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also for the nook and for the iPad. All right, well,
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now it's time for today's episode of The Amazing Mister Malone, the Lucky Staff,
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The Amazing Mister Malone, Give me the Office of John J. Malone.
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We now present the Amazing Mister Malone and exciting have our mystery and suspense.
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Sorry John, Saul is the lawyer who's practiced before every type of par
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has become a legend. A Loo Carl is the city of New York,
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the time, the president, and the hero of these weekly adventures, the
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amazing mister Malone. Malone's the name John J. Malone, Attorney and counselor
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at law Tonight, I'd like you to consider the cliche that runs lucky in
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cards unlucky in love, because that brings up the case of Lucky of Paroh,
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the exception who proved the rule. As his name implies, he was
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lucky in everything. For example, look at him now as he takes part
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in a fast poker game. He's the good looking, dark young man who
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happens to be dealing at the moment. All I blame how many so right,
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Olynvick uh you and Livings out there? Yeah, okay, last m
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hmm, all right, to take one for myself. I blame you open,
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I'll check to the pet hand five blue, all right, last five
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and five? Well, hell that lets me out of darrow. Yeah,
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my open is all right, blame well last you were took one. I
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just took one. Well, I'll see you the best you can do with
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a pat hand I said, I'll see you. You don't like it,
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you know what you can do? Here's my five? All right, well,
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what do you got a pull jack? Allowed? Did you ever see
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such luck? Did you take luck? Blad? Yeah? Sure, appear
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lucky? All right, lucky? Somebody doesn't take him apart. It's last
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and you can't take you know, not the way you play out there?
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Not more? How do I play? I have to draw up diagram the
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way off lash And he's lucky. That's all on his deal, on everybody's
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deal. He's been winning all night. And you're going to take that back?
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Glasses not take an elephant back? Stay away from me. You're going
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to take that back? I said, stay away from me? The hey
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hey, look at it used the beer mark, and I ain't going to
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back all right, last, take back what you said? I get that.
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I knock you down again? Well all right up there you win?
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You take it back what you said? Yeah, all right, get up?
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What's the joke? Blame? They talk about? What that beer mug
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hadn't caught in your jacket? You're maybe he won't be so lucky next time?
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What do you mean by that? Last? You'll find out you don't
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have enough? All right? Now where you will go? Let him go
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at Taro? Sure, I let him go. Well, let's get back
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to the game. Who's I think I've had enough for the night at Taro?
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Nobody wants to play? Huh, what's the matter? It's still early.
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Well, well, it's just we know you're on the level, but
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with your luck. Every body says, what I studied the percentages. That's
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all right, the percentages. But I just can't see myself playing with a
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guy you know you can't be. Let's pay up and call the knight,
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all right, that's the way you It's a profitable night for me. I
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just thought you boys might want to chance to try to win back part of
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what you lost win terror. You know the percentage is better than that.
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Hello, Hardwick, Ah, oh Sarah, you don't seem happy to see
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me. There's no way to greet one of your best customers. There are
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other bookies in town. Why not get them a whirl? I do you
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like that? Nobody wants to take my mond take your money. That's good.
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You won't take any more best not yours? A tarr WHI is very
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fun. You know something, Hardwick? What the luckiest thing that could happen
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to me? Would me for to have a little bad luck for one?
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Oh Terror, come in thanks? Oh eln, How would you like to
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make some easy money doing what? It's like this? I'm getting a reputation
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in this town. Everybody is steering clear of luckier Terror. Even the big
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boys are showing the patther. They say, I always will you do?
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And I wanted to hear you say that, because then you'll like my proposition.
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Go on, here is five grands. I want you to place it
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with George hawick On. I'll tell you the horses to play. If we
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lose, it doesn't cost you anything. If we win, I give you
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a cap. Let's have a cash. It's a deal. That deal,
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but all those aces in my head? What would you call it? I
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feel love me late? I wonder what was keeping you? I stopped talking.
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We made the deal. That reminds me I have a deal for you.
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You have, Yeah, And I'm phoned you today from a publishing company.
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Publishing company? What do they want with me? Well, they're putting
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out a book on mathematical chances, how to win the games, you know,
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things like that. Oh yeah, Well they want to use your name
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in connection with it in some of your experiences, since you're getting to be
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famous, he said, it'd be good money in it. I'm all right,
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Why should I bother with something like this? Well, I just thought
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when I do the thinking for this time. Oh no, don't look like
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that, like what Maybe you know I do anything for you? You want
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me to call that publishing fellow? All I tell you what matters. Everybody
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says I'm lucky. Well, that's right. I'm the luckiest fellow in the
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world because I got you. Sometimes I'm afraid tell me something I want this
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strife. Are you happy? I got to know, Yes, I'm happy.
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Sometimes I think maybe you are ashamed of me. I think you say,
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like just I think you don't like a husband who is just yeah,
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I mustn't think that. Yeah, of course it would be nice if you
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it's that is. I don't know. Really, I was only talking,
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that's right, baby, only talking. And you know something? You said
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them mouth? Oh i'd wait. Oh, blame just the boy I wanted
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to see come into my office. Okay, okay, hello, Holland back,
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don't you plain? Yeah, hello the Holland back. You know something,
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Holland Back, Wayne's doing all right? For himself. He's taken me
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for thirty days in the past week. Thirty five, right, blame correction
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thirty five. I'm ruddy in luck yeah so yeah, but not yours bland.
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Yeah, I got a funny hunt. You're fronting for somebody? Would
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I do that? You know what? And I got a funny hunt?
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Who it is you have? Yeah? Terror, that's very funny. I
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thought you'd appreciate it before you laughed yourself to death. Let's get a few
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things straight. Yeah what so, first of all, get this straight.
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You're way off place hard week. I hardly know a terror. Alan Beck
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says different. He was in the game, but you're not Terror. The
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night loss and Blowy's top, he says, you're not terough are real?
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Chermany so I play cards with the terror. Lots of people didn't till they
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learned better. That doesn't mean anything. You are on his pay or arn't
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you? You're calling it? I was at your turn. I'm not talking.
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No, Hey, hang me off. That's a new shirt that it'll
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be ashamed to get blood all over it wouldn't look I don't know. Thinks
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you sure that? H okay, okay, lay off, I'll talk well
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yeah, yeah, Hardwick, you're right. It's a terrorist cash. Thanks.
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How that's all I wanted to know. Oh oh oh, hello mister
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Malone. This is why I'm not there. That's right. I've been reading
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about you. Well, that's why I want to see you. Or somebody
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is trying to destroy the little don't worry a girl. I can't even good
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let it down? When can I see you? Oh? Well second,
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let me look at my appointment. All right, well can't you put off
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that? Yeah, it's important that I see God time. I'm taking an
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occurrence to l Oh no, I'll be before all the people. I know.
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I'm done and think I can find somebody. Oh well the forum on
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heard of bed? What that? That doesn't there? I'm you know,
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I'm not joking, mister Malone. I want to see you. What are
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you doing now? And nothing? Ten minute? Thank you, mister Malone.
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Goodbye? Oh helloy, didn't hear you come in? Hey? What's
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the idea of you? Before returning to the amazing mister Malone. A few
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words from your announcer, and now back to the amazing mister Malone. Otero
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said it'd be over in ten minutes. I waited ten minutes. I waited
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twenty minutes, when I'd waited a full thirty minutes and still know what Taro?
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I looked him up on the phone book and called him back. Don't
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tell me that sounds like, Lieutenant Brooks. Don't that sounds like what are
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you doing at Tero's Brooks? No, Look, I'm serious. Who's been
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homicided? How do you like that I'm unemployed again? Prospected. I can't
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tell you. No, I just don't know. He didn't say, except
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something about somebody trying to destroy the legend. I can't. I got a
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date with a manicurist, cured this little dollar whoever kipt a hangmaut. But
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Lieutenant Brooks, you wanted to see me? Yeah, come on next road.
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Why I want you to talk to missus a Tarah, missus a Taro.
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This is John J. Malone. Hello, Hello, missus Taroh.
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Malone tells me your husband wanted to engage in Do you know what it was
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about? Yes? What? Well? Some people were going to write a
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book about his system of working out percentages? Yeah, mister Larson. Met
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Larson began spreading stories that my husband was a chief publishing. People heard about
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it and they didn't like it. My husband's threatened to get hold of mister
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Larson and give them another beating another. They'd already had one fight that I
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convinced my husband that fighting wouldn't do any good. I persuaded him to go
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to you, mister Malone. I thought they might be able to see the
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definition of character. I see, well, thanks missus Taro. Oh,
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we won't bother anymore. Now that's all right. I want to help in
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any way I can. If you can let me find who kills way,
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well, come on alone, goodbye, missus say out. I call it
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fick out new Larson for questioning. You know, Brooks says. One thing
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that puzzles me, what's happen alone? When a terror said destroy, what
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did he mean by it? Defamation or murder? Maggie, I thought I
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told you I'm out. Oh well, well I just came in. Tell
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him I'll see him right away. That's what I call efficiency. To show
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my appreciation. You get a raise effective tomorrow morning, but first you get
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choked to death effective tonight. Come in, Lawson, Oh, I gotta
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talk to you, Paul. Everybody knows I didn't like Otiro. I figured
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him for a crook, and I said so with him murdered, I'm a
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natural. When the law starts looking for sis Jack here by the radio,
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the law is looking for him Jack. I didn't kill out hero. That's
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one I don't check. Not yet. Well check on it, and maybe
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I will. There are plenty of lot of people who could have done the
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job. For example, a tyro's wife. His wife, she seemed genuinely
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upset by his death. Would you expect her to do laughing out? It
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looked like the real thing? No, tony hysteric. He used to be
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on the stage before he married it. She's had practice. Why would she
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kill him? I had an idea. She always figured he was just a
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little bit too good for him. She married him. He had no Now
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she's got it without him. I don't make a note of that. Where
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else do we look? You might try Dick Blaine, Dick Blaine, How
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did he fit with O Taro? I don't know for sure. Make me
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he's been hanging around with a hero a lot. You ought to be able
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to sing something. I don't try him too. You'll probably find him as
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Monkey's tavern. He usually hangs out around there. We'll see what you can
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find out, William Malone, it'll help you defend me. Who says I'm
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getting to defend it? What do you think I gave you old reads for
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I've been wondering. Look, Malone, do you want the case or don't
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you? At Tero was going to engage me against you, but he never
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got around of it. Oh, I suppose I'm free to take you on.
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I'll think it over well, check on blame and riata opiro. It
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may help you make up your mind. I'll do that, and then if
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I'm picked up, there'll be that much ahead. If you're picked up,
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you're gonna give yourself up. No thanks, I thought you want to meet
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a defender, not on most I don't be a joy. I'm not taking
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any chances. I want to see what you find out first. Yeah,
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get Lieutenant Brooks on the phone, Maggie Olay, have a nice chat with
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Lieutenant Malone. But don't expect me to wait. Come back here, Lass
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and think I'm crazy putting on a good imitation. Now listen to me.
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I'm telling you to stay here, and this gun is telling you I'll give
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the orders, and it relieve you of any responsibility of letting Lego so maybe
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you'll still do what I asked? Aldopped. All right, mister, well
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what will it be? Nothing things? I'm not drinking today. I'm just
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looking for somebody. How do you like that? Not drinking? And he
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takes up space at the bar or what? It's not prod it right?
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Jar buddy just deserted as a poor relatives funeral? And Friday afternoon too,
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they start to be jumping. You know, I got a theory now,
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Martin, I told you my name nobody I didn't think so it's not Murton.
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Oh well I do. Joe just playing Joe not bad now? Like
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I was saying, I got a theory, Harry, I haven't time the
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theory today, Joe? How do you like that? I got a listen
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to other people's troubles? The idea is that full philosophy? But has anybody
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got time to listen to me? No? There are only three people in
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here. Is one of them Dick blamed by any chance. I don't want
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drinks, you don't want conversation, But I've got to answer question. Will
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two fish make it any easier on you? By me? That's Blain just
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going out the door. Thanks, Joe. I'll be seeing you, hey,
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Blaine. Wait, oh, brother, hm, just fine, but
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what happened? It's fun of the tummy guy looking out of that car.
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So I went by and I was looking your way, so I tackled you.
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If I hadn't your name and be signed on that that dotted line of
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bullet holes in the building behind all well, well thanks, Oh that's all
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right, that's okay. I want to talk to you. So let's go
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somewhere where we can go man, before your friends decide to do a repeat.
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Blaine wanted to go back to the bar he needed a drink, but
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I figured we'd better get out of that neighborhood fast. I took him to
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my car and we started off. Have you any idea who it was that
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sprayed? Led it to? Just now? The unfo George Hardwick, why
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he was a bookie, didn't want to handle of Tarot's bets. Tero had
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made me a front for him, Hardwick found out, and so enough to
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want to killy, that's the reat of Taro. I knew about it,
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so he could have wanted to shut me up. All right, it's worth
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looking at it. By the way, he did did Terror know Hardwick had
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found out? I don't know. I haven't seen him since Tuesday noon,
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and that was before hardwdon cut on. Well, it looks like I visited
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Hardwick in order. I'll call it ten of Brooks to meet us there.
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As long as Hardwick likes to play with guns, it might be a good
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idea to have the law handy. That's right, Lieutenant. I did threaten
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Altero. I was going to give him his lumps, but I didn't intend
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to kill him. Don't tell me it was an accident. Hardwick wasn't anything
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as far as I was concerned, I didn't have anything to do with it.
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All right, you're witness Malone Hardwick. When did you first get the
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idea Blaine was funding for Ato day before yesterday? When I paid off Blaine,
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when I added up his winnings, it looked way out of line for
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his usual time to play, I see. So when Blaine came back that
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night, I convinced him to admit that he was working for Ae. Blaine
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yea alone. Why did you go back to Hardwick after you'd been paid off?
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When I give a taro was Billy give me a a list to play?
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So I went from place to bed for the next day well, then,
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Hardwick, you should look. I've answered all the questions I'm going to.
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You've got me for making book. Isn't that enough? I don't know
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anything about the murder, so layoff. Just one thing more, Hardwick?
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Where are you being this afternoon? All afternoon, all afternoon? Who's been
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here to see it? Nobody? Where are the keys to your car?
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I thought you said just one thing. It's all part of the same thing.
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Now, where are the keys to your car? In my pocket?
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That's the black Cadillac in front of the building. Isn't that well? What
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if it is nothing except the radiators warm? The car has been out?
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Who could have been driving it? If you have the keys and nobody's been
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to see it, well you better come along with me, Hardwick, and
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don't reach for that. Got a whole squad outside. I'm gonna swarm all
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over here at the first son of a shot, so be careful. You
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wouldn't want them getting mode in your carpet, now, would you come on?
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I want to call a lawyer, first lieutenant. As a lawyer,
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I've got a client Brooks last them. Yeah, I better get in touch
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with him and tell him we're on the home spread. You bet we are.
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We've got Hardy from making book attempted murder suspicion of murder. Oh,
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let's not overdo things Brooks alone. I hate to see a fellow make a
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pig of himself. Cut out the double talk, Malon. Two of those
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charges ought to be enough to hold Hardwick for a long time. Why not
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drop the third, suspecially the murder. Yeah, since you can put the
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cuffs on the real murderer. Oh I can't. Or flanks for telling me?
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All right, where do I put up? Well, Blaine's waiting patiently.
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Why not try him me? Yeah, that's right, Blaine. You're
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the one who killed the terror. Well, brus, what are you waiting
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for it? All right? Malone? I sacked tightly. I stupped your
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face. Now how about you making with explanations? It goes like this,
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Today is Friday. You're amazing, mister Malone. You know what day it
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is. That's on account of a bartender told me he was beating about the
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rotten Friday PM business. I have a third sow did he? But I
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didn't wait for it? So today is Friday, yeah, which means the
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day before yesterday was Wednesday, Friday Thursday, Wednesday, nobody, you know,
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we can count. I didn't play bookie that day. You know something
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along We're getting absolutely nowhere fast. We got into Wednesday, and that's the
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day Hardwick said he paid off Blaine. Yeah, and Blaine said he gave
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the money to a tarot. Mmm, not earlier. Blaine had told me
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he hadn't seen on taro since Tuesday, so I knew he was lying.
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He never turned the money over to a tarot. He kept it for himself
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and then killed a tarot so he wouldn't have to pay Larson shooting over his
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mouth about a tarot, and Hardwick wiped it him too. I guess Blaine
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figured nobody'd be looking his wife. That's it broke and Hardwick tried to wipe
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out Blaine because he was afraid Blaine would mention Hardwick's threats to a tarot.
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But since Hardwick didn't kill a tarot, what was he worried about. He
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wanted to avoid investigation. He knew once the heat was on him, it
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would uncover his bookmaking activities, which is just what happened. Finished a copy
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of Let Go. I'm finished right, mets you for the chick, No
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thanks, I'm not a gambling man. What what I did to a tarot?
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He did all right? I just got himself killed, that's all.
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Even his luck couldn't stop left. Oh, why don't know? Seems to
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me he was lucky even then. How do you figure that? Have you
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seen today's paper? Another high cost of living item? Beginning tomorrow the price
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of funerals goes up. Artero got in just under the wire? How's that
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plot? Good Night? And now once again back to the Amazing Mister Mallet.
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Well, no doubt about it. A terror show was a lucky stiff.
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Next week I'll tell you about a stiff who wasn't so lucky. So
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why not pick me up at my office at the same time, I'll be
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waiting for you. Good Night. The Amazing Mister Malone is a Grace Gipson
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production starring John Soul as John J. Malone and directed by Lawrence H.
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Sesster. Welcome Back and once again crime is thwarted by the process of elimination.
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Now to listener comments and feedback. And Joan commented regarding our episode eleven
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fourteen of the Old Gold Comedy Theater, having Wonderful Crime. She says,
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my mother used to like Harold Lloyd when he appeared in Silent Movies. I
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thoroughly enjoyed today's shows. I found it very good and funny. The show
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is great fun. Keep up your wonderful work with this podcast, and I
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hope to be hearing more of this sort of show again. Well, thanks
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so much, Joan, and I appreciate you listening, and it's something if
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you listen long enough to the show you'll hear more of. I have to
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say that detective comedies were rare in terms of being on the air and any
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good, which was why many of them didn't make it very long. We've
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already played le Audous with or All, which I thought was decent, and
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also The Thin Man. Other ones that we'll be looking at that are very
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strongly comedic, mister and Missus North that that was only in the earlier episodes.
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They changed to kind of a melodramatic thing later on. And we're also
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we've got a couple of a couple three specials, at least one with a
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Red Skelton adapting in one of his whistling detective movies to the radio, of
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course comedic. And then we have an episode of the wr Summer playhouse that
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I hope to play one of these years around the start of baseball season.
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And of course we have radio adaptation of Bob Hope's My Favorite Brunette, and
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if I stumble on anything else, I'd be happy to consider adding it to
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the list of stuff I'd like to play. If you're aware of any good
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comedy detective storyline shows, I'd love to hear from you, And ideally it's
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got to have some bit of mystery, you know, can't be all paper
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thin. Otherwise we could play the Sam Shovel sketches from Abbott and Costello and
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the one long pan sketches of Fred Allen, which could actually be pretty fun
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but wouldn't quite fit on our show. But thanks so much to give them
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for the email. That'll do it for today. Join us back here on
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Wednesday, as yours truly Johnny Dollar continues, and join us next week for
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another episode of the Australian version of the See Mister Malone. In the meantime,
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