7 Days of Underhill - DAY 2 "THE INCIDENT"

EPISODE 16: 7 Days of Underhill - DAY 2

In day 2 of 7 (days of Underhill), the FletchCast boys delve deeply into the "incident" at the California Raquet Club between Ted Underhill (William Traylor) and the Chinese Busboy (Merv Maruyama) when Mr. Underhill's meal was prematurely ripped from him grasp. However, we take a look at the quick-to-judge perspective and re-evaluate the situation from Ted's POV and determine who truly is the antagonist and who is the protagonist. We attempt to get Merv Maruyama's side of the story but instead he speaks to us through song.

Join us every day this week for a new Underhill episode! Never before has an extravaganza dedicated to the character brought to life by William Traylor encompassed 168 consecutive hours.

 So head out for your urinalysis and we'll be back again tomorrow!

Merv Maruyama (Chinese Busboy) on the Web
Merv Meruyama's Cover: Up On the Roof (on YouTube)
Merv Meruyama's Grateful Crane Ensemble Group

NOTE: This week of episodes are inspired by the amazing "Blast Points Podcast." Blast Points is a Star Wars podcast that deep dives into the weird, wacky, and  "outside the box" topics of a Galaxy Far Far away. They did "7 Days of Dengar" that was out of this world. Jason & Gabe, thank you for being our muse!
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Transcript

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 0:00

There's a need to fear. The underhills are here.

FletchCast Intro 0:12

Broadcasting live and around the world. The world from Cabana One, the only podcast that's all ball bearings. Your ultimate source for everything flat. Thank you, Doc. Your start to me. Laker Jim and his beat reporters will stop at nothing to make sure Flat lives forever. Forever. They don't shower much. This is Fletchcast.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 0:52

Thank you, Sammy, and welcome to day two. Okay, listen, day one was a lot. Okay, hopefully you took it all in. I mean, you're back for more, obviously.

"Big Bob" West 1:03

I'm still reeling from his wife not knowing his name. That's that's brand, that's news to me that I never picked up on, never realized, but yeah.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 1:10

It's a lot. It's a lot, and that's why I wanted to warn you guys at the top of episode one. This is this is gonna get deep. I literally got dressed yesterday in a tight white tennis shirt, tight white shorts, tennis shoes. I just laid in my bed staring at the ceiling all day and night. That's how you dressed. Yes. This week, this is how I dress.

"Big Bob" West 1:33

I I put on the busboy outfit.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 1:34

You did.

"Big Bob" West 1:37

I was looking for somebody to yell at me and slap me in the shape here for my my my own misgivings. You know, I wore my Gibbons suit, but I wear that pretty much every day. Yeah, you do. Yeah, that's your weekend. Yeah, that is your weekend formal wear.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 1:52

All right, so listen, let's get now, now let's get a little deeper. Okay, let's talk about the incident at the racket.

"Big Bob" West 2:02

Well, first and foremost, you know, I I have one question before we start. We I said yesterday I wanted to talk about the physical. We talked about it a little bit, you know, white tennis suit, old liver spots. How let me ask you this. How have you ever noticed how tall do you think Ted Underhill is? Because something I've always noticed is that he is being that I'm pretty tall, he's almost the size of the door of the cabana. When he's standing there and he's there, looming, looming over her when she opens the door, you know, and just giving her just a you know the third degree. But you do you think he's like as tall as Fletch, or do you think he's shorter or what?

Jake Parrish 2:40

I'm not sure. I never really thought about it.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 2:42

Something to look at. He's a pretty tall guy. I would say older gentleman of that time, maybe a maybe a 5'11 was a good height for them.

"Big Bob" West 2:52

I'm gonna put underhill at 6'4, about 130. No, no, no way. I'm gonna put underhill at 6'4, 130,000. Very tall, very likely.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 3:01

Damn. Okay, listen, in fairness, through the magic podcasting, we can find out the answer to this really quickly. I'm gonna pull up the scene. Okay, here's here comes Fletch approaching Mrs. Stanwick's door. Now we'll use that as a barometer of height.

unknown 3:16

Uh John.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 3:16

I would say Chevy's the bridge of his nose is about the height of the top of the windows on the door. Now let's uh let's use that same podcast magic to advance the underhill scene.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Mrs. Sanwick, yes.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 3:36

Oh now, oh sorry to disturb you, it's Ted Underhill. Bob Thanks for great talking. The windowsill on the door is I would say it's about up to Underhill's eyebrows. So that only makes Fletch a little bit taller than Underhill. You're right. If we know that Fletch is 6'5, obviously, with the Afro 6'9, then that makes Underhill 6'4, exactly what you thought. Wow, great call. My mind is blown. What size shoe do you think he wears?

"Big Bob" West 4:05

Uh size 15 shoe. You could easily tip him, you could easily tip him over because he's so frail. But he's very, very aerodynamic on the uh uh on the uh tennis court, as you can tell by his hair.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 4:18

Damn, 15. Now I just feel sorry for Mrs. Underhill. No wonder she's drinking every time we see her.

Jake Parrish 4:24

Well, that's true. That's true, but that's maybe why he's so angry, and I think we've touched on this in the past is that he's bald. He lives in Southern California. He probably does have some melanoma, carcinoma, some type of gnoma. Yeah, I'd say definitely, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Jesus H Christ!

"Big Bob" West 4:39

He probably just came out of a profit exam from Dr. Dolwan. And I think also, you know, the fact that he demands to eat every bite of, like I said, he's only about 130 pounds for being so tall, he's probably starving, which is which is maybe maybe one of the reasons why uh you know he wants to eat his last bite. But you know what? Let's get into all that.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 4:59

Let's get into what happens in the infamous busboy scene. Now, as Fletch arrives at the California Racket Club, he swings his racket into a car. I don't think it's far-fetched to think that's Underhill's car. I mean, with the day he had, he probably got his car dented as well.

"Big Bob" West 5:23

It's a white car, right? That he hits. Yes. And and it's it looks like a nicer car. I mean, it is at a racket club. That's something that if I can get away with it, and somebody will understand the joke, that's something that, and obviously, if I have a tennis racket, but it doesn't have to necessarily be something you know, something you do with a tennis racket, anything you have in your hands. That's something that I try to do as a sight gag as many times as I possibly can. If I know I can get away with it.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 5:46

Oh, definitely. So as Fletch Flesh walks onto the property, he overhears a couple having a delightful lunch.

"Big Bob" West 5:57

That soft.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 6:02

Have a bite, you know, and the busboy rudely interrupts their meal by attempting to take Mr. Underhill's plate before he's finished. Now, just to make sure our rage is justified, let's listen to the incident in its entirety.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

Just a minute, I'm not finished yet. Sorry, Mr. Underhill. Does that look like I'm finished? I guess not. Now I'm finished. Whatever you say, Mr. Underhill. I imagine you're expecting a nice gratuity, right? Maybe next time.

"Big Bob" West 6:38

You know, I'm glad you're glad you pointed out that the that the the waiter or the bus boy that he was actually rude. Who who stands over somebody while they're eating their meal like that? And even when you see, you know, even if underhill was taking a while to, you know, take that last bite, like who just automatically assumes they're not asking to take their plate away?

Jake Parrish 6:57

Well, that's true. I agree with that. Um, but on the other hand, you could be a little nicer about it too.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 7:05

So listen, I don't know about you guys, but I know I my last bite I save for a reason. Do you I find the best combination of what I have on my plate, and I just kind of put it aside for the last bite. It's gonna be my best bite. So to have that ripped from me, to have that rip. I mean, I can only feel the anguish and and and anger.

"Big Bob" West 7:31

So from uh I'm getting sympathy for for yeah, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit. Yeah, just because it's you got this annoying bus boy, not even the waiter, but a bus boy, looming over him to try to clear that table to get somebody else in there, get additional tips, and uh yeah, he he yanks his plate off under when he's not done. Let me ask you this, guys. We can't really tell from the scraps left on the plate. What do you think underhill was eating?

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 7:56

It's it's a small, delicious morsel, I'm sure. It's very little, he can pick it up with his hands. It's dainty, it's dainty. He pops it right in his hand.

"Big Bob" West 8:03

It is a finger food, it's a sandwich of some sort. It's gotta be a sandwich of some sort because it's a finger food, right?

Jake Parrish 8:08

I'm gonna say grilled cheese. He was saving that last bite.

"Big Bob" West 8:13

I'm gonna say he it was a it was a mutton sandwich.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 8:16

He seems like the kind of guy that loves mutton. The plate was so clean after he took that last bite, it was shining. I mean, that's somebody that loves their food, you know. I mean, to to polish off every crumb, somebody that loves their food, and they should recognize that. I mean, you pay a lot of money to belong to these rocket clubs, it's true. Yeah, they they should know the ins and outs of every member, that's their job. Yeah, okay.

Jake Parrish 8:43

But that is what we can say that, and then what is Fletch's reaction when he's overhearing this? He has no sympathy for Ted, and he immediately looks back towards him and would you say slight disgust?

"Big Bob" West 8:56

Yeah, well, I don't know if it's necessarily disgust for Ted, it might be disgust for the bus boy pulling the sandwich or pulling the plate away. Like maybe Fletch said, I've been in that situation before where someone's looming over me like a goon and taking my plate away when I'm not done. You don't know if it's necessarily disdain for Ted or for the bus boy.

Jake Parrish 9:14

But if you had disdain for the bus boy, would you then immediately following that put uh steak sandwiches and bloody Mary's on a steak sandwich, please on his bail? I'm not saying that Fletch isn't a sociopath, I'm just saying that, you know.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 9:32

Uh you know, at the same time, too, he's a man, you know, and he had to stick up for his woman who had a half a glass of red wine still, you know. So, you know, to kind of rush them along, it was it was just incredibly rude, right? And rude enough not to get a gratuity, you know. More times than not, the bus boy doesn't get the tip anyway. The reason the busboy almost doesn't care and is, I don't know, in a way, like kind of like mocking him. I feel like the bus boy's being extremely sarcastic.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

Right. Whatever you say, Mr. Underhill.

"Big Bob" West 10:08

Come on, yeah, yeah. That's not the that's not the normal response if you if you fucked up on uh pissing off uh you know a member of a club. You know, you want to be very careful because somebody like that's gonna complain about you. Here's the thing, though, we don't know the history.

Jake Parrish 10:25

This might not be the first run-in with the waiter that's and Ted Underhills thinking that.

"Big Bob" West 10:31

So maybe maybe this is a regular occurrence. Yes.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 10:33

I mean, I don't want I don't want to get too far ahead in the week's long topic, but let's talk about Ted Underhill's uh experience. As far as we've seen it in the very few minutes that he's got been on screen, he's had his meal rudely interrupted and taken away. He's had a a lunch charged to his account without the person verifying that they're even his guests, right? Then there's a large dinner charged to his account.

Jake Parrish 10:59

Yes, Jesus age Christ.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 11:01

You think this is all coincidentally just happened for the first time to him? This happens all the time. He is he is at his wit's end with this place, you know? Yeah, that's true. That's true, and we we automatically think that the way we feel bad for the waiter, you know, on the surface, but realistically, I'll bet that whole crew is very much like the the caddyshack crew, you know, they're all high and behind the scenes, bad language, smoking grass, poor waiting, poor waiting, yes. And not to mention, too, what this guy has really screwed over is the waiter. This guy isn't the waiter. He says you're expecting your tour. Maybe next time he screwed his buddy out of the chat by doing this.

"Big Bob" West 11:49

Well, it also makes you wonder, too, where the waiter went to like not want to tolerate you know having a hand because he already has the check, right? Yes, he had the check. You would assume because I don't think the bus boy, I don't think the bus boy hands on the check. So maybe the waiter either knows one or two things. Maybe the waiter knows one or two things. Maybe he knows or she knows to stay away and let him do his own thing and don't bother him.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 12:11

Maybe it's a new bus boy. Yeah, it's true. We actually tracked down the actor who played the bus boy. We did, right? Yes, we did. Tracked him down. What was his name? What is his name? Merv. Merv Mariama.

Jake Parrish 12:27

Yes. And it says, and he's he is accredited as Chinese bus boy.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 12:32

Right. So we we tracked him down. Jake reached out to him for to be interviewed on day two. He declined. He declined. And uh I partially expected it, to be honest. This this was a traumatic day moment in his life. Okay, you know, you can imagine how much therapy it took for this guy to get over this this occurrence. You don't revisit stuff like this, and it's been following him for 35 years. And you know, so to have this come back up, I get it. And I and you know, and I think I think he sensed too that we were gonna come at him from this angle, you know. He was gonna have to face some facts, he was gonna have to answer some questions, and and he wasn't ready to do that. What's the name of the group that he performs with? I think it they're I think they're out of Sacramento, I think.

Jake Parrish 13:28

It's somewhere in Southern California. Yeah, and isn't it Merv in the Magic Tongue? No. Well, aren't they playing out at the holiday end? Isn't that where they usually go?

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 13:40

I think so.

Jake Parrish 13:41

It's a um it's a it looks like it's some church-based choir, and I it looks like he's he's doing well.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 13:49

All right, listen, we'll give this guy a plug. He seems like a good guy. Merv Mariyama. He uh he's part of the Grateful Crane Ensemble, which they're a I guess a singing and performance-based group that raises money for churches and other organizations. The irony is every year, Merv does a telethon to raise money for seniors.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Hi, I'm Merv Mariyama. I'm delighted and honored to be one of the singers performing for you. So join me and let's support ACC Senior Services for all the good they bring to seniors in the community, especially during these challenging times.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 14:33

It's hard not to think that he's doing this now because of the extreme guilt he feels for the way he trailed he treated his elder, a senior named Ted Underhill, treated him like garbage. And now he's giving back. And while we're fantasizing about this, imagine old Ted in an old age home in a senior community, and Merv, a Chinese busboy, arrives to serenade the group of elderly folks on their last days. The rage Ted would have when he saw this guy again. It'd be like the days back in Nam with Fletch. It wouldn't be pretty.

Jake Parrish 15:28

But when we get huge, he'll be begging to be on of it. Unlikely. But you never know.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 15:35

When we're doing when we do 30 days of Underhill, he's gonna be begging to be back on.

Jake Parrish 15:40

Wait a minute. So we're doing seven days and then we're gonna come back and do a whole month, right? Yeah, okay. Okay. I better clear my calendar. Actually, I was going to ask, what does it talk about this scene in the script?

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 15:54

Oh, I'm glad you asked that, Jake. Yes. Listen to this. Look what I discovered here. I'm gonna read right from the script. Exterior, tennis courts, day. Rich people enjoying themselves. A lot of women look like Mrs. Johnny Carson and playing killer doubles. Affirmative action has not yet reared its ugly head here. This is a major wasp nest. Fletch crosses the grounds. He's wearing his brand new tennis whites, a headband, wristbands, and toting a shiny new tennis gear. He's also wearing his madtress hat. Fletch passes the tennis court where a man in his tennis whites is watching his wife finish a lesson from a Mexican tennis pro, somebody like Pancho Ceguerra. Alonzo says, Mr. Underhill, your wife, she does beautifully. Mr. Underhill. Now, don't make her too good, Alonzo. This remark elicits a good deal of insincere laughter. Fletch joins in. Mr. Underhill turns to see who's joining the reparte and casts a snobbing, discriminating eye up and down Fletch's outfit. Mr. Underhill, oh my god, that hat calls to his wife. Sweetie, look at this guy's hat to Fletch. Really? Fletch, with eastern affection. You laugh now, but in six months, everybody will be wearing them.

unknown 17:24

Mr.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 17:24

Underhill, I wouldn't be caught dead in that thing. Fletch, hard cheese. The Underhills walk off, trying to figure out if they know this fellow. Fletch turns to Alonzo. Fletch. Alonzo, have you seen Mrs. Stanwick around? I'm supposed to meet her. Alonzo says, The practice court, how about a lesson today? Fletch says, Oh, you don't need a lesson. You look fine. Fletch walks off, leaving the tennis pro confused. End of scene.

"Big Bob" West 17:57

Wow. Man, that's a lot. All right, so you get your first encounter with Underhill, and because of that scene, which I'm sure if there was ever any DVD with extra footage, and it was actually a take that they took on that or a scene that they cut they made on that scene, you would have had reason for Fletcher to hit Underhill, other than just his his exchange with the bus boy. Can we agree? Yeah.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 18:21

Now a madros hat that's like more of a kind of a plaid, yeah, like a tartan kind of right. So that wouldn't that wouldn't go with a tennis white outfit.

"Big Bob" West 18:30

Probably not, but no, yeah. And you know what else? I'll tell you this. It might be taken as Scottish or Irish. In a lot of cases, these waspy people hate Scottish or Irish, like you know, they they prefer just to keep things, you know, white English, you know, born, not born, but you know, uh lineage in these clubs, you know, very waspy.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 18:49

Now, what kind of hat do you think it was? You think it's a baseball cap? You think it's a Gilligan style hat?

Jake Parrish 18:54

You think it's a I think it's like a Rex Harrison, like a fedora, maybe, or you think a fedora, yeah, or a pork pie hat or something like that.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 19:02

I wasn't sure if it was maybe like a tie web type hat.

Jake Parrish 19:05

Yeah, yeah. You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the scene from Caddyshack.

FletchCast Intro 19:09

Oh, this is the worst looking hat I ever saw. Well, you buy a hat like this, I bet you got a free bowl of soup, huh?

Jake Parrish 19:15

Oh, but it looks good on you, right? Exactly. You have the shirt on. Oh my god, that's so funny.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 19:20

I'm actually wearing a shirt that says it looks good on you, though.

Jake Parrish 19:23

Oh my god, that's so funny. You have that hat at a way. But yeah, that's that what maybe they cut that out because maybe it was too close to the scene in Caddyshack.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 19:34

You know, there was a direct attack, a humiliation on Fletch by the Underhills, a very snobby reaction to his outfit. You know, so that that that kind of warrants Chevy's, I should say, that warrants Fletch's retaliation against Underhill.

Jake Parrish 19:52

I wonder if they shot that scene.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 19:54

Yeah, that would be interesting to know.

Jake Parrish 19:56

But here's my question: is the scene with the bus boy in the script that you have?

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 20:02

No, this is the entire underhill scene. Wow. The very next part, the very next part is Fletch's interaction with Gail.

Jake Parrish 20:10

With Gail Sandwick, yeah. That is shocking. So at some time they decided to emit that and go in a totally different direction.

"Big Bob" West 20:23

Hmm.

Jake Parrish 20:25

Yeah. I almost prefer that. I don't know. I I wish both of them were in, you know, and just later on he continues to hear continues to hear him talking to the waiter, and then it's probably his idea that he is not a good person is solidified. Okay, he was mean to me. Oh, now he's mean to the busboy. Okay, now I'm going to retaliate. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Now it's on.

"Big Bob" West 20:56

We always kind of associate Ted Underhill with his with his tennis racket, and you know, he's probably a pretty accomplished tennis player. And we see him at Fletch Lives the Tennis Racket. In the movie Fletch, we would never know he plays tennis at all. Just because all we know him is as an obnoxious diner. We don't know him as a tennis player, so it kind of would have been better to keep the tennis scene in so we could really identify him as that role.

Jake Parrish 21:21

Fascinating what we're learning, even you and me, Bob.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 21:24

Now, is the in the script? Let's just fantasize a little bit. Is the tennis pro the waiter that takes a sick sandwich order?

Jake Parrish 21:32

I would, I would assume that's probably how they eventually that evolved.

"Big Bob" West 21:36

Uh no, no, no. That waiter is like old and heavy. A tennis pro is gonna be in shape and fit. It's gonna be like a a handsome, swarthy, you know. You said he was uh Latino, you know, he's he's gonna be like a like like a bit of a Lathario, this guy, you know, not that guy, not not that old guy. Gonna be like Mario Lopez.

Jake Parrish 22:01

Okay, well Lopez. Now is he credited in the screen? I know he's got to be credited, the waiter. Yes. Um look here.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 22:12

Nico da Silva. On IMDB, his photo looks like uh Juan Valdez from the Colombian coffee commercials.

"Big Bob" West 22:19

Oh my god, that's funny. So interesting enough, he's credited, but you cannot find any information on that guy whatsoever.

Jake Parrish 22:27

Well, his on IMDB, he's got so he was in Soap Dish, a movie with uh Sally Field. I love the flex he did an episode, he did an episode with Highway to Heaven, and then just some movies in the 70s. Yeah, some big parts you never heard of.

"Big Bob" West 22:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know, kind of unknown. Maybe just like a like a like a good reliable uh you know stand-in extra that you know got some lines in this movie.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 22:56

I'm sending you guys a picture right now of uh Pancho Segura.

Jake Parrish 23:01

Oh, okay, there he is. Oh, you're right. He doesn't look anything like a waiter.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 23:04

That's yeah, this guy would also be putting the moves on Thunderhill as well when he's gonna be a good one.

"Big Bob" West 23:09

Probably around that's that's definitely pictured more. Kind of strange he offers Fletch a tennis lesson, being that he's probably never seen him there before. Or he definitely hasn't seen him there before. Yeah, you would think that somebody like that would be very exclusive with who he you know gives lessons to. Yeah. He probably has a pretty busy schedule. You know, he's got he's got underhill at uh at 11 30, and then he's got Dr. Dolan at Dr. Dolan at noon. He's probably gotta work with uh with uh with what's her name, Gail, at 12 uh 12 30 or 1 o'clock at 2 because she needs a lot of help. Yeah.

Jake Parrish 23:50

I'm also just interested in the lead up to the interaction with Underhill, because what was described in the script he didn't have some of that on. He didn't have the hat on, he didn't have the sweatband on. I don't even know if he had the uh the wristbands on. He does have wristbands, it'll be wrong. Right. And there's no mention of him getting the car with his racket. I wonder if that was improv. Right. Oh, that's gotta be heavy improv right there.

"Big Bob" West 24:20

You know, like that that that screams Jeffy.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 24:24

This scene actually in the script also happens directly after the Laker dream. Is that what happens in the movie?

"Big Bob" West 24:32

Yeah, it does. It actually does. It actually does, because I can picture Chick Hearn saying, um defiance grace under pressure right into Chevy or Flesh uh whacking the car. Yeah, it does. That's right. Yeah, it does, it definitely does. Oh my god, that's funny.

"Laker Jim" James Kanowitz 24:48

Alright, well, I think on that note, we're gonna wrap up day two, okay? Listen, I encourage you guys to get lots of sleep tonight. Tomorrow is going to be dark and deep as we delve into the man behind the man William trailer, the man who played Ted Underhill. I don't know if I can deal with this. Oh, believe me, you can't. That's for tomorrow. Today, let's end this podcast on a happy note. Let's send you off with Merv, Mariyama, yes, the Chinese busboy, who decided to cover the drifters song Up on the Roof. And it's not a coincidence that he covered this because it's a song if you really listen to the lyrics about him and the underhills and how he felt directly after what happened, and how he just wanted to escape and get away. Enjoy the song, guys. For Jake, for Bob, I'm Laker Jim, Chinese bus boy, take it away, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

And this whole world starts getting down, and people are just too low to make.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

Sorry, Mr. Underkill.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Let me tell you now when I come home. Imagine you're expecting a nice bitch to it, right? And all that ramp on the street. Maybe next time.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

It's a double trillion one hundred dollars a shop. Jesus ain't Christ, where is it?

SPEAKER_03 27:36

And darling, you can share it all with Sally. I keep on telling you rights back dab in the middle of town. I found a paradise. And if this world starts getting you down, there's room enough for two up on the room. Up on the room. I'm telling you, hey, Mrs. Stanwick! I'm telling you on it. Up on the room. Mrs. Stanwick! Up on the room.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Up on the room. Now I'm finished. Whatever you say, Mr. Underhill.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Thank you.