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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Village of Virtue Matter (EP1645) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 1: The original air date April the twenty seventh of nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty eight and the title The Village of Virtue.
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Speaker 2: Matter from Hollywood. It's time now.
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Speaker 3: For Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 4: Ben all Off, mister Dollar at Gaunt Metal Insurance.
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Speaker 2: Company in New York.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, mister Arlov, what can I do for you?
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Speaker 3: Did you ever have a place called for you? Are
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Speaker 3: you kidding? I'm all very serious. Wait a minute, Virtue
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Speaker 3: South Carolina.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: You want me to go down there?
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Speaker 4: Yes, if you will.
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Speaker 3: Do you have a bulletproof vest and a couple of
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Speaker 3: extra handguns I can take along.
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Speaker 4: My one suggestion would be that you do not take
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Speaker 4: along any firearms after all, ex gangster, Yeah, I see
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Speaker 4: what you mean. All right, what do you want me
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Speaker 4: to do? Our representative has his office in Georgetown. He
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Speaker 4: can give you the whole story. His name is Joseph Pigatello.
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Speaker 3: Joseph Smoky Pigatello, the guy whose name was linkl with
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Speaker 3: Murder Incorporated a few years back.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Dollar, Joe Smoky Pigatello. You sure you want this assigmon?
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you that's mister love. Yes, if you
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Speaker 3: don't have to pay off on my insurance policy before
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Speaker 3: I'm through, Well, mister, this is gonna cost you off.
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Speaker 3: Wapping Big Expenser con.
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Speaker 5: Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
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Speaker 5: the Action Packed Expenser con America's bus freelance insurance investigators.
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Speaker 3: Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny
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Speaker 3: Dollar that the Continental Insurance Company Georgetown, South Carolina office
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Speaker 3: following has an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
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Speaker 3: of the Village of Virtue Matter. Expense account adam one
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Speaker 3: forty seven dollars even transportation and all the incidentals I
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Speaker 3: could think of Hertford, Connecticut to Georgetown, South Carolina. It
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Speaker 3: am to a dollar for a cab to Continental's office
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Speaker 3: on Screven Street.
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Speaker 6: Hi Dollar, I'm Joe Pigotella, glad to see you sit
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Speaker 6: on Thanks.
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Speaker 3: Now, look, Joe, before we go into this mata, there's
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Speaker 3: something I'd like to know. I'll ask you just what
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Speaker 3: are you doing in the insurance business.
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Speaker 6: Look, you remember back in New York, just before Tom
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Speaker 6: Dewey took over his DA, the great Holy Racketbuster.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm sure you do.
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Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I was just a young punk then, but
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Speaker 6: I was a bright one, ambitious, you know, finished up
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Speaker 6: my high school, started taking law.
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Speaker 3: You studied law? Why not?
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Speaker 6: I could have cleaned up, you know, mouthpiece for some
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Speaker 6: of the mob, some of the boys I knocked around with.
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Speaker 7: But then Dewey came along.
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Speaker 6: Broke up the rackets, so I gave it up to
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Speaker 6: do what y'all? Oh, you know, this is that Chicago
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Speaker 6: for a while with some of the boys al Capone
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Speaker 6: left behind and down here. The bordered San Diego for
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Speaker 6: a while, looking narcotics across from Mexico. Then some of
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Speaker 6: us tried to Las Vegas. We didn't get any What
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Speaker 6: was that crack? Well, listen, I'm clean. Make a crack
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Speaker 6: like that.
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Speaker 7: You can prove it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, if you can't, don't say it. You were telling
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Speaker 3: me how you got into the insurance business, all right,
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Speaker 3: when I'm taking you on this case, don't talk like that.
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Speaker 3: The gent's idea was don't like it and don't forget
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Speaker 3: whatever you think about them. You could also be run okay,
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Speaker 3: y'all two kinds of wrong dollar just playing and dead wrong.
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Speaker 6: You see what I mean? All right, as I was
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Speaker 6: saying how I got in this insurance racket, as you
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Speaker 6: were saying, well, some of the boys from New York
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Speaker 6: and chicagoing around did pretty good. Instead of blown all
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Speaker 6: their dough on booze and dames and big times, they
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Speaker 6: were smart. They least to old plantation up in the
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Speaker 6: valley north of here on a Pee River, the Old
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Speaker 6: Carroway Plantation. It's right next to the town of Virtu.
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Speaker 3: Great name for a hideout. I'll say that.
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Speaker 6: I didn't say hideout, dollar. It was just a nice
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Speaker 6: quiet place where they could live. It up in a
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Speaker 6: nice quiet way. And at the same time they wouldn't
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Speaker 6: have any cops around their neck.
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Speaker 3: No police and virtue.
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Speaker 7: Nobody but Old poly Carroway.
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Speaker 6: Anyhow, after six eight months had taken an easy mint
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Speaker 6: julips and hunting and fishing instead of being on the
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Speaker 6: lamb all the time. Well, Johnny, you wouldn't believe it.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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Speaker 7: Well, they all settled down at it spend the rest
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Speaker 7: of their life.
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Speaker 6: They all went respectable, every last one of them.
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Speaker 3: You sure that?
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Speaker 6: Who has been twenty years now? Can you be any
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Speaker 6: more sure than there?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, But go on with what you were saying.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 6: I got an idea. I signed up with this little
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Speaker 6: insurance company. Then I went up to vite you and
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Speaker 6: made the pitch. They were all respectable. Now they got
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Speaker 6: to make like respectable people and cover themselves with a
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Speaker 6: lot of insurance.
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Speaker 3: And it worked.
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Speaker 7: Now you remember Lefty Stemper.
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Speaker 3: The old time numbers came for Chicago, right.
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Speaker 6: Booky slot machines, everything, oh, pal of mine. So when
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Speaker 6: he told the rest he was buying insurance, well, Johnny,
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Speaker 6: I got policies on every one of them. The rest
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Speaker 6: of the town too, on their life, their homes, everything.
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Speaker 3: Okay, now let's get to the point. What's happened up
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Speaker 3: there on Virtue trouble? Johnny, old man carroway for me,
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Speaker 3: what kind of trouble? Now?
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Speaker 6: Twenty years now, the boys and the people in Virtue
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Speaker 6: have been getting along fine. The boys been behaving themselves,
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Speaker 6: and the people in town are all nice people.
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Speaker 7: Until a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: What happened?
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Speaker 6: Billy Magoon had himself a nice little fishing boat, had
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Speaker 6: it ever since he went straight and moved in up
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Speaker 6: there twenty years ago.
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Speaker 7: Now somebody stole it.
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Speaker 3: Well, why don't you just pay off his claim and
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Speaker 3: forget it.
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Speaker 7: Listen.
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Speaker 6: A couple of days after that, mister Avery that runs
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Speaker 6: the general store and Virtue had his boat stolen.
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Speaker 3: So you'll have to pay another claim, but small ones, Joe,
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Speaker 3: would you listen?
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Speaker 6: Ever since then, not a day has gone by that
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Speaker 6: somebody hasn't had something stolen from him. Mostly the people
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Speaker 6: invite you boats, cars, money, financial, anything you can think of.
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Speaker 6: The people blame the boys, and the boys blame the people,
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Speaker 6: and Johnny, there's going to be a civil war virtue
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Speaker 6: unless somebody finds out who's doing this, and if that happens,
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Speaker 6: there's going to be a lot of killing. And well,
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Speaker 6: with all the insurance I've saw, me and the company
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Speaker 6: are going to be in trouble.
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Speaker 3: Well, can't you get the state police to come in?
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Speaker 7: State police invite you?
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Speaker 3: You said it's a real respectable community.
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Speaker 6: Now, yeah, sure it is, but well Dragon im in
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Speaker 6: might really start things off it. That's why I had
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Speaker 6: to send for you.
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Speaker 3: Look, why don't we go up there so I can
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Speaker 3: see for myself?
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Speaker 6: Sure, Johnny, Sure, but hey, or open your cut. I mean,
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Speaker 6: if you're going to take along that lemon squeezer, we'll
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Speaker 6: take my advice.
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Speaker 7: And don't you have.
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Speaker 3: A pretty sure eye, Joe.
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Speaker 6: Johnny bag and spoder shoulder Hols a mile away that's
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Speaker 6: taking some of the boys up in the valley on
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Speaker 6: the plantation.
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Speaker 7: I don't want you to end up with a slug
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Speaker 7: between your eye.
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Speaker 3: Real respectable people, Well, shall we go on my cast
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Speaker 3: outside into the Valley of Death Road, the six hundred,
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Speaker 3: at least a couple of them. What are you talking about, nothing, Joel,
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Speaker 3: Let's go.
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Speaker 5: Act two of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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Speaker 8: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
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Speaker 8: there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.
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Speaker 8: Florida State flag bears the red Cross of Saint Andrew
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Speaker 8: in sympathy with the flag of the Confederacy on a
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Speaker 8: field of white. Centered over the cross is the state
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Speaker 8: seal within a golden circle. The sun, an emblem of
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Speaker 8: glory and splendor representing absolute authority, peers over a highland.
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Speaker 8: In the distance. Flowers, a symbol of hope and joy,
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Speaker 8: are scattered by an Indian maiden, indicative of the Indian
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Speaker 8: influence within the state. Centered is the coco or palm tree,
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Speaker 8: an emblem of the three justice and royal honor. Florida
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Speaker 8: State flag, the flag of the twenty seventh state to
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Speaker 8: enter the Union, was adopted in nineteen hundred.
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Speaker 5: And now Act two of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and
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Speaker 5: the Village of Virtue matter.
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Speaker 3: Joe Piccateello arstwhile gangster turned insurance agent led me out
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Speaker 3: to his car and we headed north out of Georgetown,
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Speaker 3: South Carolina. After twenty miles or so, we swung onto
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Speaker 3: a side road paralleling the Peedee River, and finally we
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Speaker 3: came to the old Carroway Plantation. Acres and acres of
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Speaker 3: huge old live oak trees festooned with Spanish moss flowers,
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Speaker 3: millions of them, Stadias iris roses rhododendron bushes, a flame
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Speaker 3: with color in the afternoon sun. Then at the end
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Speaker 3: of a broad pre lined path, the fine old colonial
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Speaker 3: mansion with its towering colors. The property faced the curving,
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Speaker 3: lazy yellow river, and lying across it was a broad
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Speaker 3: expanse of marshy grass, criss crossed here and there by
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Speaker 3: canals through which the and olden times haul the rice
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Speaker 3: crop of the river boats. Yeah, it was a beautiful spot,
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Speaker 3: a calm, quiet, peaceful spot. Currently, well here we are, Johnny.
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Speaker 3: Let's go in and see if anybody pumps.
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Speaker 6: Hey, hey, hold it, hold at your pumps.
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Speaker 3: It's me, smoky o god, who else?
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Speaker 7: Put both guns away? You want to get in trouble,
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Speaker 7: won't you?
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Speaker 9: Guys?
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Speaker 10: No better to come passing in this way?
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Speaker 3: We all know your coming. Come on, Johnny, sure, nice
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Speaker 3: peaceful spot. Huh.
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Speaker 9: Who's that you got with your smoky boys.
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Speaker 6: This is Johnny Dollar. He's from the insurance company, Johnny.
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Speaker 6: This is Boumagoon.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Hi, And this is Leftys Temper.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Johnny Dollar and the shrimp. There is slippy lack
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Speaker 3: of itch. Hi, Johnny, I'm please to patch away.
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Speaker 2: What did you bring here?
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Speaker 3: Smoky your dick or something? Yeah, dolla? What's the idea
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Speaker 3: of packing a ride? All right? All right, let him go,
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Speaker 3: you guy.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's on our side.
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Speaker 6: He's up here to find the stuff that's been stolen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't need no outside help. Oh, you've found
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Speaker 3: who's behind the thefts? I, Lefty, No, if it's your business,
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Speaker 3: my business. You're interrupting me.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Dollar shutter, I say, we'll find out who's coming
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Speaker 10: over here and fight you and taking our stuff ourselves,
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Speaker 10: and when we do, we'll eliminate it right back to
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Speaker 10: the old days.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 11: If we've got to to protect our rights by letting
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Speaker 11: me have my gun, well here to flippy.
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Speaker 6: You wants this gun, You make a move the dollar
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Speaker 6: and I'll flip yourself fast.
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Speaker 3: Oh you mean like this? Hey, Hey, hey, you just
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Speaker 3: flippy gut whip.
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Speaker 7: By Johnny Ship.
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Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar. You're okay? Anybody else want to get smarty?
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Speaker 3: Can you cut me off of the good Guard expert Flippy? Well,
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Speaker 3: you ain't any more, I'll afty, I'll take my gun.
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Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, Jenny. All right, now
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Speaker 3: let's get things straight. I'm not the cops, but I'll
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Speaker 3: drag them in if necessary. Oh no, listen, you'll listen.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to stop what's going on around here,
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Speaker 3: and if anyone of your interferes, I'll have you locked
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Speaker 3: up so fast you want know what's happened to you?
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Speaker 3: Oh wait a minute, I'll listen to me, will you
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Speaker 3: a dollar? Well? Look, I guess we're all kind of shaky,
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Speaker 3: you know we well, we were.
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Speaker 11: Sort of somewhat upset by the events in the past
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Speaker 11: couple of weeks or two, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: Left the Joe told me that if the burglaries, robberies,
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Speaker 3: whatever they are, go want much longer, there's not able
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Speaker 3: to be a war between you and the people of
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Speaker 3: the town.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he ain't worried.
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Speaker 10: Now, we got enough Guncinamo stashed the way around.
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Speaker 3: The shut up. Well, yeah, yeah, sure, I'm sure you have.
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Speaker 3: But if you ever expect to make peace again with
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Speaker 3: the townspeople, if you expect to stay on here, we.
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Speaker 2: Got at least fifteen years ago.
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Speaker 11: Okay, all right, Look all we got here is Honting
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Speaker 11: rifles and were shotguns and a couple of pistols in
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Speaker 11: case of snake. You know, while we're hunting the fish
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Speaker 11: in here in the swamps, a lot of cotton mouse
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Speaker 11: around here.
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Speaker 7: You know, that's the fact, Johnny.
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Speaker 3: The point is I didn't come here without providing for
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Speaker 3: any and every exigency. What what what what's that mean?
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Speaker 3: By what a dope? It means if anything happens to him,
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Speaker 3: we're dead. Ain't that Excuseuly? Isn't that right? Dollar?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 3: You see? Now, give me a hand. Cooperate with me
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Speaker 3: and maybe we can play this thing up. Don't And
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Speaker 3: I have only one alternative.
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Speaker 9: What's that mean?
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Speaker 3: Shut up? And that's to have you legally ousted from
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Speaker 3: here out of the state if necessary. Oh, I looked, Uh,
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Speaker 3: will cooperate now, I don't mind telling you. We love
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Speaker 3: this place. Look, it's the only real home. We got
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Speaker 3: Flippy and Sadie, we got Bull and Mary and me
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Speaker 3: and Nora.
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Speaker 11: Maybe maybe we got records all right, our some of
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Speaker 11: us maybe did time for some of the little jobs
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Speaker 11: we pulled.
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Speaker 3: Huh. But we've been playing it straight since we come here,
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Speaker 3: all along the lines. Like I told you, Johnny Earnest,
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Speaker 3: that's the way we want to keep it. If the
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Speaker 3: people all virtue will just leave us keep it that way.
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Speaker 11: And you know something, I don't get it, don't get
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Speaker 11: we left over twenty years everything's been nice and okay,
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Speaker 11: huh now they got to stop this.
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Speaker 3: What about the losses they've suffered? They asked me dollar
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Speaker 3: their phone used to cover up for Robin our stuff.
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Speaker 3: Nobody asked you. Maybe they think the same way about
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Speaker 3: your losses. Huh. Yeah. Now where's the owner of this place,
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Speaker 3: Sir Carroway? Oh yeah, he's over in vit you in
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Speaker 3: his office office. Sure, he's a million and a police
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Speaker 3: all right, Joe and I are going over to see him,
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Speaker 3: Johnny Smoky, Well you please don't go. They see you
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Speaker 3: guys coming from here, they're gonna take a shot at you.
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Speaker 3: That Carowa told me so, yeah, sure take that chance.
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Speaker 3: Come on, Joe, Well I'll tell you, Johnny tell me
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Speaker 3: along the way, come on, the more I thought about
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Speaker 3: the whole thing, a sillier at all seemed. Yeah, it
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Speaker 3: was obvious that even after twenty years, Lefty and Bull
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Speaker 3: and Flippy might think of only one way to settle
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Speaker 3: their problems with a gun. And if the people of
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Speaker 3: Virtue were feeling the same way, what as Joe and
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Speaker 3: I walked along the main, the only street of the
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Speaker 3: little town, there were those signs of hostility or even
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Speaker 3: suspicion toward us.
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Speaker 6: Now, look, Johnny, if those bums back at the plantation
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Speaker 6: and making this trouble, why why would they Joe what
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Speaker 6: I don't get, but why if they don't like you're interfering,
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Speaker 6: it decided to knock you off.
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Speaker 3: And I'll probably go to my grave on more and unremembered.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you're to a Lefty. You'd provided for every
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Speaker 6: exegen well for if anything should.
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Speaker 7: Happen to you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And he and the boys believed it.
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Speaker 7: And if anything does the huh Yeah, all I can hope.
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Speaker 3: Is that they keep on believing.
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Speaker 5: Act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 12: In a moment, sometimes a quotation is a helpful thing
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Speaker 12: because it points out some wisdom that helps us to
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Speaker 12: lead better lives. Here's one that struck me as being
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Speaker 12: very wise and true, Doctor Samuel Johnson. That wise and
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Speaker 12: witty man immortalized by Boswell said, quote, it matters not
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Speaker 12: how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Speaker 3: Unquote.
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Speaker 12: A man's life may be long or short, but the
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Speaker 12: way he lives it is the important thing. It's important
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Speaker 12: no matter what he does. They have integrity, loyalty, and
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Speaker 12: honor and a sound code of conduct. Enlisting at the
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Speaker 12: age of seventeen with his parents' permission, Corporal Charles L.
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Speaker 12: Gelenon found himself soon after his eighteenth birthday in a
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Speaker 12: narrow defile in the middle of the treacherous, rocky terrain
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Speaker 12: of Tongueman Knee Correa.
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Speaker 3: At two thirty a m.
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Speaker 12: That moonlit morning of April twenty fifth, nineteen fifty one,
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Speaker 12: Corporal Galian's Army Unit, Company Eye, seventh Infantry Regimental Combat
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Speaker 12: Team of the third Division became the focal point of
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Speaker 12: a murderous assault from Chinese Communist forces. The fighting became
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Speaker 12: brutal and bloody. The brunt of the attack was directed
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Speaker 12: up to defile guarded by Gililand with his automatic rifle.
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Speaker 12: The slashing barrage of small arms, automatic weapons, motor and
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Speaker 12: artillery fire was dropping the men all around him. Geliland
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Speaker 12: faced the full force of the assault, and, advancing against
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Speaker 12: tremendous ods, poured a steady fire into the attacking forces
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Speaker 12: and eventually halted him. For valiant and heroic conduct, Corporal
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Speaker 12: Charles Gilliland was awarded the Medal of Honor. Although in
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Speaker 12: age he still may have been considered a boy, he
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Speaker 12: had lived and died like a man.
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Speaker 5: And now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
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Speaker 5: the village of Virtue matter, Shoe Piccatello and I walk
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Speaker 5: the main street of Virtue of South Carolina, unmolested, virtually, unnoticed,
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Speaker 5: and we found the Mayor, Parley Carroway, and the little
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Speaker 5: shack that surf for an office.
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Speaker 9: I'm all sure, the police chief, mister Dollar. Don't you
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Speaker 9: forget that, sir.
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Speaker 3: And you've found no clue as to who has been
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Speaker 3: committing the robberies, no, sir, none whatsoever. But who else
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Speaker 3: would do it?
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Speaker 9: They're all three of the next gangsters, sure, ex gangsters?
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Speaker 3: Why mister Carroway, Why would these men suddenly want to
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Speaker 3: make trouble with their friends? You're townspeople.
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Speaker 9: I don't know. I honestly don't know. Less of course,
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Speaker 9: they think they can take all the the way they
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Speaker 9: used to take all the gangs in the old age.
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Speaker 3: After twenty years of a happy relationship.
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Speaker 7: Mister Carroway, they never made a bit of trouble in
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Speaker 7: all that kind I know it, I know it.
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Speaker 13: But the fact remains that unless this trouble stops, after all,
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Speaker 13: virtue is here long before they came. Unless it stops,
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Speaker 13: I say, I shall have to break their leaseh and
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Speaker 13: make them leave the plantation. Oh, they pay you pretty
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Speaker 13: well enough to keep it in good repair.
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Speaker 3: That's a beautiful ring you're worrying.
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Speaker 7: Eh?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 9: Oh, yes, two and a half carrot diamond sir?
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Speaker 3: And is that your nice new car off front?
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Speaker 9: It certainly is hinted pretty.
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Speaker 3: About eight thousand dollars pretty didn't.
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Speaker 7: You have a new one last year too, mister Carowaine.
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Speaker 9: Couse, I tried to have one every year. But now, genuine.
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Speaker 3: If you really think the robberies around here are going
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Speaker 3: to cause so much trouble, well I do, I do.
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Speaker 9: That's why I contacted mister Picotello.
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Speaker 3: Why haven't you called in the state police.
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Speaker 13: Because I am the mayor of Virtue. I am the
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Speaker 13: police department, and I can take care of these things myself.
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Speaker 13: Now that you gentlemen have witnessed a bad blood between
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Speaker 13: these gangsters and the people of the town, well, I'm
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Speaker 13: going to throw them off that plantation.
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Speaker 3: In spite of all the money they've been paying it.
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Speaker 9: Yes, sir, and I'm sure you general will back me up.
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Speaker 9: In all the money, did.
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Speaker 3: You say enough to keep your well dressed, well fed
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Speaker 3: and fancy car.
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Speaker 9: And I look here, shir you realize how much that
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Speaker 9: property will.
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Speaker 3: Bring one or that depends how much have you been offered.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you how much.
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Speaker 9: One hundred and twenty four thousand.
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Speaker 3: How did you know? You just tell me? You also
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Speaker 3: told me why you've been robbing the people of Virtue
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Speaker 3: and those men at the plantation to stir up bad feeling,
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Speaker 3: give you an excuse to get them out.
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Speaker 7: What Johnny, you're right now?
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Speaker 3: Just harroway. If I do call in the state police,
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Speaker 3: it'll be to have you locked up, And if Joe
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Speaker 3: here has any sense, he'll tell the insurance company to
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Speaker 3: bring charges of fraud against you. You said it, Oh,
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Speaker 3: but the money you think of all the money I
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Speaker 3: could make shell in the old place. Now, where's the
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Speaker 3: stuff that's been stolen. It hasn't been hard.
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Speaker 9: It stored away, carefully stored away. I was going to
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Speaker 9: give it back when when those men left and I
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Speaker 9: could sell the plate.
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Speaker 3: Give them their stuff too, well, I'd make up for
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Speaker 3: it in cash.
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Speaker 13: Every cent of it in cash is I'd say it
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Speaker 13: was for breaking the leaves. Truly, mister dollars.
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Speaker 3: Why you listen? You owe money, grubbing crook. You're in trouble.
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Speaker 3: You you call you the state police? You bet? I
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Speaker 3: will unless unless what first, you lay off the plantation.
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Speaker 3: You've leased it to those men, Let them have it
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Speaker 3: and return all the stuff you stole.
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Speaker 9: Oh but if they find out.
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Speaker 3: You figured how to get it away from them, no'll
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Speaker 3: figure out how to get it back, discover it anything
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Speaker 3: you like. The point is that if you don't get
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Speaker 3: it back, I'll tell them where it is. And you
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Speaker 3: know what that'll mean. Oh, yes, mister, I'll get it back. Also,
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Speaker 3: respect that lease. I believe it has fifty more years
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Speaker 3: to run. Yes, you would have I will. Okay, you
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Speaker 3: all thisten Joe and I will forget the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: But if you don't and Joe will be checking on you.
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Speaker 3: Oh but I will.
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Speaker 9: I will, mister Dona, I promise you.
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Speaker 3: I'll Okay, come on, Joe, let's go back to the
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Speaker 3: plantation and have a drink with some respectable citizens.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Less insurance business really has some funny ones. And I
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Speaker 3: guess it's the funny ones that balance out the bad
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Speaker 3: the tragic cases. Anyhow, I like it. Expense acount total
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Speaker 3: including the trip back to Hartford. Call it one hundred
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Speaker 3: bucks even. And if you of our little secret, Joe,
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Speaker 3: well maybe you'd better pay it out of petty cash.
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Speaker 3: And listen, those pals are yours. You better drop in
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Speaker 3: on them now and then to make sure they do
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Speaker 3: stay on the straight and narrow as well as that
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Speaker 3: old coot carraway yours, Trulle, Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 2: Our star will return in just a moment.
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Speaker 14: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
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Speaker 14: there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifties states.
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Speaker 14: Michigan state flag was born on February twenty second, eighteen
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Speaker 14: hundred and thirty seven, because of the strategic role played
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Speaker 14: by Michigan in the War of eighteen twelve. The word
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Speaker 14: to a bore I will defend is prominent on the
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Speaker 14: blue flag of Michigan. Uneath it, arising sun casts its
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Speaker 14: rays over a lake, and a man standing on a
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Speaker 14: peninsula with his right hand raised symbolizing peace, while in
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Speaker 14: his left hand he holds a gun, indicating that although
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Speaker 14: they love peace, the people of Michigan are ready to
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Speaker 14: defend their state and nation. Another mottel, the state's official one,
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Speaker 14: is at the base of the flag. See querras peninsula
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Speaker 14: emonam circumspiece. If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.
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Speaker 14: Thus does Michigan's flag carry its own invitation to visit
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Speaker 14: one of America's scenic carriers. Michigan State flag, the flag
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Speaker 14: of the twenty sixth state to enter the Union, was
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Speaker 14: adopted on August first, nineteen hundred and eleven.
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Speaker 3: Now here's our star to tell you about next week
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Speaker 3: story next week a strange series of fires, and believe me,
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Speaker 3: the reason for him is a strange one too. Join us,
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Speaker 3: Won't you yours truly? Johnny doll.
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Speaker 2: Yours truly?
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Speaker 5: Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is
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Speaker 5: produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote Today's story.
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Speaker 5: Heard in Our cast were Frank Nelson, Billy Hallot, Jack Krushin,
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Speaker 5: Peter Leeds, Gil Stratton, and Will Wright. Be sure to
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Speaker 5: join us next week, same time and station for another
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Speaker 5: exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, this was I think a very good
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Speaker 1: plot idea for Johnny Dollar. This town's got a lot
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Speaker 1: of atmosphere. Of course, the mystery is wrapped up pretty easily,
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Speaker 1: but I can forgive that just for the atmosphere and
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Speaker 1: the characters and Johnny getting a chance to kind of
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Speaker 1: prove himself against some very tough ombras. Of course, in
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Speaker 1: that ratio between the tragic cases and the fun cases
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Speaker 1: in this post serial, as in the five part serials,
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Speaker 1: I think Johnny's come out pretty good on that count,
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Speaker 1: though certainly the tragic cases can take a bit of
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Speaker 1: a toll all right. Well, on to some listener comments
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Speaker 1: and feedback. Kate says the best radio detective show and
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Speaker 1: the best Johnny Dollar Bob Bailey, I have a crush
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Speaker 1: on you hey there in Having You Rock love the Voice,
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Speaker 1: and Joel says Johnny Dollar is a great entertainment better
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Speaker 1: than ninety five percent of television series. Given the number
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Speaker 1: of TV channels that are out there and therefore the
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Speaker 1: number of TV shows that air, Johnny Dollar might be
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Speaker 1: better than even more than ninety five percent, but at
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Speaker 1: least that many. Thanks so much for the comment, Joel,
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Speaker 1: and that.
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Speaker 2: Will do it for today.
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