Nick Bryant

Wow.

So Henry comes from that kind of background where, you know, he was young and gay and he was repressed.

And then he met some other morticians, gay morticians, and they would go to this Chippendales version of like a gay scene.

And Henry met one of the dancers and

kind of befriended him.

And the dancers said that this guy who was dying was willing to sell his escort service.

And Henry said,

just kind of on a lark said, well, how much?

And the guy said, I think it was 10 or 13,000, something like that.

And Henry said, I'll buy it.

Wow.

So he gets into snake handling too.

No.

In a different way.

So, but Henry is a very, very, very smart guy.

And then, so he opens the Washington Yellow Pages.

This is back when we had Yellow Pages.

And then he starts calling escort services.

And most escort services are fly-by-night operations, so they don't pay their phone bill.

So when Henry would encounter a phone, like a disconnection notice, he would call the phone company and say, I will pay the arrears if you give me the number.