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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mojave Red Matter (EP1705) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The
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  Speaker 1: original air at eight July the thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight,
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  Speaker 1: and the title is the Mojave Redmatter from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now for.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Will you accept the collect call, mister dollars. Huh it's
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  Speaker 4: from Lake Mohabby Resort and.
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  Speaker 3: Area Sana more operator, just put them on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, sir, go ahead please? Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Who is it this time? Buster favor hand prep Johnny? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Well how's the fishing?
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  Speaker 2: Time?
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  Speaker 5: For me to make another check westward and find out? Huh, Red,
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  Speaker 5: that's right, Johnny, Red who.
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  Speaker 4: Well you know the guy out here, Red Bear.
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  Speaker 3: The fishing guy?
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  Speaker 5: Well, yes, who claims to know Lake Mohabi like the
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  Speaker 5: back of his hand, and every good spot there isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: And I do, Johnny, that's a fact.
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  Speaker 5: Then I repeat my question, how's the fishing's.
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  Speaker 4: As fine as ever? If you know where the good
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  Speaker 4: holes are?
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  Speaker 2: That is?
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  Speaker 3: And you do?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 3: So you think it's high time I fly on out there?
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  Speaker 3: And what a line is that? It?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: True, that's not what I'm calling you about.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, Well, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: I don't rightly think I ought to Teddy over the phone, Johnny,
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  Speaker 4: I think you better come here just about as quick
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  Speaker 4: as you can.
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  Speaker 5: But unless I know why when you get here, Well, look,
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  Speaker 5: I usually do my traveling on expense account for an insurance.
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  Speaker 3: Company, and you can this time huh what.
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  Speaker 4: Company the one that insured him, the Greater Southwest Ensure.
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  Speaker 6: In short, who read, Johnny, I'll teddy all that when
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  Speaker 6: you get here.
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  Speaker 3: No, now, Look they.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me there's a plane lives New York right at
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  Speaker 4: high news. Listen, red All get you into Las Vegas
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  Speaker 4: about nine to night.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, listen.
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  Speaker 5: Good bye, Johnny, crazy old coach. These thinks for one
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  Speaker 5: minute that I'm going to get on and yet on
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  Speaker 5: second thought.
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  Speaker 7: Wow Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 7: the Action Pact. Expense accout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators.
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  Speaker 5: Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny
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  Speaker 5: Dollar the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company King min
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  Speaker 5: Arison Office, following as an account of expenses incurred during
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  Speaker 5: my investigation of the Mohave red matter. Expense account had
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  Speaker 5: a one four to twenty phone call to the King
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  Speaker 5: in Arizona office of Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability on
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  Speaker 5: the theory it might be well to check with their agent,
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  Speaker 5: Jake Kessler before going off half cock.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, Johnny, haven't seen or hurt new since two years
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  Speaker 8: ago when you came out here to investigate the murders
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  Speaker 8: the old minas touched mine?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, Jake.
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  Speaker 5: Now listen, yeah, is uh is everything going along okay
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  Speaker 5: these days?
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  Speaker 2: What? Well?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, no trouble with any of your clients that
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  Speaker 5: sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Why not a bit, Johnny? Why he has just.
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  Speaker 6: Wondered, Well, if I did, have you know who I call.
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  Speaker 3: No problems at all? Huh?
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  Speaker 8: I told you not a Hey, Jeff, what you got
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  Speaker 8: stuck in your craw Johnny?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing? Nothing? I just well, I just well, well, tell
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  Speaker 3: me this.
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  Speaker 5: Any of your clients' policy have any kind of trouble, accidents,
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  Speaker 5: anything like that over at Lake Mohabi Resort lately.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, So that's what's eating you. Hell, Johnny, that flame
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  Speaker 8: was legitimate. It's in the home office for settlement. The
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  Speaker 8: company will pay it.
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  Speaker 3: And that'll be that what claim.
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  Speaker 8: So just you stop worrying about it and forget what claim? Jake, No, sir, Johnny,
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  Speaker 8: there's not a single solitary thing for you to investigate
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  Speaker 8: out here.
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  Speaker 2: So just you who forget it? Hey?
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  Speaker 5: You know something, Jake. You've just convinced me there is
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  Speaker 5: something to investigate it. So I'm grabbing the first plane
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  Speaker 5: I can.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Johnny, I'd love to see you, but I what are.
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  Speaker 3: I'm charging my expense account to your company.
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  Speaker 8: Oh and if you find out that I'm right and
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  Speaker 8: you're wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Jake, then you can shoot the crow and I'll
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  Speaker 5: eat it expense account at them two one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: fifty three dollars plane fair Heartford to New York and
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  Speaker 5: New York to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 3: It was nine forty five on the Daughters.
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  Speaker 5: The big mainliners slowly circled down out of the clear
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  Speaker 5: starlet sky. Unless you've seen the minions of stars that
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  Speaker 5: twinkle brightly through the clean, dry air over the Mohabi.
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  Speaker 3: Desert, you really miss something.
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  Speaker 5: And as we glided down toward the landing strip on
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  Speaker 5: the south edge of Las Vegas, the multicolored lights of
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  Speaker 5: the fabulous resort town made it sparkle like a vast
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  Speaker 5: field of jewels. Beautiful, yeah, and expensive, that is, if
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  Speaker 5: you insist on trying your hand at the gaming tables
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  Speaker 5: and the casinos that line the main drag. Believe me, brother,
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  Speaker 5: I know, but that's not a hint of there. As
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  Speaker 5: I grabbed my luggage and started for the car rental office,
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  Speaker 5: a tall angular man, well tanned and dressed in blue jeans,
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  Speaker 5: high heeled boots and ten gallon hats, soundered over to me.
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  Speaker 3: Whooh, you wouldn't take my word part.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Jane, that's right, Jake Kessler in person. And Johnny,
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  Speaker 5: if you were here to investigate claim on the Hobbs policy, Well,
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  Speaker 5: they're just hobbs.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Oh I know that much. I suppose you tell
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  Speaker 3: me who Hobbs is.
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  Speaker 6: Oh what, I'll tell you all about it when I
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  Speaker 6: have you can hop on another plane and go.
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  Speaker 9: Right on back to Hartford, and all at your own expense.
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  Speaker 3: I still don't see whatever made you come out here, Johnny.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently the Hobbs matter, so start telling me. Well, come on, shake,
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  Speaker 5: come on, all right, Johnny, All right. Elmer p Hobbs
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  Speaker 5: real Estate in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 8: Came over to the Lake Mahovey Resort about two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 8: spent a few days fishing with his old.
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  Speaker 3: Paddle of guide they have there, I mean red RedBerry. Yeah, well, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Go on, And on Tuesday, a week ago, he rented
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  Speaker 5: one of the boats and went out by himself.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he went.
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  Speaker 5: Up to a place called the Big Base and oh, well,
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  Speaker 5: the lakes three or four miles wide up there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that afternoon a big wind came up, regular screamer.
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  Speaker 3: All the other.
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  Speaker 4: Boats came back to the landing, and all but mister Hobbs.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Next morning, when the wind died down, they found his
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  Speaker 8: body walked upon the shore on the Nevada side.
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  Speaker 3: That's all. That's all, you say.
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  Speaker 5: A claim has been fine, that's right by one of
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  Speaker 5: his two beneficiary, oh, his business partner back in La
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  Speaker 5: mister Stuart Many.
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  Speaker 3: I've passed the claim and the company will pay it.
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  Speaker 5: No investigation of any kind of of course, there was Johnny,
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  Speaker 5: that kingman pleased the sheriff's office and the.
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  Speaker 3: County carner accidental death dude to drown it. So that's it, Johnny.
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  Speaker 8: Now you just make your reservation back to Hartford at
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  Speaker 8: that window ride over there, and you are paying the free.
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  Speaker 3: Oh not so fast, Jake. I'm sticking around now.
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  Speaker 9: You you can see for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: There's no reason for you to be here, much less
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  Speaker 3: it company extent.
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  Speaker 5: Well, after all, now that I am here, it'll be
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  Speaker 5: kind of silly not to run down to the lake, Carl.
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  Speaker 3: You mean, just to do some fishing on your own time.
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  Speaker 3: You want to drive me down there, Johnny? Yeah, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know something about the.
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  Speaker 5: Hubcase that I don't and the police and the sheriff, Jake.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know a thing about it.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, Johnny, how do you want me to fix that crow?
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  Speaker 3: You're going to eat.
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  Speaker 9: Act two of yours? Truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 11: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
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  Speaker 11: there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
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  Speaker 11: Vermont's state flag, in its early form, imitated our national flag,
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  Speaker 11: uniquely bearing seventeen stripes and seventeen stars, with only the
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  Speaker 11: inscribed word Vermont to distinguish it. The good people of
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  Speaker 11: Vermont assumed, as did our national government, that stripes as
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  Speaker 11: well as stars would be added as each new state
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  Speaker 11: entered the Union. Vermont entered the Union after Tennessee and Ohio,
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  Speaker 11: and with Kentucky to join shortly, the Vermonters naturally put
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  Speaker 11: seventeen stripes on their flag. In eighteen hundred and eighteen,
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  Speaker 11: the United States Congress put a stop to this, and
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  Speaker 11: since then the stripes have always been at thirteen, and
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  Speaker 11: only stars are added for each new state. Vermont's present
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  Speaker 11: flag captures the famous beauty of the Green Mountain State
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  Speaker 11: in its coat of arms and inscribed as the phrase
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  Speaker 11: Vermont Freedom and Unity. Vermont's state flag, the flag of
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  Speaker 11: the fourteenth state to enter the Union, was adopted on
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  Speaker 11: April twenty sixth, nineteen twenty three.
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  Speaker 9: Now act too of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the
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  Speaker 9: Mojave red matter.
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  Speaker 3: Elmer P.
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  Speaker 5: Hobbes of Los Angeles had died of drowning when a
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  Speaker 5: small boat capsized in a high wind on Lake Mohave.
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  Speaker 5: At least that's what Jake Kesler, is insurance agent, told me.
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  Speaker 5: Accident appearance simply said, and I could hire myself back
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  Speaker 5: at Hartford and forget about it. But I didn't, simply
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  Speaker 5: because of the phone call I'd received from old Red Bearrett,
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  Speaker 5: fishing guide at Lake Mohave Resort. I preswear to Jake
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  Speaker 5: to drive me over there on the excuse that as
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  Speaker 5: long as I was nearby, I might as well do
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  Speaker 5: some fishing. So he dropped me off, and since it
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  Speaker 5: was after midnight, went on back to Kingdom. I wandered
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  Speaker 5: on down to the dock and boat house.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, who's that ham, eh, Johnny Johnny dollars?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you?
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  Speaker 2: Doing here. I am here.
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  Speaker 10: You know darn well what he's doing here, Ham, The
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  Speaker 10: fishing has never been better. Only how'd you get the word?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Are you?
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  Speaker 2: John? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Just great? Busting?
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  Speaker 2: Did you stop buy the office? Let Maryland picture up.
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  Speaker 12: Of the room.
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  Speaker 3: No? No, because, as I recall all, Red usually sleeps
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  Speaker 3: here on the dock. Oh, Red, why do you say
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  Speaker 3: that way? Buster?
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  Speaker 10: Because Ham and I waste some good sleeping time down
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  Speaker 10: here wondering why he hasn't come in yet.
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  Speaker 5: You mean he's still out on the lake. Yes, as
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  Speaker 5: black as the Ace of Spades out there, and no
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  Speaker 5: moon to night.
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  Speaker 2: Buster and I were about to take off about to
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  Speaker 2: look for it.
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  Speaker 10: He pulled his very same stunt night before last. We
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  Speaker 10: finally found him drifting around about nine miles up here.
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  Speaker 2: He said he'd run out of gas, showed us empty
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  Speaker 2: tank prove it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, but we knew better.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean bust him?
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  Speaker 10: I mean when he saw us coming after him, he
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  Speaker 10: dumped out what gas he had, oil slick all over
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  Speaker 10: the lake if somebody had struck a match whise.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Red's been doing a lot of crazy things
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  Speaker 2: this past week or so ever since his old friend
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  Speaker 2: mister Hobbs died. They were pretty close, and that is
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  Speaker 2: why he follow Red phone yeah, early this morning.
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  Speaker 5: And if you ask me, it's because he doesn't believe
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  Speaker 5: mister Howes's death was accidental.
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  Speaker 10: Johnny, you know something, I didn't quite believe it myself.
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  Speaker 10: We're sure we have some pretty big winds on the
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  Speaker 10: lake now and then, and it was a big one
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  Speaker 10: that day. And then when the corner and the other
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  Speaker 10: thought is, well, well, who's to argue with them?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know if Redd has found out any anything
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  Speaker 3: at all.
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  Speaker 2: All we know is he's given up taking out fishing
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  Speaker 2: parties and spends all his time prowling around the lake
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  Speaker 2: every day and night.
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  Speaker 10: Says, if you can find the boat, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Hobbs, what kind of a boat was it?
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  Speaker 2: One of our regular rentals room in a walking saw traveler?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, with a ten hars Johnson on it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, listen, those boats have flotation tanks, so even if
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  Speaker 5: it did capsize, it wouldn't sink you, right, John, And
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  Speaker 5: there's been no sign of it, not at all. Then
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  Speaker 5: let's go up to the lake and find Red. Except
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  Speaker 5: for the star as far overhead, the night was black
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  Speaker 5: as in and the fifty horse out for its skim
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  Speaker 5: gots along at better than thirty miles an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Believe me, it was.
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  Speaker 5: A strange feeling, almost like flying through space. Al Buster
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  Speaker 5: found his way around the islands, rocky points and reefs.
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  Speaker 5: I'll ever know what he did.
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  Speaker 3: Throw your flask light over to the left hand. You
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  Speaker 3: ought to be about even.
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  Speaker 10: With sculptor rock Here here it is, and we're coming
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  Speaker 10: into the big beat.
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  Speaker 5: Will you please tell me how you ever expect to
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  Speaker 5: find Bread and all his darkness?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry about him. He hears as comedy a
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  Speaker 2: signal by straking a match or something good.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, no matter how crazy you are, you never let somebody.
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  Speaker 10: Wander around in the dark looking play out here.
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  Speaker 2: Bred knows that, but he's had to come out and
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  Speaker 2: hunt too many people at night at solf And look, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: on the east or I'm swinging over there, and you're right,
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  Speaker 2: there's a fire of a beach. Yeah, must be Red.
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  Speaker 3: What's he doing out here?
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  Speaker 2: We'll soon find out?
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  Speaker 12: Hang on, Well, all I have to.
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  Speaker 3: Say is took long enough to bring Johnny up here.
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  Speaker 2: Red, You all reprobate one under the sewing you up
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  Speaker 2: to this time.
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  Speaker 6: I just told you I've been waiting for you to
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  Speaker 6: bring Johnny. Now you can leave this and going back
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  Speaker 6: to the dock, and I thank you very much.
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  Speaker 10: Read we're not leaving until we find out what this
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  Speaker 10: is all about.
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  Speaker 6: And if I tell you, would you promise to leave
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  Speaker 6: us alone?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Sure, we'll promise anything.
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  Speaker 4: You see.
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  Speaker 6: I need Johnny's help well, because with him to follow
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  Speaker 6: up what I've found today, where Johnny, you and I
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  Speaker 6: are going to prove that my old friend, mister Hobbes
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  Speaker 6: was murdered.
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  Speaker 3: Act three.
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  Speaker 9: If yours truly Johnny Dollar, in a.
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  Speaker 13: Moment, every American fighting man has heard the expression above
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  Speaker 13: and beyond the call of duty. How many of us
• 15:41
  Speaker 13: have sat down and considered just what that word duty means.
• 15:44
  Speaker 13: According to one dictionary definition, duty is man's conduct is
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  Speaker 13: required by his station or occupation and that to which
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  Speaker 13: he is bound by moral obligation to do or not
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  Speaker 13: to do. When a man does more than his duty requires,
• 15:59
  Speaker 13: he becomes more of a man in the eyes of
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  Speaker 13: his fellow men. One such was Captain John Philip Cromwell,
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  Speaker 13: commander of the submarine U S. S. Sculpin, flagship of
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  Speaker 13: a submarine Coordinated Attack Group of the United States Navy.
• 16:13
  Speaker 13: Possessing secret intelligence information of our fleet movements, strategy, tactics,
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  Speaker 13: and attack plans. Captain Cromwell led his attack group and
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  Speaker 13: patrol of enemy waters around Truck Island in November nineteen
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  Speaker 13: forty three, just prior to the launching of our first
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  Speaker 13: large scale offensive in the Pacific. Despite savage enemy opposition,
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  Speaker 13: he established a line of submarines around the enemy held
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  Speaker 13: stronghold of Truck until his ship, the Sculpin, became so
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  Speaker 13: rocked and battered by depth bonds that he ordered it
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  Speaker 13: to the surface. He engaged the enemy with deck guns,
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  Speaker 13: giving his crew an opportunity to abandon the mortally stricken ship.
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: Determined to sacrifice himself rather than risk capture and the
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  Speaker 13: subsequent danger of revealing the secret plans to the enemy,
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  Speaker 13: Captain Crumwell remained aboard the Sculpton as she plunged to
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  Speaker 13: her death. He thereby preserved the security of the mission
• 17:07
  Speaker 13: at the cost of his own life. Captain Crumwell earned
• 17:10
  Speaker 13: the Medal of Honor for deep integrity and uncompromising devotion
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  Speaker 13: to the call of duty in the service of his country.
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  Speaker 13: But what he did define the word duty better than
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  Speaker 13: any dictionary, and.
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  Speaker 9: Now I free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
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  Speaker 9: mohave Red matter.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, Johnny Red here's one of the wildest,
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  Speaker 2: most irresponsible old characters. I know what he wants to be,
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  Speaker 2: but he's okay. Nonetheless, and if he thinks you and
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  Speaker 2: he can find proved that mister Hobbson's murdered, well must
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  Speaker 2: have a good reason for it.
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  Speaker 6: Well right, Oh, Nahham, you think a man like Elmer
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  Speaker 6: Hobbes knowing the lake the way he did, but ever
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: let the big wind catch him off guard in the basin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh, don't Red. I know that's the way Buster
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: felt about it too. I said that to you myself.
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  Speaker 3: Read but now, what's this proof you have of murder?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Well? Ham and Buster?
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  Speaker 4: Aren't you going on back?
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Now that I've told you why I wanted you to
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: bring Johnny here?
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: Was there any harm?
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: And I'm knowing what you found Red, after all, we
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: might be able to help you and Johnny.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought about that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: But you see, I might just possibly be wrong about well,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: I might just be wrong, and I wouldn't want to
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: be ashamed in front.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Of a lot of people.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: By a lot you mean three?
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Well, well that's three times as many as just Johnny here.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: Well, Johnny, he means it's so Ham and I are
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: gone back to the dock.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: But I still don't see what difference, Johnny.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: When you get to know Red as well as we do,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you'll stop trying to figure out the whys and wherefores
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and some of the things he does and what makes
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a tick. But you'll also learn that in the long run,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: no matter how unorthodox, some of those things are well on, Buster, right.
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  Speaker 10: See you when you get back to doc, Johnny.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, you got some food, Red?
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: You know I always keep something in my boat, Buster.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Oh, far be it from me, Red. But all
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I have to say is that whatever you think you
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: found proof of it, I'm sure better be something the
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: way it is, Johnny, at least I think it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Did you scrunch yourself for places to sleep in the sand,
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: it's pretty late, huh. Well, it took you so long
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: to get here, and we can't see anything in the
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: dark anyway.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Oh now, look Red for heavens. Sad night, Johnny, sleep well.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: And that was the end of our conversation, and I
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: began to wonder if Jake Kessler hadn't been right in
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: the first place, if I hadn't come out here on
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: a wild goose chase after all. But the more I
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: wondered and thought about, it was nothing but the warm
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: desert night about us, twinkling stars, the magic sound of
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: fish jumping in the lake, the sleepy right guy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: So I slept.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: The smell of bacon frying over the campfire awakened me,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: although the sun still hadn't shone over the mountains that
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: bordered the eastern side of the lake.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Dash your face in the lake, Johnny, Then grabbed yourself
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: down of this bacon, and they I did.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: As I was tall.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Then, squatting in the sand in front of the fire,
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: stuffed away a hearty breakfast of bacon, eggs and pancakes
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: made from sour dough. You know there's something about a
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: meal cooked over a campfire. That well, we had other
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: things to do, so we climbed into reds old a
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: little of a bolt, and slowly drove up the lakes,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: thing close to shore. Finally we reached a small rocky coal.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Right here is this spot, Johnny, this little cold this
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: spot for what?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Right? You know you still haven't told me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: See there, you see where somebody has climbed up the rocks.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Oh well, I'll take your word for it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Well, he couldn't have climbed up off of the water,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: so he must have climbed out of a boat. So,
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: and there's foot drench leading away across the desert. And Johnny,
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: they arn elmer high footprints.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: You knows her.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: So somebody climbed out of a boat here for one
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: reason or another and took a walk into the desert.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: The man who killed Elmer Hubb What makes you think?
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: So look down over the side in the water.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, boats sunk down there. That's the boat that Elmer had.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: And you see it clear, yes, Verny.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Then you can see it wasn't damage enough to sink it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Not that boat, you're right ready, particularly since it has
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: flotation tanks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: But it's down there, it sunk. Well, you better strip
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: to your shorts, Johnny.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I'll go down and take a look.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Me I already have, but I want you to look, Johnny,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: And remember I knew everything that Elmer had in his
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: boat when he left the dog.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Remember that, okay?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: And you're sure the footprints leading into the desert couldn't
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: possibly have been made by mister hawks.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: That I'll swear to Johnny by all that's good and
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: hold now, I'm not slipping easy, so you won't disturb
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: the water too much. I took a deep breath, surface
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: dived and swam down to the sunken boat and the
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: water was clear and I could see plainly, and I
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: saw that Red was white.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I bobbed back to the surface. Did you see him
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the cut?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Red.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Those flotation tanks were slashed open with a necks or
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: a sharp, heavy tool of some kind.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: But Elmer had no axe on that boot, so it
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: was somebody else, Johnny, somebody who murdered him, Yeah, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: then sank the boot.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid you're right. Elma Hobbs was murdered. So there
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: you have a chake. And if I were you, I'd
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: call off payment on that claim immediately granted the cases.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: No yet, I still had the.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Job of finding out who killed Elma Hobbs. But you
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: know something, You're gonna have to wait for my next report.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Meantime expense account total to the moment one, including the
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: cost of shooting and retrieving one crawl, Jake, how would
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: you like it cooked until the next report?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Then, yours truly, Johnny Dollar, our star will return in
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: just a moment. Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: of the fifty states. Oklahoma's state flag depicts an osage
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: warriors circular buckskin shield from which hang seven eagle feathers.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Across the shield is the Indian's calumet or pipe of peace,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: crossed with a white man's peace symbol the olive branch.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: On the shield are small crosses the Indians graphics sign
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: for stars, indicating loft the ideals, or a purpose for
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: high endeavor. The background of the flag is a field
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: of blue, the blue of the Oklahoma sky, signifying loyalty
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: and devotion. The important symbols, however, are the calumet and
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: the olive branch. These override the shield the symbol of war,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: and bespeak a predominant love of peace by a united people.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma state flag, the flag of the.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Forty sixth state to enter the Union, was adopted on
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: April second, nineteen twenty five.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Next week.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Well, after all, a case isn't really closed, but it
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: will be next week. Believe me, Join us, won't you,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is produced and
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Heard in our cast were Lucille Meredith.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Boris Lewis, Harley Bear, Alan Reid, and Barney Phillips. Be
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: sure to join us next week, same time and station
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: for the conclusion of this exciting story of Yours truly,
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: Johnny Dollars.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: This is Roy Rowan speaking.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well you can tell this is a Jack
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Johnstone script just by the strength of characterization, which ultimately
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: does carry the story through. And clearly it's some very
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: interesting characters and overall the story ideas strong. Though I
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: wish that the evidence Johnny had found wasn't so patently
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: obvious that the police should have caught it. Of course,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: this does raise my questions into my mind as to
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: who the suspect, who the actual murderer could be. I'm
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: suspicious of the agent if for no reason in the
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: way that he was dancing around the case was what
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: made Johnny suspicious enough to come out in the first place.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Risking the possibility that he'd have to pay his own
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: freight even if there wasn't anything out there for me.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: If I were Johnny to just head ride back, I mean,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I'd go out to the resort and just go fishing
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: if nothing else. Also, I do kind of wonder about
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Alan Reid's character. I don't remember him from the prior stories,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: so did he do it? Well, we'll find out next
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: week as this Johnny Dollar story continues. All right, Well,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: listen her comments and feedback. And this comes from Sheila.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: She posts a comment on a Johnny Dollar episode and
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: she writes in she writes, I can't say in words
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: how much this show and host has done for me.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: My pain is at times is so bad. I feel
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: as if I can't go on. My husband, even when
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I'm at the hospital, will say, honey, do you want
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: your show on? He is very wise somehow he knows
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: it helps me to go someplace in my head to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: forget the pain is as bad. Even at home, if
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling bad, I lay down with the old time radio.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I love Johnny Dollar most and I like the others. Also,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I enjoy the host so much, with all his insight,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the show is even better. Thank you, God bless Sheila. Well,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: thank you so much, Sheila, and I appreciate your con
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: words and that we're a relief and help to you,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and it's sort of a feedback's definitely very meaningful. So
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking the time to write, and
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: God bless you as well. All right, well, that will
• 29:37
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• 29:42
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• 29:47
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• 29:50
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• 30:05
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