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Yours Truly Dollar: The Virtuous Mobster Matter (EP1687) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Now from June twenty second of nineteen fifty eight, it's
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  Speaker 1: time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The
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  Speaker 1: title is the Virtuous Mobster.
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  Speaker 2: Man from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: It's time now for.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny dollar I had, Johnny, this is your five Lefty Lefty.
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  Speaker 5: Sure you remember Lefty Stimpa.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: You know don airinvite you, Virtue se I g invite you.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Carolina?
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  Speaker 4: Oh sure, yeah, you remember me and the boys we
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  Speaker 4: occupied his Carraway plantation.
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  Speaker 5: Now you're on a peed river.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sure of courus. Listen, awre you having trouble again
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  Speaker 4: with old man Caraway?
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, sir, not a bit. And you know how
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  Speaker 5: we stopped him and the boys from making trouble for us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Lefty, we.
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  Speaker 5: Bought him out, that's all. Yeah, we give him a
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  Speaker 5: hundred gez for the place cash money. Now we own
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  Speaker 5: a whole entire plantation.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good for you, But I want your problem.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Johnny, we fixed this place up real night since
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  Speaker 5: you've seen it. You know, we spent a lot of dawn.
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  Speaker 3: So so we want to buy a lot of new
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  Speaker 3: insurance on it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, then hop on over to George down and
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  Speaker 4: see your old friend Joe Picka Tello about it. Old friend,
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  Speaker 4: h after all, he's your insuranceation. He well, sure of
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  Speaker 4: course he is. Didn't he send you all the other insurance?
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  Speaker 3: You Lefty? That something happened to Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's just it. I don't know. I talked to
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  Speaker 5: him on the phone, asked him to come out here.
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  Speaker 5: He says, okay, but he don't come.
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  Speaker 3: You think somebody's knocked him off.
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  Speaker 5: And I caught him again, he's okay again, hit me
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  Speaker 5: right over?
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  Speaker 3: What he still don't Well? Have you gone over to
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  Speaker 3: Georgetown to see him, to see what's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: Five six, maybe even half a dozen times? What every
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  Speaker 5: time he ain't there?
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  Speaker 3: Lefty? I don't get it.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm trying to tell you. There's something wrong
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  Speaker 5: about it, Johnny. And if I was you, i'd come
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  Speaker 5: down here.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, you know something. I think you're right.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the
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  Speaker 6: Action Tact Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators.
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  Speaker 3: Truly Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 6: Now at one of yours, Truly Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, the Continent
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  Speaker 4: Insurance Company, Home Office, New York, New York, following as
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  Speaker 4: an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
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  Speaker 4: Virtuous Mobster Matter expenser con had a won seven dollars
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  Speaker 4: eighty five cents trained to New York City and taxi
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  Speaker 4: to the office of Continental Insurance Company.
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  Speaker 3: Fortunately, my contact there, Ben or Lof, was in.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, mister dollar, come in, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: How I am? Thanks? Now, mister all in a.
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  Speaker 7: Minute, don't tell me you never received that check for
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  Speaker 7: your services down in South Carolina. Oh, yes, I got
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  Speaker 7: that that mailed out to you nearly two months ago. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: I said, I got it. I am oh good. Incidentally,
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  Speaker 7: I thoroughly enjoyed your report on that case, the village
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  Speaker 7: of Virtue matter you called it? So why a group
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  Speaker 7: of ex gangsters should decide to settle in the town
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  Speaker 7: called Virtue, I'll never understand.
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  Speaker 2: Why were they really behaving themselves as.
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  Speaker 7: Your report indicated, or had they been using that old
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  Speaker 7: plantation for a sort of hideout.
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  Speaker 4: Their records have been cleaned down there for over twenty years, now.
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  Speaker 8: Is that so?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Well, maybe the answer to organized crime is to give
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  Speaker 7: all those fellows a nice, quiet plantation to live on. Though,
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  Speaker 7: I must say that when our agent down there, Joseph Picadello, it's.
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  Speaker 3: About Joe that I've come to time.
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  Speaker 7: I must say that I was a bit concerned when
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  Speaker 7: I found Joe had sold policies to characters like Lefty
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  Speaker 7: Stemper and Bully Magoon and Flippy lack of mister Orlie.
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  Speaker 7: Those were the very sort of men that Thomas E.
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  Speaker 7: Dewey chased out of New York when he was DA
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  Speaker 7: some years ago. Ster all Off was before Due became governor.
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  Speaker 7: You know, so naturally, I what were you going to
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  Speaker 7: say about Joe Piccaatello. Have you heard from Joel recently?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, I don't think I have, now that you mentioned.
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  Speaker 7: It, because I just talked over the phone. Wait, you
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  Speaker 7: must understand one thing, mister Dona. What's that our office
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  Speaker 7: down there in Georgetown is probably the smallest one we
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  Speaker 7: have in the whole country. Joe really doesn't handle much
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  Speaker 7: business for us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yes, I understand. I understood that when I
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  Speaker 3: talked to him in April.
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  Speaker 7: If it weren't for those those mobsters over in Virtue, mobsters,
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  Speaker 7: mister arm Well, if it wasn't for them and some
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  Speaker 7: of the townspeople to whom you issued policies, I, mister Dollar,
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  Speaker 7: has something happened to Joe Picadello.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want to find out, because.
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  Speaker 2: Now that I think about excuse me, Miss Bailey.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, did you ever get a reply on the harmon
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  Speaker 7: policy from mister Piccatelo in our Georgetown office?
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, I've written mister Pigateller several.
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  Speaker 7: Times, Thank you dollar. We wrote Joe about that harmon
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  Speaker 7: matter over four weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: Well didn't it occur to you to phone him and
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  Speaker 4: find out why he hasn't answered you?
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  Speaker 7: But it involved such a small policy that yes, perhaps
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  Speaker 7: I'd better try to call him, Miss Bailey. Wait, yes,
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  Speaker 7: nothing what I said?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? Well, mister Donald.
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  Speaker 3: Or mister Orloff.
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  Speaker 4: If something has happened to Joe Piccotello, well look, instead
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  Speaker 4: of spreading the alarm, how about if I quietly run
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  Speaker 4: on down there.
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  Speaker 2: But have you reason to believe something wrong has happened
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  Speaker 2: to him?
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  Speaker 4: Only from what his clients down there at the plantation
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  Speaker 4: have told me over the phone.
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  Speaker 3: You you think.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps some of his old Gangland enemies have got to.
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  Speaker 3: Him after twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but if you'll all came my expense account,
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  Speaker 4: I'll go down there and see.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, mister Donald and you.
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  Speaker 3: Won't all get down there anyway.
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  Speaker 7: But there's the danger too, This might be a very dangerous.
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  Speaker 7: Let me hear from.
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  Speaker 6: You as soon as you can, mister Dollar, Act two
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  Speaker 6: of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 9: And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
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  Speaker 9: Donald's bellweather. My husband.
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  Speaker 3: Donald is you're pory.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't it?
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  Speaker 10: Can you see all right? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can see.
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  Speaker 4: Windshield wipers are operating with mechanical perfections.
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  Speaker 11: You notice there are no more streams either, since I
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  Speaker 11: put on the new rubber blade.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I think every driver should have his windshield
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  Speaker 9: wipers in good order.
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  Speaker 10: It's much safer. It would be much safer if.
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  Speaker 9: Everyone would slow down during wet weather like my husband
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  Speaker 9: is doing right now.
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  Speaker 3: Just being cautious.
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  Speaker 12: Riba. We don't want an accident, and it's down.
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  Speaker 9: For I don't want an accident anytime.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 9: Well, the experts say that accidents just don't happen. Something
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  Speaker 9: causes accidents, and that cause can be prevented by the
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  Speaker 9: way there in what kind of weather do you think
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  Speaker 9: most accidents occur?
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  Speaker 11: Ooh, I'm saying rain or snowy weather or slippery weather
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  Speaker 11: when visibility isn't impaired.
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  Speaker 9: That's the wrong answer, dear, wrong, Yeah, are you serious?
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  Speaker 9: Statistics show that eight out of ten accidents occur when
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  Speaker 9: the weather is clear or with a cloudy overcast.
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  Speaker 3: Are you positive? I wonder why?
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  Speaker 8: But oh, here's our house there.
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  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, Now you sit right here, Riba.
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  Speaker 11: I'll get out with the umbrella and then I'll come
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  Speaker 11: around and open your dop All right.
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  Speaker 10: Then I wonder why, I wonder why?
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  Speaker 8: What? Why?
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  Speaker 3: Eight out of ten accidents happen in clear weather?
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  Speaker 9: Oh well, I don't know for sure, sergeant, but I
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  Speaker 9: do know that you go very carefully to night in
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  Speaker 9: the rain. Now, if everyone droves carefully during clear, dry weather,
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  Speaker 9: there'd be less accidents, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, and that must be it.
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  Speaker 11: People automatically get cautious in the rain and snow.
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  Speaker 3: Too bad.
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  Speaker 12: They don't stay that way in good weather.
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  Speaker 9: You will, won't you?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, drive safely in good.
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  Speaker 3: Weather too, I promise.
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  Speaker 9: Oh that's my donald, that's.
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  Speaker 5: My doll.
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  Speaker 6: And now act too of yours. Truly, Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 6: the virtuous Mobster Matter.
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  Speaker 4: Expenser con had them two twenty eight dollars even transportation
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  Speaker 4: and incidentals New York City to Georgetown, South Carolina. It
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  Speaker 4: was late when I pulled into the prosperous little southern community.
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  Speaker 4: It was dark, pitch dark. I had them three fifty
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  Speaker 4: bucks deposit on a rental car. I had them four
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  Speaker 4: seventy cents for a sandwich and a coca and.
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  Speaker 3: All night Dina.
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  Speaker 4: Then I drove over to Joe Piccotello's on the side
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  Speaker 4: street near the park, the small frame building that served
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  Speaker 4: as both office and living quarters.
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  Speaker 3: But Joe was dark, but.
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  Speaker 4: In the hope he might be asleep in his little
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  Speaker 4: apartment up above.
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  Speaker 3: I knocked.
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  Speaker 4: No answer until I was about to turn and go
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  Speaker 4: back to my car. It was the sound of a
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  Speaker 4: door slamming somewhere inside, but still no light showed. And
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  Speaker 4: knocked again. Then faintly I heard footsteps approaching. Why hadn't
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  Speaker 4: Joe turned on the light in there?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: What do you want?
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  Speaker 3: Joe? Yeah, Joe, open up.
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  Speaker 4: It's Johnny Dollar, Johnny Dollar insurance investigator.
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  Speaker 10: You know, investigator?
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding? What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 8: Pal?
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  Speaker 3: Open up?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Hi?
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  Speaker 8: And Joe?
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  Speaker 3: What's the idea of no lights in here? You forget
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  Speaker 3: to pay your bill or something?
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  Speaker 10: Maybe? What do you want?
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 10: Investigator?
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  Speaker 3: He said?
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  Speaker 10: Willy? Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 3: Willy?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I heard? What is it?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 13: All right, Willie, I got his gun. I hit him again,
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  Speaker 13: yeah again, once more?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Oh he is that like a life?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What do you want I should do with him?
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  Speaker 8: Now?
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  Speaker 3: You're crazy, Willy?
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  Speaker 10: You mean you don't know?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but if I blessed him here, it's gonna make
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  Speaker 4: a lot of noise and if any fight.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I hate your car coming down the.
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  Speaker 10: Street, investigator, he said, so he wouldn't be waking along.
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  Speaker 10: Come on, not the back way.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't. I don't thought they'll see no lights
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  Speaker 5: on Lefty. Maybe Joe's went to bed.
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  Speaker 9: If he's that, he.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't answer the phone when you called him. Listen, Flippy.
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  Speaker 11: Johnny Dolla told me I should come down here, look
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  Speaker 11: for Joe myself said, come on.
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  Speaker 14: We'll see whatever you say, Lefty. Only I thought that
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  Speaker 14: Johnny was coming down here himself.
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  Speaker 8: Though.
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  Speaker 3: Hey look the doors open.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah you you look what what I stepped on?
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  Speaker 3: Joe?
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  Speaker 8: Joe?
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  Speaker 3: What happened to here?
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  Speaker 10: That ain't Joe, it's just Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you're right, Flippy.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody must listen again.
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  Speaker 10: Away, Oh Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, it's me.
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  Speaker 11: It's me, Lefty and me Flippy Johnny.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you all right? You're right.
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  Speaker 10: To you, Johnny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll murderize him.
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  Speaker 10: Flippy rights, Yeah, what happened in here?
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  Speaker 3: You know who done this to you?
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  Speaker 5: Johnny?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, give me.
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  Speaker 11: A flippy help me lamb up on the sofa, easy, easy, yeah,
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  Speaker 11: easy here now.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, Johnny, listen to me.
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  Speaker 3: Who Johnny?
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  Speaker 8: Who? Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe it, but I could see him in
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  Speaker 4: the light of the stool show. Bigger Tellow, Smoky Bigger
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  Speaker 4: Tellow done this to you. Another guy with him called
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  Speaker 4: him will He.
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  Speaker 10: Will the lump.
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  Speaker 3: Why why did he do it? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: could very strange when he came to the door. But
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: He was my power, he was your power, like the
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  Speaker 2: lump with him. That that's what I don't get.
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  Speaker 11: It means he's went back, That's what it means. He's
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  Speaker 11: went back to the old racket dope smuggling. Him and
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  Speaker 11: Willie lumpus partners in the old days.
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  Speaker 14: But twenty years Joe's and straight Lefty look like you
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  Speaker 14: and me and Billy mcgoone.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, for twenty years, you and me and Bully the
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  Speaker 11: only guns we ever used was for hunting.
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  Speaker 2: For killing snakes, not no more.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean left to you?
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  Speaker 11: Joe Pigotello done this to you? Johnny means only one thing.
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  Speaker 11: There's only one thing we can do. He's right, Johnny,
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  Speaker 11: No left, Johnny. First, we take you back to the
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  Speaker 11: plantation where you get all right again, and we find
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  Speaker 11: Joe Pigotello flip and bullying me, and we do, what are.
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  Speaker 10: You Pump's doing here?
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 8: Joe?
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  Speaker 5: That's right?
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  Speaker 10: Who'd you expected?
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  Speaker 5: What's the big eye?
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  Speaker 11: All right, don't move because Joe, I'm gonna bless your
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  Speaker 11: head off.
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  Speaker 6: Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in.
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  Speaker 3: A moment, do you know who said?
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  Speaker 12: Every individual in society has certain powers, rights, and privileges
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  Speaker 12: which no other individual can justly abridge or destroy. Those
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  Speaker 12: words were written by Noah Webster, the man who compiled
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  Speaker 12: America's first Great dictionary. Mister Webster knew that if the
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  Speaker 12: country which he had seen come into being were to succeed,
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  Speaker 12: the rights of the individual have to be protected. Each
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  Speaker 12: person is entitled to certain basic rights, powers, and privileges
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  Speaker 12: which must not be taken away because of the whim
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  Speaker 12: of someone with greater power. In the United States, the
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  Speaker 12: individual is important regardless of his wealth, power, or position.
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  Speaker 12: The importance of the individual is closely linked to the
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  Speaker 12: American tradition. Remember the words of Noah Webster, they are
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  Speaker 12: part of your American heritage. The rights and privileges of
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  Speaker 12: the individual must be preserved.
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  Speaker 6: And now act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 6: the virtuous Mobster matter.
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  Speaker 4: To say, the atmosphere was tense there on Joe Piccotello's
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  Speaker 4: office in Georgetown, South Carolina, would be the understatement of
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  Speaker 4: the week. After the beating I'd taken for the ex
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  Speaker 4: gangster in one of his pals. My old friends Lefty
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  Speaker 4: and Flippy had come in that found me there, and
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  Speaker 4: they couldn't understand why Joe had done this to me
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  Speaker 4: unless it.
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  Speaker 11: Means he's went back, That's what it means, went back
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  Speaker 11: to the rackets.
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  Speaker 2: Willy the Lump was with him, and when.
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  Speaker 5: Willy was partners in the old days, dopet.
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  Speaker 3: How the two of them swore to get Joe. And
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  Speaker 3: then suddenly we looked up to see someone standing in
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  Speaker 3: the doorway.
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  Speaker 5: Joe.
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  Speaker 3: It was Joe Piccotello.
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  Speaker 10: That's right now, would you expect it went all right?
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  Speaker 3: Don't move because Joe I'm gonna blest you.
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  Speaker 13: Ahead off and I'll put that thing down. Left see,
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  Speaker 13: don't move. Why did this slippyr gag or something?
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  Speaker 3: Is it a gag?
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  Speaker 5: What you've done at Johnny Dollar?
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  Speaker 10: Johnny?
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  Speaker 5: I said, one move and I'll give it to you.
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  Speaker 10: Johnny, turn around, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot you in the back.
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  Speaker 5: You dirty?
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  Speaker 10: What did they do to you? Johnny? Listen, Joe, Lefty, Flippy,
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: I'll kill.
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  Speaker 5: You for this.
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  Speaker 8: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Your dirty rat weight? Lefty?
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  Speaker 11: Johnny's my pal like you used to be before you
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: went back in the racket.
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: We went back in the racket.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, that the dope pound, Willy the Lump.
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  Speaker 11: What do you know about Willy the Lump plenty? Now
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  Speaker 11: that you're back with him, you're crazy. It's no good, Joe,
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: because Johnny recognized you.
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  Speaker 3: You and Willy the Lump.
• 17:23
  Speaker 11: When you wipe them over, I tell you that I
• 17:24
  Speaker 11: had twenty years. You and Bully and Flippy and me.
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  Speaker 11: We showed we could do it straight. We could be respectable.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: Me and a boy's at the plantation. You down here
• 17:33
  Speaker 11: now you're spoiled. You're ruining for all of us.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: When you listen, don't move.
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: We made a deal, you and me and the boys
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: twenty years ago.
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: If anybody slips, anybody breaks up our respectable life, you
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  Speaker 11: gotta go.
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  Speaker 3: Was that the deal?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that was the deal. But you don't know what
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: you're talking about when you say I'm going back, all.
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: Right, so you your luws is come. You not only
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: go back, you do this to Johnny Dollar, my friend,
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: the guy who believed in us, Lefty, So for that,
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: you gotta go. Listen, O Joe right, Lefty, give me
• 18:05
  Speaker 11: a gun.
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  Speaker 3: Lefty, No, Johnny, that was the deal.
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  Speaker 4: You ever use a gun on a man, you'll go
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: up for the rest of your life. Johnny, it's for you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Hand it over, Lefty.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks. You see it, it wasn't Joe who worked
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: me over. I thought it was.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: It looked like him, it sounded like that, and it
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: was look at his hands, his face, his close Is
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: this the man I fought with him here five minutes ago? Sure,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: maybe I did get the worst of it with two
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: of them on top of me, but believe me, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: cut them up.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: Some tool he's right, Lefty.
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, But then I don't if it wasn't him,
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: the twin, the twin, You're right, Lefty.
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: It must be the twin.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: The twin here is all right, boys, let me in
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: on a tour with his.
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: Shep Block or the twin they called him, that's what
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: the law called him. Call him with Joe, the twins
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: because they looked like each other, talk like each other. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: there was always yellerby for each other.
• 19:03
  Speaker 14: But what Shep will Locko doing here?
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: I can't tell you, Flippy.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Not yet, all right, Joe?
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: I believe you about not working over Johnny here because
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: of what he says about well about you know me
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: mussed up.
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: But if you and Shepard back in the racket, I'm
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: not lefty, that's straight.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: All right? Then tell me where you been.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: I can't tell you.
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: Three four weeks now, we don't know where. Insurance company
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: don't know where. Well, I can't tell you. Listen, you listen.
• 19:39
  Speaker 13: If Shepp and will You have been here, they'll be
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: coming back. Why, yeah, Joe, why I can't tell you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: I can't tell you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: All right, listen, we're listening, Joe. The Sacred Service. Huh, Well,
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: I have those killings up.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: In Baltimore during that smuggling, Joe.
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Johnny, they know the twins Shep Blalker when Willie Well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: the boys in Washington dw they did it. They didn't
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: know where to find him.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Well, go on, Joel.
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: So they spread the way.
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: The Secret Service spread the way that I knew where
• 20:06
  Speaker 13: Shepp and Willy were, that I would lead them to him.
• 20:09
  Speaker 13: You knew where they was, No, but the law boys
• 20:11
  Speaker 13: knew how to flush him out, get shepping Willy out
• 20:13
  Speaker 13: looking for me, gunning for.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Me, And the Secret Service didn't keep you under cover.
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah, until today back in Washington.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But I talked to you on your phone right here.
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: Part the line was rigged through to Washington.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: You said, until today, Joe. Yeah, Because Shepp and Willy
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: didn't show. The law boys had to make them show.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: So then they sent you here as living baits. Yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: And they passed the word that you'd be here.
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: That said, Johnny. That's why Shepp and Willy were waiting
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: here when you came. That's why I'll come back now
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: that I'm here. Boy, you stuck your neck out for
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: the sake of going straight. I couldn't help myself. The
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: Sacred Service rigged on me. Guy named Phillips. But now
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: you're rolling it. It's flippy tin out the lights. Yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: let's get out of here. What and we was crooks
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: but never killers. But it's killers. It's coming to get Joe.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, Lefty?
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: But they won't and they won't get you, Johnny.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Sorry, Lefty, I can't move.
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: Then we'll stay for you and Joe. Yeah right, So
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: turn out the lights for me to the lakewise ship.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Twim.
• 21:17
  Speaker 13: That's right, your old pile shep lock keep her right
• 21:21
  Speaker 13: on him, Willie, don't worry, shep investigator hunt Dollar only
• 21:26
  Speaker 13: had secret service, ain't it isn't They knew we should
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: have killed him when we had your dollar. But we
• 21:32
  Speaker 13: thought these boys driving up was reinforcements.
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: Reinforcements. We should have known the secret Service, Wasn't that right?
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: All right? Well they first theme while I keep this
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: gun on him?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Sure, none of you trying to not Dollar?
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: We got his gun?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, just what do you intend doing? Spar there?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Clean ship?
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: What do you think? All right? Joe gets it first,
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: but you're gonna post so it don't make no noise.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Willie.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you've got them both.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: And I thought you couldn't move.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah boy, Thanks Johnny, Thanks.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Thank Lefty for giving me his gun when I asked
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: for a shoe. Oh hey, look, you guys know a
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: good doctor.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I've said it before and I.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Say it again. In this insurance business, you never know
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: what you'll run into. Expense account total including a flock
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: of medical expenses and the trip back to Hide Fridon
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: one hundred and seventy four dollars even, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Yours Truly.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Johnny Dollar, Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Heard in our cast were Gene Tatum, Jack Prussian, Les Tremaine,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Billy Hellip, Frank Gerstall, and Gil Stratton Jr. Be sure
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: to join us next week, same time and station for
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: This is Roy Rowan speaking.
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  Speaker 7: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar has been a presentation of the
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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  Speaker 15: Time Radio with Adam Graham. Now let's get back into
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: the show.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, as soon as I saw the title,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I was expecting a sequel and I was not disappointed
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: at all. And really it does continue to be the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: great accomplishment of Jack Johnstone with Bob Bailey as Johnny Doller,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to create a world and a continuity of recurring characters
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that are likable and interesting, and it's a very unique feature,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: as I've said a lot of times, but it's just
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: incredibly special about the show because it does bring out
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the character of Johnny in terms of wanting to give
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: these ex gangsters a full benefit of the doubt and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to really stand by them, and just how even in
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: a short time Johnny engenders this sort of loyalty. The
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: evil twin plot is of course very cliched, but it's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: well executed and overall it's just a great story and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I was glad to return for another visit to Virtue.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, listener comments and feedback, and we have
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a comment on episode sixteen seventy five, The Wayward River
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Matter who and This first one comes from Debbie, who says, Hi,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Adam just finished listening to Yours truly, Johnny Doller the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Wayward River Matter, episode sixteen seventy five. Loved it. Being
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: born and raised in Columbus, ohioan hearing all those references
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: to familiar places was awesome. Then the story going down
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to Route twenty three to Chacote and Jackson. I still
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: have the family living in Jackson. Of course, the Ohio
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: River is further south from there, but hey, still greatest,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: great story. Thanks for sharing your personal reasons for lacking
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: this episode. Congrats to marrying a fellow Buckeye. Well, thanks
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: so much for your comment, Debbie. And then Johnny Barber
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: says Johnny Dollar is the man, and then we receive
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a tweet. Britt Reid tweets in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: is one of my favorite old time radio shows. Well,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for tweeting in. And britt Reid, of course,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: is the identity of the Green Hornet. And I'll say
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: that the Green Hornet britt Reid is one of the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: more fascinating heroes in old time radio have really taken
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to listening to. Generally, I listen to one episode of
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: The Green Hornet every week, and it's a very fascinating show.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Obviously not a detective program at all, but the whole
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: use of a double identity and the double identity the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Green Hornet pretending to be a crook and actually serving
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: an in of defeating evil and villainy, it's a very
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Their episodes are very unique and so I'm definitely a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: huge fan of The Green Hornet. Thanks so much for
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the comment. Well, now we do turn. I have a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: comment from Brian who writes regarding The Saint, and we'll
• 30:20
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• 30:23
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• 30:27
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• 30:30
  Speaker 1: ending soon. To be honest, it was not the same
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: without Vincent Price. It seemed like a totally different show.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: The Price version was a good bit funnier and he
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: was more of a ladies man. I'm so glad that
• 30:43
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• 30:46
  Speaker 1: never experienced if not for your podcast. Well, thanks so much.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Taking the last point first, It's definitely why we do
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: such a variety of shows. We're just getting to Richard Diamond,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: which was a show I think people were requesting all
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the time at the beginning of the series, you know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: when are we going great detectives? When are we going
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to get to Richard Diamond. But we've thought out a
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: lot of programs that people hadn't necessarily heard of and
• 31:27
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• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and so we're glad to introduce people to a variety
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of shows, things like Barry Craig and uh A Saint
• 31:36
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• 31:39
  Speaker 1: in the writing and tone of the series in the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: last few Vincent Price programs, and personally I do prefer Price,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: but I do think that Tom Conway did grow on
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: me a bit. I'd be happy if lost episodes were
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with Dragnet and then join us
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