The Academic Things Apply (Gilmore to Say Revisited)
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Please enjoy this remastered version of our Fall 2023 Back to School episode, The Academic Things Apply. It's officially Back to School season and these girlies are here to talk about all the ways academia has played a huge role in the relationships, conflict, and overall journeys of the Gilmore girls and those around them. Academic status has plagued the Gilmores for so long - where did it all start? What made Lorelai choose Harvard for Rory all those years ago? And do we think Rory and Logan's child will go to Yale like they did??? Grab your new pencils, your ugly yellow book bag, and, of course, your cup of coffee because these girlies have so much to say!
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| 0:00.0 | Five, six, seven, eight. School. Yay, school. School. We like school. We like school in this house. That's what people say who've been to school. Yeah, it's true. All right, here we go. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Gilmore to Say with Tara and Haley. I'm Tara. This is Haley. Hi, Hayley. |
| 0:21.7 | Hi, Tara. It's time to go back to school. I think most people are back at school. |
| 0:25.3 | Oh, yeah, you're right, because at this point, everybody's back to school. We've talked about it before that, like, a lot of different parts of the country go back at different times. Yeah, I don't know internationally, but like I imagine that like, you know, I only know magical schools internationally. I don't know about real schools. |
| 0:23.7 | I know. |
| 0:24.2 | So, but like I imagine that like, you know, I only know magical schools internationally. I don't know about real schools. I know. So, but I imagine most of them are back now and everyone's in school or if you don't go to school because you're an adult. Yeah. Yeah. You can go to school as an adult though, but if you don't. We were talking about how fall is a state of mind last year |
| 0:54.1 | on the autumn matter episode, which we just revisited on Patreon. And honestly, I think that going |
| 1:01.3 | back to school season, when you have graduated, it's also kind of a state of mind. I thought you're |
| 1:05.7 | about to say that school is a state of mind. And I was like, no, that's a real place. Did you go? No, so my mom was a teacher for like |
| 1:13.5 | 15 years. And even now, she still like kind of braces herself for back to school season, |
| 1:20.8 | even though she's fully not a teacher anymore. Well, there's just something so nice when you go to |
| 1:25.0 | Target and you're like there for your own life. And suddenly you see the back to school section and you're like, I need highlighters and pencils and |
| 1:32.0 | index cards that are pink for some reason. And you get a new journal and you're like, why do I need |
| 1:37.0 | any of this? But it's like a deep-seated need to have like fresh brand new pencils even though |
| 1:41.6 | you write on your iPad all the time. Exactly. Exactly. |
| 1:44.9 | So true. |
| 1:46.1 | I did just get a new notebook, but like, again, I used my iPad, but I was like, it's back to |
| 1:50.6 | school. |
| 1:51.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.6 | I need it. |
| 1:52.3 | You need it. |
| 1:53.0 | 100%. |
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