Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Ina: I’m Ina Garten, I love to invite interesting people to my house for good food, great conversation and lots of fun. 

VO: My dear friends Rob Marshall and John De Luca, the award-winning director and producer of some of your favourite films, like Chicago and Mary Poppins returns, are coming to the barn for the day. 

John: We’re excited because we’re going to Ina’s

Rob: We’re excited 

John: but not so much because we are, she usually cooks for us 

Rob: she cooks, yeah, she does 

John: and today we’re 

Rob: Cooking for-

John: cooking for her 

Rob: Yeah, yeah 

John: But it’s, I’ve chosen really really simple recipes 

Rob: Yeah but I still think we’re in big trouble, but then

John: yeah, but she’ll lie, and she’ll say every- anything is good. She such a lovely woman.

Rob: listen its Ina, who cares John, it’s going to be the best time ever

John: at least we’ll laugh, we’ll laugh

Rob: Like it always is, we always laugh 

John: Okay so we gotta to go 

Rob: Can’t wait to see Ina’s soon. Okay 

Rob & John: Bye 

VO: We’re talking about work

Ina: So, you were nominated for 12 academy awards 

Rob: Honestly every moment making a film 

John: yeah 

Rob: Is literally like you’re just about to have a disaster 

VO: Maybe sharing a few secrets

Ina: she thought she’d put the phone on hold 

John: Oh no 

Ina: And she calls out “it's for you, it's that crazy Ina Garten” 

LAUGHTER 

VO: and even dancing 

John: Come on Lindy hop and then she goes to Rob 

Rob: Yes, yes, yes, she’s mine 

VO: I’m making there amazing Watermelon cosmopolitan’s 

Ina: To movie making 

John: Cheers

Rob: To movie making

John: cheers 

Rob: To you 

Ina: So much fun 

VO: John is cooking his salmon burgers topped with the easiest coleslaw, which is his mum’s recipe. Then we’re heading out to a historic Inn on Mainstreet for cheesecake and we’re meeting Jeffery 

Jeffery: Ina’s chicken, that’s chicken 

Rob: Exac- that is chicken 

Ina: Dream Guests 

Rob: yeah, dream host. 

Ina: Jeffery and I have been really good friends with Rob and John for, oh, about 15 years. They’re coming over, we’re going to have a great convocation and I’m making their watermelon cosmopolitans. But first what I'm doing is I’m pureeing four cups of watermelon. I’m pureeing the watermelon chunks in a food mill, you can do it in a blender, but the food mill takes out any seeds that are left and some of the pulp so it's a little more elegant. It smells so good; it smells like summer. While I work on this, let me tell you about Rob and John. 

VO: They’re Partner’s in life and in work, they met almost 40 years ago working in the theatre as choreographers, before going into movies. They’re first full-length feature movie was Chicago which one 6 academy awards including best picture. They’ve turned several stage musicals like 9 into successful films and made many more movies including pirates of the Caribbean, memoirs of a Gasha and Mary Poppins returns which we actually and a party for the in the barn. I love them, I love spending time with them and I’m looking forward to hearing all they’re stories.

Ina: To the best of friends 

John: Yes 

Ina: I can’t wait for them to get here, so this is the pureed watermelon, look how gorgeous that colour is, it's going to make really gorgeous cocktails. Okay now I'm going to make the mix, so I’m going to take the watermelon juice and just pour it into a pitcher. Okay next is some vodka, can’t make a cocktail without alcohol. Rob actually made these cocktails for us and gave me the recipe; I’ve made them all summer long and then orange liquor. I hate making cocktails one at a time, I like to make a big pitcher and freshly squeezed lime juice and that’s the mix, just going to give it a big stir, looks at this colour, isn’t this fabulous? So good. Okay, into the fridge, I’ve got martini glasses in the freezer, nice and cold, it's going to be all ready when they get here. Fun to be had. 

Rob: Okay we’re coming up to Ina’s John.

John: yep, any day with Ina’s a great day 

Rob: that’s for sure. 

Rob: Perfect

John: Okay yes

Rob: Thank you Johnny. Okay here we go. You ready? 

John: beautiful day 

Rob: Oh, it's so gorgeous. Off we go. 

John: it always looks so beautiful here. 

Rob: You know, it's funny I, I feel like when you’re here John, I feel like you’re in the Luxembourg gardens or something 

John: I know 

Rob: it’s so fantastic

John: She’s always so inspirational 

Rob: Okay let’s go, let’s go find her

Rob & John: Hello!

Rob: Hello

John: hello hello 

Rob: Hi

Ina: Ahh ha, they’re here. Hi, I'm so happy to see you 

Rob: This is the best, so great to see you too 

John: Hiii 

Rob: thank you for having us over to your gorgeous place

John: ohh

Ina: This is two for one.

Rob: yes 

Ina: Okay I made your cocktails, I made Watermelon Cosmo’s, how’s that?

Rob: Okay, oh gosh I hope they’re okay 

Ina: you feel like that? 

Rob: Okay yes fabulous 

John: Yeah, Ill be the tester for that 

Ina: Okay, so one of you, does one of you 

Rob: yeah, yeah, yeah 

Ina: want to get? 

Rob: yeah 

Ina: We need three frozen cocktail glasses 

Rob: Yeah, where’s- where’s the big glass, that’s what I want to know, where’s that big one? 

Ina: I forgot that one 

John: Come on 

Ina: we, we might have to do that 

Rob: Oh, these look fantastic Ina 

Ina: these are so good, this is your cocktail. 

Rob: Now did you do the sort of whole food mill thing? Is that how it worked or? 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: yeah, to make it like, get rid of the pulp and the seeds and all that stuff 

Ina: yeah, yeah 

Rob: gosh 

Ina: you taught Rob that 

Rob: Yeah, you taught every-

Ina: The whole thing 

Rob: and really you sort of half your

Ina: And where does this come from? 

Rob: yeah 

Ina: You gave it to me 

Rob: do you remember John? 

Ina: Do you think they were sending me a message? 

John: yeah 

Ina: Okay 30 seconds 

Rob: 30 seconds that’s your, your, know. Otherwise, it doesn’t work.

Ina: it, it chills it, but it also dilutes it. Okay, who’s in charge here? 

Rob: Okay, okay here we go, oh how beautiful 

Ina: look how gorgeous is that 

Rob: Look at the colour 

John: Nice

Ina: Okay, I think we need a little mint on each one right?

John: yeah

Rob: okay, John let’s do this 

John: I can do that

Ina: are you, are you the mint chef? 

John: yeah yep

Rob: yeah, how much do you like on top, like, oh like that John, not like a whole little sprig? 

Ina: I like whatever you like, like a little sprig, a sprig

John: Oh, you want to do sprigs

Rob: It’s sort of become, my you know my thing

John: see I, uh 

Rob: I think

Ina: Oh that smells so good

Rob: like this

Ina: just like that

Rob: is that okay?

Ina: perfect, perfect 

Rob: like that

John: I’m just going to let you do, will you put them all in then? 

Ina: perfect 

Rob: Okay there we go, is that good? 

John: This is nice, yeah 

Rob: Its beautiful… fantastic 

Ina: I’d say we are so ready

Rob: oh my gosh, okay, here john 

Ina: John

Rob: You got it

John: Thank you

Rob: You good?

John: yes

Ina: Rob 

John: thank you, cheers

Ina: To movie making 

John: cheers to movie making 

Rob: To you 

Ina: So much fun … mmmm 

Rob: Why are they so much better when you make them Ina, what is it? 

Ina: wha- (Laughs) seriously, everything’s better when somebody else makes it

Rob: No but seriously, always, that’s so funny 

Ina: I don’t know, is it better?

Rob: It is better 

Ina: IT’s so good, do you know how many times I made this, this summer. Oh my god, over and over and over again 

Rob: But it is 

Ina: It was like, oh, not those watermelon Cosmo’s again 

Rob: But you know, they’re so clean and yummy, I mean I don’t know

Ina: yeah 

John: yeah 

ROB: I can barely taste the vodka 

Ina: MM yeah, just wait 

Rob: but you put, but you do triple sec right, yes, the whole thing, yeah? 

Ina: yeah, yeah, the whole thing just the way your recipe is 

Rob: It’s the best 

John: I like smelling the mint, always the mint is the best part 

Rob: We love you 

Ina: And the mint is so interesting cause you can smell it first and then you taste it 

Rob: Yeah right 

John: exactly, that’s what I love

Rob: I love it, mmm 

Ina: mmmm 

Rob: it really is divine, oh now I’m tasting the vodka 

Ina: Now you’re

LAUGHTER 

Rob: It’s coming out now 

Ina: woah 

Rob: now I taste it 

Ina: let’s go talk 

John: Yes

Rob: okay great

Ina: I can’t wait to talk to you 

John: yeah, yeah yeah 

Ina; wow

Rob: Now we’re going to spill it Ina because we have Cosmos, so it’s all going to come flying out 

LAUGHTER

Ina: (laughs) I’m so glad to see you 

Rob: oh we love seeing you too

Ina: How fun is this? 

Rob: the best

Ina: Okay let’s get started

John: yes, yes 

Ina: This is going to be fun. How did you meet? You met in a show, you say in the bathroom, but it was really the dressing room 

Rob: that’s a terrible way to say it, oh my god 

LAUGHTER 

Rob: have I said-

John: We’ll call it a dressing rom 

Rob: Wow 

Ina: That’s the story you tell 

John: you’re absolutely right 

Rob: NO it was a, it was a 

John: we were auditioning for a show 

Rob: You know it was a very sort of off-Broadway production so

Ina: yeah 

Rob: So, the bathroom was the dressing room 

Ina: right, exactly 

Rob: So that’s what it was 

Ina: And you were both auditioning for the same show 

John: Yes, yes 

Rob: Exactly 

Ina: The good news is you both got parts in that play 

Rob: we did 

John: we both did, yeah

Ina: The bad news is nobody’s ever heard of it

Rob: no, no, 

John: No no 

Rob: It was a tiny, are you ready for the title ? 

Ina: Yeah 

Rob: Its the weirdest title ever, it's called the Boogie Woogie rumble of a dream deferred

Ina: (Laughs) Okay 

Rob: Okay, yeah  

Ina: I couldn’t remember that 5 minutes later 

Rob: it’s no, no, no, no 

Ina: But the best thing that came out of it is the collaboration between the two of you. 

Rob: So, I just remember you know seeing you and thinking, wow you’re so sophisticated and so you know

Ina: stylish 

Rob: and so, accomplished already, yeah 

Ina: But you were in major productions, you were in cats

John: well, it was a big deal then 

Ina: It was a big deal, yeah 

Rob: I mean it was the 80’s and it was a big deal for a dancer to get that role

Ina: yeah 

Rob: but now I can’t, I honestly 

John: everybody wanted to be in cats 

Rob: I always, I mean honestly, I don’t like cats, like 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: like cat’s themselves 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: I mean they’re fine but 

John: he came home 

Ina: Oh, you don’t like actual cats 

Rob: No, I don’t like cats 

John: He was, no he was rehearsing the show and he came home, and I said so, so how’s it going and he goes to be honest, don’t tell anyone, I’m in cats and I’m playing a cat but I’m really playing a dog 

Ina: (laughs) 

Rob: That’s what I decided, it was weird I was the first cat on stage, so you slid-, and I, you’re in this big junk yard, everything’s over-sized 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: and I thought, and I have the first line of the whole thing and I slid down and I thought this is the stupidest show I’ve ever

LAUGHTER 

Rob: but I can’t believe I’m in it 

Ina: So, then something happened that really like changed your life and Rob hit a wall? 

Rob: Yeah, I 

Ina: And what happened?

Rob: It was so surprising; I mean I injured myself in a show, uh, I got a herniated disk in my back and I couldn’t dance, I had been, uh, the dance captain on Broadway show, also the assistant choreographer on some Broadway shows, so the natural thing for me to, was to become a choreographer myself 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: Which I thought I would do maybe down the line, but not at aged 27 

Ina: It made it happen faster 

Rob: No 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: and so the first thing and I though, you know what before I go back to dancing, maybe I’ll just choregraph something 

Ina: Mmm hmm

Rob: and then I never really stopped 

Ina: And then how did Annie come along? So Annie, Annie is a made for TV movie 

Rob: yeah 

Ina: Let me just say, it was the highest watched Tv movie of the year 

Rob: it was crazy 

John: wow 

Ina: Am I right? You won an Emmy for that? 

Rob: Yes 

John: there were Emmy’s everywhere for this show 

Rob: Yeah 

Ina: How did it come about? 

Rob: I had done some television choreographing and those producer’s saw me and thought, oh you can direct 

Ina: and did you think you could? 

Rob: No, I, I don’t know, I remember the first day and I was so nervous I couldn’t even say the word action. Kathy bates was waiting for me to say let’s go and I couldn’t say action, I just couldn’t say it at all, so I finally said Okay whenever, I don’t know why I said that

LAUGHTER 

Ina: do you, was it that you just, you felt like you were impersonating a director? 

Rob: Yes exactly, it felt cliché 

Ina: isn’t that interesting, oh 

John: It is a very clichéd term 

Rob: and the and and-

John: action and cut 

Rob: cut too, you know I didn’t say cut I said well that’s it. 

LAUGHTER 

Ina: I remember the first time I was on a, on a TV set and I, I was I did something wrong, and I went cut and the director was like 

John: oh my god 

Ina: No, no, no, no, no, that’s what I say 

John: you don’t call cut 

Rob: Don’t cross that line 

Ina: I couldn’t get myself to stop saying it 

Rob: ah that’s so funny

LAUGHTER 

Ina: And the thing about Annie is, I actually didn’t see it until recently, because I thought it was a children’s thing, but it's really about children teaching adults to re-discover awe and wonder, is that, is that what it is for you as well? 

Rob: Well you know what, for me, um, film musicals they take you to another place. They bring you to a place of joy and of, of, of abandonment and fun and, and, and also message about life, about living life to the fullest and I think sometimes times musicals can do that in a way other things can’t and I felt that Annie was very much that. 

Ina: and then what happened? 

Rob: they asked me, would you come to talk about directing the film of rent.

Ina: Which was huge on Broadway at that time, right? 

Rob: Huge, huge, but I secretly knew the entire time that they had Chicago and Chicago was having a real trouble getting made 

Ina: why? 

Rob: because conceptually I think people, um, couldn’t find their way into, it's a very complicated transitions, um, from stage to film because it's a theatrical piece. The whole thing it's all Vod-vil number

Ina: oh 

Rob: So how do you do that on film, but secretly uh Chicago was my favourite musical 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: and so, and I had always thought about how I would do it and what I would do, so I um, I went down to this meeting and um, and they said, I said, you know before we talk about rent can I just talk about Chicago, I did a number for them 

Ina: Did you really? What d’you do

Rob: I did Mr cellophane 

Ina: uh, it's the best 

Rob: I explained that you’d be in an office and you could pick up a hat to leave and put it on your head and be on stage 

Ina: (gasps) Well the transitions in that movie are just stunning. Okay so you’ve gone from being a dancer where you’re just responsible for your yourself

Rob: mmm 

Ina: TO be a choreographer where you’re responsible for a group of dancers 

Rob: yes 

Ina: And now you’re responsible for an entire movie 

Rob: yes 

Ina: SO, you asked John to come in with you? 

Rob: So, I, the first thing I did was I said John 

Ina: Yeah 

Rob: you have to do this with me

Ina: SO, you’re the director, Johns the producer, is that what? 

John: and the good thing is that we do have similar taste but we also have enough of a different sensibility 

Ina: Mm hmm 

Rob: Mmm Hmm 

John: That it, it’s it works and I’m not afraid of saying 

Ina: well, you 

Rob: also, when you’re, also John 

Ina: NO? 

LAUGHTER 

Rob: and also 

Ina: You don’t hold back? 

John: I may seem shy, but I don’t hold back 

Rob: But you’re amazing with actors John that’s the thing and I knew, you know we were working with the actors in the film were New to musicals, Rene Zellweger had never done a musical. 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: Katherine had done stage musicals in the West end and Richard Gear 

Ina: and Richard Gear 

John: Richard Gear, yes

Ina: So, tell me the story about going to Rene Zellweger and having her come for an audition 

Rob: Oh 

Ina: Cuz she was the lead 

Rob: Yes 

Ina: and she’d never sung or danced, she’d been a cheerleader in high school 

John: Yes 

Rob: I cant believe you know all this, how do you know all these things? 

Ina: And with that criteria you decided that maybe she had a chance 

Rob: That’s it, we loved her as an actor and we, we thought this is perfect because the character of Roxy has to be a wanna be you know, sort of an underdog and you have to really care for her true vulnerability. 

Ina: Mmm Hmm 

Rob: And so we both loved the idea but we had no idea if she could sing or could dance or anything like that and we were at a restaurant, we had not heard her sing, she would not sing for us. I said um, so do you know, um, this uh, song or that song, I sort of started, started asking cuz I thought maybe she’ll sing in the restaurant

Ina: I love that you’re known as the stealth director

LUAGHTER

Ina: Nobody even knows you’re directing them. Didn’t Judy Dench call you a stealth director 
Rob: Yes exactly  

Ina: I love that. SO, you said to her, I don’t remember the words, something like that

LAUGHTER

Rob: Yeah, yeah, I don’t remember how does that go again? I tried to be very cagey about getting into it 

John: Renee’s no fool though, she knew exactly –

Rob: and she, and uh, and uh, and then she started to sing a little and I could hear that she had an ear and then I said she’s it because I heard her sing 

Ina: Oh, I’m going to cry 

Rob: yeah, that’s it 

Ina: Isn’t that amazing? 

Rob: Yeah. I mean listen to musicals at that point were dead 

Ina: DEAD

John: They were yeah, they were dead and buried, and nobody wanted to see them

Rob: Nobody wanted to do them and so we thought, you know, we’d open and three people would want to see it and honestly that’s, that kind of no pressure 

John: that’s the best 

Rob: helped a lot 

Ina: Yeah, so you were nominated for 12 academy awards, you won 6 including best picture 

Rob: I remember very specifically that it was the first musical to win since 1968, since Oliver 

Ina: Wow I think the first award show was the, oh the DGA

Rob: the DGA 

Ina: the drama guild

Rob: The directors guild, the director’s guild, yeah 

Ina: Exactly, that’s exactly right and your there with John and you’re sitting next to Rene Zellweger  

 Rob: yeah 

INA: And who’s giving out the award? 

Rob: It was Ron Howard 

Ina: Ron Howard, Ron Howard said and for best director of a feature film Rob Marshall 

Rob: and I just sat there, because I thought they made a mistake and I assumed, we all knew it was going to be Martin Scorsese who had never won a DGA

John: We were just happy to be there

Rob: yeah, we were at the table having a great time 

Ina: Yeah 

Rob: And um Rene, Rene 

Ina: Rene was sitting there 

John: She’s sat next to me, she grabbed my arm, she just like freaked 

Rob: and she turned to me, and she said you have to go up 

John: She did, she reached him like 

Ina: You know you’re going to have to get up 

Rob: Like you have to go, like go, like go now, like what 

John: very sweet, very sweet 

Rob: I mean it was just a surprise and a thrill, and we just never saw it, all of it we never saw coming, it was like a red-carpet ride, all of it 

Ina: Yeah, and it changed the world because it's one of the great musicals ever and certainly one of the modern- modern musical, and everybody wanted to do musicals after that and the end of the, I love the end of this story to that you, while you were doing Chicago a house came up for sale in the Hamptons that you knew because Julie Andrews had live in it 

Rob: yes 

John: we didn’t have the money to buy it, Richard Gear told us to buy above your means, we were like okay, we do anything Richard says, dear Richard and we nought it, we left to do a movie, came back, we came back at Christmas, we walked in, there was music on 

Ina: awh yeah 

John: You remember Christmas music? The tree, all lit, the house was all 

Rob: decorated from top to bottom 

John: christmified, yeah

Ina: and there was food in the refrigerator? 

John: Food out and on the refrigerator 

Ina: Right 

John: Yeah, cookies and yeah, it was 

Ina: And Rene had gone

John: Rene did it 

Ina: And hired the guys from Bridge hemp and florist 

Rob: yep, and then said go in and do it 

Ina: Just do it 

Rob: yes 

Ina: SO, I think she probably had a good time while she was doing the movie. 

Rob: you know what can I tell you, the most generous person on the planet, maybe next to you

Ina: Isn’t tat lovely 

John: yes 

Rob: But honestly 

Ina; that was pretty wonderful 

Rob: But pretty amazing 

Ina: yeah

Ina: Fast forward to Mary Poppins returns. 

Rob: Yes, yes

Ina: One of the most beloved movies of all times, right? Does it feel really risky to re-make this movie? 

Rob: Well, I, I, the first we did was said we can never re-make the film, so let’s, what are we going to do, let’s do a sequel

Ina: Oh, that’s really

Rob: let’s do something that’s set 30 years later, we have to set it in a different time, so we set it in the 1930’s 

Ina: Which was so smart 

Rob: During the depression era 

Ina: depression 

Rob: and now Michael and Jane who are little kids in the book are grown up 

VO: Rob was directing the movie; John was producing it and they both worked on the script 

Rob: We wanted to disappear into a film and I really felt like for us to disappear into that world, that means so much to us, that wonderous world where magical things can happen during everyday life, which is really the message of the films of Mary Poppins herself, just walking through the park becomes an adventure and so, I don’t to disappear into that world for the amount of time that we did was just so therapeutic

John: and create something new with new songs and bring new actors in 

Rob: we never done a 

John: and still make an homage to the original 

Rob: yeah exactly, exactly  

Ina: yeah 

Rob: and we’d never done an original musical 

John: Because we loved it so much, in our, in our souls so

Rob: Yes, it's true 

Ina: SO, can I tell the story about, Jeffry and I were in Paris and you invited us to London and we were coming to have dinner with you and you said well why don’t you come watch us film and for me you know I’ve filmed a TV show you know, there are 10, 15 people around me and your filming Linn Manwell riding his bicycle past Saint Pauls cathedral 

Rob: exactly 

Ina: who is like the Dick Van Dike character

Rob: exactly 

John: Yes 

Ina: In the original film 

Rob: exactly 

INA: And I see in front of me, I think 200 people, am I right? 

John: At least 

Rob: at least 

Ina: At least 200 people there and you were just standing there so relaxed like you were, like you were just, you know hanging out watching a movie. It was quite a moment to say the least and I could see the monitor and you were running back what you’d just filmed, and I just felt the tears well up in me and I just thought (gasps) My god, they got it. And, and then you went on for like another 3 or 4 hours. There was a layering, you saw, you saw that moment 

Rob: yes 

Ina: But then you layered In the doves that, that were realised and then you layered in the, the mist off the Themes and then you. There was a layering that just made it even more interesting and complex 

Rob: It is a marriage of all those things at once and so you’re waiting for it to all sort of collide together 

John: Like you, we, we, test and test the recipe 

Ina: yep 

John: you know, I know, I’ve gone into your house when you’re like what are you doing, oh I’m testing it, how long- you’ve tested it over and over 

Ina: like 25 times 

John: Tasted it, yes and so, our testing has happened already, we’ve talked about it, we’ve created it, we’ve had rehearsals

Rob: yep 

John: We’ve talked to the actors; we know how it fits into the story 

Ina: Mmm Hmm 

John: So, by that time, we- it's still not cooked though, until that we have all of those things that were talking about now

Rob: that’s true, that’s true 

Ina: and then there’s the moment where, where they release the doves, and the doves go in the wrong direction 

Rob: Oh my gosh, exactly 

John: yeah

Ina: And you’re like get rid of the doves, we’ll put that in later 

John: exactly 

Rob: I mean, it’s like, your like

John: you remember that 

Ina: fire those doves  

Rob: It is, I mean every moment on a- 

John: Who needs real doves? 

Rob: Honestly every moment making a film is literally like you’re just about to have a disaster, then it’s like, oh, oh but then it works and your happy. 

Ina: So, when you’re doing a movie, your always for a year, I mean it's really hard, fortunately you both go together, so you kind of bring your family with you, but how do you make a home for yourself? 

Rob: I bring too many boxes

Ina: Too many boxes, what do you bring?

John: He brings our sheets and our pillows and pillowcases and our- he brings everything

Rob: Yeah, I bring 

John: even if we’re renting house 

Rob: you have to feel like your

Ina: yeah 

Rob: you know especially when your 

Making a film it's so difficult, you have, you come home and you and your exhausted and you just want to feel 

Ina: Comfortable 

Rob: That kind of warm hug of your home, of your house 

John: yeah 

Ina: What do you bring John?

John: Not a toothbrush 

Rob: John’s very simple 

John: I mean I’m not, I'm more austere, I don’t have to think

Rob: John’s bare bones 

John: Bare bones

Rob: And I’m like back in the truck, you know let’s go

LAUGHTER

Ina: I think Jeffrey’s, I think you’re like Jeffery, you know 

John: Much 

Ina: You know Rob’s going to bring everything so you don’t have to worry about it 

Rob: yes, we’re very similar in that way 

John: you are similar in that way 

Ro: very 

Ina: You know when you’re on location, the food must be just terrible, isn’t it like craft services?  

Rob: Well, it depends, because when we were in Hawaii on pirates, the food was divine because 

Ina: wow 

Rob: well Johnny Depp is a wonderful leader of film and he actually made sure that the catering was spectacular, so we had fresh beautiful fish and fruits and vegetables every day, that was incredible 

John: Tuna 

Rob: remember that? That was incredible 

John: mm 

Ina: NO Mac and cheese there? 

Rob: NO mac and cheese 

John: NO, no, no 

Rob: uh and of course where we just were in Sardinia, filming the little mermaid 

John: yeah 

Rob: Forget it!

John: The Italian food there’s nothing 

Rob: OH my gosh 

Ina: There’s nothing like it is there? Wasn’t there a story about like Marcello Mastriano and

Rob: Yes well Sophie Loren told us that 

John: and I’ll never forget it 

Rob: that all day long when they were filming any of their movies, he would be obsessed by what they’re having for dinner. 

John: It would be the first thing he’d ask, she said he’d come in and the first thing, what, what, what are we going to do for dinner and that’s me, I do the same thing, so I grabbed onto that story 

Ina: You do the same thing? 

John: Oh, I do the same thing 

Rob: And, and I have to say when we were I Sardinia and we were filming on location, um, that, that would get us through the day. I mean We would literally say, okay so where are we going tonight? And the, they have the most beautiful restaurants, right on the beach, you know feet in the sand

Ina: Awh 

Ina: The most incredible pasta’s, how many lobsters Pasta’s did we have John? 

John: yean, no it was 

ROB: Like every night 

Ina: That’s my favourite 

Rob: Every single night. 

John: and they do it like-

Ina: How fabulous 

Rob: It was crazy and what’s that called John the Pain au Carousels? Is that what they call it, the Thin flat bread. 

John: Yeah, you know the bread they do, with the double cooked 

Ina: Yeah 

Rob: with the rosemary and the and the olive oil and salt on it

John: Crispy 

Ina: wow 

John: It does get you through the day though, I must say 

Ina: Isn’t that great ? 

John: It was great 

INA: Okay I think it’s time to cook. You and I are making salmon burgers 

John: yes 

Ina: yeah and you’re in charge of all the snark 

LAUGHTER

Ina: So John is going to show me how to make his incredible salmon burgers. This is going to be interesting. You’re not invited. You have to go sit over there and make snarky comments 

Rob: Yeah, happy to, happy to 

John: Yeah, you go make your 

Rob: Okay, I’ll make snarky comments

John: Snarky comments as you were saying 

Ina: Okay, put me to work 

John: Yeah, well so you know 

Ina: So, what are these? 

John: we’ve done the hardest thing so far 

Ina: Which is? 

John: which is where you buy the salmon without the skin 

Ina: That’s the hard part 

John: that’s the hard part, going in and ordering the salmon, no 

Ina: ordering something 

John: No, no it's actually, when you get it home 

Ina: yeah 

John: cutting it as small as you can, so that when you put it in the bag you can just mash it 

Ina: Don’t you like the way I 

John: So 

INA: invite them over and make them cook 

John: I know but, you know 

Ina: How about this you hold the bag open 

John: but I don’t cook for you a lot, see she always knows how to do it better 

Rob: There you go 

Ina: we’re done 

Rob: there you go 

John: done

Rob: Done 

John: See that’s, that’s why she’s 

Ina: okay 

John: the countessa

Ina: salmon burgers are ready  

John: done 

Ina: What are you doing? 

John: and then now that’s when we mash it 

Ina: oh you’re going to mash it 

John: you get to get

Ina: okay 

John: you get it as small as you can

INA: let’s take out your 

John: you have to use the right side? 

Ina: which side? 

John: because if you use this 

Ina: it's going to break the bag 

John: yes, yeah, so it's yeah

Ina: Okay 

John: So just, you want

Ina: stand back 

John: yeah, just, I’ll start 

Rob: okay 

Ina: Okay what do you have to say about this Rob? 

Rob: I’ll just say you know I’m glad he’s not around that with me 

Ina: stand back 

Rob: I know 

John: exactly 

Rob: John 

John: I think Ina’s frustrated, she wants to-

Ina: I have another option here, the two of us can do it 

John: dulling bashers, this is – 

Ina: don’t mess with us 

John: yeah you go take care of him while I do this 

Ina: How much do you do this? 

Rob: John can I ask you a stupid question? Why are you doing that? 

Ina: why 

John: To get it as small as possible, well you some people would like their salmon big in their burgers and some would like it really mushy 

Rob: So it's lighter and thinner, I see 

John: yeah, I like it a little mushy. You know what they really are delicious, this does make a nice 

Ina: This is fun 

John: like moist salmon burger and it's hard to get 

Ina: what’s happening over here? 

John: okay then- 

Ina: Am I cutting up dill? 

John: yeah

Ina: Okay 

John: why don’t you do we need like two, two tablespoons of that 

Ina: Okay, I can do that 

Rob: Oh look at that 

John: you know and I mean, I'm an eyeball cook, you’re so exact and precise and that’s why everyone loves you and I do too, because you don’t leave that much to chance 

Rob: I know because-

Ina: I leave nothing to chance

John: Nothing exactly! That is why you’re so brilliant

Rob: Especially for-

John: I’m not as good as that and then so what you want to do is, you just want to add this to your- 

Rob: Oh, John you’re scaring everybody in the world

John: I’m sorry 

Ina: You’re scaring me, so what happens here? 

John: Alright so we put this in, we just put this in first, you know it's weird to have a camera on when you’ve done it a thousands times, it does change it 

Ina: Yeah 

John: I don’t know how you do it 

Ina: Okay and then 

Rob: Oh I see John, I see

Ina: SO the dill goes in 

John: Yeah

Ina: Two tablespoons 

John: Yeah, that’s perfect, that’s really good 

Ina: Okay, okay what else?

John: How about the uh-

Ina: mustard

John: we want one of the one tablespoon of that 

Ina: okay 

John: and I trust your, you know it's like

Ina: UH that’s exactly one tablespoon 

John: she knows 

Rob: you do know

Ina: and then 

John: two yes, this is the 

Ina; Two egg yolks? 

John: yeah 

Ina: That was a trick question 

John: Two eggs!

LAUGHTER 

Rob: What are? Those are whites, right John? 

John: There whites yes

Ina: two egg whites 

Rob: can I tell you my little story about egg whites? Real quick? 

John: yes 

Ina: what’s your story about egg whites

Rob: I didn’t know what they were when I was in high school, so I 

Ina: Yeah 

Rob: that’s when they had operators, when you would call, so I called the operator and asked what the egg white was, I said cuz it’s, there’s clear and there’s yellow but there’s no white 

John: he wanted to see white 

Ina: Unbelievable 

John: that’s how specific he is 

Rob: and she and 

Ina: And what did the operator say? 

Rob: and I heard her say, hey Marge, I got a live one here 

LAUGHTER 

Rob: and she said to me, and she said hunny it's the, it's the clear part

Ina: Clear

Rob: it’s the clear runny part 

Ina: that’s hysterical 

John: NO clue what it was. Okay meanwhile back to the 

Rob: Okay, okay, go do your thing 

Ina; okay back to 

John: Breadcrumbs, I’m calling for breadcrumbs 

Ina: He’s like Pay attention to me, okay, like half a cup? 

John: Beautiful, half a cup 

Ina: Or a little at a time? 

John: No, it's good like this 

Ina: okay dump it all in!

John: you know what, you know you always add 

Ina: How about salt and pepper / 

John: salt and pepper yeah, to your taste 

Ina: To your taste? 

John: yeah, to your taste, to-

Ina; No 

LAUGHTER

Ina: How are you gonna taste it, it's raw salmon 

John: no, do you like a lot of, you know s-

Ina: Yes 

John: you know pepper, we love pepper

Ina: Major salt and pepper 

John: We don’t like cilantro but we like pepper

Ina: no, we don’t like cilantro at all

John: we’re the only two I think, yeah 

Ina: Okay, pepper and salt

John: salt good 

Ina: lots of salt 

John: do you want to mix? 

Ina: no 

John: god I want to mix, I don’t trust her with a spoon now after I’ve seen her with that rolling pin 

LAUGHTER

John: I’ve tried so many salmon burgers and

Ina: How about a bit more dill? 

John: these are really moist simply and delicious

Ina: You know the key is under cooking it 

John: true, Robby just calls people and asks them, how do I cook salmon? 

Ina: DO you know what that phone call reminded me of, I used to buy old houses in Washington and renovate them and I called a realtor on capitol hill about a house that looked like it was for sale, and I think she thought she’d put the phone on hold 

John: Oh no 

Ina: and she calls out to them, somebody goes it's for you, it's that crazy Ina Garten 

Rob: No, no, no 

Ina: I’m serious 

Rob: that’s so horrible 

John: I love it

Ina: I didn’t think I was crazy 

Rob: Wait, wait a minute, oh there’s nothing worse than that 
Ina: So, Jeffrey’s been calling me crazy Ina Garten ever since 

LAUGHTER 

John: And now this looks good to me 

Ina: yeah, that looks great 

John: okay, so let’s, let’s go at it 

Ina: Okay 

John: Just grab and this should, uh, I, it should make like four, I make em like about that 

Rob: John you’ve made these millions of times 

Ina: You’ve made it millions of times? 

Rob: john has, yeah 

John: I do, stick em on the grill, people love em 

Rob: well because, I think it's just it’s a, like I don’t know it's a little different than a hamburger 

Ina: am I going to love em? NO just three, just for us 

John: well then if we’re only doing three, I’ll add a little bit more 

Rob: yeah I was going to say that one look a little small 

Ina: Don’t look 

John: Don’t tell Ina 

Ina: (laughs) I’m right here 

John: I love you’re getting sloppy in the kitchen., I like when you’re like that 

Ina; I’m very sloppy in the kitchen

John: she’s 

Ina: You should see my kitchen when I’m cooking 

John: Do you clean up as you cook? 

Ina: NO

John: that’s a – NO? SO you keep going 

Ina: I just keep going 

John: You let it, you don’t say I need to

Ina; I make such a mess 

John: I need to clean every- 

Ina: NO 

John: okay that’s interesting 

Ina: I make such a mess, now I can’t start until the dishwashers unloaded, the counters clean 

Rob: Oh right 

Ina: Jeffery says I can use every dish in the kitchen just heating up something that I took from takeout 

LAUGHTER

Ina: I have to admit, it's true. Okay so are we heating this up? 

John: Are we ready to stick

Ina; Yeah 

John: Maybe a little olive oil would be nice

Ina: okay 

John: I used to cook em straight on the grill, you better do it cuz my hands are, they’re so wet 

Ina: My hands are really wet 

Rob: I can do it 

Ina: you do it

John: Oh, Rob yes

Rob: Okay here we go

John: here we go 

Rob: the whole place could go on fire

John: Can I watch? 

Ina: go for it 

Rob: well just add a little drizzle 

Ina: Perfect 

Rob: Oh 

Ina: Gorgeous 

Rob: I’m done 

John: Now can you take the, can you take it and just kind of go like that 

Rob: sure 

John: Yeah, take it with a 

Ina: You and I are going to come 

John: Thank you, yes 

Ina; wash up 

Rob: yeah, go wash up 

Ina: okay 

John: okay, let’s leave him 

Rob: OH, it’s on 

Ina: have a good time

John: have a good time bye 

Rob: Okay can you imagine? 

John: give it a go 

Rob: talk about cooking for dummies 

John: NO, here we go 

Rob: Okay and John how high should the flame be ? 

John: you know medium 

Rob: Cuz it's very low 

John: Oh let’s turn it up a little, why don’t you turn it up a little while we-

Ina: I’m going to crank it up 

John: Otherwise, we’ll be 

Ina: We’ll be here all week 

John: Yeah, we’ll do a commercial or you know maybe we’ll do a little dance, we’ll do a dance while we, come on Lindy hop Robby 

Rob: here John, spin her to me, spin her to me 

John: and then she goes to Rob 

Rob: yes, yes, yes and she’s mine 

Rob: well that was I’m just hugging now 

John: and it becomes a ballad there, while I'm cooking, slaving away on these things 

Ina: okay 

Rob: There we go 

Ina: AHhh 

John: and you just, it really is 

Ina: are they done yet ? 

John: four to five minutes per side

Ina: Okay 

Rob: they’re such a pretty colour too, they’re really appetising to look at 

Ina: okay, I'm putting this in the fridge for tomorrow 

John: great 

Ina: How’s that? 

Rob: Here I’ll do it 

Ina: for later 

Ro: Here, I’ll take this 

Ina: I’ve even got them cleaning up for me, how’s that? Ina here Rob 

John: here Rob 

Laughter 

John: here Rob 

Ina: he has to clean up for us

Rob: you know what is this? 

John: and Rob 

Rob: I hate my job 

LAUGHTER 

Ina: that’s what I always call Jeffery’s trash man, Rob’s trash man 

John: I love it, here Rob 

Ina: You’re trash, trash man. SO did you make this when you were a kid? 

John: NO 

LAUGHTER 

INA: what did you eat when you were a kid? 

John: everything was fresh, we didn’t eat from cans 

Ina: really? 

John: yeah my, my parents loved gardens and loves, my dad’s Italian, and he wanted fresh everything 

Ina: wow 

John: as, as opposed to rob, who

Ina: Ate like SpaghettiOs? 

John:  if it wasn’t from a can, it wasn’t – 

Rob: Frozen, listen both my parents were working, right, so we had you know Frozen fish sticks 

Ina: Fish sticks reminded me of this, Jeffery when his mother was older, was talking to her and she said what did I used to cook for you and he said well you know on Monday we had meatloaf and on Tuesday we had fish sticks and she said fish, I don’t remember going to the fish store 

LAUGHTER 

Ina: I was like you don’t go to the fish store for fish sticks 

Rob: No, no, no, no 

John: OH my god 

Ina: You go to the freezer section in your grocery aisle 

John: Next to the French fires 

Rob: That’s it 

John: yeah 

Ina: that’s it 

Rob: But your mother was an amazing cook John

John: My mum was really good 

Rob: John woke every morning to like fresh muffins 

Ina: really? 

Rob: fresh, yeah 

John: Coffee cakes and 

Rob: yeah 

John: she just I don’t know, how, wha- Like you getting up at 5’oclock to make the bread and the barefoot Contessa 

Ina; Forget it! Oh well that, I did it for my business, but 

John: but still 

Ina: I’m not getting up at 5 to make bread for Jeffery, he’d think I’d lost my mind 

John: we won’t let him hear that, we wont 

Ina: Crazy Ina Garten 

Rob: crazy Ina Garten 

Ina: So the salmon burgers are going to cook for 5 minutes on the other side

John: yep 

Ina: and then you’re going to put them together with you mums’ coleslaw which I made because I didn’t want you to do all the work 

John: ah yeah 

Rob: Awh, That’s great. 

Ina: This is John’s Mum’s slaw, let me give you the recipe. 

VO: First you grate two cup of green cabbage and they specified using a hand grater so that’s what I did, then I put it in a bowl along with a third of a cup of mayo, a dash of cold water, half a teaspoon of kosher salt, a quatre of a teaspoon of black pepper and just mixed it all together.

Ina: okay, here’s the coleslaw

John: fantastic 

Rob: beautiful

Ina: uhm, Rob could you come and clean this up please? 

Rob: excuse me? 

Ina: (laughs) NO I’m kidding, I’m kidding 

Rob: no of course I will 

Ina: NO 

Rob: I want to help 

Ina: No you’re not, NO major movie director clean up 

Rob: no, no, here, I, I want to help. Can we make it look pretty here, I’m going to grab these, now how about these? Shall I put these here?

Ina: Yeah, put those there. Okay 

Rob: So, this is for the big assembly 

Ina: yeah, this is

John: You make me laugh 

Ina: The big reveal 

John: okay

Rob: Okay fantastic

Ina: put em on

Rob: look they’re beautiful, they’re nicely toasted 

Ina: put them on the bottom of each one

John: beautiful 

Ina: Perfectly toasted and 

John: this one 

Ina: And do I put coleslaw on each one ?

Rob: yes, right on top, right John?

John: yes and just load it, you know it should fall off the side and be sloppy 

Ina: Oh I like sloppy 

Rob: yeah

Ina: is that too much? 

Rob: that’s perfect 

Ina: Oh, look at this, this is fabulous 

John: oh, looks beautiful

Ina: woah 

Rob: Oh they’re big and beautiful 

John: good! 

Rob: okay do we get to- 

Ina: Is it tasting time? 

John: oh they’re so good too, yeah 

Rob: can we really? John you’re touching that one, that one’s yours 

John: okay 

LAUGHTER 

Ina: you don’t want one that he touched 

John: you sound like a parent

Ina: this is like, okay 

Rob: that ones yours 

Ina: start your burgers 

Rob: Okay, wow this is a mouthful 

John: I feel I should be over this 

Rob: Oh my god

Ina: I’m going to be wearing this 

John: I feel like a kid 

Rob: it's flying all over the place already

John: mmm 

Ina: Oh that’s so good 

John: I love em 

Rob: yeah but you have to eat them alone 

Ina: They’re delicious 

Rob: So no one can see what you look like 

Ina: only eat this with friends cuz you’re going to be wearing them 

Rob: exactly 

Ina: mm this is really great 

John: I love it 

Rob: mmm 

Ina: You’re the best 

John: I know you lie well but I hope you really enjoy em 

Ina: no they’re really good, they’re really good

John: cuz I really like em, well they’re just moist and they’re simple, simple slaw doesn’t compete with it 

Ina: And you get the, the salmon flavour 

John: yes 

Ina: and the dill, oh it’s just delicious 

John: Not too many breadcrumbs 

Ina: I’m going in again 

John: oh, we’re going in again 

Ro: Us too 

John: enter at your own risk 

Rob: mm they’re so yummy 

Ina: they’re so good. Okay I have an idea after this let’s go meet Jeffery for dessert at 17/70 house. 

Rob: oh, how fantastic 

Ina: how does that sound? 

John: great 

Rob: yeah 

Ina: okay great

John: Our favourite, we love, we love it there 

Rob: Yeah, and he’s our favourite too 

Ina: Yeah, mine too. 

Ina: Isn’t Easy Hampton the best? 

Rob: It’s just stunning 

Ina: I love to be able to walk into the village, why would you want to live anywhere else? 

John: anywhere else 

Rob: exactly 

Ina: We’re staying here, except maybe Paris 

Rob: Exactly, as long as Jeffery comes 

Ina: Oh, he’s coming everywhere, if I go there, he’ll go there 

John” he’ll go, he’ll follow 

Ina: I can count on that 

VO: We’re meeting him at 17/70 house for dessert, it's been an old inn on Mainstreet for hundreds of years and dates back to 1770, I love the white clobbered colonial architecture, inside there’s an antique filled parlour, beautiful dining room and very cosy basement Tavern, the food is fabulous and the cheesecake, it's out of this world

 Ina: Well this looks pretty good doesn’t it? 

Rob: It looks fantastic 

John: really nice

Ina: We’ve had quite a day of eating and drinking 

Rob: Oh my gosh, it hasn’t stopped 

Jeffery: Well I’ve got to catch up with you

Ina: yeah, yeah, you’re going to have to, you’re going to have to eat fast, right? 

Jeffery: I might even have to have yours 

LAUGHTER 

Rob: Oh this looks fantastic 

Ina: mm 

Jeffery: Wow that is delicious 

Ina: it’s really good, okay I have a Pop Quiz 

Rob: oh my gosh, Ina you’ve been wining and dining us all day 

Ina: No you’ve been cooking I haven’t done a thing. Okay what’s the one movie that you’ve seen the most? It can be the same or different 

Rob: the one that comes to mind right away for me 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: is all about Eve 

Ina: ah I love that 

John: really?

Rob: I just think it’s the most brilliantly written film about theatre, I just never get tired of it. I could just watch it over and over again on a loop 

Ina: Best new sequence 

Rob: that and all the 

John: best new sequence 

Rob: presidents’ men, and all the president’s men is one of those movies

Ina: That’s, We feel that way too 

Rob: when I put it on, I can’t stop watching it 

Ina: watching it, yeah 

Jeffery: Even know you know the ending 

Rob: yes, you know it yeah

Jeffery: There’s still suspense, right? 

Ina: there’s still suspense 

Rob: Exactly exactly Jeffery 

Ina: Okay

Rob: John what are yours? 

Ina: Oh, what’s yours?

John: well, I think the Graduate 

Ina: oh that’s a 

John: do you know that?

Ina: yeah, that’s really good 

Rob: it's a classic

John: I just love the energy of it, the music of course, its just the whole thing. I love it 

Rob: It’s so spectacular 

Ina: okay, one food that makes you happy? 

Rob: peanut butter, anything peanut butter 

Ina: that’s a good one. What’s yours? 

John: Ice cream 

Ina: Ice cream, me too. Okay job you’ve ever had?

Rob: I’m going to say the, directing the film Chicago cause the, it was my dream come true

Ina: worst job you ever had? 

John: My brother got me a job in a movie theatre, cleaning toilets 

Ina: (laughs)

Rob: that’s pretty low 

John: a summer movie theatre, by an amusement park, you can’t imagine 

Ina: my you’ve come up in the world

John: no but it was also my best job, because there was a little stage in front of the theatre

Ina: Isn’t that great 

John: my mother would come up, come and pick me up and I’d say mom you have to watch me do a number and 

Ina: that’s just so great 

Jeffery: isn’t that nice, that’s so nice 

John: you make good out of the – 

Jeffery: yeah 

Ina: Okay, what was your worst job ever?

Rob: I guess If I had to say the worst job I was an apprentice at a summer theatre and we were doing hair and I had to pass the towels out to the actors at the end of act one after the nude scene and I was so embarrassed

John: that’s a bad job? 

Rob: But I was embarrassed, I mean I did look a few times, but I tried to be professional, how do you do that, its like here’s the, you know it’s like oh no I shouldn’t look, that’s bad 

LAUGHTER

Rob: so that was – 

Ina: That’s a great one 

Jeffery: You know what my worst job was? 

Ina: what was your worst job? 

Jeffery: I must’ve been about 14 and I was scared of heights, and I decide I’m going to cure myself by working for a painter who was working on these scaffolding very high and so I report for the first day, I look at the scaffolding and I quit 

LAUGHTER

Rob: what about you, what was your worst? 

Ina: my worst job was, I was in Colorado and I went to a, uh, an employment agency to get a job and they said uh here’s you know secretary, 350 a week, so they sent me to this place called the body shop 

John: oh no 

Ina: I thought it was like automobile repair, it was a strip club

Rob: no 

Ina: And I was in the back office 

Rob: no 

Ina: I wasn’t in the strip club 

Rob: You’re kidding 

Ina: you know they bought me the pay, they show me how to do the pay roll and the first person’s name was Boom Boom, and I thought oh my god this is the auto motor repair and then the police showed up and I thought it’s time for me to go 

Rob: oooohh. SO, here’s your, you’re have to tell us your stripper name, so you’re stripper name is always the name of your first pet 

Ina: yeah 

Rob: and your mother’s maiden name 

Ina: Fritz Rich 

LAUGHTER 

Ina: what was yours? 

Rob: okay so mine, it was Lenora Plosnick, what’s yours John? 

John: Mine is marshmallow, there is, Marshmallow Gendny 

Ina: Marshmallow, it’s really marshmallow? 

Rob: So Jeffery what was your 

Jeffery Turonimo 

John: Stop there 

LAUGHTER 

INA: the stripper names are the 

John: there you go and what was your mother maiden name 

Rob: wait I want to hear the 

Jeffery: Ingleman 

LAUGHTER 

Rob: oh my god 

Ina: that’s hilarious and finally a question from James Lipton the famous interviewer

Rob: yes 

Ina: If heaven exists what would you like to hear God say when you arrive? 

Rob: everyone’s here

Ina: that’s it 

John: it’s the same line 

Ina: and it’s the same for you? 

John: it’s the same 

Ina: I would like to hear God say that we saved the Penthouse for you 

LAUGHTER

Ina: And Jeffery’s there, he’s waiting for you 

Rob: awh, that’s beautiful. What about you Jeffery, what do you want God to say when you arrive at the pearly gates? 

Jeffery: Ina’s right around the corner 

Ina: and I’ve made dinner for you 

Jeffery: no I just want it so bad 

John: yeah 

Rob: roast chicken for sure 

Jeffery: Ina’s chicken, that’s chicken 

Rob: that is chicken, absolutely 

Ina: At least I know he’ll never leave me 

Jeffery: Oh this is really really good. 

Ina: Isn’t this delicious? 

Rob: I could eat this whole thing 

Ina: best day ever 

Rob: that’s for sure 

Ina: best day ever 

John: that’s for sure

Rob: AS Ina always says John, when she writes to us after we’ve had a wonderful evening out 

John: yeah 

Rob: one of the great nights, well I would say this was one of the great days

John: yeah 

Rob: absolutely 

Ina: I always have such a good time with Rob and John, it was really nice to have a moment to sit and talk quietly, go a little deeper and of course anybody who cooks for me is always invited back, what a world class fun day.