Hey, it's me James Stacy, and we're back for 2022.

It's my great pleasure to kick off the year by welcoming Daniel Miller back to the show.

Daniel is an investigative reporter and a host for the LA Times,

and he was on episode 53 in which he spoke to Stephen about his

podcast series Larger Than Life which covered the remarkable story of Big Willie Robinson

an LA street racer and well larger than personality. If you're into cars or great stories,

you can find the link in the show notes. It's definitely worth a listen. Today, Daniel returns to the show to talk about a wonderful

story he wrote for the L.A. LA Times covering his attempt to track down a long lost pocket watch made for J.P. Morgan in the early 1900s.

The hunt would take Miller on an impressive jaunt through history, supported by a cast of characters that spans

Salton's descendants of Marie Antoinette and even a great many horology obsessives.

For an inside scoop on this incredible story, let's chat with the man himself. Let's get to it. Oh, Daniel, welcome back to the show. How are you? I'm doing well. Thanks so

much for having me. Yeah, this is a real treat. I remember listening to

episode 53, which you were on and then going on I think you and I

share being pretty big car nerds within certain niches and I really enjoyed

larger than life so this is a bit of a treat when I got an email I had heard some word and had been sent the link to your

story and just hadn't quite read it by the time I got the email from the folks to see if you'd

like to come on the show. So I'm thrilled for this. I think it's a great way to kick off the year.

Well, I appreciate that. Yeah this

story was a real labor of love that spanned much of the pandemic and for me it was

really a diversion from a lot of the ugly news that was out there in the world

some of which I was covering and now that was out there in the world, some of which I was covering.

Now that it's out in the world, I've been really gratified by the response to the story.

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