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long here. The episode of follow Mans We're Gonna Play originally aired May the
thirtieth of nineteen fifty and the title is The World Around Murder Case. I'm
going to do it. No, I'm going to kill him. And there's
nothing you can do to stuff very please. There isn't much you and I
can do in this world. Letty for obvious reasons. But one thing I
know I can do, and that's killed Whitey Rand. He's no good.
He's hurting the sweetest girl in this carnival. I'm not going to let him
get away. Don't talk about killing like that? Why not? What am
I supposed to do? Let Sally be hurt or No, she's old enough
to know what she's doing. No girl is old enough to know what she's
doing when a man like Whitey Rand is around. You've seen him operate,
You've seen him swindle the suckers in that penny pitching concession he has. Do
you ever see anything so smooth? It Still is no reason for you to
get into a murder mess, Betty, No, what could happen to me
if I killed him? I don't know. Of course you don't know.
Don't you realize I'm one of the only persons in the world who can commit
murder and not be punished. That's no reason for your reason. So the
more reason I can kill Whity Rand. I can be caught killing him.
I can confess that I killed him. I can tell the police that I
planned the crime in advance. Still, they can do nothing to me because
of me, that's right. Because of you you would be innocent, yes,
And they can't very well do anything to me without affecting you, that's
right, sister, dear. I think this is the first time being Siamese
twins having been born and joined together. He's going to do either of us
any good? Yo, Yo? You finishing? Yes about honey breakfast riding?
It will be when you are Why did you hear the radio? I
can't hear anything with us water rhine. Wait a minute, I'm happy.
There was a murder over at the carnival at the end of town. A
fellow named Whitey Rand was killed. Oh is that all? Yeah, except
that it's one of those mystery murders. Yeah. After the crowd had left,
the fellow was found dead with a broken neck right on the midway.
What's for breakfast? Why don't you care about the murder? I sure,
Molly, but I also care about my job. I gotta be break up
a road in an hour, and i'd like to eat first. Reasonable.
Oh sure, Hey, you've got a little soap on your left ear.
Oh, I put off and come on in murder isn't your business? That's
right? Look how's that soap? Oh? Come on, then let's get
some breakfast so I can be off to work. Hey, Joe, Joe,
talk up, Mike. I got a little competition from those nomadic drills,
right Andy? Wait, do you eat lunch? Joe at the dinner
on the corner? Why did you hit the extra on right? He ran
money? Oh? I didn't know the guy was killed, and my wife
told me when I was watching up this morning. What's the extra district?
Attorney Markham is letting the carnival stay up until the killer is found. What
kind of an extra is that? And that ain't all the radio, said
the district Attorney Markham, calling Final Vans to help solve the case. You
know Fino Vans. I do you know about him? Everybody does. He's
a private investigator when it comes to solving murder cases. He's a genius.
That's fine. Only I got a steak waiting at home for me when I
get through working. Molly cooked it. And brother, when Molly cooks is
steak, you're can have your Final Vans. She's a real genius. What
do you think here going? Man? Glad the wagon? I understand the
owner of this carnival uses for an office. Sure it does for a private
office. That's why I'm outside to see it stays private. I'm certain that's
the reason. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go in and see
mister Bryan. That's great, Only I ain't excusing you. Look, my
name is Vans, Final Vans. I'm going in to see mister Bryce.
You know it's a fake thing. He'll say, you're going in? I
say, Yanks, what do you think is gonna happen. Get up.
That's a matter of opinion. He'll back up my opinion. This will show
you how wrong it is to be opinionated. Sorry, my friend, but
I'm going in to see mister Bryce. Pleasn't dreams. Mister Bryce, come
in. I'm a sucker enough to try and stop you. Thank you.
You heard the conversation I had with your man outside then? Yeah, I
heard it. What's your pitch Vans? A man named Whitey Rand was killed
here at your carnival, Bryce, I want to know all about about Rand.
He worked here, grabbed up a lot of soft with a pennifiting gimmick,
a lot of soft money, folding money. Rand Rod space here set
up as pitch. He made his play. I imagine that means he operated
a concession. What girl did he run around with? Girl? Come on,
you must understand that word? You know girl? Oh? One of
them things? Yeah? Why was making a play for Sally Miller? And
who didn't like it? What do you get that brand was killed? I'm
trying to find out whether or not jealousy was a motive who didn't like the
fact that Whitey was making a play for Sally. Nobody liked it? Least
of all. Krando a strong man, and Rand's neck was broken. Maybe
I am on the right track. Where is Krandell he blew? You mean
he's left? Uh huh? How about SELLI Miller? Where she she blew
with Crandell? Maybe all I know is Krando wanted to put a hope in
her hand, and he was doing good to a Rand made his pitch.
You got a lumpy vance, I hope not lumpies. A watch? What
time is it? All? What time is it? Why? That's exactly
four thirty? Why? Look? You can come in here at any time
you like, but right now, I got an appointment. Okay if I
blow? Yes, you wanted to know what time it was a moment ago,
answer it exactly. I'd say it was time I started to get some
action on finding out who killed Whitey Rand. I'd step right up. It
is a gentlemen, step right up for a ride on the w US with
no spills, right, the ride that takes your breath away only fifteen cents.
Step up to the cash here and get your time the biggest rider you
ever had in your life. Ride the well around well? Alright, ready,
so let's right pitch I'm mechan suckers a buying ticket. Nothing wrong,
Freddy, Only why aren't you operating the mechanism? What Johnny doing? He
put backing for chance? Get back there and let Johnny make this pitch.
That mechanism goes bad, we'll have a million dollars in lawsuits. Don't you
think things are tough enough around here? With Bidy around being murdered? Oh
wow, Johnny's pretty good to run to mister Price. Look, Freddy,
only two guys can really operate the world around you and me. I know,
but I'll get back there. I got trouble enough already, and I
don't want anymore, all right, ip, I do get any more trouble.
I don't want you to come from you. It's very hard. You'd
understand what you're saying. If you continue crying, I'm sorry, mister Markham.
I'll try to stop. It's much better. I'll tell me. Why
did you decide to disappear from the carnival. I had to. I knew
the police would question me about the murder of Whitey Rand, so I ran
away, and and I knew that was the wrong thing, so I came
to see you. It was very good that you did. I'm destrict attorney,
not a person you can't trust. Well, tell me what you know
of Rand's dead. Well, I told you he liked me. Yes,
I gathered that much from what you said. And you mentioned a man named
Krando, the Carnival strong man. He liked you too. Krando ran away
with me, but I made him go. You can see him any time
you like. He's at the boarding house where we all live. That's fine.
I'll tell me why you came to me, mister Markham. My best
friends at the carnival were Betty and Letty, and I'm almost afraid ask who
they are. They're Siamese twins. Yeah. Yeah. They both disliked Whitey
Rand. They didn't like the idea that he was taking me out after the
shows. Betty told Whitey one night to leave me alone, as she'd kill
him. That's what I had to tell you. So one of the Siamese
twins said that did she tell me, miss Miller? They are real Siamese
twins. Nothing fake about them, Oh, definitely not. They were born
joined together. They come from somewhere in Europe. I think when Betty threatened
Whitey, Letty her sister tried to calm her down, but it didn't do
any good. This is a fine situation. If Betty made good on her
promise to kill Whitey, what can I do about it? I can't possibly
bring her to trial considering the fact that Letty, her sister, is apparently
innocent. No, it's a funny thing that you bring that up, mister
Markham. Why is that That's exactly what Betty told Whitey Ran the night before
he was killed. Yes, Markham, m I understand about the Siamese twins.
Rather confusing, isn't it? Rather? I'd say it was very confusing
fans. What happens if you prove one of them killed Rand? I don't
know what are you doing? Vance? Watch the little red circle, Markham.
Vance, we're working on a murder case and you're pitching metal discs.
What's the idea? This is the concession the late Whitey Rand operated. The
idea is to stand here and toss a metal disc the size of a penny,
so that it goes in the red circle up there like this, It
didn't go in the circle. It couldn't go in the circle, Markham.
Couldn't you see the entire board is magnetized with the exception of the circle.
No matter how close the disc you throw would come to the circle, the
magnetic pull would draw it out of it. And Whitey Rand had a little
racket going for me sort of. But I don't think that had anything to
do with his being killed. You don't. No. Let me see.
Now we have how many suspects three that I know of, Sally Miller,
the girl who was making a play for Crando or strong man boyfriend, and
the Siamese twins or is that fall? I couldn't say. But our problem
at the moment is to narrow down those suspects until we what's that fire is
over there at the carousel vance those woulden the horses are going a minute.
Come on, let's see what we can do to help. All right,
that's enough breeze blow to spread the planes all over the carnivals. Look,
they've formed a bucket brigade. Perhaps they can control the blazes, I hope.
So let's stay right here. Anything we can do to help, nah
fix Thanks for sav well, just in case this situation was wasn't difficult enough,
We have to have a fire at the carnival. Oh, it isn't
too much of a fire, but it would have been of a warrant caught
so quickly. I'm wondering about something. What were you wondering about? Vance?
Oh? Hello, Bryce marcol Do you know the owner of the carnival,
Stephen Bryce. Yes, we've read this fire is going to hurt you,
Bryce, sure, but what can I do about it? This joint
is jinxed? Superstitious, mister Bryce? Mean yes, you have to be
superstitious to get leary when a guy is murdered your show and then a fire
breaks out the next day, No, I imagine, not, hey,
Banks, this one. I was coming along here and telling markhom you are
wondering about something. What it doesn't concern you? Well, those firemen certainly
have this under control now, Margaret, mister Bryce, you won't have any
problem about this fire now. But it did some damage, of course,
but I don't think it has any real importance. And view the fact that
it was brought under control so quickly, I guess you're right, Hey,
get a load of that big hose going into action. The fire will be
out in a moment now. But Markham, you said that you didn't think
the fire had any real importance, didn't you? That's right. It was
checked immediately and it's practically out now. How couldn't have any importance? I'm
not sure? But what would you say if I told you that the fire
and the murder of Whitey Rand are tied up? You feel all Advance?
I feel wonderful, mister Bryce, better now than I've felt at any time
on this case. At last, I have something to work on. The
fire might tell me who broke Whitey Rand's neck, so I can break this
case. This is District Attorney markham a murder case we're working on. Concerns
the death of Whitey Rand, found with his neck broken at Stephen Bryce's outdoor
carnival. We have several suspects, none of whom Final Vans is seen.
But a fire at the carnival apparently has given Vance an idea as to who
might have killed Rand. What the connection between the fire and the killing hands?
I don't know. Advance has had more astounding theories than that and been
right. Meanwhile, a vast vance to come into my office to become it's
quite a problem, you know, Vans. People's next don't break very easily.
I know, markham Man. It was very apparent that Whitey Rand wasn't
hit with any kind of an instrument. A medical examiner says there were no
marks that would indicate he was slug which gives us a double problem. Of
course, how was Rand killed? And who killed him? One thing about
us vans we don't often get simple things to decipher, which I am,
Dulie. Thank. Murder intrigues you, doesn't it? Not exactly? It's
like this, Markham. Somebody believes he can figure out a plan which nobody
else can trace back. I like to find ways to trace a murder back,
of which the most important, of course, is a clue, which
we don't have at the moment, but which we will have, even if
I have to manufacture one. That's a new business. You're in clue manufacturing.
How do you do that? Well, you take a motivation, Markham,
and you enlarge on it until you're reasonably certain you're right. Then you
work on it until it reveals something you didn't know before, and there's your
clue. I know you have a theory about this murder of ads, but
do you have a motivation? I have several, But carnival people are curious
people, Markham, and the solution of this mystery might very well, be
a freak. What's happening to all of us? Nobody has tucked into anybody
else. Look, everybody, this is a dinner table, not a morgue.
We're worried, Betty. If they close the carnival permanently, we have
no job. So what Letty look at Jolly Irene. She weighs four hundred
and seventy five pounds, so she does need for a while. It'll do
a good. The husband slim, he never eats anyhow. And how about
it, jack me, Yeah, you're a fire eader. You can always
bump a match and have dinner. What is it a jax? Sup?
Well, now that's better. Now we are acting more like ourselves. What
are we going to worry about? Anyhow? We can get jobs. Letty
and I can get a job. Everybody hires Siamese twins. Every carnival need
fire reader, sure, and the fat woman and the thin man, and
the magician and a strong man and concession operators. Even Bryce can get another
job. What would the owner of our little company need a job for?
Yesterday burned down the carousel, but it was insured for plenty, your sister
means even if it was not insured, it could get job operating world around.
Yeah, I'm not treat with the world around operators in country and Bryce
was one of the best before it took over Carnival. Well, then it
is like Betty said, we all can get jobs. So what do we
worried about. Why let's do something to cheer ourselves up real good. And
I know what we will do that. We'll give us some real laugh.
What is that? What is it people always do when they come to our
carnival and they're looking for relaxation. They come over to our tenth look at
us and laughs. Exactly, let's all of us get some real laughs.
Let's go out and look at people as the journey Markam's begin, Markam,
this is Vans. I'm down at the carnival ground. If you are,
you're all be lonesome. Is nobody on the grounds? Is their Vance?
No? But things are beginning to add up to me. I know the
fires started your mental edition, Vance. What's happened since? Well, it
is possible that I can tell you how Whitey Rand's neck was broken. We
have several theories such as Crando the strong Man might have cracked Rand's neck.
True, two people working in Unison might have done it. In fact,
it might have been done in any several ways, but not without there being
some kind of a mark on the neck, a bruise or discoloration. And
there wasn't. No, I told you are not a trace of one.
Then I'm getting close to home. Markham. Please dig up a man named
Freddy if you can. Freddy Freddy who I don't know his second name,
but he ran one of the carnival rides. You can check the records and
find him. I'm sure I'll try after that. While then I'd like you
to bring Freddy with you and meet me at the carnival had a ride called
the Whirl Around, the ride where people sit in little cars and are spun
around and round. Exactly that's the whirl Around. And if I'm right,
it's going to result an hour not going around in circles. On this case.
You pull this lever here, mister Markham, that starts the cars going
round. Go ahead, flip back. Mats is in one of the cars.
I want to see if he's ready for us just a second, Freddy,
Oh y, here we go. Now. The reason this right so
top top rate, mister Markham, is that you're gonna watch so many things.
The speed, the gears mission. You gotta see the mess just right,
so the cars bump what never go off the track. And when you
got the right speed, you move that lever up a little. Go ahead,
move it right there? We are, keep watching them gears every second.
You'll watch. Oh, Matts, this is really I'll be around to
get him a second so I can talk to him, find way to hold
a conversation. Uh, bats, have you fought out anything? Yes,
Markham, I'm sure they want me to stop the machine. Then I'll ask
him, very commas vats. Shall we stop this now? Of course,
not I'm having I'm not. Let's stop this thing, Freddie, right,
just reversed the handle on that clever. That's it. You want to ride
too? Not exactly? Come on advance, I'll help you out of that
car. I'm quite all right, my friend. That certainly was a thrilling
experience. I imagine it was. But how did it help our case?
MARKA might found out something very important? Oh, Freddie, emmath Vans,
what's up? Where were you when Whitey Rand was killed? Home and in
bed? If the time the paper said he was killed is right? I
like my sleep. You can prove that. Why not? He can prove
it rights all right, We'll give him a chance to. But Freddie,
this whirl around is a difficult ride to operate. Who else could do it?
Nobody else? Are you sure? I was teaching a young pump,
but he wasn't very good at it. Who taught you? The boss,
mister Bryce, best whirl around operator in the country before he took over the
carnival? And when was there a couple of years a gold vance There was
a fire and you said that proved something. Now you took a ride on
this amusement device, and apparently that proves something too. Would you mind telling
me exactly what the fire and the ride indicate. Yes, they indicate Whitey
Rand's murderer. But they also indicate that there isn't a way in the world
at this moment that I can prove who killed Rand. You can't, but
I can try, Marcolm. Would you get mister Bryce to my office at
nine tonight? No, Krando. My sister would do it. She would
be glad to do anything that would help you in Sally, but I won't
let her. You must do it, must say you killed Why do you
ran? I'll say it sure, I'll say it. They can't do anything
to me. I've claimed that I killed him, then nobody would bother you
or Sally Crandon. Police question me, they questioned Sally, they say k
ran or rand. I think they arrest us. They won't if I confess,
And that's just what I'm going to do. Better. You can't un't,
I though, you Just wait and see. I think that the publicity
will get that the Siamese twins is a murderer but the other is innocent.
That's justice in this case. Please do miss Betty. Nobody bother you then,
and police leave. Sally and me all do this for me. I
take care of you, all right, Betty, I'll let you do it.
But crandall, yeah, don't take care of us the way maybe you
took care of Whitey rent Vance. Where are your vans here in my private
office? I'm coming in tell me why I had the district attorney asked me
to come in here. Please close the door, will you? Let's Sadie
keeping your back turned towards me. It's my own idea and there's no need
for it to be a secret any longer. Look at me, what's with
you wearing that Cutton, mask over your nose and mouth. That's the idea
I was telling you about. Look over on my desk. What do you
see, mister Bryce. Now this is really getting five balloons. What are
you doing with five balloon I'll show you, mister Bryce, I know you
killed Whitey Ran what of course, I don't know why you killed him,
but I know how you did it. Unfortunately I can't prove it. Isn't
that too bad? Yes, it's the reason I've got to kill you.
Now let's keep the same, Bance. What did you say. I said,
I've got to kill you. I can't miss on a case, and
I can't prove you killed Rand even though I know you did. So these
balloons, this mask, and this office, which you will observe is air
tight, are necessary. Now the door locked. Briefly, mister Bryce,
Sometimes the machinery of the law allows a guilty person to remain at liberty because
of the word proof. I don't have it in your case, So you
are going to give it to me or die. You're a madman, Bance.
I've never been accused of that before. These five balloons I now hold
in my hand, one of them contains a poisonous gas. They're all the
same color, so I don't know which one it is, but I don't
care. This mask will protect me from the gas. If I don't talk,
you'll break the balloons one by one like this. Don't Apparently that was
one that didn't contain the gas. Four more, and with each one,
your hope of living gets slimmer. I want to confess, mister Bryce.
Oh, I don't. I never will. I would not the gas balloon.
Three more. Mister Bryce, you still have a chance if you confess.
What makes you so sure I did it? I didn't. I didn't
kill Whidi Ran. But two more. I can't admit anything I didn't do.
Apparently I left the gas balloon for last. Well, Bryce, go
jump in the lake. The whole thing was a trick. There was no
gassing. Let me out of here, doors locked, Let me out,
Diet, Open this door, certainly. Why did you kill Hidy Rand?
What was the motive? I'll tell you everything everything. I killed Rand because
even though I had swindled the former owner out of the carnival and he was
blackmail on me. Open this door. Keep talking, Bryce, laughter,
You tell me all I want to know. Tell Mark on how I knew
it was you who killed Rand? Well, Mike Vans saw the white he
ran killing. Now let's get on home, right, But did you read
how he did it? Sure he may believe he had gas in one of
the balloons, and he sold the idea so good that guy Bryce started coffin
and confess I didn't take no brains. But figuring now Bryce was the killer,
did you see? Vans knew that Rand's neck was busted, there were
no marks on him, so he figured that Rand was tied to that world
around right one night after the carnival closed, and the thing spun around so
fast that Rand's neck was snack. I oh, I know. And he
found out that only two guys could operate the world around, Bryce and a
kid named Freddie who had an alibi. Yeah, the paper said something about
Van skipping the idea that Bryce was guilty from the fire in the carnival.
That's right. Vans figured the fire was supposed to wipe out the carnival.
Rice would collect insurance and get out of the country and nobody's bothering from then.
I they'd better stop for dislike you know that balloon idea advances was pretty
smart. Who'd be scared just because a balloon broke Hey, who'd be scared?
You'd be scared. That kid just broke a balloon over there, and
it almost had you jumping out of your skin. Oh well, that's the
end of the balloon. Yep, the end of the balloon and the end
of the well around murder case. Welcome back. I don't think I have
laughed so hard at this series then I did. With the scene with follow
Vans on the World Around and being like, don't stop, I'm having fun
was funny. I think it was funnier because there was very little effort put
into making you believe that Vance was riding an amusement park ride. My god,
he's be expecting him to be going, you know, that sort of
thing, or maybe Vance is too dignified for that, and so even to
the most extreme thrills, he's like, I am having fun. Now.
In my mind, I imagine that what they're talking about with the World Around
is a lot like a modern day tilt whirld, although obviously that sort of
ride has changed quite a bit since the nineteen fifties, and anyone who's more
of an expert on that I would welcome there guidance. The fact that the
owner was the best world around operator in the country made me wonder did they
have championships for this? Did people gather and bet money or how did you
determine that? Or I mean, it seems like they were building up the
complexity of operating the machine in order to restract the possible number of suspects,
which makes vances tainted solve even less impressive because he only had two suspects,
one of whom had an alibi and no real motive. I think that I
know the voice of the carnival operator. To me, it sounded kind of
like Lawn Clark, who played Nick Carter, But I'm not one sure.
I feel like I am probably going to get an avalanche of emails telling me
who it was, and then I'm gonna be all a little silly for not
catching a run away. In terms of crimes by conjoined twins, it really
is one of those questions where we don't have a clear answer because it's not
something that comes up a lot, so we've got really limited precedence. But
it is also something that people are curious about. When I was doing research
on this, I found that back in two thousand and none. I believe
there was an online answer man sort of column, and they let folks vote
on what was the issue or the question that they didn't address that should be
addressed, and by far the question of as by conjoining twins was number one.
And there is at least a little bit a precedent to not being able
to punish a conjoining twin because of the innocent twin. The most famous conjoined
twins or Ching and In, and they'd add a lot of sideshow work.
So one day someone grabbed Ching's hand and held it very tight, and Shing
responded by punching the spectator, who then turned around and filed an assault complaint
against Ching, but the court held that because Ng would have to go to
prison, he Chin could not be held to account for the crime. Of
course, there are a lot of variables, such as cases where a conjoined
twin could be considered to be an accessory to the crime committed by the other
twin, but these are pretty far out ideas that have not really played out
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we have a comment from Saysoft, who I was engaging with a comment where
I'd addressed where a lessoner was saying that recordings that sound newer don't really sound
like they came from the golden major radio or are in some ways inauthentic.
Say Sauce says, hey, Adam, I have a cool story about your
sponsor which can also set some light on the listeners comment about how she prefers
listening to old time radio recordings that haven't been cleaned up many years ago when
Radio Archives was brand new. I was one of their customers at the time.
Their business model was to buy original transcription disc at old time radio shows,
digitize them, and then auction off the disc so that they could have
money to buy more disks. I've been on and one a set of sixteen
inch disc of the Calling All Cars show from the nineteen thirty five through nineteen
thirty eight period. Thanks to eBay, I eventually found a portable record player
that can play sixteen inch disc. Now, I don't know if radio archives
had to clean the disc, but I do know that all of them are
in pristine shape and sound fantastic. So it would be a mistake to think
that old time radio show recordings have to sound all scratchy to sound authentic.
If an old time radio show recording sounds really good, it doesn't necessarily mean
that the digital file was manipulated. It could just mean that the digital file
was created from a really clean transcription disk. Well, thanks for the comments,
say saving and I should say that they're not technically a sponsor, it's
more like an affiliate relationship, but I think are absolutely right. Now.
Obviously, there are some transcription desks that are stored very well and haven't been
cared for in a bad way and don't really require any cleaning, and then
there are others that really in order to get sound, you've got to do
a lot of work to even get them to record. I have a story
about one series which we're going to eventually get to, where the restoration work
that had to be done because these disks were actually covered with filth. Was
really a process. I do remember reading of one Radio Archives collection where they
did have to do quite a bit of work on it. I don't remember
which one it was. But sometimes there is some physical cleaning and there is
some physical damage to the desk because of how they have been stored or cared
for, had an accident, and so whoever's restoring it needs to, you
know, work with the disk in ways that are far beyond my capabilities in
order to get good sound out of them. But just the normal disc don't
sound poor. Something about this transcription transfer is that they are actually sharing the
raw transfer from the disk before it had been cleaned up, and I mean
was thought, I wonder how this is going to sound, and it still
sounds really good. You might hear like a little bit of a pop or
audio noise that would have been edited out had that actually gone through the full
restoration process, but it's still better than most of the MP three's out there
that some people would think sound authentic. And I imagine that if you were
playing the disk when it was first put out, you wouldn't find really most
of those issues that you might hear on an older transfer, And I think
that some of the things that are flaws that we associate with being real radio
are things that you know, people experience because of equipment or because they were
far away from the station. I mean, I don't think that if you
were, say back in nineteen fifty, and you were talking to your friend
and said, I listened to follow of ads and it sounded all scratchy and
the audio was all distorted, and your friend said, well, it sounded
fine to me. Of course, I'll have half a block from the radio
station and I have this really great Filco console. Nobody would say you hadn't
had an authentic lessening experience. I'm glad you were able to get the disc
sace off. I do remember seeing them on the website a long time back.
I thought about getting them, and I've thought about buying transcription disc off
of eBay, even though I have no intention of playing them, just to
have them as a cool thing to have. But they only have so much
room in my house, and my wife when I bring home new types of
things, guess doesn't like it. But glad that worked out for you.
Now let's go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
want to go ahead and thank Christine. Christine has been one of our Patreon
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just riding the world around as we take our recording break. Hello Vans.
Will return in two weeks, but join us back here tomorrow for yours truly,
Johnny Doller and the conclusion of the Fathom five matter where what I am
getting at is what I think happened, and I think Danny Haynes is telling
the truth. I think Markey did send him off alone in that dinghy.
Then Markey fired the boat open to the sea cocks, and while she filled
up and sank, he swam ashore in the fog. And he's waiting it
out somewhere now until his widow collects the insurance well, I don't see where
you've got any more evidence than I have. Well, there's not much,
i'll grant you, not so far, but what there is adds up.
I guess I'm just stupid, dolla. I look, take missus Markey's attitude,
for instance. She's trying hard to play the role, but it doesn't
come off. How does she act to you like a four day widow where
she's got a lot of self control? I'll say she has. I tried
to go to her yesterday. When I talked to her, came right out
and practically in solid her And how did she react? Never took her eyes
off that main chance, the seventy five thousand. I already know it's not
exactly unheard of a wood enough to mind too much being a wood. Oh
no, no, that's not the impression she gives. She's tense enough,
nervous as a cat. But it's not because of grief or any feeling of
relief either. It's because she's afraid she might say the wrong thing and let
her foot slip. Well, everybody's got to write to their own opinion.
Another thing is that Marky's body hasn't turned up. Now. I talked to
the harbor master this morning. He knows the currents along this coast backwards and
forwards. He says, it's the only one chance in a hundred that Markuye's
body would have been carried out through the reef instead of thrown up on the
beach about where you found that shoe. So this is one time in a
hundred that was a mighty balance, mister Dalla. We're gonna fight you,
mister Wilson, if you petition the cart to declare Marky legally dead. Yes,
I sort of figured you would. Hensley and Davis phoned me this morning
and said you'd retain them as counts. That's right. Well, I've been
fought before. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
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Adam Graham signing off.