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
Where the Sharks and Jets Agree
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Tonight the gang enjoyed 1962's best picture West Side Story. The Shakespeare tale of Romeo and Juliet is told in 1950's New York City in a fight between two ethnic juvenile groups. The music, choreography and story make this a timeless classic.
We have Kate's delicious cooking and special guest Carla Maragano, Dan's daughter in-law to discuss this beautiful work of art.
So grab a Coca Cola and a chair at the table to listen to the dinner discussion of West Side Story.
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Okay, I would like to welcome all our listeners around the world to this, the 43rd episode of Dinner with Dan. I am Dan Garrett, your host. We are recording on Sunday, August 2nd, 2026, from my formal dining room in my 1920s built home on Row Avenue in Dayton, Ohio's historic Five Oaks neighborhood. Not sure where the other four oak trees are, but just across the avenue at my son Eddie's house, there is one mature oak tree. It's a cloudy day today, and it rained today, and we had a major rainstorm yesterday. So it's very wet and kind of gloomy, but at the table we are all bright and cheerful.
SPEAKER_05Full of joy.
SPEAKER_01Full of joy. At the table tonight, we have table regulars Nan Whaley, who was given an excused absence last week. She's back with us. Sam Ron, Paul Duncan Robinson, Kate Evans, and maybe Eddie may show up. But tonight, I'm uh happy to say we have a very special guest with us tonight, Carla Margano. Carla is married to my son Frank. Yes, who guested when we reviewed Mutiny on the Bounty.
SPEAKER_05I was not there for that.
SPEAKER_01Carla is an accomplished attorney. Currently, she serves as a staff attorney at the Montgomery County Public Defender's Office. And most important to me is the loving mother of my two of two of my grandchildren, Joaquin Daniel and Frederick Ignacio. Carla was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, after her parents immigrated here from Chile. So she is a true Ohioan uh through and through who uh just got back from Cleveland today.
SPEAKER_03Correct. How long are you up there? Just the weekend.
SPEAKER_01Yep, just a quick weekend up and back.
SPEAKER_03Boilo's back to take care of the grandkids. Just a week and a half, but take a week.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_05So uh maybe next week she can come on the podcast. Yeah, we're off next week.
SPEAKER_01Uh as our listeners know, we do try to pair our dinner with some aspect or scene from the best picture we are reviewing. Some days. The spaghetti, which played a great role in the apartment, which we reviewed last week. Uh this week uh we will review the 1921 Best Picture West Side story. The only things that I could come up with for the table from that movie was Coca-Cola's and Viceroy cigarettes. So, Kate, what's for dinner tonight?
SPEAKER_04Well, not that. Um, yeah, when we were texting about that yesterday, I was like, okay, well, um this was not a balanced meal. So we're having the New York Times recipe of the day honey, chipotle, chicken, tacos. Yum, yum. So, there you go. Hopefully it's it's a good one. It smelled really good.
SPEAKER_01So and Carla brought back pies.
SPEAKER_03I have cherry pie and apple pie, Amish pies.
SPEAKER_01She got Amish pies when she was up there.
SPEAKER_03Rice rice? I made Spanish rice and rice aroni.
SPEAKER_01Rice aroni, a San Francisco treat.
SPEAKER_05But it's Spanish rice.
SPEAKER_01Rice aroni. San Francisco treat.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. And we have watermelon.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So and we have watermelon. Okay, so uh what have we done this past week? We'll start with Nan, who had an excused absence.
SPEAKER_05Well, thank you for my absence. Um excused. I went to Prince Edward Island with um my best friend Crystal. We do a girls' weekend every year. Okay. And we're both obsessed with Anna Green Gable. And so on Saturday we saw um uh all the Anna Green Gable sites, including the Green Gable House, um the house that was the um impetus for Rainbow Valley, which is like part of the Green Gable. She wrote 21 books, we learned all about Lucy Mott and Montgomery. We um we traveled the island, and then on Sunday we did um a Nordic spa, which is you know the hot cold. And it was beautiful. The weather was like 70 to 75 degrees, sunny. It is so beautiful up there. Everybody is so friendly. They are so friendly, Crystal could barely handle it. I was thinking that would rub her. Yes, let me give an example. So, you know, as as we know, Crystal vapes doesn't smoke her vapes, and so she had four vapes, and they were um uh she forgot to charge them the night before. And so on Saturday, she forgot to charge them. I don't know much about vaping. Um, so she needed to get a temporary vape, and so um they're not sold really at the gas station in Prince Edward Island. And so she would go into places and ask the Canadians, like, can you tell me where I can get a vape, like where a shop is? And she said every time, and I witnessed it a couple times because I went in and everybody in the store would gather around and try to be helpful, even if they didn't know like an answer, they'd say, Well, maybe, right, and they just make something up to try to be helpful. So after the fourth time of this, she comes and she's like shaking her head at the car, and she says, Um, I mean, if one of these fucking Canadians are nice to me, I cannot do it. I cannot take them being, I know, you can put target back.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I got you then.
SPEAKER_05Uh I cannot take them being so nice. Like, like, and they were, they were like, everybody was so extraordinarily nice. Um yeah, that was really hard on Crystal. I like it a lot. I mean, they're very I can definitely see their huggers, you know. Um, and also the oysters. Oh man. Jealous are excellent. I mean, they just pull them up right there. The muscles are good too. I mean, Prince Leberat Island was known for them, but the oysters are so so good. So um, so that was really great, and then I went to Minneapolis for work, and I was there um for three days, and then I got home Thursday, and then Friday, um Sam and I went camping, and I'll let Sam talk about camping. Um, and then with 19 people and at Lake Mary, I'll say that. But I got dressed Saturday afternoon in the Lake Morrey State Park.
SPEAKER_04Which is not your first time. Bathroom dinner.
SPEAKER_05I think I think they said this is the third time the Ohio Democratic State Party dinner has been on camp weekend, and I have gotten dressed for the dinner at the campsite and gone to the dinner. One time I got dressed and emceed the dinner from the campsite. Um so in the rain while it was raining, and then I went to the state dinner last night, stayed overnight and called us, and we're back here. Uh, I want to make one other note that like I wanted to say I loved your guys' conversation of the apartment last week. It was one of the best, I think one of the best podcasts that you guys have done. Oh, yeah. I just loved it. And your comments were so smart and thoughtful. I thought I thought, like, maybe I should not be on this podcast. Oh no, that was not true. Um and uh the movie, you guys. Wasn't it so good? Oh, so goddamn good. It was so good. It really is one of my favorites. I loved that movie. Um, it is so well done. I think it makes you guys were saying like I would be upset about the misogyny, and I think it was making great undercurrent conversation about like this is how it is. I actually thought it was actually pretty feminism. So I disagree with you, Sam, about your characterization of my comments. Um but um you guys wouldn't let a guy speak for you.
SPEAKER_07Correct.
SPEAKER_05Uh but uh it was it was a great movie, so I'm glad I got to listen to it. And if folks hadn't listened to it, they should go back and listen to that podcast. But that was my week, Danny.
SPEAKER_01That's a pretty good week. Sam?
SPEAKER_07Uh yes. So uh my week, I would I was a bachelor most of the week.
SPEAKER_05Did you have a special lady friend over?
SPEAKER_07Well, I did have a stripper pole that I ran in and had to get read of. Um I played tennis a couple of times. I was first in the first half of the tennis league, so I was happy about that. I have not lost a set in more than a year.
SPEAKER_04Are you serious? Wow. Good for you.
SPEAKER_03Impressive.
SPEAKER_04Is it the yoga?
SPEAKER_07Well the yoga is definitely helping a lot.
SPEAKER_04I believe it.
SPEAKER_07And then camping. Had a good time camping. But uh Saturday, especially Saturday night, was a real wash out. I thought about you guys. I mean, it was like three hours of biblical rain.
SPEAKER_04Were you guys ever in the tornado morning?
SPEAKER_07Probably. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I guess you know, I guess if we'd uh heard sirens or heard it coming, we'd try to run to the bathroom shelter. Which uh we could you know hopefully could have made it to.
SPEAKER_01Do we know anybody who was camping with you?
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah, you will the the uh ACW experience. They were there. Oh yeah, they were all there. They ate a lot. They ate a lot of food.
SPEAKER_01That's the and Charles Watts experience.
SPEAKER_07Now the uh the uh teenagers of the ACW experience challenged Jason and I to a two-on-two basketball game. Oh man. Uh yeah. And uh it it was it was brutal. We beat them 11-1.
SPEAKER_05Who did the teenage?
SPEAKER_07It was John Thomas and Brian. Yeah. So we we had no problem. No problem taking them out. Um but other than the rain and our air mattress had springing a big leak in it. Aside from that, we had a really good time.
SPEAKER_05It was terrible. I hate it. It was terrible. I'm 50 years old and my hips still hurts.
SPEAKER_07Well, you're just old. I am. I don't disagree. We're still trying to dry out the tent, and then it rained on it again. It rained on it again this afternoon, so the tent will be up for a few days if you try to dry it out. But we made the most of it. We had a big Uter game under the uh under the tents in the rain.
SPEAKER_05These are really innate.
SPEAKER_07Having the bad.
SPEAKER_03So my week, all blur, busy, busy, busy at work for usual. Crime never stops. Keep going. Um so nothing really stands out in particular. Then we went to Cleveland this weekend, just hung out with my family. My sister opened a store recently. Yeah, it's called Simply Serve, so she assembles local promin amongst from other like local vendors and things. And that's where I got the Amish pies from because she had she has a friend who's Amish, and so she came to sell pies. Where is it? In Cleveland Heights, some of um Cedar Taylor District. Okay, so so yeah, so she's um been doing women. We went in one like she assembled popsicles too. So my team had like two popsicles while we were there. He loved it, obviously. Um Franklin and I went out for dinner with some friends on Cinnamon, yeah, lunch night. Um the Fermount, it's like uh like martini bummer that's in Cedar uh Cedar Hill. Um, and of course, since we don't get out that often, we drank way too much per usual, um, because we forgot how to go out. But all in all, it was a good time. No complaints. That's excellent.
SPEAKER_01Cleveland Heights being the hometown of uh Mr. Taylor Smith. Swift, yeah.
SPEAKER_03We saw two big tour buses as we were leaving. I was like, maybe that's Taylor Swift. I don't know. Maybe she was just coming through. Who knows? Could be. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Paul, I heard you were uh out in Maine scouting the possibility of going southbound.
SPEAKER_06Good one, Dan. I should have foreseen that comment. But no, I didn't uh really leave the uh confines of the Lutheran Auburn Twin City area. So to do that, I would have had to drive about two and a half hours north a little bit. Uh so I I resisted that temptation, Dan. I'm sorry. Um but yeah, I I left uh early Monday morning to go up to Lewiston. Uh my dad, my dad's 86th birthday was Wednesday, so that was the catalyst for the trip. And uh yeah. We we went out to dinner at a local place in in uh downtown Lewiston called Blue Feathers. Uh my parents had never been there. Um, so it's conveniently closed. But don't fear, Dan. I did have a lobster roll at the uh mom and pop restaurant that's like five minutes from my parents, so I did get that in. Um disappointed. Dan would have been disappointed. Um sometimes in years past I've sent him like or recently I've sent him a photo of that. I didn't take a photo of the lobster roll. But uh, you know, try to get the jealousy going. What else? Uh my dad and I had lunch at the Baxter Brewing Company. We uh we met with uh, I guess a friend of ours, my dad knew from uh uh he was uh city Scott Harriman, he's on Lutheran City Council with uh Democrat uh recently elected in a special election of the main state house representatives. Yeah, he's fighting a good fight, so uh we got to talk about the uh uh Senate race.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, tell me what's the story? Give the scoop. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, not nothing, uh you know, Troy Jackson was just uh you know selected to replace uh Grant Platten, so there's not really much to yet, but uh I got to see all the uh Susan Collins pro Susan Collins ads. Uh they got money and they're they're using it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but uh I think $500 million already spent in May. Whoa. Yeah, there was like a lot of things. Do you think do you get the vibe that they're just done with Susan Collins and May?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I I think they don't like it.
SPEAKER_05Like finally, finally, can they be done with Susan Collins?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I hesitate to make predictions because every time we predicted her loss, right?
SPEAKER_05It doesn't uh 93 days.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So that was good. And then uh my dad and I went to go see the Odyssey. So that's how is that? Well, it's the second time I've seen it in five days, because me and I went to see it um last Saturday. What did you think? Um Well, I mean I liked it. I'm not I'm not an Odyssey expert. I mean, the last time I read it was the only time I read it was so long ago that I cannot sit here and say what they did to, you know, take out or leave in. But uh, you know, I think all the main elements are there, you know, like the cyclops and the cycle sirens or sirenes, as the George Queenie character says in O'Brien for our show. Um so I liked it. Um I you know, if it wins the Academy Award, and I guess I'll be watching it a third time in a year and a half. Yeah. Um but it was pretty good. It was you know, three hours. My dad, my dad was a trooper. He he uh was able to you know do the whole three hours. It's impressive. Yeah, it was impressive. It was a 10 a.m. show. So yeah, yeah. Good, yeah.
SPEAKER_07If it wins best picture, do we have to do a road trip to Indianapolis to watch it in the uh iMac if we can convince them to reshow it? Yeah, maybe it will.
SPEAKER_06If it wins Oscar, yeah. Um yeah, I saw it here when I mean I saw it um a week ago. We saw in the uh the IMAX format, but uh not in not in Maine. But it was still you know, still impressive uh storytelling. And uh got back late last night, or uh late Saturday night, excuse me, and then I joined some Cincinnati Curling Club uh club mates, and we volunteered some time at the uh food bank in Cincinnati, the free store food bank. Free store. Yeah, it is absolutely ginormously. Wow, it's a food bank here in Dayton. It is uh way bigger than that. They serve uh the one in Cincinnati serves a 20-county area in the tri-state area, so yeah, it's a much bigger area. Much bigger. So yeah, that was my past week.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I'm gonna pause let you continue eating. Uh, since you brought the Odyssey up again. Yes. Oh. I got some facts on the new Odyssey. There are only 41 70 millimeter IMAX screens worldwide.
SPEAKER_0541. 28, 21, 8 in America?
SPEAKER_0141. Three of them are in EU countries of France, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. And the Czech Republic's become quite the destination to go. I've been seeing that. They're playing that. They're playing it 24 hours a day. Oh wow. And uh and since Britain's not in the EU, they also have three. Uh the Odyssey print itself, to be on the 70 millimeter IMAX screens, uh, weighs 300 kilograms, which is 661 pounds.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_01And it is 18 uh kilometers long, which translates to being 11 miles long. So it's quite the thing if you can see it at the IMAX. And this is the first feature film, first feature film made entirely with IMAX film cameras. Uh another interesting thing that's going on in movies, uh, and I noticed it this summer before the summer started when I went to the Mandalorian and Grogu when it debuted. The fancy popcorn holders they've come up with. Oh yeah. And I paid $38 for my Grogu-shaped popcorn bucket. Uh the $54 for the Spider-Man popcorn bucket sold out instantly on day one in New York City. Somewhere in this. No, I know where Grogu is. He's right there on the table.
SPEAKER_06It's recent.
SPEAKER_01I can bring him out here and set him at the table. Uh the Spider-Man one uh sold out instantly in New York City for $54. And apparently there's two uh ones for uh the Odyssey. One is the Trojan horse, and I forget which the other one is. So, anyhow, I just thought that was some interesting tidbits.
SPEAKER_05I saw the story about the popcorn containers in the New York Times, and the that's like where Cinemark is making all their money, is they're not making the money really on the food and such, they're making it on.
SPEAKER_01Popcorn.
SPEAKER_05I believe it. Yeah. Crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Are you gonna go to Indianapolis? That's where one of the IMAX is. Right, yeah, Indianapolis.
SPEAKER_01Are you gonna go? No.
SPEAKER_04I mean it in the digital IMAX or whatever they call it at the green. Digital and on 70 millimeter IMAX.
SPEAKER_05I saw the Brian Stewart crew went to Indianapolis this morning. You know, there's Brian Stewart has a movie crew. Yeah. There's about 10 of them that go, and um, they went to Indianapolis this morning. I saw it on the socials today.
SPEAKER_01You know, there are some theaters that move and spray the water on you. That for the Odyssey.
SPEAKER_05So like when you're out there does the Czech one do that?
SPEAKER_01I don't think so, but uh you rock back and forth and uh they spray water on you and wind gusts and stuff like that. Uh I actually went to a theater like that in Hershey, Pennsylvania years ago. Uh and was one of those where the seats moved. They they came up with that for days of thunder, that time of cruise.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's it. I get livid memories.
SPEAKER_01And uh the one at the one at uh Hershey, it was at Hershey's uh uh you know, Hershey uh chocolate place and it you moved on it, and water sprayed on you, and then uh like when they released snakes, the wind blew underneath your legs, and it was kind of weird.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01But anyhow, no. Uh I don't think Danny Boyd's gonna be driving to Indianapolis to see it. I'm gonna try to. I'll wait till I can get it on DVD.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna try to see it in the movie theater. I think it's worth it. I have not seen it yet. Oh, you're gonna say something?
SPEAKER_07With the spraying chocolate on you and Hershey, is that discontinued?
SPEAKER_05They don't do that. Just water.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_05I'm doing a good job of moving the mic around.
SPEAKER_01So, Katherine Ann, your turn.
SPEAKER_04Um, I'm trying to think. I I had a lot uh so work has been busy. It's getting busier. It was a rough one this past week. Sorry, really. Um, but we're through it. So that's good. I think we're What how many days to election day?
SPEAKER_0593. And really election day starts October 6th. That's correct. So you're really like 63.
SPEAKER_04That sounds even better. So that's nice. Um to have another week down there. Um I don't think I really did 14 weeks. 14th, other than work. Although I'm like redoing my like a mini uh redo of my bedroom. What are you doing? I bought a new bed and mattress. It's this really nice upholstered like bed, and I'm very excited about it. And it was a custom order, so I don't get it till after Labor Day sometime. But I'm doing some other little sprucing up in my room. Nice. I just felt like I needed a refresh in there for our listeners.
SPEAKER_05I think Kate's one of the best decorators around. In addition to being cooked, like I love how she's like. I know what I like. She got a nice eye for things.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I I know what I like. So I I'm excited. The book club is so nice at her house. Oh, she's nice. Because the code is really good in the table. That's nice. I know now I have that pretty china. I know that china's that's really my week. I went and did, I ordered the bed and the mattress on Tuesday, and then I spent time yesterday cleaning out some drawers and stuff, like going through, getting rid of things, taking clothes that I don't wear anymore to Goodwill. I do that like Sam does that every month. Yeah. I'm I'm like really trying to whittle down to the things I really like and wear. What brings you joy? Yeah. Do you hold a piece and say, does this bring you joy? Not quite, but it's it's I think sorta. Sorta. I mean there are Marie Kondo. There are sort of some things that I like I sit with and I put it in the like pile to think about. Um I'm trying not to be as sentimental about certain clothes, but just truly like, do I like this while I wear it? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05So you know, during COVID, I read it all my all my dressing. Dressing. Yeah. Like my condo phone.
SPEAKER_04It's it is, there's something like really funny. Do you have two phones? Oh no, no. I felt like suddenly. Is your phone ringing?
SPEAKER_07Are you thinking?
SPEAKER_03Is it just some sync? That's a podcast etiquette.
SPEAKER_07During the broadcast.
SPEAKER_03You can silence it, right? This is a little strange. So anyway.
SPEAKER_07His phone doesn't have that button.
SPEAKER_04Anyway, so that's what I've been doing this week. Working in the projects around the house. Hi, Eddie.
SPEAKER_01Eddie's here. Eddie's to my rescue, Eddie. They're picking on me again already.
SPEAKER_05Marie Kondo. She had she had a baby, and then she like threw out all the time. Oh, look at the exact forget about it. She's like, never mind, I can't do it anymore. That is so funny. Yeah, she had a baby and was like, forget it. Yep. Don't fold your clothes.
SPEAKER_03I did fold my clothes like it for a little bit and then I stopped.
SPEAKER_05It took two pitch. Yeah. See it? Yeah, it's like snaps. And I like that's how I do all my clothes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So, you know, back when I had the sewer issues in the winter, a couple of weeks in a row, I sent my laundry out to be done because I cut it. And the lady that did my laundry, um, she was so good, and she yeah, she had like a really fancy way of folding everything. Wow, it was so nice. That is nice. I'm not as good as she is, so I know. That's nice. Those are the things you miss about you're still back now. It was it was the one nice thing that came out of it, really. That was like awesome. Um anyway, that's me.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, that's pretty good. How about you? And then you then you worked uh uh great making the meal tonight. Very good delicious. Okay. Everything is excellent.
SPEAKER_04Did you try did you have this chicken? Not too spicy, or did you have the other one?
SPEAKER_01I had whatever Paul gave me.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Oh, Dan, here's a picture of Crystal and I dressed as Anna Green Gables.
SPEAKER_01Oh, way cool.
SPEAKER_05Nice.
SPEAKER_02We think it had.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I love it, it's adorable. And little hats with uh brains at the National Park in Canada is very nice. The house is a national park. Canada really invest in those things. That should be.
SPEAKER_04I don't think that was Did you get some chicken? No, I didn't get rice. Oh, okay. I don't think you ate chicken at all. I think Paul just gave me rice. Oh, okay. I ate whatever Paul's trying the chicken.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, he gave rice in the chicken, huh? That rice was the rice arroni that I made.
SPEAKER_07It's a rice time.
SPEAKER_05Did you like it, Danny?
SPEAKER_01It was good. It was a San Francisco treat.
SPEAKER_05I did a good job on the box rice. Okay.
SPEAKER_01So, anyhow. What'd you do too? Uh this week uh was a pretty easy week uh for me. Uh let's see. On Tuesday, uh Frank took my car in for servicing. So I was happy about that. Got the silver white buffalo in to uh get tuned up.
SPEAKER_04I couldn't remember what you call it.
SPEAKER_01Silver white buffalo. That's a the every time there's a silver or a white buffalo mourned, it's seen as a good omen for Native Americans. So that's a big, big thing. Plus, this will be the lead-in to this, there is a bizarre Richard Harris song called The Silver White Buffalo.
unknownOh, man.
SPEAKER_01Which brings me to which for me to say there's a bizarre Richard Harris song is saying something, but it is Silver White Buffalo. Uh, which brings me to Brian Hess's article from Friday's uh uh uh article that he has in about the uh music. And this week it was entitled Lesser Known Books About Popular Music Top Ten List. Number 10 was The Cake and the Rain, 2017, Jimmy Webb. Jimmy Webb was recently included in the New York Times revised list of greatest living songwriters. He's best known for easy listening pop like Up Up and Away and MacArthur Park. This uh autobiography spans his beginnings as a Motown songwriter in Soul City to his days as a millionaire composer, worth reading for stories about Wichita Wineman and his 20-year feud with Richard Harris alone. Now, I will tell you, I've got that book. I was reading it. Will you be quiet? I don't interrupt you when you're talking.
SPEAKER_02You should. It's more fun.
SPEAKER_01You learned nothing when you were in Canada. Paul? You need to since you're gonna you need to get her the Canadian politeness.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01So, anyhow, before uh in my last term, I started reading the book, and I got about a quarter of the way through. In your last term. Well, in my last term, and uh then I had to pack it up, and somewhere in this house, it is there. So then uh Wednesday there was the weekly Cousin Bedlam dinner uh here. Uh this year this week we had uh Marty made uh brats and uh hot dogs, and it's always a fun time watching Izzy and Isabel. Uh Isabel and uh Freddie, who is now walking. Yes, he is.
SPEAKER_03It's gonna be a menace.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And uh uh Freddie's favorite uh uncle is Uncle Eddie. Uh he he would rather hang with Uncle Eddie than with his mother. Yep. Yep. He is uh Eddie and Freddie there are quite to show. Then Thursday, I decided to do something different. So I did laundry instead of Sunday laundry.
SPEAKER_02Felt good.
SPEAKER_01So then Friday and Saturday was a legacy day, and uh during the week, Eddie and I door-dashed from Potbelly, uh Freshway, which has very good wings up on Salem Avenue.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01And uh this morning, since Big Bees wouldn't take our uh order, we did get Starbucks. Cool. And so Starbucks was good.
SPEAKER_04I don't think Big Bees had very good coffee. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that root. What is your usual order there?
SPEAKER_01Uh breakfast bagel and a small coffee.
unknownI don't like it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's no junking.
SPEAKER_01So, anyhow, that's what I did. Uh tonight, since uh Eddie, you want to say what you did? Nope. Okay, that's good. Uh so tonight we are going to review the 1961 Best Picture uh Westside story. Uh in 1961, the movies that uh it was up against uh for Best Picture was Fanny, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, and Judgment at Nuremberg. It won also for supporting actor for George Chakras. It won supporting actress for Rita Marino, starting of her egot. Uh it got directing for Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, it got cinematography color, because they were still doing black and white in color, it got art directions, art direction and set decoration for color, it got costume design for color, it got sound, it got film editing and scoring of a musical picture.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_01And there was also an honorary Oscar, as they refer to it in the book, the Robert Osbourne book, as a statue uh rather than a uh Oscar. They refer to it as statuac. Honorary to Jerome Robbins for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography in film. So that's what he got for that.
SPEAKER_05What else did he like? Do you know what else he corey had?
SPEAKER_04Do you remember Kate? No, but there he has a history. Oh, yeah. No.
SPEAKER_01Uh so, anyhow, on the box, the DVD box, because I get the DVDs. Uh the brilliant film uh sets the ageless story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and scripted by Ernest Lehman. The film combines Leonard Bernstein and Steve and Stephen Sonnheim's Unforgettable Score. We got Maria America Somewhere Tonight, with Robin's own exuberant choreography to achieve an exhilarating work of art. A love affair is fated for tragedy amidst the vicious uh rivalry of two street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. When the Jets member, Tony, Richard Baylor, falls for Maria, Natalie Wood, the sister of the Sharks leader, it's more than these two warren gangs can handle. And as uh mounting tensions rise, a battle to the death ensues, and innocent blood is shed in a heartbreaking finale. So that lets you know that it won ten Oscars, which was one less than uh than Ben Her won the year before, but that's still quite a two years ago. Just got fat checked. Uh I got umbring plates and I'll just bring the pie. Just looking outside. I want the pie over. Okay. Uh so anyhow, uh yeah, so it was quite the achievement. Um and uh with that, I'm going to turn it over to Nan, who's I'm sure had time to reflect about politeness about the podcast.
SPEAKER_05You know, seriously. Um I love this movie. I've always loved this movie. I re-watched it, I still cry at the end when Tony dies. It is so good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Uh the music is like every song is excellent. Even the ones you don't think about, like Officer Crunky or um um what's the song that Anita sings? Like uh America.
SPEAKER_03America's so good. A boy like that. A boy like that. A boy like that.
SPEAKER_05Like, you know, you don't think about like a boy like that. You think about America, you think about I feel pretty, tonight, somewhere. Like, those are the songs you think of in in in uh this movie, but then you forget like a boy like that, and you're like, God, it has song time, man. So good. Um, yeah, so I don't I don't have much critical to say in this this movie. I think uh it'll be interesting to see what Paul says as he loves musical. Um but like I think she's not being very Canadian tonight.
SPEAKER_06That's okay. No, she's not wrong, she's right.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, this mus the this movie, like the music and the choreography are so excellent, and that it can like also like get at your heart, like like you know, emotionally, like you're like you're bought into the characters, I think, you know, and um I think that's really really great. The other thing was taking away, you know, these are all supposed to be like juvenile delinquents that are killing each other, and uh like it was like gosh, like this theme is like still very real today. Like we we might tell the story in a different way, you know, less dancing. Um but it's still very, very real. And also, um I think Rita Moreno steals the show. I think she's just actually good. She is just she is so she's excellent. She's just excellent. She's the best one ever, I think. And she does that character so well, and she's like just such a great dancer and such a great singer. So I love the movie. I have no complaints about it. I'm just glad and looking, I'm looking forward to the 60s and 70s. I'm really great as much. Um also like probably this like the second time we've seen the theme around um discrimination, right? So finally starting to see discrimination with some people of color, which is new, right? The gentleman's agreement. Uh still not black people, but um, you know, we're getting there in this moment as like the civil rights movement's about ready to spark up. So you can kind of see that happening in like American culture right now. Sam, uh giving me some sour cream for this. Very important. This is important. We're eating dinner, it's not to eat dinner. Okay, Danny, I'll let you go. I think you have some good comments today. Yeah, I got it. There you go.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, so uh yeah, really great movie. Uh the score uh is unbelievable. The costume design, the the dancing. Really enjoyed it. Really, it's two and a half hours, but really held my attention. Um, yes. Okay. I have and I've seen the musical in a in a theater as well. Um, I mean I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_05On like on a stage. You've seen the stage?
SPEAKER_07The stage, yeah, yeah. I've seen the stage. Came to Dayton once. I've seen the stage musical. Um it was interesting reading about it. Originally, they had written it, they were gonna do it as Jews versus Catholics.
SPEAKER_03I read that too, and I'm like, what would the drama be about? Like, I have the better locks than you. You're not serving locks for dinner bagels. Like, oh my god, I couldn't imagine that.
SPEAKER_07Um they kind of I think decided that had been done, and so they moved it to the little more edgier uh Puerto Ricans versus whites. But it is interesting how the elephant in the room is still being ignored. We've still not seen like anything in these movies about racism of whites versus blacks. I I think that's what they're getting at here, but they're not willing to go that far. And I wonder if some of it is because, you know, for marketing reasons, they don't want the South to boycott a movie like this.
SPEAKER_03That's interesting, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Or if it's just you know just going to be too hot to try to try to do that at this point. But we are inching toward that as we as we're into the 60s and we're about to launch the the civil rights movement is picking up steam.
SPEAKER_04Well, yeah, we're a few years away from in the heat of the night. What years into the heat of the night? They call me Mr. Tibbs. 67? So we're we're like 60 years away.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah. We're getting there. Your famous hello.
SPEAKER_07Oh, America. The America song is a great song. Uh really enjoy it. 67, heat of the night. It's interesting how uh the America song, how it's gendered though. Yeah. Like how like the women like being in America and the men don't. And I wonder if like that's because the men face more discrimination than the women, like when they're trying to find work. So I found that interesting. Um we're still we're like 33 movies in, and we've we've seen like four African-American characters who have names, and three of them are are portrayed very poorly and gone with the win. So still not doing very well. She did win best supporting actress.
SPEAKER_04She she did. That's right, Hattie McDaniel.
SPEAKER_07She she did, but it's still uh yeah. Well, you can watch it and see decide for yourself.
SPEAKER_05Why did they keep Maria alive?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because oh, that's the other thing. Uh we haven't said yet. This is based on it's Romeo and Juliet. Right. Um, and they intentionally, I mean, it is based on that, you know, that that is the idea. Um lovers from rival gangs, ver, you know. Um yeah, and of course, Romeo and Juliet, you have the um tragic misunderstanding that leads them both to kill themselves. But at the end, yeah, they Maria does not.
SPEAKER_03So maybe I heard they had they did two endings, and then they thought it was too dark. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Oh, like she picks up the gun and kills herself.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and they're like, that's too much.
SPEAKER_07I think they wanted to leave it open for some boat. Yeah. Like, I I think that's the way it kind of ends, where they they kind of like she lives and they kind of walk off, like maybe they've they've learned something. Yeah. And that, you know, things are going to change for the better. They they leave open that nugget of hope, I think.
SPEAKER_01Well, on the walk-off, both sharks and jets are kind of help with the body. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah. So I think that was good. Um excellent movie. Eddie, did you s did you watch? Alright.
SPEAKER_05Alright, Carly, you're up.
SPEAKER_03Well. I absolutely loved it. I was telling Dan, I think one of the asked me as a special guest, because this movie my sister introduced to me when I was like 11, and I remember it was like the first movie I cried at. Like that was just because, like, you were saying, man, it just like tugs at your heart strings and the story. But it goes with the music, and it's so rich in like not only the color, but the choreography. But I will say, rewatching in it, the things that stuck out first, I was kind of just curious, like, I forgot about that whole aerial footage scene. And I was like, oh wait, like, that was you know, like, this is in 61. So they had to get like a really low-flying helicopter. So I was kinda well, you could hear the some part of it, you could hear the helicopters. So I was kind of just wondering. I'm like, I wonder if that was like really expensive to do and like get clearance for. I don't know, I was just kind of wondering about the map. Because I that's something I hadn't really thought about before. So I thought that was really cool. And then a lot of those aerial shots, because like a lot of them with the choreography, they were shot from like maybe a tall building or something, like looking down. Yeah. So I was just kind of curious about the map. And then I was looking up some other because when Franklin and I were watching it, I mean again, the choreography is amazing, but it it's funny because the the fighting is so dancy in like some of it. Um and I was like, I don't know other musicals that they did, like sometimes they just do a f like a fight, like they just so theatrical, like with dancy, you know, some of it, like even when one of the scenes with the sharks and the gems, like when he goes to like fight, he's like he does a dive. Like he dives and then like falls like gracefully and they're like tumbling around. So um, and I think I remember reading like that Jerome Robbins was like almost like a tyrant. Like he would like make them like practice, like hours and hours and like which I mean it translates really well to their choreography. But um, yeah, so I thought that was kind of interesting too. And then I was reading a little bit of it, and then I heard that Jerome Robbins do. Was so a little bit crazy that he wouldn't make he wouldn't let charge some jet socialized at all. Like so, like even like Remakes, yeah, this comment. Because he wanted some of the and an amazing to be like play them. And um, and you can come and I feel like, yeah, so it makes the competition like a little bit better and like kind of more real because they didn't um, I don't know. It's just kind of I think it did it did kind of work, but it was just kind of interesting working in that kind of set. But the other thing, just the music is so amazing. And also, I don't know what if the musical has as many songs, like you know, like there's those iconic songs and like anything and like Miz, but then I was kind of like there's just so many in what's nice first. I don't know if another one that would have as many. Um, because it's just I keep gonna forget it, and then I love the the 10 nine, you know, and seeing the different perspectives for 10 nine and what it means for each of her and the way that they just like composed it, just brilliantly like some of the yeah, like no notes, brilliant across everything. Natalie Woods, gorgeous. Another thing I read that Tony, um, he I guess was is from Mendiana, the actor, and he thought he was miscast. He didn't really like the role because he didn't understand it. So I guess I thought he played it fine, but I guess he didn't really understand how Tony was an ex-gang member. Um, and he just didn't like understand like how he should play it. But I thought he played it fine. So I thought that was kind of interesting.
SPEAKER_04I didn't kind of see that he did seem a little too clean-cut. Yeah, like he was definitely not like the rest of the game.
SPEAKER_05But yeah, he was so good about it. Uh your point about the dancing in the scenes where there's like conflict is true. Because even like, you know, the the scene with uh uh Anita when she goes to docs, like that's a rape scene. Yes, I know yes, rape scene and dance, yeah. Um and so that's a really good point. Yeah. I thought about like how like that that they like even that is a dance scene. Yeah, it's really well done.
unknownYeah. Paul.
SPEAKER_06Me. Alright, so he's gonna bring it down. Yeah, so I'm not gonna. Too long. No, no, no, no, I'm not generally a big fan of musicals on screens, and and that's I mean, I'm in no way am I criticizing the story or the dancing and all that, right? Like it or or the Odyssey or something. I mean, it it is what it is, and so my my complaint is that it didn't use the power of film. Like, I did not buy that. This is in New York City, for example. Like when we watched The Apartment, and when we watched um and when we watched Marty, you got a sense that you're in New York. I mean, even if there were sound stages, here everybody in New York goes to bed at like 5:30 or something like that, because there's like no extras in the background. And so to me, what this looks like is that they literally could have gone to a Broadway performance of uh West Side Story, put up a camera, filmed it, and it would look almost exactly like this. And to me, that just misses the power of using the film. Like they're they they didn't deviate from the essentially from the the setting, the setup of the play. Like, I don't buy the fact that they're in a gang. I don't even know what a game means in New York.
SPEAKER_03And if I was the polos and the khakis, they didn't have a dead giveaway.
SPEAKER_06And if I'm on if I'm watching this if I'm watching this on the stage, that's okay. I mean, like you know there's like there's literal physical constraints on the stage, like the the dimensions of the stage. And here, using film, you have the opportunity to um I was gonna say not only like tell it a long a bigger story, but showcase a bigger geography, use a bigger story, and like I don't get that sense. But I mean I think the story's fine. I thought uh Rita Marino and um uh Natalie Wood. I mean, fabulous. I don't know. I guess Natalie Wood didn't Jenna win the Oscar, she did she I don't even know what she got nominated. She was Jenna saying her own stuff.
SPEAKER_07She was the supporting characters were stronger than the lead.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. And some of those supporting characters had played roles on Broadway, maybe not the roles they played in the movies, but similar roles. So again, it's another strong connection. But I mean you have to give credit to the directors and the producers and all that. I mean, they apparently knew that what America wanted to see was the film stage production of a website's story, and they were right.
SPEAKER_05But I just I think you would have voted for the Hustler movie.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, probably, yeah. Because I just like Hustler I think it just lost the opportunity to use the power of film.
SPEAKER_05I know, but okay, I just want to follow up on this question because you're like an anti-musical person.
SPEAKER_06In general, I think when it sounded music on my story will change.
SPEAKER_05Okay, so I was yeah, I was ooh, okay, excited about that. September 20th, September 20th. Um the the question I have about it is, you know, of course, like if it's a musical, they're dancing up and down the streets, right? Like gang members don't dance in choreography. So, like, how do you get like the film, like how would you do it to keep that?
SPEAKER_06Well, Lala Land, which comes out much later, of course. Lala Land uh and didn't win.
SPEAKER_05It didn't win. That was that big thing.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah, forgot about that. I got a sense that they were in the uh you know, in Los Angeles in the LA area.
SPEAKER_05So you thought that was good.
SPEAKER_06No, because I don't like music. I didn't like that music. But I but I I think it but they I think they used the power of film.
SPEAKER_05I got you. I got you.
SPEAKER_06I mean, the only time I've seen Hamilton was on basically the film version where they they showed like um a stage production and they taped it, and that's what you know and to me that's that's that's what this looks like. It looks like they taped a stage production of Westside's story, and if that's if that's what you know film is all about, then I guess that's okay, but um that's that's just not my preference.
SPEAKER_05No, I got it. I was curious, like that might be like why you never really like musicals that much, because there's always gonna be that that part of it. There's a well, you know, Paul.
SPEAKER_06Well, I mean, if if the part if Marty can make us feel like there's crowd scenes in New York, like why can't they?
SPEAKER_05I get you, but like the choreography is like so beautiful. Like you couldn't do crowd scenes and have the Jets do a ballet movement. I mean, that's just not gonna work. Or like you know, that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think that's a different yeah, musical and film, because I think what you're s Paul, you're more of an appreciation of the cinematography and that storytelling, whereas this storytelling is through the dance and through song. Right, yeah. So it's different, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so Paul, I'm gonna give you excused absences coming up for My Fair Ladies. Sound of music. Okay, and all of that.
SPEAKER_03We said Sound of Music you like. No, you like Sound of Music.
SPEAKER_06Because you've got to re see it, like I have to rewatch it in the context of this project and then like sound.
SPEAKER_05I think the Sound of Music is different than West Side's Westside's story is like so heavily choreographed in like these ballet sequences, like Carly was saying.
SPEAKER_04This is like it's like Oklahoma, what it is. These are very much ensembles, yeah, big choreography. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Right. I mean, and the and the original choreographer for this was a choreographer on Broadway. They literally took the Broadway production and put it on a film. You know, so for me it's more of a philosophical question. Is this a film along the line of the thing? I don't think it really is, but that doesn't take away from the um greatness of the choreography and the athleticism of the dancers. I have no way criticizing any of that. I just didn't feel like this measures up as a film, as a pure film. Does it measure up as a musical? Sure. Although we didn't win the tiny, so yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I just want to say I don't think you should be excused from those. We like to have these times.
SPEAKER_00Well, no, if he wants to be.
SPEAKER_05You better come.
SPEAKER_00If he wants to be.
SPEAKER_05Um I don't think he wants to be. No, I don't want to be.
SPEAKER_06I'm in the project.
SPEAKER_05I mean we watch every show, even Hamlet.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I just saying, you know, I know you don't like musicals, so you've got three of them coming up here pretty quick.
SPEAKER_05The 60s is the musical decade. It is. That's why I like it.
SPEAKER_04Well, you know, this is a movie that um it's powerful in its own way. I mean, it's like I really I like the I like that it's taken something, you know, very old, Romeo and Juliet, the tale, you know, that everybody kind of knows and put it in this kind of setting. Um in spite of, you know, I totally agree with what Sam was saying about how it's like we're still not quite to seeing, you know, black versus white kind of conflict yet on screen, but it's like, man, the cop is so racist. So racist.
SPEAKER_07You know, it's like they got the cop on uh on the money.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that that cop is so and watching it again and just kind of like maybe looking at it a little differently in preparation for this, it's like, yeah, that he was a nasty racist cop for Simon Oakley, yeah. You know, like um, so the elements of of those things I thought played out uh realistically in spite of the setting, because I kinda I see I absolutely see what Paul is saying about how you know it's like it is a uh fictionalized version of New York that you see, and it it does, it feels like it feels like the dream sequence in uh American of Paris, which I love, right? Like it has elements of this, like it's real, but it's not kind of like setting to it because of the things you said. I mean, there's there's no hustle and bustle in the street except for these these characters, and I I definitely see what you're saying about that. For me, it didn't take away from the power of the film. Um and you know, I Carla makes a really good point. Like the songs are like all hits. Yeah, they're all hits.
SPEAKER_05I forgot about the song The Cool Song.
SPEAKER_03The cool boy.
SPEAKER_05Exactly.
SPEAKER_07That one's good.
SPEAKER_04Um and it's yeah, it's just like I don't know, it's I think it's a powerful way to tell that old old story uh that really works. And it's still relevant. It's still relevant.
SPEAKER_05Um but yeah, it's a good one. The Officer Cronky song about how they just get passed around. I mean, like it's still relevant. I know.
SPEAKER_04Um but yeah, it's all of the the early on, the dance in the beginning that always makes me laugh, like trying to force them to get you know to mingle and girls go left. Yeah, like you, you know, and just I I don't know. Everything everything about it, it's it's really well done, I think. Yeah, it's excellent. Danny, did you like it?
SPEAKER_05What do you think, Dan? I'm guessing Dan loved it.
SPEAKER_01So, anyhow, uh I some of the notes that I made, Carla, were about the aerial shots of New York City.
SPEAKER_03I wish we should find out how much that cost. I just feel like I bet like that was like a big part of their budget, I would I bet.
SPEAKER_01And uh I liked how it started with the finger snapping. I liked that. I thought that really set it. Uh I wrote down a couple of the quotes. There was a uh Jets quote, a gang that don't own the street is nothing. Uh I liked when they were setting up the War Council Skins, Blades, or guns. I thought that was interesting. Uh and I liked the Jet song, you know, when you're born a jet, you stay a jet. Uh last I am. The uh and then Tony Solo, Something Great Is Coming. I thought that was pretty good.
SPEAKER_03So good.
SPEAKER_01Uh at the dance, uh, I think the guy that runs the dance is uh John uh Aston, who was uh uh Oh yeah, the Adams family. Adams family with with Sean Austin's uh dad from Lord of the Rings. Yeah, yeah. Uh then uh Maria, I thought that song's great. I just met a girl named Maria. And then of course I like to be in America. That was pretty good. That was so good. And then uh the balcony scene where they do tonight. Yeah, that's very good. Uh then oh where they go, yeah, where they go through that uh the song we're misunderstood. They're in the court scene, they're on a psychologist's couch.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they're uh social worker, your social disease. Uh and then I liked it when they're uh going into uh was it Doc's candy store?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01On the one gang says set cokes up all the way around. I thought that was kind of funny. Uh and you know they did they did throw some uh uh uh uh ethnic slurs out there. They said spic, mick, and wop.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they do.
SPEAKER_01Uh and then of course the racist cop, the lieutenant, uh, who had a great line. Uh I got a badge, what do you got? Yep. I thought that was a pretty good line. Uh shop owner. I really like the shop owner. Uh when he says to Tony and Maria, I'm frightened enough for both of you. I thought that was very good. And then I feel pretty, that was a great song.
SPEAKER_05Uh I love I feel pretty.
SPEAKER_01But then, you know, uh with Maria begging Tony to go uh stop the fight, you know. Uh Maria, you're so dumb. And now you know then the rumble song. Uh, you know, when they talk about the having the rumble, which turns into a knife fight. Uh and interestingly enough, in the movie, they both draw their blades at the same time.
SPEAKER_03I thought Riff did first.
SPEAKER_01No, they both draw the blades at the same time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04They just the they show the glint.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I I kept I kept running it back over and over. You know, I got that little laptop player, so it's real easy for me to run it back and forth. You do?
SPEAKER_05Because I thought you have a laptop.
SPEAKER_01Who uh who drew first? And I'm like, you know, did the sharks draw first or the jets? And I kept running, I must have watched it 15 times, and I think they both draw at the same time.
SPEAKER_02Do you know how to use the laptop?
SPEAKER_01Uh then uh and then you know the uh uh when she sings uh A Place for Us. I thought that was, you know, really sad setting it up. Then the the the be cool song, and they're back they're back snapping, they're back snapping fingers again. Uh and then you know, a boy like that, stick to your own kind.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And then uh Doc says, when when do you kids stop? Why do kids like why do kids live like there is a war on? I thought that was really good. Uh then uh oh then, you know, one of the things I liked on the uh on the movie overall was the credits at the end. They did it with graffiti. I thought that was pretty clever. That was a nice touch.
SPEAKER_04It said that um Saul Bass was consulted on the titles, and Saul Bass is like of that era and did I think we talked about it before. He he was uh did like the credits and the title screens in a lot of movies like around the era too. He he had this really like mid-century modern like look to what he did, and just a really cool there's some really um he had like he did the titles for a lot of auto prevention movies that like there's one from probably it's about this time period called Advise and Consent. Yeah, a drama about the Senate. Believe it or not, it's actually really good, and it's full of the whole story of books. Yeah, it's like um Henry Bond is a it's like a got like stars in it, but like the titles are just so of the era, and yeah, Sol Bass did a lot of those, and it's it looks great. Yeah, I just really like how his his style and his look.
SPEAKER_05There's like very few to the songs, there's very few reprises. Yeah, I think tonight is a reprise, but they do it so differently. Yeah, but like usually in musicals you see them come back to the same songs, but there's so many new songs that it's Carlos' point. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Then uh also at the end, where they talk, you know, given the names of everybody that played, they have the individual uh gang members listed. And they have it. Uh the Jets are Ace, Action, Ahab, Baby John, Snowboy, Tiger, Joy Boy, Big Deal, Mouthpiece, and Gitar. And the girls are anybody's uh Grisella and Velma. And for the sharks, you've got Chino, Pepe, Indigo, uh Wano, Loco, Roco, Louise, Toro, uh, Del Campo, and Chilio. And the girls are Conswiclio, Rosalita, and Francesca. So I thought that was interesting. They had them all out there like that.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Carlo.
SPEAKER_01And then I watched the trailer. The movie. Yeah, there wasn't any there wasn't any uh uh commentary on on the one I had. But on the trailer I thought I liked it. It said, unlike other classics, West Side Story grows younger again. So I thought that was kind of interesting. So there you go. Is it important whether I like it or not?
SPEAKER_05I'd like to know if people like it or not. It's important. You didn't like it?
SPEAKER_06Well, we have to know if we're moving stage mutinies.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I mean, we all liked it, so maybe you don't like it. Well then like that one. Oh, yeah, that's right. We haven't discerned it.
SPEAKER_01You know, I feel like Anthony Fauci at this hearing. You guys just want me to say I like it, so you'll go, oh well, he he likes everything.
SPEAKER_05Well, you do.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well then I guess I like it.
SPEAKER_05You didn't like Hamlet.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you Hamlet is the exception that proves the rule. And he didn't like Gigi that much either, actually. That is true. After all the buildup, he didn't care for it.
unknownHe didn't care for it either. Yeah, it's true.
SPEAKER_05All right.
unknownOh Carla.
SPEAKER_01Well, okay, so anyhow, uh transportation issues.
SPEAKER_03Oh well Carla thank you.
SPEAKER_01We're not we're not done here yet.
SPEAKER_05Oh, can we make can we can we cut the pie while we're talking about it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. We got we got business to uh attend to. Yes.
SPEAKER_05Oh no.
SPEAKER_01Okay, now uh this one will drop tomorrow, but next Monday. We're not here, so well, next Monday there'll be new content, but we will not be reviewing reviewing a movie. As we told you before, we've decided that rather than going uh uh uh podcast silent for two weeks, right? We're gonna try to come up with new content in there. So that new content is going to be we're getting together, I believe, this Thursday of this week, which I will remind everybody is National Rootbeer Float Day.
SPEAKER_04Are we gonna have root beer floats?
SPEAKER_01Uh I guess it's National Root Beer Float Day. We should. Okay. Uh so uh and so what we're going to do is we're going to do the first one you will hear is going to be best pictures of the 30s. And you can, you know, share your thoughts with us uh on uh your number one pick, and then we'll give you our number one pick. Should they text you, Danny, if they want to or they can text anybody that's here, okay? Yeah, anybody that's here. Uh now, uh, and depending on how you count it, you know, different groups count things differently, but really it seems the way that you count Wings is 1920 movie, but it's just the one, so we're gonna dump that into with the 30s. So the movies that uh we're going to be talking about, uh from which we like the best, but then we can talk about other movies as well from the 30s. Uh I'm just gonna remind everybody. So, what we're talking about is uh Wings, uh Broadway Melody, All Quiet on the Western Front, Center Om Grand Hotel, Cavalcade, Paul's favorite, uh It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, uh, The Great Zigfield, You Can't Take It With You, and Gone with the Wind.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I think everybody's gonna vote for Gone with the Wind.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Uh so uh final thoughts, Nanette.
SPEAKER_05Uh no, I think I'm excited for our uh work of like the we the the best pictures of the decade discussion. Um I am so happy like I I feel like there were like in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. We had some good ones, and we had some really awful ones. And now we're getting into like most of them are really excellent. And so I'm excited about that. I'm excited about these upcoming decades of discussion.
SPEAKER_01Young Sam?
SPEAKER_05Hold on, hold on.
SPEAKER_07Oh, well, well, the movie couldn't get it past the censors, but I I'll say it. Fuck you, Crumb Key. There you go.
SPEAKER_01That's $10. All right. Uh Carla.
SPEAKER_03No, I look forward to hearing about the best of the 30s. I loved West Side Store. I like the discussion. Um, yeah, inviting it.
SPEAKER_05We'll come back to see. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. I will. Yeah. See what's coming up.
SPEAKER_01Paul?
SPEAKER_06Uh nothing to add. Looking forward to figuring out which 1930s movie I like, though.
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SPEAKER_03That's a hard bunch. That's like a These are the tough years. Yeah, I like Katie.
SPEAKER_04I I'm looking forward to like reviewing everything we've seen. Yeah, we've done a lot of work. We have done a lot. I I was really, I was thinking about that this afternoon. Like, we have really been trekking through these movies pretty well.
SPEAKER_05We started the movie project in what November? Yeah, sounds about right. Yeah. So we've been at it for nine months now. 30 some movies.
SPEAKER_01We're ready to burn that born that b birth that baby.
SPEAKER_04I know. So yeah, so I'm looking forward to our discussion later this week. Otherwise, I don't think I have anything to add.
SPEAKER_01Okay, the only thing I know for sure that's gonna happen within the next two weeks before we're live again on dinner with Dan is I'm going to go down to Lake Hope for the extended Platt family get together.
SPEAKER_04He's gonna do it.
SPEAKER_01Uh good.
SPEAKER_03You're gonna love it.
SPEAKER_04You're gonna have fun. Once you're there, you'll have a late coming in for it.
SPEAKER_01I I will tell you, Nan Whaley, you thought sleeping on the ground was hard. You ought to sleep on those beds at Lake Hope. I would gladly sleep on the ground before sleeping on a bed made out of jello. The beds are absolutely horrible.
SPEAKER_05I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01But anyhow, that's where uh Carla will be there with the uh kids running around, and you're gonna have your hands full watching uh Freddie.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well, Frank well, and Franklin, he's gonna have an anxiety attack. Oh, yeah. Freddie walking down the little hill. There's those plants.
SPEAKER_01Franklin is the original helicopter parent. He makes Russ Joseph look like a laid back.
SPEAKER_03I don't know where it came from. I don't know where it came from.
SPEAKER_05Interesting about Russ, we were talking about it at campsite because oh, the Josephs were there too. Santa's mentioned the Ann Charles Watts experience was there. Uh Pip, Pip and her family were there, Pip and Eric, um, and um Russ and Katie Joseph, Ian Ferguson, Uriah Anderson puts it all together. Yeah. Um, but Russ and Katie were talking about how they they like laugh about how they were so over the top with Eli that Katie went to the pediatrician and had a because he was like not holding weight when he was born, and she had a spreadsheet that she had how much he poops he how much formula she gave, and she whipped it out. She was an accountant, she whipped it out to the pediatrician, to which the pediatrician said, Oh my god.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, you have to get rid of that.
SPEAKER_05You have to stop, you have to stop. So Pediatrician was like, oh my god, you have to stop. And now Eli will be a senior at CJ. He came for a minute. Did he? He came, and then that morning he promptly left to go to the Tip City, um, the Tip City um gym and and play indoor tennis. And they were like, we're really not sure where he is. But then he came back for dinner. Oh, they came back for dinner? Uh and he is looking at West Coast schools. His favorite is Washington. Oh wow. So uh for now for now. He did not like Ohio State because nobody smiles. True sorry, I agree. Liking Miami and State.
SPEAKER_07But he also likes one of Dan's favorites, Southern Cow.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, USD. He's a big USD, he likes it, but likes Washington better. I also wanted to say before Sam's really, you know, needling Danny tonight. Uh uh. You know what?
SPEAKER_01He's my Rand Paul, right? I feel like Dr. Fauci and Sam my Rand Paul.
SPEAKER_05The other thing I want to say is uh uh I didn't say there's not Prince I don't know, but I thought of Virginia a ton when I was there because you know we were big Anne of Green Gables. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. She would have loved it. Uh we went to eat at Delvey by the Sea, which in Anne of Green Gables was built by a man from Cincinnati. Uh, but in Anne of Green Gables in the movie, the 1985 uh Canadian Broadcasting Corporation version of the restaurant. Uh she does her Lady of Chalonia. And it's in that restaurant. And so I have a picture of the restaurant where you know Gilbert comes in class excitedly, and she has that great white outfit. So Virginia would have loved it. Uh it was excellent. I forgot to mention it. That's all I got. Sorry, you know, I take I'm a little slow warm up, so you have to try me a couple of times. It was great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's nice to end on that rather than the cross-examination I got from Rand Paul. Okay. With that, I see we've got watermelon, we've got cherry pie and apple pie. I want to uh give a special thank you to Carla for being here.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, thank you. It's fun. Well done.
SPEAKER_01We're definitely going to send an open invitation for you to come back again. Uh and then I will say God speed we meet again.