A Deadly State of Mind

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On this episode we were talking about the sixth and final episode of season four, A Deadly Seat of Mind, directed by Harvey Hart, written by Peter S. Fisher, who's been the showrunner this season. It originally aired April twenty seventh, nineteen seventy five. I admitted last month that I screwed up thinking that all of these were ninety minute episodes. This is another seventy minute episode.

I have to say, probably could have been a sixty minute episode because there's a little bit of time wasting in here, at least in my opinion. But Chris, I'm very curious, what did you think of a Deadly state of Mind? There he goes everyone saying that there's a little bit of time wasting in this episode. This is one of the Colombo episodes where Columbo knows who did it the moment he sees him. And we've had this conversation before about this.

We'll continue to have this conversation about this as we continue to watch this show together. They can do it well, they can do it right, they can do it in a way that works. This is not one of those episodes. I actually am disappointed with this episode because I enjoyed the performances. I really like Leslie and Warren.

Obviously, I don't know have we talked about this. You're not a fan of Clue. You are a fan of Clue. I didn't see Clue until just a few years ago and really enjoyed it. And yes, I love Leslie and Warren.

She is so great. She's great, but like, yeah, yes, oh yeah, oh yeah, Victor Victoria, that's right. I saw that earlier this year as well. sEH, she is wasted here because she plays a character that we've seen before and they give her one note which is constantly exasperated. It's not that she can't do it, and it's actually far from it. Leslie and Warren is a very talented actress, so she can do it.

It's just that is really not making the most of her abilities as an actress to pigeonhole her into one thing where she's just oh my god, that's like her whole character. And given that this is Colombo, given that we spend a lot of time with these characters, along with Colombo, You and I would prefer to have a character that's not written so one note, especially when we're gonna spend half of the damn episode with her and we're also meant to at some point empathize with her plight and feel bad for her and then even feel worse for her when George Hamilton hypnotizer to jump off of a ledge, which is we'll get to that when we get to But I think this episode's fine. It definitely could have been ten minutes shorter, and it definitely needed one more Luki lou as they would say of the writer's room.

Because it's just fine. There's nothing to it that I think imminently sets it apart from any other episode, other than maybe the reveal at the end, which is such a fucking cheat. Okay, once he gets hung up. The reveal at the end of this episode is such a crock a fucking shit. They should be a shame to themselves.

Okay, you get to do this one time, you motherfuckers. This is like in the Sopranos, they have something similar with It's like, oh is a brother fuck you show? You get one opportunity to do this, Colombo, and I hope you don't do it again, because this is utter bullshit. They literally it's like having a card in your pocket the whole time and never letting anybody see it. Ooh, here's the actual and it's oh cool.

So the reveal aside. I thought this episode was fine, but to your point, there's about ten minutes in here that could be cut. I'm assuming we're on the same page as of what those ten minutes are. Oh yeah, we'll get there, definitely. What about you, Mike, You're right when it comes to Leslian Ward, She's already got her voice to contend with.

I love her voice. I love her. I love when she shows up in things I'm already mentioned Victimtoria. I really love her in Color of Night, basically whenever she's there, Like she played a great Lois Lane in this musical version of Superman that aired on TV years and years ago. I just can't get enough of her.

She's got the voice, though, and when we meet her, she's being age regressed through hypnotism to a little girl state, and she never really changes her voice out of that. She's a little girl through this whole episode, which makes it tough that George Hamilton is so attract to her. Of course she's a beautiful woman, but she just gets infantalized through this whole episode. Wouldn't you go for someone else? And then this whole weird thing of like him, what is it is?

He writing a book doing research. And reminds me of Michelle the book Michelle remembers that ended up being debunked about a woman who has regressed in a turned out she was like raped by a satanic cult. That was like, oh, now we're doing this thing too. Oh yeah, yeah, but what it just done? They don't go anywhere with it, They don't really do anything with it.

No, and then they pull a Robert Colt towards he's a well, I guess Leonard Nimoy where he's doing all this, but he's also a doctor, so it's oh. But then there's actually like the doctor machinations of it all happening as well. And then we have the other doctor that he's also schmoozing with. There's a lot going on here and ultimately to what end none, it's another episode of Columbo shows up, looks George Hamilton up and down and goes he did it. As soon as he him for a light.

He basically knows and he hasn't over for the lighter yet. Yeah, that's so conspicuous. And I don't know if he knows it, but we know it as the audience. We might even know before Colombo does, because it's just there. You go.

You're tripped up just because of the emphasis and weight they put on this match, and just that after the murder he immediately starts smoking and you're like, oh, okay, that's going to come of it, because it seems so conspicuous. That in the tire when they do the shot they close up the tire. Yeah, I was like, wow, are we stupid? I get it, Like again, seventies fine, whatever, not writing seventy five, not necessarily writing. I don't know.

I don't even want to give him that because that's on the fucking case. No, because this show is better than that, exactly. Show has been better than that consistently, and that like when they close up to the tire going through the muddy, I was, Oh, I hope that does and come back. It's a boy Jesus episode. It subtlety, What is that we've lost all attempts at subtlety all of a sudden.

It reminds me of Luckily when like when the Cassavettes kills the pianist and he comes out later on after they've found the body and all that stuff, and he comes out and he's got the no flower on his jacket and stuff, and I'm like, okay, yeah, that's or he has the flower at that point, he didn't have the flower and the original thing. Can they give us a little bit of a hey, check this out, but we've seen the flower fall and all this. It doesn't feel nearly as ham fisted. And that's the thing with Harvey Hart directing this, it shouldn't be as ham fisted as this. But yeah, be a lot more subtle, please.

No subtle tea is not the name of the game with Colombo anymore, which is fucking bizarre, because does I don't feel like the show lacks subtletya. I feel like the show for the most part, the least subtle thing about the show is the fact that he constantly feels like Colombo always knows he's going to catch the person the moment he sees them. But I'm okay with that. We've dealt with that now enough that I'm sure I sound like a fucking broken record for some people. But at the same time, the best episodes of this show make it so that there is some doubts, so that there is a little bit of back and forth, a little bit of give and get with Colombo and the murderer.

The murderers right. And in this episode we get the tantalizing secondary murder, which we haven't had in a while. No, it's been a little bit. And it's weird too, because the first murder is a crime of passion. It's when Steven Elliott is Carl Diner attacks George Hamilton as doctor Mark Collier Our Collier.

I guess they pronounced it in this and it's okay, good crime and passion cry to be a big man, and hey, I'm taking Nadia away from you. And when he finally supposed to do it, Ellie's just no, we are We're not doing this to go ahead and just try to beat you up. Steven Elliott as Carl Donner, as soon as I heard his voice, I just immediately went to a role that he would play quite a few years later in Beverly Hills Cop He plays the chief of police in Beverly Hills itself and has a great, very distinct voice in that which Eddie Murphy makes fun of. And he's using the exact same voice in this very Stcenorian, very voice of God type of thing. I'm like, Okay, this works.

I like him because I wish there was a lot more of him. Ultimately, the real problem with this episode not that I hadn't thought about this, but it's more apparent the more I sit here and think about it, wouldn't the right answer be if you're the two of them, just say it was in defense, like he was attacking her self defense, so fragile. Yeah, Like, I don't get it. This is pure self defense. She's being attacked and he, George Hamilton, defends her.

He doesn't intend to kill him. He hits him once and kills him. That a coroner would see that, I don't know. I feel like that's maybe my real issue with this episode is that I think at its core the premise is completely flawed. Like one percent, it's shockingly flawed.

Frankly, yes, I agree with you, one hundred percent out of all of that. For the first time in the run of this show, these two people did nothing to deserve what they ended up doing to themselves. Additionally, they should have just been like it was self defense in the story, like literally, that's it. Like it's fucking bizarre to me. It's not that it doesn't make any sense, but there's other ways to get around this.

Just have George Hamilton show up and kill him, just right, Just have George Hamilton attack him because he's berating him, because he's talking down to him, because he's taking offense at his manhood or something anything more than just he starts attacking her, a frail woman, and this guy defends her. As far as I'm concerned, that's self defense. Like it undercuts the episode entirely from the get go. Yeah, instead of this Kakamaimi story about two guys in ski masks coming and robbing the place and attacking him from behind. With a gun with it she's a terrible liar and then he kills her in the hokiest TV hypnotism way.

That again, Look, I've been hypnotized. You can go check out an episode of Scary Stories We Tell I did with my friend Emma, who hypnotized me on the episode. I got hypnotized for real. I'm not joking. She didn't make me cluck like a fucking chicken or walk off of a cliff.

That's not how that works. That's the television version of hypnotism, which doesn't help the reality of what hypnotism is, which actually helped plenty of people. This is this like TV bullshit. And what I don't get is why wasn't George Hamilton just like a hypnotist then why was any like why was he a fucking doctor who's doing research on again, what Robert Kolpe was doing research on, like the ability to like plant messages or retrieve messages or debate someone through the use of external triggers. And they did it better than the Robert Gulp episode.

Why do we have to do it here at all? Slumbo's sitting on the couch doing the whole mumbling and I don't Yeah, it could work. That whole scene, that whole segment of the scene could be cut out completely. It's just like it's so much like little pieces of fat on this episode. Or I'm just like, all right, I guess it's good to see, like, who's going to complain about saying more Peter Fall But at the same time, it's no.

I like the leanness of this. I like how quick this thing moves. I like the stories. Like we're definitely going to review the season, but there's been a lot of better episodes this season where it's just like this clue and it's just like, all right, this is great and you don't even have for any of this takamami stuff. Like the scene at the hospital with him trying to find the room and he's going down the tape and he can't find him.

Oh my god, it was so much fun when we saw him talking to the woman with the forms before the hospital or wherever the hell that was. Remember, they love doing that, Like somebody's just Peter Folk is like, hey, what do you want to do this season? Some dumb shit. Okay, I don't know how much money he was making permitted on this show, but he's just ten minutes of bullshit. That's a new payment on my Alpha rameo or whoever the fuck it is.

Yeah, it's huh. That in the dinner party scene, Holy shit, come on, episode Like, yeah, why don't we just look at George Hamilton and say this motherfucker did it. There's nobody else that could even remotely fucking be and it's not kicking around the room. Let's take this guy and arrest him because he clearly did it. But oh, by the way, we're not gonna have any of the most obvious reasons or ways we catch him be the reason he gets caught.

Mm hmmm. It should have been at that dinner party. They should have caught him at the dinner party. That would have been fun. That would have been a nice payoff.

It would have been like a parlor scene. And Agatha Christy yeah. Yeah, sure, wat Holms, yeah yeah, but I do elementary they even fucking say it. Fuck you, come on, I. Do like this idea of George Hamilton being so brazen that he's going to go over and pick up the phone and make this call and basically murder Leslie and Warren from the party that Columbo is at.

I'm like, okay, I appreciate what a big man you think you are. If you stick it, come let me show you to it. You're right that it had that parlor scene turned into or the dinner party turned into a parlor scene, I think that would have been way better. And yeah, Colombo even sees like that whole thing of him sitting on the couch that I was talking about. It's basically an excuse for him to see the lights coming through the doorway.

And I'm like, okay, but you could have gotten to that so many other ways. So yeah, it's just bizarre why they made some of these decisions. And again, I would love to have been in the writer's room when they were making the decisions. But Colombo shows up pretty early on in the episode to Leslie and Warren's apartment and George Hamilton's there, and here's another way that he's incriminated himself. I don't know.

This is one of the episodes where this guy's incriminating himself with Colombo constantly, and then for the episode to end the way that it ends with all of this incriminatory evidence, and then it's just but just kidding. It's a Martin Landau thing. Guys, what the least you are? Technically they've already done it. They technically already done it, but they subverted the expectations when they did it with Martin land Here it's this is how you do it when you're gonna do it right exactly.

I appreciate that Bruce Kirby's in this one. I don't know if the character name is the same as the last time we saw him with the Patrick mcgoin Military Adams. She say, yeah, he definitely seems to have that same attitude, just like, what is this guy's problem? Yes, he's not taken by Colombo's chicanery the way we are. Yeah, and then it's nice.

I know you're not a big fan of the ending of this, but I really do see Fred Draper show up, who we've seen now so many times, including when we watched A Woman under the Influence. He's Gina Rowland's father in that one, and don't forget he was like scraping makeup off of Vera Miles's face in the Cosmetics episode. And then here he shows up in this And I accidentally flipped to season six and the thumbnail because this is now showing on Amazon Prime as well. The thumbnail on Amazon Prime for season six, episode one. Fred Draper's just standing there all alone.

I'm like, Okay, it's great that he was a regular on here. I thought that, what's the other guy's named, val Lewis? I thought he was more regular, But I think I'm seeing more Fred Draper these days. Are you telling me you liked the ending or you just didn't find it as much of an affront as I did. I didn't find it as much of an uffront.

I liked Fred Draper quote unquote playing blind but not being blind, like affecting. It's a total cheat to make him incriminate himself. Very as a brother, a secret brother, like. It's very which kid? The negative was destroyed in the camera kind of prestige.

Yeah, where it's just, bro, I know that this guy is blind. How do you know? Because how puts you in the spot. So I like that aspect of it. I don't like the he had a brother.

I wish it was just he was blind and you incriminated yourself. That's it. I don't know why they needed to have They overcomplicated it. What would the issue have been if it was just like I saw you hit the thing? Oh he's blind.

How would you know he's blind? Oh? Because because you saw him. You don't need any more than that. Do you need any more than No, you don't need to be like, well, he had a secret brother and it was the brother that you saw.

It doesn't do anything. It doesn't make this any more of a gotcha moment, it's the same outcome. It's so silly. It's just this weird little cheat that again, like when there's a secret brother or a secret twin. I just thanks Chris Nolan.

It's just a little bit of a cheat. And the show doesn't cheat like that. The show tends to be upfront with what it's doing, but in the execution. It's why we like it so much, not because it's withholding information like this. We like this show because it plays its cards, and it plays its cards.

We don't like this show because it withholds information like a secret mystery box, like a Damon lindelof show. Now with the prestige. Wasn't that him creating a clone and murdering the clone every time the trick happened? Was that what it was? But I thought one of them had a brother at some point.

Yeah, maybe Bailhead a brother. I don't know. I thought Hugh Jackman was murdering his own clones over and over again thanks to mister Nikola tesla David Bowie, yes, yeah, doing a great tesla yea. And Andy Serkis as his apprentice or his helper. That's right.

Yeah, Yeah, It's just I don't know. Again, I'm not bemoaning the you were the one there, so you saw it aspect of it. I'm just bemoaning like adding another thing in an episode where it feels like they've already added stuff that was unnecessary, that they worked themselves into these weird corners with as it is, and then to work yourself into another weirdo corner because you want to have the guy have a secret blind brother. It's whatever, Hugh show. Fine, Okay, if you want to do it, fine, if you're gonna do it, you might as well just do it with Gusto and have him walk in from stage right in the closing moments of the episode, which is literally what happens.

So yeah, yeah, it's not the best. There are aspects to it that I like. It's funny because we keep talking about how this one feels like kind of one of those almost like a magpie episode where you're just like taking little bits and pieces from other stuff and cobbling them together. And it's funny because when I was working at Blockbuster all those many moons ago, I don't think they had that many Maybe they did, but they definitely didn't have that many episodes of Colombo. But they did have prescription for Murder, which we talked about that all the way back.

And speaking of many moons ago. Yes, like young Colombo, not chabby Detective Colombo, but the cover art for that, I didn't know what Jean Berry looks like, and I had to say that the caricature of him is not very good. I used to always think that was George Hamilton. So I thought that this was a very popular episode of Colombo because I was like, Oh, they've got the vhs for it, like the only VHS of Colombo store with George Hamilton and peterful cut in the cover. No, you're idiot.

The boat doctors both psychiatrists, so as you're talking about they're pulling little pieces. I'm like, yeah, just like this, And like Columbo doesn't go off on Hamilton's that's I don't want to say, assistant co doctor doesn't go off on her, but he definitely is pretty angry when she's trying to blow him off and he's, hey, I'm talking about murder here, the murder. I'm not mad Colombo, but very serious Colombo. But don't you like the parallel of the rats following the lines and Colombo following the line, yeah clever, so clever, like whatever. So you're trying to say that the Rats are more clever than Colombo.

I don't think so. I fucking doubt it. That's good that you picked up on that though. Yeah, the lines and the thing are the same colors and everything, So to what end who knows. But yeah, it's unfortunate.

But at the same time, like there, Like you mentioned, there have been plenty of good episodes this season. Speaking of recapping the season, I think we had overall more good episodes than bad. I think you'd like exercising fatality a little bit more than I did. The Bob Conrad episode, Bob to his friends, Bob to his friends, and I know you're a big friend negative reaction. The Dick van Dyke episode that still, to me is right there towards the top.

It's up with the Nimoy episode for sure. If I made a top ten, that might fit into it, just because that whole were you witness to what he just did? Were you a witness? I mean that alone. I just fucking loved that moment.

Yeah, the were you a witness to what he just did? Is really that's up to the patch of the first Patrick McGowan episode's pretty great as well. Yeah, Troubled Waters. Troubled Waters had the problem of Columbos on a boat and he walks into the guy who does it immediately, which you know, again at whatever, I guess like foo the feather Man. Yeah, that aside, that kind of again a little bit of a not a cheat, but I get a little bit of a cheat to get it to be like, oh, okay fine.

Other than that episode, I think it's probably Negative Reactions the best of the season. But I think Troubled Waters is the second best episode of the season. Yeah, I think so. I would probably put by Dawn's surday Light as the third best of the season. Yeah, and then I think beyond that, everything else is vying for fourth place.

I would say Playback and Deadly state of Mind are definitely the lower end of things, and I think Playback is probably the worst episode of the season by not a big margin. I think that well, actually, I think Playback might be one of the worst episodes of the show that we've seen. So given that that's the case, I don't know. A Deadly State of Mind has its problems, but at least it's only seventy minutes. Yeah, can you imagine if this was ninety holy shit, twenty more fucking good night?

Twenty more minutes would feel like an hour with this episode, Oh, let's see them play clue at the fucking party? Oh oh god, I can only imagine what falk nonsense we would have gotten. But at the same time, it could have been fun. I just don't need to see it. You don't need to see it, and you've already said pretty early on this episode's already ten minutes too long, let alone if we gave it another twenty holy only thirty minutes too long.

Next season's going to be interesting. There are some real high highs and some real low lows. I don't think any of them really hit the same highs as the ones that we've mentioned for this season, but if not, they're pretty darn close. There's two next season that I go back to pretty regularly, and ironically enough, they're directed by the same person, so that's nice. And then McGowin comes back in force next season, also directing two episodes.

Did you see what I did there? Not my favorites, and one of them might be the worst Columbo episode ever, So dear God, Yeah, it might be because if you were to all the authors that we've had on here, all the fans, all the people that we've talked with, I would not be surprised if every single one of them put this one in the lowest tier, like even at least of the NBC years, like the ABC years definitely miss more than they hit. But yeah, this one, especially because season five is going to be pretty good. Season four was really solid, Season six, I think we're going to get some great ones as well. So when you have a stinker of this caliber amongst all of those, it makes playback look like fucking Emmy worthy.

Oh dear God. Yeah, how bad? Huh. I'm not going to spoil it and say which episode is. I feel like at this point I will know when I watch them.

Oh you shirt, certainly? Yes? Is it it? Does it start bad? Is it like just as does it just get into it immediately?

I think? So it's one that I will actually skip during a marathon. Oh wow, Okay. Yeah, And the fact that there's a consensus as well is not great. So I liked season four.

I think season four of the show was pretty good. The Dick Van Dyke episode, I think being the standout. If every season has one standout episode that I think is a success, And given that there's six episodes a season, it's not enough. That's like barely enough to be considered a season of anything. Even now fucked fucking Game of Thrones was at least eight for fuck's sake, Even that show needed two more episodes, especially in the most recent season House of the Dragon.

But six episodes is not a season of anything. That's yo, that's fucking two episodes more than like a mini series. Really, why to say season six is only three episodes long? That is a mini series? Is that limited time event if anything?

Shit, that's pretty crazy. But I think at the same time, I'm again, we know that the way that this show look This episode aired April twenty seventh. The last episode aired March second, because this is part of the wheel, right, So yeah, so you know, they didn't need eighteen episodes of Columbo. They only needed enough to stagger it with everything else. But it's surprising that some of the episodes aren't great given that they didn't need that many episodes.

That's the other thing we give shows like The X Files or any show that has twenty plus episodes of pass per season, because you know, odds are at a lot of averages. There's gonna be a handful of great there's gonna be a handful of amazing episodes. There's gonna be some great episodes. There'll be plenty of good episodes, and there'll be a couple shit episodes, and there will be some episodes small handful that are complete dog shit. With the show like this, you don't have that much to go off with, like one episode being bad sucks more than two or three episodes being bad in a twenty episode season, because this is six or six, oh my god, three episodes.

Oh my god. This is a pretty decent ending to this season. You'll notice going forward, maybe with season five. Definitely, Actually with season five, I think it really starts the will Colombo be back or won't he type of endings, because we talked about that a little, like I can't remember which season it was, but there was one where it was like, oh, they could have ended the show right here, and it was a nice little send off for Colombo. You're going to get those more and more as these seasons Golong because of his shenanigans.

As far as you Gotta pay Me more. You got to give me more control those kind of things. So they will start to put in little endings as far as and that was the last time we ever saw Colombo. Was it season two? I think it was trying to remember what happened to Atney Coleman.

Oh boy, you say Damney Coleman, I. Mark another episode? Yeah, yeah, I think it's funny. That's very supernatural, right. That show had what six fucking endings every season.

After season two or three, they were like, we could have just ended this show here. And it's really that show ran so long. It ended during the pandemic. Oh Jesus. It started when I was in high school and ended the year the pandemic happened.

But that's the thing. Colombo starts just as early and runs just as long. Columbo, what by the end of it is pushing into almost the nineties, right, late eighties. Yeah, good old Peter Falk. He knew his value, and they really thought Colombo was something special.

Look, that's the thing. You don't cave to a guy like that if he's not worth it. And he's worth it. Peter Falk was one worth it and even about like even a mediocre episode of Colombo is still pretty good because you get to see Peter Falk do it. This is we have another show in the works that we haven't released yet, but we've been working on it for almost a year now, and the main actor in the main role didn't do much else in the way of no he did a lot of other things, but not as well known, is it.

Peter Falk's the same way. Peter Falk's kind of known for this. And guess what if you're known for this, and you're as well known as he ended up being known for this role, you don't need anything else. Some people like Harrison Ford who have three or four well known roles to their name, but some people like Peter Falk only had the one. And when you have statues in random Polish cities to young people Hungarians Hungarians, there might.

Be in Poland too. I don't know very. Well, but I think at the end of the day, when you have something like Peter Falk is Colombo, you don't need anything else, and the quality shows out, it plays out on screen, and yeah, even a bad episode of Colombo is still worth it because of Peter Falk just killing it. But he knew his worth good for him and he was able to hold him over a barrel, So fuck him, fuck him in the ear. Yeah, fuck them in the other year theme in both years.

So we are going to not come back to Peter Falk on the episode. We're actually going to stay with our good friends Levinson and Link for two things. I don't know if Link was involved in The Gun, the nineteen seventy four TV movie directed by John Badham. I know Levinson definitely was, and they both were involved in the execution of Private Slovak, which stars another Columbo alum with Martin Sheen. And then ironically The Gun stars Steven Elliott, who just got murdered in this episode.

So they definitely favored some actors, some people behind the scenes as well. So yeah, we're going to take a two month respite here and talk about two TV movies that came out in nineteen seventy four, So right around the time of this episode that we were discussing tonight and kind of the end of the season, Colombo and We'll have some fun with some TV movies in the meantime. Their friend Martin Sheen, Ramon, Antonio este Ah, see Ce see everybody. Yeah, we've got some great there's some really good actors in these TV movies, so I'm looking forward to it. I've never seen either of these.

I remember reading about The Gun forever ago, and it feels like I've seen it, but I don't think I've ever sat down and watched it. It was very tough to find for a while. Charlie Sheen is in the other movie. Really yeah, a very young Charlie Sheen in his second film role. So one's got Martin, the other's got Charlie.

No, both has one of Martin and Charlie. And you know what, I'm pretty sure that movie is winning. Okay with Tiger Blood. With tiger Blood running through street, what. A fucking nightmare, what a n like five minutes right?

Oh god, yeah, I did like the auto tune song version of that. Yeah, that was winning Tiger Blood. Oh my god, everybody was into Charlie Sheen for five minutes. Yeah. I'm surprised he hasn't come out of some sort of like Maga spokesman or something crazy like that.

He was just fun crazy. He was crazy with none of the problems. He was just a fucking whack of do He was just, Oh, I'm having a good time. I'm rich and I don't care. Like he was crazy with a C instead of crazy with three k's.

Yeah, baby, crazy now is not as much fun as it used to be. It's a lot less fun and a lot more what's the word serious and horrifying? Yeah, and a lot more public too. Yeah. Well, Jesus Christy.

Yeah, we used to talk about how we needed to have discussions about mental illness in America. We still need those discussions, but we don't need to see the mental illness on display as much. Thank you. I disagree with you entirely. I like crazy girls.

Who the hell don't. Well, Chris, and until we come back next month to talk about the execution of Private Slovak? What are you working on these days? Everything I'm working on is audio based, other than one thing that's a YouTube video, and all of that can be found for the most part at weirdingwaymedia dot com, which is where all the stuff that you and I work on can be found, because that's the network that you and I started. What two years ago?

Three years ago? God? I even remember it. It's time flies, man, time. Flies when you throw a clock out the fucking window.

What about you, Mike? Where can people find you and the things that you work on. Pretty much the same place, Weirdingwaymedia dot com. That's where all the shows that you and I do, other than the one show that we do for patreons for both the Culturecast Patreon at patreon dot com slash Culturecast and the Projection Booth Patreon, which is patreon dot com slash Projection booth. And that is ranking on Bond.

That is our monthly discussion of all things James Bond. We're joined by our dear friend mister Richard Adam a Verger Adam's paranormal bookshelf in order to talk about James Bond Jimmy Bond to his friends or in that weird casino royal that we talked about all that time ago. But we are bruising through things. We're up to Roger Moore. I think we got two more movies until Timothy Dalton, so I'm looking forward to that because I love me some Timothy Dalton.

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