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episode of Easy Money. The original aired ain is May the eighteenth of nineteen
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fifty five and the title is the Charity Benefit of Racket. Just a moment
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listen tomorrow night for the telephone Hour. Now stay tuned for Easy Money on
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NBC, the National Broadcasting Company presents another in a 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 brilliant ex magician turned rackets detective, has a most revealing story
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of the charity benefit racket Tonight. You're going to enjoy hearing the inside facts
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on how this swindle works now here. He is the arch enemy of the
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confidence man. Mike Trent, Thank you, Adel and good evening, ladies
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and gentlemen. Tonight story deals with a percentage gambler and how charity sometimes begins
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and ends in a con man's pocket. Patsy Ryan, my girl Friday came
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into my office a couple of weeks ago, are all excited about an idea
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of hers? I'm Michael. Oh, a brilliant idea. Congratulate me.
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When you get a bright idea, Patsy aren't suspicious. It usually means trouble
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for me and work. But go ahead, kids, we're gonna throw a
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party. Oh no, oh no, not me. You don't get me
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mixed up on any help. Put no, not you the children's hospital girls.
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I'm a local committee. Oh oh, well that's different. All right.
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How many tickets am I supposed to buy? And what do they call?
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I'm not so fast as mission is going to be free? Free?
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Oh it sounds like a racket. That's the first earmark of every good con
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game. Well, this is going to be a Mother of Carlo party.
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Oh with a light dawn. Gambling of all kinds, chuckle uck, wulett,
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dice, black jacket, every n I want to swell idea, Patsy.
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It take should be plenty high. So many people like to gamble,
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and they can excuse themselves on the ground that it's for a good cause.
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That's the way I think you. All right, Well you'll have to get
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let will can chuckle luck layouts and you want to be sure you have confident
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operators. Oh, that's all taken care of. Uh not by you,
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I hold, Patsy, you would know a good chuck luck operator from a
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pharaoh dealer. Don't worry, mister Lanning has arranged everything. Mister who Lanning
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the head of Marta Carlo Knight's producing company. Oh, yes, yes,
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it's usually I've heard about him. He puts on parties like this for organizations
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all over the country. He furnishes the imitation money that people gamble with,
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and he has a whole cruel game operators. They bring in all the equipment.
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I say, what that sounds like a beautiful seven. Sure, and
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all we have to do is give mister Lanning thirty percent of the profits.
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Well, eighty costs is more than that direct the games more than what more
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than thirty percent of the profit? How much exactly is thirty percent of the
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profits? You know? You know, Patsy might guess, is that mister
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Lanning's going to be mighty well paid for his trouble. Mighty well paid.
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You may think maybe he's cookie. No, I don't know. I don't
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know, but I think I'll talk to him. If you haven't any objections
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Michael, I wish you would he staying at the Five Oaks. Who'll carry
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you well? As long as you're mixed up in this thing, Patty,
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I wanted to work out right, So I'm going to go over to the
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Five Oaks right now, and I'll still know whether mister Lanny is Sonny up
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and that would you please? Yep, I'll let you know whatever I tryed
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out. How do you do, do you, mister Lannie? Yeah,
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you're the follow It just phoned up. Yes, that's right, my trin
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Okay, Trent, take a load off the feet, have a cigar.
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Thanks. Watch the pitch well with Patsy. Ryan tells me you're going to
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run the Monty Carlo party for the Children's hospital benefit. That's right? Why
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well, I want the girls who are handling that party to make plenty of
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money for their fund. I wouldn't want the promoter to make it all Car't.
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I've been a gambler all my life. I've won and lost a lot
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of dough. He used to be a hunch gambler, you know what I
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mean? Oh yeah, she would have lost my shirt that way. Watched
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a lot of other suckers go broke. Finally, I got smart. Oh
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was a gambler gets smart by learning to play the percentages. I started a
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real sure thing. This Monte Carlo Knight's layout. You mean the percentage is
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good, I mean it's perfect. First place, I got the house percentages
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with me, not against me. I'm on the right side of the gambling
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table for once. In the second place, a society mob about to give
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their door to charity. Don't care how much they lose. Say I get
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thirty percent of the take. That can be real, though, Yeah,
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you sure there's no strong arms do They don't need to be pal I can
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make too much planet straight to try any phony business. You know, Well,
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what't you say sounds convincing, Lenny, it's the truth. This outfit
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that's putting on the party. I'll get an honest seventy percent of the prophets.
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My take is thirty. See, I ain't greedy. Well, any
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of that's set up, Bet'll be as honest as it sounds what you're driving
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at. I'll be at that putty. And if there's any funny business,
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I play the percentages charm. Don't you worry about me? Yeah, we'll
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just see through it. Nobody monkeys with those percentages. I know my way
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around better than the girls who are putting on this benefit party, and I
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don't intend to see them cheating. I'll tell you you got nothing to worry
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about it. It's all a kind of friendly proposition. Yeah, okay,
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hope. So anyway, well I'll see the party. I just remember what
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I said. Oh, Mike, I played the party to a halling success.
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I can't remember when I had so much fun. Well, I'm fine,
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Fatsy, but don't be quite so reckless for that imitation money, Michael.
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It isn't real money. No, it costs real money, and it's
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redeemable for real money. You know you've lost about twenty bucks worth of it
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already in the evening. Is still yet? Oh it's all a good cause,
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and we really want to be able to turn over plenty of profit.
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Everybody's beending scared. Yeah, yeah, I don't have to admit that Landing
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knows how to run a party. Of this guy, he shortage his business.
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Oh, Mike, come on, ood here, let's say some chuckle
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luck. We haven't tried that yet. Yeah, well, okay, pantcy,
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But there's a game where you can get rid of your money real fast.
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It's only six numbers. This is the game where you get a fifty
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fifty break six numbers and three dice, and we pay even money. If
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a Stus and Tray wins. The house pays what it takes off of four,
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five and six. Here's the game where the house can't win. Well,
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I don't see why we're running this game, right, you don't what
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we can't make any money yet? It Well, that's what you think,
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Patty. It's got the heaviest dods in its favor of any game in the
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room. Michael the man, Jeff cob one of those twenty ten dollar bills
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or one of the numbers? Good? Oh, met half a dollar in
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real money, go ahead and put it down. All right, I'll play
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six. Yet you bet down, folks, money on the line. You're
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already on six, ante, lady, Oh yeah, I guess I'll just
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play five. All bets down, and now we spend the little birricade round
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and round. Watch the three dice in it, folks, where they'll stop?
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Nobody knows five, five, six, Well, let's see five gets
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two ten dollar bills and six gets what here you are see now how it
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works? What do you mean well, it's six ten dollar bills and the
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house collected four of them. Well, certainly, but three numbers one?
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Yeah, and how I've paid out two ten dollar bills to number five and
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one to number six. The house collected four. That leads a neat ten
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dollar proc No. I guess you're right, but I don't see how it
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works. That's down, folks. Well I think I played the same number.
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I can't lose anything this round, other ten on number five, All
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bets down, all numbers covered, And here we go round and round with
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little birdcade goes and where top nobody knows. And we got three five,
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So we pay number five three ten dollar bill. You see fancy? This
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time the house takes in five dolls and pays out. I guess it is
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a pretty good house game, after all, it's the best. You know.
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This bird next to us going all right, isn't he? Heyah,
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this begins to look like my game. I'm going to risk a few of
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these hundred dollar bills on it. Well, I don't hope you're lucky.
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I most always had your bets down, folks. Oh, we got a
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big time, mighty collar gambler with us. This round, five hundred dollars
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on number five. Mike, that's really twenty five dollars, isn't it?
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Sure enough? Fancy? I saught you figured the screen stuff with Just ta
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we go round and round that piece spinning and they stop it. Five five
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five, The big time gambler wins fifteen hundred dollars. Here you are,
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mister, thanks, Yeah, I guess this is really my lucky night.
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Why he won seventy five dollars your money? Oh listen, you're certainly lucky.
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Now, somebody's got to win, sister. But nowhe should I play
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this time? Oh? Try number three. That's a good idea. I
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put the whole two thousand dollars. It's an awful lot of money just paper.
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Yeah, but it's worth one hundred dollars. What's the hundred dollars between
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friends? I'll shoot the works. Oh, big money this time, folks.
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We'll get your bets down. But please don't put anymore on number three.
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There's too much there already, all right out money on the line.
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Oh I'm gonna put ten dollars on number six. Oh yeah, that's the
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time, lady. I hope you'll win all numbers covered. Here we go
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and they show three, three and one, ten bucks to number one and
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four thousand bucks to number three. Oh, here you are, mister,
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I can't lose Heleni. Well, I guess I'll try something else. See
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if I'm lucky it cut All right, folks, here's the game that really
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pays out the money. Bet down, but put your money on the line,
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get a hunch and bet a bunch more you with Patsy? Watch that
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guy who Oh yeah, I'll see if he gets into the blackjack game.
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Why, well, I haven't thought she's gonna be awfully lucky there too.
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He certainly did well at chuckle up, I'll see too. Well. Altogether,
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Michael couldn't have been crooked. She didn't get a chance to handle the
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dice. They were locked up in that brick gage. Yeah, I know,
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I know, Patsy, they always are. But you know something's happening
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here and I'm gonna find out what it is, and whatever it is,
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it's being worked on some mighty queer percentages. Mike, I wanta take onok
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at that black jack game. Want to be good listen, bound, Why
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don't you beat it? You've chased everybody else of the game ahead of me.
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Huh, you're too lucky. Nobody else wants to play. They just
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want to watch you kill them out. I'm betting five thousand dollars missed.
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Go a little easy, can't you. That's two hundred and fifty real dollars.
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Yell them out, Okay. When mister Learning seems to be pretty mad
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about it, doesn't mean you know, I don't blame how many gods pat
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the house plays nineteen, Ama, Sir, I got a ten up and
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a king in the hole. I never trust it's luck in my life.
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Hey boy, thanks tomorrow. That house money over here, about fifty thousand
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dollars looks like I'm gonna need it, that's hee. It looks to me
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like the children's hospital girls are being taken right down alone. Michael, you're
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crazy. Everybody's playing right ned. The money's rolling and just look around.
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Yeah, yeah, sure, the money's rolling in and also out, and
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it's rolling out right now, considerably faster than it's rolling in. What makes
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you think so? A lucky friend? That makes me think so. He
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won three hundred real dollars at the Chuckerloug table while we were there, and
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he won two hundred and fifty on one hand of black jack. I'm telling
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what he'd want before we get over there, and my guess would be that
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he's won. At least, oh, one thousand dollars is real money,
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tonight, Michael. Everybody can't lose all the time. You know, Patsy,
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your friend Lanning gave me quite a line about percentage, Mike Hunter,
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is that he knows his figures to dog on. Well, I don't see
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what you're getting at. Well, Lanning gets thirty percent of the profit doesn't
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mean, of course he does. He has a contract now. Thirty percent
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is nearly as good as ninety percent, is it? Anybody knows that?
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But he can't get ninety percent? Oh, I'm afraid he can't. I
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don't see. How how much did you expect this party to take in?
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Oh, mister Lanning told I don't care what mister Lanning told you. Now,
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how much did you expect to take in? Well, we thought we
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might need as much as two thousand dollars, Lanning, thirty percent would be
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six hundred. That would leave us fourteen hundred dollars to turn in. And
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that's a lot of money. Sure, Sure, I suppose Lanning is chipping.
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Oh he can't be. That's why we use the imitation money, so
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we'll know exactly where we stand right to the penny, Patsy, just suppose
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that our Lucky friend is working for Landing. I don't get it. Well,
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it's so simple. I don't know why I didn't think of it before.
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I'll admit Lanning had me fooled. Michael, you're just trying to find
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something wrong. I found something wrong, Patsy. I'm sure of it.
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Now. If one of Lanning's men can win most of the profits, we
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get seventy of the profit and that. Yeah, but seventy percent of one
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hundred dollars is only seventy dollars, But we'll make lots more than that.
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Not the way mister Lucky's going. You know, he's getting lots of bigger
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money than anyone else here, and he's winning consistently. Do you think he's
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worthy for then? Oh yes, yes, I'm sure of it. You
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see, Landing and his dealers is simply turning over the profits to this guy,
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which means that the final profits, which are left to split with your
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committee is going to be mighty slim. That but Lanning gets one hundred percent
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of the money that goes out to his cup, his his tood, you
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know, his assist, the guy who's doing big winning. Oh, you're
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not gonna let him get away with it. Her, You are not a
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stop it right now. The Capital has as much a right to be patronizing
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these games as anybody else. Now, we couldn't prove a thing, he
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deny he ever saw landing before tonight, And we couldn't prove otherwise. Could
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we well? Hunt me cool? You could throw the big out, couldn't
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you a lot of good thing to do? We've got to play our own
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game. Not there. Maybe they won't play, Maybe they will, Patty,
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if the percentage is in their favor, And that's the way we'll make
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it. That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard about. Butcher's cleaver,
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That's what I said. A butcher's clever and a good sharp one. Where
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would I get a butcher's cleaver at this time of night? Oh you can
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get one, all right? Why can't you get it? Your sell?
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Because my voice doesn't have the emotional appeal for your butcher, mister Schultz.
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If I called him at eleven o'clock at night, he said, mister Schultz,
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I wish you'd go down to the market and lend me want to get
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sharp as cleaners. You'd think I was beat. He'd be right. Well,
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if you got it, he'd use it on me. But would you,
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Honey, you'll run right down and get it now, you hurry up
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and get going, Michael, won't you tell me why you want a cleaver?
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Yours? Not the reason why? Yours about to do or die?
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I'll kid it, got it die. He's got about twenty five dollars worth
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of that money Carlo money here, but I need a real die to make
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a phone call. Mister Shup. Oh, I wonder if you'd call him
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to the phone please, Well, I'm sorry, couldn't you please wake him
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up with terribly important thank you? Hello missus show this bas Ryan and mister
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Shults. I wonder if you'd do me a favor. Oh, I knew
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you would. I want to borrow one of your sharpest cleavers. Cleavers.
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No, I'm not mad at anybody, but I need it tonight, mister
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Shulkes. Now, if you could just run down to the market and get
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it and send it in a taxi to me at the ballroom with a Firebrooks
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Hotel, I'd be so grateful. I don't know of any other person in
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town, right, I do such a thing for me, But you've always
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been so nice, and I just knew you would well pay. Yes,
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I've got it, but I don't understand things at all. First, you're
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in such a hurry to get the cleanler, and then you just have a
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fit when I start to walk into the party with it, and then you
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drag me out here of the check with somebody might see it. You mean
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somebody might see it? You mean to say you had me go to all
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that trouble to get this thing, and now you don't want anybody to see
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it? Right? You catch on mighty quick, honey. Now we'll just
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leave it out here for now. You mean you want me to hide to
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seek? That's right, my can't you get crazier every day? Oh?
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Yeah, sure. Now you go back into the ballroom and find our lucky
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friend wherever he is, and stand and watch him but admiringly. That'll be
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lots of no fun like cheating, crooked log, bad words, any bad
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words. Act like you think he's wonderful, and then when I commit,
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act like you think I'm terrible. And remember what I told you about the
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follow up. I get it, I get going. I'll see in a
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few minutes still winning. I see, Yeah, I've been lucky at everything
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tonight. Where's the guy you was with? Oh? Yim ah, but
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you too is pretty thick. Well we all make mistakes, don't we.
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Well, so now we'll set to win some more. Door. I am
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ill doing as lucky as you were the other time. Lady. He cleaned
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his game out like it was a kindergarten marble game. Eight hundred bucks,
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real doll he took real doll not this imitation money. And I'm still lucky
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out for a thousand bucks. That's really fifty dollars, lady, fifty dollars
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on one black jack handle. This is exciting. Okay, suit yourself.
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I'm going to get one flower some pretty wild wide, doesn't it? Rainey,
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Hi, Polo, Hi Polly, Your friends got quite a bun on
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any He is no friend of mine. I blame you. Hello, good
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for you. I don't even know you. Oh she's mad of me,
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Miss Lanny. Patsy is mad of Mike. Can you imagine pretty little Patsy
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to be a man of Mike? I guess I want to get zickn out
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of Miss Lenny, you want to drink this, Lanny, No, no
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thanks, if you'll just move aside. We're playing blackjacket. Oh black jack?
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You play that with cards. But that's a wonderful game. It's really
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what you want to see, a cart trick. I'm magic at the cant
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tricks? Hey, can you can? You take you? Hey, don't
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pick up those cards. You messed up a black jack. Oh that's all
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right, pop, don't you apolgize. You'll just think nothing of that.
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Now you take a card, just say a little old card. You are
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Mike as well as you wim. Let him do the trick and maybe you'll
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get out. All right, Okay, but I got a card? All
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right? What is it? Six of diamonds? Pot me right? That's
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correct? Time? Is that a good trick? Is that? It's a
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bad fellow? I want to play black check. I'm gonna shame that a
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good check the heads and I work. I gotta pick up the guy when
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you were busy. Oh what tough guy? You want to fight? All
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right? Put him up. You're holding up the game. Game. It's
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not gonna show you something better than that's better than any game you see.
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Remember when I came to see you landing. I told you I know a
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lot of stuff, and I have, well I do, I don't doubt
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it. But now you're not saying any card in the deck, any card.
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All right, he's a hot. It's a hot, he says.
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Everybody hear that. It's a hot. And I watched me cut it's the
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first time, just like nothing. But yeah, I'll be dog gone.
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Yeah she's gonna be that. You want to know something, I'm the only
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guy in the world that got throw that Check's nobody else in the hole entire
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I'm the champ. You see. I've seen that trick done before. The
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white guy. He want to fight? Where you please get out of here.
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You're holding up the game. Scram on couple of cards like the first
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time. Then I mathematical output to the one right, yes, and I'll
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run along. Only kind of world I could do that. I thought you.
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Ah, I bet you a million dollars. Nobody here can do that,
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even money. Is that your real face that you wearing a mask?
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I'll look it up. You said somebody else to credit card call for it
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for his time. Put up a shut of listen. I have to take
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that kind of talking. Look don't pay any attention to Oh as many?
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If you're on lip planning? How bout of panty? If you want to
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bet? No, oh, I get it. You gotta tell you when
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he's over at the landing? How cap careful? What I said? Trying
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to find as the cutting of the answers I was for you today? You
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know, talking like that, I ain't the way to stay helpy, bunch
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of cheap bikers, that's what chat I hope, But mister Trent, leave
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us alone. Please, can't you see you are not wanted? Oh,
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not wanted? All right, I'll just sleep, That's what I'll do.
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I just thank goodness. I thought we never get rid of him. It's
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too smart for his own good. He's always that way. When he said
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one too many, I'd like to teach him a good lesson. He'll get
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all right if he keep you talking that way. I wonder if somebody doesn't
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rob him. He goes around in that condition with a couple thousand dollars in
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his pocket, yeah yeah, and that trick of his cutting any card called
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for. I think he's so wonderful. I wish somebody beat him with the
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cards and beat him at his own game. It's a pretty good trick at
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that, Mitt Lennon, couldn't you do it me? No, No,
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it's too tough for me. I got it. I don't know why I
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didn't think of it before. What it's so simple, it's so beautiful,
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but it works like a charm. What it works a way to beat him
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in his own game. It's an old carnival trick with a cleaver. It's
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a sure thing, person, Marty Alec. Now, look, I'm going
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down to the hotel kitchen and I'll be back in one minute. Now you
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wait for me, both, are you okay? It's the cleaver stunt.
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Hey, it's an old little but sure fire for a sucker. Sure,
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I know, now, boy, it's a lulu. There's a guy I
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really want to take here. Well, the way he's acting all the chumps
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around our team. Look, betterm a grand when you win. Turn it
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over to the party fund. Yeah, why we can't get away with no
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strong arm stuff? I got it. Listen, you give Trent's money to
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the party committee. That way, the party shows a profit and we get
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thirty percent of it. We also get the real profit, and without no
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heat on us, Trent paid for the party it's the cinch man. That's
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a beauty, and we'll use the old Kenny gig. Did you say Connie,
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Connie or both? I'll keep the Cleveland under my wrap. How Boddy
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lady, I got a hand? Or to you? You found a work?
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It's not a chance for a hit to pitch that Trent the lesson of
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his life. Two, I still love you. Oh is the erg and
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the big spot. So a little old patsy. You think they know somebody
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else too come through my trick, but they will put up then money on
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it. Oh No. The reason I didn't tell you who could do your
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trick was because I didn't want to brag, Trent. I didn't want to
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brag. I didn't want to brag. You mean you will. I can
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think you think you can cut any card, call for you pick go home
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before you get walk. But I don't think I can do it. I
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know you can. I got two thousand all dollars right here that say you
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can't. I'll bet you one thousand dollars I can. You're talking money,
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cary of money and real man leaves, you know, look like a kind
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of fellow could raise that much money. If you worry about me, I
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got it right here. Well, he says he can do all mikes.
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Pick By offered about two thousand dollars and he wants to send half that much.
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I know if it was a spiker, Well, at least he is
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in full possession of his second sure such as A yea better. If I
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had all my brains knocked out, I'd still be smarter than he is.
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You run a good chance of getting your brains knocked out the way you're talking
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out talk talk talk. I want action. I'm offering about two thousand real
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bucks, but you can't cut any card called for on one cut. Yeah,
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that's a lot of money. What are you people thinking? If I
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were you, I'd go ahead and bet two thousand. It's the guy a
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real lesson. He's asking for it, certainly, Sure, capta ask your
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boss the guys lotion for he'll tell you what to do. And I watch
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that lip. How don't you worry about me? Now? Well? How
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fat is my two thousand cover? Isn't it? Yeah? It's covered right
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here? Righty. I We'll let the little lady here hold the money,
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and now let's have everything straight. I name a card and you're to cutage
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on one card for two thousand bucks. Right, we all said, I'm
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all set. Okay, lady, give me the cleaner. Here you are
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clave for what's going on here? You'll find out, wise guy. I
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bet that I could cut any card you'd name in one cut, and I'm
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gonna do it. Name your cards, my boy. Okay, seven of
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spades, all right, seven of spades. I had better score up a
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deck first, ready, No, mighty nice Cuttings. What's this solid part?
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Looks like you got trim Trent. He cut right through the whole deck
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with one blow of that butcher's cleaver cut every card right in half. So
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you see he cuts your card with one cut. Oh no, oh no,
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not the seven of spades. You didn't cut the seven of spades.
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I knew you put me. You want to know why? Why? Because
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here is the seven of spades from that deck right here. Look it over,
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Kapper. I prommed it off the deck and put it in my pocket.
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Hey just a minute, he's right, Lanny, Yeah, yeah,
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yeah, seven spades in this deck while you're getting smarter at Kappa. But
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it looks like I win. So if you don't mind, I'll just take
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my hold on. Try not so fast. This is a frame. You
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and the girl were working together. The whole idea this be was her.
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She got the clevance on Bridactus, and you framed it well. To now
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you're willing to admit that this fella's working. I'm not admitting anything, but
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anyway, better're all off. This was a frame. Certainly it was a
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frame up at all. That's for not off. You and your students thought
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you were framing me instead. I did it to you, so you,
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lou why i'll you'll do what you don't dare cause any trouble here in front
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of all these people. Hey, Lanny, or that's my own money,
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eight hundred bucks of it. You told me about the whole two thousand.
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You're gonna have to make it up to me. Oh idiot, Why,
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mister Lannie, is that anyone talk to a fetful employee. It won't be
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working for me any longer. I can guarantee that you bet he won't answers.
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The evening is still the youngest party might wind up making a pretty good
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profit. You are, Patty. I'll contribute this two thousand dollars to the
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fund right now. Mike, you're a wonderful Oh don't mention it, Patty.
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After all, it didn't cost me, might have cost you plenty before
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I get through with your trends. I don't think I'll let you get away
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with it. Lanning. You're not going to cause trouble for anyone. I'm
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making a full report on this so called benefit to the proper authorities, and
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they'll see to it if this is the last benefit you ever promote. No
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more easy money, Lanning. From now on you'll make it the honest way,
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and for you that'll really be heard. And now a last word from
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the famous magician turn rackets detective Mike Trent. Thank you. When you contribute
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money to charity, be sure your money is going to the proper place.
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In recent years, too many unscrupulous promoters have used a good cause as a
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front, and the benefits these promoters of stage have benefited nobody but themselves.
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You're sure to be with us next Sunday at this time for another story of
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the fleeces and the Fleeced, same time, Saint station An. Now,
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this is Mike Trent signing off the thought that one of gambler offers odds that
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are in your favor. There's something odd besides the odds. Remember there's no
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such thing as easy money. You have just heard another program in NBC's U
28:49
series Easy Money is Frindscribe to expose the inside secrets of gamblers, racketeers,
28:56
and con men. Next week, be sure to hear Mike Trentz explots of
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another easy money racket. Featured in tonight's cast were Larry Haynes as Mike trent
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Joan Allison, Jim Stevens, Alan Bergman, and Kenny Delmar. Easy Money
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is produced and directed by Blair Wallaser in association with Anderson and Anderson. Script
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by George V. Anderson. This has been an NBC Radio Network production.
29:19
Lionel Reco speaking, there are a few things more exciting to a child than
29:44
to gather in a small group to watch those gallant firemen struggle with heavy hoses
29:48
to put out a fire in a burning house. The children see only their
29:52
heroes fighting fire with water. An adult who had stopped the watch would probably
29:56
notice other things. The members of the family throwing household possessions out the window,
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the terrified and confused faces of the children who live in that house,
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a dog or a cat pawing frantically at a door, a window in an
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effort to escape the heat and smoke and the distress on the faces of the
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owners of the house. Don't let this happen in your home. Check regularly
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on the following points of fire prevention. Don't smoke in bed, Dispose of
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all old newspapers and rags. Have a license electrician. Repaired defective electrical equipment
30:26
at wiring keeap matches away from children. Use a cleaning fluorid that won't burn.
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Remember, don't gamble with fire. The odds are against you. Join
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your favorite couple, Fiber McGee and Molly tonight on the NBC Radio Network.
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Welcome back, Well always this show has always got a nice educational tone but
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still manages just to be fascinating and entertainment and this episode is no exception.
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And I love how Trent managed to meet the racket here and just another great
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story. And this has been a fun, a fun look at this series.
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I definitely wish there were more episodes, but unfortunately that's all that's made
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it into circulation for now. We do have one listener comment I don't want
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to read from Joel, who says I like this show well written, acted
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and directed. Trent has a great and distinctive voice of a take charge guy.
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Another old time radio discovery. Thanks to you, Adam Joel Well,
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thanks so much, and I hope our listeners will enjoy next week's discovery as
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we get into crime and Peter Chambers. Another show from NBC in the mid
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nineteen fifties, will be coming next Tuesday. Tomorrow, It's the Adventures of
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Philip Marlow In the meantime. Sender comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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