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Nick Carter: The Body in the Ice (EP1350) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, it's time now for today's episode of Nick
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Carter. We had three lost episodes between last week's show and this week's,
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but here now from January twenty seventh, nineteen forty six. Is the Body
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in the Oss Nick Corner. That's their detectives. This is the story of
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a man's own the world over as one of the most ring and resourceful characters
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in the history of detective ictionis a man whose name has become a symbol of
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the triumph of right and justice over the sinister source of crime as well as
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men. Nick Conner, that's the detectives. There is a flighting case,
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Nick, search for the murderer who played that on Hitler's brands on the jaw
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of a dead man. The Body in the ice have many strange customs throughout
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the world, but perhaps the strangest is that of the Arctic clubs. You've
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seen the Arctic plot in action in movies, newspapers and magazines. When there's
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the members John bathing suits and go for a swim. This morning, the
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mercury hovering around ten of US zero, A shifting group of newspaper men gathers
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on the snow crossed beach to report the strange activities of the actual k Okay,
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that's a good mom. Want to come and they like you just good
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a joy just like they're enjoying. We are enjoying it. The healthest part
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in the world. It wore popley. Okay, flap that ever one on
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the rests I tell you coming about the club, all of my close up
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to come at all the show you're not part of thought, Okay, just
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talking to the smartphone. Mister literally would wiggling with two in everybody they're friend
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and me started to guard in Tateen. Now the fifties is every month rail
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we meet and take a dip in the health skipping waters from the ocean as
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easy in the summertime, but in the wood like now. But it's yellow
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peason. He can take plenty of intentional part of it. And darly,
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swimming the winter is your best way to right off, cause pneumonia is swimming
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up. Mister a big glea idle with two n propaty for the different reason.
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It's not enough, Okay, come on by last fighting the right nay
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driving when you end the water. Now I have to break through the ice
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by can get it, and you're gonna shining that old gold looking at the
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lar yeah, yeah, yeah, not to have them guys run into the
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water all over again. That camera wasn't threading. Okay, okay, I'm
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going back in. They gotta break through that ice first anyway, and they
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getting clear of I don't know, say come on, because you don't think
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want someone press them around in the ice. So I don't know. I
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was just wondering, what we just phone something to the ice? Look,
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holy jumping would look at that? Sorry, Joel was at the cobaby.
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It's funny they tied it off the Sason going steaking. Where are you won?
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Though you would touch it quite early this morning, minute one and one?
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All right, and were my character and let's get the right well it
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was going by on your character, all understand. He was going in for
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a moment street when it's about him and all the way and I'll go right
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over at the first last time. It's down like a past jump too,
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and that excusing world planning the body. It doesn't make sense that door.
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You want to even the water, all right, I know we're gonna turn
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around, you know, boy, you don't know how glad I am to
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cheat. Hi went on with about world of planning across You're not serious water
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I get three features. It's a demonstration of the stupid accum the line of
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talk. I'm being free to turn the cage which I could play. I've
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been twenty four hours. All right, all right, well now you're on
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the rest investment going home. Yeah, you're going to clear a blow bills.
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Why are you just gotta keep you hanging around here making home calls?
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If I reallysort to a miss stuff in this, I just wanted to get
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Nick house here? Why are you card online? Never mind? Was afraid
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of that? Why love pathy? Blackmail my old grandmother to get Nick got?
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In this case? It's a thinker. I'm on the beach. Is
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take a look at the bottle? O. We gonna let Maddy put up
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into the take on now, Pa, actually just round, you might as
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well take a look, and I credit this the next time we have a
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running with Maddy's all right, this is it? Nick. We just tall
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at the little way up onto the beach and as a body right now broad
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and started in the trunk of brown rice? What kind of ice? Brown?
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I I wasn't on asanchorized. You can tell the god the granular of
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course, seeing visually cold weather I sometimes pawns in the bottom of the sea
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becomes thick enough to draw a large job into the surfacesten some time ships could
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have been acted had the actress spoke to the service in the business a mile
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you mean that's what happened at this I do you start? It was ding
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on the origin, bound held down by that light, run his way what
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that means? He was words? Finally was on the bottom ground ice formed
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and finally, boy, do what do you know of that that big ex
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medic crack? All the ices can off the body, melt the rest.
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So we can just see what happened here on next time would be a long
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cat well madding thank about it? There enough now? But what happened?
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Oh say? Able to look at the right side of that guy because smashing
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death must have been into and tire temporary load smashed. Yeah, it must
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have been quite a fight time. Very what's this bruise on the side of
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the chin. Oh, naturally you must have been slogged there because Joe's book
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and could take a close look at that BRUI swat that what under the impression
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of a ring? Mad He would tell me, who is not the ring
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in this country? Well it maybe like soldier Sway, Yeah, yeah,
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the any identification of it. Here's something Carnis Coach met with a name in
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it, the way it came off the ocean bottom with him that I could
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flat up a lobster. Bout to me, let's just lock the letters on
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his hands turned on pretty crudely as the fisherman was marking his lobster. But
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and he he now was about two hundreds of the night and hell yeah see
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na doctor risk. Oh yeah, he's of course Belgrade all time, about
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twenty miles up the coast. It is thirty miles I do. I'll right
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matic very packed. I'm identified man with chilled in the bike by someone wearing
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a not to ring, waited down and down from the d there Beldrade round
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Pikes voted him up and down. Here your cage, come on, pat
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ye, now up, Nick, you're not walking down on me. Believe
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we would get smiss certainly man, but it's murdered. They you can't just
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go home. And I can't say anything about going home, I say,
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and I are going up to Belgrade and not who wears not two rings?
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Yeah, that's in the flash lit here and that's your phone. My secretary
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don't knows I recollect today. It never meant I detective am. I gonna
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ask you some questions about what I think someone anything missing from belt right and
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I think I've founded listened manmade him here heavy let your part. Charlie Hall
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already and the police Monday Burger Day they wondered what happened to him in my
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shore Grendon's grocery store. Yeah, support yourself by the shore stands upgrade.
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How long has Howl been missing? About two weeks? I thought he was
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out on a binge. He said he want a Friday night to make deliveries
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in the truck. He never showed up Saturday. Did the truck? Yeah?
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I guess he brought it back to the garage before he went wherever he
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went. Did it never occurred to him that the killer might have brought it
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back. No, never occurred to mc kelly. Was killed. He's gonna
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have fast before anyone complaining about non delivered grocery that day and how was killed?
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After Benn would Chapter was killed another shop. I have a list of
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Powell delivery said little, but that's Friday. Don't see why you should.
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I think this is a murder case. Do you want to care man with
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you too? Mister Parker, my name is corn all right, as far
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as I see, would you be any relationship sim Carter who brought up William
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bankas was my father? Your father he was? Why didn't you say so
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before? I'm glad to meet your Carter's shake? Your father was a great
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detective. Charlie's going to be slayers. You get, you get anything we've
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got in this top world that for a while I thought all I was going
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to get was a roll color. It does make I think it's going to
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snow. How many work stuffs do we have to make those eleven delivery nice?
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So I think we've covered nine. I went by the name of tan
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On that shooting club. Bel Gray would had a shoeing for the little town.
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Doesn't look like a resource to have shooting hanging out. But I don't
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take it very rarely playing anything out. Do you think how it might have
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been killed if one of these last and places they found out that they made
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the other two the other nine? Did I raised some person? Maybe the
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last two. I flind that way someone might be lying a question. M
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hm, we don't know. Through power fill. It was time r than
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the last name sounds the same the original murderer. Pray box. That's kind
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of like a milk Everybody off another, shut the hail, let's see oh
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rare stars got away shooting ourself is and tame so the record and one who
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doesn't want to hold Jake follows. I dominate the killer off the guy who
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the splashes lee he went located. I think doctor for him, snow in
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the ground. Frak fo this month. The first warmhouse replied, you want
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to be a freezing night. We can't sit here on a long way back
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rode with two flat cars and wait for out look down the road a little
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bit. The last I think I can real life. Yeah, I see
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ahead and refracts the street. But I want to make it half an hour,
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half an hour. This will the way here in his office club drove
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us into this row hoptably. I think that what I wanted to fire.
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M hm, the answer, right answer. Maybe they didn't hear it.
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To the sleep from lad into the run Munn. You could have something wrong.
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Well nice for her, you don't believe I feeling their dead bodies a
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right. Why are the answer? Then you're around looking for que pardon me,
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my second had to gone. I can about that. I don't know
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just what you know? One of your definitely putting up the answers. Please
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can the job? We're not having any? Did you please answers? Would
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your lease addicated? You're alive? Were you say something? Everything? Boys?
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From the time, I'm sorry, I didn't give anything. I was
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in the rear of the club. My name is Adam, secretary of the
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Ormagic. You're the famous nick cart that aren't you? Yes? And this
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lady that's wrong? What kind of a club is business? To Adam?
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Why does everyone ignore us? It's something of a paradoxys and it's a new
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idea decently populated. This is a club or anti social men at acomb precises
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all our members and then desire the important advantages of the club. But Tina
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the social prod it formed its organization. There's a six club rule against all
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complications after entertainments, and I'm sorry to say against leave Adams. I came
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here to ask you some quite if you would have taken appointment tomorrow. Actually
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hate nice to leave now, can you lease as every telephone for help?
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There is no telephone this way all the mean thing. I'm sure you understand
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my position with my cutter and just but this doesn't mean anything. I've got
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them. Oh what are we doing now? What will look up the corner
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clubhouse? Are those telephone wires? Yeah, punch Adams applying about the phone.
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I know we were lying about that on the back of the house.
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What are you talking about here? You know, one of those so called
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social class that's what's there? Your shore plans on the shooting tract, the
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past enough factor that what that story is just awesome? Yeah? Why can
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I graduated? Please? Your hands and when you're und cat up DNA just
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ago, our hands are rough, Adams? Pick that flash right? All
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right? Deductions were correct. I had a little more hope that my hate
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making content story would That's why I waited to hear for your second thanks.
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I had to hope you would be killed in the crowd. It's unfortunately you
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are not. I don't think so, but I do. Indeed, I'm
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afraid I shall have to kill both of you all over again. X ouck.
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You've been all night? Yeah, and they was very kill us in
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me? Why what? In? Why not it tortious? Don't some way
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out? These remained even in the year of experience and probably how to carry
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a load of play in one hand. Those convenient woman would carry a loaded
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gun in the other. Yeah, we're not, I assure you the tool
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is not. Okay, what's the game of play? We're in an extraordinary
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position to kata as we already guess. This is a depo for escapes in
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the war and intend to pay in progress downstairs is a vice. One school
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of thought advocates your death immediately. Yes, spirited opposition, which is to
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use you as hostages to ensure they transport back to the mother country. You
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haven't made up your mind yet. I'm going down now. I have friends
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who returned with the final verte in the meantime, I had right, I
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was going wrong with that. I very well they have back. Yes,
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be sure to say the last two for the extre moment. I'll show you
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why you can and make sure you's name. All the ashes take a lot
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of cry, can't you. There's no way to climb down the telephone.
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Then a strong over the house jumped alongside their windows. Cigare bit the yeah
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right, I'm gone, No, definitely part whether there's a phone on,
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there's a line or not contacted to the set walk there's kind of cutting two
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bare wires together, so I switch. Then they have for her the host
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question. Yes, oh yeah, mum. The gentleman below had reached the
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decision and what they decid debating it has been decided to give you a once
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not waiting in the seventh they wait there right, not being gotten out.
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I'm more or less I expected it. I'm as for them. I've taken
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your advice, my last figure save for the execution, so happy to receive
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the news of the magnificent. In the coda, I assure you was that
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I gotta come come on back down. The time for us a complicate the
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process. Why we can't play makes our taking our grades of the cellar.
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We're going out into the cold world, all right, all right and stopping
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the brush. We're out in the house. I'm not out of danger yet.
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We're going to got one gun. I at least twelve them with a
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whole art. Oh why do we do? We've gotta get Captain bout with
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a until the summer sponsor. As a way we had likely not to kill
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us, and we can't lose contact. They've got to puld on like m
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re enforcement. How we played Hatten down the pitch and they're not half frozen
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slushingly. We're hung fo We're want to leave a trail they can pot bay
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follows trail. Alright, Why didn't take Adams with us? I want him
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to leave the chase? Which way you're going to let them chase us?
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Heading back to our car which comes to work and helps them to get to
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in time. Let's try to make it round two flat tires got back to
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town the following people, I can leave them behind us pay back at the
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house walking no more, no line like Indians. Yeah that's clever, all
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right, that's the hunting float turning away. That was like shooting. Why
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the sea and the rest backing make yes? Okay, anyone happens the time
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on the road. I won't think anything. Form wan't realize human things are
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being hunted. That they can probably a hundreds that out after game, it's
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come on thro this tupe of which you don't think the spot of the I
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g shooting to set the scene. How can we got to catch sight of
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us? I don't know that you're wherever the people please say your past come
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on. Yeah, I else to thank Adam see us. Yes, yes,
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it's fun of us. Wants to sit away. Now keep bunny.
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You gotta make the car, make you can find Yill you want to chat
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him that Wait wait wait, okay, slending coming. I got that thing
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I wanna passed back by on the road and let me pick up the way
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or great wives are being pleasant. Way. I have to pacify the car,
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the long pickle. I think I can take it. You would have
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cost to the dance bank of my car. I was gone a place,
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but I don't want to be able to car. I stand by. I'm
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not stopping for back the game, not the reinforcement for Adam's club members are
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really going to be at a telsial from now hung back in a prisoner of
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war. Captain. Yeah, I'm sorry. You won't borrow a car.
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You get a hold mister Carr to go Jean knight Lett and hold him Carys
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shut him take the train. But that's right, all right, Lennam.
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Thanks anyway, But they offer many nights of you giving me all the credit
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for granted that Ganga the w you deserve you've got your home case coat.
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Arlie Howell might hurt some up about the dad when he was taking his last
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smitter to the club, got the fishes and before he drove away and was
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discovered, but up a pipe and look killed. Adam come to his body
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and tail great bay when he drove the truck back to the garage. But
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why did I Adam sitting in our continent? I don't know we were home.
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I'll bet the must have been a mister Glenham's grocer for when we were
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going over Howe delivery schedules. Real, I didn't do it on the trail
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I stopped. He sure didn't put the carter and you sure put the share
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of of Belgrade on the bathroom. And as far as Patty and I might
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have been off the prominently, you hadn't bath my s os againstant the Bone
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company reported, Well what happened back at the country, brother Alad oh Man?
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Why Patsy would Adam run away by smoking eleven cigarettes and have an off?
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Oh, that don't make sense or hale it was an all drink my
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pots on him. I took the ashes from the cigarette Patty smoked and packed
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the under the paper cigarette Q and then when I pretended to start smoking my
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last execution figure, I simply blew the ashes the rect claim to Adam's eyes.
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Fine the man, so I could take a gun away and knock him
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out. Oh that was it what I'm bot to work for here, And
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I've stricken every pocket and a hundred up in leave. Mister Carter, I
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got an apology to lak to. I alould have said you were the son
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of the pain, which sim Carter, well, I take it back,
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Sim Carter's the photos the pain, which Nick welcome back. A lot to
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talk about in this particular episode. First of all, I think that the
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whole idea of leaving a complex insignia such as a swastika by paunching someone with
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a ring on something I think the MythBusters debunked several years ago. I think
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they found that, and they were it was around superheroes, but they found
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that in order to actually leave that sort of impression, it just wouldn't happen.
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You would come up with enough force to actually destroy the skull before you'd
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leave some sort of mark on there. But it is a literary trope,
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so I guess we have to allow it. The same thing goes for blowing
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up the car by firing at the gas but no expert on nineteen forties car
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it might have worked, And of course it did work because it was Nick
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Carter doing it. Perhaps most interesting, though, was this thing that you'll
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hear in a lot of post war material early First War is a concern about
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these escape Nazis. It's not just a desire for justice, it's a fear
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of them coming back and then being able to rebuild these things. I think
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that, particularly when you compare the thought that the First World War had been
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a war to end all wars, and then less than twenty five years later
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American sons and daughters again went off to war with Germany, there's less of
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a feeling of security that the Nazis wouldn't somehow be back, that they hadn't
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used all of the Fifth Columnist connections and other connections around the world, that
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this would all rare rear its ugly head sooner or later. And we saw
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this not just in Nick Carter, but certainly in the Superman programs from late
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nineteen forty five early nineteen forty six, dealing with the Adamman, a former
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undercover Nazi who is engineered by a Nazi scientist to be a able of practically
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killing Superman. You might think that, as this program aired in nineteen forty
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six that a story about Nazi villains that'd be a bit dated, But the
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real concern about Nazis coming back in some form or another really fueled this sort
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of program, and it continued on for years and even decades in one form
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or another. I remember an episode of the nineteen nineties TV series Lewis and
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Clark The New Adventures of Superman in which a Nazi sleeper cell with genetically engineered
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Aryan specimenspose to take over the country. And again this was in the nineteen
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nineties. I will say that for Nazis trying to escape, they certainly went
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about it in a funny way, particularly with the swastika ring, because if
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your goal is to get out of the United States and back to Germany,
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you'd want to be inconspicuous. But as Nick pointed out, there weren't too
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many people who belonged to the United States who would be wearing a swasticka ring.
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Anybody who saw that would have to be dealt with, and that just
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got messy. And you know, if it hadn't been so obvious that they
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were up to something, they might have actually gotten away with it. All
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right. Well, now some listener comments and feedback, and David shares a
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good remark. I've noticed that the past couple of episodes of Nick Carter were
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written by Alfred Bester, most famous as a sci fi writer. I wonder
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if the return to the pulpy field that you noted in this episode is his
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influence. I think certainly that could be the case. And sometimes I do
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think old time radio fans or fans of classic entertainment will often give too much
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credit to the actors for settying the shape of the series. Certainly, actors
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are important, but it's going to more often or not be the creative team,
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the writer, the the directors, the producers who are going to set
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the direction for this and really define a lot of what goes on on the
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series, because there have been many actors who've been very talented stuck with awful
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creative teams that ultimately made things very difficult on their careers. Well, that
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will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Next Thursday, Nick Carter again and also be sure to join
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us starting next Tuesday as we begin to take a look at some more recently
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discovered episodes of the pre Bob Bailey Johnny Dollar. In the meantime, send
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