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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produced in a different era and may include scenes of danger, crime, or themes some listeners may find sensitive or outdated.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, she just wears a ring at the hospital so she doesn't get hit on all the time.

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And coming up, we were dark by the Kirby.

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Chris Berryman ready to shine and sparkle. What's going on, Colby?

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I believe something arrived today.

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Did are you talking about what arrived at my house or your house?

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Correct. Now at your house.

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Correct. That narrows it down. Yes. You may recall Colby mentioned in a past breakdown he was sending me a little present he's had ordered since Moses was in third grade. And it arrived today. It is next to me right now. And I thought I would open it when we record our Friday dossier on Patreon. Let's do that. Let's open up this and because we've mentioned it on a Friday dossier, which is a Patreon exclusive, everyone. So if you want to see our Friday dossiers, head on over to the Patron. It is free to join, but in order to see our Friday dossier, you have to join at certain levels, and that's all spelled out. But can we save it until then?

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Yeah, we can save it.

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May we? We may. Wonderful. What's going on in your life? Nothing. Are you cutting the grass? You really don't talk much about your house and your yard. It it is summer. It is springtime. Do you cut the grass? Do you work in your flower beds?

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So uh Hello, my friend. Welcome to your sleep story.

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I don't know, I don't have flower beds. Right now I have flowers in pots, which are very lovely, and I do tend to them. I do have one raised garden bed uh in which I am growing pumpkins.

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Now wait. Early on, you discussed something about growing. Was it a squash that came up mysteriously and then your neighbor sprayed?

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That was in the backyard, like unbeknownst to anybody.

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But was it a squash?

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No, it was a cantaloupe that did not make it. But after that, I want to say the next year is when I um went and purchased uh a raised garden bed for my pumpkins.

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I remember now.

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Last year I had about a handful of pumpkins.

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I remember your posts on your socials. I remember seeing this raised bed many times. But frankly, there were so many weeds growing around. I thought it was in a spooky abandoned pumpkin bed.

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Yeah, well, technically all pumpkin beds are spooky.

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No. See, this is why I've been brought into your life. I bet everyone who's listening is just screaming. You can't have a spooky pumpkin patch. You have to have a sincere pumpkin patch. And why, Colby, is it important you have a sincere pumpkin patch?

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You frame that as a question, but I assume you know the answer.

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Of course. Do you know the oh everyone? Ah god, I hope people aren't listening while they're driving. They've driven straight into a ditch. Do you really not know why you have to have the most sincere pumpkin patch every year?

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No, tell me.

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That's how you get the great pumpkin to comb to your pumpkin patch.

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Mm-hmm. So that I don't get a rock in my trick-or-treat bag.

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The two are unrelated.

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God.

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Does everyone hear? There's an A story and a B story.

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What are you doing, Linus? I'd rather not say. You might laugh. Oh, I never laugh at you, Linus. You're so intelligent. I'm writing to the Great Pumpkin. You say the cutest things. On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch. Then flies through the air to bring toys to all the good little children everywhere. Wouldn't you like to sit with me in the pumpkin patch on Halloween night and wait for the great pumpkin?

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Since Colby has a very exciting life as a horticulturalist, and I have a dreary life that's brightened only by the occasional late-late present from Colby, let's start. Welcome everyone to this week's assignment, Dancing in the Dark. Sounds like a great way to chip a tooth. It's the episode Brave Enough to Ask. Could we find another Harry Harry Henchman? Could we maybe a disco? Because that's popular right now. And gosh, it's just not an episode without some blackmail. So let's do that too.

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Fresh from the production dossier, here's your case briefing. The team, including Charlie himself this time, is deep undercover right there in Los Angeles to determine who is blackmailing their new client, Lara Klusak. Turns out it's a small-time local gangster, Alexander Cruz, and his main partner, the future Mr. Jacquel Smith. It's a complicated trio of Kingpin, his hairy, hairy henchmen, and a less than reputable local PI. They've done it before. They will do it again, unless the entire staff of the Townsend agency work together to stop them once and for all. Our super secret intel from behind the scenes. This episode originally aired February 23rd, 1977. And just at 51 minutes, the director is Cliff Bowl. Name a big TV show, and he has directed it: The Six Million Dollar Man, BJ and the Bear, Heart to Heart, The Fall Guy, Emergency, The Amazing Spider-Man, starring a Von Trapchild. Vegas and Spencer for Hire, starring Robert Urick, who is married to a Von Trapp Child. Finder of Lost Loves. Chris added this because he loves the theme song by Dion Warwick, whose fire.

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If you all do not follow her on her socials, she is sassy, sassy. She's 145 years old, and she is on it, and she does not put up with all the foolishness and mayhem going on in the world right now. Back to you.

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He has also directed Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and six episodes of Charlie's Angels. This one, one in season two, two in season three, and two in season four. Big time trivia, The Boleons, an alien race in Star Trek The Next Generation, and subsequent Star Treks are named for him. The first Boleon was played by Michael Berryman, no relation to Chris, lucky Michael. This alien race was on the next generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Enterprise, and in movie iterations, generations, First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis. Written by Les Carter. We've covered him several times before. He wrote two episodes of Charlie's Angels and many pod faves. Also, Edward Lasco, who I think we've mentioned every episode.

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Just about Edward, come on.

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Again, he wrote 51 episodes of Charlie's Angels, along with, while we're on a Star Trek Tangent, one episode of the original series in 1968. He produced 47 episodes of Charlie's Angels. He also wrote some of the music in Charlie's Angels in nine episodes.

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Now, did you know that? That's a new Edward Flasco thing.

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No, and I did not know that the Boleans were named after the director.

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That is something else. I think I just mispronounced Edward's last name. I'm sorry, I'm just so excited. Found this little tidbit we've not shared, and I'm really stirred up about the bullions. Before we begin the rundown of today's assignment, here are a few classified details you need to know, and there aren't very many. Number one, a bullion alley is a key setting in this episode, and they utilized a very real location in downtown LA. Fair Fawcett sings a line from I Won't Dance, originally written for a London stage musical in 1934 by Oscar Hammerstein. But it was made famous in 1935 by Fred Astaire in his film Roberta, with updated lyrics by other composers who basically changed all the words. But in this episode in 1977, the writers are most likely referencing Frank Sinatra's jazz standard version, which really, really made the song famous. And that was all the way in 1957. So there's a 1934 version, 1935, and then the 1957 by Frank Sinatra. How about that cocoa?

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Well, we are gonna touch on that when it happens in the episode, and I have a little bit uh more trivia related to that. For now, we are going to take a break and we will be right back.

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We'll be back. I'm gonna have a little sippy cocoa.

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Maybe that's why it's outselling every import competitor. Mercury Villager. Now you don't have to drive a truck to drive a minivan at your Lincoln Mercury Dealer now.

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We are back, and Chris is going to move us into the debrief.

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I'm so excited about the debrief, especially since Colby pronounced it like I do just now and didn't realize it until I just pointed it out. We open. Everyone just stops screening. Everyone sit down. We open with not even a tri-fecta. It's like a whatever, like a 9-10 fecta of things Chris Berryman loves. We open with an outdoor shot of one of my favorite things in the whole universe. A nice high-rise hotel, but with outdoor one-story bungalows. Bungalow. I love that word. Nice word, isn't it? It is a good one.

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I completely agree.

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Bungalow. But if you say it too much, it sounds like you've gone off. But it reminds me of Nancy Drew and the Bungalow Mystery, which I believe is book number three. The Bungalow Mystery. Now many think this location is the famous Beverly Hills Hotel. Still very fancy. It's still with us today, but it does not match, although it has famous bungalows. There's no info on this location we were able to find, so I'm imagining it's no longer there. Now, to this outdoor bungalow, room service delivers champagne to a hairy hairy, beefy burrito of blonde manhood, and his name is Tony Bordonnay. Tony Bordonnais takes the champagne in and he pours a glass for his much older companion, Laura Klusack, who is eventually going to be a client at the Townsend agency. At Colby, what was your initial thought here? Did you think this was a gigolo situation? Because I did. That's right where my mind went.

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Then with a long sigh, she's back. Reserved as Laura is, I kind of figured uh maybe it was like an affair. Um I did you do kind of notice the age discrepancy because of how she is styled and the wig that she's wearing and the shoes that she has on, not not attractive. Uh, but no, I don't know that I went immediately to Gigolo.

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There is an age discrepancy. They have played up. Keep in mind, this is germane to this part of the plot. I don't care who you date, who who your gigolo is. What the age difference is. Out comes Laura Klusak from the bathroom, and it did have a gigolo affair vibe. I'm gonna paint a picture. I want everyone to close their eyes and picture this with me, unless you're driving. Then don't do that. Bungalows, a tall, hairy 6'2 minz, brass beds, burnt orange bedspreads, yellow ochre shag carpeting, blue phones, slow music that magically turns itself on and off, and they're drinking their sparkling out of gimlet glasses.

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But even if this yellow ochre carpet is brand new, it always looks filthy.

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Then with a long sigh. You have to understand in the 70s we loved it, and we loved matchy matchy. You would have this yellow ochre carpet and our whatevers, and then it then it would match the refrigerator, and then it the refrigerator would match the stove, and then we would have canisters on the count, you know, the flour, sugar, etc. Coffee tea, and then you would have like a little cute little frilly kitchen where it was yellow ochre. Okay, so Laura Klusack looks uncomfortable and declares she just can't do it. And like what? She can't cheat on her partner, she can't pay for sex? What? What can't she do? Tony Bourdonnay states, in essence, oh yes, you are, and wrestles her brutally, or just takes her to the bed in an assault situation as a photographer who reeks of quote unquote down on your luck, P.I. bursts through the open back patio door, convenient, and snaps away while Laura Klusak screams and tries to fight off Tony. That's when we realize, oh my god, Tony, Harry Harry Henchman, and P.I., whose name we don't know yet, are working together. Ugh. Thank goodness we have that reliable plot device of blackmail. Planted drugs are tossed on the floor and caught on film as we hear Laura Klusak struggle in the background. Oh that you've visualized this incredible bungalow. God, I wish we were all there together right now, having a party. Let's break and do a couple of guest star alerts.

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Our first guest star alert is Jean Allison. She plays Laura Klusack, the older woman we have just referenced, who is being blackmailed. And we aren't sure why just yet. Jean was born in 1929 and only recently left us in 2024. Name a show that we like here on the podcast, and she was on it. Uh, two episodes of Charlie's Angels, this one and season two episode, Angel Baby.

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Never fun fact. You know, I'm sort of obsessed with how many times people get married and divorced because I myself cannot even find one person who I can trick into marrying me with a false pregnancy. This is kind of romantic, but let me get there. Jean was married and divorced three times. Her feature film debut, we're gonna go back in time though, was in 1958, The Edge of Fury, which I feel like we've referenced on the pod, but I cannot remember why. So in the set of her first movie, she met a camera operator by the name of Jack Kofer. Fast forward 50 years, after losing andor divorcing their spouses, they shared their lives together in retirement. That's really lovely. I think that's so sweet. They shared and passed on together 50 years later. And that was a little piece of trivia I picked up on IMTV.

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Our blonde, hairy, very hairy henchman is Tony Bordonnais, played by Dennis Cole. He was a model in fitness magazines, a stunt person, then began to receive bit parts on TV. This led to soap operas and more TV, and two and a half seasons of The Felony Squad. While attempting to get other series, he guest starred on All the Things. And in this episode of Charlie's Angels, he and Jacqueline Smith met and started dating. They married in 1978, but divorced in 1981. He is also featured in future Charlie's Angels episodes, season two's Unidentified Flying Angels, which I love, and season three's Terror on Skies, which might be my favorite episodes of Dennis Coles. He continued to work in TV while also honoring his musical side and reviews and stage plays. He was even in the first national tour of Victor Victoria. While he did remarry after Jacqueline, he had a chronic alcohol issue made even worse when his only child, a son, Joey, was murdered in 1991 during a failed robbery attempt in Venice, California. He died in 2008 at the age of 69 of liver failure.

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I have a few bonus facts. Dennis was very involved in charity work. Colby mentioned his son was murdered with a gun, and he spoke out against violence in media, Dennis did, and the national problem of gun violence in particular. Son Joey was in the 90s alternative rock scene. And at the time of his death, here's some connections, Colby, that just I couldn't believe it. At the time of Joey's death, he was living with his friend Henry Rollins. And they, together, the two of them were on their way home from a whole concert. You know, Courtney Love, who was married to Kurt Cody. Okay, whole when when two armed men confronted them and demanded money, they only had about fifty bucks between them. So the two armed men forced them to their house. Joey was kept outside. Rollins heard gunshots, escaped out of the front door, and called the police. And when the police got there, Joey had been shot in the face at close range. This murder was never solved. And it even appeared on unsolved mysteries. And Dennis himself made an appearance to talk about the nature of the crime. Sonic Youth dedicated two songs to Joey, and Henry Rollins himself spoke about the tragedy and the violence for years.

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That is a lot of bonus. Information, we are now gonna take the short break and we will be right back.

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We are back, and Chris is going to get us into this episode.

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We're now at the Townsend Agency, and the whole team is flipping through the 8x10 black and white glossies of Laura Clusack, seemingly in compromising positions with drugs involved. She lets everyone know she paid $10,000 to get those, and that's the equivalent of about $55K today. And she did so, and this is all new information to everyone watching. She did this even though her husband passed away over four years ago. You see, it turns out her deceased husband was a famous baseball player, and he was about to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, a real thing in Cooperstown. The blackmailers threatened to send the pics to the Hall of Fame, and fearing it would cause the panel to vote against her beloved husband's legacy, Laura paid the blackmailers what they wanted. Now that's sad. And Laura says she's pretty broke after all of that, but it was worth it for her husband's legacy. There is good news. The blackmailers blackmailed her in person. She was able to give the Townsend team all the info they needed to get started. Tony Bourdonnay, played by Dennis Cole, the future Mr. Jacqueline Smith, was the manager and lead dance instructor of the Alexander Cruz School Dance Academy. Cruz, Alexander Cruz, is the owner and operator. That shady P.I., who she didn't see, what role does he play? Is he fully in on the blackmail scam? Well, through Charlie's connections to that private investigator world, they determine he is indeed Alexander Cruz's P.I. of choice. He investigates all the enrolled dance students who are of a more mature age. So this PI investigates the students for income, determines which ones are good, and he's the one who helps stage the blackmail picks. We learn his name is Schaefer Goodhue. By the way, bit of trivia and blooper spelled one way on his office door and another way in the credits.

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Yes.

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The gang has everything they need, and armed with this plan they've created, they move fast. What is the plan? I'm gonna run down it. But before I do, I'm gonna ask this question, Colby. Have you ever taken dance lessons?

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Yes, I've taken many dance lessons because I love to dance.

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Have you really?

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Yes, I love to dance. In fact, when I'm done with all of these uh issues with my back, I really want to take another ballroom dance class.

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Are you pulling my leg right now?

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No, I'm not. I sincere like I grew up in the theater. I danced all the time.

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You grew up in the theater?

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I took ballet.

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You took ballet?

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Yes. We've known each other for like 13 years. And he does not know that I took ballet.

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I have freely urinated all over myself in my recording chair. Do you have pictures of yourself in your absolutely not? You do too.

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I took ballet as an adult.

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My question stands. Really?

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Yes, I really did. Take ballet. I took jazz. Yeah, I love to dance.

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Alright. Back to the plan.

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Okay.

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They have to get rid of Schaefer Goodhue. So Charlie and Boz contact Schaefer Goodhue and say, We need you to do a gig for the Townsend Agency. Flattered and honored to be contacted by such a prestigious place. Goodhue takes off, literally, on a plane, for a pretend job for the Townsend Agency all the way across the country in Washington, D.C. They need him out of the way because Kelly needs to break into Goodhue's office. That's part two. Kelly finds Mrs. Clusek's file along with lots of other files on Dance Academy students. So that's how they piece together Goodhue's involvement. He's definitely part of this ongoing scheme with Cruz and his beefy manager dance instructor Tony Bordonnais. Kelly assumes the role of Goodhue's assistant of his partner, taking on duties while he's away on assignment. Jill is going to teach disco at the Cruz Dance Academy, and her audition was in front of Cruz himself because Tony is in the middle of a dance class.

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Well, you're looking at a fully qualified disco expert. I mean, I've danced everywhere: regimes, Moniques, uh, dirty jacks. Very impressive. You know, you really should include disco in your curriculum. You have no idea the impact it's having.

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But Colby, why didn't they give Jacqueline Smith this part?

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Because Farah Fawcett was extremely popular, and I have no doubt they wanted to watch her shimmy.

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You are 100% correct. That makes me think of your shoulder shimmy you do when you're right about something. Okay. Can I dance better than what I'm about to say? No. But Farah Fawcett's disco dancing made me so uncomfortable.

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I don't understand why. I just watched it and she was fine.

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She wasn't. I just wanted to crawl out of it. Like when she raised the roof, although we didn't call it that in 1977. I want everyone to visualize this. Now that we're done visualizing the interior of the bungalow I over-described, picture what later became known as the grapevine for aerobics. So picture the grapevine before it was called the grapevine. Throw in a little bit of the hustle. She did do a couple of actual hustle moves, which she also repeats a little bit later. And she did a bump. But but Farah Fawcett is not doing this in any particular order. It's as if they said, Here are your marks. You can move from here to here. Imagine some music. Imagine some music and just do what you want to do. So that's it. And then she raises the roof before we called it that and did a little book.

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That's the cutest thing. Chris is, first of all, wrong. Go watch the episode and enjoy.

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It gave me monkey nerves.

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All right.

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Everyone's in place. Farah gets hired. I'm sorry. Jill gets tired. Jill gets tired. Everyone, buckle up. Because there are about to be some twists and turns. Just when you get settled in, the angels and boss and Charlie himself in this episode switch it up so many ways. We do not see coming. And here we go. Now, Sabrina. She plays a socially awkward, bossy yet shy, bold yet goofy heiress coming to the dance studio for lessons. While Tony initially brushes Sabrina Walker off because she's so strange, Jill is like, mm-mm, Tony, dude, that that is Sabrina Walker.

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You know, if she wants to learn how to dance, why doesn't she just talk Freddie stairs?

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Why do you say that?

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Because her daddy is so rich.

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You know her?

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Sabrina Walker. Her father's Stuart Walker. He has a city in Alaska named after him. A line of luncheon meets, and then there's always Walker broadcasting.

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How do you know so much about him?

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Oh, because Stuart Walker is divorced and considered a very big catch. I keep a list.

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Her father is loaded and he owns it all. What does she own? All of it. Even as a town in Alaska named after him, and I, Jill Monroe, sassy disco dance instructor, new to the Cruz Dance Academy, I would snag him in a second if I had the chance. In a whirlwind of activity, Alexander Cruz and Tony have Kelly, posing as the PI's assistant, confirm a bunch at once. One, Sabrina Walker is indeed Sabrina Walker. And Kelly also confirms Sabrina's father, Stuart Walker, these are all people they made up, is made of money. And also, Jill is indeed a dance instructor with all the experience Jill said she had. That makes Cruz trust Kelly and bring her into the fold of blackmail. And within this fold of blackmail, Tony sets his hairy, hairy chest and beautiful blonde surfer hair to woo Sabrina, and he takes her all around town dancing in one of those flashing light dance club sign montages straight out of a Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie.

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Absolutely what it is. I like individuals.

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That kaleidoscope effect. Everyone, you have to watch it.

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Oh, oh, oh, no more. No more.

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No, no, no, I can't stand it. People usually admire my massage technique. Oh. Oh. Here are the ups and salt, breaks. Thank you. What exactly did he do to you? Listen, I learned a great lesson tonight. When you go out with a dance instructor, that is what you do. You dance.

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Do you remember when Julie Andrews sang that song? I could have danced all night. She wouldn't have lasted three minutes with Bordonai. Three minutes, not three minutes? I said, Where do you want three minutes?

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Tony, having had a great night with Sabrina Walker, makes his next and final move. He makes hotel reszies at that very same bungalow with its glam furnishings I can't stop thinking about. Complete with gimlet glasses, and he schedules Kelly to be there to take the picks, since her quote unquote boss is out of town. Will this fairly simple and quick setup work? Will they be able to expose this blackmailing scheme for what it is? It seems like they have all the evidence they need. What more do they need than Kelly finding files in the PI's office? But the episode is only about 23 minutes in. So I guess maybe, Coco, they need extra, extra, extra evidence or something.

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Well, before we get to that, we are going to have a few more guest star alerts. The Private Eye is Schaefer Goodhue. This actor is Logan Ramsey, a character actor with that. I know his face energy. He actively worked up until he died, which was in 2000. He was in everything, including all of the pod paves. But Chris will become extra cross and unmanageable if I don't mention it's a living mod. God Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman with everybody. I just used the word bonkers in the last episode. I'm gonna use it again for Mary Hartman. Battlestar Galactica, the original series.

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Oh, the only one.

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Okay. And Root, the next generation. He was in Walking Tall, 1 and 2, and the OG Star Trek.

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I have a little bit of extra bonus info. Logan Ramsey's father is the lieutenant commander who famously sounded the alarm at the attack of Pearl Harbor. Oh, wow. Mm-hmm. He sent what is considered the most famous radio message ever. And the rest by the way, you can look this up on YouTube. The message is in Marse code, and it says in Mars code, air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is no drill. It's also in many places like the Smithsonian Institute's YouTube and the actual Smithsonian Museum. I also found it interesting. Logan studied under the very famous Lee Strasberg Colco.

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That is some extremely interesting background.

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But I'm gonna blow your mind. You don't know this. I didn't put it in the script. Are you ready for this?

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Uh, don't know, am I?

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Logan Ramsey was married to Anne Ramsey. Throw mama from the train.

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Right up.

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Goonies, and we referenced Anne Ramsey in an earlier episode. Uh um where she grabs her husband and flings him into the hotel room. She is in the very first official episode of Charlie's Angel's Hellride. Are you dead? Are you dead?

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I am deceased.

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I'm so proud of myself. Please continue.

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Alexander Cruz is played by John Van Drieland. He is Dutch. He was fluent in several many languages.

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Several many.

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Claimed to have escaped a concentration camp in Holland by disguising himself as a German soldier. Now, I happen to be looking up uh John Van Drieland, and I read this little tidbit in several places. He started the very first touring company of the sound of music. He was actually considered by Richard Rogers as the first choice for the movie version of Captain Vontrap. But we all know that Christopher Plummer got the role.

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Can you believe the number of times the sound of music has come into this episode?

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High on a hill was a lonely goat hole, this is the third time.

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Uh well, he was married five times. Just once. One marriage. He too worked up until the year he passed in 1992 at the age of 70. He had both minor and major guest star roles uh in American TV, including all of the pod faves. He was also in The Twilight Zone in 1964. And one of my favorite old movies, he was in the original 13 Ghosts in 1960. Same. I love 13 Ghosts. I love House on Haunted Hill. It for today is not as exciting, but it is a very enjoyable, watchable movie. He is also in a movie called Too Hot to Handle that came out the same year as this Charlie's Angels episode. In that movie, he is acting with another Charlie's Angels guest star, who we will meet in the very next episode. John Van Drielen also has some Disney connections. The magical world of Disney's two-parter, My Dog the Thief, in 1969, and the magical world of Disney, Another Two-Parter, The Treasure of San Bosco Reef in 1968.

SPEAKER_10 38:12

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SPEAKER_12 38:27

We'll be back.

SPEAKER_16 38:43

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SPEAKER_12 39:11

We are back. I think Chris is about to tell us what is going down at the bungalow.

SPEAKER_10 39:18

Everyone, bungalow. When last we left the team, Harry Harry Henchman had made Rezes at that same bungalow setup and secured Kelly to take the incriminating photos. Everyone has their roles to play. As they enter the bungalow together, Sabrina, as Sabrina Walker, pretends to be drunk and passes out. Kelly and Tony distribute all the drugs, they take the compromising picks, and they dash off. Jill and Buzz hop right through the room's front door. Job accomplished.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

But do they have enough evidence? You'd think so. But we're about twenty seven minutes in.

SPEAKER_10 40:04

Here's where it gets a little twisty. Cruz, with the photos in hand from Kelly, contacts Sabrina Walker's father, the rich businessman Stuart Walker, played by an undercover Bosley. Cruz himself, I don't know why he didn't send Tony. Why do people have goons and henchmen, Colby, if they don't send them to you know what? I'm just gonna move forward because I'm upset that everyone gets married five times and they have their own goons. Cruz himself connects at an abandoned bowling alley in downtown LA with Bosley, playing the fake rich businessman Stuart Walker. Kelly is there too, and they manage to squeeze not just 10K out of Bosley, but 20K out of Bosley, because he, as the fictional Stuart Walker, got Lippy and Sassy. Bosley exits the bowling alley. You've got something to say.

SPEAKER_17 41:12

Because I know morale isn't sexy.

SPEAKER_12 41:15

Do you want to know why I think Cruz is meeting with him instead of Tony?

SPEAKER_10 41:19

I cannot absorb oxygen into my bloodstream until you tell me.

SPEAKER_12 41:24

Because I think Cruz is enamored with Kelly. Kelly is doing to him exactly what they are doing to the dance students. They're saying, you want this service that I can provide to you, and I am this attractive figure that has what it is you want, and everything I tell you is gonna be a lie, and then I'm gonna swindle you out of money. They're doing the exact same thing, except that Kelly is beautiful.

SPEAKER_10 41:56

They get 20K out of fake Stuart Walker. Bosley exits the bowling alley, gets into the limo they've staged because he's rich. Who should be his driver? Damn if it isn't Charlie. And I remember seeing this when I was a wee galing, and it's all these teases of three-quarter profiles, or maybe a quarter profile, backs of heads, you never really do see him.

SPEAKER_01 42:20

Meanwhile, I'm thinking, okay, Bosley just paid money. What do they need? Why are they still going? But now we're only about 34 minutes in.

SPEAKER_10 42:32

Cruz, the Harry Harry Henchman slash dancing instructor Tony, and Kelly are gathered in Cruz's wood-paneled office with yellow mustard shag carpeting, congratulating each other on a job well done. But it's Sabrina, as socialite and wild child daughter before Paris Hilton showed us all what that was really like, bursts into Cruz's office unannounced. Jacqueline Smith and Dennis Cole hide in a closet and they probably make out, I bet, and had a little smack bottom and some what what on the set while Kate Jackson is there playing Sabrina. Sabrina, as Sabrina Walker, confronts Cruz. She's interrupted the festivities. I know what you did. I know I was set up in that hotel room. I know you're just out for money. So here's what I have in my purse. $5,000. Give me those picks. You evil, evil blackmailing man. And Cruz says, you know what? Talk to your father. It's been handled. And Sabrina says, My father is in Alaska, Mr. Cruz. Seems like the swindler has been swindled.

SPEAKER_09 43:47

That's impossible.

SPEAKER_10 43:48

I met with him today.

SPEAKER_05 43:49

Not with my father, you didn't. He doesn't return until this evening.

SPEAKER_09 43:52

He has to be your father. He paid $20,000 for those pictures.

SPEAKER_05 43:57

Oh. Now I'm beginning to understand. It was that sneak Bosley. Bosley?

SPEAKER_10 44:08

Kelly, playing the vigilant, dirty P.I. offers to locate that fake Mr. Walker. But we know Kelly really knows exactly where the fake Mr. Walker is because it's Bosley and they've all been set up. She, through her fake research, tells Cruz exactly where fake Mr. Walker is, and that he's a disgruntled Walker family staff person who's been let go, and most likely he used all of his savings to get those photos off of them, and he's going to extort twice the amount from the real Mr. Walker. Kelly and Cruz drive to the fake Mr. Walker's house. Kelly and Cruz offer him Bosley as the fake, fake Mr. Walker, 40k for the picks and the negatives back. Alright, just full stop. Col Colby, Colson, Coco, CS, why is this happening?

SPEAKER_11 45:05

Do you know why it's happening?

SPEAKER_10 45:07

No, because there's more time. There's more runtime. I'm guessing. They're taking the plot this far, even though at 22 minutes in they had everything they needed, because they wanted to get something.

SPEAKER_12 45:20

Not quite yet. Oh, yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_10 45:22

Yeah, here we go. I'm caught. So we're now like 30 through 37 minutes in. Maybe the Townsend agency took it this far because one, they wanted to give the wonderful and lovely Mrs. Clusak the money back that Cruz and Tony extorted. Money they got out of Cruz and Tony themselves.

SPEAKER_11 45:43

Or nothing.

unknown 45:44

Lovely.

SPEAKER_10 45:45

Maybe two, they needed to cover their own expenses and not charge the lovely Mrs. Clusak anything for handling their case. The Townsend agency has their 20k back Bosley used to pay, and 20k of Cruz's money, ten of which they can give to Mrs. Cluseck. Lovely. And perhaps they wanted to squeeze some extra cash out of Cruz just because he's a terrible person. Lovely. But there are still 10 minutes left. And why won't this episode end? Because they have all they needed. Colby, do you have a comment?

SPEAKER_12 46:27

I well, I really enjoy this episode, so I uh am excited that we still have some runtime. Then with a long sigh.

SPEAKER_13 46:36

It it the f it flame flames flames on the side of my face.

SPEAKER_10 46:43

Here's how this all wraps up, everybody. It wraps up pretty quick. We gotta complicate matters and suck up this 10 minutes. The PI from the beginning, the real PI from the beginning, he returns from his fake job in DC early. He's at LAX, fresh off the plane and having a smoke, as one does, by the payphones, as one does, and places a call to Harry Harry Henchman Tony. Tony informs him his assistant has been taking care of everything. To which this PI replies, What assistant? A quick scene change to Cruz's Dance Academy office. Tony is there, gun pointed, as Kelly and Cruz enter laughing. They're thrilled at what has transpired, and they're looking forward to meeting the real Mr. Walker and getting just bathed in money. But they see Tony's gun, which I don't think Colby is a nice thing to do to your future wife, but anyway, scripts are scripts. They didn't ask me to write it. Ellie confesses she has indeed faked working for that other PI because she just wanted a break. She wanted in. It's hard on those streets. And she needed a leg up and an advantage, and she cuts them a deal. Keep her on. Let her prove herself as a quality PI with the real Mr. Walker, and then Cruz makes the call. Turn her loose, give her nothing, or hire her. As she says she's proven herself to be useful. Well, scene change, Tony and Cruz head to the real Mr. Walker's home, and Good Hugh takes Kelly at gunpoint to that bowling alley we referenced earlier. Now they will reconvene after the deal with the real Mr. Walker and decide what to do with Kelly. Boom! Scene change, home of the real, in quotes, Mr. Walker, and we gasp in shock because the real real fake fake Mr. Walker is played by Janet Lamaire, played by Diane Hotart from season two Star Trek The Next Generation. That's a callback, ladies and gentlemen. The the real real fake fake Mr. Walker is played by Charlie. And we see the back of his head, and we see the front of his face, but it's blocked by the black and white blackmail photos. Charlie, as the real, real fake, fake Mr. Walker, informs them. Girl, that's not my daughter. She's a phony.

SPEAKER_08 49:13

You are Stuart Walker, yes. But that girl is not my daughter. Not your daughter, which is a good thing for you. If that was my daughter, I wouldn't pay to get the pictures. I'd invest my money into removing you from the face of the earth. It would be cheaper and more rewarding. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_10 49:34

And again, Chris Berriman thinks, Why are these twists?

SPEAKER_12 49:38

But I love that Charlie has something to do. It's so fun that we get to see him play along.

SPEAKER_10 49:45

As these disgruntled folks, Cruz and Tony, pull out, they are followed by Sabrina and Bosley in her amazing orange pinto with the plaid fabric. And they're wondering, are they gonna return to the dance studio or what? But luckily they're there, they follow them to the abandoned bowling alley, not knowing Kelly is there being held hostage. Not until Jill calls to them on their faky fakey car phone, letting them know Kelly hasn't reported in, and do they think she's in trouble? They agree she's probably in trouble. Let's all meet at the bowling alley. Jill, Boz, Sabrina, all into the bowling alley. But as they pull into the parking lot, Kelly decides to take matters into her own hands. One, she clobbers good Hugh with a bowling ball. Slides down the bowling alley through the pins. That's a Thursday for me, and hides in all the like gears and metalworks in the back. Mr. Jacqueline Smith follows her, slides under the pins, stands up, and promptly gets bing bonged in the head by a bowling pin. Everyone else rushes to the site. They catch Cruz just as he's trying to leave. And Jill bowls a strike down the alley to knock Tony, who had just gotten to his feet after being bingbonged by a bowling pen, knocks him unconscious.

SPEAKER_12 51:27

So in this scene, like right after she bowls a strike and uh gets Mr. Bourdonnais, they then uh essentially like push Alexander to the floor. They have all, you know, the culprits trapped, and then Jill points at uh Mr. Cruz and sings, I want dance, don't dance. While I have a little bit of trivia, did you know that Farrah Fawcett actually recorded a song?

SPEAKER_10 52:01

I think Cher and Santa here when you tell lies.

SPEAKER_12 52:06

The song is called You, uh, also known as Let Me Get to Know You. It is a song she did with a French singer, Jean-Paul Vignon. Uh to say that she is singing is a bit of a stretch. Um, it's some very breathy talking, uh, but we will post a link to that song.

SPEAKER_10 52:32

Do you know what, Colby, when you said breathy, which I'm often described as breathy, yet again for the third time in this podcast, where does Sfara end and Chris begin?

SPEAKER_12 52:44

I don't think bad breathy is the same as breathy.

SPEAKER_10 52:47

That is the comedic timing I want you to have. When we were researching our very first episode and doing some notes on the angel deep dives, everyone, we're gonna do angel deep dives. I found that out about Farah and it's in my notes. Oh, did you? Okay, great. And I listened to a clip of it, and it was so horrible I blocked it out completely until just this moment. That is that is some good stuff, Colby. You're on fire tonight. This episode, finally, thank you, universe, wraps up at the Townsend Agency. We're inside, and Jill is teaching Bosley some disco.

unknown 53:36

That's all.

SPEAKER_12 53:37

He's doing something. I'm not sure if it is disco.

SPEAKER_10 53:40

It's a liberal use. But he's making them bones. Well, I I don't think Farah is much better than David Doyle here, but who am I to say? I'm not any better. Charlie lets them know via speakerphone that he's paid Mrs. Klusak her money back. And everyone is so tickled. And as the episode concludes on that freeze frame, we always get there's a bit of a blooper as the angels are now sitting at the bar, and as they laugh at the closing joke, Farah Fawcett accidentally elbows a tape recorder on the bar and knocks it back and says, Whoops! And the angels laugh, and the episode does its freeze frame. Colby, what are your what are your partying thoughts?

SPEAKER_12 54:27

Well, I have a little bit of information on disco.

SPEAKER_14 54:32

Hello, my friend. Welcome to your sleep story. And it's my great privilege to be the voice that you listen to as you go to sleep tonight.

SPEAKER_12 54:45

I am this I am a fan of disco.

SPEAKER_10 54:48

This is Oh my god, I'm so nervous. This is the first time I'm hearing this, everyone.

SPEAKER_12 54:53

Donna Summer is releasing like an 8LP set, uh, or at least, of course, her estate.

SPEAKER_10 55:01

Yeah, she's not releasing anything.

SPEAKER_12 55:03

Uh, which I cannot wait. An underground counterculture event uh in European discotheques that played a mixture of jazz, soul, funk, and Latin music. This incorporation of eclectic sounds began to gain popularity in America during the late 60s. And this is again an underground uh communities like the African American community, the Latin American community, the gay community, as we can all remember uh music in bath houses like with Bette Midler. Before Disco really exploded in the mid-70s. Of course, Saturday Night Fever was released in 1977, the same year that this episode came out. And that sort of aided the genre's really close association with fashion, with dance, and with sexual freedom. There are many well-known dances that are attributed to disco. Uh, one or two that we saw in this episode, the bump and the hustle. Uh, there's also another very popular or famous dance called the Bus Stop.

SPEAKER_10 56:12

She did a little bit of that too.

SPEAKER_12 56:14

Disco would spawn many subgenres such as cosmic disco, Euro disco, and new disco, which helped to contribute to future iterations of music like Europop, synthpop, and house music, as we sort of know pop music today. Disco unfortunately had a very sharp decline in the late 70s, so much so that an event was held called Disco Demolition Night. On July 12th, 1979. This was an event put on by Major League Baseball promotion for the White Sox in Chicago, where baseball fans could get in for 98 cents if they brought along a disco album to destroy. This event culminated in a riot. It was someone's idea to like stash all the albums together in the center of the field and blow them up, which is insane. When they did this, it was the catalyst to sort of make the crowd go insane. Not everybody gave their album away. They would fling them from the stands, like, you know, they were um frisbees. Uh, and eventually one thing led to another, and it became a riot and almost burned down the field. Disco uh would be gone by essentially the early 80s. I want to say that the song uh Funky Town was is kind of uh named as the last disco single that was a hit.

SPEAKER_10 58:01

Colby did this unexpected disco deep dive, which was lovely. Thanks.

SPEAKER_12 58:06

I really like disco.

SPEAKER_10 58:07

Much like the plot points I referenced earlier, just lovely. That does it for this week's assignment, Dancing in the Dark. We appreciate you joining us on this surprisingly involved, many twists and turns, surprise disco deep dives. We've laughed, we've cried, we've cheered, we've gasped at Anne Ramsey's husband. We've marveled.

SPEAKER_12 58:34

I really enjoy this episode. I think it's a ton of fun. I enjoy watching Sabrina have a ton of fun in this episode. Uh, I really hope it was a blast for her. Uh and yeah, thank you guys for joining us. We really appreciate it. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Until next time. Bye. Bye, Angels.

SPEAKER_15 58:55

Bye, Angels.

SPEAKER_12 59:03

That successfully wraps up another mission. Good morning, Charlie is produced by Chris Berryman and me, Colby Smith. Editing provided by the bungalow behind the hotel. Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts, and click subscribe so you never miss a call from Charlie. Drop a review while you're there, because we love hearing from our angels in the field. Want more undercover fun? Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for extras, and see even more top secret content on our Patreon. A special thank you to Laurel and Kevin, our Charlie's Inner Circle subscribers. Don't hang up that phone, Angels, because we will be back.