0:03 Who are you and where are you going? What do you want? [Music] Hello and welcome to Jigger's Place. I'm your host, Kevin Bemel, and I'm here every other Thursday afternoon at 5:00 PM Pacific time to have a cocktail and talk about all those things um bes
0:38 besides finances, the ones that make life work worth living, whether it's great books, relationships, ideas, uh religion, God, all those things. um we we talk about them here and and today I'm going to be talking about the great detective Sherlock Holmes. So and and also about his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So I I I'm I think I've mentioned before how much I enjoy reading mystery
1:13 and detective novels. uh huge huge fan of Sherlock Holmes, of um of Agatha Christie, of uh who wrote about of course uh Hercu Hercule Prao as well as the Miss Marvel series, uh Rex Stout who writes about um the big Roton detective that Sydney Greenreet plays in uh the radio show. And I'm I'm going up on his name. Um uh anyway um and and and and so many
1:48 others uh and and into the modern day ones uh the the Dick Francis novels that are all uh detective stories although they don't involve an actual detective. It's usually regular people like a banker or a you know somebody involved and they're all set against the uh steeplechase racing world or or at least the horse racing world. Sometimes uh they're set against flat racing but most um Dick Francis was former Queens jockey, a steeplechase jockey and so he wrote uh detective stories uh with with
2:24 that as the setting. I just re reread uh one of Dick Francis's books and I don't remember which one it is, but uh you know you can read them numerous times and and and always find something something new in them that is uh that's wonderful. They're just great entertainment. So, in honor of the great Sherlock Holmes, um, with my, uh, drink uh, assistant, my drink creation assistant, uh, Chat GPT, we created something called the consulting detective. And the consulting detective
3:01 is a ginbased cocktail. In this case, London Dry Gin, which of course, uh, Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street in London. I'm using Boodles uh mostly because I love the name Boodles, but it's it's just a it's just a you know allaround decent uh London dry gin. And then uh for cognac I'm using Marquee de and uh all cognac is is French. It's a it's a brandy that's made in the cognac region of France which is why it
3:36 can be called cognac. This happens to be a kosher one. There are a number of different kosher cognacs. Obviously, you know, keep kosher. You don't have to worry about that. Anyone will do. Uh sweet vermouth, aka Italian vermouth. I'm using just martini. Um and this this is a terrific vermouth. Using some abbisonin. Uh this is Lucid. Uh this is uh this one happens to carry a kosher certification. Although in my estimation, uh, absisinence does not need to have as long as it's not flavored like any other
4:11 liquor. Uh, it doesn't need to be certified. Um, um, but, um, uh, Lucid was the first absin available in the United States after the ban, which which had been in existence for literally decades, I think close to a century, uh, was was was lifted. And then um a couple of different uh bitters. Good old Angura bitters and then Bitterman's burlesque bters. Each is going to add a diff little bit of a different element. And
4:46 then if you got the recipe by subscribing to my email list, you saw that you can put a a bar a bar spoonful of benedicting. This is just to add even more uh more uh depth and uh and layers of flavor to the cocktail. So, so this is it's going to be uh aromatic and and herbaceious. It's going to be a stirred cocktail. You know, normally we do we do I do shaken. This is going to be stirred. So, I've got my mixing glass here with my ice in it already. And we're going to start out with a an ounce
5:24 of London dry gin. Okay, there we go. Okay, so we've got an ounce of that. Oh, and I realized I didn't get a glass. Excuse me one moment while I get a glass. [Music] We're going to use a coupe. Uh the the recipe does call for uh uh chilling the the poop in advance. I checked the freezer in my bar refrigerator and I
6:00 have to defrost that freezer. There's no room in it. So, okay. So, next is 3/4 of an ounce of cognac. So, put that in there. And then we want half an ounce of sweet vermouth. Right? We've talked about this before. There's dry vermouth, otherwise known as French vermouth. And there's sweet vermouth, which is also known as Italian vermouth.
6:35 And then you'll you'll also you also see bianco, which is it's a it's a kind of in between a sweet and a dry vermouth. Okay. And next, a/4 ounce of Abvisin. I love Abvisinth. I really I I started drinking it um before I was um deployed to Germany. Um and then while in Germany, I came upon an entire shop devoted to absin. Uh, and it turned out
7:11 the fellow who owned it was one of the top absin makers in Europe. Uh, he makes uh, he makes hap Hapsburg Hapsburg. Um, lame manik. Um, seeing if his name is here. I don't remember his name now. It's too long ago. Um, but um, um, he I got into abisence even more and learned a lot more about it. That's one of the fun parts about all this is finding people who you know share your uh your interests and finding people who are experts. Okay. So, a dash of Angstero
7:46 bitters and a dash of the Bitterman burlesque bitters. Can really smell the herbs in this. Okay. And just Oh, and yeah. And then a bar spoon of the uh
8:26 Okay. Just to add a little bit of extra flavor. A little extra layer of flavor. Okay. So, then we're going to mix it. And of course, just like with shaking, the mixing is not just to chill it, but it's also to dilute some of the ice because the water brings out the flavor. So, you want to stir it for a good uh, you know, 20 20 to 30 seconds. [Music] This way, it doesn't flop out to the
9:01 south. a little bit more. You can see the uh outside of the glass is all um fogged up. That's because of the cooling. Okay. And there we go. Take our strainer and strain it into our coupe. This makes just about one. And then you
9:36 can top it with a star anise if you want to be really creative or a lemon twist. I'm just going to put a lemon twist. Okay. And let's uh give this a try. Wow. So many great flavors, but they really work well together. Okay, so I will see you over on the sofa.
10:42 One second. Okay. What happens is I have a two camera setup and if I I can I can mute the microphone on this camera. Uh but I have to shut off the other camera but when I come over here otherwise we get uh echo feedback. So, um this is
11:19 uh the volume of of Sherlock Holmes stories that I have. Uh this is one of the classic uh not original works, but it's it it has um uh 37 um short stories um and a complete novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, in it. Um, and it but it also has um all of the original um uh Sydney Pia, I believe his name is illustrations. So, and and you can see
11:54 some of them. They're they're really uh just exquisite uh uh ink um drawings that he did. I I think they look ink to me. I could be wrong. Um here's here's some others. This is from I think the Hound Hound of the Baskervilles. I'm not positive. Um but they're just wonderful wonderful illustrations. So, you know, if you really And I I saw that this book is still available um on Amazon. Yeah. With all Here it is. Um with all three with all 356 original illustrations by Sydney Pay or Padet. I
12:31 you know, don't know whether it's pronounced in French or English. So, this is kind of my Sherlock Holmes bible, if you will. really hits the spot. Okay, so I'm g start out uh talking about uh Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, uh the creator of of Sherlock Holmes. So he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd, 1859 uh into a Roman Catholic family of Irish
13:08 descent. Uh and uh there was in the 19th century and and well into the 20th century there was a lot of conflict between Ireland and England. So that's kind of um you know uh Sherlock Holmes is considered considered the the quintessential Englishman. He's not an Irishman. He's an Englishman. Uh and so that that's that's kind of an interesting little uh uh fact there that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was of Irish descent. So, uh, Conan Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, which is in
13:45 Scotland, where he met Professor Joseph Bell, who is who was the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Professor Bell was a professor of medicine. He published his first short story in 1879 called The Mystery of Ces uh, Casasa Valley while he was still a medical student. And so it's interesting. He he was born in 1859. He was a medical student in 1879. He was a medical student when he was 20 years old. Now you think about that today, right? So um you know, young
14:20 people go to a 4-year college or university first. So they're usually not even getting getting done with their four-year degree, their four-year bachelor's degree until they're around 2122. In this case, uh, Conan Doyle was already in medical school, probably doesn't have a quote unquote undergraduate degree. He earned his medical degree in 1885 and practiced medicine in South Sea, England. He created Sherlock Holmes. The first Sherlock Holmes story is a study in Scarlet. It was published in 1887.
14:57 So, you can see we're talking about a character that's about 140 years old. uh he modeled Holmes's detective skills on Professor Bell's diagnostic techniques. So his uh well we're going to talk about Sherlock Holmes's techniques a little bit later, but you'll see this this must have mirrored how this uh professor of medicine approached the uh diagnosis of patients and the treatment of patients. Uh uh so um Conan Doyle gained widespread
15:35 uh um fame with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes um illustrated by Sydney Padet and published in 1892. He attempted to kill off Holmes sort of in 1893's The Final Problem and it prompted a public outcry and a big drop in magazine subscription. So um the the Sherlock Holmes stories were published in Strand the Strand magazine and people loved the detective stories so much when when they killed him off they dropped
16:11 their subscriptions. So um he revived Sherlock Holmes in the Hound of the Baskervilles, perhaps the best known Sherlock Holmes story. It is a novel um published written in 18 1901 1902 and later in the return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. So in addition to Sherlock Holmes, he did write novels and science fiction including the lost world and he uh wrote political pamphlets. So he he did other kinds of writing but really Conan Doyle is far and away best known of course for Sherlock Holmes
16:47 during the second Boore war. Okay. He served as a war correspondent. The Boores being the uh South Africans of German descent in of course South Africa and and there were a couple of wars between England and the Boers um which England ended up winning and uh South Africa became part of the British Empire and then part of the British Commonwealth and then eventually an independent nation. He uh was kned in 1902 by King Edward
17:22 IIIth, not for Sherlock Holmes, right? But for his work supporting Britain in the Boore War. So it is it's it's interesting because today uh you see a lot of writers, performers, musicians who are kned for you know like like Elton John. He's Sir Elton John. He was kned because of the popularity of his music. So even though Conan Doyle had written arguably the most popular detective of all uh fictional detective of all time, that's not what he was kned for. Um he became a passionate advocate
17:58 of spiritualism following his son's death in World War I. Uh, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of of of uh, Englanders, Britishers who lost children in World War I. It was a devastating war uh for England uh and really started the decline of the British Empire because of the tremendous loss of of manhood and and and they were young men who would have eventually grown up and run the
18:35 British Empire. They just were not there. And then after World War II, of course, uh that was it. He had a famous public feud with Harry Houdini um over the legitimacy of spiritualism. Now Harry Houdini was of course the famous music um musician a magician and uh Houdini was fond of showing that many other magicians were complete charlatans. He Houdini was actually more of an illusionist than a magician. Um and then on July 7th, 1930, uh Sir
19:10 Arthur Conan Doyle, uh died of a heart attack at age 71 at the Crown in and in Crownboro, England. So uh you know, he lived uh for uh 70 Yeah. 71 years. um and and made an enduring contribution to literature. And I would argue not just detective fiction, but the his whole approach to how he wrote, I think, has its echoes uh throughout uh
19:45 uh English literature. Okay. So now let's look at a biography of Sherlock Holmes himself. Of course he's fictional. Um but we do know a lot about him because there are so many you know Sherlock Holmes uh novels and of course there's numerous spin-offs. There are several movies, movie series. Uh Bassel Wthbone is probably the most famous Sherlock I'm sorry. Um yeah, Bassel Wthbone, the most famous uh
20:22 Sherlock Holmes. Um although there have been many actors who have proh portrayed him. Bassel Wthbone also portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a radio series and there again there have been numerous radio series um done based on the Sherlock Holmes stories. So we are talking about a a a perennial fictional figure um in uh in uh western culture. Okay. So um as I mentioned a few minutes ago he first
20:57 appeared in the in a study in Scarlet. That was the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887. I mentioned um when when I was mixing the cocktail, he resides at 221 Baker Street in London. Um um for most of his career with his friend Dr. John Watson who was uh who was a physician and also served in the British Army in uh India among other places. Um, of course, his signal trait is he possesses extraordinary powers of
21:33 deductive reasoning, observational skills, forensic science knowledge. Um, nothing got by Sherlock Holmes. Now, he was a consulting detective. So, he got involved in cases that other detectives could not solve. that that was kind of his uh his thing, right? And and oftentimes he would uh well, not oftenimes, but sometimes he would refuse to take a case because it it wasn't challenging enough
22:08 or, you know, regular detectives uh could handle it. Um it's it's thought that he was educated at either Oxford or Cambridge. It's never precisely stated where he studied, but it seems like it was one of those two great universities. Uh he was a master of disguise. Um and he uh often I uh adopted other identities um as part of his investigations. And I'm I'm remembering a uh I I listen to uh oldtime radio u most
22:45 mornings. And one of my favorite shows is is the Sherlock Holmes uh oldtime radio show from the I believe it's 30s and early 40s with Bassel Wthbone. And there was one in particular where he he disguised himself as a as a sailor. And there's another where he dis uh disguises himself as a I think a cocknney taxi driver, right? And of course even uh Dr. Watson at times is surprised to learn uh that that that Sherlock Holmes was there with him only
23:20 in disguise. Uh he he was skilled in chemistry, anatomy, and logic. He had an encyclopedic knowledge. Knowledge of of crime. Knowledgey. Why wouldn't it be knowledgey? The stud. Well, that would be the study of knowledge, right? As opposed to knowledge. Um, he plays the violin. And you know, it's funny how the mind works. So, if you're familiar with the great Steven Schwarz show 1776, there's a song in it where
23:57 uh John Adams and Franklin uh Benjamin Franklin are asking uh Martha Jefferson why she's so in love with Thomas Jefferson and she's they're out on the street in front of their of the where the Jeffersons are staying and she says he plays the violin. He tucks it right under his chin. So, whenever I think of, you know, he plays the violin, that that song comes to mind. I know that's a that's a digression from Sherlock Holmes. Okay, now we're back to our show on Sherlock Holmes. Uh he's known for being aloof and unemotional. Uh but he does have a a
24:35 a true and abiding friendship uh with with Dr. Watson and he cares about him deeply. uh he he struggles with boredom uh and and and at times suffers from ani uh which sometimes uh led him to um indulge in uh cocaine uh a character flaw that that Dr. Watson acknowledges uh and he clashes uh at times with Scotland Yard, especially Inspector Lstrad, although we do see that Scotland
25:13 Yard and Inspector Lstrad respect Sherlock Holmes. They collaborate with him at times. And so it's it's it's a lovehate relationship. And and again, this is one of this is one of the areas this this this sort of lovehate relationship. So, you see this certainly throughout detective fiction between a private detective and and the police um in in in in in many others. You see it in uh in Sam Spade. Yeah. You see it in
25:50 uh uh Nurow Wolf. That's the Rex Stout detective I was trying to think of. So Nero Wolf has a very lovehate relationship uh with the police. Of course, Nero Wolf, the great uh New York detective, New York New York based detective, very condescending to the police. Um but the police grudgingly acknowledge uh his his skill. Um okay. and his Sherlock Holmes's number one nemesis is of course Professor uh James Morriority. You see him showing up in in
26:27 a number of stories and especially in the radio shows done during World War II Morriority shows up uh undermining the Allied war effort. So uh and again as I mentioned um uh when I was talking about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's biography he was presumed dead um after the uh rifen buffet falls duel in the final problem but uh but you know the outcry was so great Conan Doyle brought him back and
27:02 he occasionally assists the British government um even dabbling in espionage uh and and and that aspect of Sherlock Lock Holmes you see played up quite a bit during World War II in original stories uh written for the radio show uh you know for Sherlock Holmes and eventually he retires to the countryside he keeps bees and and writes about his methods. So um that that is the biography of Sherlock Holmes.
27:38 If you like herbaceious cocktails and and I do, by the way, this is this is so good. I I have to tell you, I I will say that it's probably more of a fall winter cocktail uh than it is a summer cocktail. Uh, and and it's interesting because I think I think of Abbisonin as being a fall winter anise liquor and I think of past as being a summer
28:15 liquor liquor. Uh, and they're both essentially the same. They're licorice flavored liquor, but somehow paste because it's associated with the south of France and the sunshine and all of that. I I I can't bring myself to drink paste uh in in in the winter. And this is one of the few times I've had uh absin uh in uh I I think we're actually in summer now or or no, we're going to be in summer next week. Okay,
28:51 back to Sherlock Holmes, you know, cocktails and Sherlock Holmes, right? Okay, so um here's the the history of Sherlock Holmes story. So um first appearance 1887 uh in a study in Scarlet published by Beaton's Christmas Annual in 1890. Um the sign of four appears in Lipincot's magazine establishing Holmes as a recurring character. Now in at this time short stories were commonly
29:27 published in certain magazines um and and Lipincots for sure was one of those well-known magazines that published uh short stories. um from 1891 to 1892 um he was uh the adventures of Sherlock Holmes was serialized in the Strand magazine dramatically increasing its popularity and that's that's what you see uh here and then u I I've already talked a couple of times about the quote unquote death of of Holmes in the in the final problem um 1894 to 1901 public
30:05 backlash fans fans mourn. They wear black armbands, right? They're so upset that Sherlock Holmes that that they think Sherlock Holmes has died and so they put pressure on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uh to revive the detective. 1901 to 1902. Um he returns via uh the Hound of the Baskervilles which is serialized um and is um and it's actually set before Holm's supposed Holmes's supposed death. U but and then the the the
30:42 serialized novel is is subsequently published um you know as as a book. Um, in 1903, Holmes is officially resurrected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. And it reveals that Holmes uh survived his fake death. And then in 1915, uh, during World War I, um, in in his last bow, um, an older Sherlock Holmes, uh, helps Britain during helps, yeah, helps Britain during the First World War. And then in 1927
31:20 um the case book of Sherlock Holmes is published and it's the final collection of uh Sherlock Holmes stories and it really ends it really finalizes the canon of of Sherlock Holmes. Now this book does not have every single story in it. It but it's a great starter and then from there you can fill in the other stories. So, um, total output, excuse me, there were four novels and 56 short stories. So, this book has 37 of the short stories in one of the novels.
31:56 So, there's three more novels and 19 more short stories uh on Sherlock Holmes that aren't included here. But again, believe, you know, you have lots of Sherlock Holmes in this book. Okay. So, now we get to the crux of it, right? You know me. I try to I work to convince you to read 19th century literature. I talk to you about why you should believe in God. uh why you should treat
32:33 relationships so importantly. So I'm gonna now I'm going to try and convince you not try I'm going to work to con right do or don't do there is no try right the wisdom of Yoda so I'm going to convince you to read Sherlock Holmes so first of all despite being set in 19th century or in I should say in Victorian England Sherlock Holmes is timeless the the the
33:09 battle of the detective against the criminal, mind against mind, right against wrong. These are timeless, timeless, timeless ideas, plots, and and so for that reason alone, they're worth reading. And even if you're not particular a particular fan of detective fiction, if you're a if you're a fan of intellectual stimulation, Sherlock Holmes, he's he's your man.
33:45 He's your man. Okay? He's not your guy because he's not a guy. He's your man. Okay. Next. If you if you do like mysteries, detective fiction, his plots are very engaging. So, it's the kind of thing that once you start reading a particular story, you're not going to go, "Oh, I'll finish this later." No, you're going to read you're going to read it through. Okay. Uh uh Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing style, it's very crisp.
34:22 It's it's it's the plots are engaging, but so is the writing itself. And you know, I've talked about this before, the use of language, all of these things, they so enrich us. And reading uh Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's language will just be a wonderful engage a wonderful engagement with the English language. Okay. Oh, next. The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is one of the great duos
35:00 of all time. Uh, it's up there with, you know, Batman and Robin and, uh, you know, uh, Agent 86 and Agent 99. For those of you who are familiar with Get Smart, uh, with, um, with, uh, Nero Wolf and I'm going up on his his man Frivy, but there's so, you know, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, they set the standard especially for a close male
35:39 relationship, right? And they can they can at times insult each other. They can uh love each other, be mortally concerned about each other, support each other without being sappily sentimental. Um and and and it it shows you that the quality of of a relationship that two men can have. It it it doesn't have to become uh a a sexual relationship in
36:14 order for it to be deep. So men can have very deep relationships. A man can have a very deep relationship with another man um without uh you know it meaning something else. And I think somehow that idea has been lost um over the the last half century or so. Um but it it was understood by former generations. Okay. Um so there's a cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes um and and the setting in
36:49 Victorian England. All of these things are touchstones for references that redown throughout uh English literature to this day. And so uh if you if um there's the uh a foggy night in London town, da da da da. It's one of the great American song book songs, right? It's evocative of the kind of scenes that are set
37:26 in Sherlock Holmes's stories. And in fact, I think much of what we what we think about when we hear Victorian London. It comes from how Sir Arthur Con and Doyle portrayed London in the Sherlock Holmes stories. In fact, I would say there's two sources for how we think of Victorian England and London specifically and that is uh Charles Dickens and the second is Sir Arthur
38:02 Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes. Uh I I or or maybe I'm projecting on the rest of the world how I perceive Victorian London, but it's it's it's through those lenses. Um okay. Um the the obsession with logical thinking I is and we see that today where you know people invoke science as a holy
38:37 RIT, right? Uh, it has some of its roots in the obsession with fact and deductive reasoning that Sherlock Holmes displays in the various in the 56 short stories and and four novels about him. Um, and another thing is if you don't have the patience to read a novel, Sherlock Holmes's short stories are so
39:12 satisfying and you can read them in a relatively short period of time. So, uh, my uh my my my older sister Mara is coming to visit uh starting tomorrow. uh we haven't seen each other for a while. Um you know, we were most of the time very very close and I'm uh looking forward to spending uh the Sabbath with her and and and talking a lot. Uh but the Sabbath for me is also a time where I indulge in reading. And so I'm going
39:47 to keep Sherlock Holmes handy so I can read some short stories in between uh talks and and uh and sips of whiskey with my sister and and uh or I may even try and to to see if she'll indulge her younger, you know, baby brother. Maybe she'll let me read her one of the Sherlock Holmes' mysteries. In fact, I you know, I just had a great idea. I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I can convince her. And and you know what? Knowing her for the wonderful woman she is, I bet she will um indulge me and and let me
40:22 read a Sherlock Holmes story to her. Uh so um the next reason for reading Sherlock Holmes is it is very intellectually satisfying. One of the reasons I love reading uh detective stories and listening to detective stories on oldtime radio is to see if I can figure out, you know, the mystery uh before it's revealed in the in the story or in in the radio program or for that matter in the movie. And
41:00 it it it's a way of keeping my brain active and and I think for you too, it's a way of keeping your your your brain active. Okay. Uh a few more. I've just got a few more here. So, um while I've been focusing on Sherlock Holmes, the character of Dr. Watson brings a dimension to the Sherlock Holmes stories without which they really wouldn't have the depth and charm and
41:37 engage engagedness engagingness I don't know what the word would be uh that they otherwise would have and that is because for all the cold logic that Sherlock Holmes Holmes displays. Dr. Watson is the warm, human, caring element in all of these stories. both. He's warm and and human and caring about his great friend Sherlock Holmes, but also about the victims and about and
42:14 this is another this is my next reason for reading Sherlock Holmes about the pursuit and rendering of justice. Okay. There's there's a moral clarity to Sherlock Holmes where justice will be served. In that sense, it's like the uh uh Charles Bronson movies uh from the the 70s where he plays the vigilante, right? So at times uh Sherlock Holmes
42:49 uses extrajudicial means to bring about justice. Uh he doesn't necessarily conform with with the law. But when he violates the law, it's to see that justice is served. And I think for all of us who care about a moral world, there's something satisfying about that. And I and I'm just reflecting on today where I've had three major uh confrontations with just how unjust the
43:26 world will be and sometimes how powerless we are to see that justice is served and that morality is maintained. So to be able to read a Sherlock Holmes story and somehow be reassured that maybe as we say in in Judaism in the next world, we never have to worry but that justice and mor justice will be served and morality will be maintained. And so to
44:02 enter Sherlock Holmes's world is is to is to enter a a world that is morally very pure even though it's said in the grit and filth of London and and the means of bringing about justice are not always the purest. Okay. And then you and you know what? I'm going to end there because I I think that um if I haven't convinced you at this point, ah it's probably a lost cause. So, one more sip of cocktail.
44:42 I um I received a a just a really lovely compliment from a very long time friend of mine who maybe is is listening to the show. She and her husband uh are are are regular listeners viewers of the show. So Suzanne Gimer and and and Marty Gimer, they live in Savannah, Georgia now. They used to live here in uh well they lived in Beverly Hills just up up the street from where I am now. And um and Suzanne one of the most wonderful
45:19 compliments I've ever had. She said, "I I wish you had been my English literature teacher." And uh there is no higher compliment that uh someone could pay me that that I've I've helped them learn something because in the end uh that's what Jiggers's place that's why you should come here. It's to leave here enriched, uh, embied, you know, a little cocktail,
45:54 but also enriched. And I can assure you that by you watching these shows and giving me feedback, you enrich my life and and I hope that I'm able to do uh the same thing for you. Uh it's it's it's it's really my as the French say my reason for being in this case my reason for doing uh these shows. So uh this is my uh last show for this week.
46:30 We'll pick up again on Sunday with a I Sunday wait a Way to Wow show on Sunday. Yes indeed. There's a special edition of the Way to Wow show on Sunday uh to mark the adopt the anniversary of the adoption of the pledge of allegiance. So uh check that out. But I wish you a wonderful rest of the week and a wonderful evening as we head into the rest of Thursday and signing off as I always do. Marie darling, you you are my vow.
47:05 Courage at all times, my friends.