1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:35,679 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,479 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,399 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:51,640 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:56,640 slash Great Detectives. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:56,719 --> 00:01:02,119 favorite podcast software. Today's program is brought you in part by the financial support 7 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,519 of our listeners. If you want to support the show on a one time 8 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:11,120 basis, you can mail a donation to Adam Graham pill box one five nine 9 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:17,359 one three. That's peel box one five nine thirteen, Boise, Idaho eight 10 00:01:17,439 --> 00:01:23,359 three seven one five. You can also become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters 11 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,640 for as little as two dollars per month. And I want to go ahead 12 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:32,000 and think Liz for becoming our latest Patreon supporter at the rookie level of two 13 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:34,959 dollars or more per month. Again, thank you so much for your support, 14 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,959 Liz. Well, now it is time for us to get into this 15 00:01:40,239 --> 00:01:46,840 week's episode of Dragnat and here we are going out of order a bit play 16 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:55,400 this true Dragnat Classic nineteen fifty three, Dragnet had really become a cultural sensation, 17 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:00,239 and it also made the jump to television, and Joe Friday and his 18 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:07,360 two partner Frank Smith were set to appear on the big screen in nineteen fifty 19 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:14,039 four in the first Dragnet movie. Write the film, Web brought in Richard 20 00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:21,599 Breen. Richard Breen had written for Web on his San Francisco based hard boiled 21 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:27,879 detective series Pat Novak for Hire. Breen, like Webb, had found success 22 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:34,879 in Hollywood. He had already garnered an Oscar nomination as well as two Writers 23 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,719 Guild of American nominations. Breen agreed to write the film, but he wanted 24 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:46,560 to write something else. He wanted to write a new Dragnet Christmas Special. 25 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:54,120 Breen was an observant Catholic and he hated the existing Christmas special, which Webb 26 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,960 had done for four straight years on radio and had also done on television, 27 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:06,039 and that was Breen's motivation for writing the script, and in doing so, 28 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,759 I think it's safe to say he's admired by every writer who has ever hated 29 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,400 something they've seen on TV. Here, let me fix this for you. 30 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:21,599 The relationship between Web and Breen was such that Web agreed to it, and 31 00:03:21,759 --> 00:03:28,759 Breen promised he would write a story that was both reverent and also true to 32 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:32,439 Dragnet in that it would be based on an actual police case. In this 33 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:38,840 case, according to Michael Hayes's book My Name's Friday, Breen based it on 34 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:44,719 a case that had happened in San Francisco in nineteen thirty So there you go. 35 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:51,919 Story was actually a big event. It was the only Dragnet story to 36 00:03:52,199 --> 00:03:59,719 premiere on radio and on television the same week, and the television broadcast was 37 00:03:59,879 --> 00:04:04,599 in color, only episode of the nineteen fifties series to be broadcast that way, 38 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:10,560 although the color print does not survive, and of course, the episode 39 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:17,759 would be remade as part of the nineteen sixties Dragnet series in nineteen sixty seven. 40 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:23,680 And we'll talk a little bit more about all that after today's episode, 41 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:28,720 But now we've talked long enough. The original radio broadcast eight was December the 42 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:42,639 twenty second, nineteen fifty three, and the title is The Big Little Jesus. 43 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:54,160 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true Dragnet. 44 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,560 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Burglary Division. You get a call 45 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:05,279 that an important piece of religious art has been stolen from the oldest church in 46 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:12,279 Los Angeles. There's no leed to its whereabouts. Your job find it. 47 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,240 Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes, 48 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,720 in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step 49 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,319 on the side of the law through an actual case from official police filence, 50 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:40,600 from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of 51 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:46,040 your police force in action. It was Wednesday, December twenty fourth. It 52 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,199 was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a burglary 53 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,720 division. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard. My name 54 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:57,519 is Friday. I'd gone across the street to buy stamps for some Christmas cards 55 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,040 I was sending out. It was nine fifteen when I got back to Room 56 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,800 forty five, Burglary. I sat out at the table in the squad room 57 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:10,120 and I started to address the cards when Frank walked in carrying a stack of 58 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:18,839 Christmas boxes. Hi, Joe, all right, Christmas cards. Huh A 59 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,120 little late, aren't you? Well? I wasn't going to send him out 60 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,680 Monday. But we had that stake out. You ought to get married, 61 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:29,360 Joe. Yeah, it's the only system. They does all that stuff for 62 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,199 me, laundry, mails, cards, only system might help. Brought in 63 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:38,279 your present. I won't open it now, No, I'll wait. I 64 00:06:38,319 --> 00:06:42,160 always opened a couple of day before. Why well, I'll put you in 65 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,120 the spirit ahead of the time. I opened fills this morning. Who's he? 66 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,040 Play's brother in Denver gave me a magazine, one of those funny ones. 67 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,120 What do you mean, a comic book. No, one of those 68 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,199 funny ones, you know, No, I don't, Frank. Well, 69 00:06:56,399 --> 00:07:00,000 some of the pages have holes in him you look through when there's a picture 70 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,759 you're on the next page. Oh yeah, I've seen those on the news 71 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,600 stand. They have cloth pasted in cloth in the ads. If you want 72 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,079 to buy a suit and they have a sample right there, you mean you 73 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,920 can feel it, reach right out and feel it. It was one for 74 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:16,720 two hundred dollars a suit. Sure cloth comes from Scotland once. It made 75 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,560 out of solid gold. No, they got a special kind of goat over 76 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,600 there. It's real smooth, not a goat, Frank, a sheep. 77 00:07:23,839 --> 00:07:26,279 Well, it's a special kind of sheep. Then, because the suit costs 78 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:29,959 two hundred dollars, you're gonna get one. I told Faye. She said, 79 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:33,279 where the sample? Anything doing fanning and pryor we're in on that market. 80 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:36,040 Hold up, they come up with anything, pound of air, nothing 81 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:40,160 else. I hope it stays quiet. I got more shopping to do. 82 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,279 I finished. What you get in stationary set? Some paper and envelopes, 83 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:50,040 leather binding, Joe, you'll never learn what's the matter? No woman wants 84 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,720 a stationary set, get or something personal? What's got her initials on it? 85 00:07:55,759 --> 00:07:59,480 No? No, you want something more sentimental, romantic, but you 86 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:05,240 get fair. It's different in her case. When'd you get paid sewing machine? 87 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,399 That's romantic? Well, there's in the way. Why didn't you buy 88 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:18,839 our catchers man, Gregory Freddy. Yes, that's right, you have the 89 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,759 right department. All right, father, we'll be right down. No, 90 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:28,600 you can tell us about it there. Goodbye. The Old Mission Church they've 91 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:35,600 had a theft collection money statue of the child Jesus. Frank and I checked 92 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,120 out of the office and rode over to the church at the corner of Sunset 93 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:48,639 Boulevard and Maine. The Old Mission Plaza Church founded seventeen eighty one, the 94 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,840 year Los Angeles became a pueblow. The outside was typical early Spanish design, 95 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:56,840 complete with mission arches. It was made of adobe and painted white. They 96 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,159 called it the Queen of the Angels. The pod raised from down in Mexico 97 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:07,399 building. The devout Mexicans and towns still attended services there. Ten o five 98 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,279 am Frank and I crossed through. The courtyard used to be the old stable, 99 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,240 but the Spanish priest changed all that when it became a mission. Stonemasons 100 00:09:15,279 --> 00:09:18,360 paved his stable floor and made it a courtyard. They planted grape vines, 101 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,240 trees, and flowers. A young priest crossed the courtyard to meet us. 102 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:26,679 He'd been sitting on a stone bench reading his morning prayers, as priests had 103 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,200 done here for one hundred and seventy two years. We asked for Father Xavier 104 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:35,480 Rojas, who communicated with us. We were told he was inside. We 105 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:39,840 entered a side door. The church seemed to glow with the hundreds of votive 106 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,200 candles flickering on both sides of the alder and at the shrines. Throughout. 107 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,799 The church was empty except for a few people praying surrounding the main order were 108 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,960 several old oil paintings and gold frames. The air was heavy with the scent 109 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,679 of advent flowers. We found Father Rojas up near the sanctuary looking at the 110 00:09:56,759 --> 00:10:03,360 Nativity scene. He told us about the crib. It was a seventy dollars 111 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,360 duplication of the scene at Bethlehem. The parishioners had taken up a collection for 112 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,600 it thirty one years ago, was put up every year on December twenty second, 113 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:15,799 and taken down after the holy season. Was beautiful, except that one 114 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,799 of the shepherds had lost an arm when the sheep was old and cracked, 115 00:10:18,159 --> 00:10:28,759 and the infant Jesus was missing. Father Rojas led us back into the sacristy. 116 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,399 I'm sorry to bother you man, all right, father, especially now 117 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,679 the holiday season. We cash our checks. Father, no one and tell 118 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,159 us what happened or what you think happened. I discovered the statue was missing 119 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,600 right after the six o'clock mass. Save at six. Yes, I started 120 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,320 over to the rectory, didn't stopped by the crib. Was the statue there 121 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,120 before mass? I don't know, but it was there last night. How 122 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:52,440 late is the church open all night? You leave it wide open so any 123 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:58,159 thief can walk in particularly paved, Sergeant. You say it was there last 124 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,399 night, father, how late ten or eleven clock? We had confessions. 125 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,360 No one saw it after that. One of the altar boys, he says 126 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:05,879 it may have been there. He thinks it was. Did he see it? 127 00:11:07,159 --> 00:11:16,320 He's not sure. What's his name? Pardon? Here's the schedule. 128 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,200 You'll find the names for every mask. There was there a big crowd at 129 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,480 the six o'clock mass, father, not too many. Seven's the big one. 130 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:26,559 People on their way to work. Did anyone stay after a mass? 131 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:28,360 Did you know this? Not especially? I came back here, took off 132 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:31,399 the vestments. I suppose it was ten or fifteen minutes before I went back 133 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:35,600 in the church. It was empty then. No people were coming into the 134 00:11:35,639 --> 00:11:39,399 seven o'clock. Are these the alder boys, James Corneen and Joseph Heffernan. 135 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,679 That's right, Joe's the one who mentioned it might have been there. Did 136 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,039 you check with the other priests, father, before I called you? None 137 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,960 of them knows anything about it. Just for a check on the pawnshops. 138 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,919 How much the statue worked in money? Well, that's the point in pawn 139 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,960 shop's, father, only a few dollars. We could get a new one, 140 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,120 but it wouldn't be the same. We've had children in the parish, 141 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,639 they've grown up and married. It's the only Jesus they know, we understand, 142 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,320 and we've had children who died. It was the only Jesus they knew. 143 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,639 So many of the people who'd come here as simple people, they wouldn't 144 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:18,279 understand such It would be like changing the evening star. We'll do our best, 145 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:20,360 Father, That's why we've mean so much to have it back for the 146 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:26,159 first Mass son Christmas. It's not very long, Father, less than twenty 147 00:12:26,159 --> 00:12:28,879 four hours. Anything turns up here. You know where to get in touch 148 00:12:28,919 --> 00:12:33,240 with us. Yes, sad, isn't it? How's that? And so 149 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:37,080 short a time? Men learn to steal? Yes, but consider us, 150 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,720 father, hus. Some of them didn't you and I'd be out of work. 151 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:48,320 Ten fifty am we notified pawn shop detail. Frank and I checked out 152 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,759 the two Allar boys. The first one, James Corneen, said he knew 153 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:56,120 nothing about them as in the statue. The second one, Joseph Heffernan, 154 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,840 was not at home. His father said he had a part time job. 155 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,080 You have n't get in touch with us. Right after lunch by eleven thirty 156 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,200 am. We'd run out of book procedure. We had a man to find 157 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:16,200 our only clue. He'd been to church. Eleven thirty three am. We 158 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:20,039 checked the phone books for the names of religious stores in the area. Two 159 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:22,480 of them were closed. We tried the third. When we got there, 160 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:26,759 the only person in the store was an elderly man sitting by a table. 161 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:37,360 In front of him was a large, beautifully carved chess set. We're police 162 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:43,440 officers. My name is Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith. 163 00:13:43,519 --> 00:13:46,440 Neat to see you copy in the middle of a big chess match. Where's 164 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,440 your partner? Sanos? We've been playing for years, same match. No, 165 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,120 just two or three months on this one. But a man was We've 166 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,159 been playing different matches for years. I see you know, he do it 167 00:13:56,159 --> 00:13:58,519 through the mail. I send him a move, he sends me one. 168 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,480 Keep you on your toes except during the holidays. Mail gets all fiddled up. 169 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,799 That's no good. Yes, not slow us things down, that's no 170 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:09,799 good. I like to catch them off guard. You, mister Flavan, 171 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,000 do you know we never met? Your Name's on the window out front, 172 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:16,679 mister Flavan. We checked the other two religious stars in this neighborhood. They're 173 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,279 closed. It's the best one anyway. European items. We're checking the stores 174 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,360 around the Mission Church for what statue of the child Jesus? Do you have 175 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:39,840 one we could look at? Sure, no, sir're a larger one. 176 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,600 You don't want a larger one unless it's for the church. That's where you 177 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:52,120 want a larger one. Could we see it? Please? It's not my 178 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:54,600 dude to butt in, but unless you live in a big place, this 179 00:14:54,639 --> 00:14:58,200 will make your living room all the kunder. Yes. Most of the people 180 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,799 who go to the Mission Church trade here, good, many of them, 181 00:15:01,879 --> 00:15:05,919 specially to kids. White kids, more religious. Check on yourself, see 182 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:09,440 if kids are more religious than you might be. So that's what's wrong in 183 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,320 the world. Oh, I don't mean you're wrong with it and everybody? 184 00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:13,600 Yes, sir? What if we could take to the point, mister Flavan, 185 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,320 Sure a lot of people from the Mission Church come in here. Do 186 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,000 people ever come in and sell back a religious article like a prayer book or 187 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,320 rosaries? Yes, sir? Second hand? You mean yes, sir, 188 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,600 not since I ever been around. It's silly why people don't have religious articles 189 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,639 so they can get rid of them. They happened so they can happen. 190 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,399 But if a man had a statue and wanted to sell it, he'd come 191 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:35,919 to a place like this, sure, but he wouldn't want to sell it. 192 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:37,799 He would if it was stolen. No, sir, if a man 193 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,720 wanted to steal a statue, he'd be crazy or something like that. The 194 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:43,639 only place he'd want to go is where crazy people are. You may be 195 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:46,159 right, mister Flaman. I don't know what you fellas are looking for. 196 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,919 But if it's somebody who stole the statue, he's crazy and you won't find 197 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,039 him. You won't find him as long as you live or in a million 198 00:15:52,120 --> 00:16:00,159 years. That should cover it. We check religious stores out as far as 199 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,720 Van asked. We asked the same questions. The owners gave us the same 200 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:07,799 answers, but none of them were as encouraging as mister Flavan. Frank and 201 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,519 I had lunch and reported back to the office. It was one thirty pm 202 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,799 when we started into the squad room. The capital is just coming out. 203 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,799 I just checked Brian A Luntrum and we've been out on that. Theft of 204 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:21,879 the mission. Make it some action on the Patterson case. They locate him. 205 00:16:21,919 --> 00:16:23,600 I think he's on the bus from Sacramento. Well that means the Bakersfield 206 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:37,960 police. We'll wait and see. Wow, are one of your fellow serjects 207 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,200 Friday? He is, I'm Drew Heffnon. My father said you wanted to 208 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,720 see me. Sit down, son, You didn't have to come in. 209 00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:48,320 A phone call would work. My father said to get on over. He 210 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,879 says that any kid that uses phones is lazy. We want to ask you 211 00:16:51,919 --> 00:16:55,399 about this morning. You served six o'clock mass. Yes, sir, I'm 212 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,480 seeing you. Boy. Do I get the sixth you're a senior and you 213 00:16:57,639 --> 00:17:00,799 take the early trick? Yes? Sure, that way. If you receive 214 00:17:00,799 --> 00:17:04,759 a communion, you get that breakfast sooner. Father Rojas says, you think 215 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:08,519 the statue was there before a mass? I didn't look, but I have 216 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,440 a feeling that was there, a feeling, you know how you have a 217 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:17,359 feeling about something, but you're not sure. Did you stay around long after 218 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,839 a mass? I put out the candles and hung up my surplus. How 219 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,160 long would that take? About five minutes? Maybe? Did any of the 220 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:29,440 people at mass stay on him? Some moms do, especially ladies. Oh 221 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:33,759 maybe they don't finishing time or else they start new prayers. I don't know. 222 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,599 So when you left there were still some women there, No, sir, 223 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,960 that was at first. After I went back to the sacristy, there 224 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,640 was only this one man. What man? He comes at six o'clock all 225 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,359 the time. Do you know his name? No, sir, but he 226 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:52,039 works down and off you know all paint shop or the paint signs. Could 227 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:56,400 you describe him? Short? Medium, were in a suit that didn't match. 228 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,640 Didn't match, you know, different pants than coat. About his age, 229 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,640 Oh, he's pretty old. Take a guess about forty. Maybe there's 230 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,039 nothing particular about him. Then why did you notice him? I've seen him 231 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:12,359 before. And the bundle, I guess the bundle out in front. I 232 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,839 saw him when he was coming out. He had this bundle and he almost 233 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,960 dropped it. How larger bundle? Hard to say? Come on, son? 234 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:22,799 Was it large or smaller? Size of the statue not that big? 235 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:41,000 Yes, sir. We located the sign shop. The suspect didn't work there 236 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,240 anymore, but we discovered his name was Claude Strup. We found out where 237 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:49,880 he lived. Two twenty five pm we arrived. There was a hotel for 238 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,200 men, mostly old man, mostly down on ours, was called the Golden 239 00:18:55,279 --> 00:19:03,079 Dream. Police officer. We're looking for Claude's troop. Ope Claude didn't get 240 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,480 any trouble, so the way is he in? He's got room three h 241 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:08,119 seven. You can check if you like. We'll take your word. Were 242 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,440 you one this morning? M YEA have the early shift? Well, we 243 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,279 don't have shifts. My uncle owns the place on the shift? Did Stroop 244 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:18,079 spend last night here? Came in about eleven? When did he leave this 245 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,680 morning? Round six? Maybe before? To come back after eight o'clock or 246 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,640 so, then left supposed to be back at ten and pulls this trick? 247 00:19:26,799 --> 00:19:30,720 What trick? Our program? He knows the other fellas need him. Program 248 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,319 be here at the hotel every Christmas. We have a program, put up 249 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:38,119 a treaty and sing and mostly old fellas singing like that makes them remember back 250 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,880 when they were kids. And Jimmy Finn comes on. He shares number four 251 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,440 o nine. His family once had a lot of money, so he tells 252 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,599 the fellas about it, stories about Christmas, how they had this big log 253 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,920 and his grandfather used to start it up. After dinner, everybody turned over 254 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,799 his plate and there underneath was a twenty dollar gold piece, brand new one 255 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,599 Stroop came in this morning. Did he have a bundle? I didn't see 256 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:03,880 him come in, he said, you saw him. I saw him go 257 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,160 out after, but not come in when was at eight. If you want 258 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,240 to look for a bundle, I could give you his key. We don't 259 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,240 have award. It's all right. I know about police. It's all right 260 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,880 with me. It's not with us. I didn't mean that. I just 261 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:22,799 meant it was alright with me. Jean. We lost little on the past 262 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:30,039 of steam Man. When there were three old men. They couldn't tell how 263 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,440 much better they would have been with Stroop singing the fourth part. Somehow you 264 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,559 didn't care. This was Christmas at the Golden Dream, and it sounded fine. 265 00:20:40,599 --> 00:20:49,240 Cross was through well when the ol man came inside, calling with you. 266 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,680 This is the last rehearsal. I got most of the songs down. 267 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:02,319 Pat sounds pretty good. That's why Game Claude isn't here. He's tenor and 268 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:04,000 they need him to make it sound just right. This troop have a job, 269 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:07,960 no, sir, he used to have jobs. Not much lately though. 270 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,240 You say where he was going? No, no, he should have 271 00:21:10,319 --> 00:21:11,400 fellows need him. But he comes here. What do you call us? 272 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:15,880 Sure? And not say anything to him. That's right. I hope it's 273 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,200 nothing serious for Claude. He fell his troubles out to be over troubles way 274 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,599 back, wouldn't count tell us anyway. I don't know much about it as 275 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,599 much as you know. I come on. It was something back where he 276 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,680 used to live, rob somebody or something, what else, that's all. 277 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,079 It was a long time ago, away far back. But he forgot it 278 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,480 all or robbing and everything. No, not quite m he remembered it this 279 00:21:40,599 --> 00:22:10,920 morning, God very man, jes same on this day. They went back 280 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,200 to the office and ran Stroops name through R and I if he'd been booked 281 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,960 anywhere. We had no record of it, at least not under that name. 282 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:22,119 Four or fifteen pm pawn shot detail reported back. No object resembling the 283 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,000 statue of the child Jesus had been turned in. Four eighteen pm. I 284 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:30,440 hung up the phone. Patterson's on a Sacramento bus. I thought Baker's peel 285 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:33,240 had it. They were supposed to confirm they did up over the station. 286 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,200 What about Panning and prior? They're still out, Well, they'll be back 287 00:22:36,279 --> 00:22:38,440 soon. When's the bus arrived six o'clock? There's plenty of time. For 288 00:22:38,519 --> 00:22:41,000 him to make it. There's more time for you. We're still in that 289 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,200 theft, Kenneda. Wait, No, what is it? Ten fifteen dollars 290 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,920 statue? When's the price determined the case? I realized it's a church statue, 291 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,640 but that doesn't give a priority. It's important to them, Captain Joe 292 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,559 and I promised to get it back. What do you got on it? 293 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:03,160 Nothing much? And Wire is a big herder. When no, don't say 294 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,680 anything. No right, Claude's true. He just walked into the hotel. 295 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,319 He's our suspect. Nobody's leaked to him. No, you'll keep you can 296 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,119 run him down tomorrow. It'll be too late then I need it for the 297 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,400 first Mass in the morning. Skipper, it's kind of a big thing for 298 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:19,720 them. I'm sorry. I can't juggle details around. So you can get 299 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,640 a statue back if there's time later on. We'll do our best, Yes, 300 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,079 sir, you better get over to the station. Yes, sir. 301 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:30,640 When you call Father row housover commission, tell him we're too busy to work 302 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,599 on that statue, but we'll do it later tomorrow or when we get a 303 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:34,559 chance. I can't you call it. Well, we better get over the 304 00:23:34,599 --> 00:23:37,960 station. If Patterson's on that bus, we don't want to miss him. 305 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:48,160 All right, I'll call him alrighty, yeah, I can send finding in 306 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,160 prior. You might as well stand another thing. Whenever you say, Kevin, 307 00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:08,079 you are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force and 308 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:22,240 action. Four three pm we arrived at the Golden Dream Hotel. The desk 309 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:25,160 clerk was right, Claude Stroup looked like a man who at his troubles at 310 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,519 bargain rates and named Claude Stroup. Yes, police officers, we like to 311 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:33,359 talk to you. I didn't do anything against the law, honest, I 312 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,119 didn't do anything against yeh, I'm been accused. I want to take you 313 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,759 downtown. We like to talk to you. I said, I'm not going. 314 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,079 I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to talk to anybody. You're 315 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:57,079 half wrong already. Five point fifteen pm we returned Stoop for interrogation. He 316 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:04,759 kept his word. He refused to six oh five pm Frank called Fay total 317 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:07,599 he'd be a little late. Stroop didn't move for a whole hour. He 318 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:15,440 sat and stared, but he didn't talk. Six forty pm we got a 319 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,359 final report from pawn shop detail. The shops were closed, there was no 320 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,759 statue. Stroop still hadn't talked. Don't you ever want to go home? 321 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:26,799 Stroop? If I was to talk, you wouldn't let me go. Depends 322 00:25:26,839 --> 00:25:30,200 on what you'd say. I'd say it wrong and I wouldn't get home. 323 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:33,039 You won't it this way either. I'd like to go. You compete on 324 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,799 that. This is a seventh year we had the program, and I never 325 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:40,960 missed a one and a single one. Why don't just tell us what happens, 326 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:42,599 Troupe. How would I know you'd let me go? You wouldn't. 327 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,640 I might as well anyway, all right, what happened from mass on? 328 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,480 Well there was mass. I came out and started down toward the hotel back 329 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:53,720 up. I left my stuff at the hotel, and then I picked up 330 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,440 Georgia's car. I didn't steal it. He said I could have it any 331 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,720 time I wanted. At this time, I didn't ask him. I took 332 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:04,920 it and started out. Yeah, I should have asked, but I just 333 00:26:06,039 --> 00:26:10,480 didn't. I went over to Grand Avenue for the Christmas bulbs for this fellow 334 00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:14,559 seals, and second hand it was coming out of the lot. But I 335 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,599 did it. Yeah, the bumper must have caught the other car didn't leave 336 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,279 too big of death, But there was this long scratch. I got off 337 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,200 and tried to wipe it off with my handkerchief, you know, spit on 338 00:26:25,319 --> 00:26:30,240 a line. Only didn't do nothing good. I didn't think anybody saw. 339 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,759 I don't know how you Fellas found out about it. I'll check out our 340 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:40,079 records, right strip. We didn't bring it out here to talk about that. 341 00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:44,319 We didn't know. There's a statue missing from the church, the statue 342 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,720 of the Child Jesus. You mean I took it? You took a bundle 343 00:26:47,759 --> 00:26:51,400 out of church. Guess sir. That was my other pants for the program 344 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,400 tonight. I had a place sewed up and there was a button on it. 345 00:26:55,119 --> 00:27:00,759 You can check. But I wouldn't take a statue. I don't think 346 00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:06,359 you would either. He's cleared out of records. Want hope for the program? 347 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:18,720 You mean it's all right? Good Night's drew a right Merry Christmas? 348 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,279 Where too? Well? I don't know. We could stay and work on 349 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:38,799 it tonight. It wouldn't do any good. We won't find it, I 350 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:48,279 don't think so. Now he's kidding the priest build his hopes up as we'll 351 00:27:48,319 --> 00:28:03,960 go tell him now. Merry Christmas. Seven twenty seven pm. We found 352 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:08,200 Father Rojas. Frank told him how it was that we couldn't get the statue 353 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,640 back by morning, but that we'd keep trying during the week. He said 354 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,319 he understood. We told him we had to get on. As Frank and 355 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,119 I started to leave, the doors at the main entrance to the church opened. 356 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,559 It was a good two hundred feet away. It was hard to be 357 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,400 sure, but it looked like a small boy drawing a bright red wagon behind 358 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:41,920 him. When he got closer, you could see he was no bigger than 359 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,319 a pint of milk. It was a luminous side little Mexican boy with a 360 00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:57,039 face as young as yesterday. The priest seemed to know him. Akito. 361 00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:02,880 In the back of the wagon was the missing statue of the child Jesus. 362 00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:07,839 He picked it up gently and walked up to the priest are the He just 363 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:14,839 stood there, looking up at Father Rojas. Spaco Mendoza, the boy from 364 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:22,039 Paris, ask him where he found him, Bundel contrasting, here's a Maniana. 365 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:29,880 He didn't find it. He took it. Why okay, too, 366 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:45,680 restaur I leave Histores, I leave his l flemto Riahi in Mikos. He 367 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:49,519 says, all through the years he's prayed for a red wagon. This year 368 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:53,400 he prayed to the child Jesus. He promised that if he got the wagon, 369 00:29:53,440 --> 00:30:04,359 the child Jesus would have the first ride in it. And he wants 370 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,680 not I the devil will come and take him to Hell. I'm sure department 371 00:30:08,759 --> 00:30:21,680 pole noel v he says, Ama pakitomucho. We crossed over to the sanctuary. 372 00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,160 With the help of Father Rojas. The young boy replaced the infant Jesus 373 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,480 in the rightful place the crib in the Nativity scene. Thank and I could 374 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:37,920 have been wrong, but the small plasters statue seemed to approve. Mary Joseph, 375 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:45,440 the wise Man, Gaspar no Kior Balazar, the old shepherd, the 376 00:30:45,519 --> 00:31:02,039 young shepherd, the peasant, they all seemed to approve. The priest told 377 00:31:02,079 --> 00:31:06,720 the boy to go home. He took hold of his wagon started the long 378 00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:25,480 walk out of the church. There wasn't much we could say. There wasn't 379 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:30,279 much to say. We just stood there and watched him go. Halfway up, 380 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:45,599 he turned to look back and he went on out. I don't understand 381 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,079 how we got that wagon today, don't kids wait for Santa Claus anymore. 382 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:53,920 It isn't from Santa Claus. The fireman picks old toys and kids them to 383 00:31:55,000 --> 00:33:05,880 new children. Parquito's family, they're poor. Fay five. The story you 384 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:15,640 have just heard is true. The names and locations were changed. You have 385 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:22,960 just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes 386 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,160 from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles 387 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:51,559 Police Department. Welcome back, a quite classic episode with a very different feel 388 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,640 from the normal Dragnet. It has some points that are artifacts of its time. 389 00:33:57,119 --> 00:34:01,000 I actually went and watched the nineteen six eight version because I wasn't sure 390 00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:07,720 that they use that line about the dad saying that boys who use the phone 391 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,079 are lazy, but they'd ad deal. I think the core of the story 392 00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:16,639 spoke to something more timeless. Over the years, many Christmas specials, some 393 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:25,199 good and some bad, have decried the commercialism of Christmas. This is kind 394 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:31,559 of the opposite side of the coin. Rather than complaining about apartment stores and 395 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:39,400 big interest and big corporations, this holds up the example of Christmas observed by 396 00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:45,000 those who have very little. A little boy with a repaired second hand toy 397 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,239 a group of down and out men giving their all to prepare for Christmas and 398 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:57,480 sharing a humble meal and stories of better days. They celebrate even though they 399 00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:02,639 are poor. But are they father It's a simple but profound question that the 400 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:08,239 episode leaves the audience to ponder as a mystery. There's not a whole lot 401 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:15,000 here, and obviously they don't even really solve the case. But it's a 402 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:20,920 story about Joe and Frank being drawn into this world and understanding that, even 403 00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:24,079 though there's not a lot of money involved, that this is an important case. 404 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:30,159 It was unusual at the time for Friday or his partner to push back 405 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:35,239 on the captain, but he does hear, and it's a good question. 406 00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:42,840 When does the money determine the importance of the case. The question ties into 407 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:49,280 the theme that the season is about things greater than money or financial value in 408 00:35:49,519 --> 00:35:53,280 terms of the production itself. In his book My Name's Friday, Michael Hayes 409 00:35:53,480 --> 00:36:00,039 cites two things that he found were distracting problems with the episode. The first 410 00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:05,840 goes back to a problem that during the Golden Age of Hollywood, many people 411 00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:13,599 failed to comprehend the difference between Portuguese and Spanish last names, and that people 412 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:19,800 from Brazil and Portugal speak Portuguese. Now you can be ignorant of this, 413 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,079 and you can get through your life without ever knowing this, and odds are 414 00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:30,239 you will never have a problem as a result of this. Jack Web was 415 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:36,599 not so fortunate. As the program was being filmed and recorded, he discovered 416 00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:45,320 that the young actor that he'd hired was of Portuguese descent and couldn't speak a 417 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:51,119 word of Spanish. He had to learn his lines phonetically, and according to 418 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,559 Hey, this came off as to Wolden. To me, I never saw 419 00:36:54,840 --> 00:37:01,199 that way. I always interpreted the way he delivered it as him being nervous, 420 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:07,760 just because sometimes when I'm nervous, I can come off a little staff. 421 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:14,000 The point which I do agree with Hayte on is that Friday is just 422 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:20,400 way too harsh this episode. Well, I think it's understandable that he's racing 423 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,639 against the clock, so he might not be patient. This behavior, in 424 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:31,440 some ways was just totally against the sort of personality that Friday had shown. 425 00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:36,760 I mean, he was getting rough with everybody, the desk clerk and even 426 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,800 the altar boy. I'm in the place of the altar boy in this episode, 427 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,079 I'm really afraid that Friday is gonna nail me to the wall for something 428 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:52,000 if I don't deliver with my best guess as to the size of the bundle 429 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:58,960 versus the size of the statue of the child Jesus really quick. Of course, 430 00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:04,719 Breen had written hard boiled crime stuff like Pat Novak for Hire, and 431 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:10,400 I think he was kind of leaning into that approach with the Dragnet episode. 432 00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:17,320 It's a bit distracting here, but his inability to get Friday's voice right as 433 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:23,400 listeners had seen and heard it since nineteen forty nine, and Web either being 434 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:34,360 unwilling or unable to rain his friend in would lead to bigger problems in the 435 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,800 nineteen fifty four Dragnet film. Guess is another story. On a more positive 436 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:45,679 note, One of the things I noted is how many people were cast in 437 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,679 both the nineteen fifty three and sixty seven version of the story. In addition 438 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:57,480 to Jack Webb, Harry Bartel, Herb Vigrnt, and Ralph Moody appear as 439 00:38:57,639 --> 00:39:01,719 Father Rojas, the desk clerk, and mister Flavin in all versions of the 440 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:07,920 story. There are details that did get changed in the nineteen sixties version. 441 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,079 In the nineteen sixties TV version, for example, Claude Stroup works at a 442 00:39:14,199 --> 00:39:19,440 mini golf place, and when Friday presses the older boy on whether the package 443 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,400 was about the size of the statue, he's dialed back the intensity about two 444 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:30,480 or three levels, so it's not so out of character for the good sergeant. 445 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:37,800 Otherwise, the nineteen sixty seven broadcasts remains pretty much the same, and 446 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:45,880 I think with those three actors, he recognized that those performances were perfect for 447 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:52,159 what the script required, because he is refreshing for an era when the work 448 00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:57,320 of actors, particularly the work of old radio actors, was often disregarded or 449 00:39:57,639 --> 00:40:04,039 as seen as disposable or replaced. And seriously, could anyone else but Ralph 450 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,239 Moody play mister Flavin? Web knew that the story needed to be remade for 451 00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:15,280 technical reasons. Even if the original nineteen fifty three color print had survived, 452 00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:22,000 there were many technical complaints with it and it couldn't compare to what they were 453 00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:27,559 able to do in color in nineteen sixty seven. He certainly recognized that there 454 00:40:27,599 --> 00:40:31,639 were some minor tweaks that could be done to the script and perhaps to his 455 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:37,920 performance without doing any harm to the story. The core of the episode was 456 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:44,039 beautiful, and that didn't need to be updated or changed. In fact, 457 00:40:44,199 --> 00:40:50,000 it was more needful in nineteen sixty seven than it had been in nineteen fifty 458 00:40:50,119 --> 00:40:52,920 three. Now, the world was not a perfect place in nineteen fifty three, 459 00:40:53,079 --> 00:40:57,800 a country was just coming out of the Korean War, but there was 460 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:05,960 a level of upre evil, division, and uncertainty that was really palpable in 461 00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:10,360 the United States during that era. I think of it in the same sort 462 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:17,559 of class, not obviously on his grand a scale, as the nineteen sixty 463 00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:25,480 eight Apollo eight mission and the reading of Genesis, in that it provided hope 464 00:41:25,639 --> 00:41:30,840 and reassurance to a troubled world and perhaps still can today. Well, now 465 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:36,159 we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we start out with Liz, 466 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,519 who writes, thank you for your continued stewardship of this material. And then 467 00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:47,239 we have a comment from Betsy over on YouTube and regarding the episode the Sullivan 468 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:53,280 kidnapping, Betsy writes, Ben's accent used to drive me crazy until suddenly it 469 00:41:53,480 --> 00:42:00,000 didn't. Now I even like it, And regarding the episode, she said, 470 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,519 good but sad episode. Well, thank you so much, Betsy. 471 00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:10,239 There are definitely a lot of bad and over the top Texas accents in old 472 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:15,599 time radio. I don't think Barton Yarboroughs is one of them, in part 473 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:22,960 because he comes by it honestly, as he's actually a Texas native. I've 474 00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:28,320 never heard him being interviewed, so I can't say what his natural voice was. 475 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:34,159 It definitely seemed to be the default, even in roles that wouldn't necessarily 476 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,960 call for someone to be Texan, although I did hear one or two episodes 477 00:42:38,079 --> 00:42:45,880 where he wasn't voicing a Texas accent the whole time, and it was odd 478 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,559 he could do it, but I knew Barton Yarborough was in it. In 479 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:54,000 one episode it was revealed at the end he was secretly a Texan the whole 480 00:42:54,159 --> 00:42:58,440 time, and then we got the Texas accent. Well, now it's time 481 00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:01,760 to think our patreonster of the day and I want to go ahead and thanks 482 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:07,519 Sergey. 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