Kate and Leopold: Part 3
Look twice before stepping into that elevator with Rachel Granda-Gluski, Ben Silverio, and Ansel Burch. They’re pop culture observers/ zany podcasters/ excellent friends who know a bustle from a butt in any time period.
We’ve put on our thinking caps and come up with one cohesive topic for edutainment this month. Marvel as Rachel and Ben share the spotlight and throw around elevated facts about the safest way to step into a box and be carried to new altitudes!
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Episode Transcript
Ben Silverio 0:05
Hey, I'm Ben Silverio.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 0:06
And I'm Rachel Granda-Gluski
Ansel Burch 0:08
I'm Ansel Burch and
Ben Silverio 0:08
it's time to party.
Ansel Burch 0:13
This month's episodes on Kate and Leopold were recorded on April 30 2023. We are not doctors we don't give medical advice Please drink responsibly as we go
Rachel Granda-Gluski 0:29
everybody's like high school.
Ansel Burch 0:32
I mean it just the same court projections are free. It's true. I love that. Kimberly college
Ben Silverio 0:39
song everything you have was the Oh yeah.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 0:46
Yeah, the actual graduation
Ansel Burch 0:48
fanfare and processional, I think is what that one's called
Ben Silverio 0:50
pomp and circumstance.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 0:52
Is that the actual title
Ben Silverio 0:53
I know that because that is the Macho Man Randy Savage is theme music tying
Rachel Granda-Gluski 0:57
it all together,
Ansel Burch 0:58
when when we played it in band, the top of the sheet music said fanfare and processional,
Ben Silverio 1:03
but before we do actually get into our into the meat of our entertainments I'd like to present an appetizer because we've been talking about how historically inaccurate this movie is for the past two episodes.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 1:22
Isn't that's what it is. Yeah, you are really on par in some of the things they were just like we're taking all of the
Ansel Burch 1:28
liberties different departments convicted to different
Rachel Granda-Gluski 1:32
costume department on it.
Ben Silverio 1:35
Screenwriters. Yes, but as we all know, writers get paid very little. So you know, they got there. They got paid just enough to care, I guess. Yeah. Because this movie was clearly just a paycheck. For a lot of people. If it was and you're listening to this podcast, I'm very sorry. Call us but also Yeah, call us come on the pod and let us know about your passion for cave Leopold.
Ansel Burch 2:04
Especially if you were the costume designer, I bet you're fast.
Ben Silverio 2:07
Costume Designers are great. One of my favorite details of costume design recently. So they did Beauty and the Beast live on ABC with her was a recording artist. And Josh Grove
Rachel Granda-Gluski 2:23
relating that I wouldn't have understood.
Ben Silverio 2:26
Cavalry, period II period period. And then Josh Groban,
Ansel Burch 2:32
aka him.
Ben Silverio 2:36
I was gonna make a wrestling joke, but neither of you watch wrestling. So. Put, yes. So for hers dress as peasant Belle. They took the same like basic inspiration as the animated movie. But they incorporated her Filipino culture into the designs on the dress. That's, that's fun. So it makes it more connected to the performer. And I love shit like that, you know, talking about wrestling, again, a lot of wrestling on this podcast. They will add personal details like that for the wrestlers gear to add a layer to the story, like Johnny or Gano always uses like Marvel characters in his gear,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 3:24
and not like I know what you're talking
Ansel Burch 3:26
Sure. But from the Marvel Universe. Yeah, he's better
Ben Silverio 3:29
than Chris Pratt. Great. Even though he named his he named his kid quill. Well, I know how to, you know, dress
Rachel Granda-Gluski 3:39
Gleaner he,
Ben Silverio 3:39
like, as a middle name, maybe.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 3:42
I mean, it's better than Khaleesi to get nerdy with the middle names.
Ben Silverio 3:46
I mean, even get nerdy with the first name. Be more subtle. Yeah.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 3:52
Peter Peters. Great. It's my dad's name, Peter
Ben Silverio 3:55
Quill. Gargano would have worked sure rate, but quill Gergana. Like, you know, he's from Ohio. Oh, wow. I mean, but on his last appearance on a big NXT paper view while he was still down there. He combined all of the superheroes that he ever wore during his one set of gear, so it tells another story. So like, costuming is really important and I love those details. And Kay Leopold's costuming department for the most part did good.
Ansel Burch 4:28
Might have been somebody's like senior thesis or something to like make a bunch of really accurate dresses one of the things I
Rachel Granda-Gluski 4:34
did think was kind of interesting about the costume department is that something I wish they had monopolized on more was she wears a lot of like brown because the office and then when they're like having their little like day around the park, she's wearing a bit more color. Um, I wish her like final dress from the end had been more colorful so just great. instead of just yeah, like shelters or something, yeah, they'd done like, like a burgundy or even just like a blue you know, I think it really would have made her like pop especially with the muted tones in the room at the end. I wish they've just done a little bit more with color to maybe show that like she was she been living this very drab life and he was making her come alive through the symbolism of her clothing but they leave they didn't they just missed the mark on it. And
Ben Silverio 5:29
so really, they were on par with the rest of the movie.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 5:34
Like a lot of potential I think
Ansel Burch 5:36
I kind of like want to make Meg Ryan a dress and they were like okay
Rachel Granda-Gluski 5:41
to be a movie I would be interested to see if they ever like redid it in a more of the like, redid Kate and Leopold but in a modern setting. And like had like a similar thing happen.
Ben Silverio 5:54
Well, we already just did the work for them because we rewrote the movie in the last episode. Yeah.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 5:59
But I think it would be interesting to like kind of maybe see them push it a little bit more and really like see it through to fruition of like the potential it had that they just kind of missed the mark on we
Ansel Burch 6:11
can reshoot it after we do free jet. Yeah. Oh, perfect. Yeah. We're remaking Freejack to same reason.
Ben Silverio 6:18
When time to party becomes a movie studio. Yeah. Let's go YouTube channel first. Maybe we'll start
Ansel Burch 6:26
get cameras in just shoot. People aren't doing that.
Ben Silverio 6:30
Apparently, all the kids are doing it.
Ansel Burch 6:35
than cocaine. Apparently. So what's our topic? Or do you have another?
Ben Silverio 6:39
Speaking? Speaking of cocaine, real quick, weird segue. I just watched cocaine. They're fucking ridiculous. That's what I expected. It was. It was just a smidge below what I expected from it. You know, like, I mean, I pretty much got what I expected. But like it's what else do you want from a movie called cocaine bear?
Ansel Burch 7:04
They're working on speed sloth for the next.
Ben Silverio 7:08
Go slough. Eugene Levy finds a sloth while he's doing the reluctant traveler. And it's adorable. Eugene Levy is adorable. Yes. True story. Um,
Ansel Burch 7:24
they could probably get Zach levy pretty cheap now.
Ben Silverio 7:27
We don't want to Eugene den Sarah That's it. No other little more Zack. But you know
Rachel Granda-Gluski 7:36
isn't his last name he pronounces it leave it is is it Levi or levy
Ben Silverio 7:41
is Levi okay? Yeah, I
Rachel Granda-Gluski 7:44
have loved hair colors and we wanted to get him
Ben Silverio 7:48
I was gonna make an American Pie joke with a Chevy to the levee and lost it so
Ansel Burch 7:55
full points for for the attempt. Yeah. You
Ben Silverio 7:57
know like Kate Leopold I did my best.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 8:01
They did they train hard in this movie live Schreiber. He was putting in a full effort he he I believed that character.
Ben Silverio 8:11
You believe that? He was kind of bubbling and I know that sounds about right. So
Rachel Granda-Gluski 8:16
I just had a really and he ended up having a really nice arc. It was kind of weird.
Ben Silverio 8:20
It's much better when he's not the great great grandson.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 8:24
Yeah,
Ansel Burch 8:24
yeah, that's that was a good good.
Ben Silverio 8:27
Good edit. If you got this far and you're like, What the hell is King Leopold?
Ansel Burch 8:34
Congrats, you missed two episodes. Yeah.
Ben Silverio 8:37
But our friends at Miramax Well, are they our friends still? Because of the Weinstein's? Oh, yeah, probably not. Because technically, Harvey still owns Miramax. So those motherfuckers over at Miramax Yeah, yeah, those assholes who are keeping dogma away from Kevin Smith. Got that which is why it hasn't been released on Blu Ray Oh, I want it dammit. But every time I see the DVD in the store I buy it.
Ansel Burch 9:03
That's because I made the mistake of giving away my VHS of it. Oh my God. You're giving with the wrong term. I sold it at that price books. Oh,
Ben Silverio 9:12
well I dog sensor something for it document does not deserve to be left on the shelf because it's a great movie. But anyway, those animals are Miramax tell us about kitten Leopold. Kate McKay is a modern female executive in New York City, whose drive to succeed in a cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance when her genius ex boyfriend discovers a portal to
when her genius ex boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time, and brings back a 19th century nobleman named Leopold to prove it. A skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. I don't think Miramax watched the movie. even given Stuart
Ansel Burch 10:07
I mean, he did invent time travel in his head, but
Ben Silverio 10:09
I talked with brown invented time.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 10:13
Back on purpose. Yeah.
Ansel Burch 10:15
To, to prove it.
Ben Silverio 10:19
You Yeah, you know, everyone involved including the synopsis writers at the movie studio or a
Ansel Burch 10:25
lot of phoning it in. Exactly.
Ben Silverio 10:29
But yes, so entertainment appetizer. Just to start off, I wanted to point out that Hugh Jackman's character Leopold Mountbatten, the Duke of Albany, is based on real people. Yeah, like it's an amalgamation of of a couple different people. But from the time that Stuart went to in 1876, the Duke of Albany at the time was his last name was Battenburg. Instead of mountain bap,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 11:13
you want to fun fact? Yeah. So a historical inaccuracy in this movie is that they changed the name to Mountbatten because it should have been Battenburg because that line of the aristocracy was German. Okay, and they changed it during World War Two to Mountbatten to sound less Germanic.
Ansel Burch 11:36
Mountbatten is the name they use now. Yeah,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 11:38
Mountbatten is the name they use now interests. The current royal family is the Mountbatten Windsor is yes.
Ansel Burch 11:44
Ah, no, because those ones died.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 11:48
Okay. Um, Phil was a mountain. Yeah, Philip was a Mountbatten. Um, but yeah, so they changed it to sound less Germanic, but he should have been Battenburg in this being from 1876 He should have been Battenburg
Ben Silverio 12:03
another connection to dark brown. Because when the Browns got to Hill Valley, they were the Von
Ansel Burch 12:09
Braun or the Von Braun.
Ben Silverio 12:13
So the real Leopold actually had haemophilia, which contributed to his death following a fall at the age of 30.
Ansel Burch 12:22
Very common his wine he also had epilepsy.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 12:26
Oh, are they running this off of the Prince Leopold? Yeah, they made a one season incredible show that I mad got canceled called the irregulars. Oh, yeah. Where Leopold is a character.
Ansel Burch 12:37
Oh,
Ben Silverio 12:38
so that's an AU of King Leopold.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 12:42
There you go. Yeah. Except he actually has all of the diseases and is actually a print. It's a good show. I'm annoyed. They I'm annoyed that they canceled it. But I have a very strong headcanon for what I wanted to have happen. And second season,
Ben Silverio 12:58
there was the Joss Whedon show, right? No, what was that was never
Rachel Granda-Gluski 13:04
canceled because it was talking trash? No, I enjoyed it. I only made it the the the over sexualization of the women.
Ansel Burch 13:14
I'm not gonna say it's amazing, but it
Rachel Granda-Gluski 13:18
was cute. I would recommend it. It's like one season on Netflix.
Ben Silverio 13:22
Oh, interesting. But yeah, so the real Leopold went through some shit. Yeah.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 13:31
He was not a healthy person.
Ben Silverio 13:35
He died on March 28 1884.
Ansel Burch 13:42
Oh, come on. I know. So close. Because that would have been perfect. I would have been like, Oh, yes, he would have died on this day. But instead time travel shenanigans. Yeah, but
Rachel Granda-Gluski 13:53
Hugh Jackman's character is also an older version of way older than he would Oh 30. Yeah, he would have been very young.
Ben Silverio 14:03
He was also the president of the Oxford University chess club.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 14:08
Hmm. Chess was invented in India. Correct.
Ansel Burch 14:13
Which we just put a dime in the machine. We got one fun fact.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 14:16
No, I just got really excited because I just learned that fact because I read a book where they talk about the invention of chess being in India and I was like, is that free Hill? And it totally is. And I was like, that's the best part of this book. I
Ansel Burch 14:31
don't know why I knew that. But I did know that. I
Rachel Granda-Gluski 14:33
know. I didn't know it. For some reason. I thought it probably came because I know there's like a very similar Viking game to chess. And I kind of assumed that it came from like a
Ansel Burch 14:44
bunch of similar games that it that sort of developed anonymous or independently, that's the word I wanted. There's a similar game in Egypt. There's a Roman game that's very similar. And it's unclear whether it's related to any of the other ones. But there is a chess type board carved into the walls of the city of York and EU in the UK. Because it was where apparently this was where some guards were stationed. And they took the time to carve a frickin board into the spot where they were supposed to hang out. And wow, the oldest evidence of people slacking off on the job. And
Ben Silverio 15:29
of course, it's in the UK. Yeah.
Ansel Burch 15:31
The praetorian will never notice. Let's just like I'll play white.
Ben Silverio 15:39
But yes, so I just wanted to share a little bit about the real Leopold, considering that it it was a real person. Kind of
Rachel Granda-Gluski 15:52
take with many liberties taken.
Ben Silverio 15:54
Yeah, you know, as as writers tend to do. Fucking writers. Yeah, right. We're the worst. But like the real real vegetating the real edutainment the friends we made along the way. That's correct. That's, that's the real answer.
Ansel Burch 16:10
But so Rachel, do you want to tell us what edutainment you picked?
Rachel Granda-Gluski 16:14
I learned too much today about elevators.
Ansel Burch 16:17
Oh, that's so cool. That's so cool. Ben. When What are you thinking about doing today?
Ben Silverio 16:21
Actually, Hansel, you know, I thought about shaking things up a little bit. Because today I learned way too much about elevators.
Ansel Burch 16:28
Whoa, okay. Well, this is gonna be a really dynamic episode.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 16:32
A little too on the same wavelength. We've discovered.
Ben Silverio 16:36
I never realized this from the all the parties we've attended.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 16:42
Many, it's a handful. Yeah. You kind of one of those people who I've met many times, but never for a long time.
Ben Silverio 16:49
Yeah. And then you know, the pandemic led to lockdown and yeah. But we're in the same room again. Yeah, thankfully. So
Ansel Burch 17:00
So today's will Today's episode will be an extended conversation. At least 15 minutes about elevators.
Ben Silverio 17:06
Yes, I was inspired to do elevators because at the end of the credits of King Leopold, there is a paragraph that says in 1852, Alicia graves, Otis invented the safety brake for a lifting platform. One year later, in 1853. He founded the Otis Elevator Company in Yonkers, New York. I said, I said the way they say it, yeah, so yeah, that was good view. Right culture in Yonkers, New York. The Otis Elevator Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation. I just thought it was very funny that that whole paragraph was in the fucking credits. I
Rachel Granda-Gluski 17:45
think they must have had to include it because they used real Otis elevators Absolutely. Hide it in by being the name of the butler, which
Ansel Burch 17:54
felt a little weird. Yep. And some was that the someone at the oldest Corporation was like, Look here, motherfucker. You want to fall down an elevator shaft? Well, then you Let's go. Let's clarify that. Yeah, that shaft
Rachel Granda-Gluski 18:08
still exists, but all the elevators were gone. Like that was the whole shtick was that the elevators like had all stopped working? Because he wasn't there to invent them. That's why Oh, that's right. Because people needed their elevators. That's right. But the shafts apparently had been invented separately and so
Ben Silverio 18:30
well, because they were built by the construction people who did the build JC shaft
Ansel Burch 18:36
company,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 18:37
but if he didn't exist to invent elevators, why would they? Why would they have built shafts into the buildings? Wouldn't they just have walked out to see a straight wall but then where would he have? He could have fallen on the stairs
Ben Silverio 18:48
so he only developed the safety system for the elevators like to make them stop so that they don't like plunge well when they
Rachel Granda-Gluski 18:57
like go though they specifically do they invented the
Ben Silverio 19:01
LM I thought it was that he invented the safety mechanism.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 19:04
The elevator invented the safety elevators. See
Ben Silverio 19:06
I read too much about elevators today. I read so much about elevators. Confusing.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 19:13
Why I thought it was so weird that they really harped on this year, like a specific year. Because I was like, why couldn't they just like use the costumes to kind of vaguely tell us a story about oh, it's the Victorian era, which is a huge span of time. Yes. Could they have they could have done a costume that was could have been a little more vague could have been 18 He could have been 16 You know, where are they really? Are 18 660s Sorry, you know, where were they really and but they didn't they specifically chose a year when elevators were really like the first elevators started appearing in like the 1820s.
Ben Silverio 19:48
Well, let's let's go back a bit further first. So the earliest known reference to an elevator was by the Roman architect virtue UVs Vitruvius V IRVITRUVI us yeah Vitruvius Vitruvius who, who said that Archimedes built the first elevator in 236 BC Okay, that would have been a grain elevator yeah with grew right with hemp rope and animals pulling it. Yeah and
Rachel Granda-Gluski 20:27
most of the but like the modern elevator was really
Ansel Burch 20:33
down you get in a box
Rachel Granda-Gluski 20:35
of mines.
Ansel Burch 20:37
Oh that's
Rachel Granda-Gluski 20:39
meant to haul pretty much haul coal and lumber up steep hillside. Especially coal.
Ansel Burch 20:46
So if you've been to the Museum of Science and Industry and written in the unnecessary fear ride that is the elevator.
Ben Silverio 20:57
But the first human powered counterweighted personal elevator. So you know, the one meant for people was built in 1743 for King Louie the 15th of France in Versailles. So he could go up to his mistresses apartment. one floor above the stairs. Yeah, yeah, one floor.
Ansel Burch 21:23
Hey, if you're the king of France, why not?
Ben Silverio 21:26
How many floors the Barbie Dream House have? Because she had an elevator to three. Okay, I thought it was
Ansel Burch 21:32
too love to call Nicole who did the Barbie Dreamhouse episode. Yeah, right. That's actually went up or down one or two. And then
Rachel Granda-Gluski 21:43
Otis invented the safety elevator in 1854.
Ansel Burch 21:47
So is that when it sort of became more available to the masses outside of industrial purpose?
Ben Silverio 21:52
Actually, 1854 was when he when Otis introduced it to the world, right. And they the safety? Yes, exactly. The way he did it was with a death defying demonstration at the Crystal Palace.
Ansel Burch 22:11
That's 1850s that's how you do it. Yeah, because
Rachel Granda-Gluski 22:13
basically the issue with elevators why people didn't want to use them for anything other than industrial purposes is that they were death traps.
Ansel Burch 22:21
That makes sense. I feel like if people stopped if elevators started just like falling out of nowhere, I wouldn't want to get in one. So
Rachel Granda-Gluski 22:29
what ODIs did that was so revolutionary was he invented a way to prevent them from just plummeting to the ground if the rope broke? That's,
Ansel Burch 22:39
I mean, Well played sir. Good call.
Ben Silverio 22:43
I'm no engineer. Can you explain how that mechanism worked?
Rachel Granda-Gluski 22:46
Um, from the notes I have it says Otis is invention included a special braking system that would engage if the hoisting rope broke preventing the elevator from falling and this made elevators much safer and allowed them to be used in more places. And that Otis is still today one of the world's leading elevator manufacturers it doesn't say how he did it but from my basic understanding of elevators basically there are there's the what I believe what he did or something similar or what they use now is that there's a cable that pulls I don't know why I'm doing hand signals we're podcast helps you pick it up and lower the the elevator and then there are also cables along the sides. And so if the top cable snaps, it like clamps on to the side cable
Ansel Burch 23:36
as we've seen in the great documentary diehard
Rachel Granda-Gluski 23:40
right? And then I think circle document I read somewhere else that at one point another system was used where basically they put floors and so it would get pulled up but there would be like a thing that would close after it on each floor like a little door would automatically close so if it fell you would only fall onto the door and you'd be stopped if and then there was like an opening through the for the police to keep going up. So that was another various safety. That was a different manufacturer safety protocol at one did
Ansel Burch 24:18
that just break a lot or something? It seems like that
Rachel Granda-Gluski 24:20
there must have been a Yeah, I think maybe the timing and getting the doors closed was probably could have probably been an issue in the law seems like a lot of moving parts. The first recorded elevator use of an elevator in a building was an 1884, which was installed in the Eiffel Tower. Oh, however it is generally agreed the modern electric elevator was invented by a German German man Werner von Siemens Simon's
Ansel Burch 24:47
Siemens Siemens SAE MEMS Yep. Like the motors,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 24:53
which he received a patent for his design in 1880. So I'm actually more leaning towards that is who they are pretending even though they use the oldest name that German guy is who they're pretending Leopold is
Ansel Burch 25:09
or Mountbatten yeah that's the whole name switch again Yeah.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 25:12
And and his where was it that I've read more about what he was like his specific elevator I don't remember what was special about him Yeah, but his was just the modern His was an electric elevator as opposed to like manual pulleys and systems. Okay, interesting. I also read something about the fact that for a really long time people didn't trust elevators without operators in them but there was like a strike of elevator operators in the 1840s which actually led to them being phased out
Ansel Burch 25:53
interesting because people
Rachel Granda-Gluski 25:55
felt safer if there was an operator
Ansel Burch 25:58
Well, that was also probably during that transitional period where they still had the like handbrake yeah Frank thing in there as opposed to the button because you I mean, you do have to I don't know if you've ever had to do one of those handbrake elevators but man timing that thing out to hit the floor right? Not easy. Oh really? Oh yeah. Yeah. Are the freight elevator in one of the office buildings I worked in had one of those and did not nail it let me tell you I don't know why the maintenance guy was like yeah, you got this I was like I don't got this
Rachel Granda-Gluski 26:34
apparently 1859 was the first passenger elevator was installed in a New York City Department Store
Ben Silverio 26:42
Wait What year
Rachel Granda-Gluski 26:43
1859
Ansel Burch 26:44
equity could still kill you all Yeah, well,
Ben Silverio 26:47
the my research said 1857 but interesting. Yeah in either V hot routes department store and so it was only five stories.
Ansel Burch 27:03
So if you fell Yeah, only you only break a lot.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 27:07
I mean, that was after this the safety elevator what the safety brake was already in existence.
Ben Silverio 27:13
Right. So his was Otis is safety elevated. Like that was the first time that that was installed and used regularly. It had a fully enclosed cab and was powered by steam. It ran point two meters per second.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 27:29
And then the first electric elevator was installed in London in 1867. And then the first self service elevator was installed in the New York City office building in 1902 1906. We got the first high speed elevator don't know what that means. They did not clarify how fast that's
Ansel Burch 27:50
when the safety brake only initiates at the floor. You want freefall until Yes. freefall
Rachel Granda-Gluski 28:00
and that is a ride I do not go on. You don't
Ben Silverio 28:02
go on the Tower of Terror because I was just gonna bring it up for 10
Ansel Burch 28:05
Okay. Cuz you you're
Ben Silverio 28:13
I was gonna bring up the Tower of Terror just because we're Disney fans. You don't like the ride? Don't
Rachel Granda-Gluski 28:18
go on it. I don't I don't like any of the rides where you dropped suddenly. That's always been a no go.
Ben Silverio 28:22
See I don't like being upside down. So I don't go wrong. I've
Rachel Granda-Gluski 28:25
never gone upside down. Alright, I am a reason I like Disney so much is because predominantly, their rides are for babies. I'm a proud baby. So
Ben Silverio 28:40
I was gonna say that they're all very technologically advanced.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 28:45
Ready to go upside down like less really roller coasters than they are story rides for games you play
Ben Silverio 28:55
even the even the Space Mountain or Indiana Jones and the Temple of the forbidden is my favorite. I love ride. Oh,
Ansel Burch 29:05
I love that amazing ride.
Ben Silverio 29:08
I may have told the story before
Rachel Granda-Gluski 29:09
even that drop. You're mostly fast and they turn you as opposed to drop you down. Which is what I I'm fine with.
Ansel Burch 29:17
Drop with the rock rolling at you. But that's yeah, pretty minor.
Ben Silverio 29:22
Yeah, it's not very steep. Um, when that ride first opened, I was very small. And my aunt's took me to Disneyland. And they dragged me kicking and screaming through the queue. Because for a very small child going into this for boating looking temporal terrifying. It was very terrifying. So I was kicking screaming crying throughout the entire queue. We get on the ride. I'm like screaming on the ride freaking out and then we get off from like, let's do it again. Like a shitty fucking kid.
Ansel Burch 29:57
That sounds right.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 29:58
Oh, I have one last one.
Ben Silverio 29:59
Do you have Oh yeah,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 30:00
there is an elevator Museum in New York City.
Ben Silverio 30:05
Oh, yeah. How many elevators was on the top floor? I
Rachel Granda-Gluski 30:07
don't even know. But I've always wanted to go apparently one of the things is that it just has like a wall panel of like, of like, of the history of how the buttons have changed. Oh, interesting. They're all these different button panels from like a bunch of different elevators
Ben Silverio 30:24
and you press them all? I think so.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 30:28
They work anymore. Like they don't light up or anything, but I think you can like check out the different switches. And always, apparently, it's like hidden in the middle of nowhere. It's kind of hard to find. But like most things in New York, if I ever go back to New York, I want to go to the elevator Museum, because they talked about it in one of my favorite other podcasts. Which is stuffing missed in history class.
Ben Silverio 30:51
Oh, fun. I'll have to
Ansel Burch 30:54
link to their elevator episode, an elevator episode.
Ben Silverio 30:56
You're gonna need one of ANSYS podcasts. This is what's a little a little biased
Rachel Granda-Gluski 31:01
since I've been involved a lot of
Ansel Burch 31:06
the ones I've produced Yeah. It's kind of surprising. I didn't get you on this one sooner. Really?
Ben Silverio 31:15
Do you have any fun facts? But elevators cancel? No. No, I do not answer doesn't have fun on elevator.
Ansel Burch 31:21
I don't. I don't. I mean, I enjoyed an elevator comfort. Don't get me wrong. That's,
Ben Silverio 31:26
I love an elevator as much as the next guy. Yeah, it's a good technology.
Rachel Granda-Gluski 31:31
Do the thing where you wait for it to just start going down and you try to jump?
Ben Silverio 31:36
Of course, of course, not so much anymore. But
Rachel Granda-Gluski 31:40
I do know from experience that nowadays, if there's ever a fire in the building, all of the elevators will just go down to the first floor in case there are people in them. Oh, you asked me how I know. Oh, in an elevator when a building fire alarm went off and it stopped and it took us all the way down and we were very confused.
Ben Silverio 32:01
Well, you know, Chicago fires. Yeah,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 32:03
that was not like we were on vacation somewhere. It was like me and a friend. We were on like, I think probably in Florida then.
Ben Silverio 32:11
Oh, well. Florida is constantly on fire.
Ansel Burch 32:15
Not enough but it is on fire right
Ben Silverio 32:17
now in the right places like where Ron DeSantis is. But you know if somebody happens to set fire to wherever Ron DeSantis is, we didn't tell you to do it.
Ansel Burch 32:27
All right, y'all. There are there are three elevator museums. Oh, yeah. State so they all New York. No, there's one in New York. The elevator museum Inc. Then elevate tours. Elevator Museum. Where's that one? That one is in Roanoke, Virginia. Weird. Okay, interesting choice. And then the J H. haws. Elevator, which is a grain elevator in Illinois, Atlanta, Illinois. Oh,
Rachel Granda-Gluski 32:57
we could go go to that one. Yeah, like before you move.
Ben Silverio 33:01
How far is it? How long does it take to get there? Let's go now.
Ansel Burch 33:05
Let's see. Two hours and 33 minutes usually sooner than I expected. Totally do it. Yeah, it's down near man a bunch of places that I've never gone to. That's for damn sure. It's past Bloomington. But not quite Springfield. Okay.
Ben Silverio 33:24
Cool. We can make it.
Ansel Burch 33:27
It does seem to be just a grain elevator to be clear.
Ben Silverio 33:32
Okay, I'm sure we can find another grain elevator closer.
Ansel Burch 33:37
southern Wisconsin, lousy with them.
Ben Silverio 33:41
Well, party people. Thank you for tuning in this month to listen to us talk about Kate and Leopold. Kind of maybe. Some of it, but yeah. Good bit of it. Rachel, thank you for joining us
Rachel Granda-Gluski 33:56
for having me.
Ben Silverio 33:57
Do you want to plug anything?
Rachel Granda-Gluski 33:59
Oh, if you want to hear me vaguely talk about books that I'm reading and hunt for my goal of finding all of Chicago's little free libraries. You can check me out on the tiktoks o'clock app at a wandering read. Cool, and we'll
Ansel Burch 34:19
link that in the in the show notes
Ben Silverio 34:21
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Ansel Burch 34:37
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Ben Silverio 34:57
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Ansel Burch 35:02
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Ben Silverio 35:06
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Rachel Granda-Gluski 35:15
party on dudes
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