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Michael Shayne: The Left-Handed Clue (EP1701) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: today we turned to Kathy Lewis, who played Phyllis and
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  Speaker 1: was actually one of the very best character actresses in
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  Speaker 1: old time radio. She had regular roles on this show
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  Speaker 1: as well as on The Great Yilders and My Friend Irma,
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  Speaker 1: and she starred in a series of anthology plays with
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  Speaker 1: her then husband Elliott Lewis, and on stage a total
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  Speaker 1: of three thousand appearances for Kathy Lewis in radio, and
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  Speaker 1: she certainly really has shined so far in this series.
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  Speaker 1: And with that said, we're going to get into today's
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  Speaker 1: episode of Michael Shane. The original air date on this
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  Speaker 1: one is April sixteenth of nineteen forty five, and the
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  Speaker 1: title is The Left Handed Clue.
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  Speaker 2: The Adventures of Michael Shane's Private Detectives. The people who
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  Speaker 2: make seventy six Gasoline and Triton Motor Oil, Union Oil
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  Speaker 2: Company Present The Adventures of Michael Shane Private Detectives, starring
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  Speaker 2: Wallie Mayer and Kathy Lewis. Most private detectives, when they're
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  Speaker 2: called into a case by a wealthy patron, are rushered
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  Speaker 2: into the library, or the gun room, or the master's
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  Speaker 2: private den. Not so private Detective Michael Shame and his
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  Speaker 2: attractive assistant Phyllis Knight, Oh no, They find themselves at
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco's Cliff House to keep a date with Well,
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  Speaker 2: let Phyllis tell it what she is doing without any
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  Speaker 2: of the poetry. She knows so well.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there's no use arguing Mike Shane. If she weren't
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  Speaker 3: a blonde and good looking, you'd have turned the case
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  Speaker 3: down for.
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  Speaker 4: The thousand time. Honey, I tell you I haven't seen
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  Speaker 4: the do Oh. She isn't blonde, and I don't know
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  Speaker 4: whether or not she's good looking.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bet I'll bet only no, honey.
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  Speaker 4: That she's frightened. She said she was a brunette, five
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  Speaker 4: foot two and wearing a kelly green raincoat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then there she is staring out the window.
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  Speaker 4: Right Angel, Well leave us ankle ord.
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  Speaker 3: You know she does look scared. She saw us? Hey?
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  Speaker 5: Does she know you?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: But I told her I was bringing you along and
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  Speaker 4: there aren't any other couples.
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  Speaker 6: Around mister Shane and miss Knight, correct you, Miss Jones, Well, no,
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  Speaker 6: that is I used that name over the phone.
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  Speaker 3: But my real name is right, not Patricia Wright. Yes, oh,
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  Speaker 3: then it was your brother. I mean I read the
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  Speaker 3: article on the papers.
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  Speaker 6: What is My brother was killed Monday? The police said
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  Speaker 6: it was an accident.
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  Speaker 4: He fell over the cliff. They said, but do you
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  Speaker 4: think he was killed deliberately? Yes, murdered in fact? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 6: I just know he was pushed over that cliff.
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  Speaker 4: And now whom do you suspect?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know my father's manager, mister Haberman, for one
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  Speaker 6: and mister Armstrong a businessman dealing with.
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  Speaker 4: My father and your father.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, well, not that I think my father killed my brother, No,
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  Speaker 6: but well I am suspicious of some of my father's
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  Speaker 6: business dealings, and very suspicious of some of his associates.
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  Speaker 3: Miss right. Your brother was in the business with your father.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and well he didn't approve of some of their deals.
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  Speaker 4: Did he complain to you or to your father or
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  Speaker 4: both both?
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  Speaker 6: They've had bitter quarrels over some of their transactions.
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  Speaker 3: How about you, miss right, Are you afraid for your
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  Speaker 3: own life?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, terribly afraid.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, that settles it so far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 4: We will take the case. Now. How about going out
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  Speaker 4: to your place and looking over the ground.
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  Speaker 3: But we can't.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I used you assume name, and that's why
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  Speaker 6: I met you here instead of it the house.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Patricia, your best safeguard is to let them murderer
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  Speaker 4: know that you have a detective on the job. The
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  Speaker 4: very fact that you've engaged me will make them wonder
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  Speaker 4: how much you know.
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  Speaker 3: We'll watch out for you, Miss right. Nothing's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen to you while Mike's on the job. Well, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I'll do it fine, get in your car.
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  Speaker 4: Then then we'll follow you out, and even if he
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  Speaker 4: turns out to be your father, we'll get the killer.
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  Speaker 6: It's over here, just by that white post. That's where
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  Speaker 6: he fell.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy, did they take your brother's body away from
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  Speaker 4: the bottom of the cliff or bring it up here
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  Speaker 4: on ropes?
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  Speaker 6: They took it away from the bottom in a boat.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Was there much of a crime here at the top? No? Why, well,
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  Speaker 4: there are a lot of footprints here. The ground is
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  Speaker 4: pretty well tramped down, but.
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  Speaker 6: There weren't any people here at all. This is private property.
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  Speaker 4: The murderer tramped the ground or confused? Hey, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 4: what what is it, Mike, honey? I see those marks here?
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  Speaker 4: Those marks were made by a dead man's heels as
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  Speaker 4: his body was dragged to the edge of the cliff
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  Speaker 4: and thrown over.
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  Speaker 3: The killer hid behind the tree.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and probably hit his victim with a rock. Yeah, Patricia,
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  Speaker 4: did your brother have a date with anyone the night
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  Speaker 4: he was killed?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, with mister Haberman. Daddy's partner. Mister Haberman came out
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  Speaker 6: to the house at eight o'clock. He said that he'd
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  Speaker 6: made an appointment to meet my brother. At about ten o'clock,
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  Speaker 6: he decided to go home. Just as he was leaving,
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  Speaker 6: the chauffeur came to the door and said that they'd
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  Speaker 6: found the body down on the rocks below the cliff.
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  Speaker 4: Was the chauffeur looking for your brother?
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  Speaker 6: No, we didn't know anything was wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 6: The chauffeur was out fishing and it was just coming
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  Speaker 6: into the little cove when he saw a hat on
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  Speaker 6: the water.
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  Speaker 3: He turned the.
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  Speaker 6: Boat along the rocks and found my brother's body.
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  Speaker 3: The chauffeur is up at the house now.
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  Speaker 4: No, he left, he left.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean, Well, he's been doing a lot
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  Speaker 6: of drinking and my brother fired him about a week ago.
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  Speaker 6: Oh fine, We seem to be turning up suspects wherever we.
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  Speaker 4: Move, right angel, Well, miss Patricia, will you get your
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  Speaker 4: father's manager and mister Armstrong up to the house right away,
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  Speaker 4: use any excuse at all, I'll get inspected parody to
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  Speaker 4: find the chauffeur and we'll have a little quiz contest
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  Speaker 4: with Mike Shane as quiz master.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what on earth you could be thinking of,
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  Speaker 7: Bertitia to do such a thing, Daddy, another word, tell
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  Speaker 7: this Shane fellow to get about his business, and any
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  Speaker 7: private detectives are hired to come to this house, I'll do.
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  Speaker 4: The hiring, Daddy.
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  Speaker 6: I'm more convinced than ever that my brother was murdered.
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  Speaker 7: Murdered, stuff and nonsense. My dear, you're upset. I don't
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  Speaker 7: blame you for that. You were very fond of your brother.
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  Speaker 7: But thinking for one moment that any of my business
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  Speaker 7: associates could be guilty of such a thing. The idea
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  Speaker 7: of dragging mister Haberman and mister Armstrong out here to
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  Speaker 7: be cross questioned by a private detective. Why it isn't
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  Speaker 7: as if there was any suspicion about your brother's death.
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  Speaker 7: The police were satisfied it was.
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  Speaker 4: An excellent I'm not satisfied, however, mister Wright.
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  Speaker 7: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: Sir Michael Shane, private detective, And this is my assistant,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Knight.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, I'm very happy to meet you, mister Wright.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry I can't say the same. I hate to
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  Speaker 7: appear in polite, but I must ask you to leave
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  Speaker 7: my house immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's go, Mike. We don't have to take this
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  Speaker 3: sort of thing from anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Just a minute of angel, mister Wright, I suppose you
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  Speaker 4: realize that by your attitude, you're casting a lot of
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  Speaker 4: unnecessary suspicion on you.
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  Speaker 7: Why you imputed, young welth If I were a younger man,
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  Speaker 7: I'd thrash you within an inch of your life. You
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  Speaker 7: will you leave quietly? Or will I have to have
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  Speaker 7: you thrown out? Evidently there's company at the door, and
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  Speaker 7: I'd much prefer not to have to introduce you only.
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  Speaker 4: Parody detective inspect with the showcas Hello inspect there, mister
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  Speaker 4: Wright here would just about order us thrown out. He
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  Speaker 4: won't have a private detective around the place.
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  Speaker 8: I see, well, maybe he let you stay as my assistant.
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  Speaker 7: What on earth are you talking about.
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  Speaker 8: I'm talking about the fact that we're here to investigate
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  Speaker 8: the death of your son. I just as soon get
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  Speaker 8: on with the questioning. If you haven't any objections, you
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  Speaker 8: have everybody come in here, I inspected.
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  Speaker 3: They're all out in the front hall.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what this is all about. I'm only
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  Speaker 4: the show for I haven't done anything. I'll sue you
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  Speaker 4: for arresting.
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  Speaker 8: Me, that's right for sure, and do that all right
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  Speaker 8: into the front hallular well, which one of you is Haberman?
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  Speaker 7: I'm mister Haman why, And.
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  Speaker 8: I'm strong that's you, I suppose.
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  Speaker 9: Mmm.
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  Speaker 8: Correct. I don't know much about this except what might
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  Speaker 8: tell me over the phone. But I understand that you,
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  Speaker 8: mister Haberman, had an appointment with mister Wright junior, the
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  Speaker 8: deceased the evening he was killed. Yes, that is true.
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  Speaker 4: What was that meeting about?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't see that any of your business.
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  Speaker 8: You can answer that question here and now are at headquarters.
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  Speaker 8: Later take your choice.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here's a business man. Don't answer him. But right
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  Speaker 7: if I don't, he'll take me in and.
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  Speaker 4: He'll for answering the long one. It was business, and
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  Speaker 4: young mister Wright was going to tell you that he
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't play along with the kind of deal you and
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  Speaker 4: his father were cooking up.
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  Speaker 7: Correct, Well, that's putting it rather strongly.
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  Speaker 4: He was a young fellow too many idealistic ideas for
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  Speaker 4: the business world.
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  Speaker 7: I was quite certain I could straighten him out when
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  Speaker 7: we sat down and talked it over.
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  Speaker 8: And when he wouldn't listen, you threatened his.
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  Speaker 4: Life, of course not. You didn't see him that night
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  Speaker 4: at all.
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't, and you weren't anywhere near the top
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  Speaker 3: of the cliff. Between eight and ten thirty.
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  Speaker 7: I most certainly was not. Can you prove that I can.
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  Speaker 7: I just hadn't talked with mister Haberman all evening.
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  Speaker 8: And mister Armstrong, I suppose you have an alibi too.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know. I think I was at a
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  Speaker 9: picture show that night, but I wasn't keeping track of
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  Speaker 9: my movements. I wasn't anywhere near this house though.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hm oh, Inspector, Yes, Mike, come here. I think
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  Speaker 4: we gotta do some checking on the murdered man's papers.
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  Speaker 4: We might find something that would give us a lead.
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  Speaker 8: You're probably right, Mike. Okay, you can all go now.
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  Speaker 8: We don't leave the place where we may want to
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  Speaker 8: a few more answers before Miss Patricia, Yes, will you
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  Speaker 8: take us to your brother's room. We'll see what that
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  Speaker 8: leads us to.
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  Speaker 4: Did you find anything, Honey.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, nothing important?
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  Speaker 8: Man, I bought you, Inspector nothing. I hope we're not
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  Speaker 8: in a world goose Chase.
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  Speaker 3: I know we're not.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Here's something, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: It's a memo pad, and here's an entry. It says,
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  Speaker 4: must talk to father about Haberman's inability to do things
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  Speaker 4: honestly if he can be so dishonest with the people
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  Speaker 4: we are doing business with. There will come a day
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  Speaker 4: when he will be as dishonest with us.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, look at that later entry. Mike, the one made
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  Speaker 3: the day was killed.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have showdown with Haberman tonight, either he goes or
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  Speaker 3: I get out of the business. Have called him and
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  Speaker 3: made appointment for seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, seven o'clock, Haberman said, he made the
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  Speaker 4: appointment for eight o'clock. Yeah, that's right. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 4: we better hurry up looking through this stuff, and then
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  Speaker 4: a little more questioning for mister Haberman.
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  Speaker 7: No matter, what's not, mister Shane inspectory, it's it's unbelievable,
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  Speaker 7: it's horrible.
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: I went to the stables a few minutes ago. Go on,
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  Speaker 7: go on, Haberman was lying there dead.
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  Speaker 2: seventy six. Thank you it is a few minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Phyllis and Inspector Faraday have reached the stables and
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  Speaker 2: stand looking down at Haberman.
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  Speaker 8: Now, how did that happen.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he just got too close to Prince, and Prince
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  Speaker 7: lashed out and kicked him. I found him lying here
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  Speaker 7: when I came by.
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  Speaker 4: Why is anybody else around the stables?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Armstrong was here, and the groom and the gardener.
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  Speaker 4: Is it a bit odd that everyone should gather at
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  Speaker 4: the stables.
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  Speaker 7: No, I don't think so. Everybody's interested in the horses,
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  Speaker 7: especially Prince. Why Prince, Well, I've warned them all to
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  Speaker 7: keep away from him. He's a killer.
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  Speaker 4: Why have you kept him then?
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  Speaker 7: Because I can handle him? Broke in the stable hands
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  Speaker 7: and he's a very valuable horse. He just lashes out
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  Speaker 7: at strangers or people who don't talk to him as
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  Speaker 7: they approach him. Surely you don't think this is murder too? Why,
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  Speaker 7: it's ridiculous. Nobody in their right mind can have any
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  Speaker 7: doubt as to how Haberman was killed. The mark of
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  Speaker 7: the horseshoe is his plane two plane, where you can
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  Speaker 7: see the curve of the shoe across his forehead.
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  Speaker 4: And perhaps I'm not in my right mind, mister right,
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  Speaker 4: but when trueman engaged in the same business die within
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  Speaker 4: a few days of each other, I'm suspicious.
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  Speaker 8: You and me both Mike, mister.
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  Speaker 4: Wright, you just walked out from the house and found
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  Speaker 4: Haberman lying dead.
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  Speaker 7: Well more or less. I came out from the back
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  Speaker 7: of the house, saw that the upper half of the
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  Speaker 7: door the Princess stall, was unlatched. I came over to
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  Speaker 7: latch it and found Haberman. I couldn't see him lying
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  Speaker 7: on the ground from where I was, because, as you
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  Speaker 7: can see, he was hidden by the water crawling.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I see so, Inspector, depending on how you
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  Speaker 4: look at it, everybody has alibis or nobody has an alibi.
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  Speaker 8: You're right, Mike. They all have alibis if they're telling
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  Speaker 8: the truth.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I most certainly have. I was talking on the
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  Speaker 7: telephone from the time I left you until I came
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  Speaker 7: out here. The servant saw me in the hall when
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  Speaker 7: I was on the phone.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yes, And the chauffeur and the stable boy Joe
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  Speaker 9: saw me at the back of the stables.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even come around front until right called out.
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  Speaker 7: That's true. I'm his alibi and he's mine. So I'm afraid,
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  Speaker 7: mister Shane, you'll have to pin the guilt on the
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  Speaker 7: horse after all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, looks that.
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  Speaker 8: Wait and then, oh, Mike, Yes, Inspected how about running
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  Speaker 8: down the headquarters with me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but you're going to leave someone here.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I hardly think we need.
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  Speaker 4: Inspect the inspected for twenty four hours. I'd like someone
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  Speaker 4: posted at the stables and at the west side of
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  Speaker 4: the house looking out toward the cliff. Yeah, but Mike,
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  Speaker 4: if only to guarantee the safety of miss right.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Mike, I'll leave the sogeant and one man. Will
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  Speaker 8: that satisfy you?
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  Speaker 4: Excellent, inspector? Excellent? Now I'm quite ready to accompany you
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  Speaker 4: two headquarters.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, Hey, you're inspector. Report on a threatening telegram. A
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: threatening wire addressed to haber Man was handed in at
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: San Francisco's main office. No one remembers what the man
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: looked like.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: They paid no attention. Okay, follow throwing the show for
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: will you?
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Well, it's not much help.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Why don't you give up, Mike? After all, we're just
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: following nothing but a hunch from that girl Patricia.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Now that's right, Mike. I admit it's a bit gruesome
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: having two deaths in the same household. It's happened before.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: There's something wrong about the whole thing. What do you mean, Mike, Well,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: as I see if the father, mister Wright, isn't above
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: entering into shady.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Deals, No, that seems apparent, So.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: One can legitimately assume that his manager, Haberman, wasn't too
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: burst to entering into the same sort of deal.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: We don't have to assume that we know it from
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: the son's memo path.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: No, that's right. The son actually accused him of being crooked.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: And we have Armstrong, a business associate. We can assume
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: in his case too, that he's not above turning a sort.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Of twisted penny to all of which the son is
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: opposed to such an extent that he actually puts in
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: writing he's going to talk to his father, and that
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: either the crooked manager goes or he does.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: And if we assume too that the father would rather
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: have your son in the business than the crooked manager,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: we have motive for murder for some men at least.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: And we have Haberman making a date to see the son.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Which Haberman says was for eight o'clock, but which we
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: know for a fact was at seven.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: Of it will inquire a case, Mike, But it all
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: hinges on supposition. You suppose, Mike, that you're right, eh,
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: And if you are right, and Hayman did kill the
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: son just has already overtaken him.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's something wrong with the whole thing, inspected,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: you say, I'm building the whole case of a subposition.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Well, plus a hunch of the girls mine.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: And a funny little quirk that keeps running through my
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: own mind. Well, when I was a kid, I used
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: to hold horses at the old Fairfax Huntly. Yes, sometimes
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: for a whole day's work. I made two bits one day. Well,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I hadn't made my two bits. I guess I was
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: a little on the anxious side. I stepped up too
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: quickly to a horse. He lashed out at me, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I jumped back. But that hook with its iron shoe
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: seemed to be following me. It was a huge as
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: huge as a bond door, A great big black iron
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: shoe that would mash my face in from chin to forehead.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: A great big letter you coming out, go on, go on,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, wait a minute, A big you. That's it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: That's what's wrong with a picture? Oh what a blockhead?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: I'd been say, what goes?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: What is it? Mane?
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Come on? Can't you picture Haberman lying there on the
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: ground by this? Well?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Sure, I can't want to.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Remember what Wright said. The mark of the horseshoe is
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: a plain two plain. You can see the curve of
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: the shoe across his forehead.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: And I remember him saying that, But what an Mike,
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: you're right.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't get it. I'm gonna yes, I do.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Haberman would have had to be standing on his head
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: for the horseshoe to have left a mark like that.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I had a girl, Honey, the mark was upside down.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Come on, come on back to the right stables as
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: fast as that squad car of yours will take us,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: fur day, go right back to the stables. Inspect that
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: we can park there, right, Mike, I'm going to follow
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: my hunch as long as I'm in the mood.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, hunch?
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: If I were a killer and killed a man at
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: the stables, yes, and I was so certain that everybody
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: would think it was an accident, and so nobody would
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: even think of looking for all weapon. Yeah, where would
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I go to hide the whipping?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: The right?
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: So come on up these steps here, honey. I'll help
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: you there. I know that here we are. Now you
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: take the par in, honey, and okay, and I'll take
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: the sin. Oh, it's not behind the speed box. It's
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: not here either. Where's it? Where's phyllis? Okay? Anything up there, Inspector.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: Everything up here is covered with dust, so I think
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: this is all in the clay.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Okay, come down then, before you break your neck. What
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: what is it? Honey?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: It's something heavy and wet, huh and of sticky. It's blood.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Mike, let me have it. I'll use my handkerchief and
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: maybe fingerprints.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Just a second, god, look, Inspector.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: A heavy piece of but with a horseshoe nailed to
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the flat side upside down.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, let's keep our find a secret and continue
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: our quizzing.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: We'll rejoin Mike Shane pill Us Knight and inspect your
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: paraday and their search for the killer in dust. MoMA,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: we'd like you to listen for a moment to one
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: of the most sickening sounds of modern life. Lately, you've
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: been hearing that sound more frequently. Traffic accidents in the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: United States are increasing to an alarming extent as our
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: automobiles grow older. To reduce human casualties and conserve transportation,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the Internettional Association of Chiefs of Police has developed a
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: program to emphasize the need for good breaks for all cars.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: For the next six weeks, law enforcement officers throughout the
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: nation will conduct a brake checking campaign. They are seeking
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: to protect your life and property. This program on brake
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: emphasis for traffic safety is supported by over one hundred
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: automobile clubs and traffic organizations, including the Office of Defense Transportation.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Your cooperation is earnestly requested. You can help by checking
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: your own brakes. If you can depress your brake pedal
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: within an inch of the floorboard before the brakes take hold,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: they are inadequate and demand immediate attention. Remember, serious accidents
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: can occur at speeds as low as twenty miles per
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: hour if your brakes are in poor condition. So ladies
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, if you have the slightest doubt about the
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: condition of your automobile brakes, don't take chances. Have them
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: inspected without delay. Mike Phyllis, Inspector Faraday, and Patricia Wright
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: are in the library waiting for the members of the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: household to put in an appearance.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Are you sure you don't want me to get Daddy
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: and the others in here?
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: No? No, not yet. We let them wander in one
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: of the time and take them by surprise. I have
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: a reason.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, what about the show for Mike.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Well, my money, he's out.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: I'm right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Well, as a suspect for the killing of the son
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: who fired him, he was a possibility, but I see
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: no connection between him and Haberman's dead.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: No, perhaps not. Don't forget one thing. He is the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: alibi for Armstrong, just as Armstrong is his alibi.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: The way I'm thinking right now, honey, no one has
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: an alibi. What do you mean when all the suspects
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: have alibis for their actions, and yet you have two
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: bodies to account for. There's only one act one that
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: is someone or all of them are lying and the
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: alibis mean nothing. So just ignore them.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Mike, somebody's coming, that's right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, there you are, Pat What?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: I thought you'd all gone back to the city.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: We did say that we have a few more questions we'd.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: Like answer, if you don't mind my saying. So, I
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: think you're not quite.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Bright meaning what mister Wright, Meaning.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: That you're all following a completely senseless theory, trying to
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: find clues to a murder when no murder has been
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: committed to everyone but you. It's obvious that mister Haberman
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: had been kicked by Prince.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Suppose we just get that for a moment. Uh, mister Wright,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: just exactly what is the relationship between your firm and
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: mister Armstrong.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: I don't see that it's any of your business. Or now,
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: let's not go through that route.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: You let me finish. I still think it's none of
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: your business, but I'm perfectly willing to tell you mister
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Armstrong is an agent for some eastern industrial properties which
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: we're considering purchasing.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I see, And was mister Haberman in complete agreement with
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: you about this purchase?
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: He was up until a few nights ago.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: What or who changed his mind?
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: Well, my son wasn't too happy about the deal, and
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: I think he changed Haberman's mind.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: When did your son tell you that you either fired
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: Haberman nor he would leave the company?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: What? Why? No, no, no, no, don't get all insulted
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: and abusive. We know you're son did tell you that, Patricia.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: If your daughter had nothing to do with our knowing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: That, mister Wright, let's not argue about it. It is true,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: isn't it?
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: And what did you decide?
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: Go on, answered, Well, I hadn't made up my mind.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: I sort of hope that things would work themselves out.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: And they have said based by the death of your
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: son and next Haberman, both troublesome elements removed within a.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Surely you don't You can't think that I'd connive in
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: the death of my own son. But Tricia you yes, father,
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: you don't believe that I had anything to do with no.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Dead and I don't either, nor do Miss Knight and
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Inspector Farity.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Well, I I'm glad of that. I'm glad too that
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: you're coming to your senses and realizing that my boy's
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: death was an accident.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: No, mister Wright, your son's death was not an accident
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: anymore than Haberman's was.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: Who could you possibly suspect who stands to gain by
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: both deaths?
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: No one?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: What about Armstrong?
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: Armstrong?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: But Armstrong you mean that Armstrong was a free that
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: my son's objection to our deal and later Aberman's objection
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: might cause a deal to fall through.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Exactly, mister rydam It's very easy to prove that is
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: it will be easy if you will cooperate.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: Oh, oh, certainly, I'll cooperate in any way I can.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: You haven't been very cooperative so far as well.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: I'll I'll do whatever you ask me to.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Now we're getting somewhere. Now here's what we'll do. Phyllis
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: the inspector, and I will hide Phyllis behind the curtains
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: leading to the terrace. The inspector in that closet, and
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I'll get behind the door. Yes, Patricia will go to
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: her own room. You, you, mister Wright, will call Armstrong
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: in and tell him you're not going through with the deal.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I'm quite certain his reaction will be enough to convince you.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't think i'll find that difficult. I'd practically
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: made up my mind that anyway.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: Aming in the front door.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: All right, all right, now quick, everybody quick gets you
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: went upstairs Patricia wanting okay, right, call him in?
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: Uh oh that you arm Strong?
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Did you want me?
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Yes, I I think, in spite of all the tragedy
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: around here, that we ought to arrive at some definite
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: conclusion about this transaction.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Well, I suppose you're right.
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: I didn't want to hurry you or seem aggressive with
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: all the things that have happened.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I understand, but it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: Is an excellent opportunity, and I know you'll make a
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: mint out of it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: I'm not going through with it, however. What I'm not
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: going through with it? Armstrong?
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Oh you're not? Well, that's what you think. I said that.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: If you think you're going to back out, now, you've
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: got another thing coming.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: Oh wait a minute, leaving me holding the sack.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: I've obligated myself for those properties, and you're gonna buy them.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: I'm most certainly not going to buy them if I
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: don't want to. Menapho, Persuadeion.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Put that gun down your food, drop it, Armstrong? The
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: next time, the faster.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Is this a trap?
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: Way?
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: It is, yes, and apparently quite a justifiable one.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I must apologize for the gunplay, and I must apologize
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: for being quite slow and somewhat blind.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Blind Mike, Yes, yes.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I should have noticed long before this that mister Armstrong
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: was left handed. I did, however, until he whipped out
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: that gun of his with his.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Left hand left handed.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Yes, Phil, left handed?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: What does that matter?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I've been left handed all my life.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Yes, Armstrong, left handed. I think you can produce the
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: evidence now, Inspector right, Mike, did you ever see that
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: weapon before? Armstrong? Where did you find it in the halo?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: That's where you will hit it, isn't it? Armstrong? Okay, Inspector,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I don't think we'll get any more argument out of him.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: You're ready, Armstrong?
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, you want more coffee, Inspector.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: No, thanks, fellas. That was an excellent dinner.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Oh say that again, Angel, He was a good cook flatterer,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: as well as being good at poetry review.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Say that left handed business. I've been turning it over
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: and over in my mind. I don't see what on
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: earth Armstrong's being left handed had to do with the
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: case tall hmm, Well, I thought perhaps his being left
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: handed was well responsible for him nailing the horseshoe on
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the club the wrong way.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Oh no, Angel, No, that was just the inevitable slip
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: that the murderer makes.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Well, then, what was the left handed clue?
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: When I remarked on Armstrong's being left handed, you repeated
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: it after me, remember.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure, I caught the look, and mike' s iron
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: repeated it after you.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Well, yes, I remember that too. It impressed me, but
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I didn't catch on.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Ah, it impressed Armstrong too, and he didn't catch on.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: He didn't know why or what we have in mind,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: and the inspector and I didn't give him time to
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: find out. We played cat and most with him. Armstrong
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: thought that his being left handed was a clue. He
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: couldn't figure out what it was, but our tone of
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: voice convinced him that we had him dead rights and
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: he broke down Smarty.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: There was nothing but playing up a guilty conscience.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Right angel, one of the best weapons of Private Detective
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: has So let it be a Listen to you there, Donald,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: and don't try holding out anything on your own, man,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Mike Shane, or your good old conscience will get you.
• 30:22
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• 30:58
  Speaker 2: another adventure with Michael Shane Private Detective, starring Wally Mayer
• 31:03
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• 31:08
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• 31:12
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• 31:16
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• 31:53
  Speaker 1: A good story, though a little bit more puzzle base
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and deduction base that I'd expect a Michael Shane's story
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to be. In some ways, it almost seemed like it
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: was like a Charlie Chan story, but done with Michael Shane. Still,
• 32:12
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• 32:16
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• 32:21
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• 32:24
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• 32:28
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• 33:19
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• 33:25
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• 33:44
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• 33:53
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• 33:56
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• 34:16
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• 34:23
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• 34:27
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  Speaker 1: Michael Shane story starring my Stevens. Now Stevens doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot like Michael Shane, but that could be
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  Speaker 1: said of most actors who played the role. The episode
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  Speaker 1: aired in nineteen fifty eight, and it was also the
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  Speaker 1: basis for a pilot program. They basically took this episode
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  Speaker 1: of Decision, added some promotion and all material, and made
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  Speaker 1: it the pilot for the Michael Shane TV Show to
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  Speaker 1: be shown for sponsors. And so we'll be watching that program.
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  Speaker 1: It's only half an hour and it'll certainly make for
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  Speaker 1: interesting viewing. Ironically enough, the plot reminded me of a
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  Speaker 1: later Michael Shane novel that'd be written by Britt Halladay.
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  Speaker 1: And for the foreseeable future, for about the next year anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Shane will be the focus of our non dragging
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  Speaker 1: that video theater. We're going through a period where all
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  Speaker 1: of our video theater episodes will be tied in with
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  Speaker 1: radio programs we're airing. We started that with Ellery Queen,
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  Speaker 1: it'll continue with Michael Shane and Richard Diamond and then
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  Speaker 1: Boston Blackie. And we'll talk a little bit more about
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  Speaker 1: the actual Michael Shane TV show that aired for a
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  Speaker 1: thirty two episode season from nineteen sixty to sixty one
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  Speaker 1: when we get to the point of playing it, I
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  Speaker 1: did just actually go through all of my Michael Shane
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  Speaker 1: TV shows to organize them, and so I got to
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  Speaker 1: see the start of each show, and there's a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting one with Howard mcneir looking every bit the part
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  Speaker 1: of Floyd the barber doing something Floyd would never do.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very shocking beginning and I'm definitely eager to
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  Speaker 1: play that episode, but we've got about a year to
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  Speaker 1: go on that. So look for Michael Shane TV shows
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  Speaker 1: every month starting this month. That will do it for now.
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