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it's time for this week's episode. I file vans. The original air date
June the twentieth, nineteen fifty and the title is The Prize Ring Murder Case.
A little more around the shoulders, joy boy, just a little more.
You take a shower, you get dressed. Yeah, yeah, who's
that? Okay? Who invites who into my dressing room? I beat it,
both of you guys, come on out, relaxed, Joey, Yeah,
wait a minute, nobody throws my manager out of my place. You
stick post. I'll see you later, Joey. A couple of things I
gotta do. So long, Well, Terris, what is all this?
I need you here like I need a hole in my head. Why don't
you relax, Joey? Sure, mister Terris, Hey, there ain't no
chairs. Oh that a little thing like that? Stop you? Joey,
How would you like to make some money? Big money? Easy money?
How would you like me to throw you out in your ear? Look,
Terris, I don't like you. I don't like guys like you. I'm
a fighter. I got two hands. I got ahead with nothing in it
that you wouldn't be lostening your lid without listening. Look, maybe I didn't
make myself plain. I don't like you. I don't like gamblers. The
only thing I like to do is fight. But I fight honest. Sure,
and now look, Joey, that's fine, that's all. Wonderful ideals
are wonderful things. You keep, only keep them in the background where they
won't get in the way. If you're making an easy dollar and you fight
tomorrow night. Now, I got a proposition for you. I got one
for you. I don't throw any fights for you or anybody else, So
get out of here before I bount you up. Are you getting puppy?
Sure? Bush? Now? Why not? So you're too gonna get tough?
Good? That's just what I mean. Nice work. I done it,
mister Terris bound him right on the skull. He'll sleep for a while.
That blackjack of yours provides a rather lethal i'll buy a clumpy too bad.
You had to slug him too bad. He wouldn't listen. He's a
jerk. I didn't want him to throw any fight. The only thing I
wanted was to be sure he was going to try to win tomorrow night.
Take a look at these hands, honey, ain't very pretty. Honey,
you got bum taste, honey, bum tasting hands. I'm tasting boyfriends.
What do you want with a look like me? Anybody else said that?
Joey? I brain him? That's anybody says anything different than that? Brain
him too. You can't go around braining people just like that, honey.
Only one way to make me stop. That's the way. Well, I
gotta fight tomorrow night, and I'm keeping your a weight, so I think,
Oh Papa, oh papa, I was just leaving, so it's perfectly
all right with me. If you want to touch your little lightweight into bed
in a minute, you better wait a while. Honey, Oh how bad
can that be? And what's going on? Papa? Why did you walk
out of the dressing room this afternoon when Phil Terris told you? That's what's
going on? Joy, That's what I want to talk to you about.
I'm listening. Derris didn't want you to throw the bout tomorrow, Joy,
No, I'll bet he didn't. He's got a bundle going on you same
as I have. He's betting you to win. What so? What did
he want? Then? Wanted to know? Joy'd being there trying. But
I think he's doing is building up Joy until I get Joy a big match,
and he's gonna want Joy to lay down. Pop? What kind of
business is this? I'm a fighter. When I win, I win.
When I lose, it's because some of the guy hits harder. Now,
let's skip all this talk about throwing fights. I gotta get the slash,
sure boy, Shore night, Honey, Night, Joy naked good tomorrow.
I'll be listening. I'll do my best. Sure how much though we got
gone on this tomornight? Pop the Bankroll, Joy The Works thirty five granded
even money. What did I say to you, honey? Did I do
my best? That's what my boy said, take it back thirty five grand
I'll do even better than that. Well, Vance, that's the end of
the wrong. It's a good fight. Glad you came. Definitely, Markham,
I don't think our boys going to last, though, Killey Martin,
I still think you'll win. Yellow Fella's tired. He's tired of hitting Joey's
chin so often. Incidentally, even though you are a district attorney, you
don't have too much drag in this town. I've been in better seats.
A fight was a sellout, and you didn't make up your mind about coming
until the last moment. Besides, there wasn't any law against you're trying to
get the tickets. There most certainly was a law I wrote and pasted my
son. Oh, I tried to get them. We'd be at home listening
to this over the radio. I'll tell you something, Markham, in which
event I listened. Thank you. What I was about to say was,
but the managers really do a good job working over their fighters between rounds.
Look at them over there, certainly active. Oh, there's the warning buzzer
Vans ten seconds in the next ryest I know a shot fans keeping the back
of the ranga. No oh, I'm glad of that. I wonder why
else? Well, it's up money over here a ringside, A shot fired
in the back of the arena. Man stabbed at ringside. Come on,
man's let's find out what this is all about. A long way to the
ringside. Excuse me? What's day a queens, ladies and gentlemen, And
ladies and gentlemen, please keep your seats until the police arrived. Pop Manning
Joey Martin's managers, but stabbed to death. Nobody is to leave this arena.
Man's never fighting a mystery all in one evening. I suppose you'll start
work right now and finding out who killed Pop Manny. I'm going to do
twice as much work on that, Markham. I'm going to have to find
the two people who were responsible for his death too. Yes, Markham too,
don't you understand why? Yes, Miss Anderson, mister Vance. Mister
Markham hasn't called in on this cro line, has he. No. I'm
waiting here in his office in case he does, though, Well, perhaps
you ought to see this, young lady inasmuch as mister Markham is out.
What young lady, Well, she says she knows something about the killing of
our fight manager last night, and she's here with me in the outer office.
Now, please ask her to come in, Yes, girl with some
information? Well, whatever it is, it's oh, yes, come in
please. Man's my name is Collins. Honeyto came here to see the district
attorney. But I wanted to meet you. I've seen your pictures in the
paper so often I feel like I know Yet I am using mister Markham's office
temporarily. In fact, I'm waiting for him to come back from examining the
people who were at the ringside of the fight last night. Well, I'll
tell you what I wanted to tell him. Pop Manning was killed by mistake.
He was, Yeah, I know, I'm sure of it. I
should know. I'm Joey Martin's girl. You're the girlfriend of the fighter whome
Manning managed. That's right. And I'll tell you that somebody wanted to kill
Joey and Pop only he wasn't supposed. Who was it that wanted to kill
your boyfriend? A character named Phil Terris. He's a gamble I've heard of
him. What makes you think there was an error? Maid, though,
we'll figure it out. There they were Pop and Joey and Joey's corse.
I know I was there. Oh well, then you saw it, didn't
you. Pop was bending over Joey working on a cut on Joey's chin.
The ten second buzzer had sounded, only Joey jumped up ahead of the bell
to start around, and Pop moved in to pick up a stool. You're
very observant. I don't think silly. I wasn't even there. I can't
watch Joey when he fights. Joey told him this is his idea, not
mine, the idea of being that when Joey moved and Pop took his place
for a second, that's when the man who held the knife made his move.
Ah, it was all time. I know how it was timed.
It was timed so that once the shot was fired and the man with the
knife started his move, he couldn't stop it. I agree partially with what
you've told me. I have idea Pop Manning was killed in error. Yes,
why would anybody want a manager dead? Want him dead? So badly
took a chance killing him in front of fifteen thousand people know all the things
you've pointed out to me. I saw for myself then I did right coming
here. You most certainly did in fact that well, that's the distric attorney's
private phone. Excuse me just for moment, Van speaking Markham Vans Oh,
yes, Markham. We questioned everybody at the ringside, everybody who had the
slightest chance of getting near enough to pop Manning to put a knife in him,
and everybody swears he was aware of what the man next to him was
doing at every moment between the time the shot was fired and the body was
discovered, and nobody moved toward the ring, which they'd have to do in
order to step Manning. Unless the knife was thrown, it wasn't. The
murderer held it, and there are no fingerprints on it. M Markham.
Was a man named Phil Terrace at the ringside. Yes he was. I
questioned him myself, and the man next to him too. According to that
man, Terrace didn't move. Well, perhaps that man works for terrorist markam
Man is alibying him. That is possible. Of course, I've let him
go, but I know where I can pick him up. Or let me
do that, please, all right, Ant Markolm. Yes, there's a
very charming young lady in your office who has a very good theory about Manning
and death. What's that. Well, she seems to think that Manning was
killed in error by somebody who wanted Joey Martin the Fighter out of the way,
one of those Prize Fight Gamber things that didn't work out. It might
be That's why I asked if you questioned Phil Terrace Malcolm, from the look
of things, if he killed Manning by mistake or intention, he did it
in a way I can't figure out, which means why that he isn't only
a gambler, he's a magician. To night, Clappy, we celebrate the
best entire for you and me. That's what I like. The best deserve
it. You were wonderful when the distant attorney was questioning you. I didn't
tell him nothing. And you know why, because I don't know nothing.
I've heard rumors of that, Clumpy, no kidding. Yeah, I'm really
getting around in I you know, somebody's at the door, mister Terrace.
Apparently I'm going to see who it is. I won't be long, and
then we'll make plans for tonight. For the first, for the first and
tough. That's right? Yes, Hello, I'm final vans Kiddy? What
does that make me? Man? I want to see I think that's right.
What do you want hair vance? I'll tell you first what I didn't
want. I didn't want the door closed in my face. That's the reason
I pushed my way in. Okay, you're in. You want to see
me? You're a terrorist? Yes, I want to see you. Who's
the ape? He's clumpy, he doesn't come. Hey, I do so
one, two, three? See what you mean terrorist? Let's skip clumpy
for a minute. I came here to find out if you bet the fight
last night. You don't know much about gambling the advance the fight was declared
no contest when Poping was murdered. How much did you have on the fight
and whom did you have it on? Well, I guess you can check
this around town, so I'll tell you the truth. I had a lot
of dough riding on Joey Martin, who was losing. Was he well?
Sure he was boss? You even said that your sold. You know,
Terris, you might have been smart enough. Who want to kill Martin when
he was in the ring to protect your bet, of course. But when
you saw Pop Manning move into the position Martin was in, you knew you
could obtain the same result the stopping of the fight. By killing him,
I could save you a lot of trouble Vans. The attorney asked me all
the stock questions. My answers were taken down to look them up back.
Go do anything you want. Only get out of here when I'm ready to
leave. Show him that he's ready, now, Clumpy, that's one invitation
I'll accept. That takes care of your stooge, Terrice you next, No,
thank you. I just like to watch fight and bet on them.
Yes, well, I've had my fun, soul. I will be going
with a promise, of course. I promise that someday we'll return again to
the beautiful island of paradise where the blues. I'll get that. No,
you don't. This is my house late, my friend, well, Joey
Martin, who are you? My name is Violo Vance. I'm investigating Pop
Manning's murder. What are you doing here? He came to see me?
Of course, we're friends, good friends. My name Joey. Yeah,
tell a man we're friends. Even if he did, would believe him with
that look on his face. I think I'll leave you two playmates alone.
I've met some interesting people. I've established a motive for Pop Manning's death.
No, I think I'll get to work. This is just what Attorney Markham.
The Prize Ring murder case began when Manning fight manager was stabbed while in
the ring taking care of his fighter, Joey Martin. Final Vans has established
that Manning might have been killed by accident, with Martin the real intended victim.
He has also contacted a gambler named Phil Terrace, who had a lot
of money bet on Martin to win the fight, a fight which he was
losing. Incinectally, Vans had just come into my office with the story of
his incomptent change. Look, Vans, I understand all about your meeting with
that gambler Terrace, but I'd like to go back to the fight for a
moment. Well, they're not going to restage it just for you, my
friend. You know what I mean. When we were at the fight and
I said we'd have to look for the man responsible for Pop Manning's death,
you said we'd have to look for two people responsible. Now why two people?
What happened just before the stabbing. Markham, what happened? Well,
my shot was fired, but nobody was hurt, but everybody's attention was distracted
from the ring momentarily sufficient time for the killer to stab Manning. Yes,
I suppose. So therefore the shot was planned and planned for a certain time.
Whoever fired it was working with the actual murderer, and is an accessory
to the crime. Simple, isn't it. It is? Now you'll be
interested in knowing that. I'm getting to believe your theory that Manning's murder wasn't
intended. I am interested, but it isn't my theory. It belongs to
that Collins girl, Honeycollins, Joey Martin's friend. Oh yes, but it
has logic. Believe me, I do. I'll give you all the facts
we have so you can go on from here if you like. Are there
any you haven't told me? Well, I'm not sure, but this much
I do know. It was very warm in the arena, as you know,
and nobody man or woman wore gloves. Yet there were no fingerprints found
on the knife. Handkerchief around the knife handle would keep prints off, but
you can't wind a handkerchief around a knife, step up and stab somebody without
being seen or without the movement being noticed, granting that everybody was looking toward
the back of the arena where the shot came from. I've already indicated to
you that Terrace had an employee alongside of him who could have lied. Yes,
but I have the feeling that you're holding something back. Really, why
Markam I'm surprised at you. I'm sorry. I know you're don't intend to
don't apologize my friend. As a matter of fact, I am holding something
back, something that I hope will break this case. I don't mind me
talking to you while you're working out with the police, do you, Joey?
No, No, I'll tell you what. I can't appear to the
gymnasium for. I mean, there was another reason besides just seeing me.
Yeah, Joey, I want you to fight somebody, somebody get fresh with
you. Who is it? Tell me who is? I'm not come silly,
nothing like that, Joey. This is a fight I want you to
have with a Poe and we give the dough. You get the Pop Spamily
for Oh, Joey, you know they could use dough come they got plenty.
Pop had a lot of doughbet on the fight. It's dough that don't
have to be paid out to nobody else since they call it no contest.
Pop's families got that. How much was what? Joey? You again?
What are you doing here? Oh? Almost Collins? You remember me final
Vans. Joey, you were saying that Pop had money bet on the fight
on you? Who else? How much? Thirty five grand I'll bankroll.
It ain't no crime to bet on yourself, is it? Vance No,
But it is a crime for a fighter who claims to be honest to associated
with gamblers like Phil Terrace. You mean when you saw me up there yesterday.
But I'll tell you why I went up there. I wanted to knock
him from here to China for what he did the Pop. Sure, Joey
thinks terrorists wanted to kill him and got Pop by a mistake, like I
told you. Joey may be right, but then again you may be wrong,
but so wrong. I said, so wrong, not so long,
Joey. You know I was at the fight with mister Markham. I think
I saw something. Oh from where you were sitting, You're lucky you saw
the fight. The seats weren't good. But they did put me at the
scene of a crime, something that hasn't happened for a long time. So
why did you say, Vans? Well, what you'll find out, and
so will your friend of Terrace. And by the way, if you should
see it, I won't. Well if you should tell him for me to
enjoy himself, what kind of a message is that? Oh, I haven't
finished. Tell him to enjoy himself while he still can. Everything's working wonderfully,
Markholm. All right, if you say so, Where are you now?
I'm calling you from a phone booth. I left Joey Martin and his
girlfriend about an hour ago after giving them a message for Phil Terrice. I
beg your pardon. I'm afraid I heard what you said. What do they
have to do with Terrice? That remains to be seen. I indicated to
them that I had something on the gamble right here there. That's what's going
on. Lloyd's It's all right, Markham. Somebody just opened the door of
this phone booth and slugged me. But it didn't take I'm glad it didn't.
Any idea who'd want Yes, it was that stooge of Terrace, A
fellow named Humpy you know what this means, don't you, Markham? I
think so things that apparently Terrace got your message. You understand the set up,
Miss Collins, I don't know. I don't know whether I do or
not. It's very simple. You get Joey and go to see Phil Terrace.
I have Joey say that he's ready to do business with Terrace, get
Terrice to make him an offer. I understand that part of it. Only
how is that going to prove he murdered Pop Manning. I don't want Terrace
around loose while I closed the case against him. Ah, you do what
I ask you to do, Markham, and I will come in and we'll
be able to arrest him for trying to get Joey to throw a fight.
Then when you have him in jail, you'll be able to work out in
me open exactly. We'll take Terrace and his friend Clumpy to jail and I
won't have to worry about making phone calls anymore. You're sure it was Clumpy.
That's luge positive. Now will you do as I asked, Miss Collins?
Sure? Only yeah Vans, Yes, my friends call me honey,
m We haven't really had time to become friends have we whose fault is that?
Well, let's just say there was a chronological obstacle. Well, whatever
it is, can't we kick it out of the way. I like your
vans. What about Joey? Oh? I like him too. That's the
trouble with me. I think I'm a coon. I like everybody, just
like Honey said Terris. Yeah, we could use fifty grand in cash.
You can make that easy by betting against me my next fight and I take
a dive, So you're a cinch. I don't know, Joey. Fifty
thousands a lot of money when you figure to make a hundred grand. Why
don't I know you won't cross me? Leave that to me. He won't
cross you, mister terrorists, not when he gets fifty thousand for not win
anyone. The only thing is I want to do in advance. I want
to bet it on the other guy. Oh you do. I just had
an idea. Suppose I bet it for you. Then in order to collect
your bet, you've got to lay down. Explain that to me, Honey.
It's all right, Joey, mister terrorist, instead of giving you the
fifty thousand dollars before the fight like you want, that's it. For you.
It's the same as you make in the bed, and it's okay.
What's good enough for honey is good enough for me. It's a deal and
it fight is a week from Friday. I'm going to give you fifty thousand
dollars. I'm going to bet that much for you. I mean, and
you're going to blow the fight. Agreed and shake Okay, mister Markham,
mister Vance, you can come in now. What is this the old double
cross? Try terrorists? Martin. Miss Collins agreed to help us trapus vans
as idea, and it was a good one. I think. I don't
think you will well quite a right hand you have, Joey. Eh.
Thanks. Knocking out Terrist does mean we'll have to carry him to headquarters,
but that won't be too difficult. And when you've got him there, it'll
be a sine to prove he killed Pop Manning while trying to knife Joey.
Oh, that will be a little difficult, Miss Collins. You will yes,
Hey, that was the idea, This whole gimmick, wasn't it.
So we'll give you time to get evidence as something against Terrace. I can't
very well prove he killed Pop Manning Joey when actually you did it, went
Miss Collins, Hey, Vance, you blow in your lap without knowing why
Van had said that. I'm still willing to bet it's right. I'm gonna.
I wouldn't, Mark, And if you don't believe me, believe this
gun I'm holding. All right. You made me believe you're for terrorists killed
Pop. Now you say it's us. Oh, how can you prove a
stupid thing like that? What reason could you find for us doing it?
I have the motive and I have the proof. And as soon as mister
Markham takes you and Joey and of course our friend on the floor down to
headquarters, I'll be only too glad to explain how I knew you and Joey
killed Pop, how you did it, and why you did it. Let's
begin with the motive, Markham. All right, Joey was losing the fight
a fight in you Pop Manning had bet their combined bank roll on, so
he wanted the fight declared no contest, so he killed his manager. Yes,
only it isn't as simple as that. You see, the plan Joey
and Honeyhead had to be worked out in advance, and there was the detail
of the knife to be handled. Maybe you'd better just tell me what happened,
all right. Joey thought he might lose the fight, so he arranged
with Honey to fire a blank cartridge at a certain time if he were a
losing She did, and he had a chance to stab Pop Manning and push
the body back into the ringside customers while everybody was looking toward the back of
the arena. Honey's confession in the case, that's what you did. But
how did the knife get into the ring? I think Joey will tell you.
He asked Bob to have a knife put in the water bucket, made
up some reason like wanting to be protected in case Phil Terrice tried to get
to him, anything at all. Oh, I see, now you want
to know how I knew Terrice wasn't involved in the killing, and how you
knew Honey was. But that could wait. Well, let's take Terrace first.
Right when you told me that the man alongside of him swore Terrace hadn't
moved toward the ring when the shot was fired, I pointed out that that
man could have been an accomplice of the gamblers, and he was a fellow
they called Clumpy but how about the man on the other side of terrace,
Markham. He wasn't an accomplice, was he. He was a sportswriter.
Come to think of advance. If terrace had moved, he'd have told me.
I'm sure he would have. Now to our friend, Honey, she
tried to cover herself by insisting to me at one time in this case that
she had never seen Joey fight and had never been in an arena. Yes,
yes, yet she knew where you and I were seated at the fight,
Markham. That's right. She told me in your office that she recognized
me from my pictures, and later in the gymnasium she endicate that we couldn't
have seen much from the bad seats we had, And when she knew where
we were seated, you knew she must have been there, must have been
there spotted us. But proceeded with her plan regardless. Yes, anyhow,
once I knew she was lying, I knew what the reason must be.
And after I realized that the only man near enough to stab Pop was Joey,
and the Joey was the only man outside of his opponent who wore gloves
and snow fingerprints, why that was it. So it was of course that
fellow Clumpy attacked you in the phone booth because you had knocked him out in
front of his boss and he wanted to regain face. And I framed the
situation involving Phil Terrace because he belongs behind bars and to keep Honey and Joey
from suspecting they were suspects in Pop's murder. Yes, I know, and
well there you are. Yes, you know where we are, don't you,
Bass I think so. We're at the end of the prize ring murder
case us welcome back. The only reason that Vance was in Markham's office,
which was really weird because he's got his own office, was so that the
girlfriend could give her theory to Vance. Also, the henchman coming up on
Vance while he was on the phone and Sucker punching him was a jarring moment,
but it's definitely a good way to keep the audience awake. Wasn't her
comments and feedback? Now? And we have an email from Blaine who writes,
hello, Adam, I'm not the only one who has made disparaging comments
about File of Vans over the months you've been playing the show. The general
consensus seems to be that he's an insufferable egoist surrounded by idiots. But as
the series comes to a close, I feel compelled to give credit where it's
due. The opening story hooks are usually very good. In fact, I
think that the writers probably spent seventy percent of their time figuring out the first
three minutes of the episode, and then it had to bang out the rest
in a hurry, with lackluster results. This week's episode, with the eleven
PM phone call to save a life that resulted in death, is a typical
example. Great potential, but such a lousy follow through that I almost felt
cheated. I was hoping for a bribe telephone operator using an older manual system,
at least rather than the phone book swap. Fun fact, human telephone
operators were replaced with machines when one specific operator would route every phone call meant
for any funeral parlor in the city to her husband's funeral parlor in a blatant
abuse of her position. This isn't one of the better series you've run,
but it's not all that bad, and I'm glad you chose to do it.
I just wanted to say something nice about it that I've been thinking about
for a couple of months now. Well, thank you for the comment,
Blaine, and I have to say that with follow Evans, it's been an
interesting series. I don't think I've heard anyone defend the plots, but I
also can't recall any hugely harsh comments on follow Evans. And that compares to
other series. You know, we've had programs that people have detested and have
made clear over and over and over and over band over again. I'm thinking
about things like Standby for Crime, or It's a Crime, Mister Collins,
or even Pat Novac for Hire. There were some people who just absolutely load
those programs. That's not really been the experience here. I think that you're
right. The opening hooks are usually really good. It's just that they rarely
close the deal in a way that's particularly satisfying. I also think they have
superb titles, particularly earlier in the series. In fact, we've had some
really good growth on our YouTube channel, and I think part of that is
due to follow Vans. The titles were so good and also so basic to
what someone who was looking for a mystery might look for that we had a
few months were follow Vans episodes were consistently the most listen to thing that we
posted, which is unusual given that yours, truly, Johnny Doller, used
to dominate everything. Don't quite get the same reaction because I think the titles
have gotten a little bit more obscure. The titles really great, and I
think the acting is good. I mean, there are some series where you've
got a terrible script and terrible actors or actors who could have talent, but
just no, this is terrible and I'm just gonna mail in the performance.
But I think everyone who worked on Fillow Vans as an actor was really solid
and talented. I mean, Jackson Beck is a radio legend in the Radio
Hall of Fame for good reason. And George Petrie, who plays Markham,
was again a really solid New York acting talent who we've already heard as the
lead in other radio programs including Call the Police and The Amazing Mister Malone,
and we'll hear him again eventually as the last actor to play the Falcons,
although thankfully there will be enough episodes separating the end of follow Vans from the
start of his run on the Falcon so I can hear those episodes without hearing
Da Markham's voice. I was re listening to an episode of The Amazing Mister
Malone a few weeks back, and I had to remind myself that in that
he was playing someone who was actually competent. But again, I think there's
a lot to lack about it, and even though no one thinks it was
genius, it also doesn't have any real peters, so I think that tis
where foul Advance is gonna land. Well, thank you so much for the
comment, Blaine. And then we have a comment from Eric regarding our encore
presentation of the Lineup during our vacation week. Eric, riots great to hear
an old favorite of mine. The lineup is one of my top three favorite
series. You played Rocky Jordan and Not Beat are the other two. If
you're wondering, Well, thanks so much, Eric, and I'm glad you
enjoyed that. I was a little nervous the way I ended up doing that
of choosing pro pros based on those that were playing near five hundredth day anniversary.
Yeah, essentially you ended up with random programs, but that can be
good because if you like theme all of your reruns and choose everything out carefully,
then some programs just won't fit into the particular theme week, so that
gave us a chance to play some programs like Frank Race and of course the
Lineup. And finally we got a Facebook message from Kevin, who writes evening
y'all would like to say how I really love listening to your radio program when
I'm fed up depressed. The different shows make me smile. Well, thank
you so much, Kevin. So glad to be of service. Now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go
ahead and thank David. David's been one of our Patreon supporters since September twenty
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where you mean you think zenagin had somebody put that cabin boy out of
the way before you could talk with him. Dollar. The doctor only said
that he died under unusual circumstances. But yes, that's exactly what I think.
What's more important right now is it apparently the lad told the doctor a
thinga two before he died. So I'm going on down there. You want
to use my car, well, Zenagian seemed to know I was going to
use it before. He'll probably expect me to use it now. See,
you better give me a retal car, have it delivered to my hotel service
entrance under your name. Okay, Agan made no bones about him when I
talked to him. He's having me tailed, and he'll probably try to do
the same thing to me that he did to Bert Parker once he's sure.
I'm trying to block his four hundred and sixty thousand dollar claim. Dollar,
and but me, I am to stay alive until I can not only prove
his claim of fraud, but see him sent up a murdering Parker and the
lads that went down with a jolly Roger Dollar. Why don't you get the
police in on this with you? If your life's in danger, I want
to do it alone. Hey, one more thing, Yeah, you're sure
that zenage and needed money. I thought from all I've ever heard that that
international racket here was loaded. According to the papers, both Holland and Switzerland
locked up his bank account just within the last week or so. That's why
he needs a potfull of cash to get over there. That's why he sank
his ship so he could collect from your insurance company. Accident some mechanical failure?
Is that what he said? Something to do with the electrical system to
use his own words. But if the cabin boy was the only survivor of
the explosion and he didn't talk to any except this doctor Hernandez, I'm going
to see right then, how could zanake and know what made his yacht earn
and sync. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
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