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Philip Marlowe: The Little Wishbone (EP1571) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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be sure and listen for a little special conversation about technical support for the show
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after the program. But now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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Philip Marlow. The original air date December the tenth of nineteen forty nine,
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and the title is The Little Wishbone. And I will warn you there are
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sound quality issues on this one. But without any further ado, let's just
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go ahead and listen. You can get it straight. Grimes, the Puckers
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Rose Moses travel had wind up in a gut at the prison of the grave.
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It started with left round, a bright morning and a battle over a
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chicken. He got better as it went along. It could have lasted a
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lifetime, but it didn't. It's stopped in a gray morning with a little
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woostbone broken when the plane of Laymand Chandler upstanding offer of crime fiction comes his
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most famous character and the adventure is off sill a mollow now with Gerald Moore
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as sorry, still a mollow. We bring these nice exciting story a little
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wishbone. Sometimes the sun doesn't shine at nine o'cot the morning. Sometimes everything's
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just gray, the sky, the buildings, a streeting, the face is
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going by gray in a man's mind. When I talked in front of the
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flightly landscape second square on Senter Boulevard, got out of my car, I
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knew this was just that the morning, and that was right as it should
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be, because what I had to tell her, what had to be said,
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belonged and grave, the chilling half life that leaves everything and everybody is
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something less than weird, and a half life that's maybe a moment for fair
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Bird, maybe a moment after said yes, I'd like to see miss Jones
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with cordially, Jones, please, I called. My name is Philip Marlow,
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Yes, mister Marlow, and I'm mister earlier I police told me what
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happened there under change? Yeah, Nancy enough this of course the colass door
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down in the right hand time, this way to morning much proper to run.
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The length of the car, though, was also grave. And that's
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the food of the morning, and is what I had to tell miss Cardia
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Jones. But who didn't sit for another morning three weeks ago, the morning
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that was bright inside now? And it didn't sit with Jones. That's Jones,
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the stranger in the butcher's shop, the customer with the enchanting green gray
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eyes, the girl who wanted the same sewing chicken I did. And then
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no, one doesn't turn nine cents for the law. And that young lady
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is just what I'm holding, namely one wing, one neck, both like,
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no, I got here first, you did? But did you,
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miss John? The tile? Now? Who really needs this? The mooted,
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who's all talking together? Now? You miss John? I need to
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fair enough, mister was inside I woke up to about cut you can cutch
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your sorry? What do you think I was thinking? I was thinking about
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maybe you woke up thinking about chickens. Got your toy you can't talk to
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play and chicken And since I cooked for one on the floor ship and the
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questionable and gallows the same jeh, johnest the goodness of inspiration? Do I
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also cook for one? It's not even spoken for you? What's good?
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That's so it's the problem tonight you have dinner together? Oh, it's because
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we don't even know. It's mother. Why that's your ire? Is the
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first part? I answered him? Oh there, yeah, now you know
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each other. Well it's me. That's still be right and I'm sending right
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And mister mallow, yes, yes, you can put the chicken down now
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you're the only ones in the shop. That's the way it started, and
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it has gone along and about the same sets from the chicken cut her story,
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which is the best I ever eaten, but only because I could look
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at the lovely chef. What I hated. That's the wonderful Gabby evening that
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I didn't want to see ending for the end of year. The lunch the
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next day. In the day after, don't do the punt all my profession
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and autists Around the edges, she painted deer can a life for an ad
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agency downtown. So her flights on Chery Moyer was half studio, half of
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pop and and oil covies. You know, the kind of cozy that makes
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you want to hear left the second you're walking, always makes you hate to
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leave. But leave you did because Jones would like to go play to me
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and Jones wo like to do things. I like to play many at your
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golf and badminton and god bowling every Wednesday night. The lady, all right,
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let's say you waste away by God, now by your rude no telling?
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Am I great enough? Quit great bread, real great? And now
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ladies and gentlemen, they don't stop with the observatory pop up. And tonight
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was Jose double crossing? I'm talking about you. You call my office too
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there tonight you say let's just look at the moon. You better expected mohalland
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drive, yeah, park and all. We should still get out of here.
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Have you finished your little check cry? I jes rest smile that classy
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Thomas. Okay, we'll stay with nothing breaking you up? Junior. Yeah,
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he n loves my frim or was that? Excuse him? But I
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don't think I had to listen to a charming guy. Anymore cutting, but
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he was leaving, but young love always broke him up wire. I guess
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I started with somebody else. Listen all the morning over land drive in her
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own most inimitable child. Jonesy was trade. But that's who I went right
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along with it, because no three weeks I passed up a half a dozen
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jobs for every one I could that. It sucked my chin out very far
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when I did go to work, and all in all, side might best
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not to behave like the high school sophomore suddenly realized that spring to me something
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more important than baseball. We were at her place one night. The evening
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plans have called for me to sit as a model from the risk down excrucively.
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All I have to do is hold the Boatlo County water in the poring
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position. Was it's fifty. I just couldn't get with them, and I'm
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not going to get any set of here how much longer. Jonesy don't talk
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about its small some we loves. Yes, I come over here. Job.
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That's a hot cakes break and an egg coffee and lots of cigarettes.
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Weekend nervous huh yeah, we'll come to think of it. Our grapefruit broiled
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we're starting with that, then the eggs basted, and then helpless? What
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next have? Yeah, well I thought that Gode, we'll get in my
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car and take a ride. They Laguna beach, not Una? You what?
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What is it? Nothing? I don't like to say. It's an
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artist in the mood and it's where I couldn't make a go of it once
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and I go back. I ready to go some place joke anything? Oh
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sure, Yeah, I thought it was something more serious, Josie, I
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mean not that your work doesn't sound of them. I go back to the
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bottle bar. Uh huh, you don't move any know now? Yeah me
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next time that we boys take over, we'll put it over here. And
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I yeah, oh no, damn, you know, thank you glad it
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wasn't your watch's broken? Hey, maybe a kind of kid mentor station.
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But my kid brother, I think they were going to be a great skating
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team when they grew up. Really and there's a fly clothing, Oh well,
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wish it? They back to college a girl? Hey, hey,
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kid, tell a hots and fined about that? Okay that college in many
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your business did? And this thing here where the police is broken off never
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chain? What was that? Well? I wish you know when I lost
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him, you put the book set on the this pleasing you know that I
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got a finished ships soon in the morning to night, I got to close
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the moon. I'm getting balloon. I look for you to morrow morning with
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him all right, good night, tells me all the way home. I
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founded some place between potting poor mollow it darely goes for keep secret son and
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playing male pride. Goodbye, Jonesy, you live your life and I live
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mine. That By the next morning, I told myself on a twitch something
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is just worth my business. I wasn't a private protecting where Jonesy would the
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son. It would all work itself out. Life would go on. And
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if he breakfast is wonderful, royal grapeful inclusions, and the ride what turned
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out to be sent a barber of perfect So in the days that follow no
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more we said about it. Nothing unusual happen until the following Friday nights.
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That was nice befall last we were in the square, then the local daughters
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of something on the lot. The exercise would do me good, she said,
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And I was learning in a hurry, right thought. Last the guide
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no strokes, and we'd put me to a land right and left, which
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abruptly brought her up against the tall, fat man with a circle of swooting
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face without the cool black button cries, almost no nose and thin's hair lift.
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He would twist it as far away from a smile as following it without
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saying a word to me. She ran from the small cut and checking the
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I shot it after her, until suddenly I remember the face that it just
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frightened the man who had laughed at young love. That might be a slippatory,
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a man shoonsy has thought she'd know. I turned back some time to
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see and walked off the other side of the sands floor, calmly leaves the
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building by a side entrance. It is all looks cute. I need it.
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Hey, hey, you old and I want to talk to you.
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Yeah, who are you fighting? What's my father? With a routine which
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played to be observatory, Yes, I remember you now? Good? What
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else you remember? Come on the girl in now. I want to answers
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that they mean a lot to me. Yes, so I say tell you
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I saw before, and I thought I saw all right, that's just what
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I planned to do. And you can tell her that for me. Also
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a reminder that I was on the corner of third and Oak two on armist
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to say thirty Oak, I'm a douna beach the beach. Yes, no,
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if you don't mind doing this one old wish, that charm, A
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charm that can't miss for me, because both ends are in my hands.
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See when I put it uppart as I make my wish, I can't rum
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yea, Now the plice is met the big dog and tell him to the
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lady and tell her that I'll be ahard from again. Good night, good
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night. Yeah, hear from me again too. Oh wait a minute,
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a customer call your head? Yes you yeah. The first minute there was
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a girl got your height, dark hair, pretty green eyes, the green
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breast. Are you hit them? That's right? Leave a message. Okay,
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she's just going, but knock home. Just go on just going going
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for good? Want ahead and call me there my head and coat joke,
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no other words than that she wasn't. I spent what was left of the
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night looking for checking from one to another, but it was not the next
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morning. Early when I tried once more at a studio apotum, all I
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found out was seen. I decided there was one place left to look the
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street Connor and Laguna, wherever a month ago something had happened that wouldn't lie
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too got in my current, hit it out, and all the way down
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to one specific church looked cool, and the dreary desolation that hits all beach
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were droughts out of seasons. Settled on Laguna like a stick hangover. I
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finally found the intersection, a third notes with two sleepy drug stores and dying
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bar and a pottery stand clothed for the winning nothing else the only kind of
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life was a black footed old man on a bench, whippling delictously to piece
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of no gray, but with a much be cane the perfections. Looks as
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though he's been there for twenty years. I decided to give him a try.
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What's that to say? You know? I said, things are pretty
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dull around here. I didn't know didn't be somewhere something happening. People come,
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people go, and you don't got things on their minds. You got
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to come and go more often tout They could take corner and I don't know
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about that much. Seems like this corner gets a good share of life.
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I'll bet you nothing's happened in this corner in the last six months. We're
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talking about it wrong. It's run the gamma. Last August a baby was
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born over in front of the drug store there in attack. It is right,
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dere right. It was Oldsy Loveley, the druggist delivered and find job
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who palm boys. And on the other end of right, yes, two
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fella named Peters who was a kind of belated world casualty. You mistake,
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do you mean? Well? He went through the First World War without a
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fast and then he got himself killed by a kick and run driver right over
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there in front of the tavern. And it happened just a month ago.
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Ann Yeah, two o'clock in the morning, l sir, so this really
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I haven't caught up with the driver there was murder, sir. You're white
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as if she sounds like I didn't hit below the belt. I don't remember
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what I told the old man. All I could think it was junky anonymous
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to say I hit him, run back and that's climbing make at breaking a
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wishbone charm between fat fingers. My next step of mechanically, I started checking
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rooming house, the treating sicker to artis and a chirt one paid off well.
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Then I expected, yes, I didn't need the t and she did
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have a room here. Misappointed she did not. What point is about,
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Well, I am a friend of hers, a good friend. I'm trying
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to locate it. I see well Courting left quite suddenly in the middle of
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the nineteen tomorrows a half finished hand. But behind the beautiful thing. Yeah,
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sometimes I can't said they flow even in the middle of the night.
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N I see myself when I was younger. Heaven No heans the bottom is
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anything wrong about you? Because the morning after she left it was just honest.
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This day I think a man James You're asked him about asex man you
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know no, And from what I've read his sa I still look missus Winkel.
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I got to find out all I can about the guy right away.
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He means trouble for Johny you think she or what I mean is, as
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it turned out, the kill her used the telephone holiday here it means or
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of something we break get it all. And he made a residation at the
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BigMan Pleasure Hotel in Hollywood, BigMan Plus. Okay, now look they tell
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him anything about Jones, reading like, oh goodness, you know I could
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she send on Lincoln I've been told him toppy head for breast. That's all
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I know. Thanks miss Wink, Thanks love, good luck, mister good
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luck, she said, Oh the good luck Marlow and a firline Junesy head
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come and was burned out on a sweet corner at four o'clock in the morning
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a month ago. I can always talk to him all the way back to
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la. I worried because so that I had to find this. I was
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halfway down the hall to my apopo when I heard it my phone. I
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ran to the door and practically ripped it off the hinches before I stopped ringing.
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Hello Jonesy, Jonesy, where are you now? Look, you're not
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going any place. You're gonna fit tight right where you're I get there.
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I'm in a bad jam about it. Well, it's it's not too late,
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baby, I just got back from Wegoner. Honey, I know all
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about it. Look, you're in love with a good private eye. You
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remember, run Baby, That's not the answer, never was shot Jones.
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Please, will you shut up and listen to me? For a minute,
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I thought it all over. I'm gonna get out of this my own way.
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We've got to talk. Come on, where are you you think it
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comes from me? Thanks? Run, don't try it. I know that,
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Joy. We will make it a hard way. Least I couldn't stop
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Jones with running, I figured I could at least stop the guy who was
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chasing it. So I called the BigMan's Pagan and found out that all In
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Begley was still registered. I got my car started for the hotel, but
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then he had another idea. It was a good chance, but a sleazy
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blackmailing crumb like Beggie carried a record of his own anyway, was worth a
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try, and to pay off better out than a feeding. So I went
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to police headquarters instead, where Detective Lieutenant Matthews was his old sympathetic self,
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as usually go. You got some citizen all fake out, and now you
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want to find out a FISA crook. Now, well, what is this
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something new in crime detection? I love Matthews. I'll come down some quiet
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Tuesday. It will make all the jokes all afternoon. But right now a
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minute, if you're going to dip into police files, I would like to
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know a little bit more about no joke. All right, the guy goes
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the name of all In Bekeley, fat six one forty, so the anything's
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my badget or a bum check on it. Right now, he's shooting an
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angle and it includes me, or I find him in the files and I
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want him exclusive on him. But ten minutes then he's all your Oh and
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what's the hook? Why are you included? Because of a bruemette named Joan
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Oh Joe yes, Jones. I like to make it Marlow some day cool.
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Matthew's the Simon serious. Okay, you'll find about three thousand fat guys
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in there, you know. Two thousand of them was Doc. Yeah,
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go ahead of Scot. I'll send him one of the clubs to give your
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hands if you get us close. Well, the clubs tough and hard work
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were now the field down to a three hundred calls. He started food,
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street lights, na Old Finally tommya forty pounds later in supporting him Astache but
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there was no doubt about it. James Ollen, Dlias, jim Olo,
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Elias, Allan big Low is now all in bakery with charges and ran from
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Hetty Stebree and Louis the end of the one that even got Matthews on the
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balls. Bakeley was wanted from murderer in Rhode Island, what are we waiting
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for Paul model. Let's go get him with siland of the squad con hit
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it up, suttle about it and end it feels good again for the first
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time. Don't get run away at the square when we turned up with the
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mats, Just cut the sirlan and who blocks about the boulevard? Who stopped
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around the torn up the Bachman's project to the two stories flamed hotel held together
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by complish coats of cheeks made only an inside the line of empty sweet air
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bottles said it took nothing more than ordinary's ventilation to keep the musty snow from
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getting thicken up his shoes, jittery nights. Buckstakely had room too twelve and
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left his mouth hanging open while Matt's turn him outside. You mentioned ten minutes
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along with him, still want to yeah, importantly, Okay, somebody who's
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got to go up and get him right as well? Be you look,
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the boys will cover his window from outside and both ends of the hall from
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the lending it gets tight. Just whistled and duck go ahead, went upstairs
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the second floor when the only life was a I filled with the power into
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the whole modifier right a head way out, so I took it backing out
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of the door. That's figure was having trouble with a life. Fast called
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me before you realized I was bad. That's all them Rightly, make saw
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me not to begin slowly backing up? Do you want? What are you
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doing? Where is she bag? I gain anyway? I got through it.
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I think my mind. Show you the comet murdering? Get up good,
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I can find out at least file bulletin from Rhode Island. Yeah,
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yeah, that's right. I had had daughters. The only reason I was
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trying to shift the kit down. They would listening. There. We got
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my rone, and that's make a deal. I'll keep me up shut not
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one word about that. Didn't run you let me ask bad chance? You
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just find me how I played. I've killed him more than one you most
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stop nice going mallow, You got him light on his face where he belongs?
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Hey, where you're going? Mine? Chonsey Matthews, I got a
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cockcroer. Yeah yeah, that my little brunette. Well let's go. It
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looks like you can do. You're talking right here, and now come on
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boy. I went along with Matthews. All right. It didn't work out
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like expected because what I had to stay to Chelsey then just couldn't be sick,
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not my chief hotel with a bunch of totops standing around. It had
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to wait. Wait for the hours of a long night with pas that I
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spent timing a side walks through miles of that street while I try to get
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full of myself. I than twelve hours ag was men. Now I didn't
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look at her again. Yeah and now as I followed missed earlier down the
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great top of the called the wood door, I forgured I could tell jonesy
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all. I wanted to say, she's here tomorrow, be here than I
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guess she didn't understand me. The two people were in love. They share
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didn't been changed. See I found out figure it was a killing. I
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think you'd already done to his hotel, Virginny. Crazy kid shouldn't trusted me.
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John's quite extreme because matter how added up we had company with waiting for
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Yeah, as you say, thanks for the budgy, right baby, it
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was great. There's your little chair wishbone. Sorry it's broken, goodbye Johnson,
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m M. Is there anything else I can do to help? Mister
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Molow? Oh? Yeah, thanks and good day m H. Ill pressed
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mortuary. Mister Earlier is speaking. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond
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Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman
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McDonald. Script is by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast
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were Gene Bates, Bill Johnstone, Jane Morgan, John Dayner, Edgar Barrier
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and Anne Morrison. The square dance was called by Paul Pierce. Detective Lieutenant
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Matthews is played by Larry Dupkins. The special music is composed and conducted by
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Richard o'ross. Be shortly what us again next week when Philip Marlow says,
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this time a tobacco chewing engineer, a redhead running a pulldose, or an
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eleprechau on his track line all added up to death at an unfinished special,
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And there could have been more, But then I found out which one had
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actually submitted the lowest bitch. The Adventures of Philip Marlow drying Gerald Moore comes
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to you every Saturday evening at the same time friends crib welcome back. Well.
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We received a comment about murder of the weak plots, and this certainly
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went a different direction, and for an old time radio play was something very
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different, certainly for Philip marlow really one of the most original plot ideas,
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because really every episode since Red Wind practically began with Philip marlow being hired and
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trouble following this one starts in his personal life and with a very different sort
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of Marlowe and desire, and it's just a fascinating different turn on the character,
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certainly miles away from even the Philip Marlowe as written by Raymond Chandler at
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a time. The big pity about this one is that the audio has got
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issues on it. It seems that with all of the really good audio we've
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enjoyed throughout the series, this one turns out to be one of those few
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with a few issues, which hurts the listening a little bit, but not
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too much. It's just a wonderful story, and I thought the end was
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just heartbreakingly sad, but very well done well. Now we do have a
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choose troubleshooting. If it is regarding sound quality, an episode not playing,
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or not seeing an episode that should be there, and email man. I'll
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be happy to take a look and see what's going on, and I'll continue
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to do my best for those who do email me regarding app issues. But
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I just want to be sure that people know how to get the best help
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the first time. And it's not like I'm spending all day answering these but
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again, people will have the best experience by getting in contact with the right
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people the first time. All right, Well, now we do turn to
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some listener conments and feedback. LORI comments regarding episode fifteen fifty nine Birds on
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the Wing. I like this one quite a bit. I did notice it
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was similar to an earlier episode, but I figure in the original run they
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were probably pretty far apart. I was not a fan of Philip marlow but
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he has really grown on me. I hope there are a lot more episodes
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to go. Well, thanks so much, Laurie, and we do have
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close to nine or ten months worth of episodes left of the series, and
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it really is high quality, and I do thank you. If you're not
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necessarily a fan of Philip Marlowe in literature, and there are certain reasons for
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that. The radio Marlowe is different and in my opinion, probably a little
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bit better, at least as a person anyway. All right, Well,
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that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter,
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and join us again next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
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Oh and next Tuesday, Police Headquarters returns. In the meanwhile, send
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Adam Graham's son and all