The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for January 25, 2021
Feature:
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (The Man With a Hundred Faces and Death at High Tide)
Extra:
The Baffling Murder of Col. Willoughby (Part 4)
Participants:
angel & Phox
DanVenture
Godwinshelley2
hounder
marcycloud
Matt1
Rush
Sarabell2
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Rush:
Matt1 has joined this room
Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: Hello, Matt! You are always right on time!
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Actually a few minutes late tonight, but…
Rush: I just got off our roof fixing wind damage to our patio roof before it gets worse!
Matt1: Hope you are well?
Rush: Doing well, yes…thank you!
Matt1: Hope it wasn’t too bad?
Rush: I hope the same for you.
Rush: Well, could be worse!
Rush: I think I can fix it myself if I can get the right things.
Matt1: We actually purchased a new condo, close by and have been working on that and getting our place ready for the market. Very busy and tiring
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Matt1: Hello SB!
Rush: I understand!
Rush: llo, Sarabell!
Rush: WELCOME!
sarabell2: Hey all!
sarabell2: You know I have to figure out how to do this every single time.
Rush: How are you doing this evening?
Rush: No, you are doing great!
sarabell2: Fine, where is Matt’s condo?
sarabell2: How are you Rush?
Matt1: St. Petersburg, FL
Rush: Doing well, thank you, SB!
Rush: had a scare with our bunny, Clover. on Saturday night. had to taker her in to the pet emergency hospital.
Rush: She’s doing lots better now though.
sarabell2: What happened?
Matt1: Oh no….Hope everything is better?
Rush: She suddenly started convulsing.
Matt1: How old?
Rush: Turns out it is something that can happen with rabbits, due to a parasite of some kind.
Rush: 4 1/2.
Rush: It was pretty scarey.
sarabell2: My son has grand mal seizures. Did they do anything for your bunny?
Matt1: I can imagine
Rush: Yes. ran tests, etc., and got her so we could take her home…2:00 am.
Rush: She’s on meds now.
Rush: Getting better each day.
Matt1: Good to hear
Rush: TYSM
Rush: We are much relieved.
Matt1: The girls shook up?
Rush: As you can guess, she’s a part of the family!
Rush: We all were!
sarabell2: To get rid of the parasites? Are they going to give her anti seizure medication?
Rush: We are giving her a medication foer the suspected issue. Further tests will take time to return from the lab…which is in Florida!
Matt1: Wow
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Wow is RIGHT!
Rush: Anyway…two minutes till the radio drama!
Rush: Conclusion of the story.
Rush: Part 4
Matt1: Just curious, is there insurance for pets, like for us?
Matt1: I’m cued
Rush: Yes, but not for “exotic” animals…like rabbits!
Matt1: Ah
Rush: Cued too!
Rush: Took a while to load.
Rush: Let’s say…ONE minutes to go./..
Matt1: I’ll probably leave after the 1st Chan tonight to finish a few things
Rush: 50 seconds…
Rush: Okay…
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: I understand!
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Rush: Music….
Rush: Introduction….
Rush: I saw a Chan radio drama on record available on eBay…from 1944.
Rush: One of those BIG 78s.
Rush: Recap…
sarabell2: How much for the record?
Rush: Opening bid $60.
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Rush: “Buy it now” price was around $150.
angel & phox: Hihihi!!
Matt1: Hello A&P!
Rush: Angel…and Phox!
Rush: WELCOME!
Rush: Just started the radio drama!
angel & phox: Been trying to log in a few mins. How’s everyone? Sarabell, we are policed to meet you!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Pun welcomed!
angel & phox: We have NOT found Part 4. Is it on web?
sarabell2: Pleased to meet you both!
Rush: We have the link above!
Rush: See it, Angel?
angel & phox: YouTube doesn’t have Part 4.
Rush: Use the link above…it’s there!
sarabell2: Click on this site’s link
Rush: Just above the Chat board.
Rush: Here’s the link:
Rush: https://oldradioprograms.us/My%20Old%20Radio%20Shows/C/Charlie%20Chan/Charlie%20Chan%20-%2036-10-29%20Baffling%20Murder%20Mystery%204of4.mp3
Rush: Assembled suspects…
Rush: Chan will solve the case “within three minutes.”
sarabell2: I do like your running commentary, Rush.
Rush: TYSM, SB!
angel & phox: Thanks!—Rush IS the consummate commentator, Sarabell. He is our Lowell Thomas.
Rush: (blushing)
sarabell2: That is cute.
Rush: They listen to an incriminating recording…
angel & phox: What’s our “time”?
Rush: 9:15
Rush: 9:45
Rush: Colored silk scarf….
angel & phox: I could USE that shoe. Just before we gathered, i stepped in bear feet on a glass sliver from a platter-smash last nite.
Rush: OUCH.
angel & phox: I called for transfusion, & was directed to the Nervous Norvous record by that title. Are we all familiar with that?
Rush: Fingerprints on a statuette.
Rush: Willoughby’s nephew is the killer.
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Rush: He killed his uncle.
Rush: Hounder!
Rush: WELCOME!
angel & phox: I heard Dick Tracy tell Wm.F.Buckley you can’t get prints off a statuette. A statue, yes, but not a statuette.
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Rush: Sponsors break…
angel & phox: Hounder killed his uncle??
hounder: hi everyone. hope you all had a good week
angel & phox: YOUR ADVERT HERE
Rush: “Good point”, Angel!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Cannot complain, Hounder. I hope that yours was a good one.
Matt1: You too Hounder
angel & phox: Hounder, any week that leads to you is one i won’t rip from the calendar.
Rush: Hopefully your mother is well?
hounder: it was a roller coaster. but we made it through.
Rush: Yes?
angel & phox: The new Congress really ought to clear up the statue/statuette thing. Or at least establish a statuette of limitations.
Rush: Hopefully the ride is over for a while…
angel & phox: And good night. Take Uncle with you.
Rush: Next week: “Murder in cabin 15.”
sarabell2: Hello Hounder
hounder: oh i hope so rush. boring is better
angel & phox: I would think a statutette would be a singing group. Maybe Emmylou, Dolly & Linda.
hounder: hi sb
Rush: Boring is MUCH better, yes!
angel & phox: Phox is under the weather & under the table. I’m going to get him some phlox.
Rush: 🙂
hounder: beb. moms ready for bed
Rush: Okay.
Rush: The first one we will be watching tonight is, “The Man With a Hundred Faces.”
Rush: This adventure offers a fun mystery, danger, subterfuge, and…some nice shots of Venice in 1957!
Rush: Parts were filmed on location as is the case with much of this TV series!
Rush: Again, the link is located right above us if you don’t have the DVD set.
sarabell2: Venice Italy or that beach in CA?
Matt1: Cued to “Venice”
angel & phox: I suppose a two-faced man is not king in a land where Mister Hundred-Face is about.
Rush: The one in Italy!
Rush: 🙂
angel & phox: I love subterfuge.
sarabell2: OK my bad.
Rush: No….I would think the same as a possibility!
Matt1: Can you imagine CC on rollerskates in Venice Beach?
Rush: The first five episodes of the TV series do take place in the Los Angeles area.
Rush: yes, matt!
sarabell2: That was some profound Chan talk, Angel.
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Matt1: Hello GS!
Godwinshelley2: Hello all
Rush: Here is the link in case anyone needs it:
Rush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTCaSA5yJqk
Godwinshelley2: trying to find the correct discs
Rush: Hello, GS!
Rush: WELCOME!
Rush: Disc 9 for the first one.
sarabell2: Hello Godwinshelley2
Godwinshelley2: I guess it’s disc 9 & 3 from my Nostaliga set
Rush: “The Man With a Hundred Faces”
Rush: Ah, yes!
Godwinshelley2: That is the disc 9 one
Rush: I have tghe same set.
Godwinshelley2: Might be going back to Indiana soon – will keep you posted
Rush: SEVEN minutes to go…
Rush: Okay.
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Rush: To help your parents, of course.
Godwinshelley2: Hello Marcy
Rush: Marcycloud!
marcycloud: Happy New Year!
Rush: GREAT to see you again!
Rush: Welcome back!
sarabell2: Are you wanting to go to Indiana?
Rush: How have you been?
Godwinshelley2: Yes – their healthcare worked is positive for Covid – folks getting tested – and Dad is having some heart issues
Rush: Oh, my…
Godwinshelley2: Not looking forward to the winter driving thru PA & Ohio this time of year
Rush: can your parents get the vaccine?
sarabell2: Hope your Dad is OK
marcycloud: I’m ok. just got over a ‘cold’…..
Rush: No, winter driving is not fun!
Godwinshelley2: Yes – 8 days AFTER the healthcare Covid
Matt1: Hello MC!
Rush: I experienced a little lately!
Godwinshelley2: I bet you have Rush
Rush: 🙂
angel & phox: Hello Marcycloud! Please allow me to introduce myself. I’m a man of Chan and taste.
Godwinshelley2: Keep a snow shovel in your car and multiple scrapers – and clear the WHOLE car not just the lights and windows
Rush: I now understand, GS!
Godwinshelley2: The chunk of snow/ice on the roof will fly off and hit the car behind you if you don’t clear it
Rush: Please pause at “VENICE.”
Rush: Yes.
Rush: THREE minutes to go….!
Rush: Everyone ready?
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Rush: DV!
Rush: WELCOME!
Godwinshelley2: Or your hood full of snow will blow up and cover your cleared windshield if you don’t clear it too. Living on the Mason/Dixon line where northerners meet southerners I’ve seen it all
Rush: How are you tonight?
DanVenture: Alive and well, thank you!
Matt1: Hello dan!
Rush: Do you have tonights adventures on DVD, DV?
DanVenture: I suppose I should appologize for being on time…
Rush: Two wonderful words…alive…well…
Rush: 90 seconds to go…
Rush: 75 seconds…
Rush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTCaSA5yJqk
Rush: That’s the link if needed!
Rush: 50 seconds…
Rush: 45…
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
angel & phox: Hey DV!
Rush: “VENICE”
angel & phox: Rush, what’s the current exchange on 70,000,000 lire? Eight cents?
Rush: Pay attention…this one moves pretty fast!
Godwinshelley2: Marcy – have I met you here before – I’ve been on-&-off this last year in attending
DanVenture: Evening, Angel & phox
Rush: 7 cents.
Rush: Actually, they use the Euro now!
angel & phox: This guy reminds me of someone. Not Stan Laurel, somebody else.
Rush: Hm…
sarabell2: You pay too much!
Rush: Opening….
angel & phox: Yeah, i know. I figure the then-value was like $1.24, right?
Rush: Chinese fades to english…
angel & phox: Out of the fog, into the smog!
Rush: CC walks from the fog…
angel & phox: HE WALKS AGAIN BY NIGHT
Rush: napoleon!
angel & phox: They’ll tear his bone apart!!
angel & phox: Wolfgang Sodaheim?!
sarabell2: You are too funny
Rush: Wolfgand Sodenheim.
Rush: Yes.
angel & phox: I just heard him mentioned 5 times today, anyway.
Rush: AH!
Rush: Fooled Barry!
angel & phox: PHLOX!
Rush: Soderheim…my error!
angel & phox: Will name my next 10 dogs Sodaheim.
angel & phox: A Federal Reserve Note!
angel & phox: Why am i reminded of Fred Allen’s Wun Long Pan?
Rush:
angel & phox: Those art books are always arm-stretchers.
Rush:
hounder: time check pleae
sarabell2: I love Fred Allen
angel & phox: 6:00?
Rush: 5:20
marcycloud: yes Godwin i’ve seen you here before…
angel & phox: Sarabell, you ever read his books?
Rush: Fooled Barry again!
Godwinshelley2: 5:40
Rush: 5:50
hounder: thanks.
angel & phox: I shall pause & count to 30.
Godwinshelley2: 6:00
Rush: Start the violins…
hounder: ugly hood ornamnt on the gondola
angel & phox: “Bad czechs”, yes?
Rush: 🙂
Rush: “The police are always appreciative of help.”
angel & phox: {sung}”You oughta be in robberies….”
Rush: Whhels on studio gondola…
angel & phox: FOILED DEATH. Sounds like a decorating idea.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Or….it could be a deadly pot roast, Angel!
angel & phox: Senor Chan Senior, with Senor Chan Junior.
angel & phox: Some pot roast not pot roast. Not roast.
Rush: Again…this one moves along FAST!
hounder: or a candy
angel & phox: He’s trying to decide whether to get more into the importing & less into the exporting.
Rush: “Traveling seems to be a disease with you, senor.”
Rush: Hotel DiMedici.
angel & phox: About $100k today, yes, Rush?
Rush: CC compliments Barry!
Rush: Yes, probably, Angel!
angel & phox: It’s Oblong Face, the famous talk host!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Digestion destroyer.
Rush: Barry’s getting better as a detective….
angel & phox: This “bumping” is of interest.
Rush: Barry is fooled again!
angel & phox: “Monty”. Monty Hall? Monty Wooley?
Rush: No…Python.
marcycloud: lol
angel & phox: Shhhhh! No one expects the Italian Inquisition!
angel & phox: Larry is gonna need his “halo” back for another Stooges flick.
angel & phox: Spared…or SPEARED?
Rush: Good stuff from Chan coming….
Rush: Follow this….
angel & phox: He’s got a gnu!!
Rush: Ploy by Chan!
angel & phox: Signor Donati is a batrastard, right?
Rush: Mustard, perhaps…
angel & phox: :)!
Rush:
angel & phox: Remind me, i need to pick up some Bon Vivant Vichyssoise when i go to the grocery.
Rush: Must always remember old saying: “Man who sees dawn sees beauty, but man who sees sunset survives the day.”
angel & phox: Say you saw Dawn Wells at sunset?
Rush: Nice use of location!
angel & phox: Curator is 2nd-rater.
hounder: nice saying rush
Rush: This sequences is what Chan imagines is happening.
angel & phox: Are watercolors safe in Venice?
Rush: unique, I think!
Rush: Not in the drink!
angel & phox: Doesn’t look so great. I’ve seen greater reception rooms.
Rush: Location shot…
angel & phox: He’s got a gnu !!
Rush: You knew the new gnu, Angel?
angel & phox: He’s down with the Count.
Rush: AH!
angel & phox: Phox is rarely outfoxed. Knows gnus newer than news.
angel & phox: Barry is getting to know the full Monty.
Rush: 🙂 🙂
Rush: His ticker starts to flicker…
angel & phox: Not a Continental conniption. Please.
Rush: YES!
angel & phox: An achy breaky heart.
Rush: Nice gun flip by Chan!
angel & phox: But he has realm Corinthian leather!
Rush: Someone else there should be in lots of trouble…for attempted murder.
angel & phox: (sings) Going to leave this brokedown palace
Rush: Closing credits…
Matt1: <yee-haw>
angel & phox: I want a job where i can say “take them away”.
Rush: THE END…
angel & phox: Master of makeup—Prince Matchabelli?
Rush: (applause…)
angel & phox: YAY!!!
Rush: No…Chef Boyardee…
Rush: Okay!
hounder: yay!!
Rush: Next one in FIVE MINUTES, please…
Matt1: On that note, I need to run….Have a great week folks!
Godwinshelley2: OK I just switched my dvds
Godwinshelley2: Night Matt
Rush: I am about to switch mine too…
angel & phox: Matt, gnite!!
Rush: The next one, “Death at High Tide,” is available via the link above!
hounder: nite Matt
angel & phox: Resuming with WAR CRIMINALS.
Rush: Good night, Matt.
Rush: ake care…
Rush: have a good week!
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Rush: I hope that everyone enjoyed the first one!
Godwinshelley2: yes
Rush: I have to admit, i really enjoy this series!
Rush: An “Atomic Age” Charlie Chan!
DanVenture: It was a good diversion for 50s TV
sarabell2: I did, a different Chan but still good
Rush: Please pause at the Chinese writing.
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued to a castle/church
DanVenture: Tough to get through Naish’s simulated oriental
Rush: Yes, DV, but, with “willing suspension of disbelief,” it’s possible…!
Rush: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: Rush if we have the same set – Mine starts at a Castle/Church
angel & phox: So we DON’T view the “prologue”, we start at the ideographs?
Rush: Let’s say…2 minutes…
Rush: Make sure it’s the right one…
hounder: i’m cued to war criminal camp?
sarabell2: I am seeing Germans
DanVenture: Yes, me too.
Godwinshelley2: Stratford University??
marcycloud: me too
DanVenture: IS that right?
angel & phox: I was at War Criminal Camp too.
Godwinshelley2: Mine says Death at High Tide and it takes me to this
Rush: Let me check…
angel & phox: If it’s High Tide this must be Death.
sarabell2: POW camp?
angel & phox: Are these their criminals or ours?
Rush: Okay, I see the problem…
Rush: online one does not have the intro.
angel & phox: Ah!!
angel & phox: So!!
Rush: So, let’s start at “War Criminal
angel & phox: So we start with W.C. Camp.
Rush: WAR CRIMINALS CAMP
Rush: Yes!
angel & phox: Jawohl.
Rush: Everyone cued to that?
angel & phox: Ja ja ja!
hounder: yessir
Rush: GS?
Rush: Hounder is…
Rush: Angel is…
marcycloud: yup
angel & phox: Leave my zeppelin running.
sarabell2: I am at the german shepherd barking
Godwinshelley2: Start without me – My Disc 3 doesn’t have war criminals – in spite of the labelling
Rush: GS, I kniow we both have the DVD.
angel & phox: WOOF
Rush: It does after the intro, GS.
Rush: Just go past the intro.
angel & phox: His gigabark is worse than his gigabyte.
Rush: We can wait for you.
Rush: It’s just past the intro.
Godwinshelley2: The last one on Disc 3 goes to a story at Stratford
Godwinshelley2: and a man plays the piano
sarabell2: How do you keep coming up with these jokes?
Rush: AH!
Godwinshelley2: so start without me I’ll sort it out somehow
angel & phox: You talkin to me?
Rush: That’s “The Final CurtAIN”, GS
angel & phox: GS, we’ll meet in Germany, that’s sure.
Rush: The episode BEFORE the one we will be seeing.
Rush: “Death at High Tide’ is the fourth one on that disc.
Godwinshelley2: i know but i highlight High Tide and it takes me to this one
Rush: HM!
Rush: Then, perhaps use the link version.
Godwinshelley2: ok
angel & phox: An Ultra decoder might come handy about now.
Rush: We can hold…
Rush: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: I’m on the link now go ahead
Rush: Okay!
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
angel & phox: FUNF…VIER…DREI…ZWEI…EIN…
Rush: GO!!!
Rush: GONG!
hounder: brb dog walk
Rush: Dog barks…
Rush: Man cuts the fence…
Rush: Guard…
Rush: In on it!
Rush: “Schveinhund.”
angel & phox: Lugubrious sort for security, what?
Godwinshelley2: I have 4 different Chans on Disc Three – Starting with Ottawa, Tower of London, Cat eating off an end table while man is on a bed, & Stanford
Rush: “Uninvited guest should always remain unobtrusive.”
angel & phox: Not a Smudge The Cat adventure?
Rush: Interesting, GS.
Rush: A mix-up to be sure.
angel & phox: Lotta Loot. Didn’t she star with William Powell in something?
Godwinshelley2: This is my second TV set and both are missing something
angel & phox: By the beautiful sea.
Godwinshelley2: They were by different manufacturers
Rush: I would guess this one COULD be on the next disc by mistake.
Rush: AH!
angel & phox: It’s always nice to have sizeable holdings. I always tell people i have even if i don’t. Often i get free stuff.
Rush: I see!
Rush: I am a frogman.”
angel & phox: Later i’ll show my etchings.
DanVenture: Historical question: If that was a prison camp, would the prisoner have his naval uniform available to wear on escaping?
Rush: Yes, there is a pun there!
Rush: Good question!
angel & phox: Dan, you have hit on something. You shall go to ze coolah!
angel & phox: ETCHINGS!
Rush: Maybe someone helping him escape provided it for him!
Rush: “Nature always most interesting.”
Rush: Barry: “Suppose a Nazi shows up?”
angel & phox: “SON in Honolulu”
Rush: What did Barry expect there!
angel & phox: I always want to see my sandwich.
Godwinshelley2: OK – I took the disc from my other Incomplete TV set with High Tide and I’ll put it in my Nostalgia Merchent set for next time – it’s on that one
Rush: Very good!
Rush: Would that other one be from Old Time Radio U.K.?
angel & phox: Yikes!
Rush: Sound sleeper!
hounder: sorry guys. i can’t keep my eyes open. see you next week.
Godwinshelley2: night Hounder
sarabell2: Goodnight hounder. Hope you have a good week
Rush: Okay, Hounder!
Rush: take care…
Rush: see you next week…
Rush: And…
Rush: Get that rest!
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Rush: Barry “gets to the point.”
Rush: The one person in the world who does not know Charlie Chan!
Rush: A seabird???
Rush: How does Barry stay so thin?
Rush: Attacked!
Rush: That was either a blackjack or a drumstick!
angel & phox: I have NEVER met anyone to whom i could say “Blank Blank, the famous blahblahblah?”
Rush: Me neither…
angel & phox: You have to have a lotta gall to play a Gallic role.
Rush: “Hungry man never quarrels with cook.”
Rush: It is said, “He who has patience to wait will catch small fish if not large.”
angel & phox: I want to sit on a promontory.
Rush: There’s a good one in this scene…
angel & phox: He stole that hat from DeGaulle.
Rush: 🙂
angel & phox: “Fish / dry nets”—that appears elsewhere in the Canon, does it not, Rush?
Rush: “A time to fish and a time to dry nets.”
angel & phox: “Now are engaged in tedious task of drying nets”.
Rush: Maybe you are thinking of; “Fish in sea like flea on dog – always present, but difficult to catch”
angel & phox: Black gold! Texas T!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Barry comes through.
Rush: Great action by CC there.
Rush: The “seabird.”
Rush: NEXT WEEK: “Charlie Chan in London.”
Rush: Chan does it again!
angel & phox: Another one for the books, Danno!
Rush: Gold in the casks!
sarabell2: That was very good. Thank you. Angel & phox I enjoyed your jokes you are very funny
Rush: Closing credits…
DanVenture: That was fun! To see Charlie actually in combat, using judo and karate. WOW.
Rush: THE END
Rush: (applause…”
angel & phox: Happy to meet SaraB & MarC, looking to next week! Good wishes from me, Phelicitations from Phox!!!
angel & phox: Gnite!
Godwinshelley2: Hopefully I’ll be better prepared next time
Rush: Tonight we marked the birthday of the TV Charlie Chan…
Rush: J. Carrol Naish.
Rush: Thank you ALL as ALWAYS!
sarabell2: I will bring a dictionary A % p
DanVenture: Is it his birthday?
Rush: GREAT evening!
Godwinshelley2: Have a safe week everyone
Godwinshelley2: I may (or may not) be here next week
Rush: within a day or so…yes.
sarabell2: Thank you Rush, as always. Bye everybody
Rush: Okay, GS…just come if you can!
Godwinshelley2: Night everyone
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Rush: Please give our best to your parents!
marcycloud: see you all the next time!
Rush: may they both be healthy and happy!
marcycloud: Have a good one!
Rush: Thank you, SB, Angel, MC, and DV1
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Rush: I hope that you enjoyed these adventures!
DanVenture: Thanks again, Rush!
Rush: have a very safe and happy week!
DanVenture: Ditto.
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Rush: You are more than welcome, DV!
Rush: Take care…
Rush: Good night, DV and Angel…
Rush: And…Phox!
Rush: 🙂
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Rush: Until next week…
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