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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Loss of Memory Matter (EP1369) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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nations of seven dollars or more. Well with all of the lost episodes of
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar that we've played with Edmund O'Brien and John Lynn. I
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know we have fans for whom Johnny Dollar is Bob Bailey. End of sentence
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period, and you may be wondering where's your previously lost, newly discovered Bob
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Bailey episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Well you need to look no further
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than today's episode. This is the first of two Johnny Dollar episodes featuring Bob
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Bailey, which we couldn't have brought you a year or two ago because they
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weren't in circulation. The title of the episode is the Loss of Memory Manner.
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The original air date was June the Seid of nineteen fifty seven. So
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let's take a listenbody, would it's time no for Joanney Dollar Crutcher, Mister
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Dollar Lester Crutcher at Continental Insurance Company. Oh hi, yeah, mister Gretcher.
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Now tell me, are you familiar with the Priests Expedition collection? Priests
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Expedition some of the relics artifacts of considerable archaeological import that were excavated from the
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ruins of the city of Er in the Valley of the Euphrates, Findings from
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the temple erected to the god Bail which proved of such historical value to students
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of the ancient Babylonian civilization. You know, I certainly don't know, well
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what about it? We carry some special insurance on that collection, and what's
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happened to it? Nothing yet, But I think you'd better come over and
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see me right away. Okay, mister Gretcher. Why not Bob Bailey and
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the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance
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insurance investigator. Yes, Trulee Johnny Dollar, no act one of yours,
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truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Continental
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Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, following as an account of expenses incurred during
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my investigation of the loss of memory matter ancient Babylonia. Crutcher it said so.
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On the way down to his office, I stopped off at the library
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for a good look at the encyclopedia, and I learned that what was once
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Babylonia is now a part of the country of Iraq, one of the hotspots
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in the Middle East. Go ahead, good, there might be some action
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even international. In Dree on a map I found the location of the long
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forgotten city of Er the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates river near the Persian
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Gulf, where it was romantic names, all of them, and not too
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far away the exotic city of Baghdad. Yes, and long last, a
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trip to the Middle East. Middle East, Well, that's what the map
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said, must crutch him? Near west is more like a dollar. Huh.
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You must have misunderstood me. The relics from the Temple of the God's
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Vale I mentioned are presently in the little town of Lakeview. Lakeview, Yes,
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right here in Connecticut. I yes, I did misunderstand. They're owned
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by a mister Alvin Peabody Cartwright, who I might venture to say is a
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crackpot of the first order, but who happens to have placed a great deal
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of insurance with us on his life property, art collection, and so forth.
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I see you mentioned a priest's expedition collection of rare scrolls and tablets,
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principally taken from excavations along the bank of the Euphrates River, some of them
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over four thousand years old, all of them of great historical and archeological value.
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Here this is a relatively unimportant piece that mister Cartwright gave to me some
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years ago. Well what is it? What does it look like? Wow?
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Like a tiny sort of sofa pillow, and it's made out of dried
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mud or some Hey wait a minute, there are a lot of tiny marks
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on it, hieroglyphics. Dollar those are a perfect example of the cuneiform writing
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that was used by the ancients. Or what's it say? Has anybody deciphered
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it? It's a receipt for twenty four fat sheep, twelve oxen, and
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twelve goats that were taken to the temple for sacrifice to the great god bail
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Ah. About that? Does the whole collection consist of stuff like this?
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Yes? And of priceless scrolls made of papyrus and leather. You've heard of
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the Dead Sea scrolls? Oh? Yeah, sure, that throw so much
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light on biblical times. Yeah, they had a lot of publicity and time
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and life and so on. Yes, those in the priests collection cover much
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of the history of the Canaanites and Phoenicians. And you've ensured the collection.
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It's this way. Mister Cartwright has decided to sell it to the museum here
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in Hartford. Has promised them that his step son, Alfred Hacking, who
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lives with him, would deliver it to them today. But now he's suddenly
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worried to death that something will happen to it our route. So so to
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keep him happy, we issued a twenty thousand dollars transit policy. Well,
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and what's he worried about now? He demands a guard for it too.
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Well, doesn't he trust his stepson, this Alfred who knows? Who knows
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what? Old Cartwright thinks? Whom he trusts. Well, now, look
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after all, two hundred and fifty dollars plus whatever expense account you can dream
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up for a couple of hours drive in the country, What if it's own
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all well, sure, why not expense account? I had him two fifty
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dollars deposit on a rental car in which I probably headed north and west on
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Highway forty four. The fifty odd mile drive to Lakeview was easy and pleasant.
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Finding Kytwrit's home was also easy. It sat prominently atop of hill on
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the outskirts of the little town, with perhaps two acres of ground around it,
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all of it looking worth a lot of money. Yet, write a
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c D and run down Alvin Peabody Carter and himself greeting me at the door.
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All right, take it you are, mister Dollar. That's right,
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mister Cartran. Let me see your credentials. Oh oh yeah, sure,
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all right, Hey, I'm yeah sor right. You didn't come in this
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way in my steady. Right here and there, mister Dollar, is the
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box containing the Babylonian relics. That one carton is all that's to be delivered
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to the museum in Hartford. That's all, young man. The contents of
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that sealed cartoner worth twenty one thousand dollars and it's sealed, you understand,
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so that neither you that worthless steps on the mind can get your hands on
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any part of it. Alfred, This is mister Dollar, Alfred Hockey.
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Hi Dollar, oh im, Sorry, I didn't see us any back there.
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Yeah, now let me finish this phone call that you interrupted. You're
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still what you're wearing? All right now? Eh? Yes, he finally
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got here. Dollar is his name, that's right, sh yeah, saidam
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yeah, sure, Well just you be sure he identifies himself, yes,
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and that he's accompanied by my stupid step son. His name is Alfred Hockey.
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Now if only one of them a peers, if the seals on the
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curtain are broken, you're not to accept it. They can bring it back
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to me in it No, no, no, call the police. Yes,
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that's what I said, Call the police. Otherwise give them money to
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mister Dollar, not to that half witch steps in him and I don't trust
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him. Now they'll leave here shortly, and I know it's late, but
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wearing. Just make sure that you're there waiting for them and the money.
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Goodbye, mister conright. Yes, what if you're so concerned about it.
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I can't help wondering why you haven't asked the police to guard this shipment for
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you, because I don't trust him. I don't trust them anymore, and
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I trust this NUM's called Alfred. I don't trust anybody. Does that include
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me? Of course it does. I Do you suppose I'm having both of
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you take it over there. I'll tell you why to keep an eye on
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each other. I'll get yourselves out of here and on the way to Harford.
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Just be sure you bring that cash right back here to me eat tonight.
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You mean check, don't you? I mean cash. I don't believe
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in check, so don't believe in banks. I don't trust him. I've
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kept all I have in my big safe here in the house of the past
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forty seven years, and I intend to continue keeping it there for I can
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watch over it myself. I'll go on you and this dumb Alfred get out
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of here. Dumb Alfred, I'm not so sure. On the other hand,
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As we drove back toward Hartford with Alfred at the wheel, he said
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he knew a backcountry shortcut. I decided he just wasn't as clever as he
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liked to be. Hey, hey, take it easy. I'll give it
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to you straight dollar. I'd hope the old buzzard will let me make this
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delivery alone, because, believe me, if he had, he'd never see
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one red center that twenty one grand we're going to pick up. I take
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it you and your stepfather don't get along too well and mild. But I'm
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telling you, boy, that once I figure a way to relieve him of
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his though, he'll never see me again. Twenty one thousand bucks. Boy,
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that would get me so far away from here. I'll tell you you,
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uh been living with him a long all my life. The crazy old
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screwge just never let me have any money on my own, and me I
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got a right to blow myself have a little fun as much as anybody.
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Oh, maybe he thinks you ought to work for him. You better slow
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down. I'll work, did you say? When he's got more? And
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I'll ever be able to use stash to win that old stafe in the cellar?
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Why should I have I said? Take it easy? How why out
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those trucks stay off those back country roads? Well? Why should I work
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when all I need to do is to get my hands to some of that
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pile he's gotten a safe and I can live like a king. He'll never
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spend it, and he'll never leave it to me when he kicks off.
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That's why I haven't knocked him off myself. But believe me, Look,
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just stop this crate and let me take the way. Yeah, oh ah,
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you're running and raving. You're all over the road. Sure, okay,
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okay, sure you can drive. We'll stop, Sure stop, Look,
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God, we'll escape. There was a long, long period of deep,
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dull blackness, without sound, without feeling, and then slowly, hazily,
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the light came back, but it wasn't clear. Everything seemed very confusing
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me. I was conscious of a terrible throbbing in my head, and then
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it slowly passed, leaving only a dulic, a strange and helpless feeling of
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not knowing who or what or where I was, until the shadow of a
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man rose from the ground beside me, slowly took definite form as it wave
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it for a moment, then stood over me. How about you, boy
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back to the world again. Well, yeah, you he really hit that
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windshield frame. Yeah, let me help you sit up ear lean up against
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what's left of the car, and sure, yeah, this is the wrect
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we cracked up and that'sing busted. He would just knocked out, cracked up.
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Sure, and a way to Hartford. Hey, what's the matter with
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you? I don't know. He can't seem Drake remember anything? What do
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you mean anything? I can't remember. My mind is all blank, you
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know, don't you know? No? And it's just it's look, look,
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look, look, look like you kidding? But car? Sure,
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sure Hartford to deliver some stuff and collect the big water. You're sure you
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don't remember? I don't remember, not even who you remember. I'm trying
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to okaylen listen, listen, listen, everything's going to be okay, real,
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Okay. You want to know who you are? Huh? Yeah,
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who I am? Sure, Sure you do, and I'll tell you.
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Your name is Hocking, Alfred Hacking. Alfred that's right, Yeah, you're
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Alfred Hacking. We were driving along here in the car, see I was.
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You were keeping me company? You get it? Yeah, I guess
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so sure, sure you see, I have to deliver some stuff in Hartford.
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It's in this box here in the car. And you see it box.
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Oh yeah, you just came along for the right, the right to
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Hartford. See. Oh, after I delivered this stuff and pick up the
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make a little pickup. That is why. Then you and me will part
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and you go on merry way. You see, I don't know. I
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just sure you to sure sure you yeah, sure you feel better hour,
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Yeah, you're much only my head was clear, if only I could remember
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something anything. Look, look you're gonna be okay. Well l I l
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that's right. Yeah, but you I can't remember who you me. My
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name is Johnny die Dollar. Yeah, I remember that, Johnny Dollar.
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That's right, yeah, BacT two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. In
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a moment, we sometimes wonder what is the life of a human being really
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worth? Not too much or maybe a great deal? Does it depend on
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whose life it is? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain. Fred
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Hargesheimer, since World War Two, has felt that his life is worth quite
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a lot, quite a lot of gratitude. During the war in the Pacific,
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about June of nineteen forty three, Lieutenant Hargesheimer had his P thirty eight
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fighter planes shot out of the sky. Badly wounded, he bailed out over
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a tiny island, New Britain. It looked pretty small from where he hit
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the silk, but he found it much bigger when he hit. It was
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bigger and in complete control of the enemy. But Hargersheimer was lucky. After
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a month of lonely hiding, he was found by a group of friendly natives
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from the village of Nantambu. They cared for him and successfully hid him from
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enemy patrols for the next four months at the risk of their own lives.
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Then Hargesheimer was able to make it back to civilization. For the next seventeen
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years, Fred Hargesheimer thought about those wonderful people of Nantambu, twelve thousand miles
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away in the United States of America. Hargesheimer put a great plan into effect.
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He made speeches, took up collections, sold jewelry belonging to his family,
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and worked out a way to bring a bit of civilization and happiness to
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the little village of Nantambu. Needless to say, the villagers gave him a
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spectacular welcome. Upon his return, Fred Hargesheimer showed his gratitude to the people
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who had saved his life. But life is worth little with the utes freedom,
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the right of all men everywhere. Now act too, of yours,
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truly, Johnny Dollar, And the loss of memory matters, amnesia, sudden
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complete amnesia, all feeling of other helplessness that goes with it. The man
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who was with me told me the crackup of our car on the way to
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a place he called Hartford. Hartford. Nothing to me? Now did I
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recognize anything in the countryside of the road. Always sat waiting hoping someone would
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pick us up, names, places, I remembered, nothing, not even
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who I was, who the man with me was, That's right, Dollar,
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I'm Johnny Dollay, I see, And your name is Hockey, Alfred
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Hockey Hockey. Yeah. Yeah, you're feeling better, aren't you. Yeah?
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I think so. Well, look in the pocket are your cook isn't
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there bill folder? Yeah? You open it up. Yeah, here's there's
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a name in it. Sure see Alfred P. Hocking. That's right,
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that's you, and I'm Johnny Dollay. Just remember that and everything will be
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all right. Why not some truck come along and pick us up or a
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car? What what are we doing out here? Johnny? You see this
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box? Well, I've got orders to deliver it to the museum in Hartford.
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Museum, Huh, what's in it? Or just some old relics?
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Then I'll collect the money for it, and that'll be that you can be
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on your merry way. Okay, yeah, yeah, I guess I'm sure.
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But how come I'm going with you? Johnny? Why you live in
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Hartford? See? Oh, I see you didn't even know that. You
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still don't remember anything, only what's happened since I woke up here. Look
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now, yeah, why don't you take me home? First? If we
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can get a ride that isn't Maybe if I rest, i'll feel better.
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No, no, maybe my mind will clear up. No, No,
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first the museum. But Johnny, all right, listen, the crazy old
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cood, I'm delivering this stuff for well. He phoned a head that there'd
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be two of us. See, so you've got to come along to the
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museum. Museum. Yeah, yeah, the museum, the one in Hartford,
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Like I told you. Oh yes, But once I get the money
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for it, I'll take care of you. Yeah, I'll take care of
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you. You've done pretty good as it is. I guess sure I have,
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doll al I mean, I've pulled you out of the wreck and all,
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hey, look here comes a big moving van. And if I not
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those boys who'll pick us up. Come on, get up on your feet
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and we'll flag him down. The helpful driver of the big cross country truck
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picked us up and was all for getting me to a hospital before anything else.
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But my companion, who called himself Johnny Dollar, assured him he'd do
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it as soon as our mission was accomplished, so the driver agreed to take
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us directly to the museum. Johnny had mentioned Johnny Dollar, I mean,
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had a strangely familiar sound, but I couldn't remember. Finally, in the
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city, they told me it was Hertford. We pull up in front of
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a large, rather imposing granite building. Here somebody will still be there waiting
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to meet you. Mister. It's getting pretty late. Don't worry driving every
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somebody all right, okay, but you're sure you don't only wait and take
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your friend out to a hospital like I told you the minute went through here,
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I'll take care of him. Come on, I'll sure, thanks driver.
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Yeah, thanks, okay, boys, if I couldn't give somebody in
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trouble a hand out him, no business driving this rigny. Here's your package.
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Oh thanks again. Now come on now, okay, Jimmy, I'll
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do all the talking and you just remember who you are. Sure, let
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me help you carry that you You just pushed the bell button? Episode where
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it's about time? Which of you is mister Dollar? That's me, Hi,
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mister Wearing, here's my credentials. Yes then you ol Hockey. Oh
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yes, this is mister cartright, I said on the phone. But what
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happened to you? I had a little car accident on away? Are you?
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Are you feeling all right mister Hocking? Wow? Sure, so I'm
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going to take care of him as soon as we leave here. So if
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you don't mind, You've got something for me, haven't you? Of course?
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Seeals are still in tact. Sure are in spite of the accident.
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Oh very well, if you'll step inside, I'll give you the money.
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Good good, Come on, now I must confess my bewildered mind with somewhat
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puzzible What happened next? Mister Wearing opened a small wall safe in the handed
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my companion a package from it. He extracted and counted, almost greedily,
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twenty one thousand dollars. He signed a receipt, accepted a receipt for the
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packet of bills. Then we left the museum and hailed a taxi. Hey,
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Boddy, you know what, drive your own car? Place it's still
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opened. Shure it out, then take us there, and uh, there's
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an extra fin for you if you step on it. All right, your
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Johnny can't the cabby take me home first? I said I'd take care of
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you, didn't I? All right? Now, I don't ask any questions.
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We haven't good time. Maybe I had lost all memory. Maybe my
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mind was befuddled, confused, the pain in my head nearly driving me out
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of whatever sanity I retained. Nonetheless, I had a strange feeling that things
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weren't what they should be. Still, my friend, this Johnny Dollar,
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who'd saved me from the wreck car, if only I can remember things before
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we cracked up. There was something strange too, in the way he slowly,
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painstaking me signed the application for to drive your own car, looking carefully
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all the while at the license he pulled out of his pocket. Then a
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few minutes later we were on the road again, and we were heading,
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according to the highway signs, out of town and tore a place called Danbury
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on Rod six, and these rental cars could stand a little souping up.
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Look, Johnny, I thought you were going to take me home. I
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am, but you said I live in heart for a pro. Listen,
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if I know that stepfather am of yours, the sooner we get out of
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the state. Why what were you going to say? Nothing? Nothing?
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Now, no, listen, I gotta get you to a hospital. See,
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and the best one I know is over the line in New York.
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You want to get your memory back, don't you? Yeah? Sure?
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But now look, yeah, I'll huh what'd you say? That's funny?
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I called you all? What's funny about it? Sure, I'm beginning to
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remember things. Uh, how about it? I wished to have it in
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Courtney, But now look, Johnny, there's something funny about all this.
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I may be a bit muddled after that crackup we were in, but it
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seems I'm muddled. That's the reason you're getting crazy ideas. But don't see,
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just quit thinking and relax so you might do something you'd be sorry for
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it. Yeah, real, sorry. This determination of it is to get
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across the state line. Things were wrong, and I know it, But
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I don't know why. A man's judgment is based on his experience, so
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his reasoning pop or it's based on things he's done or that have happened to
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him, or at the very least on things he's known about in the past,
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and all of my knowledge of the past was gone from me. Anything
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I might do or say at this point would probably be wrong. So how
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could I argue with this Johnny Dollar? What's more, he had a gun.
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I'd felt it in his pocket when he bumped against me. Perhaps if
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I had a gun I could stop him demand an explanation. I felt that
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I should why. I didn't know why, but somehow, Johnny, Yeah,
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why are you so anxious to get into another state? I told you
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to get you to a hospital and to shut up to me. Don't ask
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questions, just leave everything to me. Well, why is driving all this
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distance fifty or sixty miles now better than if you'd taken me to a hospital
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or doctor? Banking? Heart? I told you to stop asking questions?
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Yeah, Johnny, why do you carry a gun? Why shouldn't I don't
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worry about it? Are you supposed to? Sure? Sure? I got
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a primate, so forget it. Let me see it? Way? What
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is this? Later? Now? Later? I said, And I don't
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believe you? All right? All right? Then? Here look at his
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card case. I looked at Johnny Donner's card case, his driver's license,
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business cars had said he was a freelance insurance investigator, and again something vaguely
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for me, you stirred in my cloudy mind. You find it yet?
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And then an identification card with thumbprinted snapshot, and the picture was not of
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the man beside me. Instinctively I leaned over to look into the rear view
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mirror to look at myself, but he pulled the gun from his pocket,
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and before I could do it, he struck me hard across the head.
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All right, now, well we're gonna stup you, hear me? Al?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you hit me where that gun is?
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Right? That was a mistaken because that second blow on the head. Why
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have we started? Yo? See you see you gave me an idea about
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this gun? I get out? Sure? Why not? All right?
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Now look down over the side of the road there, what about it?
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See that deeper being down there? Why? Al, that's why? Because
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you called me al, and this time you meant it. Yeah, I
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guess I did, thanks to that pokemon. The So you got some of
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your memory back, huh, but not your strength. So before you too,
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I'll put that away. Expense account total so far and ninety five dollars,
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even including doctor Bill's repair bill on rental car is still to come,
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and strangely enough, Old kind Right is perfectly willing to pay it at any
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of the expenses that may be involved. He's a change man with his chiseling
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steps on out from out the foot. Also, I'll be required to appear
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in court against Alfred Hockey, and there'll be expenses involved there too. The
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extra five hundred kite, Wright insisted I take doesn't go in this account since
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it came out of his own pocket. Not bad for just a couple of
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wallips on the head. Huh, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here
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is our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week, Well,
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that's another case of mistaken identity. But believe me a completely different affair.
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Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Downer, yours truly,
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Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood. It is produced
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and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote Tonight's story. Heard in our
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cast were Less, Tremaine, Parley, Bear, Joseph Kerns, Barney Phillips,
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Tom Henley, and Shepherd Lincoln. Musical supervision is by Amerigo Marino.
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Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting
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story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollars. This is the United States Armedforces
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Radio and Television service, Welcome back, Well. Tales of People getting amnesia
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is probably one of those well worn fictional tropes, probably second only to people
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having an identical twin. I like Bailey's performance here because so often in fiction,
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when you're dealing with a semi serious story or semi serious series, they'll
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have amnesia as a practical effect, where the person who has amnesia will believe
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whatever you tell them. Oh, I'm a bank robber, Well, let
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me go ahead and tie up these people in a safe I liked how Johnny,
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throughout the period of true amnesia really just remained very confused and uncertain,
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almost a different character. And I like that portrayal because it's a different twist.
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It's probably not any more scientifically accurate. Doctors who are experts in amnesia
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might email in their thoughts, but it's certainly a bit more interesting than the
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typical taste. Of course, it did have the U cure amnesia with a
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second bump on the head, which is not a surefire cure. Whatever you
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believe from these stories. But any right, an enjoyable episode and I'm glad
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it was found. We won't have another lost episode next week, but in
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a few weeks, since we haven't gotten into the episodes yet that we were
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that were lost. All right, Well, now on to some listener comments
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and feedback, and we start off with a comment regarding the Michael Meani mirage
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matter. Ryan emails in and says that he just finished listening to that episode.
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As someone who was born around thirty years ago in a sleepy little town
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about thirty minutes north of Golfport, I was especially thrilled to hear this episode.
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Although I've traveled a lot and seen many different opinions of my hometown,
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I was amused with the camping nature of the local dialogue in this episode.
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The old lady with her thick, fast talking accent is actually about typical of
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the area. I have an and or two that could easily played that part
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with little to no effort. Thanks for introducing me to Johnny Doller and the
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other detectives of Radio's Golden Days. Keep them coming, you'all take care now
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well, Thanks so much, Ryan, and also received a comment from Bobby
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Lee over on Facebook says, Oh wow, Gulf Port is just right around
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down the road for me. I love that Johnny is in my neck of
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the woods. Well, thanks so much. And he got to thirty nine
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states sadly not either Idaho or Well. I think he got into another part
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of Montana from the one that I lived in, nowhere up near the area
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that I called home. And comments on Twitter, justin asked you mentioned that
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Bob Bailey was Johnny Dollar from fifty to fifty two. How come he has
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an episode in fifty seven? Well if I said that I misspoke, Edmund
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O'Brien was Johnny Doller from fifty to fifty two. Bob Bailey was from fifty
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five to sixty. Carls says on Twitter, Hey, Adam, I've been
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catching up on my Johnny Dollar addiction lately, loving the podcast. Keep it
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up, will do? Thank you so much. Additional comments on Johnny Dollar
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and back over on Facebook, listener Brett Corbin says, write some new episodes,
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Adam, you can do it. Well, that is a very intriguing
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idea, and I appreciate your cond suggestion. I definitely have to research the
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whole question of who actually would own the character of Johnny Doller. My guesses
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are between CBS and no one at this point, and then, of course
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I have to have a story. The only thing that occurs to me is
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trying to work out the six different versions of the actor of Johnny Dollar portrayed
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by the actors, and the only solution that occurs to me involves alternate dimensions.
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That's the science fiction writer speaking. My only idea of being Johnny Dollar
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interdimensional and insurance investigator at the moment, but I might be able to think
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of something else. The one series I've always had a desire to ride about
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or for was let George do it. But thanks so much for the suggestion,
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and I'll keep it in mind see if there's ever an opportunity to do
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it in the future. Other comments, Rebecca says my favorite great detective,
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Tanya says, I love Johnny Dollar, and Tim says, thanks a million
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for your efforts, and others. They talked about how and why they listen.
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Kate said she listened, well, take a little nap. Rebecca said,
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I listen every night, especially when we're out of the country at our
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home in Mexico. Terry says, I'm a highway warrior, I saved them
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up for the long drives. They are the best and lest that says.
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When I first found Johnny Dollar, I decided that horror old time radio wasn't
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the only thing I liked. After that, I gave other types of radio
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drama a chance, and there are certain radio dramas that do that. I
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actually, for quite a while the only things that I did with a radio
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drama was Dragnet and Superman, until I stumbled on the Antiocha radio station which
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plays old time radio, and got encouragement from so many of my listeners to
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give it a try, and there have been a lot of show has been
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very helpful and quite enjoyable to me, so thanks so much for your comments.
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Do appreciate it. That will do it for today. We will be
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back next week on Tuesday and Friday, our last week with two episodes of
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Johnny Dollar for a While, and tomorrow join us for Dragnet. In the
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meantime. Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow
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your host, Adam Grahamson and off