Hey, hey, hey, it's Chaos Queen here, and you're
listening to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hey,
it's Mistress Carrie, and you are listening to
Studio 2009. It's a funny thing. I don't know
what has happened. It's a mystery, folks. Dave,
you got any answers? Hello? Answers to mystery,
please. Nah, we can get down to business. Well,
this storm hasn't found its port, right, Dave?
No. No. No, it hasn't, because this year has
been anything but lovely but lethal, unfortunately.
Be publishing or perishing, because holy crap.
As it was mentioned before in earlier clips for
the Star Wars stuff that Dave and I have done,
folks, here at Studio 2009, 2025 has been rough.
Between my medical stuff, between whatever Dave's
got going on, hopefully nothing horrible, horrible.
But life comes before podcasting. I've said that
for years, and sometimes things get delayed and
put back. But we recorded season three of The
Columbo Files months and months and months ago.
So, yeah, please enjoy that. Anything you'd like
to say, sir, before we take these people on to...
everything they want to hear. This is pretty
commonplace for me, the way I keep pushing and
pulling and steering at things. One day the whole
sky is going to light up and it's going to say
tilt. And that day, sir, is the end of the world.
Let's hope not. No end of the world. Let's not...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No world ending calamities,
please. That's the last thing we need is... World
-ending calamities. What I will say, folks, is
that we do have the start of a new thing after
the Columbo Files. We have, well, not the start.
Or is it the start? I don't remember. Oh, yeah,
it must be. The TV show choices. Medium Mayhem
will continue with TV stuff after Columbo Files.
But, yeah, we get episode 171 to 178 coming up,
and that's what's going to be coming up. So enjoy
those folks up next. Lovely, but lethal. And,
uh, yeah, so we'll have those here in studio
2009 and hope everyone's having a good 2025 and,
uh, yeah. On with the show. I just stopped by
with some news. I thought you might be interested.
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welcome back into Studio 2009, only on the GeekCaster
Radio Network. I'm, of course, TF2 and Mike,
and joining me once again in the far -flung future,
as this is episode 171 of the podcast, which
you'll be hearing sometime at the end of summer
2025, is that good old Detective Dave Draper.
Hello, sir. How are you? I'm wishing it really
was summer 2025. Okay, yeah, we're technically
recording this. We're recording in the middle
of February, and it's miserable. It's miserable
for him. I'm in paradise. Oh, yeah, seven degrees
is great. That's right. Absolutely. Ladies and
gentlemen, it is the middle of January, almost
the end of January 2026. TF2 and Mike from the
Geekast Radio Network. I'm interrupting myself
here because... I felt this was the best place.
And, yeah, we recorded this in February 2025.
Oh, my God. So these episodes, The Columbo Files,
Season 3. Very dated, recorded in February 2025.
Supposed to have aired summer of 2025. A lot
of things happened in 2025. It is now 2026. Enjoy
the show, folks. Today we continue on in our
journey as we put our detective hats on and jump
back in time with Columbo. These are the Columbo
files here inside Studio 2009, and we're starting
at the beginning and going all the way in order.
We're up to season three. Holy crap. Well, it
goes quicker now because it seems like there
are a lot fewer episodes. Yeah, what is there,
seven or eight in this one? I forget how many
there are in season three. And folks, I will
remind everyone where I'm usually watching this
is Tubi TV, so that's the online source. Dave
has the Complete Series DVD set, which I still
need to get at some point. It was weird because
season three is the only one of the set that
has a little logo for the NBC Mystery Movie.
Oh, interesting. Yeah, and otherwise, visually,
it fits in with all the NBC seasons. But it's
got that, and then it's got, oh, God. Usually
I give you a hard time for watching it on Tubi
and being smug about having the DVDs. Season
3 also has unskippable ads for all of Universal's
quality DVD offerings. This is a genre of which
there were many. Okay. This is your own fault.
You brought this up. Look, look, I'm hitting
the button constantly and it's going, nope, you
can't skip it. I'm like, I don't want Macmillan
and wife. I don't want Rockford Files. Like,
why did you show Murder, She Wrote, but you don't
have an ad for it? Let me out. So this is his
own fault, folks. And again, as we mentioned,
even though you're going to hear this in August
or September of 2025, currently, as we're recording
this, it is February 2025. And there are rumors
and speculation and supposedly in terms of service
agreements through Disney Plus and other streaming
services that they are going to start putting
unskippable ads. In ad -free tiers. What the
fuck am I paying for ad -free service if you're
going to put ads in them? I don't care what I
have to pay. I will pay you whatever I have to
pay. That's the point of me paying. That is the
point of me paying Disney +, Netflix, Hulu, whatever.
Insert streaming. Yeah, no, I know, but I'm saying
you brought up the unskippable ads, which led
me into this. And the thing of it is, is if I
am paying – again, using as examples Netflix,
Disney +, whatever. If I am paying you not to
have ads, why would you then put – Because there's
not enough of you. At some point, there's not
enough people possibly in the world, but definitely
in America. that like can cover the costs of
these things that's one of the things that their
whole brilliant scheme was to switch everything
to streaming and it don't make no money like
like you have a finite you have a finite pool
of people that can you know give you money and
you get a subscription and at some point you
raise the price till it's prohibitive which at
this point disney plus is for me like i'm yeah
i'm i'm and our season two and i'm out so i good
yeah go ahead no good I'm just saying like, like,
like the whole thing is they had the nice model
with like, you know, broadcast TV and commercials.
And then they had, you know, like you, you did
home video and they've screwed all of that up.
Yeah. With streaming. Yeah. I, yeah, I don't
mind paying for it. Like Disney plus my next
Disney plus payment comes out in April. If I
can pay for something all at once, I will. If
I can do annual billing, I will. Disney Plus
is one of the streaming services that allows
annual billing. That's one fee of – I think that's
going up to $160. Oh, it went up. Spunky. It
went up. I know. I know. But I'm saying like
– I'm telling you, in October, it went up. Right,
I remember, but I'm saying I think it's going
up again. That's my thing. Right now, I paid
last April, April of 2024, I paid $140. Before
that, I was paying $80 a year. I started doing
60 or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, absolutely. But for me. I don't mind paying
$160 one time for 12 months of however many thousands
of hours of content that that service has. Disney
Plus usually doesn't remove stuff. It's not Netflix
because usually most of the stuff on Disney Plus
they already own. So it's fine. It's not there.
They're like Netflix when it started. And this
is a whole other off the topic, blah, blah, blah
thing. But it's one of those things where we're
talking about whatever. Well, that's part of
it was also Netflix was a revenue source for
everybody else. Yes. And now they're there. That's
another thing they cut out because they're they're
they're keeping their own stuff and not selling
it to Netflix. They've started actually now starting
giving back stuff back to other streaming services,
not getting selling. Because you're not arguing
with me because you're saying, I can watch all
this stuff for one low price. And it's like,
do you have any idea how much the Star Wars series
alone cost? I know. Hundreds of millions of dollars.
I know. Which is one of the reasons I was always
carping about, like, Kathleen Kennedy being reckless
and foolish. Yeah. Because it's like, and then
you've got the Marvel series. And then, you know,
it's like. These things are these huge money
sinks, and they would be money sinks even without
the hyper -expensive programming. I mean Netflix,
which is successful, one of the reasons they
cancel everything really quick is because it's
money, money, money, money, money, money, money.
One of the reasons their movies are starting
to look like sci -fi originals is money, money,
money. And there's only so many people that are
going to subscribe to this thing. And once you
start jacking the prices up, I mean, yeah, okay,
you're willing to – I understand what you're
saying, and in a world – Where I had more money,
and I prefer to pay – I agree. I do prefer –
I pay my insurance up at once. I pay my real
estate taxes at once. I like to pay – I like
to get it out of the way. I don't like to like
with my monthly bill. I'm always worried that
I'll forget. I'll put an envelope in the wrong
place, forget it, and get in trouble. So I like
to pay everything up front. I like to have everything
settled. I get that. It's just the – like I don't
have the money to spend for a service where I
watch like one show every six months. I understand.
And most of the time I don't even like them.
Well, yeah. Acolyte was a little rough. Oh, boy.
All right, so Season 3, Episode 1. Neither of
us are lovely, but we always can be lethal. And
this is lovely but lethal. No weapons required.
Just science. That's right. Science. Science?
What time did I get you up this morning, Sergeant?
About an hour ago, Lieutenant. A kid looked through
the window there and spotted the body right here.
Just after daylight. What was this guy, some
kind of scientist? A chemist. You work for Beauty
Mark Cosmetics. He must have had two jars because
we found these smaller pay stubs in the desk
there. And I also found his bank book in there,
Lieutenant. And this magazine I found over there
on the table. What is that, a microscope? Yes,
sir. And oh, Lieutenant, here's some notes the
doctor made. You know, I haven't seen one of
these things since high school. And here's a
blood stain. The doc seems to think this will
match up as a murder weapon. However, I haven't
found any prints. You were sent from behind,
Lieutenant, by a heavy object. You know, you
better be careful. Feels like there's some broken
glass on the floor. Apparently, they broke a
drinking glass. Anyway, Lieutenant, it's all
in here. He died from a fractured skull. Excuse
me one moment, would you, Sergeant? Oh, boy.
What a way to start this one. What a way to start
the season off with a cosmetics episode. I mean,
yeah. I guess for me it was more like, hey, the
sister from Psycho and Vincent freaking Price.
Yeah. Like horror movie royalty. And then this
unknown, obscure little actor who was the victim.
A guy named... Something... Something Estevez,
I think. Yeah. Yeah, Estevez, exactly. Martin
Sheen was the victim. Yeah. Super young Martin
Sheen. Yeah. Almost didn't recognize him. If
it wasn't for his voice, I probably wouldn't
have recognized him other than seeing his name
in the credits. I'm a fan of Apocalypse Now,
which is only like five or six years after this.
So he looks kind of the same in that. Yeah, absolutely.
But yeah, I mean, Martin Sheen, holy boy. I mean,
just a bunch of stuff. Like you said, Apocalypse
Now. Yeah, West Wing, I think, is the big one
for most people. Yeah, West Wing for TV. But,
yeah, no, absolutely. Amazing, amazing actor.
So this one is all about poisoning. Technically,
in the end, it kind of is, yeah. Well, because
the cosmetic stuff and the this and the that.
Well, yeah, like, okay, I was watching it, but
maybe I missed something. Okay, so the whole
thing is, Drew Miles runs. Beauty Mark Cosmetics,
which has been a very successful cosmetics company,
but it's on the downslope. And her chief inventor
is kind of a drunk, but has come up with a miracle
product that will erase wrinkles, at least for
a little while. Because that's the thing, they
never do cures, they just do temporary fixes.
But anyway, it erases wrinkles. And then it turns
out it doesn't work. And then she finds out that
his assistant, played by Martin Sheen, has tempered
with the formula and is kind of offering it to
her rival, Vincent Price. So she kind of goes
to him and basically says, what do you want for
the real formula, you know, to give me the real
formula? Because he knows, apparently he invented
the formula. Yes. And he's got one sample that
works. And he kind of toys with her. He's kind
of a dick about it. He's like, I want you and
I want all this money. And then he's like, ah,
psych. He literally does a psych. Yeah. And then
she gets mad and clocks them with a giant 1970s,
you know, microscope. Which has, for some reason
on the slide, has poison ivy. And I always thought
that I always thought that she had spiked the
sample. Yes. um just to get back at her but like
how could he know that she would steal a sample
um yeah but like i don't know why he was why
you would because and later on they established
that they do use various poisons in the cosmetic
center although like that's like 1800 stuff that's
like you had lead -based paint for your makeup
kind of stuff i don't think they use poison in
a lot of well i think by the 70s they didn't
nowadays we've got botox so i kind of got to
backtrack that And my first thought was arsenic
and old lace. Well, that had nothing to do with
makeup, but yeah. No, no, no, but I'm saying
like arsenic as a poison, arsenic, like female.
Yeah, the sweet old ladies were poisoning people,
poisoning their tea. Yeah. And Boris Karloff
shows up. Yeah. Speaking of horror royalty. Exactly.
I can't remember if he was really Boris Karloff
or not. It's been a long time since I've seen
that movie. Yeah, a long time. I think for me,
about this episode, what I enjoyed the most is...
What I usually enjoy the most about Columbo episodes
is Columbo himself. I didn't care about her.
I didn't care about the... I don't know. Yeah,
I like seeing a young Martin Sheen. I like seeing
Vincent Price, other than him being Vincent Van
Gogh in Scooby -Doo. I think that's cool. But...
Because I've seen so many true crime stories
with this exact same sort of plot about female
needing to kill somebody over formula, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, eh, this one
wasn't that. I was more interested in how Columbo
handled the case than the case itself. Okay.
That's just the way I felt. No, no, no. I guess
I have not seen as many. No, I'm not even trying
to be facetious. To me, I don't remember seeing
a lot of woman -kills -guy -over -formula stuff.
I mean, it could just be that I haven't watched
those kind of shows. I don't know. Yeah, and
it was one of the classics where he kind of admires
her. Because, again, the Columbo household is
kind of almost like... Jessica Fletcher's family
where, like, everybody's surrounded by this vortex
of murder. Because, like, you know, she's in
all the products that is – presumably his – you
know, it's weird because he never – he doesn't
really mention his wife much in this episode.
No, he doesn't. He's always talking about how
her products are all over his house. So, I mean,
maybe Columbo was an early trendsetter. I don't
know. Maybe. Maybe. So what else did you – Then
there was a subplot with the creepy – Vincent
Price's creepy, weird assistant who gets murdered
by – She she's a secondary murder because she's
kind of blackmailing Vera Miles. So Vera spikes
her cigarettes. That was kind of a good sequence
where she's trying to get alone to meet with
the assistant. And Columbo was like following
her. Like, I'll just follow you around. It's
fine. I'll just follow you around. And she deliberately
like cuts left into the nude beach. And he's
like, oh, OK, I'm. That's why I like Columbo
so much in this is because. He's trying to do
his normal police. I'm going to say schtick,
folks, because it's a fictional version of stuff
here, but obviously detectives and police men
and women do the following and all that and the
tailing and everything else. But, like, it's
just like he's trying to. ingratiate himself
upon her but also trying to not be a nuisance
to her and close to the end of this i was like
wait are they in a film studio i was like what
in the hell kind of weird i think they were in
a studio to film like commercials and ads okay
yeah because when they drive up or they they
enter the student the the building that is the
I don't want to say cult, but the farm. Okay,
speaking as someone who's a bit on the large
size, the very subtly and sensitively named fat
farm. Can't get away with that in 2025. No. And
again, I'm a very large person. So am I. My language.
That's my word. I'm allowed to say it. Uh -huh.
Absolutely. But yeah, it's this retreat kind
of place. But the way that the place is set up,
to me, I'll have to go back to this episode,
see if I can get a screenshot to put in the post.
There's a scene where she walks out into the
courtyard. Yes. They're doing calisthenics, but
it's almost like an army camp. Yeah, it's like
an army camp. But just the way the buildings
are and the way the whole scene is presented,
before you see the people, you hear the people,
but you don't see them yet. It just reminds me
so much of the Warner Brothers backlot or the
Paramount backlot. It just reminded me so much
of a movie studio kind of thing, even though
they're not in the film business. Let's see here.
I don't know. The acting was really well done.
Yeah, you're right. I don't remember as much
with Columbo mentioning his wife in this one.
Which is weird because he mentions that her products
are everywhere. Yeah. But he doesn't really mention
that his wife has the products everywhere. I
think he more so means my wife. He doesn't say
my wife, but he so means that they're all over
the house. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's, it's clearly,
I mean, in the mid 1970s, that's the obvious
impression you're left with in 2025. You know,
it could mean something else. Good. And it's
my tasteless joke about that. But, um, just like,
You know, it's just it's a weird thing to like
say my wife is really like obsessed with your
products and. He does mention the wife when they
had the bit about the pencil. Yeah. When she's
talking to Martin Sheen, she's making offers.
She's writing it with a. I actually don't have
any of this stuff like a pen, like an eyeliner
pencil, right? Some kind of some kind of makeup
pencil. I don't know this stuff. And Columbo
recognizes it immediately. And she kind of dodges
for a second because she's like, well, that's
a brunette pencil and I'm a redhead. But her
little famous beauty mark is penciled in. Yeah.
Because he sees her next to a picture next to
the corporate logo picture where she has a beauty
mark. And he's like, you don't have your beauty
mark. It's like, oh, I pencil it in. Oh, what
kind of pencil do you use? The brunette one.
Yeah, absolutely. That's... Yep. And, yeah, this
one, I don't know, it just... It was and it wasn't
my cup of tea. Because, again, for me, it's more
about how he reacts to everything that's going
on with the case. And how he's trying to figure
it out. And when he does eventually figure it
out, that's the exciting part for me. The actual
case itself, like I said already, it's like,
okay. And I don't get, like, okay, I get that
she killed him because she wanted the formula.
But in the long run, what's that going to get
her? I think she killed him. It was like a wasn't
it out of like it was a I don't say a crime of
passion per se, but it wasn't like an because
I mean, he's he's got the formula in his head.
Yeah. Like killing him almost like she has one
sample. And I was going to mention that at the
very end when the police are closing in, she
throws the sample like it's like she went through
all of that and she throws the sample away for
this amazing miracle product because it's. It's
her or the, you know, and they still get her
anyway because of the poison ivy. Exactly. Like,
it's a lose, it's a lose -lose situation. Well,
that crime doesn't pay, sir. Well, no, I know
that, but like, I don't know. It just. It seems
like some sort of deal could have been made between
them or something. Who? Between her and Martin
Sheen? Yeah. Well, I mean, that was sort of dependent
on – I don't think he wanted – I think he wanted
to screw her over. There was a little bit of
dialogue about how they'd had a relationship
in the past. Yeah. That, again, was another kind
of 70s changing times. You know, she's like,
I have a lot of affairs with young men. Does
that just does that upset you, Lieutenant? And
he's wow. You know, his whole thing is you do
what you want, you know, as long as you're not
hurting anybody. You're not clobbering people
with giant heavy microscopes. It's fine. But
yeah, it was clear. I don't think they could
have. What I'm saying is I don't think they ever
could have had a deal like his and his demands
were like outrageous to begin with. Yeah. And
then at the very end, he goes, psych, I'm not
even going to I'm not even going to work with
you with my demands being met. And then the assistant
girl tries to do the same thing, like, oh, give
me these things. And she's like, okay, here,
smoke this totally not -doped cigarette. Okay,
crash. Yeah, I knew there was something wrong
with those cigarettes before she even got in
the car. You see her after them. Yeah. Yeah.
I was like, nope, no smoking. You see her after
them and then you see her swap them out with
her cigarette. I mean, it's not exactly subtle.
No, it's not. Which is crazy because, you know,
it's so hard to find good help these days. Well,
she wasn't really that good help. She was betraying
her boss, Vincent Price. That's true. That's
very true. And that $400 dress was ugly. Remember
that weird thing with the weird brocade in the
front? I'm like, $400 for that? Yeah. Or however
many hundred dollars. It was expensive. There's
a lot of things. And I've been told in the past
that I should not be talking about fashion on
podcasts. But there are a lot of dresses that
I've seen in the fashion world that are for the
price that they demand. I mean, the high fashion
stuff is just ridiculous. Yeah. And then like
the, yeah, no, that's just a, I don't understand
it. And that's fine. If you've got, going back
to what we kind of started with, if you've got
the money for that and that makes you happy,
I guess that's all that really matters. Yep.
Fashion designers got to eat too. Absolutely.
Now. I didn't notice this, but Wikipedia has
a note at the bottom here about supposedly there
is a, well, there is a sly reference to Psycho
in which Miles appeared in when Scott claims
to Columbo that she couldn't even hurt a fly.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember hearing that because
I didn't remember it was Vera Miles was in Psycho
until this morning. I looked it up. And I was
like, oh, yeah, she did have that line about
hurting a fly, which is what Norman says at the
very – well, what Mother says at the very end.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Anything else with
this one? No, this was – I mean, I guess I liked
it better than you. It's not a favorite, although
it was neat to see all the famous people and
all the – Columbo was good. He was – I don't
know. He was – Like, it wasn't like a toot in
black where he was kind of a jerk, kind of felt
like jerky, but he was a little, I mean, he's
supposed to be persistent, and that's part of
his character, but I don't know. Yeah. You said
earlier that he was trying to ingratiate himself
with her, and I don't think he ever really did.
No, but he was trying to. See, he was trying
to, again, this is just my perception of it.
Well, and I don't necessarily disagree with your
perception. So the scene at the end, when she's
doing this exercise... I've never seen a treadmill
like she was walking on. And then he was standing
on the other one. At first he was standing on
the street, or on the sidewalk in the studio
there. So he was constantly trying to ingratiate
himself to her. At the same time, he was also...
Trying to. Not necessarily get her to slip up.
But trying to. See if she would slip up. Trying
to see if she would. Make a mistake. And she
didn't. Until the end obviously. She never really
made a mistake. It was just that she had poison
ivy. That got her. Because she touched the slide.
Yeah she touched the slide. And we have. We often
mention folks that. We record two of these at
a time, and we're recording Season 3, Episode
1 here, and then Season 3, Episode 2 after this.
Both of these episodes have criminals hitting
people over the head with things. Now, I know
in the 70s things were heavier back then. I know
things here. Oh, brother, that microscope. No,
no, no. I'm not arguing that. I'm not arguing
that at all. I know the microscope was very heavy.
I'm not arguing the microscope. What I'm saying
is when we get to the next episode, when you
all hear the next episode, I'm going to argue
whatever. I think it's a candlestick or something.
I swear. That was a phone. Okay, whatever. We'll
get there when we get there. But, like, literally
the whole – I'll repeat it in the next episode,
but I'm going to say it here, too. The next episode
to me, the whole beginning, the murder part,
I was like, look, it's this person in the library
with the wrench. I was like, this is an episode
of Columbo with Clue. Like, I was just waiting
for Professor Plum to show up. Oh, God, I would
love. I don't think Christopher Lloyd ever was
on Columbo. He might have been in the ABC run.
Maybe. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find
out eventually. Eventually. All right. Zero to
five with half points. What are you going to
give? What the hell is this one called? Crap.
Lovely but Lethal, I believe. Yes, yes. Lovely
but Lethal. What are we giving Lovely but Lethal
for you? I'm going to give it a 3 .5. I think
it's a fine episode. It's not a favorite, but.
i didn't have the issues that you did yeah i
am going to give it a three which uh for those
again just to remind everybody because it's been
a while since we've uh done the colombo things
for the ratings 3 .5 is good it's a mixed bag
but the good stuff outweighs the bad there might
be one amazing element or lots of fun moments
that make the flaws easier to swallow they're
not deal breakers but they do hold it back and
for me 3 .0 average meh it's not bad but it's
not amazing either nothing really stands out
and it's forgettable now i think we need to i've
said this before and what steve and i have to
do this event i think we need to upgrade some
of these uh descriptions but For me, like I said
at the beginning of the podcast for this episode,
I only cared about what Columbo was doing in
trying to solve the crime. I didn't care about
the crime. I didn't care about the criminal.
I like seeing the actors who play the victim
and who play the other, Vincent Price and Martin
Sheen. I like seeing them, but that's because
I like seeing those actors in something this
ancient. It's not that ancient. Well, I mean,
and for Vincent Price, that's probably later
in his career. Oh, yeah, true. Very true. Yeah,
absolutely. So three and a half and a three out
of five, not bad. So that's going to do that.
We're going to head to some quick ads here and
here, some podcast ads, some other stuff. We're
going to come back to close the show right after
this. Oh, but really, Columbo, look, this is
one of the biggest businesses in the country.
I mean, there are literally thousands of chemists
in cosmetics. Now, why you should come here and
question me about some unknown, I just don't
understand. Mm -hmm. See, I gotta pay that. One
moment. That's it. That's what? Mr. Lang, the
phone company tells me... That you've only had
this number for a few months and that it's a
private number. Well? Well, I was sort of wondering
why this Carl Lessing would have it. You see,
my office told me that they found this number
scribbled on a small piece of paper in Mr. Lessing's
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You know, we pay the highest wages in the business,
so naturally they come here looking for jobs.
Shirley, come in here a minute, will you? We
do know Mr. Lessing was expecting some money,
and maybe a lot of money. Now, don't get ahead
of yourself, Lieutenant. I haven't offered anyone
a job for months. Oh, Shirley. Look, have a look
here, huh? It's not a very good picture, but
there was a young fellow in here the other day,
maybe once before. I didn't have time to talk
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right, sir, but you didn't ask me to fill out
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Still can't figure out how he'd get your private
phone number. Unless he looked at it, Lieutenant.
Just as you did. All right, folks, we are back
in episode 171. We are 29 episodes away from
200. Holy crap. Any final thoughts from you,
sir, on the first episode of season three of
Columbo? No, I think I liked it more than you,
apparently, but I... I didn't love it. It didn't
have the pop that a lot of the best episodes
have. Like I said, I mostly remembered – I forgot
Vincent Price was in this. I mostly remembered
it as the one with Poison Ivy. Yeah. This is
the episode where I found out that Poison Ivy
doesn't grow in Southern California. Those lucky
pricks. I got a real bad – I think during my
college years I got a real bad case of Poison
Ivy one time. Oh, that's not good. Yeah. Yeah,
that's not good. Not good at all. You know, I
think it's an interesting start to this season
for the character. Did we see the car in this
episode? I think we saw it once. Yeah, we might
have. It wasn't featured very prominently. Yeah,
it wasn't prominent, but I think we saw it once.
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how the plot goes. That would be a little too
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join us next time stop it i just saw okay again
folks we're recording this in february i just
saw uh mr uh joshua and i'm doing that on purpose
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now, I am TF2 and Mike with... Dave Dibble. You'll
hear us back in the studio soon. Let me put it
this way. If you found a little red jar with
an eight -sided bottom, would you get promoted?
Just take it easy, lady. Just take it easy. I'm
taking it easy. As a matter of fact, I could
offer you a drink and help you search if I weren't
so furious. No luck yet, Lieutenant. No luck
at all. Lieutenant, would you please do what
you have to do and get out of here? How long
is this going to take? The damnedest case I've
ever seen. Will you answer me? How long is this
going to take? I found the poison ivy. That's
good. Where? In Lessing's place. I know at Lessing's,
but where? It was in the bottom drawer of a file
cabinet. The drawer was locked. You were nowhere
near that drawer. I know. I never opened the
drawer. Still trying to figure out where I got
my poison ivy. Poor thing. Still worried about
your itch. You worried about yours? No. Couldn't
help noticing, ma 'am, the past few days you've
been scratching your hand and wearing gloves.
So? Been out of state recently? No. Neither have
I.