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0:55 >> Take two. Hello and welcome to Jigger's Place. It's good to be back. I know I missed the show two weeks ago. It was a fast day, so I couldn't make a cocktail for you. Uh so uh this is Jigger's Place where we have a cocktail and a schmooze every other Thursday at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time. And the topic for uh today's show is quirky heroic movies. I I confess to having uh an absolute fascination for these movies. Uh I don't think it
1:31 exists as a a genre. And in fact um I I think you will find that uh the movies that I talk about today really kind of fall into several traditional genre uh film genre um but I see a through line in them that is uh quite delightful and and really you know aspires to what this show is all about which is
2:06 examining ourselves and and uh and living ever more closely the life that that we want to live. And so I'm not going to uh I'm not going to say what the six movies are right now. I'll wait till I get on the sofa to do that. Uh but you know I I as you know I design a cocktail to go with the theme and so uh I'll be giving you a hint uh about one of the movies because the cocktail I'm going to make is called the Hong Kong Cavalier. So if if you're an afficia- aficionado of
2:43 one of these movies you right away know uh which one it is. So this is a a bourbon or whiskey-based cocktail and uh last month I was up in a a beautiful um restored mining town in northern California called Nevada City. And I picked up this bourbon. This is uh I believe it's pronounced Frey Ranch uh bourbon. It's a straight bourbon whiskey. Uh the distillery was established evidently in or the ranch anyway was just established in 1854
3:18 so it's been around for almost 175 years um and it's based in Fallon, Nevada. And the reason I chose this is because uh you know for those of you who know the movie Top Gun uh at that time uh Top Gun was in Miramar which is a base in the San Diego area and because people in La Jolla didn't like the jet noise uh Top Gun was moved to Fallon, Nevada where people uh don't complain. Uh and when I was with uh Cat 14
3:53 I I got to go up to Fallon a couple of times. We went up there for a pre-deployment training and and that sort of thing. So, uh, Fallon is is kind of near and dear to my heart. Um, in addition to the bourbon, I've got some fresh-squeezed orange juice. Uh, just some regular old simple syrup, but we're going to have a little bit. We're going to use a little bit of ginger liqueur. And then some aromatic bitters. I'm using Angostura, nothing uh, fancy. Angostura, just a good just a always it's there for you. So,
4:29 okay. And let's see. So, we're going to start out with Oh, and I've got my shaker. The ice is already in it. You can see uh, probably that it's already uh, icing up. And we're going to start out with uh, 2 oz of uh, of bourbon. I always like the name bourbon because when I was a little boy, my parents had a Weimaraner and his nickname was Burb Well, not his nickname. His name was bourbon. His full name was Baron Fitzgerald von Bourbon,
5:05 uh, which which was a joke that my parent played on some of their friends. Okay. And 3/4 of an ounce of orange juice. I squeezed this orange earlier today.
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5:23 >> Here we go. And we're going to do a 1/4 oz of uh, ginger liqueur.
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5:32 >> And a 1/4 oz of simple syrup. Pour both of these and then pour it into the shaker. And simple syrup, of course, if you don't have simple you know pre-mixed simple syrup it's really easy to make it's just equal parts water and sugar and then you you heat it up you don't really need to boil it you just need to heat it up enough so the sugar will will melt. And that is simple syrup. By the way you can make honey syrup which is kind of a
6:07 version of simple syrup the same way 50% one part honey one part water. Okay then two dashes of Angostura bitters. And we'll cover this up. So it doesn't start all over and we'll shake it and I I always remind everybody that shaking is not just to mix things it's to not it's not just to mix and chill the cocktail it's also to dilute some of the water because water brings out the flavor. Especially in a especially in whiskey
6:44 um If you're not super fond of of the burn of whiskey and but you wanted you want to try and you want to enjoy it it's always nice to just put a little bit of water in it that takes away some of the burn but it also brings out flavors in a lot of whiskey. Uh so that's that's always a good thing to do. Okay you can see the shaker is all it's it's it's all frosty now and I've got my this is a Nicanora glass it's comes from the thin man Nicanora Charles and let's pour this out it's got kind of
7:20 a nice peachy color. And we'll give this a try. Let's see. Okay. Mhm. That's very nice. I wasn't too sure about this recipe. Okay I'll see you over on on the couch.
8:29 Okay, some technical problems as as always. Uh So, it's the middle of the summer. Well, not quite the middle of the summer, I guess. The end of July would be the middle of the summer. But, it's hot outside, but here in my home, it's nice and cool. So, why quirky heroic movies? Well, so
9:06 I think that this goes back to something that I believe I learned from a a man by the name of Zig Ziglar. Zig Ziglar was a uh motivational speaker, one of the original ones, extremely well-known. Um he did he did pass away a number of years ago now. And I think he was the one who once said, "We don't need to be told, but we need to to reminded." And I love that concept because I think most
9:42 of us we don't want to be told I yo, you do this, you do that. Like when we were kids, I think we probably always hated when, you know, mom and dad, oh, you know, go do this, go do that. Like ordering us around, right? Not not not nice. Um I mean, look, they were our parents, but you know, from a kid's perspective, not you know, not the way we want to be treated. Um and so to to be reminded is so much nicer. Right? How much better would have been if if if if if our parents had said uh
10:18 you know, Kevin, um did you remember to take out the trash? Oh, okay. All right. Just wanted to remind you, right? Kind of like we would do with an adult or hopefully what we would do with an adult. And these quirky heroic movies remind us of the need to lead a virtuous life. And I've I've talked about various aspects of this on previous shows.
10:53 But if if we I think if we wanted to boil down what we should be working to do each day, it's striving to be virtuous. Now, that's a very kind of wide open idea. Like what does it mean to be virtuous? Right? And and I would say that to be virtuous means uh first and foremost to strive
11:30 to be a good person. But a good person in a very specific way. So, a good person treats most other people decently right up until that person threatens you or somebody else's um physical well-being.
12:05 Okay? Or their emotional well-being. Now, we're very fond of escalating what that means in America today. But the fact of the matter is, most of the things that we think impinge on our s- our emotional well-being are really us viewing them in a way that does that. Other people are actually doing that to us. Other people don't even
12:40 we're not even in their thoughts. So, [snorts] if we're not in somebody else's thoughts, they're they cannot be impinging on our emotional well-being. It's our thoughts about them that does. Okay? So, another aspect of leading a virtuous life, a good life,
13:04 >> [snorts]
13:05 >> is we protect people who are weak, who are unable to protect themselves. We we stand for uh lawful behavior, even though sometimes we have to operate what would seemingly be outside the law in order to protect somebody. And this this has been the classic dilemma of the knight-errant, if you will,
13:44 for centuries. Right? Murder is wrong. Of course it is. We we we know that from the Bible. But sometimes the threat that the imminent threat, and that's an important qualifier, the imminent threat that an individual poses to another individual means the only way of stopping that person is by killing them. Right? And so, while some people would
14:19 label that murder, it's not. It's the protection of innocent life. So, these six movies that I'm going to be talking about all are demonstrations of virtue. Uh not all of them exhibit every aspect of virtue, but they all highlight at least one [snorts] or more aspects of virtue.
14:57 Okay. So,
14:59 >> [snorts]
15:01 >> the first one I'm going to talk about is the one after [snorts] which the cocktail was named, and that's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. This is just an amazing movie. Okay? [snorts] It was it was uh uh produced in 1984. And you'll see, by the way, most of these movies are movies from the 1980s. It is It's It's interesting that at a
15:37 time when uh sort of capitalism was making a resurgence um uh you know, as Ronald as President Ronald Reagan took office a a lot of movies came out that were highlighting this these ideas of virtue. And I'm I think that that's a good thing, right? Because capitalism is the best is the worst system except for all the others. Uh but we need people engaged in that system to seek to be virtuous. So, uh the movie
16:14 stars Peter Weller and John Lithgow and Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum. It's got an amazing cast. And um it's it's directed by a guy named W. D. Richter. I I don't know any other movie um that he's ever made. But the movie is Peter Weller plays the eponymous character Buckaroo Banzai. And uh Buckaroo Banzai is this amazing man. He's a physicist. He's a
16:50 surgeon. He's a rock and roll musician. He's an adventurer. Um and and he's internationally known. And he has he has a band that's Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers, right? And they they play rock concerts, but they also
17:14 >> [snorts]
17:14 >> uh essentially defeat evil, but they're not superheroes. They're just regular people. What's so great about uh, Buckaroo Banzai and the movie is Buckaroo Banzai is a very humble man. He's completely aware of his abilities, but he chooses to use his abilities to
17:49 help out humanity. And so, you know, while he can, you know, rock and roll with the best of them, uh, you know, uh, I don't want to give away too much of the movie, but he's he's not out to, you know, party and and kind of exploit people and that sort of thing. Exactly the opposite. And, you know, he can pick up the phone and speak to the president of the United
18:24 States. That's how influential he is, but he only does it because it's important for the security of the world kind of thing. And so, he his his greatness is not that he has all these amazing abilities, human abilities. It's that he puts them at the service of other people. And I would I would argue that virtue to be virtuous is to serve other people.
19:02 It's to serve your family, if you're married, your your husband, your wife, your children, your mother, your father, your siblings, members of your community, and and people who for various reasons are are just not completely capable of taking care of themselves. Uh he treats people always with decency. Right up until they try to kill him or kill innocent
19:40 people. And then I think reluctantly he does what has to be done in order to prevent the evil that that, you know, another being, I'll just use that word, is trying to wreak on other other people. And the Hong Kong Cavaliers, too, they demonstrate, I think, many of the many aspects of virtue. They're loyal, they're disciplined,
20:16 they're they're very, well, capable, I think, is not necessarily a part of virtue, although they are capable. Um they're, you know, very capable technologically, they know how to use weapons for the right, you know, for the right purposes. Um and and it's it's interesting. There's um uh there's a group of there's there's sort of like a Buckaroo Banzai fan club called I think it's called the Blue Rangers if I'm I'm not mistaken. And
20:51 this little boy and his father um actually work with Buckaroo Banzai uh in the movie to, you know, defeat the forces of evil, basically. Um and uh I I think I think it the little boy's father I think is like a helicopter pilot or something. He said it's like just like an ordinary guy. And and that's the So, one of the the the movie is of course on the one hand completely fantastic and yet on the other hand it's just regular people
21:26 doing these amazing things. And I think that's that's an important message for us to an important aspect of life about which we need to be reminded. That extraordinary things are done by people and
21:52 >> [snorts]
21:52 >> in many ways even the most extraordinary person is ordinary. All right? So, that's Buckaroo Banzai uh The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, right? So, it's it's it's service to others. Okay. Number two. Streets of Fire. This movie is um uh from 19 uh 84. And uh it it stars um
22:28 uh Michael Paré, Diane Lane, uh Rick Moranis, and Amy Madigan. Um Ry Cooder does a lot of the music. So, if you know rock if you know and like or or like me love rockabilly music, the music in this movie is fantastic. I know in my um in my playlist for when I walk for exercise, I have several songs from from Streets of Fire. So, Streets of Fire is is sort of billed as a rock and roll fable and that's very much
23:03 uh that's a really apt description. It was made into a stage musical, I think, I don't know, several at least several years ago. I never saw it, but the movie is absolutely iconic. So, the main character in the movie is a guy by the name of Tom Cody. And Tom Cody is basically I'm not I'm not giving anything away cuz this all happens in uh the very beginning of the movie. So, Tom Cody's former girlfriend, who's uh
23:41 very popular rock and roll performer, is kidnapped. And he's called upon basically to rescue her. And his motivation it's not wealth, it's not fame, it's not ideology, it's not even romance. He's motivated purely by the desire to do the right thing. i.e. to do his duty. So, it's clear that he knows how to deal with violent
24:16 people, he knows how to deal with weapons, he knows he knows what to do. And um uh his girlfriend, played by Diane Lane, um her boyfriend and and manager is is played by Rick Moranis and if you know Rick Moranis, right? He is not the hero type. But he you know, he's So, that's why he needs uh Tom Cody uh to to help him. And Tom Cody is helped by the uh by the Amy
24:53 Madigan's character. She's a military veteran. It's not quite clear how or why or whatever, but somehow they I mean they not somehow, but they end up joining she ends up helping him joining forces. Um and again, the the central theme of this movie is a man fulfills his duty. Period. Not for a reward, not for money, not for
25:28 fame, not because uh he may or does or whatever gets the girl or gets the girl back. He does his duty because it's the virtuous thing for a man to do. And despite the fact that the world around him is incredibly violent, biker gangs and and and and just, you know, street violence, urban decay, Tom remains a man of principle.
26:04 And and that too is virtuous. Okay. So, that's movie number two, Streets of Fire.
26:19 >> [snorts]
26:19 >> Okay. Movie number three. RoboCop. The original RoboCop, okay? Um cuz and and there have been I think like RoboCop 2 and such. So, um Interestingly enough, I just realized this is also Peter Weller um in the uh starring role. He plays RoboCop. Uh Nancy Allen um it it is uh the other nea- This is a Paul uh Verhoeven film.
26:54 Uh Uh Verhoeven is a is an an amazing director. Um and this film came out in in 1987. So, RoboCop uh also takes place in this sort of uh era of urban decay, it street violence, um and and um I again, I don't want to give away the plots of these movies. If you've never seen them, um
27:31 they're they're all of these movies, the plots are are wonderful. Uh so, uh RoboCop um he's he's just he's just this sort of I mean, he's kind of a man, but he's kind of a machine. And he wants, I think, to be treated like
28:07 a man, and he wants to do the virtuous things that police do. Um but because he's part machine, so, there are restraints on what he can do. And so, the movie is a almost fascinating examination of what a man does
28:44 when he when he finds out that true evil exists in the world it's harming people and yet for various reasons he can't extinguish that evil. Now, we're used to the plot where the hero [snorts] can't extinguish evil because the evil person
29:20 is holding a member of his family and is going to kill his family or something like that. This is a kind of a twist on that aspect or on that that that sort of plot uh And and this is one of the things that makes Robocop Look, the movie is 30 years old. It is as watchable today as it was when it first came out. It is it's just so engaging. And
29:56 again, Robocop he's just he's just an ordinary guy. He's got some extraordinary abilities because he's part machine but in the end he's just an ordinary guy trying to do his duty, trying to figure out how does he be virtuous in this world that's that's sort of topsy-turvy. Right? So uh So so the the the um
30:32 the values that Robocop exhibits So, duty I've already mentioned, um sacrifice, the pursuit of justice, but also human dignity. And I think that's that's something important um to uh you know, to It's It's an important aspect that that really comes out of this movie. The dignity of himself, the dignity of the other people around him. So, so Murphy, who is that that's who Robocop is, Murphy. So,
31:07 in some ways he's stripped of everything that he ever had. And so, all he can do is strive to be virtuous in a very uh perverse world. Now, uh the movie is very stylistic and and all of these movies are are very stylistic. That's one of the things I love about them. Uh they they create a world and yet it's a world that
31:42 we can believe exists. That that we could inhabit that world. And that's another powerful aspect again of all of these movies with maybe one exception. We We could We could be in that world. We could maybe not exactly be Robocop. But we could strive to be as virtuous as he is. Even in a world like the kind of world in which uh you know, that that that
32:17 that that he inhabits. And so, um um it's There's There's kind of a certain amount of irony in Robocop. Um but in the end, it's a very very satisfying movie um to watch. Okay. Um the one exception So, that was movie number three. Movie number four. The one exception to believing that we could inhabit the
32:53 world created by the movie uh maybe this next movie uh The Princess Bride. I mean, this movie came out in 1987. You can see where we're hitting this uh four out of the six movies were made in the mid-80s, basically. So, um The Princess Bride was written by one of the most uh well-known film writers of all time, William Goldman. Um and it it was uh directed by Rob Reiner. I think it's easily Rob Reiner's
33:30 best film. And it really is a fable in that it's set in a almost a fairy tale atmosphere. Uh but in spite of being a fairy tale atmosphere if we could, you know, transport ourselves in time back to when, you know, people only fought with swords and there were only sort of, you know, sailing ships and that sort of thing, maybe we could inhabit that world.
34:06 Right? Um so, the the movie stars um Cary Elwes. Uh he plays Wesley. Um and uh Mandy Patinkin, who is amazing in this movie. Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, and Robin Wright. Uh this is actually her first movie. She plays the princess. She is phenomenal in this in this movie. Uh and uh by the way, it was executive produced by Norman Lear.
34:42 Uh so um and there's a um there is a a cameo with Billy Crystal and um shoot, let's see if they if they list her name here. Uh gosh, I I can't think of the actress's name, but Billy Crystal and this actress, they do a great kind of little cameo appearance. I mean, it's just it is marvelous. So, okay. So, The Princess Bride uh it's both ironic and sincere at the same
35:20 time. It It It is immersed in the fairy tale nature and the fairy tale atmosphere of the movie. And yet it manages to be very realistic in this fantasy environment and very sincere. It of all of these movies it is absolutely the most charming of these movies. Uh to the point where the the uh there's a song in the movie
35:57 um and uh when I got married the first time um we had somebody sing the song as my uh bride uh walked walked down the aisle to where we were getting married. Uh so um it's How do I describe this? So the movie displays so many virtues.
36:33 Um the virtue of fidelity you know, loyalty to one's family, to one's country. Um the uh the virtue of of of hard work. Um the virtue of teamwork the virtue of being a um uh someone who fights fairly kind of
37:10 Marquess of Queensberry, if you will. Now, of course, there are people who don't, which which which really highlights the the people who even the people who are uh even some some of the people who are uh fighting Wesley right? You can tell who who has virtue and who doesn't even among the so-called bad guys because there are bad guys who still recognize
37:46 that if you're going to fight someone, it has to be done in a virtuous way versus the bad guys who they don't care. All they care about is winning. Right? And and so uh it's it's just it is it is the ultimate fairy tale. That's what it is. It's In some ways, it's a shame that the Walt Disney Company didn't make this movie because this is this is of legacy of
38:23 of uh Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty. It is all of the great fairy tales of yore made both modern but still kept in their fairy tale genre. And and again, the central idea uh or the central virtue in The Princess Bride is is fidelity, loyalty. And
38:59 and that's what makes that's what makes people in the It it It's what makes people in the movie either virtuous or not. And by the way to be loyal to evil, of course would make one not virtuous. So, it's not just the ability to be blindly loyal. It's to understand to what and to whom does a virtuous
39:35 to to what and to whom does a virtuous person owe loyalty? And that's what The Princess Bride examines so beautifully. Just so elegantly. Okay. Another little sip here. Okay. Next. Now, we're going to move out of the '80s but only by 1 year
40:12 to Mad Max. Now, this is the original Mad Max that was um produced in 1979. So, the 1970s was well-known for being kind of an anti-hero time period. So, I mean, it was kind of the hero, anti-hero. Billy Jack, um Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movies. These were all heroes that were
40:48 kind of anti-heroes at the same time. And Mad Max, I I think fits very well into that mode. It was um I don't know if it was um uh Mel Gibson's first starring role, but I mean, I love Mel Gibson in the um uh Lethal Weapons movies. Um he's done lots of really great movies. He is iconic in Mad Max. So,
41:24 uh Mad Max takes place in sort of it's it's a post-apocalyptic world. And this is a man who has lost everything. Literally everything. All he has left is a vehicle. And he's on a perpetual quest to for gasoline for the vehicle and
42:01 food, basically. The world is dog eat dog. And Max, um I I uh Rockatansky I think is that's Mad Max Mad Max. Despite all of the depravity, the violence around him, he's striving to hold on to some semblance
42:38 of civilization. He's he's trying to hold on to being a virtuous man in a time when it just wouldn't matter. Like I said, this is post-apocalypse. Who cares at that point? Right? But he does. He does. This is heroism at a completely different level.
43:18 Why should a man strive to be a hero? And I'm not saying he's striving to be a hero, but he is. Why should he even care about being virtuous when no when seemingly no one else could care. They they couldn't care less. They would kill him just like that.
43:53 And it says something about the nature of virtue. This this goes back to um Streets of Fire. If we're doing something virtuous because we expect a reward. That's not really virtuous. You know, there's the old expression, "Virtue is its own reward." That is definitional to virtue. And of course, virtue is what makes someone a hero.
44:30 So, Mad Max, despite all of the chaos and all of the depravity, is kind of an oasis of the pursuit of justice. And the movie is really about how he does that. It's almost slice of life. Uh meaning, it's not a typical script with a sort of a beginning, a middle, and an end, per se.
45:07 And I really love slice of life movies where or stories, for that matter, where things aren't necessarily neatly wrapped up at the end. Because life isn't neatly wrapped up. Life is a continual pursuit of trying to be a virt- a virtuous person. And you know,
45:42 I I'll I'll go to sleep tonight, but tomorrow I've got to work out I've got to I you know, I'll wake up and I've got the same I have the same issues that I have today in the sense of making decisions. What is the right decision in this situation, in this situation, this situation? I think it's important we all go through very dark period. Well, I don't know that we all do, but many of us go through very, very dark periods in our
46:17 life. We can't use them as an excuse to abandon virtuous behavior. I would argue we need to embrace that pursuit even more firmly during those dark times. Okay. My last uh movie, number six, is I If you watch any of my other shows,
46:55 in particular, if you watch Business Lessons from the Military, uh I talked about this movie, even though it's fictitious, of course, cuz it's a movie. I talk about this movie in the context of Business Lessons from the Military. Uh I was uh talking with a friend of mine earlier today. Uh for those of you who live in Los Angeles, uh this movie is going to be screening at Brain Dead Studios on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles this this on on on on Sunday. This coming Sunday. Now, if
47:31 you're watching it live, it's June 16th, so Sunday is 17th, 18th, 19th. June I'm sorry, not June 19th, July 16th. So, Sunday is July 19th. So, July 19th in the afternoon, this movie is playing at Brain Dead Studios on Fairfax. I will be there, leaning in, as they say. And it is Galaxy Quest. Now, this is kind of the odd movie out because Galaxy Quest was produced in
48:07 1999. Way beyond all these other movies. It is anytime now um I think if you go on Pluto, I meant to check this before I started the show and I I didn't have time. I think you can watch this movie for free on like Pluto TV. Um so, if you go to the free streaming services, you can probably watch this movie if you've never seen it. Of course, if if it'll it'll have commercials. Um but if you're here in Los Angeles and you've
48:42 never seen this movie come to Brain Dead Studios on Sunday and if you see me, come and say hello. It So, the movie is ostensibly a send-up of like Star Trek essentially. Uh it stars uh Tim Allen who plays the lead character. Um but it also has Sigourney Weaver Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub um it has another actor in it um he he was on that show
49:17 Just Shoot Me. He played the photographer at I don't remember his name. Um and I'm not giving anything away to tell you this. It's really about uh Tim Allen's who plays um I'm trying to think of the the the role of the character he plays. Uh shoot. Commander Taggart. Uh he plays Commander Taggart the captain of of of of the ship. Uh it's it's it's his
49:54 journey from being this sort of dissipated egotistical actor to actually becoming as a human being the person that he's portrayed in this iconic show that, you know, was on for a few seasons and now, you know, he makes a living by going to fan events and that kind of thing. Tim Allen is brilliant. He is absolutely brilliant.
50:30 In fact, everybody in the movie is just brilliant. Alan Rickman, who plays kind of a a Spock-like character, mind-blowing in terms of how good he is. Sigourney Weaver, who she's not really any of the characters from Star Trek per se, but she just plays the role so brilliantly. She actually in many ways plays a caricature of of of kind of almost herself, right? Um,
51:06 and so, the reason I left this movie for last is it is a story about the journey to who virtue. Okay? All the other movies are about people who have already recognized to be a good person is to be virtuous. It's to pursue
51:41 virtue. And while I would argue none of them are striving to be heroes, they are because despite all of the things that are thrown at them, they maintain their virtuous qualities. That is what a hero is. Galaxy Quest is how we get there. And Tim Allen does an absolutely superb job
52:16 of showing us how an ordinary guy becomes a hero. And that's in the end what's important about these movies. They uh they inspire me. I watch uh anytime I'm sort of like on Pluto or whatever and I see one of them I watch it. I have as I you know I showed you I have the DVDs on some of them, others of them I I just watch on streaming.
52:54 When you're feeling down, when you're feeling that the world has defeated you, these movies will inspire you to to be a hero. And I don't I don't say that lightly. Not a hero to everybody out there, to be a hero to yourself. Not in an egotistical, narcissistic way. In a way that will bring you satisfaction
53:31 for how you handled your life. And in the end, that's what I I hope we all strive for. Is at the end of an at the end of the day when we lay our heads down on our pillow we're satisfied that today I did okay. I did okay. So, thank you very much for joining me.
54:07 It's I I mention this pretty often. It's This is my favorite time to spend with with you. And I wish you a wonderful evening, a wonderful rest of the week and weekend. And I I sign off to a woman who always let me be the hero in her life. That's why I always close this way. Uh
54:44 She let a flawed man like me be her hero. And that's that's true love. Marie darling you are my bell. Courage at all times, my friends.