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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Indestructible Mike Matter, Part Five and The Lady was a Lethal (EP1129) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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for that man with the action packed expense account in The Indestructible Mic Matter Part
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five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar Randy Singer, Johnny,
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how are you feeling? Thanks to you and having got me here? Pretty
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good? Bellevue is a good hospital. I'll be released within the hour.
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So Mike Flynn, Man, I'm going down to the glad Hand Rescue Mission
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to straighten out a few things with Deddy Bill. Sounds to me like I
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ought to be police business. Johnny, I'll be right over. No,
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let me handle this alone. You got your gun. You bet your sweet
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life I have, Johnny. I'll report to you later tonight and every weekday
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night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted
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by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, New York City to the Lake Signed
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Life and Casualty Company. Following is an accounting of expended yours incurred during my
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investigation of the indestructible mic matter. It am sixteen one ninety cab fair for
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Mike Flynn and myself Bellevue Hospital to the Dingy Hotel, Breakley, both of
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his hand her heads still swathed in bandages. With the help of the room
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clerk, I installed Mike in a small room on the fifth with instructions to
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keep his door locked. In my own room, room two O three,
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I picked up my thirty eight and don the old clothes i'd bought item seventeen
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fifty five cents taxi to the neighborhood of the glad Hand Rescue Mission. For
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obvious reasons, I walked the last couple of blocks. When I got there,
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the big front assembly room was empty, so was the soup kitchen in
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the back of the place. I called Daddy Bill's name a couple of times,
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it got no answer, and finally decided to wait for him in the
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little room back of the assembly hall that he used for an office. I
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still felt a little shaky from the blow on the head, so I didn't
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mind just sitting a while, but I left the door open a crack,
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and a few wants later heard the street door open. It wasn't Daddy Bill,
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but I recognized him as a new coming of the mission, whom i'd
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seen on my first visit. He made directly for the little office already,
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Daddy, Why you ain't Daddy Bill's Oh do you know where he out shopping?
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At least that's where he say it was going. Didn't I see you
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in here the other day? Why, yes, sir, I guess you
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did. My name's Emery. I just read the rods in from Ohio.
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Boy, I had I got myself in a jam back at it. Yeah,
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I guess I just got me too much muscle. But they won't catch
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up with me here. That Bill promised me that. See I should have
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known you wasn't him in here? Oh? Sure? He said. He
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wouldn't be back for another hour. You playing the white for him? Sure
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do? He promised me a job. I wouldn't money on it. Enough
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money, he said, to get clear out of the country, and he'd
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help me do it. Doesn't it strike you, funny, bud, that
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the guy running a place like this would help you skip the country. Man,
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When you like me and you get a help in hand, you just
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don't ask no questions, you see, Mike, Mike Flynn, Yeah he
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come back. No why that Bill left me a package for him for him
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all Johnny if to come back here, well I'm Johnny. Well here,
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I get it right outside the door here, Yes, sir, liquor,
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he said, And maybe you let me have some here. See, I'll
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take it, licker. Did you say that's what he said? That's o
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man, No hands off, look at it. Man. Old Mike always
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shares this stuff with Lefty skill now Lefty Skimmer. It was Lefty who'd run
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us down with a truck whose body was found on the river. Lefty one
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of Daddy Bill's poor unfortunate's here at the mission. Things were beginning to add
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up. And this package left for Mike and me, Liquory said, but
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it didn't gurgle, Emery, listen to me, Sure, Johnny, but
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we get this package. I'm taking it with me back to the Waldorf.
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Waldorf. Yeah, that's right, that's where I'm staying. Don't let these
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close for you. I thought there was something funny about you, the way
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you talk. So fine you are, Dick. Never mind, If Dandy
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Bill wants me, that's where I'll be. Old Mikey won't find because they
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got him in room two o three at the Brakeley Hotel, Room two three.
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Forget it. He's still recovering from that accident. Shouldn't be disturbed.
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He's all doped up anyway. That's why I took him to the Braakley,
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where nobody will find him. I said, forget about that room two o
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three. If Daddy Villa wants me, tell him to call me at the
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Waldorf. I had an eighteen ten cents phone call from a booth in the
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street to Sergeant Randy Singer. I had am nineteen five bucks even for a
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fast but gentle taxi ride to the eighteenth Precinct, where Randy had promised to
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have the lab boys alerted for me. As I said, Jenny, yeah,
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I'm handlf softly. Oh yeah, okay, you're gonna stick around.
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I'm going back to the Brakeley to make sure Mike is all right, and
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I'll look here. Jack call the Waldorf for me, get me registered there.
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Instruck the disc that if there are any calls for me, I'm eating
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lunch or something and I'll be back in my room and say an hour do
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it. I'll see you later. Right, I'm nineteen taxi back to the
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Brakeley Hotel for the service entrance in the alley for five bucks. The freight
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elevator operator swore he'd tell no one he'd see me. Take the backstairs to
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room two o three, my room, not Mike's. As I told Emory
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at the mission off is room. Click. That's right, this is Johnny
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Dollar in two three. Oh yes, are you still working now? Listen?
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Listen carefully. If the police call me, put them through to anyone
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else who calls it comes looking for me. I'm not here, I never
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was. He never heard of me, understand. Oh yes, indeed,
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mister Dolla, we've worked with police and private investigators before. Okay, but
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if anybody wants to know about Mike Flynn, I want Flynn. Yeah,
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the old bomb I had you put in the room up on the fifth floor.
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Oh yes, if anybody asked for him, tell him he's in this
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room two o three. Oh, very well, you sure you got that
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straight? Yes, sir, Time was on my side. I hoped Emory
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back at the mission. It said Daddy Bill wouldn't return for an hour,
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but I couldn't be sure. As quickly as I could, I spilled a
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half bottle of whiskey around the room and the hope it would give the effect
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old Mike was there. Then I pulled down all the shades and drew the
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drapes tight across the windows. I turned on the bed and must have the
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covers so it would be ready for me. My watch said I still had
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time to kill, so I ran upstairs to Mike's from on the fifth and
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carrying a fifth Bless my sword, Johnny, and look what you rocked me
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on one condition, Mikey Oh yes, oh anything you so? You've been
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so good to me, I want you to promise that, no matter what
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happens, you'll stay right here in this room until I come back. Why,
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of course, Johnny, you have got anything you say, especially now
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that you brought me this bottle of to kind of keep me company. See,
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wouldn't you like a little nip before you go? No? No,
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thanks, So keep this store locked now? You sure you wouldn't like just
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one little No. I hate to think of me having it all alone,
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and you probably need as much as I do. Now, Oh say Johnny?
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Yeah? When are you and I going to be able to take these
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awful looking bandages off? Right here? We'll talk about that later. I
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got to get back to my room. Now you're sure I can't? I'm
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sure? Yeah? Now lock this door, all right, Johnny, But
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if you decide you want to with me quickly and quietly. I went back
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downstairs to two or three in cautious myself in leaving the door unlocked, that
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would have been there. I'd made it in time, and now all I
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could do was wait, hello, Johnny, Yeah, Randy, better make
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it fast. Oh, what's the matter. What do you call about it?
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That pretty little package you dropped off of the lab land? Yeah,
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you sure were right about it. Bomb Huh. If you or mine could
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opened that package by now, you'd be spread all over the island and tiny
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little pieces. Look, Johnny, come on, let me in on it.
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Huh. What are you up to do down there? I'll tell you
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when it's all over, that is, if what I think is going to
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happen does happen. Are you sure you don't want some help? No?
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I think I get it. I gotta go. I'd heard footsteps out in
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the hall. Quickly I slid into the bed, leaving nothing but my heavily
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bandage head showing the footsteps past and then far down the corridor, I heard
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a door open and close, and I still am waited there thinking. I
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began to wonder if I'd been right in turning down Randy's offer of help.
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How could he help with him? Footsteps again, and this time they stopped
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outside my door, all clear out here in the hall. That voice was
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Daddy Bill's and he wasn't along. Mike, Mike, what on the light,
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Mike, Oh he's in here all right? Smell that booze. He's
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there on the bed to sleep, you mean drunk close to hey, Sam,
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end of the world. Are you sure this is going to be safe,
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Dutchy, Why do you suppose it took so long? The case the
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Joe? Yeah? But what about Dollar? I told you Bill at the
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wall, doll. Are you sure you talked to him? No? No,
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he was in the coffee shop. I shut up. Get this over
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with. Always we do the dirty work for you, all right, this
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is one I'll do myself. Lose. Shut up, Johnny, Johnny,
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Wait a minute, that's Mike who's on that bed. Shut up? All
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right, Dollar, you can get up out of that bed and take it
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in the chest, or lay there and get it in the back, all
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right, Cosgrave Duchy, both hands up, Hie, drop that gun.
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Shure, Johnny? Shut him about their bill? Yeah, daddy Bill?
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Quiet, Dollar, you'd better do something Cosgravey or you have two witnesses,
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the man who always kept his skirts clean. Quiet. They'll let him lock
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him both off. Make it look like a fight between them. Something on
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the weight, boss, Johnny, is something I'm coming in? Oh no,
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you Hey, Randy, Hey, you're real rough, aren't you.
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No, Wait a minute, are I get up off his chest. I
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want to see what your dear friend Daddy Bill looks like. What did you
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hit him with anyway? Oh, dear, the poor bottles all broke?
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I just think it happened to you, Mike. Ah, this is Duchy
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Gordon alias J Wesley, Conns Gray. He won't be for long line.
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Well, what's that, Daddy Bill? You're feeling better? He always hung
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it on somebody else? What are you talking about? Left shortly all of
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them? This one need to hung on me. Well, not this time
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ready, I's grave den as a doorn. When Daddy Bill comes to after
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that sock on the chin, you can tell him he's cooked his own goose
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man man man. The world will be a bit better without Duchy Gordon Alisja
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Wesley. And of course the courts will take care of Daddy Bill. Lacking
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plenty, Mike indestructible Mike, Well, he'll probably outlive the rest of us.
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I hope I can get out to see you now and talk over our
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great adventure together. Expense account total six fifty, which is a lot less
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than the fifty thousand you might have had to pay off on Mike. Yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's
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intriguing story. Next week the heavy romance of Moonlight on a lonely beach in
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Mexico, Moonlight from a Killer's Moon. Join us, Want You, Yours
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Truly Johnny Dellar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote
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this story. Heard in this week's cast were Howard McNair, Lawrence Dubkin,
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Harry Bartel, Herb Bigrn, Alan Reid, and Roy Glenn. Musical supervision
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by A. Marigo Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on
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Monday night, same time in station or another exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well. I thought this was looking
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better for a Johnstone written serial, but this one, the ending had a
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few things that really really bother me. The biggest one was why why would
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Johnny not want the police present or the police assisting with the capture? And
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related to that question, tied directly into it is what exactly was he planning
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to do? Johnny got under the covers so that the two would think that
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he was Mike, and then what the only reason for not having the police
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there is to attempt to heighten dramatic tension at the end. In fact,
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I could imagine him no, Randy, you can't come over. That would
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ruin the dramatic tension. Then the second thing is how did Randy get there
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so quick? Did he call from down in the lobby? Made sense when
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Randy bailed out Johnny in the matter of the medium, well done, but
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here there was just no way. I mean, even Mark Donovan from the
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Adventures of Frank Race was never quite that skilled. I think that this had
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a pretty interesting concept around indestructible Mike that I think played pretty well early on.
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This wrap up was just a bizarre But one thing I will say for
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the whole serial is that it does start to give Johnny a bigger world of
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characters. I think, as we've listened to Johnny Dollar throughout the series,
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the character really has had one shot characters, and you know, every time
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he goes to New York, he meets with a different inspector of police,
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he meets with different old friends, different people calling from the insurance companies.
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Here we see the case initiated by Pat McCracken. We get Peter Branson,
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the brother of Harry Branson, and we have on a meeting the same police
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officer from previous stories. The show is starting to have some continuity and some
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recurring characters, which I think is one of the real strong points of the
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Johnstone era. And the writing does get better. In fact, there's one
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hero that we'll play in a few weeks and they're actually enjoyed quite a bit.
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But next Friday or next Monday, actually we'll begin our run of Christmas
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episodes of Johnny Dollar, which means we'll play those nineteen fifty five episodes we
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skipped over. So here Bob Bailey's first actual Christmas with yours truly, Johnny
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Doller. All right, well, now let's go ahead and take a listen
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to our new Carter Brown cereal. This one is The Lady Was Lethal Carter
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Brown Mysteries Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based on the best selling novels by
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the slick storytelling sensation Carter Brown. How do you do, ladies and gentlemen,
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This is Carter Brown to introduce another one of my books for you.
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This story is quote the Lady was lethal, as my hero Johnny Eaton found
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out, And in finding that out, he also found quite a lot of
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tension and trouble. Which is Mike, you to quit and let Eaton carry
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on. I always hated the place. The business had taken me there more
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than once. Now it had taken me there again. It was large,
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high and cold, but then death is always cold. I hated the hollow
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ring your steps made on the floor, and the way your voice ricocheted off
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the walls. The shape which lay shrouded on the table drew my eyes,
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and there was a dry sensation at the back of my throat as Lieutenant Jogginson
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flipped the sheet away. There is Yeah, that's Hank Williams, right,
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that's all you gotta say. What do you want me to say? Happy,
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Busty? He was your partner, wasn't he? He was my partner.
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You're a tough guy, aren't you, Johnny Eaton, the man with
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the poker face. I show you your partner's body and you react like it
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was a guy you'd never seen before. You want me to best out crying?
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Went good with that to Hank. You guys have been in partnership for
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the last five years. What was acted like you were the best of pals.
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You were away in Detroit for three weeks on a job. You come
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back, I tell you Williams is dead. So so I'm wondering, Johnny,
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wondering whether you're really tough or just playing scared? What's that crack supposed
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to mean? Let's get out of here and I'll tell you. Well,
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I'm wondering how much you know about why Williams was knocked up? If you're
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acting like a clam because your figure, you'll stay alive that way, You
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think I'd be wasting my time, lieutenant, listening to your yack at a
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yack. If I knew who killed Hank could be I'll have to keep an
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eye on you, Johnny. After all, we don't want to lose the
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other half of the best private eye partnership in town doing No. We don't
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that, George, you love you, Uh huh, new model buick business
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must be looking up. We get by, I guess I should say I
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get by. Williams didn't have any family. My sister in Kentucky someplace.
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She'll have to be told what happens to his share of the business. I
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get it. His sister gets the rest, the door in the bank,
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et cetera. You should do all right out of the business. We both
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made a will, however, went first, left his share of the business
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to the other, and by good luck, Williams went first. Joginson,
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there are times when I dislike you more than normally. This is one of
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those times. As I drove back to the office, the night sky was
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studded with star points, but the silver twinkle was rivaled by the gleam of
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Garish neons stabbing above the streets. I let myself into the office started going
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through Hank's desk, but I knew it was a forlorn hope. There was
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one thing I hadn't told Lieutenant Joginson. I'd come back from Detroit in answer
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to an urgent wire from Hank. It said he'd cracked something really big and
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needed my help. The trouble was that Hank was the sort of private dick
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who never kept notes. He kept everything inside his skull, and that scowl
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was I was silent. I was right. There was no hint of what
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Hank could get onto, and there was so much of him in the office.
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I had to get out. I needed a drink. It was a
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hunky tonguk. I wasn't feeling like the black ty nightclubs. This dive had
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a sign outside which spelled the World's most Beautiful Girls. Inside the World's most
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Beautiful Girls were dancing with sailors, small time hoods, and suckers. They
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all looked bored and most of them chewed gum while they danced. Were ammadic.
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You drink bud bags. Hey you look kind of gloomy, kiddle,
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Why didn't you cheer up and have a dance? Fifty cents a ticket?
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Go away? Oh you don't have to be food. You don't want to
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have any from well, okay, go splash in the sea. Oh now
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look, there ain't no call to beat it, babe, what I said
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beat it? Well, okay, okay, not like to get tough without
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dames. Mind if I park, So it's yourself. You can find a
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glass, You can even have a drink. No thanks, cigar, No
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thanks, you're Johnny not right. Yeah, I was looking for you,
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so now you found me. How much do you want? But what you
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know? What? How much? I don't know what you're talking about?
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Quits darling, Seamus, name a price. Look, let's play a little
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game. Let's pretend I really don't know what you're talking about, so you
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tell me, and then if I've got it and it's for sale, I'll
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name a price. Okay, I'm talking about the thing your partner, Hank
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Williams had. He didn't have it this afternoon, and it wasn't in your
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office, so he either sent it to you or he parked at some place
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and told you where. Now put a tag on it, Buster, I
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ain't got all night. You mean Hank was murdered for this thing, but
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you couldn't find it? Sure, Or you don't just start anything you can't
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finish, Buster, I've got company, a little punk propping up the juke
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box. Plenty of good guys have been perforated by a punk. That's the
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point. So how much forty thousand dollars? That's a lot of doll Maybe
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it'd be cheaper to have happened to you, what happened to your partner.
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We'll let get you what you're looking for. Maybe we might sort of persuade
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you to tell where it is first. Maybe forty thousand is the price I
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hope to find out. Could take a little time, see to morrow and
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tell you be in your office. I'll be there, okay, Sheamus,
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don't do anything foolish, would you not like? Will you understand? I
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watched him clamp the cigar and his teeth signaled to the thin little guy,
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and the two of them walked out. Just in the blonde who'd tried to
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sell me a dance move past the table. I called, Yeah, what
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do you want, mister? I've changed my mind? Buy some tickets?
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How many ten bucks? With? Oh? I had a boy? Now
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you're getting hat? Sit down, have a drink? Sure, hey,
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buddy, another glass here, blondie. The ten dollars, Franks, here's
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your tickets, keep them. What's the big idea? You've got the ten
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bucks and the tickets, so you've just made a ten dollar profit, right?
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Yeah? Glass? Thanks? Remind me to endorse your Emily Post diploma
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sometime here. Give your stomach a shock. Thanks. Now at ten bucks
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you just made. That's for information. What do you want to know?
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Honey? A big guy who said scram and you're scrammed? Who is he?
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Mister? I think i'd better give you back your ten bucks. You'll
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sound like trouble to me. Trouble. I'm just curious. I've been out
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of town. I don't know any more. Who runs with who? Well
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he's Tiny Laban. I don't know who he works for, but he hangs
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out in the blues club here. That's what the name says, all blues
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and stuff. That was the other guy with him, Oh he was on
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his own. No, it was a little pastry faced guy by the jukebox.
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Oh that's baby Feace Brill. He's a mean character. Well, mister,
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look, get me ten dollars. Sure it does, and thanks.
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Sure you wouldn't like to dance I'll give you a dance for free some other
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time. I gotta be moving. You know business. If business means trouble.
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With Tiny Lavin, you won't tell him who told you over my dead
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buddy. With Tiny Lavin, that could be easy. The blues club class
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dive cloths on the tables, no taxi dancers, a floor show. Six
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girls were just finishing a routine. As I sat down in order to drink,
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they wobbled off the floor and the lights dimmed down to a single spot.
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As a compere breathed one word into the mic chilly. I thought he
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was talking about the weather, until a dame appeared in the spot and What
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a day. A tall brunette with a figure dreamed up by a perfectionist and
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then improved her You're ether blue, your kisses too. I never knew what
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they could do. Can't believe that you're in love with me? I listened
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to her low, husky voice and started to remember things like that Hank was
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like me, he could be a sucker for a dame. And if tiny
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Lavin was tied in with his place and Hank had something lad and wanted,
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then it wasn't impossible that Hank had met Chili. Await you far me.
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As I watched her, I decided it was more than probable that Hank knew
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were Chili was the last thing a guy would feel next to chili, and
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Hank liked to keep warm more than moose guys. Really than you're in love.
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I can't believe that you're in love with me? She finished her number.
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They go for more, but she just waved and wove off. I
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call the winner, Yes, sir, I'd like to talk to Chili.
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Sir. You stand at the end of a long line of gentlemen of the
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same ambition. There's a five spot going begging for someone to take it with
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the message to the lady. What message said that I'd like to talk to
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her? How about my partner, a guy named Hank Williams. Deliver your
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message Zone. I never saw a five dollar bill disappear faster from a table.
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I'm into a pocket. I pulled myself another drink, but I'd only
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had one sip when it was back with his eyebrows touching his hairline. Chilie
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will see it and look so surprised. I'm a guy who makes friends and
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has influence. The waiter led the way, and as I followed, I
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was congratulating myself. It looked like I had lighted on a lead at last.
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Welcome back. This is a really promising beginning to this card to Brown
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Cereal, but just a great mysterious situation set up really well. Of course,
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there's a little bit of a shade of a Maltese falcon here, with
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the partner being killed in the detective not being very demonstrative about his feelings on
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the matter. But more to comlext week. All right, Well, now
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we turn to listener comments and feedback, and Christine had an observation regarding regarding
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last week's serial Belladonna was poison and she said, I was just listening to
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this week's episode of The Carter Brown Story and thought it was hilarious that the
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hero is called rock Stone. It's hilarious because here in Jamaica, rock stone
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is an exclamation of surprise, as in, she did, what rock Stone?
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It's just funny to hear someone hear it is someone's name. I guess
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it'd be like if somebody in the Western United States heard a program where one
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of the characters was named Jumpin' Gihoshaphat. Well, thanks so much for that
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inside Christine. That's one of the great things about having listeners all over the
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world. You get some sometimes a surprising cultural information. Thanks again for sharing.
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And then we have an email from Melissa who says that who had a
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question about the Great Detectives app and the Dragnet app off of iTunes, And
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now she has an Android phone and it's a Galaxy four as and I went
32:19
searching for the app for my app of the Great Detectors and I couldn't find
32:22
one, which is why I'm writing, is there an app for the Droid
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top phones? And I hope there is is. I'm a single mom of
32:30
three and I don't have the luxury of cable or internet, so Dragnet and
32:35
the Great Detectives app are really my form of electronic entertainment. When I'm walking
32:39
to school, I turn them on and listen, as well as when I
32:43
get home from work. It's my way of relaxing. So to make a
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long email short, I hope and pray that I'm just savvy enough to know
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how to get the app, and there is one and in andwer to Melissa's
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question on that, And for those of you who have Android devices, the
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Great Detectors app is available, but you actually need to get the Amazon App
33:07
Store onto your phone in order to access it. You get the Amazon App
33:12
Store and that's where it is sold, not on the main Android app store.
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She says, thanks for putting these shows together. My favorite is Pat
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Novak. I love the metaphors and the languages use. You don't hear language
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like that anymore. Well, thanks on that. I don't know if we
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ever heard it quite like they did on Pat Novak, but that's definitely appreciated.
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And that reminds me that we're only a few weeks away from our second
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run through on Pat Novak, so that's going to be fun. And she
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says, I hope sometime you will look into doing not necessarily detective, but
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mystery like The Shadow or Mystery Theater. Just a suggestion. Well, the
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Shadow the rest this before, but The Shadow is one of those series that
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Radio Spirit has a somewhat dubious copyright. They claim copyright on it. Like
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I said, I find the claim by them doubtful just because of these programs
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at that point weren't really covered by federal copyright law. But it's just something
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that it would not be worth the aggravation because The Shadow they've shown is pretty
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much the one show that they will consistently go after any website that has it.
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As for CBS Mystery Theater, that one is almost certainly under copyright radio
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recordings made after February fifteenth of nineteen seventy two or covered by copyright protections unless
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they omitted the appropriate notice, so we won't be playing that show. But
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again, thanks for the suggestions. All right, well then we'll do it
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for today. We'll be back tomorrow with the lineup and then join us for
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yours truly Johnny Dollar Christmas episode on Monday, and we'll continue on with The
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Lady Is Lethal on Friday. In the meantime, send your comments to Box
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thirteen at great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives,
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Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.