Home Show Maiden

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My name is Rob, I'm the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse Podcast, and I made amusing last week that I'm not a big fan of boats, yet I enjoy Yacht Rock.
What's that sink in? Because it's time for another Home Show!
This is number 472. For those of you playing the home game, let's go around the desk, sitting in the co-host chair is the lady of the house,
and she enjoys a little bit of Come Sail Away, which actually ties into another review we're going to do this week. She is Jen Roe, welcome friend.
Hello everyone, thank you for joining us again.
Rounding out the day is the official fact checker of sooner or greater productions, and a man that is not allowed to sing the song, I'm on a boat because it's not a family appropriate.
You may know him as Igboonu, but his mama name I'm Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford, hey brother.
It takes me away. I love that song. I love it. He was a great singer.
He still is. He rocks.
He's not in past 10. He's present. He's been singing a long time, no.
He's still out there? I know, but he's not there getting a done.
The album says he released in a last minute. He doesn't have to. It's like Buffett.
If he did, I'd buy it.
Whenever we do one of these, it is to review something and this is no exception.
We're going to go documentary on you for a minute.
As Alex Holmes, the guy that directed Dunkirk, directs a movie called Maiden.
For sure, this whole madness.
Yes sir.
We're going to thank Josh and our best friends.
We love our vendors. They let us see movies and stuff before they come out so we can talk to you guys about them.
Now, Don actually went and saw this one by himself.
I was still trying to get my self back to abnormal after summer band 46 week.
Actually, the Fantastic Faith Ford wouldn't necessarily watch it.
Well, the people in this room, you're the only one that's seen the film.
Okay.
Which I actually did want to see this, but it was a spend a tough few days.
I was a little bummed I didn't get to see this, but I needed to sleep.
Yeah.
So this covers a young lady by the name of Tracy Edwards.
In 1989, she was not only the first female captain, but also the first all female crew
to get into the Whitbread round the world race.
This covers 33,000 nautical miles and takes six months to do.
Okay, what's the difference between a nautical mile and a mile?
I believe there's...
You've asked me something.
I will Google that.
Yes.
It's a long way.
I'll let you fact check that one for me.
There's less miles on my car right now.
I think maybe because of the curve of the ocean and...
Maybe it's a little bit longer.
You know what?
I'm giving you points for that.
Maybe.
I don't know.
You're just going to fact check that one.
Nicely done on that, Tom.
Yeah.
And only because you've seen this movie and we need him to focus.
And this takes the actual event took place in 1989.
Yeah.
So talk a little bit, Tom, because one of the things I found most intriguing about your written review
for this film that is currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
Is you talked quite a bit about the shooting style of this film?
Yeah.
Well, just a little background.
Let me put the thing into the race itself.
And I'll get into your question if that's fine.
Okay.
No, that's fine.
It's your reviewer, brother.
Yeah, the race starts off in England.
Then they go...
The first leg is one of the long ones.
They go from England to Uruguay in South America.
Okay, so then it goes east to west then.
Yeah.
And then when they get there, then the next stage two is one of the hardest ones.
Because it's in the Arctic Ocean in the south.
And they go from South America under Africa to the west coast of Australia.
So that's like almost half the earth.
South America under Africa, west coast of Australia.
Wow, that's crazy.
Yeah.
That's the second one.
I'm trying to do the math on that.
I'm trying to pick it up out of mine.
And then the next one's a real short one.
It's the west coast of Australia to the tip of New Zealand.
So it basically is just going around Austria.
Right.
Then the next one's from New Zealand to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
And then from Florida back to England.
Oh, wow.
And so what happens is it's kind of like the Tour de France where they all start off at the same time.
And then the first two arrive is in first place.
And then the ones that arrive after they have that time behind.
Right.
Because when they wait for everybody to get in, they take some time off.
That kind of thing.
And then they start at that same interval.
Yeah, but you know, like if I get there an hour before you do when we leave Uruguay,
I leave and you have to wait an hour before you leave.
No, no, no, no, you all leave again, but you're an hour ahead.
Oh, so it's cumulative time.
Yeah, cumulative time.
Okay.
Kind of like the Tour de France where after each stage, you might be a, you might win the race,
but you're still behind three minutes of the lead.
In some stages, there's two different ways to do it.
I see what you're saying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's kind of like golf.
Yeah.
I get three under and you're even.
We still keep going, but I'm still three under.
Yeah.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Then the race is basically, it's like the Olympics.
It looks like once every four years.
They don't do it every year because first off, it takes six months.
So how are you going to train and get a boat ride?
Yeah, no kidding.
Unless you just rotate who's in the dugout.
Yeah, exactly.
It's a crew of 12.
So the filming style, not to get to your question.
Mm-hmm.
It was, the film was an hour and a half, which was a good length.
That's the end of, that's the end of her documentary.
Yeah.
It kept me interested, didn't really drag.
And it starts telling the story of Tracy Moore.
She's the main star because she's the head of the group
and really got this thing going.
But it would be an interview with her.
And basically, it had all the crew.
They'd say, yes, I was, you know, I was the steward.
I was the first mate.
Right.
I was the first.
So it had all the people that was the crew that could make it for the film.
And it was a live, the modern day interviewer
they're talking to the camera, like they're being sat down,
like you see on these interviews.
Maybe standard documentary.
But it gives, it goes back and forth so much
showing the footage of the time.
It starts off talking about her as a child.
Tracy as a child.
Then how she got into sailing.
Then how she wanted to be part of the race in on the prior race.
Before that, in 89, she was, she ended up getting a job
as a cook on one of the crews.
And then at that point, she said, I want to be a real sailor.
Okay.
But it would go back and forth with the modern day interviews.
You'd see the people, then it would show old footage.
And they had to dig up some of this stuff.
It was like watching some of this stuff on BCR tapes.
And so it's kind of like watching the whole film on BCR.
So that's what I really loved.
It made you feel like you were back in that time of 89.
And the fact that at the time of the race,
she was 24 years old, which is even more amazing.
Yeah.
And this is a real male-dominated sport at the time,
especially that race.
But I really loved how you would see these old footagees.
It was like, oh, it's like watching an old BCR tape,
which was great.
Then going back to a good shot of the interview back to old time.
So you know they had to really find some footage,
but they spent a lot of time getting this footage.
And they showed it the way it was.
They didn't remaster it to make it look all nice.
I liked how this is old stuff.
We're getting the best we can.
And I thought it was interesting how you made a point
to talk about that in your review.
Exactly.
That they didn't try to digitize it.
Yeah.
Do you think that was because they wanted the audience
to really feel like they were completely immersed in the time
itself?
And if they had digitized it and cleaned it up,
it would have taken them out of it.
Yeah, I agree with that 100%.
Okay.
That's what I honestly feel on that.
The story, and I don't want to give anything really away.
I mean, some people may know the story.
Some people didn't.
I didn't know about the story.
I didn't either.
No.
In general, I'm saying she did.
Yeah.
But the thing I found interesting was her trying to get funding
for this.
You had to get a boat.
You had to get sponsorship.
You had to get all this stuff.
And they were looking at the time.
And this is in 89 million pounds.
Which there was something similar to that in a recent 30 for 30
called qualified, which deals with the same kind of thing
in the Minneapolis 500.
And no one would even give her the time of day.
Same story, absolutely.
And there were people actually betting that they wouldn't.
There were bets.
There were like betting lines of how far they would go.
This women crew.
There were so many people that only a few people said that
even get to the first leg in your way.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
No one thought that even finished the race.
And there were some very surprising results.
Is the best way I would be.
Okay.
And I don't want to give anything away.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
That's cool.
But the thing that I found was real interesting is that how she met
the king of Jordan, the prince of Jordan.
And he said, you should try to get on that first race four years ago.
Go for it.
You know, be a strong person.
Well, four years later, she's trying to get funding.
No one would give her the funding.
And this is going to be a minor spoiler.
Well, hold on.
You've got to, I mean, you've got to premiere.
Good thing, Stan.
Because I have to find the right screen.
Because again, three, two, one.
And it ended up being the only person that would fund her was the king of Jordan.
Oh, wow.
And his airline.
He gave him the whole million dollars.
He had that much faith in her.
And that's a prince of a Middle East country, which is I think even more surprised.
Interesting.
Yeah.
So that was a really kind of a feel-good moment that this guy says, I'm going to back you
because you were such a strong person four years ago.
And he, she didn't want to.
She didn't want to, but she goes, this is the only way I could do it.
So the result was really, really interesting.
This film made you laugh.
It made you mad in some aspects.
And how these people were treated.
These women were treated at the time.
There's some good, I'll stay Rudy moments.
Okay.
That's the best way to put it.
You get some really good Rudy moments in this.
The only thing I don't like.
I really enjoyed how they gave a little history of her and the team.
How they really showed the race.
And there was a lot of footage from the boat.
And it showed how brutal it is.
There was one crew in the Arctic race park.
The Arctic portion, phase two by the southern by the Anark and all that stuff.
Where two people died.
I mean, two people fell over one died on another crew.
So this is, it shows how dangerous this race was.
And how brutal the wet mother nature could be to this crew.
It had a lot of footage on them.
But the only thing I didn't like is the post race.
After the race, basically, there was no Tracy went on to do this.
Tracy went.
Oh, so you didn't get that post script kind of thing.
Nothing like that.
All right.
It had a good ending of the race and the effects of.
But I wish they would have gave more a little, just a little bit more.
It lets you want to know more.
Yeah, what happened after the race?
Did she go on to do another race?
Did another, how many women have now been in this race?
Stuff like that would have been, I think, a really good ending for the film.
And that's my only thing that I did not like about the film.
Generally, any questions from you?
No, but I do have our definition for us.
Oh, okay.
It's a standard mile and a nautical mile.
While a mile is a unit of distance on land, a nautical mile is used to measure distances
as C, 1 nautical mile equals 1.51 miles.
So, John, you're probably right, the curvature of the earth and everything else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very nice.
Thank you.
Well played.
And he did such a good job talking about them.
Maybe I don't have any questions.
All right.
Well, let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis on the show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down, letters, numbers,
America's cups, anything like that.
I'm going to ask Don up to two questions.
Question number one is, would he see this film again?
If the answers know them, we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, the follow-up question would be, for Don to see it again,
how far would he be willing to go to do it?
From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's the scale.
Full price at a theater down to a twilight show, down to a matinee,
down to early morning on a weekend, down to second run at the dollar theater,
down to actually leaving his house to go rent it, down to streaming it
on his favorite streaming application, down to cable.
Don for it.
Yes.
Would you see Maiden again?
Oh, definite.
How far are you willing to go?
Jenny, you want to hear this one?
Coveted.
Coveted.
For a documentary with Don, that's a lot.
Oh, Don, that's a big fan of the documentary.
But even with that little ending thing, every take out of it,
everything else was still, Jenny, you will, you got to see this, you will love it.
That's the only thing I could, I can't say that enough.
No one you as a person, you will love this thing.
Good for the family, good for teens, good for, you know,
not maybe young kids, but like five years old.
But anybody who's at least 10 or older, see this film
and see how even society has changed in the world of stealing after this event.
Alex Holmes directs Maiden.
For this old thing?
Yes, I think Josh and our best friends.
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