An American in Paris is S'Wonderful

We come in all color with the 1951 Best Picture An American In Paris.  The gang enjoys a yummy French meal while discussing Gershwin's musical.  Dan regales us with some great movie history and everyone seems to agree this movie did new things we had yet to see in film. 

Before the show, Sam and Diya even get to take a ride up Dan's new elevator--something we hope makes Dan's life on Wroe much easier.

So, pull up a glass of nice French wine and join in on the discussion, because Paris is always a good idea.

#DinnerwithDan

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Have we tested all the voices?

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Yeah, I tested them all before we got on.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Okay. So we're actually taping?

SPEAKER_03 0:19

We're taping.

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Okay. I would like to welcome all our devoted and wonderful listeners to this, the 33rd episode of Dinner with Dan. It is hard to believe we've done 33. So let's do 33 more. I am Dan Garrett, your host. We are taping on Sunday, May 3rd, 2026, on what is a sunny, windy, brisk day in Dayton, Ohio. We're at the dinner table in my home located on Avenue Dureau in Dayton's historic Five Oaks neighborhood. This Brick Street mature tree-lined neighborhood saw its major development after the end of World War I in the mid-1920s. And now the neighborhood is undergoing a new $70 million development known as HOM Flats at Forest Avenue. Within two years on the site of the former Julianne Catholic All-Girls High School, 11 new apartment buildings with 260 workforce housing units will be built. Change is inevitable, and we all hope that this development will bring many new families to our lovely area. And speaking of Julianne High School, my late wife, Virginia Maud Platt, attended Julianne and graduated in the class of 1970. Just this week, while going through several boxes of her items, I found her school uniform. A jumper, a skirt, and a top featuring the Julianne school crest. It's now properly stored and marked, so the next generation will hopefully keep it dear to their hearts. Tonight at the table, we have regulars Nan Whaley, Sam Braun. Dea is back from her whirlwind East Coast Big City travels. Paul Duncan Robinson, who I still think should go southbound on the Appalachian Trail. And we did talk about it before you guys got here.

SPEAKER_04 2:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

But he's still not going to do it.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

Still not done up.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

But I'm still not done trying to talk him into it. Kate Evans. My youngest son, Eddie,'s not feeling good today, so he will not be joining us. As you know, tonight the movie we will discuss is An American in Paris. So for dinner, it was an absolute brain no-brainer. We are having Chinese carryout. We're not having Chinese? Oh, I know. We're having that wonderful lasagna you made a couple of episodes ago.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

One bad meal. And if you stop talking and take a taste, you will know. She has more than redeems.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

So, anyhow, I I had to do that. We'd have to put a little comedy in this, you know. We've got to r have people go back that might have missed that episode and listen to it.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

That was terrible.

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But anyhow, we're not doing Chinese and we're not doing Italian. We are doing French.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Of course.

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And uh we have started uh we plated everything before we started the uh taping because there's so many huge French cooking vessels and so many bottles of French wine and liqueur on the table. Uh it would have been dangerous to move them around. True. So uh for the people who made the food, uh, you can start telling what we've got.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

All right. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

That one went over.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

Uh I just spilled a glass of red wine. Yeah, it broke the red. It broke the glass. Oh man, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

First time I brought them down. Boom.

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And then broken. Um, so tonight we're having a broken glass.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

Um it's so funny, you just said it.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

I know. Um we're having um coca van, which has a lot of red wine in it. Um maybe so. Sorry about that, Danny.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

That's okay.

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Um, and a gratten potatoes, which is one of Dia's favorites. Yeah. Some pate yummy, duck pate, um, French baguette.

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Nutguns.

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Um, and um then Kate made some amazing looking. Kate, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 4:56

Um, I made a asparagus with a sauce that I think is called gorbiche or gribiche or something to that effect. It's like you almost make like a mayonnaise, um, but it's a little thinner with vinegar and Dijon mustard and oil, and then it has hard-boiled egg in it, and cornichons, and some lemon, and tarragon. So it's like a chilled asparagus with this dressing, the sauce on top. And it's beautiful, it's plated so pretty. It is very, very pretty. It's kind of a wow. It's a wow, it's a wow asparagus.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Yeah, it I gotta say, this is the uh prettiest uh food uh I think that we've we've had in our 33 uh episodes. Very nice. This is really nice. And then for dessert, uh, I got dessert. I was in charge of dessert. So I got it from McKenzie Limited importers and purveyors of the world's finest foods. So tonight it's Macron's imported from France and my all-time favorite dessert, crumb brulee. I have in my finals' instructions that when I'm when it's time for me to join Virginia at St. Katarie's Preserve at Calvary Cemetery, that before the final nails are put in my pine box, my children are to fill it with as much crumb brulee as possible. And send me down with crumb brulee.

SPEAKER_04 6:31

Fill it with custard and go.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Crumbe burlet. They don't have to caramelize the sugar on top, I understand. That might be, I don't I wasn't gonna be I wasn't gonna be cremated, but now I'm not, so I'm afraid if they got the blowtorch too uh just give them a good excuse to take a torch to your body. Yeah, that's why well no uh they don't have to caramelize the sugar.

SPEAKER_06 6:55

I feel like we'll have to bring champagne to this too.

SPEAKER_04 6:58

I know I feel you know somebody couldn't this is taking a turn.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Well, you you know, uh anyhow. Uh I like creme brulee. Always have, always will. Uh so what have we done this week? And we always start on my right, which is uh Nan Whaley.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

Um this week, I I don't know. Um I spent the day today getting this together. Uh Dia and Sam were very helpful cutting their minds, two chefs. Um last night we went to dinner with Tony and Megan and Ann Charles and Jason at the winds, where we drank too much and had a good evening.

SPEAKER_04 7:40

Sounds great.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

Um I just worked a lot this week, I think. Uh it was like a long week, I felt. Um I don't think I have Sam. Did we do anything interesting today? This week?

SPEAKER_09 7:53

Well, we had the Planned Parenthood lunch, I think. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

It was very nice. We missed you, Dan, because it was raining. But we had over 400 people there, 430 people. And um, everybody seemed happy that we got everybody in and out on time. Oh, you did great. Thank you. Uh, so that was good. What else, Sam? Sam's gonna talk. I think that's all. I'm I'm not very excited. We had dinner with mom and dad at Jimmy's, and dad got the gumbo, and he was very excited about that. Right, so they came up and we had gumbo. I didn't have it, but dad did. He was excited. They went to Keenland for the Derby. We did have mint juleps. You know, I have Kentucky Derby glasses that I save for Derby Day, and then we have mint jups. And the key to a good mint julep, I think, is to when you make the simple syrup, you infuse the mint in the simple syrup, and that makes it taste so much better.

SPEAKER_04 8:50

I made them and did the exact same thing. So good, so good.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

They're so good, and crushed ice. Yes, these are the two keys to a good mint julep, which we did.

SPEAKER_04 9:00

And crushing the ice is so fun. You just beat the crap out of it.

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Virginia loved mint jups.

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I know they're good. I thought of her.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

I was good for one a year.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

I think they're great. Okay. What else, David? Can you?

SPEAKER_09 9:17

Well, Derby Day, something of a holiday in our families. So it's a good chance to call everybody. Call everyone, check in with people.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

What's a Derby Day?

SPEAKER_09 9:29

Oh, the Kentucky Derby was run yesterday. It's like the uh most important, most watched horse race of the year. Yes, it's been run since 1875.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

152nd this year.

SPEAKER_09 9:44

Yeah, yeah. They run on the same track, Churchill Downs and Louisville, Kentucky, which is a couple hours south of here.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

And um, both our families love the Kentucky Derby. Sam's family and my family.

SPEAKER_09 9:59

Both love it. Love horse racing. I've probably been to Churchill Downs, I don't know, more than 50 times.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_09 10:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Probably 30 for me.

SPEAKER_09 10:10

And we've been to in person, how many derbies? I've been to five or six at least. I've been to a dozen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Well, I'm not sure if we mentioned it last week or not, but uh in last Sunday's uh Dayton Daily News, uh Tom Archdeacon's article was about Schalkers. That was great. Schulker's taking those uh unbelievable pictures of uh secretariat.

SPEAKER_09 10:34

Yeah, and I I have one of those uh framed, I put it in my office.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

One of the photos that Steve took.

SPEAKER_09 10:41

Well, he he gave me one. Yeah, yeah, it's real really nice. That was quite something that he did. Yeah, it's a great photo, it's unbelievable. It should be in the Kentucky Derby Museum, actually. So hopefully we can we can make that happen. Uh so yeah, so we enjoyed the mint julups and uh it was a good dinner at the winds. The mint juleps were so good we almost agreed to go on a cruise in November. But we thought better back on that. Thought better of it um today. So yeah, it's a good it was a good deal, but it's a good deal because the weather will be bad at that time. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

Where were you gonna go?

SPEAKER_03 11:27

Athens.

SPEAKER_09 11:28

It's at it's like um Rome and Athens. Oh, okay. Ephesus, that Mediterranean.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Mary Tom and Ann Charles are going.

SPEAKER_07 11:39

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

And so we thought, well, maybe we'll go with them. But then we woke up today and we're like, no, we should not go with them. We got a lot of travel. Coming, so that's right. Right? All right. Um had a what?

SPEAKER_02 12:04

A good week.

SPEAKER_09 12:06

You had the whirlwind. Tell us about the travels to New York, DC, and Philadelphia.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Oh yeah. That was that was fun. My favorite parts, I'll talk about my favorite parts. In New York, I really like the Central Park. I like Times Square for like maybe 30 minutes, and then I got like pretty overwhelmed by it.

SPEAKER_06 12:27

Were you at Times Square at night when all the neon signs are really promised?

SPEAKER_02 12:31

It was there for like all three nights.

SPEAKER_06 12:32

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

That I was there, yeah. And the Broadway show, Grey Gatsby, was pretty cool. Um, and we went to Bubba Gump, which was this um restaurant, which was I thought it was very fun. So I really enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_06 12:48

What did you like about Central Park?

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Oh, just like how it was how it was like laid out and how it was big and it was just it didn't look very man-made. No, that's yeah, and I also um I like the I like the brick walls in Philadelphia and the Liberty Bell that was cool. And in DC I really liked all the museums, the Smithsonian museums, and um, I loved the Arlington Cemetery. And I watched um I watched The Change of the Guard, which was cool. So yeah, it was it was fun, it was a lot, but yeah, I had a good time.

SPEAKER_06 13:26

You got a lot of sleep, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

Oh no. Um still catching up.

SPEAKER_04 13:33

She told me she got six hours of sleep the whole trip.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

No, no, no, every single day.

SPEAKER_04 13:39

It's not what she said, but it probably was the sleep motivation talking.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Okay. Um, yeah. And the rest of the week was pretty good. I like the dinner. And um yesterday, um, I went and cleaned up the river for rotary, which was kind of cool.

SPEAKER_03 13:58

Oh, talk about the rotary dinner. What dinner you did Friday, you mean?

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Oh, yeah. That was on Friday, and it was it was their annual dinner, and they were all like different exchange students there, and it was I had a good time there. And they just talked about the whole year and how things went, and yeah, it was pretty cool. So I had a good week.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Did you and Sam get engaged in Central Park? Yes. We did. That's what I thought. On the bridge, right?

SPEAKER_03 14:30

Right as it was snowing. Not on the bridge. It was like we had stepped out, we took one of those horses, which you know I think are not allowed anymore. Is that alright? I don't think they have them because they were treated the horses so poorly. But we took one of those, and then um uh right as like we took like a little path and got out and took this little walk through like this little area, and um, it just was starting to snow. And Sam got down on one knee and proposed.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Did you laugh or did you say yes?

SPEAKER_03 15:04

Well, I said yes, I'm here now. Nine twenty-one years ago. Right? Sam that the Sam is such a planner that he had us eat dinner after because he didn't want to like be so nervous that he wouldn't enjoy his food.

SPEAKER_05 15:24

That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_06 15:25

That's pretty smart. That's pretty smart.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

Yeah, but that would work out. And we ate at the French restaurant, Cafe Des Artists. And uh Uma Thurman was in the booth behind us. Yeah, fruit. Nice. Is it is Days RT still there? I don't think it is.

SPEAKER_09 15:41

Probably not. I'd have to check.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

Yeah, it was very it was very nice.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

What a love story. From the parking lot at Roosters on North Main Street in Dayton, Ohio, to Central Park and the light.

SPEAKER_09 15:55

That's the only reason he started that one.

SPEAKER_04 15:57

I know. Romance.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Down to one on one knee and the light snow. Isn't that nice? Yeah, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

He's a great guy.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

So, like every time you see movies like Home Alone and Santa Claus and that elf when they go to Central Park, you see you see where you got engaged.

SPEAKER_03 16:17

It's true.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

That's pretty neat.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

It's true. It was a great location.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

I'm not being a smart ass now. I'm saying that's pretty neat. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:24

It was pretty great.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

I got engaged in Third Ward Park in Van Word, Ohio.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

That's pretty nice too, though. It was a park. You got engaged in a park too.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Yeah, I got engaged in a park. Third Ward Park, downtown Van Wert, Ohio. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 16:38

Was a horse and buggy involved then?

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Uh no. Okay, anything else, Dea?

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No. I don't I think that was it.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 16:53

All wow. Um, okay, tough act to follow there, Dea. Thank you. Um, I spent my week, uh, as most weeks at the Cincinnati Curling Club. It was our last week of activity, so I volunteered uh a number of times. Uh we had a little party to celebrate the end of the season on Saturday where we watched a derby. Believe it or not, we don't always talk about curlings. Uh, we do not have mint juleps, though, but we had other beverages from the bar, uh you know, a curling club bar, and I enjoyed the derby, and uh that was pretty much my week. I don't know what I'm gonna talk about next week, Dan.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

What are you gonna do now with an old curling season?

SPEAKER_06 17:31

Well, I I made the mistake, uh, as Dan alluded to earlier, I made the mistake when I came in the house. I kind of told him what I just said, and I said I also spent some time uh looking at my trail journal entries because I'm writing uh a thousand-word article for my national attorney magazine. Oh no. And of course that just gave Dan the uh the entry point to uh lobby me again for uh a southbound uh journey.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

You'll be a legend.

SPEAKER_06 17:53

Yeah. But I said, you know, as I've as I've read these journals, as I've read my own journal entries, uh reread them. Um it hasn't compelled me to want to do that either. Yeah, you're like, wait a minute. This was anyway.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

Did you read the one about when your tent gave up the ghost? Yes, because I've the other thing I'm doing is that that would be the one that I'd read to convince myself not to things. Well, yeah. Because then you had to go wait on your like the new thing.

SPEAKER_06 18:27

Yeah, I I've read some where um I've read some like much later in the height. So I'm going backwards. So I told Dan kind of going southbound because I'm reading from the last century forward, you know, just to clean some things up in case anybody um sees the web link, the journal link, and the the article. And um there's a number of times where I talk about uh how it might have rained just a little bit, or maybe it didn't rain, but I was dripped on by the rain, and all my stuff gets wet anyway as if it was rain. So that's definitely, yeah, to your point, that's definitely not uh encouraging me to go. But I'm also reading um an entry day by day since you know a year ago I was on the trail, so I'm reading you know May 3rd, you know. On May 3rd. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Southbound, Paul. Legend.

SPEAKER_06 19:14

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

Oh, it's going to be the patch.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Anyway, don't wait till you're 73 to do this, Paul.

SPEAKER_06 19:22

Well, you say that, but I I finished when I finished uh on September 27th, I finished uh uh the same guy uh the same day as a 72-year-old uh gentleman from Switzerland. So he was in fantastic shape. Not because of the height, I mean he was clearly in shape before that. So, you know, if you're uh if you're not taking maintenance medications and you're in good shape. Uh you can do it. Maybe it's for you. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 19:50

Champagne.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

Um champagne. That's good. It's good champagne, right?

SPEAKER_04 19:57

I tried a new one just because. Um my week involved a lot of work and work-related things, really. Um, but I let's see, what did I do? Oh, I got new tires on my viewing. Okay. The V Wick's the convertible. The convertible. I needed new tires. Um and I went to the eye doctor. How about that? Where's your eye doctor? I go to, it's called my eye doctor in Oakwood. It's fine. Like, I'm ever closer to full-on bifocals. I've got the last of the baby bifocals coming in. My new glasses. I call them baby bifocals because it's basically like the highest strength reader in the bottom of your. It's like, I don't know. I mean, I don't know exactly how it is, but yeah. So it's like, I've got some really cool looking new glasses coming.

SPEAKER_06 21:00

So I'm here to tell you it'll be okay because these are bifocal line lights.

SPEAKER_04 21:04

Yeah, no, they're nice now.

SPEAKER_06 21:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:07

It's amazing, you can't tell at all. Yeah. I mean, I've got the little, like, the baby ones in these. It helps a lot for the up close stuff, reading and such. But that's it. That was my big excitement.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

You had a bed?

SPEAKER_04 21:23

Oh yeah, my sister's been staying with me because she's been staying with me because she is working late hours at the board of elections.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

She doesn't want to go all the way.

SPEAKER_04 21:33

Yeah, in preparation for Tuesday's primary. I voted.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

I didn't vote this night.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

Yeah, she's got some long days ahead. So it's easier to stay at my house that's five minutes away from work when you have to like be there at you know five in the morning or whatever. So easier to have a five-minute commute than a 30-minute commute on those days. So it's fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

You have a good time with her?

SPEAKER_04 21:58

Yeah, it's good. She's bringing her dog and it's like a dog party every day in my house.

SPEAKER_03 22:04

Yeah, Dea comes and visits.

SPEAKER_04 22:06

Yes, she does. She listens for the dog park in the backyard.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Do you have a dog in India?

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Uh-huh. I was very afraid of dogs.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

So when you get back home, you're gonna lobby your parents for a dog?

SPEAKER_04 22:20

A cat first. Oh, a cat first, okay. Why do you think why a cat first? They're just easier.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

And I like I like cats. I really like cats.

SPEAKER_04 22:30

I do too.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Oh, it was also Archie's seventh birthday.

SPEAKER_04 22:36

Oh gosh, that's right. Archie, yeah, my dog Archie turned seven this week. I can hardly believe it. Remember when he was just a tiny puppy. But yeah, we got some special birthday treats to celebrate. So there you go. Yeah, that was my big week.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

That sounds great.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

I started also watching Miss Austin on PBS.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

Oh. See, the the show I have watched recently, finally, is The Diplomat on Netflix. That's really good. I haven't watched it yet. Carrie Russell. Yeah. But um Paul won't like it because it's like it's a little bit too, you know, you have to kind of suspend your display a little bit. So one of my one of my friends, I shared it with Ann Charles. Just like just get into it and roll.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

One of my friends um shared with me uh these trips that they take. I'm gonna find it. Um and they're like immersion trips for books, and there is a sense and sensibility trip to Cotswold, England.

SPEAKER_04 23:51

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

Yeah, and so they yeah, and so they have all these different ones, but the one in Cotswold, and then you have a faculty leader that comes because you read the book and you like immerse yourself in the book. That sounds so and they have a chaplain that also comes, a lady chaplain. Wow, and then a um, then they have a logistics coordinator, and so they have they have these trips, and so this place, so um the unite where you get the dress up and period. Um Rebecca, Rebecca is one um in Cornwall, England.

SPEAKER_04 24:24

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

Um Three Pines by Louise Penny in Quebec, Canada, a room with the view in Florence, Italy.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Um To the Lighthouse, uh, the Virginia Wolf in Sussex, England, an Outlander. They do like a pop one, they did one Taylor Swift. They do like, yeah, they do um these sound handsome. Yeah, so um Sam, I was telling Sam about it. He was like, you can go with Crystal to those things. Sure. Feel free to leave me home. It's like I'll send it to you, Kate. It seems really cool. Oh my god. You like walk and journal and talk about the book and like these amazing places. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:07

Isn't that cool? It's immersive book club.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

Yeah, immersive book club. I'm gonna share it at book club, but I thought I should share it on the podcast.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Oh, it sounds so so awesome.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

Yeah, see, I think they do it in Austin every year. They've done they've done some of those fences. They've done some of those brontes, which you know. I would miss that right away. Anti-bronte. Anyway, I thought I'd share that.

SPEAKER_04 25:29

It sounds awesome, doesn't it? Yes. The walking part. I really, really, that's I want to do a like long trip in England where I'm literally like walking. They walk seven to eight miles a day. That's what I want. I want like a walking.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

I'm gonna send it to you, girl. Maybe we go next year to wherever they're going. Oh, that'd be awesome. Um, Louie, you've got yourself all tied up into the into the chords of the podcast. Danny, how was your week? What did you think of the coke event? Is it good? Everything good?

SPEAKER_01 26:12

I'm gonna save that till the end.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

Oh, okay. Uh-oh. Um well, let's not forget.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

No, well, the end before we start talking about the movie. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Um let's see. Last Sunday, Monday. Uh, you know, uh, oh, Monday, uh, the uh tech guy showed up from the elevator company uh because uh Virginia's Revenge quit working last Friday. Uh well two Fridays ago. The tech guy showed up uh Monday afternoon, made a couple minor adjustments.

SPEAKER_04 26:52

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Yep. There they go. Dea and uh Sam and Sam took a ride up the elevator and down.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

Was it awesome? Yes, I knew you wanted to push all the buttons, but Sam did not let me.

SPEAKER_09 27:06

And still be stuck there.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 27:08

We'd have to pass food up.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Yeah, it's it's yeah, we don't push all the buttons, Dea. Just a little finicky. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:16

I don't want to miss this meal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Um, so yeah, the tech guys came, uh, a couple minor adjustments, and uh, I got some wood, I gotta knock on. Knock on wood. It's been working fine ever since then, which is good because my knees are really, really hurting this week. Uh I don't know if it's the weather or whatever, but the uh bone on nerve one is just really killing me. So at night knowing. Yeah, definitely nick of time, that all I gotta do is get over there and sit on my stool when I'm going upstairs and I don't have to uh stumble around.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

So do you like do you like it a lot?

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_06 27:52

Have we used it throughout the day, like multiple times, or is it still mainly just come down, go up?

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Still mainly just come down, but once I can motivate uh my three sons to uh actually work their calendars out to show up on the same day for like an hour and a half is all I'm asking.

SPEAKER_04 28:16

Hear that voice, 90 minutes to uh move.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

90 short minutes. Well, it was supposed to be today, and obviously it didn't happen today. I'm just saying eventually. And if if they don't, then when I'm gone, they got a real mess.

SPEAKER_04 28:32

Um my god, he's trying to help you take advantage.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Yeah, that's how I'm looking at it. Not all the kids do that. So yeah, I haven't I haven't done a lot of up and downs. Uh well, I haven't done any up and downs. But once uh, like when the cleaning lady comes, I'll be going up and down. Because she'll help me do stuff upstairs and move stuff around.

SPEAKER_03 28:52

How nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

So and it's working really nice. Knock on wood. I want to keep it working.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

Like if you forget your wallet upstairs in the morning, you can go back up and get it. You know what I mean? Like you forget something you need, you go back up easily to get it.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Oh yeah, because as opposed to for the last three years, the only thing I would go back up for was my cell phone.

SPEAKER_05 29:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

And uh, I mean, I want to go back up for a clean shirt.

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

I was just like, yeah, I'm gonna wear the one from two two days ago that didn't get up there or whatever. Yeah. So that's true. Oh, yeah, that's a big deal. And it's really nice. It lights up, so when I get up there at night, I don't have to worry about getting to the lights because it's enough light that I can get over to the bed and get the the uh bed lamp turned on and everything. So yeah, I really like it. So now, you know, it's the uh uh Jimmy and George got the bathroom done, so I've got a set-down shower. I got the wash and dryer, so I do my laundry upstairs, and now I got the elevator to ride up and down. So the next thing I'm doing is calling a tree guy to cut uh to trim the uh um uh Roosevelt red bud out of the wires. It used to be on Row Avenue when somebody passed away, uh there would be a collection taken up and you would buy a tree or a plant. So when my dad passed away, uh the neighbors all put money in and bought us a red bud uh chute from uh Hyde Park, from Roosevelt's uh roast buds at Hyde Park. Well, I planted it and it's done so well it's now in my power lines, and I'm afraid that one of these windstorms is gonna knock these lines down. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:41

So I gotta get a good thing to do.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

Yeah, I gotta get some tree guys out here to do it because I don't want my kids doing it, because you need somebody that knows how to mess with wires and stuff. So once that gets done, then the next thing I'm gonna do is a new fence between my house and the former Zavo house, which is now uh Damien and Liberty's house, because they've got a dog, and if I succumb to the pressure of my children who won't show up and help me move boxes, uh and get a dog, I want to make sure I have a secure fence that yeah, the the dog can't get out. Yeah, and then once I get that done, then the next one would be the new concrete uh walkway to the garage that would be wide enough for a wheelchair or a walker. And then I'm gonna be done for a while.

SPEAKER_04 31:35

Nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

So that's some good progress. Yeah, that's that's yeah, that's what I got going on. So then that was uh that was Monday, and then Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and then uh Friday was a legacy day. So I had a good day at Legacy, and then Saturday was uh I did something else Friday. You know, when you get old you can't remember stuff. Uh so then um, oh yeah, Friday. Uh when I was getting up, all of a sudden there was a loud pounding on the side of my house. Oh the gutter guys came and finished the final section of gutters. So now the house and the garage has complete new gutters and downspouts. It helps a lot. Yeah, I'm happy about that. Yeah. So that was Friday morning. I knew there was something else. That was Friday morning, so I got that done. Friday was a legacy day, and then Saturday was a legacy day, and I watched the Derby where the first uh female trainer uh won the Kentucky Derby.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

And Golden Tempo is a great name.

SPEAKER_04 32:52

I was Great White, though, was my horse. Yeah, and it before Great White went down right before the race started. Fell backwards, yeah. It was scary.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

My horse was further ado. I liked that too. Dad's horse, too, was further ado.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

That uh Great White was the biggest horse they stuck that's ever ran in the Derby, and it was 17 and a half hands. And since I now home know how much a stone is, because my my elevator came from uh Belfast, Northern Ireland. My lift, excuse me. A hand is four inches. There you go.

SPEAKER_04 33:31

It's big. My sister had a horse, and so I learned some horsey things. But that yeah, that great white was beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Yeah, it was a big horse. I hope nothing bad happened.

SPEAKER_04 33:41

I know. I'm like nervous that I'm gonna wake up and read a paper this week.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

That's but uh it's amazing that that jockey didn't get crushed underneath it. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:50

Yeah, it was in kind of a horse traffic jam. Yeah. So it is amazing that horse didn't get yeah, they get spooked.

SPEAKER_09 33:58

There's so many people.

SPEAKER_05 33:59

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

So well, and the adventures are saying, and you know, it's like it doesn't make a difference. It's like the only time they run with that many other horses, right? Like sure. They've got 20 horses out there and the crowd, and yeah, yeah, it would be it's a lot, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

It's a bunch, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

So, anyhow, that was pretty much it for my week. Uh, and now I'm going to pronounce this meal the best we've ever had.

SPEAKER_04 34:29

Whoa! Whoa!

SPEAKER_01 34:33

The second best was when you made this before.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

So, second time, I've I mean it was delicious the first time. I think it's even better this time. Wow, and I'd like banana.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

I love this asparagus. Good. Oh, yeah. And I even had duck pate, yeah, which is very good. Yeah, yeah. This is a heck of a meal. I figure if given that Sam always comes up with great wine, I figure if you were having this meal at an upscale French restaurant, probably be eighty, ninety dollars a plate with the wine.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

It's good stuff, usually.

SPEAKER_09 35:09

Oh yeah, it's the wine, the wine would be marked up to like $75 just for the bottle of wine.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

The uh the we put we put a good um French wine in it. I think that makes a big difference cooking with a really good red wine. Yeah, we could.

SPEAKER_04 35:27

Cook with what you would drink. That's what we cooked with. It's so good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:33

This makes a big difference. This it takes all day, but it's like with uh salmon and dia helping, it's not that hard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

A lot of prep, get it in the pot, and then let it cook, right? Yep. Yeah. Oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

And Kate's Dutch Oven.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

It's a magnificent meal.

SPEAKER_04 35:49

It's the official Dutch oven of the the nurse with Danny.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

Thank you, Danny. That means a lot.

SPEAKER_04 35:58

Picking up the Dutch oven. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

Now, if I can just get a good, if I can just do a good lasagna, we'll see. Okay, we'll get that.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

The next time we'll make it together because we'll use like the home my homemade sauce. Yeah. We'll do it right.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

We'll do the real thing. Do the real lasagna. Sounds good. The real deal.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Okay, now we've uh gone through dinner, everything but dessert, yummy, and we're gonna have macron's and is it macron's, macron's, macrones, macarons, macarons. Not they're not macaroons.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Macaron.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

What's what's the French pronunciation?

SPEAKER_09 36:36

I think it's macarons.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

Oh, okay. Uh, and then crumble. But anyhow, we're going now it's time for us to move on.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

Can I tell you something else last night that we saw?

SPEAKER_01 36:48

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Coming back from the winds, we saw a a string of lights like a stars that were moving across the sky. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 36:57

It was like pearls to the sky on a string.

SPEAKER_03 37:01

It was a star-like satellite train. Oh wow. Several people across the Dayton and Miami Valley area reported seeing the string of pearls in the sky around 9 52 p.m., which is when we were coming home, on Saturday. And that's that's what it was. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Anyway, it's very weird. Just wanted to let you know. Saw that last night, too. We got out of the car at Five Oaks and Homewood uh Old Orchard and Homewood to be like, what is going on? And then Jason told us this morning that's what it was. Jason drives us to the winds in fact. So nice. Yeah, yeah. He's good. So helpful.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Good designated driver.

SPEAKER_03 37:44

Yes. So helpful. Anyway, I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Okay, today we're going to the uh on our epic quest through all the best pictures. Uh oh, and before I get to that, I I promised uh a dear listener in Van Wert that I would bring this to everybody's attention. Ava Kay, who everybody here knows.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Yes, when is she coming? Ava Kay, come visit.

SPEAKER_01 38:05

Uh she is all the time trying to find movies, and she couldn't find American in Paris. But she did discover apparently if your library belongs to a certain group called Hullabaloo.

SPEAKER_05 38:20

Hoopla Hoopla.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Called Hoopla, uh, you can get these movies. And uh apparently my dear friend Ava Kay has membership cards to 20 different libraries. Oh, good for her, including Columbus, Ohio, which is a member of Hoopla.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

I was gonna say Dayton has Hoopla too.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

Oh, Dayton has Hoopla too. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:43

But yeah, that's true. You can find some of these.

SPEAKER_06 38:45

And for all you Ohio listeners, if you live in Ohio, if you're resident in Ohio, you can get a library card in any library system in Ohio. So that is true. Take advantage of that.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Maybe that's why the K's got 20.

SPEAKER_04 38:57

I have several. I don't know if they're still active, but I have I have one.

SPEAKER_03 39:02

I feel like I'm doing a good job to have one.

SPEAKER_04 39:04

Well, I got I have a membership to the Portsmouth Public Library because my sister was a librarian there for a long time. She helped me find some things that I needed in the past. So I had a library card there.

SPEAKER_06 39:20

I took out a couple just because of my just because of my book club. And so when everyone's competing for the same book, it's helpful.

SPEAKER_04 39:28

And you like you live where the Centerville Washington Township library is, but you're also like close to Date Metro and you're and close to Springboro.

SPEAKER_06 39:38

Ironically, my daughter lives across the street from a branch of the Columbus Public Library System. I have not gotten a card for that yet. What are you doing? Anyway, only three, geez.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

So, anyhow.

SPEAKER_06 39:50

Anyhow, public service announcements.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

Yeah, there you go. That's a good way to find movies that you need to see.

SPEAKER_04 39:55

I should have done it because I definitely just keep paying Amazon for $4 or $4.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Yeah, that's what Ava Kay was saying. You know, it's a way to save money. I, on the other hand, have bought them all on DVD. So, anyhow, uh, for like $5.95 a piece, which is not bad.

SPEAKER_09 40:14

Well, I don't know if it's because to rent it for $48 hours. Yeah, that's not bad, right?

SPEAKER_04 40:19

I have rented so many now on Amazon or what, but I got this message when I went to it last night to watch, and it gave me a $6 credit for Amazon video, so I I got my rental for nothing.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

So your best buddies with Bezos now.

SPEAKER_04 40:36

Apparently, I don't like that I'm so tight with the Amazon, but here we are. The Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

The Amazon. Okay, we're on to the movie. Uh it is the 1952 Best Picture. It is MGM's Um An American in Paris. Uh that year it was up against the following movies: uh Decision Before Dawn, A Place in the Sun, Quo Votis, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

SPEAKER_04 41:08

So that's some stiff competition.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

Okay, so Place in the Sun is a good one. It won six Oscars. The following Oscars were Best Picture, Best Story and Screenplay, Best Cinematography Color, because they were still doing black and white and color, art direction color, uh scoring of a musical, and costume design color.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

By far.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

And then also that year, uh Gene Kelly, uh who plays Jerry Mulligan in the uh in the movie, uh, received an honorary award in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director, and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of cinematography in film. The movie also starred Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guteri. Gutari? He's a he's French or he's French. He's on Ray. Guitarari. Huh? Guetari. There you go. And Nina Fosh. It features eleven songs, all from Gershwin. Okay. Now, uh I was gonna read the back of that. Okay. Like I like to do, read the back of the DVD, which I own. Uh Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, who was a good friend of the Gershwins, by the way. Sure. Uh, director Vincent Minelli, Liza Minelli's uh father with Judy Garland.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

Also did um Meet Me in St. Louis.

SPEAKER_01 42:49

Oh, and a skilled production team conjure and entertainment for the ages. Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and an alluring but engaged perfume shop clerk, Leslie Cron, in her beguiling screen debut. Dazzling dance sequences are spun around songs by the Gershwins, and the closing ballet, combining the George Gershwin title piece, impressionist set stylings, and Kelly's inevitable uh talent for telling a story and dance, lifts this winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, into the ether of timelessness. That's pretty high praise. Yeah. As Nicolas Cage would say. That is pretty high praise. Okay, so what?

SPEAKER_03 43:39

What are you talking about Nicolas Cage?

SPEAKER_01 43:41

Because that's his thing. That's high praise.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Does he say that?

SPEAKER_01 43:44

Yeah, in movies, he says that's high praise.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

Oh, I didn't know that. Okay. I believe you.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Well, they make fun of it all the time. Yeah. Okay. So, anyhow, uh, just so you know, uh, if you get the DVD, you get all these extra special things. Paul asked me when he first got. Here, did you watch it twice? And the answer is, yes, I did.

SPEAKER_04 44:07

So what was who was the commentary?

SPEAKER_01 44:09

Well, the second time I watched it, the commentary was by uh I think it's it's either Gene Kelly's widow or his daughter, uh Vincent Minelli, Arthur Freed, Alan J. Lerner, who was on the songs, Johnny Green, who was the guy that put all the music together, uh Saul uh Chaplin, who was big on it, Michael Feinstein, Preston Ames, and Irene Shraft, and uh there's also observations by two of the stars, Leslie Cron and uh Nina Fosh. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 44:51

And so the movie commentators outnumber the cast number.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

Yeah, but it was really good because like when it was different scenes that they were involved in, they talked about chiming in.

SPEAKER_04 45:00

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

So knowing how Nan Whaley feels about certain issues, I'm just gonna start this off and then you guys can go around. Okay?

SPEAKER_04 45:14

Great start.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

Okay. Gene Kelly discovered Leslie. She danced in the Ballet de Champs-Laysée.

SPEAKER_04 45:26

Close enough. Close.

SPEAKER_01 45:28

In 1948 when he discovered her. And she was 15 years old. Disgust. But discovered. As Michael Myers would say, disgust.

SPEAKER_05 45:39

Discovered me, like did he like it?

SPEAKER_03 45:41

Did you discover her vagina or just discover her?

SPEAKER_01 45:45

I didn't.

SPEAKER_09 45:46

She's 18 by the time we're shooting this.

SPEAKER_03 45:49

They didn't have like sex, did they? No. Okay, that's fine. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:53

Well, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. That I mean I that's a good thing. I mean, we're gonna watch that happen.

SPEAKER_03 45:57

We're gonna watch Gigi, and the only good thing is that we'll have the coca on. I was gonna say, if yes, we'll we'll have the how you're always upset about Gigi.

SPEAKER_01 46:08

Anyhow, let's talk about the movie.

SPEAKER_03 46:10

Go Kate, go Kate.

SPEAKER_04 46:11

Oh. Um, okay. Well, it is one of those musicals. It's well, first of all, I can't think of too many musicals as much as I love them that could stand up to that sort of competition for best picture and win. Yeah. And I think it's a testament to really all the things you talked about that Gene Kelly and Vincent Minelli and all the others that were creatively involved in this movie that like they manage to pull it all together and create something that is really greater than the sum of its parts. Like the music is great. I like I it is really a tremendous achievement because the music is amazing. It's music that I grew up listening to before I knew this movie. It's music that I grew up listening to and like thought it was awesome and had no idea kind of like what you know what it could be visually until I saw this movie. And it's it's amazing. The um the artistry of it, it's kind of it's a very simple plot, right? It's a very simple plot that could have been easily a really crappy movie if not for the artistry of everybody involved in it, and just like really, I think, like committed to what it was and what it could be. Um yeah, I love it. I it's a great movie. I love it very much. I think it, you know, for all that it's like very made up, it feels real, if that makes sense. I like even the scenes that are you know so clearly in these like um musical numbers that are kind of taking place in, you know, his subconscious and everything, it's it all feels very real, in spite of it being one of the things I did learn from the commentary when you talk about things appear real, the opening shots were actually filmed in Paris.

SPEAKER_09 48:28

They hadn't those were clearly filmed.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Opening shots were filmed in Paris. Yeah, the rest of it was all on uh stage sounds or sound stages. But what they did was they filmed a whole bunch of sites in Paris. Yeah, and so when he was painting uh down on the river, that was what they had filmed, the background.

SPEAKER_09 48:50

So a lot of it still looks the same to steps down to the river. Yeah, very real.

SPEAKER_03 48:57

Those steps down the martin. I mean, we've walked down there.

SPEAKER_09 48:59

We've walked down there, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:01

Yeah. No, I I love this movie. Um I'll probably say more as we go on. It's hard to start, but I you can you can bust in. I'll I'll pipe up. But yeah, I I think it's a great movie, and you know, something it's nice, it's not a it's not a downer, which is nice. We've had a few downers recently. Hamlet. It's not a downer. Well, yeah, it's not a downer, which I appreciate, and uh yeah, just what a great movie to watch. The scenery, the color just filmed in technocolor. Filmed in technicolor at the height of its uh power, and just a really fun movie to watch. And I don't know, this is probably I can't even count how many times I've seen this movie, but it was really fun to see it again. How many times do you think oh easily like a couple dozen? Oh my god. Probably easily.

SPEAKER_06 50:07

Did you did you like discover something new this time or yes and no?

SPEAKER_04 50:13

I probably didn't watch it as closely as I should have because I just I know it really well at this point. I don't know. I grew up on movies like this. I just can't um, you know, it's hard, you know. When we started this project, Dan, you talked about how, you know, it's like you're a fan of these movies, and as we went on, we were we've teased you for not, you know, you always like the movie except when you finally didn't. But who could like which one did you know like Hamlet? You finally did not care for Hamlet. Yes, he did. Yes, all right.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Well, I said it was a hard watch.

SPEAKER_06 50:51

He's already signaled and he's already signaled at ordinary people 1979.

SPEAKER_04 50:56

This is one of those movies for me that I just I it's hard to find fault with. I just it's a very uh happy, hopeful, easy watch, and I've seen it a bunch.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

So well, I have a true confession.

SPEAKER_04 51:11

Yeah, oh boy, oh boy.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

I've seen this movie twice.

SPEAKER_04 51:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

Just now yesterday and today.

SPEAKER_04 51:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

I have seen a hundred highlights on all the different.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

The big like number at the end. I think people I think people are very familiar with.

SPEAKER_01 51:34

I but I from beginning to end, I had never until yesterday and then again today. And I'm glad I did. Now, let's move it on to Southbound.

SPEAKER_06 51:47

My new trail name.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

Yeah, I'm no longer gonna call you Duncan, I'm gonna call you Southbound. Southbound wannabe.

SPEAKER_04 51:53

Don't cave to the pressure.

SPEAKER_06 51:54

So Kate, I'm glad you said that there's nothing to like hate or dislike about the movie, because that's true. I don't like musicals on the screen, and I'm glad I watched the movie. There's nothing I really disliked. I mean, arguably the last seven, as Dan says 17 and a half minutes, um, and that pretty much sums up why I don't like musicals on the screen.

SPEAKER_04 52:12

So did you not like that?

SPEAKER_06 52:15

No, because like Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 52:17

I said that too. This is going on a while. Oh, I know I love it. God, I love it so much. I'm not criticizing the video.

SPEAKER_06 52:24

Yeah, no, no, I understand. Because even like in a in a musical potatoes? Even like in a musical, including this one where they're singing, I mean, that's advancing the plot or at least illustrating a plot point. That last 15 minutes like had not or 17 and a half minutes had nothing to do with it. Yeah, I mean it it was, I mean, I it again it's not that I hated the movie, it's just I don't like musicals on the screen, and that and that just well, you're gonna have a decade, you're gonna have a touch. We got Gigi coming up.

SPEAKER_03 52:54

Um 15 years and then we're done. Gigi's rough for a lot. My Fair Lady, I think, is one.

SPEAKER_06 53:00

So yeah, um Chicago sound of music. So this is gonna to save the obvious, I mean it's impossible to imagine this movie all over in black and white. I mean, we've had plenty, plenty of movies in black and white. Broad me Broadway Melodies is arguably a musical in black and white. There's no way this movie's you can't picture black and white, it's not the same. It's not the same. Um, so I mean it was it's fun to see the vivid colors as brought to you by Technicolor, so that was fun. Um you know, it was a simple plot. I mean, I don't have a problem with that. Um, it's nice to see a set in Paris. Uh it it was fun to watch the I I forget the name of the song, but where he's saying words when the kids are saying it in English. I got rid of it. Oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_04 53:43

I got really good. That's my favorite parts of the whole movie.

SPEAKER_06 53:47

So it's an easy watch. It's fun. Um I like I mean, I like that scene very in the opening where Adam, the uh the pianist, uh, he talks about like how he's stringing together all these fellowships so he doesn't have to work, and he says, I don't want to be a slave to a habit, you know, of working as he's lighting a cigarette, which obviously double entendre, right? Because he's obviously uh smoking's a habit.

SPEAKER_01 54:09

Um, Paul Paul, let me interject here. When you said you didn't like the closing scene, the you know, the clip.

SPEAKER_06 54:19

No, no, it was it was it was it was amazing to watch. It doesn't add to my enjoyment of watching the movie because it doesn't add anything to the plot.

SPEAKER_01 54:26

My recollection is from the commentary that I listened to was that it's the length of American in Paris. The Gershwin uh song. It's goes that song. If you I have it, I have it on it on CD, like four or five different copies of it on CD. Uh and my understanding is from the commentary that that was part of the deal was Freed, who was friends with Gershwin, was like, it's gonna be the whole thing. We're gonna do the whole thing, and then it was how are we going to do it? And I thought they did it very cleverly with all the French impressionists and everything else.

SPEAKER_06 55:14

And I will give credit to this film um that it is not based on a play or a book or whatever. And I've been meaning to like keep a running list of that because it's like almost every single movie we've watched has been based on a previous work, whether it's a short story, um a serialized story, a play, a novel. This one, I mean, it was based on music that already existed, but that is not the same thing. So I have to give props to the movie for essentially being an original. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:43

The music is extremely expressive, yes, and you know, of a moment. I love it. I just love it.

SPEAKER_06 55:50

The uh the one thing, the the one note I'll point out too is um you know it's kind of role reversal when you have Milo and Jerry, right? Because Milo's kind of taking charge, it's role reversal, where like the women's taking charge of things. Um I was kind of, I mean, I you know I didn't do a deep dive into that, but you know, it's kind of interesting to see that coming off of kind of World War II, you know, several years earlier where women had a much more prominent role in society. And so it was you know, I was kind of wondering how audiences would have reacted, although I again reasons of the years reset uh research that. But it's certainly Jerry, you know, has kind of like boss at a little bit. He wants to pay for dinner, but obviously it's not going to be the fancy dinner at the Reds like Milo can afford. Um and then at one point Adam says, I think it's when they're towards the end, when they're at the party, but he asked uh Milo, you know, when you get married, will you keep your maiden name? So it's starting to like you know, border on those sort of issues, you know, those gender issues that I was kind of wondering what people in post-war society were thinking. And there's also another line that Milo says later on where um I think it Jerry does say she's gonna pay, he's gonna pay or whatever. And she's Milo says feels like a woman, she she's gonna feel like a woman for a change, which I thought didn't really land very well because that kind of seems to go against her character where she doesn't mind um I'll say taking charge or taking the lead and all that.

SPEAKER_04 57:08

Yeah, but she wants yeah, she wants arm candy real bad. She then she becomes possessive of him. She does, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:15

And clearly uh with her the scene with the other guy in the cafe where I she's tried this before, but to say that she wanted to be treated like a woman for a change kind of to me rubbed against what her character did be. That's okay. Um minor point, but uh something that I found interesting. Um yeah, those are my comments.

SPEAKER_01 57:36

You talked about the scene where they're gonna go out to dinner, they were dressed up and everything from the commentary. Uh the the actress uh uh Nina Bosch uh she actually came down with chicken pox during the filming of the movie, and uh so they had to not film her for quite a while because she had chicken pox. And when when they got back in time, when she got back in time to film that scene where she had that white dress on, she had been sick and she had lost a lot of weight, and she had pock marks everywhere.

SPEAKER_05 58:20

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 58:21

So apparently it was just every take the the uh makeup people were in hiding her uh chicken pot things. So I thought that was just a little interesting thing.

SPEAKER_06 58:32

Well, the funny set of lines when Jerry said what's holding that dressed up, and she said modesty. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:36

So the other thing is uh when the piano player says to Jerry, and this was what you just said, women act like men and want to be treated like women.

SPEAKER_08 58:57

Yeah, good point. Say that again.

SPEAKER_01 59:00

Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Come on, feminists, weigh in on this.

SPEAKER_05 59:06

What?

SPEAKER_01 59:07

Well, this is it's a it's a quote from the movie.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:11

Okay, well, okay. Dia, your turn.

SPEAKER_04 59:13

I'll talk about that. Yeah, I have to say, there's more, there's more to come.

SPEAKER_06 59:18

Okay, I can just get this is a completely random point, but um, you know, given that it's like immediately post-war, um, I was intrigued. There's a line when they enter into that, like that uh the the cabaret, and I forget which character it says it, but it says like you'll need radar to get through the smoke, which is not a line that could have been said prior to the second world war. Oh, that's true. Yeah that the audience would have, you know, obviously knew enough about you know that the second world war. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:44

Okay, Dea. It's come down to you, girl.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

Okay. Well, I really enjoyed this movie. This might be like my favorite so far. Alright!

SPEAKER_06 59:54

It displays how green was my valley.

SPEAKER_02 59:56

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 59:57

Oh wow, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

Big news. Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:02

The last 20 minutes was the best part of it for sure. And the way everything was like just a painting, and it the way he used the rose and he went into it and out of it. That was just very cool. All the tap was very cool. I really liked the tap dancing, and when he got like on top of the piano and he did that, that was very, very cool. The piano also it seemed a little familiar, like I had heard it before. Oh yeah. Um, so I enjoyed that. Um, they used colors really nicely. I thought all the scenes where um uh she's dancing, I don't know what her name is, but the ballerina's dancing. She like she wears like almost like a contrasting color to the whole setting, and like one of them, like everything's pink, but like she's wearing blue, things like that. They really like used color to their advantage, and it was really cool to see it. Um, so I enjoyed that. I did think that it was a little unrealistic because everybody seemed to like like multiple people at once, but they like also don't want to let go of them and they move on way too quickly, and then they're like like he I just seemed like the humans, yeah. It just seemed like the guy did not know what he wanted, and he kept like going back and forth, and that was a little funny.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:17

I was hoping Adam the pianist would be the one to have to tell Jerry that he likes Lee's obviously didn't go that way.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:24

I think he knows what he wants. He's just caught between his career and and the woman he wants.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:31

And she's engaged, right? Like she the woman he wants is is engaged. Well, she he just holding back. She's holding back, she finally admits she's engaged, and then he finds out it's this guy he actually knows, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

So well, he finds out she's engaged, and then like two seconds later he's making out with the the rich lady, and then then a little bit later.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:52

Well, yeah, that was just a re that was just like a heartbroken reaction, I think.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:56

And then five minutes later he's like he tells the rich lady that he still loves the other girl. Like, what is that gonna do?

SPEAKER_09 1:02:05

You know, he gets her gets the girl in the end. It's a musical that happens.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:10

Yeah, and moods change fast in musicals.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:17

Yeah, dude, you're only 17. You got a lot, you got a lot of things coming at your girl.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:23

Yeah, but I really liked it overall. I had a good time watching it.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:28

Yeah. Yeah, that's good. I'm impressed. How green was my valley's in the rear view mirror.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:34

Thank God. What? Oh, gosh. I said, thank goodness, yeah. Why? I didn't I just don't think that should be anybody's favorite movie. What? It's still pretty good. It's fine. Okay. I don't dislike it, but it's fine. Okay, Sammy. Alright.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:54

Well, I I uh I liked how they got like the cafe culture down really well and the artists on Montmartre. That was fun. Uh I like how he argues with the uh American student who's like trying to like criticize. It's so good, and I can totally picture that happening. Because having been there, like like there it there can be like this tension between like someone who's who's been there a while and somebody passing through but thinks they know it all. So I thought that was really fun. I really enjoyed the uh the piano player when he finds out they're both after the same girl. Oh, the piano, yeah. He starts, he's like, Brandy, brandy, bring me more brandy. Yeah, and he he spills all over himself, like drops his cigarette and his coffee. So good. Yeah, that was really fun. Um I think like cinematography-wise, and maybe it's just because it's in color, but it it felt like it was shot the best and produced the best of anything we've seen, other than maybe Gone with the Wind.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:09

Oh, yeah. I put the data.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:12

I was it was just really impressive. Yeah. Oh, I mean, that's number one overall. And this, I don't know if this is even in my top five, even though I really enjoyed it. I just I somewhat agree that I don't love the translation of mute of musicals to film, but that last scene, I mean, it's just like incredible. Yeah. And and I read, I don't know, I don't want to steal from you, Dan, but that how much that scene costs, how many sets it took. It was uh half million dollars to shoot that scene, and and they used 44 sound stages on MGM. It's amazing, just just a ridiculous, yeah. It's like uh brilliant insane piece of movie making.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:55

I think it's equivalent to uh Walt Disney's Fantasia.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:01

You know, when it's the dancing hippos.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:05

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:07

And then the dance scene at the beginning, I think that would have had to have been controversial, right? For being somewhat uh seductive.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:18

Where she has all the different vignettes they show her.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:21

Yeah, and they show you know, like she she's showing a lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:24

She's yeah, yeah, she's showing a lot.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:26

Yeah, so I thought for 1951 that was that was somewhat risque there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:33

But man, you can hear you can definitely tell she was a ballerina with that toe work she's doing. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:42

Her dancing just throughout her career on film, she is ballet first always. Yeah, and and like a tremendous dancer, but definitely ballet first. One of the lines And the way she moves is like oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:02

One of the things in the commentary, and this is her words, she knew she could not speak English. Her mother was an American expat. Okay. So yeah, her father was French and she was raised in France, but her mother was an expat, but they didn't speak English at home. So she knew very little English at all, including when she got to America. So she acknowledges on the commentary, and this is her own voice, that she has very few lines because she couldn't speak English.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:39

She really doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:40

Yeah, she really's mostly dancing. Yeah. And uh and she credits Gene Kelly with being so wonderful with her and helping her with her lines, getting through her lines. And I thought that was really fascinating. That you know, here she was, 19 years, discovered, you know, and put on MGM's uh uh radar when she was 15, and this whole movie gets and Gene Kelly was like, it's gotta be her.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:11

I think it's better that she didn't have that many lines.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:14

Yeah, oh right, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:15

It felt it felt more like her being Parisian. She was truly Parisian.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:19

And his thing was is she's gotta be French. Absolutely gotta be French. And which brings me to another thing before I forget it. That one scene where uh the guy that she's married to that hit her during the uh Renaissance or during the Resistance uh when he has his big uh musical scene Stairway to Paradise. Yeah. Uh which was a great homage to all those great musicals from the 30s. Um the they they were had a dilemma about because he was a famous French singer.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:51

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:51

That guy was. Yeah. They had a dilemma about, you know, they're in a cafe in Paris.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:56

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:56

How's he gonna sing in English?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:58

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:59

And then it came up with that, oh, because he comes out and he sings the first four or five lines in French, and then he goes, Oh, there's my friend from America. I will sing in English. And what a great, smooth way, believable way to do it. Okay, Nan, it's your turn.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:15

Um, I am taken by how beautifully shot this movie is from watching, which you know, last week we saw All About Eve, which was a great movie. And this movie was shot like it was shocking to me, they're only a year apart. Because the visuals are so wild, and the visuals are so good. And Manelli's use of like how he directs the color is like is so it's like a part of the movie in a way that you know this this I think that's why the it's a musical that's perfect for that cinematography, right? Like trying to do that. Um yeah, so I hadn't seen this movie. I saw it once when I was like 15, and I had not seen it obviously since I'd been to Paris, um, which made it, I think, even better for me watching it this time. Um, I always loved Gene Kelly's dancing. Gene Kelly can dance in a way where his top of his body doesn't move and his body, the bottom of his body moves so like it's like amazing to watch. It's amazing to watch and such such an amazing talent. And and um uh what's her name? Leslie Coron, is that her name?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:27

Uh yeah, just an excellent, excellent ballerina. So like you're just seeing like the top notch, like you know, I think you're if you watch them and like so so glad they're on the screen because you know there were probably amazing dancers a hundred years before that, but we don't see we won't be able to appreciate or see them. And so to still get to appreciate these two dancers because of um film is pretty amazing. Um so I I love I love the movie. Um I love the Gershwin. Uh you know, I I you know one of the things about George Gershwin that's so amazing is he can write Our Love Is Here to Stay, which is like a great popular love song uh of the 1940s, and then he can write an opera or he can write a symphony with no words, like and still convey the same kind of it's amazing he's an amazing, amazing composer. Yeah, I also thought the the piano player was really well cast, his face was so emotive. Oscar LeVay. Yeah, like he was just perfect in these scenes.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:35

There's I think isn't there a play about him on Broadway or recently? Isn't that good now?

SPEAKER_06 1:10:41

He's a real pianist, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:42

Yeah, he's a real pianist. Well, then that was also interesting. They had real dancers, real pianists, real, real like the singer, the French singer. These were all like top-notch performers. And you don't get that much today. Like you would not get the you know, the best French ballerina on on TV on cinema. You wouldn't get the best piano player, you wouldn't have a composer of the of George Gershwin doing a movie. Like that's I think what's makes this movie so incredibly special is that those things. And Vincent Manelli, you know, was like probably one of the best directors ever, right? So you just had like this like top of the top of the top, and not just in film, but like in the world in this movie. So I thought that was great. Now, it is an incredibly misogynistic movie. Yes, it is. I just want to say that.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:35

I'm glad you brought it up.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:36

It's time for the music to cue to Helen. Well, and like I hate that song. That's not exceptional. You want me to sing Richard Harris instead?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:48

No, no, I am ever present. So I'm very, very glad that you were talking about this. I did not want to start with a misogynist.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:58

I said we'll get to it.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:59

Yes, please. Well, look, I mean, I mean, and look, it's the time. I mean, the 1950s, like it's it's one of the reasons why the civil rights movement came. It's like, you know, this period of, oh, we, you know, we really want to get back to normal. I'm putting that in air quotes from before the war. And so that's like women should be in their place. The way that they belittle Milo is the way I viewed it of him, her absolute her trying to like, you know, have a space was like viewed as just the like an anathema in this movie, and like really belittled her, I felt.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:33

She was a little bit older, right? And she was unmarried, and she had the means to kind of like be in charge and get what she wanted, and that was turned into something very negative.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:46

Yes, and the the hero heroine of the movie is a a a little girl girl who's been saved in the resistance by a man. Like, okay. That's right. Um, so yeah, it's a misogynistic movie. That doesn't take away that it is like still it's a beautifully designed movie.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:03

It's a gorgeous movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:04

Yeah, it's gorgeous. So that's what I have to say about it, Danny.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:08

Okay, well, uh a couple things let me throw in there. Uh the woman who played Milo, uh, she's on the commentary, and she said, you know, she had been in Hollywood for a number of years, and she said all I ever did was terrible movies until I made this movie. Yeah. And then this movie opened the door for me to make a lot of great movies. So she had nothing bad to say about it. Yeah, had nothing to do with that. But it still is a misogynist. Yeah, agreed.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:41

You know, because of the role she agreed, agreed.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:45

Okay, now, okay, let me let me go through my notes. Okie dokie. Okie doo doo doo doo doo. There were 11 songs in it. I think I said that. Uh they're all from Gershwin. Oh, when you talked about uh uh Love is Here to Stay, that was not a popular song. It was a very little known song.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:10

Oh, is it?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:11

Yeah. According to the commentary, it was a very little known song, but Freed and the rest of them always loved it.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:18

Yeah, it's such a great song.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:20

And this movie is what made that song so popular.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:24

Oh, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:25

According to the commentary of the guys that made it, that was a very little known song.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:29

But uh there were so it was it was like an it w it was released in the forties. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:34

Well, yeah, but it was very little, it wasn't popular.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:38

It didn't hit the It's interesting, you know, talking just about popular music of that day, and maybe it's like this now, and I'm just not thinking of it, but like you hear some of these songs in various movies, right? Like it would debut in one, and then suddenly it would be in another one, and it would be like the heart and soul of of the next movie, but it's like you've heard it before, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:03

Yeah. Uh couple of my favorite scenes were the very first thing where he's getting up and he's pulling up. Oh, pulls the bed up to the roof, and he does this and he knocks that down. This falls out and that falls out, and the door opens up and he gets his croissant or whatever. I really like that. And then when he was walking to go to paint, he walks by Winston Churchill sitting there smoking a cigar painting, which I thought was because he does a double take and looks at him and he keeps going. So I thought that was really clever that they did that. Uh and then uh do do do do do. Oh, then I also loved a scene where um, and I think his name is uh the piano guy, Oscar Levant. Yeah, I loved it where he does everything, where he plays the piano, he plays the violin, he plays this. The commentary had quite a bit of uh uh inside stuff about how they filmed it with all the different shadows they had to do, uh, with you know, uh, and it was really clever. I yeah, really thought that was very, very clever that they did that. Um okay, then uh oh, but the one thing that I really liked was uh, and this was and they talk about this quite a bit in the commentary, uh, was how they were going to end the movie. You know, they knew it had to end some way. And so that's when they came up with the uh art students bowl, and everything had been so colorful, they decided this is gonna be a little bit more. That was cool. That was cool. This is gonna be black and white.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:51

I like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:52

So the whole time I was watching that, I was thinking, this is like a Roman orgy. Yeah, yeah. Oh, it was they're throwing women down off the catching them. It was way over the top. Yeah. Uh and then when he he's having his uh when she was leaving them, you know, uh, she says uh uh she says uh when they're out on the thing, Paris has a way of making people forget. And then he says, No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful, it never lets you forget anything. Which I thought was pretty cool. Because when I was in Paris, I forgot and left my Van Wert High School letter jacket on the Paris Metro. And I like to think that somewhere this very day on the Champs-Laisée, I hope, in a vintage American clothing store, my 1971 Van Wert High School Scarlet and Gray Cougar's letter jacket is being offered for like 1,200 euros or whatever. That's what I like to think. Or, like that famous movie about the Boston subway system. Did he ever return? No, he never returned, and he rides it still today.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:12

Yeah, same song.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:13

Yeah. That you don't know that song? My uh letter jacket is still riding the metro in Paris. Still riding players because that was me in Paris. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:24

Oh, can I say something else that's it's interesting about Leslie Coron uh loving Gene Kelly? You know, Gene Kelly was notoriously terrible to work with, and so it's interesting that she's like really grateful to him because no other I know of no other female dancer that liked Gene Kelly.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:41

That is true. They all sing.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:44

She said he was just great. Oh, get it. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:49

Would you ask Dia?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:50

Is it because he thought he was like too good for all of them?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:53

Like he was like, uh according to like Debbie Reynolds, like I think she's been the most um outspoken about it, and she was in Sing in the Rain with him. It it was like he was tireless and would like an impossible standard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:08

Like she specifically talked about like he'd make her continue to dance to get a tape just right, to the point where her feet were bleeding in her shoes. And like he would just make her go and go and go. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:24

And that's the main leader.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:26

Yeah, yeah. Gene Kelly. Yeah, just like a perfectionist who wouldn't quit.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:30

Yeah. So that's interesting that this young girl, like she was great.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:34

She was, and you know, this is the older Leslie. I mean, this, you know, this thing. So, anyhow, uh, another thing that uh Gene Kelly said I thought was uh real uh poignant since we've watched Hamlet.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:49

Um that was just a few short years ago and the way it was designed compared to this movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:55

Uh and and this is this is Gene Kelly. Doing this type of movie puts more demands on you than doing Hamlet.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:04

Oh I agree.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:08

He did some wear a lot of hats.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:11

He wore a lot of hats. He did the choreography. He sang.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:15

Yeah, he danced, he acted. I mean, he had to do all of it.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:19

Oh, he had to do it all, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:20

The dancing.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:21

Lawrence Olivier, he just got to play Hamlet and got the Oscar.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:25

He I think he didn't he direct it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:28

No, uh Oh yeah, he did yeah, Hamlet.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:31

I think he had a lot to do, too.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:33

I'm I mean, oh I'm not cracking on Sir Lawrence Olivier.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:36

He failed miserably in that movie. It was a terrible movie. Gene Kelly did it better.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:40

Well, it was a hard watch, that's for sure. And then finally, you know, uh, I went to uh college to be an art major.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:51

Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:52

And I never took an art class. And my uh advisor take an art history, my advisor, my halfway through my junior year, said, Garris, what are you gonna do with your life? And I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna be an art major and work in an art museum. He goes, You're gonna graduate in a year and a half, you haven't taken a single art class. And he looks at me and said, and you haven't taken any teaching classes, you can't even be a teacher.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:19

Were you doing your drawings back then?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:21

Yes, I was. And then he said to me, You know, Garris, you've screwed off so much in college, the only thing you can do is go to law school.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:30

True story.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:30

He was a PhD and also a lawyer.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:32

Well, he was right. He was right. Good advice.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:36

I was the cartoonist for the Van Wert High School uh Scarlet Quill, which was our student. And if you knew me during law school, every day I did a political cartoon of what was going on in law school that would be passed behind the backs around people and everything. Yes, I did. Every day, and then as a judge, I was known as the guy who had uh 144 Crayolas on his bench. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:07

What did you think?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:08

Well, you know, when they had the computer taken out because people could see the reflection of uh me playing solitary in my glasses, uh Crayolas don't reflect. So I have boxes of all my doodles. Nah, you know, I I always took them down a bit. Mike, you know Mike Elsis, who's a very famous uh uh painter. A very famous painter here in Dayton.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:42

Let me back up a minute. What classes were you taking in college? Because you graduated on time, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:49

Yes, I did.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:50

And made it into a law.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:51

So if you didn't take any classes in your major, like what were you doing? What was your major event? Was it like just liberal arts? So you just take like gym five times a day, what were you doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:00

Paps Blue Ribbon.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:03

Circle K.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:04

Circle K, Southern Comfort. There was also a great drink called Hop and Gator. Uh-huh. And that's when Boone's Farmers. Apple Farm. Boone's Farm Apple Farm came out, and then Boone's Strawberry Hill came out.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:19

Strawberry Hill.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:22

Well, what what major did you end up graduating with?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:25

I had a triple major.

unknown 1:23:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:28

Poli Sci.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:29

He was working so hard he didn't even know it.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:31

History and environmental studies.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:33

Environmental. Environmental studies.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:36

I was a triple major. And then I went to law school. But anyhow, so this is my final comment.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:45

I don't know if I buy it.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:48

You got them somewhere.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:50

I have got they're somewhere in this house.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:52

I have a scrapbook that has every one of my high school grade cards and every one of my college. And my law school, as a matter of fact, too. There you go. Someday you will, Sam.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:04

Somewhere in this house.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:05

But not today. So anyhow.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:07

Do you want you don't want that one in your coffin though?

SPEAKER_01 1:24:09

I no, I want to as much creme brulee as I can get. So, anyhow, I've always been a guy who loves uh art and painting. Yeah. You know, I always I I have ideas, but I was never any good at it. You know, some people have the talent. I have the desire, but I don't have the talent. And uh so at the the last 17 and a half minutes that I really loved uh with how they did it, uh, I'm just gonna run by the artist that they uh that they focused on. Uh uh Utrillo, Toulouse, Latrec, Duffy, Renoir, uh Russo, and Van Gogh. Yeah. And they did such a wonderful job. If you know their paintings, sometimes in the forefront, it was like the scene from the absence drinker. Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. Yeah. Yeah, it was yeah, for an art major wannabe. Yeah, I can uh yeah, I'm an art major wannabe. For an art major wannabe, I thought that was really great.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:20

I like George Costanza. You always wanted to pretend to be an architect. I just want to pretend to be an art major.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:26

If I would have known, if I would have known that Manchester College's art ball, student art ball was like that, I'd have taken some art classes.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:36

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:37

Yeah, absolutely. The orgy I would have brought the Lambrusco. Oh, yeah. Well, I uh I had a little bit more money for Boone's Farm. Well, back in the day, Sam, if you wanted to get lucky, uh it was a bottle from Portugal.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:55

And it it wasn't lucky, get a drunk.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:59

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:01

You're just the road we're going down.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:03

You're just assuming things there. You're assuming evidence, you're assuming things not in evidence. But it was a it was a bottle of wine from Portugal that had a different shape to it, and that's what all the girls wanted for their candles. Oh yeah, to put the candle in it and drip it down. Yeah. So that was one of the most popular wines that was sold to Manchester College students at uh Eel River uh carryout was that Eel River.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:36

So sick.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:37

Well, that's the river that went through North Manchester.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:39

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:39

It its Indian's name is King O Poco Moco. And that's in our that's in our ala mater. On the banks of the King O Poco Moco. Oh boy. Did the dusky maiden meet?

SPEAKER_06 1:26:53

Oh my god. Dan, what was the drink of choice uh to wash the streakers? Anything on hand?

SPEAKER_01 1:27:02

Yeah, back then. Yeah, uh yeah, everybody back then was into Lambrusco. Yeah, Lambrusco hit big in 74. That's when the streaking was going really good. It was in 74. Yeah, Lambrusco. Then when I got to law school, I transit I transitioned to uh Panker A Gen.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:24

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:24

Yeah.

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Good job.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:27

Yeah, you know, you get a little bit more sophisticated.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:29

Now we're at Henrik's.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:30

Now we're what?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:31

Henrik's Sebastian. And uh monkey. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:40

Oh see. I buy local. I bell I buy Bella Date and Jen. Oh, it's good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm local. I'm local. Okay. Uh final comments for the evening, Nan Whaley.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:53

I don't have any. Have a great week, everybody. Next week. Next week we're watching.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:56

Well, we'll get to that.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:58

Uh final comment, Sam Ron.

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I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:04

Do you have anything?

SPEAKER_08 1:28:05

I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:06

Paul?

SPEAKER_08 1:28:06

Go good.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:08

Good, good, good. Good.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:09

Okay. Well, I hope we haven't bored you too much. And like I always said, at least 85% of what I say is true.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:21

At least.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:21

At least.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:22

Has somebody tried to fact-check me recently?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:24

No, I've been fact-checked all the time. Okay. Okay. Couple things. Tomorrow is May 4th.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:31

May the 4th be with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:32

And if you're a Star Wars fan, you know it is May the 4th be with you. So for all us Star Wars geeks out there, happy Star Wars Day. And then the next day, Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo. And so we're going to go out to uh Mexican restaurant up in Huber Heights and buy their $25 margarita that. Huh?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:00

Why are you you're going to go buy a $25 margarita and you're going to drive all the way to Hubert Heights?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:07

Yeah, because you ought to see this margarita. Hold on all. No, it has like a rowboat. Yeah, it no. It has fire. It's all the top tequila. I mean everything's that you know that.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:18

Is it enormous? Or is it what else is making it more expensive?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:22

But it's expensive. But it has Oh yeah, two.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:24

It's also the election.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:26

Yeah, it's the election. But I've already voted, and I voted for you, Nan Whaler.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:30

Thank you. Oh yes, listeners, please vote for Nan Whaler. I'm very nervous about my race.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:36

It has sprinklers or sparklers on it. When you do it, it shoots fireworks on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:42

Oh my gosh. Oh, that's a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:44

It comes out.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:45

Where is this? What is the spy?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:46

It's a Chambersburg and uh Brandt Pike. Who are you going with? La Pomeridas. It's the Pyramid. Yeah, La Pomeridus, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:55

Who are you going with?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:56

Uh Owens and uh Shulkers. Nice. Uh Brigner can't come and Patzer's going somewhere or something. So anyhow, so we got Cinco de Mayo coming up, so don't forget to vote.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:06

And primary day, don't forget to vote.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:07

Now, uh next week, okay, next Sunday, we are going to tackle the 1953. Best picture, that's the year I was born. Uh Cecilby Cecilby DeMills, epic circus movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:25

Isn't it 1952?

SPEAKER_01 1:30:28

This was 52, we didn't get it.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:29

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:30

It's it's weird the way it lines up. So these movies sometimes come out in the year before, but the Oscar ceremony is like. So it's yeah, that makes it a little hard to try.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:43

Okay. Yeah. So 1953. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:45

But anyhow, it's uh Cecil B de Mills, Epic Surf Circus movie, the greatest show on earth.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:51

Kate is not looking forward to this one.

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And uh I'm hoping that maybe I like it more watching it for the other side.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:58

So, anyhow, that's what we're gonna be watching. So uh with that, dear listeners, I hope we haven't bored you. Um why do you say that?

SPEAKER_03 1:31:06

If they're listening, they have to be so engaged with us.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:08

Please don't say you're bored.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:10

Are you bored, Dan, hanging out with us?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:18

Are you trying to turn this into a Jerry Springer show?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:21

Yeah, I think it's 1952, Dan. I think definitively we're just we're still in the middle. Yeah, I think it's 1952.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:31

Let's get the book out. Uh, where's the Bible?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:34

Yeah, we're well this one's 1952. So the next one has to be. Oh, see, I think okay. Oh, good, you're good. 1953. It's the Oscar ceremony of 1953, but it was rewarding movies.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:50

American in Paris was released in 51. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:53

But it won the 1952 Oscar. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:56

Well, no, I'm wrong.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:00

Yeah, 1951. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:02

So I'm wrong. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:03

But you know, other sources say that it was 52. So I no, but that's the book.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:08

No, this is the book. 1951, 1951. Oh, we get the movie title.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:13

Correct for the listeners.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:16

Yeah, I mean, I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:18

But anyhow, we're doing them in order. So there you go.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:21

1952.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:22

Yeah.

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Greatest show.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:24

Okay. So there you go. Uh, so anyhow, uh we hope everybody has a good, safe week, and we're looking forward to seeing you next week for what I'm sure will be a three-ring circus. So let me end like I always end. What's that?

SPEAKER_03 1:32:48

I was buying some some nice uh American in Paris.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:51

Yeah, we're gonna get sued now. Oh no. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:54

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:55

I did learn something in law school. Okay, so Godspeed and fair winds until we meet again, and we're gonna go have Cremble now.