We interrupt our program to bring you this important message. I'm back, big,

I'm back, big jay. Biggé! Biggé! So what does it all mean? I'm finally back and there's no more revisited media even though I have enough, probably not as much as Prince, but I figure if I do

three to four episodes and then go on hiatus where I can work on other things like I work on the past six weeks, you can expect PIT, Book T, Star Trek T, Sports, T, Pop Culture, T, and Reality T, T,

T, and reality TV T.

And in between, you can also expect republishing and chair twirking because I have bad knees and feet

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Timfro was reading or a bonus episode of Timfro's bar if I get

sponsors but not until then and enjoy the shake mix. My apologies to Henry Mancini, but a riff on the pink panther theme is in alignment with a podcast segment dedicated to a fictional PI and all about true crime or fictional crime in this case.

Don't you think? I A scam is a scam. There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupid not to be deceived by them. This is an old

fraudster, old school fraudster, Charles Caleb Colton, a 19th century British cook. He was a cleric, a writer, and he himself

was a scammer. He fled from his creditors.

Ended up in the gambling salons in France,

won a fortune, lost a fortune, and then he killed himself instead of going through some type of surgery.

I don't know if I would want to go through surgery without antibiotics and clean

sterile technique in the 19th century. I record most of my podcast kind of during the week or whenever I get the inspiration this past week has been filled with

Lots of reports of fraud and well as P Diddy. So here we go. On a Sunday I read or mostly skim the New York Times and I've said this in previous episodes.

Many of the years have gone by when the old gray lady has been called or was called the

single woman sports pages that was the style section back in the day. This is way

before COVID shut everything down and changed the dynamic of society. Some of the books that I'm going to read or will read and some of what I actually talk about on my podcast, not only came from the style section but also from the reader section and it's

just one of those things that I basically do as part of how I like to spend my Sundays.

And it's actually really nice. I have found myself just happy and relaxed and because I can get up like I did this morning,

change the water in my hot tub,

fill it up, look around, like see what is that fluttering, making sure it's not a

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