Episode 723: Shout-Outs, Movies (Stennie: American Fiction; Bet: Blitz), Lowlights of the Week, More About Batteries, Game of the Week, You Rules.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
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It’s me again. So far, so good on my resolution to listen to the Hucklebug in 2025. Now I just need to figure out how to remember what it was I wanted to comment on when I am back home and sitting on the couch! I have been listening while I hike — not on the days I have Cokie with me and have to say “Come on, Cokie” or “Leave it” a hundred times but on the days when I am walking by myself. [Janet goes to the gym in the mornings; I hike/walk outside, taking Cokie about every other day!]
So, forgive me for going back to make a comment on the Year End Episode. Stennie, you mentioned the Ghosts (UK). We do not watch either version but may start out now with the UK shows and then the US shows. I’m not sure if either of you watch Survivor but we still do. This past season, after the first segment of the show, one of the 30-second commercials was always the characters of Ghosts (US) sitting on a couch discussing what just happened or what was just said on Survivor. It was very clever!
And Bet, regarding the movie Blitz, it’s on our list! We were hoping to find it in a theater but it looks like we’ll just have to dial it up on the TV one day instead. As a child growing up in London during WWII, Janet’s mother [Babs] was evacuated to Angelsey, Wales. Babs’ mother refused to let her children go during the Blitz but once the doodlebugs began, Babs, her brothers and her mother all left. Janet says Babs remembers having to use an outdoor toilet and not being able to understand the school teachers as they were speaking Welsh.
Hey guys.
Sorry been MUA so just trying to catch up.
Yay! I know what ‘the missive is’ I don’t feel so dumb after all now seeing it is a made up word.
Blitz sounds good. Will check it out. Stepney is a borough in London. My mum was evacuated too in the war and when she left school at 14, she worked in the munitions factory. She was so small, they had to stand her on a box.
Fun fact: did you know that St Paul’s Cathedral was never bombed during the war as when the German bombers came over, they knew they was in London when they sat St Paul.
Big history here on the south coast relating to the war which I won’t bore you with today.
Ide rather snow than fire but was keeping an eye on everything happening. Thankfully you got through it Bet.
Will now go and catch up on lasts weeks.
Bi for now xx
MIA NOT MUA 🙄🤣 I hate typing on my phone 😏