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Naw, hell, I used to deliver the LA Times to Jimmy Stewart, Raquel Welch and Telly Savalas - met (said hello) to John Wayne twice and dived with Jeff Bridges once. Had Johnny Unitas buy me a hamburger at Chargers training camp. Growing up in Newport you kinda learn to be cool around celebrities. Like it’s no big deal. ( Jill Clayburgh looked better in person )

Phil was much more interested in diving than work and we were local and long time California divers and spearfishermen. Still are. Ask me about saving David Crosby’s life sometime LOL. Liz Hurley looks good in a bikini!

Reminds me. True story. My parents were solid Nixon republicans and made wonderful friends with a like minded couple down the street in Huntington Harbour ( we had sportfishers ) - this couple were from Armenia and were big spenders at the tables in Las Vegas and Ensenada. Loved to sail out to Catalina for gamefish. No visible means of support but they threw money around like you wouldn’t believe.

So a month or two go by and no one’s seen the two of them. Some time after, we get a knock on the door and omg it’s the FBI. Two smiling young men in “cheap suits and Florsheim shoes - the kind that squeak” ( my mom later quipped) - turns out the two - Grace and George were Russian Intel Ops suspects and were being held on Espionage and Fraud charges in the Federal Lockup in Los Angeles. Man those two were the best, most interesting people I’ve ever met. Now that I think of it, they look like James Bond and Natasha. Miss them.