The Incomparable, number 743, November 2024.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode we're, it's our Thanksgiving episode, okay?

It's our Thanksgiving episode because here in the United States, in November, we celebrate a

thing called Thanksgiving, which can mean whatever you wanted to mean. It can mean some interesting

stories about the early settlers or it could just be a real nice holiday where family gets together

and has a big meal or friends or whatever. And it's heart heartwarming and that's one of the reasons that

I like Thanksgiving is that it's just kind of a nice time to appreciate what you got and the

people around you and and maybe there's a turkey if you want I say all of this because we are

going to be talking about one of the quintessential Thanksgiving movies,

1987's planes, trains, and automobiles,

a John Hughes film starring Steve Martin and John Candy.

And with many surprising faces in other roles.

I, when I went off to college, I actually like copied a bunch of stuff onto, you know,

basically made a bunch of VHS tapes at the, at the low quality speed of movies.

So I thought like if I'm really feeling down or I'm bored or whatever, I think I had like nine movies

on three tapes that I could watch. And one of them was planes, trains, and automobiles. And I

saw it. I watched it a lot in the late 80s and I have not seen it since. So we saw it for this.

Let me introduce my panelists who also are going to be riding in various conveyances with me for the next length of a podcast episode. We don't know how long ago. A podcast episode could go for days. You don't know. Andy Anachow is here. Hello and welcome. And please enjoy this ride in a in a train.

We couldn't get seats together though.

Sorry.

Again, Amtrak Northeast Regional.

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