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So here from August sixth and August seventh, nineteen fifty six is 18 00:01:51,280 --> 00:02:00,560 The Alder Matter, episodes one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for 19 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,319 Johnny Dollar Vig Kelly, Johnny Worldwide Mutual. How's your Spanish? See? 20 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,240 Senor mother told me there be days like this one egg and your beer. 21 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:14,680 I gotta be a linguist, yet you may have to be a lot more 22 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:16,400 than that to one scramble this one. Tell me about it? Oh, 23 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,080 price is still the same, though, Get on over here, will you? 24 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:22,400 Sure? But give me a little hint. I'd like to start worrying 25 00:02:22,439 --> 00:02:27,400 early, all right, try this William Billy Alder, the promoter world's number 26 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,120 one salesman. I'll be again, down again, older, the same, 27 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,080 and at this point he's up up to his ears and ven'z o whale and 28 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:35,919 oil. We're carrying a quarter of a million life on him. Oooh, 29 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,039 I'd settle for the premiums VIC. How come you're worrying. You'd worry too 30 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,400 carrying coverage in size, especially with Alder behaving like he is, like like 31 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,159 changing his beneficiary five times in a month. What would you say? That 32 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:59,680 means? Means I'll be right over tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey 33 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:02,759 in the t Frandscribe Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's 34 00:03:02,759 --> 00:03:22,199 Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator as true Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the 35 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:25,280 home office Worldwide Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an 36 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:37,000 accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Alder Matter expense account adeam one a 37 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,719 dollar thirty five the price of being taxi to Vic Kelly's office at Worldwide Mutual 38 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:45,000 for a normally easygoing fellow, Mister Kay had a bad case of How did 39 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,479 I ever get into this? Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars? That's a 40 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:53,000 big policy, big. You look like the claims already been file. Smile 41 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:55,159 a little dead, Yeah, sure, at least fill me in. How 42 00:03:55,199 --> 00:03:59,439 much do you know about Billy Alder Oh? Just surface stuff? What the 43 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:03,560 headlines? It's a promoter, wildcatter, super salesman, fellow with a flare 44 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,479 for selling anything. Why that's what's rough. I can't give you too much 45 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,240 more than that he's been in a dozen different businesses, headed up a half 46 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,840 a dozen corporations, a couple of bankrupts. He's even a nasty court case. 47 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:18,319 He's been flat broken six months later, been a walking blue chip, 48 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,759 been up and down more times than a yo yo. Oh. It's a 49 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,560 nice life if you can take it. But feast or famine. He does 50 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,600 everything big, like the quarter of a million policy. Huh. I didn't 51 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,319 see him out of line three years ago. It still doesn't, not with 52 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:32,959 the kind of money he's dragging out of the ground in Venzuela and oil. 53 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,480 Hey. Uh, this changing of beneficiaries, when did it begin? A 54 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,079 little over a month ago? In succession, it's been his wife, his 55 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,399 daughter, a brother, back to the wife, and now it's his daughter 56 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,480 again. Sounds like a woman trying to make up her mind about a dress 57 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,639 price Tag's a little different. What does it sound like to you? Give 58 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,839 me a chance to get down there and look, would you, I mean 59 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:58,399 off the top of your head. Oh, sounds like he's worried, like 60 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,040 he shouldn't buy any long plan records. Look, Johnny, there's a clause 61 00:05:01,079 --> 00:05:04,759 in the policy that lets us investigate our regularities. Go take a look, 62 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:09,519 just don't expect him to cooperate. He's a big operator type fella. I 63 00:05:09,519 --> 00:05:12,319 don't know. I never met him, but I like him already. His 64 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:15,399 style, any man who uses his slogan like we lose a little on each 65 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,079 deal, but think of the volume. Well, he's for me. I 66 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:24,920 gotta keep him alive. Expense account at him two three hundred and twenty nine 67 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:28,160 dollars and eighty eight cents. Airfare and incidentals to Caracas went his way level. 68 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,680 It was about noon Sunday when the big plane lays in over the Caribbean 69 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:38,160 shoreline, pointed its nose for the Magida Airport in Caracas, blow and spread. 70 00:05:38,199 --> 00:05:42,759 What's laughing they call man's handiwork his progress. A few short years ago 71 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,279 it had been nothing but lush green jungle. Then came men shouting the magic 72 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:48,920 word oil, and the jungle was now disappearing as fast as they could. 73 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:54,759 Throw up the dereks and sink the drills. Progress. A taxi to the 74 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:57,680 hotel Peria on a good lunch adds up to white him three four bucks even. 75 00:05:57,959 --> 00:06:05,800 I was ready for business. Knocking around in this game, you learn 76 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:10,519 a lot of ways to save steps on another country deal for instance, the 77 00:06:10,519 --> 00:06:14,279 local police chief is one person you can't ignore. He can save you more 78 00:06:14,319 --> 00:06:17,800 than steps blood. Sometimes he turned out to be thirty five ish, bright, 79 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,839 relaxed. They might have changed the jungle, but nothing was going to 80 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:26,040 order ha fay Valaska's style. He took his time, even after I told 81 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,839 him why I was here. I'm sorry about the ceiling fans senior dollar, 82 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,560 Oh what's wrong with it? It's working? See, but this old fashioned, 83 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:39,680 not like the how you say air condition in Estadasu needles, no problem. 84 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,480 Uncomfortable with all the money from the oil, you think they may modern 85 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:46,959 these offices. No is air conditioned in the home, in the car, 86 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:51,079 but not in the office at least this one. Hmm, it's fine. 87 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:56,480 I don't get to it. He I get the feeling you're steering away from 88 00:06:56,519 --> 00:07:00,600 discussing Billy older, of course, and there must be a reason, because 89 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:04,480 I do not want to give you the bomb cow oh bomb stair. What 90 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,720 I mean is there is nothing to put the finger on to look at them. 91 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,000 Is a nice family with lots of money living in a big, expensive 92 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,759 house. But you spend a couple hours there, you know it's not that 93 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:25,560 way. It's nothing you can see, but all underneath you ever see an 94 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,879 oil welfire, Juanito, all the burning and burning under the ground. Then 95 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,079 when it's enough force, whose everything explode to the sky. It's exactly what 96 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,879 you expect. When will happen to these people someday. Still, it's hard 97 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:46,839 to figure exactly why that is all? Yeah, well, thanks, I 98 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:49,000 appreciate what you've given me. Now, what's the best way to get to 99 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,720 the house? You go there? Uh, that's where the job is. 100 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,319 It's easy enough to get to. I tell you how you might if ask 101 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:59,959 a question, I may shoot in your own office. You got a fan 102 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:07,000 or air condition? When I left him, he was even weighing the idea 103 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,639 of spending his own money for an air condition. I went right on spending 104 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:13,519 company money. For instance, had him four thirty nine dollars and fifty five 105 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:18,040 cents deposit in first days rental on a un drive automobile. A twenty minute 106 00:08:18,079 --> 00:08:22,560 drive over the auto Pista that's a six lane mountain top freeway, less traffic 107 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:24,600 jams, brought me to La Gierre, a clean, scrub looking suburb on 108 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:28,480 the edge of the Caribbean. The older house wasn't hard to find, huge 109 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,759 and impressive it sat all by itself in a high promontory jutting out into the 110 00:08:31,799 --> 00:08:39,159 sea. I suddenly found that I'd become Jay Dollar intruder, because in the 111 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:43,080 doorway of the house, a very luscious young lady was being enthusiastically and expertly 112 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:50,240 kissed by a handsome young man. My cough must have been pretty frightening, 113 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,240 because the boy took off around the house like a quarter horse. Not so 114 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:58,200 the girl. She glared angrily as she came toward me. I hope you 115 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,559 were satisfied. Well embarrassed, it's a better word. I'm sorry about my 116 00:09:01,639 --> 00:09:03,960 time. I'll bet you are well. Look, now that you've got something 117 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,519 to tell my father, we'll go ahead and tell him if you only saw 118 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,919 you to tell him something else that he can hire as many detectives as he 119 00:09:11,039 --> 00:09:13,279 likes. It still won't keep me from seeing Paul. It looks like he'll 120 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,360 need track shoes to see him. Now, very funny, assuming that was 121 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:20,559 Paul. Look I don't assuming. Oh Now, look, lady, you 122 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:24,879 never gave me a chance to explain. Not too hard to figure why he 123 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:28,960 Well who you think I am? But I'm not. My name is Johnny 124 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,240 Dollar, and you're right about only one thing. I do want to see 125 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:37,279 your father, but not for the reason you think. Okay, but I 126 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:41,200 I'm sorry, mister Dollar got we friends now, I'm Peggy older. Yeah, 127 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,720 I figured as much. Would you like to come in and wait? 128 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:46,799 Mister dor Wait, my father isn't home at the moment. He shouldn't be 129 00:09:46,799 --> 00:09:52,240 over an hour though. Fine, you won't say anything about what you saw 130 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:56,039 about Paul. I mean, lady, the world is full of trouble. 131 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:07,759 Why should I add to her. Billy Alder's selling methods may have been wild, 132 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,399 high pressure stuff, but there was taste in his home. And when 133 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:15,279 Peggy Alder put a drink into my hand and led me out to a patio, 134 00:10:15,759 --> 00:10:18,279 I was ready to get a drill and go oil hunting myself patio. 135 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:22,679 It was a small, exclusive, man made mountaintop six hundred feet down to 136 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,559 the Caribbean on three sides. If you were going to have troubles, this 137 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,799 was the place to ponder the Peggy Owlder still didn't trust me completely. Inexpertly, 138 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:35,759 she tried to dig out my reason for being, gave up after a 139 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:41,240 while, then excused herself when her father showed up an hour later. I'm 140 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:48,039 glad you're here, dollarm what's wrong? Oh? Just surprised. Guess I 141 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,679 expected to be tossed out. Why kind of delegate asking a man why he 142 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:58,399 changes beneficiaries like some men changed suits. I read the policy your company is 143 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:01,240 allowed to ask. We appreciate you you're feeling that way, but it says 144 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,480 nothing about my having to answer. No, that's right, and it doesn't. 145 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,840 But it's hard not to draw conclusions such as, you're afraid somebody is, 146 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,320 shall we say, gunning for you, but you don't know who. 147 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,799 Am I right? Is that what your company thinks to Well, they don't 148 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:22,159 think anything, but they like to know you enjoy your trip down, mister 149 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,200 dollar. Well, I take it I've worn out my welcome. Sorry, 150 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,799 no, no, no, sit down. I told you I was glad 151 00:11:28,799 --> 00:11:33,720 you're here. Then you shouldn't mind a couple of questions. I'll tell you 152 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:37,519 nothing, mister dollar, I admit nothing. Is that clear? Listen, 153 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,840 look here, your company is a good deal to lose by my death. 154 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:45,720 We just want to be sure nobody's thinking of it as a commercial venture. 155 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,039 And stay here, mister Dollar, here in this house, keep me alive. 156 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:01,480 Behind the calm control demeanor. Bill Alder was loaded with fear, the 157 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:05,600 worst kind of fear, the grinding, implacable kind of terror that for some 158 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,720 reason has to be hidden. Two hours later, my bags had been sent 159 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:13,600 for, and I was comfortably settling the guests from only slightly larger in the 160 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,440 Pennsylvania station. By the dinner time that night, the only other people I'd 161 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,039 seen in the house with the servants, Alder, his daughter, and I 162 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:26,000 sat down to eat along. I must apologized for missus Alder's absence, mister 163 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,720 Dollar. She went to the bull fights. Today. She's staying in town 164 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:31,919 for dinner with the others. The others. We have several guests staying with 165 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,279 us, charming people. Mister Dolla, wait till you meet. I think 166 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,440 we can do without that kind of talk. Piggy, are you defending them 167 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,919 father, guests? Don't you mean Leech's parasit. I'll at least they'd have 168 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,399 the manners, not the start a thing like this in front of mister Dolla. 169 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:52,000 You may be excused anytime you like, bless. Incidentally, thank you 170 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:58,200 for disobeying my orders to keep Paul Kincaid away from this house. You told 171 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:01,360 him after you promised, mister told me nothing. You seem to forget that 172 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:09,039 servants have eyes and ears. I'm sorry, didn't mean to embarrass you, 173 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,759 mister Dollar. I's sorry. Kids can't do anything with him these days. 174 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:20,120 Headstrong, no sense of values. Not Paul Kincaid, an oil field foreman. 175 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,559 Can you see him fitting in his Peggy's husband in the billy, all 176 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:30,279 their enterprises quite a step up if he can make it. Believe me, 177 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:39,039 he never will. After dinner, Haller and I headed for that fabulous patio. 178 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,240 I hoped he would open up, but he kept the talk general, 179 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,600 charming, witty but simply conversation. Truth me, I wasn't too unhappy because 180 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,200 the setting was one of those once in a lifetime things. I couldn't take 181 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,840 my eyes away from the lights far below, the glittering shorelines stretching from Caraniero 182 00:13:56,879 --> 00:14:01,519 all the way to Puerto Cabello. That's when it happened. The bullets smashed 183 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:03,919 into the wooden canopy support, just inches from Older's head, so close that 184 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:07,759 the splinters flew buried themselves in his cheek. Mister Oler, you are right, 185 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:11,559 I think, so stay here. I raced back through the house, 186 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,960 headed for the flan Frinstans France as I could outside I tried to stare through 187 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,559 the darkness into the only direction from which that shot could have come, the 188 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:24,000 rolling jungle slope of the promontory. Sure it looked deserted, but I knew 189 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:28,080 it wasn't. Someone had to be out there with five more bullets in his 190 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:50,720 gun and murder in his heart. Johnny Dollar, this is correct, police, 191 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,639 I have heard if Alaskas were turning your car. I had to send 192 00:14:56,679 --> 00:15:01,679 your dollar heavy grade. Good morning. I mean it is huh here, 193 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:05,720 it is here? It ain't queer? Is there the older house in a 194 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,679 guiata. I'm staying here at all his requests. Ah, you are a 195 00:15:09,919 --> 00:15:16,559 fast mover. Sorry, but felicitations are a little out of place. Someone 196 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:18,840 came with an inches of killing older last night. I've got the bullet. 197 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,360 How's your ballistics set up at your disposal? Just bring it in, thanks, 198 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:26,320 I will. Maybe it's got something to say. I hope you're right, 199 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,639 But yeah, don't you think is a nice bullet you should be worrying 200 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:48,279 about? From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location in Caracas, Venezuela to the 201 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:52,440 home office Worldwide Mutual Insurance Company, Hertford, Connecticut, assignment the Older Matter 202 00:15:54,159 --> 00:16:03,960 expense account continued expense account of five five dollars even tip to one, not 203 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,159 just comand servant in the big older house. For a good reason. He 204 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,879 hadn't liked the idea of my prowling the slope alone last night looking for someone 205 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:15,759 with a gun. He'd insisted on joining me. True, he hadn't found 206 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:19,480 anything, but he'd been there five bucks as much to pay for a friend, 207 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:23,399 and I had a feeling I could use one. I ate breakfast alone. 208 00:16:23,639 --> 00:16:26,000 Aldo had already gone to his office and the rest of the house was 209 00:16:26,039 --> 00:16:33,879 asleep. Nature's breakfast trade rattle when he saw the money for why, oh, 210 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,399 call it appreciation. You didn't have to follow me out there last night. 211 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:40,440 You could have been hurt, Senor. You don't know. The slope 212 00:16:40,519 --> 00:16:45,320 is a long drop to the bottom and lumpy. I didn't expect money. 213 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:49,320 I did not do it for that. I know that. Go ahead second, 214 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,519 Uh something? I tell you something, Senor. When you go running 215 00:16:56,559 --> 00:17:00,360 out there last night, I was sure you would find nobody. Oh why 216 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:07,440 would yourself for yourself too much? How you call it bushes to think they 217 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,039 could be standing right next to you and you wouldn't know. Then, why 218 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,000 did you come streaking out after me. I told you he's a long way 219 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:19,079 down one wrong step, and in the States, that's an old joke. 220 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:29,079 The punchline has watched that first step. It's abute. I got in the 221 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:33,440 car I'd rented the previous day and headed toward Caracas. I passed the driving 222 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,200 time pleasantly by counting oil wells. From that, I graduated to trying to 223 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:38,920 figure how much money they made with each given stroke of the huge pumps. 224 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:45,480 Nice kind of occupation, sure specifically designed for a purpose to keep me from 225 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:49,519 worrying about the business at hand, namely, why super salesman Billy alder And 226 00:17:49,599 --> 00:17:53,160 sured for a quarter of a million dollars should change his beneficiaries five times in 227 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,720 a single month. Further, who'd taken that pot shot at him last night? 228 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:04,240 Answers? I went back to counting oil wells. In Caracas, I 229 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,640 headed for police headquarters, and the headman have fave Esquez. He turned the 230 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,599 bullet over to his lab, but they were short handed. By lunchtime, 231 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,559 I still had no report, so I took a lascaz to lunch. For 232 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,359 a man who is living in a house like Billy Alders, you do not 233 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,160 look happy. Amego that bullet traveled an inch more to the left. Billy 234 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,160 Alder wouldn't need a house. It's a good point. You look too serious 235 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,079 for a nice lunch. I fished that. Hey them at those piscos. 236 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,799 You you have a drink? The piscos ameo. No, welln't help. 237 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,200 They do not solve the case for you, but they make you happier about 238 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:45,119 being worried. Maybe we'd better order doubles. Confusing the older house, What 239 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,720 do you think keep them alive? Older says, But that's the only word 240 00:18:48,759 --> 00:18:52,039 you can get out of me. You feared the thing I mentioned yesterday, 241 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:56,160 the tension, the strangeness. The only ones I've met are Older and his 242 00:18:56,319 --> 00:19:02,000 daughter. You haven't met missus Older any of the others. Why they got 243 00:19:02,039 --> 00:19:07,720 home late after the shooting way after? Interesting? Oh sure it could have 244 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:11,079 been any of them out on that slope. I do not worry about you, 245 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,079 amygo, you will do fine. Well. I well, here's something 246 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,720 else interesting, Old that doesn't want me to question any of them about that 247 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:21,400 shot. Uh you noticed there was no complaint to your office about the murder. 248 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,480 Try. I know this because Alda wanted it that way, Like I 249 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:30,240 say, interesting, Ah, I grass this waiter. You sip that I 250 00:19:30,319 --> 00:19:37,480 may go see if it does not help, it's good, Oh, very 251 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:41,720 nice, it will be nicer. Just give you time. You you still 252 00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:45,519 have the city a billy older on your mind. Eh, yeah, have 253 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:51,960 another sip. Heye see, there's something else in my mind. I mean, 254 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,799 you got to learn to relax. Johnny, you mentioned missus Alder a 255 00:19:55,839 --> 00:19:59,960 few minutes ago. Seemed surprised I hadn't met her. What do you say 256 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:04,039 thinking of just that you living at the house. Oh it's more than that. 257 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:07,519 I mean you are a match. Come on, come on now, 258 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,519 level with me. I'm far enough out in left field as it is. 259 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:15,000 Write it off as professional courtesy. Huh, you are a pretty nice looking 260 00:20:15,079 --> 00:20:18,720 fellow. Mio. Don't snow me. I am simply trying to answer your 261 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:23,440 question, Jenny, missus all, how shall we say it? It does 262 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:26,480 not make her angry to be seen in the company of a handsome man. 263 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:33,559 I see what's mister Older's reaction. The eldest must be people are breathing. 264 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,839 If they have a quarrel, it is not in public. Thanks, but 265 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,480 at the risk of seeming ungrateful, you could have mentioned that yesterday. It's 266 00:20:41,559 --> 00:20:45,000 a pretty good department in carrac As. Police, Amigo, you know why 267 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:52,960 because I teach them always one thing at a time. Com Brandy, mucho, 268 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:55,759 amigo. Come on, we eat, then we get back to the 269 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:04,039 lab. They have not finished the fire. Everybody expense con had him six 270 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,599 fourteen dollars eighty five cents. Valaska has drank enough Pisco sours to float the 271 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,200 Normandy back at the police lamp. I wished I'd kept pace with him, 272 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,279 because all they could tell from the bullet was that it had come from a 273 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,039 luger, and Valaska's pointed out there must be a couple of thousand lucas and 274 00:21:19,079 --> 00:21:23,519 caracas. I had a bank for the older house at Algiera. Unless the 275 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:26,960 members of that happy household slept all day, somebody should be alive and stirring. 276 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,559 And they were people I wanted to meet badly, but I almost didn't 277 00:21:32,599 --> 00:21:36,000 make it. As I approached the main gate, I noticed another car parked 278 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,680 along the side of the road about fifty feet from it. Suddenly it roared 279 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,359 into life, shot forward, screamed to a start, cut me off, 280 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,319 almost piling me into the entrance pillars. You dined for what's the matter with 281 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,440 you? Plenny? You know who I am. Dollar, I know this. 282 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:52,759 If you ever try a stunt like that again, I'll ran those pearly 283 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:55,960 teeth right down your throat. Tough guy, there's an easy way of finding 284 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,880 out. We'll get to that in a minute. I asked you if you 285 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,079 knew who I am? Sure, Paul Kincaid, the lad who was smooching 286 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,400 with Billy Alder's daughter yesterday? You taking bows? You just couldn't wait to 287 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,200 tell all about it? Could you? Your girl's been telling your lives, 288 00:22:07,319 --> 00:22:11,079 Kincaid, I just happened to be there. If you don't want to be 289 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,960 seen on nick and doorways just a minute. Speaking of people in wrong places, 290 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,920 I thought you were a forman in the oil fields. I don't see 291 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,240 any dereks on the older property. I took the day off so I could 292 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:22,839 come over and see you. Well, you're getting a good look. Yeah, 293 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:26,519 and I still think all to hired you to keep Peggy away from it. 294 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,839 Now you keep out of my head? Dollar, What are you staring 295 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,680 for? Well, now, everybody's full of wild ideas today, I just 296 00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:38,759 had one that maybe isn't so wild, Like maybe you just ed libbed a 297 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:42,400 reason for being here and the real one is to sneak out on the slope 298 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,359 and see if you can't find an empty loga shell. What there has to 299 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,599 be one out there, you know, you say, And I took that 300 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:52,640 shot at older. I don't know how bad do you want to marry into 301 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:59,119 the older money? Seven bunch coming slipped it through my own. It was 302 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,319 a jilly wallet. I said, that lasted too long. You get a 303 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,759 set of arms working in an oil field. He had them all right, 304 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,000 and those punches hurt. So I went to Choto. Even then it was 305 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:21,559 tough. I guess I better get in shape or take up accounting. A 306 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,559 look in the car mirror made one thing clear. I couldn't take a face 307 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,960 like that through the front door. When I reached the house, I skirted 308 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,759 it, managed to get to the service entrance without scaring the life out of 309 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:33,799 anyone. Here, my little gift to not you go Ma seam five began 310 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,039 to pay off. He hustled me up to my room by the backstairs, 311 00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:40,519 and without waiting to be asked, he got busy with bandages and things. 312 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:47,680 You win, sing you would you believe it? If I said yes? 313 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,839 Only through politeness, I think, oh, oh bitter. That one was 314 00:23:52,920 --> 00:24:00,119 pretty deep. God, I I was just thinking, if you really when? 315 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,680 I hate to see the loser. Thanks, but I know without seeing 316 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:11,119 him again, there is about the best I can do. Sor Okay, 317 00:24:11,279 --> 00:24:17,759 thanks so nice? Another just tell me one thing. There's anything going on 318 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,359 downstairs? How do you mean that racket? We're here? Come out? 319 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:26,119 Racket? Oh you mean El Montante Montanti, the boll fighter, the finest 320 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,119 matador in the world. Sr Did you not know? He's the guest of 321 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,960 the house. He's staying here. See the senor in Senora Alder their big 322 00:24:33,039 --> 00:24:37,839 official others. They love the corrida new style, isn't it? Finding balls 323 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:44,480 in the house? Montani? He just give how you see a demonstration of 324 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:49,759 the passes with the cape. You know it is beautiful? Why you're not 325 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,079 good? Done? In watching? You see? You will enjoy? It's 326 00:24:53,240 --> 00:25:03,839 lovely. The fine bullfighter? Anybody ever asked the ball about that? After 327 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,720 Nacho's gentle ministrations and a quick change of clothes, I must confess I looked 328 00:25:07,759 --> 00:25:11,640 slightly more like a human being. Again slightly. Anyhow, I wandered downstairs, 329 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:17,200 headed for the huge living room, and I was like walking into another 330 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,599 world, alive and pulsating to the music from a record player. Five or 331 00:25:21,599 --> 00:25:25,000 six people stood around hypnotically beating time, their eyes glued to the great al 332 00:25:25,079 --> 00:25:29,359 Mantante, a handsome Spaniard who skillfully worked a bullfighter's cape in the center of 333 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,200 the floor. Nacho hadn't exaggerated. Montante was beautiful to watch, but the 334 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,960 feeling wasn't unanimous. Billy Alder and his daughter Peggy were the only people in 335 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,880 the room I knew, and though they beat time with the others, they 336 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,799 both shared the same expression on their faces, intense dislike for the man with 337 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:48,400 the cape. As I shifted my attention to them, a woman tore reluctant 338 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,759 eyes away from the Matadora moved quietly toward me. She wasn't really beautiful, 339 00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:56,599 but tremendously chic for one of a better word, and that made her seem 340 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:02,039 beautiful. I'm constant, mister Dowler. Welcome to our home. Oh thank 341 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:03,759 you, missus. Alder. I'm afraid i'd been negligitim it's a hostess. 342 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,279 Oh, we've just misconnections, that's all charmingly put. Do you mind if 343 00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:11,160 I wait to introduce her to the others when Montante's finished, No, of 344 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,400 course not. Please go on back. Don't worry about me. I'm doing 345 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,559 fine, thank you. I watched her as she crossed the room, then 346 00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:22,839 realized that someone else was doing exactly the same thing, her husband, Billy 347 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,200 Allday, Only the look on his face was the same glaring dislike with which 348 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:32,240 he'd favored the Cape Witing Matador. Interesting. Then, after long moment, 349 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,599 Constant Alder moved quietly out of the room, as though not wishing to disturb 350 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,480 the others. The performance was still going strong, and after about five minutes, 351 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:44,480 I moved out onto the patio stood looking down at the Lagierra Harbor because 352 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:45,680 it was on my mind. I stared down at the spot on the slope 353 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,880 from which the luger had been fired, and I saw that someone was there, 354 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,599 awkwardly searching the ground. A moment later, they straightened up moved a 355 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,240 few feet to continue the search. Even in the late afternoon sun, there 356 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:17,000 couldn't be any mistake in the search's identity. It was Constance Alder. Now 357 00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:21,160 here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow. 358 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:25,400 Two sides of the same old yarn, and whichever side you choose, 359 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,359 you've got to call it wrong. Join us, Won't you Yours Truly Johnny 360 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:45,200 Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. 361 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:49,400 Written by Tony Barrett. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. 362 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,519 Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and station for the next 363 00:27:53,640 --> 00:29:02,559 exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking, I wa welcome 364 00:29:02,759 --> 00:29:07,079 back. A solid episode, mostly set up, but everything so far was 365 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:12,200 well played. I particularly liked the fight with Caate and Kate. It seems 366 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,559 like most old time radio detective fight seemed to end with a knockout one way 367 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,079 or another. I like Johnny unleashing his judo just to get away with a 368 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:29,720 what decision brought some variety to the whole fighting thing. All right, Well, 369 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:37,079 listener comments and feedback now and we turned to Howard who commented regarding the 370 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:41,519 long shot matter on YouTube, how many times has Johnny Dollar been hit in 371 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:47,720 the head by now? He has many cracks in his cranium and is probably 372 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,440 in protocol concussion. Well thanks for the comment, Howard. Now, I 373 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:59,039 did wonder if there was an answer to how many times he had been knocked 374 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,880 unconscious, and I figured that if anyone would have a precise account. John 375 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:08,880 Abbott would in the Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter? But actually in that book 376 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:15,079 he doesn't even give a range, but he does indicate it happens a lot, 377 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:22,279 perhaps even nearly every episode, and his observation is that the second occurrence 378 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,519 must have made Johnny's head look like phrenologists, not maare. With the numerous 379 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,039 bumps, gashes, goalies, and chasm inflicted by over twelve years worth of 380 00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:38,039 abuse, one wonders why Johnny did not stammer and lumber around like a punch 381 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:44,359 drunk fighter. I guess another item for those who go with the Johnny Dollar 382 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,480 was a time lord explanation for the different actors who played him. But well, 383 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,440 it happened a lot to Johnny, it didn't happen a lot to any 384 00:30:53,759 --> 00:31:00,960 of the on air Hard Boiled Private detectives, whether you were talking Philip Marlow, 385 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:06,079 Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, and of course you know you have Richard 386 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,640 Roade go over there hallucinating and speaking to a wee voice that has had every 387 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,839 dime he gets knocked out. It really is part of the suspension of disbelief 388 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:21,640 you have to have with these programs, you know, the old Superman movie 389 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:26,920 posters, you will believe a man can fly. Old time radio detective version 390 00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:30,079 is you will believe that a man can take forty concussions a year and beat 391 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,839 just fine. And then we have a couple of listener emails, and this 392 00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:40,079 one comes from Jay. Dear Adam, I've been listening to some old time 393 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:47,240 radio sci fi podcasts which are much less interesting than great detectives without your commentary, 394 00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:52,440 and have been amazed by the connections. I love hearing the announcements about 395 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,920 the next program that evening, one Time Dragon, that and another Tales of 396 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,359 the Texas Rangers. At the moment, I'm listening to to Mention X program 397 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:07,240 from nineteen fifty about the dangers of AI called Logics and Virtual Assistance. Incredible, 398 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:12,079 best Jay, Well, thank you so much. Day Now I do 399 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:20,119 enjoy hearing connections myself. It's been fascinating on NBC programs to hear ads from 400 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,359 nineteen fifty one for the Blandings and that of course, is a series that 401 00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:30,160 we played on the Amazing World of Radio this summer, and even when I 402 00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:34,799 was doing the old Time Dragnet podcast, that was one of the things that 403 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,440 got me to check out both Barry Craig and Counterspy. Was hearing them mentioned 404 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:45,799 on Dragnet, although it was tough to find the Barry Craig episode and the 405 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:52,440 Counterspy episode that matched up with a Dragnet episode I was listening to. And 406 00:32:52,559 --> 00:32:58,839 that's the only thing that's frustrating about connections is when it's connects to a series 407 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:04,880 or an episode that doesn't exist anymore. And we've heard ads for a few 408 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:10,240 of those programs on Dangerous Assignment, like the Bob Hope Daily Program and the 409 00:33:12,119 --> 00:33:16,799 Eddie Canter Showbiz program from the mid fifties. But I enjoy those connections when 410 00:33:16,839 --> 00:33:21,359 I do hear about them. Man, they connect to something I can listen 411 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:29,160 to. I had actually been in the planning stages for starting a science fiction 412 00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:35,440 podcast, and I actually had penciled in that I wanted to launch it in 413 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:42,319 September last year. My plan was to play two episodes a week, a 414 00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:50,359 combination of anthology series like Dimension X and X minus one and then space adventure 415 00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:54,799 series like Flash Gordon and Space Patrol. Now I had to deal with the 416 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:01,559 disappointment that I could not figure out any way to get Jimmy Duranty's performance of 417 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:07,279 we're going UFO and license, so I could use that as theme music. 418 00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:14,159 Then I started listening to episodes, and I realized, first of all, 419 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:21,280 that it was really not a good idea to try to launch one podcast right 420 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,400 after we'd launched full time radio snack Wagon. And then I kind of had 421 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:30,079 an epiphany about the Anthology program. And the situation with a lot of these 422 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:35,719 shows is that I'd listened to quite a few of them over the years. 423 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:40,800 An emphasis on the over the years part. I'd listen to some as part 424 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:46,199 of app extras port, just on an occasion every now and again, and 425 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:53,679 there were some really interesting stories. There was things like the un humanoid alien 426 00:34:54,159 --> 00:35:00,639 who played baseball VERSI and Sam, and then there was this one with Jackson 427 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:06,960 Back called The Merchant of Venus. It's posited some interesting ideas but I think 428 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,440 made some faulty assumptions, but was still interesting to listen to it. And 429 00:35:10,519 --> 00:35:15,880 then a really interesting one that Ned Weaver was in, And of course the 430 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:22,159 Green Hills of Earth episode with actual music was really entertaining. But these were 431 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:27,400 all just sort of random episodes that I grabbed. I started listening to the 432 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:36,119 start of X minus one and I just realized this is dark and the start 433 00:35:36,199 --> 00:35:40,639 of that series is just undrelenting week after week, and I came to the 434 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:46,039 realization with these sci fi anthology programs, maybe it's just where I'm at in 435 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:52,639 my life. It's kind of like with the Whistler or even suspense, where 436 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,400 you know an episode every now and again is fine, but I don't want 437 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:00,440 to be listening to that every single week. Although I may use the more 438 00:36:00,679 --> 00:36:06,800 adventure based sci fi series in the old time radio adventure series when we get 439 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,320 that launched. Still working out details on that one. Thanks for the email, 440 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,119 Jay, And then we have an email here from Joy Elizabeth, who 441 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:22,719 writes, Dear mister Graham, I've been a longtime listener, at least I 442 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,880 started when i was fifteen or sixteen years old, and I'm now twenty years 443 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,360 old. I absolutely love your podcast, as I love all history from the 444 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:35,760 World War two era, and you're very insightful. I was wondering, simply 445 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:38,559 because I don't want it to come to an end eventually, would you consider 446 00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:43,519 redoing all of the shows. I'm just curious because, as I said, 447 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,679 I love the way your podcast is set up, and it is so unique 448 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:52,280 from all the other ones. That are out there, and I really appreciate 449 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,960 how you play all of the different actors, like all of the Johnny Dollers 450 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,480 and both Sam Spades, and don't just stick to one every time one actor 451 00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:06,039 replaces another. I'm super dubious about the incoming one. However, I love 452 00:37:06,119 --> 00:37:10,000 Stephen Dunn as Sam Spade, and I really enjoyed Edmund O'Brien and John Lound 453 00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:14,920 as Johnny Dollar, even though I had thought Howard Duff and Bob Bailey couldn't 454 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,199 be replaced. In fact, I might be the odd one out. But 455 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:22,800 as much as I like Bob Bailey, I liked O'Brien's and LUN's portrayal better. 456 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,960 The only one I didn't appreciate was the replacement Rocky Jordan. Well, 457 00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:30,800 thank you for keeping these alive in the era of TV and forgiving so much 458 00:37:30,199 --> 00:37:35,840 contexting your commentary. I absolutely love to be able to create the images in 459 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,519 my head instead of having them given to me. This is so important to 460 00:37:38,639 --> 00:37:43,920 history. Sincerely, Joel Elizabeth. Well, thank you so much for the 461 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,440 question, Joel Elizabeth, and for your very kind email. I would say 462 00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:54,400 that there are a few series that I would probably not replay. I think 463 00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:59,760 that they were good enough that they deserve to be heard, but I don't 464 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,079 think think I would enjoy going through them again. But there aren't any really 465 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,519 huge series I would put in that particular category. It's definitely something that I'm 466 00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:15,840 thinking about as we're fifteen seasons into this. I think when I started out 467 00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:22,400 with the thousands of programs out there, the last thing really on my mind 468 00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:27,039 was Okay, what are you going to do when you run out of episodes? 469 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,599 Did not occur to me that that could someday become a problem. I'm 470 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:38,719 definitely open to replaying series as the years go on. I personally would like 471 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:45,000 to at least finish twenty seasons, which at this point, as far as 472 00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:50,159 I know, is going to require us revisiting some old series, but that's 473 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:55,800 still a few years off. I can definitely see some justifications beyond just keeping 474 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:01,480 the series going. As a listener emailed me a few weeks back, on 475 00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:07,840 many of those early episodes, my commentary was very short, and there could 476 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:14,480 be a lot of reasons for that. I may not have had necessary resources 477 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:22,360 for really research and look into everything. Part of the challenge with many of 478 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:28,559 those early seasons was that not only was I holding down a full time job. 479 00:39:28,679 --> 00:39:31,960 I was also doing a lot of other things on the side. But 480 00:39:32,159 --> 00:39:37,039 I might be in a situation where I would get to one or two am 481 00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:43,440 in the morning and get my commentary recorded in time to get to bad so 482 00:39:43,519 --> 00:39:46,199 that I could get up at six point fifteen, And that's probably not the 483 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:52,159 formula for delivering your best quality. And the other thing is just the audio 484 00:39:52,320 --> 00:40:00,079 quality. And here I'm talking about the underline recording for the original run of 485 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:05,039 Let George Do It. We were dealing exclusively. I think there might have 486 00:40:05,119 --> 00:40:09,199 been like four or five files that were better quality, but almost exclusively with 487 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:17,000 thirty two kbps in codes, which they weren't horrible quality, but there's a 488 00:40:17,199 --> 00:40:21,880 lot better quality for Let George Do It, as you would have heard on 489 00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:27,800 the Thanksgiving special. It might be nice to go through the lineup in the 490 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,360 original broadcast order, now that the researchers have kind of figured that out a 491 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:36,599 little bit better, and to go through it in like one big chunk, 492 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,559 rather than you know, going back and forth to the series like three or 493 00:40:39,639 --> 00:40:45,559 four times to get through all the episodes because it was still being researched and 494 00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:51,000 compiled. So I'm open to redoing a lot of series. There's also some 495 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,679 things that I will look into, probably in terms of licensing some programs that 496 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,360 wouldn't necessarily be old time radio, but we'll have to see about that. 497 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,480 At this point, I'm not looking for an exit strategy for the podcast, 498 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:10,800 so we'll continue to work to find our way forward. I appreciate your emails 499 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:16,199 so much. It's always really encouraging to hear that younger people are listening to 500 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:21,599 the podcast and enjoying it. I appreciate everyone that listens, but there's just 501 00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:27,039 something about hearing from someone who's fifteen or twenty and enjoys what we're doing. 502 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,760 All right, Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the 503 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,960 day. Thank you to Peter, Patreon supporter since March of twenty twenty three, 504 00:41:36,159 --> 00:41:40,400 currently supporting the program at the Master Detective level of fifteen dollars or more 505 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,960 per month. Thank you so much for your support, Peter, and that 506 00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:49,239 will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us 507 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,599 using your favorite podcast software. We'll be back on Friday with the conclusion of 508 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,760 this week's Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Serial, but join us back here tomorrow for 509 00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:02,840 dangerous assignment and where a buzz in me. May I travel you very much? 510 00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:10,519 Will I later do? But thank you? I am. We will 511 00:42:10,559 --> 00:42:15,280 get up at the next gunner, will we you have Jack? I'd feel 512 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,119 better about it if you took your hand out of your coat. Fucking Saty. 513 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,639 No, can I get up? Look to the dad of the kid, 514 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:23,800 Sully. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 515 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:29,599 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot NEP, follow us 516 00:42:29,679 --> 00:42:34,559 on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram dot 517 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:39,360 com slash Great Detectives from boise Idahol. This is your host, Adam Graham 518 00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:40,159 signing off.