Dinner with Dan
Every Sunday, Wroe Avenue meets to discuss the week in Dayton, Ohio. Our host, retired Dayton Municipal Court Judge Dan Gehres regales listeners with hot takes from his life while having a delicious dinner.
Dinner with Dan
Thank Heaven for Diya!
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Tonight's dinner was bittersweet as we said good bye to Diya, Wroe Avenue's exchange student as she heads back home to India. Diya has been a great addition to the gang, joining us regularly to discuss our weekly movie.
It was a hot one tonight on this July 4th eve and the discussion rambunctious as Dan got frustrated with his table mates for side comments! That didn't stop us from sharing what we felt about 1959 Best Picture Gigi.
So grab some champagne, a glass of French wine and join us for this week's Dinner with Dan.
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I'm sure and good job team. Yes last week. Good job, Dia.
SPEAKER_01Dia was tech support last week. Did a great job. Okay.
SPEAKER_04You did though. I was really glad you were here because I didn't know what the MG folder thing meant.
SPEAKER_03It was hilarious because you guys recorded me and I heard myself on the phone. No way. I didn't say that. That's funny. That's funny. Anyway, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I'd like to welcome everybody, uh, all our loyal listeners here, there, and everywhere to this, the 40th episode of Dinner with Dan. I'm Dan Garriss, your podcast podcast host. We are recording on Friday, July 3rd, 2026, from a very hot and very humid historic district in Dayton, Ohio, known as Five Oaks. It's been five straight days above 90 degrees with fields like temp and those five days of triple digits. I think the highest field like that I saw on TV was 108. And I think it was 103 today. So hopefully we'll get a little break here. Tonight is a very bittersweet episode for us. Bitter because it is the last episode where our beloved Dea will be at the table. But sweet because she's here with us tonight for uh one last episode before the Sunday when she begins her journey around the world, at least back to India.
unknownNot quite in 80 days.
SPEAKER_01Not quite in 80 days. But so that's why we're recording on Friday, even though we won't drop this until Monday. It's a going away to Dia special and tears for everyone. At the table tonight, we have regulars Nan Whaley and Sam Braun back from their excused absence to uh Washington, D.C. last Sunday. Uh Dia, uh Paul Duncan Robinson, still thinking about doing Southbound. It's not too late. Kate Evans and my it has been reported my son Eddie is in the house. He's in the basement with 150 uh cloves of garlic hanging from the ceiling drawing. Uh vampires need not come to my address.
SPEAKER_03To 232.
SPEAKER_01To 232. And so, anyhow, so what's for dinner tonight?
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_04It is cold salads tonight because it is so hot. Um, we have a beet salad that Nana and Sam made with beets from their garden. It looks delicious. We have a pasta salad that I made with corn and tomatoes and basil. Um we have watermelon and egg salad and chicken salad and potato salad, and a couple of things from Aunt Dorothy. Aunt Dorothy, she does such a good job. And then we have some defined French cheese, right? Sammy.
SPEAKER_07So we yes, we have a uh rof fort, we have a uh Saint Angel, we have a Por Salou, and we have a Burger.
SPEAKER_03And a French baguette.
SPEAKER_07Yes, with a French baguette. We have uh Moé champagne. Some of us are drinking Kier Royale, which is cassis with mixed with champagne. It's a standard French cocktail. It's like my go-to pair of teeth that you find at every bar in France. And then we also have a bottle of May D'Oc open and the Sant'Em Leon on deck.
SPEAKER_03Where's the May Doc from?
SPEAKER_01Maybe uh and then for dessert, uh I ordered two pecan pies from Sunnyland Farms in Georgia that arrived. So they are out there because uh pecan, not pecan, pecan uh pie, uh I have learned is Dea's favorite. So I got two of them. So uh take it back with her, Dan?
SPEAKER_03Well, you would expect her to put it in her pockets or something?
SPEAKER_01Well, no, but I figured, you know, we would eat some tonight and then she could take the rest down for whatever uh they're doing uh tomorrow at the Ann Charles Watts experience and have some pecan pie. So that comes from Sunnyland Farms in uh Georgia, and I also ordered uh their gluten-free uh banana banana bread for Frank, my gluten-free son. An interesting note about Sunnyland Farms in Georgia, they are actually based in Lancaster, Ohio. They were a company that that was created in Lancaster, Ohio. They kept corporate there. Now the farms are down in Georgia where their plan is, but all the uh corporate people have stayed loyal buckeyes.
SPEAKER_00Oh extra.
SPEAKER_01Because the first time I ordered something was in January, and I asked them how the weather was. And she said, Well, yes, about uh two below zero, and I go, in Georgia? And she said, I'm in Lancaster, Ohio. And I'm like, what? So then she explained to me, yeah, you know, the farms and the process where we make the stuff's in Georgia, but it was started in uh in uh Lancaster and we kept it there. And interestingly note, interesting note, Lancaster, Ohio is the hometown of William Tecumseh Sherman.
SPEAKER_07Sherman, I was gonna say it.
SPEAKER_01Who had a little bit to do with the history of Georgia. So, anyhow, we're gonna move on from that.
SPEAKER_03They have a great wall with the picture of Sherman painted on the side of it in Lancaster. Yeah, I've been there, of course.
SPEAKER_01So uh, Nan, what did you do this week?
SPEAKER_03Um, well, as I mentioned, we had excused absence. We were in DC last weekend, and um Sam and I did something that we haven't done for well, I hadn't done for 32 years, and that was we took a college tour uh of Georgetown. What? We took a college tour of Georgetown University, and so we did the official tour with my nephew Teddy and had a great time.
SPEAKER_01Uh and there are onions in this beet salad?
SPEAKER_03Oh, yes, there's a little onions. Don't eat it, Dan. Sorry, I forgot about that.
SPEAKER_04Um you can eat it around them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, just the beets. Um, and there's boo cheese in it. Uh and then I worked all week. I mean, I think I had a fundraiser Wednesday. Um just worked like a lot all week. I'm trying to think. And um Thursday we had a going away party last night uh for Dia. This is the week of Dia. Uh and um, so everybody on Row Avenue went to Beaver Creek to say to say goodbye. That's right. And then we all sat together in Beaver Creek, which was interesting.
SPEAKER_04Um I branched out a little before I came back to the row. Oh, you did? I didn't. I was like sitting behind you. Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_03I was really only interested. Paul was there too. I was only interested in the row people. Um and then today I went to brunch with Ferris Smith and Nicole Miller because their birthdays are a week apart and they both turned 50. And so I took them to brunch today.
SPEAKER_01The 50 club.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so they're the same age as us. Um, Dan, do you want some other salads? Yeah. There's chicken salad, egg salad, pasta salad, all kinds of very good salads. Um you're welcome. And uh um so that was my week, I think. Sam probably remembers other things we did, but that was the big the big tour de force, I think, there.
SPEAKER_01Well, what else did you do when you were in DC?
SPEAKER_03Well, we left it Saturday morning, we left Dayton at 7 30. Um we came back Sunday night. And um I can also report that Sam's bad uh travel luck is over because the flights worked great. And so I think for the past six months, traveling with Sam has not gone well. I've traveled fine by myself.
SPEAKER_07Well, only coming home.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's still it still didn't go well. But you guys, Rodell drove us back from to the like from his house. He lives in the Palisades to Dayton Airport to DC Airport, which is a 10-minute drive. He got lost not once, but twice. Made it a 35-minute drive because he never drives, and we had to tell him how to get there. We almost we almost missed our flight home. That's how bad Sam's travel juice is right now. So but we did fine.
SPEAKER_04There's hardly anything you can do about it. Uh, somebody who lives in their city and can't.
SPEAKER_03I know. We put the we were like, Do you need some help? We turned on the GPS for him to get him there. So we got him there. Um so Saturday we went to Georgetown. Um, we went to the American History Museum. It was near the mall where the state fair, I'm using quotes, that state fair where the oh I saw were empty tents. Just empty tents on the mall. Yeah, yeah. Uh, and just like some like um Teddy noticed when we were in the American History Museum, there were a lot of people with MAGA hats, and so we didn't venture any further into the mall. Uh, and then we'd went to dinner with my friend Sarah and her husband, had a nice dinner, and then Sunday we of course I had let Sam pick the restaurant in Georgetown. So we had a French lunch at a fresh French restaurant. And then um fantastic and then Italian dinner. And then so um was it not fantastic? It was very good. I would have they didn't have any eggs, and we were supposed to be going for brunch, but otherwise it was great. Uh and then uh um bacon and eggs anywhere. Uh also Thursday at the Dia party. Um I sat there for maybe 60, 70 minutes, but it was so hot I had three motor lines. So hot.
SPEAKER_01So you didn't drink any beer at all.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I didn't drink anything. You're right. That was a lot for me. Um but yeah, so I mean we're only there for 37 hours. What was really cool is like I was telling folks this week is you know, Teddy's 17, so when we see him in Cincinnati, he doesn't have time for us. But since he was in DC and that doesn't know anyone, we spent the whole time, and that was really great. He's a great kid. Um really proud uh to know him and be a part of his life uh and like really smart and um but also like Georgetown a real contender. He likes Georgetown. I'm happy to report that he the mission accomplished, y'all. Um he likes Georgetown better than Notre Dame. And I and I thought he was maybe just saying that for me, but he wasn't. So it had to do with the bathrooms.
SPEAKER_07Um I think he'll definitely apply there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, you know, Georgetown's got this great deal that if you go, if you apply and you get into undergrad, you get to apply to the law school as a junior without taking the L set to Georgetown law. So um they like give you a leg up to get to the law school, which you really like. Um but he's also looking at UVA. We're taking him, I'm sorry, Dan, to Michigan September 28th. Um we're taking and then Sam and I are in charge of that one. UVA, Dartmouth, Brown, um, and the University of Miami, because you know the ladies, he said. Oh, okay. So there you go.
SPEAKER_07Oh, and and he he picked up he picked up the girl on the tour.
SPEAKER_03Yes, he picked up you guys, okay. This kid. Okay, so we come to the tour, and she's a cute as a button girl, and she's with her grandpa, and they're like looking at the map, and we're like, oh, we're going to the you know, tour too. So like they kind of walk to us, oh, where you're from, and from, you know, we're from Dallas area. Oh, yeah, we have family and debt, and da da da da. So we go and do the the listen to the tour, and then the girl comes up and says, um, to Teddy, like, which could you win, like they had a like in the auditorium, they had a really good speaker, a 45-minute speech about like the schools, and then they had student tour guides come up to Teddy and says, Which tour guide are you going to go? And Teddy's like, Oh, I don't know, I need to talk. Because Teddy is like also like his dad, like very smart, like you know, first to ask a question in a group of 150 people goes down to see the guy that's in emissions to have a conversation. First to ask a question. Like, you know, any questions, like has a question, not shy, like Yeah, you know what we call them in van work, but kiss asses. Well, that's how you get into school. So it works because none of these kids give eyes eye contact anymore. So that's a way to I mean, that's the challenge. So you give eye contact, you're like good to go. I mean, that's a big problem right now. So, anyway, so the girl comes up to Teddy and it's like, which tour guide? And he's like, Oh, I don't know, you know, just kind of playing it cool. And I'm like, Oh, that's interesting. Well, we end up getting on the we got on the last tour because we were wait, and she's in that tour, so we're on the tour. They barely talk the whole tour, and then at the end she's like, uh, can I get like your snap or insta? And so, like, they're and I was like, What's just happening here? Teddy has picked up a woman on the tour.
SPEAKER_01He's gas on.
SPEAKER_03He's he's pretty good. Uh no, she wasn't a prostitute or and she was also appropriate age. Yeah, she was she was the same age as Teddy. Right. And she wasn't being trained to be a prostitute. Two big differences.
SPEAKER_01That's for when we talk about the movie later. Okay, Sam, you're up.
SPEAKER_07Um, I think you got it covered. We were gonna scoop some algae for you, but I I I wasn't confident in how quickly our friends could bail us out.
SPEAKER_01They indicted that guy. I know. The Olympian.
SPEAKER_07What did he do?
SPEAKER_01They said he tore it. And so they indicted him at the time. It's a 10-year uh possible sentence.
SPEAKER_04Vandal and to vandalize the probably bullshit. All right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, Deal. This is your last time.
SPEAKER_03This is what happens in authoritarian regimes.
SPEAKER_01This is your last time at the table with the rest of us.
unknownI don't remember a lot who was week. It was a short eight. And you're busy, no.
SPEAKER_07And I yeah, I had to put the week before.
SPEAKER_03No, she was here. She was here. Oh, she was here?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
unknownBut um, and how it fainted on one of the rides.
SPEAKER_03She fainted on one of the rides because it went like this. I listened to this already. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Didn't faint the second time because the ride was annoying me.
SPEAKER_04I'm sure that was his whole thing.
SPEAKER_05He was like, Why aren't your arms off? Why are you feeling the ball?
SPEAKER_07So you didn't.
SPEAKER_05Um but yeah, I I don't think I was I've been listening to a lot of it's all over. But I think the highlights was like yesterday. It was pretty cool. Seeing everybody for the last time, seeing all the friends, everybody with my archers. I've never seen that.
unknownI've never seen all the people I love together before.
SPEAKER_03Except for Dan. We missed you, Dan. Do another piece of bread? Don't break it too.
unknownBut yeah.
SPEAKER_03What'd you do the earlier in the week? Are you packed?
SPEAKER_01You came down here and talked to me.
SPEAKER_05I did. I did talk to Dan. And I also like brought in the brought in like what was it? What are the chocolates? I brought something in for Dan. Because he called me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, because it was a cake I ordered for July 4th. And I was afraid it was gonna melt on the front porch, so Dia brought it in.
SPEAKER_03Oh, D that's so nice. What is Dan gonna do without you? Dan?
SPEAKER_01Uh, it's gonna be a problem.
SPEAKER_03I know. She's like really good visitor.
SPEAKER_01She she came down so quick she didn't even put her shoes on.
unknownI did not have it. That's right.
SPEAKER_06I was in Thomas with no shoes on.
SPEAKER_03But I hope she loves you, Dan.
SPEAKER_05I'm trying to convince JT to come and talk to you because I think he'll really like you. Who?
SPEAKER_03John Thomas.
unknownMaybe he'll take my place. Oh, good.
SPEAKER_03John Thomas. He wants John Thomas. Oh, he does. He does. Oh, good to know.
SPEAKER_05He's a little jealous too, which I like.
SPEAKER_07Right. He's been in Finland. We gotta make sure he's not a foreign agent.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we got work to do on that, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. It was great.
unknownAnd I'm not bad, but it's it was great.
SPEAKER_03How many bags do you have?
SPEAKER_05Um, I have like two big ones and one little one and a book bag.
SPEAKER_03And what are you gonna miss the most?
SPEAKER_05Um food and people.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03What food?
unknownMexican.
SPEAKER_03Interesting.
unknownWe all have Mexico. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And what are you looking forward to?
SPEAKER_05Um food. Indian food and um, nice.
SPEAKER_01Do you you have Mexican restaurants in India?
SPEAKER_05Not as many. No, they're not as good.
SPEAKER_01There you go. If you decide not to be a doctor, you could corner the Taco Bell market.
SPEAKER_02Try Mexican. What do I do, Danny? That is a good idea.
SPEAKER_07Mexican food bearer in hair.
unknownMaybe. Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_01Okay, Pauly. Other than thinking about Southbound.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, other than that. I mean, that's you know, that's like a daily activity, Dan, right? Um, you put some ones. Unfortunately, I went to a funeral on uh Monday. Uh Cheryl's Aunt Mary, who was two days shy of 95. She kind of had its same birthday, actually. Wow.
SPEAKER_03Well, happy birthday, by the way.
SPEAKER_08Happy birthday, Paul. Uh yeah, June 25th. So she passed, and uh up in uh uh near St. Henry, uh we were at you're older than 50.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08But not 94, like Aunt Mary. So we're up in Cranberry Prairie, which is near St. Henry, Minster, that area, at St. Francis Church. And um, outside the immediate family, which is kind of large because Aunt Mary had my kids. But outside the immediate family, I was like almost the youngest person there. Um but that's okay. It was like you know, it was a Monday you know, funeral, everyone's working.
SPEAKER_03But uh it was it was Well, I mean, those are Aunt Mary's contemporaries. Those are Aunt Mary's contemporaries. Are they alive?
SPEAKER_08Some of her uh she has, I think, two maybe three years ago.
SPEAKER_03Are they older than her?
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um you know when Sam's grandmother died, there was nobody. She was the last. Um and R.
SPEAKER_08One thing that um his mother Aunt Mary had done uh before she uh retired, she used to coordinate, you know, as a business, um, you know, like all the the meals for like the wedding reception. Oh nice. Until years ago, I I talked to her about the ins and outs of that. And um, you know, she had driven the cost down you know a lot because the family, you know, getting involved in the marriage, you know, would do you know contribute labor, you know, peeled potatoes and all that. And then uh it turns out the funeral meals or the post-funeral meals are pretty much exactly the same as the uh wedding uh meals. Are they Catholic? Yes. Oh yeah. So anyway, that was Monday.
SPEAKER_04Yes, I know this meal. I know what this meal looks like. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Northwest Northwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana and Northeast Indiana. Same, yeah.
SPEAKER_08And then uh Dan on uh I think was it Wednesday on July 1st, I uh celebrated Canada Day by watching by watching the US Bosnia uh match.
SPEAKER_03Are you are you a citizen now? No, no, it's gonna take months. I watched it by finishing Heated Rivalry, which is so hot. And they the guy's from Canada and he has a Canada fleece on. And it's really hot. Heated rivalry.
SPEAKER_08I tried to get everyone excited about the goals, you know, so I did the you know, the Spanish announcer or a Mexican announcer, like goal, nobody was having any of that, which I'm kind of disappointed. Like let's get in the standard of things. So anyway, that was pretty much my week.
SPEAKER_03I've interrupted you a lot. Did that bother you? No. Okay, good. He did rival he did rivalry. He did rivalry. Guys, worth it. Worth it, listeners.
SPEAKER_00Dan, check it out. After somebody's known you for two or three days, they realize you're going to interrupt them all.
SPEAKER_03I know. You know, I just feel like there's so many men that interrupt people all the time. I need to like try to balance the field as much as possible by the way.
SPEAKER_01Oh, we're doing it on the movie even before we get to the movie.
SPEAKER_03It's in my bones, Dan. I just, you know, as a person with a vagina, I just feel it all the time.
SPEAKER_08There we go. So by me saying no about the interruption, are you going to try it harder next time? Is that what you're saying?
SPEAKER_03No, I just went, I really was curious. I I felt like it was a good nice conversation. I just kept on popping in on it. But then I was like, I think he's like annoyed.
SPEAKER_08No, maybe I just attribute it to you being a podcaster. I don't know if you'll do that on your podcast, it's really.
SPEAKER_03No, I try to let people I do every once in a while say, hey, what about this?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay, Katie did.
SPEAKER_04Um, well, it was a really short week in a lot of ways, but it's Friday and we're here. Yeah, I crammed in a lot of work this week. Um, and you know, campaign things are starting to heat up. No pun intended.
SPEAKER_03Oh, so 95 days to early vote.
SPEAKER_0495 days to early voting in Ohio.
SPEAKER_03Unless they take that away because they're gonna militize the election, but anyway.
SPEAKER_04Um yeah, so a lot of work, a lot of evening. Um and then today I was at the city of Dayton's first parade in a really long time. Who knew?
SPEAKER_05It was cool.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and what did you think?
SPEAKER_03I thought it was hot.
SPEAKER_05It wasn't as big as like the bright parade. Yeah, it was fun.
SPEAKER_04I don't think many people knew about it.
SPEAKER_05But it was really cool. It was hot. It wasn't cool. It was hot. There were people dancing, and it was hot, theaters, and little kids.
SPEAKER_04I mean, it was a parade, so we were there, and it was very hot. I know there's another one tomorrow.
SPEAKER_03And Hubert?
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_03These are things I do not miss at Dan Years.
SPEAKER_04Amy Acton actually was at Dayton's parade today. Um wasn't a very good parade, but hopefully it served its purpose. Sure. Dan, what'd you do? What'd you do?
SPEAKER_01That's it.
SPEAKER_04That's it. That's all I got. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Uh I after the podcast, uh Jean got up Monday morning and uh we bid adieu, and she uh loaded up her car, which she calls Blue Bonnet, and headed back to uh Wichita Falls. Uh got back, uh drove halfway to Missouri, spent the night at a hotel that she had spent when she came up here, and then uh finished her journey, and she did report that after all Ohio people talking about Bucky's, that she did stop at a Bucky's on the way home.
SPEAKER_03What'd you think of it?
SPEAKER_01Well, she did confirm they have very clean restrooms, and uh she does like their chicken salad. I guess they got good chicken salad. So she's never been in one. So she got back safe and sound, so I was happy about that. Then on uh that was Monday, and then on Tuesday, I forget what I did. And then on oh, and then on Wednesday I went out to House of 10,000 picture frames.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yay.
SPEAKER_01Oh, for uh the framing of another thing that has come my way. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_07Uh do you know where it is?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's well it's at the house of 10,000 picture frames. Oh, okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07But it's coming back in the house.
SPEAKER_08It seems to be somewhere in this house.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I have abs I think I'm gonna have to hang it outside.
SPEAKER_03I have absorbed it's that ginormous thing, right?
SPEAKER_01Oh. And I picked up one today that's in my car waiting for Marty to come bring it in because it is massive.
SPEAKER_03Where are you gonna put that?
SPEAKER_01I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_03You're going the wrong direction here, Garrison. Yes, you are.
SPEAKER_01You do you, I'll do me.
SPEAKER_03Wrong direction.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Uh so then, anyhow, uh then I had uh the uh the label pod and the 208 pod came for uh taco dinner. Uh Marty made tacos for us. So that was a wild, rumbunctious time. Everybody was going crazy. Uh and then Thursday, Nicole came, the cleaning lady who hadn't been here for two weeks because she was on vacation. So I had a nice catch up with her. And then uh, well, Wednesday night I did watch the USA soccer game. Really happy about that. What a game.
SPEAKER_03Uh you guys were texting about it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And then uh today, uh got up, uh, got dressed, went to Legacy, uh, saw some people. Well, I picked up the picture that's in my car right now, and drove 20 miles an hour from 10,000 picture frames out to West Carrollton, everybody flipping me off and honking on me because I had my walker in the back and I didn't want it to smash this thing. Because this thing is as big as the back of my car. And I couldn't put it in the trunk because I got a wheelchair there. So I was driving very slowly and a lot of people flipping me off, coming right up on my bumper.
SPEAKER_02Did you put your hazards on?
SPEAKER_01There was no reason to have my hazards on.
SPEAKER_03If you're going 20 miles an hour.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was maybe going 21 or 22.
SPEAKER_03They might have appreciated the hazards.
SPEAKER_01No, people are just jerks driving now. Oh, I'm glad I'm not a Muni Court judge anymore. Because, man, the way people drive now, if they'd have been driving, you know, the problem with driving right now in this in this city, in this country, is we don't have enough police to enforce traffic laws. And it's just gonna get worse and worse. Well, you know, in Dayton, if you have an accident, the police don't come unless the ambulance has got to come and take somebody away. And it's just turned into the Wild West. Go up Main Street sometime. You know, they did that road diet that you guys came up with, and people use the turning lanes for like passing lanes. They're cutting in and out, this and that. Because there's there is absolutely no traffic enforcement anymore anywhere. And they wonder why vehicular homicides and wrecks are going up. Well, duh. But anyhow, I had fun at Legacy.
SPEAKER_03Okay, time out. The the vehicular homicides are going up.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean wrecks that cause people to die.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that is going up because actually they did a study on it in the New York Times two weeks ago, and it's because the the kind of car that we build is bigger now. So while wrecks have actually gone down, deaths have gone up because of the the everybody has to have a huge car. I think that's probably because men have gotten smaller penises, and so they need bigger cars. So that's probably what's happened. So really we could what dog is that walking?
SPEAKER_08Not to mention the obstacles with the red light cameras.
SPEAKER_03Right, exactly. I don't see a dog at all. And and the destruction.
SPEAKER_01Right there, it's a big white dog.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. Right there. I did not see a dog. I don't see the dog. There's not a dog there.
SPEAKER_01The dog right there, but you're blind. You're blind as a bat.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I do see the dog there. There's a dog.
SPEAKER_01He just in my yard and I picked it up.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I'm sorry. There was a dog, but I couldn't see it. I was like, what are you talking about? I thought Dan was like screwing with me about this dog just to get it out.
SPEAKER_01You couldn't see it because you had to somehow put a penis in it. So as we get closer to the movie, this is just gonna be really special tonight. I look forward to a lot of money for the Virginia Mod Platte Empowerment Fund.
SPEAKER_06Oh, you fucking know it.
SPEAKER_01That's a dollar, that's five right there from Sam. Okay, so anyhow, that's what I did. So I think it's time to move on to the movie.
SPEAKER_03You think is the time?
unknownIt's time. Do you do you need more food?
SPEAKER_01Nope.
SPEAKER_03Did you like the salads?
SPEAKER_01Don't bother me when I'm uh compiling myself to the recipe.
SPEAKER_03There was Lake. Very good. All right.
SPEAKER_01We're ready for the movie. Tonight we are doing, I think, our 31st movie. Uh it is 1958, best picture, Gigi. It won against uh Auntie Mame, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones, and Separate Tables. Tough year. Uh it got uh eight Oscars. It got eight Oscars that at that time beat the record of uh Gone with the Wind. It actually won more Oscars than Gone with the Wind. Got it for Best Picture.
SPEAKER_03There's a theme there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Isn't it worse than Gone with the Wind? It got Best Picture.
unknownWell, it depends. It's bracing. Sorry to see it kind of feeling. It bothers you more. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01I'm done. No, no. You guys. You already hijacked it. Go on.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, no, no, please. No, I'm done. No, please.
SPEAKER_01You already hijacked it. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_03No, we did it. No, we did it. No, we did it.
SPEAKER_04We'll behave. We'll behave.
SPEAKER_08Thank you, the listeners.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Well.
SPEAKER_05Who is he calling three?
SPEAKER_04He's calling in other people to do his podcast.
SPEAKER_01Eddie, your dad needs help. Get up here.
SPEAKER_04Reinforcements.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I am either going to get through. I'm either going to get through my comments or I am done on the movie of explaining what the movie is and the history of the movie before you guys who have said for months you're going to tear it to shreds. So we already know you're going to tear it to shreds. So I'm either going to, I gotta do tough love here tonight. I'm either going to get through what I got to say, which is based on uh what the movie said and da-da-da-da-da, and how it was produced, and then you guys can rip it to shreds, or I'm done, and I'll go watch whatever World Cup game's on.
SPEAKER_07Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, does Nan and can't Kate agree? Because they're the ones that are causing all the problems here tonight. Oh, they're just looking at me. Okay. I'm going to try it once again.
SPEAKER_04Please go ahead.
SPEAKER_01It won eight Oscars, which at that time beat uh uh Gone with the Wind for the Most Oscars. It got it for Best Picture, which I already said who it was up against. It got it for directing with Vincent Minelli, who was Liza Minelli's uh uh father. It got it for writing, screenplay based on material from another medium. It got cinematography color, that was back when they were still doing color in black and white. It got for art decoration, which they said art decoration set set decoration, it got it for costume design, it got it for film editing, it got it for music song, and it got it for scoring a musical picture. And an honorary Oscar was awarded to Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century. All right, Eddie heard the clarion call, he's up here. Okay. Gigi was Hollywood's answer to Broadway's My Fair Lady, which had opened in New York in 1956 and also featured a captivating musical score by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Lowe, and an awesome costumes by Cecil Beaton. The basis for the new project was a 60-page novelette by the French writer Colette, which became a French play, later a French movie, and finally a Broadway play with Audrey Hepburn. The latest reincarnation had a blithe spirit and a French sense of humor. In Paris 1990, a teenage girl is trained by a wealthy aunt to be a courtesan in the tradition of her family, only to eventually upset the plan by opting for marriage. The cast included Hermoni, Hermione Gilgud, Louise, or Louis Jordan, and Leslie Claron, plus uh Maurice Chevalet, Isabel Jeans, Eva Gabor, and Jacques Barock. Okay, then finally, let me read one more thing, and then you guys can begin your systematically dismailing of this movie. And so, since it was a musical, it had the following songs. Just to start things off, Thank Heaven for Little Girls, then It's a Boar, The Parisians, Gossip, She's Not Thinking of Me, The Night They Invented Champagne, which is why I wanted to have all the champagne tonight, I Remember It Well, which is my favorite song from the entire movie, uh, Gaston's Soliloquy, Gigi, I'm glad I'm not young anymore, and then finally, Say a Prayer for Me Tonight. So that's the movie, that's what it was based on. That's all the Oscars that won, and that's all the red meat that Nan Whaley needs, so chew it up.
SPEAKER_03I really agreed that the song, Yes, I remember it well. It was a great song. It's a great song. That's all I got to say about it. Go ahead, Sam.
SPEAKER_01Well, aren't you gonna say something about the movie?
SPEAKER_03No, I don't think it just I decided Sam should have first two numbers. We'll go around. So I don't need to say anything. We'll go around. Go ahead, Sam.
SPEAKER_07So, yeah, on the positive side, that uh that song was good. Uh the costumes and the sets were very good. On the negative side, this movie really creeped me out. I I really struggled even to get through it. And and worse, it bored me.
SPEAKER_01I just like the song. Exactly. It's a bore.
SPEAKER_07It was a bore. I thought it was a bore. But yeah, the the Thank Heaven for the Little Girls song was just just so creepy. I think if if Jeffrey Epstein had lived in France 120 years ago, this would have been a movie about him, and that's how he would have behaved. And so I it's the worst movie for me. I did not enjoy it. It made my skin crawl.
SPEAKER_01Well, Dea didn't watch it.
SPEAKER_03We don't recommend it.
SPEAKER_01And Eddie didn't watch it.
SPEAKER_08Well, I I mean I didn't care for it, but I have a bias against musicals in general. Um on the screen. I like them on the stage. So that I mean, I just didn't like that. It would have been interesting. I know we're watching these in chronological order, but it would have been interesting to watch an American in Paris in this back-to-back since they're both produced by Arthur Free. Obviously, both set in Paris and obviously both musical. So it'd be really interesting because I think this had a lower production value. Um I didn't I guess some of it was uh filmed on on site or on location. Oh yeah. It was really weird to get it in a few.
SPEAKER_07You could see a little bit of it, but I think there's only a few scenes. It was it was like you can re you can pick out like a fountain and the Alexander Bridge on a scene. Yeah, but I I didn't see much more of the.
SPEAKER_08But they're like right in the buggy, and they're clearly, you know, on a studio.
SPEAKER_01Well, you know, American and Paris, they only shot the beginning scene, and everything else was on a sound stage.
SPEAKER_08I think part part for me part of the problem is like we're coming right off the bridge on the river quiet, right? Where it's filmed, you know, in the entirely off the station. Yeah, and so good. It's such the panoramic views, and then we go to this where they're clearly using, you know, sound stages. So that's kind of unfair to the movie, but um, it kind of colored my my extra, you know, my enjoyment. And I just I just don't like the plot. Um again, musicals aren't my thing. Um I didn't realize it won so many Oscars. But yeah, when they the the the song is a boar, I was like, oh yeah, that's kind of how I felt about the movie. I just didn't find it that interesting.
SPEAKER_01Catherine Ann, don't disappoint me, girl. Well I mean, go to it. You guys have been hammer on this movie for months.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I mean it's it's as bad as we've been talking about for months, too. I mean, like Sam said, it's it's creepy. Um, you know, right out of the gate, thank heavens for little girls, she's like 15. 14. 14. Leslie Carone is supposed to be like 14 years old. And she's, you know, in real life, she was 26 playing a 14-year-old. And you know, Louis Jordan is 30 and like playing a 30-year-old character, and you're just right out of the gate, it's jarring in so many ways. And the song, Thank Heavens for Little Girls, like it's so sadly, like Maurice Chevalier is an actor that I I like and he can be very charming, and I his role in this is so gross.
SPEAKER_03He's a groomer.
SPEAKER_04He's a groomer. I mean, he is so it's so gross, and um yeah, I you can't shake this vibe the whole time. And you know, I I get it that these are actors in their 20s and 30s, but she's playing a 14 and then a 15-year-old. She gets, you know, she's being groomed to be a prostitute for this 30-year-old. And it it's gross. And you know, I I just the whole thing, I also agree with Sam, like it's it's just not a very setting. If you can see past all that, it's not a it's it is not an entertaining movie. It is boring. It is two hours that is pretty boring to get to where you know it's gonna end up. To get to where you know it's gonna end up. You know, I out of the other movies nominated, I mean I haven't seen the other. The Defiant Ones is a better movie. I think Cat on the Hot Ten Roof is probably a better movie. Um it's just it's really stunning to me that it was so successful at the Oscars. And, you know, I think like 2010 to 20 years later, it would not have been like nominated, right? I I just think like there was still a nostalgia for the time period. There was still a nostalgia for like the big Hollywood musical.
SPEAKER_03Well, this is the first music, like, first musical in a while, right? No, we had another one.
SPEAKER_04No, we had one recently.
SPEAKER_07American Imperial.
SPEAKER_04But we're about to go on a run. Right.
SPEAKER_07I think like in the next eight sign music coming up, West Side Story. My Fair Lady. My Fair Lady.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, these big musicals again.
SPEAKER_03But there's also much better than this one.
SPEAKER_04I I would agree with that. Um, I think like your point about An American in Paris is well taken, like a much better movie. One is like artistically beautiful artistically, yeah, um, the plot, everything. I mean, it just yeah, creepy and boring. Um I think are good uh descriptors for this. I also just on a side note, like they dubbed Leslie Heron's singing voice, which I didn't like. Um, she's not the only star of the era to like happen, Audrey Hepburn and My Fair Lady, but like others who were in these musicals get, you know, and it it's always seems to be a female getting their voice dubbed um for whatever reason. And you know, I didn't I didn't care for the voice dubbing. I think it's usually pretty obvious that it's happening and it kind of um takes you out of the out of the movie. Um in this case, I didn't mind that that much.
SPEAKER_03Well, yeah, I think when she was dubbed too, like it'll be interesting when we watch My Fight Lady, like you kind of know that Hepburn's being dubbed, that it's not as obvious as it was in this one.
SPEAKER_04It doesn't seem quite as obvious, but yeah, I just I I just really you know I know that there's something to be said for trying to like divorce current day feelings and thoughts and and norms from like and try to put yourself into this, like okay, if I was sitting here. In 1957 or 58, watching this movie, like what I have found it charming. I just I don't know. That's the whole point. It's like I can't divorce myself from what I think in 2026 and the experience I have and the history that has passed since then. So to me, it's just it's very disturbing, um, you know, in a lot of ways, but it's just yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think what's interesting, I was talking to someone about all these movies, because you know, we still haven't really seen a black person in a movie yet. And we're in 1957, right? So besides like Gone with the Wind when they were and then there was like one there was one black guy that never got picked and on the waterfront.
SPEAKER_07There's the piano player and the phone.
SPEAKER_03And the piano, so like you can count them on one hand, and so it just not a diverse. Well, and it just kind of shows like how how American culture during this time was so driven by like its whiteness and its maleness. And so, like this is another example. I think too, like, even like the pet like it's easy to talk about the pedophilia in this movie. This movie is so incredibly anti-woman, even if you take out that he wants to make a 14-year-old his whore, you know, the way that he treats the other women because they're looking at some other man, and so they get drug out. Like, all like there is not a positive reinforcement about a woman in this entire movie. Right.
SPEAKER_04Now, is she an actual prostitute? Like, she is groomed literally. A cord of all game is what they called it in the movie, right? Yeah, they call it it's like the French word is cortisol. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Until they're tired of her. Because they even say that, like, well, until you're tired of me, and then you move. Like, it'll be a nice four months, I think they say in the movie.
SPEAKER_04As you said, the Ava Gabor character. Because she's such a boar. Yeah. Eva. Eva Gabor, whatever.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because she's uh she's you know, because she gets bored, and then like it's for the men to decide. So but I think that's my takeaway. Like it's I love this project because you see like how American history and American culture is seen, and how like it is so very, so very dominated by its whiteness and its maleness. Yeah, and that's what you see. And this movie is just like the epitome of it. And and it it's in your face, and the movie sucks.
SPEAKER_06It just yeah.
SPEAKER_03Usually, like there's a lot of that in movies, but they're still really good movies. Like, you know, on the waterfront. Excellent. You know, there's there's that piece in Casablanca. That it still has that, but it's an excellent movie. It kind of shows when it's either like over the top, i.e., gone with the wind, or it's really fucking bad. Like Kiji. So that's my take on it.
SPEAKER_07I think I'll like this film.
SPEAKER_03You probably weren't. You probably will, Eddie. Says a lot about you.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, just so you know, uh, I didn't have uh the DVD I had didn't have any uh thing on it other than the movie. And I could have watched it in French, uh, but it did have the trailer. So I wrote down the trailer, which you know would have been the previews for people. And the trailer is Gigi is dedicated to your zestful entertainment. A feast for your heart in scenes in eyes, thrilling in your heart in scenes. Uh uh, your eyes will see thrilling cinemascope and metro color lilting in with the exciting melodies of learner and lair. And then Life magazine had this to say about it: gay, tombful, uh, lovely. The New York Times said the My Fair Lady of filmed them. Uh the Daily News said highest ratings. Uh, the Herald Tribune said we'll probably run for three years. And then Time magazine said feast for eyes and ears. So, anyhow, that's how it was portrayed. Uh, and that's how the uh the reviewers came out. Now, I don't disagree with anything y'all said about the movie, uh, and it being a young girl and a grooming and all that. Uh unfortunately, that is part of human history. Uh, this movie just didn't make up courtesans. They've been around forever, and it's wrong, but it's been around forever. They did somewhat kind of try to glorify it in this movie. But like in every movie I watch, I try to get at least something that uh was worth listening to, or that was some funny lines. And I did really like that song. I remember this. That was good.
SPEAKER_07Because that was that was good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That was such a good song, okay? And you know, there were some uh there were some kind of funny lines in it from uh, especially from the uh the aunt uh who was quite the successful opinionated woman about how to do things. And one of the things she said was, instead of getting married at once, we get married at last. I thought that was an interesting thing to say. And then another thing she said was without knowledge of jewelry, a woman is lost. And then she went on that thing about a topaz among the jewels. Are you mad? You know, there were just little uh cultural things like that that you know I just thought were funny. You know, so there was a couple lines like that. Uh I thought one of her best lines the old aunt had when they looked at when she looked at Gigi's teeth, Gigi's teeth, she said, with teeth like that, I could have devoured all of Paris and most of Europe. I mean, that's some pretty funny lines. I mean it's in a maybe a sad movie, but it's some pretty funny lines. Uh the uh uh Eva Gabor, who uh I have an autographed picture of somewhere in this house.
SPEAKER_03Oh, somewhere in this house. Uh drink.
SPEAKER_01Because she was in uh Green Acres. Yeah. And I was a big fan of Green Acres. So uh I do have an autographed picture of her somewhere in this house. Um, and then the other thing I you know, it's just there they're just some little funny things in this movie that you know uh when uh Gaston broke up with her, she committed suicide again in the papers, and I thought that was funny because we still do that. All that tabloid stuff, yeah, you know, and we're going through that right now with Taylor and Kelsey getting married.
SPEAKER_03I am very excited about it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, you are about the wedding, but I mean, you know, when they when it and it's the same thing we're doing now, 120 years later. Uh and I thought, oh my god, she did kill herself, but oh no, she's done this before. And it's like, well, what does she do? Insufficient poison. I mean, I'm sorry, I I thought that was funny. Now, maybe it's in a sad movie, but I thought that was funny. Look, I like I'm not sure. It doesn't justify the movie.
SPEAKER_03I like the song, I like the song you like too. I just think you know what what is what is depressing to me about this is that it won the best picture. Yeah. That that's that's the thing. Like, because we're in 1957 now.
SPEAKER_0158.
SPEAKER_03Yep. 19, okay. We're we're in 1958. We're getting ready to like get close to, you know, the movement of like, you know, we're we're 14 away, 14 years away from Rome. We're getting close to like this, and how far culturally we are for like women. It's just kind of shocking.
SPEAKER_04It says a lot about the voters of and and the Academy of Voters, too.
SPEAKER_03That's what I'm saying about. Like, I look at these movies, and I don't want you to misunderstand me. I look at these movies and and I like be clear, I love this project. I would never do this project if we weren't doing this. This is super fun. But it is like shocking to me around the like it's like a it's like a study in American culture about what is popular, and you're like, wow, that was night that was 1958. I thought they would be further along on that. That's what uh that's what surprises me.
SPEAKER_01Well, it didn't run for three years.
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SPEAKER_03That's good.
SPEAKER_01They thought it was gonna run for three years. It did not run for three years.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it just it doesn't age well at all, right? Like, you know what's scary, like, as we think about these movies over time, how popular Gone with the Wind stayed. Stayed.
SPEAKER_01It's your mom's favorite movie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, right. Like, that's wild to me. You know, the good thing this one didn't, you know. People still talk about Gone with the Wind. That has a quite a statement on like racism in America, right?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So at least we've moved from like, yeah, Jeffrey Epstein is bad. You know, like uh that's a good sign, right? But uh that's and that's my that's my point. When I when I watch the movie, I think, God, this one best picture. Yeah, that's the thing that's you know all these awards, right? Yeah, it won more awards than gone with the win. Yeah, that's wild. 1958. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, and that might have been because they had more awards then too.
SPEAKER_03Maybe so, maybe so. That's that's kind of how I look at this. Like these movies like are supposed to be, and this is like what so I think uh Catherine Graham, right, at the in the Washington Post, she said that Phil Graham said that um the first run of the paper is the first run at history, right? That's what the newspaper is every day. Like it was the first, it was the first uh cut at history. And I thought that's always like a really great way to think about the newspaper, probably why you like them, Dan, is because it's like the hot take of what history is. And these movies are like a little more of that, right? It's like a you're it's a hot take, a little more of a snapshot of what is culturally relevant in American culture at that time and what's acceptable and what pushes the envelope. And we'll have, I think we'll have this conversation even more as we get into the modern day because we'll be like, what were they thinking? Like in 2000, 2010. Yeah, so I think that's that's kind of how I think about these movies is like what was acceptable and what was like voted on as like culturally relevant in the time, and then you're like, my God, this?
SPEAKER_04Well, and judging it in the context of what was around it, right? Like these these four other movies that were nominated.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I love that you tell us the other movies because that gives even though I only Kate's seen them, I haven't seen them.
SPEAKER_04It's just like, you know, they're not the only five movies released in a year, so you think of like the breadth of what gets released in any given year. And it's already a hard task to like call that down to a handful of movies that then you're gonna crown the best. It's very subjective. It's you know, the makeup of the academy has uh there's been controversy about that in the history, right? And like Nana pointed out like this feels you know, 1958, what's been kind of winning and and and edging out other movies that I thought were better. You know, the the to her point about the white male like clearly still dominating that space. And you know, to her other point about things to come is that you know, we know from the news and other things, like that continued probably far longer than it ever showed up, right? That there's been controversy about who makes up these groups that are voting on these things.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Oscar so white or whatever.
SPEAKER_04Oscar so white, like you know, so it's like who's voting and who's getting nominated, and and it's like it is, it's just it tells us a lot about what's going on in that year.
SPEAKER_03In that year. I think too, like, I just think in the like you know, women's a women's frame as you know, Dan loves that I like to sit here in the in the in the female frame about this stuff. Is as you think about from like 19 um uh 20 women got the right to vote, right? 1920. And they worked on that for 80, 90 years, as we've talked about, Virginia's legacy in that work, and then from 1920 to 1972, 1970, 1973. 1973, Roe passed. And so in that 53 years, the movement of women's rights was pretty swift, right? Because it took like 90 years for the the right to vote to then to have reproductive freedom. Yeah, right. So 53 years, and so but you think it's like it happened much faster, and then you see a movie like this in the cultural norm, and you're like, no, that was still like very present, you know what I mean? So I think that's the other thing, and that that you like you realize like how fragile it is because this wasn't that this wasn't that long ago, and this is what they were saying.
SPEAKER_01So Well, the ERA never passed, it never passed, it never passed. Finally passed the its uh 38th state after it had already expired, like 10 years earlier.
SPEAKER_03I know. So yeah, so I think that that just is the piece. And like I tell everybody that we do this project, and um, you know, it's interesting when I talk talk to my friends that are black, they're like, Are you worried about women? Like in the in the this movie, these movies. And then you're like, Oh yeah, like they're not even in the movie. And that's true.
SPEAKER_04Like you're like, oh yeah, like that's like that's the thing, you know, the other movies in a nominated in this year. I think that's what's so fascinating about this winning on the movie.
SPEAKER_01The Defiant ones have Sidney Poitiers in it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the Defiant ones. I mean, there were Yeah, there were like you're starting to see it in the movie. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Raising in the Sun.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, in this era, you're starting to see like important movies in that space that I think today are viewed as like almost historical like artifacts of the fact that in the moment it was still a movie like Gigi getting recognized. It's like, oh yeah, that lens of history. And again, going back to like I can't not see things through my 2026 lens and like what I know to be, you know, it's like so you just kind of I mean, I try to take it all with a grain of salt, but sometimes it's too big of a choke on a grain, it's too many grains.
SPEAKER_01So well, you know, we are on the eve of uh 250th of the Declaration of Independence. Here we are. We are a nation of ideas, and we continue to try to strive to get there. But I do have one question from this movie that I need to ask Nan and Sam.
SPEAKER_03Yes, the best thing about this movie is we get French wine tonight.
SPEAKER_01And cheese.
SPEAKER_03And cheese, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because he is like, have some cheese. Yeah. Maurice says that to Gaston, have some cheese.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_01Do you pick Sam's cigars and roll them? Smell them.
SPEAKER_03No, I do not do that.
SPEAKER_01Well, have you ever thought about doing that?
SPEAKER_03I might have to tonight, you know. You might under my nose.
SPEAKER_01You might get a better piece of jewelry. I'm I'm yeah, I'd be like, That might get you a better piece of jewelry.
SPEAKER_07It's already done.
SPEAKER_01We've got women's rights here. I'll sue for you.
SPEAKER_03Uh no, no. Um the best thing about this movie, though, is the French food on this table.
SPEAKER_01We had some good French food. Okay, well, I think we're done with the movie. Uh and uh the next movie. Uh Ben Hur. Is it Ben Hur?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's Ben Herr. But hey, can I say uh since we missed it? We missed we missed Bridge on the River Cry. Excellent movie. I'm sad we missed it. I wish we could have talked about it. The end.
SPEAKER_07It was awesome.
SPEAKER_03The end of what have I what have I done? What have I done? Did he have Stockholm Syndrome? Is that what that guy had? He was blinded by his own bridge.
SPEAKER_07I think a lot of it's about hierarchy too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And well, and he wanted to give his battalion a sense of worth them doing something. Plus, he also wanted to prove that the British were stronger and better and smarter than the Japanese.
SPEAKER_03But he took it to the end to be like, save, yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And I just thought um And you two had never seen this movie. Never saw it until today. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was great.
SPEAKER_03Just to let everyone know, even though we miss, we still watch the movie, we were committed to this project in a very real way.
SPEAKER_01Now, has everybody here seen Ben Hur?
SPEAKER_03No, I've never seen it.
SPEAKER_01You guys have never watched how have you lived this long and never you're like people that have never seen Star Wars.
SPEAKER_03I've seen Star Wars.
SPEAKER_01I've watched Ben Hur like 15 times.
SPEAKER_03Like on Easter right now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they used to, but honey.
SPEAKER_03Van Her or Heated Rivalry. I don't know. I don't know, Dan.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, there is nothing better than Van Herr. Oh man. What? Van Hur is a great. Is it? Okay, I'm excited.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I've heard a lot about it, so I'm excited. We're gonna watch in two sittings, you all. So, because it's a three hour, it's three and a half hour.
SPEAKER_01So, since it's uh well, we have an option. We can either have Italian or we can have Jewish. Either one. Maybe Italian.
unknownItalian.
SPEAKER_01Huh? Italian? It well, yeah, he he he saves the Roman Admiral and becomes uh his son. Whoa, whoa, look at me. He saves the Roman Admiral.
SPEAKER_06I'm just like, really?
SPEAKER_01Well, it then he becomes a Prince of Rome. And he goes back with the ring. He's a Prince of Rome.
SPEAKER_03Italian is easier to make than Jewish. That's why I was like, we'll do Italian.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but we could we could order it from that new Jewish deli, which is supposed to be great. All the best. Oh, it's supposed to be magnificent.
SPEAKER_03I went to it, it was fine.
SPEAKER_01Everybody that I've talked to that's eaten there says it's like New York City.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Uh Ann obviously doesn't think that. But anyhow, we're not gonna we're not critiquing their food tonight. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Well, they're not an official sponsor, so we're not gonna do anything. We don't want to see that.
SPEAKER_01So, anyhow, we're we're we're gonna do uh Benher next week, but now we all have to say our farewells to Dea to our dear Dea.
SPEAKER_03Dea.
SPEAKER_01And if we don't get her crying, we're not worth our waiting.
SPEAKER_03Oh, do you want me to start? Do you gonna start?
SPEAKER_01You start.
SPEAKER_03Um, Dea, uh, I'm so glad that you decided to, not that you had a choice in it to leave with Sam and I. I think the best thing that Sam and I gave you was probably your friendships with Kate and Dan. Uh oh, and the dog, yes. And the dog, as we were not, I was not home very much. Uh but you got to see the other end of the block, which I think made the your uh experience here all the more rich. Uh and so um we look forward to um ending up on your doorstep in India one day. That's the reason why we really have people stay at our house, is so we can come visit. And excited that you'll stay in touch with us because you write the best notes, which is important to me as a notewriter.
SPEAKER_01Sam.
SPEAKER_07We're just so glad you came and stayed with us. And we'll miss you. But you can't take Louie with you.
SPEAKER_01Eddie.
SPEAKER_08Dea was a pleasure of getting to know you to these uh daily or weekly feeling podcasts, and uh just really enjoyed listening to your viewpoints and getting to know you.
SPEAKER_03Dea always did a nice job. I'm gonna interrupt Paul as I do. She always did a nice job of like making this the conversation smarter. And we're not this table won't be as smart without you, Dea. That's true. No, that's true. The protagonist, the set.
SPEAKER_04Truly, you brought it so much to the conversation here at dinner. And, you know, just in general, it has been an absolute pleasure to get to know you. And I will miss you, or two will miss you. Um but the world is getting smaller every day, and you know, it's easy to keep in touch. Okay? It's easy to keep in touch, and we will. Okay. So I'm a man, I'm gonna just show up someday. And you're always welcome, you always have a whole bunch of things.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, always. We'll even hide you from authorities. Not that anybody's done that. Not that anybody's done that. Never happens here.
SPEAKER_04No, it doesn't happen.
SPEAKER_03No. Danny, what are you gonna say? Dan has to count something. Dan is counting. For our listeners, Dan is counting something.
SPEAKER_01Okay, Dean. You have been such a delight to know. Uh you're the third Rotary student I've known, uh, and you're certainly the one that I Got to know the best. I liked the the other two, the German princesses. But you have really become part of the Roe Avenue life. And I am gonna really, really miss you. All the help you gave getting ready for the uh for the uh SUFS thing that we did. Yeah. When we sat back there and hand wrote all those things. Oh, that's nice. I love it when I I'm sitting there doing something and I turn around and you're standing above me. I'm like, yeah, okay. Cheese, yep, that works for me. Uh it has been a delight to watch you walk up and down the street. Uh, you've become such a part of this uh uh culture here.
SPEAKER_06The fabric.
SPEAKER_01The fabric here. And just so everybody knows, this is not the last time we're gonna hear from Dea, because in 24 movies from now, we're doing Gandhi.
SPEAKER_03Oh, we're gonna call in. Are we gonna zoom her in?
SPEAKER_01And I got her a DVD of Gandhi that she's taking back to India with her. And somehow we've got 24 movies to figure out how we're gonna do it.
SPEAKER_03I know how to do it.
SPEAKER_01And we're gonna graduate it right now. Huh?
unknownAnd we'd probably be out of school by the way.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but you'll still be around and you can find a computer. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_05But it's just crazy. Oh.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, 52 weeks in a week.
SPEAKER_0152 weeks a year. Says the weights and measures guy that calibrates all.
SPEAKER_04I know, I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01So, anyhow, uh Dia uh there was one time one of the worst presidents we ever had, uh, Richard Nixon. He didn't say goodbye, he said uh Au revoir until we see, until we meet again. So that's how I look at it. I'm so looking forward to uh having you uh in India and we're here and we're going back and forth with you at the table uh doing the the and then if you're still there, if we haven't talked you into coming to UD Law into UD undergrad, uh we'll do Slum Dog Millionaire with you too. Oh slum dog millionaire.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's why I said slum dog millionaire. Oh, you do? What? She loves sound of music.
SPEAKER_05I watched her that this she was true.
SPEAKER_01I I love then so uh Dea.
SPEAKER_07Open invitation. Yeah, maybe she could zoom in. We'll figure it out. We can have her zoom in to Sound of Music.
SPEAKER_01So, Dea, I have a question for you. Yeah. You uh what is so uh impressed me, you're a 16-year-old girl in a foreign country. Well, no, you started as a 16-year-old. I did start yeah, you started as and I remember when I was 16, I couldn't have done what you did. Uh uh you came to a foreign country. Uh you moved in with a very eclectic bazaar. I love them all, but you moved into the Ann Charles Watts experience, which is wow. And then and then you you put the cherry on top with moving in with Nan and Sam. Oh my god. Two extremes, two extremes. Well, yeah, you're all you're all on the spectrum, but yeah, it's two extremes. Uh so uh what I and what really impressed me was when Nan said, Well, can we bring Dia? And I'm like, what's she gonna do? But you started watching the movies. And I can tell you this. If I was 16 years old and I was an exchange student in India, there ain't no way in hell I would have watched 15, 16, 18 classic movies from uh Bollywood that you have watched here from Hollywood.
SPEAKER_03Well said, Danny. Huh? Well said.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So anyhow, so that's really impressed me. So of all the movies you've watched so far, the just the ones we've talked about, what's your favorite movie?
SPEAKER_06Uh American and Paris.
SPEAKER_01American and Paris? Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna give you my copy of American and Paris to take back to India with you. Thank you. It's it's yours, it's going with you.
SPEAKER_03Nice.
SPEAKER_01You bet.
SPEAKER_03You can think of us.
SPEAKER_01So now it's your time to uh say whatever you want to say to the to us and the to the loyal podcast listeners.
SPEAKER_05Um I've had a really good time. I I really thought that this whole idea was just like unheard of. Um you know, it's it's kind of special. This whole block is very special. And being able to see everyone is just great, and I'm gonna say.
SPEAKER_01So uh we've still got plenty of food, and we've got those pies. So with that, any final say, Nan? I think we've all had our final say, everybody. Okay, uh now everybody's yeah, happy 250 tomorrow. Uh let's see if we can get another uh 250. Uh and with that I'm gonna say Godspeed and fair wind until we meet again.