Sparta
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Sep 29, 2026
Matt ZupanGUEST
So, I pulled this, like, Pheidippides thing, who's, like, credited with inventing the modern marathon, you know.
Matt ZupanGUEST
But he had actually run from Athens to Sparta and back before he runs the marathon.
Matt ZupanGUEST
So, it was like 150-
Joe CorcioneHOST
Whoa
Matt ZupanGUEST
... and I ran from Athens to Sparta, Illinois, over two days or something, which was also 150 miles, and that took me about 40 hours.
Matt ZupanGUEST
So, I, like, didn't have to write a paper, didn't have to do anything.
Matt ZupanGUEST
It was awesome.
Brandon DavisHOST
It's just, there is, and Norman Jewison really I mean, he really goes to great effect to make you feel like this is really a very hot summer.
Brandon DavisHOST
And, of course, they filmed it – it was supposed to be filmed in Sparta, Mississippi, but because of certain unjust laws of the time, they filmed it actually just an hour or so from me here in Sparta, Illinois.
Brandon DavisHOST
And it's – yeah, you just feel like you are just – entrenched in you know a southern summer um in in that movie and it yeah it's just i mean even when and i'm like man sydney poitier is in a suit most of the time and and even even like at night you know when the cops are doing their patrolling or whatever you see just beads of sweat um falling down on them and when they have to stop into a diner to get something cold to drink or whatever it's just it once again, just a wonderful sense of time and place that you get during that movie, but it's in the title.
Brandon DavisHOST
Exactly.
Brandon DavisHOST
It's just, there is, and Norman Jewison really I mean, he really goes to great effect to make you feel like this is really a very hot summer.
Brandon DavisHOST
And, of course, they filmed it, you know, it was supposed to be filmed in Sparta, Mississippi, but because of, you know, certain unjust laws of the time, they filmed it actually just an hour or so from me here in Sparta, Illinois.
Brandon DavisHOST
And it's, yeah, you just feel like you are just... entrenched in you know a southern summer um in in that movie and it yeah it just i mean even when and i'm like man sydney poitier is in a suit most of the time and and even even like at night you know when the cops are doing their patrolling or whatever you see just beads of sweat um falling down on them and when they have to stop into a diner to get something cold to drink or whatever it's just once again just a wonderful sense of time and place that you get during that movie but it's in the title exactly but but yeah oh man i just that is a movie i can watch over and over again same year as cool hand luke 1967 yep same
Maureen LenkerGUEST
year as a lot of big movies that changed hollywood oh