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Heads up, Angels! While our podcast is suitable for all ages, keep in mind these episodes were produced in a different era and may include scenes of danger, crime, or themes some listeners may find sensitive or outdated. When doing our rewatch, we do our very best to discuss everything with care, context, and compassion, and always with a love for the show and respect for our listeners.

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Last time on Good Morning Charlie.

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Well, just send me the bell, boxy lady, and coming up, the most advanced amusement park in the entire world. Welcome to everything.

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It is Colby Smith. And I am here with my co-host Chris. Say hello.

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Hello.

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How are you doing?

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Oh my god, Colby.

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That good, huh?

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So it's dark, and you probably didn't notice this when you came. But Colby, I have pigs.

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Look at that. There's those little piggies.

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I forgot already. Did I tell you I have pigs? You did briefly mention I everyone, I have pigs.

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I I live in the suburbs. I live in a neighborhood. So Colby, the pigs. The pigs. So ever so these two piglets, well, they're not piglets. I'm guessing.

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Oh, were they babies?

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I don't know how pigs do. I don't even know how little kids do.

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How big were they?

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Well, they're not piglets, but they're adolescents. So I they're not full-grown pigs like Suzanne Sugarbaker's pig, Noelle, and designing women.

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I cannot believe that you are walking around with this big pig on a leash. Why not? Just fits my mood.

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But that's what they're gonna be. These are like adolescent pigs. They're sort of the size of Wilbur and Charlotte Sweat.

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Pigs are very sweet animals.

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But not in my yard. Through my ring doorbell neighborhood app, found the pig owners. The pig owners, you know that really gone running wild in the neighborhood? Yes, so listen, I have to lower my voice. Everyone listen. As I am telling you all this, the owner of the pig, zu, in my yard, setting bigger traps. Because I have been patient for weeks, and these pigs are ripping up my landscaping. They are ripping up my bulbs and the things I have planted. And you know what? I don't care because what matters more is those little pigs are safe.

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Oh, well, that's a relief.

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I didn't know what a pig trap looked. Frankly, I don't know what any trap looks like except the kind you dig in the jungle and cover with leaves. And he's here right now because they rip-rocketed full-tilt boogie through my yard today. I caught him on my ring camera and they went to town like I was a golden corral buffet/slash Dave and Busters. They tore up garden flags and are they flipped over my birdbath. And I said something you've I said to the guy, you gotta do something. So he's here now. But everyone hear me. I'm patient. I'm patient. I would love for people to leave in the comments the strangest thing they've ever found in their yard. For me, it would be two pigs tied with one time I found a backhoe in my yard.

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Colby, what's the strangest thing you found in your yard?

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The strangest thing I've found in my yard.

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Was it the CDC?

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Uh I want to say maybe two or three years ago. This is not like terribly strange.

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I'm already exhausted. Hello, my friend. Welcome to your sleep story.

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There was uh a random full-grown cantaloupe growing out of the ground.

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Did it tear up your landscaping like these little teen pigs?

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It did not.

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What did you do with the cantaloupe? Is it there still?

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Um uh so I And it's my great privilege to be the voice that you listen to as you go to sleep tonight.

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I don't uh at the time I did not know when cantaloupes were fully developed, so I left it on the vine. And I put like I put um well, like I think you're not supposed to hear any water in them. Uh I don't remember. I think if you like knock them a little with um your knuckle that they're supposed to sound hollow, and then they're ready.

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That's how your parents decided it was time for you to leave for college. They wrapped you in that melon head of yours. Um and then put you in a state college.

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So I put like a little garden fence around it so that it could continue growing. And then uh my neighbor sprayed the entire backyard with like insecticide or whatever and promptly killed it, even though I clearly had a fence around it.

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And as well, tell me the most boring thing you've done today.

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Well, that's that's a crime against humanity.

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I was very upset.

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And I'm gonna tell you what everyone, little teen pigs. Hashtag little teen pigs.

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Hashtag Bebop.

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I don't know what that means.

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Bebop is the pig from Ninja Turtles.

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There's a pig in Ninja Turtles.

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Yeah, he's a bad guy. He then becomes a good guy, though.

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Well, he'd probably overturn my birdbath, too.

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Have you seen the Charlie's Angels dolls and adventures? Beautiful dolls, beautiful. Sabrina, Chill, and Kelly. They're Charlie's Angels. And they've got clothes that let you imagine them in daring adventures by day, and then turn them into glamorous outfits at night. Angels, I have an assignment for you! Charlie's Angels, Dolls, and Adventure News and Hands Pro Dolls Offits and Accessories also so separately.

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This episode is brave enough to ask, what if we Charlie's angeled it up, but added rusty rides and head trauma? Fresh from the production dossier, here is your case briefing. As mentioned in a previous pod, Jill volunteers, but she's not the only angel doing good work. In this episode, we find out Kelly volunteers at a children's home, the Pacific Sanitarium. Everyone, we know this is an unfortunate name, but that's what they were called back then, and that's what it is in the episode. She mentors one child in particular, Skip, who is neurodivergent. Around 12-ish now. I've already mentioned I don't know how kids do or pigs do. He looked around 12. He'd been abandoned as a young child at a local shopping center.

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So long, farewell.

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Kelly, while on an outing with Skip in what is a true real-life amusement park in Long Beach, California. She's off to get some cotton candy. Skip bumps into two very shady characters, one of whom drops a gun. Startled, they run off. Skip picks up the gun, turns, and accidentally shoots Kelly. Skip, confused by all that has happened, runs off into the distance while ambulance sirens wail in the background. The basic plot: Who will find Skip first? The angels or the thugs who dropped their gun and want to silence him for good. The recurring theme? What are the chances?

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And I have your super secret intel from behind the scenes.

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I'm really excited about this.

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This episode originally aired on November 10th, 1976.

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Oh God, Colby, I was having a little drinky. I'm back. Do you know what 1976 is?

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I really wish you'd tell us.

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You like me.

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The director is Phil Bondelli. Phil was born in Chicago in 1927, passed away recently in 2011, known for other pod fave shows such as The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, Vegas, Chips, The Rookies. Uh, we've mentioned these shows many, many times. The writer, Rick Husky, uh, three episodes of Charlie's Angels the First Season. Uh, he wrote The Killing Kind, to Kill an Angel, and Angel on Wheels. He also wrote 37 episodes of SWAT, a show that he helped develop, 90 episodes of TJ Hooker, which he created, and a fun fact, Rick Husky wrote four episodes of Daniel Boone, which stars one of Chris's favorite Disney actors, Fess Parker.

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I love Fess Parker.

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Fess rose to fame and was a nationwide obsession in the 50s for playing Davy Crockett. Fess Parker was made a Disney legend in 1991. Uh, that is the highest honor bestowed by the company. And Chris has his autograph. Uh, Chris was 21 in the 50s.

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How dare you speak the truth? This is an audio only. By sheer coincidence, guess what I'm having a little drinky out of tonight?

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Your Davy Crockett um hat?

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No, the answer is a five-gallon bucket. No, it's actually my wine glass from the Fess Parker winery. An ex got me as a present.

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How when did he get into making wine?

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Actually, the Fess Parker Winery is open, operating still in Santa Barbara, California.

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Is it ran by his family?

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It is. I've met one of his sons at an Ebcot Food and Wine Festival and got his autograph on it.

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Oh, really? Very cool. Love the Food and Wine Festival.

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Big bottle of Chardonnay, I will not touch because it has his son's autograph on it.

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Another fun fact that we will see in this episode: a surfer girl character is wearing a Starsky and Hutch t-shirt. Of course, another one of Spelling Goldberg's uh productions. Now, the Surfer Girl is played by Carol Jones, who had roles and other shows that we've mentioned, such as The Six Million Dollar Man, Policewoman, and The Waltons. We also have a location alert, which Chris has already mentioned. The park scenes were filmed at Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California. The amusement park was used in film and television as far back as 1918, the year Chris was born. How dare you. Shows such as Starsky and Hutch and Six Million Dollar Man had episodes filmed there. The park was demolished in 1979. As stated, the episode was filmed and aired in 1976, three years uh before the park's demolition. This location is in real disrepair and it kind of shows. Charlie does a title drop uh a mere 27 seconds into the episode.

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And I'm excited to see if we have any other title drops. As far as I can remember, this is the first actual title drop we have in an episode.

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That's a good question. We'll have to keep our ears peeled.

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Yes, because that's what you do with ears. Before we begin the rundown of today's assignment, here are classified details you need to know. First of all, this is an example of a 70s plot which has not aged well. The idea of institutionalizing a child or really anyone else due to disabilities is extremely dated. It's important to remember this episode premiered only a year after the U.S. government put special education laws into place. The character of Skip existed at a time in which schools did not have to support neurodivergent children or provide enhanced learning opportunities and environments so they had a chance to thrive. Guest star Robert Donner featured prevalently in many 60s and 70s television series, including two episodes of The Boy Who Talked to Badgers, which was a magical world of Disney TV presentation in 1978. He was on the Waltons as well for 19 episodes. He also appeared in Pod Fave's Six Million Dollar Man, SWAT, The Rookies, the previously mentioned Daniel Boone, Disney's original The Nutty Professor, and where a lot of people my age know him, those of us pardon 1918 Colby, know him from 23 episodes of Mark and Mindy. Lastly, this is the very first episode in which one of the angels is shot. You may remember a previous episode in which they were shot at, but not hit. And there is a blooper if you look for it surrounding this, in which Kelly's head wound is present in one angle and then disappears in the next. And really, Colby, nothing screams, near death experience, like a sloppy edit. Well, I mean, I don't want to put anything on her hair either, so and on that mind numbing note, let's take a quick break and we'll be back.

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Welcome back. Let's move to the debrief. Kelly is in the hospital with a serious head wound. The scared and not sure what to do, Skip is nowhere to be found. He did not go back to the Pacific Sanitarium. Jill, Sabrina, and Bosley find out from the sanitarium staff Skip had a little note with him when he was abandoned. It was written on the back of a time card. You know, Colby, like the ones, you know, like at Laverne and Shirley at Schatz Brewery.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

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Where you walk in and you pick out your time card out of the little metal thingy, and you go ka chunk chunk, and then you put your card back in a little metal thingy. Do you know what that is? I do, yes. Have you ever had to use a time clock?

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I have, yeah, in retail stores ages ago.

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You worked in a few retail stores. Okay, later off the recording, you're gonna tell me which ones of those were. I can't wait to find out. I cannot imagine your surly attitude with customer service. I bet you were really successful. Anyway, the time card becomes the key to tracking down where he came from. As Skip was never able to really articulate that to anyone at any facility. Meanwhile, the LAPD in this amusement park where Kelly was accidentally shot by Skip, they find a dead body, which I'm just gonna be honest right now is one of my favorite things to do. Yeah, but I mean once you find the first couple, the magic just wears off.

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That's true.

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I've only found the three. True story. So they find a dead man in the park's tunnel of horrors killed with the same gun Skip used, which means the men Skip ran into weren't random. They were connected to a murder and were fleeing the scene of the crime there at the amusement park.

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They're so badass they get uh completely like discombobulated just because they ran into a kid.

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Well, they did drop their gun.

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They did. Uh so I have a little interjections. I can't wait. Right before Kelly picks up Skip, let's say at the facility. Yeah, Pacific facility. Skip is seen with this nurse. It tickles me so much. Because whoever the extra is playing this nurse, she's being affectionate to Skip, but she's slapping the back of this kid's head like she's never touched anything in her life. And then she like tries to pet him with her nails. It's just really awkward. Um, I would love to know who on um the production team uh or the crew was married to this woman and got her this extra gift.

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Fun fact the Charlie's Angels named attraction Tunnel of Horrors, the real name of the attraction Laugh in the Dark. Laugh spelled with two F's L-A-F-F. Everyone here knows how I feel about spelling. We'll put we'll put a picture of that in our stories. And it famously, like for real real, not for play play.

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Now for real real, just for play play.

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Held the mummified body of outlaw Elmer McCurdy. And ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know who the heck Elmer McCurdy is, I don't either. But Colby's gonna tell us all about it at the end of the episode.

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I am. It's really macabre, but also like really interesting.

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Again, the magic wears off after you find your first half dozen or so. Once the LAPD find this dead man in the tunnel of horrors, the scene cuts to the criminals regrouping in their hotel room. They're collecting their thoughts, and they're reviewing the series of events which have occurred, and they surmise one, Skip saw them and could easily identify them. Two, Skip may or may not still have the gun, which could possibly be traced to them. Three, Kelly may or may not survive, but if she does survive, she could have seen them and she could maybe identify them. The conclusion both of them need to die, especially Skip. Jill and Sabrina are following up on this lead of the time card, which the Pacific Sanitarium still had in Skip's file. They trace it to a print shop in town, and in a great scene, the creepy owner tries to blackmail them into posing for a naughty magazine. Because it's the mid-70s.

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That's a really good scene. It's very funny.

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Well, they scare him straight into telling the truth. Wonderful scene as Jill and Sabrina pretend to consider the offer while casually rattling off all the laws he's broken by propositioning them with such a deal.

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What's the penalty for pornographic propositioning? Gee, I don't know. That depends on if he's a first-time offender. Starting with a 602. A 602?

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Right? Oh, that's a little heavy. I still think we should have busted.

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The owner of the print shop lets Jill and Sabrina know the card belongs to Giovanni's Bar and Grill. The printer, in fact, still prints their stuff. The recurring theme of this week's episode? What are the chances? And wouldn't you know it? The viewers then see Skip is hiding. Where? And Giovanni's bar and grill. What are the chances, Kobe? Mind you, less than a day has passed. So the accident occurred in the theme park. It's now less than 24 hours later. After the accident, Skip ran off. We don't know what we're doing. But he just happened upon Giovanni's after hours and broke into it to spend the night. The next morning, when the owner comes in to open for business, it spooks Skip a little bit, and he does what any of us would do really when startled. Runs out into traffic. And he's picked up by this surfer girl in the convertible we mentioned earlier, the one wearing the Starsky and Hutch t-shirt. And he's driven to the beach. And you know, we've all been there. This is what naturally happens when you are startled by a business owner and you run out of their restaurant and into a busy intersection. Jill and Sabrina also drive toward the beach. Beaches in Malibu specifically. They find the surfer girl.

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What are the chances?

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But no skip.

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Well, maybe she was the only one with a surfboard.

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Here comes a twist. As this episode becomes a full tilt boogie soap opera, this show is on a runaway train to daytime soap operas, much like the teen pigs in my yard. Skip, as we've established, is easily startled and does a lot of running off. The implication being it's due to his inability to articulate his thoughts because of his neurodivergency. And the beach is no exception. So once there, he dashes away from the surfer girl, who's being nothing but kind, talkative, helpful, and he dashes off seconds before Sabrina and Jill track this surfer girl down in Long Beach.

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Another little interjection.

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Interjections. Hey! Yeah!

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Sabrina calls Bosley to give an update, and Bosley shares all of these items that Skip has been picking up, uh, that he's remembered being told and the story about the sleeping princess. He relays all of that to Kelly, who takes it upon herself to try to get up from the hospital bed to go help look for Skip. And Bosley insists that she lays back down and says, I'm gonna go find the doctor to give you a sedative. Why is everybody trying to sedate women in this series all the time? So much chloroform, so many sedatives, I think they're all in danger.

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Skip is running as fast as his little legs can carry him down the beach, and he runs smack into a Malibu beach house. You know, as one does, and he stumbles into a modern day miracle. Because as he is gazing into the house through the glass doors, a new character, Gail, the woman living there, sees Skip peeking in the window and realizes this isn't a strange young man. This is my son, Bobby, who I abandoned at a shopping center years ago after a breakdown, because my husband, the father of who I'm now going to call Bobby Skip, was not supportive and trying to dissuade Gail, the mother, from giving the child, Bobby Skip, the specialized attention he needed to learn and succeed. What are the chances? Wait, everybody. She, Gail, the mother, was a server at Giovanni's back in the day. Hence, she had this time card from Giovanni's and used that to write her little note. What are the chances? Gail confesses to her new husband, Cliff, because of course his name is Cliff, what happened to the first husband, the father of Bobby Skip. And Jill and Sabrina, who tracked Bobby Skip to the beach house with the help of the surfer girl, uh, just tears, confessions, and redemption arcs are coming. Because you know what's happening. Right before Jill and Sabrina got to the beach house to see this reunited, and it feels so good between Gail and Bobby Skip. He got spooked and ran off. And the criminals are closing in. Colby, how do you think the criminals are now re-involved? Because we haven't seen them in a long time. We haven't seen them since they sort of gather their thoughts in a hotel room. Why how do you think this happened?

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Uh, well, we know how the criminals are involved again because one of them is reading a newspaper talking about a missing child and the fact that Kelly is in the hospital.

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So everybody ponder the complexities of this moment with me as the scene cuts back to the criminals. Remember, by this time it's been maybe 24 hours. It's the next day, maybe right at 24 hours since the accidental shooting at the amusement park. Somehow, in under 24 hours since this episode began, large ads and articles about the missing Bobby Skip have been printed already in all the local papers because that's how this world works. And the bad guys are reading one of those full page articles. What? Say it? What are the chances? As Colby pointed out, now they know Skip's name. Well, at least skip the skip part. They know Kelly's name. They know the hospital in which Kelly is a patient. Now they have everything they need to finish the job. The head honchabad guy, Colby, he was the one in Markin Mindy. Wastes there we go. We're all together now on the same page, and really that's what this podcast is all about, bringing people together. Waste no time in going to Kelly's hospital room posing as Bobby Skip's long lost father. A sedated Kelly has no issue believing his web of lies and racks her brain to try to figure out where the child could be. Oh and she says to the head honcho bad guy, you know, something in her oh, I think it's the drugs, tells her Bobby Skip would eventually go back to the site of the accident, which happens to be near this amusement park's carousel, and Colby, guess what?

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Well, what do you think Kelly is? Is she right or wrong?

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Is she right or wrong about the boy going to the amusement park?

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No, is she right or wrong about the Big Bang Theory? Yes. Is she right or wrong about Skip going back to the amusement park eventually? She thinks that's no, no, we don't have time to go into that whole story. We're not going to go into that whole story.

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The sleeping princess, she mentions a white horse, and she thinks about the horse she's riding on the merry-go-round. That's why she says the amusement park.

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I'm skipping that whole part.

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Why? Because it's too complicated. Okay. Well, Kobe.

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She's right. What are the chances? We now, this whole this whole episode is winding up, everybody. And remember, it's been barely 24 hours. We cut to Bobby Skip, fast asleep back in the amusement park. Uh he's on the Who Wants Tetanus ride. The park hasn't opened yet for the day because remember, barely 24 hours have passed. He has indeed, as Kelly thought, fled his mother's Malibu Beach House and returned to the amusement park. I have now named Get Your Lockjaw Here. So Colby, everyone converges on this amusement park death trap all at once. A sedated Kelly who yeeted herself out of the hospital. She's got like the IV dragging behind her. The LAPD, Bosley, Jill and Sabrina, fresh from the mother's Malibu Beach House. Hearing all of these cars screeching up to the entrance of this pier, everyone visualize like a real life pier in Long Beach, Malibu, the the Who Wants Tetanus ride. And he gets off of that and he flees right onto the watch out for Jagged Shards carousel. Colby, it's true. Did you see all the broken horse bits on this carousel?

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I really didn't, but I don't think you're gonna be in charge of naming the ride.

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Colby, Colby, no, not me, the Centers for Disease Control. I I had to I I I I stopped I stopped and I zoomed in. Like every other horse had a leg broken off and just a jagged, like asbestos shard lead painted, lead paint. Bosley and the LAPD do a great job, and they trap one bad guy fairly quickly. But the really, really, really bad guy who was impersonating Bobby Skip's long-lost father is harder to catch. And I love this chase. This is a great chase. So picture it. Bobby Skip run to the Watch Out for Jagged Shards carousel. Bosley L A P D trap one guy. Sabrina and Jill go after the trap that guy.

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They literally hit him with the police car.

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I'm taking poetic license for the sake of this podcast. After a little chase, Sabrina and Jill corner him on a ride, and we see the name of the ride is Roton, R-O-T-O-N. Look in our stories. It was an actual ride, and this was this was its actual name at this real life park. And it's one of those attractions, Colby, they spin super, super fast and they pin you to the wall with Oh, I remember. Right. Now you might be thinking, does the floor drop out if you're like me? Well, those variants of the spinny ride, this is the 70s, everybody. This is 1976. This was high tech. Later variants, like it was. Shut up. Everyone, I bet right now is thinking about the Gravitron. And the difference in the Gravitron is it was a later model where they would spin you so hard they could drop the floor out just for an added shot of nausea and an extra chance for spinning vomit.

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Well, one of my favorite things about uh the Gravitron is that, well, I mean, you know, they added like um cushioned mats to it.

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Um I mean, maybe maybe in your where you grow up, I just had barbed wire.

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So you're like laying on a mat that is um on an angle.

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Or even lying at a mat.

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As um, yes, lying on a mat, excuse me. What? Um as the of course ride picks up speed, uh the mats are essentially like on slats that move up and down. Um it was one of my favorite rides as a kid.

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This brings us the second laugh out loud moment for me of season one, uh, and in this episode, because as viewers, we see, we know what's about to happen. This dude runs into the Roton, Jill hot on his heels, slams the ride, the the ride's door shut, and Sabrina hits the go button. And together, and and we will post photos of this ride, and you'll see the the climbing slash viewing platform.

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Does that look safe?

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Together they climb the ride's viewing platform. And this is a real deal in case onlookers wanted to get you know splattered with somebody's puke and decide they're gonna let that particular villain, he's earned it. He's gonna spend a bit longer.

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Nah, you wouldn't want to cheat him out of the school ride, would you?

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It's a happy ending for all the good guys. Gail's new husband, Cliff, I mentioned earlier, what are the chances? Is thrilled to be an instant stepfather. And Gail pledges she's gonna take full advantage of this second chance to be the parent she should have been all along. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is this week's episode To Kill an Angel. Colby, as we wrap up and you have a few little bonus factoids, I have a question for you. I pride myself in having thrown up on more amusement park rides than any other living human being here in 2026. Can you tell me a ride that made you the sickest? And while you think, I'll tell you mine, and it's really it's really a tie. When I was in high school, I went to the Virginia State Fair, and really we could put a period there. I got on one of those round swing rides. It was called a yo-yo, but it was one of those carousel things that have the long chains and the little bucket seat swing, and you get in it and it spins you around, and then it goes higher and higher, and you spin more and more parallel to the ground. Now, I've always suffered from severe motion sickness. What made me get on this ride? And I can remember being on that ride, and I would swing around, and I would there you'd have the little amusement park worker at the bottom with the little stop and go button, and I would be like, Stop. And then I'd come around again, stau, and then I'd come around again, stop. And when I got off that ride, I made it to that man and to a trash can next to him and puked my guts out and had to be carried to first aid.

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All four things.

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But it's tied with this, and this is a shorter story. You know, those pendulum uh fair ride ships that just swing you. Yeah, the pirate ship. The pirate ship or the boat, the Viking ship that swings you back and forth. I happened to be on one at King's Dominion when I I grew up near King's Dominion, which is still there. I think it's part of that whole King's Dominion, King's Island series of parks. So I worked a couple of summers there, and one day I got a hankering to ride that ride, and I can remember at one point my end of the ride was up, up in the air. So I was facing down toward the ground, and at that moment I puked and it went all over the people's necks sitting in front of me. Oh, and then and then as we swooped down to where I was on the bottom, the puke came off the back of their heads and landed in my mouth. Which, of course, my mouth was wide open because what was I doing? Screaming to the person running the ride, st about you?

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I have never gotten sick on a ride.

SPEAKER_03 37:37

Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Good Morning Charlie. I'm your host, Chris Berryman. You've never gotten sick on a side.

SPEAKER_04 37:43

I mean, but it's alright, I'm sick now.

SPEAKER_03 37:45

Have you gotten motion sickness on a boat in a car?

SPEAKER_04 37:49

Mm-mm. I have not.

SPEAKER_03 37:51

Motion sickness with a fox. Motion sickness on a box.

SPEAKER_04 37:56

Uh I mean, I am getting older, so you know, the the inner ear fluid is probably hardening a little bit, so we'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_03 38:04

I don't know if that's science.

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But fortunately, I have never gotten sick on a ride, thankfully.

SPEAKER_03 38:11

You've never gotten sick on a fair ride. You've never gotten sick on a boat. No to a boat.

SPEAKER_04 38:16

Nope.

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Because they can't see you shaking your head like I can right now.

SPEAKER_04 38:21

Right.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

You've never gotten sick in a car.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

No.

SPEAKER_03 38:25

From reading.

SPEAKER_04 38:29

No. So now we are going to talk about the body in the attraction Laugh in the Dark.

SPEAKER_03 38:38

So we're going back to talk about the real life, the real name Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

That ride, the tunnel of horrors.

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This tunnel of horrors had what was thought as a wax figure in it. It was discovered that it was actually a human during an episode of$6 million.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

Shut up for real.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

Yes. The crew of$6 million were filming in this attraction, and they were moving some of the props around, and the arm fell off of the prop, and they noticed it had a bone in it.

SPEAKER_03 39:27

On the six million dollar man, by the way, at this time, Lee Majors is married to Farah Fawcett.

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What are the chances? The body, or the human being, is Elmer J. McCurdy. He was born January 1st of 1880 and died October 7th of 1911. Well, he was a young feller. He was, yes.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

Well, why did he die so soon? Did he ride a ride that made him really sick?

SPEAKER_04 40:01

Yes. He was an American outlaw who was killed in a shootout with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in 1911.

SPEAKER_03 40:14

Well, we've all been there.

SPEAKER_04 40:16

His body remained at this what would you what would you call that? At the morgue, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 40:22

Earl home, maybe. Mortuary. Or a funeral home.

SPEAKER_04 40:27

Correct, whichever. He then uh shaved the face of Elmer. Right. And put him in a suit and stored him in the back of the funeral home. That's completely normal. McCurdy laid unclaimed for quite some time. The man who owned uh the funeral home uh refused to release the body until he was paid. Then he decided to exhibit McCurdy to make money. He dressed McCurdy up in street clothes and placed a rifle in his hands and stood it up in the corner of the funeral home. And for a nickel, he allowed visitors to see the bandit who wouldn't give up.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

I love that. That's a hustling kind of guy right there. You make that nickel.

SPEAKER_04 41:21

Well, he did. It became a very popular attraction at the funeral home and drew a lot of attention of carnival promoters. And he received numerous offers to sell the corpse, but he refused. Much later, uh, there's a man who calls uh Johnson and claims to be McCurdy's brother. He is actually not. Uh, he shows up with this other man uh who claims uh custody of the body. Uh McCurdy is taken to uh San Francisco and he ends up in a traveling carnival. The carnival ends up being purchased by another business. That business eventually develops into what is Pike's Amusement Park. And because of the way that his body looked um 50 years after having been embalmed, it looked fake. Uh, people thought it was in fact a wax figure. I mean, gold. That is why the crew of$6 million man, and it weighed like uh, I think 30 to maybe 60 pounds. So that is why the crew of$6 million man thought that it was a prop and they could just pick it up and moved it. Um, but because the the arm fell off, it was investigated, uh, discovered to be Elmer McCurdy. Um, but now Elmer McCurdy is uh buried in Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma. This happened on April 22nd of 1977, uh, and he was placed next to uh Bill Doolin, who um was his stepfather, I believe. But yes, that is the story of uh the body and uh laugh in the dark.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

That was quite a tale you took us on.

SPEAKER_04 43:21

Isn't that insane?

SPEAKER_03 43:23

It is so insane. That is really something else. Is it is it legal in the United States to own a cadaver?

SPEAKER_04 43:32

It is not legal to own a uh cadaver. Uh-oh. I do not know how long that that law has existed.

SPEAKER_03 43:41

Really? Well, we need to wrap we need to wrap this up because I gotta go.

SPEAKER_04 43:45

So everyone knows part credit. Yeah, I got stuff to do, everybody. It was a prop.

SPEAKER_03 43:50

Yeah, yeah. That's what I yeah. I'm gonna move some of my props. This has been To Kill an Angel. We have some surprises coming up for you in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, hop on our socials what theme park or amusement park rides have made you the sickest, and what is the most bizarre thing you have found in your yard? And I will keep everyone up to date on the little teen pigs in my yard. We'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

Bye, everybody. Bye, Angels. That successfully wraps up another mission. Good morning, Charlie is produced by Chris Berryman and me, Colby Smith.

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Dawn, that's the end.