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As a reminder, we are going to 22 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,960 play episodes one and two today. If you are minded to listen to the 23 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:36,719 complete serial together, then I would encourage you to wait till Friday and pause 24 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,039 this episode and then on Friday you can listen to episodes one and two and 25 00:02:40,199 --> 00:02:44,360 three and five right back to back. Now, I do want to say 26 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,400 before we play this that this is an interesting serial in that I believe it 27 00:02:49,759 --> 00:02:55,840 was the last Yours Truly Johnny Dollar cereal to become fully available. Now, 28 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,599 while we do have four cereals that are missing, Apple Jerry Hindigus on his 29 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:09,560 webside at otrsote dot com had episode five of The Sea Legs Matter listed as 30 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:15,360 a lost episode, and with these five part serials. Not having a part 31 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:21,039 five essentially ruins the story. By the time that thought into listening to these 32 00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:24,479 in the mid to light two thousands, it had been completed. But this 33 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,280 was the one that for so many years you couldn't really listen to in a 34 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:37,479 complete fashion. So now from July thirtieth and thirty first of nineteen fifty six, 35 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:46,400 here is The Sea Legs Matter, Episodes one and two from Hollywood. 36 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:53,639 It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Hi, Johnny, say, didn't you 37 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:57,919 tell me one time? But you're quite ant about fishing? Is that at 38 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,960 McCracken at Universal Jesuit Europe? Oh Gonnet? You know you spiked my plans 39 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,319 for a fishing trip just a few weeks ago? Oh yeah, all right, 40 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,599 what's on your mind? Big fish? Real big fish? You ever 41 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,800 hear of Douglas a landfair? Uh millionaire playboy sportsman yousment had someone well, 42 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,759 didn't I read somewhere that he sure did? Johnny at the bottom of the 43 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,480 Deep Blue Sea, And a four hundred thousand dollars claim has been filed interested 44 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:32,319 an expense account based on that will be a pleasure tonight and every weekday night. 45 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,439 Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the action packed Expense 46 00:04:36,439 --> 00:04:57,439 account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, from Special 47 00:04:57,519 --> 00:05:01,399 Investigator Johnny Dollar to Universal Adjustment Karau, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an 48 00:05:01,399 --> 00:05:11,439 accounting of expended yours during my investigation of the Sea Legs matter. Expencer count 49 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:15,720 outam one ninety cents taxi from my apartment to the offices of Universal Adjustment where 50 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:18,240 Pat McCracken was waiting for me with a handful and a head full of information. 51 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,680 Two claims Johnny, both filed by Constance Landsfair. The wife here copies 52 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,680 of them. I'll come too, Pert, and number one is against Douglas 53 00:05:27,759 --> 00:05:31,120 Landfair's life policy with Greater Southwest Life and Casually Insurance Company two hundred and fifty 54 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,879 thousand. Oh, what's the other? One hundred and fifty thousand International Maritime 55 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,800 Organization for the loss of the land Fair yacht four hundred thousand clan. That's 56 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:44,639 right, Okay, what's the story? Well? Landfair was making a triple 57 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,839 on the coast of Central America and his yacht, the Sea Legs. He 58 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:49,639 ran onto a rock or something. The boat sank and he and his crew 59 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,639 one went down with her. Why do you have any reason to question the 60 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,560 validity of the claim by missus Landfair. Two and a half years ago, 61 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,600 Landfair himself filed a claim with International Maname. It seems he lost a power 62 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:06,120 cruiser in exactly the same place near the Buldaro Islands off coast of Nicaragua. 63 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:11,720 Eighty five thousand dollars total loss happened in a spot where not one bit of 64 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,360 the reculd be salvage. Oh where'd you learn that? Local authorities in this 65 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,319 small Nicaraguaan seaport and missus Landfair she was with him on that trip, but 66 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:21,240 she wasn't with him on this one. Afore the sea lags No, or 67 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,680 presumably she wouldn't be around to file the claim. Where's Constant Landfair now? 68 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,879 Pat home, as far as I know, lives on their small estate on 69 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:32,759 Long Island out near the town of Kutchag. You want to call her talk 70 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:41,800 to her? No, I think I'll go down there. Item two twenty 71 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,720 one to twenty Fair and miscellaneous to cut Yog Long Island. Item three A 72 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:50,439 buck even for a taxi from the little station to the Landfair estate state? 73 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:55,079 Did you call it mister well, isn't it well, it used to be 74 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,439 before the Landfair sold awful lot of it. That's so, I guess there 75 00:06:59,439 --> 00:07:01,439 wasn't nothing else he could do, keep up with that highway of living. 76 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:06,439 Keep talking, fella well, the old man land for his father in law. 77 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,399 He had plenty, I guess, But after he died, all kids 78 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:15,199 seemed to do was spend it, you know what I mean. Fancy yachts, 79 00:07:15,439 --> 00:07:18,439 let's polo, playing Florida in the winter, main the summer, all 80 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:24,040 that sort of thing. Oh, there's place now, right up ahead there 81 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,959 on the right. I looked, and when I saw, apparently bore out 82 00:07:27,959 --> 00:07:30,959 what the taxi driver had said. A big stone wall surrounded what had evidently 83 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,839 been the original rather vast property belonging to the estate. Square. In the 84 00:07:34,839 --> 00:07:39,600 middle of it set what was probably once called a mansion, but small new 85 00:07:39,639 --> 00:07:55,399 modern homes were crowding in on the old house. Hello, missus Landfair, 86 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,319 I'm Johnny Dollar. I'm representing the Universal Adjustment Bureau in Hartford. Oh, 87 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:03,759 yes, of course, in connection with the insurance. Won't you come in 88 00:08:03,839 --> 00:08:09,439 please writing here, mister Dollar, and do pardon the looks of the place. 89 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:15,720 I'm afraid I've neglected things somewhat since well said down? Please thank you? 90 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,600 Uh. I hope you don't mind answering a few questions, missus lampeer. 91 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,680 But since you've already filed claims on the insurance policies, well, I'll 92 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,040 try to be as brief as possible. I don't want to see in cold 93 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,360 blotted about it, mister Dollar. But the initial shock of losing Doug and 94 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,840 the loss of the yacht is past. There's nothing to be gained in just 95 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:41,240 sitting around feeling sorry for myself, particularly in view of the day to day 96 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:46,519 problems I have to face. What problems, missus lampeer, to be perfectly 97 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,279 blunt about it, financial mostly Well, I must say your attitude is very 98 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:56,960 commendable. It's a necessary attitude under the circumstances. Now, what may I 99 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,360 tell you? If you're sure you don't mind talking about it, I'd like 100 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:03,399 to know all I can about the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the yacht. 101 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,559 Well, I don't quite know how to start. We were on a just 102 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,919 a pleasure crew. You were along on this trip, yes, that is 103 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,240 up until until the day had happened. Oh, why did Doug ever happened. 104 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:26,639 I'm sorry, mister Doll. Well, we were just taking our time 105 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,720 cruising south along the east coast of Central America, doing a little fishing. 106 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,279 We'd often taken the Sea Legs down there. That's the yacht, Yes, 107 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,159 a motor sailor here on the wall. This is a picture of her. 108 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:46,200 That's Doug on deck. Oh isn't she beautiful? Sixty eight feet over all, 109 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:50,840 twenty foot beam, solid teak decking everything. Yes, that is a 110 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,919 good looking about. It's terrible to lose something as nice as that, isn't 111 00:09:54,919 --> 00:10:01,399 it. Yes, Yes, any car along the of Nicaragua, Dog decided 112 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,679 to put in at San Juan del Pero. That's where the Sea Legs had 113 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,440 originally been built, but the sand bar formations have almost ruined San Juan is 114 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,000 a port. So we went on up to Bluefields. Oh, yes, 115 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,159 I understand that's now the best seaport on the Caribbean side of Nicaragua. You 116 00:10:16,919 --> 00:10:22,000 know that country down there only from what I've read. Oh, but go 117 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,000 on please. Well, while we were there, he had some work done 118 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,919 on our radio equipment. We'd had trouble with it on the way down. 119 00:10:30,039 --> 00:10:33,000 Ah. When the work was finished, of course, he wanted to try 120 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:37,480 it out. He'd found a radio amateur in Porta Gado, so he asked 121 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,120 me to stay on shore while he and the skipper went out to sea. 122 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:45,799 We kept in contact every few minutes while he headed her out toward the Boldero 123 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,200 Islands. The Boldero Islands, isn't that why you lost a power cruiser a 124 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,480 couple of years ago? Yes, the Conneo named after me, and I 125 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:54,879 begged him not to go up there again, Why, missus lampeir Because of 126 00:10:54,919 --> 00:10:58,840 the treacherous currents between the two little islands, the great deep that lies between 127 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,360 them, the terribly dangerous spot with pinnacles of rock that reach up almost to 128 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:05,799 the surface. Well, why did he go out there again? To prove 129 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,559 a point? That's all to prove a point. Look, I'm afraid I 130 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,799 don't follow you. Doug had blamed the loss of the Carneo two years before 131 00:11:13,799 --> 00:11:16,639 on poor seamanship by the man at the wheel. He wanted to prove that 132 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,720 he could take a boat through there safely. Ah. Kind of looks like 133 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:24,879 he was wrong, doesn't it. His last words over the radio were that 134 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,600 a rock had torn the bottom out of the sea. Legs, Oh, 135 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:31,600 mister dollar. Before the signal stopped. I could hear the crunching of the 136 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,480 hull and the sound of the waters that swept in and over. It was 137 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,759 terrible. You sent someone out there right away, of course, yes, 138 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:41,440 but it was no use. The Sea Legs was gone, and with it 139 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:48,120 went my husband and the man with him, and the uh. The bodies 140 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:54,279 were never recron before. When we lost the carneo, we had time to 141 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,000 put on life preservers launched the small boat. I must admit I wanted how 142 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,840 it was when the Sea Legs went down. There was time and I could 143 00:12:00,879 --> 00:12:03,480 hear it over the radio, and it was terrible. It was terrible. 144 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:11,120 I'm sorry, it's all right. I'm all right, jack, mister Dollar. 145 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,080 I may have to go down there, missus Landfair and go through the 146 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:22,399 motions of an investigation, you know, But then you your companies will pay 147 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:26,519 the claims. I see no reason now why not. It's terrible to have 148 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,320 to be so frank about it, but I do need the money, Johnny. 149 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:35,200 I was telling the truth. I didn't see any reason why the claims 150 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:41,000 shouldn't be paid. Perhaps Connie Landfair's explanation of why she wasn't grieving over the 151 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,639 loss of her husband was true, but more than once I wondered if she 152 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:48,200 weren't far more concerned over the loss of the yacht or about how soon she 153 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,120 could collect on the policies. Then that deliberate slip and starting to call me 154 00:12:52,159 --> 00:12:56,879 by my first name, Just what are your plans, missus Lanfair? The 155 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:01,799 plans, Johnny, I don't quite know what you mean. Well, I 156 00:13:01,799 --> 00:13:05,399 suppose the companies make prompt payment on these claims. That'll mean four hundred thousand 157 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,759 dollars. Well, really, mister dollar, aren't you overstepping bounds a little 158 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:11,320 bit? Maybe? But if it'll make you feel any better, or if 159 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,279 it will help to hasten a settlement, I'll tell you I'll sell what is 160 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,039 left of this property and leave the country, leave for where, somewhere in 161 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,759 Europe, on the continent alone, I beg you. Of course, sorry, 162 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,039 I just wondered. Doug and I were too close to even think of 163 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:33,200 my having boyfriends or whatever you want to call it. The more I think 164 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,639 about it, the more I resent that question. No particular implication meant, 165 00:13:37,639 --> 00:13:39,960 missus lanf Next thing, you'll start implying that the sea Legs wasn't wrecked at 166 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 all, that Doug is still alive somewhere. And then if you can't dig 167 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 them up out of the sea, your precious companies can somehow contrive to keep 168 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,320 the money that is rightfully mine, can get out of paying off from what 169 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:56,639 I thought was a little The more she talk, the more I became convinced 170 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:01,279 that something was very wrong about this case. I let her vent her fury 171 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,440 on me. It was simulated fury, I thought. Then I called the 172 00:14:05,519 --> 00:14:09,440 taxi again and left. Oh no, sir, mister, you're all wrong, 173 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:11,440 them land fears. They was thinking two peas in a box, they 174 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,600 tell me. Did you ever notice any particular friends either of them may have 175 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:18,679 had? Well, there was always throwing them big bodies, that's what you 176 00:14:18,759 --> 00:14:22,600 mean, big society type brawl. No no, I was thinking of girl 177 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,360 friends for him or boyfriends for her. Oh no, no, sir, 178 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:28,879 he was her, she was his. No playing around, not like most 179 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:33,519 people in that said, and I know, I know, everything goes out 180 00:14:33,559 --> 00:14:41,080 and cut yob. Back in New York, I found that the best immediate 181 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,480 routing to Nicaragua was by playing to Dallas, then to Mexico City, and 182 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,240 Fini to Monagua on the west coast. I made a reservation on the Dallas 183 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,159 plane immediately that side him four, and then spend a dollar forty that set 184 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,320 him five on a phone called a Pat mccrackenback in Hartford. Well, sure, 185 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:56,879 Johnny, if you think it's important enough, you have my full permission. 186 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Yeah, I've already made my reservation for the first leg of the truth. 187 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,679 Now, don't go overboard on the expense account. Kat, How you 188 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:05,759 talk, but you really smell her at a well? Look, according to 189 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,600 report, the Landfairs were real. Buddy, buddy, she loved him, 190 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:11,759 He loved her. He had only a couple of weeks after his death. 191 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,480 She's a lot more concerned over the loss of their boat than she is over 192 00:15:15,559 --> 00:15:20,639 him. Oh, I don't know what to think meantime, If you can 193 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:22,840 afford it, why didn't you have somebody to keep a check on her? 194 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:26,399 Well, sure, Johnny, but with what specifically in mind? I don't 195 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:33,080 know. After all, I didn't have any real concrete reason for feeling that 196 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:37,440 this case was fishy. It was more a hunch than anything else, but 197 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:39,799 a real strong one, and I felt that after my visit to her, 198 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:45,879 Connie Landfair would do something just what I hadn't the least idea But whatever it 199 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,879 was, I wanted to know about it. It was a couple of hours 200 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,399 later that I started to pick up the telephone to order a cab to the 201 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:56,120 airport. Johnny Dollar, This is bad again, Johnny. Oh hih, 202 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,559 I ordered a man to keep tabs on Connie Landfair. Good. You're all 203 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:02,679 friend, dective Randy Singer? Fine? But you know why? Why? 204 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:07,039 She seems to have left town in a hurry? No trace? Oh oh, 205 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,960 you're still going to Nicaragua. Yeah, but keep looking for her right 206 00:16:12,559 --> 00:16:17,480 expense account? Adam six four to seventy five taxi and tipped to LaGuardia Feel, 207 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:22,200 where my ticket and seat reservation were waiting for me. Within a few 208 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,679 minutes, I was comfortably ensconced in my seat by the window. The passenger 209 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,519 door was closed, and the big planes' engines were warming up for the trip 210 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:33,720 to Dallas. Then suddenly the cabin door opened again. A feminine figure skip 211 00:16:33,799 --> 00:16:40,639 lightly in and plunk herself down on the seat next to mine. Well, 212 00:16:40,679 --> 00:17:04,759 how nice, missus Landfair surprise, Johnny, Johnny Dollar, you called Hartford 213 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:11,119 ahead? Hello, Pat McCracken, what'd you get me out of bed for? 214 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,920 This time? I'm calling from the airport in Dallas. Do I mean 215 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,880 you're going on to Nicaragua? Yep, all right? Did I know why 216 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,960 you're calling the answers? No, we still haven't found any trace of Constance 217 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:22,920 Landfair. So why don't you come on back here and start from scratch, 218 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,119 because I have found some trace of Connie Landfair. Oh it's Connie now, 219 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:30,720 it sure is brother. And what's that supposed to me? Pat, she 220 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,440 just happened to occupy a seat aboard the plane right next to mine. Well, 221 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:36,720 Johnny, why don't you work on the facts of the case for a 222 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:40,880 change instead of on the woman involved. Patrick Ever hear of killing two birds 223 00:17:40,880 --> 00:18:00,240 with one stone from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location Bluefields, Nicaragua to the Universal 224 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,880 Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut, following as an accounting of expenses incurred during 225 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:15,160 my investigation of the Sea Legs Matter. Expense account item A five twenty five 226 00:18:15,319 --> 00:18:18,720 late supper at the Dallas Airport for Connie and myself during the wait for our 227 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,599 midnight playing to Mexico City, which we finally bought in and which finally took 228 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,640 off. And on this trip I learned no more, no less from Connie 229 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,440 than I had on the flight from New York to Dallas for instanced and I 230 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:34,599 was so close in everything, same friends, the same interests. That's why 231 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:40,240 we always took the long yachting trips together, did everything together. As a 232 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,400 matter of fact, I felt that her somewhat overdone assurances of how much she 233 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,880 loved her late husband could have been to throw off any suspicion I might have 234 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,720 that she'd done him in another for instance, I still can't get over the 235 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,599 coincidence of our boat deciding to go to Nicarague at the same time. But 236 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,720 believe me, Johnny, mister Donner, I'm just as anxious to clear up 237 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:00,559 this whole thing as you are. The more I thought about it, the 238 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:03,880 more certain I was that it was not just coincidence that had put her on 239 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,960 the same plane with me, And the more liary I felt. I know 240 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:11,640 the country so well too. I think I told you the Sea Legs was 241 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,079 built in a small shipyard in San Juan del Pado at south of Bluefields. 242 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:18,799 Yeah, that's at the lower end of the East coast, isn't it. 243 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:22,119 You do know something about Nicaragua, don't you. Oh, well, only 244 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,920 what I've seen on the maps. Oh, let's see, we can get 245 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,200 a plane from Anagua to the east coast. Oh yes, Nicaragua boast two 246 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:33,480 or three commercial airlines. I'm sure at least one of them makes a direct 247 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:37,160 flight to Bluefields. That's where we put in with the sea legs. You 248 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:44,359 know before before she was, before the beautiful thing went down between those awful 249 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:51,920 Buldero Islands and took your husband with her. Oh yes, poor Doug. 250 00:19:53,319 --> 00:19:57,359 There it was again more apparent concern over the loss of the sea legs and 251 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:03,119 over the husband she claimed to have loved, and still no explanation of why 252 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,759 she decided to go back to Nicaragua. Her decision must have been sudden too, 253 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:14,759 right after I'd seen her at her home on Long Island. From Mexico 254 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,039 City, we took a deluxe four engine playing to Monagua, but the last 255 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,640 leg of the city of Bluefields was in a two engine something that looked like 256 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:26,160 war surplus, tied together with baling wire. At midnight, we signed into 257 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,839 the Providencia Hotel and, after a hearty meal, retired to our respective rooms 258 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,559 to make up for last sleep. I had not planned to wake up at 259 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:41,359 six am, but fate decreed otherwise. H what ha, you're stealing back. 260 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,519 Yeah, sure, just a minute, I'll get up and open the 261 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:47,920 door. No, no, no, no, do not disturb yourself here, 262 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:53,960 sir. Huh. There you see there was no need to disturb yourself. 263 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:00,640 Well just a minute. Who are you? Oscar Pathrick Vladimi posquetto at 264 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,319 your service, Osk Padrick, You, my dear mister Dollar, may just 265 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:08,599 call me Oscar now that we are working together, working together, whatever and 266 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:14,319 no matter what your needs, I Oscar Patrick Vladimiper Scarrow will provide them for 267 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,240 you for a small financial pittance. Of course. Here, let me straighten 268 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:23,680 your pillow a minute. Where did you get the key you just used to 269 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:29,039 open this door? As you can see, mister Dollar, I am prepared 270 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:33,240 for everything. That is fine. I can be of such unesteemable service too, 271 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:38,279 Oh the devil breakfast I order for you, of course. Ah here, 272 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:45,200 my goodness, I will take this collected tip some other time. Get 273 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:49,839 lost. This is a gag? Is some kind of How can you say 274 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,119 it's not a thing after I just saved you paying that menial service? A 275 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:59,799 big tip here now Tomato juice, orange juice cream, chippep on, toast, 276 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:04,920 lamb chops, graveled little sausage, toast, funny jam, and coffee. 277 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,079 You expect me to eat all of that? If I am to be 278 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:11,279 of help to you in this important campaign, I must keep my strength up. 279 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,920 Oh, I beg your pardon, and at my expense of course, 280 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:18,880 of course, after all, nowhere else in Central America can you get such 281 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,680 on valuable help as I can give you. Yeah, well, just what 282 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:25,720 gives you the idea I may need your help? Ah? A good question. 283 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,519 Let me prop you up on your pillows so that you can enjoy the 284 00:22:29,559 --> 00:22:34,400 still like the ascare you are? Oh? The cheap it doesn't look so 285 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,680 good this morning. So I shall take that and the lamp, ask you 286 00:22:38,599 --> 00:22:41,960 to business while you enjoy your breakfast. Is no, no, no, 287 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:47,160 please don't wait for me, mister. Look to begin with? How did 288 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,839 you know my name? Easy? You signed the hotel register? Okay, 289 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,640 but then how did you know? Who has not heard that the famous freelancing 290 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:00,839 insurance tings together? It's such a lovely big fat expense account lucking man. 291 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,759 So that's what appealed to you, of course. And who am I, 292 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,519 Oscar Patrick? Exactly? Who am I thought? I shouldn't learn a couple 293 00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:11,759 of tricks or two from such a great man, Oh brother, seems to 294 00:23:11,799 --> 00:23:15,279 me you've learned plenty already, thank you, And that is why I should 295 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:19,400 be at such magnitudinous assistance to you in the sea lings matter. For a 296 00:23:19,519 --> 00:23:25,440 pittance, you understand me, say one hundred dollars a day? How about 297 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:33,000 ten seventy thirty, fifteen twenty a day and not one pen anymore? Sorry, 298 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,480 Oscar, but you are not higher, mister dollar. You bleed me 299 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:41,000 to the creek. How else could you solve this case without me? Do 300 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:45,319 you really know something about the sea legs? And how did you know? 301 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,519 I came here to investigate it in the second place? What else would such 302 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,440 a distinguished instigator by doing than the case of the American boat lost in the 303 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,359 Budalla Islands, especially coming here with missus Lanthier, and in the first place, 304 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,240 because I know all about it, all right, all right? Ask 305 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:03,680 you tell me this. Do you think there's anything funny about the loss of 306 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,799 the sea legs? I am sure of it. It was a crime of 307 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:10,680 the first and second bottom. Why because you are here? You can do 308 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,759 better than that? All right? Because I am always sure there is something 309 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:18,440 crooked going on, until the guilty ones are approved otherwise, or until the 310 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,799 innocent ones are approved whatever is left, which is besides the point, because 311 00:24:21,839 --> 00:24:25,319 I was sure of it in the first place. Anyhow, the first thing 312 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,599 for you to do is make a trip to Portagalo, the last point of 313 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,400 contact with the sea legs before she was wrecked. Exactly. I have a 314 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:36,160 plane ready and waiting for your own personal use, a playing else one hundred 315 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,599 and fifty miles by oxcar or both. Well, no, no, no, 316 00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:42,720 First, however, I'd like to contact the authorities here in Bluefield. 317 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,279 What do the authorities know about crime? Me? I know all about it. 318 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,920 Yeah, I'm beginning to think you do ask you too much? Probably, 319 00:24:51,039 --> 00:24:53,480 thank you, mister. I respect your high opinion of myself. All 320 00:24:53,559 --> 00:24:57,920 right, I don't know yet what your wrecked is that I can make plain 321 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,039 to you in two words. Money. Okay. Look, if you can't 322 00:25:03,039 --> 00:25:06,960 get me a small plane, here is the address to give to the taxi 323 00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:10,200 driver when you are ready to go to the airfield where I should be waiting 324 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,519 for you. Oh not the big airport. No, no, no, 325 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,799 that is where the lady, missus Lansler would expect you to look for transportation. 326 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,119 Asking you are the craziest I knew you wouldn't want her coming along, 327 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,359 And if she ever gets in your way during your cameras, you'll keep her 328 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,799 out of my wine. Yes, at my expense. What else I'll tell 329 00:25:27,839 --> 00:25:32,319 you something? Asking if there is a wrong angle to this case. I 330 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,839 can't help wondering if she isn't a part of it. You read my mind? 331 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,559 You see if I like brothers under the chin. You say you have 332 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:41,039 a plane all ready to go to play, then we can be on our 333 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:45,279 way before missus Lampey knows we've left. Hey, you want to set the 334 00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:47,400 trailer there so I can get up? Oh, yes, of course, 335 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:52,519 I'll set it right over here. And hey, wait a minute, what 336 00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:56,440 are you going through my pockets for? Oh, just accepting a small tip 337 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:07,319 for bringing up your breakfast. Thanks. If only half of what Oscar said 338 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,039 was true, it was conceivable that he could be of help to me. 339 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:14,000 I check with the hotel manager and the local police. They knew Oscar well 340 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:17,359 and told me that he pretty much lived on the occasional American tourist who showed 341 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,599 up, that he acted as guide, chauffeur, pilot anything for a price, 342 00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:25,640 that he could be trusted implicitly by whoever happened to be paying him at 343 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,799 the moment, and which was important to me. He knew the country and 344 00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:32,599 his people inside out, was a fund of information about anything and anybody. 345 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,240 So I decided to let him tag along for a while. The Federal Maritime, 346 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,440 uh well, the equivalent of our Coastguard, had headquarters in the harbor 347 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,920 area, and I found a captain narrowho spoke fair English. I'm sorry, 348 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,359 said your dollar, but you know as much as we do. We sent 349 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,839 the board of quarters, but we find no sign of the sea legs or 350 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,440 the poor people who go down with her. Nothing. Yeah. Well, 351 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,279 I'm thinking of going up to Port of Gardo, where she took off on 352 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:03,319 our last trip. You know the excellent idea. From there you can fly 353 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:07,079 out of the Boldaro Islands where the wreck did record. And that's what I 354 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,000 was thinking. But in addition to an airplane, you must also need a 355 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:15,160 pilot and a guide. You have someone to suggest, I see there is 356 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:26,240 but one. Send you an Oscar Patrick precisely, and am nine twenty cents 357 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,720 American for a three mile ride and an old model t Ford to the little 358 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,160 private airstrip where, true to his word, Oscar it rented an almost brand 359 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,279 new two place plane for us. He had it warmed up and ready to 360 00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:41,519 go. So fasten your belt, bitter Dollar, relaxed and enjoy it, 361 00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:45,200 and he'll take off. You sure you can fly this thing? Asking ha, 362 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,240 I am the finest pilot in the grago, maybe in the whole world. 363 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:55,359 I'm even a co pilot. Just how much is the useless plane costing 364 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,160 me? Asking for me a special right, so don't worry about it. 365 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:03,279 Here we go into how much will The usual price is thirty nine dollars a 366 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,880 day American? But me I always have a deal, and that's on account 367 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,880 of I give the field so much business. So now other that is, 368 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,599 ask her how much forty five dollars a day? Do you see what the 369 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,839 beautiful view we have for forty five? Look the bay and the Caribbean on 370 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:23,279 one side, and the flat empty margins and planes on the Thirty five dollars 371 00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:26,519 a day is a regular rade. What's suspecial about forty five for me? 372 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:32,319 Oh? No, mister dollar for me? Surely you wouldn't expect the finest 373 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:37,079 pilot in the whole entire world to work FINALTI are you okay? Okay? 374 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,200 But Pop took you so long getting to the airfield, mister Dollar, Oh, 375 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,359 a couple of calls I wanted to make us. Oh why why you 376 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,720 have disappointed me? And all the time I thought you had the uttermost confident 377 00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:51,680 in me. Now what's that supposed to me? First you tell me you 378 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,599 do not want the lady to know you're awaken up and going missus Langfair? 379 00:28:55,799 --> 00:29:00,480 Yes, and then what happens you tell for all about it? Should think 380 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,000 that why else would you comparing out to the airfield while I was waiting for 381 00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:06,839 you in a minute ramp her tlf a plane and take off in it? 382 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:14,039 What she took off just a couple of minutes before we did? Connie Landfair 383 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,640 shattering a plane? Why and to go where? And after her offer to 384 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,640 stick by me and help me, why would she do it without letting me 385 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,000 know? There were a lot of questions to be answered in this case, 386 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:45,359 and most of them to be answered by Connie Landfair. Now here's our star 387 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:48,759 to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, let's see 388 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,400 the rocks and dear old Mother Nature bring some pretty startling facts to light, 389 00:29:53,079 --> 00:29:59,720 and the case takes a sudden twist. Join us won't you Yours Truly Johnny 390 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:21,240 Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. 391 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,799 It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this week's 392 00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:29,960 story. Be sure to join us tomorrow night, same time and station for 393 00:30:30,039 --> 00:31:37,039 the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome Back. 394 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:44,480 There is no question but that Connie Landfir is madly in love. The 395 00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:48,880 problem is she's in love with the boat. Her trying to sell her being 396 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:55,680 on the flight to Nicaragua as a big coincidence. Is I'm convincing to put 397 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,400 it mildly? Now? Oscar is an interesting character. Long time listeners will 398 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:06,519 remember the man called X and that Jack Johnstone was the last director of that 399 00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:13,000 series, and it feels like he created a character that was kind of based 400 00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:19,680 on me on Velasco's character of Pagan Zelschmidt. Some of Oscar's praising was even 401 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,799 similar, you know, with a good substitute for Pagan's request for a slot 402 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,960 consideration. Of course, in addition to being like Pagan, Oscar has that 403 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:37,799 genuine russo Irish Mexican heritage that really adds something to a character. Now, 404 00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:45,359 Oscar makes a reference to Johnny being famous, and it's worth noting that the 405 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:52,839 idea that Johnny's adventures are on the radio in universe hasn't been introduced yet, 406 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:59,359 as it would be later in the Johnstone era. So here I just interpret 407 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,839 that as Oscar puffing Johnny up to get the soft touch. Well, now 408 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:09,680 we turn to listener comments and feedback and this question by email from Derek, 409 00:33:09,839 --> 00:33:14,920 who writes, Adam, can you tell me what is the suspenseful music in 410 00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:19,440 Johnny Dollar? It's for the same notes with a pause than the four notes. 411 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,319 Again, it just happened while Johnny was on the boat and was seeing 412 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:28,359 people he recognized the star of Cape Town. Matter. Is it just for 413 00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:32,240 Johnny Dollar or is it an actual song? Always gives me the creeps, 414 00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:37,519 like something bad is about to happen. Thanks for the question, Derek, 415 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:42,640 and I think that's definitely the intent. I don't think it's part of an 416 00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:49,440 actual popular song. Generally with Johnny Dollar, there are two possibilities. First, 417 00:33:49,559 --> 00:33:54,920 it could be from a music library, and this was something that any 418 00:33:55,039 --> 00:34:02,039 programs, particularly on NBC did starting in the fifties. You would buy the 419 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:09,320 rights to use this library various musical cues, and to this day, sound 420 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:19,519 designers will often use music and sound effect libraries for video games, audio dramas, 421 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:24,079 and a whole lot of other projects. Other possibility is that this was 422 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:31,239 an original bit of music that was composed by Ricardo Amigo. So that's my 423 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:37,880 best guess. If anyone is aware of, say what music library it came 424 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:44,400 from, or if it's got a source outside of a music library. I 425 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,440 mean, I've been wrong before. Feel grate us. I me an, 426 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:52,480 email and let me know at Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. And 427 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:58,400 then we go over to YouTube where Shane comments regarding the long shot matter and 428 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:05,440 he writes, I will what's a documentary on eyewitness testimony? Human eyewitness testimony 429 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:13,679 is horribly unreliable. It's an interesting debate because I think oftentimes we have the 430 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:21,280 idea that eyewitness testimony is the best possible evidence and that physical evidence is merely 431 00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:27,679 circumstantial. In reality, there's a lot that can be fallible about a witness 432 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:32,119 testimony, depending on a variety of factors. Well, in many ways physical 433 00:35:32,159 --> 00:35:37,920 evidence can be more reliable, there are also ways to make mistakes with the 434 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:45,960 collection of it can also lead to problems or misinterpretations, and it's a complex 435 00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:52,000 issue. I think that the only thing that I can offer is that everyone 436 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:59,719 has to be diligent about making sure that we get things right, parting with 437 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:06,519 the police officers who make arrests, prosecutors, courts, juris, and even 438 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:14,840 organizations that book at and challenge potentially unlawful convictions have got a role in that 439 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,599 process, like Earl Family. Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, started 440 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:28,400 an organization called the Court of Last Resort, who were neutral experts who would 441 00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:32,920 examine cases where people claim to have been wrongly convicted. All of that has 442 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000 a place one really good episode of Dragnet, and I will spoil that, 443 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:42,480 so you may want to fast forward ahead, but we're not going to get 444 00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:45,719 to it for about a year and a half, so most people will probably 445 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:52,519 forgotten what I spoiled. But in the an episode of Dragnet, Fiday and 446 00:36:52,679 --> 00:36:59,400 his partner reached a very firm conclusion that a husband had killed his wife, 447 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,360 and they were pressing him and they were going to get the confession, and 448 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:09,360 they took the case into Lee Jones in the crime lab and he just kind 449 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:15,800 of took them through step by Stepan showed the reason you think he's guilty is 450 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:22,440 you entirely misread the scene you messed up to me. That shows the top 451 00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:27,679 of diligence you need throughout the entire system. Now we go over to YouTube, 452 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:34,039 where I did a poll asking listeners their opinion on Steven Dunn's run as 453 00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:37,559 Sam Spade and so far, and this is with one hundred and nineteen votes 454 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:45,199 in and YouTube polls don't generally close, but sixty one percent great, twenty 455 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:50,119 six percent good, and thirteen percent fair. And some of the listener comments. 456 00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:52,239 Mock said he felt a little stiff at first, but I think that 457 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,840 he grew into the role. Melanie said he did a good job, but 458 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,920 had the disadvantage of coming after Howard Duff, who really managed to make the 459 00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:06,599 role his own, even coming after a great film star. Darryl said he 460 00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:10,039 had to fill big shoes. Howard Duff had made that character his own, 461 00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:15,559 but he did an admirable job taking over Stephen Dunn was a talented radio actor. 462 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:21,679 And then Peter says, I really didn't think he'd come close to matching 463 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,760 Howard Duff in this role, but I'm happy to say that I was wrong. 464 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:31,280 A couple listeners were a little less enthusias. Runcer wrote, he had 465 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:36,079 to replace a legend. He did okay, but Howard Duff will always be 466 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,480 Radio Spade. Penny says, I'm hooked on Howard Duff, and Angel said 467 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,679 he did fine, but lacked the spark, the whimsie, the seeming bridled 468 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:52,880 fierceness that Howard Duff had. The chemistry between Spade and Effie was not just 469 00:38:53,039 --> 00:39:00,360 effortless but energetic. When Loreene Tuttle volleyed Duff less so with done, Steve 470 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:06,559 Dunn's voice was an astonishing match for his predecessors, really astonishing. But ninety 471 00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:10,280 nine and a half just don't do that. The switch was obliged because the 472 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,400 network cave to political correctness is a side story we don't have time for. 473 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,239 And it's so so bad that the larger world had plenty of time in inclination 474 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,280 then and does now for it. I've give done real high marks. He 475 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,920 should have had his own show, should never have been brought in as a 476 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,719 scab, and it's not his fault. Well, thank you so much. 477 00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:37,960 Appreciate the perspective. Angel, And I think there's a lot too, But 478 00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:44,400 you said, certainly, I think that stuff was a very hard act to 479 00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:49,239 follow, and he's still the actor most people will think of when they think 480 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,320 of Sam Spade. Now. As to done having his own program, he 481 00:39:52,559 --> 00:39:58,719 had actually had two before, both of which were not really good, and 482 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:04,239 that was really down to the scripts and to the characters that he was given 483 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,480 to work with. Donald. I think in Sam Spade he got to show 484 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,840 what he was capable of, and again coming close to Howard Duff. That's 485 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:19,880 an achievement and shows how strong an actor he was. And he certainly had 486 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,880 the look, he had the personality, I think, and he did get 487 00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:32,639 some chances with being the host of the primetime av version of Truth or Consequences. 488 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,360 It's hard for me to understand why the public didn't act with him. 489 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:43,400 More so, he more than having a great career, had a really interesting 490 00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:47,079 one with some really bad luck. Well, now it's time to thank our 491 00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:52,119 Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and think James. 492 00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:55,719 James has been one of our Patreon supporters since August of this year, 493 00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,519 currently supporting us at the Shamas level of four dollars or more per month. 494 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:05,079 Thank you so much for your support, James, and that will do it 495 00:41:05,159 --> 00:41:08,639 for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 496 00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:14,440 podcast software. Be sure to rate and review us wherever you download us from. 497 00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:20,519 We'll be back on Friday with the conclusion of this week's Johnny doll or 498 00:41:20,639 --> 00:41:28,519 Cereal. But join us back here tomorrow for dangerous assignment where the night shift 499 00:41:28,559 --> 00:41:30,719 has been abandoned lack of material and equipment. What's being done about it? 500 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,000 A train is on its way from Seabas, now loaded with more than enough 501 00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:37,480 material for us to resume a full schedule. More trucks, tractors, trans 502 00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,199 spare parts and so on. Good, well, let's get down there. 503 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,079 We go it on foot from here, Yes, don mis path, Come 504 00:41:44,119 --> 00:41:52,559 on, this is the farthest point your road is reached. Yes, just 505 00:41:52,599 --> 00:41:53,880 a moment, Miss Mitchell. Yeah, it sounds like, hey, look 506 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:59,920 out, get back. Might reach out to for Miga. Off the tray 507 00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:07,519 was the first of the huge boulders roars past us. Thank you, thank 508 00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:10,599 you. Yes, I'm right, brother, I was a little too close 509 00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:15,280 for comfort. Another shall we say accident? Yeah? Here Mark, I 510 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:20,119 hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments 511 00:42:20,199 --> 00:42:25,239 to Box thirteen at Great detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at radio 512 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:30,159 Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash 513 00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:37,639 Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.