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The Whistler - "Three Wise Guys" (1950) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On Christmas Eve, three small time criminals leave a nearly
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  Speaker 1: deserted Broadway bar and head for Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in search
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  Speaker 1: of money from an old factory payroll robbery. Their journey
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  Speaker 1: is the setting for The Whistler's Three Wise Guys, adapted
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  Speaker 1: by Kathleen Hight from Damon Runyon's short story. John Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Miller, Bill Foreman, and Jack Moyles are featured in
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  Speaker 1: this CBS Pacific Network broadcast sponsored by Signal Oil Company,
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  Speaker 1: first heard December twenty fourth, nineteen fifty. It is episode
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  Speaker 1: four hundred forty seven of The Whistler. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And no'll stay tuned for the program that has rated
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  Speaker 2: tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
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  Speaker 2: any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal
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  Speaker 2: Oil program The Whistler transcribed by the Signal Oil Company
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  Speaker 2: for Christmas Eve to enable the entire production staff of
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  Speaker 2: The Whistler to spend Christmas Eve at home with their families.
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  Speaker 2: Signal the famous Godfather Gasoline invite you to sit back
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  Speaker 2: and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
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  Speaker 3: I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
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  Speaker 3: I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
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  Speaker 3: in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
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  Speaker 3: into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
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  Speaker 3: which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 2: And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Christler brings
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  Speaker 2: you a most unusual story, one of.
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  Speaker 4: The most heartwarming stories of.
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  Speaker 2: Our times, especially appealing this Christmas Eve, Three wise.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, twas the night before Christmas, and all through the
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  Speaker 3: house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
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  Speaker 3: Even Broadway, that glamorous avenue of Make Believe in faraway
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  Speaker 3: New York, seemed.
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  Speaker 4: Empty, deserted.
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  Speaker 3: Most cafes and eating places were closed, but the doors
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  Speaker 3: of an occasional refuge for those hardy souls who prefer
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  Speaker 3: to walk alone were still open. Such a place was
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  Speaker 3: Good Time Charlie's Bar on forty ninth Street, where, on
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  Speaker 3: another Christmas Eve, a series of unusual events began, ending
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  Speaker 3: in one of the most unusual stories Good Time.
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  Speaker 5: Charlie had ever listened to him.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment, Charlie is listening to the voice of
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  Speaker 3: a man named al As is.
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  Speaker 5: Well known to one and all. Charlie.
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  Speaker 6: I am not one to complaint, but it strikes me
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  Speaker 6: that Broadway would.
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  Speaker 5: Bring very little tonight on the open market.
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  Speaker 7: I know you ten maybe fifteen years old. Until now,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know you know there is an open market
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  Speaker 7: for the.
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  Speaker 5: Past twelve months that I know of.
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  Speaker 6: I am one hundred percent legitimate, honest, legitimate al.
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  Speaker 7: Want another rock Candy and rye without the rock candy.
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  Speaker 6: I very seldom indulge in alcoholic beverages. But then answer
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  Speaker 6: to your question, yes.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't seen you for you well want to run
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  Speaker 7: over that part again where you tell me you're playing
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  Speaker 7: it straight for the past twelve months.
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  Speaker 6: As of last Christmas Eve, I am a one hundred
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  Speaker 6: percent honest tickets cowper. I do not make a killing,
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  Speaker 6: but I get that good, warm feeling that comes with
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  Speaker 6: being one hundred percent legit.
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  Speaker 7: It feels good to play it straight. Cozy, you want
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  Speaker 7: to tell me about it all, I do not mind
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  Speaker 7: if I do. Good time, Charlie.
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  Speaker 4: It all begins a year ago.
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  Speaker 6: Tonight right here in your strictly high class drum Blondie
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  Speaker 6: Swanson was here with.
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  Speaker 5: Me, remember, yeah, I think I do remember now, Bloody.
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  Speaker 6: Swanson is one of the gently which operates on that
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  Speaker 6: side of the law.
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  Speaker 5: As very few called right though Bloody himself always feels.
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  Speaker 6: This is a matter of opinion, But Blondy is not
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  Speaker 6: concerned with his racket a year ago tonight, you are
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  Speaker 6: busy chuffing the bar. Good time, Charlie, So maybe you
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  Speaker 6: do not notice the sad scene. Yep, it is last year,
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  Speaker 6: just about this same time when Blondie comes in here
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  Speaker 6: his big frame pretzel.
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  Speaker 4: With Greek Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hi you, Bloody, I see you are not so
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  Speaker 5: happy tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Why not join me in a medicinal rock candy and
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  Speaker 6: rye without the rock candy.
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  Speaker 5: I am fighting off a touch of grip.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I got a bad taste of memories tonight. If
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  Speaker 4: I can pack away the grip, maybe you can take
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  Speaker 4: a load off my memories.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Charlie, two more rock candies and rise without the
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  Speaker 6: rock candy.
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  Speaker 4: I'll slide them down.
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  Speaker 5: Are these conversational memories, Blondie? Or shall we give them
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  Speaker 5: the clam all?
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  Speaker 4: A doll named Clara Belle cab Bell.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Clara Belle cab Of course I do.
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  Speaker 6: She is well known to one and all on Broadway
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  Speaker 6: as a leading light with George White scandal some years back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Christmas Eve is an anniversary for me. It
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  Speaker 4: was on Christmas Eve that Clara Bell left me to
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  Speaker 4: marry an honest guy in acron, Ohio. There you are,
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  Speaker 4: oh quack.
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  Speaker 5: Up money up to now?
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  Speaker 6: I remember miss Clara Bell cab as a doll with
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  Speaker 6: glass a judgment.
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  Speaker 5: Why did she put distance between her and you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Clara Bell was a girl that didn't care as
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  Speaker 4: much about how much money you had as she did
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  Speaker 4: where you got it. She felt that my role was
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  Speaker 4: ample but painted.
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  Speaker 5: This is why she puts on the exit right.
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  Speaker 4: I can see now that she was right, But now
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  Speaker 4: it's too late.
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  Speaker 6: But there must be other dolls as beautiful and desirable,
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  Speaker 6: and not such quiz masters as to where the scratch
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  Speaker 6: comes from.
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  Speaker 4: I'll never look at another dog god doll again. There
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  Speaker 4: therefore other guys.
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  Speaker 8: Frondie, Ronde Swanson, Well, ain't the Dutch run lord?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 5: Wow, Rondie, you tides all around. I cannot believe my eyes. Dutchman,
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  Speaker 5: I have not seen you in these plots for maybe
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  Speaker 5: a full calendar result.
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  Speaker 8: I've been detained in the West. It's a sad story,
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  Speaker 8: and I can see that all you two guys need
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  Speaker 8: is one more sad story.
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  Speaker 5: But you're not gonna hear nothing. I got good news
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  Speaker 5: for you.
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  Speaker 4: And you have come to the right place. Dutchman, I
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  Speaker 4: always get kind of down on Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 8: What I'm gonna tell you'll give you a big lift, Brondie.
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  Speaker 8: You and me have pulled a few fast deals together,
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  Speaker 8: but I got one to night. That's the softest touch
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  Speaker 8: of oar oh, you can listen, al we'll cut you into.
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  Speaker 6: I have turned down soft touches before, but not wishing
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  Speaker 6: to be rude, I will hear you out.
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  Speaker 8: Some months back, three other guys in me knocked off
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  Speaker 8: a tin safe in a factory over in Pennsylvania. It
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  Speaker 8: was a cinch haul on account we received a dead
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  Speaker 8: center tip. The tip was on the level, so we
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  Speaker 8: stashed fifth the g's in our gripsack and get set
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  Speaker 8: to hit the open rope.
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  Speaker 4: Something detained you the cops.
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  Speaker 8: After hot blasting from both sides, I find myself alone
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  Speaker 8: on the lamb with fifty g's in the gripsack. But
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  Speaker 8: it's not a clean getaway, and I figure it's better
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  Speaker 8: to find a hiding place for the dough.
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  Speaker 5: Not wanting to be caught with the goods.
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  Speaker 4: I am beginning to get the idea you are suggesting
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  Speaker 4: that the three of us go for this dough tonight
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  Speaker 4: and cut it three ways.
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  Speaker 5: That's the idea. It's in an unpopulated bond under the floorboards.
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  Speaker 8: When I decide to go get it, the first guy
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  Speaker 8: I think of is you, Blondie, how about it?
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  Speaker 4: I must admit I got no other plan's Dutchmen, nice
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  Speaker 4: of you to think of me, count me in?
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  Speaker 5: How about you?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I am not generally known as a spoil sport, but
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  Speaker 6: this prospect frankly holds no appeal for me. I do
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  Speaker 6: not wish to join the part.
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  Speaker 5: This is your final answer, Yes, Dutch when you may
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  Speaker 5: quote me, I will not go with you. Well, good time, County.
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  Speaker 6: That's the way it went. I am certain I will
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  Speaker 6: not leave your bisto that night. I am negative to
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  Speaker 6: the whole scheme, and I.
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  Speaker 5: Am nixing it, loud and clear to one and all.
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  Speaker 6: So imagine my surprise at some later point to find
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  Speaker 6: myself warm and cozy in the backseat of the Dutchman's
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  Speaker 6: ancient Philosophy, dogging it through the snow covered country side.
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  Speaker 5: The whole setting is so peaceful.
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  Speaker 6: I am catching small doses of snools, but in between
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  Speaker 6: times I cannot help it over here, the upfront conversation
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  Speaker 6: of Blondie.
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  Speaker 4: And the Dutchman. You sure this is the right road, Dutchman.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, I'm sure I can fly this road blind if necessity.
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  Speaker 4: You are not flying blind now? So you must have
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  Speaker 4: noticed that the ladiator is pycolating again. I think we
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  Speaker 4: better stop and take on another load of snow.
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  Speaker 5: I guess we'll have to, but I sure hate these delays.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Dutchmen, listen, must be coming from that little choice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, come on, help put the snow in the radia.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds real pretty, that kind of singing.
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  Speaker 8: You think that's pretty when you hear real music, the
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  Speaker 8: kind money makes when it's crisp. Hey, hey, blundy Dutchman,
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  Speaker 8: Where where are we in Pennsylvania? Not far from that
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  Speaker 8: bond where I stashed a factory payroll?
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  Speaker 5: How can you tell? I, for one, see very little
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  Speaker 5: but doctors around and above.
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  Speaker 4: I got to agree with al Dutchman. I got a
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  Speaker 4: feeling real lost.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we better give the whole scheme.
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  Speaker 8: You two give up easy. I tell you I know
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  Speaker 8: for certain we're close to that bar. I can tell
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  Speaker 8: by that big fat star I've been following for the
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  Speaker 8: last few miles.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and I am seeing a small light of here.
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  Speaker 6: But I observe if this is a star, it is
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  Speaker 6: hanging very low to the ground.
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  Speaker 4: I still got a feeling we are lost.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we go back to good time Charlie's, which
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  Speaker 2: is a lot easier to find.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care how low this star is hanging. I
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  Speaker 5: know it's leading me straight. I'm running a show, so
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  Speaker 5: you too, better see love.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I'm right his brain.
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  Speaker 5: This is a barn. I do not wish to stop
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  Speaker 5: an exchange of words.
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  Speaker 6: But that's there, you funnel. It turns out to be
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  Speaker 6: nothing more than a light from the window of said barn.
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  Speaker 8: Oh okay, so somebody's living in a barn. I'll take
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  Speaker 8: care of them. If they're too hard to get along.
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  Speaker 4: With, I vote for get naughty here.
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  Speaker 5: I am not dressed to call on strangers myself.
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  Speaker 8: Come on and cut the gap side. Maybe there's only
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  Speaker 8: animals in the barn. I don't see no human footprints
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  Speaker 8: in the snow except ours.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be dog gone. Look through that window, Blondie, he's
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  Speaker 5: got a doll in there, let me see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, she's a doll. Not only that, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think she's feeling in a pink either. That we are here.
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  Speaker 4: Let us go inside and see if there's anything we
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  Speaker 4: can do for.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care nothing about a shick da. I want
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  Speaker 8: to lay my Mitchell at Clipshock with a fifty Jes
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  Speaker 8: in it.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, who's there?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: We mean no harm? We we woful diffy Miss Corra
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  Speaker 4: bro Cob.
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  Speaker 2: Person friends, to all of you who have opened your
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  Speaker 2: homes to the Whistler, not only throughout the year, but
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  Speaker 2: even tonight on Christmas Eve. The Signal Oil Company has
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  Speaker 2: asked me to express their sincere appreciation for this privilege
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  Speaker 2: and pleasure, and we of the cast want to add
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  Speaker 2: our thank you too. During the eighth consecutive year is
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  Speaker 2: that the Whistler has been broadcast by Signal Oil Company.
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  Speaker 2: Many of us have celebrated Christmas with many of you
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  Speaker 2: a number of times, and believe me, we're mighty proud
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  Speaker 2: that you consider us part of your entertainment family. Tonight
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of Signal Oil Company and the independent signal
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  Speaker 2: dealers who serve you in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: and Utah. I want to convey warmest seasons greeting, May
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  Speaker 2: the many blessings of living in these United States of
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  Speaker 2: America enrich your holiday season and the New year.
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  Speaker 3: Year sol That isolated barn in the snowsweat Pennsylvania countryside,
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  Speaker 3: so far removed from good Time Charlie's Bar, where you're
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  Speaker 3: now enjoying Charlie's Rock Candy and Rye without the rock candy,
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  Speaker 3: held a surprising development for you, Blondie Swanson and the Dutchman.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't The three of you had driven there that Christmas
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  Speaker 3: Eve a year ago to claim the fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: payroll a Dutchman had hidden there. The presence of Miss
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  Speaker 3: Clara Belle Cob in the barn at your arrival was
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  Speaker 3: something not even her ex boyfriend Blondie Swanson could fathom immediately,
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  Speaker 3: and you were even more puzzled than Blondie.
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  Speaker 4: Weren't you out?
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  Speaker 3: Only the Dutchman seemed to have the faintest understanding of
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  Speaker 3: what it's all about, so you turned.
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  Speaker 4: To the Dutchman.
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  Speaker 5: Dutchman, I am not understanding all this. Why do you
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  Speaker 5: not inform us? Listen?
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  Speaker 8: Now, you and Blondie better clear out of here for
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  Speaker 8: a while. Take a walk in the snow. I guess
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  Speaker 8: I'll have to take care of this doll.
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  Speaker 4: Huh. Hell, look, Dutchman, I haven't seen Clara Bell for
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  Speaker 4: a long time. If you think I'm gonna leave her
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  Speaker 4: an hour and go for a walk where there you
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  Speaker 4: are nuts?
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  Speaker 6: Besides which, Dutchman, this doll is clearly at grips with
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  Speaker 6: some strange I do not think it is polite the
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  Speaker 6: three of us should visit this manner at this time.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, I came here to get fifty gees, not a
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  Speaker 8: sick doll and a lot of lip from you two.
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  Speaker 5: This won't take long, so flow for Dutchman. I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: fed up with you. Blondie. I know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 8: I've delivered seven of the eight kids my wife's had,
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  Speaker 8: and I never needed no doctor.
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  Speaker 5: This one will be a sinch. Now, will you get
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  Speaker 5: out of here? I cannot help but say this is
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  Speaker 5: quite a night for surprise, is blundee?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I for one can take winter sports or leave them
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  Speaker 6: to someone else. Oh yeah, Blondie, we.
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  Speaker 4: Could pick the Dutchman's card here. Do you think Clara
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  Speaker 4: Bell would be better off if we get our doc?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I am new in this rank at Blandie. But if
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  Speaker 6: you want an inexperienced opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I will say, or was that what got well?
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  Speaker 6: Blondie?
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  Speaker 5: I am new in this right, But if you want an.
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  Speaker 6: Experienced opinion, I will say, Miss Clara Belle cap is
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  Speaker 6: a sench mother.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's get back to the bond.
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  Speaker 4: I wish you wouldn't cry, Clara bell No sense.
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  Speaker 5: Crying, oh Blonde.
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  Speaker 4: I know, if all of a sudden I found myself
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  Speaker 4: with a brand new kid, I wouldn't be crying as youre.
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  Speaker 4: Sinse it's such a such a beautiful kid. Do you
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  Speaker 4: really think he's beautiful, Blondie, I sure do.
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  Speaker 5: He's sleeping, bless his heart.
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  Speaker 4: If you only get a break, I don't worry about him,
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  Speaker 4: Clara Belle, A beautiful kid like that? You love me Maclan, Oh, Blondie,
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  Speaker 4: there's so much I want to tell you. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 4: maybe you are the street now yourself. Not till I
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  Speaker 4: tell you, Blondie. You've got to know about everything. Why
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  Speaker 4: I'm staying here in doctor Kelton's barn.
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  Speaker 6: About Joe, my husband.
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  Speaker 4: He's in such trouble.
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  Speaker 9: Bloody easy jail.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, hell, let's go find the clipsack. I know
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  Speaker 5: right where it is. Look, this is more like it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's all there.
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  Speaker 8: Fifty thousand bucks a very likely saying this is all
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  Speaker 8: it counts a fat swatch of cash, especially if it's mine.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's get blonde. He ain't clean out of
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  Speaker 5: his barn.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't going anywhere with that old Dutchman.
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  Speaker 5: You want to play that again, Blondie, same song.
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  Speaker 4: I said, you ain't going anywhere with that door.
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  Speaker 5: Now you tell me what he said out. I don't
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  Speaker 5: like what I'm hearing.
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  Speaker 6: Blondy has mouthed the same identical words two times around Dutchman,
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  Speaker 6: and I, for one get the impression he means it.
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  Speaker 8: I do.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't tell us the whole story of this dough
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  Speaker 4: and how you came by your dutchment. No, I've been listening.
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  Speaker 4: I heard everything you said about this factory payroll job
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  Speaker 4: you pulled, and you never did say anything about trusting
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  Speaker 4: up the bookkeeper at the factory that night. So what not?
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  Speaker 4: Only that you make it look like it's the inside
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  Speaker 4: job beneath the bookkeeper that take the wrap.
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  Speaker 8: So they got to nail somebody for it. Why are
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  Speaker 8: you building such a case for this clock bookkeeper.
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  Speaker 4: This cluck bookkeeper Joseph Hatcher happens to be Clara Bell's husband.
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  Speaker 4: That's his kid you delivered, Dutchman, No kidding, no kidding.
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  Speaker 4: Did miss Clara Bell come tell you all?
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  Speaker 5: It's blandy?
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  Speaker 4: She told me plenty. This Joseph Hatch has been cooling
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  Speaker 4: in the quick ever since he was doing a special
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  Speaker 4: bookkeeping job for his factory. Came here from Aquin to
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  Speaker 4: do it. He's a right guy, an honest guy. Or
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  Speaker 4: can you understand that? Dutchman?
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  Speaker 8: Here, Blondie, here's something honest. I understand, yeah, gun, easy
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  Speaker 8: to cut about. I look, Blondie, I've been patient with you.
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  Speaker 8: I know you're soft for this doll. That's your business,
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: but you're interfering with mind Blondie and I don't like that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Now let's get out of here with the dough and quick,
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: I said, come.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: On, let's get going.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Dutchman. Please put the iron away. It is nothing keeping
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: with the season. The bullet he around, Blondie, in addition
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: to which the shouting is at to wait that kid,
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: who is a pretty tired character like his mama.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Well, now you're going soft owl, what's what you do?
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: We're some Dutchman. Clara Belt's husband don't know she's living
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: in this bond. When she heard they sallowed him away
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: on a bum wrap, she came here to try to
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: help him, and she found out she was going to
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: have a kid, and she looked up a doc here,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: guy named Kelton. Clara Bell's got no o, but Doc
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Kelton gives her first great care all up to now,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: even fixes it so you can stay at his bard.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: It is not great, but it beats living in a
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: snowbank the stoward.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Will you the heater Dutchman, Yeah, okay, okay, but I'm
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: still running the show, wise guys, and this is what
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: we do, Bondie, here's the gripsack. Take my cred out
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: there and find this Doc Kelton character, pay him off
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: for what he's already done for the doll, give him
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: some offer taking care of her and a kid from
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: here on in.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Then bring the gripsack back.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Here and we'll blow Yeah for you, Brett Dutchman, And
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: you can tell this doctor a couple of things for me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: Tell him to get Clara Belle and the kid to
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: a hospital when they belonged. Sure, Dutchman, Sure, tell him.
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: Until now, we didn't need no doc that the Dutchman
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: took care of things perfect, and that mama and kid
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: are doing nice, real nice.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: For all of you who play Canasta or have been
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: thinking of taking up the game, there's a little Christmas
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: gift for you at your nearest signal service station. It's
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: a twelve page booklet on that exciting new version of Canasta,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Hollywood three deck Canasta, which is replacing the old two
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: deck game practically everywhere.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: It's been prized.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: In fact, Robert Lee Johnson, the only Pacific Coast member
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: of the National Canasta Laws Commission, says of this game,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: You'll never know how much fun cards can be until
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you've played this exciting new three deck game. It has
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: completely replaced two deck Canasta with all my friends in
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Hollywood and friends. The booklet I mentioned is written by
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the man who devised this new game, so the rules
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: are both complete and authentic right now. In fact, this
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: booklet is being sold by leading department store in thirty
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: two States, but you needn't buy a copy. One is
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: waiting for you free while the supply last, at any
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: signal service station. It is the hope of your signal
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: dealer that this fun packed new version of Canasta will
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: add to the card playing pleasure of your holidays.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: It was almost midnight on Christmas Eve at Good Time
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Charlie's Bar on West forty ninth Street, as Al continued
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: his amazing account of the story of that other Christmas
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Eve that crossed the lives of Blondie Swanson, Miss Clarabelle
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Cobb and a newborn son, the Dutchman and his gripsack
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: containing fifty thousand dollars. As Al continued talking to good
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Time Charlie, a faraway look came into his eyes.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: So you see, good Time Charlie, it is no more
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: than small wonder that since all this takes place a
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: year ago, this very night, me, Blondie and the Dutchman,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: I've settled down to one legitimate and depth.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah sure, and why not a three ways split on
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: almost fifty stolen Jesus has since begullan to this strait
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: and narror you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Are laboring, as they say, under a misapprehension. Good fan, Challie,
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I see now where it is only fair I tell
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: you the rest of this story. At the Blondie makes
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: the deal with Doc Chelton to get this Clara Belle
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: carbon her brand new kid out of that bond and
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: into a Class A hospital arrangement. The three of us
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: are once again the Dutchman's hot ride, beaten it along
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: the streets of some pint seizeberg in Pennsylvania, thinking to
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: leave this territory where them was once. You know, maybe
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: age is catching up with me. Feels great right now.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: We still got nearly fifty thousand clams in a gripsack,
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: and somehow I don't feel great at all.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: You did bring the gripsack back from Doc Kelton's blundy.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure, the Dutchman.
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: The gripsacks in the back seat without funny it don't
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: feel good, and it should.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Perhaps a touch of rock candy and right without the
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: rock cand would warm your hut.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: That's rue. Oh maybe, so pash up the bottle. I
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: am willing to do this, but the battle will be
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: of small comfort as it is empty.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Oh well, thanks for nothing. Oh well, it's nuts and
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: motor and we'll blow this burg.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Get back to native territory. New York Quarter looked pretty good.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Hey, petspo town, Dutchman.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: The law is durming on a great and saw such
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: a night in my life.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: A red light back there was no Christmas tree or ament.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: You should have stopped. Sorry there in a church zone. Clearly,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: my for twenty miles an hour forty is too much.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Was hurrying home for Christmas office carrying toys for the
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: kiddies in this tub, I'll bet I better have a
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: look around.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Uh huh, Oh what's in this grip sack? Oh my,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: nothing of the it's empty, a grip sack as you
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: never run into. Yeah, no need to open it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: It's empty.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: You're right about that, mister.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: There's nothing there.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah huh, easy dutchment. But you're sure it's empty? Sure
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: I'm sure, weren't you? Oh yeah, sure, sure, sure, I
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: was sure. I just wanted you to be sure.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Carry nothing but im fizz.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: You guys empty this bottle all by yourselves.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: This battle is once full of medicine officers. I myself
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: have been more than af a touch of the grip.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I am now in the pink. As the scene goes, Oh,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: wise guys, huh free, Wise guys.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You know, if it won't practically Christmas, i'd haul you in.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Go on, I'll get out of our town.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, am.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: Merry Christmas, three wise guys, Yeah, yeah, same to you, uh, Dutchman,
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: you know Blondie. A while back you accuse me of
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: not telling you the whole story of that factory payroll job.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Seems to me you forgot to tell me something pretty
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: important too. What is it about that grip sack being
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: empty of nearly fifty g's that I order know?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Well? I figured that for you in Dutchman, Brandie, Dutchman.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: It's that same little church.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know something.
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: It's a miracle. I don't know yet what happened to
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: that nearly fifty g's in the grip sack, But if
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: that coppy red chorus with that dough, we'd be on
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: our way to the clink right now.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: And there's yeah or you.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: See, Dutchman, when I called on Dark Choking tonight, left
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: all that go with him, the whole fifty gees pull
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: him to give it back where belongs. I told him
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: enough more that the doctor Showy can spring Clara Bell's
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: husband out of jail, so him and Clara Bell and
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: the new kid to be together.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: This doc Keelshim is the right guy, oh, I say
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: he is.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: But he even agreed to give us a head start
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: for the Pennsylvania border before he ortified the law. This
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: is it right?
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and we better oblige the doc and ourselves by
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: making a border ahead of the cops.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: And you know that Copper was right, three wise guys,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: he called us.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: If we wasn't pretty wise, we'd have had all that
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: cash on us when he pulled us over to the curb.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's a good idea.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: We stay right on being three wise guys. I'm through
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: stretching my luck from here on in. I'm gonna play
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: it straight and.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I'm still running a show. So you two wise guys
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: going straight with me? Okay?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Okay? Agree?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Wonder how far it is to the border. They got
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: a lot of funny little birds here in Pennsylvania. What
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: was that when we just left Blondie?
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Oh? I saw signboard back their ways? If that word
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: is known as uh birthwayhem.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: And so On a night before Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: three wise guys were strangely touched by the spirit of
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the season, a spirit born in another Bethlehem nearly two
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: thousand years ago, and tonight on the eve of another Christmas.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: May we hope that the same eternal spirit will someday
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: bring to wise guys throughout the world.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: The understanding of the future of the People's verse rest
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: in goodwill toward all men.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you this
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: week it's especially important to drive at sensible speeds, be courteous,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: and obey traffic regulations so some avoidable accident doesn't mar
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the holidays season for you. Remember what I said at
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the program Trends that you'd find a
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Night's Story unusual and heartwarming.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I wasn't I right.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure many of you recognized it as one of
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: the late and great Damon Runyon's most famous tales. The
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: radio adaptation was by Kathleen Height. Featured into Night's Story
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: were Bill Foreman, John Brown, Marvin Miller, and Jack Moyles.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: The Whistler was transcribed and directed by George w Allen
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: with music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: troops overseas.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: By the Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: On The Whistler are also fictional.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: dead is purely coincidental. Remember at the same time, next Sunday,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: another strange tale by the Whistler Marvin Miller, speaking for
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: the Signal Oil Company.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: The Whistler has brought us three wise guys. Good night,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and keep a place on the dial. For old time radio,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: follow Old Time Mystery Radio for more classic mystery and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: detective broadcasts.