Episode 40: The Parallax View

The Parallax View  was a 1970 novel by Loren Singer. It was made into a film of the same name by Alan J. Pakula as part of his "paranoia trilogy."  The basic idea that inspired Singer to write the book was a group of witnesses to JFK's murder who are systematically bumped off themselves. In the course of investigating why it's happening, they discover the Parallax Corporation and its nefarious raison d'être.

⚠️ Spoilers lie ahead!
 
Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallax_View

https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001

The Loneliest Job in the World: https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/the-loneliest-job/

JFK & Caroline: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/23/the-big-picture-a-tender-family-moment-with-jfk

https://web.archive.org/web/20081222052324/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943929,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/nov/19/the-parallax-view-kennedy-assassination

https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/parallax_view.html

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

Welcome to con-sara-cy theories. Are you ready to ask questions you shouldn't and find information you're not supposed to know? Well, you're in the right place. Here is your host, Sara Causey. 

Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about the parallax view. This is a rare case where I, as a book worm, have to say I liked the film much better than the novel. I'm not sure what it was, but for me, the book was a bit disjointed, difficult to get into, difficult to follow, but the movie is much more straightforward, and it is a pretty interesting 1970s conspiracy theory slash paranoid thriller. So saddle up, and we will take this ride naturally. I have to say spoilers lie ahead. If you have not seen the movie and you want to, please check it out first. If you want to read the book and decide for yourself if you like it, please do that. There's no way for me to talk about the general premise of what's going on here without spoiling it. So if you intend to watch the film, it's only about 80 minutes long. So please go and do that and then come back to this episode later. I think perhaps maybe I was just super pumped to get the book and it wasn't going to live up to my expectations, because the general notion, like the thing that inspired Lauren Singer to publish this novel in 1970 was the idea of a group of witnesses who see the murder of JFK, and then they themselves are systematically being bumped off one by one, and they have to figure out why that's happening, who's doing it, and for what reason did they see something that they weren't supposed to? Or is it that somebody thinks they've seen something that they weren't supposed to? It's almost like you don't know what you don't know. And in the course of this investigation, they come across this organization called the parallax Corporation. And the raison d'etre for parallax is to recruit pop poppers for political murders. To some it may sound far fetched to imagine people who witnessed the murder of JFK being bumped off. But it's actually not far fetched. There's an entire book. It's on my to read list. I have a copy of it, I just haven't gotten to it yet, titled JFK, the dead witnesses. And at the back of Jim Mars's book, Crossfire, there's an entire list, name after name after name of people involved in some way who witnessed, whether it was the murder of JD Tippett or it was the murder of JFK, who were then murdered themselves, and some of them under very weird circumstances, including electrocution and someone who died via karate chop to the neck. Super weird. A whole host of hit and runs, one car, single car accidents, where it's like the odds of this happening just completely by fluke or coincidence seem to be awfully astronomical. The parallax view film is released in 1974 and it's part of the so called Alan J Pakula paranoia trilogy, which includes Clute from 1971 the parallax view from 74 and then All the President's Men from 1976 that's a whole other ball of wax that I intend to talk about. I read Russ Baker's book, family of secrets, which ostensibly is about the bush dynasty, but it covers so much more, and it's incredibly interesting and well researched. There were a number of times reading that book where my jaw just dropped. I was like, holy shit. I can't believe all the things we don't know that we have to learn later. But one of the questions that he posits in that book, and he does talk about Woodward and Bernstein, and he does talk about All the President's Men and deep throat, but one of the questions that he posits is like, Okay, we have this image of old, tricky Dicky Nixon. He's paranoid. He wants to stay in power, but what if he really didn't orchestrate Watergate? What if that was done to him so that he would have to resign? He would be impeached. He would have to get out of office and get the hell out of the way things that make you say, hmm. So that could definitely be its own episode, or its own set of episodes, because it's an interesting question. When I was going back through my DVR to watch this, so I came to this movie just because it was shown on TCM, I think it's available for rent. You might have to pay three or $4 but again, it's worth it. I noticed that TCM showed this on November 22 of 2023 I didn't make the connection last year when I was going through and I'm like, Oh, that looks like a good movie. I'll record that and check it out. I didn't make the connection. On the date at all, but it was shown on the 60th anniversary of JFK murder. And I thought, Well, that seems like a missed opportunity to do a tribute. I mean, the 60 year anniversary is a major milestone. I mean, why would you not but then randomly, in February, not on President's Day, and not on any day that was connected to JFK, like his birthday or his death day, they randomly showed four days in November. I'm like, why wouldn't you have shown that on November the 22nd I mean things that make you say, hmm, I just I found that unusual. Nevertheless, if somebody watches this film and it inspires them to start asking questions or to pick up a JFK biography, or two or three and really learn more about who he was. It's time well spent. We learned in the introduction, because, you know, the host will always come on on TCM. Give some a little introduction. We learned that the director, Steven Soderbergh had called the parallax propaganda film, which is inside this film as the best film within a film, which is interesting, but we'll get there. So we open on Seattle and on a fourth of July parade featuring a man named Senator Carroll. We're told that he's an independent politician, which immediately made me think of RFK Jr running as an independent candidate. Austin Tucker is a political advisor to Senator Carroll, and he's being interviewed by a reporter. She asks if Senator Carroll will seek the presidential nomination the next year, but Tucker dodges the question. Warren Beatty's character is a reporter who wants to sneak into this little social mixer on the Space Needle where the Senator is atop the Space Needle, the senator and his wife are shaking hands and schmoozing at the gathering. Tucker and the reporter Lee are outside on the terrorist talking. Senator Carroll gives them a signal that he's about to speak. He barely gets out a few sentences. He says he's been called too independent for his own good. Then he's shot by a waiter who looks suspiciously like Sirhan. Sirhan, however, as the viewer, we see a second waiter in the background holding a gun, and the implication is clear in the chaos the Sirhan stand in breaks free and climbs to the top of the Space Needle, where he ultimately falls to his death. The waiter who had been in the background escapes and fades into the night. We then cut to a Warren Commission Style panel of old white guys telling the public what to officially believe. They make it clear that this is an announcement and not a press conference, therefore there shall be no questions. They say that they will publish a report and hold a press conference at that time they have a four month investigation followed by nine weeks of hearings. They conclude that Senator Carroll was pop popped by Thomas Richard Linder. Linder acted entirely alone. He was motivated by a misguided sense of patriotism and a psychotic desire for public recognition. They wish to emphasize that there is no evidence of any wider conspiracy, no evidence whatsoever. We hope that this will put an end to the irresponsible and exploitative speculation that the press has done over the past few months. Thomas Richard Linder sounds an awful lot like Lee Harvey Oswald, these, these three named lone wolf Kooks, no conspiracy, just a psychotic desire misguided patriotism and a psychotic desire for public recognition. We then fast forward in time by three years. Warren Beatty's character is running from the police, and we learned that his name is Joe Frady, which sounds an awful lot like Frady cat. He's told that he's being arrested for destruction of property. His newspaper editor bails him out and tries to smooth out the pavement with the cops. We're told that Joe has had a problem with drinking as well as creative irresponsibility. The editor wants him to focus on safe, boring topics. He's living in a sketchy motel, and Lee, the TV reporter from earlier, shows up. She tells him that she thinks someone is trying to kill her. Joe does not take her seriously. She seems high strung and disorganized. She shows him a newspaper clipping that was taken moments before Senator Carol was murdered. She says six people in the photo have died, she says. Austin Tucker also believes that someone is murdering witnesses. Joe counters back that they didn't see anything that would contradict the official report. So why would anyone come after them? One person has died from a car accident, but he was drunk. Another died because he was smoking in bed. Someone else died because her doctor accidentally gave her the wrong antibiotic and it caused anaphylaxis. Another had a heart attack, just accidents, just random accidents. We learned that Joe initially believed someone else had been involved, and he doubted the official story, but he now tells Lee that people were just star. Hoping for an explanation. So many good men were being killed. We just needed something beyond the official narrative, because we were desperate. I'll butt in and say we still hear that in terms of the JFK murder, people just can't believe that a lone wolf, a little shrimpy creep like Lee Harvey Oswald, could fall, oh, he could take down the great golden Prince of Camelot, someone who was so big and so magnificent could suddenly be murdered by a little shrimpy nobody. People just need something. They need a conspiracy, because they just can't believe that it would happen from some shrimpy little weirdo, the same narrative that we're getting here from Joe in the parallax view, the latest witness died by drowning in a fishing accident. Lee wants to go to the town where it happened to investigate and to warn Austin Tucker that he could be next. Joe declines to go with her. He still thinks that she's crazy. In the next scene, Joe is at the morgue and Lee is dead. The medical examiner tells him that she had enough alcohol and barbiturates in her system to kill her, even if she had been in bed asleep, let alone driving a car. And he makes a comment like, let's face it, some people want to die. This convinces Joe that something suspicious is indeed going on. He goes to see a friend who is an ex F Well, Foxtrot Bravo India. I want to say it. He goes to see a friend who is an ex Foxtrot Bravo India agent. He asked if it's possible to murder someone, but make it look like a natural heart attack. Now this friend, whose name is Will says yes, it's called a pep a pulmonary embolism pill. My personal note here is, I immediately thought of the heart attack gun from the church committee hearings. If you haven't seen the footage of that, I'll find the link to it again and drop it in this episode. But yes, at the church committee hearings, you can hear the Charlie India Alpha talking about how there's a heart attack gun just leaves a little tiny mark, almost, I don't know, like a little, like a little pin prick, that nobody's ever even gonna say, and it can cause your victim to have a heart attack. Will says the pill causes an embolism, but to a coroner, it will look like a heart attack. Joe asks Will for some fake IDs so he can go off and pose as a hostile misfit. So it sounds like he's taking the role of the stereotypical pop popper. Will tells him that he'll use the alias Richard Martin, because there is a real Richard Martin who's crazy, and his cover story will be that he's a flasher. So Joe goes down to this small fishing town called salmon tail, where one of the witnesses drowned under odd circumstances. He goes in a bar where everyone seems to know everybody else, and it's pretty easy for him to get in a bar brawl. The man he fights is a sheriff's deputy, and the sheriff watches. This provides a great opportunity for him to create the lone wolf weirdo, the guy with a chip on his shoulder. Scenario, the sheriff appears to befriend Joe, and Joe tells him he's there to figure out what happened to the man who drowned. The sheriff offers to help him, but it's a ruse. Instead, he tries to kill Joe, but Joe kills him. Instead, in self defense, Joe breaks into the sheriff's house, knowing he won't be there because he's deceased. In his personal papers, Joe finds documents relating to the parallax Corporation. There's an ad or a hand bill of some kind that's used for recruiting purposes, along with a personality questionnaire. Joe steals the documents for further review, but narrowly escapes. And we get a little bit of like action movie, car chase drama, Joe is able to escape from salmon tail with his cache of parallax documents. He goes to Bill, his newspaper editor to explain what he's learned. Bill is mad because Joe has a consistent knack for getting into trouble. Joe points out the parallax documents and that the sheriff had a bank book for $107,000 which seems implausible on his normal salary bill, tells him that the sheriff had been involved in a scandal with the utility company. He knew that Joe was a reporter and probably tried to attack him to save face over the utility scandal, and Bill just thinks that Joe's pop, pop theories are crazy. So next we see the text of the parallax ad, and it reads, If you are one of those special people with brains, not just education, who is not living up to your potential through no fault of your own, you can change your luck. Send in this ad and receive a free gift for taking our test. Now in the novel The instructions are somewhat similar, and it reminded me, I have to say, of the way that some of these employers treat prospective job seekers. We want you to go through this process like you're interviewing to be leader of the free world. So in the novel, here's how it goes. Bring with you two. Sheets of paper that you are now reading and the envelope they came in. Come to your interview within 10 minutes of the time that is shown on your instructions. If you are more than 10 minutes late, do not attempt to follow the instructions further. The interview will not be given to you when you come to your interview, go to the clerk at the desk in the lobby directly opposite the front door, read to him or her, the letter and the first five numbers that appear following your name on sheet one of these instructions. For example, if the number after your name is F, 194, 1665, 58 you would say F, 1941, six, wait for the clerk to tell you to go to the room that appears on sheet two, your interview will take from two to three hours. You may not leave until it is complete. If you cannot appear for your interview at that time that is shown on sheet one, do not attempt to telephone or write another interview will be arranged for you within 60 days. Okay, good, great. So Joe goes to a center that studies violence, and wants them to look at the parallax personality test. One of the psychologists says it seems like they are trying to pull out things like anger and repression. He gets the idea to let a patient who has committed multiple murders work on the personality quiz. Meanwhile, Joe continues to look for Austin Tucker. When he finds Tucker, Tucker is paranoid. Tucker has had multiple attempts made on his life, and he tries to buy off Joe. In other words, I'll pay you $10,000 to go away. My life has already screwed the hell up. I don't need you making it worse, if what you want is money, you can have money. Joe refuses the money, so Tucker agrees to a conversation with him. They go out on a boat, presumably for privacy, Tucker shows Joe a photo at the Space Needle. A waiter in one of the photos is singled out. Tucker asks if Joe knows him, but Joe says he doesn't. Tucker drinks quite a bit and appears somewhat bedraggled. Joe is on the front side of the boat. Miraculously, when the back part explodes and kills Tucker, Joe goes back to Bill's office at the newspaper, he sees an article that he also died in the explosion. So no one other than Bill knows that Joe is actually still alive. Bill is now convinced of a plot. Joe warns him not to make any waves. Don't call anyone. Don't publish anything. Let's just go with this. He concludes that parallax is in the business of recruiting pop poppers, and it's bigger than what happened to Senator Carroll. He intends to get in at parallax to see how the sausage is made. He tells bill to print his obituary and empty out his things, give them to the Salvation Army and make a big show of it. Bill agrees to this and gives him a little bit of cash to get by. Joe rents a cruddy room and gets a visit from a man representing parallax. And at this point, Joe is using an alias of Richard Paley, the man from parallax says they receive a finder's fee for the men they hire. And Joe tries to come off as combative and brash. He's playing this role. He goes to parallax for the next round of testing. And this film, within the film that Soderbergh was talking about, it reminds me a lot of Clockwork Orange as well as Soylent Green. Because, you know, there's that part in Soylent Green where Edward G Robinson has decided that he wants to go into the euthanasia pod. So it's like, What colors do you want to see before you die? What kind of images? And, you know, Dick Van Patten is back there running the machine. It kind of reminds me of that, because it's a collection of images and words, basic things, love, mother, father, me, home, country, God, etc. It did not escape my attention. I mean, they show a montage, and it some of some of the photos are very Homespun. You know, a grandma on the front porch in a rocking chair, a couple holding hands, just very normal, non offensive images. But then there's also images of abject violence and terror, as well as semi pornographic photos. And did not escape my attention. One of the images they show is the photo of JFK titled The loneliest job in the world. There's also another quick photo that pops up of JFK with Caroline when she was a baby, and they're both smiling at each other. We see the photo of Lee Harvey Oswald when he's murdered by Ruby. It is a disturbing little montage, for sure. While he's in the building, Joe believes that he sees the waiter from the Space Needle, and he follows him. The man is carrying a large case, and he checks this large case at the airport as though it's normal luggage. Joe figures out that a plot is occurring, but he doesn't know why the. The man, like the dude who had been the waiter, the second pop Popper, if you will. He doesn't board the flight, but Joe does. And once he's on there, he learns that a senator is on board, and he puts two and two together. There's even a mention that the senator who's on the flight is similar to the late Senator Carol in his politics and in his independent streak. Joe writes an SOS message on the lavatory mirror in soap, but then he erases it, so he slips a note to the staff on a cocktail napkin. And the flight goes back to Los Angeles, and shortly thereafter, it explodes. So Joe goes back to his one room crap apartment. That's literally how I wrote into my notes his one room crap apartment, the man from parallax is already in there waiting for him in the dark and offers him a job with manufacturers Intelligence Group for 25,000 a year in today's money, that would be closer to about 160 170k he's told that he'll work inside their security program. Parallax knows that Joe isn't really Richard Paley. He gives them another fake name and says that he needed a job, but he had to lie because he was charged for flashing. He's considered a sex offender because he got drunk and had indecent exposure. We get the sense that the man at parallax is like a handler. He's also pouring on the flattery and trying to make Joe feel special. Now, Bill the editor, Meanwhile, back at the ranch, he's getting tapes of the conversations that Joe is having with this dude from parallax, and a different person than usual, uh oh, a different person than usual brings Bill's order from the deli, and unfortunately, the viewer knows that this is not good. Bill is found dead. Shortly thereafter, a probable heart attack. The tapes are missing, but Bill's petty cash is not so for someone going in there to investigate who doesn't know anything about the tapes. It just looks like a normal heart attack. There's not even money missing. It clearly wasn't a robbery. It was just an unfortunate heart attack. An older guy sitting at his desk has a coronary and kaboom, that's the end of it. Joe goes for his first job with parallax. He tries to hijack the plan, however, and he tells his partner to leave and fly to Hawaii, and we are left to wonder if he saved someone's life that day, including his own. He tells his contact at parallax that the guy he was set to meet flaked out on him, so he's kind of running his own little double blind here. He sends the guy off to Hawaii under a false pretense, but then tells his handler at parallax that the guy never showed he follows more people from parallax and finds himself entrenched in yet another murder plot. He sees a rehearsal of some type of event, and we learn it's a rally for Senator Hammond, who intends to run for president. Up in the rafters are men from the parallax Corporation. Frady tries to infiltrate the plot and break it up as it's clear what they're there to do. He's unsuccessful, and Senator Hammond is killed. Frady is ID as the pop Popper, even though he wasn't the real murderer. Escapes, but Frady does not and he's killed while he's trying to escape in the final scene, here we go again. A committee has convened to investigate the death of Senator Hammond. They have concluded that there was no conspiracy. Hammond was killed by Joe Frady, who had become obsessed with the Carroll murder he had con he had a confused and distorted mind. He believed that Hammond was somehow responsible for Carol's death, and that Hammond was also plotting to kill him for those reasons, Frady killed Hammond. No evidence of a conspiracy. And so the film ends with Frady becoming the Lee Harvey Oswald Patsy, who gets killed in a contemporary review of the parallax view that was published on July 8, 1974 in Time Magazine. Richard Schickel writes the paranoid thriller is an expanding genre in movies and popular fiction. The idea is to start from a thinly fictionalized version of a political tragedy, like one of the Kennedy pop pops, and build on it a thickly embroidered explanation that caters to the suspicion that such murders are plotted by a malevolent establishment. It is apparently comforting for many people to believe that the course of the world is changed by more rational planning, however evil than it is by irrational individual actions. I'm just going to butt in and say that is so much the narrative that we get all the time. It's somehow comforting to you. To you, yeah. This is also made in the rebuttal episode that the History Channel did for that final episode of the Docu series the men who killed Kennedy, where they get the three old white guys, your traditional mainstream historians to come up and tell all the rest of us, peons, what we're. Allowed to think and not to think. It's the same thing. People just can't believe it. They can't imagine that the world is so irrational that the golden prince would be knocked down by some low life like Lee Harvey Oswald. They just can't believe we live in a world where that would be allowed to happen. Oh, it's apparently more comforting for many people to believe that there's some malevolent establishment. And I'm like, What the fuck is comforting about that? That's way more terrifying to me, the idea of some lone nut crazy just going ape shit and doing something absurd. I don't find that particularly terrifying, to be honest with you. Life is crazy. At times. It is unpredictable. Sometimes in life, the bad guy does win and the good guy loses. That that happens. I don't find it more comforting to think about a malevolent establishment. He goes on to write, nor is it very intelligent, either considering the amount of inept planning in contemporary society. So this again, plays into the narrative that your politicians and your overlords are all stupid the things that they do. When the Fed makes policy, it's doing so out of stupidity. When the government makes laws, it's doing so out of stupidity. They're ignorant morons, but they're not malevolent. It's not that these people know exactly what the fuck they're doing. It's that they're all stupid. Okay, got it. We would probably be better off rethinking, or better yet, not thinking about the whole dismal business. He literally says it, just don't think about it, don't think about it, if only to put an end to ugly and dramatically unsatisfying products like the parallax view. Well, what an editorial, evidently, for Alex Cox at The Guardian, the parallax view is great, but only because all of these other Kennedy pop, pop related films are pieces of shit. I read this and I just thought, Oh, my God, this is another article that, you know, I need to get on my blog and give this a good shellacking. I did that with an article from The Telegraph that just lit my fuse good and proper, because it's just littered with these stereotypes that JFK was a piece of shit and we didn't really lose anything when he died. So here I'll read what what he says here JFK, and he's referring, at this point to Oliver Stone's film JFK. JFK is a hagiography of Kennedy theorist Jim Garrison, a bombastic New Orleans prosecutor and homophobe who tried to convict a gay Charlie India Alpha associate, Clay Shaw of the President's murder. So this automatically implies, well, it doesn't imply. It expressly says that garrison was a homophobe and that the only reason he went after Clay Shaw was because Clay Shaw was gay, but yet it admits in the same breath that Clay Shaw was a Charlie India Alpha associate. That was a whole fucking point of the trial. Ah, stuff like this just drives me crazy, because it's like alternative history. It's just bullshit. Like, I fully admit that Garrison put the Warren Commission on trial. He spent a lot of time debunking what we were told by the Warren Commission, and less time actually prosecuting Clay Shaw. But I disagree with the idea that the only reason that he selected Clay Shaw was because he was a homophobe and he just wanted to go after Clay Shaw because Clay Shaw was gay. I just simply don't believe that to be true. Garrison's case was ultimately unconvincing. A jury found Shaw innocent, which undercuts Stone's telling of history. Nevertheless, the film provoked a public outcry and led to the release of 1000s of previously secret files by the pop pop records review board, for my money, the best JFK conspiracy movie isn't strictly speaking about the Kennedy Pop Pop that's probably why he likes it, because it's not strictly about Kennedy's murder. Made in 1974 Alan J Pakula is the parallax view borrows from the murders of both Kennedy brothers to tell the tale of a mysterious organization, the parallax Corporation, which deals in political pop pops and creation of the lone pop popper patsies. The reader will recall that Lee Harvey Oswald, during his brief time in the custody of the Dallas Police, denied murdering the president and cried out to reporters, I'm a patsy. Strange behavior for someone who, according to Parkland and the Warren report killed Kennedy to become famous. The parallax view, written by David guyler, Lorenzo, simple JR and an uncredited Robert Towne, describes how such patsies are created. End quote, I do think that that is an interesting subject matter, like, how are these pats. Created because the story that Jim Garrison tells us, in particular about Oswald, is that Oswald was sheep dipped by the intelligence community. But what if you had a corporation where whoever it was, somebody in big business, somebody on Wall Street, somebody in the world of politics wanted to have a high profile person killed. Could you just ring up an organization like the parallax Corporation and have that done for you for a price? In film score monthly. Alexander Kaplan, I think, has a good review in this. He writes the light hearted tone of the early scenes in the small town of salmon tale with a bar room brawl and car chase accompanied by rollicking music, leads the audience to expect a more mainstream Hollywood thriller with a happy ending. Pakula regularly subverts our expectations of Frady as her traditional movie hero. One of the director's many inspired changes was to keep Frady out of the actual pop pop scene in the film's opening, Lee refuses to bring him up to the Space Needle as her guest, Pakula, makes it unclear whether she refuses to do so out of spite, due to a shared history, or because she genuinely does not know Him, and His not being an actual witness makes it much more plausible that he could infiltrate parallax, since he would not be on their hit list. The film's ending, however, suggests that parallax may have been on to Frady the whole time, another subversion of his heroic status. Even the hero's name is unheroic Joe Frady, suggesting a mocking mixture of dragnets, Joe Friday and the schoolyard taunt. Frady cat. End quote. As I said earlier, I believe the film is worth watching. I believe it's worth your time. I enjoyed it even if you have no interest whatsoever in the Kennedy Pop Pop. Just watching it as a paranoia thriller, just watching it popping some popcorn and watching it as a Saturday night movie, I think you would find it enjoyable. So what do you think? Do you think it's possible that there could be an organization like the parallax Corporation, and we've heard these stories about the Charlie India alpha and the mafia working in tandem. There have been more than a few people who have said that when the agency needs some sort of domestic hit performed, they rely on organized crime to do it. Is it possible that some company like parallax is out there. If you need a patsy or you need the actual pop Popper, this is who you call and we'll meet your needs for a price. Interesting point to ponder. Stay a little bit crazy, and I will see you in the next episode. 

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