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Mr. Moto: Project 77 (EP1000) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the great attactives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam Graham, welcoming you to our one thousandth episode.
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We began with our first regular episode back on October twenty six, ten thousand
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and nine, and now a little less than forty five months later, we're
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up to our one thousand show. It's been great and appreciate all your support,
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Facebook, Facebook dot com Slash Radio Detectives. Now it's time to get into
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today's episode of Mister Moto. Project seventy seven. Mister I A mos NBC
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presents the world's greatest international secret agent, mister Ia Moso, the popular Japanese
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character created by Puliter Prize winner John T. Markwan across the world from Japan
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the Jersey, from Cape Horn to moment, Mister Moto is fighting the evil
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of communism quietly, ruthlessly, courageously. The Night Story Project seventy seven starrying
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Mister Motor Mister I A Moto Commander Free. It is so simple. The
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drawing board is here, pencils, rulers, a few lines, and I
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will unchange you at once. The answer is no. Oh, let's us
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pray that your stubbornness maybe fraud new Colossal thinking him a critical journey. No
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profanity, Commander, Please remember I am a minister of the gospel, because
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they I'll get you for this. Someday I'll beat that. Thank cimonious saving
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yoursn't turn on the sun lamp again. You could tell us thank you,
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my dear listen, commander, you look like a holiday in Miami, so
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terrible sunburns Katawa cool the commander with a little more for haven't say from under
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three ear. If necessary, I will keep you under that sun lamp until
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your flesh can be flexed off and fed to the mountain birds. I always
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get what I want, O you always, and I want Projects seventy seven.
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The assignment on Project seventy seven began two feet in front of a jet
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motor frying faster than suns the law. The jet never reached our ears as
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we streactly crossed the blue certificate thirty five thousand feet. I was mean sent
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for Tari, Japan, the land of my honored photo a Otoro rushed up
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to meets, looking white and serene. Beside the sparkling siegean I could see
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two hundred miles away across the Tata streets, the gloomy coast of Russia.
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I help orders to report to Captain Thomas Stanni the offer in charge of the
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United States Labal Experimental Stations at As. The station consisted of two United States
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Destroyer of course d with doc at the end of which miss only sixth grade
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anti cut. Captain Stanny nother Santent was in his office. In her case,
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Randers Free did that loggerboard the night before last, and he has nothing
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saintin No. He is entirely in charge of budget seventy seven year and anywhere
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else. Didn't you know that? Yes, because I wondered if you did,
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when will you like to see Randa Free? And I took the shelter
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and out nine days ago to win. Amanda Freer wished to test seventy seven
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of the Sascora Trent, the Tuscarora Trench. It's an onspiring sea, Mistermoto.
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There's a canyon on the floor of the sea just east of Japan.
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Our sounding apparatus indicated depths of over five thousand fathoms five thousand, there's almost
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six miles there go on, even if it's enormous depth, even straight down
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through six miles of water, seventy seven caused explosions at the bottom of the
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tuch Aurora, and the tests have been successful. Beyond our wildest dream real.
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Yes, even underwater seventy seven traveled in extens of two hundred miles an
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hour. It isn't a torpedo. It's an underwater pullet. Small guest propels
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with an atomic warhead. It will end submarine warfare. No submersible in the
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world can elude a guided missile traveling at that speed. Captain Stanley, are
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you aware that certain details of Protect seventy seven are already in the hands of
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foreign agents? Which, Tomoto, you're joking? No, it's absolutely top
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secret. In January, an associated Samanda Pears named Lowell disappeared in Paris.
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He had one of the anastrophic crystals with him. Yes, yes, I
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believe Commander's Frear is the missing link. Jet To tells underwater missiles are in
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the arsenals of every mission in the world. The big obstacle hitting a missile
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on its costs. Underwater at the high speeds, he is hurtled by the
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unstocked crystal. Diagrams of the crystal and the exact wavelength figure exist only in
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two places, Washington and Commander Frere's head. Then he is the only man
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in the Aureate who can exactly all that the potential enemy needs to know is
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the figure one followed by a decimal point and five unknown digits. This figure,
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just as drawing of the crystal equals seventy seven, so that its commander's
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fear was forced to talk the project to become the property of whomever he talked
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to order. What can we do, Commander Frear is my responsibility? Who
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sign last? The officer of the deck storm leave his laboratory and hutty It's
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six forty five and night before last. Yes, it was the commander's habit
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to take a walk right A's to dinner every evening, ah where Sir blossoming
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Shalamar along the Tishima road. We used to send a man along with him,
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and he insisted he could take care of himself. A missionary named Kisdale
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saw on past it's the Reverend James Tisdale, a productant missionary. It's a
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nice guy, not stuff he or anything like that. He has a mission
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up in the hills, married a native woman, and he saw command of
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fair row past the mission about seven to fifteen up to the hills freer ways
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and said, good evening. He hasn't been seen since then. I will
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begin with a man who saw command of fear. Last, I shall invite
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myself to tea as a mission of the veterans. James Tiddey just the motive.
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It is so refreshing to meet someone from the outside world. Thank you.
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I get lonely for informed conversations. Oh MOUTI thank you devicious A Katawa
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cheap please, mister Moto. My wife is a Niner woman. She believes
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that the wife is a slave whose only duty is to serve her husband.
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She sings to her native customs and refuses to behave as my equal. She
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is Christian. No, I am leaving her conversion in the hands of the
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Almighty. I bring the tea masters you and more little cakes too. How
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thoughtful, I will say, mister Murdo thing you should be honored, mister
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Moto. That is the first time she's ever done that. That, mister
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motive is Japanese on America. Thank you very much the tea Kate, our
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surpassing delicacy. Thank you, it is my honor. Tea. No,
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thank you, dear. That's all. Yes, you see what I mean.
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Sometimes I think all the mystery of the Orient is hidden in those beautiful
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jettis, and their hands so languid, so elegant, the breeding of uncounst
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centry. Yes, and now rereented. Oh yes, about Commander Fear,
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I am very upset. The natives here, as you may know, are
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isles. Yes, I do know. They once occupied the whole of Japans.
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There are only some twelve thousand of them left now. Their situation is
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not unlike that of the American Indian at home. But basically they are honest,
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and I believe that because of this I can help you. And may
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I ask how the Isrols will talk to me where they would say nothing to
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an outsider. The country around here is wild and primitive, mostly hill name
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hunters. Many of them are abandoned. Now. I suspect that a band
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of them somewhere in the hills have kidnapped Commander Fear and are holding him for
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ransom. I will ask about it at Prayer meeting. Tone you have a
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large pace, no, only four hundred converts in three years. But those
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who haven't braced Christianity are fervent and sincere. If Commander Prayer is anywhere in
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the district, someone in the congregation will come to me and tell me.
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And when they do, you will contact me at the station, please or
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at once, mister Motor immediately. You have been very very kind, and
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this has been very very pertant. Command of Freyer's disappearance is more urgent than
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it appears on the surface. I will try to help in my humble way.
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Then I shall leave you now and thank you again. It has been
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my pleasure, believe me. Goodbye, Reverence is sale, good bye?
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Shot off down seller quickly and bring the straw and the needles. We have
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wasted enough time on command of Fael. Now really, Commander Prayer, this
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has gone too far. It pains me deeply. You could be sold by
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the pound as broad beef. Now will you do as I asked? Chottoo
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can have my enormous sucidity. I could not advance blay my country hands upon
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the straw underneath. Commander Prayer is unconscious a little vinegar will revive him quickly.
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Choto, Yes, well he's a Oh now, Commander Payer, can
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you understand? Can you hear me? I won't do it except for the
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method of keeping the missile on course. We have everything I want, the
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wavelength that excites that crystal and the diagram of the crystal itself. Now there
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is pencil and paper and the drawing board. I won't do it. I'm
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all you want to kill me your hand Chotto? Are you ready? Does
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the barbarian and lastal Commander Kyoto is an Anue warrior. If you insist on
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being stubborn, he inserts that straw under your skin and blows you up,
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Commander Prayer until you burst like a balloon. You no things? You go
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ahead? Shoto? Yeah, no, no, don't please all right,
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I'll give it. God has banished the stubbornness from your soul. Unchanging Toto,
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Yes, hurry, tootle. Now come on the figures, just four
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of them, five five, define points one point one? Why? Three?
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Eight? And excellent? Now the drawing quicklick. It's so hard for
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me to help him. Yotok, are you comfortable, Commander? Then draw
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the crystal? Ah, this is the Remember in and hour you can get
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back at the station. Have I the word, a few lines on a
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piece of paper, and you are free. I promise, Ah, there's
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gone backs on a paradise. This is seem must be exactly one wave line
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for the radiation for me and faith. Thank you, Commander Kyoto as Freda
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I listened, Catholic. Send a code cable to Comrade kabulosk in Blaod the
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suck. You must get a plane to a tarow at once. Tell him
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I have obtained the last link in Project seventy seven, and that I will
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deliver it to him tomorrow night at seven in the Cafe of the Grinning Buddha
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on the salary that would and I will prepare for crab meaty. The man
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the fear is unconscious again, Well, perhaps it is easier that way disposed
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of him. You can bury him somewhere in the hills. That's the motto.
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You're wrong, tis Day is a minister of the gospel. I'm as
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sure as I'm sitting here he's on a level there. Should you reply to
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my table any moment that the man radiates sincerity and integrity, I am sure
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the reverence Tod will gives an impression of great divinity. That's Captain Stanley.
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He is a life. Oh tell me one thing, he said. You
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forget Captain Stanley, that I speak Japanese. A's bluently as I do age.
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He told me he had four hundred positions on my way home from the
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mission. I've called on the tactics. They are simple people, good people,
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that's certain Stanley. Not once did I see a course or a Bible,
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not in a single home. These people are not being teached to the
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energy about today. What does the free I heard an old woman a Cominomichi,
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the way of the fun. These people are being preached a new Shintoism,
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Shintoism with a new god to be worshiped, a god of communists.
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Judy tells them they are being exploited, the communist. All is worth on
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the minority group, repressed, the poor carried the table just came in,
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sir from Amoto. Ah, thank you very much. And there's something else
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said, come on with laws. Ah. This is from the Board of
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Foreign Missions in Boston. No Protestants is nominission as a residence visionary. I
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thought follows. I was right. I can't believe tisday was a phone.
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Excuse me soon there's another message, and Coolly just brought this to the front
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gate of hut Sea. It's from a Tomoto to Fagons Lawson. That's all.
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I am so very very pleased. Everything is progressing very very well.
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By telling me why this is from it. I knew woman, she deal
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wife. I knew I was right. I knew I recognized her sick.
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Yes, red, Why oh I am you do not read Japmanese. Forgive
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me, she writes to the first third to the first served during the fells
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this evening. I don't get it. An young woman of her breeding would
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always serve her husband's first, no matter how important or how numerous to get.
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And didn't she this afternoon when she served gacause she served me ahead of
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Sidney first to t then with little cakes. That is what she means by
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to the first thirst and the bell. She wants me to come to her
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to night while the reference did Dale conducts what he calls his prayer meeting.
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Let is detail. Let me in tea, I am alone. School.
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You have come, if you are judge, yes coming, Please I prostrate
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my start to your beauty, and as it is, get your manners and
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graciousness, miess, the motives the understanding of my message came to you.
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It's great clarity. Three times I have presented things from happening followingly. Harry
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could imitate the heat of my hate, but this I understand. I could
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not possibly defray my husband to a I barbarian. You asked what you love?
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Been sent to me by Paul. I'm stopped for the way in opening,
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fuming, disc turning, lost, furming your God, the day has
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stopped. It is the sinness, the most most honorable lady. Your eligence
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is beyond statement. But the matter is so very very urgent. May I
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humbly beg you to proceed. The soul of command of free has fled his
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body when the Teesdale exposed into a lamp of the sun, until it was
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the color of boiling blood. This death, this spring, the diagony was
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of the crashing of whales. The servant of my my husband killed him in
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the hills. It's the commander. Give your husband any information about the weapon?
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This about a thing called seven seven, a bullet death flies beneath the
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waters. What sort of information please hurry, honorable ladies. Smith is of
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desperate urgency a series of numbers and a blowing of a crystal. Where is
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the Tuesday carries at the value of the voting body the tomorrow night, Yes,
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it's rowing will be given to a man named Tablas rushing from Vladava.
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Fuck in the bring to them speak of the blossomy Shallima, how shower on
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you a thousand breads? What's the model? I ask only one thing.
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It is I am a daughter of the house of Tom, the most glorious
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name, and I knew his See when I saw what the tisday were meant
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to do to my people, I married him. I fight him constantly.
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If he knows I have to crayed him, he will kill me. Then
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my usefulness to my people will end. I give you my word that you
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will be protected. Captain Sunny, I want you to send twenty men down
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to the Grinning Buddha Cafe and arrested there at once. You and I will
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accompany the right any word of the pain not yet, but glad of us.
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Start is only a three hundred miles fight. All the radar stations have
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been notified. The moment cabalost lands, you'll be arrested. Every patrol boat
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in the harbor standing by. You have told the men that his there is
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not a minute g Then let us go at once for the cafe of the
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bringing buddhast stress shut. I told you not to come here. Earth happened
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Sunday with twenty American sellers just the station five minutes ago. What do you
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mean they're going to arrest you? Arrest me? They wouldn't there evening,
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Master, the wife entertain the Japanese mist of what you're saying, I swear
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to fool. My brother watched her house while I was in the hills disposing
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that commander fear and I came back. He told me Mother thought to her
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during a prayer meeting. My brother saw him, come and go. You
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will meet the power told in the best Master, you must leave that one
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there will be here any moment climbed. Not yet. The boat is waiting
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to be kissyplane to take the paper. Go out in the boat and give
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it to Kavalak. When you have delivered a stafely into his hands, come
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to the cave in the hills beside the Glasmon Bridge. The power and I
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will meet you there. Leaves her Master. She is against us. That
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is why I shall take her with me hurry. Then when you are not
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here, they will got one to the mission, gets back paper to Kabalac.
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I will collect myring wife. You will meet us at the cave.
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They could look for a hundred years and not find us in those hills.
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I cannot understand it. Then she do your obviously left in the honey.
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But somewhere in this mission that woman would leave me a clue. It's a
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lot and fach the house thoroughly. There was nothing somewhere in this chapel we
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will find Stummach. I know, Stanley. Let me quickly over. Here's
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the organ that turned on. I just thought core matches laid on the keys.
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I knew she would try to leave me a message. What is it?
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Waite and standing, don't touch the matches, ah acoustics on top of
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the organ. And for matches, I'm a key and let me think.
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I don't get it matches I'm a key, B and C, D G
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E. Bridge. Of course she gets the move of the organ running and
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spells out the word bridge. Yeah, but what break that is the crucifix
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work in not a crucifixis for Lawton across across a bridge. What's there on
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the floor its flowers. A Judgment dottum across the Judgmine bridgetain standis I think
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you've got suffer. There are caves that there are a lot of them.
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The bridge crosses the gorge and leads to a pass up the mountain of your
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mother. You she wouldn't do it fur a coupain Sandys collect your mends.
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We must throw at once across the Judgment bridge. That's the semi street.
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What anopheonist you know? To the right it has a life. Yes,
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you're thenocular feet ah a landon in front of a rock. What a woman?
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Jasmine blossoms at every turn in the past. And now a ladder.
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You're up there in one of the caves. The lantern is sticking from Siddale.
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Got a rock? Give me your result. The captains the motor please
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do it that the men are split out too much. Get them together and
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as quietly as it is possible for prenty American sailor to move. Have then
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a post that I will go in first. No Kisdale to have machine guns
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rifles? Those cases are please please this is there is a brave woman,
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as samis to protector is there is capable of murdering her if he is common
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stop give me your whistles. I can't let you with this. Please,
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Dobs assemble the men as quietly as bubout all. Even if you hear shot.
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Do not come into that thing until I blow this with Katawa. You
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have sinned against your husband, sin deeply. But as a man of God,
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I have decided to forgive you. Come here you. You are more
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like anither than a woman. You are very beautiful, and I love you
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very much, even though you are a heathen native im My ancestors were carving
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tea when you were cutting off each other's scars for summer. In five languages,
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I read and life. I read your karmas from Germans before you read
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it in English. Lazy fucking love you when you're excited. A months of
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charity and cons I say, and I've betrayed you before. Look I can't
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play cat and mouse all night. Now, let's be. We're alone,
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Mika, and I'm your disting present. I don't want to be brutal.
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The brute is all you know. Will come here, tell yourself, I
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give it your little do. Let me go, beautiful lovelu some fresh heap
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that run. We'll play it allway you want to be. You want to
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will need the lesson my little beauty, and now your brother get it from
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the name of tran floor your lust. Mister mister, you have some stilt.
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I have suspected for some time at Tata and Toroto where plopping against her
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when mister Moto said kill him. Holy death ships the baseness of the evil
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you till mister Moso. Now Otto, I can explain everything. Keep now
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to put that Guns and Soto have been arrested of a trouble factor that he
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claimed them. No more time, Moto, it's no pleas. Let's me
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explain what has happened. L You will be played by a single judy fire.
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I are cost in your own trouble killed. If you do not yourself
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and said free, He'll tell it for four. I beg of you,
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mister Moso. Listen to me, look at me. I set this man.
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He's a devil. He will get away a lettus s some motive,
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the curse. He has got what it takes. Hm hm hm, I
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am sorry. I think you do. You would have killed you. You
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are excused for ridiculous. There are American sailors outside. You're close at all
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would my coat thinking of that who save on my untendingly. You have been
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what I have been to a man who called him first a man of God.
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He was not a man of God. He was a man of the
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devil, the great devil. You have just heard the world's greatest international secret
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agent, Mister I a Moso. James Monk stars as mister Moto. The
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script was written and directed by Harry W. Junkins, produced by Carol Irwin.
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Members of the cast were Bill Smith, Connie Lempkey, Bill Litton,
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Scott Tennyson, and Ian Martin. The music was transcribed This is Fred Collins
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Sinking And here was a preview of next week's story. Is mister I a
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Moso? Thank you? Next week a story of danger and a fight of
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dainty unknowns, a search for the unsuspected man engaged in sabatos enough maybe a
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start of night watch over your feet and the post new Your Dreams is Dying.
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Didn't moved, he didn't changement, good night. It's just over Jubilee
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on NBC M welcome back. Well, I can't melodramatic and uh maybe a
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little bit confusing though when you get right down to it. But every program
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is entitled to an off day, so hopefully we'll have something better next week.
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Well, we do turn to some listener comments and feedback. Michael has
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a question. I'm guessing the tape Dragnet shows. They taped Dragnet shows as
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opposed to live audience. This is accurate. How long did it take them
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to tape the show? What studio did they usually use? Well, thanks
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for the question, Michael. Some of those I don't have firm answers on,
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but we do have some information. First of all, Dragnet was actually,
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if not recorded before live audience, it was recorded live and uptil nineteen
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fifty one, when the TV version launched, and so that would have been
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recorded at NBC studios at that point. In terms of where they recorded the
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transcripted ones, I would probably guess at the lot where the Dragnet TV programs
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were filmed out at the boint of Istelot that Web specifically had built and designed
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for the programs. And at that time Web was putting out an incredible number
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of programs. On average, he was doing thirty nine television episodes plus most
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seasons. There was one season they took us summer break, but most seasons.
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He was doing fifty two radio episodes, and there were movie projects.
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Really would not want to go down to NBC studios. I think common sense
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would suggest that they went ahead and they recorded the radio programs where they recorded
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the television shows. In terms of how long the radio programs took, what
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we been able to find from research was that Web did not have a did
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not have time for rehearsal. The programs were recorded as time went, were
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recorded really in more of a reading style, with very few rehearsals. So
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these were not these were not jobs that took a long time. Even the
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television episodes only took a day and a half with no rehearsals. For radio,
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you know, and allowing for some mistakes. I think if I were
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to guess, I'd say probably an hour or two based on the information I've
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been able to garner. So I hope that helps Michael. And of course
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that doesn't include all the time that work was done on the program, just
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because you know, writing, et cetera, all that does take time.
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But for radio it was never you know, as complicated as television without that
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visual format, and even without Web's insistence on a more minimalistic approach radio actors
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frequently, you know, would do ten or eleven shows a week, so
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it would not be a long process. So I hope that helps, and
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I hope that the guess is based on the information I have found is not
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far off the mark. So if anyone has additional thoughts, I'd love to
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hear about it. All right, well, we will be back on Wednesday,
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when we'll continue with your truly Johnny Dollar. Join us next Tuesday for
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another episode of Mister Motto. And thanks so much for your support for the
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last thousand episodes, and we'll look forward to even better things to common our
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next thousand. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham.
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Soon and off, be sure to listen later on today for a one
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thousandth episode special