if that is what people think, then the mayor of kansas city when charlie parker was there, tom pendergast, he was a very successful mayor. hehe was a complete crook. and the mafia was there. and one of the guys that i quote in the book says, well, in kansas city people didn't have locks on their doors of their places because they stayed open all the time, they never went to -- they never closed. so whatever you wanted, you could get it at any time. if you wanted sex, you could get it. if you wanted to gamble, you could get it. if you wanted liquor, you could get it. what have you wanted, legal or illegal, it was always available. and so charlie parker grew up in that world, you know? and he, part of what he learned when he was a kid was that whatever happens in life, there's always an opposite version of it. and, see, so when he was a kid, he was kind of -- he had so many things come to him so fast that he learned that people live one way during the day, they live another way after dark. and so one of his jobs when he was 16 years old, they put on sex shows upstairs on saturday nights. an