This is your pop culture for S3 E22 "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio”.
I am all in. Oh that's just you. I am all in with Scott Patterson and I Hurt Radio podcast Everybody's Scott Patterson Pop Culture, Season three, episodes twenty two. Those are Strings Pinocchio, air date May twenty, two thousand and three. And here we are. I am joined by Taras sud Danielle Romo, Amy Sugarman. The ball club is all here. Ter's a little late because she's busy. Gosh, you're busy. Were you flying around again? You were flying around again, recording doing amazing things. There your helicopter just landed in the helipad in the backyard of your mansion and your I heart mansion. And here you are. Thank you for studio RM no no, I move back in with my parents. Even better rock and roll. All right, well, let's get to it. Luke is telling Laurelai and Rory uh he and Nicole are going on an Alaska cruise, an Alaskan cruise, So Laureli the Love Boat, of course. The Love Boat was a TV series that ran from seven tow Wow, right, do you know the song that expecting you? Somebody on Instagram? Poor thing cannot get back in the saddle out of her head because of one of the great scenes sing there right in television history, you know, regardless of your of your voice, Isaac with come on, man on now, people felt good with love exciting and do right right right. We're expecting the young ones, even somebody, somebody, Yeah, I know that song too. I don't know the song I know. No, you don't know the theme song to Love boat. Oh we gotta we gotta crank that up and get edited it. Come on or pay the royalty first. Wait, wait, just let me. I'll play a little tiny piece of it. Can you play a little piece of it? Just I'm going to do it through my phone. Nobody. This is exciting, This is great. You know. It really is about the romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship Pacific princess Um. And to make the boat come alive, the production shot on two real cruise ships. There it is there, it was uh huh. I don't really think my rendition was that terrible. I think lower than the than the tempo is that? Oh yeah? But the thing is, what about it. Let's do when they do a remake, let's submit you so that you can maybe sing on that on that remake. I wonder if I would enjoy a cruise. I've never been on a cruise. You could be you know, you could be a Julie. You could be the director, you could be the new Julie. I want to be Julie for sure. I'm not good behind a bar, so I couldn't be Isaac, although I love his job. Dog. There's so many things inappropriate about the Really the doctor was like dating all the passengers like that. He was he really? You don't remember doc? He was a real Well I didn't. I didn't really watch the show that. It was like, what do you call it? A player? Like he was a real playboy? Was he really? Yeah? And he was dating his patients. That's not appropriate. I still think it's a great show. That's a great You gotta love Sorrow. Come on, I mean, Couci Couci, I know, Donny Osmond, they were all on it, Couci COUCHI, Mick, Marcia Brady, they were all there. Come on. I just wish I had gotten in acting earlier. I could have been on, could have been on the love Boat. And God bless Aaron Spelling. Aaron Spelling creative it Oh, my god, I I know, I know, the Pacific Princess, the Island Princess. Two different ships, real cruise ships were booked, and actual passengers played extras. What the heck is that? What happened? They played certain scenes that required a more authentic look. It's not it's amazing. Where was the other one? Alco Pulco? Oh, oh man, I meet you on the Lido deck. There you go? All right? So Rory and Laura la are making fun of Luke going on that Alaskan cruise, saying it's romantic. So they're really needling him. Huh hey where Hey, I'm a doctor. Where some of my patients I'd like to date them? Gopher and he became go for congressmen. Yes he Fred Grandy. Fred Grandy became a converse and in an instant, we are a love boat rewatch podcast. Such a good idea. That's not a bad idea. Come on, let's produce it, come on, we'll produce it. Oh my god, rest captain's being sold away recently, you know from Oh it was so sad, you know, oh god, because he was on uh Mary Tyler Moore, Yes he was, And then oh god, I think ed Asner said on a tweet, it's just you and me, Betty, and I think that Betty died, and I think ed Asner died. Oh my god. Wow. Anyway, back to the cruise, back to Gilmore Girls. So we we I was on the show called Gilmore Girls. I was on any of those shows. Okay, so let's um, who wants who wants to play Laurel? Who wants to play Laurel? I I got you, Yeah, Danielle, jump right in there. I have no plans to propose you've died. Sorry, sorry, I wasn't a different one cut cut. Let's do a second take cut. Okay, can somebody get Danielle. Somebody, somebody, I'm ready, he got a coffee. Let's wake her up and get her gone here. Alright, I have no plans to propose. You don't know, but after or you've had dinner at Captain's stumbing. Let's let's try it again. Let's try it again. Trying to trying to jump my line a little bit, you know, no gaps like after proposed, Just come right in there after I say propose, you don't know, you know that kind of okay, right here we go. Anyway, Take three, and action. I have no plans to propose. You don't know, but after you've had dinner at Captain Stumping's table and Stumping was that? Did I do well on the jump in? Yeah? That was good? Yeah, that was good. Let's keep that for the next taket we're gonna do. Let's let's take coffee break, everybody, that's exhausting. Here we go take four ready. Action. I have no plans to propose. You don't know, but after you've had dinner at Captain Stubbing's table and has served you up a couple of mohitas, Captain Stubbing or Captain Stubbings or Stubblings, Captain stayed good actor. I'm not claiming to be she was pretty good. I thought she did. She took direction, well, okay, she did to do that, and she jumped the line a little better. I was clearly Jamie, you want to don't listen there, you want to act again? You just come to come see me. Okay, I'll do the next line. When I had to do lora like, Captain Stubbing was played by Gavin mccloyd McLeod and his real name. I'm here interrupting. Here's the thing. Did I do that on purpose to make you feel better? Maybe? Captain Stubbing was played by Gavin McLeod and Isaac the bartender was played by Tang Tang. It was played by Ted Lang, not Tang Lad Ted Lange. The Love boat crew would sometimes help the passengers fall in love, which is what Laurel I is referring to. Okay, so would Laurel I would be playing who the cruise director Julie Kirk is checking the dragonfly in for mold. Now we're over at the y to dragonfly. Yeah uh, and Laurel are wondering behind yeah, Cucchi Cucchi. You know she was a classical guitarist as well. In the singer are wondering what the cost to repair it? Would be Kirk? Who wants to play Kirk? Come on, somebody jump in sor you play Kirk and action. I did tell you about the dangers of mold and Ed McMahon's dog right, Ed mcmah excellent, bravo nice saying not a stumble, not a muff McMahon was pretty easy. I mean, look, it could be mc mahone, I mean it could It could have been tough McMahon received a seven point two million dollars to settle a lawsuit alleging that toxic mold spread through his Beverly Hills home, sickening him and his wife and killing their dogs. The lawsuit alleged the contractors failed to properly clean up water damage from a broken pipe. Wow. Wow, I fully forgot about You mess with the dog, You mess with me? Oh my god. Um anyway, Uh. Michelle and Suki are complaining about having only one guest at the Independence in. Michelle says he should have been a dancer instead. I'm gonna cast Laureli as Amy and Danielle your okay, Danielle, you're your laurealized and Tara you're to be here passing judgment okay and action, Your guys, no bickering in front of the guest. Tell it to Denny Terrio here, I should have been a dancer. Nailed it. Nice, nice, good job. Denny Terrio is an American choreographer and hosted the television musical variety series Dance Fever from That was a Big show. Very he was a big deal. That guy. Denny Rio is one of the original pioneers of the disco dance era and the coach and choreographer who taught John Travolta how to dance for the motion picture Saturday Night Fever. Get those hips in that finger pointing and those hips chicken that finger pointing out? Um all right now, Laurel and Roy are talking about not getting finance. She'll aid for Yale and Rory wants to take out a loan and says she'll change her major to make money right away. Laura I convinces her not to change her journalism major. Who wants to play Laura La Danielle? You want to you want to take another crack on it? Go ahead? Actually, look, if you need to work as a low paid intern for a magazine or a stringer for some small town newspaper, or Tom Broke cause to pay comer outer before you make real money, then that's what you'll have to do. Bom check print. Let's move on. Great fantastic Uh. In nine into nineteen, broke All retired from NBC News after fifty five years with the network. Wow, that's a long term building at Universal named after him. Oh is that right? Wow? The Broke Call building. Um Uh. He was the only anchor to have ever led all three of NBC's primary news shows, Nightly News, Today and Meet the Press. Um, very impressive, Tom broke off. Sure, yeah, he's still rocking and roll Uh Suki Laureli walking to their seats in the children courtyard for Rory's graduation ceremony. Danielle, you're on again as Laurel I and Action where the children equivalent of fifty cents. Posset is a rapper and at this time his biggest hit was In the Club, released in January two. In the Club, find Me in the Club, Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Go ahead, come on, wrap somebody. Wrap is not the one. Go ahead, No, it's not that one. Your birthday. No, that's the one. Somebody give me a dun dun. But you know we don't give it. It's not your birthday. The club? All right, we got it? Yeah, okay, we'll release that as our first single the I Heart Radio players. Um, here we go, Uh fix it as rapper and at the times biggest hit was In the Club, released by January two sales and three great songs which we just butchered. Go Shorty, it's your birthday and the number one on the Hot one becoming fifties first number one single. It's your birthday. Go shorty, it's your birthday. Do you know the How does that go? How's that one? It's your birthday? There we go, there we go, go, go shortly. It's your boat day. The time we have and that just made me pumped like I am the rest of the day. Rory telling Laurela she found a finance solution for Yale right before the graduation ceremony. Uh Tara, you're Rory action. I don't want you to defer your dream. Montage of a Dream Deferred is a book length poem suite published by Langston Hughes in nineteen. Includes famous poems like Harlem Theme four English b and lesser known poems like Motto. It also provides a marvelous portrait of the African American community and post World War Two Harlem. Okay, now, so Suki is getting excited that they can now put in a bid for the dragonfly in again. Uh Tar you want to play, Suki go. I've been depressed for days. I couldn't watch the Dating Game anymore. The Dating Game is a show. And actually I was on the New Dating Game, yes, and I was not picked. Um. The Dating Game is a show that aired most of yours. I forget they can you dig up the Yeah, I don't know if there's any footage. But were you famous or were you just? No, no, no, it was it was in the late eighties. There was another big celebrity that was on The Dating Game? Was it John Hamen? No, I think I don't know. It aired through the nineteen sixty nineteen eighties, off and on, then revived in the nineties, and latest revival that last year was as Zoe Deschanel, who and I worked with her father actually on a commercial in Hawaiian. Yeah, he was today. He was a director of photography, is a very well known director. Dps very good and Michael Bolton hosting allegedly Fair of Faucet, Susanne Summers Leaf Garret it, Tom Salick have all been on The Dating Game, Tom Selleck, that's who it was, not John Am I thinking right, right, you were on the That's right. Zoe Deschanelle did the Dating Game like a couple of summers ago or something, you know, I did it back in the late eighties. Actually in the mid eighties it was it was John Ritter. I think it might have been five or nine six. I did it? Mm hmm, oh yeah, I didn't get picked alright. He wasn't there that day. Sally Field, Wow, this is amazing. It was a big hit show with Jim Lange was a host, Jim Lang. Remember Jim Ling. Remember Jim Lange? And here they are anyway. Okay, now it's Shelton. Brad is at the podium talking about his brief break from school to be on Broadway during his graduation speech, Mung bung, who wants to be Brad? Danielle take on, Brad? Go ahead? Um, though my time here was briefly interrupted by my period spent on Broadway hanging out with Stephen Sondheim. Stephen Sondheim is a legendary Broadway lyricist, composer, and writer. He wrote Into the Woods, in which Brad had a part in. All right, yes, yes, in real life that actor did, Yes, Yes he did. Yeah. Um. Laureline wants to carve their names somewhere in Chilton, but uh, the building is so historic she couldn't find a place to do it. Uh. Okay, I'm gonna cast Danielle your Laurel and Tara your Rory. Go ahead. The marble is two years old. Harriet beecher Stowe walked on this marble. Oh, the banister was donated by Robert Frost. The sconce was ceremoniously lit for the first time by Thomas Edison. Harry beecher Stowe was a writer and abolitionist and one of the most influential women of the nineteenth century. She wrote, Uncle Tom, his cabin. Robert Frost is a poet. His most famous poem is The Road Not Taken. Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. But did you know Thomas never attended high school. He was home schooled. So there you go, um and ladies and gentlemen. That is it for pop culture. It seemed short. Well, it seems a little bit more songs in me, did you really? Well, let's make some stuff. You want to make some stuff. I'll just save it for the next one. I'm gonna watch the Love Boat m I think I am too Fantasy Island. I'm gonna put I'm gonna put on fifty cents songs and listen to love Boat or watch the love Boats songs. Let's le le, let's just sail that. Or we can listen to the love Boat and watch fifty cent videos. People should get ready for something very special on Monday. What should they be get ready for? Should I tell? I don't know. It's kind of exciting. It's gonna be Luke versus Jimmy. Yeah. Man, And one of my favorite scenes that I ever shot on that show. I was telling him to get the heck out of town. Yeah, I really like And that's why I really like that scene. I remember doing it, I remember rehearsing it. He was great. The battle is on on he's great. And yeah, so we had a we had a we had a great discussion, and then we'll be back soon with the season for launch. That's right, That's right. Kids. So we're this is this is kind of the wrap up. This is this is the last episode we're doing for season three. Yeah. Well, and then we have our special with with Rob and then we'll be back for season four, and we will be back for season four looking and we'll all be in Vegas together. Oh my god, you want to talk about that a little bit, huh. I mean, we're putting you to work. I Heart Radio Music Festival right Las Vegas, Nevada, September wearing although it'll be very hot. But that's a nice shirt. Bring that shirt. This definitely bring that. We've got to We've got the stylist yet trying to hunt things down from picking out some looks. Stupid shoulders. Yeah right, Yeah, Scott has to meet with some of the I Heart executive Yes, that I do. I think we're doing a panel, aren't we? You're doing journal some other uh like rewatch podcasters. Yeah, Rewatch podcasters. We're gonna do red carpet. We're gonna what about the announcing the bands? I want to announce some things. It's going to be a hundred and twelve. But if you want, I don't get I'll be out there with an umbrella. I'm an umbrella protecting me as I announced who the chain Smokers are. Here's know, that's so funny that I'm literally wearing a chain Smokers today. Oh really? Are you really? Oh my god? They will not be there, But there's nothing I would want to do less than go on stage. Really, let me let me tell you. Let me tell you. I want to tell the fans what an incredible team you guys are and the support team at I Heart. This is an amazing experience and hit me really squarely between the eyes with this this uh, this Las Vegas trip. Because in a little over a year, you know, we had a deal I called Amy. We had a deal. We start out with this podcast and we don't know what's going to happen. And then a little over a year and I'm being flown into Las Vegas to do red carpets and to meet the CEO and to have dinner and to do this in the podcast from there, and and introduce some bands on the on the stage. I mean, it's just incredible. It's so happy for you. None of us want to go to why I know, yeah, you get the hard no, but but we got to hang out. We're going to do the podcast together, right, and we're gonna dinner together, right, We'll definitely have We'll definitely have dinner together at the at the pool. We're having a party at the pool. It's only it's a breezy one eight team. It's gonna be awesome. It's we are driving to Vegas. I'm being forced, but I will Dan yell and I are driving because make a baby sugarman. Well I don't fly. But also we're taking a different celebrity on like a tourist drive, and so we have to stop what we're stopping at the ghost town you're doing the tourists these things? Really, are you going to Zizi's roads? I mean, Scott, be jealous that we're flying you because some of us are driving. You won't fly actually have to drive because it's but Danielle's being forced to dry. You know what, We're going to have fun. We're going to have now. I've I've met Tara and I've met Amy. Right, I met you doing the Beck n Tilly podcast. Right, That's how I got to know you. I have not met Danielle in person, just in history. Yes, it looks just like that exactly. We've we've we've tortured everyone enough kids listen, So anyway down, love y'all and keep the cards and letters coming and stay safe. Uh yea hey everybody, and don't forget Follow us on Instagram at I Am All In podcast and email us at Gilmore at I heart radio dot com. Oh you gil More fans. If you're looking for the best cup of coffee in the world, go to my website for my company Scott EP dot com, s c O T T y P dot com. Scott ep dot com Grade one Specialty Coffee. Yeah.