Blog 3569 – 08.13.2025

“I’m Still here, Chief!”

One of my favorite movies is Frequency from 2000. In my opinion it is one if not the best father/son movie out there. Today’s title is one of my favorite lines and scenes in the movie. If you have not seen this movie, I highly recommend it and will probably watch it again today for the umpteenth time after running a couple of errands.

I won’t spoil the movie for you by giving away too much of the plot. I will just say that an NYFD firefighter from Queens in 1969 loves his little boy who he wants to be a fireman when he grow up so he calls him “Little Chief.” The little boy’s godfather and his dad’s best friend is an NYPD police detective and the boy when he grows up chooses a different team than his dad’s.

The story begins with the grown son partnering with his godfather thirty years after his father has died in a tragic building fire in 1969 when he was still a boy. Thanks to two freak solar storms that happen thirty years apart the young man is able to reconnect with his long dead father on his dad’s short wave radio. That is where the real story begins. And I will say but one thing more. Though at first the dad seems surprised and a little disappointed that his son was “on the job” in a different way than he had hoped, before the story is over he is very glad his son works for the NYPD instead of the NYFD.

I first heard one of my favorite songs at the end of the movie Frequency. I attach a link to my karaoke-style version of it below.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TFeMFUZoryqzNOSt2bQ4-5n6r62tX71g/view?usp=drivesdk

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