Uncle Marin, The Billionaire (1979)

Welcome to The Shabby Detective, yet another Colombo podcast. I'm your host Mike White. Joining me, of course, is mister Christashu. Buonazula, which means hello in Romanian. Why are we speaking Romanian on this episode?

Well, have you spoken a lick of It's like, have you spoken Romanian? No? Never, I'll never let it happen either, apparently. Yeah, Romanian will not pass these lips. It's a it's a bizarre language because I know it's a Romance language, right is it?

It feels like that time, and I know there are people speaking other languages. There's definitely an Italian guy in here. There's people that speak English, including a very brusque guy at the very. Beginning Romance the Eastern Romance, okay, Romance languages. Yeah, because at times it sounds, you know, English or like French Spanish adjacent.

Yeah. Yeah, But then there are times where it feels more like you said, Eastern European where I'm just like, oh, okay, more of a what with that? Almost like a Serbian type of language or something. I don't know a little bit of that. Yeah, yeah, is that a groovy soundtrack?

We are talking about the nineteen seventy nine film Uncle Maren the Billionaire. I might have screwed up and called it Uncle Maren the Millionaire at one point, but this guy's a billionaire. Guys. It was allegedly very very popular in its time, and I feel like we are very prepared to talk about this film because it feels very similar to other things that we have discussed over the last years. It stars amza Ellia as Uncle Marn as well as mister Marlin Juvett.

Yes, he's playing two roles, and I gotta say, this guy does a really good job when it comes to playing two roles. Is anyone else as confused as I am as to why we're talking about this film? Mike hasn't answered it yet. Mike has done the old not gonna address it. It's called burying the lead.

That's what I'm refusing to let him do. I'd like to mention we're talking about this Uncle Maren the Billionaire because randomly Colombo is in it, or oh, because and Mike and I were I was joking with Mike before we turned on the recorder that I sat down to watch this, and about thirty minutes in, I was like, wait, what am I watching this form because it it's a Romanian comedy that has all the problems of a foreign language comedy film, which is a lot of the comedy has lost in the cultural isms that I, being a Western English speaker, don't understand about Romanian But I shit you not. Forty five minutes into this movie, a actor pretending to be Colombo shows up and just starts making Colombo noises.

Is the only way I can describe it. Mike, this is one of the weirdest things you've ever asked me to watch. But thank you for asking me to watch it, because this, I think really speaks to for me the multicultural appeal of the mystery story and the multicultural appeal of Peter Fulk, which is such a crazy phrase to say. But at the same time, he's not in this film. But we have an actor who is literally billed as in Detective Colombo, who is doing an impersonation or an evocation, I would say, because he never really says much like he's given maybe what half a paragraph's worth of lines of that.

You cheeky bastard. You you're not gonna address why we're watching. Hello everyone, and welcome to the Colombo Show, where we're talking about a Romanian comedy. Well, of course that's what you do, right. That's why you're here.

Like how you were like, it's so similar to so many other things we watched. I was like, what, God's it's maybe similar to things we watch on our own shows. Sure, yeah, oh yes, we will definitely get into that. I was feeling a lot of Francis Webber in this. I was also feeling a lot of one of the worst movies we ever saw in our lives, Funny Money.

But this is like the good version of Funny Money. Yeah, it has that weird comedy of errors and mishaps that only like, we don't see these kinds of movies anymore, primarily because I think as audiences were less interested in the kind of I would say elevated reality is what this always feels like, Like everything feels so faded. I would say Shakespearean, but like, I'm not not like it a level of quality Shakespearean way, but in terms of like, you know, one person and another person happened to be at the same hotel and they all just happened to look like one another, even though they've never run into one another or seen each other before. And one of them is a literal billionaire, like in his country where the other guy lives.

Like, there are some things that are just like elevated reality. Again, don't take it as reality because I don't think it's attempting to be reality. But like you said, it reminds me of some of those French comedies like Dinner for Schmucks or all those Francis Webber films, like they weren't pretending to be reality, they were kind of existing just a step outside of reality in the more elevated way. Yeah, like when. Uncle Marin, who is the bumpkin character we can call him, because that's pretty traditional type of character.

He's like a peasant, I think, is what they call him. Coming in from the outside world and coming to this resort town. It's got his briefcase full of leaks and is next us my briefcase of leaps, And he's got his nephew there, and his nephew's like, hey, listen, uncle, I can get you a room at this great resort place. I know the guy who runs the counter or the guy that runs the counter might be his brother. Maybe I don't remember who that is.

I love that the nephew character is Google. But every time I saw it, I kept seeing Grogu, so I was just like, oh, Grogu's in this. Maybe this is redates the Mandalorians so many years. All caps too, mind you go gu. In the version I was watching, it was go Ogu Goku.

I did not realize. I thought that that was a title of a character. I didn't realize that was a character's name until about two thirds of the way. I was done watching the film, and I went and looked on Wikipedia, and I was like, no, this is just the guy's name just spelled really strangely in the subtitles. Because again, the first in the first couple of minutes of the movie, I thought it was going to be an English language film because the first words you hear are in English.

No no no, no, no no. It is very much in Romania. I was confused as well, and I was like, oh, gosh, it's this dubbed film. I don't really know, but this one. It's so easy to find subtitled versions of it.

That's what's leading me to believe that this was a pretty popular movie, because you can find it on so many different sites. I'm watching a version right now off of YouTube that looks really good, because I think the very first one I downloaded looked horrible. But this one looks good. Subtitles are in sync, which is nice, so everything is looking pretty sharp here. I actually found this one to be pretty darn funny, and yeah, I was also.

I don't remember how I ran across this as far as Colombo and other languages. Maybe it was the article about the Hungarian statue of Colombo and dog that is just out there. Has an explanation of Oh that is. That that bullshit story that Peter Falk tells then, and the whole thing about the people were protesting and taking to the streets because of Colombo not being on the air or being they thought it was canceled. I believe though.

I thought that's what that was in reference. To, right, it totally could be. But I've read statue, you know, Oh definitely it probably wasn't Croud funded either. No, it's more like that Henry Winkler statue that they have in Milwaukee. Oh yeah, a or that horrific one of Lucille Ball.

Have you seen that one? Yes? I have. That one's hilarious. Well, the original one.

They replaced it. They replaced it the first one that was the statue equivalent of that when that woman redid that the painting of Jesus and turned him into a monkey. Ek Homo became eke Mono Behold the monkey. Yeah, that's what that reminded me of. Like, you know, again, Colombo is so popular internationally, and it's I mean again, like here in the United States, I think we sometimes, especially now, take for granted it's the proliferation of American culture eastward, not so I mean not so much westward, but definitely eastward towards like Europe and especially I mean, you know, say what you will about the fall of the Soviet Union and the coming down of the Berlin Wall, but part of it was due to American culture, Like American culture had a huge hand in that, and something like Columbo made a huge impact overseas because I think, and I know you would agree in some capacity, like the Mystery story came from there.

So in a lot of ways, it's like the story kind of returning home with an American spin on it. And I can't speak to the popularity of other American things like Colombo in eastern Europe, and maybe you can, I'd be curious if that's a thing. But I do love that Colombo is so multicultural. It was like, oh, there's a statue of him in Hungary. Why because it was super power popular.

Like I don't know, Well, we're going to see some Japanese films later on, not during this break, but between one of our seasons, or maybe we're going to wrap up things. I can't remember when those films came out, but there's definitely a well there's both the Japanese Colombo, but then there's also a character who acts very much like Colombo but doesn't dress like Colombo. And we might talk a little bit about one of those episodes as well as far as the influence of American culture on Western Europe or even Eastern Europe. I remember how big Dallas was, and I remember there being an episode of The Young ones Et. What is the meaning of this?

I've just received this memo. In the one day since you inherited Global Oil, you've managed to dispose of assets worth over six billion dollars annual profits to be donated to the Brothers of the Soil Commune in Wales, England, All petroleum and oil to be sold at a retail price of two pe a gallon, all oil wells to be given tax free to anyone, really nice you can find. I'm sure films probably had more of an impact, but yeah, television, and that was why, you know, so many countries were just like, yeah, we're not having American TV on our system, or we have to put in standards like the whole Canadian content thing, where it's we have to have our own shows. We cannot just import everything from America.

That's the interesting part of the conversation, the push that becomes how much of the American culture do you accept and how much do you reject? And you know, like you said, the idea of creating your own content does come out of the need to more hue closer to the content that you as a society or more interested in making, versus like you said, trying to be And again, you know, like watching American content, I'm assuming in places like you know, East Berlin would have been viewed as subversive. I mean again, like it's it's literally indirect repudiation of everything that their country quote believes in unquote. I mean, obviously there were so many people on the other side of the wall who did not agree with their believe in anything that was going on.

But we're talking about a film that came out in nineteen seventy nine. It's a Romanian film, which means this is in that area on top of everything else, Like we're talking about a country that is sitting in the same area of the world of the USSR and smack dab in Eastern Europe. Like it's so crazy to me that they were just like, you know what, we have this comedy that doesn't need to have Colombo in it, but because of how big of a deal Colombo is, we don't have to do anything other than have a guy on screen doing this role in what, like you said, and I've also seen it in my research, is widely considered to be one of the like most important Romanian comedies in terms of like viewership amongst the populace.

I mean again, I'm not even sure like we could agree as a country what the fuck our analogue would be for that, you know, like we don't have as a culture like, oh, this is one of our most well known comedies, Like there is nothing like that. There's so because there's such a breadth of content. So to have this movie have a Colombo esque or straight up Columbo character in it. I think also just speaks volumes to how big of a deal the Columbo character was for Peter Falk And I don't think and I know this might be controversial, like, I don't think he was ever wrong for feeling like he had a level of ownership over that character because of this kind of because like you said, there are characters that are Columbo esque, but if you really want to do it right, he's got to be a short guy with the hair and the jacket and the man which all come from Peter.

Falk absolutely, And this guy's trying his best to channel fall quiet while he's doing this. But it is so odd that he just like you said, he just shows up. It's not like he's even central to the plot. He's kind of just wandering through the set at times. I mean, there is a mystery in this a like suppose there's a kidnapping that's going on.

The billionaire's daughter is kidnapped. We see that pretty much right off the bat. There's two sets of gangsters at least because they meet up towards the end of the movie and they you know, you think there's going to be a big rumble, but then they end up agreeing with each other, that whole fifty one percent thing that's going on towards the end of this But yeah, it's much more in that comic vein because these gangsters are one hundred percent bumbling. You never really feel that they're much of a thread at all. Uncle Maren takes care of them handily every single time he meets them, and he's not an overly large guy or anything.

He just seems to know how to take care of himself. And also there's a lot of you know, people falling out of windows or especially going down the laundry chute, and of course that kind of reminded me of the most dangerous match with the poor old guy going into the garbage choot, and it really them going down the laundry shoot in this movie really fucks up Grogu, that's for sure. He's not very well off after that. He keeps having that neck issue. I think the most egregious thing about this movie for me is the sound effects.

They go nuts when it comes to some of these sound effects, like that guy's neck where it's just this big crunching noise when Uncle Maren fixes his neck, and yeah, there's just so many like tweets and wheedles and just little loops and beeps throughout this thing. But for the most part, you know, it's a pretty solid comedy. Like I said, we've seen this type of story played out. We saw it definitely played out horribly in Funny Money. This whole idea of there being what like four briefcases in that one, but no doubling of people, And I think the doubling helps here.

You also mentioned the whole idea of like, oh, isn't it funny that there just happens to be a guy that looks exactly like this guy at this hotel, and then when they finally meet each other, there's no like, holy shit, you look exactly like. I need your help. I need your help. Okay, got it? Like boom, that's it.

It's kind of wild, no. Wonder these people have been chasing me because for the most part, he has no idea other than that woman that comes in and pulls a faint and he's just like, well, you're completely faking, but I'm just going to play along with this. That works, and yeah, he I think he figures out pretty quickly who side she's on and then just starts feeding her bad information. Thirty minutes in seventeen seconds into the film is when Columbo shows up. This was not as bad as Funny Money, but it did have that same kind of funk of just like you said, this scenario comedic situation is just not funny.

It's just it's funny, but it's not because we've seen it so many other times done in such equally or I guess not equally, because this is not as bad as Funny Money, but at times it's I didn't laugh a whole lot, did you. I laughed a few times. But as a comedy, that's not a successive. It made you laugh a couple times, right. I'm more smirked and chuckled throughout this a chortal or two, even once Colombo shows up.

Once Columbo shows up, By the way, I. Don't know if Andrea was paying attention while I was watching this, because I normally she's just like whatever, he's got to watch this. For some reason. I thought, for whatever reason, your wife played along more than that. I am so glad to know that your wife just is like I.

Don't care, Yeah, no, no, not at all. If it doesn't have a giant shark or a giant ape or a giant lizard. I don't care, understandably, so frankly giant ape in suit MD. When Colombo shows up, I go, this is why I'm watching this movie. It took her two three seconds to look up, and by that time he was already off the screen.

And I think it took another fifteen minutes for him to just kind of wander in at some point. But and then he's so he is so like critical in the climax of the film. That's the really kind of frustrating part is he he's literally like instrumental to the way the film ends because he arrests the gangs at the end of the movie. Yeah, this whole time. I mean, obviously Colombo's a cop, but it doesn't feel like he's in.

Version of Colombo we are used to seeing, right, Yeah, yes, but it doesn't feel like he's yes, because he has to look a lot like weird looking. He looks he's like one of those things it Insurrection that eth Marie Abraham plays the things with like the with like the face that's pulled back. I'm assuming it's because of the low res quality of the one I watched, or god knows what but like when he when you initially see Columbo and he like looks around, he looks like one of those things. It's just like, I don't know if it's it's not a person in a mask. It's definitely not Peter fulk.

There's a moment where he's like holding his head a certain way and I know what he's going for, as do you. Where he's like doing that thing where Columbia kind of lifts one of his eyes, but I'm just like, don't, don't do that, don't do that. And he does the thing with the hand with holding up the hand a few times. No, he's smoking a cigar at one point. And he's told you can't smoke on the plane, and he's carting off all the bad guys and he talks about how the woman reminds him of his wife.

It's interesting because, yeah, he's not a central character. Now, he's not a character. Has there ever been another film you've seen that does something like this where there's like a character from something else in the film. And again, I'd like to point out here and this is the thing that's maybe the most frustrating ble nobody makes, not to the fact that it's just fucking Colombo. So two questions then come from, this is Columbo a show in their universe?

Or are this? Does this take place in the universe of Colombo? And this is in fact Colombo in a weird doctor Who James Bond esque way. Well, to answer your earlier question, as far as a character who just kind of wanders in and you're like, what the hell is this character doing, there's a The first thing that popped mind was an old Warner Brothers cartoon called eight Ball Bunny, where it is a who somehow gets from Antarctica to wherever bugs Bunny is at, and basically the whole thing becomes him trying to Bugs Bunny, trying to get this penguin back home, and every once in a while Humphrey Bogart wanders into the frame and delivers a line from the Treasure of the Sierra Madre about helping out a fellow American who's down on his luck.

Say pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down out his luck. Around? I had not seen the Treasure of the Sierra Madre when I was a kid, and I'm just like, what the hell? And I probably didn't even know who Humphrey Bogart was. I was just like, who the hell is this guy and why is he doing this?

And he just keeps coming back. I mean this woman. Yeah, it was probably like an eight minute cartoon and he probably shows up like four times, and I'm just like, what the heck is this? So that was the first thing that came to my mind as far as just a random pop culture reference just being introduced to another story completely. It reminds me kind of of like some of the more well, for lack of a better term, looney comedies, where it's just like, what the hell, why is this happening?

And we're just going to make a reference, like, you know, a bald guy shows up and puts a sucker in his mouth, and then it's like, okay, well, I guess I was a Kojak reference, but I'm not sure why it was here. But that was the first real one that came to mind. And then as far as what was the other question you were talking about, Oh. Is this a is this? Does Columbo exist in this universe?

Or are we in the Colombo universe and this is Columbo. That's a really good question because I don't know, no one acknowledges the fact that he looks like Columbo, So I just have to go off the fact that nobody acknowledges that he's Colombo in the show, So this must just be Colombo. Not to say like this is Colombo Cannon, but you know, you could you could get me there if you really wanted to. There were times where I thought that only go Gou could see Colombo, because it felt like it was only around that. Yes, the legend of Colombo Vance.

You know, his imaginary helper or something. Yeah, is Gogu just kind of dips out for a while after they push him down the laundry shoots. Yeah, where does this rank the CCU for you? The Colombo Connected universe? Yeah?

Yeah, you have just a bunch of shots of Peter falkjesting his tie. Right exactly, just a big close up of his false eye and everything. Yeah, yeah, excuse me, just one more thing he does he does that, He even does that, he does that. God damn. I applaud them for putting it in here, but it is like almost feels like a thing that would exist in like a satire or a farce, And I get that that's what this is going for.

It's just maybe because I'm not Romanian, I just don't get it. But like you said, we've seen this before in so many other languages, and I'm like, yeah, okay, this was fine. The Columbo of it is the weird part. Like everything else is just kind of whatever in a lot of ways, like very just kind of a Romanian version of something we've seen in either of English or another language. But the Columbo news of it all opens up some interesting avenues of discussion because it's super strange.

I was reminded a lot of some like it hot while I was watching this. It probably helps that we just cover that on the projection booth, but I really think that there's something to that because there's a section towards the end where they're cross cutting between two scenes and one of the scenes is being scored by a tango that hold. But I'm I'm i'm a and I'm like, that's exactly what's going on with Jack Lemon and Joey Brown, and that's being cross cut with the whole scene of Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis when she's trying to help him with his rectile dysfunction. So I am. Pretty sure that they're going for.

That also, the whole idea of this taking place at a hotel, the mistaken identity, some of the things, like the jokes around the elevator, Like when the elevator door opens and you see that Uncle Maren has dispatched all of these creeps, these gangsters that they have. I'm like, I feel like they're building it on some pretty good foundation when it comes to some of these jokes, and you know, you get the whole thing of like the one guy trying to hurt Uncle Maren's feet and he's just like, oh, how many corns do you have To the guy who didn't it wasn't able to take him out, He's just like, oh yeah, basically like my fear made out of corns or whatever, there's nothing you can do to hurt me. That whole sequence I thought was pretty good.

Him trying to buy that lamb vest for his wife. Anything that works in terms of the comedy go go through the Uncle Marin slash the billionaire character. I think that's I think that's the most fun the movie has, is kind of playing off of the misunderstandings that his character has and just the actor's performance I think is also pretty good in terms of the physical comedy. Yeah, yeah, well they do some good jobs too. When it comes to the actor walking out of the room and then from behind some curtains you see the double of him walking the other way does a good job of hiding his face so you don't see that it's not that actor but a double.

I think some of those things are really good. And even the scene where they meet each other, of course, there's a lot of like you know, single line, head on one shot type of things. It looks pretty good. I also like that they're doing it in front of a mirror to bring forth even the idea of like this whole thing being doubled once again. I thought that was a nice thing.

And it's not just the doubling of the people, but it's the doubling of the briefcase. So you never know is that this person with the correct briefcase or is it the wrong person with the right briefcase. And they look the same for the most part throughout most of the movie. They're just dressing a little bit differently, but they're not even giving them anything to distinguish one another from one another. I found it interesting too.

We're talking about this whole idea of you know, Colombo impersonations and things. This is one year before murder can Hurt You, which we should probably say we are not going to cover on the show because we spoke about it pretty in depth on it was Wake Up Heavy, I believe, right. I think so many moons ago, two lifetimes ago we talked about that Brinkley. I don't really want to revisit that film. Frankly, I don't even remember anything about it other than it was kind of not funny.

Bert Young as Colombo. Yeah, that was fun e sort of this is. And then you got to see Missus Colombo and it wasn't. Kate mulgrew, ah right, because I like put that out of my memory that we talked about that. Wow, you can't see Gavin McLeod as Kojak like right in your head.

Was I was talking about Missus Colombo. Oh, Missus Columba. Yeah, it was that. Literally a month ago, and I just like completely put it out of my memory. I mean it was all of that forget grew, that's what they call it.

Grow it. So yeah, no, I have literally forgot. We talked about Missus Columbo primarily because it was this was at least more of a fun diversion than that, I will give you that. Yeah, like I said, Columba doesn't come in here and try to solve this mystery or whatever. He just kind of is wandering around.

Yeah, we have to have a cop. So I guess the most famous cop in Hungary was Colombo or Romania, yea, or anywhere that's not in the United So I don't understand, like, was he he was so famous in all these countries. Yeah, well obviously, and this is like we said right after the seventh season, So yeah, he's on top. Of the world. Imagine what it would have happened in Romania.

Yeah, imagine what would have happened if he had kept doing shows into the eighties. They would have elected him president Resident Colombo, President Colombo. I mean, it's crazy how popular he he is. But I'm glad because you know, like there are a lot worse people you could as a country kind of idolized in terms of solving mysteries. Also, right around the same time is something that I watched forever ago, which was in nineteen seventy eight.

I think it was that the It might have been the Dean Martin roast. But that was when Colombo aka Peter Falk showed up to roast Frank Sinatra. And it's like, okay, so he's doing these bits outside of the show. He's actually sending himself up by going on these you know, the roast and everything. I don't know when Johnny Carson would have a Colombo regular thing that he would do on the Tonight show.

Yeah, it's it's at home and abroad. So you're saying, is if we were able to have Peter Falk around now, he might just show up randomly on our show. Absolutely, you know the ghost now Blombo just to call envious Skype even though we're not on Skype anymore. Calling through dead Skype. Yeah, it's me, Peter Falk calling good for him, Good for him.

You know. I don't know. Does that devalue the brand though? Yeah? I don't know.

I think it was pretty damn funny to have him roasting Frank Sinatra. I don't think he did it too much. If you're the guy, I guess you're kind of the one who can choose to do it. I want to tell you what. A beautiful.

One quick question, if you don't mind shoming, there's still shoes. Then I rented. I don't know. You know, I feel a little self. Conscious of being here because I'm not dressed.

But uh, well, I knew it was a big affair, but I didn't know that I was going to be brought up here. I mean, if I had known, well, I don't know what I would have done, because this is all I got. You know, when I got the invitation, I was at home. I was about five o'clock in the afternoon. You know that they come in the form of a telegram.

They don't come in a regular man. You know, they send you a while. And I counted the words sixty three words. You can imagine what that cost. I don't know.

I don't know if they know that. Oh here it is. I got it right here with me, just the way you get him. Now, this is a this is a regular. But as far as him showing up by other actors like a Bert Young or the actor in this film whose name I'm not going to try to pronounce.

Peuia Kalinishku. Could be right, could be wrong. Chichtsku was still in power at this time. He still had ten years ago before he passed away. So yeah, they were definitely under a dictatorship.

It's funny. We talked about again on the Projection Move. We talked about a film from nineteen. Sixty eight which was a basically. Romanian New wave film, and that got shut down Gritty Darren quickly as far.

Were saying that for my show, Wow, I'm disappointed any indulgent Romanian new wave. Romanian new way. Yeah, you had all those Japanese New Wave all those years ago, so yeah, instead we just have this dude that shows up trying to find a pencil, can't find a Yeah, all these things. So it's pretty spot on as far as that stuff goes. I mean, look this guy.

You know, even if there were no subtitles and no audio, I would know exactly what they were going for. It's not a surprise. I had a good time. I think I might have enjoyed this one a little bit more than you. But it's not something I'm going to rush out and say, oh my god, you have to see this movie.

Yeah, I can't say it was bad. I think I'm in the same boat as you. Like, it was fine. You enjoyed it more than me, but it was fine. I think I might have enjoyed this more than Vibes.

But I'm not going to ask you to watch that movie. Vibes. Yes, with Peter Falk, Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldbloom sounds great. Yeah, it's when Jeff Goldbloom got to actually act against Peter Falk rather than just folding a protest sign as he was protesting that fake Middle Eastern country. Is it not good?

It's not that good. No. I think there were probably be a lot of people that do like that movie, just maybe they grew up and it was on HBO. But I remember watching it not that long ago and not really caring for it that much. It was fun.

Cindy Love huh yeah, yeah, and they play psychics. I think all three of them might be psychics. Thus the name Vibes. You're depriving me of this film, and you made me watch Uncle Yip Tie Do and the Boogaloo Twins. Al Right, all right, we'll watch Vibes.

We'll watch Vibes. I'm much more interested in watching the Japanese version of Colombo. Yeah, well, we'll definitely get there. I think in the timeline it it might come later into the eighties nineties. That might even be the two thousands.

Oh wow, yeah, I'll have to verify what that is, because, yeah, those have been hanging out in our dropbox for a long damn time, because from the earliest days of talking about doing this, which now we've done seven whole seasons. And yeah, how long have we been doing this show for? Yeah, twenty twenty one. I put that Chevy Mystery show, the early version of Colombo out there nine to eleven, twenty twenty one, so never. Again, Colombo did nine to eleven.

Yeah, yeah, and then I've yeah, I've got an article about Japan and Colombo I put out there back in twenty twenty three. So yeah, we've been doing this for a while. Just one more thing. You're telling me that TAOI five fell on its own, Well. Chris, when you are not talking about obscure Romanian films, where can people find you?

Oof? You can find you over at the Culture Cast, where I talk about obscure Romanian films every day. No, yeah, no, I don't. I talk about everything else, including new stuff, old stuff stuff. I want to talk about stuff that I've seen, So yeah, come on down and take take a listen if that's your thing.

But more importantly, Weirdingwaymedia dot Com is where you can go to listen to all the shows that Mike and I work on and the shows that we don't, which is even better if you're not interested in hearing our voices, but the voices of our contemporaries, So head on over and check those out. What about you, Mike, Yeah, same damn thing, same damn thing, except. For that pesky James Bond show that's going the way of the Dodo. Yeah. Yeah.

By the time this comes out, who knows that we'll even still be there, because we are just about to wrap that up and have yet to decide what we're doing afterwards. But as soon as we know, you'll be the next people to find out. The films of Martin mull It. Was thirty two takes and that was the best one. That was the best one.