Around the World and the Table

The Gang had a great dinner, taping on a Friday night, which made the libations flow a little freer!  Diya made the Gang a special Indian meal to celebrate 1956 Best Picture winner Around the World in 80 Days.

The table was glad to add table guests Ann Charles Watts and Jason Hilliard--from what we affectionately call the Ann Charles Watts experience located at the end of Wroe Avenue.

Dan continues to chide his table mates for not having the luxury of being born a boomer, and the crew takes it well.  Pull up a chair and listen to the multi generational conflicts as we take on our 29th best picture discussion

#DinnerwithDan

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:20

You sure?

SPEAKER_05 0:21

I'm sure, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

And you can hear me this time, right? I can hear you great. I've just been knocked down by my tech uh person that I was not clear last week. So if I come across too loud this time, bring it up with my tech support person. Okay. I would like to welcome everyone and our loyal listeners and those first timers to this, the 38th episode of Dinner with Dan. I am your podcast host, Dan Garrett. We are recording on Friday, June 19th, 2026, from Dayton's historic Five Oaks neighborhood. I want to start by giving a shout out to everyone of Happy Juneteenth. Now we usually record on Sundays, but because of various commitments, we have switched this week to a Friday recording. And I want to bring up something before I forget it again that I meant to bring up last week. In the June 12th, 2026 edition of the Daily News, and as everybody here knows, I'm old school, so I still get the print edition. You gotta have that ink on your fingers or it don't count. There was an op-ed piece headlined. And it was a lament about uh how great porches used to be.

unknown 1:47

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

To those, I say come to Row Avenue where porches are alive and well every day and many nights. An old slogan. There was an old slogan that the wizards at City Hall uh dreamed up, because they're always trying to dream up a new thing rather than just going with the Wright brothers. They should go with the Wright brothers. Everybody knows the Wright brothers. But they always come up about every three or four years with a new slogan. But back in the early 80s, the slogan was on everything.

SPEAKER_05 2:17

City of neighbors. No.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

This was about before that.

SPEAKER_05 2:20

What was it?

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Living in uh city living is living in Dayton. So there you go. So if you want to come back to the porches, come back. We have great porches. Okay. Uh at the table tonight, uh, we have a big table tonight. Regulars Nan Whaley, Sam Braun, Dea, Paul Duncan Robinson, Kate Evans, Eddie Garris, who is in the basement finishing up uh after the intermission of uh the first part of uh Around the World in 80 Days, so he should be up to join us. He wanted to finish the movie. Uh and we have special guests. We have Ann Charles Watts. Ann Charles Watts experience. And Jason Hilliard. They are actually husband and wife, and they are one of the most eclectic couples I've ever met in my entire life.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

Does that sound like a compliment? It is. I think it is.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

As Nicolas Cage would say, that is high praise.

SPEAKER_05 3:28

I'm wearing Barker shorts and it's that's what he says.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

That's high praise. Okay. They live in the house at the end of Row where Rob and Chad Lowe lived as young boys before moving to Hollywood and movie and TV fame.

SPEAKER_13 3:46

Micah was there too. He's also Hollywood.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Yeah, I've got a half-brother. Yeah. Well, and I thought he was more music producer.

SPEAKER_13 3:55

I think he's more vaccine.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

Yeah, but I thought he was a music guy. He may be. Don't he live in Austin, Texas, and he's a music guy? Well, anyhow. We can figure that out later. Okay. So everybody here who has followed our dear friend Dea, she started her year as a Rotary Exchange student with Ann Charles and Jason. Uh and uh halfway through the year she moved in with Nan and Sam. And now she has moved back with Ann Charles and Jason before she leaves for her home in India in early July, when we will all be very sad that she's gone. An interesting note about Ann Charles and Jason is that their son, John Thomas, is currently a Rotary Exchange student in Finland and will soon return to Dayton.

SPEAKER_14 4:48

Today. Presently in Dallas.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Oh, wow. So John Thomas is on his way back from Finland. All right. Oh, absolutely. Uh tonight we will review the 1956 best picture around the world in 80 days. So we decided that since a major portion of this movie takes place in India, we would have our very own special Dia prepare Indian, our very own special Indian princess, excuse me. Dia prepare Indian food for us tonight. So, Princess Dea, what's for dinner?

SPEAKER_08 5:35

Um, lots of things.

SPEAKER_05 5:37

Well, rice.

SPEAKER_08 5:44

Um, paneer. What it's cooked in two ways: one with um spinach and one with tomatoes and onions. And a chickpea curry and um sweet carrots, which we called halwa and hindi. And what else? Nan and Sam made a pie. It's peach pie. Very excited. I've never had that before. That's called puppet. That's those are like chips. I did not make them. I did not, I just put them in the microwave. Um and yeah, Nan and Sam made the rice. And Kate helped, everybody helped me. It was cool. It took a long time.

SPEAKER_05 6:22

How much time did it take you to do this?

SPEAKER_08 6:25

Well, I started at like 9 a.m. I took a I took a break, but yeah. I've been basically cooking all day.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

It is delicious. It is so good. Seriously. One of the best meals we have had on dinner with Dan.

SPEAKER_08 6:44

I tried. A lot of this I've never made.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

Seriously, so good. It's really good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 6:50

Okay. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Now, uh, I see Jason mixed everything together. Is that what you're supposed to do?

SPEAKER_07 6:58

I don't.

SPEAKER_08 7:00

I had some.

SPEAKER_07 7:01

I think it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Well, and let me ask you, Dea.

SPEAKER_08 7:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Uh did the cookbook I got you help?

unknown 7:13

Oh.

SPEAKER_08 7:14

So I did not make anything out of the cookbook.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Okay, that's okay.

SPEAKER_08 7:19

Because all of the recipes and it they look delicious, but they're very hard to make.

SPEAKER_13 7:27

We did use the cookbook that your dad got me the first time.

SPEAKER_08 7:31

That's true.

SPEAKER_13 7:32

Because the website that we found for the the pelicaner kind of crashing.

SPEAKER_08 7:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:38

Did you did you help Jake?

SPEAKER_08 7:40

Yeah, he helped.

SPEAKER_13 7:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 7:42

He helped for the green thing. The pelicaner.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

That's really good. Very good stuff. That's delicious.

SPEAKER_14 7:51

She did for us when she was living with us. And I think you did a very similar day. And I was like, oh, I would like to make this a weekly thing. And she was definitely not at that. I don't blame you. Definitely not. Well, I will say that if there is if there's a marriage in her future, it's with someone who can cook.

SPEAKER_08 8:16

Yeah, but not cooking.

SPEAKER_05 8:19

But you're good at it. Whether you like it or which one's that one?

SPEAKER_01 8:23

The beans have a kick.

SPEAKER_05 8:24

Yeah, there's a kick on all the oh there is. It's Indian. I have a peach pie for you, Dan. That one is, I think the green and these are a little lighter than the beans.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

The beans are the I got I got DoorDash coming. I'm I'm don't worry. I'm eating your share. I'm eating. No, no kick on that.

SPEAKER_05 8:51

Indiana has trouble with spices.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Okay, so what I've eaten so far is very good.

SPEAKER_05 9:00

Delicious, it's really good. So thank you very much, Dia.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Okay. So uh you guys have listened to the podcast. I know you haven't, but we'll say you have.

SPEAKER_14 9:14

We have, and Jason kind of keeps up. I can't say the same, but Jason is uh is a regular follower, yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

So as you know, uh before we get into the movie, we talk about what we've done this past week, even though it was a short week because we were on Saturday and or Sunday and this is now Friday. Uh Nan Whaley.

SPEAKER_05 9:37

Oh yeah, it's been a short week because um today was a holiday, which I feel like this holiday is still new, so it sneaks up to you and you get to just have a nice day. Um but um I did a lot of dinners with people all week. We have Courtney Rice and her husband Ian are in town because they're moving Judge Rice out of his office.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 10:00

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

He has a picture that I painted for him, my senior year in law school. It's always hung in his office.

SPEAKER_05 10:07

Well, they're taking it down. Yeah. He is retiring at the age of 89. Wow. So all the kids came in this week to do that. And then um, so we had dinner with them, and then Tuesday night we had dinner with the president of UD and his wife and the pro host, uh, and her husband and uh Shelly and Gary over at the UD residence, and so that was really fun.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

And then you're living large.

SPEAKER_05 10:37

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Federal judge, president of the University of Dayton.

SPEAKER_05 10:41

I didn't have dinner with the judge, I had dinner with the judge's daughter. Oh well. Um That's close enough. And then um Wednesday. Oh, I had a fundraiser in Mason for Planned Parenthood. And then Thursday, we went to Debbie Feldman's uh retirement at the Dayton Art Institute Thursday. Also on Thursday, I had drinks with um three Wright State med students that are interested in like how they can engage more with Planned Parenthood, which was cool. And one of our dogs came, and always in awe of this woman that works for us with the director of surgery, she's so amazing. And then Thursday night, it was such a perfect portion idea that Ann Charles came over and we had drinks. And then Kate was doing our homework for the podcast. But Marty and Julie came over, which we hadn't seen them in a bit after they put the babies to bed. Wow. And so we had a very delightful movie. We had a delightful Thursday night. You know, because today is a holiday.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Porches are alive and well, and five oaks. They're especially on Row Avenue.

SPEAKER_05 11:53

It is gorgeous. It's great porch weather right now. So that's what we did. I don't know if Sam played tennis on top of that. He might talk about his tennis game.

SPEAKER_12 12:03

Oh you know, no, we just hit tennis balls, so it wasn't that that interesting. But I I think you covered every just about everything. We did it together. But uh we uh at dinner Tuesday was Shelly Dixtein, and we have to throw out uh kudos to the city of Dayton, and they paved our alley. Thank you. I was gonna bring that up.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

I have been talking about this Monday Monday.

SPEAKER_12 12:29

It happened Monday sometime.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

There was not even a sign of it when I went to work. I was so happy. I think I have talked about how bad our alley is for like at least the last four years. And it's been real bad. It was these big rains we've been getting, it used to look like a river. You could not see the pavement. It looked like a river back there.

SPEAKER_12 12:53

Oh, there were like giant potholes.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Giant potholes. So, yes, thank you to the city for finally getting around to our alley.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Back in the day when Rashad Young was the city manager, what finally got him to pave the alley on this side of Roe was when you, as a city commissioner, told him that Judge Garris had named each of the major potholes after different city commissioners.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Well, I did not go so far as to do that, but I I said bad words every time it rained, and I had to drive through that every time.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

And you know, they also repaved that one off of Five Oaks, the one that runs from row right on going down. That one that got repaved, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:44

Also, the big truck came. We tell a semi-track come through this show.

SPEAKER_14 13:48

Oh, yeah, that seemed very exciting.

SPEAKER_12 13:51

So it was moving. I was moving in Nia.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

Very exciting.

SPEAKER_12 13:55

All the rest of Nia's stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Oh, Derek? Yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 14:06

Oh, and then Shelley also solved an issue I was having with the city tennis court. So that's exciting as well. Very productive week. Which one's oh, just it's I don't need to borrow you over the details, just some things with the hours. And nickels. And nickels kind of sign.

SPEAKER_05 14:26

So Sam enjoyed his dinner today. Yeah. You got to thank the city manager for the alley time. Alright.

SPEAKER_08 14:36

Well, we went to Athens, and I think I let them talk about that. But apart from that, it was pretty chill. I went out with a friend and I cooked all day today. That's all you did the whole week.

SPEAKER_14 14:48

You did different things in Athens than we did.

SPEAKER_08 14:51

Oh yeah. So we I think we were in town a lot. We went to like different shops and things like that, and I saw a little bit of OU, which was cool. Um, and I got to hang out with Paul and Kate. Not Kate, just Paul and Nani. And yeah.

SPEAKER_13 15:07

You got stuck in a tree up on the ridge.

SPEAKER_08 15:12

No. But I did see some deer. And I did see some cool animals. Did I? Well, and we went and and we went like hiking one night, which was very, very cool.

SPEAKER_13 15:26

Um we were going down the hill.

SPEAKER_08 15:29

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I like to wander. What happened?

SPEAKER_02 15:35

I like to wander. Yeah, what happened?

SPEAKER_08 15:37

Apparently I got stuck in a tree. I don't remember anymore.

SPEAKER_13 15:42

She wasn't too stuck.

unknown 15:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 15:44

She didn't have to turn back around.

SPEAKER_08 15:46

Well, I was, yeah. I was trying to walk through like doll grass and stuff. So yeah. But it was fun. It's a fun outing. I liked it.

SPEAKER_06 16:00

Uh my week uh spent watching uh World Cup games, particularly today's US-Australia match. Had breakfast with uh a Jason Hillard.

SPEAKER_12 16:10

Were you more excited about the US victory or the Canadian victory? That's right. Oh, good one. Uh as a Canadian. Almost as an almost Canadian.

SPEAKER_06 16:20

Good one saying. Well, a Canadian uh Canada Qatar match was kind of boring after uh two Qataris got red cards. So they were short-handed. Or short-legged. So uh yeah, anyway, uh good matches. But speaking of, after uh my first breakfast at Jason, I went over to the post office downtown and uh mailed in my submission application for the Canadian citizenship.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

There you go, trader on the other end of the cycle.

SPEAKER_06 16:50

You know what? Dan held back last week on this. Uh you know, Sam threw it out there, and I, you know, I I responded to you know the the issue and Dan Dan Dan held back, but now it's not anymore. Not anymore. Yeah. Um then uh today uh before podcast, uh my sister-in-law had a retirement party after teaching for 40 years in Lewisburg in uh Preble County. She taught about 1,750 students in that uh 40 years.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:22

Like third grade, she's on first and third, yeah. And so she went, I think she has all the yearbooks um or had access to them. So I think she literally counted them all in the last, so that's how she came up with the 17, 1,750. So yeah, she's gonna transition into retirement and uh uh I guess help out in first grade, but she doesn't have the lesson planning uh you know obligations or parent teacher.

SPEAKER_14 17:47

The non-retirement. The non-retirement.

SPEAKER_06 17:50

So uh anyway, and then of course I watched a movie at some point uh this week.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

I got this one. I am four microphones now.

SPEAKER_05 18:00

I also finished um off-campus season. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_12 18:04

I'm happy we were finished with off-campus.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

I just want to say, see, in the first two episodes, they show a lot of uh breast action, but in the last episode they show penises. Oh that's exciting. Reasons to tune in here. I recommend it.

SPEAKER_06 18:25

Do we have to watch it with Sam?

SPEAKER_05 18:29

Sam is not recommended. It's not recommended.

SPEAKER_06 18:33

What if we sit on a porch and watch it on the iPad on the porch or something?

SPEAKER_02 18:39

Oh gosh. Um I it was a short, busy week for me, a lot of work. Alright. It was a lot of work, so I won't bore you with it. Um but yeah, late night, a lot of work. And now it's a Friday holiday that as Nan pointed out, it has not really burned itself into my brain, so I wasn't thinking about being off today pretty much all week, so I got that great like dopamine hit yesterday of like remembering that we have the day off. It was really lovely. And so this morning I had a massage. Um with uh Dorian. Oh, love Dorian. Um Dorian, who used to be at Square One and went out on his own almost six years ago. He's about to hit his sixth anniversary on his own. Absolutely not. No, he is like wonderful, and I am not even gonna say his last name because I don't want his appointments to get overrun. He's plenty that's so good. He's so good. He might be the magic hands of Dorian, that's all I can say.

SPEAKER_14 19:53

So I I will say about Dorian Selfish. You know, my dad was looking for a new massage therapist in Dayton, and he wanted a female massage therapist. Oh and your dad, a player. Jason also prefers a female massage therapist. Well, Jason's always been a player. Yeah. I prefer Dorian, right? Well, I so I said my dad, well, and and so Jason's massage therapist didn't work with my dad's schedule, and I said, Why did you try Dorian? I was like, you know, if you don't like Dorian, then that's okay. Then you can move on. And so he went to Dorian and I called him afterward and I said, How was it? And he's like, Oh, he is smooth. And so like my dad goes, like, regularly now. So Dorian is his guy. He's really good. He's really good. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

But Kate doesn't want anybody to call Dorian.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

I want you all to know how great he is, but I don't want you to know how to reach him. There you go. I don't want to be blocked out.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

It's real fun gamekeeping this. No, but anyway, that's it. That's all that's the week for me.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 21:10

Okay, so uh most of our week was spent in Athens. We uh you and Jason met. Oh, yes, that's where we met. That's where we married, that's where we lived after we got married. Um Athens, and you know, he's a townie. Um Jason was born in O'Blenis Hospital, so like he was uh back in his uh home term, ancestral homeland. And we loved it. It was just really nice to our our twins are going there for college, and so we were there for orientation, and you know, honestly, I think this was the first orientation either of us remembered. So that was uh that was interesting, and um, you know, there's a lot that's changed over the years.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Is Larry's doghouse It absolutely is. I love that place.

SPEAKER_13 22:02

Larry still comes in, too.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Yeah. I've met Larry.

SPEAKER_14 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

And we see Larry almost every time we know back when uh Marty was going to school there, if you went into Larry's, chances are you were going to find a Judge Garrett's pen. Yeah. Because I used to leave them for Larry. Nice. His dad was a frigidaire salesman. And he can remember coming to Dayton as a kid going to meetings with his father out at Frigidaire. You know, salesman parties out at Frigidaire. So when Larry found out I was from Dayton, that was a hookup, man. Great corn dogs. Great foot-long hot dogs. Chili dogs.

SPEAKER_14 22:52

They got a good milkshake. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 22:57

Yeah, whenever we lived there and it was good cone sauce, too. We always went in to get a peanut cluster.

SPEAKER_14 23:02

Yeah. Yeah. Now they're they're not a dollar anymore. They're more than that. But still, you know, you have a like there's a discount dessert every week. That's kind of fun. But yeah, so anyway, we love going to Athens and that was great. And then uh I was so tired after that that on Wednesday, I'm pretty sure I don't remember ever having done this before. I'm sure I did at some point, but I I went to bed before six o'clock in the evening. Wow. So yeah, I like you know slept. Slept all night from halfway. You slept the whole night? I slept the whole night, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:31

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Yeah, I was really I would not get through that. No, it was it was crazy.

SPEAKER_14 23:36

And like I think he like got home from work and he was like, What she's what? She went to bed? Like, okay, good for you.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

Now, do the twins have their rooming assignments already? Know what the one they're gonna be in? Uh and they're not gonna room together, right?

SPEAKER_13 23:52

They're not rooming together. You know, for a long time they weren't gonna go to the same school together. Right. Um but Jerica did finally decide that she liked OU best, so that's great, because we don't get wishbone during family weekends or movements and that sort of thing, and their their dorms are adjacent to one another. Okay. They're real close.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

Um they can see each other when they want to. When they want to, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 24:20

Yeah, no, that's great. Can I imagine they'll run into each other, you know, you know, dining halls and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Well that way they'll actually know more people. They'll have more friends.

SPEAKER_13 24:30

And during an orientation, and since this was our first college orientation, that we remember really kind of needed. Um what was what was cool is uh you know they they they get paired off into different groups, you know, of similar colleges and interests and whatnot. And so Jericho and Joanna really did their own thing while we were there for orientation. Um Eddie, nice of you.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Oh, we have you're in the high chair.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Eddie's finished the movie, he's up. All right.

SPEAKER_11 25:07

We know excuse me, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 25:11

Jason, I'll save you some rice there.

SPEAKER_11 25:13

Oh nice. Little ball of ice.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Uh one, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 25:18

So Athens Athens was great. I love going to Athens, particularly when the students are not there, because you get to run around, you don't have to wait in lines, and we get to go out to our property and hike a little. And uh you know, the uh as well as our uh younger uh younger children, they uh ran around with uh Nani and Uncle Paul. Nice Paul Paul.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

So you own property in Athens County? Yes, is it a Paw Paw factory or Paul Paul orchard?

SPEAKER_09 25:51

All natural pawpaw factory, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Uh how many acres?

SPEAKER_13 25:56

Twenty-four.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Woo-hoo. Yeah, aren't you something?

SPEAKER_13 26:00

It's a little overgrown. That's an understatement.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

We have uh how far from Athens?

SPEAKER_13 26:06

Uh as the crow flies about three and a half miles southeast. Southeast? Okay. Ten minutes. Yeah, it's it's pretty close.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

And so eventually, once the experience is over here on Row Avenue, you're gonna move to Athens.

SPEAKER_13 26:22

The dream was that you know, we moved to Dayton from Athens, you know, raise children and careers and whatnot, and then retire back to Athens. But you know, times and technology and relationships have changed. You know, we really love it on Roe Avenue. I it's hard to tell.

SPEAKER_14 26:41

Yeah, we have may have a little bunker out there or something.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

When did uh when did you start college here?

SPEAKER_06 26:49

You want to visit me in Canada?

SPEAKER_12 26:52

It's a good place for a massage parlor.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Well, you know, I have known Nan Whaley since 1994. And uh for the better part of her life, she has told me that when she retires, she's going to move to Athens and sit on a porch and smoke weed all day long.

SPEAKER_07 27:16

Perfect. Well, great can work to a porch.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

She always told me that back when weed wasn't legal.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Also, when I never smoked it, it seemed so great. It just seemed like a nice lifestyle.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

It was going to be an attainable goal for me.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

That's exactly right, Danny. I'm still dreaming.

SPEAKER_05 27:35

I'm still dreaming about it.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

It can happen. Dream big.

SPEAKER_05 27:40

Dreaming big.

SPEAKER_13 27:42

Well, the the rest of the week, you know, not too exciting. We're we're we're preparing uh to uh receive our wayward son from Finland within the next 24 hours, hopefully.

SPEAKER_14 27:56

We've got a graduation party tomorrow night.

SPEAKER_13 27:59

We've got a graduation party for Jarek and Jayanna, our twins who just graduated from Stivers, attending OU. Uh so it's a great big weekend. Actually, my uh uh one of my uh first cousins who, you know, I don't I actually don't know if any of my first cousins have ever come to visit me on their own. She and her family arrived this afternoon. First South Carolina, they're going to the airport museum tomorrow. They live uh uh in North Pittsburgh, Saxonburg, Pennsylvania. Yeah. So excited to have them in town, and everybody else is coming to see us this week. Very funny.

SPEAKER_14 28:48

Yeah. The twins don't know everybody at the party. They're like, who's this? Who's that? They're like, those are our friends. Our party and your party and our party. We're very excited to have some couple of graduates in our house, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 29:01

And most of the friends know the twins very well.

SPEAKER_14 29:04

Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_13 29:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

And uh Ann Charles Watts is uh my attorney. And she's very good. It's called Practice with a Purpose. Right.

SPEAKER_12 29:18

She is a console. Practice with a purpose.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Practice with a purpose. She's a very good attorney. Number one in her class at the University of Dayton School of Law. Thank you, Dan. And uh her husband, Jason, is my money guy. Oh, yeah. So that's what he seriously. If I drive by the house and I see it's vacant, I know you guys have gone to Rio.

SPEAKER_13 29:41

Oh my god. I hear it's nice this time of year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

I think it is. And so Eddie has now finished the uh somebody's coming in.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Yep, that's Franklin. Hi Frank. Hello, everyone. Hello. Hi, Franklin. Did you watch the movie?

SPEAKER_00 30:00

It smells so good in here. Oh, it tastes so good in Eddie. Yeah, cooked a free. Smells great.

SPEAKER_05 30:07

That's right. Yeah, it's really good.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

To take some to go.

SPEAKER_05 30:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Around the world in 80 days? Yeah. Around the world in 80 days.

SPEAKER_05 30:13

Yeah. Did you watch it?

SPEAKER_00 30:14

No. I'm familiar with the concept of a balloon. Yeah. There is a balloon.

SPEAKER_13 30:21

There is a balloon. Many, many conveyances.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Many, many conveyances. I need to watch it.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

It's a great one, really.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

Eddie would be a little bit more. Oops. How was it, Eddie? How was your week?

SPEAKER_11 30:37

Goldening woke, failing an exam. Well, taking an exam. Um that is about it.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

And the garlic is coming in at Eddie's farm across the street.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

The garlic was exciting. Is it more than you planted last year?

SPEAKER_11 30:54

It was like 300 ball uh 300 cloves, I should say.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

That is a lot.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Because we're afraid of vampires.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

I haven't read it, so is that you can't eat it, Dan.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

Well, you know, I got I got a I got a box of the peaches. I mean the big box.

SPEAKER_07 31:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

And so my house was smelling great of peaches. I mean, it was like I was in the middle of the best peach orchard ever. My young son Franklin, who every once in a while works in Eddie's garden, came in with five of the biggest garlic cloves I've ever seen in my life. By the end of the day, my house smelled like garlic. Yeah. And the peaches. No, no. You couldn't smell the peaches at all. The garlic took over. Yeah. And then he roasted. Yeah. They're great. Wow. And so you got two bags of pecans then, too.

SPEAKER_14 31:49

We got two bags of pecans, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

No. Pecans.

SPEAKER_14 31:52

Pecan peans.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Because pecans is a can of green beans. As well, my southern friends who correct me on the podcast all the time is pecan. Pecan. Pecan. Not pecan. Pecan.

SPEAKER_13 32:05

I use them both. I like them both. Yeah. Pecan. But these pecans, pecans were really, really fresh and delicious. I bet.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

Yeah, they were. Also from the peach truck.

SPEAKER_12 32:16

Bye, Frank. Bye, Frank. See you, Frank.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

Howdios, Frank. So what I did this week.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Is my fanny pack over here? There it is.

SPEAKER_09 32:29

I believe your purse is over here. Your merse. Your merse. I'll see you all.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Howdiosum.

SPEAKER_05 32:38

Okay, what did you do this week, Danny?

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Monday, uh, I went out to the retired judge's luncheon.

SPEAKER_05 32:44

I had I heard um I heard you were there. I saw Jeff Rolick at the Debbie uh Feldman uh uh reception.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

For the second month in a row, Denny Langer was not there.

SPEAKER_05 32:57

Oh, he wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

Was not there. But uh surprised. I have made arrangements for Barb Gorman to do The Godfather. You know, because she's New York City Italian. Oh wow and also uh the honorable uh U.S. Magistrate Mike Murz to do Man for All Seasons. Really?

SPEAKER_03 33:19

Oh, that'll be great for Murray to do this. Wow for us. Hi. Good job. You're doing well on the guests.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

Trying to.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

I like it. Next week we have a special guest.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

Uh yep, next week, uh, from Wichita Falls, Texas. Butterball's coming up.

SPEAKER_14 33:34

Oh, that's exciting. Oh, I'm gonna have to tune in for that one.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

And we're gonna cover she's a loyal listener, so she'll be here.

SPEAKER_10 33:43

And it'll be Dia's last one.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

It'll be Dia's last one.

SPEAKER_10 33:46

Oh, you're going back to India.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

I know. She can't stay forever, Eddie. It's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Let her go. I don't care what Trump says, you can hide out in our basement. I don't know that she's not believed in anybody's basement. I wouldn't want to. I haven't been to my basement. Okay. I'll make room for you upstairs. Uh then on Tuesday, uh, I went to uh uh on a serious note, went to the uh uh funeral mass for Loretta Punzer's mother. She had a very good long life, 94 years. Uh Loretta's the one that painted Rio. Uh so give a shout out to Loretta and her family. Uh and uh she had just got back from London. Uh her and her husband and uh her her son and uh his husband had spent uh 10 days in London and had went to five plays while they were there and a bunch of art galleries, and she I kept texting her uh the Wallace collection. Tell them I will loan them Rio, just so he's back by uh Christmas. And then she went to the National Gallery the same thing. I said, you these British museums can't be complete unless they have a punzer hanging on the wall. So she got a kick out of that. So shout out to her.

SPEAKER_14 35:07

Yeah, that's really great.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

And then on Wednesday, I acquired more art.

SPEAKER_05 35:13

Oh god. Hey, what is the money, guys?

SPEAKER_12 35:18

We have the money, guys. This one's coming. This one's coming, okay. Doesn't the acquisition committee have to approve this?

SPEAKER_01 35:34

This one's the acquisition committee. This one will arrive on July 1st. So your house.

SPEAKER_14 35:45

Where is he going?

SPEAKER_01 35:46

I have absolutely no idea because it's massive.

SPEAKER_14 35:49

Oh, oh. The living room is usually it is.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

You see the the best picture thing we've been doing? Yeah, it's half again as big as that. Whoa. So I'm getting it framed out at the house of 10,000 picture frames.

SPEAKER_12 36:03

Yeah, they've got a lot of frames. So it's supposed to be here. They do a nice job.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

It's supposed to be here uh July 1st.

SPEAKER_05 36:10

Okay, House of 10,000 frames. I threw all my framing there. And can I tell a funny story about that? This is my favorite story. This cracks me up. I think it's the story. So I go there, you know, all the time, and um I was mad at Biden and you know he lied to us. And so after a while, but I still have that great picture. Remember when I was there when he signed the improvement bill? So I got that picture, and then the picture where I'm sitting at the desk and he's standing behind me. Um, I think at 21. And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_01 36:42

The resolute desk.

SPEAKER_05 36:43

Yeah, I'm sitting behind. I can show you on my phone, but I haven't printed it. Um, I'm gonna frame this. So I go in to the guy at the end of the frames, and I'm like, I like these two things framed together, and he looks at him. And he's like, Well, that's Nan Whaley. I said, Yeah, yeah, yeah, like seriously, it took minutes that you couldn't understand why some woman didn't you say I'm Nan Whaley. I'm Nan Whaley. Oh, I was wondering why, like, you were framing a picture of Nan Whaley.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

So great friendly. Remember stalker. I've been giving plastic surgery to look like her.

SPEAKER_14 37:30

And the same thing happened on the plane, right? The the person on the plane was like, where do you work? Yes. And you're weird and he's oh, do you know Nan Whaley?

SPEAKER_05 37:39

Do you know Nan Whaley? I said, Yeah, I'm Nan Whaley. Oh my god. It's a real special experience when people decide to talk to you about you. I don't know if anybody's never had that experience, but only once, and it was weird.

SPEAKER_14 37:55

It was weird to you.

SPEAKER_05 37:56

What was yours?

SPEAKER_14 37:57

No, I was in costume. It was like It was Halloween. Oh my god. And somebody who I knew really well started talking to me, and I was like, I can tell this person doesn't know who I am. And I was wearing a name tag, I was wearing this long black wig, and I went like this, and the person's eyes went down to the name tag, back to the face, down to the name tag, back to the face. Who was this person? It was Greg Hansman.

SPEAKER_12 38:27

Like the great coming very fast. There's funny too. Did he say anything bad about you?

SPEAKER_14 38:33

No, no. I think I think he liked the black leg.

SPEAKER_02 38:39

Who's this?

SPEAKER_07 38:40

Anyway, it is 10,000 frames.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

I used to go to 10,000 frames all the time until I became a Dayton Municipal Court judge. There was a magnificent art store called McAllister's on Salem Avenue. And the city had most of their framing done there. So I started getting all the framing for Dayton Municipal Court done there. And then uh when the ownership passed on to the next generation, uh one of the head framers there saw that it was not going to end well. So he left and went up to New Carlisle and started his own place uh called uh Carousel Gallery. Uh I love him to pieces. His name's Alvin Putterball. And uh he stole my go-to framing guy. He's gonna come to the house in another week where I've got about 20 things to frame because when I'm done, this is gonna look like a spaghetti warehouse anymore. Well, that was part of the deal of getting the fetching plow was that it had to be framed at the house of 10,000 picture frames. That's just part of the deal. Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have that's a pretty neat picture, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 39:59

I mean a crack of bell, not a spaghetti warehouse.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

No, have you ever been to spaghetti warehouse?

SPEAKER_11 40:05

There's only like one spaghetti warehouse, though. Oh no. It's a chain, believe it or not.

SPEAKER_14 40:12

Little did you know. Believe it or not, that delicious cuisine is not exclusive.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Explosive. So I will say for people looking for framing, you can't go wrong with 10,000 picture frames on Wilmington Pike, and you can't go wrong with Carousel Gallery in New Carlisle.

SPEAKER_05 40:31

Oh, we got two here. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 40:33

And so then more for sponsorship earthquake.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

And then on Wednesday, uh oh, that's what I did on Wednesday, and then Wednesday night we had the uh bedlam, uh the Wednesday night bedlam, uh, also known the Wednesday night riot.

SPEAKER_05 40:51

All the children. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you have dinner with them all on Wednesday?

SPEAKER_01 40:56

Yeah, they come. Uh Marty does it one week, Frank does it the other week. Yeah. And uh Joaquin and Isabel were like those little dinosaurs on Jurassic Park on steroids.

SPEAKER_14 41:11

They were little Tasmanian.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

They were out of control. Yeah. But I love them. So, anyhow, that's what we do on Wednesday. Then Thursday, the cleaning lady came. But she's not gonna be here next week getting ready for my visitor from Texas. So Eddie and I got our work cut out for us. And uh then on uh Friday, I went to Legacy and came home and watched the USA and uh beat uh Australia in the World Cup. And here I sit now. Yeah. So okay.

SPEAKER_13 41:54

We uh had a sauna installed yesterday. Whoa!

SPEAKER_02 41:59

Yes, we did.

SPEAKER_14 42:05

I don't think that's finished.

SPEAKER_13 42:07

We bought uh so is a YNCA annual you know fundraiser. They've got their nice annual meeting. They um they have an silent auction and we got a sauna.

SPEAKER_05 42:21

So inside sauna? We have an inside sauna.

SPEAKER_13 42:24

So many people can two-person.

SPEAKER_02 42:28

Are you gonna put an online calendar schedule?

SPEAKER_01 42:31

So John Thomas is really gonna like this, right?

SPEAKER_13 42:34

Well, coming back from Finland, yeah. He's now got a snow.

SPEAKER_14 42:39

Well, he no, he's a sauna snob.

SPEAKER_13 42:40

He's a sauna snob.

SPEAKER_14 42:42

So we're like, oh look, we got this sauna. He's like, that's not a sauna.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

Oh no.

SPEAKER_14 42:47

Yeah, so like really, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 42:49

How are you gonna keep him in the sauna when he's been to Finland? Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 42:52

He's a sauna snob now. Go find your own sauna, kid. I like the outside saunas. I saw them in Minneapolis a lot. They're very cool. We should build one case.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

I still think we should just take down the fence between our yards. And we should do uh the hot tub sauna and just have a talk. Yeah, a whole bunch.

SPEAKER_14 43:12

I like this plan. I like this.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

I mean, my fl my flowers are starting to look really good, so I won't embarrass you. Yeah, you gotta get your stuff.

SPEAKER_12 43:20

Your flowers are cold plunge here. Minneapolis, yeah. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_14 43:27

Well, they do that like hot, cold, relax where you get as hot as you can and you do cold plunge. Yeah, that's really great.

SPEAKER_05 43:31

Very nice.

unknown 43:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:32

Alright, more to come at the other end of Row Avenue, right at the backyard, Stan.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

Okay, so we will now move on. Uh we've uh caught everybody up on what we've been doing.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

What a nice week. I know. It's a great week. Pretty good. So four-day work week. Can't beat it.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Now we are going to do our 29th movie in our epic journey.

SPEAKER_05 43:53

Do you believe that?

SPEAKER_01 43:54

29th?

SPEAKER_05 43:55

What do you think? How do you feel about that doing 29th?

SPEAKER_01 43:57

I feel really good because this was always on Virginia and I's Bobby. So yeah. This is Best Picture from 1956, Around the World in 80 Days, and it beat uh as Best Picture some pretty good movies. Friendly Persuasion, Giant.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

Giant is really good.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

The King and I.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

Oh what? It beat The King and I.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

And the Ten Commandments. Yeah, King and I. It won a total of uh five Oscars. Best picture.

SPEAKER_09 44:31

It's worse than this movie.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

Adapted screenplay, color, cinemat cinematography for color, film editing, and music score. Okay, and in Robert uh Osborne's Eighty Years of the Oscar, which is the book I use here, he writes this about tonight's winner. Broadway showman Michael Todd had never made a motion picture before, and he did it tiptoe in with his first one based on Jules Verne's lampoon of a Victorian of Victorian manners in which a proper Britcher of 1872 sets out to win a wager that he can circle the globe in precisely 80 days. Todd turned it into a 178-minute movie carnival with an exceptionally super film featuring Robert Newton, uh Kenna Floss, Shirley McLean, and David Niven. He also coined a new show business term phrase known as cameo role to cover major stars he had enticed into playing uh bit roles, including Frank Sinatra, Marlena Dietrich, Jose Greco, Ronald Coleman, Noel Coward, Beatrice Lilly, Red Skelton, Victor McLaughlin, Buster Keaton, George Raff, Andy Devine, Peter Laurie, Sir John Gilgood, Charles Boyer, Charles Colburn, Joe E. Brown, Glennis Johns, uh John Mills, who is the father of Haley Mills.

SPEAKER_14 46:17

Now we know why they won why it won Best Picture, though. You're connected all over the star, right? So everybody who's gonna vote is gonna vote for somebody who's in it.

unknown 46:25

That's right. You're getting the evil eyeball.

SPEAKER_01 46:28

Trevor Howard and Caesar Romero. And of course to be interrupted. And of course, the movie.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. It's a little wild on Friday night.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

And of course, the movie the movie begins with a narration by that wonderful Edward R. Murrow.

SPEAKER_09 46:50

Oh, that was Edward R. Murrow? Yeah. Who we're doing.

SPEAKER_07 46:54

So wait, who I was paying attention to. Edward R. Murray. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:00

I didn't realize that was Edward R. Murrow.

SPEAKER_14 47:02

That's cool. Now that you say it, I I realize it. But like at the time I don't think it sunk in.

SPEAKER_01 47:08

Good luck and good night. I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_14 47:10

Good night.

SPEAKER_09 47:10

Good night.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_14 47:13

We didn't say that.

SPEAKER_06 47:15

I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_02 47:20

Peace out. Sorry, Dan. For a short week, it was very long.

SPEAKER_01 47:28

It's another mutiny on the bounty night.

SPEAKER_12 47:30

We're not going there.

SPEAKER_01 47:32

So now it's time in our epic motion picture journey to offer our reviews of the 29th Best Picture Around the Table We Go.

SPEAKER_05 47:42

Around the Table in 80 Days?

SPEAKER_06 47:44

Oh. 80 minutes. 80 minutes, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

Okay, this can do it in my movie. I got lots of thoughts, but I'm going to try to limit it since so many people.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

Now the problem is, all the listeners tell me that when people talk, when people are trying to hear, they can't hear a thing that's going on. So I don't want to be the podcast schoolyard boss, but I'm the guy that gets the complaints when people can't hear because people are talking when other people are talking. So let's try.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Yes. Some of this is dinner related, just FYI. We are eating dinner as we talk. People are passing dishes. So please bear with us.

SPEAKER_01 48:28

Okay. Podcast listeners, from here on out, I'm going to make sure everybody gets the phone numbers of everybody here. Oh, good. And then you can start texting them your complaints. So go ahead, Nan.

SPEAKER_05 48:41

I would say the thing I would say about this show is that it needed an editor, first of all. Like there were like way it was way too long. That's a Joanne Mean's comment. Yes. From Book Club, you know, she always talks about this definitely needed it. Like you would see like these scenes like F like Phineas Fogg is in America. And it took like three minutes where they showed like the paper moving to the you know. I'm like, you could have done that just with one example of the British seeing the Phineas Fogg's in America. Um so I that that was, I think, one of the things that was hard. I loved his sidekick. I loved, what's his name, Sam? Passipar two.

SPEAKER_12 49:23

Passiparti.

SPEAKER_05 49:24

Which means what?

SPEAKER_12 49:25

Uh he's been everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 49:28

Yeah, so uh I thought that was a great, great um character.

SPEAKER_05 49:34

Uh the Indian princess. Ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 49:37

Like please being Shirley.

SPEAKER_14 49:41

She didn't look in the middle. It's like there's nothing on me. I know. Even that. That's a stretch.

SPEAKER_05 49:52

Um and I love like when they're saving her. She was she was taught in England. Well, that settles it. We must save her, right? Let her die until until she was left educated in England. So uh and also like I thought like what was interesting too, because you know, is this was you know in 1956, about 1872, right? So you have like two layers of like um of prejudices that are not like that don't clearly age well from 1872 to 1956. So they're kind of making fun of some of the 1872 prejudices and then and then layering on their own. So I thought that was interesting to watch. Uh um I liked David Niven's character. The Jewel like Jewel, this is a good book. Uh The Jewels were in Around the World 80 Days is a in is a good book. Um and it reminded me Ann Charles because we read what's the Goodman book. Oh, yeah. At Book Club, we read a book a book called 80 Days 80 Days, and it's about Nellie Bly and another Bislands and their their race to go around the world in 80 days and what like 1902, 1903. And during that time, they they met Jules Verne. They went and saw Jules Verne when they were doing that. So Matt Goodman wrote this. Matthew Goodman, who's a friend of Ann Charles, wrote this book. It's a narrative nonfiction book where um it's about their race. And so like it was interesting to see this like characterized version of Jules Verne when I've read that book, that's narrative nonfiction around the around that's called Egg Day. So I'm like, I don't like nonfiction unless it's narrative nonfiction, and that's a good narrative nonfiction book, I should say. Um and just like how the papers were like ginning up this you know, this travel of these two women alone traveling in the world. Oh yeah, which was really interesting. Was it like 1902 or something? Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, yeah. It was and Vernon was Joe Vern was alive, which was interesting. So um that's what I say about it. Um Sam also made the point that all the different countries are now different names. And we've been to Yokohama. Yeah, yeah, so we've been there. Also, 1872, they only let white people into Japan like seven years before that, if you think about it too. So they you come to the uh side of Japan, they kill you. Until like, what was it?

SPEAKER_12 52:23

1868, I think it was Commodore Perry.

SPEAKER_05 52:28

So, um, and then of course, like, you know, the the tropes around the Native Americans was a little harder. Um but I'm just like, okay, we're in 1956. Shirley McLean's an Indian woman. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 52:47

I think uh mostly I was just gonna second what you said. Yeah, it it was entertaining, but it it needed an editor, it needed to be shorter. Uh stereotypes are problematic. But yeah, it was it was funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 53:09

Um I thought it was pretty long. It should it should have been shorter, but I do understand that you know you're they're traveling around the world and that's a hard thing to do because there's so many places um to cover. So I understand why it was as long as it was. And I really like the idea of it, but I mean the way they chose to like not include some countries and like include the others, that was kind of like what was the decision based off of. I felt like there were some places that weren't included that should have been, and um, but it was pretty interesting. This I enjoyed the beginning scene where they had that those black and white like clips rolling. Yeah, that was kind of cool. But I don't think it was executed very well. It was a good idea though. Hard to execute. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

I don't yeah, you just fresh on your memory. Yeah. You finished it well.

SPEAKER_11 54:05

It was like a beautiful, vapid woman. Nothing wrong with it at all. Okay? You watched the same movie? Yeah, it was a great movie. It was a great movie. It was very pretty. And for stereotypes, everyone was stereotyped. The British was like the archetype, British, who couldn't do anything.

SPEAKER_05 54:26

Obsessed with the time.

SPEAKER_11 54:27

Obsessed with the time, you know. They didn't paint anyone in good light, you know. Yeah. Americans were barbarians that just shot everything. Primitive. You know, primitive, primitive. You know, it's kind of just a modern, well, it's an old school, which would be modern day shit slinging movie, but they you know, yeah. They didn't paint anyone good.

SPEAKER_05 54:47

Um they took everybody into their extremes. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 54:52

Um, but the hottest thing was that Spaniard dancing on that table. We need to do a tiny hip. Yeah, we need a nuke spain because we can't have that around.

SPEAKER_02 55:05

So his hips are so tiny. I know. Did you notice? To Eddie's point, even the filming, half of it was like above the waist. It was like too hot for the camera.

SPEAKER_12 55:17

Oh, it was too hot for 1956.

SPEAKER_11 55:23

That thorny old Spanish guy is pretty hot.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 55:29

And I want to uh also point out that this is the first movie Eddie's watched since uh All Quiet on the Western Front.

SPEAKER_02 55:37

Muty on the Bounty.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

Muty on the Mount.

SPEAKER_11 55:38

No, I watched Wait the uh the one with the housewife in England. Mrs. Menavar. I watched Rebecca. Rebecca. Yeah, you did watch Rebecca, yeah. I hate Rebecca heartedly.

unknown 55:51

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 55:52

Well, I'm really proud of you, Eddie, for watching this movie.

SPEAKER_12 55:55

Yeah, it was a great one. Yeah, we watched one two sounds.

SPEAKER_06 56:00

Okay, Paul. Oh man. Um I agree with Dia. I I wanted to like it because it goes around the world in all these different places, but I I could not enjoy it. I mean, I could have this is like one of those few movies I said, you know, I could have like gotten up and gotten popcorn, you know, for 10 minutes and come back and not miss the thing. You can miss the Spanish guy dancing. Yeah. Yeah. Um I didn't, you know, I the only thing I knew about the movie beforehand, aside from it being Jules Verne, was the uh the hot air balloon. And you know, because that's the iconic that we all know, and I didn't realize it's gonna be such a short part of the movie. Um I thought I don't know why I thought it would be like hot air balloon around the world and it touched it, it doesn't matter. Um what else? Um there was you know, I there's no plot tension in the movie. I mean, they're just moving along.

SPEAKER_05 56:52

The tension is well, they make it in 80 days. Yeah, come on.

SPEAKER_06 56:57

You know they're gonna make it.

SPEAKER_07 56:58

They weren't worried.

SPEAKER_06 57:00

And then and then they're like, oh, but maybe he stole the money from the Bank of England. I'm like, oh, this this might be cool. And then it's like at the very end, nah, just kidding, that's not really a plot, you know.

SPEAKER_13 57:08

You never explained.

SPEAKER_12 57:09

You never said he a suspect and then not a suspect.

SPEAKER_02 57:13

No, we never had a preferred arrested someone while he was traveling, or like at the end. I didn't realize that was the guy that did it, but they thought because he was like he left town quickly, like the same time.

SPEAKER_06 57:26

That's why I think it would have been very thin evident. I think it would have been funny, I think it would have been better if he hadn't stolen the money than like do something with that or make like a Thomas Crown affair type situation. I don't know. And then uh and and and going along with that is like every problem he almost every problem he had, he just threw money at it. Like, oh, you got arrested, throw money at it.

SPEAKER_02 57:46

Yeah, I mean the only he left home with a carpet bag full of money.

SPEAKER_14 57:52

But that's what I mean. But that's what I mean by the way.

SPEAKER_05 57:54

I was also very nervous that he didn't remove the carpet.

SPEAKER_02 57:57

Yeah, I was like, where's the carpet bag? Where's the carpet? I left word in every scene. And it's baked notes like that.

SPEAKER_06 58:04

Yeah, I just yeah, so I mean so there's no challenge getting out of jam because he just throws money at it. And uh, you know, I was uh I was actually pining or you know, reminiscing about the plot for greatest show on earth because that was almost a better plot.

SPEAKER_02 58:19

Oh disagree. Strongly disagree.

SPEAKER_06 58:26

That's why I threw it out there.

SPEAKER_02 58:28

That was way worse. Yeah, agreed. Agreed.

SPEAKER_06 58:32

I don't know. This this plot was not, I mean, go around the world.

SPEAKER_02 58:35

See, so yeah, no, I yeah, no, go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 58:39

So the one little bit of research I did did do is um they they they go to visit Thomas Cook uh and Sons before they they leave. And apparently in 1872, Thomas Cook uh and Sons are arranged a first round-the-world tour. They weren't trying to set a record, I mean it's literally you know, rich people going on on a tour. It's a 220-day tour around the world. Yeah, a rail, steamship, stagecoach. Yeah, so that was contemporary to this time when Jules Verne wrote the book. So that's it.

SPEAKER_07 59:10

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 59:12

Well, I feel like the things you disliked, I actually liked. I thought I liked the absurdity of the modes of transportation and the fact that he just opened the carpet bag when he needed to get out of a jail. I love all the cameos, and I think the best line in the whole movie is toward the end when they see, well, that whole scene in the saloon with George Rapp and your knife, and then Marlena Dietrich, who when he, you know, she says, you know, I he's he comes in and says, I'm looking for my man, and she goes, So am I. But like it's the cameos are hilarious to me. Um Frank Sinatra turning around. Yeah, Frank Sinatra turning around at the piano. Like, I I really thought that added something. It was way too long. And I understand, like, they're going to a lot of places, and I think that's what's really bizarre about this movie is like it it could have been even longer. You know, there's like halfway. Yeah, there's so little. And you're as I was watching, I'm sitting there just going, oh my god, this is so long. And then, yeah, like Sam said, they're skipping over so many places. They didn't even stay in New York. They didn't even stay in New York. Like you don't see so much of this journey, and it's still such a long movie. Um I also ended up breaking it into two sittings. I got through the first hour and 45 minutes last night, and then I finished it this afternoon. Um I've seen it, I've seen bits and pieces before, but I don't think I've ever watched it beginning to end. Um that's a statement because you're a big watcher. I know. Well, this is a this is a little bit tough. I the I think that the way it was shot, and I'll disagree with Tia here a little bit, but I think the way it was shot was actually pretty impressive. You can tell there's like a camera technique going on here that it's like it's of the era where they were really starting to get into you know the big like sweeping epic like camera work in color. So it's like you can tell in some of those scenes, you know, as they're um approaching Yokohama, when they're approaching Japan, like I thought the scenery and the way they shot it was really impressive and like very very pretty in a lot of the different parts of the movie. But it yeah, it was just it was very long. Um coming from Marty last week. Coming from yeah, I and I thought about that too. It was like last, you know, the year before the best picture winner was a tight 90 minutes, and now we've got this three-hour sprawling epic of a movie. Um, and yeah, quite a contrast. But yeah, I mean I it was fun. I it's not something I'm gonna like watch over and over.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:25

You'll watch that Spanish salsa dancing over there.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:29

I did look up the longest best picture winners. Uh-huh. Apparently there are 11 that were at least three hours. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:37

Wow.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:38

And this one's like 11. It's yeah, it's just over three hours. Yeah, it's just in the longest one is gone with the wind. Yeah. Oh yeah. But this one's only the second one so far. Yeah, we saw that. I was just gonna say we have a little bit. The longer ones are are more late. Yeah. 70s and 90s. Godfather, Patton, Godfather. Patton was not really.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:05

So more of a plot. I mean, I think when you said the plot is very thoughtless.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:11

We tone up the cage long.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:16

It's it's more like the there's a like a section in the nine nineties and early 2000s when there's a lot of epics, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:24

I also want to say King and I was robbed, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

I know. Yeah. Well, it it is, and I that's the last thing I'll say. Like Ann Charles was saying just now, like, very little plot holding this together, which you know made it kind of like easy to just zone out and not miss anything, which I don't I'd rather watch something I think that holds my attention. But uh yeah, I mean, I d I didn't hate it, I didn't love it. So I think that's really my take. So it was it wasn't Hamlet. It wasn't the greatest show on her Hamlet. No, but it it was Know How Green was My Valley. It is Know How Green was My Valley.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:13

I mean it's in the bottom half, but it wasn't bad.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:17

Yes, it was. Hamlet was better than this one. Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:21

Our scholar says Hamlet was better.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:23

Yeah, so so this movie met my needs. What? Uh it did, because uh I uh had to uh stand in my living room braiding hair for a number of hours, and I was like, I am we always watch a movie or something while I am I'm doing hair, and it was hair day, and so I I was like, I've got a movie that I need to watch this week, and this is the only day I'm gonna have to watch it, so let's turn it on. And so, you know, we watched we we watched it, and so I watched it with Brian while I was while I was doing very well. Um it was he he did like it for me. I mean it was nice. Yeah, he watched it, yeah. So he watched it with me and then he watched it with them. So I mean it's not it's not a bad movie, and I would say I agree with the with sort of the sweeping cinematography. Like what's interesting is like when it would get quiet, right? Because I if I'm doing hair, I'm not always looking up, so I don't I you know I have to part and then I'm looking up and I braid, you know, while I'm looking, and then I look, but like sometimes I don't hear dialogue, and so I'll look up because I'm like, what's going on right now? I can't hear any dialogue. And that's when I would see lots of these like sweeping scenes that were really beautiful. Um there was no plot. And then and and like I was really holding out, like, oh, maybe is he the thief? Like, what's the and then buying his way out? I did love when he bought the boat and then just started like burning the boat. Like amazing. I just thought that was like amazing. Yes, like problem solver. And he's thinking that was fun. I know. And like I will say, clearly I was distracted. So like some answers to some of these questions that I have, you you may have the answers. But like I'm like, where did all this money come from? Right? You never know. Right, okay, so I didn't think so. And I thought maybe that's the image. He's a rich because he's inherited any stolen information.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:19

No, they say he didn't come from money.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:22

He's a he made his money somewhere. He's part of this reform club. He's a rich man. He's so chill, right?

SPEAKER_12 1:06:28

Like he's like, yeah, other race around the world.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:33

It does. But he is totally chill about just setting this money on fire all the way around.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:43

I hope I'm with someone who's as chill as he is. I know. He solves every problem with money. But also, I love that he has he has some good ideas. I love the land sale thing on the US. Yeah, the railroad when he just makes his own sale car.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:01

What's called a prairie schooner.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:03

A prairie schooner. I love that. I think he, you know, he's very determined and focused. I love it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:09

I like, I liked his, I liked his just like, it seemed like he was living on another plane where like all these people money really mattered, and he's like, living matters, and I'm using this money to live and do this. I did not buy that he was so like Sam.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:30

He's like, I can do this, I can do that. I mean, this is really, if you think if Sam had unlimited money, this would be Sam.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:38

Traveling and playing bridge.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:40

Yeah, this would be Sam. I didn't buy that he wouldn't know what day it was. But what's like that? I was like, there is no way that he's not gonna know what day it was. I was from the get-go, I was like, no, that's not, that's not plausible. It's not and because they set him up to be this person who's so calculating, who really is absolutely sure, and then it's like, oops, but like you're not gonna have an oops on the very last day when it comes down to you know 20,000 pounds or whatever it was. And the honor.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:13

Yeah, it's really it's really the honor in his fog. It's not losing the wage or it's the money. It's it's the I did it in 80 days. Right. Also, but his name is so great. It's such a great name. Yeah. What do you think, Jay?

SPEAKER_13 1:08:26

Well, I agree with a lot.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:28

Um it's hard to be the last one at the table.

SPEAKER_13 1:08:31

Hard to be the last at your first podcast. And I watched it a little on, so Ann Charles was doing hair while I was managing the Ann Charles Watts experience. I was sort of in and out. Uh uh I only actually sat down for the last 30 minutes or so. So then I watched the first part later in the week. You know, the out of order. Totally out of order, but was Westward. What's interesting about the in and out experience is, and then watching the beginning later, I didn't realize how many train and ship scenes there were. Like I thought I had seen one, but you know, it turns out that was not the scene that I saw. So there was there were a lot of different shows. Yeah, so there were a lot of ship scenes and train scenes, and I love the cinematography. Um like like others have said, um There were some really funny parts. Like I like laugh out loud funny, like in the first scene, and I don't know, was that the referral reformers farmers club or when we first met everybody? Yeah, and like somebody had stolen a newspaper. That was a talk of the newspaper.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:49

Somebody read the newspaper before he read the newspaper, and they were like, that's never happened.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:53

I'm gonna write that down in your turn.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:56

Also, I also would put ice cubes in their dreams.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:02

Uh so there's that, and like when they were on the final ship or whatever, and they're blowing around and throwing all the wood into the he's got his hat strapped to his head like he couldn't be without his hat. I mean, those are just a few things that I just found pretty funny.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:17

Um I did I did find when uh Shirley McLean was talking to Passport 2, what is he about? That was pretty funny. I mean, he's really about Bidwists. Being on time. And being on time. These are the only two.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:35

He tells her he's arranged his own bidwist tonight. It's like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:42

And I love Passport 2 and getting introduced to him. He rode in through the streets on this, you know, trying to pick up women.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:51

Big wheel bigger. Oh how he loves it. He likes the women.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:55

So it was a lot of fun. I believe that his his love of women never lost them the money.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:02

I know. Right.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:04

That's a plot.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:05

Yeah, it never really got him into a jam. It never does. It really only helped. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:14

Doesn't seem right.

SPEAKER_13 1:11:15

I did I did enjoy, you know, that, you know, there I I actually like that there wasn't a whole lot of like conflict, because I'm an easy movie guy. Like, I if I'm gonna sit and watch a movie, first of all, anything over 90 minutes is too long for me. Um and uh I I don't like conflict. So it was it was nice and easy and pretty.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:39

I gotcha.

SPEAKER_13 1:11:40

But it certainly could have been edited. I mean, I uh uh I thought, you know, the in Indiana Jones when they do the little map, yeah. Like we could have skipped over a few things that kind of.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:53

I love that map. I love Indiana Jones. I do too.

SPEAKER_13 1:11:58

I love it. I love it. But the costumes, the the the the dancing and in Spain, I mean, those things were pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:12

Yeah. I like those ones.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:18

He he just needs to do a few passes at the bowl and then maybe done with it.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:22

The one I liked, the one they were like, but Paz Pet 2, some of his scenes, they were a little too long, but some of the one I liked was when they were in Japan. Oh, yeah. And he gets he's so hungry and he's looking at the Buddha, and then the apple and he's the apple, the apple, and then and then he doesn't do it, and then the woman comes and gives it and he's like, yeah. Like I thought that was really true. I thought that was cute. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:44

Where they they're in India and they keep cutting back to the scenery and then it's facial expressions. And then like to Sam's point or everyone's point, like they only need to do that a couple times. Like, yeah, although there was an Oscar for facial expressions, he would have won.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:57

I also do just I really enjoyed the balloon. Also in the beginning. Also, it could have been cut down. But like, I do love that they were just so chill with the balloon, drinking the champagne all the way over the Alps. Yeah. Like, oh, we need some snow. We need some snow.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:19

Well, even when they are coming in for a landing, like Jasper Two's like, like, maybe I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:25

Everybody's done you're trying to catch him, and Phileas is just like this this conversation's made me like this movie more than I think. I think I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:33

When we talked about it, actually. I'm right in the end. It was a easy change for me.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:41

Fill the hole. Danny.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:46

We've turned stuff into chaos.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:49

Chaos. You're done?

unknown 1:13:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:51

Oh. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:53

Texting the phone numbers. Texting the phone numbers.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:56

Eddie, you are truly my son. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am going to, after 29 movies, I have now come to the realization that there's a generational difference by being raised in the 50s and the 60s compared to you youngsters here at the table who want it now.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:21

Oh who want it now. No, no, no, you're not.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:25

You don't understand.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:27

You're missing the point.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:28

No, I'm not. You don't understand how it was for a five-year-old boy in Van Wert to go to the Shines Theater in downtown Van Wert with his parents. Two and a half years after this movie premiered.

unknown 1:14:46

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:47

It didn't make it to small town America for two to two and a half years. So you guys don't know what it was like for a five, six, six-year-old boy to go to Van Wert uh Shines Theater and to see something that had been out for two, two and a half years and be taken around the world on a tremendous travel log. So that's a generational thing that I have been struggling with with you guys, but I will continue to struggle. So moving on.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:22

Okay, but I I can't remember. I tried to see it that way. Like the cameras on the airplanes and gosh, that was amazing. Do you want to try to do that? I also think that when people go to the city. I imagine seeing it for the first time on a screen at that time.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:39

And also think about how much exposure we are at now to media, like to film. And like at that point, like you said, like you're you're not having exposure every day. You don't have, you know, there's nothing on demand and there wasn't when we were growing up either.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:53

But so I'd never seen a bullfight. Right. I'd never seen a flamingo dancer.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:57

That's right. So you get to go to this thing and you pay this you pay this bit and you see you get to experience this travel. Not it's not really so much for the story, but for the travel. Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:10

I completely agree with your point. It's just that this was the best picture, and I just have a heart. I mean, my comments are kind of anchored to the fact that. So that's the best story.

SPEAKER_11 1:16:19

It's the best picture. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:21

Well, it's maybe better cinematography than the king and I, but there's an award for that. Uh cinematography. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:30

I'm gonna go over some of the notes I wrote down. Uh some of the good lines I liked were it's uh four o'clock tea time, crisis or not, it's tea time.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:40

I thought that was a really good one. And uh Dia can uh fact check us on this. Uh when they were going through the jungle, they were worried about the Tungies getting them. And if you ever watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, that's the bad guys in India, the Tungies then. So I thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:00

I don't know if that's true or not, but it's it was on I did not I have not heard of it until then.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:06

Well, it's in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:12

That they're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:14

Yeah. Okay. And then uh when they I I thought it was uh and you know, it is a lampoon of British. I mean, we you can't forget that, that it is a lampoon of British. I loved it when they were doing the funeral pyre, when the British Colonel said, I have a rescue plan, but I need for 75 men.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:38

It works great if you have 75 men.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:41

Uh some uh of the production notes were uh when they're in Siam, which is now Thailand, uh that boat you see that was actually loaned by the king of Siam for the production.

SPEAKER_13 1:17:57

So that was actually jump.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:01

No, no, no. Wasn't it the jump? No, it's not the junk, no. It's when they're in Rangoon. Yeah, it's the big long boat. That was actually the king's. Uh and then another uh thing I found when uh the the princess uh was in Hong Kong when uh she asked Fogg, why must you be so British? I thought that was a good one. Now in San Francisco, uh when they got there, they have a competing political uh thing, and they had a torchlight parade. And if you look back in the corner of where we're at, that is one of the torches that was that torch there is probably 150 years old, maybe 160 years old, but you saw them carrying the torches, that's what it was. So where you say, let's have a torchlight parade, that's an old political.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:57

Why don't you have one in your room? Yeah, I put it to you.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:02

Why don't you have one?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:03

I don't have to bring it up just because it live or does it live here?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:07

Also, yes.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:08

Okay, also we're not able to drink because he found it. What? Remember the drink. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:18

If it wasn't we would have been able to eat somewhere in this house.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:21

The uh also at that rally, uh the beer truck was a PAPS beer truck.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:26

I know, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:27

Oh, that was pretty cool. Now, when they were uh doing the train ride, I have actually rode on that train. That is the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge train. That's where they filmed it. Uh they did some uh uh camera tricks to make it look like it was a full-size train, whereas the Lumberton or the uh uh Durango Silverton is a uh narrow gauge, but they they actually filmed that there. So I pointed that out to Eddie that he and I have both ridden that train. I recognize you know, well I mean I pointed it out to you before you saw it, yeah. So anyhow.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:05

No, I I knew I knew when I saw it because you were watching it when I walked by.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:09

Oh, that's right, yeah, that's right. You're right. You fact check me, you got that right. Okay, and then one of the other interesting things on a production note is uh when he was going around the world convincing these actors to be there, uh, you know, the first bunch I went through were like all the famous stage actors in England. Yeah. Okay. Uh Marlena Dietrich had been out of movies for years. And so he went to her and and got her to agree to do it on this condition that once it was filmed, if she did not like it, he would cut it from the from the movie, even though that would have meant cutting Frank Sinatra out of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:54

I was gonna say, yeah, that whole saloon scene would have been lost, which I thought was one of the funniest things.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:59

Yeah. And uh once she saw it, she really loved it. And that was one of the uh the big costume expenses. Her gown for that thing was uh three thousand eight hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:17

It's drawn in by the beautiful woman, right? And you would have lost all that, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:23

Uh you talked about uh uh the Indians. They're actually they were actually uh Native Americans that were play portraying the Indians. They were from four different tribes. And uh when he looked at them, he said, you don't look alike. So they used 60 gallons of skin dye so they would all look alike. Because they had, you know, he had Sioux, he had this, he had that, you know, and they have all different so anyhow. So I thought that was an interesting thing. But he actually did use Native American Indians in it. They were actually real buffaloes in it. Uh 2,200 buffaloes or something they had.

SPEAKER_13 1:22:07

How about riding ostriches?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:09

I've repeated on the train, keeping on the train, uh, the conductor was Buster Keaton, who was one of the most famous all-time silent movie stars. And it was interesting because the movie that he's most known for is called The General, which is about a train. Yeah. So that was, you know, that's there's so many little Easter eggs in this movie that if you know the actors that are doing the cameo roles, it's just wonderful. And and Peter Laurie as the the guy on the boat. Guy on the boat, the steward, yeah, you ain't got any money, I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:48

George George Raft as the guy with the switchblade throughout, you know, yeah, George Raft, yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:56

Film Noyore, oh yeah, he's it, yeah. Uh the scene with the sheep, that was not in the book, that was ad-libbed because it actually happened to them. Yeah, it actually happened to him when they were filming it, and Todd liked it so much, he said, yeah. And he hired them to keep the sheep there so they could film it.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:15

So that was the sheep. What was the film? What was the scene?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:18

Did you watch the movie?

SPEAKER_05 1:23:20

There was on the prairie schooner. Oh, yes, yes, okay, yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:26

Okay. And then next in Verne's novel, uh, the train goes from Chicago to uh New York. Uh and that train actually, when they said the name of it, it it goes through Fort Wayne, Indiana, which also meant it goes through Van Wert, Ohio, where I'm from. Because that's how the train goes from between Chicago and New York. You got to go through Van Wert.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:51

That's the one delivering the Chicago papers.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:53

So I thought that was even neat. And then uh he even had a role in this movie for the only one-legged stunt man then working in Hollywood.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:04

I saw him.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:05

He was the only one-legged stunt man still working in Hollywood when they tried to take his wooden leg and put it in the fire.

SPEAKER_13 1:24:13

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:15

So he really, you know, he has so many different inside things in this show. It's just unbelievable. He fired Gregory Peck, who was supposed to be uh the uh the the uh colonel who was going to ride to the rescue with the cavalry because uh Peck was refusing to take the role seriously. So I didn't see what he said, nope, you're gone, and he hired Tim McCoy, who was a big Western uh movie guy. Uh and then another one who was in there is uh David Carradine, who was Keith Carradine's dad. Uh he played the the guy that he hits over the head. Yeah. Okay. Uh the movie premiered October 17, 1956 in New York City. Like I said before, uh a lot of theaters didn't get it for two years. Uh he had absolutely no money. Uh Mike Todd was a very interesting character. He was a Broadway showman. Uh everything he did on Broadway pretty much was a success. Uh, but he always wanted to go to Hollywood and be successful in Hollywood. And when he first got out to Hollywood, uh he bought uh the Delmar racetrack and lost all his money. Uh so he had to go back to Broadway and make get money. He produced all these musicals that won Tony's and everything else. And so this was his really his one and only movie. Hey guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:50

But no racetracks, right? Um, school in the round.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:02

And then uh at the at the end of the movie where he does the cartoon credits, that uh I really love that because that is so mid-century cartoon art.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:12

It was Saul Bass who did like a lot of the mid-century, like famously did.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:17

Yeah, and I thought that was really, really clever. Uh he started it with three million dollars, quickly ran out of money because this was filmed on location. They filmed it in India, they filmed it in Japan, they filmed it in Siam, they filmed it in Hong Kong. Yeah, you know, uh so he ran out of money and he didn't have the money to finish it, so they showed outtakes to some money people, and they said, Yeah, okay, we'll give you another three million to finish it. So it took uh six million to get it done, and worldwide after it made its first run, uh it made over a hundred million dollars, which was quite the uh uh income. Uh the guy who played uh uh Canaflots, he was at that time the wealthiest actor in the world. He was the wealthiest actor in the world. He was Mexican, he owned his own uh very successful production company. Uh he was a comedian, he was an acrobat. He was great.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:20

He didn't know the best character.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:23

And he was also a bullfighter.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:25

So he really knew the move. Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:31

Yeah, and it's not a stunt man. I mean, he did all that himself. And it took Todd a week in Mexico City to convince him to do it. Because he didn't want to do it, he didn't want to do it, he didn't want to do it, but he finally wore him down. The people this uh uh thing that I watched on my DVD about the life of Mike Todd was very interesting because they said, you know, not only was he a showman, but he was also a con artist, he was a hustler, he was a dreamer. You know, he was he made many fortunes and lost many fortunes. Uh so anyhow, the uh uh oh and another thing, you were talking about the burning of the boat across there. Apparently in the book, Bogg actually stages a mutiny. He doesn't buy the ship and he imprisons the captain in his wardroom and then he proceeds to, yeah. So anyhow, so there are some licenses that they took during the filming of it. Now the music uh was by Victor Young. Uh and in his career, he had received over 22 Oscar nominations and finally won for uh Around the World in 80 Days, but he actually died before he got the Oscar. And so he had, if you go back and look at his uh uh his uh book, his catalog of the movies he made, it's just stunning how many really famous movies he did the uh the soundtrack or the the music for the score for. Uh and uh I did like how they used the uh William Chel William Tell Overture when the Calvary was riding to the rescue, and how they would always come in with God Save the King and stuff. I thought they did a very good job on that. Uh now uh Frank, I I don't know if I said this already or not, maybe I did, uh, but about Mike Todd being a uh you know a showman of this of that. Frank Sinatra said about him he was the happiest when he went to Las Vegas with $100,000 and lost $120,000 at the table. Because he said Mike Todd was best when he was up against the wall. That you know there was never a wall that stopped him. And even though he was out of money, he was out of money, down on his luck, but he would always come out on the other end. Uh so uh then we go on, oh, and he was uh involved, we've talked in the past about Cinerama, about you know being at the neon theater. He was a very early investor in Cinerama, and uh he wanted to stay with it, but he couldn't see the future of it because you have to have three projectors in sync. So he sold his share in that to get the seed money for around the world in 80 days. Uh but he wanted it that wide view that you guys were talking about, so he uh hired a company to create PanaVision. And so that was the that's why you see those big wide-sweeping things. That was something that he came up with.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:49

It was shot on it was shot on 70 millimeter film, which is one reason why not every theater in the country, particularly the smaller, they had to convert it to 35 millimeter film at some point.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:58

And so I thought that was uh very interesting that even though he was more of a Broadway guy, he always wanted to be in Hollywood and he made so many positive things for Hollywood, you know, the filming and then all those cameos with people. Okay, and then uh he one of the great quotes that I saw of uh that I heard uh Mike Todd say many people when they were young, many boys when they're young want to get your got a text from a kid?

SPEAKER_13 1:31:29

I'm not very good. Flight canceled.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:31

Flight cancelled, oh bummer.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:33

Yo, so he just put the night in Dallas.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:39

Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:40

Like an Alaska American Airlines.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:42

Yeah, you just say go to the desk. Just go to the American Airlines.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:46

Uh he said uh one of the the cutest quotes I ever heard uh a guy say was uh many boys when they're little want to grow up to be president of the United States. All I wanted to do when I grew up was marry Elizabeth Taylor. So I thought that was a pretty cute quote. Uh he was Elizabeth Taylor's third husband.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:08

And uh Oh, so he did marry her. He did marry her.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:12

And they have a a daughter. Oh yeah. Because she uh they married uh in uh right, I think right after the movie came out, and uh they had a daughter, and then uh they were supposed to when he passed away, he was working on his next movie, and his next movie was gonna be Don Quixote. And everybody had told him you can't do around the world in 80 days because it's too sweeping, and then all these other directors and production guys said you can't do Don Quixote. We've tried to do Don Quixote for years, so he was like, I'm gonna do Don Quixote. And, you know, he was working hard to get a Spanish guy, they were gonna film it all in location in Spain. Uh he was to fly to New York City uh on his private plane, which he had named Lucky Liz, uh, for a meeting. And uh right at the last minute, she was too sick to go. She couldn't go. She couldn't go, and then the plane crashed, and that was it for Mike Todd. Yeah, it was and he did say this about Around the World in 80 Days. It was uh for him, it was a fairy tale for adults. So I thought that was cute.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:28

Just the little money traveling the world. That is a fairy tale.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:33

So now full of money. That's true. So now I will say something that will get Sam Braun all excited.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:42

What?

SPEAKER_01 1:33:45

So once again, when uh we left when we left uh Shrines Theater in downtown Van Wert, my mom bought the souvenir book, which they sold at all these uh showings. And I remember as a little boy looking at that book for years because it had all these pictures from around the world, you know. And I also have she also bought the uh the the album, and I've got that somewhere too.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:18

Somewhere in this house.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:19

Somewhere in this house.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:24

Cheers.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:26

Okay, so there you go. I want to say this. I love the movie as a kid, and I still love it. I understand why uh younger generations want things quicker and want to move things on quicker.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:43

It's Gen X and Gen Z.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:45

Millennials are fine, so I thought it was millennial.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:52

And I thought it needed to move a little quicker.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:54

I could watch it again without a problem. I really, really loved it.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:58

Can you can you tell me what else David Niven's in? Oh, everything. Like what?

SPEAKER_02 1:35:04

He was the first James Bond on film. Okay. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:09

And Casino Royale, I think, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:11

Well, it's it's uh it'll come to me. He has he was in a ton of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:17

Um I mean, I recognize Guns and Averone.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:20

The Guns and Averone with Gregory Peck. Um but he's I mean he's he was a British actor who started early on in murder by the Pink Panther. Yeah, he was in the Pink Panther. That's what it is. Yeah, it's Pink Panther. I was like, where did it go? Yeah, he was in the Pink Panther.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:36

He is uh his role in uh Oscar history is when he was presenting, and back in the 70s there was a streaker that went streaking. And I forget exactly what he said, but it was it was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:54

This guy is showing off his shortcomings or something like that. Something like that, yeah. He yeah, I I really like David Niven. I always like him and things when he pops up. Oh, he's in the bishop's wife with Cary Grant. He plays the bishop. Yeah, he's the bishop, yeah. We talked about this at Christmas time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:11

Um what's that Spanish guy in the one dancing?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:20

Well oh I was I mean, what is um his name is what can Canton Ploss? Canton Plause. Like I he was great. And I don't know that I don't know what else I would have seen in it.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:37

Well, uh, you know, uh he was, you know, very, very popular in Mexico. Uh this w this was his first English language movie. And they wanted to uh capitalize on that. So they made another big epic movie called Pepe that was not successful. And he never I don't think he made a English movie after that. I think Pepe was made like four years after Around the World.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:06

1960.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:08

1960, yeah, four years afterwards, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:10

Four years from the yeah, yeah. Nice, nice notes today, Dan. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:13

There you go.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:14

I learned a lot. I learned a lot about film, not just this one. So that's cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:19

And I I used to actually know the words to around the world in eighty days. You'll see the way I used to know those words. I used to be able to spell super califragilistic expialidos.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:33

That's an unnecessary skill to have, I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:35

But I used to be able to do it. Yeah. It's like uh Carl Keith can say uh Alice's restaurant from from memory. Alice's restaurant restaurant. Okay, so we're done with the movie. Uh final thoughts for the uh upcoming week, Nan Whaley.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:52

So we'll be back on Sunday, next Sunday, uh in nine days. Ridge on the River Cry. Ridge on the River Cry. Excited to have one of our devoted listeners and get to meet someone new. That's gonna be very exciting. And we'll honor Dea, right? Dan for her west as well next week. But um, yeah, I'm excited. Uh thank you, Ann Charles, and Jason, for coming. So beautifully so movie. Come back anytime. Thank you. And do a great job on the food.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:21

Yeah, so moving motion.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:24

And Dea, in uh in memory of you doing the food, I got you your own copy of Around the World in 80 Days. To take back with you.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:34

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:36

There you go.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:38

Dia is it.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:39

You're you are Indian princess. There you go.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:43

Every exchange student ends up being a princess.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:46

You got that right. Uh Sam Braun, anything?

SPEAKER_12 1:38:50

Uh yes. You're you're all just a bunch of yellow bellied milk socks.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:56

Hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:58

Okay. Uh Dia, anything?

SPEAKER_09 1:39:01

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:02

Thank you for the meal. It was wonderful. Very good. Eddie?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:07

Come on, Eddie. Something profound.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:09

Something profound? Um hot lemon in this though.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:16

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:17

Okay then.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:18

Paul? Nothing. Uh Dia, thank you for the scrumptious meal. Catherine?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:24

Yeah, dear, this was delicious. You said that you don't think you're that good of a thing, but you your instincts are spot on. I really, really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:36

Yeah, it was very, very good food, Dea.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:39

Agreed. You may not like doing it, but you're good at it. You're good. Yeah. It did not need salt. You kept saying you thought it needed salt.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:46

No, I thought it was wonderful. Okay, so uh I think we should keep to the schedule and not drop this until Monday.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:56

So not drop it like it's hot as we say. Drop it like it's warm. Yeah. Well, because you know, because people are used to it absolutely. Yes.

SPEAKER_12 1:40:04

That's what I can do. They're excited about their Monday drive. But I have one thing to say.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:14

One thing to say. This was like the OG Wes Anderson film movie.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:19

It kind of was. Yes, it had a little bit. Maybe he was so very excited.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:25

You said something profound that had to lick a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:28

I'm glad you came up with that. You are right.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:31

Well, I mean so I've enjoyed Eddie at the table this week. Nice to have you back, buddy. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:37

My pleasants is a gift.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:43

Okay. Yeah. Okay, so I'll say Godspeed and fair winds until we meet again.