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Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast

The Girlies First Day at School (Gilmore To Say Revisited)

Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast

Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh

Tv & Film, Comedy, Leisure

4.5716 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Hi besties! Please enjoy this GTS Revisited from 2022 in our Back To School week on the pod!

Sharpen your pencils and don your yellow book bags because we are talking back to school! What was the best back to school episode? How did school show the growth between Rory and Paris? And just how did the academic interests of the Gilmore girlies shape the school lives of the two of us growing up? Grab a coffee and get comfortable because the girlies have more to say.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Five, six, seven, eight.

0:02.5

Yay!

0:01.5

All right. Here we go. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Gilmore to Say with Tara and Haley. I'm Tara. This is Haley. Hi, Haley. Hi, Tara. We're going back to school. We are. Not you and I. Well, we're not going back to school. That would be weird. It would be fine. You know, you can go back to school whenever.

0:02.3

Oh, yeah.

0:20.9

No, it would be weird. It would be fine. You know, you can go back to school whenever. Oh, yeah. No, it would be acceptable, but it would be a little, you know, Drew Barrymore and never been kissed. Yeah. We aren't in school, so that would be the weird part of it. I do not want people to guess what grade I'm in currently. But I don't think grades go that high. Definitely don't.

0:55.7

But that's okay. We would blend in. If we were in like say Greece, you know, we would blend in. That's fair. Right? They were all 100 years old when they did that movie and they were playing teenagers. And my seven-year-old ass was like, they're in high school. High schoolers are so cool. High schoolers are so old. No, I went to went to Goodwill recently, or in the last couple months recently, and was buying some books. And this girl was like, oh, are you in AP US history?

1:00.9

And I was like, no. It's like in the road trip to Harvard when Laura like gets mistaken for a

1:06.4

college student and gets hit on by that guy. Ginchy. Shey she goes oh i took that last year and i had to read

1:12.8

that book and i was like oh okay yeah i'm in chef's class uh chef are you in his class i'm 29 but uh

1:21.0

thank you so much for thinking that fee god bless the skincare routine am i right i know i was thinking

1:25.7

i looked a little old, but not that day.

1:29.6

Yes. But speaking of school in our last episode, at the end of it, we were talking about the fact that, like, I've always identified with being more of a Rory when it comes to the show, especially when it comes to school.

1:41.4

And that you did not quite feel the same, but you said that you were not necessarily a

1:46.0

Jess. No, I didn't like not want to go to school at all. You didn't skip school to go to Walmart?

1:52.3

No, no, I didn't. Did you ever skip school to do something like maybe not go to Walmart, but just, I never,

1:59.0

no, I never skipped school. But I did skip some classes here and there, especially my senior year because I just, you know, I thought I was too cool. I had senioritis. I just wanted to get out because... Too cool for school. I was very advanced when I was a kid. I was in like an advanced reading group. We talked about this that like our core memory is that like we, well,

2:18.4

my core memory is that like I will never recover from like being put in advanced reading

2:22.7

group in elementary school. Yeah. Because like I'm always going to be chasing that high of like,

2:29.0

like the moment they tell you that you're smart when you're younger, you're like, I want to hear

2:33.0

this for the rest of my life. Well, interestingly, I kind of took a different direction because I almost kind of felt like

2:38.8

then I didn't need to try because I was already smart. So I was like, well, I can just coast. I mean,

2:45.2

it didn't like make you crave only academic validation for the rest of your life. It didn't,

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