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Like I'm always writing to you, this wonderful country of America is a treaty you send to Luigi very good. And soon I'm going to be making my first million. Then I'm going to call it myself a Luigi J.P. Vasco. In America this is J.P. stand for the jack-of-art. Yeah, I mean, you got everything. Of course, to my countrymen in Pasquale, J.P. is a standard for only one thing, just this other piece. But I'm not going to worry, I'm not going to marry Rosa and... Oh, Vasco. Oh, hello, Mr. Postman. Come in, come in. You're just going to find I have something to eat with you. No, thanks. I just had some juice and eggs with us, two other fruit men, and I had some sandwiches and coffee with a pallet grain. Oh, please. Just a little bite for friendship, some grats and a chicken, or a little lasagna. No, no. Vasco, the way this labor had pleased me, my mailbag keeps getting whiter as I go along, but my stomach gets heavy. Anyway, here's your letter. Oh, it's like, here's a flan with my mama. Wait, I'll open it up and you'll hear what she writes. Fine, and I will have some grats. Sure. I'm thinking you're going to try some chicken, too. Here, here's what she says. Listen, I'm very happy, dear Luigi, to read how you love your wonderful country America and how you've become rich. The whole family is a wish they was in America to help you pick up some of the gold that's on the streets. My son, we all thank you for the presents that you send us. That the egg slices that you send them is very nice, but I don't think it's going to be too good. Every time you try to slice up the egg, it's a break open and everything is a spill out. Uncle Pietro says you're thankful for the descendants. In other words, you should see him as an alphabet. He makes more noise than the richest man in Italy. And Aunt Margherita thanks you for the party shoes. But Luigi, I'm surprised at you. If you're so rich, how come you send Aunt Margherita's shoes with a bigger hole in the front? But when it's done and ready, my son, everything comes to you, like we say. Aunt Margherita is saving the shoes to wear when her bigger toes are going to hurt them. Now, my son, I'd like to ask you a big favor. As long as you've got so much money, please, please send me $40, which I may need very much. Then ask away just to send. I'm a bless you, Luigi, goodbye, keep a healthy mama. Well, pay Luigi something wrong. Plenty. My mama needs a $40 and a million. I ain't begone it. How about I go to my night school asking my friends to tell me what to do? Well, don't worry. Maybe you can dig it up. If possible, you can dig up the samples and you'll never bury it. Luigi, you got yourself in a bad spot all right. Joe, but why did you ever tell your mother you were a millionaire? I'm aware that she should be proud of me. And I made it for everybody expecting she should be rich. Friends, what am I supposed to do? Luigi, I got it. Into my head, an idea just pooped. But what am I supposed to do? Today you were a millionaire, but you just paid it your income tax and now you're broke again. You don't have time to be joking. Luigi, I just can't understand how you ever came to write your mother such a true true story. Oh, so this I can understand. She's an old lady and Luigi wanted to feel her son was really getting to be a big shot in America. It's all right to tell her he's a big shot. But Luigi, why did you have to become the atom bomb? Now you write your mother today and tell her the whole thing was just a little fun-making. No, no, I'm not going to break her heart. Hi, it's the gentleman here. Come sit here. Good evening, Claude. You're the one on this body thing. Why, don't we all look serious tonight? Well, I'll call the roll. Mr. Basker. Here. Mr. Howard. Here. Mr. Olson. Here. Mr. Schultz. I wish I was that. Well, what's that on Mr. Schultz? Luigi, he's in a tight spot and only one thing can help him out. And what's that? A million dollars. Why? It's a long story, Miss Paul. Luigi wrote his mama, he's a millionaire. So she wrote him, she wants forty dollars on account. And she needs a dog. Miss Pauling, I was just telling Mr. Basker. Armistice is the best policy by Germany. There were many times in my life when I was tempted to express the truth so that I could make some material gains. But I always said Olson played a game fair. Olson used her character. Olson maintained her integrity. Olson, shut up. Just listen to him. Sweden's obstitute for the sleeping pill. What's the use to argue? The fact is, Luigi needs forty dollars. I can maybe scare up ten. Well, I could scare up another ten. I couldn't even frighten a half a dollar. Mr. Basker, I wish I could help, but I... No, no, friends, I'm not gonna lend the money when I'm gonna see how I'm gonna pay back. Luigi, be sensible. This is no time for false pride. Yes, after all your mother writes, she needs the money badly. Father, you think mother, she's sick? Of course not. Maybe they just a new dress. They're cold. They're just a costume. Maybe she's a column in a prison. Don't be ridiculous. It's nothing like that. Maybe she just wants a little extra food. Good. She must be starving. Him and Luigi should just ask you to lend her forty dollars. Not a red trot unit. I'm sure you've got everything over-exaggerated, Mr. Basker. Now, don't worry. It may be for some repairs around the house, like painting the house or adding some steps to the porch or putting on a new roof. Oh, it couldn't be that, Mr. Spaulding. Why not? My mama does all those things herself. Luigi, if she does all that, then I know what she wants the forty dollars for. For what, the shoes? For her new bed so she can lay down for a shave. She, my friend, is the Allah Allah. What brings you to my spaghetti palace today? Mr. Basker, are you my friend, uh-huh? Surely, little banana nose. You're my friend and I'm my countryman, uh-huh? I've arrived at the pizan. Then lend me forty dollars. All of a sudden, the pizan is a poison. I'm a person you wouldn't adore. Of course I would. Why you say that to Luigi? You know as far as you're concerned. I'm like a leaky faucet where money is always a drip out. Oh, thank you, Mr. Spaulding. You're the biggest drip I know. That's the funny thing. When I say it, it's a come out of different. Anyway, Luigi, in this case, a blood is a thicker than a water. Blood, what do you mean? Forget it. The important thing is you got me forty dollars. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Basker. You're so wonderful. Thank you, thank you. Thank you not to the body, Luigi. Now I'm going to do you a little favor. Maybe you're going to do me a little favor. What a stupid question. What's the favor you want me to do for you? Marry my daughter Rosa, just once. I'm going to need the money badly, but don't ask me. So that's how much your mama means it to you, eh? I'm going to do anything except for marry her. Luigi, outside of marry Rosa, there ain't anything. But I promise you, if you lend me the money, I'm not going to pay you back for whatever interest that you want. The only interest I want is a six of grandchildren. Well, what do you say? I offer you the forty. This offer is open only for the next ten seconds. And between five and a ten, I'm an open account. Wait, wait, wait. I just remembered in my antique shop, in my little iron in a box. They're going to ring, and my mamma's going to give me before I'm going to come to America. He's got a little diamond in it. I'm a good opponent. Don't you remember you hopped that ring two years ago? Oh, what a mind. I have. I have, but I'm a doctor for the tickets. Yeah, and I'm a kind of body undone. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're wasting your time. All the roads lead to Pasquale, and in the middle is the detour always to Rosa. Pasquale, that's not detour. That's a road block. Anna, let me see. Here, I'm going to get all of my papers. Huh? Who was at the pawn ticket? You forgot, eh? I own at the pawn ticket, too. What am I going to do? Hey, what's this? The United States Treasury Bound for $50. What? Who am I? I forgot all about it. Three years ago, when I first came off the boat, I wanted to show my appreciation. I bought this a bond. Yeah, now I'm going to get to the $40. Uh? Pasquale, I'm going to need you now. I'm going to cash you the bond, and I get the money, and then I... That's the matter. I'm not going to cash you this a bond, and now, when it's the 70 years of work to go, I'm going to trade for it to the country. Hey! America needs my money, and I'm going to take it to the West. That's what I say, Luigi. You couldn't have done such a thing. Eh, besides, you've got the United States Treasury War Bound. So what? So you can't cash in unless somebody's at the Clare Wall in the United States of Treasury. If you cash in, and now, you're starting to run in the Treasury, you're doing a terrible thing. You knock in a fort Knox. What? That's all right. Just imagine what's to happen. Soon the white gets around, the bus goes, the cash in is gone, the whole neighborhood starts to cash in anymore. Sooner the armies will run out of money, start to cut down expenses. They try to buy battleships a wholesale. That can be good. They try to stop as they're defected. They begin to shoot the guns at what's to happen. No bullets come out. That's a terrible thing. It's a worst of the terrible. It's a catastrophe. And why is all this to happen? Because of Luigi Bosco as a cash in as a war bound. Money, money, money. Before we return to life with Luigi, we'd like to mention that Wrigley's experiment chewing gum is just about the perfect taste treat to enjoy between your meals. There are lots of times when you get a hankering for something tasty to chew on, yet you don't want anything rich or filling. Well, a stick of Wrigley's experiment chewing gum really does the trick. 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Schultz, how you gonna say such a thing? You want I'm sure to do that to my country? Luigi, man, who am I talking to? Luigi Bosco, Ben the Dictator. Schultz agrees with me. He says if I'm a cashier in a band, I'm a declarer in an American battleship. So soon the whole country is gonna be defective because you're gonna buy a fort and that's all it says. Schultz, are you for Schultz? Luigi, it's not for me to tell you what to do. You've got to make it up your own mind. Like we say in the delicatessen business, every salami has got to stand up for advance. But don't ask me. Ask anybody. Sure, keep the bond, but if you need the money badly, like an emergency for your mother, live with the two months to kill others. Schultz, Schultz, you take American people as you're not gonna be angry with me if I cash in on my bond? Who knows? In the next election, we can take a vote on it and find out. I'm a counterweight. I know. I'm not gonna go out on the street and ask all the people what they think. I'm not gonna let everybody's opinion. Sure, Luigi, that's a good idea. And don't worry about it. Everything is gonna come out alright. Come on, Luigi, she'll be like me, always happy, always laughing. Ooh, my rheumatism is killing me. Excuse me, Mr. Policeman. I'd like to ask you something. Would you cash in a bond? What? Would you cash in a bond? Sorry, Mr. Anne got the cash on me. Try the bank. Mr. Policeman, I mean, I mean, if he wasn't to have a bond and he wasn't needed the money, would you cash it in? Oh, you're taking a poll. What are you talking about? I'm gonna take a nobody's a poll. I'm gonna never steal a nothing in my life. Hey, wait. No, goodbye. Hello, excuse me, lady. I'm gonna ask you a question. I like that. I'm glad you like it. What? Lady, if you wasn't needed the money, goodness, just like that. Money's not for me, it's for my mom. A likely story. Lady, you like everything I've said, but you don't give me a chance to say it. Well, here. Such going down. My, my, my, my country. Just before asking a question, ladies would give me ten cents. People, people, people, they're funny. I'll ask a plan of question about a cash in a bond. Everybody thinks I'm a crazy. It is a nice and quiet to hear in the park. There's a man sitting over by the tree under the bench. And he must, he must be very rich because he's not a working and a daytime man. Yeah, I think I'm, I'm, I'm gonna ask him. Excuse me, mister. Do you mind, do you mind if I'm a sitting down by you in a bench? Why not? It's a free country. Would you hand me that cigarette on the ground, please? Huh? Cigarette on the ground? Oh, you was dropped it, huh? Yeah, I'm trying to taste it. I want to see if it's any better if it lays on the ground for a while. Hey, mister, please. I'm gonna like to borrow nobody, but, but I'm gonna ask a question. Huh? You ever have a bond? Sure, plenty. All my life, I've been sprung on bail bonds. Sprung on bail? Well, well, I'm, I'm gonna US a bond. See? I'm, I'm so ashamed I'm gonna cash it in. What am I gonna do, huh? And this is a democracy. You can do it like you please. Cash it or not. But I don't blame you for being the same. See, that's, that's just what I thought. I'll tell you what I'll do for you. Is it signed? Yeah. I'm sure I'm a signager so I could check. I'm, I sign on the back. Well, just so you won't be embarrassed, you sit right here. I'll take it over to the bank for you and bring back the money. Oh, mister, you're wonderful, wonderful person. Thank you. Now I'm gonna be able to send to my mom the money she needs. Sure, I'll have the dough for you, for you. For your mother? Yeah. No. No. I can't do it. You're too trusting. What's the matter, mister? Well, you won't believe it. But I won't send a mother. Mother? Yes, friend. Take your bond back. But the why? Take it to the bank yourself. I'm too ashamed. And I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not happy to be afraid. No, not if it belongs to you. Goodbye, friend. And when you hand your mother the money, give her regards from Benny the bum. Sure, I'm, I'm glad to do that. Goodbye, friend. Goodbye, mister bum. Just take a seat, mister Pascoe. I'll be with you in a moment. That's all right, mister banker manager. I'm gonna get a plenty of time. Well, I'm, I'm, I'm afraid I'm so ashamed that I can't do this about him. If my mom isn't on me this so bad, I'm, I'm gonna never do it. Well, I'm ready now, mister Pascoe. Oh, by the way, Judge Boss, this is mister Pascoe, the leading businessman in the neighborhood. He's only been in America a few years, but I always point him out as a leading example of good citizenship. This country could always use men of the caliber of mister Pascoe. Now, mister Pascoe, what did you want to see me about? Maybe you can let me have a free calendar. A free department. This is the place. If nobody's know me, it's gonna be easier to cash you my money. I'm, I'm gonna do it. Excuse me, miss Treasury Lady. Yes? Where am I going to? To what? To, please. I'm not going to do it because I'm a woman. Doing what? Cash you into my bond. Well, why didn't you say you wanted to cash in a bond? No, please, please, not to sell out the treasure these are gonna hear you. You'll take your bond over the window number seven. Thank you. I'm gonna like this. She's gonna give me not the nice look. Yes, sir. Who is it, mister Treasury? I'm not the treasure. Ah, you're here to send the puppies out to lunch, huh? I'm just a bond clerk. What did you want, sir? Uh... Guess. A bond? No, but I'm a wish I could. Well, then what is it? There's a guess again. But you're kidding me. I'm a nothing. Please, sir, I'm busy. All right, I'm gonna give you a hint. I'm gonna want to cash in something. You want to cash in a bond? Good for you, you're very smart there. How much would I give you? For jetter or something like that? That'd be a problem. Hey, hey, hey, all right. Let's have a bond. Please, I'm ashamed. Maybe you just a re-chart then I'll take it from my pocket. This way I'm gonna say I'm gonna give it to you, but you took it yourself. Mister, if you want to cash in your bond, you'll have to hand it over. Then what are you gonna do with it? We send it to Washington. With my name? Yes. Mama, may they gonna send me back to Italy? Look, mister, I haven't got all day. All right. Pleasure, you eyes. I'm gonna put an account there and I want to open them up as you're gonna be there. Mama is for you. All right. This bond is three years old. Oh, it's a second-hand, huh? All right, I'm gonna take it $2 or less. I just meant, sir, if you cash this bond now you'll be losing a lot of interest. No, I'm never gonna lose interest in America. I'm at the full interest. However, you do get part interest on your money. Here you are, sir, $40. Funny, but I'm only paid a $37.50 for this. That's right, but with three years' interest it comes to $40. No, no, I'm not gonna charge your medical for my money. I'm gonna take it back to $37.50. All right, hey, come back here. Come back. Ripped thing I said you shouldn't have did, you did did. As well, I had to. It wasn't for my mama. The government don't care. And, Danny, you insult the Treasury Department by turning down the $2.50. Luigi, for insulting the D-man the government is gonna make you one step worse. You, what they call the U-man. U-man? That's what it wants to this city. You ever see the picture on the sign outside the post office, Uncle Sam wants a U? It means a U, the man they want. No, look, that's not a U. It can't be. It is a B, especially for people who take advantage of the citizenship without a citizenship of papers. Now, for you was a 100% American which could have happened by a marriage through a certain party. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, yes. I got a call already and you tell it a good news yourself before it's too late. Rosa! Rosa! Rosa, say hello to a certain party who's applying for American citizenship. Rosa, my darling Luigi is now willing to become a part of the family. Oh, kitty! What part? Oh, shut up, you thing! Mr. Bass, come on, I'm here to treasure you, man. Don't get excited, my son. I'm going to handle him. Now, Mr. T-man, if you would have kindly come outside it would have been me. Mr. Bass, the boss made me come down here and give you this two-and-a-half dollars. That's due, you know. Please, take it. Luigi, don't touch it. It's a mark for money. Oh, be silly. I couldn't do a thing like that. I work for the government. That's right. If you're working for the United States, that's the government. And this money is yours. And I'm in nothing and no trouble with you. I'm in a you and in my government. And, of course, how do I take it? Thank you. Well, forget the two-and-a-half for dollars, Luigi. We got a more important thing to say, like a rose. Oh, I hope I've got you better not to talk to me. You yourself said it so. What do you mean? You said I'm a human. Well, what's a human? I've got to do with a rose. Well, lengthy. I'm a human, a hisman, everything except the heart of man. Goodbye, Bob. Say, Luigi, I meant to ask you a long time ago. Whatever happened with that, you asked Bonnie. Well, I heard of it. Someone I'd like to talk about. I'm going to cash it in. Oh, yeah, about three weeks ago I was sent to my mom with the money. What did she want it for? I'm going to know, but it must have been very important. All right, Pascal, a letter for you. Oh, for me today. I'll wait to hear it. I'm ready for you. Good. Yes, a from of my mom, man. Dear son, Luigi, thanks for the money which you sent to me like I'm going to ask. I wouldn't ask unless I know you're rich and I can afford to send it. But I know you're going to be very happy with what I'm going to do with the money. All the ways you write how wonderful is America to you. So I'm going to show how much I appreciate and I'm going to take a $37 and a $50 from the $40 and a $50 United States war bond. Who am I? You're loving a mama bus go from Italy. That is the makers of Wrigley experiment chewing gum. Hope you enjoyed tonight's episode of Life with Luigi. And they'd like to suggest that you include a few packages of Wrigley experiment next time you do your family shopping. It's good to have Wrigley experiment gum in your home for your family and friends because just about everybody likes to chew a stick from time to time. Folks like that refreshing, lively, real spearmint flavor. And the pleasant chewing gives them extra enjoyment. Besides chewing aids digestion and helps keep the teeth clean and bright. So when you go to the store and you've bought the other things you need add a few packages of Wrigley's spearmint chewing gum. The folks at your house will really enjoy it. 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