The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for July 26, 2021
Feature:
The Chinese Cat
Extra:
The Landini Murder Case: New Developments
Participants:
Hounder
Louise
mda19083
Nothere
PaulM
Phox & Phriend
Rich Maine
Rush
sarabell2
Zoe
Rush has joined this room
Rush:
mda19083 has joined this room
mda19083: hello rush
Rush: Hello, MDA!
Rush: Welcome!
mda19083: great place to be on a monday evening
Rush: I have to agree!
Rush: How are you tonight?
mda19083: great – thanks – and you
Rush: Doing well, thank you!
mda19083: getting settled in?
Rush: pretty hot today, but not terrible.
Rush: Yes. I hung some pictures, unwrapped some things, hung some curtains…
mda19083: muggy but sunny here in philadelphia
Rush: Same here, really.
mda19083: watch out for those hammer injuries
Rush: The basement is the place to be!
Rush: YES!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: I can’t recall whether Matt said he might be away tonight?
Rush: He’s usually here before I am!
mda19083: just curious – IMDB says there are 47 chan films – i can come up with 44
Rush: They are counting the three, early silent films…all lost.
mda19083: i have not yet purchased my reference book
Rush: There are some good ones out there.
mda19083: are they listed on the website?
mda19083: silent films – i mean
Rush: Take a look at our “Library” section.
Rush: All are listed in chronological order.
mda19083: TYSM
Rush: The reference books appear down the list.
Rush: You’re welcome!
Zoe has joined this room
Rush: Someone recently put out a LOT of books, including books about the Chan film series and TV series. I am a bit doubtful as to the quality.
mda19083: hello zoe
Zoe: hello
Rush: But, if you manr a search for books on Charlie chan, you will find a number!
Zoe: had the “rare” thunderstorm- heavy rain in Palm Springs last night
Rush: ZOE!
Rush: WELCOME!
Zoe: pretty much dried out now
Rush: AH!
Zoe: they say it came in from Arizona – that seems odd
Rush: The rain?
Zoe: when does weather move east to west?
Zoe: the direction
Zoe: weather always moves west to east?
Zoe: yep the “monsoon” came from Arizona
Rush: It could be that it came up from the Gulf of California.
Zoe: hmmm
mda19083: it never rains in california – so the song says
Rush: Well…sometimes it does!
Rush: And it is nearly always needed!
Zoe: I read this morning that Los Angeles set a month of July rain record since something like 1888 – still less than an inch
Zoe: laughable
Rush: I heard that there are flash flood warnings for los angeles County.
Rush: Yes, Zoe!
Zoe: we are still on flash flood alert now til 8PM – but no real rain since about 8AM – then sprinkles – then nothing
Rush: Well…let’s run the radio drama shall we?
Zoe: ready
mda19083: shoot
Rush: Okay…
Rush: 15….
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Rush: Announcer…
Rush: Fast countdaown..sorry!
Rush: Are you both on track?
mda19083: yes
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Commercial space here…
Rush: Re-cap.
Rush: Ah Sing is the focus of suspicion…
Rush: This story was adapted from Earl Derr Biggers’ final Chan story, “Keeper of the Keys.”
Rush: Ah Sing LIED.
mda19083: its a good thing i have been taking notes these past 31 weeks
Rush: 🙂
mda19083: very confusing case
Rush: You can fill ME in, MDA!
Rush: Yes…pretty complicated.
mda19083: i think the butler – ah sing – did it
Rush: AH!
Rush: 😉
Rush: One of the REAL Chinese.
Rush: (Not Americanized)
Rush: Perhaps a slight “dig” at Charlie Chan?
mda19083: they never miss a meal at pine view
Rush: No, they don’t!
Rush: “Patience, and even the crwbar dragged in the sand will become knitting needle.”
Rush: A wedding announcement in the offing?
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Rush: Commercial break…
Rush: SB!
mda19083: hello sb2
Rush: Good evening to YOU!
sarabell2: Good evening, Rush Mda Zoe
Rush: Welcome!
sarabell2: How are you all?
Rush: Well, thank you, SB!
Rush: How about you?
Zoe: all’s well here
Rush: Very good!
Rush: As the music fades….
sarabell2: Fine, just cleaning the old double wide, as a late friend of mine used to say.
Rush: THE END…
Rush: (Applause…)
Rush: Ah, yes!
Rush: in 14 minutes…”The Chinese Cat.”
sarabell2: Sorry I missed the radio. Those are always good.
Rich Maine has joined this room
Rush: Fun, aren’t they?
Rich Maine: Good evening all !
Rush: Rich!
sarabell2: Hi Rich in Maine
Rush: WELCOME!!
mda19083: hello rich
Louise has joined this room
Rush: Our northernmost member…
Rich Maine: Thanks folks ! I watched Murder at Midnight last night, Frances Chan is terrific!
Louise: Hi Chan Clan!!!
Rush: Louise!
sarabell2: Hi Louise
Rush: WELCOME to YOU!
Rush: How are you tonight, Louise and Rich?
Louise: Thanks Rush. Had to get dinner and a glass of wine ready before we started. Anyone else eating something interesting tonight?
Rich Maine: Doing well, very hot tonight here. Spaghetti bologonese
sarabell2: Italian wedding soup and beer. Goes with my DNA
Rush: I already had dinner…leftover mac and cheese and corn on the cob.
Louise: Mac and Cheese always good!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Thank you!
Rich Maine: Lobster mac & cheese !
Rush: Yes, that’s so,!
Louise: Of course Rich, you are in Maine!
sarabell2: What wine are you drinking, Louise? I always ask to get ideas
Louise: and sarabell, perfect!
Rush: That would be more exciting, Rich…yes.
Louise: lobe bologonese sause too
Louise: love
Rush: 10 minutes…
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Rich Maine: Yes Louise,lobster still pricey this year so far, last year was only $3.50lb, now its $7
Nothere: Bonjir
Rush: Nothere!
Louise: I am drooling all over my keyboard
Rush: WELCOME!
Rush: Happy Monday!
sarabell2: Never tried that sauce, but now I will
Nothere: Sarah is gonna get saucy. Oh My!
Rush: 🙂
sarabell2: Those are amazing prices, Rich. I pay more for Gortons fish sticks
mda19083: everyone is in a good mood
Louise: I have chicken and eggplant curry with a Coppola red wine
Rush: I think so, MDA…
Rush: This is all gourmet tonight!
Rich Maine: Yup, I go directly to lobster pound, we are on the ocean so boats come right in.
Rush: Well…mostly.
Rich Maine: Everything is good as long as you enjoy it
Nothere: Sauce fishsticks? I sem tohave arrived during a ma discussion. O.k. Beef Wellingto, Duck lorange, Blood pudding.
mda19083: chicken picata here in PA
Rich Maine: Nice mda!
mda19083: hello nt/nh
Louise: We do know how to eat!
sarabell2: And drink
Rush: Rachel just dropped in to see if I could let her drive at a local parking lot this evening after the Chat.
Rush: It’s funny to me as 14 1/2 year olds can drive here!
mda19083: sounds like fun rush
Louise: yikes Rush
Rush: 6 minutes to go…
Rush: YIKES, indeed! 🙂
Nothere: They can rive Rush but no on will give them ferrais.
Louise: Rachel is such a nice kid
mda19083: do you have an extra brake pedal on the passenger side rush?
Rush: No…
Rush: That would add reassurance!
Louise: Flintstone feet through the floor
Rush: 🙂
Louise: CUED here
Rush: Me too.
Nothere: Hand on the keys at all times?
Rush: 4 minutes to go…
Rush: She did prteety well last evening.
Rush: (pretty)
Rush: 3 minutes…
Nothere: GENTELMEN START YOUR ENGINES!
Rush: She did almost send us into a bordering cornfield though!
Rush: And ladies…
Rush: TWO minutes…
Rush: 90 seconds…
Rush: 75 seconds…
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: 50 seconds…
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Rush: Totle and music…
Rush: (title)
Nothere: Meow!
Rush: Imagine a gong…
Rush: credits…
Rich Maine: And the cast appears
Rush: Yes.
Louise: Maltese Cat?
Rush: I like the vaporizing credits.
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Rich Maine: Playing chess alone!
Rush: Most certainly a play on that one!
Louise: That was fast
Nothere: Dude your losing to a cat statue.
Rush: No fooling around!
Rich Maine: Evry house has a secret door
Rush: Awaiting verification…
Nothere: (tincan
Rush: There!
Rush:
mda19083: body count 1 – that was quick
Rush: TYSM…NT…
Louise: Ah, the second one
Nothere: Your welcome Rush. There never dead before their canneed.
Rush: The headlines told of the futility of finding the killer.
Rush: BB!
Rush: Yes, NT!
Rush:
Rush: “Murder is my business.”
Louise: You wholesales it
Rush: 🙂
Nothere: Well wherever Chan goes there I a murder. Happens when your a homicide detective BB.
Rush: YES!
sarabell2: That was good, Rush
Nothere: Must urk suspiciously.
Nothere: lurk even
Rush: “One Chan at a time is enough!”
Rush: We will see the desk manager in an upcoming film.
Rush: As well as the “hood” we just saw!
Rush: Tommy promised for Pop!
Nothere: Wax Museum, Cat thts two movies where Chan is forcd to take the case because his kis drag him into it. Any more?
mda19083: Circus
Rush: It sort of happens in “Honolulu” when Jimmy poses as his Pop and starts the case off.
Rush: YES!
Rush: “Circus”!
mda19083: even mrs chan
Nothere: I don’t know why your surprised Charli.Your kids never stay in college. Yu wasting yourmoney.
Rush: True!
Nothere: ah Circus good call,
Rush: NT…yes.
Rush: We will experience that very soon!
sarabell2: Does Charlie ever get paid by these society dames?
Rush: In “Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case” he’s given a new car by a thankful lady at the end of a case!
Nothere: Remember to have popcorn and cotton candy on standby.
Rush:
Rush:
mda19083: charlie is tough
Phox and Phriend has joined this room
Rush: P&P!
Nothere: Don’t move your surrounded.
Rush: WELCOME!
Nothere: Hey P’s
mda19083: hello pandp
sarabell2: Hello P’s
Rush: How are you tonight, Phx?
Rush: And Phriend..!
Rush: One of the Karzos brothers…
Rush: Karl and Kurt.
Rush: And both are Koo-Koo
Nothere: Well I’ve heard of the evil twin brother. But the evil one and the eviler twin brother?
Rush: nearly $50 today.
Rush: Sorry…
Rush: $75
Phox and Phriend: Harro!! Much happiness here at Detective Apprentice Precinct! Yoga new PC! Humble apprentices hope to be using tiny keyboard for last time tonight!
Rush: The informers always make that fatal error!
Louise: Birmingham’s face is priceless
Rush: ALWAYS give your your RIGHT AWAY!!!
Louise: FOG
Louise: and fog music
Rush: I(INFO)
Rush: Yes.
Phox and Phriend: Mantan was the Man!!
Nothere: Sorry Rush but for your failure you must be beaten 50 times with …. a wet noodle.
Rush: I deserve it!
Phox and Phriend: Mantan was the Man!!
Nothere: Ah yes it’s a Monogram. Heres the fog scene
Rush: Hesr is a very WILLING victim!
Rush: No struggle!
Rush: “Here’s my neck…squeeze…”
mda19083: tin can
Phox and Phriend: *clink*
Rush:
Rush: That’s two…
sarabell2: How do you let the fog out of a building?
Louise: cans are piling up
Rush: Turn on a fan?
Nothere: With dedicatd fan girl.
Louise: Have a chair?
Rush: Tommy is pleased.
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Rush: Chan will be VERY proud of Number Three Son later!
Rush: Paul!
Phox and Phriend: We HOPE these tin (actually rolled steel) cans are being saved, & turned in for the war effort at Crosby Can Collection depots.
Rush: Good evening to you!
PaulM: good evening
Nothere: Hey Paul
Louise: radio mystery
Rush: A take-off on the radio drama “Lights out.”
Rush: How are you this evening, paul?
sarabell2: Hi Paul
Louise: my bread machine sometimes does that to my bread
mda19083: free prize with every loaf
Rush: Yes!!!
Rush: 🙂
Nothere: You bite into that bread, you’ll chip tooth. I smell lawsuits.
Rush: More corpses for BB!
PaulM: not bad. went down to Strongsville, Ohio on saturday for a little one-day Cinema Wasteland dealer con
mda19083: who let the fog in
Rush: Now comes a “ghost.”
Louise: dae, not dead, walking dead
Rush: Indeed!
Nothere: Pardon me is your cab avliaabe to take me to hell? Any luggage?
Rush: “Murder By Madame” by Paul Reknik.
Louise: Hah! Love again
Rush: “Bull in china shop is gentle creature compared to detective who make pass at man wearing glasses.”
Rush: “Expert is merely man who make quick decision – and is sometimes right.”
Rush: BIG money!
mda19083: yoo’re on
Louise: Big bets
mda19083: you’re
mda19083: game on
Rush: Chan would owe today…$30,000
Rush: Reknik would owe…$300,000!!!!
Phox and Phriend: Phox says a phial of Tetragene would not be unhelpful anywhere in this part.
Nothere: So much for the wild 50 cent from racetrack.
Rush: I hope his book royalties will cover that!
Rush: Yes, NT!
Rush: If the cause is right, Chan will place the bet!
Rush: The big bet!
Phox and Phriend: I make all my passes when wearing glasses. Sans specs, i’ve cast blandishments my ardor was hard-pressed to back.
Rush: 🙂
Phox and Phriend: You betcha!!
Nothere: Bet on secret passage in library of old dark house?Good luck finding takers.
Rush: Your comment got Mr. deacon going with that chair, Phox!
Nothere: Don’t be fooled. That chair isn’t so innocent.
Louise: Poor Tommy
Rush: Tommy watches and learns here…
Rush: And, YES, NT!
mda19083: the maid forgot to dust
Rush: Seems so!
Phox and Phriend: Don’t think i mentioned, friends in the town next to mine are selling a house the better half owns, originally a hotel built in 1840 & a NHR building—–anyway, a few years ago they discovered behind a false wall in the cellar, an entry to what seems to be a TUNNEL—
Rush: Maybe Mrs. manning was superstitious and didn’t want the room changed!
Rush: Watch closely!!!
Rush: If you stop that frame, you will see an interesting “effect” used for the explosion!
Phox and Phriend: & seems to have Civil War / Underground Railroad provenance. A similar entrance is under a house about 1000 yards away. Historic fund has timber-shored the space to preserve before proceeding!
Rush: See…we can learn a bit of history from our Chan movies!
Louise: If art is useful it is worth more?
Rush: Yes…especially if it contains a diamond!
Rush: Perfect fit!
mda19083: cat has 9 lives
Rush: BIG writing here!
Rush: It would be interesting to find a person to read those characters!
Rush: “Boy, you is CRAZY! So am I…”
mda19083: more fog
Rush: Yes.
Phox and Phriend has left this room
Rush: “Motion seconded!”
Rush: we lost Phox…
Nothere: Fog, Ghosts, Murder. We sure this is a mystery movie? 🙂
Rush: 🙂
Nothere: And priend.
Rush: Yes!
Zoe: ha ha one of my favorite aphorisms
Rush: Chan continues to play matchmaker!
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Rush: SB…lost, too!
Rush: “Once you have large family, all other troubles mean nothing.”
Nothere: O.k. who put out the light
Nothere: ?
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Rush: As he “takes a powder”!
Nothere: I’m gonna turn it out again and when it comes on I want the P’s and Sarah back.
Rush: WB, P&P!
Rush: We missed you!
Rush: The chase!
Nothere: Wait that worked? How awesome is my power when I’m not even here.
mda19083: lets take a powder to boston for chowder
Rush: 🙂
Phox and Phriend: We musta fell into another tunnel. We only just discovered the one! Some Tetragene could easily connect the two, & then high-speed light rail could be funded!!
Nothere: No clam oup. Friend had some real trouble with that.
Rush: IF they catch him…
Rush: Tunnels can prove useful, Phox!
Nothere: (TINCAN)
Phox and Phriend: Bahston chowdah is wickit good.
mda19083: tin can 3
Rush:
Rush: (TYSM, NT!)
Phox and Phriend: Bahston chowdah is wickit good.
Rush: Is this the time to perplex one’s Pop?
PaulM: i never liked clams. i do like CORN chowder, though
Rush: I can agree, Paul…!
Nothere: Apologies Rush. Without Matt keeper of the can I eem to be stepping n your toes tonight. I shall now beat myself 100 times. With a …wet noodle.
PaulM: i grew up on the east coast of Mass. about half way between boston and plymouth
Phox and Phriend: Propitious perplexing can bring even strong general corporal punishment.
Rush: Not at all, NT! I am witing for your cue!
Rush: You announce the demises tonight!
Phox and Phriend: Many clams make light work. If your lights don’t work, get clams.
Nothere: Plentiful punctiuation perilous Phox.
Rush: Oxyzone!
Phox and Phriend: Phox phlattered!
Rush: maybe a combination of oxygen and ozone?
Louise: Never trust elevators: he saw a Chan movie
Phox and Phriend: Nah, that’s Ozogen.
Rush: CORRECT , LOUISE!
mda19083: another deadly poison
Rush: TYSM, Phox! I stand…sit…corrected!
Nothere: Movies have mae me very strange in levators. I keep looking for a hatch in the roof.
Rush: I think even I could solve that puzzle!
Rush: Understood, NT!
Phox and Phriend: Undeadly poisons are the housewife’s bane. One must keep them in mass quantities to get anything at all done, & storage is even more pressed when poisons finally accomplish. Fox uses Tetragene around the den.
Rush: Tommy helped solve the Manning case…
mda19083: not tetragene
Louise: Busy night
Nothere: Ah yes the old I didn’t solve the case because I kept thinking random other crimes were pat f a big plot trick.
Phox and Phriend: mda, you’re SO picky. We didn’t say it does EVERYTHING!
Rush: Make sure that masks and oxygen are around the oplace, Phox!
Rush: Carolina…BB’s new love interest!
Louise: He gets 2inches from her face
Phox and Phriend: We keep mostly hydrogen, in, but case any airships lay by, but a quantity of oxygen is under “O” in the secret part of the public tunnel.
Rush: He has a lot in common with Chan’s sons there!
mda19083: more fun at the fun house
Rush: yes!
Rush: Get ready for action!
Phox and Phriend: Louise: does 2″ qualify as Social Closening?
Phox and Phriend: Rocked & roaded!
Louise: too close for comfort
Rush: Chan’s putdowns of Tommy will end fairly soon!
Phox and Phriend: Hate to imagine a Chan Family photo with any humble progeny estranged. *SHUDDER!*
Rush: Chan roughed up!
mda19083: chan takes it on the chin
Phox and Phriend: *thunk*
Rush: Yes!
Nothere: Well folks this is where I leave you. Remember the next tim you nter a foggy room if it’s not black and white your not in a Monogram. That’s smoke.
Phox and Phriend: Here we come to save the whatever!
Rush: Yes, NT!
Rush: Tommy takes it!
mda19083: later nt
Phox and Phriend: Notty! Felix nochay! May you ALWAYS be in a Monogram!
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Rush: “Tastes like RAT!”
Phox and Phriend: If this was a musical, a Tommy tune would be coming up now.
Rush: Yes it would…
Phox and Phriend: If this was a musical, a Tommy tune would be coming up now.
Rush: And BB would have a solo.
Rush: That got them out of the room!
Phox and Phriend: Would that it were, would that it were!
Rush: 🙂
Phox and Phriend: If only Mae West coulda been pulled into the Chan orbit. DAY-um, that would be something!
Rush: It would have definitely been.
Rush: Tonight’s fur…a hand warmer.
Phox and Phriend: How about Bergen & McCarthy—as VILLAINS?!!
Rush: They were to WC Fields at times!
Rush: trap door!
Phox and Phriend: Phox holds a lotta hands. At least 8, when we wearing the Fox Fur.
Louise: Web used to say “Watch that first step, it is a doozy!”
Rush: Yes?
Phox and Phriend: Rush, you are pointing to most fertile Fields! Yes!
Rush: 😉
Rush: KLUNK!
Phox and Phriend: Watch out!
Rush: THUNK!
Phox and Phriend: Inspector Duff is looking down on all this.
Rush: Tommy to the rescue!
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Rush: Hello, HOUNDER!
Phox and Phriend: H!!
Rush: Good evening to you!
Rush: How are you tonight?
mda19083: hello hounder
Hounder: Hi all. Sorry I’m late. We went to town and everything took longer to do than I thought it would. We just got back.
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Rush: Perfect hiding place for the diamond.
Rush: WB, SB!
Phox and Phriend: Get back to where your thumbs belong!
Hounder: Hi sb. Town trips are exhaustinf.
Zoe: looks like Charlie wins the bet (surprise!)
sarabell2: Sorry, got interrupted. Hi Houder hope your mother is ok
Rush: Yes, Zoe…and good one, Phox!
Phox and Phriend: Hello again, Sb!
Rush: “This is how you did it.”
Hounder: exhausting.. 2nd covid shot
Zoe: monogrammed gun?
Phox and Phriend: CC gives away secrets.
Rush: Yes, Houder?
Rush: Phox…he’s sharing secrets!
Louise: Stretching logic with that chess stuff
Hounder: And she wasn’t in the mood to go. We went anyway. Lol sometimes yagottabedoing the tough love thing.
Rush: You’ll feel better pretty soon, Hounder.
Phox and Phriend: THAT’S right: SHARING!
Rush: (Which is CARING.)
Hounder: A good night’s sleep will do wonders
sarabell2: You did good, Hounder
Phox and Phriend: Tough love is in the dictionary between Tetragene and Turtlepox.
Rush: BB and “friend.”
Hounder: Thanks sb. I try
Rich Maine: and another happy ending !
Rush: “Thank YOU!”
Hounder: Lol@phox n phriend
Rush: THE END
Rich Maine: see you in two weeks ! Thanks !!!!!!!
Rush: (Applause…)
Phox and Phriend: YAY!
Louise: funny ending as usual
Rush: As the curtain descends…
Rush: next week…
Phox and Phriend: Hahahahaha!
Rush: “Meeting at Midnight”
Hounder: Hope tobe on time next week.
Rush: Also known as…
Rush: “Black Magic”
Rush: Seances and everything!
Hounder: See y’all
Phox and Phriend: Set your clocks! Remember, this is War Time! Donate your tin cans to Bring Crosby!!
Rush: Take care, hounder!
Rush: Best to you and your mom.
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Louise: Bing, Bing, Bing
Rush: Thank you for stopping in.
Zoe: night all – time to sort out dinner
Rush: Take care.
Rush: be well.
mda19083: so do we meet at 7:30 or midnight next monday?
Rush: And, thank you everyone!
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Louise: Hah mda
mda19083: be well all – thanks for a good show
sarabell2: Good night all, thank you all for being here. Very Cheering.
Phox and Phriend: BING Crosby! Geez, SpellCheck seems kinda Acisy. Gnite!!
Rush: Another GREAT night together with Charlie Chan!
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Rush: Good night everyone…
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Louise: bye all
Rush: take care.
Rush: Have a great evening and week!
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Rush: Good night louise and paul!
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Rush: See you next week!
Rush: Good night, paul…!
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