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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Denver Disbursal Matter (EP1615) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar. The original air date March the twenty third
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty eight and the title is the Denver Dispersehole.
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  Speaker 3: Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Harry Jamison at Paramount Insurance suggested Johnny Hi Perry, it's
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  Speaker 4: been a long time.
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  Speaker 3: I begun to think you neglecting me. Oh, how you
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  Speaker 3: talk matter?
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  Speaker 4: I think I've just been waiting for a nasty enough
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  Speaker 4: case to come.
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  Speaker 3: Along for you. Yeah, you do have a habit of
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  Speaker 3: handing me the dirty ones. What is it this time
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  Speaker 3: for state out in Denver? Oh? Yeah, I've heard them.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a small outfit by contact. All their claims
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  Speaker 4: are rooted to US damage appraisal, payment, dispersal.
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  Speaker 3: And so on. So what's happened, Well, we've had to
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  Speaker 3: pay a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of claims for him recently, too many. What's more, they've
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  Speaker 4: all been big ones and on fairly young policies.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Perry, you know as well as I do that
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  Speaker 3: things will average out in the long run unless something's wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Sixty thousand on one policy, thirty five thousand on another,
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  Speaker 4: seventy thousand and a cool one hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 4: on one just last week. Shoot, and the beneficiary in
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  Speaker 4: each case has.
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  Speaker 3: Been the same man. And no wonder. You just leave
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  Speaker 3: the door open, Perry. I'll be right over wid Bailey
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  Speaker 3: and The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action
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  Speaker 3: Pact expense to call it America is fabulous free lance
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  Speaker 3: Insurance Investigators Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a
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  Speaker 3: special investigator, Johnny Dollar the Paramount Insurance Adjustice Home Office, Hertford, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 3: Following is an account of expenses encourage during my investigation
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  Speaker 3: of the Denver dispersal matter expense account. I hadn't one
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  Speaker 3: a dollar ten for the cab that took me over
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  Speaker 3: to Perry Jameson's opposite Paramount through the form. The door
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  Speaker 3: was wide open for me.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of thought this thing might get you down
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  Speaker 5: here in a hurry, Johnny, sit down, and I took
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  Speaker 5: the liberty of calling TWA in getting your seat on
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  Speaker 5: the plane to Denver. Good idea, I went, there's one
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  Speaker 5: leaving New York at six pm, and I'll get you
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  Speaker 5: into Denver about ten thirty Mountain time. Thinking, made sure
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  Speaker 5: charge your expenses to USh. That's the deal we have
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  Speaker 5: with four State and the man to see you out there,
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  Speaker 5: who's almost a one man outfit. His name is William Whitney.
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  Speaker 3: Got it hew, Look, Perry, I've been thinking on the
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  Speaker 3: way over here. Who wonders we'll never see thanks vow,
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  Speaker 3: But how well do you know this man? Whitney maybe
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  Speaker 3: he's in Cahoosion.
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  Speaker 4: With this big beneficiary.
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  Speaker 3: That's Don Ricardo got his name. Yeah, such things have happened.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Johnny, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Poor old Willie Whitney's a mild, timid milk toast his wife,
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  Speaker 5: an ex course girl who probably thought he had money. Well,
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  Speaker 5: you can be sure she's the one who wears the
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  Speaker 5: pants in the family. Willie would cringe at the thought
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  Speaker 5: of hurting a fly.
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  Speaker 3: Well there was an idea. I don't blame you, but no,
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  Speaker 3: forget it, or what makes you so sure if something's wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Well I didn't say I was, but two hundred and
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  Speaker 5: fifteen thousand to one beneficiary and a period of only
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  Speaker 5: three months. Oh, I just want to be sure it's okay.
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  Speaker 5: And I called you in because I am willing to
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  Speaker 5: pay to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry, Perry, you will expense ConA have two
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and forty one dollars even playing for an
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  Speaker 3: incant adols Hartford to New York to Denver. Originally Indian Country,
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  Speaker 3: the mile high city is now amaze of oil refinery,
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  Speaker 3: steel companies, grain mills, chemical and manufacturing plants, a huge
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  Speaker 3: downtown shopping area and beautiful tree studded residential sections. No wonder,
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  Speaker 3: it's one of the big insurance centers. I had them
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  Speaker 3: three two dollars even for a cab in the town
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  Speaker 3: where I park myself at the world famous Brown Palace hotel.
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  Speaker 3: I had them four ten cents. Phone calls to an
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  Speaker 3: old newspaper pal from back east who is now working
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  Speaker 3: on the Denver Post, Johnny Dollar, feete packer.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, what's the story?
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  Speaker 3: Johnny? Great? Great? You gonna be here long? We gotta
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  Speaker 3: get together where you stayed round palace? Thank you? You
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  Speaker 3: want to?
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  Speaker 6: Should dig up a couple of days. We'll go out
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  Speaker 6: on the town. Remember the last time we died one
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  Speaker 6: on together?
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding? I had such a headache the next
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  Speaker 3: morning and hasn't left me yet. Hey, listen, I get
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  Speaker 3: away from the desk at two am. No you look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm out here a job insurance investigation. Did you ever
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  Speaker 3: hear of a man named Don Riccardo?
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  Speaker 6: You you know Don Riccardo?
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  Speaker 3: No, what do you know about him? Well?
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  Speaker 6: They say, now, mind you, I don't know for sure, Keeth.
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  Speaker 6: But don't forget I did a hitch on that you
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  Speaker 6: call the Son.
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  Speaker 3: Times a few years back what's that got to do
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  Speaker 3: with Don Riccardo.
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  Speaker 6: Who was back in the days the Capone mob and
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  Speaker 6: Don Riccardo. Well, mind you, nobody was ever able to pin.
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  Speaker 3: Anything on him. Yeah, I see what I mean. Where
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  Speaker 3: does he live?
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  Speaker 6: Pete Old twenty thirty miles east He other side of
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  Speaker 6: golden little place called Millville.
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  Speaker 7: Huh.
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  Speaker 6: Now, now, mind you, Keith, I don't want to really
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  Speaker 6: say anything against him. I I mean, if I don't
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  Speaker 6: seem to be really telling you anything about it.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, I think you've told me plenty. Well now listen,
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  Speaker 3: ke thanks, and I'll be talking to you. It was
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  Speaker 3: late and I was tired, but I went downstairs to
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  Speaker 3: the cocktail bar and with the help of a big
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  Speaker 3: fat tip run like cap got some more low down
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  Speaker 3: on Don Riccardo. The bartender talk plenty. Yeah, it seems
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  Speaker 3: that Kardo was living the life of Riley in the
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  Speaker 3: little town of Millville, lovely home, expensive cars, threw a
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  Speaker 3: lot of big, gaudy parties, and always for people from
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  Speaker 3: out of town, mostly Chicago or Miami Beach. Yeah. The
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  Speaker 3: bartender talk plenty until he spunted a lean, well dressed,
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  Speaker 3: rather too well dressed man sitting alone at one of
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  Speaker 3: the tables watching him, a man who somehow forgot to
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  Speaker 3: take off the light gray hat that shaded his features
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  Speaker 3: and slightly narrowed eyes. The bartender clambed up. I paid
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  Speaker 3: for my drink that's had him five, and was conscious
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  Speaker 3: of being watched closely as I casually sought it out
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  Speaker 3: and took the elevator out to my room. First thing
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, I looked up the address of Forestate.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of the striking new Mile High Center as I'd expected,
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  Speaker 3: it was a dingy old office building on South Broadway.
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  Speaker 3: William Whitney looked a little old and dingy himself.
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  Speaker 7: Johnny Dollar, especially investigations. That's right, mister Whitney out down
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  Speaker 7: all right, nice, just here on a visit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here because the Insurance of Justice are concerned about
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  Speaker 3: some recent claims they've had to pay on policies issued
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  Speaker 3: by you.
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  Speaker 7: We've been very unfortunate lately, mister Dollard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars unfortunate on only
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  Speaker 3: four policy.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, and all paid to the same beneficiary by some
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  Speaker 7: odd coincidence.
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  Speaker 3: You're sure it was coincidence? How are the policy holders quite?
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  Speaker 3: Some old miners living over near Golden Old Miners insuring
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  Speaker 3: for those amounts.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, they were all able to pay the premium.
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  Speaker 3: Give me their names, yes, sir, unless say I'm cock eye.
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  Speaker 3: There's something wrong with this whole thing, and I intend
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  Speaker 3: to find out what it is.
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  Speaker 7: The policies were issued in good faith, the premiums paid.
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  Speaker 7: But I agree with you, sir, and I'm terribly concerned.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad you're here, sir. It will not only save
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  Speaker 7: the company a lot of money, it will take the
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  Speaker 7: great load off my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the list. Do you know the beneficiary? This don
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  Speaker 3: Rey cardam.
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  Speaker 7: Only for seeing him when I've given them the checks, Hm,
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  Speaker 7: Finn Al Mulligan, R.
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  Speaker 3: Smith and J. Smith. Did any of these insure it
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  Speaker 3: have families?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You see the benefishary in each key?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I know better. Let me see those policies. Whitney
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  Speaker 3: left me alone while I plowed through his final Satisfied
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  Speaker 3: at least that the policies themselves were okay, I finally
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  Speaker 3: left him. Hail a taxi and told the driver ahead
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  Speaker 3: for the town of Golden As we pulled away from
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  Speaker 3: the curve, a small black foreign car and the next
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  Speaker 3: block swung around and appeared to follow us, and I wondered,
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  Speaker 3: But then it cut off at an intersection, and I
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  Speaker 3: decided I was imagining things until we pulled up in
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  Speaker 3: one of the addresses Whitney had given me, in golden
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  Speaker 3: ramshack of unpainted old frame house. On the edge of time.
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  Speaker 3: I told the driver away for me and walk up
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  Speaker 3: to the front door. Yeah, this is the address. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I guess did huh.
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  Speaker 7: Hight that's door opened by itself.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Hello, Hello, anybody s fact two of
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  Speaker 3: yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
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  Speaker 5: there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.
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  Speaker 5: Vermont state flag, in its early form, imitated our national flag,
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  Speaker 5: uniquely bearing seventeen stripes and seventeen stars, with only the
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  Speaker 5: inscribed word Vermont to distinguish it. The good people of
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  Speaker 5: Vermont assumed, as did our national government, that stripes as
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  Speaker 5: well as stars would be added as each new state
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  Speaker 5: entered the Union. Vermont entered the Union after Tennessee and Ohio,
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  Speaker 5: and with Kentucky to join shortly, the Vermonters naturally put
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  Speaker 5: seventeen stripes on their flag. In eighteen hundred and eighteen,
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  Speaker 5: the United States Congress put a stop to this, and
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  Speaker 5: since then the stripes have always been at thirteen and
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  Speaker 5: only stars are added for each new state. Vermont's present
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  Speaker 5: flag captures the famous beauty of the Green Mountain state
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  Speaker 5: in its coat of arms and inscribed as the phrase
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  Speaker 5: Vermont Freedom and Unity. Vermont's state flag, the flag of
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  Speaker 5: the fourteenth state to enter the Union, was adopted on
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  Speaker 5: April twenty sixth, nineteen twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: And now act too, If yours truly, Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 3: the Denver Disberthal matter. The old house at the edge
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  Speaker 3: of Golden Colorado look empty, but I knocked anyways. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is the address, all right, but I guess that Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I throw open I don't know. Hello, hello anyway, mister
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  Speaker 3: oh back, get away from this open door. But you're
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  Speaker 3: hurt your neck, you're bleeding the desk. Stay down barely,
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  Speaker 3: nick me. I'm all right, Holy car, I thought you
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  Speaker 3: were a guner here. Let me help. You will need
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  Speaker 3: help if you don't stay out of his line of fire.
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  Speaker 3: Who would did you see anybody? Yeah, that's a heart
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  Speaker 3: going away in the back. You gotta look at it. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't tell it. Dusty side rope back
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  Speaker 3: there looks like a little one though, fine, car too
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  Speaker 3: far away now, I can't tell. But it's black, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, we're getting back into your cab. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll get you to a doctor. No, No, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know where Millville is for sure? A few miles east.
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  Speaker 3: It's to know my line. You know where Don ric
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  Speaker 3: hardos for sure?
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  Speaker 2: Who you want to go there?
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  Speaker 3: Does he own a small black foreign car? Yeah, real
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  Speaker 3: expensive job.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen him in town.
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  Speaker 3: But mister yman, because I'll lay odds he's the one
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  Speaker 3: who fired those shots. Do you mind if I drop
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  Speaker 3: you off a few blocks away from his place? The
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  Speaker 3: camp driver Rolenta drop me off at Riccardo's front door,
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  Speaker 3: then High Taylor for other parts. It was a nice home,
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  Speaker 3: very modern, seeming me out of place, and what had
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  Speaker 3: once been a prosperous mining center but was now a
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  Speaker 3: little more than a ghost town. Yes, mister Ricardo, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you? I think you know? But I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you anyhow. I'm Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator. Oh, come in,
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  Speaker 3: mister Dollar. We can sit in the den.
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  Speaker 8: Would you like a drink.
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  Speaker 3: No thanks, what happened to you?
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  Speaker 7: Nick?
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  Speaker 3: There it's been bleeding. I We'll get to that later.
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  Speaker 8: I've been rather expecting someone like you to call and
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  Speaker 8: view of my good fortune and insurance money. H sit down,
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  Speaker 8: Are you sure you wouldn't like a drink?
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  Speaker 3: Tell me one thing is who prayed the premiums on
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  Speaker 3: those four policies that netted you a couple one hundred grand?
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  Speaker 8: Why the policy holders? Of course, at least to the
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  Speaker 8: best of my.
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  Speaker 3: Knowledge, four or old broken down miners.
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  Speaker 8: They were still quite active, mister Donald, hoping to find
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  Speaker 8: a new vein in some of the old.
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  Speaker 3: Workings in this region. Then maybe you grubstake them. Huh what?
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  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, I did, and they promised
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  Speaker 8: me a share of whatever they might find. In return
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  Speaker 8: they named me in their insurance policies.
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  Speaker 3: Or you must have given them plenty more than a
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  Speaker 3: worked out mine. What do you mean to afford the
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  Speaker 3: premiums on those hefty policies?
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  Speaker 8: Now, look, dolly, it was all perfectly legal on the
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  Speaker 8: up and up.
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  Speaker 3: How old were they? Barol Bono about sixty eight? I
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  Speaker 3: Mulligan and Smith and the other Smith about the same.
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  Speaker 3: So the company was crazy. How did they die rick Ida?
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  Speaker 8: By some strange coincidence? The poor old fellows all went
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  Speaker 8: the same way. Accidents there in the mind they were working.
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  Speaker 3: Did the police investigate those accidents?
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  Speaker 8: I imagine?
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  Speaker 3: So look, as you know very well, I was shot
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  Speaker 3: at a few minutes ago, shot at a little isolated
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  Speaker 3: house in the age of golden You were a lousy shot, Hi,
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  Speaker 3: Now look here, so you should have known better than
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  Speaker 3: the park that little foreign job of yours in the driveway,
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  Speaker 3: at least without washing it down. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: That kind of purpleigh dust that's covered with Yeah, I'm
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: talking about the side road back of that house where
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  Speaker 3: you tried to plug me.
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  Speaker 8: Well, okay, okay, dolla. Maybe you're right about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 8: So what if I did try to knock you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh you admit it? Huh yeah, why not?
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  Speaker 8: But since I didn't kill you, that you know?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Put up bag wallet, Come on at your officer. I've
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  Speaker 3: never seen a prettier uniform in my life. What is this?
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  Speaker 4: What is this?
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  Speaker 5: We've been waiting a long time to nail you, Riccardo,
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  Speaker 5: get him out of.
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  Speaker 6: Here, boy, so help me. Yet I knew of anybody
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  Speaker 6: bring Ricardo out.
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  Speaker 3: In the open, you would you mean the Satya?
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  Speaker 6: I figured that'd bring these better, bring these state police
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  Speaker 6: out here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Pete, you're a doll.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Let you and me go out into the town
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  Speaker 6: part huh.
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  Speaker 3: Later, after I finished this job, Act three of yours,
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  Speaker 3: truly Johnny Dollar. In a moment over one hundred.
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  Speaker 9: And fifty years ago, the Swiss poet are Amiel wrote,
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  Speaker 9: heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over fear.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. During
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: the Korean Campaign, Corporal Ronald Russer was attached to the
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  Speaker 9: heavy motor company of the thirty eighth Infantry's second Division,
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: United States Army. Rosser, a run of World War II,
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  Speaker 9: rejoined the Army and shipped to Korea when he heard
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  Speaker 9: that his brother had fallen in the winter assault of
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  Speaker 9: the Chinese communists. One day, Rosser's company moved into enemy territory.
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  Speaker 9: At the time, the corporal was a forward observer and
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  Speaker 9: carried a radio. Suddenly, in the midst of an enemy attack,
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  Speaker 9: Rosser handed his radio to a body, slipped the safety
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  Speaker 9: off his carbine, and filled his shirt. With hand grenades,
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  Speaker 9: he charged at the enemy through fierce mortar and artillery fire.
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  Speaker 9: Shooting from the hip. Straddling a bunker, he riddled its occupants.
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  Speaker 9: Still advancing, he accounted for two more of the enemy,
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  Speaker 9: shooting one through the head and clubbing another to death.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: Continuing as one man charge, he jumped into a trench
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  Speaker 9: full of enemy soldiers, opened fire, and forced his way
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  Speaker 9: relentlessly down the length of the trench, killing right and left.
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  Speaker 9: With grenades and carbing fire. Out of ammunition, he returned
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  Speaker 9: to his company where he replenished his supply. Then he
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: charged the enemy me again and again. Finally he returned
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  Speaker 9: to his own area, and taking the radio back from
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  Speaker 9: his friend, he moved out with his company. Corporal Ronald
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  Speaker 9: Russer was awarded the Medal of Honor for his action.
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  Speaker 9: Action which had shown the enemy that his personal code
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  Speaker 9: of conduct wouldn't let them push around either his kid
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  Speaker 9: brother or his country.
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  Speaker 3: And now act free of yours, truly, Johnny Doller and
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: the Denver dispersonal matter. It took hours, even with Pete
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  Speaker 3: Packard's help, and he finally had to go back to
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: his job at the Denver Post. But there in Don
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  Speaker 3: Riccardo's house. Carefully hidden away under a drawer lining and
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a sideboard, I'd found what I was looking for, a
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: handful of canceled checks. It was well after dark when
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I appropriated one of Riccardo's fancy cars and drove back
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to Denver to a little house in the south end
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  Speaker 3: of town, not far from the office of Forested Insurance Company.
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  Speaker 3: As I pulled o a stop a thing good. It
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  Speaker 3: covered the sound of my stopping there as unobtrusively as possible.
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  Speaker 3: I walked up to the front door of the place.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Even above the sound of passing traffic, I could hear voice.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: This loud one was coming from somewhere in the rear
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  Speaker 3: of the building. Cautiously, I edged my way around the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: side to where I could see the lighted window of
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: a bedroom right right.
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  Speaker 6: Longing Why just tell me?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Why? Sure?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: But probably might?
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  Speaker 9: All right?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Really are right already? Boy, you're botier than done.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Everywatch when you want and jet Don Ricardo and collect
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: your stuff for me.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: You'll still be working in one of his nightclubs in Chicago.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Not you never talked it by downstat Insurance office. All
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  Speaker 3: I thought you was gonna stay in Denver.
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  Speaker 8: Until you made a lot of doll at the insurance racket.
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  Speaker 3: I left this happy domestic scene to walk slowly back
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  Speaker 3: to the front door. Yep, my original hunt at the
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: office in Hartford had been right.
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  Speaker 2: H Oh, mister Dollar, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad you're here, sir.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: You look upset, mister Whitney.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: I am, sir, I am terribly upset.
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  Speaker 3: Handbags there in the hall. Yes, going somewhere. It's that
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: done Ricardo all. I thought you didn't really know him.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, if only i'd done it before, I'd never revisioned
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: those policies naming him as beneficiary.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Run what mister Whitney.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Investigated that Ricardo? But I did after you left me
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: this morning. He's a gangst, an ex gangster, and mister Dollar, Yes,
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: I suddenly realized that in your investigation, you'd investigate him,
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: and he'd think I'd had you investigate him. He'd think
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: I was trying to make trouble for him. Frightened me,
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: frightened me terribly.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And that's why you decided to leave town.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, of course, until this thing blows over. It's
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: a dangerous man. He'd stop at nothing. He might even
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: try to kill me, I must leave here a meeting law.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't get too sure of that. Where did you
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: plan to go far away? Anywhere where he couldn't find me?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: And where maybe I couldn't find you?
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Of course? But why did you say that?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Well? I was just thinking this morning when I was
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: going through the files at your office, you left me
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: alone for a while.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes I recalled, but.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I did why to make a phone call? Maybe the
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Don Riccardo? What is that? Why he just happened to
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: be waiting in his little foreign car block or sew
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: up the street about the time I left your office
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: in a cab. It's the doctor theory, isn't it? Especially
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: when I have these little scraps of paper to back
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: it up? What are those some of Don Riccardo's canceled
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: checks made out to you twenty percent of the take
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: on those big fat insurance payment. Where did you get
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: the funny too? They're all dated one day after you've
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: paid off on each of those big claims. Give me
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: a daunt milk stamping babe? All right, all right, okay,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: will you get up on your feet?
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, anything you say is to dollar.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: But please, you must believe mesten that damn its soul pulls.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yours may have sold insurance to a handful of suckers withn'ty,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: but it hasn't sold me a thing. Oh, I suppose
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: you find them in every trade. That still doesn't justify
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: there even being alive. Fortunately, in the insurance business they
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: never get away with it for long, even a team
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: like Whitney and Ricardo. I wonder if they're sharing the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: same cell. Expense accounts item six ten dollars to the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: doctor usoda my neck. I'd am seven eighty four dollars
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: per a night on the town with Pete Packard. Strangely enough,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I still have a bit of a headache from it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Expense accounts total, including a little gift of that taxi driver,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: incidentals and transportation back to hundred three hundred twenty one
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: dollars and eighty cents yours, true, Johnny Dollar. Our star
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: will return in just a moment. Our flag now numbers
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: fifty stars, and behind each star there stands yet another
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: flag representing one of the fifty states. Idaho's state flag
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: detects the prime industrial pursuit of its citizens. Mining. Balanced
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: against this image is a female figure combining the virtues
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: of the Goddess of liberty, for she carries the spear
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and cap of liberty and the Goddess of justice represented
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: by the scales in her hand. A bright shining star
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: in the heavens is an indication that Idaho has joined
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the nation. Overall is the motto Esto perpetua, may she
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: endure forever. Idaho's state flag, the flag of the forty
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: third state to enter the Union, was adopted on March twelfth,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: nineteen oh seven. Now Here is our star to tell
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you about next week's story. Next week a killer's list.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: That's right, a list of victims, and guess who's on it?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Join us, won't you? Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Boris, Lewis, Barney Phillips,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Ed Gerberia, Frank Gristal, and Peter Leaves. Be sure to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: join us next week, same time and station for another
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Cobberley speaking.
• 25:17
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• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Interesting descriptions of Denver worked in. Also, like
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: some of the descriptions of what's going on in some
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of the state flags. It does seem like, you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Johnny talks about a few bad apples, but even in
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the Bob Bailey Ares, it seems like they've got a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: ton of the way the show's written. Several corrupt insurance
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: agents and a lot of them friends of Johnny's. Well,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think we've heard them as frequently as we
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: did back in nineteen fifty and early fifty seven. All right,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback now, James emails, and I really
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: want to thank you for all this work. I remember
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: my grandfather talking about these shows, but never heard them myself.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I laugh at house racist some of them are, in
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: particular the Johnny Dollar episode where the assistant was pretty
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: much tried and convicted due to his Soviet last name. Well, James,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: thanks for the comment, but I want to talk about
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the point race in The Wayward Moth Matter.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm not stepping on a joke here, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: if i am, I truly apologize. But sometimes things are
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: referred to racist that really aren't racist. And the Wayword
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Mothmatter is definitely not a racist story. It is true
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that the assistant was under heavy suspicion. Now it wasn't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: just because of his last name. It was because of
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: his last name. Plus he had worked against the United
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: States back during World War Two. However, at the end
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: of the episode he was exonerated. Now if he had
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: been guilty after people had convicted him based on heritage,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and that would be a racist message. You see anybody
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: with an Eastern Block last name, they're all spies. That
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: would have been the message. However, as he was found
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to be innocent. That would actually be an anti racist message.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: The point of the episode would be that you can't
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: follow paranoia or judge people prejudicially. You have to follow
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the evidence and you have to give people the benefit
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of the doubt and follow reasonable processes to arrive at
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the truth. Jack Johnstone, the producer of Yours Truly Johnny,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: was also the producer of Superman in the mid to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: late forties when the show was taking on the Ku
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Klux Klan, and so I think that he would probably
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: be the last one the countenance any sort of bigotted
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: ideas in his place and nows For some additional comments
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: regarding episode sixteen oh three, Michelle says, Johnny Dollar is
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the best ever. Ben says, I love this show, high
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: quality production, great writing and hosted by the ever informative
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Adam Graham. Awesome. And Doris says I love his voice.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Assume that refers to Bob Bailey, but at any rate,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that will do it for today. We will be back
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: tomorrow with Dragon. That next Friday, join us for another
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: episode of Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar in the meantime, sender
• 29:59
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• 30:11
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