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Easy Money: The Basketball Pool Racket (EP1396) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for another cautionary tale for those who would rather put their
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hope in the promise of easy money. From January ninth, nineteen fifty five,
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here is the basketball pool racket. In just a moment, easy money
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but first Monday evening on NBC means time for the Telephone Hour, your musical
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hand tomorrow evening when NBC brings you The Telephone Hour with Donald voorhes conducting the
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orchestra and Zeno Franciscotti as guest artist. Now, stay tuned for Easy Money
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on NBC. The National Broadcasting Company presents a new series of programs transcribed to
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expose the inside secrets of gamblers, racketeers, and con men. It's called
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Easy Money, Easy Money. There's no such thing as easy money. Mike
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Trent, the ex magician turned rackets detective, has a story tonight about basketball
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betting pools, which currently manas a great American sport, and here he is.
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Thank you, Roger Bowman. I'd never given much thought to basketball gambling
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pools until unpleasant little stories began to crop up here and there in the sports
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world. My first real experience came one evening when Patsy, Ryan and I
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were watching a thrilling game between a couple of closely matched teams. Oh,
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Mike, this is the most exciting basketball game I've ever seen. Riley,
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don't patch it, you relaxed? Why it's only a basketball? What a
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game? It's the Comets can just overcome that two pointly? Good good Kine
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got the ball, weights on them, always hambling down the flo shoot game
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shot. We wanted bad games? Why all the flat for miss glad from
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other basket of be Hurry, there's a gun. The game's over the Comets
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news Mike, Like, the game isn't overwork, Patsy, that shot we
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heard it wasn't from a timekeeper. Look at Kay there's blood all over his
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jersey. He's been shot. Well, Mike, Mike, there's Tilly the
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plane cost brought out on the floor. Look. Look he's pointing to the
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door that leads from the show. What a beautiful spot for a murder.
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Every eye in the place glew down the plane for people waiting for the gun
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to go. Oh, they're putting Kane on a stretch or I hope that
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boy is not badly here. Come on, Patsy, let's get out of
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here. Michael, do we have to leave? Come on, Mike,
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aren't we gonna wait and see what happened to? Police have gone to the
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show? Yeh In the shower room has two entrances from the outer hall a
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murderers had all the time. He needs to make a getaway murder. Oh
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no, please, Patsy. Look, I've seen enough murder victims in my
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time to know when the thumbs collapse into the palms like that, it's all
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over. Look, come on, look, why don't you go down and
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talk to Captain Kelly. You might be able to hear I about to stay
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out of it for the time being. What a nice youngster like that shut
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in a coop of blood and they talk about sportsmanship? Oh no, Patsy,
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you can't think the Comets had anything to do with this. Well?
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Who else? Right? Doing a game? Right when it looked like kan
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We's going to tie the score? I hope that opinion gets a good play,
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Patsy. In the meantime, let's go Max. Give me your call,
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mister trent E on a level you ready to teach me that bottom dally
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or for sure she was glad to do it. Money, if you got
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the credits on you, for sure? Oh wait a minute, this deck
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is strippers. They won't do huh well hardly, I didn't think so let
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me see. Nope, this here deck's all gimmicked for slick ace workers.
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Gee, I better run down a cigar store and pick up a plane die.
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Just a minute, money, I want to ask you something. I've
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been watching the basketball game results. Yeah, that stuff's getting to be quite
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a racket, ain't it? Racket? Money? Yeah, if you're a
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very help g you can pick yourself up two three hundred bucks with a very
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slight amount of weight. But I wondered if there weren't some good bedding pools,
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you know, not good maybe, but awful, big Ian. I
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don't know what's wrong. They're running kind of sub rosa. I'm very quiet
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too, since this little accident at the comet game last Wednesday night. Oh
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you mean you think gambling was connected in some way with that murder? Me?
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I wouldn't know. I'm strictly a small time card mechanic, mine of
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my own business and trying to work my way up. But Uh, I've
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hired stuff and things, uh, stuff muddy like what the teams was awful
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close and local Doe was riding on her comets but natch, but natch.
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And it was kind of fortunate that this Cane guy dribbles his way right smacking
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to a slug from a forty five. Not very fortunate for Cane. Somebody
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has to lose. And it wasn't the press that ended up with the shorts.
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The press. Don't tell me I've missed one of the racket elite.
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He's called the press because he's a very hoity torty operator see strictly gambling pools,
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punchboards and why you know, high class rackets. Oh yeah, yeah,
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very high class. He operates big, just like the president of a
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big corporation led their office furniture. The wakes paper strew all over his desk
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with statistics on her with what money numbers? Odd numbers? Yell, And
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he operates the basketball pool, the big one. What's his real name?
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Ah, you wouldn't believe it. Well, I'll try money Waltham, Buff,
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Ain't that Alulu? Yeah? Where can I find them? The buff
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Publishing Company. But I'm one of you, mister, Trent. You're throwing
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your money to the four wins. You've never felt called upon to warn me
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away from the city slickers before, Marty. Look, you used to be
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a magician. You got hands to what they can do. There ought to
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be a law against that is. But the basketball pool. Uh, that
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ain't no matter what hands, mister Trent. But strictly from the head,
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I see, And you don't think my head works so good? Is that
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it? Well, when a guy tries to beat odds like what you get
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on a basketball pool, he's lost up a dead end street or one thing
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money. I suppose a lot of people would feel the same way you do.
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And I don't like to be laughed at. So if you could keep
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it mumu for match? And now that bottom deep? Oh yes, well,
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I'm sorry. I don't have time to show it to you now,
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but dropping anytime when you have a free hour or two on your hands,
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I'm a free thim. Now listen, Yeah, I'll tell you what.
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Here's here's a little finger exercise you should do first, though, you know,
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the limber up your practices for a couple of weeks. Yeah, you
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bend each finger all the way back until it touches the wrist like like,
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hey, a guy can break us fingers that way. Yeah, that's it's
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all. Keep trying. Well, what did you people want? I'm a
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very busy man, extremely busy, are you really, mister? That's right,
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But a few young people have written a great American novel. I'm the
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wrong publisher for you. Oh, we don't write, mister. No,
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No, Michael's a statistician. He not so loud, patsy. Do you
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mind if I close the door, mister b Now what is this anyway?
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Well, mister buff how would you like to put all your competition out of
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busines? Now, listen, young man, do you know what kind of
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publishing house this is? Oh, yes, sir, we have a way
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for you to run all the rest of the basketball pools right out of business,
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bankrupt them, not we, Michael, it's not your idea. Really.
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Well, oh, I suppose you want me to offer longer odds than
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my competitors. Well no, it isn't a matter of keeping your competitors from
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giving business. It's a matter of giving them business, the wrong kind of
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business. I failed to comprehend. Now, if you just get to the
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point I missed to both I have a system, the Trent system. It's
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a system for picking winning basketball teams. Now, with it, you'll compet
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against your competitors and put them all right out of business. What nobody ever
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believes in at first until they see the results. I'm sorry, I can't
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give you any more time. If you were, we offered you a real
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opportunity, and you just laugh at us. You try to put us out
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of your office. Well, if it's so good, let him make money
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with it himself. You mean you'd let me bet in your pool, bet
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against you. That's exactly what I mean, Michael. No, he just
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wants to see what teams you'll pick, and then he'll capitalize on our idea.
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He'll go out and make big bets with his competitive I don't care what
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teams you pick. I will not bet with my competitors. I have never
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bet on a basketball pool, and I don't intend to start now. And
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there are people waiting to see me. So if you'll kind, I'd like
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to make up bet with you, mister buff a big bet to show my
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confidence in my system. Go right ahead, where you let Michael Marcus pool
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ticket and then seal it in an envelow I'll let him nail it into a
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packing case of your life. That's not necessary, just so he can seal
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it in a blow. Right all right? Here the pool ticket for tonight's
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games. Here's an envelope. Now go ahead. You mustn't look while I'm
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picking my teams. The idea is you put a check mark after the team
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you want. Is that a check mark or an x? Either one?
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By the ways, that are right? To try to pick all twelve games.
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You pick all twelve games, and I will pay you fifty to one,
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oh, Michael, fifty to one. That means we'll win fifty thousand
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dollars. What you mean to say, You're going to bet a thousand dollars?
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Isn't that all right? Why? Of course? Not only all right,
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it's great. Uh, just put up the money and I'll give you
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a receipt. Oh five oh. One thing though, if you try to
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open this envelope and look at my selections before I come in, the bets
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off. If you never have anything worse than that to worry about, you
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live to be an old man. Oh, let me see the envelepe Michael
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there, now, who can we trust to keep it? How about Marty
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Griggs? What he's a mutual friend. Did you think he's your special source
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of information? I know all about you, Trent. You wasted an awful
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lot of time with that dumb act. Michael, I don't want to can
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what, mister buddy. Don't tire yourself out acting, my dear. If
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the boyfriend wants to throw a thousand dollars down the train trying to get something
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on me, let him go right ahead. All right, here's one thousand
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dollars, Buff, and I want that receipt you mentioned. Of course you
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are. And Marty Greggs holds the envelope right. Rather silly way to waste
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your money, Trent. Maybe it weren't. Don't I look like a good
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enough businessman to get you out of the way. Oh well, Marty tells
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me you're pretty clever with your hands. For really, if I were you,
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I try using my head. Oh well, thanks for the tip list
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to Buff, I'll see a Saturday night to collect. I wouldn't hold my
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breath if I were you. Well, thanks for your time. Bye,
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Yes, boss, come in here right away, Boss, you want You
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heard the little act the private dick put on for me, didn't you clear?
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Oh? Oh sure? I made a record of it. Boss,
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have one of the boys watch Marty Griggs between now and Saturday night. I
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don't trust him. Watch him. Who you want to do it? Leroy?
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I guess he's handled himself rather well lately. Yes, I think Leroy
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deserves a promotion. Do you want to pick me to hold this dunvelope?
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Mister TRENTP I'm friends with both of you guys. Yes, mister Walsam Buff
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infront. That wasn't very nice of you money to spoil our little act for
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mister Buff. Oh. Now, listen, mister Trent. If I don't
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know and you take it that way, I just stayed away from Buff.
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But you never say I told you to keep it confidential, didn't I?
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Yeah, but he was going to know about it anyway, if you've hold
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on him, and I was looking out for your best interests. I told
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you these pools were sucker stuff. Let's just have one thing straight money Sure?
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Sure you know me, mister Trent? Yeah, you bet, I
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know you. That's why I want an understanding. You tamper with that sealed
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envelope and you'll be in a lot of trouble. And I'm not kidding.
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No, I can see that. I may not operate the way your friends
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do. But if you think I can't run you out of town, you're
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badly mistaken. So it's up to you to keep that envelope sealed and away
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from idle hands. I understand, sure, don't worry about it. Hey,
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on a level you you think you're gonna win that bet. I know
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I'm gonna win it. Oh how do you do? Oh did you want
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to see mister Trent got the envelope? Mightey envelope? Oh? Sure,
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yeah, I got it. Why come on then, Pelly, huh,
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come on where I've been given the promotion? Muddy, don't dank to have
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you allow set up. I don't know what you're talking about. Leeroy the
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prayers, he says to me, keep an eye on Marty. Let him
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out of your sight. After he got this envelope and the press. He
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thinks that I've got to do a gum shoe act Chadwin and all that stuff.
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Ain't that rich? Mighty? He sure is? Leroight, yeah,
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straight lines, that's me, mrighty. No going around corners, no beating
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around bushes. The order says, don't let Marty out of your sight.
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So you know what mighty? What do you mean, Leroy? From now
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till Saturday night? Mrty, I'm moving in with you. But that's not
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fair, mister buck, he can't do that. Out there, lady is
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a bet that calls for real long odds. I guess you'll have to sleep
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on a chair, he Roy, Sure, what's wrong with a bed?
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It's a single. It ain't big enough for both of us. I can
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see you gotta be thoughts of manners, Muddy Huh when you got company,
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you give nothing but the best. Look at the praise. Did you ever
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knows how polite he is? If you think I'm giving up my bed to
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a guy that muscles in on me with friends? Muddy? Well? Quiet?
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Who's there? Hit me? Who? Hey? Something must be up
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at dolls? Hey? What are you doing here? Well? I figured
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you two wouldn't be smart enough to know it's raining dollar bill, so I
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decided to drop in for a little visit. Listen, clear who you trying
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to kid? Look, you two don't think this fellow Trent is really gonna
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pick all twelve games? Do you? Guy? Did it two years ago
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in a five bucks bed? The way those twos are handicapped every game is
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a toss up, right, Sure, I can't figure Trent's angle. He's
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got me kind of worry. Twelve games each a toss up, so most
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of the suckers figure it ought to be a twelve to one payoff, right,
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yeah, but it's a twelve bet parlay, and that means the odds
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are over four thousand to one. Buff's very generous paying fifty to one.
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Don't make me laugh, poor persent to one. Huh. Start figuring the
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odds against picking all twelve and it gets up into the millions. Were you
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trying to do? Make us cry for Trent? Anybody with the brains of
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a gnat knows he isn't gonna win, and he'll know it soon as he
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sees the results of other games posted on the scoreboard Saturday night. Well so
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what genius? So he figures, well, I've lost the dough. This
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is a goodbye, and he don't come round to collect nat. That's where
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you boys need my brains. I don't get it. I got a pool
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ticket unmarked, and I can get an envelope from the press's office, just
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like the one you boy. I'm at the game Saturday night and I check
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off this ticket as the scores come in. Hey, maybe you got something
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there at that I slipping boys the sealed envelope and you forget the one this
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Trent fixed up. Yeah, and I suppose you think the pres would pay
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out fifty grand without tramp being there? Here, you're Sam, you're the
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one that's dumb, Leroy. This guy Trent can be handled easy. I
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ain't so sure about that, Cleo, don't be dumb. I'll explain to
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him how we can work things if he loses. All he has to do
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is give me a high sign. After the game is over, we give
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him twenty thousand bucks and keep ten apiece for ourselves. Rus shiad he get
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twenty on us only ten? Plenty of reasons, including the big one that
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the deal wouldn't be worth ten cents without him? Well, are you with
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me? It ain't exactly being honest with the Pres. With all the soft
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ough he's made out of this pool racket. My heart's breaking for him.
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Well, there's been time when ten grand would have come in handy, Ain't
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that right? Mudy? I can't think of anything handier. Then it's a
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deal, is it, Leroy? You're supposed to be watching me? Sure?
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But can I help it if I don't see everything that happens deal me
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in clio. It beats killing basketball players for a living. Shut up,
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waste cract like that ain't funny enough now, I was just choking that could
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leaft. You're right out of circulation, baby, something you don't talk about.
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I just wanted to make it clear that we all ought to trust each
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other, Leroy, because we all got things we could say about each other.
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Catch mm, catch like you look like you've lost your last friend.
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Friend. What's that you worried about your basketball? Bet? No, but
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I thought that that would start things, Betsy, what kind of things?
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Well? I kept thinking something was bound to break, that Waltham buff would
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get nervous, that Marty Griggs would get scared, that this overgrown shadow lely
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Roy would get tough. But god gunness, So all you can do is
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win fifty thousand dollars. That's not the point, Patsy. Look, I
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want to catch that murderer. I want to put a stop to this sort
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of thing. Michael, fifty thousand dollars isn't the point. I've never seen
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you work in a case where you didn't ponder as much about your fee as
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about the actual solution. The people who pay my fees never complain, do
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they miss? They're never in a position to complain. Oh, how do
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you do? Did you want to see mister Trent? Yes? Alone?
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Oh well, I guess that can be arranged. You were just leaving anyway,
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wyn't you? Patsy? Oh? Oh, certainly have a good time
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bye? She seemed kind of soup. I forget it. What can I
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do for you? It's what I can do for you, mister. I'm
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gonna lay my cards right on the table. I work for Waltham Buff.
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You know all about your thousand dollars, Bed, Well, you got one
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chance in a million of winning. But that doesn't mean you can't show a
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neat profit. You know you interest me. Look, if you've picked all
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the teams, there's no reason for you to deal. But if you miss
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the boys and I got away, so you can still do pretty good.
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Twenty grand we get the other thirty not bad? Huh uh No, No,
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you mean you'd switch envelopes. I missed Buff, sure, and I'm
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in a spot where I could do it easy without a chance in the world
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of getting caught. Interested. Frankly, no, not even slightly. But
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why not. It's a fair deal, all wrong, and Leroy have already
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made me a better deal. They've offered me twenty five thousand. Who do
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you think you're fooling? They wouldn't have a nerve, No, but you
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just watched and see if you think you can trick me into offen your bigger
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spots. I wouldn't even try. As I said, I've already made a
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deal, and if you don't believe it, we'll just drop around for the
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payoff. I'll be there, mister, don't you worry. Oh, they're
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putting up the scroll of another game on the board night. Was that one
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of the games on your pool ticket? I don't remember, Patsy. Do
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you mean to say you haven't even kept track of? What good would that
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do? Patsy? I'm watching this game, Clark says, forty seconds to
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go, Michael, what are you doing? Oh? You mean standing up
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and putting my hat on and then tipping it. That's a signal, Patsy,
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that's a signal to whom Well, that's the funny part of it,
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a signal to nobody. It'd be funny if this twink guy actually did pick
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all twelve games. Wood don't be adult, le Roy. I've been watching
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them. He just give Cleon on a high sign. Hey, that's the
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end of the game. They were supposed to get back here by exit number
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four and Cleol passes. I look, there's something funny here. What Cleo.
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I've been watching her. She just walked down at exit number seven and
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look Trent and a girl ahead in this wife? You think could he maybe
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have picked all twelve games? I don't know. All I know is he's
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a very clever guy with his hands and hold on to that envelope, pelly
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tight. You mean to say you picked all twelve games? Trent? What?
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Oh well, I haven't the faintest idea. Mister buff will have to
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check. You mean to say you don't even know what games you picked or
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what teams? Nope, that isn't important in my system, the Trent system,
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But it always works, so there's not much point in worrying. Isn't
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he the winner's here? Not on this card? Pretty fancy, I'll print
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it up. You send those cards around to the places that sell the pool
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tickets for you. I suppose yes. I believe in running a business,
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and a business basis will be very busy the rest of the evening getting money
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around to the various spots. So if you hurry, here's the envelope.
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Boss, it ain't left our site and neater honest, just a minute.
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I love the envelope. If you don't mind. I don't trust mister Buff.
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Why I'm not at all sure i'd trust you with this ticket, mister
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Buff, watch the guy, boss. Let's see. First game, okay,
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second game, yes, third okay? Four? Five, five,
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right, sixth, wonderful seven? Listen. Just let me take that ticket
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and let you tear it up. Got a chance. But the games are
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all checked, right, all twelve of them. Yeah, isn't that right?
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Boys, I'll be dog gone, Yes, sir, every single one
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of them. Mike, your marvelous. I told you what an amazing system
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it was, mister Buff. Don't do you wish that you'd believe me?
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I hope you have fifty thousand dollars here, mister Buff, and I'd prefer
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cash. No, listen, Trent, there's something extremely fishy about this.
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That Comet game. The Comets were twenty point favorites to win, sure things,
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and they lost, and you picked their opponents. I guess I was
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lucky that goes beyond luck, Trent, you mean it wasn't luck that they
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lost. That's exactly what I mean. They're at least twenty points better than
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just see Boss Marty and Leroy. They tricked you, They sold you out.
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I know I can prove it. Why you're a dirty little rout.
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We saw him out. Huh, Yes, you sold him out like that.
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We sold the boss at her trying to get us the double crosses Ryan
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to you are grated a dirty loadown. So this is the frame huh,
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clil, you got your nerd talking about frame ups. Don't you think I
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saw Trent signally the switch envelope. We didn't do any such thing. Why
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you you must think I'm an idiot high line up the deal and then you
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squeeze me out. This is all very interesting and enlightening. You ain't putting
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yourself in a very good spot. Clear with that kind of talk. You
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admitting you tried to frame the boss and admitting we wasn't in it with you.
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I'll admit a lot more too. Smart boy, you think I don't
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know what's going on around here, don't shout at me. I'm true with
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you anyway. I may be a crook, But I'm no murderer. That's
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curless talk. Baby. You think I don't know about Leroy picking up the
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gun and Marty waiting for him in a car out, You didn't know.
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I listened in and heard him report that to you, did your boss?
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Well? I did, and I remember every word I heard. And if
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you guys think you're gonna shove me around, they won't. Cleo, don't
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worry. But she should be worrying, mister Trent. Such vindictive slander,
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slander. I know which gun it was, even and I know where it's
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hit too. And if you think I'm blushing, come back here, Cleo.
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All right, Lucky, you're a bad shot. I killed me.
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Give me a gun, quick horse while LeRoy's holding the dame. All right,
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smarty here. I wouldn't marty this gun. I just went out and
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found knows how to kill people. Now drop it. Well when you put
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it that way, match, thanks clear. He said all right for me
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to pick up the gun, and just dropped Yeah. Sure, nah,
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I'll have that fifty thousand dollars if you don't mind. Mister buff you said
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you had a good deal of cash here, Well not that much, but
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you can take what there is here, I'll pay you the rest. Well,
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that's real big of you, mister Buff. Thanks, of course you
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won't be needing money where you're going. You'd be a sap to give.
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Leroy and Mardy they're cut mister, Well they don't have any clioh. I
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picked the winners. You couldn't have, you know, Buff, When you
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admitted you'd cheated, that one of those games was fixed, you made me
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feel a lot less uncomfortable about my pool ticket. What you see, I
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hadn't picked a single game, Buff, I hadn't even tried until I took
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the pool ticket out of that envelope. You see, the card was blank.
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I don't blow it. Games are old, Chuck. Yeah. Sure.
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I used to do a trick Leroy that laid him in the aisles in
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Peoria, and a mind reading trick. And to do that trick, I
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used to wedge a little piece of lead under my thumb. I got so
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I could write fairly well with my thumb. All I had to do on
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this pool ticket was make check marks right while you were looking on the back
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of the ticket. Oh, Michael, what'll we do with all this money?
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Well, we'll fill up that suit case and send it back to mister
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Buff in care of singsing you contemptible cook. That's praise from an expert,
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mister Buff, I am flattered. That's your fault. Present. I told
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you the guy was clever with his hands, and here he is for a
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last word that incomparable exposure of fakes. Mike Trent, thank you. Beating
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the basketball pools is a hopeless proposition. The odds are stacked so heavily against
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you that you can't hope to win over any period of time. And every
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time you participate in the pool you're undermining a great American sport, because when
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gamblers get into athletics, they just cease to be sport. Next week,
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I'm going to bring you a story of the fixed roulette game racket, same
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time, same station. I hope you'll be back with us until then.
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This is Mike Trent signing off with the thought that if money were really as
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easy as racketeers say it is, it wouldn't work so hard to take it
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away from you. Remember, there's no such thing as easy money. You've
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just heard another program in the NBC series Easy Money transc I have to expose
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the inside secrets of gamblers, racketeers, and con men. Next week,
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Mike Trent has an amazing story of how the fixed roulette wheels operate same time,
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same station. Featured in Tonight's cast were Larry Haynes as Mike Trent,
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Joan Allison, Rita Lynn, Ralph Camargo, and Sid Paul. Easy Money
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is produced and directed by Blair Wallaser in association with Air Shows Incorporated. Script
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by George B. Anderson. This has been an NBC Radio Network presentation,
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and this is Roger Bowman. Join your favorite couple, Fibamagee and Molly tonight
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on the NBC Radio Network Welcome Back. Probably the one thing that makes this
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series so unique is how Mike Trent beats the criminals at their own game.
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He's definitely a different sort of detective figure, both with the magic background,
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which is pretty intriguing, and just the way he operates. It's very smooth,
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and Larry Haynes is just fantastic in this and really just takes all the
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things I really enjoyed about his work as Lieutenant Brooks on the Amazing Mister Malone
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and takes it to the next level here. So I hope you've been enjoying
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this. We'll be back next week with one more episode of Easy Money,
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and then on Wednesday. Be sure and listen for the adventures of Philip Marlowe
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