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Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4869) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: returning to one of the great old time radio Christmas classics,
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  Speaker 1: The Big Little Jesus. I will say, in the interests
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  Speaker 1: of full disclosure that the commentary you'll hear after the
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  Speaker 1: episode is mostly the exact same thing I said years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I love this story. I don't think that I can
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  Speaker 1: keep uh raising the bar or finding new things to
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  Speaker 1: say about now. Of course I listen to it because
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  Speaker 1: it's Christmas and it's the big Little Jesus. But I
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  Speaker 1: think that for the most part, I said everything I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say back in twenty twenty three. But there
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  Speaker 1: is one small bet that is new. But now let's
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and listen to this episode from December twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty three.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: Drag meant. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Burglary Division.
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  Speaker 2: You get a call that an important piece of religious
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  Speaker 2: art has been stolen from the oldest church in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: There's no leed to its whereabouts. Your job find it.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the
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  Speaker 3: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case, from official police filence,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Wednesday, December twenty fourth. It was cold in
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a
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  Speaker 5: burglery division. My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is
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  Speaker 5: Captain Bernard. My name is Friday. I'd gone across the
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  Speaker 5: street to buy stamps for some Christmas cards I was
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  Speaker 5: sending out.
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  Speaker 6: It was nine to fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: Am when I got back to Room forty five Burglary.
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  Speaker 5: I sat out at a table in the squadroom and
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  Speaker 5: I started to address the cards when Frank walked in
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  Speaker 5: carrying a stack of Christmas boxes.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, Joe, all right, Christmas cards? Huh? Did an't you?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't going to send him out Monday, but we
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  Speaker 6: had that steak out. You ought to get married, Joe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's the only system.
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  Speaker 5: Fay does all that stuff for me, laundry, mails, cards,
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  Speaker 5: only system might help.
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  Speaker 6: Brought in your present? Won't open it now?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'll wait.
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  Speaker 5: I always opened a couple of day before. Why well,
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  Speaker 5: I'll put you in the spirit ahead of the time.
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  Speaker 5: I opened fills this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Who's he?
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  Speaker 5: Play's brother in Denver gave me a magazine, one of
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  Speaker 5: those funny ones.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean a comic book? No, one of
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  Speaker 6: those funny ones, you know?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't, Frank, Well, some of the pages have
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  Speaker 5: holes in him you look through when there's a picture
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  Speaker 5: on the next page. Oh yeah, I've seen those on
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  Speaker 5: the news stand. They have cloth pasted in cloth in
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  Speaker 5: the ads. If you want to buy a suit, they
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  Speaker 5: have a sample right there.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you can feel.
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  Speaker 5: It, reach right out and feel it. It was one
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  Speaker 5: for two hundred dollars a suit. Sure cloth comes from
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  Speaker 5: Scotland once. It made out of solid gold.
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  Speaker 6: No, they got a special kind of good over there.
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  Speaker 6: It's real smooth, not a goat, Frank a sheep. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it's a special kind of sheep.
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  Speaker 5: Then, because the suit costs two hundred dollars, you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get one.
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  Speaker 6: I told Faye. She said, were the sample anything doing
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  Speaker 6: fanning and pryor we're in on that market? Hold up,
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  Speaker 6: they come up with anything, pound of air, nothing else.
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  Speaker 6: I hope it stays quiet. I got more shopping to do.
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  Speaker 6: I finished.
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  Speaker 5: What you get in stationary set? Some paper and envelopes,
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  Speaker 5: leather binding, Joe, you'll never learn what's the matter. No
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  Speaker 5: woman wants a stationary set, get or something personal?
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  Speaker 6: What's got her initials on it? No?
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  Speaker 5: No, you want something more sentimental, romantic. What'd you get, Fay?
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  Speaker 5: It's different in her case?
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  Speaker 6: What'd you get? Faine? Sewing machine. That's romantic. Well, there's
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  Speaker 6: no way.
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  Speaker 8: Why didn't you buy our catchers man burgery, Freddy, Yes,
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  Speaker 8: that's right, you have the right department. All right, father,
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  Speaker 8: we'll be right down. No, you can tell us about
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  Speaker 8: it there. Goodbye the old Mission Church.
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  Speaker 6: They've had a theft collection money.
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  Speaker 5: Statue of the Child Jesus. Frank and I checked out
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  Speaker 5: of the office and rode over to the church at
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  Speaker 5: the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Maine. The Old Mission
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  Speaker 5: Plaza Church founded seventeen eighty one, the year Los Angeles
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  Speaker 5: became a pueblow. The outside was typical early Spanish design,
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  Speaker 5: complete with mission arches.
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  Speaker 6: It was made of.
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  Speaker 5: Adobe and painted white. They called it the Queen of
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  Speaker 5: the Angels. The pod raised from down in Mexico. Building
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  Speaker 5: the devout Mexicans and towns still attended services there. Ten
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  Speaker 5: o five am, Frank and I crossed through. The courtyard
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  Speaker 5: used to be the old stable, but the Spanish priest
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  Speaker 5: changed all that when it became a mission. Stonemasons paved
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  Speaker 5: the stable floor and made it a courtyard. They planted grapevines, trees,
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  Speaker 5: and flower A young priest crossed the courtyard to meet
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  Speaker 5: us he'd been sitting on a stone bench reading his
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  Speaker 5: morning prayers, as priests had done here for one hundred
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  Speaker 5: and seventy two years. We asked for Father Xavier Rojas,
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  Speaker 5: who communicated with us. We were total he was inside.
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  Speaker 5: We entered a side door. The church seemed to glow
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  Speaker 5: with the hundreds of votive candles flickering on both sides
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  Speaker 5: of the aldar and at the shrines. Throughout the church
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  Speaker 5: was empty except for a few people praying. Surrounding the
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  Speaker 5: main order were several old oil paintings and gold frames.
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  Speaker 5: The air was heavy with the scent of advent flowers.
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  Speaker 5: We found Father Rojas up near the sanctuary, looking at
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  Speaker 5: the Nativity scene. He told us about the crib. It
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  Speaker 5: was a seventy dollars duplication of the scene at Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 5: The parishioners had taken up a collection for it thirty
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  Speaker 5: one years ago. Was put up every year on December
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  Speaker 5: twenty second, and taken down after the holy season. Was beautiful,
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  Speaker 5: except that one of the shepherds had lost an arm,
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  Speaker 5: the sheep was old and cracked, and the infant.
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  Speaker 6: Jesus was missing.
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  Speaker 5: Father Rojas led us back into the sacristy I'm sorry
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  Speaker 5: to bother you man, all right, father, especially now the
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  Speaker 5: holiday season. We cash our checks, Father one, and tell
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  Speaker 5: us what happened, or what you think happened. I discovered
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  Speaker 5: the statue was missing right after the six o'clock mass.
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  Speaker 6: Save at six.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I started over to the rectory and stopped by
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  Speaker 5: the crib. Was the statue there before mass? I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: but it was there last night?
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  Speaker 6: How late? Is the church open all night?
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  Speaker 5: You'll leave it wide open so any thief can walk in,
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  Speaker 5: particularly paved. Sergeant, you say it was there last night?
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  Speaker 7: Father?
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  Speaker 5: How late ten or eleven o'clock? We had confessions? No
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  Speaker 5: one saw it after that. One of the altar boys,
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  Speaker 5: he says it may have been there. He thinks it was.
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  Speaker 6: Did he see it? He's not sure. What's his name? Pardon?
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  Speaker 5: Here's the schedule. You'll find the names for every mass.
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  Speaker 5: There was there a big crowd at six o'clock mass, Father,
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  Speaker 5: not too many. Seven's the big one. People on their
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  Speaker 5: way to work. Did anyone stay after?
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  Speaker 2: Master?
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  Speaker 6: Did you know this?
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  Speaker 5: Not?
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  Speaker 6: Especially?
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  Speaker 5: I came back here, took off the vestments. I suppose
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  Speaker 5: it was ten or fifteen minutes before I went back
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  Speaker 5: in the church.
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  Speaker 6: It was empty then. No people were coming into the
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  Speaker 6: seven o'clock. Are these the older boys, James Corneen and
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  Speaker 6: Joseph Heffernan.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, Joe's the one who mentioned it might have
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  Speaker 5: been there. Did you check with the other priest's father
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  Speaker 5: before I called you? None of them knows anything about it.
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  Speaker 5: Just for a check on the pawn shops. How much
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  Speaker 5: the statue worked in money? Well, that's the point in
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  Speaker 5: pawn shop's father only a few dollars. We could get
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  Speaker 5: a new one, but it wouldn't be the same. We've
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  Speaker 5: had children in the parish, they've grown up and married.
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  Speaker 5: It's the only Jesus they know, we understand, And we've
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  Speaker 5: had children who died. It was the only Jesus they knew.
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  Speaker 5: So many of the people who'd come here as simple people,
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  Speaker 5: they wouldn't understand such.
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  Speaker 6: It would be like changing the evening star.
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  Speaker 5: We'll do our best, Father, That's why would mean so
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  Speaker 5: much much to have it back for the first Mass
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  Speaker 5: son Christmas. It's not very long, father, less than twenty
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  Speaker 5: four hours. When anything turns up here, you know where
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  Speaker 5: to get in touch with us. Yes, sad, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: And so short a time men learned to steal. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: but consider us father hus. Some of them didn't, You
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  Speaker 5: and I'd be out of work. Ten fifty am we
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  Speaker 5: notified pawn shop detail. Frank and I checked out the
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  Speaker 5: two Holler boys. The first one, James Corneen, said he
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  Speaker 5: knew nothing about the missing statue. The second one, Joseph Heffernan,
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  Speaker 5: was not at home. His father said he had a
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  Speaker 5: part time job, but he had n't get in touch
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  Speaker 5: with us right after lunch. By eleven thirty am, we'd
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  Speaker 5: run out of book procedure. We had a man to
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  Speaker 5: find our only clue. He'd been to church. Eleven thirty
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  Speaker 5: three am. We'd checked the phone books for the names
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  Speaker 5: of religious stores in the area.
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  Speaker 6: Two of them were closed. We tried the third. When
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  Speaker 6: we got there, the.
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  Speaker 5: Only person in the store was an elderly man sitting
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  Speaker 5: by a table.
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  Speaker 6: In front of him was a large, beautifully carved chess set.
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  Speaker 6: We're police officers. My name is Friday. This is my partner,
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  Speaker 6: Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 9: Neat to see you copy in the middle of a
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  Speaker 9: big chess match. Where's your partner, Autrom sanos A. We've
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  Speaker 9: been playing for years, same match, No just two or
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  Speaker 9: three months on this one. But I meant was we've
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  Speaker 9: been playing different matches for years. I see you know
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  Speaker 9: you do it through the mail. I send him a move,
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  Speaker 9: he sends me one. Let's keep you on your toes
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  Speaker 9: except during the holidays. Mail gets all fiddled up. That's
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  Speaker 9: no good. Yues not slow those things down.
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  Speaker 4: That's no good. I like to catch him off guard.
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  Speaker 6: You, mister Flavan.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know we never met?
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  Speaker 6: Your Name's on the window out front, mister Flavan. We
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  Speaker 6: checked the other two religious stores in this neighborhood. They're closed.
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  Speaker 4: It's the best one anyway, fifty European items.
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  Speaker 5: We're checking the stories around the Mission Church. Oh what
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  Speaker 5: statue of the Child Jesus? Do you have one we
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  Speaker 5: could look at?
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  Speaker 6: Sure? No, sir're a larger one.
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  Speaker 9: You don't want a larger one unless it's for a church.
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  Speaker 9: That's why you want a larger one.
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  Speaker 6: Could we see it? Please?
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  Speaker 4: It's not my dude to butt in. But unless you
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  Speaker 4: live in a big place, this will make your living
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  Speaker 4: room all the counter.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, most of the people who go to the Mission
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  Speaker 6: Church trade here.
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  Speaker 9: Could many of them, specially to kids, white kids, more religious?
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  Speaker 9: Check on yourself see have kids on more religious than
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  Speaker 9: you might be. So that's what's wrong with the world. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: I don't mean you're wrong with it and everybody.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. What if we could take to the point,
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  Speaker 6: mister Flavan.
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  Speaker 4: Sure a lot of people from the Mission church come
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  Speaker 4: in here.
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  Speaker 5: Do people ever come in and sell back a religious article,
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  Speaker 5: a prayer book or rosaries?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Second hand?
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  Speaker 9: You mean yes, sir, not since I ever been around
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  Speaker 9: shilly Why people don't have religious articles so they can
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  Speaker 9: get rid of them. They happened, so they can happen.
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  Speaker 5: But if a man had a statue and wanted to
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  Speaker 5: sell it, he'd come to a place.
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  Speaker 6: Like this, sure, but he wouldn't want.
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  Speaker 10: To sell it.
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  Speaker 9: He would if it was stolen, No, sir, If a
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  Speaker 9: man was to steal a statue, he'd be crazy or
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  Speaker 9: something like that. The only place he'd want to go
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  Speaker 9: is where crazy people are.
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  Speaker 6: You may be right, mister Flaman.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know what you fellas are looking for. But
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  Speaker 9: if it's somebody who stole his tatoo, he's crazy and
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  Speaker 9: you won't find him. You won't find him as long
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  Speaker 9: as you live or in a million years.
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  Speaker 5: That should cover it. We checked religious stores out as
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  Speaker 5: far as Vans. We asked the same questions. The owners
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  Speaker 5: gave us the same answers, but none of them was encouraging.
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  Speaker 5: As mister Flavan, Frank and I had lunch and reported
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  Speaker 5: back to the office. It was one thirty pm when
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  Speaker 5: we started into the squad room. The capital is just
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  Speaker 5: coming out. I just checked Fan a luntrum and we've
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  Speaker 5: been out on that theft of the mission. Make it
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  Speaker 5: show on the Patterson case they locate him. I think
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  Speaker 5: he's on the bus from Sacramento. Well, that means the
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  Speaker 5: Bakersfield police.
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  Speaker 11: We'll wait and see one of you, fellow Sergeant Friday,
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  Speaker 11: he is, I'm Drew Heffnon.
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  Speaker 10: My father said you wanted to see me.
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  Speaker 6: Sit down, son, You didn't have to come in. A
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  Speaker 6: phone call would have worked.
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  Speaker 10: My father said to get on over. He says that
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  Speaker 10: any kid that uses phones is lazy.
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  Speaker 6: We want to ask you about this morning. You served
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  Speaker 6: six o'clock mass.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I'm seeing a boy. Do I get the sixth.
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  Speaker 6: You're a senior and you take the early trick.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, that way, if you received communion, you get that.
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  Speaker 10: Have breakfast sooner.
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  Speaker 5: Father Rojas says, you think the statue was there before
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  Speaker 5: a mass.
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  Speaker 10: I didn't look, but I have a feeling that was there,
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  Speaker 10: a feeling, you know how you have a feeling about
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  Speaker 10: something but you're not sure.
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  Speaker 6: Could you stay around long after a mass?
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  Speaker 10: I put out the candles and hung up.
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  Speaker 6: My surp How long would that take?
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  Speaker 10: About five minutes? Maybe?
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  Speaker 6: Did any of the people at mass stay on?
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  Speaker 10: Some moms do, especially ladies. Oh maybe they don't finishing time,
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  Speaker 10: or else they start new prayers. I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: So when you left there were still some women.
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  Speaker 10: There, No, sir, that was at first. After I went
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  Speaker 10: back to the sacristy, there was only this one man.
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  Speaker 6: What man?
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  Speaker 10: He comes at six o'clock all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know his name?
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  Speaker 10: No, sir, but he works down and arf, you know
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  Speaker 10: all pint shop or the paint signs.
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  Speaker 6: Could you describe him?
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  Speaker 10: Short? Medium, We're no. Suit that didn't match, didn't match,
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  Speaker 10: you know, different pants than coat.
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  Speaker 6: How about his age?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, he's pretty young.
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  Speaker 6: Take a guess about forty.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe there's nothing particular about him.
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  Speaker 6: Then why do you notice him?
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  Speaker 10: I seen him before and the bundle, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: The bundle out in front.
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  Speaker 10: I saw him when he was coming out. He had
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  Speaker 10: this bundle and he almost dropped it.
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  Speaker 6: How large your bundle?
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  Speaker 10: It's hard to say.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, son, was it large or small? The size
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  Speaker 6: of the.
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  Speaker 10: Statue got that big? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: We located the signs shop.
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  Speaker 5: The suspect didn't work there anymore, but we discovered his
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  Speaker 5: name was Claude Strup.
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  Speaker 6: We fought out where he lived. Two twenty five pm.
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  Speaker 6: We arrived there.
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  Speaker 5: It was a hotel for men, mostly old man, mostly
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  Speaker 5: down on hours. Was called the Golden Dream.
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  Speaker 6: Police officers, we're looking for Claude Stroup.
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  Speaker 4: Hope Claude didn't get any trouble.
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  Speaker 6: So the way is he in?
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  Speaker 4: H he's got room three h seven. You can check
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  Speaker 4: if you like.
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  Speaker 6: Go take your word. Were you on this morning? H? Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: The early shift? Well, we don't have shifts. My uncle
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  Speaker 9: owns the place on the shift. Did Stroop spend last
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  Speaker 9: night here? Came in about eleven? When'd he leave this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Round six men.
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  Speaker 9: Before to come back after eight o'clock or so? Then left,
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  Speaker 9: supposed to be back at ten and pulls this trick?
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  Speaker 6: What trick?
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  Speaker 4: Our program? He knows the other fellas need.
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  Speaker 2: Him program be here at the hotel.
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  Speaker 9: Every Christmas, we have a program, put up a tree
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  Speaker 9: and sing and mostly old fellas singing like that makes
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: him remember back when they were kids. And Jimmy Finn
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: comes on. He shares number four oh nine. His family
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: once had a lot of money, so he tells the
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: fellas about it, stories about Christmas, how they had this
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: big log and his grandfather used to start it up.
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: And after dinner everybody turned over his plate and there
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: underneath was a twenty dollar gold piece, brand new one.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: When Stroup came in this morning, did he have a bundle?
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I didn't see him come in?
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: He said, you saw him.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I saw him go out after, but not come in.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: When was that eight? If you want to look for
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: a bundle, I could give you his key.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: We don't have a ward.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: It's all right.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I know about police. It's all right with me.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: It's not with us.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I didn't mean that. I just met. It was all
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: right with me.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Jean we.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: On, Uh stop steave Man.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: When there were three old men, they couldn't tell how
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: much better they would have been.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: With Stroop singing the fourth part, But somehow you didn't care.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: This was Christmas at the.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Golden Dream, and it sounded fine.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Cross flaws crool. Well, when poor man.
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: Came inside calling water.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: This is the last rehearsal.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I got most of the songs down.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Pat sounds pretty good.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: That's why I see shame. Claude isn't here. He's tenor
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: and they need him to make it sound just right.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Does Stroop have a job?
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: No, sir, he used to have jobs, not much.
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: Lately though, you say where he was going? No, he
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: should have. The fellas need him.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: But he comes in what do you call us?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Sure and not saying anything to him.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: I hope it's nothing serious for Claude. Fellas troubles out
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: to be over troubles.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Way back wouldn't count tell us anyway. I don't know
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: much about it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: As much as you know, and not come on.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: It was something back where he used to live, robbed
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: somebody or something, what else? That's all.
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: It was a long time ago, away far back. But
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: he forgot it all or robbing and everything?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: No, not quite hm. He remembered it this morning. Oh
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: res very jam old man.
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: You dismay Jesus Christ same on this day.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: We went back to the office and ran stroops name
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: through our eye. If he'd been booked anywhere. We had
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: no record of it, at least not under that name.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Four or fifteen pm. Pawn shot detail report it back
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: no object resembling the statue of the Child Jesus had
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: been turned in four eighteen pm.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: I hung up the bone.
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: Patterson's on a Sacramento bus. I thought Bakersfield had it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: They were supposed to confirm they did up over the station.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: What about Panning and prior. They're still out, Well, they'll
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: be back soon. When's the bus arrived six o'clock. There's
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: plenty of time for him to make it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: There's more time for you. We're still in that theft.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Can it wait? No? What is it? Ten fifteen dollars statue?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: When's the price determined? The case?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I realized it's a church statue, but that doesn't give
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: a priority. It's important to them. Captain Joe and I
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: promised to get it back.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: What you got on it?
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Nothing much?
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: And whire is a big herder burgery Friday when no,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: don't say anything. No, right, Cloud's troop. He just walked
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: into the hotel. He's our suspect. Nobody's leaked to him. No,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: you'll keep You're gonna run.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Him down tomorrow. It'll be too late then I need
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: it for the first mass in the morning. Skipper's kind
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: of the big thing for them.
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I can't juggle details around, so you can
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: get a statue back this time later on.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: We'll do our.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Best, Yes, sir, you better get over the station. Yes, sir,
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: what you call father ro Hotsover Commission. Tell them we're
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: too busy to work on.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: That statue, but we'll do it later tomorrow or when
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: we get a chance.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I can't you call it. Well, we better get over
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: the station.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: If Patterson's on that bus, we don't want to miss him,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: all right, I'll call.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Him alrighty, yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: I can send finding in priority. Might as well stand
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: another thing. Whenever you say, Kavin, you.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: An action or three pm. We arrived at the Olden
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Dream Hotel.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: The desk clerk was right, Claude Stroop looked like a
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: man who at his troubles at bargain rates.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: We named Claude Stroup. Yes, police officers, we'd like to
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: talk to you.
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: I didn't do anything against the law, honest, I didn't
• 22:13
  Speaker 13: do anything against.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Yep, I'm been accused. I want to take you downtown.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: We like to talk to you. No said, I'm not going.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to talk to anybody.
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: You're half wrong already.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Five point fifteen pm we returned Stooped for interrogation.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: He kept his word. He refused to talk.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Six oh five pm, Frank called Fay total he'd be
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: a little late. Stroop didn't move for a whole hour.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: He sat and stared, but he didn't talk. Six forty
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: pm we got a final report from pawn shop detail.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: The shops were closed. There was no statue. Stroop still
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: hadn't talked.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Don't you ever want to go? Homestroop? If I was
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: to talk, you wouldn't let me go. Depends on what
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: you'd say. I'd say it wrong and I wouldn't get home.
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: You won't this way either.
• 23:11
  Speaker 13: I'd like to go. You can bet on that. This
• 23:14
  Speaker 13: is the seventh year we had the program, and I
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: never missed a one and a single one. Why don't
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: just tell us what happens, toupe?
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: How would I know you'd let me go?
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: You wouldn't. I might as well anyway, all right? What
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: happened from mass on, Well there was mass. I came
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: out and started down towards the hotel back up. I
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: left my stuff at the hotel, and then I picked
• 23:34
  Speaker 13: up Georgia's car. I didn't steal it. He said I
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: could have it any time I wanted, Only this time
• 23:40
  Speaker 13: I didn't ask him.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: I took it and started out. Yeah, I should have asked,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: but I just didn't.
• 23:47
  Speaker 13: I went over to Grand Avenue for the Christmas bulbs
• 23:49
  Speaker 13: for this fellow sales in second hand. It was coming
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: out of the lot, but I did it. Yeah, the
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: bumper must have caught the other car didn't leave too
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: big a dent, but there was this long scratch. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 13: got off and tried to wipe it off with my handkerchief,
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: you know, spit on a line.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Only didn't do no good.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: I didn't think anybody saw. I don't know how you
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Fellas found out about it. I'll check out of records, right, stroop.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: We didn't bring you down here to talk about that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: We didn't know.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: There's a statue missing from the church, the statue of
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: the Child Jesus.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: You mean I took it?
• 24:26
  Speaker 13: You took a bundle out of church. You guys say
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: that was my other pants for the program to night.
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: I had a place sewed up and there was a
• 24:33
  Speaker 13: button off you can check. But I wouldn't take a statue.
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: I don't think you would either.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: He's clear at auto records quite hope for the program?
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: You mean it's all right? Good night's troop.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: Night, Merry Christmas?
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Where too? Well, I don't know. We could stay and
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: work on it tonight. It wouldn't do any good.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: We won't find it, I don't think, so tell he's
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: kidding the priest. Build his hope set as we'll go.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Tell him now, Merry Christmas. Seven twenty seven pm. We
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: found Father Rojas. Frank told him how it was that
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: we couldn't get the statue back by morning, but that
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: we'd keep trying during the week.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: He said he understood. We told him we had to
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: get on.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: As Frank and I started to leave, the doors at
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: the main entrance to the church opened.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: It was a good two hundred feet away.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: It was hard to be sure, but it looked like
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: a small boy drawing a bright red wagon behind him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: When he got closer, you could see was no bigger
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: than a pint of milk.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: It was a luminous side.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Little Mexican boy with a face as young as yesterday.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: The priest seemed to know him.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Akito. In the back of the wagon was the missing
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: statue of the child Jesus. He picked it up gently
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: and walked up.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: To the priest has He just stood there looking up
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: at Father Rojas. Spaco Mendoza, the boy from the Paridi
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: ask him where he found it, dundel and contrasting.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: On here's a maniana.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: He didn't find it. He took it white Okayo restaurant.
• 27:11
  Speaker 15: Must I leave Histores, I leave his l flemo riahi
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: in me communs, he.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Says, all through the years he's prayed for a red wagon.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: This year he prayed to the child Jesus. He promised
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: that if he got the wagon, the child Jesus would
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: have the first ride in it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 15: And is diabo paquito he wants not the devil will
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: come and take him to hell.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Not sure department problem noel diavo. This is a ma
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: Pako crossed over to the sanctuary. With the help of
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Father Rojas.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: The young boy replaced the infant Jesus in the right
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: to replace the crib in the nativity scene. Frank and
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I could have been wrong, But the small plaster's statue
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: seemed to approve Mary Joseph, the wise Man, Gaspar.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: No Kire Baldazar, the old shepherd.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: The young shepherd, the peasant. They all seemed to approve.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Red priest told the boy to go home. He took
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: hold of his wagon started the long walk out of
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: the church. There wasn't much we could say. There wasn't
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: much to say. We just stood there and watched them go.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Halfway up, he turned to look back, and he went
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: on out.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: I don't understand how we got that wagon today. Don't
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: kids wait for Santa Claus anymore?
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: It isn't from Santa Claus. The fireman fixs old toys
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: and kids them to new children. Paquito's family, they're poor.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Where are they father? The story you have just heard
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: is true.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: The names and locations were changed.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: You have just heard.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Dragnet a series of authentic cases from a technical advice
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Pucker,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. A quite classic episode with a very different
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: feel from the normal Dragnet. It has some points that
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: are artifacts of its time. I actually went and watched
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty eight version because I wasn't sure that
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: they used that line about the dad saying that boys
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: who use the phone are lazy, but they'd did deil.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I think the core of the story spoke to something
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: more timeless. Over the years, many Christmas specials, some good
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and some bad, have pride the commercialism of Christmas. This
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: is kind of the opposite side of the coin. Rather
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: than complaining about apartment stores and big interest and big corporations,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: this holds up the example of Christmas observed by those
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: who have very little.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: A little boy with a.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Repaired second hand toy, a group of down and out
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: men giving their all to prepare for Christmas and sharing
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a humble meal, and stories of better days. They celebrate
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: even though they are poor. But are they father. It's
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a simple but profound question that the episode leaves the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: audience to ponder as a mystery. There's not a whole
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: lot here, and obviously they don't even really solve the case.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: But it's a story about Joe and Frank being drawn
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: into this world and understanding that, even though there's not
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of money involved, that this is an important case.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: It was unusual at the time for Friday or his
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: partner to push back on the captain, but he does hear,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and it's a good question. When does the money determine
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the importance of the case? The question ties into the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: theme that the season is about things greater than money
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: or financial value. The episode's theme is quietly encoded in
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the song song at the Golden Dream Good King Winces's Loss.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I used to think the choice of the song was incidental,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that they just wanted some Christmas song, and the reason
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: is because I didn't understand it. Now, to be fair,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people don't because Good
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: King WinCE's Loss is a challenge because at first glance,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to fit into the typical themes of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: chrism music Jesus sent Santa winter and having a good time.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: It also varies from other Christmas classics in really dramatic ways.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I remember a time I got together with some friends
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to sing carols. Someone forgot to bring words, and it
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: was a short session because we all knew nothing more
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: than the first verse and chorus of each song. And honestly,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: whether you're talking about a sacred song like Silent or
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Not or something that's just a little more jolly like
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: deck the Halls. Well, there are many verses to most songs,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the first verse and the chorus are enough to capture
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the feelings, and that's what we hang on to emotionally,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: most of us. Good King Wincess Loss is different because
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: it's a story song and the first verse doesn't tell
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: us much. It's at the feast of Stephen, which, if
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you look up, is the day after Christmas Day. The
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: King's looking out the window, it's cold, and a poor
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: man comes out together full all that most of us know.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: The Victorian song is rooted in the legend of a
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: real tenth century Bohemian king who left the comfort of
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: his palace to enter a winter storm to give alms
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to a poor stranger. By its final verse, the carol
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: becomes an explicit call to charity, even promising blessing to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: those who follow the king's examples, but with a Christian frame.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Once's Loss also becomes a mirror of Christ leaving the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: warmth and glory of heaven to enter the cold poverty
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: of the world, and that's where Breeen's choice becomes so precise,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Sung by forgotten men in a broken down hotel. The
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: song becomes practically a prophecy. Christmas in the story belongs most.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: Clearly to the poor, and so the king.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: In the statue of the Child of Jesus was where
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: he belonged all the time. In terms of the production itself.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: In his book My Name's Friday, Michael Hayes sides two
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: things that he found were distracting problems with the episode.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: The first goes back to a problem that during the
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: golden Age of Hollywood, many people failed to comprehend the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: difference between Portuguese and Spanish last names, and that people
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: from Brazil and Portugal speak Portuguese. Now you can be
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: ignorant of this, and you can get through your life
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: without ever knowing this, and odds are you will never
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: have a problem as a result of this. Jack Web
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: was not so fortunate. As the program was being filmed
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and recorded, he discovered that the young actor that he'd
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: hired was of Portuguese descent and couldn't speak a word
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: of Spanish. He had to learn his lines phonetically, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: according to Hayes, this came off as to woulden to me.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I never saw it that way. I always interpreted the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: way he delivered it as him being nervous, just because
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm nervous, I can come off a little staff.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: The point which I do agree with hayt On is
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that Friday is just way too harsh this episode. Well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's understandable that he's racing against the clock,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: so he might not be patient. This behavior, in some
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: ways was just totally against the sort of personality that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Friday had shown. I mean, he was getting rough with
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: everybody's a desk clerk and even the altar boy. If
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I'm in the place of the altar boy in this episode,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I'm really afraid that Friday is gonna nail me to
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the wall for something if I don't deliver with my
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: best guess as to the size of the bundle versus
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the size of the statue of the child Jesus really quick.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Of course, Breen had written hard boiled crime stuff like
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Pat Novak for Hire, and I think he was kind
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: of leaning into that approach with the Dragnet episode. It's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a bit distracting here, but his inability to get Friday's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: voice right as listeners had seen and heard it since
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine, and Web either being unwilling or unable
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: to rain his friend in would lead to bigger problems
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifty four Dragnet film, I guess is
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: another story. On a more positive note, One of the
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: things I noted is how many people were cast in
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: both the nineteen fifty three and sixty seven version of
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the story. In addition to Jack Webb, Harry Bartel, Herb Vigrin,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: and Ralph Moody appear as Father Rojas, the desk clerk,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and mister Flavin. In all versions of the story. There
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: are details that did get changed in the nineteen sixties version.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties TV version, for example, Claude Stroup
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: works at a mini golf place, and when Friday presses
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the older boy on whether the package was about the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: size of the statue, he's dialed back the intensity about
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: two or three levels, so it's not so out of
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: character for the good sergeant. Otherwise, the nineteen sixty seven
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: broadcasts remains pretty much the same, and I think with
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: those three actors, he recognized that those performances were perfect
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: for what the script required, which is refreshing for an
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: era when and the work of actors, particularly the work
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of old radio actors was often disregarded or as seen
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  Speaker 1: as disposable or replaceable, and seriously, could anyone else but
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  Speaker 1: Ralph Moody play mister Flavin? Web knew that the story
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  Speaker 1: needed to be remade for technical reasons. Even if the
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  Speaker 1: original nineteen fifty three color print had survived, there were
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  Speaker 1: many technical complaints with it and it couldn't compare to
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  Speaker 1: what they were able to do in color in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven. He certainly recognized that there were some minor
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  Speaker 1: tweaks that could be done to the script and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: to his performance, without doing any harm to the story.
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  Speaker 1: The core of the episode was beautiful and that didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to be updated or changed. In fact, it was
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  Speaker 1: more needful in nineteen sixty seven than it had been
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty three. Now, the world was not a
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  Speaker 1: perfect place. In nineteen fifty three, a country was just
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the Korean War, but there was a
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  Speaker 1: level of upheaval, division and uncertainty that was really palpable
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  Speaker 1: in the United States during that era. I think of
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  Speaker 1: it in the same sort of class, though not obviously
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  Speaker 1: on his grand a scale, as the nineteen sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: Apollo eight mission and the reading of Genesis in that
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  Speaker 1: it provided hope and reassurance to a troubled world and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps still can today. Listener comments and feedback now and
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  Speaker 1: in regarding the episode the Big September Man. Good one. Well,
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  Speaker 10: Tom.
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  Speaker 1: back here tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Dollar, where.
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  Speaker 16: I'm glad to see I'm back to town? Why certainly?
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  Speaker 10: Doc Oh, this is mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, Chris?
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  Speaker 10: Is he still our eyes and.
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  Speaker 16: Couldn't shave and sitting out here waiting for you?
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  Speaker 6: You haven't seen the patience?
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  Speaker 16: Letical man, who's a duty.
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  Speaker 5: And all that?
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  Speaker 10: But I'm too old.
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  Speaker 3: Talk back to a gun.
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  Speaker 6: They wouldn't let you. Well, I'm not a medical fan.
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  Speaker 4: Supposelease be careful, Johnny.
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  Speaker 6: I told your star bus stay away and leave the
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  Speaker 6: old man.
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  Speaker 16: Well, if I little Genie the policy pictures?
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  Speaker 6: Who are you, mister buddy do Gastino? This is Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 6: He's in the insurance company to see about changing the policy.
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  Speaker 16: Who are you talking, man, Adam?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: Give us some terrorist directions?
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  Speaker 16: Back to by stove? Have you know policy changing at
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  Speaker 16: this late date? Mister ned Kringle is very bereaved at
• 43:47
  Speaker 16: the imminence of his uncle's demid just family admitted it.
• 43:51
  Speaker 16: This said Alice, the most of your long folks, I
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  Speaker 16: don't leave the young man was great. Your foot is
• 43:58
  Speaker 16: in the door, mister, I don't like your foot.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.