WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 Hey, hey, hey, it's Chaos Queen here, and you're 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:20.399 listening to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.100 it's Mistress Carrie, and you are listening to 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:28.800 Studio 2009. It's a funny thing. I don't know 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.320 what has happened. It's a mystery, folks. Dave, 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:37.740 you got any answers? Hello? Answers to mystery, 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.219 please. Nah, we can get down to business. Well, 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:44.140 this storm hasn't found its port, right, Dave? 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:50.520 No. No. No, it hasn't, because this year has 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.200 been anything but lovely but lethal, unfortunately. 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:57.719 Be publishing or perishing, because holy crap. 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:04.340 As it was mentioned before in earlier clips for 00:01:04.340 --> 00:01:06.700 the Star Wars stuff that Dave and I have done, 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:10.939 folks, here at Studio 2009, 2025 has been rough. 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.040 Between my medical stuff, between whatever Dave's 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.620 got going on, hopefully nothing horrible, horrible. 00:01:18.609 --> 00:01:22.290 But life comes before podcasting. I've said that 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:26.569 for years, and sometimes things get delayed and 00:01:26.569 --> 00:01:29.469 put back. But we recorded season three of The 00:01:29.469 --> 00:01:32.109 Columbo Files months and months and months ago. 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:40.069 So, yeah, please enjoy that. Anything you'd like 00:01:40.069 --> 00:01:44.489 to say, sir, before we take these people on to... 00:01:46.199 --> 00:01:48.579 everything they want to hear. This is pretty 00:01:48.579 --> 00:01:50.879 commonplace for me, the way I keep pushing and 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:53.700 pulling and steering at things. One day the whole 00:01:53.700 --> 00:01:55.439 sky is going to light up and it's going to say 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.540 tilt. And that day, sir, is the end of the world. 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:04.579 Let's hope not. No end of the world. Let's not... 00:02:04.579 --> 00:02:10.659 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No world ending calamities, 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.699 please. That's the last thing we need is... World 00:02:14.699 --> 00:02:19.340 -ending calamities. What I will say, folks, is 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:22.740 that we do have the start of a new thing after 00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:26.159 the Columbo Files. We have, well, not the start. 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:29.580 Or is it the start? I don't remember. Oh, yeah, 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:33.520 it must be. The TV show choices. Medium Mayhem 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.500 will continue with TV stuff after Columbo Files. 00:02:36.939 --> 00:02:41.419 But, yeah, we get episode 171 to 178 coming up, 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:44.530 and that's what's going to be coming up. So enjoy 00:02:44.530 --> 00:02:48.729 those folks up next. Lovely, but lethal. And, 00:02:48.729 --> 00:02:51.849 uh, yeah, so we'll have those here in studio 00:02:51.849 --> 00:02:56.550 2009 and hope everyone's having a good 2025 and, 00:02:56.610 --> 00:03:01.830 uh, yeah. On with the show. I just stopped by 00:03:01.830 --> 00:03:03.530 with some news. I thought you might be interested. 00:03:04.030 --> 00:03:05.969 There's nothing wrong with your podcast player. 00:03:06.090 --> 00:03:08.090 Do not attempt to adjust the volume. Hello and 00:03:08.090 --> 00:03:11.569 welcome back into Studio 2009, only on the GeekCaster 00:03:11.569 --> 00:03:13.569 Radio Network. I'm, of course, TF2 and Mike, 00:03:13.669 --> 00:03:17.069 and joining me once again in the far -flung future, 00:03:17.150 --> 00:03:20.590 as this is episode 171 of the podcast, which 00:03:20.590 --> 00:03:23.189 you'll be hearing sometime at the end of summer 00:03:23.189 --> 00:03:26.650 2025, is that good old Detective Dave Draper. 00:03:26.750 --> 00:03:29.090 Hello, sir. How are you? I'm wishing it really 00:03:29.090 --> 00:03:32.139 was summer 2025. Okay, yeah, we're technically 00:03:32.139 --> 00:03:33.580 recording this. We're recording in the middle 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:37.000 of February, and it's miserable. It's miserable 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.080 for him. I'm in paradise. Oh, yeah, seven degrees 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.379 is great. That's right. Absolutely. Ladies and 00:03:44.379 --> 00:03:47.060 gentlemen, it is the middle of January, almost 00:03:47.060 --> 00:03:51.319 the end of January 2026. TF2 and Mike from the 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.740 Geekast Radio Network. I'm interrupting myself 00:03:53.740 --> 00:03:59.330 here because... I felt this was the best place. 00:03:59.469 --> 00:04:03.430 And, yeah, we recorded this in February 2025. 00:04:05.169 --> 00:04:09.770 Oh, my God. So these episodes, The Columbo Files, 00:04:09.770 --> 00:04:14.659 Season 3. Very dated, recorded in February 2025. 00:04:15.939 --> 00:04:19.920 Supposed to have aired summer of 2025. A lot 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:24.660 of things happened in 2025. It is now 2026. Enjoy 00:04:24.660 --> 00:04:27.060 the show, folks. Today we continue on in our 00:04:27.060 --> 00:04:29.699 journey as we put our detective hats on and jump 00:04:29.699 --> 00:04:33.240 back in time with Columbo. These are the Columbo 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.579 files here inside Studio 2009, and we're starting 00:04:35.579 --> 00:04:37.480 at the beginning and going all the way in order. 00:04:37.699 --> 00:04:41.589 We're up to season three. Holy crap. Well, it 00:04:41.589 --> 00:04:43.589 goes quicker now because it seems like there 00:04:43.589 --> 00:04:46.610 are a lot fewer episodes. Yeah, what is there, 00:04:46.649 --> 00:04:49.730 seven or eight in this one? I forget how many 00:04:49.730 --> 00:04:51.889 there are in season three. And folks, I will 00:04:51.889 --> 00:04:54.370 remind everyone where I'm usually watching this 00:04:54.370 --> 00:04:57.350 is Tubi TV, so that's the online source. Dave 00:04:57.350 --> 00:05:00.110 has the Complete Series DVD set, which I still 00:05:00.110 --> 00:05:02.449 need to get at some point. It was weird because 00:05:02.449 --> 00:05:04.410 season three is the only one of the set that 00:05:04.410 --> 00:05:06.930 has a little logo for the NBC Mystery Movie. 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.060 Oh, interesting. Yeah, and otherwise, visually, 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.079 it fits in with all the NBC seasons. But it's 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:16.620 got that, and then it's got, oh, God. Usually 00:05:16.620 --> 00:05:18.220 I give you a hard time for watching it on Tubi 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:21.740 and being smug about having the DVDs. Season 00:05:21.740 --> 00:05:26.360 3 also has unskippable ads for all of Universal's 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:31.259 quality DVD offerings. This is a genre of which 00:05:31.259 --> 00:05:35.939 there were many. Okay. This is your own fault. 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.560 You brought this up. Look, look, I'm hitting 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.620 the button constantly and it's going, nope, you 00:05:40.620 --> 00:05:43.060 can't skip it. I'm like, I don't want Macmillan 00:05:43.060 --> 00:05:45.800 and wife. I don't want Rockford Files. Like, 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.240 why did you show Murder, She Wrote, but you don't 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:52.860 have an ad for it? Let me out. So this is his 00:05:52.860 --> 00:05:55.560 own fault, folks. And again, as we mentioned, 00:05:55.660 --> 00:05:57.860 even though you're going to hear this in August 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:01.860 or September of 2025, currently, as we're recording 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:05.660 this, it is February 2025. And there are rumors 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:09.139 and speculation and supposedly in terms of service 00:06:09.139 --> 00:06:12.920 agreements through Disney Plus and other streaming 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.579 services that they are going to start putting 00:06:15.579 --> 00:06:21.560 unskippable ads. In ad -free tiers. What the 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.579 fuck am I paying for ad -free service if you're 00:06:25.579 --> 00:06:28.000 going to put ads in them? I don't care what I 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.100 have to pay. I will pay you whatever I have to 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:34.660 pay. That's the point of me paying. That is the 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:38.980 point of me paying Disney +, Netflix, Hulu, whatever. 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.209 Insert streaming. Yeah, no, I know, but I'm saying 00:06:43.209 --> 00:06:46.189 you brought up the unskippable ads, which led 00:06:46.189 --> 00:06:49.870 me into this. And the thing of it is, is if I 00:06:49.870 --> 00:06:53.209 am paying – again, using as examples Netflix, 00:06:53.649 --> 00:06:58.490 Disney +, whatever. If I am paying you not to 00:06:58.490 --> 00:07:02.069 have ads, why would you then put – Because there's 00:07:02.069 --> 00:07:05.870 not enough of you. At some point, there's not 00:07:05.870 --> 00:07:08.670 enough people possibly in the world, but definitely 00:07:08.670 --> 00:07:12.189 in America. that like can cover the costs of 00:07:12.189 --> 00:07:14.689 these things that's one of the things that their 00:07:14.689 --> 00:07:17.029 whole brilliant scheme was to switch everything 00:07:17.029 --> 00:07:20.829 to streaming and it don't make no money like 00:07:20.829 --> 00:07:23.129 like you have a finite you have a finite pool 00:07:23.129 --> 00:07:26.050 of people that can you know give you money and 00:07:26.050 --> 00:07:28.250 you get a subscription and at some point you 00:07:28.250 --> 00:07:30.449 raise the price till it's prohibitive which at 00:07:30.449 --> 00:07:32.709 this point disney plus is for me like i'm yeah 00:07:32.709 --> 00:07:37.310 i'm i'm and our season two and i'm out so i good 00:07:37.310 --> 00:07:40.019 yeah go ahead no good I'm just saying like, like, 00:07:40.019 --> 00:07:41.540 like the whole thing is they had the nice model 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:43.980 with like, you know, broadcast TV and commercials. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.879 And then they had, you know, like you, you did 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.220 home video and they've screwed all of that up. 00:07:50.379 --> 00:07:57.899 Yeah. With streaming. Yeah. I, yeah, I don't 00:07:57.899 --> 00:08:05.500 mind paying for it. Like Disney plus my next 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:10.740 Disney plus payment comes out in April. If I 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:16.319 can pay for something all at once, I will. If 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:19.420 I can do annual billing, I will. Disney Plus 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:21.399 is one of the streaming services that allows 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:26.819 annual billing. That's one fee of – I think that's 00:08:26.819 --> 00:08:30.079 going up to $160. Oh, it went up. Spunky. It 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.320 went up. I know. I know. But I'm saying like 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.860 – I'm telling you, in October, it went up. Right, 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:38.899 I remember, but I'm saying I think it's going 00:08:38.899 --> 00:08:42.519 up again. That's my thing. Right now, I paid 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:49.019 last April, April of 2024, I paid $140. Before 00:08:49.019 --> 00:08:53.820 that, I was paying $80 a year. I started doing 00:08:53.820 --> 00:08:57.139 60 or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:01.200 yeah, absolutely. But for me. I don't mind paying 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:08.820 $160 one time for 12 months of however many thousands 00:09:08.820 --> 00:09:12.039 of hours of content that that service has. Disney 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:15.340 Plus usually doesn't remove stuff. It's not Netflix 00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:17.600 because usually most of the stuff on Disney Plus 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:21.309 they already own. So it's fine. It's not there. 00:09:21.309 --> 00:09:24.049 They're like Netflix when it started. And this 00:09:24.049 --> 00:09:26.169 is a whole other off the topic, blah, blah, blah 00:09:26.169 --> 00:09:28.350 thing. But it's one of those things where we're 00:09:28.350 --> 00:09:31.370 talking about whatever. Well, that's part of 00:09:31.370 --> 00:09:34.629 it was also Netflix was a revenue source for 00:09:34.629 --> 00:09:37.710 everybody else. Yes. And now they're there. That's 00:09:37.710 --> 00:09:39.210 another thing they cut out because they're they're 00:09:39.210 --> 00:09:40.970 they're keeping their own stuff and not selling 00:09:40.970 --> 00:09:43.429 it to Netflix. They've started actually now starting 00:09:43.429 --> 00:09:46.190 giving back stuff back to other streaming services, 00:09:46.309 --> 00:09:51.539 not getting selling. Because you're not arguing 00:09:51.539 --> 00:09:53.960 with me because you're saying, I can watch all 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.360 this stuff for one low price. And it's like, 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.940 do you have any idea how much the Star Wars series 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:05.200 alone cost? I know. Hundreds of millions of dollars. 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.120 I know. Which is one of the reasons I was always 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.679 carping about, like, Kathleen Kennedy being reckless 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.019 and foolish. Yeah. Because it's like, and then 00:10:14.019 --> 00:10:15.820 you've got the Marvel series. And then, you know, 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.559 it's like. These things are these huge money 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:20.899 sinks, and they would be money sinks even without 00:10:20.899 --> 00:10:23.820 the hyper -expensive programming. I mean Netflix, 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.159 which is successful, one of the reasons they 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.620 cancel everything really quick is because it's 00:10:28.620 --> 00:10:30.200 money, money, money, money, money, money, money. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:31.740 One of the reasons their movies are starting 00:10:31.740 --> 00:10:33.519 to look like sci -fi originals is money, money, 00:10:33.539 --> 00:10:37.379 money. And there's only so many people that are 00:10:37.379 --> 00:10:39.620 going to subscribe to this thing. And once you 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:41.799 start jacking the prices up, I mean, yeah, okay, 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.379 you're willing to – I understand what you're 00:10:44.379 --> 00:10:48.120 saying, and in a world – Where I had more money, 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:51.639 and I prefer to pay – I agree. I do prefer – 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:54.100 I pay my insurance up at once. I pay my real 00:10:54.100 --> 00:10:56.240 estate taxes at once. I like to pay – I like 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:57.960 to get it out of the way. I don't like to like 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:02.220 with my monthly bill. I'm always worried that 00:11:02.220 --> 00:11:04.440 I'll forget. I'll put an envelope in the wrong 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:08.340 place, forget it, and get in trouble. So I like 00:11:08.340 --> 00:11:09.799 to pay everything up front. I like to have everything 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:15.379 settled. I get that. It's just the – like I don't 00:11:15.379 --> 00:11:18.519 have the money to spend for a service where I 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.940 watch like one show every six months. I understand. 00:11:22.940 --> 00:11:24.539 And most of the time I don't even like them. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:36.399 Well, yeah. Acolyte was a little rough. Oh, boy. 00:11:37.710 --> 00:11:42.809 All right, so Season 3, Episode 1. Neither of 00:11:42.809 --> 00:11:46.049 us are lovely, but we always can be lethal. And 00:11:46.049 --> 00:11:49.309 this is lovely but lethal. No weapons required. 00:11:49.850 --> 00:11:52.710 Just science. That's right. Science. Science? 00:11:53.730 --> 00:11:55.830 What time did I get you up this morning, Sergeant? 00:11:55.990 --> 00:11:58.049 About an hour ago, Lieutenant. A kid looked through 00:11:58.049 --> 00:12:00.230 the window there and spotted the body right here. 00:12:00.529 --> 00:12:02.990 Just after daylight. What was this guy, some 00:12:02.990 --> 00:12:07.220 kind of scientist? A chemist. You work for Beauty 00:12:07.220 --> 00:12:10.159 Mark Cosmetics. He must have had two jars because 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.679 we found these smaller pay stubs in the desk 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.240 there. And I also found his bank book in there, 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:17.419 Lieutenant. And this magazine I found over there 00:12:17.419 --> 00:12:21.019 on the table. What is that, a microscope? Yes, 00:12:21.019 --> 00:12:24.480 sir. And oh, Lieutenant, here's some notes the 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.440 doctor made. You know, I haven't seen one of 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:28.860 these things since high school. And here's a 00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:31.179 blood stain. The doc seems to think this will 00:12:31.179 --> 00:12:33.850 match up as a murder weapon. However, I haven't 00:12:33.850 --> 00:12:35.549 found any prints. You were sent from behind, 00:12:35.690 --> 00:12:39.549 Lieutenant, by a heavy object. You know, you 00:12:39.549 --> 00:12:42.549 better be careful. Feels like there's some broken 00:12:42.549 --> 00:12:44.850 glass on the floor. Apparently, they broke a 00:12:44.850 --> 00:12:47.129 drinking glass. Anyway, Lieutenant, it's all 00:12:47.129 --> 00:12:49.750 in here. He died from a fractured skull. Excuse 00:12:49.750 --> 00:12:51.450 me one moment, would you, Sergeant? Oh, boy. 00:12:52.370 --> 00:12:55.730 What a way to start this one. What a way to start 00:12:55.730 --> 00:13:01.509 the season off with a cosmetics episode. I mean, 00:13:01.629 --> 00:13:05.450 yeah. I guess for me it was more like, hey, the 00:13:05.450 --> 00:13:09.250 sister from Psycho and Vincent freaking Price. 00:13:09.730 --> 00:13:13.470 Yeah. Like horror movie royalty. And then this 00:13:13.470 --> 00:13:16.269 unknown, obscure little actor who was the victim. 00:13:16.370 --> 00:13:22.350 A guy named... Something... Something Estevez, 00:13:22.590 --> 00:13:27.389 I think. Yeah. Yeah, Estevez, exactly. Martin 00:13:27.389 --> 00:13:30.870 Sheen was the victim. Yeah. Super young Martin 00:13:30.870 --> 00:13:34.299 Sheen. Yeah. Almost didn't recognize him. If 00:13:34.299 --> 00:13:36.500 it wasn't for his voice, I probably wouldn't 00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:38.600 have recognized him other than seeing his name 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.419 in the credits. I'm a fan of Apocalypse Now, 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:44.220 which is only like five or six years after this. 00:13:44.700 --> 00:13:48.059 So he looks kind of the same in that. Yeah, absolutely. 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:54.480 But yeah, I mean, Martin Sheen, holy boy. I mean, 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.559 just a bunch of stuff. Like you said, Apocalypse 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.340 Now. Yeah, West Wing, I think, is the big one 00:14:01.340 --> 00:14:04.679 for most people. Yeah, West Wing for TV. But, 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:07.480 yeah, no, absolutely. Amazing, amazing actor. 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:12.720 So this one is all about poisoning. Technically, 00:14:12.820 --> 00:14:14.340 in the end, it kind of is, yeah. Well, because 00:14:14.340 --> 00:14:17.820 the cosmetic stuff and the this and the that. 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:23.240 Well, yeah, like, okay, I was watching it, but 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.240 maybe I missed something. Okay, so the whole 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:29.379 thing is, Drew Miles runs. Beauty Mark Cosmetics, 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:33.139 which has been a very successful cosmetics company, 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:38.340 but it's on the downslope. And her chief inventor 00:14:38.340 --> 00:14:42.299 is kind of a drunk, but has come up with a miracle 00:14:42.299 --> 00:14:45.019 product that will erase wrinkles, at least for 00:14:45.019 --> 00:14:46.659 a little while. Because that's the thing, they 00:14:46.659 --> 00:14:50.019 never do cures, they just do temporary fixes. 00:14:50.500 --> 00:14:54.159 But anyway, it erases wrinkles. And then it turns 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.320 out it doesn't work. And then she finds out that 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:59.139 his assistant, played by Martin Sheen, has tempered 00:14:59.139 --> 00:15:01.279 with the formula and is kind of offering it to 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:07.200 her rival, Vincent Price. So she kind of goes 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.059 to him and basically says, what do you want for 00:15:10.059 --> 00:15:11.759 the real formula, you know, to give me the real 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.120 formula? Because he knows, apparently he invented 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:18.320 the formula. Yes. And he's got one sample that 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:21.200 works. And he kind of toys with her. He's kind 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.580 of a dick about it. He's like, I want you and 00:15:24.580 --> 00:15:26.299 I want all this money. And then he's like, ah, 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.320 psych. He literally does a psych. Yeah. And then 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:35.080 she gets mad and clocks them with a giant 1970s, 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:40.200 you know, microscope. Which has, for some reason 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:45.039 on the slide, has poison ivy. And I always thought 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:49.580 that I always thought that she had spiked the 00:15:49.580 --> 00:15:53.460 sample. Yes. um just to get back at her but like 00:15:53.460 --> 00:15:54.840 how could he know that she would steal a sample 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.779 um yeah but like i don't know why he was why 00:15:58.779 --> 00:16:00.600 you would because and later on they established 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.299 that they do use various poisons in the cosmetic 00:16:04.299 --> 00:16:07.480 center although like that's like 1800 stuff that's 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.419 like you had lead -based paint for your makeup 00:16:09.419 --> 00:16:12.899 kind of stuff i don't think they use poison in 00:16:12.899 --> 00:16:16.779 a lot of well i think by the 70s they didn't 00:16:16.779 --> 00:16:19.000 nowadays we've got botox so i kind of got to 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:23.139 backtrack that And my first thought was arsenic 00:16:23.139 --> 00:16:26.679 and old lace. Well, that had nothing to do with 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:28.779 makeup, but yeah. No, no, no, but I'm saying 00:16:28.779 --> 00:16:32.419 like arsenic as a poison, arsenic, like female. 00:16:33.220 --> 00:16:35.279 Yeah, the sweet old ladies were poisoning people, 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.500 poisoning their tea. Yeah. And Boris Karloff 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:42.679 shows up. Yeah. Speaking of horror royalty. Exactly. 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:44.860 I can't remember if he was really Boris Karloff 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:47.299 or not. It's been a long time since I've seen 00:16:47.299 --> 00:16:52.000 that movie. Yeah, a long time. I think for me, 00:16:52.100 --> 00:16:56.360 about this episode, what I enjoyed the most is... 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.500 What I usually enjoy the most about Columbo episodes 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:03.240 is Columbo himself. I didn't care about her. 00:17:03.419 --> 00:17:07.880 I didn't care about the... I don't know. Yeah, 00:17:08.019 --> 00:17:11.039 I like seeing a young Martin Sheen. I like seeing 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.980 Vincent Price, other than him being Vincent Van 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:17.819 Gogh in Scooby -Doo. I think that's cool. But... 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.839 Because I've seen so many true crime stories 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:25.240 with this exact same sort of plot about female 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:29.180 needing to kill somebody over formula, blah, 00:17:29.299 --> 00:17:31.579 blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, eh, this one 00:17:31.579 --> 00:17:36.240 wasn't that. I was more interested in how Columbo 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.559 handled the case than the case itself. Okay. 00:17:41.579 --> 00:17:44.539 That's just the way I felt. No, no, no. I guess 00:17:44.539 --> 00:17:49.200 I have not seen as many. No, I'm not even trying 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:53.079 to be facetious. To me, I don't remember seeing 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.660 a lot of woman -kills -guy -over -formula stuff. 00:17:56.700 --> 00:17:58.720 I mean, it could just be that I haven't watched 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:03.980 those kind of shows. I don't know. Yeah, and 00:18:03.980 --> 00:18:09.000 it was one of the classics where he kind of admires 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:14.299 her. Because, again, the Columbo household is 00:18:14.299 --> 00:18:17.200 kind of almost like... Jessica Fletcher's family 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.599 where, like, everybody's surrounded by this vortex 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.779 of murder. Because, like, you know, she's in 00:18:22.779 --> 00:18:24.960 all the products that is – presumably his – you 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:26.599 know, it's weird because he never – he doesn't 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:28.160 really mention his wife much in this episode. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:29.980 No, he doesn't. He's always talking about how 00:18:29.980 --> 00:18:32.059 her products are all over his house. So, I mean, 00:18:32.059 --> 00:18:34.599 maybe Columbo was an early trendsetter. I don't 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.700 know. Maybe. Maybe. So what else did you – Then 00:18:37.700 --> 00:18:39.359 there was a subplot with the creepy – Vincent 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:42.940 Price's creepy, weird assistant who gets murdered 00:18:42.940 --> 00:18:46.390 by – She she's a secondary murder because she's 00:18:46.390 --> 00:18:49.390 kind of blackmailing Vera Miles. So Vera spikes 00:18:49.390 --> 00:18:51.609 her cigarettes. That was kind of a good sequence 00:18:51.609 --> 00:18:53.710 where she's trying to get alone to meet with 00:18:53.710 --> 00:18:55.869 the assistant. And Columbo was like following 00:18:55.869 --> 00:18:56.950 her. Like, I'll just follow you around. It's 00:18:56.950 --> 00:18:58.849 fine. I'll just follow you around. And she deliberately 00:18:58.849 --> 00:19:01.009 like cuts left into the nude beach. And he's 00:19:01.009 --> 00:19:06.549 like, oh, OK, I'm. That's why I like Columbo 00:19:06.549 --> 00:19:10.819 so much in this is because. He's trying to do 00:19:10.819 --> 00:19:14.160 his normal police. I'm going to say schtick, 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:17.680 folks, because it's a fictional version of stuff 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:22.420 here, but obviously detectives and police men 00:19:22.420 --> 00:19:26.980 and women do the following and all that and the 00:19:26.980 --> 00:19:30.319 tailing and everything else. But, like, it's 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.819 just like he's trying to. ingratiate himself 00:19:34.819 --> 00:19:39.740 upon her but also trying to not be a nuisance 00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:44.400 to her and close to the end of this i was like 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:47.400 wait are they in a film studio i was like what 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.099 in the hell kind of weird i think they were in 00:19:50.099 --> 00:19:52.500 a studio to film like commercials and ads okay 00:19:52.500 --> 00:19:59.119 yeah because when they drive up or they they 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.359 enter the student the the building that is the 00:20:02.990 --> 00:20:06.690 I don't want to say cult, but the farm. Okay, 00:20:07.650 --> 00:20:11.089 speaking as someone who's a bit on the large 00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:17.009 size, the very subtly and sensitively named fat 00:20:17.009 --> 00:20:24.170 farm. Can't get away with that in 2025. No. And 00:20:24.170 --> 00:20:28.170 again, I'm a very large person. So am I. My language. 00:20:28.470 --> 00:20:30.690 That's my word. I'm allowed to say it. Uh -huh. 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:40.339 Absolutely. But yeah, it's this retreat kind 00:20:40.339 --> 00:20:44.299 of place. But the way that the place is set up, 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.460 to me, I'll have to go back to this episode, 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.400 see if I can get a screenshot to put in the post. 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:54.880 There's a scene where she walks out into the 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.460 courtyard. Yes. They're doing calisthenics, but 00:20:58.460 --> 00:21:01.019 it's almost like an army camp. Yeah, it's like 00:21:01.019 --> 00:21:04.029 an army camp. But just the way the buildings 00:21:04.029 --> 00:21:06.529 are and the way the whole scene is presented, 00:21:06.670 --> 00:21:09.430 before you see the people, you hear the people, 00:21:09.509 --> 00:21:12.349 but you don't see them yet. It just reminds me 00:21:12.349 --> 00:21:15.910 so much of the Warner Brothers backlot or the 00:21:15.910 --> 00:21:19.210 Paramount backlot. It just reminded me so much 00:21:19.210 --> 00:21:22.950 of a movie studio kind of thing, even though 00:21:22.950 --> 00:21:30.289 they're not in the film business. Let's see here. 00:21:34.009 --> 00:21:37.910 I don't know. The acting was really well done. 00:21:41.009 --> 00:21:43.710 Yeah, you're right. I don't remember as much 00:21:43.710 --> 00:21:47.910 with Columbo mentioning his wife in this one. 00:21:48.390 --> 00:21:51.109 Which is weird because he mentions that her products 00:21:51.109 --> 00:21:54.730 are everywhere. Yeah. But he doesn't really mention 00:21:54.730 --> 00:22:02.359 that his wife has the products everywhere. I 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:05.160 think he more so means my wife. He doesn't say 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.460 my wife, but he so means that they're all over 00:22:07.460 --> 00:22:10.160 the house. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's, it's clearly, 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:14.140 I mean, in the mid 1970s, that's the obvious 00:22:14.140 --> 00:22:17.180 impression you're left with in 2025. You know, 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.880 it could mean something else. Good. And it's 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.839 my tasteless joke about that. But, um, just like, 00:22:25.609 --> 00:22:28.789 You know, it's just it's a weird thing to like 00:22:28.789 --> 00:22:30.730 say my wife is really like obsessed with your 00:22:30.730 --> 00:22:35.470 products and. He does mention the wife when they 00:22:35.470 --> 00:22:39.009 had the bit about the pencil. Yeah. When she's 00:22:39.009 --> 00:22:41.289 talking to Martin Sheen, she's making offers. 00:22:41.750 --> 00:22:45.950 She's writing it with a. I actually don't have 00:22:45.950 --> 00:22:47.450 any of this stuff like a pen, like an eyeliner 00:22:47.450 --> 00:22:50.750 pencil, right? Some kind of some kind of makeup 00:22:50.750 --> 00:22:54.130 pencil. I don't know this stuff. And Columbo 00:22:54.130 --> 00:22:57.089 recognizes it immediately. And she kind of dodges 00:22:57.089 --> 00:22:59.089 for a second because she's like, well, that's 00:22:59.089 --> 00:23:03.369 a brunette pencil and I'm a redhead. But her 00:23:03.369 --> 00:23:07.809 little famous beauty mark is penciled in. Yeah. 00:23:08.109 --> 00:23:10.410 Because he sees her next to a picture next to 00:23:10.410 --> 00:23:12.730 the corporate logo picture where she has a beauty 00:23:12.730 --> 00:23:14.329 mark. And he's like, you don't have your beauty 00:23:14.329 --> 00:23:15.809 mark. It's like, oh, I pencil it in. Oh, what 00:23:15.809 --> 00:23:18.029 kind of pencil do you use? The brunette one. 00:23:22.800 --> 00:23:33.220 Yeah, absolutely. That's... Yep. And, yeah, this 00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:39.539 one, I don't know, it just... It was and it wasn't 00:23:39.539 --> 00:23:42.420 my cup of tea. Because, again, for me, it's more 00:23:42.420 --> 00:23:45.940 about how he reacts to everything that's going 00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:49.460 on with the case. And how he's trying to figure 00:23:49.460 --> 00:23:52.119 it out. And when he does eventually figure it 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.839 out, that's the exciting part for me. The actual 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:58.859 case itself, like I said already, it's like, 00:23:58.900 --> 00:24:06.500 okay. And I don't get, like, okay, I get that 00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:10.180 she killed him because she wanted the formula. 00:24:11.420 --> 00:24:14.859 But in the long run, what's that going to get 00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:18.069 her? I think she killed him. It was like a wasn't 00:24:18.069 --> 00:24:20.329 it out of like it was a I don't say a crime of 00:24:20.329 --> 00:24:22.569 passion per se, but it wasn't like an because 00:24:22.569 --> 00:24:25.269 I mean, he's he's got the formula in his head. 00:24:25.490 --> 00:24:29.390 Yeah. Like killing him almost like she has one 00:24:29.390 --> 00:24:31.410 sample. And I was going to mention that at the 00:24:31.410 --> 00:24:34.069 very end when the police are closing in, she 00:24:34.069 --> 00:24:36.069 throws the sample like it's like she went through 00:24:36.069 --> 00:24:38.390 all of that and she throws the sample away for 00:24:38.390 --> 00:24:41.839 this amazing miracle product because it's. It's 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:44.079 her or the, you know, and they still get her 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:49.240 anyway because of the poison ivy. Exactly. Like, 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:56.480 it's a lose, it's a lose -lose situation. Well, 00:24:56.519 --> 00:24:59.920 that crime doesn't pay, sir. Well, no, I know 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:07.859 that, but like, I don't know. It just. It seems 00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:11.140 like some sort of deal could have been made between 00:25:11.140 --> 00:25:14.819 them or something. Who? Between her and Martin 00:25:14.819 --> 00:25:18.019 Sheen? Yeah. Well, I mean, that was sort of dependent 00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:20.680 on – I don't think he wanted – I think he wanted 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:24.480 to screw her over. There was a little bit of 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.119 dialogue about how they'd had a relationship 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:29.339 in the past. Yeah. That, again, was another kind 00:25:29.339 --> 00:25:35.440 of 70s changing times. You know, she's like, 00:25:35.500 --> 00:25:37.119 I have a lot of affairs with young men. Does 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.799 that just does that upset you, Lieutenant? And 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:41.140 he's wow. You know, his whole thing is you do 00:25:41.140 --> 00:25:42.299 what you want, you know, as long as you're not 00:25:42.299 --> 00:25:44.380 hurting anybody. You're not clobbering people 00:25:44.380 --> 00:25:47.299 with giant heavy microscopes. It's fine. But 00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:49.559 yeah, it was clear. I don't think they could 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:51.420 have. What I'm saying is I don't think they ever 00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:54.440 could have had a deal like his and his demands 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:57.480 were like outrageous to begin with. Yeah. And 00:25:57.480 --> 00:25:59.319 then at the very end, he goes, psych, I'm not 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:00.980 even going to I'm not even going to work with 00:26:00.980 --> 00:26:05.349 you with my demands being met. And then the assistant 00:26:05.349 --> 00:26:08.009 girl tries to do the same thing, like, oh, give 00:26:08.009 --> 00:26:09.369 me these things. And she's like, okay, here, 00:26:09.470 --> 00:26:12.609 smoke this totally not -doped cigarette. Okay, 00:26:12.630 --> 00:26:17.230 crash. Yeah, I knew there was something wrong 00:26:17.230 --> 00:26:19.250 with those cigarettes before she even got in 00:26:19.250 --> 00:26:24.349 the car. You see her after them. Yeah. Yeah. 00:26:26.930 --> 00:26:32.470 I was like, nope, no smoking. You see her after 00:26:32.470 --> 00:26:34.009 them and then you see her swap them out with 00:26:34.009 --> 00:26:37.210 her cigarette. I mean, it's not exactly subtle. 00:26:37.910 --> 00:26:43.849 No, it's not. Which is crazy because, you know, 00:26:43.910 --> 00:26:48.730 it's so hard to find good help these days. Well, 00:26:48.769 --> 00:26:50.549 she wasn't really that good help. She was betraying 00:26:50.549 --> 00:26:55.289 her boss, Vincent Price. That's true. That's 00:26:55.289 --> 00:27:00.140 very true. And that $400 dress was ugly. Remember 00:27:00.140 --> 00:27:02.819 that weird thing with the weird brocade in the 00:27:02.819 --> 00:27:06.799 front? I'm like, $400 for that? Yeah. Or however 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:09.920 many hundred dollars. It was expensive. There's 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:14.000 a lot of things. And I've been told in the past 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:16.079 that I should not be talking about fashion on 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:19.220 podcasts. But there are a lot of dresses that 00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:24.220 I've seen in the fashion world that are for the 00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:27.279 price that they demand. I mean, the high fashion 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.299 stuff is just ridiculous. Yeah. And then like 00:27:30.299 --> 00:27:35.799 the, yeah, no, that's just a, I don't understand 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:39.619 it. And that's fine. If you've got, going back 00:27:39.619 --> 00:27:40.940 to what we kind of started with, if you've got 00:27:40.940 --> 00:27:42.720 the money for that and that makes you happy, 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.519 I guess that's all that really matters. Yep. 00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:49.059 Fashion designers got to eat too. Absolutely. 00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:54.579 Now. I didn't notice this, but Wikipedia has 00:27:54.579 --> 00:27:57.779 a note at the bottom here about supposedly there 00:27:57.779 --> 00:28:01.079 is a, well, there is a sly reference to Psycho 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:05.740 in which Miles appeared in when Scott claims 00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:09.180 to Columbo that she couldn't even hurt a fly. 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:13.960 Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember hearing that because 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:16.079 I didn't remember it was Vera Miles was in Psycho 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.869 until this morning. I looked it up. And I was 00:28:18.869 --> 00:28:20.250 like, oh, yeah, she did have that line about 00:28:20.250 --> 00:28:21.869 hurting a fly, which is what Norman says at the 00:28:21.869 --> 00:28:24.329 very – well, what Mother says at the very end. 00:28:25.029 --> 00:28:28.309 Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Anything else with 00:28:28.309 --> 00:28:32.690 this one? No, this was – I mean, I guess I liked 00:28:32.690 --> 00:28:35.849 it better than you. It's not a favorite, although 00:28:35.849 --> 00:28:38.990 it was neat to see all the famous people and 00:28:38.990 --> 00:28:46.049 all the – Columbo was good. He was – I don't 00:28:46.049 --> 00:28:50.490 know. He was – Like, it wasn't like a toot in 00:28:50.490 --> 00:28:52.490 black where he was kind of a jerk, kind of felt 00:28:52.490 --> 00:28:55.750 like jerky, but he was a little, I mean, he's 00:28:55.750 --> 00:28:57.430 supposed to be persistent, and that's part of 00:28:57.430 --> 00:29:00.349 his character, but I don't know. Yeah. You said 00:29:00.349 --> 00:29:02.630 earlier that he was trying to ingratiate himself 00:29:02.630 --> 00:29:05.029 with her, and I don't think he ever really did. 00:29:05.809 --> 00:29:10.470 No, but he was trying to. See, he was trying 00:29:10.470 --> 00:29:13.410 to, again, this is just my perception of it. 00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:16.490 Well, and I don't necessarily disagree with your 00:29:16.490 --> 00:29:21.940 perception. So the scene at the end, when she's 00:29:21.940 --> 00:29:27.819 doing this exercise... I've never seen a treadmill 00:29:27.819 --> 00:29:30.880 like she was walking on. And then he was standing 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.359 on the other one. At first he was standing on 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.619 the street, or on the sidewalk in the studio 00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:41.500 there. So he was constantly trying to ingratiate 00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:44.519 himself to her. At the same time, he was also... 00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:49.299 Trying to. Not necessarily get her to slip up. 00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:53.920 But trying to. See if she would slip up. Trying 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:58.680 to see if she would. Make a mistake. And she 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.000 didn't. Until the end obviously. She never really 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.259 made a mistake. It was just that she had poison 00:30:04.259 --> 00:30:07.500 ivy. That got her. Because she touched the slide. 00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:12.140 Yeah she touched the slide. And we have. We often 00:30:12.140 --> 00:30:15.259 mention folks that. We record two of these at 00:30:15.259 --> 00:30:19.619 a time, and we're recording Season 3, Episode 00:30:19.619 --> 00:30:22.720 1 here, and then Season 3, Episode 2 after this. 00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:26.720 Both of these episodes have criminals hitting 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:32.039 people over the head with things. Now, I know 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:36.720 in the 70s things were heavier back then. I know 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:39.059 things here. Oh, brother, that microscope. No, 00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:42.480 no, no. I'm not arguing that. I'm not arguing 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:46.980 that at all. I know the microscope was very heavy. 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.500 I'm not arguing the microscope. What I'm saying 00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:51.920 is when we get to the next episode, when you 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.619 all hear the next episode, I'm going to argue 00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:58.019 whatever. I think it's a candlestick or something. 00:30:58.140 --> 00:31:02.380 I swear. That was a phone. Okay, whatever. We'll 00:31:02.380 --> 00:31:05.920 get there when we get there. But, like, literally 00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:09.420 the whole – I'll repeat it in the next episode, 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:11.460 but I'm going to say it here, too. The next episode 00:31:11.460 --> 00:31:13.380 to me, the whole beginning, the murder part, 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:17.400 I was like, look, it's this person in the library 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:20.559 with the wrench. I was like, this is an episode 00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:24.920 of Columbo with Clue. Like, I was just waiting 00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:28.240 for Professor Plum to show up. Oh, God, I would 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.380 love. I don't think Christopher Lloyd ever was 00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:33.720 on Columbo. He might have been in the ABC run. 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.579 Maybe. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find 00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:39.960 out eventually. Eventually. All right. Zero to 00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:41.700 five with half points. What are you going to 00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:45.299 give? What the hell is this one called? Crap. 00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:47.599 Lovely but Lethal, I believe. Yes, yes. Lovely 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:49.480 but Lethal. What are we giving Lovely but Lethal 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:51.500 for you? I'm going to give it a 3 .5. I think 00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:54.299 it's a fine episode. It's not a favorite, but. 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:58.180 i didn't have the issues that you did yeah i 00:31:58.180 --> 00:32:01.359 am going to give it a three which uh for those 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:03.680 again just to remind everybody because it's been 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:06.220 a while since we've uh done the colombo things 00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:10.539 for the ratings 3 .5 is good it's a mixed bag 00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:13.140 but the good stuff outweighs the bad there might 00:32:13.140 --> 00:32:16.299 be one amazing element or lots of fun moments 00:32:16.299 --> 00:32:19.059 that make the flaws easier to swallow they're 00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:22.680 not deal breakers but they do hold it back and 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.640 for me 3 .0 average meh it's not bad but it's 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.579 not amazing either nothing really stands out 00:32:30.579 --> 00:32:34.000 and it's forgettable now i think we need to i've 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:35.880 said this before and what steve and i have to 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:37.839 do this event i think we need to upgrade some 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.369 of these uh descriptions but For me, like I said 00:32:42.369 --> 00:32:44.089 at the beginning of the podcast for this episode, 00:32:44.309 --> 00:32:47.789 I only cared about what Columbo was doing in 00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:50.609 trying to solve the crime. I didn't care about 00:32:50.609 --> 00:32:52.309 the crime. I didn't care about the criminal. 00:32:52.710 --> 00:32:56.730 I like seeing the actors who play the victim 00:32:56.730 --> 00:33:00.450 and who play the other, Vincent Price and Martin 00:33:00.450 --> 00:33:02.589 Sheen. I like seeing them, but that's because 00:33:02.589 --> 00:33:06.109 I like seeing those actors in something this 00:33:06.109 --> 00:33:09.099 ancient. It's not that ancient. Well, I mean, 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:11.819 and for Vincent Price, that's probably later 00:33:11.819 --> 00:33:15.480 in his career. Oh, yeah, true. Very true. Yeah, 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:19.880 absolutely. So three and a half and a three out 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:24.279 of five, not bad. So that's going to do that. 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.640 We're going to head to some quick ads here and 00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:28.700 here, some podcast ads, some other stuff. We're 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:30.960 going to come back to close the show right after 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:33.559 this. Oh, but really, Columbo, look, this is 00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:35.779 one of the biggest businesses in the country. 00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:39.859 I mean, there are literally thousands of chemists 00:33:39.859 --> 00:33:42.779 in cosmetics. Now, why you should come here and 00:33:42.779 --> 00:33:45.240 question me about some unknown, I just don't 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:52.980 understand. Mm -hmm. See, I gotta pay that. One 00:33:52.980 --> 00:34:01.220 moment. That's it. That's what? Mr. Lang, the 00:34:01.220 --> 00:34:03.960 phone company tells me... That you've only had 00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:05.720 this number for a few months and that it's a 00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:08.940 private number. Well? Well, I was sort of wondering 00:34:08.940 --> 00:34:12.119 why this Carl Lessing would have it. You see, 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:14.380 my office told me that they found this number 00:34:14.380 --> 00:34:16.900 scribbled on a small piece of paper in Mr. Lessing's 00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:19.579 wallet. Well, why the devil didn't you say that 00:34:19.579 --> 00:34:21.880 in the first place? Well, I wanted to make sure 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:24.719 first, sir. You see, even the phone company makes 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:27.559 mistakes and... Inasmuch as this number was the 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:29.920 only thing about you that anybody found. Yes, 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:36.039 of course. I mean, it just never... Wait a minute. 00:34:41.780 --> 00:34:47.110 Find something there, sir? Hello, geeks and geekettes! 00:34:47.289 --> 00:34:50.050 Looking for a podcast that covers a vast array 00:34:50.050 --> 00:34:53.829 of topics? 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You can find Pauka on the 00:41:23.730 --> 00:41:26.710 Geekcast, Radio Network, iTunes, Blog Talk Radio, 00:41:26.889 --> 00:41:29.329 and all of the other methods you find podcasts. 00:41:29.929 --> 00:41:31.510 We'll give you the whole seat, but you'll only 00:41:31.510 --> 00:41:34.389 need the edge. On the Simplistic Reviews podcast, 00:41:34.849 --> 00:41:42.230 we talk movies. We talk TV. We talk... Hello, 00:41:42.250 --> 00:41:44.130 Julie, what the heck are you doing? Trying to 00:41:44.130 --> 00:41:46.969 make our spot sound more exciting by adding explosions. 00:41:47.670 --> 00:41:48.929 Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could have got the 00:41:48.929 --> 00:41:50.929 point across with sound effects, not the real 00:41:50.929 --> 00:41:59.809 thing. I'm sure your insurance company will cover 00:41:59.809 --> 00:42:02.190 that. No, they won't. No, they probably won't. 00:42:02.389 --> 00:42:05.170 You know, we pay the highest wages in the business, 00:42:05.230 --> 00:42:07.409 so naturally they come here looking for jobs. 00:42:08.349 --> 00:42:13.269 Shirley, come in here a minute, will you? We 00:42:13.269 --> 00:42:15.030 do know Mr. Lessing was expecting some money, 00:42:15.130 --> 00:42:17.710 and maybe a lot of money. Now, don't get ahead 00:42:17.710 --> 00:42:19.829 of yourself, Lieutenant. I haven't offered anyone 00:42:19.829 --> 00:42:25.070 a job for months. Oh, Shirley. Look, have a look 00:42:25.070 --> 00:42:27.349 here, huh? It's not a very good picture, but 00:42:27.349 --> 00:42:29.090 there was a young fellow in here the other day, 00:42:29.090 --> 00:42:31.829 maybe once before. I didn't have time to talk 00:42:31.829 --> 00:42:39.750 to him. Doesn't look familiar. Lessing? No, that's 00:42:39.750 --> 00:42:43.409 the wrong name. But he was about, well, average 00:42:43.409 --> 00:42:46.269 height and curly hair. It was something like 00:42:46.269 --> 00:42:52.130 Johnson Jefferson, maybe. Oh. Well, you may be 00:42:52.130 --> 00:42:53.610 right, sir, but you didn't ask me to fill out 00:42:53.610 --> 00:42:55.929 a card on him or anything like that. That's all 00:42:55.929 --> 00:42:58.769 that there was. I'm afraid I didn't hear anything 00:42:58.769 --> 00:43:01.289 he said, Lieutenant. I'm very sorry, sir, but 00:43:01.289 --> 00:43:03.230 you see, I'm so busy, I don't have time to notice 00:43:03.230 --> 00:43:06.929 everyone who comes into the office. Why would 00:43:06.929 --> 00:43:09.269 you change his name? If he was already working 00:43:09.269 --> 00:43:13.510 for Vivica. She demands devotion from her handsome 00:43:13.510 --> 00:43:16.389 young men. Oh, I don't mean it in quite that 00:43:16.389 --> 00:43:19.730 way, no. Well, protocol, discretion, who knows? 00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:22.480 Still can't figure out how he'd get your private 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.860 phone number. Unless he looked at it, Lieutenant. 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.000 Just as you did. All right, folks, we are back 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:33.380 in episode 171. We are 29 episodes away from 00:43:33.380 --> 00:43:38.179 200. Holy crap. Any final thoughts from you, 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:41.559 sir, on the first episode of season three of 00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:47.219 Columbo? No, I think I liked it more than you, 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.760 apparently, but I... I didn't love it. It didn't 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:53.960 have the pop that a lot of the best episodes 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:56.639 have. Like I said, I mostly remembered – I forgot 00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:58.960 Vincent Price was in this. I mostly remembered 00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:02.239 it as the one with Poison Ivy. Yeah. This is 00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:03.679 the episode where I found out that Poison Ivy 00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:06.539 doesn't grow in Southern California. Those lucky 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:11.219 pricks. I got a real bad – I think during my 00:44:11.219 --> 00:44:13.340 college years I got a real bad case of Poison 00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:17.239 Ivy one time. Oh, that's not good. Yeah. Yeah, 00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:20.639 that's not good. Not good at all. You know, I 00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.980 think it's an interesting start to this season 00:44:23.980 --> 00:44:28.539 for the character. Did we see the car in this 00:44:28.539 --> 00:44:32.820 episode? I think we saw it once. Yeah, we might 00:44:32.820 --> 00:44:35.239 have. It wasn't featured very prominently. Yeah, 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:37.260 it wasn't prominent, but I think we saw it once. 00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:43.280 No dog. No dog. No dog, which I don't know how 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.840 they would have. I had the dog in this one considering 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:51.619 how the plot goes. That would be a little too 00:44:51.619 --> 00:44:53.960 much, so it's probably good that the dog wasn't 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:55.719 there. All right, folks, thank you for joining 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.199 us here inside Studio 2009. If you'd like to 00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:59.820 get in contact with us and leave feedback for 00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:01.579 the show, there are several ways to do so. Visit 00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:04.260 the website geekcastradio .com where you can 00:45:04.260 --> 00:45:06.320 listen to and comment on all of our content. 00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:09.400 You can also check out shop .geekcastradio .com 00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:11.559 and buy all of our stuff. We have T -shirts up 00:45:11.559 --> 00:45:17.110 to 4XL. mugs and gamer pads and other things. 00:45:17.230 --> 00:45:20.090 Steve puts all kinds of stuff in the store. 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Dave Dibble. You'll 00:46:32.780 --> 00:46:35.739 hear us back in the studio soon. Let me put it 00:46:35.739 --> 00:46:38.059 this way. If you found a little red jar with 00:46:38.059 --> 00:46:39.980 an eight -sided bottom, would you get promoted? 00:46:40.739 --> 00:46:42.719 Just take it easy, lady. Just take it easy. I'm 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.480 taking it easy. As a matter of fact, I could 00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:47.599 offer you a drink and help you search if I weren't 00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.739 so furious. No luck yet, Lieutenant. No luck 00:46:51.739 --> 00:46:53.860 at all. Lieutenant, would you please do what 00:46:53.860 --> 00:46:56.860 you have to do and get out of here? How long 00:46:56.860 --> 00:47:00.039 is this going to take? The damnedest case I've 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:03.920 ever seen. Will you answer me? How long is this 00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:08.440 going to take? I found the poison ivy. That's 00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:13.099 good. Where? In Lessing's place. I know at Lessing's, 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.659 but where? It was in the bottom drawer of a file 00:47:15.659 --> 00:47:18.480 cabinet. The drawer was locked. You were nowhere 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:21.860 near that drawer. I know. I never opened the 00:47:21.860 --> 00:47:26.340 drawer. Still trying to figure out where I got 00:47:26.340 --> 00:47:30.340 my poison ivy. Poor thing. Still worried about 00:47:30.340 --> 00:47:36.880 your itch. You worried about yours? No. Couldn't 00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:38.519 help noticing, ma 'am, the past few days you've 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:39.940 been scratching your hand and wearing gloves. 00:47:40.619 --> 00:47:49.099 So? Been out of state recently? No. Neither have 00:47:49.099 --> 00:47:49.219 I.