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Crime Files of Flamond: The Case of the Squealing Duck (EP1708) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: So this is a rare find and a very rare series.
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  Speaker 1: It's different acting, different style, but I hope you'll enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this little piece of Chicago as we bring you The
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  Speaker 1: Crime Files of Lemon, which focuses on a psychologist detective.
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  Speaker 1: The original air date April the eighteenth of nineteen forty four,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the case of the Squealing Duck.
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  Speaker 2: The Peter Han Brewery Company brewers of Maister Brow present.
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  Speaker 3: Card number sixteen. From the Crime Files of Lehmann.
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  Speaker 4: The new file Cordons League popular nightclub comedians suspect someone
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  Speaker 4: of trying to ruin his act. Case more serious than
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  Speaker 4: it seems.
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  Speaker 2: Lahmann the most unusual detective in criminal history. Flahmann, famous
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  Speaker 2: psychologist in karric analysts Flamond who looks beyond laughter and tears,
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  Speaker 2: jealousy and greed to discover their basic origins. In just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, you will hear card number sixteen from his
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  Speaker 2: And now Card number sixteen from the crime Files of Flammon,
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  Speaker 2: the Night's story opens in Flammon's office, with Danny Dole,
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  Speaker 2: the nightclub comedian, pouring out his struggle.
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  Speaker 5: My name's Danny Dole, Flamon. I guess I don't have
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  Speaker 5: to tell you anymore, do I?
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  Speaker 4: No, not unless you want to.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose, oh, you're the nightclub comedian.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, nightclub, musical, comedy, movies, radio.
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  Speaker 3: I guess they know me just about any place.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't go into the night live mode.
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  Speaker 6: That's right, mister Dole. Dog gone it.
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  Speaker 7: Honestly, though, Lemont, Danny Doe really is a nightclub celebrity.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I suppose I am. And you know, I always
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  Speaker 5: think the celebrities come to watch my act. But I
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  Speaker 5: guess I'm a celebrity too.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: But people don't ordinarily come to see me unless they
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  Speaker 4: have problems, mister Doe.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my problem, Miss Anthony is u haha, nuts. I
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  Speaker 3: guess i'd better be serious. Well, Rahmand, somebody's trying to
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  Speaker 3: ruin me, ruin you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a deliberate attempt to crab my egg to
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  Speaker 5: keep my material from going over from getting laughs.
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  Speaker 6: Who in the world did want to do that?
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  Speaker 5: I got ideas, but I don't get all the ankles.
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  Speaker 5: That's what bothers me, mister Doe.
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  Speaker 4: Why would anyone, by the wildest stretch of the imagination,
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  Speaker 4: want to spoil you?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm drawing down at the club lists.
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  Speaker 3: Thatta huh.
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  Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't have the faintest idea fifteen hundred bucks
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  Speaker 4: a week and that ain't newspaper story though it's cash.
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  Speaker 4: But who would be interested in getting you fired?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 5: For one, that voice sister that drools songs into a microphone,
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  Speaker 5: Sheila Ray. If it wasn't for her face and figure,
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  Speaker 5: her voice wouldn't get her a job calling friends in Winnipegsauke,
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  Speaker 5: North Dakota.
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  Speaker 6: You think she's jealous.
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  Speaker 5: Or she had the top spot till I came in.
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  Speaker 5: She had her choice of leaving or taking a cut
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  Speaker 5: and staying on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she stayed well. The optical jealousies are a bit
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  Speaker 4: out of my line unless they get to the point
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  Speaker 4: of physical violence.
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  Speaker 5: There'll be physical violence if I get my hands on
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  Speaker 5: the loss that's trying.
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  Speaker 3: To kill my stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Fine wee there is come around and see me.
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  Speaker 5: One of the best gags in my whole act killed
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  Speaker 5: dinnerness stiff on a moored slab last night, Why was it,
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  Speaker 5: mister Doele, I'm telling a story about duck hunting.
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  Speaker 3: See, oh so wild?
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  Speaker 5: The way I do it never fails to get solid laughs,
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  Speaker 5: usually stops the show cold. Why the critics say, let's
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  Speaker 5: forget the critics. Yeah, okay, they ain't so hot anyways.
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  Speaker 6: You're hunting ducks?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I go through all the imaginary movements of
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  Speaker 5: getting ready to shoot. I'm crouched down in the duck,
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  Speaker 5: blind shot, gune up to my shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: Or make believe you see, and then I make with
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  Speaker 3: the trigger.
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  Speaker 4: Uh when does the laugh come?
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  Speaker 3: When I make with the trigger?
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  Speaker 5: A dead duck drops down from the ceiling over the
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  Speaker 5: heads of the customers.
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  Speaker 7: How cute, Homan. Wouldn't it be a scream to get
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  Speaker 7: a dead duck in your suit?
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  Speaker 3: That's the laugh. Nobody gets the duck. It's suspended by
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  Speaker 3: a thin wire.
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  Speaker 5: You can't see what's holding, but it could's fallen about
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  Speaker 5: ten feet above the folks heads.
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  Speaker 6: Ha.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I can see how that might get a laugh.
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  Speaker 4: That discomforter motor.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's sockle, But last night there was strictly from hunger.
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  Speaker 5: I pull the trigger, Nothing happens there. I am with
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  Speaker 5: my pants caught in the sprocket my new departure coaster
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  Speaker 5: break not working.
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  Speaker 4: Did you look over the mechanical contrivance that releases the duck?
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  Speaker 5: Sure somebody put in a new spring and release lever
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  Speaker 5: that was too strong.
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  Speaker 3: To let the duck fall.
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  Speaker 4: Any idea who did it?
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  Speaker 3: I know who'd a liked have done it. That's singer
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  Speaker 3: Sheila Ray.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have any proof?
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  Speaker 3: Not an ioda?
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  Speaker 4: Mister Dole, I think this is serious, extremely serious.
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  Speaker 6: Hermand you're joking, no.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, sender.
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  Speaker 3: When somebody tries to kill your laughs, it's all with.
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  Speaker 4: Serious miss and mister Dole, I think whoever's responsible for
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  Speaker 4: your trouble is interested in killing more than.
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  Speaker 8: Lest they gotta be funny tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't had any complaints till I hit this bean
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  Speaker 3: Rey guests.
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  Speaker 8: These other places. They must have been given away dishes,
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  Speaker 8: but there's not more than fifty people out there for
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  Speaker 8: the supper show.
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  Speaker 3: The word gets around when you clip the customers.
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  Speaker 8: When I pay a comedian fifteen hundred dollars a week,
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  Speaker 8: I expect to have an attraction.
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  Speaker 3: I've only been here two weeks. Cooks will get wise.
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  Speaker 8: About the way you miff for your stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I got nothing to do with the things that's been happening.
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  Speaker 8: You're not able to take care of yourself very.
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  Speaker 5: I got a contract for ten weeks. They're tight contract
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  Speaker 5: that ain't doing so bad.
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  Speaker 8: Suppose I throw you out and refuse to pay off.
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  Speaker 5: Why you're joined? It be closed in two hours. You
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  Speaker 5: couldn't get a band or an act.
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  Speaker 8: Suppose you leave, Suppose you jump your contract. That's not
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  Speaker 8: the way the number is written in my script, mister clump.
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  Speaker 8: That are ways of making people change their minds. I
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  Speaker 8: have some friends, What about them? They don't like people
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  Speaker 8: who get in my way. Sometimes they get mad about it.
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  Speaker 8: You don't say yeah. And when they get mad, they
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  Speaker 8: do funny things, a lot funnier things than you do
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  Speaker 8: in your act.
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  Speaker 5: Like trying to kill a comedian's laughs.
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  Speaker 8: Like maybe trying to kill a comedian period.
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  Speaker 9: Come in, Danny, Joe said to tell you that you
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  Speaker 9: go on five minutes early tonight, Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Evening, baby. How's the voice tonight, Sheila?
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  Speaker 10: Good as ever?
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  Speaker 8: No improvement.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pity.
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  Speaker 10: It's good enough to get an encore and five bow jr.
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  Speaker 8: Ham Sheila, how come you bring Danny his messages about
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  Speaker 8: going on early or Joe asked me too, you're doing
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  Speaker 8: what the head waiter says?
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  Speaker 10: Now, I was coming backstage anyway.
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  Speaker 8: To doors dressing room?
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  Speaker 10: No, on my own? What taking you anyway?
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  Speaker 8: How long were you standing outside that door before you
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  Speaker 8: came in?
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  Speaker 10: Answer me, Hey, let call my rest.
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  Speaker 8: What did you hear?
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  Speaker 10: Nothing?
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  Speaker 8: I'd remember that if I was you kid exactly that? Nothing?
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  Speaker 10: Come on.
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  Speaker 7: I wish we'd get a client like Danny Dole at
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  Speaker 7: least once a week. Why, well, it didn't mean getting
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  Speaker 7: out in the evening with you once in a while.
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  Speaker 7: You know, quite gallant when you relax and forget about
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  Speaker 7: being a character analyst in.
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  Speaker 4: Psychiatri But Donald, Sandra, I'm not relaxing. This is a job.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you took that ecocentric comedian series.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid so you are with you?
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  Speaker 4: Boy, I don't know. Danny Dole told us to tell
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  Speaker 4: Joseph our names I'm from. Oh but the momentsieur all right?
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  Speaker 4: This week?
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  Speaker 6: Well, mister Dole certainly got it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Good table whose vanity wouldn't permit anything else.
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  Speaker 6: You're a fine one talking about vanity.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but I'm not vane, Sander, really, I'm just just
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  Speaker 4: sure that I know what I know. That's all.
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  Speaker 6: Gee, this is fun.
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  Speaker 4: Say that's a gorgeous evening gown, Sandra.
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  Speaker 6: You see a night out even brings you to life.
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  Speaker 7: The show's going to start, Donald, Just when I thought
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  Speaker 7: I was getting somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, And welcome to the clubless Setter,
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  Speaker 5: The clubless Setter where you paid plenty.
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  Speaker 3: For what you get.
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  Speaker 5: A haha, such happy faces, you know, for a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of forefts, you're the healthiest looking gang I ever saw.
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  Speaker 5: I'll say, waiter, bring that young couple over there a
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  Speaker 5: bottle of champagne.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, put it on this man's bill over here.
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  Speaker 5: Well tonight, folks, I'm going to open the festivities with
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  Speaker 5: my impression of the Hunt.
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  Speaker 8: Yerks.
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  Speaker 3: Yerks, this is the Brooklyn Hunt Club.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine them bumps chasing a little fox. I'm not a
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  Speaker 5: fox man myself. I'm a duck man. One day I'm blind,
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  Speaker 5: see no out in the blind, waiting for the ducks.
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  Speaker 3: To fly over. From the north.
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  Speaker 5: I see a flock of fifty ducks heading south for
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  Speaker 5: a ducky little place on seventy first Street. These are
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  Speaker 5: Southern ducks. I hear them quacking as they get closer.
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  Speaker 5: You all quack, quack, you all.
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  Speaker 11: Well.
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  Speaker 5: I pull my shotgun out of my pocket. I can
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  Speaker 5: carry it there because the pocket has a hole in it.
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  Speaker 3: I get down on one knee, just like Jolson.
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  Speaker 8: I put the gun to my shoulder. Then I wait.
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  Speaker 5: You know why I wait, because I remember the old addage,
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  Speaker 5: never shoot into a block of ducks till you can
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  Speaker 5: see the whites of their eyes.
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  Speaker 3: I wait.
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  Speaker 5: The ducks get closer. The time is right. I pull
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  Speaker 5: the trigger. Sandra, look out.
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  Speaker 3: Did she hurt?
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  Speaker 4: No? Just mean it. I subd off her chair just
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  Speaker 4: in time.
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  Speaker 3: That's a swell gag.
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  Speaker 5: That is switching my duck on a wire for a
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  Speaker 5: lead duck. Why this thing must weigh twenty five pounds.
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  Speaker 8: It was knocked on the way, Monsieur Joseph.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it somewhere we can take up.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Monsieur dont Monsieur Koumb's office.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, But whoever tried to murder Sandra is going to pay,
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  Speaker 4: and pay plenty. It was all my fault. I shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: have brought you here, Monsieur.
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  Speaker 8: I need they flicker.
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  Speaker 7: So I've been all right for a couple of minutes,
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  Speaker 7: but I didn't want to stop that pretty speech, deceitful wretch.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I know one thing after this.
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  Speaker 7: When you tell me that interfering with the comedian's laughs
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  Speaker 7: is serious business, I'll believe you.
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  Speaker 8: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 4: I think maybe I do. Joseph, why did you see
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  Speaker 4: this at that particular table we occupied?
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  Speaker 8: Well, missus razy senior, she came to me, came to you,
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  Speaker 8: and what she say, monsieur clumsy manager? You have ordered
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  Speaker 8: this table for the guest of monsieur dorry.
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  Speaker 10: I heard that, Joseph.
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  Speaker 5: You're getting the habit of listening in on other people's conversations,
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  Speaker 5: ain't you.
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  Speaker 10: It looks like a healthy thing. The door around here.
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  Speaker 8: A she'sy one. She told me all about.
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  Speaker 4: That, Miss Ray.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you're not pinning us on a maid.
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  Speaker 8: Do not? Your dad would nay it. You have told
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  Speaker 8: me you hated me.
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  Speaker 5: She lived because I kept you from getting top villain
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  Speaker 5: and top door.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not denying that I told Joseph about the table.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you admit it, But what could you possibly have
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  Speaker 7: against me?
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  Speaker 6: You don't even know me.
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  Speaker 9: You're forgetting one thing, one awfully important thing.
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 9: I told Joseph that Gus Clumb told me to tell him,
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  Speaker 9: and Gus told me it was very important.
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  Speaker 8: It is funny, that very funny. What's so funny that
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  Speaker 8: Monsieur Crumby is not around? Who's all this excitement?
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  Speaker 6: Say?
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  Speaker 10: I haven't seen him at clare.
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  Speaker 8: See last time I stow him with the cross of
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  Speaker 8: the room when we were bringing miss Snake down here.
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  Speaker 4: But he must still be upstairs. He wouldn't dare try
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  Speaker 4: getting away. Come on, monsieur, do you never carry one?
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry, but Monsieur Clumb is a dangerous person.
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  Speaker 3: The frog and kitten flem on.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody tapping on that window.
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  Speaker 4: Your nerves are getting the best of you, Sandra, it's
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  Speaker 4: the same.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to pull up that shade and see.
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  Speaker 3: Gus Clumb with a rope around his neck.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, we'll love to get him in here, the.
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  Speaker 3: Rope tied to a little legs about me upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Here, I'll cut the rope. You two fellows, pull him in.
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  Speaker 8: I have him.
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  Speaker 9: So he committed suicide when he saw he was gonna
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  Speaker 9: get caught suicide.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, Miss Ray. There's the impression of a knife
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  Speaker 4: point against his stiff shirt right over his heart. Gus
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  Speaker 4: Clumb was forced out the window.
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  Speaker 3: He was murdered.
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• 19:32
  Speaker 2: as possible. The second act of Tonight's story opens in
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Gus Clum's office in the nightclub. All the patrons have
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: left as Flemon continues his search for Clum's murderer.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: So it was Gus Cromer told you to have me
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: put the detective. It is a girl at table sixteen.
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: That's what I said. Come on, well, it's true.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: You don't believe miss Ray.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Joseph. I always believe it, lady, ma'amselle. But it is unfortunate,
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: is it not? That Monsieur Clumb is dead? Unfortunate or
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: convenient me? I wouldn't know which.
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: I'd keep that funny mouse shut if I were in
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: your big shoes, Danny boy.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Why I heard the row you had with Clumb tonight.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I thought you wasn't listening.
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: I was listening, all right. It was quite a thing
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: to listen to.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: What was it, miss Rae?
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: Gus Clumb tried to rap you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I'll make you sorry you ever open your.
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: Mouth like your mad Gus.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Sorry, go ahead, miss Ray.
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: What did you hear?
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: Gus tried to get Danny to tarrap his contract because
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: the act wasn't going over.
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: Gus was losing money on it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: That's a lie.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: He told the funny man that if he didn't quit things,
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: what happened to him?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Sure, he threatened me, so what I call his bruff?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: And he tried to crab the act?
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: Why you, big Ham, You think that led Duck took
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: its dive to crab your act?
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Just how important you think your actor?
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, gree ma'amselle. A man does not attempt murder to
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: spoil a nightclub act.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: All right, voice of experience, I'm getting mad. I'll give
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: you a thing or two to think about it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: You'll have to get it out of a book.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Gus Clumb was standing across the dining room when the
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: rest of us came down here, Joseph and Plemann and
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: his secretary and me. None of us left this room.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: You were still upstairs, crack a voice. And after you
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: came down here we found Clumb had done a one
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: way stretch.
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: No, No, you can't it on me. I didn't do it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: There's Oh what.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Were you going to say, Miss Ray?
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: I nothing, I'm I'm afraid maybe I've said too much already.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: I see what you mean. I think I'll have a
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: few private interviews you have sent for me. Yes, tell me,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Joseph how were the club these that are doing very badly?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Monsieur?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Then I don't see why Clum hired an expensive act
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: like Danny Door.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: That was he reasoned, monsieur, monsieur Crumb have been doing
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: a little lesson you say break even. He reasons that
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: he needed a big time act from terrific so Dany Door.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Smart business.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: Unfortunately, No, instead of losing a little, he started to
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: lose fifteen hundred dollars a week.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Where did clm get all his money?
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: We had some very unsavory friends who used the Lisetta
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: as a meeting place. It was worth something to them.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: And I hardly know how to say what he owed
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: me nearly six thousand dollars.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: You loaned him six thousand dollars. How does the head
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: waiter get that much money?
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: A good head way to make a great deal, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: I am a very good one.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: We're the club doing so badly? How come you rest
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: your money?
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: Club was not doing well, but I was doing all right.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: It does not take many five and ten dollars table
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: reservation to do well.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Maybe you're in the wrong business for now?
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Is there anything else you wish to know?
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: No, you told us a great deal Joseph.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: I thank you, monsieur. Now if I can help call
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: on me? Is it all right for me to go home?
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Sure, go ahead and tell the rest it's.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: Okay to leave. I thank you.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: But next we're going to take a look for the knife,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: the knife that forced Gus Clumb off the balcony. Hello, there,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: drafty back here, isn't it?
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: No one here. Everybody's left, and I don't see what
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: you expect.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: To find that knife with any luck? Where's Doll's dressing room?
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You surely don't.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Think he I have to take every possibility.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Where is it right next to Shila Ray's here?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Fine, come on in just a minute. Just your imagination.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Somebody's watching us, following.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Us, Sandra, your imagination. Funny. There's no lock on the door.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Evidently Gus Clumb didn't want his performers to have any secrets.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: The devil's a light switch.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Who was that?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Somebody threw a knife at us and missed. Fortunately the door,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I get it. Whether to the knife throwing actors? Gone? Now, hey,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: maybe this is the lights witch.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Danny Doo, he's dead.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: No, not David, Sandra, he's breathing, just been hit over
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: the head. And here's the knife. Oh that's something I
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: don't get it. But of course, Sandra, this is the
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: same knife that was used on Gus klumb.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: Well, fancy Danny. What's happened to him?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Oh he'll be all right. But I thought you'd gone home.
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: Oh well, I thought i'd do a little investigating of
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: my own.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Ooh where am I? What happened?
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: You know where you are? All right? And you know
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: what happened. You came here to get rid of the knife.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Knife?
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: What knife?
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: The one stuck in the wall. You're gonna hide it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: You heard the detective come in, You threw the knife,
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: pull the door shut, and pretended they'll be knocked out.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody was in here. When I came to lock
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: up my stuff.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: I was hit over the head from behind, Not too hard,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: not any harder than you could hit.
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: You arranged the whole business to keep from looking bad.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I never looked bad in my life.
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: You knew Gus was gonna give you the bugs.
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: The publicity would have ruined you until you figured your
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: had to make him look like a murder and get
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: rid of him at the same time.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: You tell me how I could hang Gus while I
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: was down in his office and him upstairs, and I'll
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: get you fifty two weeks booking.
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: I don't know how you did it, but you figured
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: out how to drop a lead weight on somebody's head.
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: You're crazy anyway.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Arresta Flemont.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: She told Clumb to seat you and your secretary at
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: the table under the lead duck.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: She came down after Clumb was hung. It had to
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: be heard.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Oh you have qut them. Congratulations monsieur, as they confess.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: They you think Dole and miss Ray were working.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: Together, themore Jesus spats Zarah enact, ma'mseille. Ray was mad
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: because comte de motere from top billing. Dole was mad
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: because he was about to be fired. They planned a
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: dual revenge.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: That's a new version, and not a very good one, Sandra.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: Who don't believe me? Doyle had to invite you here.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: The woman told me to seat you at the death table.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I think we've had about enough excitement for one evening.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: It's time to call a halt to this foolishmis.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: You mean, you know who's responsible.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Certainly, but you seem to be enjoying yourself so much.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I hated the spoil things I do need a little sleep, though.
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: Herman, you're the most exasperating man in the world.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: I suppose Joseph will feel the same way about it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: Sure, he's a guy. That's what I was gonna say before,
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: when I was afraid.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: I see it all you have gotten together there. I
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: am too busy, or what you call foil guy. I
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: was not in your room when Clumb was murdered.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Oh but you were, Joseph.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: He was still there when we carried miss Lake to
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: his office.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Who says, so, who saw him? Only you, Joseph.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: We've all been taken his word that Clumb was still alive.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: In the excitement, we didn't pay attention to anything. But
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: the accident is a frame up. But it is one
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: frame up that will not work. Stick them up, all
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: of you. Say that's my revolver.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: You got ah, and I will use it on you too.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: If you try to get funny, stand back, funny boy,
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: take one step nearer me and I will shoot you.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Ain't got the nerve, Joseph, I have not, all right.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: I got him from ont here. Take the water pistol
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: and hit him over the head with it. S enough
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: to pull him up a.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Little like he did with her.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, ready, mister doll, how they think that's
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: necessary play?
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: I'll do it there.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Eh, he's killy, all right, Framan, but I don't get
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: the pitch take with the words.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Clumb always stood over by the balcony exit to watch
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: the eggs, didn't.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: He sure, But that's got nothing to do with it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Oh but it has. It was easy for Joseph to
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: get out on the balcony a few minutes before and
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: tie the loose end of a noose of rope around
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: the railing.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: Easy as fading ham to a comedian.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And the second the lead ducks started falling, Joseph slipped
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: the noose over Clumb's head and pulled him through the
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: exit door. With his knife, he forced Clumb over the edge.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Then he stepped back inside.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Oh but surely flammand somebody would have seen him.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Not at all, Sandra. He was a shrewd killer. He
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: knew that all eyes would be on what he expected
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to be another murder in the center of the room.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: He knew that the human eye can't resist following the
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: broadest sweep of movement.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: But why did you do.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: It, chump?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Either he wanted to get his money back from Clumb's estate,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: or wanted to get control of the club he set him.
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: He tried to buy it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: I know that, miss Ray said Clumb gave instructions to
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: see us at that table.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Clumb wanted to get rid of Danny Dole's act. Joseph
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: tipped him off that Dole had hired a detective. Okay,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: so far, and Joseph said he had a way to
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: get rid of Dole, but mustn't be suspected. Joseph had
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Clums send Sheila to him with instructions.
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: Well, that adds up, mister.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I knew it couldn't be Danny or Sheila. It had
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: to be Joseph. Everything pointed his way.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: But why did he try to murder me?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: He didn't. What was supposed to be a murder at
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: the table was purely incidental to it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Nice guy, Joseph say he was the guy that was
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: killing all my jokes.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: You can't murder the dead.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Danny, Lamand and Sandra will be back in a moment
• 29:26
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• 29:29
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• 30:02
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• 30:05
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• 30:19
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• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And now the basic clue in Tonight's story.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: Lemon, you said you knew neither Danny Dole nor Sheila
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: Ray could be the murder.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's right, but I don't see how well, first
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I could eliminate Danny because the dead duck trick didn't
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: work the night before the murder.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: That doesn't make sense, Lamart.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Oh what it does?
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: You see?
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: There was one person in the room who wouldn't be
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: particularly impressed by the duck's descent, one person who might
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: possibly see the murder.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: Danny Doll Right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: He'd seen it so many times it wouldn't impress him.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: So the murderer had to be sure Danny would have
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: his eyes on the duck. He made sure by fixing
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: things so the duck wouldn't work.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, and then Danny had to watch it the next night,
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: of course. But Sheila Ray, how could you be so
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: sure she didn't do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: It well because she delivered the message to Joseph that
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: he was to see us at the dead duck table.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: What does that have to do with it?
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Delivering that message and admitting she delivered it made her
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: look guilty is all get out. Had she actually been guilty,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: she'd have done exactly what Joseph did. Planeted suspicion on
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: someone else.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but what made you suspicious of Joseph?
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: He is saying that he'd seen Clumb across the room
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: when we carried you down.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: To the office.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: I don't see anything suspicious about there.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Had he really seen Clum, he'd have asked him to
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: go down to the office with us instead of going himself.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: And I can't imagine the owner of the place staying
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: away from the kind of excitement we created, can you?
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: No, of course not.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: I have the title for tonight's filecard.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: The Case of the Squealing Duck?
• 32:51
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• 32:55
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• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: They series has got an interesting approach, though this version
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: of Lemon is perhaps a bit smug and maybe I'm
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: being a lit bit kind with that, and the acting
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  Speaker 1: is very different. It feels a lot more stagy even
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: than the New York acting that we hear over on
• 35:00
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  Speaker 1: bring you more on that next week. I should note
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that radio drama has continued to survive in Chicago, though
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  Speaker 1: and they sold all the brands to Miller and then
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  Speaker 1: ended up closing down in nineteen seventy eight, the last
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  Speaker 1: brewery in Chicago at the time, so a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: company in the History of Chicago sponsored that and I
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  Speaker 1: hope our Chicago based listeners or those with associations with
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  Speaker 1: that city enjoy this little bit of history. It's Chicago
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  Speaker 1: definitely a very fascinating city. And as I said, this
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  Speaker 1: one of the few detective the only one I'm aware
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  Speaker 1: of with circulating episodes of a detective program with Chicago
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  Speaker 1: that was originated in Chicago. We turned to listener comments
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  Speaker 1: and feedback, and we have a Facebook comment from Richard
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  Speaker 1: hi Adam from England. I started listening to old time
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  Speaker 1: radio when I was given a number of episodes of
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  Speaker 1: British sitcoms and radio shows adapted for radio in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six Faulty Towers, Dad's Army, Steptoe and Son,
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  Speaker 1: Round the Home, One Foot in the Grave, and Yes Minister.
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  Speaker 1: Having listened to them, I then looked on the Internet
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  Speaker 1: for more and found thousands of American programs, many of
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  Speaker 1: which I'd never heard. This was now two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: and since then I've listened to hundreds of episodes of Westerns,
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  Speaker 1: Have Gone, Will Travel and The Six Shooter being my favorites,
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  Speaker 1: and thrillers and detective stories, of which Box thirteen let
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  Speaker 1: George do it. Rocky Jordan and Johnny Dollar are favorites.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the British police programs of the time,
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  Speaker 1: which I find slow and deded. American radio comedy didn't
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  Speaker 1: travel very well across the Atlantic in those days. With
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  Speaker 1: one exception. My favorite husband was wonderful. Of all the
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  Speaker 1: programs I found, one stood head and shoulders above the rest.
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  Speaker 1: The demon run in Theater. I love the twist that
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: always came at the end of every story, which was
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  Speaker 1: difficult to predict. They inspired me to buy many of
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  Speaker 1: his books, which I enjoy as much as the radio programs. Finally,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I disagree with you about Tom Conway. I think he
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  Speaker 1: makes a better saint than Vincent Price. While Vincent Price
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  Speaker 1: is a wonderful actor, he had a good face for
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  Speaker 1: radio and horror films, so the vision I have of
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  Speaker 1: the same mainly from nineteen sixties Roger Moore didn't fit
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  Speaker 1: with Vincent Price. Keep up the good work. I have
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  Speaker 1: your Great Detectives podcast dating back to early twenty fourteen,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: but as the iPod on which I listen places the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: most recently recorded podcast at the top of the list,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I'm listening in a strange order. I enjoyeddays when I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: can work with my headphones on listening to your show,
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  Speaker 1: which sadly is an every day Well, thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for your comment, Richard, and I appreciate your comments, and
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: you've got some very good taste in so many of
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the programs you reference. I like the nineteen sixties version
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of The Saint what I've seen of it, the first
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  Speaker 1: thirteen episodes I have, meaning I've been meaning to you
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  Speaker 1: watch more, but haven't quite gotten around to checking those
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  Speaker 1: out from my library. I like different interpretations of a
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  Speaker 1: character as long as as long as I like them.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I can like Jeremy Bradon, and I can
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  Speaker 1: like Basil Rathbone, and I can like Nicholas Briggs as
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  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes. So I tend to like both More and
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  Speaker 1: Price's interpretations, so they're radically different. Though I wouldn't knock
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  Speaker 1: Tom Conways at all. It's just all a matter based
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  Speaker 1: on that, and I can definitely see how a lot
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  Speaker 1: of American comedy of the era wouldn't transfer well across
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  Speaker 1: the Atlantic. A lot of it doesn't even transfer well
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  Speaker 1: across the years, though I have a lot that I
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  Speaker 1: truly enjoy. But I absolutely agree that Damon Running Theater
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  Speaker 1: is a very fine program and really worth listening to.
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  Speaker 1: Actually got very positive comments when I played an episode
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  Speaker 1: of that as an app extra, and I'll always look
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  Speaker 1: for opportunities to play that. Running had a way of
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  Speaker 1: writing and making his characters speak that was really it
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: was interesting. It was in no way realistic, but it
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: was in its own way just stunningly beautiful, very interesting
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: and compelling a lot of fun to listen to. And
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you've gotten into the books. It's
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: just been one of those things is i've listened to radio,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I've discovered some books in some series that I've picked
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  Speaker 1: up I never would have picked up before with out
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  Speaker 1: the radio program. So I appreciate your very nice note
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  Speaker 1: and thanks so much, and do encourage you to keep
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  Speaker 1: on listening. And I am working on something in my head.
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  Speaker 1: I've got three book projects I'm in the middle of,
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  Speaker 1: though I hope to have that cleared up by the
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  Speaker 1: end of November. But I do have an idea for
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: listeners who are joining us a bit later in the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to involve selling anything or mass producing CDs,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: but it is kind of it's an idea for just
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  Speaker 1: a somewhat simpler archive system that people can access and
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: just enjoy freely all the observations and experiences we've had.
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  Speaker 1: But I will announce that once I actually get it up,
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  Speaker 1: so be sure to stay tuned for that. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much. I know the commentary has been a
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  Speaker 1: little bit long, but I appreciate the feedback of goth
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  Speaker 1: that people don't mind that in particular. But join us
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow for Philip Marlow and next Tuesday another episode of
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  Speaker 1: the Crime Files of Lemon. In the meantime, send your
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