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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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is your host, Adam Graham.
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Slash Radio Detectives. Well, this
is the last episode of The Fat Man.

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Join us next Tuesday. We will
be bringing you Call the Police,

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and we'll talk a little bit about
The Fat Man movie after we get into

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today's show. Today's episode is Order
from Murder, Originally broadcast May the twenty

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third, nineteen fifty one. Stay
tuned for tonight's adventure with the Fat Man.

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Perhaps you don't believe in the kind
of ghosts that's supposed to haunt houses,

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but there are other kinds. Ghosts
to words, once spoken, ideas,

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once held, personality is once present. They linger in our memories,

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and a walk in our nation's capital
past the time haddled buildings which have witnessed

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so much of America's history, can
revive them. These are the memories,

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the all pervasive ghosts of Washington.
But for those of us who are unable

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to visit the Capital. The same
warm familiarity with the heroes of America's past

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is possible through the program Mister President
starring Edward Arnold. Mister President, Too,

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brings history to life Tonight on ABC. There he goes, stepping on

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the scale. Wait, two thirty
seven pounds? Fortune dangers? Who is

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it? Brad Runyon the Fat Man? Time, like death and taxes,

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is always with us. As long
as they are crooked politician us an ambitious

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racket guys, the answer will be
grand. If rich women continue to be

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careless with their jewels, there'll be
headline robberies. And until somebody can change

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human nature, hatred in the heart
and a gun in a hand will always

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add up to murder. The American
Broadcasting Company brings you in part transcribe the

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adventures of Brad Running the Fat Man, starring Jay Scott Smart, an exciting

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and fast moving criminologist who tips the
scales of two hundred thirty seven pounds Tonight's

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adventure Order or Murder. I've been
in Washington, DC that day, finishing

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up a cob and a friend of
mine who lives some forty miles south toward

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the Maryland coast and asked me down
for the weekend. I hadn't seen him

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several years since I had my car. I decided to go. I ate

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dinner before leaving, and cleared Washington
just after dark. Traffic dwindle off gradually.

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Thirty minutes later, I was rolling
along a dark, deserted stretch of

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road on the Maryland side, not
far from the Potomach River. I must

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when the motor of my car sputtered
in time, I got out and I

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couldn't find the troubles. A warm
night, and back in the woods the

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carus of frogs were really whooping it
out. I lit a cigarette, trying

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to remember the last conse i'd passed. Then saw the headlights of a car

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coming towards me. I stepped out
and waved my lighted cigarette up and down

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at the tubble my car broke down. Can you give me a lift into

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the nearest time? I'm going at
fun? Well? Do you live out

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here where I could use the phone? Get in? I think it's far.

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I'm gone at the house. I
will drop you up. Don't they

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have a phone where you're going?
I wouldn't know. Get in if you

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want to write okay, thanks yeah, and then lighting a cigarette. Fummy

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you're keeping your mouth. I'll hold
a match for you here. You sorry,

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I should have warned you about the
Scott Why didn't mean that's all right?

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Come on hold the match boy here, Well go ahead. That's to

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be how it happened. I'm used
to it seven years. It's a long

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time. Yeah, out of the
island, that sweet, lovely, wonderful

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war. Maybe you know? I
know? Oh it was great, wasn't

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it more fun? So funny?
I thought i'd die, you know,

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And aims O'Riley, Johnny O'Riley.
And I'm not a kid. She couldn't

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tell about the face because you no, I guess I couldn't remember that name,

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mister, because you're probably gonna be
staying in the paper soon. Why

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I got a lot out of that
war, but I didn't get the medals,

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and I should have got one too, the big one. They didn't

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get it. Tony got it?
You know who've got it? Who a

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major got it? Tie that if
you can't a major back of the lines,

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will let me do the work.
And then took the credit. I

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was hanging out in a hospital for
more years than I like to remember.

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Why didn't they try and plastic surgery. They did five times the best they

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could do, and it's really fun. A long time coming back, but

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I'm back now seven years lately.
You were in the hospital seven years Yeah,

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why didn't you protest when they gave
this major the medal instead of you?

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I did? It didn't do any
good, No way, I'm glad

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now, man. Yeah, I'm
gonna make another protest in my own way

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as far as I can. Take
a turn off down that little road over

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there. Thanks for the lift and
that pleasure may mean somebody that talked,

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mind if I give you some advice? No, I don't mind. Forget

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the war. Make the best of
things as they are. Guess what I'm

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gonna do? The river down that
way, isn't it? Yeah? Anything

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else? Yeah? Major? Down
it am. I stood there, watching

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the tailight of his car quickly felt
out of sight down the little dirt road.

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It really it wasn't any of my
business, but the guy sounded up

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setting enough to do anything. At
least I could do was to try and

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stop him. I wondered how far
it was the river and started walking fast

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down the little dark road. I
going about a mile when the road turned

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off to the right and I could
see the Potomac River through the trees.

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The road now ran parallel of the
river, and five minutes later I saw

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the lights of a house up ahead. It stood well back from the road

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and a clump of trees in fronted
on the river. There were no cars

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inside. Beyond it, a couple
of hundred yards was another house. I

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started toward it, when suddenly,
down in the woods between the two houses,

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I saw the flicker of a small
light flashed on furtily around and went

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out. I pushed into the woods
and walked cautiously toward it. George,

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they comes down there in the grave
yards. I guess you're not, George.

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I'm sorry. I didn't mean to
frighten you. Who are you are?

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In one of them? One of
who spirits? Who are coming for

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the major? Major? Yes,
Major Smith. I knew they'd come.

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I knew they'd hear me. And
now you're suffering. Now you're paid for

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his wickedness. Does the Major live
in that house? No, that's my

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house. He lives over there beyond
the grid yard. At least he did

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live there, but he won't live
there anymore, not after to night.

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Nancy, where are you here?
I asked, George over here, What

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you're doing. I was here,
Miss Nancy. You gets cool. You

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just saw them. They were down
there in the graveyard. Who's this man?

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But I don't know My name is
running. I'm looking for Major Smith's

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house, a friend of you.
No, I've never faceship, but I've

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never watched this George, George,
you see us for her? You see

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she ain't quite right and they hit, but she don't mean no harm.

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Mister Smith coming here to live after
all these years and bringing a new young

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wife with him just saw to set
it off again. Why does she hate

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Major Smith so much? Well,
years ago when Miss Nancy and Miss Smith

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with both young folks, he was
engaged to get married, but he changed

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his mind at the last minute.
He left Miss Nancy waiting at the church.

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You run off with another woman?
What's all that crazy to talk about?

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Sparring? Oh, that's just an
idea. She's got that little graveyard

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over They belonged to the Smith family. Miss Nancy thinks his instances is coming

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out of the ground and take him
away. My saying, this young wife

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as Smith, she isn't the one
he ran off for when he left Miss

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Nancy as she Oh, no,
that one died a long time ago.

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This is a new one, and
if he asks me, he's gonna be

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sorry. Every late eye is on
hook. What do you mean by that?

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I mean she don't love him at
all. It says you only married

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him for his money, and she
liked to get that just as soon as

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possible. You only am and left
me standing there in the woods. I

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looked down toward the graveyard, but
no more lights showed in the darkness.

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I went back to the road and
walked quickly toward the major's house. Just

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as I reached the gate, I
heard a car coming along the road behind

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me. I stepped behind a tree
and waited. The car stopped near the

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gate. I saw a man and
woman sitting in the front seat. As

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I watched, they melted into a
long embrace. Then the door opened,

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the woman got out. She said
something in a low voice to the man,

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and the car swung around and disappeared
up the road. The woman turned

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and started up towards the house.
She came abreast of my eyes. Stepped

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out from behind the tree. Oh
oh, you started me. Don't be

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frightened. I'm not going to hurt
you. Who are you? What are

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you? Doing in my yard.
You live here, of course I live

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here, I missus Smith, your
major Smith's certainly was that the major who

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just let you out of the car? You saw it? It wasn't the

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major wasn't. No, it wasn't. Who are you? My name is

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Running. I'm a private detective.
So my husband hired you to spy on

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me. All right, I'll save
you some trouble. There is another man,

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and there always has been. I
never loved Edgar, and he knew

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it. He was no good from
the start. That's why he was court

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martial and discharge from the army.
But if he wants to get rid of

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me, he's going to have to
pay plenty. Now, anything else you

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want to know? Missus Smith?
Your husband hasn't hired me. In fact,

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I've never even seen him. Well, then why are you here?

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What do you mean by it?
A minute? I met an upset guy

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in the road, and I mean
hate Smith. I think you may try

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to kill him. Sounded mad enough
to be convincing. That's why I came

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here. Your husband at home?
Why, yes, at least he was

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when I left several hours ago.
Come on, let's go inside. Very

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well, the guy dropped me back
on the main road and headed in this

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direction. He was in a car, yes, and I don't see it

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anywhere. Oh does Smith have a
gun? Yes, he has several of

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them. Good. Hold, what
if you look there through the French doors?

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Is that the man? Yeah,
you've got a gun. Yeah,

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he's covering your husband with it.
What do we do? Those French doors

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are open? Can you enter the
front door without making any noise? Okay,

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take your time, go inside and
go around and open the door to

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that room. Open it fast and
loud. What are you going to do?

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I'll stepped over by those open French
doors. Let door open, so

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he'll turn around and I'll grab him
from behind shoots when I opened the door,

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don't step into the room, just
bang the door open suddenly. Missus

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Smith nodded silently and started to the
front door. I used over to the

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house and stopped in the shadows beside
the open French doors and listen to Johnny

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taunt the major air. How do
you like it? How do you like

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this? Nare waiting on and you're
gonna get it in a minute. You're

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inshane. Don't imagine that? Yeah, Lenny, man, it's been boiling

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in me for seven years. You
probably don't recognize because the name is O'Riley

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Smith, remember Johnny O'Riley. I
don't know what you're talking about. Talking

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about a certain night in the islands
on the water. Okay, come on

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it, crap that gun chat from
grab the gun? Smith? Try this

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beside. Patty told him you'll get
away. No, no, let him

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go that gun. You can't.
I'll stop him. I couldn't help it,

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feelish. I couldn't seem to move. Yeah, I think so.

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You need me the scommach not to
window to me. He got away with

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my husbands fault. He could have
stopped him or his gun. Here it

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is, give it to me.
What are you going to do? Your

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husband and I are going out and
find that guy? Who are you?

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Never mind that? Now? Your
wife says you have some pistols? Why

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are they here in this drawer?
You take one and get your husband one.

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You stay here. Come on,
Smith, do you think it's wi

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used to go out there? We've
got his gun, yes, but he

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might have another one. Mole's up
that meat with you one Smith. It's

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time he earned it. We left
missus Smith in the house and went out

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from the ground. The moon had
come up and we could see fairly well

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on the gyron. We circled the
house once, saw nothing, and walked

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down the road towards the graveyard.
Here's the graveyard. Do you suppose he's

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hiding here? He's hiding somewhere.
We didn't hear his car drive off.

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I think it. What's wrong?
Look what somebody's been doing since digging the

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grave? It's been open, Yeah, not very long ago either, A

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kind of dirt as fresh. That
explains to like you? So yeah,

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I don't understand this. The coffin
is still in the grave, isn't it,

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Yes, still down there. Why
would anybody want to open this grave?

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Maybe missus Nancy, this is a
crazy after all. Maybe somebody's just

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making room to add another coffin.
The shop came from, but it hadn't

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been fired. From close up,
Smith clutched his breast and then toppled forward

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into the open grave. I jumped
down beside him and turned him over.

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His shirt front was covered with blood
in his eyes, but wind up him

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he'd never win any more medals or
make any more enemies. He was dead.

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I crouched there beside him for nearly
a minute. But nothing happened.

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And then I climbed out of the
grave and started quickly back towards the house

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where we had left his wife.
Suddenly I heard somebody moving to the trees

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ahead of me, stopped and waiting. Steps came closer and stopped ten or

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fifteen feet away. Where are you
over here, missus fencing a running?

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I heard him shot a minute ago. I thought, where's my husband?

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What's happened? He's dead, missus? Man dead? Then that man did

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have another gun. I'm not so
sure about that. What do you mean

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Your husband wasn't a very popular guy. There were a few other people around

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who might have liked to see him
out of the way. Are you trying

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to say that man didn't kill my
husband? No, I'm just saying it's

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possibly didn't. Are you intimating that
I maybe? After all, you admitted

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to me to night that you didn't
love him, that you only wanted his

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money. Oh that's true. I
never loved him, and I did marry

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him for his money. But that's
no crime. Lots of women marry men

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they don't love for that reason,
but they don't all have another sweetheart on

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the side. My husband knew there
was another man. I don't think he

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even cared. He might have refused
to give you a divorce. That maybe,

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But you're all wrong about this.
I didn't shoot my husband. You

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had a swell chance to do it. We left you in the house alone.

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You could have easily followed us.
You had a gun. Where is

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it? It's here in my coat
pocket. That's fit very well here.

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Well, are you satisfied, Yeah, it hasn't been fired. There's one

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other possibility, though, the woman
who lives in another house down the road,

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Miss Nancy. Yeah, she hated
your husband and was prowling around out

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here in the dark when I arrived. Surely you don't think she did it.

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And somebody dug up a grave over
there a little while ago, and

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she was rambling on about spirits coming
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Sound fantastic, it is, But
we'd better go have a talk with her.

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And we've got to call a police. But my husband, he's still

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lying out there. We can't help
him now, and the police won't want

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the body to be touched. We
can call him from Miss Nancy's house.

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There's a light on in the living
room. She doesn't usually stay up this

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lake wait a second, what's the
matter? Look over there across the road

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and a couple of trees. Car. Yeah, so one O'Reilly was driving,

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but he's still here. It must
have been he who killed and mister

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running. I want let's have a
look at that car. Stay behind me,

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maybe hiding and signed all Riley.
If you're in the car, you

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better come off with your hands out, all Riley. Okay, I'm coming

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after you. The car is empty. He's not here positively picked me up

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in that tonight. What are we
going to do? I'm gotta hunt.

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You'll be showing up soon. If
he hasn't spotted us, you better get

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back on those trees and wait.
I took missus Smith by the arm and

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drew her into the shadows. He
stood there silently waiting. Ten or fifteen

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minutes passed and nothing happened. I
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the light was still on the living
room. Suddenly, I thought Missus Smith's

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hand would ripped my arm, and
I held my breath and waited, and

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I heard it. Somebody was moving
stealth the lad toward the car. A

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second later, the figure of a
man stepped into view. I stepped a

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Ronnie's gun out of my pocket and
moved toward him. Freeze all runne I

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got you covered. Don't move You'll
get a bullet in your back. Now

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put your hands up. Yea,
yea. What are you looking for a

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gun? I haven't got a gun? No not now you haven't. Where

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don't you throw it away or Ronnie
throw it away? To throw it away?

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You took it away from me Smith's
house. I mean the second gun,

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the one you shot the Major.
I didn't shoot him running. I

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swear I didn't sure I came out
here to kill him. But when I

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didn't do it, I couldn't have
done it because I didn't have a second

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gun. Where did you hang around
here? Why didn't you beat it when

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you left the house. I'm afraid
of trying like a break the car,

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So while I hit those woods over
the graveyard, I was hiding out there

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when you're in. The Major found
that grave and started talking about that crazy

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woman. If you open the grave. Rhyney Us not heard the shot.

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Mis saw Smith take that nose,
dive into the hall, waiting until you

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left and try to sneak over here
to my car. You're lying you killed

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my husband. Okay, all right, I started walking. Well, we

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got to call the police and have
a chat with Miss Nancy. You remember

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me. You're the gentleman who was
down in the woods earlier this evening.

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That's Ryan. Who are these people? Murder suspects? Where's Miss Nancy?

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But he's gone to bed, he
just sleeps. Did you say murder?

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Yeah? Please wake miss Nancy?
Who's been murdered? Major Smith? Work?

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Miss Nancy's room right over there,
he sleeps on the ground floor.

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Okay, wake around, yes,
miss Nancy. Miss Nancy, open the

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door and get her up. What's
wrong? God? Miss Nancy isn't here.

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Let me have a look in there. George, I killed people.

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Don't here, Miss Nancy. That's
the second. Who's dead? Miss Nancy?

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Why is the major? Of course? How did you know? How

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do I know? I know because
I killed him and I've just seen his

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body in the grave. You killed
him? Acute? Did you do with

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a gun? What guns? The
gun you shot him with? I didn't

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shoot him. I didn't have to. For years, I've been praying to

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them, but they wouldn't listen.
To night I decided to help them.

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Oh it was you who opened the
grave? Yes, yes, I got

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and dug and finally they were freed. I went up just now to see

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if they've gotten him, and there
he was, did in the grave,

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in the grave thing, Ryan,
do you know what you're talking about?

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You're right, but she's harmless.
She hasn't killed anybody, neither of you.

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Right. I told you that.
I don't understand. Maybe this will

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help clear it up. Sweet Art, you killed the major and O'Reilly here

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put the noose around your neck a
few minutes ago. I did. That's

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right. You told us you were
hiding near the grave when we found it

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tonight. You heard the Major and
me talking about miss Nancy, so you

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had to be pretty close to us
because we were talking quietly. The shot

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that killed Smith came from forty or
fifty feet away, so it couldn't have

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been you fired it. But you
saw my gun. You know it hadn't

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been fired. That gun hadn't been
fired. But you told me the major

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had several guns. Very simple matter
to carry two guns and talk one away

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after the shooting. You're wrong now, I'm not the sweetheart. The other

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gun will sense it when the police
find it. The important thing to know

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is we have to look for it. Where's the phone, George. I've

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got to put in a call to
the police and tell them I've got a

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murderer out here for them. The
Batman, starring Jay Scott Smart in part

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transcribed, was directed by Clark Andrews, the script written by Richard Ellington.

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Heard on Tonight Show where Vicky volas
Phyllis and Jimmy McCallan as Johnny O'Reilly.

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The music was conducted by Bernard Greene. Listen next week to another exciting adventure

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of the fat Man. Welcome back. Well more of an okay episode compared

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to some of the other ones.
I'll get a little bit of a different

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opening sequence, but overall, I'm
definitely gonna miss the fan Man. And

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it's been great to bring you all
the existing complete episodes over these past ten

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weeks. And the movie, I
think is is special as well. You

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do get to see a little bit
of the talent of Jay Scott Smart on

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display with the dancing and the acting. But it also was an early showcase

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for Rock Hudson and Julie London,
and in some ways it was modeled a

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little bit on The Killers, which
also which it was a movie where Edmund

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O'Brien was the detective, but the
leading man and the focal point through most

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of the movies was the guy who
had been murdered, who was played by

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Burt Lancaster, and they accomplished that
through flashbacks. Will Speaking of The Fat

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Man, I did receive an email
from Joan Richards who comments, I came

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across a show on one of my
other podcast radio Mirror, Okay, I

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downloaded it from iTunes, and the
actor who plays in The Fat Man is

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playing in this Charlie Chan show and
I'm sending it to you to have a

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listen and and appreciate that. I'd
heard the episode before, but I had

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not drawn the connection. But I
listened to it, and j Scott Smart

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does indeed appear as a police detective
in a Charlie Chan radio mystery. And

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Charlie Chan is on our list of
play. We've got to work a few

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things out. There's actually only one
American episode of Charlie Chen that half hour

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on. There are a few complete
cereals out there. We have that on

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the list of play. So we've
not heard the last of Jay Scott Smart.

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Well. That will do it for
today. Join us on Wednesday for

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let George do it and then we
will be back next week in a week

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with call the police from Boise,
Idaho. This is your host, Adam

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Grandson and off