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is time for this week's episode of Mister Chameleon. Now, we did skip
an episode from last week. That was because that's a Christmas e episode.
We're going to play that at Christmas. So the original airedate on this one
is December the twenty ninth, nineteen forty eight, and the title is Death
and the Talking Parrot. Next Mister Chameleon and the Case of Death and the
Talking Parrot. Tonight we again present the famous mister Cameleon of Central Headquarters in
his most famous Cases of Crime and Murder, brought to you by the makers
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A college man, he tried from childhood to live up to the name
he bore Chameleon, by taking on the color of whatever situation in which he
found himself, appearing in endless guises, finally entering the police force, where
he became known as Chameleon, the man of many faces, the under world's
most dreaded man. The listener invariably knows who mister Camelion is, no matter
which disguise he assumes, but the criminal he's tracking down seldom does. To
night, we give you mister Camelion in the Case of Death and the Talking
Parrot. Almost all of us can become deeply attached to a pet, and
sometimes the pet can be very strange. Indeed, for instance, Laurel Madison,
young and lovely, is devoted to her parrot, a raucous creature with
a wicked eye, and we find her now at night in the living room
of her apartment, talking affectionately to the parrot as she takes him out of
his cage. Come on, whitey, I want to spread your wings a
bit, eh, Come on. That's the book. Fun as fan washed
un us downe fun as panne highty. By Heaven's sakes, you have to
keep saying that silly rhyme. Sometimes you're very tired. Done. All right,
all right, I heard you the first time. What was that sounded
like the front door closing? Hush, whity hush, Is anyone there?
Oh, it's you. What are you doing here? Hello? Hellod b
still how did you get in? Have you still got your key? Hello?
Hello? Why didn't you tell me you were coming? Tom look at
me like that and keep away from me. I know you said you were
going to kill me, but you can't. No, you can't. Oh
no, please please stop it. And the following morning, in the wildly
upset apartment, mister Camellion, the Great Detective, is kneeling beside the dead
body of Laurel Madison and saying to the excited man standing next to him,
is this exactly the way you found the bouty, missus smithers, Yes,
mister comedian, I'm the building superintendent, and I wanted to get in to
fix a leaking pipe. I rang the doorbell, and I rang it and
rang it on you. She must be home, and then you let yourself
in with the passkey. That's right. Say it's awful, It's awful.
Miss Madison was such a pretty girl, one of the highest paid models in
New York. Yes, I know, I know. I've seen a picture
on many magazine cover She was strangled to death with this chiffon's scarf. Either
a man could have done it or a woman who were a friend. But
I don't know, mister comedian. She had a lot of friends, a
lot of boyfriends, particularly the name. I really couldn't tell you. Do
you mean they tipped you not to tell? Oh? No, no,
no, no, no, right smothers. All right, stop shaking.
No one has accused you of anything. I'm not shaking. I certainly I
am not guilty of anything. Eh, where's the other man with you,
Detective Sergeant Dave Arnold, He's gone to question the neighbors. Don't forget.
It was still fairly early last night when Laurel Madison died, the colonel says
about eleven pm. She must have put up a struggle and someone must have
heard it. What is that cage over there? Oh, that's a parrot
cage. Miss Madison had a parrot. She called it Whitey. Well,
the cage is empty when the pedro get out. There's no prot here when
you found the body, was there? No, mister comedian, where is
it? It must have gotten away. Miss Madison often let it out,
and the bedroom window was open. Whitey must have flown out the window last
night. Mister Smithers, you know, I think you are lying about that
parrot. But I'm not lying. I tell you I'm not common. Yes,
Dave, I'm here. So I just heard the darnist story from the
woman who lives in the apartment next door. It seems miss Madison had a
parrot. As we were just discussing that thing about a quarter to eleven at
the time Miss Madison was murdered, this woman heard the parrot screaming, Hello
Evelyn, Hello Evelyn. Of course it may mean nothing, and it may
mean a great deal. Mister Smethers, did miss Madison know anyone named Evelyn?
Yes, mister Comeleion, ever in Scott. She lived here for a
while. She's a model too. She works for Porter's Agency, just like
Miss Madison. She was only here for a month. She left kind of
abrupt, like I seem okay, Dave, let's try and find miss Evelyn
Scott. That shouldn't be difficult, not as difficult, I suspect as finding
that parrot parrot. Mister cameleon, why do you want to find the parrot?
Because the parrot day was the only witness to the murder, and mister
Smithers, I fully intend to find that witness, the Scott. I realize
it is difficult to discuss your friend Laurel Madison's murder, but you got to
answer my questions and tell me the truth. Why did you quarrel with him?
Why did you leave the apartment? And why did the parrot call your
name last night at the time of the murder. I can't imagine, mister
comedian, I think you can. You still have a key to the apartment,
Well, yes, I have, good Heavens, you don't think that
I killed Laurel Madison. The parrot called out your name, Evelyn several times,
but I don't understand it. He never used to when I was there,
Holly'd ever say was fun is fun? What's done is done? I
mean it. He fixed me with that beady eye and recite that silly rhyme.
He never spoke my name. The parrot did last night. Mascott,
Why did you quarrel with Laurel Madison because she took the man I loved away
from me? Larry Blaine. Larry Blaine, you mean the younger brother of
Stewart Blaine. Do you know him? Everyone knows Stuart Blaine, the big
steel man in the family. Is that is? They are very uppercross society?
Oh? Yes, I know that. Laurel Madison wasn't any better than
I am. I love Larry Blaine, and Laurel knew it. She only
went after him to prove she could get him away from me. You hated
her, didn't you, Miss Scott? I'm afraid I did. And the
parrot called my name last night when she was murdered. You have a perfect
case against me. If you didn't do it, you have nothing to worry
about. If you did, you have a great deal to be afraid of,
Miss Scott. Do you know where I can find Larry Blainey he's usually
at home, and if I know anything about it, you'll find that mother
of his right beside him. I see that you're not very fond of Larry
Blaine's mother. Well, thank you, miss Scott, I shall be seeing
you again. And Evelyn Scott is right. But when mister Camellon calls to
question Larry Blaine, Missus Lawrence Archibald Blaine does sit beside her son Larry,
on the brocaded sofa in the magnificent drawing room of their home. And mister
Camellion, who has defeated many adversaries in his time, senses that Missus Blaine
is a formidable upon it. Missus Blaine, you have no reason to resent
my questioning of your son. You don't seem to understand that Laurel Madison has
been murdered. I also don't understand why my son Larry should be dragged into
it. Perhaps Larry does. What do you mean, mister Cammedian, I
didn't kill Laurel. I hadn't even seen her in more than a week.
Why not because she said something I didn't like about Reverend Scott. Oh really,
well, that's very interesting. You mean you still have some feeling left
for reverlyin Scott. Mister Camellion, my son was never in love with missus
Scott or Laurel Madison. Perhaps your son knows differently, Missus Blaine. Anyway,
I should like to ask him where he was last night? Why?
Oh, yes, Stuart. We're in the drawing room, mister Camelion,
and I sent for my oldest son. I'm very glad you did, mister
Blaine. I've met your son before. Hello, Comedion. What brings you
here? A murder investigation? My mother mentioned it when she phoned me.
A girl named Laurel Madison was murdered last night, and your brother Larry here
was one of her numerous shooters. I was just about to ask him where
he was last night. He was with Stuart, mister Camillion. They took
a long drive out into the country. They had business to discuss. Isn't
that right, Larry? Isn't that right Stuart? Well, Larry, Yes,
I I was with Stuart last night. So you see, mister comedian,
my brother Larry has an alibi. Yes, I see. You know
there was a witness to the murder. What witness? What do you mean?
Laurel Madison's parrot was the witness he saw the killer. In fact,
one of the neighbors heard him squawking, Hello Evelyn, Hello Evelyn, Evelyn.
Mm hmm, looks bad for your friend, miss Evelyn Scott. Larrym
that's up. So you can't be serious, mister Camlion, because a parrot
calls out a name that doesn't prove anything, of course, not comedian.
Where is this parrot at the moment? Is missing Stuart, But absurd or
not, he is the key figure in this case, the only witness to
the murder, and I intend to find him. And now mister cameleon is
again questioning Smithers, the superintendent of the building where beautiful Laurel Madison was strangled
to death. Smithers, you are lying. You've been lying from the very
beginning. You know what happened to Laurel Madison's parrot, now, mister Committean,
honest, I don't. He must have flew out the wind and where
did he fly to? The neighborhood is being scarred for that bird. I
have a full description of him, white with green markings. Is mistress called
him whitey? But not a trace, not a trace has been found that
parrot I should think it'd be more interested and find in miss Madison's murderer.
I'm working on that. To where is the parrot's Smithers, You ain't got
no clothes, mister comedian. The other cop said you didn't. There wasn't
even a fingerprint with a don anywhere in Miss Madison's apartment. No, but
the killer had a key to that apartment, just as you have a past
key, Smithers, where is the parrots? But my passkey don't mean nothing.
I tell you over and over, I'm no killer. Where is the
parrot? Okay, okay, mister comedian, you win. I found him
flapping around the court yard. I needed some extra cash, so I took
him in a I seld him to the Petrie pet Shop, the Petrie pet
Shop on Madison Avenue. Yes, Smithers, are not true with you.
I may need you later. Now you are not to leave the city under
any circumstances. Meanwhile, I am going over to the pet shop to take
that parrot into custody. There are too many who would like to get their
hands on him. Mister Chameleon does get the parrot. He now has him
at central headquarters, where he's talking to the Commissioner of Police and Detective Sergeant
Dave Arnold. The Commissioner is saying, so that parrot is the missing witness
to the Laurel Madison murderers. A chameleon, Yes, Commissioner, handsome old
devil, isn't he come on, Whitey say hello to the commissioner? A
forest fun? What don is done? Farnest fun? What is done?
What? Yes, that's the only thing we can get him to say.
He won't mention the name Evelyn. Will you, Whitey? A forest fun?
What is done? Mister chameleon? I think we ought to bring in
Evelyn Scott confront her with the parrot. No, no, not Jed Dave.
We're learning much more by having a shadowed. She's been meeting Laddy Blaine
secretly, Commissioner. Evidently there's still some sort of bond between them. Do
you mean he's protecting her? Is she protecting him? Chamillion? It could
be either one. In fact, Larry Blaine could be protecting his mother.
A woman could very easily have been the killer. And Missus Blaine is a
very formidable woman. Yes, she's been a leader of New York society for
years. But Muster chameleon her name has an Nevale. Yes, I know
Dave. Even so, we're checking up on everyone, Commissioner, all the
details of the Akrons. I don't mind telling you that I have seldom had
less to work on than I have in this case, except our fine feathered
friend here, pile stpan pilest fan. I realized that no court of law
would accept the parrots gibbering his evidence. But I am still counting on Whitey
to break the case. I am taking very good care of him. I'm
going to leave him here at headquarters, Commissioner, and I am going to
put a substitute panet in Petrie's pet shop. What are you talking about,
Chameleon, another white panet that looks almost exactly like him, with green marking
like Whitey's painted on his breast. Then I shall make it known that Whitey
is at the pet shop, and then I myself shall go into the pet
shop in disguise, not as a clerk, however, to mister Petrie,
the owner. It opposes his father left in charge of the shop for an
hour. Perhaps I just want to find out who is interested enough miss Padrot
Whitey to actually buy him and take him home and wring his neck the way
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back to mister Camelion and the case of Death and the talking parrot. Mister
Camellion believes that Laurel Madison's parrot, Whitey, can identify the killer who strangle
the beautiful model to death in her apartment. And we find mister Camelion now
in Petrie's Pet Shop in his disguise as an irritable old man who is finding
the shop with its assorted noises quite a trial. But when he speaks to
Detective Sergeant Dave Arnold, he speaks as comelean. Now, you certainly have
to love animals, Dave, to run a place like this. Even if
you love animals, and I certainly do, I prefer them in small quantities
and one of a kind, mister Cameleon. The only one that's silent is
that substitute parrot, the one we put here in Whitey's cage. Yes,
he's quiet enough, all right. I suppose he doesn't like being a stand
in. Has anyone tried to buy him? No, Dave, I let
everyone know that we'd located Laurel Madison's Patrot and Petrie's shop. Yet no one's
been in, No one. We suspect of a murder. It is.
Oh, I'll take that Petri's pet shop. Hello is this mister Petrie?
Well, this is our father, madam. Mister Petrie is out right now.
Oh well, I'm calling to inquire about a parrot, a white and
green parrot. I understand you have one like that. Yes, yes,
I know the one, A very remind remarkable bird, almost human, calls
people by name. In fact, yes, you still have him, yes,
yes, madam, although we have a prospective buyer or really well,
please don't sell him for at least an hour. I've heard about your parrot
and I'm sending someone down. I'm prepared to pay a very big price,
mister Petra, all right, all right, we shall wait an hour,
Thank you, madam. Dave. That was Missus Blaine, Missus Blaine,
Larry Blaine's mother. Mm hmm. Things are beginning to break, Dave.
Now you go down to central headquarters and get the real paddrot, Whitey immediately.
Then wait for me outside in a car with the engine running, and
I shall stay here and receive either Missus Blaine or Larry, or whoever she
sends for the paddet. I'll never know you in this disguise. I'm not
worried about my own disguise, Dave. What concerns me most is convincing them
that this substitute parrot is the one there after, And an hour later,
it is quite true that it is the parrot which Larry Blaine is after hardly
glancing at mister comedian, who stands beside him in his disguise. Larry is
staring at the motionless, white and green bird. This bird seems so lifeless
and silent. Mister Petrie. You you are, mister Petrie, aren't you
the owner of this pet shop? I'm mister Petrie's father. My son is
home with an ear infection. I don't wonder. I actually think that he
loses hearing in this place. Why why he ever went into this business?
I don't ever know. The coloring is right, white with green marking.
No, it's the monkeys that drive me insane, and the parrots in this
one, particularly mister Blaine. But this parrot hasn't said a word. He's
exhausted. That's why someone must have taught him a silly little rhyme and that
stupid idiot if a bird has been saying it over and over, and what
rhyme does? He say? Fun is fun? What's done is done?
He says that over and over and over. I'll take him. Well,
now you may be sorry, young man. And I know, I know
I shouldn't say that my son had killed me, But that parrot will drive
you out of your mind. I should I take him. Here's your money,
Thank you, mister Blaine. I no, wait, now, i'd
better put this cloth over the cage. Yeah, did you come in the
car, Yes, sir, A friend is waiting for me outside. Thank
you. Well, thank you, mister Blaine. I hope you enjoy that
parrot. Myself. I've never been able to like the creatures. There's something
so weird about a bird that can talk. All right, mister Petree,
I'm leaving now. Thanks for letting me use your shop as a trap.
I think it worked, mister Communion. Okay, Dave, let's go.
Okay, follow that car ahead that Laddy Blaine just got in. Evelyn Scott
is driving in Scott. She's with Larry Blaine. Yes, Dave, I
have a hunchtare going to the blaine mansion. Did he buy the parrot?
He shure, it's Laurel Madison's panrot, white A. This is the real
Whitey here in the cage. Ah huh, the one and only good white
They from now on, I am depending on you, my boy, And
don't you fail me? Who is it? If I'm mother? Laren?
Oh, come in, Evelyn, is with me? Missus Blaine, we
brought the parrot. It took you long enough. Now let's look at him.
Curious mother, very silent. But he's Laurel Madison's parrot, Whitey,
all right. The old gentleman at the pet shop quoted the rhyme that Whitey
was always saying when when Laurel had him open the cage door. This is
Blaine opened the cage door and lift him out. This is Blaine. Do
you have to do it now, Evelyn? You know we have to kill
him. You know we have to destroy the evidence. Yes, I know
what to ring his neck. I'll do it myself. Since your book so
cowardly servants roll out, there'll be no one to hear him. Come here,
you wretched burn still let that parrot alone. What mister com you're doing
in my house I'm afraid your son left the front door open, Missus Blaine,
and I walked in with Detective Serge Nald and White A whit you mean
Laurel's parrot? But this is the parrot, the one in this cage.
No, Missus Blaine, you were about to kill the wrong panet. The
real White. Hey, the one and only witness to the murder of Laurel
Madison is right here with Detective Sergerenald. Dave. Take that cloth off the
cage. Yes, mister cameleon, fin ast Fun watched his down. Finest
Fun watched is down? All right? White? Look around, Joan,
do you see anyone you know? You step up close to miss Evelin mister
comedians close to please? That's right, White, Eh? Do you recognize
the lady an ast fan fest Fan seems that he doesn't recognize Well, he
doesn't really see her. He's just getting used to the light. Do you
mean by that, Missus Blaine, that you wish that he would recognize her?
Because, frankly, I what's that? Somebody just came in? Yes,
Missus Blaine, I think it's your son Stewart. I phoned him at
his office and told him to come here immediately, Stuart, come in please,
Hello comedian, So I got here ahead of you, did Joe?
Hello, mother, Larry, Miss Scott. What's happened parrot? What's he
doing here? Hello? Hello? Hello Evelyn Darling. I'll kill you.
I'll kill you. Give me that paring its neck? Oh you want,
Stuart Blane, put up your hands. Put your hands up to the comedian.
What are you doing, Missus Blaine, I'm about to arrest your son
Stewart, for the murder of Laurel Madison. That's ridiculous. No, it's
not comedian. You must be mad just I simply lost my temper because Laurel
Madison's patron recognized you. He called you by name, by name, He
called him Evelyn. Stuart's middle name is Evelyn, one of his middle names.
I might say, everyone assumed that Evelyn was the name of a woman,
but as you know, in England particularly, it's a very common man's
name. That doesn't. I look up your family tree. I discovered,
Missus Blaine, there were at least five men named Evelyn in your husband's family,
his father for one. That doesn't prove a thing, Comedian, It
proves a little something. Stuart and your attack on that parad a moment ago
before you had time to stop yourself. That proves something too, And mister
Smithers may prove the rest. Smithers who Smithers the superintendent of Laurel Madison's apartment
house? I understand for two years Miss Madison had a constant caller, and
I got his description from Smithers and from the neighbors. Stuart. I was
startled. The description fitted you so perfectly. You a brilliant man, a
power and industry. I couldn't believe it at first, didn't want to believe
it. Then as time went on, I had to. I never knew
that girl Smithers and the neighbors can identify you, Stuart. And besides,
day search him just on a chance chance of what this is an outrage?
What do you expect to find on me? A key, perhaps a key
to Laurel Madison's apartment. I went to all the lucksmiths in the neighborhoods joyed.
One of them had made a duplicate key for her apartment in gold Dave,
keep on searching him, Kay, No, there's no need for you
to go on searching me. The keys in my wallet I'll give it you
a comedian, sorry, store, keep your hands up. Tain't no chances
get the wallet. Dad, Here it is, mister comedian, and here's
the keyse Stuart, Why did you keep it? Why didn't you get rid
of it? I don't know, Mother, I don't know. Perhaps missus
Blaine, because he loved Laurel Madison, he kept that lover's secret. He's
a man of great wealth and social position. He wouldn't acknowledge his love for
a girl like Laurel Madison. Oh, he hated her for going after his
younger brother Laddy. Probably felt that she was wrecking Laddy's life. But he
had loved her, and this key was the only thing he had left of
it, so he hung on to it, perhaps knowing that it might be
his death warrant, perhaps even hoping it might be his death warrant. Larain,
how is your mother? She's pretty well prostrated, mister commeleion. She
suspected from the first was my brother Stewart who murdered Laurel. I did everything
I could help to cover up for I knew that your alibi for the night
of the murder was rarely his. And Evelyn Scott here. She was afraid
that Parrott might convict her. That's why she worked with him. I also
wanted to help Larry. Yes you still love itch Alla Dunham. Yes,
mister Camillie. Then trying to have been your mother and your brother, Well
that traged it needn't be yours, So don't let it be lady. No,
I won't. And as for Whitey, he's a reformed parrot. I
keep him in my office and I'm actually teaching him to say the motto above
my desk. The innocent must be protected, the guilty must be punished.
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back credit where credits due. For once, we didn't have a story where
there was an over the top virtuous person who turned out to be the killer,
and that was kind of recurring theme I was getting a little tired of.
I suspected that the killer was a man based on the name Evil,
just because it'd be too obvious for Evil one as the killer to be a
woman. It's one of those names that people will generally assume is a woman,
but in many cases, you know, pretty rare today can actually be
a man. Leslie is another one, and classic detective programs did take advantage
of it. I'm not certain that you could have had a more obvious ploy
than spreading word as to where the parrot was for sale. And I also
have mixed feelings on Chameleon's explanation for why the killer held on to the key.
On one end, there may be something to it psychologically, but the
way he romanticize the murder was just a bit silly. Well, now we
turn to listener comments and feedback, and we start with an email from Derek
who writes, Adam, I need help. I hear good reviews about mister
Cameleon. If mister Chmeleon were to do investigating like Johnny Dawl or Sam,
I would have no problem. However, if we reverse it and Johnny and
Sam were to put on makeup and wigs only to have the guilty party confess
to a complete stranger the crime they have committed, they would lose all credibility.
I try to take mister Cameleon at face value that they don't mean to
take it seriously, but he is the underworld's most dreaded man. And then
there is Dave Arnold, possibly his best friend, who knows mister Cameleon will
disguise himself rarely even knows that it is in fact mister Cameleon. I would
note Derek that Dave Arnold is not part of the audience. I sincerely want
to enjoy the series, but I need help appreciating it well. Thanks so
much for the comment, Derek. It's a tough one because people appreciate and
enjoy the things that they appreciate and enjoy, and as hard and maybe even
counterproductive to to argue why someone should enjoy something, although a lot of people
do. We had a comment last week from Catherine saying the series was fun,
and another listener on YouTube, Kim is just going through all the mister
Kamleian episodes and apparently it has gone through the entire playlist and is like,
is there any more? Now? Kim's got to wait until Thursday for more
to be added. So people definitely do enjoy it. I think for me,
a lot of it does come down to the performance. The series would
be a lot harder to enjoy if you didn't have Carl Swinson in the lead
role. In a way, it's like Kyle Ovance. I think that if
you took just two random actors instead of Jackson Beck and George Petrie, that
series would be absolutely intolerable. But they really do add something and bring something
to a production, and the sort of commitment and performance they give ultimately sells
the show. There also is a level of production quality. You know,
you can hear a production where nobody knows what they're doing and they do stuff
that doesn't make sense because they don't know what they're doing, and to me,
that's not particularly entertaining. The nice thing about Mister Chameleon is that you've
got a lead, and you've got actors and a production team that know full
well what they're doing. So even though the choices are often odd, they
are interesting in terms of both the performance and the plot and story. It's
like, really, you went with that. That makes it interesting to listen
to. And I do think that it is kind of a light program,
Like you're not going to walk away from Mister Chameleon in Tears. You're not
gonna hear a set of violence where you kind of twine. You're just gonna
get a little bit of mystery with a detective program, storing an actor who
knew his stuff and put his best into material that might be a bit silly
at times, but still he's fun to listen to. Now, if you've
got additional insights on why you like mister Comeleon, and I would love to
hear from it. I'm not particularly asking for insights on why people don't like
mister Chameleon, but I'll inevitably get those two. Regarding the episode Murder and
the Sleeping Men, Anthony writs, is that Joe kern Well, Anthony,
I'm not certain which role you're referring to, but Joseph Kerns was a Hollywood
based radio actor and mister Commedie was in New York City originated programs, so
he would not have been on that series. Thank you so much for the
question, Anthony. And now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the
day. Thank you to Boz Patreon supporter since April of twenty nineteen, currently
supporting the program at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or
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back here tomorrow for the conclusion of the Laughing Matter where Johnny Dollar. This
is Charlie Burton speaking. Oh morning Burton, So you're still alive. Huh
that was anti humor. It was entirely out of place. Well it's early
yet, I'm the comedian and I'll make the jokes. Your job is to
protect my life. Don't tell me you've been shot at again this time of
morning. Boy, whoever it is, really must hate you, Burton,
Dolla, so help me, so help you nothing. You may be good,
old lovable Charlie to forty million television viewers, but to me, you're
just a pain in the neck. I'll my clients are worth a half million
bucks because he was fool enough to write an insurance policy on your life,
but not to me. My press on you is a fast three cents,
give it, take a couple. My life has been threatened, sure,
and that's why I'm here. But yesterday, when I tried to get you
to cooperate, you called it a practical joke. I'm that now, No,
because somebody tossed a bullet at you last night and scared the living pants
off of you. Well call Captain Perolla the Insinata Police. I hope you'll
be with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen
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