The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for May 25, 2020
Feature:
Charlie Chan in Panama
Extra:
Lost City of the Jungle (Chapter 8)
Participants:
aemelton
Cdirus
Dona
hounder
Matt1
Mike n Rachel in DC
PaulM
Phil
Rush
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Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: Good evening, Matt!
Rush: Did you get the day off tody?
Matt1: Happy Memorial Day
Rush: (today)
Rush: And the same to you!
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Oh yes….cloudy and windy here today though
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Rush: It was very warm and nice in our area today.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good evening, gentlemen!
Matt1: Challenging 30 mile bike ride in 20+ mph winds
Matt1: Hello M & R!
Rush: However, I took the whole day to remove the linoleum fro our kitchen and laundry room floors.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Woosh, Matt.
Rush: Mike/Rachel!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yikes, Rush!
Rush: Good evening!
Rush: Yes.
Matt1: Turning into a handyman, Rush! Bravo!
Rush: We are getting things redone so we can sell the house next spring.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We were feeling virtuous because of some gardening…
Rush: I would have preferred the gardening, M/R!
Mike n Rachel in DC: 🙂
Rush: Handyman out of necessity, matt!
Rush: I just finished a nice mystery book that honoluLou recommended.
Rush: “Death by Dumpling” by Vivien Chien.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sounds like fun, Rush.
Rush: There are a series of these books.
Matt1: After 11 weeks of isolation…..ALL my honey-do projects over the last MANY years are complete…Really!
Rush: It felt like the good, old-fashioned mystery novels.
Rush: Set in Cleveland’s Chinatown area.
Mike n Rachel in DC: The title is definitely in that ilk
Rush: Yes.
Rush: I ordered the second book last night.
Mike n Rachel in DC: An insidious poison in the dim sum?
Rush: Actually, Dim sum is in the title of the SECOND novel!
Rush: Anyway: Recommended.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Deadly Dim Sum?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Will check them out…
Rush: “Dim Sum of all Fears.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: OH YES. OH YES.
Rush:
Rush: OOPS!
Rush: Next attempt!
Rush: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519EmAbsb3L._SX303_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Rush: Oh, well….
Rush: Tonight’s serial installment runs about 12 minutes.
Matt1: Where do we start?
Rush: 42:10
Mike n Rachel in DC: Found it! https://www.amazon.com/Dim-Sum-All-Fears-Mystery/dp/1250129176
Matt1: Ok
Rush: AH!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah ha. It comes pre-set to the right starting point. Now that’s service!
Rush: We can start at 15 before the hour.
Matt1: I’m cued
Rush: I should do the same…
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Mike n Rachel in DC: Locked and loaded here.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello Hounder!
Rush: “Fire Jet Torture”
Rush: Hello, HOUNDER!
Hounder: Hi everyone. Just checking in
Matt1: Yep!
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Rush: I hope that you can stay beyond checking in, Hounder!
Rush: Ate you in NC tonight?
Rush: (Are)
Rush: (Funny typo…ala the Donner Party!)
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yum.
Hounder: The computer’s packed so I can’t watch with you. Not yet Rush. Leaving tomorrow for 2 days in al then nc on Thurs.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Where in NC, Hounder?
Rush: I have to warn you, though, once you start reading the story, you will have a huge craving for Chinese food!
Matt1: Well, safe travels….How long will you be gone for Hounder?
Rush: Yes…be safe on your journey!
Rush: Is NC starting to reopen?
Hounder: I don’t know if I’ll have internet the so I may not get to check in often. 2 hours west of Asheville Mike. Probably return to fl the end of Oct.
Matt1: Wow, LONG trip!
Rush: Just as the weather starts to change, Hounder.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Wow. So really in the mountains! Hopefully it will be nice weather–it’s always beautiful there.
Rush: You have a place there, right, Hounder?
Hounder: I think the county I’m going to is a little more open. The concrete barriers are gone and they’ve eliminated the 14 day self quarentine.
Rush: That’s good.
Rush: I would hope so by now.
Hounder: I do have a place there. And the grass is probably up to an elephant’s eye by now.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes. Hopefully things will continue to calm down over the summer!
Rush: Yes, Hounder!
Rush: You might need a machete to get to the front door!
Hounder: It’s getting too hot here for me. 93 yesterday.
Mike n Rachel in DC: The grass is as high as an elephant’s eye…it looks like it’s reachin’ right up to the sky… (all together now)
Rush: With humidity, yes?
Rush: M/R: 🙂
Matt1: I’d but a few goats
Matt1: buy
Rush: Yes. That’d do it, matt!
Hounder: I’m hoping people don’t get stupid! But according to what was seen in Daytona Beach….they’re going to be stupid.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Fatten them up then a nice barbecue
Rush: 🙂
Hounder: Sounds like a plan matt.
Matt1: lol
Rush: The “reward” for all that work!
Rush: Well, Hounder, outside in the sun and heat is pretty safe, I believe.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, goats…you didn’t think that was FREE grass, did you? 😉
Matt1: Duuuuuuude
Rush: That bug does not last long in those conditions.
Rush: Wel…
Rush: Should we run the serial?
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Rush: CD!
Matt1: Ready here!
Rush: WELCOME!
Cdirus: Hi guys!
Matt1: Hello CD!
Rush: We are about to play the serial!
Cdirus: OK
Rush: Please use the link above, and start at 42:10.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We now have Apple TV, so we’re going to have the films on the Big Screen…
Rush: NICE, Mike!
Rush: Okay….
Rush: To give everyone time…
Rush: 45 seconds…
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Mike n Rachel in DC: *readies chopsticks*
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…:)
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: SF!
Rush: San Francisco…as usual…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Graduation music for the UPF
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah…Zalabar
Rush: And…Zalabar….
Hounder: Back from quick dog walk
Rush: Yes…
Rush: I have been to Salad Bar…
Hounder: Lol@rush
Cdirus: That’s one big Walkie Talkie
Rush: Watch those grenades…
Mike n Rachel in DC: It’s near there, Rush
Rush: Indeed, M/R!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *boom*
Mike n Rachel in DC: tick tick tick
Mike n Rachel in DC: Oooh. Very small pieces…
Matt1: Just in time!
Rush: LONG delay on that one!
Mike n Rachel in DC: a real VSP
Rush: Splinters.
Rush: A good old drafting table.
Matt1: Wasn’t he killed in last Chan film?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Compass. Protractor.
Rush: Atwill?
Matt1: I think they just looked a like, sorry
Rush: However, we DO see Mr. Atwell tonight in “Panama.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: In his “British” mode.
Mike n Rachel in DC: My aunt would have LOVED this evening’s movies!
Rush: Yes?
Rush: Interesting clue.
Mike n Rachel in DC: My aunt “Serd” (Seraphina) thought that Lionel Atwill was the most handsome man ever. She would baby-sit me and we watched about every movie he ever made. 🙂
Hounder: A good memory
Rush: Biff…
Rush: BOP!
Rush: Bang!
Mike n Rachel in DC: (While eating her favorite: Strawberry ice cream and pretzels.)
Mike n Rachel in DC: Still makes me smile, Hounder…
Rush: Sounds good, actually!
Rush: Sweet plus salty.
Mike n Rachel in DC: The movies were uneven, but the ice cream was always good! 😉
Rush: Fun tidbit about your aunt, Mike!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: I’ve always thought that “pretzel cones” would be good for ice cream parlors…
Hounder: I remember watching wrestling with my great grandfather. He’d eat apple pie drowned in cream
Rush: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: mmmmm
Hounder: That does sound like a good idea mike
Rush: Hounder…THAT sounds like a good time!
Rush: One minute left….
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hm. No big explosions seem imminent.
Rush: (Bubbles…)
Mike n Rachel in DC: glub glub
Rush: And…an abrupt ending!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hm. Abrupt ending.
Rush: Next week….
Rush: Part 9.
Matt1: I thought I lost connection
Hounder: Time to go pack a little more. I’ve been dodging light rain and now it’s starting to get dark. I’ll try to check back in later
Rush: Unfortunately, this serial has been chopped up and edited.
Rush: But, we get tyhe gist….
Rush: …and Keye Luke.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hope to see you, Hounder
Rush: (the)
Matt1: If not Hounder, safe travels and hope you have internet connection in NC!
Rush: Take care, Hounder.
Rush: My best to you and your mom.
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Rush: AE!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mike n Rachel in DC: tyhe gist…sounds like Gaelic, Rush
aemelton: hi
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello AEM!
Matt1: Hello AE!
aemelton: where are we
Rush: How are you this evening?
aemelton: fine
Rush: Indeed!
Rush: We are!
Rush: Might be a smallish gathering.
Rush: That happens on holidays, sometimes.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Small in numbers, but large in spirit, Rush. 🙂
aemelton: has the feature started?
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Rush: And, by the way…please say hello to Rachel….!
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Cdirus: Sorry, lost my wifi and had to switch to the netbook
Mike n Rachel in DC: WB CD!
Rush: Yes…welcome back!
Mike n Rachel in DC: She’s here…still giggling about Dim Sum of All Fears.
Rush: 9 minutes until showtime…
Cdirus: Yea, lost the last few minutes of the serial
Rush: AH!
Rush: Yes, the titles are a bit tongue in cheek!
Cdirus: I was trying to look up that book you mentioned
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, the bad guys were busy being nefarious and Keye Luke was getting ready to save the day…
Rush: Here is the Amazon location for the book: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Dumpling-Noodle-Shop-Mystery/dp/125012915X
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, Rach always complains about puns…so this is a particularly auspicious find for us!
Cdirus: Thanks Rush!
Matt1: Cued here
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ditto
Rush: I am cueing now…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Or ditti
Rush: Opening title…
Mike n Rachel in DC: First Chan not on a laptop screen in a long time, here. We’re very excited.
Cdirus: I’m hold #12 on 2 copies of that book.
Rush: I am with you on that, Mike!
Rush: hang in there, CD!
Cdirus: Hey Rush, do you have to read those noodle books in order?
Rush: Maybe not…
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Rush: But I am doing them in order.
Matt1: Hello Phil!
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Rush: I have only read the first one.
Cdirus: Hi Phil, Dona!
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Dona: Hello everyone!
Rush: Hello, DONA!
Phil: Aloohhaa to all my esteemed Chan friends!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Phil! Dona! It IS a party…
Cdirus: OK, I can wait. I’m reading Tony Hillerman’s books now.
Dona: I saw the book in the chat before I signed on. I ordered it on my audible. I will listen to it this week. Thank you!
Rush: CD…as you read the first one, please tell me if you agree that it is happening in the year 2014 and why!
Rush: ah!
Rush: vERY GOOD, dONA!
Rush: pLEASE SEE THE QUESTIION i ASKED OF cd!
Rush: (Sorry…caps locked!)
Cdirus: OK Rush!
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes to go….
Cdirus: It may be a while though
Phil: M&R so good to see you as it is AE, CD, soundguy Matt and Dona and the G-MAN!
Rush: That’s okay, CD!
Dona: I will do that Rush
Rush: If nothing else…we have lots of TIME these days!
Rush: 2 minutes…
Rush: PHIL!
Rush: Missed you entering!
Phil: RUSH!
Rush: 90 seconds…
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Dona: Yes, this was a VERY long boring weekend for me.
Rush: 75 seconds…
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: Understood, Dona.
Rush: 50 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: *readies Spanish/English dictionary*
Rush: 40 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: *brushes Panama hat*
Phil: I hear David Lee Roth singing about his Ferrari “Panama”
Rush: Hard to be bored with two teens in our home!
Rush: 20 seconds…
Rush: 15…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Never a dull moment, Rush
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Cdirus: The land divided, the world united!
Rush: YES.
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG!>
Rush: Title….
Rush: Music….
Phil: Gone baby!
Rush: Credits….
Rush: Nice GONG, matt!
Rush: TYSM!
Phil: Ah the music of the tropics
Rush: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Seems like an authentic Chinese gong…
Rush: And…here wego…
Rush: Intrigue right away!
aemelton: music reference
aemelton: navy
Mike n Rachel in DC: A little mood music.
Rush: “Japanese” music…
aemelton: xylophone
Rush: A hint…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Faux-Japanese vs. US Navy
Rush: Yes.
aemelton: whoa trumpets
Phil: Indianapolis was written on the side of that plane.
aemelton: this looks like a real location – not a studio
Mike n Rachel in DC: Had to play the fanfare with mutes…no time to put them in before the next “Japanese” music. hehe
Rush: Charles Stevens: Spy on Dock
Rush: M/R: 🙂
Rush: Miss Finch.
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Rush: Lionel Atwell…
Rush: 6 years earlier.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Miss Finch. Quite the “bird.”
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Hello Paul!
Mike n Rachel in DC: 18 years of teaching…that would make Miss Finch around 40…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello Paul!
PaulM: good evening
Phil: Hi Paul
Rush: Maybe slightly more…
Rush: WELCOME, Paul!
Dona: Hi Paul
Rush: We just arrived in “Panama.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hehe…assuming she started right out of school.
Rush: 5:25
Rush: True, Mike.
Phil: Next thing she’ll be doing marijuana
Rush: 6:10
Cdirus: Hi Paul!
Dona: lol
Rush: Yes, Phil…but maybe not in 1940!
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: Maybe a little cocaine…
Phil: Especially in 1940. Nothing’s regulated then.
Rush:
Rush: Douglas “Dolphin” flying boat.
Cdirus: Grumman Goose?
Cdirus: Ooops
aemelton: I love old airplane scenes
Rush: Dr. Grosser.
Rush: Me too, AE!
Phil: Me three.
Rush: The “Clipper” especially.
Cdirus: Anyone remember the show Tales of the Gold Monkey?
Rush: 8:20
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah, the Good Old Days. When you could take your bubonic plague infected rats as a carry-on–for FREE!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: TRUE!
Dona: lol
Mike n Rachel in DC: Now, most airlines charge $30
aemelton: whether the rats are diseased or not
Rush: Maybe $1.50 in 1940!
Cdirus: Yay! Balboa
Rush: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Is this Rocky’s hometown?
Rush: “Fu Yuen Panama Hats”
Cdirus: Balboa High School Class of 1988!
Rush: Maybe his ancestors.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Watch those cigarettes….
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hats are easier on the lungs
Rush: True!
Matt1: World famous detective CC goes deep undercover?
Phil: Cigarettes Kill!
Rush: Nice opening shot of Chan.
Rush: “Thousand friends too few”
Rush: “One enemy too many”
Mike n Rachel in DC: So Charlie shows up everywhere around the world and is instantly recognized…so how can he pose as an unknown hat dealer?
Phil: Yeah stupid, stick with the cover names
Cdirus: Good point
aemelton: don’t over-think it
Rush: Maybe his fame has not yet reached Balboa, Panama!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Fu Yuen. A name that can hide anyone.
Rush: Yes!
Rush: (Cough…)
Rush: (GAG…)
Matt1: Beware, Smoking kills!
aemelton: like James bond saying his name all over the place
Phil: CUE THE CAN!
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: “Policia!”
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Rush: July 15, 1940…
Rush: “Fu Yuen” could not have been in Balboa that long.
Matt1: Funny scene
Rush: he would still be something of a stranger.
Rush: YES!
Mike n Rachel in DC: He has quite a hat business…
Rush: SLAP!
Rush: Interesting collection of individuals in that cell.
Rush: “Man without relatives is man without trouble.”
Rush: Funny line.
Rush: “Maybe tomorrow we choose you, I think…”
Rush: Boanide.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Tetragene!
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: Oops.
Phil: Dang, thought it was tetragine
PaulM: “Maybe tomorrow we SHOOT you, i think”
Rush: That one apprears later!
PaulM: they think he’s a spy
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Accurate map of the Canal.
Mike n Rachel in DC: “was not aware of current collaboration”. 🙂
Rush: good line!
Rush: With the Toler era, we get more moments of humor.
Rush: “Young maiden of fifty summers or more…”
Phil: Charlie dates the teacher at “50 summers or more”
Mike n Rachel in DC: “50 summers or more.” Must have had a few extra years there, Rush.
Rush: Maybe she started teaching a little later in life.
Rush: YES!
Rush: Or..perhaps she wanted to come off as a little younger!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Or maybe 18 years of teaching just made her look a little older than her true age…
Rush: Two sailors and one girl there…
Rush: Could very well BE, Mike!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Two sailors and one girl…sounds like trouble.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Sounds a bit suspect…
Rush: That “new mixture…”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Secret plans, no doubt.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: And, the aptly named Dr. Grosser…
Rush: Jimmy investigates.
Dona: That is true Rush
Rush: Note how the music rises…
Mike n Rachel in DC: This is from a Sherlock Holmes movie.
Rush: Yes?
Mike n Rachel in DC: “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (Basil Rathbone)
Rush: Lollipop!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: He’s back!
Rush: Tarantulas.
Rush: RATS!
Phil: Door to room filled with plague infected rats left unlocked.
aemelton: Mike n Rachel you really know your old mystery movies
Rush: Manolo’s cabaret.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Start around 1:17:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76GiUWcqt3Q
Dona: I’m trying to remember which one Mike
Phil: Door to room filled with plague infected rats left unlocked.
Rush: I agree, AE!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Different orchestra and different tempos (slower) but the exact same music
Rush: Hm.
Mike n Rachel in DC: I would LOVE to know how this music got shared around
Rush: Note their expressions…
aemelton: that’s amazing
Rush: “Who’s THIS guy?”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Pretty good Spanish for a Czech refugee…
Rush: This would be a fun place to visit.
Rush: I was thinking the same, Mike!
Rush: Snooping while smoking.
Rush: (Applause…)
aemelton: snooping is always better with a smoke
Rush: Brash young man!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hard to conceal one’s presence with cigarette smoke in the air…
Rush: I guess so, AE!
Rush: Like Kashimo in “The Black Camel”
Rush: Note the drunk sailor between them.
aemelton: ha
Phil: What’s Kane’s first name?
Rush: You got me, Phil!
Phil: The guy that’s talking to her right now?
Rush: But, Kane’s LAST name is Richmond!
Phil: There you go. Thanks!
Rush: Kane Richmond: Richard Cabot
Rush: Here comes trouble!
Phil: TYSM
Mike n Rachel in DC: Silenco la boca!
Rush: Oh, JIMMY!
Rush: The beans are spilled.
Rush: Officially.
Dona: big mouth
Phil: chamPAGna
Rush: “Perhaps better to let cat out of bag than drown same.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Exit Fu Yuen. Enter Charlie Chan.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: We see that they know of Charlie chan, but probably had not seen many pictures of him.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, Charlie…it’s not the rats, it’s the FLEAS you have to worry about.
Rush: TRUE!
Mike n Rachel in DC: I bet he looks a lot like Fu Yuen.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Maybe “Puzzums.”
Rush: Look for “evidence” of the rats having been there.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yuck
Phil: Jimmy could be working for today’s media and reporting on covid
Rush: Yes…YUCK.
Rush: Sometimes there is a touch or two of “yuck” in detective work!
Phil: The way one thing leads to another with that boy
Mike n Rachel in DC: Of all the plots to hamper the Panama Canal, an infestation of plague infested rats seems the least likely, Jimmy.
Rush: yes, Phil!
Rush: Jimmy could try a window.
Phil: Another plausible theory could be that of spoiled bananas
Mike n Rachel in DC: Cielito Lindo
Rush: TYSM, Mike!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sweet Little Heaven. 🙂
Cdirus: Mexican song
Rush: It made its way south to Panama!
Rush: “Good night, lady…”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Probably played for the tourists…not too discerning about Central American culture?
Rush: (Phew!)
Rush: Yes, mike!
Rush: Manolo’s darker nater comes through.
Rush: (nature)
Phil: Jimmy’s all masked up!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Amateur detective strikes again
Rush: We see CC get physical.
Rush: But…it’s Jimmy!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Thought too horrible to contemplate.” Droll.
Rush: So, Jimmy did use the window exit…
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Rush: Jimmy, we shall see, was on the USC baseball team.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Nice “throwing” humidor.
Rush: Strike!
Mike n Rachel in DC: We find the Chan family is quite athletic.
Rush: AH! He still IS attending college.
Rush: Yes, Mike.
Rush: In “The Golden Eye,” we see that Lee was also involved with baseball at one point in his life.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Czardas (her last name) is also the name of a Gipsy dance.
Rush: Yes?
Rush: INTERESTING!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes…Hungarian/Romanian roots
Rush:
Mike n Rachel in DC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs%C3%A1rd%C3%A1s
Rush: Got it! TYSM!
Rush: Again, interesting!
Phil: Hungarians were also sent to concentration camps by the Germans.
Rush: “On soil of democracy you are safe from persecution.”
Rush: Yes, Phil.
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Pretty can-intensive case for Charlie!
Phil: Right on it Matt
Rush: jimmy started to say that the Baroness had a strong motive…
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Rush: Chan goes to work here!
Rush: (Zooooommmm!)
Phil: Oops
Rush: Escaped like John Wilkes Booth did…
Rush: That was some drop!
Matt1: lol, poor Jimmy
Rush: Could have broken a leg.
Rush: yes….
Rush: The mind is a strong convincer!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Just like the ploy later in the series, Rush
Rush: “Where’s Reiner?”
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Rush: I had actually forgotten that connection.
Rush: “Docks of New Orleans.”
Rush: Not often do we see CC with a gun.
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Rush: And, that education has become much MORE expensive over the decades!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ooof, Rush.
Rush: Like “Treasure Island”!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Skeleton?
Phil: That sure looks like Dr Arnold from CC in Egypt
aemelton: of course there’s a skeleton
Rush: Phil: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: Must have been a little short of coffins for those funerals?
Rush: Yes, AE!
Rush: The water business must be dirty.
Rush: I recall using those folded cups.
Mike n Rachel in DC: tick tick tick tick
Rush: Ships shown: USS ‘Arizona,’ USS ‘Lexington,’ USS ‘Trac’y (DD-214) and USS ‘Dahlgren’ (DD-187), as well
as two other Town-class destroyers in the background.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Excellent research department, Rush. 😉
Rush: He didn’t get his wish.
Phil: CUE THE CAN!
Rush: Yes…dead.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Crickets.
Rush: Yes…crickets…
Matt1: Wasn’t able to do the can!
Rush: A “manual” can…
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Mike n Rachel in DC: If a can falls in the cemetery and no one hears it…
Rush: Dr. Grosser.
Rush: Hounder!
Rush: Welcome back!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yay!
Dona: Hi Hounder
Phil: Rush, early in the movie when the plane was going to be catapulted from the ship, the plane had “Indianapolis” written on it. The Indy, I believe was a heavy cruiser and the ship that delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian.
Hounder: Just a quick check back in
Rush: Yes, Phil!
Rush: You are correct!
Mike n Rachel in DC: And Phil, it ran into big trouble with sharks…
Rush: Some history in ths film!
Phil: Well, the crew did M&R
Mike n Rachel in DC: So none of the three big ships shown in this movie survived the war
Rush:
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes…what a tragedy
Rush: The USS ‘Indianapilis’ as shown in this film.
Rush:
Mike n Rachel in DC: tick tick tick tick
Rush:
Rush: Third time the charm!
Dona: Nice picture
Rush: Unique gathering of suspects!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Perseverance, Rush. 🙂
Rush: yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Others have visited there…and left skeletons laying around…
Rush: Pays off at times…
Mike n Rachel in DC: True, Rush.
Mike n Rachel in DC: tick tick tick tick
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Rush: Long-term visitor!
Rush: MISS FINCH!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Miss Finch-Reiner!
Rush: Yes!
Rush: “Time bomb without electric arteries ….”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Miss Finch looks PISSED.
Rush: Indeed!
Dona: YES
Rush: They will not be pleased “back home.”
Hounder: She deserves what she gets
Mike n Rachel in DC: Das ist nicht gut.
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Mike: 🙂
Rush: “Nicht sehr gut.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Genau.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: And now…
Rush: the patriotic ending…
Rush: Memorial day 2020…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yay…ships! OK, boys, watch out at Pearl Harbor…
Rush: THE END…
Matt1: <yee-haw>
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah>
Rush: Applause…)
Dona: Perfect movie for Memorial Day!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Great ending music
Rush: Next week…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Agreed, Dona!
Dona: Whahoooo!!!!
Rush: “Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise.”
aemelton: thanks all
Rush: Thank YOU!
Rush: Thank you ALL!
Rush: …for yeat another wonderful, Chan-filled evening!
Dona: Thank you Rush! Another great evening.
Hounder: Hope to check in with you when I can. Until I make it back be well.
Rush: You are all GREAT!
Phil: Another fun week concluded.
Matt1: Good night folks and hope you have a great week.
Rush: And, i ALWAYS learn something new from you!
Rush: You too, matt!
Phil: Good night all. Keep those hands clean.
Cdirus: See you guys next week!
Rush: have a happy, SAFE week, everyone!
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Rush: Try to stay cool, Dona!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Take care, Hounder. Safe travels! Have a great time in NC.
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Rush: A heat wave is predicted!
Dona: Yes, it’s hot here
Mike n Rachel in DC: Stay cool in CA!
Dona: 90 last time i looked.
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Mike n Rachel in DC: The east coast is still doing ok.
Rush: TYSM, Mike…and rachel!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: Looking forward to seeing y’all next week!
Dona: See you all next week!
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Rush: It’s heading for warmer weather, though.
Rush: So in advance…
Rush: Stay cool!
Rush: That humidity can be tough!
Dona: Yes Rush, I think in the 100’s by the end of the week.
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Dona: right now it’s windy and dry but that can always chage
Rush: I have heard that too!
Rush: Santa ana?
Dona: yes
Rush: AH!
Rush: Not that way here, yet.
Rush: Wind is still from the west.
Dona: good
Rush: Change coming, though.
Rush: Hopefully no fires.
Dona: saturday it was overcast so it stayed cooler but the overcast seems to be gone
Dona: yes two fires i know of
Rush: And, I hope that we will have a Chan showing in El Segundo in the near future!
Rush: I hope we can have a few CC fans gathered.
Rush: Two fires going now?
Dona: one in Fontana and the other in Pomona
Rush: Hadn’t heard!
Rush: Hopefully they will be contained soon.
Dona: That would be great Rush!
Dona: i’ll start checking the website again
Rush: Sometimes we get the smoke down here.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Well…
Dona: I haven’t heard how big the fires are
Rush: I think it is about dinner time by the sounds I am hearing!
Dona: I’m in between them and I haven’t had too much smoke
Dona: See you next week!
Rush: Good sign, Dona!
Rush: Okay!
Rush: take care…
Dona: you too
Rush: Good night!
Rush: 🙂
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