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The original airdate June sixth, nineteen fifty and the title is The Alibi
Murder Case. Hello Markham, glad you could make it here at my office.
I'm very glad you got here. Just now. What's the big mystery,
Markham? Why did you want me here at exactly eleven o'clock at night?
I'm not sure this whole thing isn't a gag of some kind vance,
but if it isn't, I can promise you some excitement. Well, the
Strict Attorney is famous for keeping their promises. I'm glad I came. I
hope you will be. What's up, Vance? I found a message on
my desk this evening indicating I could expect a phone call at eleven o'clock tonight
that might save somebody's life. That's what we're waiting for. Well, that's
fine with me. I don't know anything i'd rather do. It's one minute
after eleven, though, perhaps somebody else did a little life saving, or
perhaps we'll wait a few hold everything then, yes, of course? Is
it? Attorney Markham begging Marcolm. This is John Green, Windmere Apartments.
You got my message about saving your life? Why? Yes? Just what
is all? Is Green? It's terrible? Oh what's in trouble? Man?
I can't talk to you right now? Goodbye? Vans. Did you
hear that? I certainly did? Handed that phone book next year? Yeah?
Thanks, he said. His name is Green, John Green, wind
Mirror Apartments, Green Green. Oh, yes, here we are Dell Green.
If he's in trouble, we can be over there in ten minutes.
All Vans, Hello Green, this is Marcom again. I listen, Filo.
Vans and I are on the way over there. We'll be at your
house in ten minutes. Oh no, don't come. If you tried green
Green, he doesn't answer vants Let's get over to his place right away.
Apparently somebody shut him while he was talking to you. Marcolm, you've just
eaves dropped on a murder. Did the police question Lucy most of the night
and the morning? Eddie? They say my husband was killed at eleven o'clock
or a couple of minutes after, and they insisted on knowing where I were.
Figured they would you told them I'm worried if you were talking much too
loudly. After all, this is a public library and some people come here
to read. You know. Sorry, don't be sorry. Just blow your
voices if you please. You'll see the only thing you have to worry about
is losing your head. You might have a perfect alibi for eleven o'clock,
so, by indeed we do. We were both seen by different people in
different places at eleven, and the police are certain your husband was shot at
that time. I know, Eddie or you were very clever, but well,
how did you do it? We don't go into it now. All
you have to do is sit tight and nobody will come nearly that you or
me I killed John but nobody will ever be able to prove it. You
don't have to worry about me. I love you too much and they're too
close to me. Right now, I need to do anything that would hurt
I. Remember what I said. All you have to do is take it
easy. Right now, I'm going over to play gin with young Bill Steadman.
You go home and make like I'm very sorry that you either have to
stop talking so loud or leave. This is a library and people do come
here to read. I know it's all right, we're just leaving. Well,
we've done everything we wanted to do. I do mean everything. Remember,
you keep shuffling the cards, Bill, and you'll rub the spots off
them. What's your hurry, Eddie. Sooner you deal them out, the
sooner we get the game going. Oh, the sooner you win more of
my money. Huh? All right, any time you want a quick kid,
it's okay with me. I'm hooked almost five hundred dollars. I'll keep
playing. Oh. I was just figuring how much you've won from me in
the past month. How much over seven thousand dollars you could afford it?
Yeah? And if you can't, you shouldn't have played nobody hit you on
the head and made you play gin with me? You know which somebody had
hit me on the head before I started. I want that card. It's
a diamonds. No use for it. Taking out of him, Eddie.
How about doubling the stakes the last thing doing and get out the way you
got in. Anything to give me a break, huh anything? Maybe if
you're not so smart, friend, maybe I know a way to get some
of my money back. What's with that kind of talk? Well, I
suppose the police knew that you and the wife of the guy who was shot
last night, that John Greene, were pretty friendly. Don't be a baby,
So I know, Lucy, I knew the guy too, didn't I.
I rented my apartment from them a year ago. I'll keep this game
going. I knock with three. That's good. H three queens, three
seven, three jacks. That's three. I had no layoffs. I got
eight eighteen twenty four. Wait a minute, what's the matter those other cards
you have palmed in your hand. You've been cheating me. I'd be a
dope. I have no card. You just dropped him on the floor.
I saw you, and I'm gonna find it. You're out of your head.
Don't stop choking, you stop her off. And if you want to
play that way boys with too much money, you shouldn't get suspicious as I
get hurt. Get up, Bill and pay me off. I get up
all riding, and you'll get paid off too, one way or another.
Look Vans, are you a private investigator? Aren't you take it easy?
Mister Steadman? As far as I know, I am a private investigator.
Good, then do something. I came up to tell you that the police
are looking for the man who killed John Green, and I know who it
is. So you said, or should I say shovel? Well, all
I can say now is that you're a whole lot overrated. Vance You're supposed
to be the guy who can spot a murderer with his eyes closed. Most
murderers don't walk around with their eyes closed. You don't know what I mean
yet Here I am coming to you with a perfect case, motive and all,
and you're not taking me seriously, of course I am. Now.
Look, Bill, I know your mother, I know you. He spoiled
you a little. You had too much money and too little supervision. But
don't think you can come up here and order me around. Okay, Okay,
Vans, just answer one thing. I told you Edward Lee had a
crush on John Green's wife. I told you Lee carried a gun and has
a bad reputation. Why don't you investigate him? Or a very si full
reason. The medical examiner placed the time of Green's death between ten thirty and
eleven thirty. As a matter of fact, District Attorney Markham was talking on
the phone to Green at a minute or so after eleven when he heard the
shots that killed him. And Edward Lee was with neighbors on his floor,
completely legitimate neighbors who say he was with them at one minute after eleven.
Now are you satisfied? Now? Well the police are we has an absolute
alibi? Oh he has? Yes? Well, all I can tell you
is if you think he has, then you're not as smart as people think
you are. And Eddie Lee is a whole lot smarter. Okay, okay,
yes, Hello, I'm filo Vans. You are and you've come to
see me. How nice you're Edward Lee. That's right, you're the guy
who just pushed his way in here. That's right. Where were there to
sit down? I'll be through working out in a minute or so. Oh,
go right ahead. You won't disturb me. I just have some facts
to find out. What pretty good left hand you have there, Lee or
a right handed person that is? How do you know I'm right handed?
Your belt buckle it's on the right side. Most people wear their buckles in
the center when they don't. A left handed person as the buckle near his
left hand, and a right handed person there is right hand, so I'm
right handed? What you came up to find out? Oddly? I want
to know how well you knew John Green? That again, I didn't know
him well at all. I rented this apartment from him about a year ago.
He took another place upstairs in the building. You didn't know his wife?
Sure, she was here when I rented the joint. What's it to
you, Vans? What makes all your character so curious? All of us
characters? Sure characters, busybodies, guys that can't mind their own business,
Guys like you. Somebody killed John Green? Okay, he's dead. How
do you figure to help him? I figured to stop somebody else sometime from
murdering a person, because they'll remember that Green's killer was caught. So far
as I can see Green's killers going free, You've got nothing on anybody,
including and especially me. So how about getting out of here before I go
to work on you instead of that bag, I'd rather enjoy any effort you
made to throw me out of here, you'd enjoy well. Never let it
be said that I'm a bad host. Never let it be said that I
didn't see to it. You had a good time. You have worked on
that punch long enough to take care of you. Wow. That, as
the saying goes, is that perhaps the tip I got from young Bill Steadman
about you Lee wasn't But what tip was that that you killed Green? Anyhow,
I did have a good time this afternoon, So thank you very much
for the entertainment. And Lee. Yeah, you must come over and see
me sometime. Eddie Lucy, I don't want that librarian to come over here
and warn us again. I do want to talk to you. I'll be
careful. Well, what's been happening? Bill Steadman got sore because I beat
him in a couple of card games, and he wanted to file out Vance
and told Vance I killed your husband. Oh he didn't, he did,
all right. Vance was over at my place to find out a little more
about Why do you Kireed, you got an alibi that nobody will be able
to crack. You will with you next door neighbor at a minute after eleven.
But you know I gimmicked everything. I know you did it, but
I don't know how you did it. Oh, Eddie, you're wonderful.
Cut it out the library. Oh, I don't care about her. I
only care about us. It's about you and me. Now that John's out
of the way, quick, will you cut it out? Oh? Don't
you realize how loud talking distracts the other's humans library? Okay, okay,
we'll be quiet. You'd better. You're disturbing the others. It isn't only
the others he's disturbing. He's also disturbing. Nicky, you want Markham,
you're just skeleton. Key back right, fans, Eric at the light switching
right. This is pretty risky business. Fans breaking into an apartment breaking in
Markham. Yes, you didn't break in. We used the key, just
as missus Green would use a key if she came home right this night.
Besides, who could arrest the district attorney? Fans, It's remarkable how you
a logic can sound so good even though both of us knew your ad living.
Now that we're here, tell me what we're doing, all right?
You heard of hunches? Yes, yes, they're the thing a fictional detective
always follows when he can't find a clue. Do you have one? No,
not at all. This is the spot where I should have one,
though if that logic of mine which you seem to light wasn't functioning, Which
means that there's a tie up between Green's widow and Edward Lee. Lee is
very smug and very sure of himself. His apartment is six floors down,
but the visit here might result in our finding something that will connect him with
the crime. This is a room where Green's body was found at the telephone,
a gun inches away from his hand, but not the gun that killed
him. In other words, when you called him back from your office,
he answered the phone while holding a gun on somebody in the room. Fance.
Is it possible that my call distracted him so that the murderer had a
chance to shoot? I'd hate to think that. I don't believe that's what
happened. Markham looked through this desk where you. I'm going into missus greens
room and see what I could defy all right if you see anything that's even
remotely interesting. Oh, Markom, what happened? Markham? Markham? You
hurt badly? Where's that phone operator? Operator? Russian ambulance to the Windmere
apartments. The district attorney has been shot. I'm afraid he's badly hurt.
This is Filo Vans, District Attorney. Markham was shot about an hour ago.
See and I were looking through the apartment of John Green, who had
been murdered the day before. Both of our suspects, missus Green and a
man named Edward Lee, have alibis for around eleven o'clock, the time we
believe the murder was committed. Markham has been taken to the hospital. I
am about to go into his room now, Hello markhams. The nurse said
I could stay only a few moments. How do you feel? Not bad?
The bull had just grazed my side. I've been told I guess somebody
didn't want us at the Green apartment. Vans. Oh, I don't know.
Nobody fired at me. Well, then somebody didn't want me that,
I'd say somehow I'd have preferred being told I wasn't wanted to. Can't blame
you for that. I'll tell you something, Markham. I got on the
telephone and called Edward Lee after I've done what I could for you, while
I was waiting for the ambulance. Did you reach him? No? Then
Lee may have shot me. Yes. It could have been missus Green,
of course, or it might have been somebody else, someone I've overlooked.
Who's that Bill Steadman, that wealthy young man who came to my office insisting
that Edward Lee killed John Green. Perhaps we've been on the wrong track right
at the moment. I don't particularly care about. All I care about is
getting out of his hospital so we can work together on this case. You
just stay here and rest. I'll stay here, of course, until the
doctors say I can go. But I don't know how I can rest with
a murder on South in that case, Markamand in view of the fact that
we started this investigation together and it must be continued, let's say that you
remain here and leave the rest to me. I want to talk to you,
mother. I've got to go. I've got an appointment. I'm kind
of an appointment to gamble again. Oh me, don't lie to me,
William. I've known about your gambling for some time any day now, I
expect to pick up a paper and read William Steadman Junior Welt, the young
playboy rested in gambling raid. I won't have that, William. I don't
go to gambling houses. I know you haven't been going to them, but
I know you've been gambling, and I know you've been losing. Vancod often
said you were overdrawn. They read me the amounts of the checks you've been
giving somebody named Edward Lee, and before that for someone named John Green.
Well, I had a little bad luck. Little you had a lot of
bad luck. And you're going to stop gambling right this minute. But I
don't always lose. Look here, look, thank you. Look see all
this money I haven't deposited, but I want it from whom? From John
Green? Just before he was murdered? John Green, who was murdered?
Is that the manual playing with? Why not? But I won this money
from him while he was still alive, did you, William? Did you
win it from him while he was alive or did you take it from him
after you killed him? Thank you for coming down here to Markham's office with
me. Missus Green. That's all right. I believe you want to be
with me when I find out something. If I find it out, what
are you looking for? Some indication of who killed your husband? Of course,
Well, Vance, I have a confession to make. I know you
know, I think so you shot mister Markham did? Yeah? Yeah,
that's what I was going to say. But how did you know? It
was rather simple? You realize Marcolm isn't seriously hurt, and I certainly didn't
expect you to confess your husband's murder. So what else could it be?
I didn't mean to shoot Markholm. I came home, saw somebody bending over
the desk and thought it was a burglar carried a gun, so I shot.
Then when I heard you called mister Markham's name, I knew I'd made
a mistake, so I ran out. Well, thank you for telling me,
Missus Green. I'm sure we'll be able to straighten up the situation.
Now, would you mind coming in here to Markham's office with me? Not
at all than we are now. I want you, Missus Green, be
me. I beg your pardon. Sit here in this chair now. I'm
going to pretend to be Markholm, and also pretend this is the night your
husband was killed. I'm at the desk. When the phone rings, Marcolm
picks it up and a voice says, I'm John Green, went mere apartments,
I'm in trouble, and so forth and so on, and hangs up.
Markolm told me what happened, then went through the phone book here looking
for your number. What tell you the number? It's clover six one five
six one. Oh? Is it? Well? Markholm then dialed the number.
Of course, you know there won't be any answer. There's no one
at my house. You'll see. I'm trying to do exactly what Markholm did
the night your husband was shot. Remember they're ringing missus Green one, I'll
answer. I imagine that's so. Well, Hello, hold the phone,
there's somebody in my house. But who could it be? I'll let you
know in a moment. Hello, who is this? Jinally twenty third pre
sect? I might duty here? Who is this? Oh? I'm sorry,
Donnally, this is final Vans. Please excuse this call? Right?
It was a police officer, Oh, Missus Green. Yeah, I've just
had an idea, a very brindant idea. Well, if you say so
yourself, and you said so yourself, so I did. Yeah, Now
I'm going to see if mister Markham is well enough to come over here and
promise him as a reward that I know who killed your husband and how his
killer could have a perfect alibi. I'm a little weak, but I'll be
all right. Donal leg are you will, sir? Thank you for helping
me here to my office. There's no trouble at all us market Ah,
here we are. Oh you're sitting down now, so you shouldn't feel too
bad. Life you fine? How I really needed was final Vance's request to
come down here? What's this on my desk? What is it? Oh?
It's not from Vance. It says called John Greene's house. Alivan says,
so I'll do it. I'm handing that phone book. Please sure?
I think here yard and I called Green's number the night he was killed,
but I don't remember his Let me see we are Green Green John Green windmer
partner said this what's supposed to happen after you fall the number? I don't
have the slightest idea, Donna Lee, but I'll know in just a minute.
Hello Vans speaking, This is Markham Vance. Why do you feel all
right? But why did you want me to call? Where am I?
Where are you? Hell? Look, Vance, I'm the one that was
shot. Remember you're at John Green's place. Of course, I just looked
up your number in the phone book. But I'm not Markham. You're not.
No. I'm in Edward Lee's apartment, six floors below Greens, and
I'm quite certain I can prove he killed Green. He's upstairs in the Green
apartment. Now I'm going up and have a showdown with him. So you
see, wee, that's how you arranged the entire setup. That very apparent
to me why you did it. Of course, there's an alibi for your
whereabouts at the time we thought Green was killed. They're pretty smart, Vance,
Holy tell me Markham's office. He was brilliant. He can hit and
he can think. That's a tough combination to beat. Thank you, Okay,
Van's health. I'll tell you the truth. I did kill Green.
The diference kid. He knows I wouldn't have set up that alibi gimmick if
I hadn't killed him, But Vans it it was self defense and I have
a witness to prove it. Missus Green, Yes, yes, that's right,
I'm listening. Was this way I was up here in Green's apartment.
The radio was on. I was dancing with Missus Green, right, Lucy,
Oh, yes, yes, yes, it is vance. Anyhow,
I was dancing with Missus Green. Her husband came in, saw us and
yanked out a gun. I never even thought about what I was doing.
That whole thing happened so fast. I never even took my hand from around
Missus Green. Right, Lucy right, I pulled my gun and shot before
he could. That's my story, Vans it is. That's right. You
found Green's gun next to his body, and it's a story that Lucy will
back up with self depend I admit I planted the alipi that you bro that
I rigged up that telephone stunt, But I did it because I was scared.
You can really start getting scared now, Lee, I can break your
self defense story in a minute. You're right handed. If you were dancing
and you still had your arm around Missus Green, how could you pull a
gun with your left hand. Well, that's what I thought. Another thing,
that telephone idea of yours took a little time to plant. You had
to do that the afternoon of the night you were going to kill Green.
And if that's not premeditation, I don't know. Water you're nuts. You're
coming with me, both of you, but we can't. Then I'm going
to explain to Markham just how your telephone gimmick worked. Start from the beginning.
Well, the beginning was a year ago when Edward Lee rented the Green's
apartment in the Windmere Building. When the Greens lived in the place, they
had a telephone, and naturally the telephone book listed their name and number.
Then they moved to another apartment in the same building. What happened to the
number? It was changed? The number they had Edward Lee now has h
If you look up Lee's name in the new phone book, you'll find it
as the same phone number as the Greens used to have. I see what
happened now. I looked up Green's number after the call came into my office,
and happened to look it up in the old phone book, so that
I was really calling the number that now is in Lee's apartment exactly, except
that you didn't happen to look it up in an old book. What do
you mean Lee was here the afternoon of the murder and left an old book
in place of the one in your office. Slot that could be done without
exciting any suspicion. Yes, I imagine. So if my secretary's back were
turned, or if it were done surreptitiously, I'll grant you no one would
notice. After that, it was easy for Lee. He killed Green at
ten thirty in Green's apartment. Then he went to his own apartment and called
you, put on his act, and went next door. It was neighbors
to ablish his alibi. The medical examiner did say Green was killed between ten
thirty and eleven thirty, But having heard that shot on the telephone, the
one that Lee apparently faked, I was certain the murder took place at a
minute after eleven o'clock, and so was I. Lee tried to get away
with saying it was self defense, but too much detail had to be established
in advance of the killing for it to be anything but murder, No question
about that. All the things like my being alerted for something to happen at
eleven o'clock, a phone call. It was cut short abruptly so that I'd
call back. Yes, it was all too well planned, well planned,
Markham, but not too well planned, or it might have succeeded. What
do you mean that stunt of using the telephone to establish an alibi was unusual,
but it could be figured, and I figured you certainly did. Vance.
You told me missus Green was the one who fired at me. Did
she mean to kill me? I think she was honest about believing there was
a burglar in her apartment and that's why she fired. But she's an accessory
to the crime of killing her husband, so you have her on that charge.
It seems to me that thanks to you Vance, she and Edward Lee
have reached the end of their trail. That's fair enough, my friend.
And as much as we've reached an end to the end of the alibi murder
case, welcome back. Was nice Vance to be reassuring to the wife that
he'd smooth things over so that he wouldn't get prosecuted for shooting the district attorney
thinking he was an intruder in her home because he was an intruder in her
home. That whole conversation where Hans is talking about how nobody's going to arrest
them because Markham is district attorney, and then she's kind of chuckling a bit
about it might have been good to there for someone to say, are we
sure we're the good guys? This is a series that you know has had
so many odd moments that it's hard to buy too much into them getting all
dramatic after Markham gets shocked, injury didn't seem that serious. He said,
he was only grazed, but he was hurt so bad that he couldn't narrate.
And when you get injured so that you can't narrate, I mean that
right, there is a serious injury. As to the solution involving the murderer
sneaking into the district attorney's office and putting last year's phone book in well,
I mean you cannot go into a New York District attorney's office and swap out
his phone book. Even in the nineteen fifties, I mean I couldn't get
into the Ada County Prosecutor's office and swap the phone book. There's just no
nonchalant way to do that if you don't have any business being there. I
don't think we're to the point where we have listeners who don't understand what phone
books were. I think even relatively young people understand that these things exist,
because as long as businesses continue to pay to advertise in these things, there'll
still be around. But for those who don't understand how dependent people were back
then. It would be like the killer sent a trojan onto Markham's cell phone
to cause Google to pull up the incorrect phone number. Only in nineteen fifty
you accomplish this by swiping a book and replacing it with the old copy of
the book. But our killer would never have been clever enough for something that
was as complex as Hackey, as illustrated by the ridiculous idea of trying to
make this into a self defense case. That's his backup plan, but it's
so obviously premedicated. And it's funny that Vets points out the whole dancing thing,
which you know, again is just kind of adding a unnecessary detail that
makes it even more clear that he's lying. Bans picking on that. It's
kind of like the smallest problem with the case. It's like if you had
a case where you had the fingerprints on the gun and an eyewitness account that
showed that the killer was at the scene of the crime and had left covered
with blood, and you highlighted the fact that he spelled labor the American way,
which indicated that he really wasn't British and was therefore the killer. Well,
I guess it's Vats showing that even if our killer hadn't made numerous large
mistakes, fans would have caught the small mistakes that might have been missed by
the last concerned observer. Listener comments and feedback now, and we have a
comment regarding the closing discussion on the World around Murder Case, Raven Rites.
I was quite surprised by your revelation regarding the treasure trove of radio transcription disc
held by Radio Archives and that they part with these once they've been transcribed.
I'd like to have a disc representative of the ZIV Filo Vance program, such
as the one I just heard on your website, not to play, just
to have it. I'm probably the foremost Filo Vance collector on the planet.
Immodestly submit my most prized item is the Clark agnew painting which was used for
the Dragon Murder case of the magazine cover with the installment, the Scribner's first
edition dust jacket, and the dust jacket of the Grosset and Dunlap reprint,
and even a nineteen thirty four foreign language paperback. I want to go ahead
and address this part first of all, sounds like a great collection. Collections
that are really detailed are interesting just because they have so many things that you
wouldn't think of, even if you've got a casual or pretty good knowledge of
the subject matter. Now, I want to be clear less that conversation left
anyone under a false impression. Radio Archives doesn't currently sell old transcription disc It's
been years and years since I've seen those listed on their website. And what
they do have left in terms of transcription disk the physical media, they are
donating to a museum, so they don't have those for sale. If you're
looking for a transcription disc, you can find those on eBay, but most
of the transcription disc on eBay tend to be at this point Armed Forces Radio
Services Music disc. If anyone out there does have a Filo Vance transcription disc
they would like to part with, I would be more than happy to connect
you with Raymond. Raymond continues, I put on a Filo Vance presentation at
the Syracuse Film Convention, wrote the liner notes for the Radio Archives Filo Vans
CD box set, which still can be viewed on the internet at the announcement
of the second set, and my case Scope magazine one of these having my
article on the Filovents Motion Pictures was subsequently select could buy the Xerox Corporation for
their university microfilms program. I interviewed Jackson back regarding the ze Filo Vance program.
It was a comedian soupie sales who kindly gave me his phone number and
told me that his soupies Filo caveatch was indeed a takeoff on the famous sleuth.
Before phoning back, I sent him a complimentary copy of the Citadel Peter
Lorrie book I co wrote. So imagine my shock went upon asking him if
he'd gotten what I'd said. He roared angrily, yes, I got it,
and it's garbage, garbage, and hung up on me. I was
literally walking around in circles. So taken aback? Was I? The Lorrie
book was always getting excellent reviews. Well, I got up my nerve and
called him again upon his answering, and he had a most indemidating voice.
I nervously stammered something like, mister Beeck, you didn't like the Peter Lorie
book I sent you? Oh, he responded apologetically, I'm so very sorry.
I mistook you for a salesman who has been pestering me. I used
what he told me in the aforementioned liner notes. Gratefully, ray ray that
is a wonderful story. I think we've all done that. It was probably
more prevalent in the days before cooler ID, but even still, sometimes you
just don't recognize a phone number. Thick definitely had a commanding voice. In
fact, he might have had multiple because his voice had a lot of flexibility
and was such a great talent in that regards. He created characters like Beanie
Over on the Adventures of Superman, the Copyboy at the Daily Planet. He
also did voices that were more working class, and they've kind of worked a
bit of his vocal imitation skills into the final Evans episodes, and that's been
a positive point for the series. Thanks so much for the comment, Raymond,
as well as for the story. And now we turn to some comments
on the Money Machine murder case, and we have an email from Jonathan in
Las Vegas who writes, Hello, Adam, I really enjoyed the Money Machine
episode. Being someone who has probably touched more money than anyone else you will
ever meet, I listened carefully to the show to figure out how the machine
work. After seeing Mission Impossible and other spy shows. I really wondered what
the trick was. When Joe said, you can check it out. It's
a good bill. I would have immediately asked to see another one to see
if the serial numbers were the same or different. Then he said, I've
got the paper right here in my pocket. Also impossible, as the paper
that money is printed on is a very special blend that is a special concoction
of paper and cloth. Whenever a customer gives me a bill for change,
I always instinctively snap it and feel it with my fingers. Modern bills now
contain holograms and microprinting, which makes counterfeiting not impossible. But almost every now
and then, counterfeit bills do make their ways into casinos, sometimes right out
of the ATMs. Believe it or not, if you get stuck with one,
hopefully unknowingly tough luck, you don't get your money back from anyone a
fountain pen rubbing it on your thumb. What a clever, low tech IDEA
Ballpoint puts that scam out of business for good. Keep up the good work.
I enjoy listening to all the gambling shows, as you know, plus
all the others yours truly, Jonathan, Well, thank you so much.
And then we have another comment from a different geographic location over on Facebook,
and this comes from Michael, who writes, high Adam, I had a
money making machine when I was a kid. Good to see you can still
get them. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. Thank you so much, Michael.
And this links over to a YouTube video of a magic money maker that
was uploaded all the way back in two thousand and seven. Believe it or
not, and the product from Banishing Magic is actually still available. The magic
money maker and the way it works as you put a piece of paper in,
you feed it through the machine and a bill comes out the other end.
Now, obviously, since they don't want to get prosecuted by the Treasury
Department, the imprint does not look like US legal tender. It's play money.
But given that this was around when Michael as a kid, I wonder
how long this particular trick has been out there and whether one of the writers
might have seen the trick and been inspired to write this episode. At any
rate, Thank you so much, Michael. Was a fun video and you
can find it on YouTube. I'll try to include it in the show notes.
Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
want to go ahead and thank Kevin. Kevin has been one of our Patreon
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Johnny Doller? This is mister Oldfield calling sir. You've left wood at my
office. Mister Deller, that's right, mister Oldfield. I think I'm gonna
need an attorney divorce civil suits. What mister Deller withholding evidence murder? Let's
take the murder first I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I have the
murder weapon in my possession right now. Who is kid? A man named
Belden. I think, what do you want me to do? So?
Take my statement, notarize it, give me some legal advice. Police station
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