
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that's like what could have happened? What could have been
got away with a fractured wrist? The house severe? Could
it have been Nicole or you? Calm and Christ, this
is the crises.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I am now at this point in my life. I
don't think you could throw much more at me. And
yes now I am, but for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
No, uh huh, Hey, everybody, make sure to catch me
on the convention circuit on September fifth, sixth, and seventh.
I'll be a Smoky Mountain FanFest in Kingsport, Tennessee. A
Weekend in the Life in New Milford, Connecticut, September twelfth, thirteenth,
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and fourteenth. Yes, I will be there on the thirteenth
that Saturday, New Milford, Connecticut, Destination Stars Hollow in Brighton, Michigan,
September twenty and possibly the twenty first. Hope to see
everybody there. And it was a nice scene in the hospital, again,
very very well written. We really see how much she cares,
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how angry she is, and now she's she's going, she's
she's leaving the hospital and she's going somewhere. We don't
know where she's going, but we figured she's going to
go look for for Jess because she she's gonna open
up a can of what bess on him. But she
and she touched. But she goes to Luke's to find him.
Where is he? Gotta tell you that was a really
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fun scene. That was a fun scene because we you know,
Lauren and I had a lot of on screen conflict
but that was particularly fun because it was physical because
I was trying to stop her and I had to
she was rushing upstairs, and you know, those scenes are
always kind of fun. They're so fast paced and there's
energy and you got to keep the energy going, and
it's just it's just a lot of fun to do.
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And she was fun to do them with, because man,
that's like a nuclear power plant you're working with right there.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So she runs into Luke tells him it's all his
fault for bringing Just Starts home and pushing Rory and
just together. He apologizes for what just did to Roy,
but he tells Laura that he needs to find Jess
to make sure he is okay. So he's concerned about
his nephew. Laura, I tells Luke to go to how
they have it out in the town square, and he
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comes back at her, you know, like he just says
right back at you, and he leaves and he finds
just by a laking's just smoking a cigarette and he's
really down in the mouth. And nice, nice tender scene,
very very It really made me see Jess who he
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was and how lonely he was and how difficult his
life has been. And how he just I don't know,
he needed Luke. It was a really sweet scene. What
do you think of that? It's a heated moment between
Luke and Laurel. I again, wonderful to work in those
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kinds of scenes with actors of this caliber. And I
think the question here, Nicole, would you or would I
have reacted the same way as laurla did after an
accident like that with our kid? Or is she being
unreasonable yelling it looked like that. What do you think?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Well, you know, yes and no. It's like she is concerned,
she knew, she saw the red flags. She didn't want
this to happen. She had that mother's intuition that this
was bad, bad, bad, she called it, and she was right,
you know. So there's that part of it. Then there's
the other part of like, yeah, really not nothing terrible happened,
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Nothing outrageous happened. They had a little accident. Things like
this happened. You got to get through them. So in
the moment, you're gonna be upset, Yeah, you're gonna be
upset your kid just was in a car accident.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
These are relationship killers, though, right, These are those moments
where those fights break out and everything gets ugly and
it's like, wow, I am on the other side of this,
and I don't know who this person is or why
they're talking to me that way. And I was just
trying to do right for my nephew, you know, and
he needed it, and you know, stuff happens, but I
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don't know. I think I would have popped too.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, these are the moments where you have to not
speak right, you have to go take time and cool
off and then come back. But we don't have that
kind of time on a TV show, No we do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
We got we got to get to the commercial when
they had commercials. Well, do you think Luke's reaction was
also warranted or was it a little?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yes, this is this is the story of two things
are true here. You know, they're each looking out for
the best interests of the kid, and they're very different interests.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right right, Well, Jess does say at the bridge that
he made sure Rory was okay. He knows that he
stepped in it now and it's bad and he knows that.
And the sad thing is, you know how well we'll
get to that, but how he left he left town,
that's very sad, and you know, Yeah, I think it
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was a way of just showing his love for her
in a way, right and saying he's sorry to Luke
all in one. He doesn't know what to do. He's
just overwhelmed with his own feelings. Poor kid. Yeah, and
it just, you know, that scene just made me focus
on that question. You know, how do you punish a kid?
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You know, seventeen sixteen, you know, and so many kids
get in trouble and they you know, their passions overwhelmed them,
and they get in these situations and like who gets
thrown away? Who gets thrown in jail? Who gets tossed aside?
And I don't know, I just kept thinking there ought
to be a law against bad parents. Too many laws
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against bad kids, not enough laws against bad parents. So anyway,
all right, now we have Christopher. Christopher shows up on
the scene. He's very concerned. Lorelei calls Chris. He becomes
very concerned, so he drives Star Soliby with Laurlai and Rury.
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He wakes up next to Laurlei in Rory's room, sleeping
on a chair with his daughter asleep in the bed
with a cast on her arm. You know, they apologize
to each other about that fight they had in the
diner in the previous episode or a couple episodes back
when when you know, Christopher thought she was being condescending
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and he really just laid her out right and you know,
right in front of look too, and not one of
his finest moments. I think, I mean, maybe somewhat justify
a little bit, but he really took it far. Does
this make him redeemable? What he's doing now? It seems
like this character always shows up at very convenient times
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when things are so bad for Luke and Laurel. I
but what do you think, is this guy redeemable?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Everybody's redeemable? I want to believe. I want to believe,
but you know, you know it's yes, he's showing up.
I just I would hate to see what happened. If
something really serious happens, like you know this is, if
it takes a fractured risk to bring them together, then
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so be it, right? Right?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
How many fathers out there that are dealing with all
kinds of issues, right whatever whatever they might be, and
they've been schmucks for fifteen years and out of the picture,
and then one day they show up and they say
I'm here, I'm going to try and I and I
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and I want to love and I and I'm sorry.
Who's going to say no? And that's power, that's power.
That's powerful. But it's yeah, it's up to the kid, right,
the kids. So you're right about that. It's up to
the kid. So if it's okay for the kid, then
it's okay. If if the kid says it's okay, then
it's okay. But then the then the other parent has
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to step in and say, whoa wait a minute, is
this really the best thing? So there are all those
questions flying around. But I think in this situation, it's like,
why why would you deny him an opportunity? If he's
he's turned over a new leaf, you know, and really
wants to be in and and make up for lost time.
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We would want to see that in every every delinquent father.
We want to see that in every single one of them.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So anyway, you get the sense the call that Christopher
is not terribly happy in his relationship and he sees
this as a real opportunity to kind of get back
into her good graces because he's really he's fighting it
uphill battle.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, he really is, but any effort is good effort.
I mean, I'm a single mom. I come from a
place where I would appreciate that effort. And you know,
it's family forever. It's one of those things like you
you think it's not, but it is. It's forever, and
you're going to forever love that person because your child
is made up of half of that person's Can you
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see that person in your child every day so that
you can't help but love each other. So it's good
to cut through the bs, right right?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I agree? All right, Now we get to the greatest
moment in Gilmore Girl's history, which is a film by Kirk.
It's a short film, and Lorala I chooses to grant
Kirk his ask of, you know, being the opening band
for the Yearling. Okay, he's going to open up for
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the Yearling with a short film that he's been working
on for five years and if he rushes, he could
probably get it finished in a couple of days. Of
my law, I just can't take it. He's so funny.
That character is so funny. Chris attends the festival and
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with Rory and they and they both say they like
having Christopher around. He's there he's at in the town Square,
sitting in a chair watching this bizarre film by Kirk
and love it every minute of it. And then Laura
and Rory overhear Miss Patty and be Bet saying that
Luke sent Jess back home to his mom. What a moment,
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What a moment? Luke sends just home? Must have been
a difficult choice for him.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Do we think it was a mutual agreement, because again
we're hearing this gossip ye secondhand, right, do we think
that Luke really just gave up and sent him home?
Or do you think they had a you know, a
mutual understanding and agreement that maybe it was best for
him not to stay there. And I was really heartbreaking.
That's a heartbreaking part for me. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, but that for me is an example of great
writing because we don't know and we speculate and we
participate in it, right, And I'm just like, what was
that scene? Like, we didn't see that scene, right, it
wasn't written, but man, we wrote it in our heads
and it's a different scene for everybody. And what was it?
And isn't that great? You know, not just so clever? Well,
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you think Luke did it for Laurel, I you think
maybe that's a possibility. I mean it is. But what
do you think happened there? What happened on that doc? Yeah,
that's that's what happened on Did he say you got
to go? Or did he wait till the next morning
he says you got to go.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I would like to think he didn't say you have
to go. I would like to think that they both
said maybe it's best, like this is probably better if
I don't involve myself here anymore and move on, because
I would hate to think that Luke would break his
heart like that and just also discard him after the
conversation they just had.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Right, right, right? But what's he going back to?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, that's not a choice, right, this is this
is my sister can't handle it. He can't, She can't
handle him. She can't handle her own appetites. You know,
it's not a good situation.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
No, But then does Luke sort of also have some
of those characteristics because maybe he can't handle it either.
He's like, Okay, this is too much for me.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I don't know. Life gets tough here, right, Let's get
that life gets tough. You think if Jess had stayed,
Luke and Laurel I would have still have this big
wedge between them.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, well, we don't know, right, I mean, this could
have brought them closer together, could have created another war,
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You think that that temperature is too much for this show?
Just stays, Laurel is offended, there's ice, there's stairs, they
don't well, they don't go to the diner anymore, oh okay,
or Laurel I has to just sort of really make
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these overtures to get back into sort of a normal
flow of her day or her life, knowing that you know,
Luke didn't care. I mean, I don't know, right.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Right, And it's like it's like the their relationship and
then the kids are like the mini me of them, right,
They're like the little mirrored And if Rory and Jess
had got together, then you know, this could lead into
a whole mess too, because it could get Rory off
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track and you know, yeah, this could be disastrous.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's like it's just too much. Jess was just it
was too much. It was like the kid was just
screwing up all over the place. How many chances do
you give a kid? Right?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I mean, he's well, you give them all the chances think,
But yeah, I I you know you can't go messing
up everybody else's life too, Go figure it out.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's where I guess Luke drew the line. Now you're
messing up. It's like, you can mess with me. I
can handle it, but it starts bleeding out into my
friendships and my relations with the people I love. Now
we have a real problem because that's just outright disrespect,
disrespect me in my home. I can handle that. I
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can deal with that. I know you're a kid in pain.
You mess up my friends, that's where you teach the lesson.
Go learn, come back with some growth, right, better person.
There's going to be a lot of fallout from this incident.
I think I already know the answers. But would you
forgive Jess?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yes I would, I definitely would. But I get it
because it's not only messing with Luke's friendship, it's the
friendship with a child too, right, it's another child's life.
So now that he's he's bringing this bad influence around
and he doesn't want to be responsible for that. But
in real life, in real life, we've got to give
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them all the chances.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Chess is not valuing any of these people. He's not
valuing any of these relationships. He's just trying to get inside.
He's the guy who can't handle anybody else except his target,
and his target is Rory, and he thinks Rory's going
to save him, and that's not going to happen. He
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doesn't know that yet. Guys like that don't know that
she's not going to save you. All that's going to
happen is you're gonna mess her up. She's gonna dump you,
and you're gonna be an intense pain. Nothing is. You'll
grow from that, but you're not gonna learn as much.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Agreed.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Were you gonna miss Jess?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I mean yes, I kind of like it's you know,
it's the whole Luke and Lorelei in many versions.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
They have such a great chemistry those two. Isn't it wonderful?
I just I just love their scenes together. There's that
suck great. Yeah, all right, let's talk about you, Nicole.
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You played Aubrey in season two, episode seven, Like Motherlike Daughter.
What do you remember about filming that day? You weren't nervous?
I mean, you're you're a prose pro right.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So yeah, I mean it's always a little nerve racking,
right going onto a set, especially an established set where
everybody knows each other, need to really know anybody, and
you're only there for a short period of time. So
there's that part. But that's exciting too, and it was
a fun character. The writing is fantastic, like it just
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it was a good time. It wasn't all around good time.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
But what was it like working that scene with Lauren?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I didn't, you know, I actually didn't have a lot
with her, Unfortunately I didn't. But she's you know, she's approached.
It's so great to watch her, and everybody in the
scene was fantastic there. I got to be around a
lot of great actresses. So yeah, it's a fun day.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So compare that experience on Gilmore Girls to your time
on shows like Charles and Charles and bay Watch. Similar,
completely different.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well just like Baywatch, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Lots of bathing suits and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The first thing that came to mind, just like jay.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Watch, especially Gilmore Girls was inspired by Baywatch. There's a
rescue seeing out at sea.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Very different, controlled environment, lovely, yeah, very different. But I
would imagine walking on to like a set of Baywatch
would be intimidating too, because complete chaos, you know, chaos
and action and different crews happening, and it's Yeah, So did.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I do enough sit ups?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Really?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Do I have to take my shirt off?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I can't eat very much at lunch. This sucks, you
know what's going on? Yeah? Since having your daughter, has
your perspective or feelings about the show changed?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, I have two children and they are light years
apart from each other. They're thirteen years apart. So I've
been very two very different parents. I very different, and
you know, I'm I'm very I'm way more laid back,
and I'm much more about go experience at all. Go
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go experience it and let's talk about it after. I
don't helicopter a lot. So yeah, I have a very
different approach. Although with my oldest back then, I probably
would have been. I probably was much more trying to
be in control of it and trying to, you know,
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maneuver things. But I have learned in my life that
that is not possible or healthy for any of us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Does your daughter and any of our friends watch Gilmore?
Do they recognize your episode when it pops up?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes, which is hilarious. My fourteen year old, not my oldest,
but my fourteen year old. Yes, one of her best
friends was sitting in the back seat the other day
and she's like, and there you are. Gilmore Girls, my
favorite show, and there you are. And you know we laugh, yes,
because I'm the mom that carpools everybody. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So you have your own podcast, idea perfectly perfectly twisted,
tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It's you know, it's fun. It's about anything and everything,
and we just talk about whatever's happening on my mind.
We talk a lot about Bravo too, and my co
host Dave is a sports guy, so we do talk
some sports occasionally. And yeah, I just have different guests.
It's variety, wide, variety from health. Yesterday we just had
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the bookie who's waiting sentencing for the the big gambling
scandal that happened with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, so we had Matthew on.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
What kind of time is he facing?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It's not too bad, I think, yeah, yeah, which is
to say, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I've done that. I mean I just got out. You know,
it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I don't leave the house for years.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I have new friends now, it's not so bad.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, easy, easy to say, no big deal, but you
know what he could be phasing. It's a big deal
with idiot's five kids. So it's like, you know, as
a wife, tragic. But he'll he'll be out.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah yeah, all right. I loved catching up with you,
really enjoyed our time. And please come back. We we
there's there's more to cover with Nicole Eggert. Uh. Check
out her podcast, Perfectly Twisted, Uh what where is it?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Who's Everywhere you? Podcast? And you can also go to
perfectly Twisted pod dot com. And we've got a website
where you can watch and listen or just listen whatever
you want.
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Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all in Podcast, one
of them productions. iHeartRadio Media, iHeart Podcasts. Recap Season two,
episode nineteen, Teach Me Tonight with the one and only
Nicole Eggert. Yes, Ladies and gentlemen, she is here. She's
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an actress best known for role as Jamie Powell in
the sitcom Charles in Charge and Summer Quinn on Baywatch.
He's also guest starred on shows like The Super Mario Brothers,
Super show Boy Meets World End, Yes, Gilmore Girls. In
case you missed it, she played Aubrey, one of the
DR members in season two episode seven, Like Motherlike Daughter.
We're really excited to have her here today as we
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dive into this episode Teach me today, Nicole, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm well, thank you? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
No, I'm doing exceedingly well. Great to have you. We're
going to dive into this episode. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.
Whenever there's a film by Kirk, I'm so there for it.
You know, it's just it's just too funny for words,
and that may have been the best film by Kirk
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ever made. That might be the one, but anyway, let
me let me do this synopsis. Luke learns that Jess
is flunking out of school and ask Roy to tutor him.
But a break during study session takes an unexpected turn
right into a poll actually, and that sends Roy to
the emergency room. Directed by Steve Robin, writer Amy Sherman Palladino,
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The Inevitable. So we start out with Taylor coming in
the diner, barging in Laurel I wanting to usurp his power, no,
actually in his own storet in Dozie's Market as they're
choosing or Dosie's tailor, Josie's chosen the Yearling for a
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movie night, Laurel I ob Jackson and so Taylor is
just so fed up with gatting resistance that he puts
her in charge of selecting this year's movie, that year's movie.
So he complicates things when he gives the list of
movies available for movie night, and she ends up choosing Yearling. Anyway,
and you know this iconic universe that has been created
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here easton one of our segment producers and actually starring
in his own segment on this On this podcast, he's
spoken to one of Kirk Film's story Mary Lynn Rask.
She's brilliantly funny, talented Nicole. What do you think is
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opening movie in the Square night? Is such a fun idea?
Have you ever been to something like that?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes? Well, you know, I'm always up for a movie
at the pool, you know, any kind of outdoor I
went to Clueless and they the premiere of Clueless and
it was on the beach. Like I love an outside
gathering and watching of a movie. It's always a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So you've been in a lot of iconic films in
your career. If you had to pick one of the
films that you've been in for Stars Hall of Movie Night,
what would it be?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh gosh, I'm not really sure. Okay, I guess I
would go with an oldie, but a goodie, rich and
famous Candice Bergen, Jack Limbusset. Wow, directed by George Coocker. Right,
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go with that one.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It was a fun movie. So, yeah, I played a
young Meg Ryan. I remember Conic for me?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, that was oh wow. All right, Jess, this is
a big episode for Jess. He's got some issues. Luke
has to go on the principal and Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
tells me or Luke that Jess, as smart as he is,
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is flunking out. He just stinks showing up. He's not
putting in the effort. And nobody cares how smart you
are if you don't show up and put in the effort. So,
you know, Luke confronts him about it, and and Jess
just kind of blows him off and has that devastating
line as he's leaving, well maybe I'll end up a
diner owner, you know What's just like wow, you want
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to smack him or what. Luke then asked Rory if
she will tutor Jess, and she agrees, and this sets
in motion this major storyline and he's kind applications. Nicole,
do you think I mean, it's it's pretty obvious that
Rory feels something for Jess. Or do you think that
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it's more about for Rory, more about rebellion?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Listen. I think he is very entrepreneurial. I think he's
a kid that I would like in real life. He's
not that into school, that's okay. I think he's putting
in the effort and I think he's willing to put
in the effort anywhere that is not at school or
that he's not told. So if he's interested in her
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or not, maybe maybe the idea of it, it's just
it's something he knows he's not supposed to be doing.
So I feel like he's all in right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, he's very cleverly positioning himself as you know, the
next guy in her life. You know, he's not I mean,
he's being pushy, but at the same time not being
too pushy. He's being laid back and aggressive at the
same time, you know. And and it's it's fun to watch,
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you know, it's fun to watch her just sort of
eventually kind of see him and look at him and like, hmm,
this guy made me smile. She smiles a couple of times.
She really approves of this at a certain point.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And I think we see him listen and get her
too a little bit, Like he starts to appreciate her
and like for what her values and what you know,
she's interested in, and it sort of wakes that part
of him up too.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So yeah, these two, these two are nervous around one another.
He's playing it really cool. She's playing it trying to
play it cool, but they just you know, they're falling.
They're falling for each other, and it's kind of it's
nice to watch, isn't it? Well acted, well written, beautifully written,
and you know you just man, I found myself just
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sort of going right into the screen and like, yeah,
all right, this is gonna work. These guys really, you know,
they they they make each other nervous and it's fun
to watch. So Luke tries to avoid telling Larela about
asking Rory to be the tutor. If he knew what
it make her up, that it would make her upset,
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why did he still ask?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well, she's a bit of a helicopter parent, right, so
I feel like she's gonna she's gonna say no, even
if it's a good idea for him not you know,
it's always better to ask for forgiveness, right than to
ask her permission. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I think they're both justified. I think she's right and
he's right. He doesn't want just to fail, so he's
gonna ask Rory, and yeah, I'm for that, And and
Laura is gonna bat him away because you know, she
knows what he is. She knows he's trouble. She knows
it's not gonna app well, so they're kind of both
(08:03):
in the right. Yeah. Yeah, I think Rory, to answer
this question, is excited to spend more time with Jess.
She's just being she's just trying to play it, play
it off in front of her mother. But but she
sees it. Laurel I sees it, and it's like, kid,
you're not fooling me. She's and Laurel is in a
(08:27):
tough spot. She knows there's really nothing she can do
or say to stop it. She can just try to
mitigate the dam I'm make sure the time spent on
funny scene in the Dina when she's delaying leaving, not
allowing the tutorial to begin, and Jess sees that. You know,
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he works that into his routine, all right, the tutoring session.
The actually we have you ever been so excited to
see a tutoring session on television. It's like, you know
what's going to happen, you know, just he does just
about everything to not study, and it's driving Rory a
(09:09):
little bit crazy. And then they go for an ice cream.
They take a little study break and in the car,
Rory asks Jess White doesn't try and school. He's so
much potentially so smart. Obviously, he says there's He says
there's no point because he isn't going to college and
that I don't know how that make you feel.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I mean, I'm not a I don't think you need
to go to college anymore. I don't think that if
you want to go and you know what you want
to study, great, If you don't, you can still be
very successful in life without it. So that's where I
stand on the subject.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Rory tells jes her plans to go into Harvard and
becoming a journalist. He tells her her plans seem a
little too rough for her being a war correspondent or
wanting to have Christian Poor's career, and she's she's not
She's not tough enough for that. That's too rough for her.
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What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, that's a whole other conversation to be had, right,
But you know, the funny thing about it is, I
feel like maybe she didn't really think about it, and
she had a moment of like, oh, maybe I didn't
put a lot of thought into that part of it.
There was that aspect she had a moment of like, yeah,
I didn't really think about all of that, but you
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know he needs to be straightened out. Women women can
do this job.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, I say, can, and they must. So Jess actually
gives Worthy the option of going back to Luke's study
or turning right to drive around a little more. He
really wasn't offering her an option. He was just enticing
her to more fun banter, which of course she agreed to.
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So she tells him to turn right, and and just
like Laurel, I was afraid of it's being around Jess
influencing Rory to be rebellious.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Well, she shouldn't let him drive. I mean, let's be honest.
It was her car she's driving, right, women, You know,
women can drive too, They can have these news jobs
and they can drive. I mean, I think it's those
are the red flags flailing right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Maybe Rory's driving and the action is caused by Jess
leaning over to try to kiss her or something. I
don't know. I'm not going to rewrite it. Rory seems
drawn to Jess's edge here, and you can really see
it in this scene, in her silence and the way
she looks at him. I mean, did you go through
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a bad boy face? Do most women go through a
bad boy face? Or what is that all about? What
is Jess's function in her life here? I mean, what
is going on with this kid?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right? I think everybody has to experience one. You have
to to know that it's bad, to know that it's
not for you. You know, you have to give into that
enticing bad boy, but you know you soon realize it's
it's not the way and good guys are are the
better option. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, now she's at the hospital and she calls her
mother and she's gotten into an accident with Jess swerving
to avoid hitting an animal Okay, a squirrel or a
rat or whatever it was. Uh, Laurel. I rushed at
the hospital and the doctor tells her Rory's wrist is fractured.
That's a little bit devastating for a parent, you know,
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that's like what could have happened? What could have been
got away with a fractured wrist? The house severe? Could
it have been Nicole or you? Calm and Christ, this
is the crises.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I am now at this point in my life. I
don't think you could throw much more at me. And
yes now I am, but for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
No, uh huh, Hey, everybody, make sure to catch me
on the convention circuit on September fifth, sixth, and seventh.
I'll be a Smoky Mountain FanFest in Kingsport, Tennessee. A
Weekend in the Life in New Milford, Connecticut, September twelfth, thirteenth,
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and fourteenth. Yes, I will be there on the thirteenth
that Saturday, New Milford, Connecticut, Destination Stars Hollow in Brighton, Michigan,
September twenty and possibly the twenty first. Hope to see
everybody there. And it was a nice scene in the hospital, again,
very very well written. We really see how much she cares,
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how angry she is, and now she's she's going, she's
she's leaving the hospital and she's going somewhere. We don't
know where she's going, but we figured she's going to
go look for for Jess because she she's gonna open
up a can of what bess on him. But she
and she touched. But she goes to Luke's to find him.
Where is he? Gotta tell you that was a really
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fun scene. That was a fun scene because we you know,
Lauren and I had a lot of on screen conflict
but that was particularly fun because it was physical because
I was trying to stop her and I had to
she was rushing upstairs, and you know, those scenes are
always kind of fun. They're so fast paced and there's
energy and you got to keep the energy going, and
it's just it's just a lot of fun to do.
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And she was fun to do them with, because man,
that's like a nuclear power plant you're working with right there.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So she runs into Luke tells him it's all his
fault for bringing Just Starts home and pushing Rory and
just together. He apologizes for what just did to Roy,
but he tells Laura that he needs to find Jess
to make sure he is okay. So he's concerned about
his nephew. Laura, I tells Luke to go to how
they have it out in the town square, and he
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comes back at her, you know, like he just says
right back at you, and he leaves and he finds
just by a laking's just smoking a cigarette and he's
really down in the mouth. And nice, nice tender scene,
very very It really made me see Jess who he
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was and how lonely he was and how difficult his
life has been. And how he just I don't know,
he needed Luke. It was a really sweet scene. What
do you think of that? It's a heated moment between
Luke and Laurel. I again, wonderful to work in those
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kinds of scenes with actors of this caliber. And I
think the question here, Nicole, would you or would I
have reacted the same way as laurla did after an
accident like that with our kid? Or is she being
unreasonable yelling it looked like that. What do you think?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Well, you know, yes and no. It's like she is concerned,
she knew, she saw the red flags. She didn't want
this to happen. She had that mother's intuition that this
was bad, bad, bad, she called it, and she was right,
you know. So there's that part of it. Then there's
the other part of like, yeah, really not nothing terrible happened,
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Nothing outrageous happened. They had a little accident. Things like
this happened. You got to get through them. So in
the moment, you're gonna be upset, Yeah, you're gonna be
upset your kid just was in a car accident.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
These are relationship killers, though, right, These are those moments
where those fights break out and everything gets ugly and
it's like, wow, I am on the other side of this,
and I don't know who this person is or why
they're talking to me that way. And I was just
trying to do right for my nephew, you know, and
he needed it, and you know, stuff happens, but I
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don't know. I think I would have popped too.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, these are the moments where you have to not
speak right, you have to go take time and cool
off and then come back. But we don't have that
kind of time on a TV show, No we do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
We got we got to get to the commercial when
they had commercials. Well, do you think Luke's reaction was
also warranted or was it a little?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yes, this is this is the story of two things
are true here. You know, they're each looking out for
the best interests of the kid, and they're very different interests.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right right, Well, Jess does say at the bridge that
he made sure Rory was okay. He knows that he
stepped in it now and it's bad and he knows that.
And the sad thing is, you know how well we'll
get to that, but how he left he left town,
that's very sad, and you know, Yeah, I think it
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was a way of just showing his love for her
in a way, right and saying he's sorry to Luke
all in one. He doesn't know what to do. He's
just overwhelmed with his own feelings. Poor kid. Yeah, and
it just, you know, that scene just made me focus
on that question. You know, how do you punish a kid?
(18:33):
You know, seventeen sixteen, you know, and so many kids
get in trouble and they you know, their passions overwhelmed them,
and they get in these situations and like who gets
thrown away? Who gets thrown in jail? Who gets tossed aside?
And I don't know, I just kept thinking there ought
to be a law against bad parents. Too many laws
(18:56):
against bad kids, not enough laws against bad parents. So anyway,
all right, now we have Christopher. Christopher shows up on
the scene. He's very concerned. Lorelei calls Chris. He becomes
very concerned, so he drives Star Soliby with Laurlai and Rury.
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He wakes up next to Laurlei in Rory's room, sleeping
on a chair with his daughter asleep in the bed
with a cast on her arm. You know, they apologize
to each other about that fight they had in the
diner in the previous episode or a couple episodes back
when when you know, Christopher thought she was being condescending
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and he really just laid her out right and you know,
right in front of look too, and not one of
his finest moments. I think, I mean, maybe somewhat justify
a little bit, but he really took it far. Does
this make him redeemable? What he's doing now? It seems
like this character always shows up at very convenient times
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when things are so bad for Luke and Laurel. I
but what do you think, is this guy redeemable?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Everybody's redeemable? I want to believe. I want to believe,
but you know, you know it's yes, he's showing up.
I just I would hate to see what happened. If
something really serious happens, like you know this is, if
it takes a fractured risk to bring them together, then
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so be it, right? Right?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
How many fathers out there that are dealing with all
kinds of issues, right whatever whatever they might be, and
they've been schmucks for fifteen years and out of the picture,
and then one day they show up and they say
I'm here, I'm going to try and I and I
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and I want to love and I and I'm sorry.
Who's going to say no? And that's power, that's power.
That's powerful. But it's yeah, it's up to the kid, right,
the kids. So you're right about that. It's up to
the kid. So if it's okay for the kid, then
it's okay. If if the kid says it's okay, then
it's okay. But then the then the other parent has
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to step in and say, whoa wait a minute, is
this really the best thing? So there are all those
questions flying around. But I think in this situation, it's like,
why why would you deny him an opportunity? If he's
he's turned over a new leaf, you know, and really
wants to be in and and make up for lost time.
(21:35):
We would want to see that in every every delinquent father.
We want to see that in every single one of them.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So anyway, you get the sense the call that Christopher
is not terribly happy in his relationship and he sees
this as a real opportunity to kind of get back
into her good graces because he's really he's fighting it
uphill battle.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, he really is, but any effort is good effort.
I mean, I'm a single mom. I come from a
place where I would appreciate that effort. And you know,
it's family forever. It's one of those things like you
you think it's not, but it is. It's forever, and
you're going to forever love that person because your child
is made up of half of that person's Can you
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see that person in your child every day so that
you can't help but love each other. So it's good
to cut through the bs, right right?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I agree? All right, Now we get to the greatest
moment in Gilmore Girl's history, which is a film by Kirk.
It's a short film, and Lorala I chooses to grant
Kirk his ask of, you know, being the opening band
for the Yearling. Okay, he's going to open up for
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the Yearling with a short film that he's been working
on for five years and if he rushes, he could
probably get it finished in a couple of days. Of
my law, I just can't take it. He's so funny.
That character is so funny. Chris attends the festival and
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with Rory and they and they both say they like
having Christopher around. He's there he's at in the town Square,
sitting in a chair watching this bizarre film by Kirk
and love it every minute of it. And then Laura
and Rory overhear Miss Patty and be Bet saying that
Luke sent Jess back home to his mom. What a moment,
(23:39):
What a moment? Luke sends just home? Must have been
a difficult choice for him.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Do we think it was a mutual agreement, because again
we're hearing this gossip ye secondhand, right, do we think
that Luke really just gave up and sent him home?
Or do you think they had a you know, a
mutual understanding and agreement that maybe it was best for
him not to stay there. And I was really heartbreaking.
That's a heartbreaking part for me. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, but that for me is an example of great
writing because we don't know and we speculate and we
participate in it, right, And I'm just like, what was
that scene? Like, we didn't see that scene, right, it
wasn't written, but man, we wrote it in our heads
and it's a different scene for everybody. And what was it?
And isn't that great? You know, not just so clever? Well,
(24:33):
you think Luke did it for Laurel, I you think
maybe that's a possibility. I mean it is. But what
do you think happened there? What happened on that doc? Yeah,
that's that's what happened on Did he say you got
to go? Or did he wait till the next morning
he says you got to go.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I would like to think he didn't say you have
to go. I would like to think that they both
said maybe it's best, like this is probably better if
I don't involve myself here anymore and move on, because
I would hate to think that Luke would break his
heart like that and just also discard him after the
conversation they just had.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Right, right, right? But what's he going back to?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, that's not a choice, right, this is this
is my sister can't handle it. He can't, She can't
handle him. She can't handle her own appetites. You know,
it's not a good situation.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
No, But then does Luke sort of also have some
of those characteristics because maybe he can't handle it either.
He's like, Okay, this is too much for me.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I don't know. Life gets tough here, right, Let's get
that life gets tough. You think if Jess had stayed,
Luke and Laurel I would have still have this big
wedge between them.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, well, we don't know, right, I mean, this could
have brought them closer together, could have created another war,
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You think that that temperature is too much for this show?
Just stays, Laurel is offended, there's ice, there's stairs, they
don't well, they don't go to the diner anymore, oh okay,
or Laurel I has to just sort of really make
(26:22):
these overtures to get back into sort of a normal
flow of her day or her life, knowing that you know,
Luke didn't care. I mean, I don't know, right.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Right, And it's like it's like the their relationship and
then the kids are like the mini me of them, right,
They're like the little mirrored And if Rory and Jess
had got together, then you know, this could lead into
a whole mess too, because it could get Rory off
(26:56):
track and you know, yeah, this could be disastrous.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's like it's just too much. Jess was just it
was too much. It was like the kid was just
screwing up all over the place. How many chances do
you give a kid? Right?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I mean, he's well, you give them all the chances think,
But yeah, I I you know you can't go messing
up everybody else's life too, Go figure it out.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's where I guess Luke drew the line. Now you're
messing up. It's like, you can mess with me. I
can handle it, but it starts bleeding out into my
friendships and my relations with the people I love. Now
we have a real problem because that's just outright disrespect,
disrespect me in my home. I can handle that. I
(27:47):
can deal with that. I know you're a kid in pain.
You mess up my friends, that's where you teach the lesson.
Go learn, come back with some growth, right, better person.
There's going to be a lot of fallout from this incident.
I think I already know the answers. But would you
forgive Jess?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yes I would, I definitely would. But I get it
because it's not only messing with Luke's friendship, it's the
friendship with a child too, right, it's another child's life.
So now that he's he's bringing this bad influence around
and he doesn't want to be responsible for that. But
in real life, in real life, we've got to give
(28:29):
them all the chances.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Chess is not valuing any of these people. He's not
valuing any of these relationships. He's just trying to get inside.
He's the guy who can't handle anybody else except his target,
and his target is Rory, and he thinks Rory's going
to save him, and that's not going to happen. He
(28:52):
doesn't know that yet. Guys like that don't know that
she's not going to save you. All that's going to
happen is you're gonna mess her up. She's gonna dump you,
and you're gonna be an intense pain. Nothing is. You'll
grow from that, but you're not gonna learn as much.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Agreed.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Were you gonna miss Jess?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I mean yes, I kind of like it's you know,
it's the whole Luke and Lorelei in many versions.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
They have such a great chemistry those two. Isn't it wonderful?
I just I just love their scenes together. There's that
suck great. Yeah, all right, let's talk about you, Nicole.
(29:42):
You played Aubrey in season two, episode seven, Like Motherlike Daughter.
What do you remember about filming that day? You weren't nervous?
I mean, you're you're a prose pro right.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So yeah, I mean it's always a little nerve racking,
right going onto a set, especially an established set where
everybody knows each other, need to really know anybody, and
you're only there for a short period of time. So
there's that part. But that's exciting too, and it was
a fun character. The writing is fantastic, like it just
(30:13):
it was a good time. It wasn't all around good time.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
But what was it like working that scene with Lauren?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I didn't, you know, I actually didn't have a lot
with her, Unfortunately I didn't. But she's you know, she's approached.
It's so great to watch her, and everybody in the
scene was fantastic there. I got to be around a
lot of great actresses. So yeah, it's a fun day.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So compare that experience on Gilmore Girls to your time
on shows like Charles and Charles and bay Watch. Similar,
completely different.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well just like Baywatch, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Lots of bathing suits and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The first thing that came to mind, just like jay.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Watch, especially Gilmore Girls was inspired by Baywatch. There's a
rescue seeing out at sea.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Very different, controlled environment, lovely, yeah, very different. But I
would imagine walking on to like a set of Baywatch
would be intimidating too, because complete chaos, you know, chaos
and action and different crews happening, and it's Yeah, So did.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I do enough sit ups?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Really?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Do I have to take my shirt off?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I can't eat very much at lunch. This sucks, you
know what's going on? Yeah? Since having your daughter, has
your perspective or feelings about the show changed?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, I have two children and they are light years
apart from each other. They're thirteen years apart. So I've
been very two very different parents. I very different, and
you know, I'm I'm very I'm way more laid back,
and I'm much more about go experience at all. Go
(32:04):
go experience it and let's talk about it after. I
don't helicopter a lot. So yeah, I have a very
different approach. Although with my oldest back then, I probably
would have been. I probably was much more trying to
be in control of it and trying to, you know,
(32:25):
maneuver things. But I have learned in my life that
that is not possible or healthy for any of us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Does your daughter and any of our friends watch Gilmore?
Do they recognize your episode when it pops up?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes, which is hilarious. My fourteen year old, not my oldest,
but my fourteen year old. Yes, one of her best
friends was sitting in the back seat the other day
and she's like, and there you are. Gilmore Girls, my
favorite show, and there you are. And you know we laugh, yes,
because I'm the mom that carpools everybody. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So you have your own podcast, idea perfectly perfectly twisted,
tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It's you know, it's fun. It's about anything and everything,
and we just talk about whatever's happening on my mind.
We talk a lot about Bravo too, and my co
host Dave is a sports guy, so we do talk
some sports occasionally. And yeah, I just have different guests.
It's variety, wide, variety from health. Yesterday we just had
(33:27):
the bookie who's waiting sentencing for the the big gambling
scandal that happened with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, so we had Matthew on.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
What kind of time is he facing?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It's not too bad, I think, yeah, yeah, which is
to say, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I've done that. I mean I just got out. You know,
it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I don't leave the house for years.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I have new friends now, it's not so bad.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, easy, easy to say, no big deal, but you
know what he could be phasing. It's a big deal
with idiot's five kids. So it's like, you know, as
a wife, tragic. But he'll he'll be out.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah yeah, all right. I loved catching up with you,
really enjoyed our time. And please come back. We we
there's there's more to cover with Nicole Eggert. Uh. Check
out her podcast, Perfectly Twisted, Uh what where is it?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Who's Everywhere you? Podcast? And you can also go to
perfectly Twisted pod dot com. And we've got a website
where you can watch and listen or just listen whatever
you want.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Fantastic and and uh best fans on the planet. Keep
the cards and letters coming in zippity doo da and
yippie kaye. Where you lead, we will follow. Stay safe everyone, August.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Dotcat Hey, everybody, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
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