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# A thrill a minute, an invention a day
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# It's the American way
:05:19
# A thrill a minute, an invention a day
:05:24
# It's the American way... #
:05:31
I was deciding to write off this weird town,
makes you sleep forever.
:05:47
'This wouldn't be the first time I got sucked
into writing about Lazlo, Karl Lazlo esquire,
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'attorney at law, my attorney.
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'This was the man I counted on
to keep me out of jail in those years.
:06:00
'Those weird years between
the '60s and the '70s,
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'the age of Nixon.
:06:05
'It was a time to keep your head down.
:06:08
'I was a working journalist, a hired geek
of sorts, and Lazlo was great company
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'and sometimes a good lawyer.
:06:14
'It was a fast, strange time,
and we worked in fast, strange ways.'
:06:19
He claimed he was being chased
by Mr Nixon
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when his car was attacked
by a swarm of bats.
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Bats?
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It's obvious he was having
a paranoid drug reaction.
:06:30
Every 20 minutes, he calls down to the desk,
demands to see his lawyer and hangs up.
:06:35
He claims he's being held a prisoner.
:06:40
Uh-oh.
:06:42
Er, I'm rambling.
:06:44
Er...
:06:48
I think I'd better tell my readers that I'm
no longer responsible for anything I write.
:06:57
Er, I've been without sleep for 80 hours
so I'm beyond simple fatigue.