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Great Detectives dot net. Well,
today we're going to present Top Secrets of

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the FBI. This was a series
hosted by Melvin Purvis. Purvis was a

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very successful FBI agent, really key
in the hunt for Pretty Boy Floyd,

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and as the episode states, he
was known as the man who got Dylan

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jury. He left the FBI in
nineteen thirty five, released an autobiography and

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also returned to practicing law, and
then entered World War Two as a colonel

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and intelligence officer and helped compile evidence
for the Nuremberg Trials. Now, as

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for the series itself, it was
an unauthorized series, which means the FBI

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did not cooperate and I can't even
find confirmation that it went to air.

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I kind of assumed that it did
because a couple of quite of different sources

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referenced it as short lived, which
I kind of implied that it saw the

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lot Today. Well, let's go
ahead and listen to today's episode. The

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title is the Case of the Best
Pocket Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System

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presented of the f B From the
files of the f B. I the

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dramatic highlights and the fight against crime
by the most division, the most scientific

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law empartment organization in the world,
based on actual cases to night's case the

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vest Pocket Broadcasting Station reported by Melvin
Pervis, former a stagent of the FBI

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and a man who got killinger.
Melvin Prvis, the case of the vest

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Pocket Broadcasting Station was one of the
most interesting and unusual cases in modern scientific

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crime busting. But it wasn't true
because of the crime that was old stuff

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or the cause of the criminals.
They were smart, but old stuff too.

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It was interesting and unusual because of
the way the crime busting scientists of

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the f ARE cracked this case.
We start about eight months ago. It's

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close to one o'clock in the morning
and a long the deserted section of the

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New Jersey coast. The barg is
coming in so thick you can almost bit

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it, and a given kemp of
a selected point two men walk back and

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forth along the rocky shore. They've
been walking that way for some time and

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they are not happy. What a
night. What do you want me to

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do about the float away? Okay, okay, Donny, don't have to

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get the door. I can try
to hear you BRep about the weather.

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But us we've got to talk about
like natural. I got a match no

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smoking, now, I told you
that before. That's got to say in

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its body cluck. Why seas Mark, he sends me. I when I

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guy, we punched small, That's
what I get it. Sure you got

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the matches a thorny yeah, and
the guys will get it tonight. Steve

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might have said they would there,
and I all right, you want to

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go back to New York. I
would add the stuff and shut up the

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problem. For the love of Mike
Alston Tony, we kind of figured out

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what had happened. If we walked
back in the State Department with not we

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learned to play the harp, he
wouldn't be our forum. Need it?

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Those guys could have got picked up
by the coast guard. But you know

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our mother put on the ocean on
a night like this. Look, al

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you want to tell me a favor? Shut up, Alason, Tony got

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up. Suppose huh maybe it's them. Huh maybe come on behind that part

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justin tatning our guys. Yeah,
that's it, Tony. The segment quit

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a minute. Okay, Yeah,
let's come on the shore. We'll be

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on our way back to New York
in a couple of minutes. Yeah,

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Tony, Yeah, let me talk
to the boys. Just a minute,

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are you Steve? Time? Wait, Tony, we just drop into New

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York with the stuff. Boys.
I'll take as along as the boat.

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Didn't show until I have the one
o'clock. That was Finn and w did

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you get one hundred and fifty Steve? I told him, we just said

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doing you're here right away? Well, Steve, how much? One hundred

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and fifteen moments? Not bad?
We're still in business. Those planks can

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let me have what I ask for? What's another Steve? The things you

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get excited about sick of being small
time? You got a shipment, didn't

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you be satisfied? One hundred and
fifty times two hundreds, still thirty thousand

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half fat Dough's mind, and pay
for the stuff on the line. That

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means fifteen profit. What about my
expenses? Stop complaining. You've been clearing

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one hundred grande year out of this
racket. What more do you want?

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There were guys lumping up the midia. Sure, it's sure, But what

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happens to them? They get too
big and then guys with handcuffs go after

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them. They'll never get me.
You're all. Let me rattle off the

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names of all the big shots in
prison. You're forgetting something. The cuffs

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know all about me now, but
they can't touch me. That's because you

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can cover up. You're not too
big. They'll never be able to touch

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me. What are you gonna do? You're calling a pool in South America

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for more stuff. Thanks for listening
to me, darling. I'll see you

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in the slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse,
Steve or all the juicy pigs wind up?

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Are you calling me a pig for
those ideas? Before long, I'll

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be calling a pork chop me.
You wouldn't flap the face you've kissed a

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thousand times. No, you're so
loyal. I don't get your money?

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What have you got against making more? Do nothing? If it's only do

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you want? What else? Power? What's wrong with us? The results?

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How would you like to make more
money without taking chances and with no

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more investment than you've got? Now, what's this? A new angle?

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Now an idea? Sit down,
money, chob and listen. And when

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I'm through talking you what a kiss
to say? You were ready to declare

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That was the beginning of an underworld
business conference, a sort of meeting of

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the board of directors. And when
the board adjourned, the price of the

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product was up from two hundred dollars
announced to a point slightly above the clouds

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inflation. But things were moving up
somewhere else too. In the New York

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field headquarters of the FBI, several
weeks after the above mentioned board meeting,

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the District Attorney of New York County
came in to see the man in charge

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of the field office. Let's call
him Smith or reasons of security. After

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the DA left, Smith was for
we'll call the speller Jones, special agent

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Jones, the same reasons of security. What's up another assignment, Johne.

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But the District Attorney, yeah,
I was ready to bet on it.

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He looked worried when he came out
of it. He's got plenty of reason

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to be worried. There's a narcotic
ring up writing right in the middle of

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town. Caroline, Oh, anybody
we know, not yet, but from

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what the DA told me, they're
a very smart bunch. They're usually art

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smith until the wagon pulls that.
It's not going to be that easy,

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Johne. The police knew every member
of this gang, from the top dog

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down that they haven't been able to
make an arrest. Every time I detects

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be put on the trail, he's
been spotted. How do you account for

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that? I don't except for maybe
an inside line to what the police department's

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thinking. I'm sure it's nobody in
the department itself. I hope not.

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I got a hundred some crooked politician
who knows how to get information without paying

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for it. Yeah. What's the
DA say about that? Is checking?

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We're not waiting for a report.
Yeah, they can look at these pictures.

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Mhm. Robes gal in the DA
brought them over the duplicate that when

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you're looking at now a tony spar
like a six arrest two convictions, one

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suspended pretence, the other ones all
ashes like a three arrest one conviction.

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Where did you get that broken?
Non? Used to be a prize fighter.

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I think it's the boys running is
shoe? No? These character isn't

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about fourteen others work for Steve Martin. What do you look like? No

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pictures? Oh you know how it
death? Maybe we'll know for sure when

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you met the gentleman Space to space
any dining, says Smith. And the

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lady oh picture, yeah too bad? She isn't isn't what a lady?

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Missus? Smith? Yes? The
names one a Manchester record, one a

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red one conviction that and suspended.
You've got a reputation for being very clever.

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All right? What's the plan of
attack? Tony Spiral al Nash's hang

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out in the pool room on ninth
Avenue evenings at the nine o'clock Established contact

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with him, but take it easy. Tony's a tough customer, hard as

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rock. What about al Nash?
He's all muscles, but he's not too

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bright and according to Da, he's
got a well of tears for anybody in

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trouble. That's good. How do
I make him flow? I'll tell you

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exactly how to do it, gym. Maybe if we're lucky, you'll go

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swimming in La river. Right to
Steven marking Door nine brought on the corn

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at Tony. Okay by me act
we admit it? Your yeah, and

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I got that bealue up. I
was a nice shot, miss says who

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is your buddy? Um? Sorry, I want to say in your junny

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kind of got play me a cap. I don't want know if critics in

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my game. If you want to
watch, let him? But what is

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trap shot? What those promits?
I prop? Hey, Tony, Yes,

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okay, all the game out,
I'll be right back. Hey what

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I could? I don't mind him, Buddy's sure I'll lose it. I

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wasn't a tendermans. It's got an
argument out. Yeah, you three somebody

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very good shott not to you want? How do you know my name?

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I said, Tony? Oh oh
sure, well if you stick around,

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i'd be after I play the slug
of me and you will play a chief

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game. Huh And but I don't
play out broke. Oh no, no,

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I okay, buck your fifteen point
no frontic point. I can't all

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it's not the ten bucks? Yes
you interview solf. Hey what at somewhat

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four hundred bucks. I got lots
more in the bank. My nervous shot.

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I can't concentrate, Marriwick. I
got banged up by a truck a

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couple of years ago. I just
got out of the hospital. Oh gee,

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two years am I back with a
butted head and butted legs and all

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kinds of ripped, some tears inside. You had to feed me drugs to

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keep the pain from drive me nuts. See what can happen to a guy?

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Right? But I was not.
I got the stuff every day,

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every day until I got juice and
they sent me home. It did be

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a big favor and sent me home. You gotta take it easy enough.

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Our trucking company did be a big
favorite too. Set them in the fifty

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thousand bucks. I was gonna stoo
him for a hundred You mean you got

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fifty grand for accents? Yeah?
What used to going to court and using

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up a lot of time? Shut? So I got the money. What's

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the good of it? Thing?
I need? Most of one? Thing?

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I'm story? Yeah? What four? Oh? Be telling you about

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my troubles me? I don't even
know you when you were alone and you've

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got no friends? What's your name. Don't where do you love? Park?

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Hotels? A fancy place? Why
shouldn't I live in a fancy place?

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I got money here, Okay,
don't get mad at me. That's

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the way I've been to check jumping
all the time. I can only get

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some of it. How how does
that guy go about it? How?

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Why? I asked? I'm asking
a lot of people. The battle happened

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to the hotel. One of them
told me about the pool room from the

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pools in this neighborhood. Yeah,
he said, peddler's hang out in him,

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but he didn't know what he was
talking about. I've been to all

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of them. Yeah. Uh,
pick a rum right. I want you

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to give Toney the whole story,
just like you told it the name.

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Oh what could I do? What's
the matter with you? But just them?

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You don't even catch you out on
my dish? Huh? Gee,

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you're dumb, all right? What
a guy? Allow? It's five out

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to twelve. Tony was sure he'd
call me by eleven thirty. I just

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had to sweat it out him at
the beginning of one there. Huh what

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about by phoning him as a pool
room? It got him away from Algae?

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That bad connection business fooling. I
think it did. He was ready

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for murder when he came out of
that boot. It was like that.

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Well, he almost had a fight
with the owner of the place. He

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told him to take his lousy phone, and Al had to use all his

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muscles to get Tony away from the
man. And so he ever went to

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a bar he would drink and Tony
was listening. I hope you better get

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him closets fun out hoood it was
there? Maybe open up, Jim,

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Yes, thank you, buy us
a new shoe. Time, thank you.

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Well, let's find out. Huh, that's maybe it. Yeah,

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it is the midtown hot pool man
phoned a eleven thirty five and has about

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no name. Of course, naturally
the floor nerth told him I was this

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yard eight days ago. We're in
Jones. I'll take it your case to

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Steve Morton. He checked you at
the hospital. Now that's real quick.

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You're supposed to be sitting over flow, all right, Josh, yes,

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yes, was it Tony? I
thought you want going to call drive at

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ten o'clock in the morning tomorrow.
Why do I have to wait? Because

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that's another boss for It's all right, ten o'clock. We're on rivers are

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driving street pick up bench. Nobody
said yes, yes, anything, you

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take it. There ain't no such
bench. Don your stand away from people,

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you get it to courts? Will
you bring this stuff? Maybe?

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What about money? How much?
Well? Hello, you hung up first,

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don't take any chances. I'll tell
you how much tomorrow after you've been

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sized up by an expert. And
don't think I won't be listening. And

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don't think I won't He'll be partner. Truck about three blocks away taking it

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all. Then the truck, yes, an ordinary long distance moving van,

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completely enclosed, but inside testing sh
you're ready to start a syrups right,

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give me a level? Okay,
that's it. That was it. Inside

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the truck it completely equipped radio receiving
station time tables for recording a rendezvous three

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blocks away or a mile away if
it had to be. And the broadcasting

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station, well, that was in
Jones's vest pocket a disc look no bigger

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than a quarter but complete down to
a fine point. And in the lining

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of Jones's vest a wire that ran
from the pocket to the top button of

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his vest. Yes, that top
button was the microphone, but nobody would

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guess it in a million years.
It looked just like the other five buttons.

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Smith and Company were all set up
in the truck. The equipment was

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in motion and ready for action.
Three blocks away had one hundred and tenth

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Street and the drive Jones was sitting
on a bench. It was a pretty

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nasty morning, raw, and I'm
street was practically is it it? Then?

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At exactly twenty minutes past ten,
mind down? Hey, why don't

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you might want company? Oh no, I'm waiting for somebody. Go with

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you think it's gonna ray, I
don't know what. I don't care if

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you're gonna sit on this fractures done
minute. You don't have to run away

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from me. I'm only trying to
be dogeable. But my boy, are

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you whim in the eyes? Are
you looking around for? But nobody looks

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like that but expecting someone he wants
to see. You've got carroring your state

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to supposed to be here at that
client. No, he's not telling right,

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he's got two year over. You
know my name. I don't know

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about you, Cookie, but I
don't tell me all about your accident.

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You broke stuff. Now for your
first scream and ship very all start a

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ride? Why can I have a
hut. Come on, now, you

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don't have to get excited. Mom, that's got such a nag. Please,

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it's please. If you've got to
give it to me, I don't

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know how much. What do you
want? If we've got to camp,

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I'll take it out of my bank. You're really hungry. I okay.

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The stuff cost five hundred ounce.
You've got to buy five ounces? How

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much? Start? Old kids?
Twenty five hundred dollars twenty twenty five,

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five hundred tuns fine whatever. Five
hundred times five is twenty five smart of

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money, you know? Always back
do you want to do? Don't get

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mad, don't be broken. No
time. You're gonna worry about the future.

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Now. I didn't read sources.
I left them. Honey, it's

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cold out here. Do you want
that stuff doing your down ship? Yes?

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Yeah, I want, And I
wasn't. I'm a little corner bank

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murray round here. We don't have
any rules of etiquette here. He is

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se man who is looking for paradise. Hw you mour Oh well go tony

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ye John trembling and they're going to
hit you right there on the table.

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Tin Bucks can't put it down down
Jones back on the table. But it's

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mind. He thought he was a
dumb guy. Pos you don't know,

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okay, I want to hear.
Why can't I it's mine? Or twenty

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five hundred bucks Jones all the money? Of course? Yeah, you forgot

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all about it, didn't I'm sorry? Twenty five one hundred dollars? Did

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you count them? I thought you
might like to do that, honey.

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You go to the banquet him only
as far as the front door. Didn't

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you go inside? Its? Yeah? Check this though, good steel shut

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ups all right, I don't mind, I say it good. I'll use

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the microscope. Microscope, that's what
she said. So you've got one in

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the other room. It never lies. Yeah, but I wouldn't look fall

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on the bank and asked him if
I would through twenty five dollars to tell

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her at the third window from the
door. Relax, Joe does okay?

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And why don't you let me take
that stuff on the home. You want

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to be sure that I learned a
few lessons before I bought that microscope.

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Some Wise, guys handing me phony
bills, Yeah, but I'm rank throw

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them right back at me. I
was stuck. Give me a break,

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pitch. That stuff just dis a
condition have the whole boot, thanks thanks

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to bath your dos and approved.
Good lady, Yet start thinking of how

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to get rid of that guy.
He's been kidding as he's not a hop

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What do you mean bills? He
gave it by sir Mark? Wasn't he's

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given us smart money, Steve.
I checked a few of the bills.

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There's something on each one. Were
right in the picture in one of the

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eyes. Well, Jones, I
got the mona knows what she's talking about.

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She's like a lot of one hundred
dollar bills. Stuff to be fake?

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Will your phone house? That means
shut up, Jones say, Tony,

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Yeah, don't choose that gun in
here? Why not? It's a

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thirty ride. Don't want the neighbors
to complain. I put your hands up,

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mister Jones. I's going to frisk
you. He ain't a lot of

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what man's good now, I'll take
everything out of his pockets. Okay,

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I'll hand it to morrow. She
can check. I don't know why you're

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doing this to be still kidding?
Aren't you all right there? What's your

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record? Mister Tony? Yeah,
freak his nose without a gun. Wait

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a minute, listen, Jones or
whatever your name is there are two ways

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of dying, peaceful and in agony. I take your choice. See I

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checked everything in his jacket, nail
file, cigarettes, and a wallet the

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four hundred and cash. He can
do his other pockets, pants and best.

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I was just going to put or
Jones. Have you made up your

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mind? Okay, Tony right across? Then no, Tony, thank what

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you if my pile, he'll be
all right next time. He won't shoot

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without cutting up the tenth Hello,
Joe, I'm glad to see this man

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the racketeers with a microscope. What's
the next take a boy, boy?

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Yes, a best fucking broadcasting specition
did best. But if anybody thinks he

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can find it just by folling at
the top button of a vest, here

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is something for the memorable. The
gimmick can be anywhere, can the agent

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of the FBI. And what's more, it can be anybody. Steve Muller

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and all the runts of in their
gang were set away for a long time.

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No more directors meeting for them.
And the crooked politician, well he's

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not political anymore. He's learning to
make shoes in one of the federal prisons.

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The report he'll just received was based
on an actual case from the files

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of the FBI. However, the
names of all characters used were fictitious,

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and any resemblance of the names of
people living or death was entirely coincident.

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Topics of the FBI are dramatized by
step and co produced and directed by Roger

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Bauer. The music was composed and
conducted by Selvin Events. Into cast you

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heard former agent of the FBI,
Melvin Purvis. Miss was portrayed by Sydney

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Smith, John by Bill Quinn,
Steve Martin by King Could, Tony Farr

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by Larry Haynes, All Matches by
Joseph Julian and Mona Manchester by Julie Stephens.

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Next week, Melvin Purvis, former
as agent of the FBI, A

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man who got Dillinger, will give
you another report based on inside bats the

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case of the New York Rendezvous.
Join us next week at the same time

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with Melvin Purvis. When you hear
top Secrets of the f B. I

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from the files of the f B, I welcome back. Well. The

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idea of wearing a wire is not
normal today, but the idea of I

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think back in nineteen forty seven was
much more so. I can't actually recall

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an episode of Dragging that there may
have been over the course of that run

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where they used a wireless microphone.
Usually when they used a microphone in Drag

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that which is again what I said, it was a later series, it

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would be somewhere that they would have
to be planted in the room where they

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were trying to do their sting,
But it was a little bit novel anyway.

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I think that in some ways the
name probably sets things up for a

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bit of disappointment, because if they
actually played stuff about things that were taught

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secret at the FBI, somebody would
end up going to jail or there would

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be very strongly communicated issue with the
radio network. A program that actually aired

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top secrets of the FBI would not
actually happen. But this does focus on

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what was a newer technology at the
time. I do think even if this

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is a pilot, you do want
to show a little bit more imagination and

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doing their own version of the names
have been changed in naming the people Smith

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and Jane, I probably doesn't quite
do that. There are a couple of

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familiar voices in this. We got
to hear Sydney Smith, who voiced Lary

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Queen for a while, and Larry
Haynes, who starred in Manhunt Easy Money

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and as one of the two actors
to play Mike Hammer, my opinion,

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the better of the two performers we
have, and also generally plays in anything

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that comes out of a New York. Eventually, Larry Hayneswood end up being

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cast. Now, I didn't want
to go ahead and explain what we're planning

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for Saturday. Of course, we're
playing this this week, and then the

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next two weeks we're going to bring
you a Squadron, and then after that

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we're going to be playing Tales of
the Texas Ranger for the rest of this

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season, season thirteen and into season
fourteen. And actually we would have gotten

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into Tales of the Texas Ranger sooner, but I essentially after we got into

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playing The Silent Men, I discovered
these two other series, so I decided

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we'd pick these two up before we
got into Tales of the Texas Ranger.

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Now to listener comments and feedback,
and we have a question from Alicia.

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Alicia Rights, if I remember right, you said you're going to be doing

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Tales of the Texas Ranger. I
wonder if the same people who wrote The

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Silent Men were the same as those
that wrote the Tale the Texas Rangers.

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The music is the same on both
shows, and the setup is the same,

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one person playing all the leader rules. Only difference is a ranger Jason

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Pearce Pearson always takes the case well. Thanks so much for the question,

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Alicia, and an answer to the
question, I do think there there is,

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you know, a difference. You
know, The Silent Men, of

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course, was an anthology series where
each week we would have a different character,

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and even if those differences were somewhat
superficial, Tales of the Texas Ranger,

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we do have the same lead every
week. They don't have the same

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writer. The music is the same
on the site series. At least,

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I like the incidental music because NBC
at the time was doing this thing with

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its mystery series where essentially the mystery
series got to have its own opening theme

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too, but then all of the
little incidental music it would be the same.

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You know, whether you're listening to
Tales of the Texas Ranger, or

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you're listening to The Silent Men,
or you're listening to Rocky Fortune, you're

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going to hear those same little bits
of library music played over and over again.

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Uh, you know, which I
think goes back to the fact that

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after the end of the nineteen forties
a radio saw a lot of efforts to

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cut costs. In one way that
NBC did that is that they used library

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music and the same library music repeatedly
on multiple programs. But thanks so much

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for the question, Alicia and I
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