Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Come closer.

I want to talk to you.

I'm going to tell you an astounding story, the story of the Maltese falcon.

For six hundred years the falcon has carried the mystery of a fabulous wealth under its grotesque wings.

I could tell you a thousand tales of the men and women who have hunted this evil bird.

But every story has the same ending.

Murder.

Listen to these incredible people, all consumed by their passionate greed for the Maltese falcon.

We're your fan and writer host. I'm Blue Gow.

And I'm Drift Glass, and you can visit Science Fiction University at our website,

science fiction university.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.

There is a Patreon button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution to Science Fiction University, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. We're going to take a one-time

only left turn away from the genre of science fiction to talk about film noir because frankly during our off time,

which don't have a lot of, but we enjoy it. We've been watching a lot of detective slash noir

fiction, which we both really, really love. My wife is a huge fan of the Thin Man series,

which is terrific. We've watched Tokyo Vice, which we love, true dejective night country, which is problematic,

but we like that.

And Monsieur Spade.

And so down the film noir rabbit hole, we tumbled.

I tell you right out, I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.

Well.

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