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This is O'Shea, 18 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:22,199 radio's first dramatic presentation of radio's greatest adventure on the spot coverage of views in 19 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,520 the making. Each week a new adventure from some colorful corner of the world. 20 00:02:25,879 --> 00:02:31,960 With Brandon O'shey, Overseas Radio correspond and extraordinary. Tonight we take you 21 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:39,360 to Hong Kong. Come in Brandon O'sheay in Hong Kong. This is O'Shea 22 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,840 speaking to you from Hong Kong, where it's tomorrow and where approximately three million 23 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:47,879 people wish it were yesterday. I'm standing on the balcony outside of my hotel 24 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,280 room, overlooking Region Street here in Victoria, capital of Hong Kong. I 25 00:02:53,319 --> 00:02:55,520 can see all the way from Victoria Peak, the snob Hill of the British 26 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,039 residence, to the bun the Glotted Harbor, and the teeming settlement of Kowloon 27 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,759 on the north shore. It's a site that might remind an American of San 28 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,800 Francisco, where California Street plunges deeply through Chinatown down towards the Embarcadero. But 29 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,199 the smell and the racket are native Chinese. Both have increased here in the 30 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,199 past few weeks, along with a population of this already crowded island of Hong 31 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,000 Kong. By plane, by ship, by Chinese junk. They keep pouring 32 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:39,960 in refugees from the storm centers of the war torn East. The plane I 33 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:44,919 rode out of Shanghai had seats for sixty passengers and was carrying seventy five, 34 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,000 including my san engineer Joe Friendly. We weren't allowed any luggage. The other 35 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:53,159 passengers were carrying everything they own in the form of jewelry and currency. A 36 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,599 well placed bride had got Joe and me aboard with a half case of American 37 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:00,960 bondit and our tape recorders with both to work as soon as we were airborne. 38 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:05,439 Hey, this is good, I'll come. I don't know, just 39 00:04:05,599 --> 00:04:09,280 arrived from my hotel. Must have been from that ad I post war, 40 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,199 just before I left the States. You know a man of distinction, you 41 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,120 why not distinction breeds contempt old Chinese proverb. Yeah, well, it's the 42 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,000 biggest cherry tree that attracts the win. It's an old Japanese problem. Yeah, 43 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,639 says There enough coord on that mic for me to TAKEE record some of 44 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:26,680 those people in the rear seats, in which people the big blonde with a 45 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,199 fur hat. No, the little red head of the month. Ah, 46 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,279 okay, give me a level. Okay, one, two, three, 47 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:36,319 testing two little girls near London dwell more naughty than I'd like to tell. 48 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,519 If I'm alone, the hoops has seen the balls are rolling on the green. 49 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,800 It's a tough level. Oh, thank you, Joseph mayas dotnom please 50 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,120 to begin got number two, Ladies and gentlemen. This is o'he speaking to 51 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:51,160 you board the last plane out of Shanghai, as this great overburden craft struggles 52 00:04:51,199 --> 00:04:55,720 for altitude on the soft bound mission of Mercy with a banjo on my knee. 53 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,480 Shut up, I'll make ed of this yourself. Oh I don't mine. 54 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,519 I ate a like breakfast bully for you. Cut number one, fifteen 55 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,800 April nineteen fifty one. It is ten minutes now, ladies and gentlemen. 56 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,120 Since we took off from Young Sioux Airport and turned our backs on Shanghai, 57 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,639 perhaps for the last time, we are now flying low over the mud. 58 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,319 Yellowed waters of Hung Chao Bay, sped on by tailwinds in the urgency of 59 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,040 the moment. But time has lost its meanings for many of these refugees, 60 00:05:21,319 --> 00:05:26,160 whose lives have held nothing but dark memories of the past and only a dim 61 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:29,560 hope for the future. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going 62 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,160 to carry the microphone back through the plane and bring to you, if I 63 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,800 can, at least a few meaningful fragments of their broken lives. Pardon me, 64 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:41,160 young lady, do you speak English? And your name please Sonya, 65 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,439 last name Jo who cares as persona? And have you anything you would care 66 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:51,079 to say to my American audience, Miss Jemetio American audience, No, I 67 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,639 said nothing. Well, thank you, Miss Gromika say nothing. And furthermore, 68 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,920 mark that for editing, Joe cut three. And now, ladies and 69 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,879 gentlemen, for our first interview. You know, for those of us who 70 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:05,879 think of Shanghai as an international city, it's surprising how many Chinese are numbered 71 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:10,560 among these refugees. I'd like to bring you the voice of this distinguished looking 72 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,879 Oriental gentleman. Your name, sir, yes, Peraps. I should point 73 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:17,240 out that my petronymic has quite a different connotation in English. My name, 74 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:21,439 sir is our sidon. Well. I see that adversity has not robbed you 75 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,639 of your sense of humor, mister sin Or is it, mister r that 76 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,399 it depends upon how well I know you? Well, mister Arson, I'm 77 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:31,600 sure my audience will agree that there is hope for the Chinese people as as 78 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,959 long as it's representatives can bear up under vicissitude as well as you as well 79 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,920 as you are vicissitude wells you accident will say one man's loss is another men's 80 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:46,399 profit, or, as we Chinese would put in, what sauce for the 81 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,560 goose may be too rich for the mandarin yack. I can see that you're 82 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,920 a philosopher, mister Arson. Would you care to enlarge on that theme for 83 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,800 my American audience. I was a young man. I spent many years in 84 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,800 search of a philosophy suitable to the realities of twentieth essentially Chaiga, I finally 85 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,600 heard it. I am a war profit here. Oh, I fear that 86 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:09,040 your American audience would neither understand nor approve, but perhaps I may be of 87 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,519 assistance. You see the couple of power there, the bearded gentleman in black 88 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,360 with a funereal manner, in the vivacious young femin conveyion are the Chinese girl, 89 00:07:17,439 --> 00:07:23,959 Macanese, the turbulent blending of half a dozen pound peoples. The gentleman 90 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:29,519 is of Macauto, but he priced himself upon his pure Portuguese black where he 91 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:31,920 met. But that is just about all I allowed him to take out of 92 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:35,920 SHANGHAII in short, sir, there's is a team to tear your heart out. 93 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:43,639 The suggest that you interviewed them at glass would And with that mister Arson 94 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,040 plassed his tiny formless hands over his expansive bellet, folded his three expert chins 95 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,079 under the one he was born with, closed his small, greedy eyes, 96 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,319 and went to sleep. I started up the aisle toward the couple from a 97 00:07:54,439 --> 00:07:57,480 car, but I never got to them because the plane lurched to the laft, 98 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,199 dropped the bottom out of my stomach and me into an old and his 99 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,600 lap. So we fastened our seat belts, and she spent the rest of 100 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:07,319 the trip giving me an exclusive on her plan to save China by transcribing Esperanto 101 00:08:07,639 --> 00:08:18,399 into Chinese ideographs. UM four pm, we started losing altitude and closed down 102 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:22,319 across the south China Highlands toward column point dusk was just settling over Hong Kong 103 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:30,639 Airport when our pilot set us down. Yeah, Joe and I were the 104 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,879 first ones down the ladder. We bluffed our way past the British customs and 105 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,320 had our mic set up for another try at interviews before our fellow passengers were 106 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,799 cleared off the plane. I was anxious to get to that bearded gentleman from 107 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:46,039 a car with a vivacious young traveling companion, but I was stopped again because 108 00:08:46,039 --> 00:08:50,960 the first passenger route was that self proclaimed prince of profiteers, that churlish chieftain 109 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:56,159 of Chinese chicanery, mister r Sin. I see you have a way with 110 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,320 the customs speaking that I had known you could have saved me the trunks I 111 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,000 have just taken it their heads. Timmy, how did you fare in your 112 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:07,559 interview of that poper rice Portingguinio is lovely? Oh? I had to choose 113 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,080 between giving up the interview or ditto my breakfast, so I postponed the whole 114 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:16,759 subject. So that's how you're doing. I trusted this poor old croaking voice 115 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:20,679 of mine recorded to your sidisation. As a matter of fact, I haven't 116 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,639 played it back yet. But if Sydney Green Street doesn't care, I don't 117 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,240 rosa what I have to say to you now were perhaps fisted out of range 118 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,559 of that eaves dropping mechanism. You join me in a brief stroll. If 119 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,960 I stay, can be to you my latest thoughts upon the subject. Okay, 120 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,519 mister Rasima, keep it brief, but I don't get at least one 121 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:41,559 good interview out of this trip. I won't have anything to go on the 122 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,519 air with plenty of type. Assure you that bank fuckaneer with the beard will 123 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,080 be viewed with high suspicion by the customers. Teach, all right, take 124 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,440 the mic, Joe, keep it open. At least we can pick up 125 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,240 this airport background noise and dubn something colorful later on. Okay, mister sin 126 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,159 and I are going for a walk. Well keep you he might fall on 127 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:07,279 you. Your assistant is something of a witch himself. Now about your projected 128 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,200 interview with Senor de cast Oh why are you so set on my interviewing the 129 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:16,200 senor the castle a fellow. You may interview anyone you like, but you 130 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:20,840 must admit they are quite the most interesting couple, and the fact at least 131 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,279 half of it. What's interesting about him? You will find that out if 132 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:30,399 you will follow my advice and satan him by The men's troubles may accumulate like 133 00:10:30,519 --> 00:10:33,679 the muddy silt in the estuaries of the fighting pool, but unlike the muddy 134 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:39,919 deposits of the venerable stream, they cannot always be redst away. You know 135 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,919 I can't make you out master us. And are you a practical joker? 136 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,080 Are you just trying to be mysterious? Mysterious only for the moment. When 137 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,879 you get to know me better, you will find that I am positively sinister. 138 00:10:50,279 --> 00:11:00,600 In fact, they watch it. I was close. I'm sorry I 139 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:01,679 had to grab you like that. That truck was coming right at us. 140 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:07,360 See your affologies, mister O'Shea. I only hope that you may be able 141 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:11,840 to save my face as pinlessly as you've just saved my life. And with 142 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,879 that, he rustled his heavy silk robe, turned on his heel, lifted 143 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:18,960 his skirts, and trotted off across the field at a real good cliff for 144 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,360 a fat man. So I turned on my heel and went after the personal 145 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,919 interview with a driver of that truck. But it tried to run us down. 146 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,000 There's parked directly under the cargo hash of the plane, but they weren't 147 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:31,639 unloading any cargo from the plane. They were unloading some suitcases from the rear 148 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,080 end of the truck, which made Chinese sense, but it began to look 149 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:39,559 like Prohibition Chicago when they opened up the suitcases and took out three land leased 150 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,240 Tommy guns. Suddenly I wasn't nearly as angry at that driver as I had 151 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,720 been a moment before, And just as suddenly when Signor de Castro and the 152 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:52,240 girl emerged from the plane, I lost all interest in that interview because that 153 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,360 reckless Chinese driver scooped me. In just a minute, I'll tell you how 154 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:58,440 I hate to leave you cliff hanging, but it's time for a word from 155 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:18,279 state side. This is O'Shea standing by in Hong Kong, with Pie Aferbank 156 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,559 in the role of Brandon O'Shea. We are bringing you the first in a 157 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:35,320 new dramatic series based on Radio's own greatest Adventure. This is O'Shea. And 158 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,960 now back to Brandon O'Shea in Hong Kong, Okay, Usa. This is 159 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,360 O'she with the rest of the story in China, where anything can happen and 160 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,360 does every day. It's sometimes hard to tell what's worth reporting and what is 161 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:54,159 it. Maybe that's why so many of the foreign correspondents out here get disillusioned 162 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:56,799 and get there on the spot reports the past and whiet of their own hotel 163 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:01,440 rooms, with the local papers spread out on the bit, Which is where 164 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,200 I wished I had stood instead of where I was standing. When those three 165 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:09,480 hatchet men in the airport luggage jeep unpacked their suitcases and started unlimbering those Tommy 166 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:16,080 guns get done. I didn't need a no Chinese no. That berst shop 167 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,519 meant stay out of the way. The next thing he said was self explanatory 168 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:26,440 too. His two henchmen responded by raking the tires off the custom inspector's car, 169 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,200 which made Chicago stands for clearing. They get away, but the next 170 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,120 one didn't. It was aimed at our recording machine. My engineer Joe did 171 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:35,440 a belly flop just in time. The castro went on talking to the girl 172 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,960 as if nothing had happened. Then he raised his hands in a gesture of 173 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,440 surrender and let them take him. They shoved him into the truck and drove 174 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:54,639 away. You are the American, Oh yes, I'm an American. You 175 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,159 can help me, or perhaps you can help me. I want to get 176 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,200 the story behind that kidnapping. I'll tell you everything I know, but not 177 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,279 here. Please take me away, Okay, okay, Hey Joe, you're 178 00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:07,360 all right. Yeah, Brandy, I'm okay. But look at this recording 179 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:11,080 machine. Can you fix it? Yeah? But it'll take time. Okay, 180 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,279 get on it right away. I'll meet you at the hotel. I 181 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:18,759 don't know. I'm taking this eyewitness out for an interview. What's your name, 182 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:22,240 dear? Her name was Maya Riyachi. I got the rest of her 183 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,320 story over some Ramo's gym physics in the Emperor Hotel bar later on, over 184 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,360 a midnight snack in a room. But when she'd finished telling it, I 185 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,679 wanted what I'd done wrong. I was sure I'd approached the problem from all 186 00:14:33,679 --> 00:14:35,960 the correct angles, but I still didn't know any more about why the Castro 187 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,519 had been kidnapped. But I had four hours before, and I told her 188 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:45,279 so. Please, Brandy, all these questions, can we don't talk about 189 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,799 something more pleasant? Oh? That would be easy, Maya. But I 190 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,279 have to ask questions and I have to get answers. That's what I do 191 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,679 for a living. I would not take the bread from your mouth. But 192 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:56,519 it seems to me, in my ignorance, that you would find it less 193 00:14:56,519 --> 00:15:03,039 tiring to retrain from saying things like who was that man and instead say I 194 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,480 would be honored to know to whom you paid the compliment of allowing him to 195 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,679 accompany you in the airplane. It would perhaps please you to enlighten me, 196 00:15:11,039 --> 00:15:13,360 for then I would be less ignorant, and you would be less ashamed to 197 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,879 know me. I see, well, if I was intelligent enough to say 198 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:20,960 all that, what kind of answer would I have the honor of receiving? 199 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:24,919 Pin I would say that Signor de Castro is my honorable uncle, and I 200 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,039 his miserable niece. Oh, I thought, Oh that's great, I mean, 201 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:33,399 very not bad. Maybe you could tell me how to get around. 202 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:35,320 But one about why he was kidnapped? If he was broke, perhaps his 203 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:39,480 friend has done him the honor of ignoring his lack of prospility. Well, 204 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:43,320 you mean this kidnapping is a phone that they're going to hold him for a 205 00:15:43,399 --> 00:15:46,320 big ransom to save a space. Oh no, my uncle is an accidenter. 206 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:50,600 He has no face to lose. But if the kidnapper is a Chinese. 207 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:54,120 He might have done my uncle the honor of ignoring his lack of face 208 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,639 as well as his prosperity. This is all too subtle for me. No, 209 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:02,440 no, there is a way out. That is how you can help 210 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:06,559 me? I can't. Yes, when we received the ransom note, you 211 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,519 will come with me to Macau. Why Macau? Because in Macau there are 212 00:16:10,559 --> 00:16:14,200 not so many laws that here in Hong Kong. They will take him to 213 00:16:14,279 --> 00:16:17,399 Maccau. And what do we do with Macau? You will go to the 214 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:22,080 kidnapper and pay the ransom in pose money. I cannot do this myself without 215 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:25,360 losing faith. Well, what about the kidnappers face? You will have to 216 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:27,960 accept the pots money or you will you see how does that work? It 217 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,039 would be discouraged to accuse a stranger of the ternity? Are you so right? 218 00:16:36,159 --> 00:16:41,120 Let's talk about something else. Listen you here? How can I help 219 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,639 it? Such beautiful music it is, and my ignorance I couldn't tell. 220 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:49,440 It is a love song. My old Ama used to sing me to sleep 221 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,279 with. It tells of the poor peasant's wife. When her husband comes in 222 00:16:53,360 --> 00:17:03,559 from the chiefs, she in places him. Hey kiss not yet? They 223 00:17:03,679 --> 00:17:07,359 drink tea and speak of the poor harvest. Then he recites a love poem 224 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,160 to her by chung thing in one hundred thirty stances. By this time it 225 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:17,160 is dark the same day, yes, but they are too poor to light 226 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,440 the lamp. So they came together in the darkness, and they converse in 227 00:17:21,559 --> 00:17:26,680 low tones. They exchange butterfly kisses while discussing the works of the philosopher Leapo. 228 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,079 How long does that go on? Is it not pleasing? I'm not 229 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:42,440 the philosophy. Come here, Brandy, my darling, you have been teasing 230 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:56,160 me. You know how the song ends. In China, as I said 231 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,359 before, it's sometimes hard to tell what news is worth reporting. Getappings, 232 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,400 for instance, are as common as lawsuits in accidental countries. But when I 233 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,680 saw the headlines in the Hong Kong Mail the next morning, I decided that 234 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,759 the castro of kidnapping faker not was news. He was the next governor of 235 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:15,119 the Portuguese Colony of Macau, a next member of the International Opium Conference, 236 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:21,240 and one of the biggest shipping tycoons in Shanghai. It seemed that my overstuffed 237 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,119 and over eager informant, mister R. Sin had been more reliable than he 238 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,279 looked. The Castro had pulled out of Shanghai too late and left most of 239 00:18:29,319 --> 00:18:33,240 his ships bulging with cargo anchored at their ducks. At the Hong Pool. 240 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,599 They were still afloat, but he was sunk Meyer's theory that some friend had 241 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,079 kidnapped him to save his face might be worth more than its face value. 242 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,319 I was trying to make a rough guess as to how much of my time 243 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:49,799 and trouble the castro's face might be worth when my phone rang zo'shay, good 244 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:55,079 morning. He had come the ransom note man. Yet I was right. 245 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,000 They have taken him to Maca. I have arranged for a bot to take 246 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:02,039 us there this afternoon. Well, what does the knot say? It is 247 00:19:02,039 --> 00:19:04,920 in Chinese, but I will try to translate, even though it is impossible. 248 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:15,519 It commences that is approximately approximately what almost so in English, the form 249 00:19:15,519 --> 00:19:19,119 of address would be approximately honorable lady. Why that cared? What does he 250 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:25,279 mean calling your names? That is because I am Maccanese only approximately Chinese. 251 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,119 Oh, forget the translation and tell me what it says. It says that 252 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,039 a hundred thousand Hong Kong dallas must be delivered to an emissary who will meet 253 00:19:32,079 --> 00:19:34,160 this at the bottom of may or warehouse, that is on the old fishing 254 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,680 war They would have a man that to night at ten o'clock and again tomorrow 255 00:19:37,759 --> 00:19:42,400 night. If we do not arrive, but we will. I'm still interested 256 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,240 in my position. Yes, hold on, I'll be with you in one 257 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:57,279 minute. We arrived at the island of Macau just before sunsets, after the 258 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:02,559 hugger mugger of overcrowded Hong Kong. It looked like a peaceful little Portuguese fishing 259 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,480 village. It didn't look at all like the reputation it has among seafaring men 260 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:11,079 as one of the world's toughest seaports. But after dark it came to light. 261 00:20:17,559 --> 00:20:21,079 With the possible exception of Tangiers, Macam must be the only place in 262 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:23,880 the world where the opium dens have neon signs, in fact, the only 263 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,200 vice. The Macanese officially frown on his panhandling. But myle was an approximately 264 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,400 Portuguese and Macau, as she had been approximately Chinese in Hong Kong, which 265 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,000 meant that, in common with all good Latin ladies, all public places were 266 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,720 out of bounds to her. So all I could do was listen as we 267 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:47,720 walked down the almeta towards the waterfront. Wait, there is the place at 268 00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:51,319 the end of the duck. You remember what you want to say to him 269 00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:53,920 when you hand him the package. Oh that's if he's Chinese. Why do 270 00:20:55,039 --> 00:20:57,119 you think he might not be Chinese? If he turned out to be a 271 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:03,480 trained seal, it wouldn't surprise me. Don't you love me? Oh? 272 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,000 Well about that, I'll tell you more later. Now. First things first, 273 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:17,720 bye water by land to if By see if bans and be recognized? 274 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:22,759 You fat bumbler? What what? What? What? It's you miss And 275 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:26,720 it was your before you opened your trap us? And indeed, in this 276 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,720 darkness like a catch a nose, like a hound, who would you hope 277 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,240 to meet down here? The dragon lady? You're alluding, no doubt to 278 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:38,920 the aroma of jasmine in anything from a humbred person. Exactly. I always 279 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,079 put on an extra dash of synth, and the business brings me into some 280 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:45,839 odoriferous of kennedy, which is rather often than I would care to admit. 281 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,400 In this case, fish, what brings you here like a thief from the 282 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:56,279 night as it to pay off another thief, namely you thief? I stundled 283 00:21:56,519 --> 00:22:00,920 irrefutably, but I inclined to knavery rather than thievery or whatever you say. 284 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:03,799 Anyway, here's your ransom money. They will come in heady. They had 285 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,279 quite resigned myself to using my own money to pay direction. Whoever did the 286 00:22:08,279 --> 00:22:11,839 girl raise all that money? She didn't. It's boodle boodles. Yes, 287 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,960 stage money worth more than Chinese dollars, but it won't buy anything. She 288 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:21,160 hoped to retrieve her uncle from his captor's clutches by this transparent ruse. Well, 289 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,000 there was a speech supposed to go with her that would theoretically save his 290 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,240 face. When I realized the case was yours, I didn't bother faces him. 291 00:22:26,599 --> 00:22:30,559 That would seem to indicate a gentleman of Chinese persuasion. And I was 292 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,799 so certain that this kidnapping had been the range between the Castro and his business 293 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:41,039 partner for the sole purpose of regaining dishergonestly a share of the fortune they had 294 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:45,200 lost to me as a result of them. Shall we call it my jang 295 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:48,480 Higisia. It's your gesture and you're stuck with it as I but de Castro's 296 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:53,279 bottles or norris, Have you ever heard of the fairy flats dredging compree, 297 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,640 No, not likely. They called it our sins folly. I underbid every 298 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:03,839 dredging company and the huang who or the contract to dredge the particular channel that 299 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,720 served a custom's not inconsiderable duckage in Shanghai. I did this at the moment 300 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:11,400 when I knew he would be assembling his entire merchant fleet to make off with 301 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,799 such slute as he could before the arrival of the invaders. It was perhaps 302 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:22,079 one of the most remarkable dredging operations in modern maritime history. Was estimated that 303 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,480 only a year would be required to clear away the well nigh incredible deposit of 304 00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:30,759 mud and river sits in which the customs ships were hopelessly amired. As they 305 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:33,559 so, you made it impossible for the castor to move his ships out of 306 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:37,559 Shangha. I know where was the profit of that well? Indeed, I 307 00:23:37,599 --> 00:23:41,759 had only to render sampan and scull across the river, where a very nominal 308 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,599 bribe secured me a contract disposing of the custom's goods, bottoms and all the 309 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,680 invaders procurement of it. That's quite an operation, spectacular. How did the 310 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,839 castor like that? He settled for his plane fare remained only to secure the 311 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:03,920 signature of his partner here in Macau, Senor Yachi. Yachi, Well, 312 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,440 that's Maya's last name. She is his daughter. It's funny she never mentioned 313 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,480 that. Well, but if all you have to do is get his signature, 314 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:14,720 let's go and get it so I can write the tagline of my story 315 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,039 and get out of here. There, mister Rochet, I regret to say 316 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:22,160 he is no longer possiper. Senor Rayachi has met with the most unfortunate exit. 317 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:36,599 He fell down and cut his throat. That should have been tagline enough. 318 00:24:36,759 --> 00:24:38,839 I'm sorry it wasn't. One thing at least was settled in my mind. 319 00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:42,599 There was no point in my waiting around to hand over Maya's phony ransom 320 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,119 because the kidnapper was expecting real money, and he knew that our sim was 321 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,079 the only interested party who had one hundred thousand bucks to invest. There was 322 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,880 also no point in looking for Maya where she was supposed to be waiting for 323 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,960 me. But I did anyway, and she wasn't there. I had a 324 00:24:56,039 --> 00:25:00,039 hunch where she'd gone. I didn't know where the hunch came from. It 325 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,359 might have had some connection with scene one where the kidnappers wasted all that ammunition 326 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:07,160 shooting up our tape recorder. I took the early morning boat back to Hong 327 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:19,559 Kong. Hey, Brandy, where the devil you've been? Ghost chase Mandarin 328 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,720 Duck style? And how's the recording machine? You gotta patch it up yet? 329 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,400 Yeah? Just finished? How about that tape that was on at the 330 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,640 airport? Did you play it back yet? No? I just rewound it 331 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,720 should be okay, after the time it was wounded. That's all I want 332 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,599 to hear. Can you run up to about two minutes before then? Sure, 333 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:45,359 let's see, should be about here. Good play it back then, 334 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:53,279 okay? As a jeep coming in right after I try to run you and 335 00:25:53,319 --> 00:26:00,240 the fat boy down. Yeah, no, Mike Jordan strut that'll be the 336 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:07,839 castro. I am faithfully as a girl. Do not worry. They would 337 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,519 not kill me. But remember this with your father? Did I think would 338 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:17,079 need only my signature and he will stop at nothing. So those I told 339 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,319 you in part of the American as much as you can, it is our 340 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:26,920 best. I do not know him for you, my dear it Okay, 341 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,880 cut you know that was a pretty good pack up here. I didn't hear 342 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,079 any of that stuff with you. No, I still don't get it. 343 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:36,799 He sounds like he expected to be kidnapp which doesn't surprise me. But the 344 00:26:36,799 --> 00:26:40,599 stuff about our sin doesn't make sense. I'll get you ten. That's the 345 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:45,400 old buzzard. Now come in, Well they expected to find you in. 346 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,599 What did you expect to find? Well said, there's no reason for not 347 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,960 being absolutely honest, if you will forgive my using the expression. And then 348 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,319 the plane coming over from Macao, it suddenly occurred to me that you would 349 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:03,160 recorded certain humorously intentions tatments of vine about saying the dicustom, which, in 350 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,279 the light of recent events, might be open to misinterpretation. In short, 351 00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:11,799 should that harmless looking spool of magnetic teeth all into the custos hends, he 352 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,440 might choose it to render me for sona nan grati in Hong Kong, perhaps 353 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,599 even in Macau, which I always thought, Well, now impossible. Are 354 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:22,839 you sure it's something you said about the castro or something you think the castro 355 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,359 might have said about you? Okay, you interviewed him overall, all, 356 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,079 let's stop horsing around us. And you've had your ear glue to that door 357 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,880 ever since you followed me here and you know exactly what's on that tape. 358 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:37,880 Yeah, hell, you must understand its true value to me. May I 359 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,519 insult you with an opening? Biddim a thousand dollars like all I want is 360 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:44,000 a straight story under the castro or kidnapping. If you can give it to 361 00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:45,039 me, you can have the tape. I can't use it anyone in the 362 00:27:45,079 --> 00:27:48,920 country. You appear to be making very good use of it. However, 363 00:27:48,319 --> 00:27:52,680 I am not wrong. I am positive that the scoundrel the custom meant to 364 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:57,000 murder his partner in order to secure Riachi's Macau holdings and arrange the kidnapping. 365 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,359 Can throw suspicion onto beat. The rascal knew that I would pay any reasonable 366 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,799 ransom in order to close my deal, and he's shipping that I would therefore 367 00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:10,640 be on the wharf at the appointed hour, that you would misinterpret my present 368 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,519 day and broadcast it to all the world. Leave me, okay, Joe, 369 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,279 give Fats all that's bull of tape. Hey we got some good background. 370 00:28:19,559 --> 00:28:23,799 Yeah forget, We'll do this one without effects. Yeah, I Gotreger 371 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,279 Rivers somewhere. I want to write my script here is it? You're a 372 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,519 man of you over? Yeah? Sure, that stuff is inflammable. You 373 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:33,519 know what you have to do a set of match to it. Do nothing 374 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:37,079 of this heart for you to back up my story. This has turned into 375 00:28:37,079 --> 00:28:41,759 a venetable talk card in my forthcoming negotiations with the custom I'll have his Shanghai 376 00:28:41,839 --> 00:28:48,079 loot and his late partner's holdings to a very clever mistress. But you are 377 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:52,519 suffering from a disease of the mouth. You talk too much. Yeah, 378 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,920 start to give me what a heavy gun it is. You'll tire your arm 379 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,319 canny courtesy mister o'she can you blame me if I want no more of mister 380 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,720 Sinn's particular kind, Why don't you boys go and be courteous to each other 381 00:29:07,799 --> 00:29:10,880 someplace else. I'm tired and I've got a deadline of meat. This will 382 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,200 not take long now quite it, put it down. Shoot him in your 383 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:25,000 own room. I got valuable equipment in here, DeCastro watching Josiah, I'm 384 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,720 more than half expected some shooting, and I wasn't going to risk my life 385 00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:30,240 trying to prevent it, because in the first place, I didn't know how. 386 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:33,559 From the second place, why spoil a good story for a few seconds, 387 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,160 I didn't know what a good one I might have spoiled because tragic as 388 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,680 it was, it had the kind of twist reporters like to dream about if 389 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,720 they're too ethical to dream them up. Because the wrong man dropped dead and 390 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:49,079 the shots came from the wrong gun, Maya was standing in the doorway and 391 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,559 the gun in her hand was still smoking. She came into the room, 392 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,240 very deliberately, looked down at de Castro's lifeless body and tossed the gun on 393 00:29:57,359 --> 00:30:03,000 top of it, and she turned to mel I hated him for the same 394 00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:08,160 reason I hate you, but not enough to kill you now in a minute. 395 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,920 He killed your father, But what did I do my father? What 396 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:18,000 do I care about that he used to help him with his dishonorable schemes? 397 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:23,519 You did the same to get your story. Now you have it, you 398 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:29,799 can tell your Americans anything you want to ask me. I will not be 399 00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:41,519 listening. I started this report with a reference to the hundred and eightieth meridian, 400 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:45,960 which makes it tomorrow in Hong Kong. What approximately three million people wish 401 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,599 it was yesterday, And if you don't mind the view of my back hair, 402 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,440 I wish it was too. This is brandon O'Shea in Hong Kong, 403 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:15,640 returning you Stateside. This is O'Shea stars High Haverbank as Brandon O'sheay and was 404 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,960 directed by Albert Capstaff and produced by Joe Donohue. Musical Store was composed and 405 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:25,960 conducted by Frank Worth. Jerry Hausner is Joe Friendly Her Butterfield appeared in the 406 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,240 role of our Sin. Virginia Gregg was Maya. This is o'she with the 407 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:33,799 rest of the story the Unpredictable, lethal, and lovely. Maya went back 408 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:37,960 to Macau, a happy circumstance for her since there is not much law there 409 00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:42,799 and fats that mister os Sin that is, went with her and, feeling 410 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,960 strangely paternal, he's going to pay for her defense. May they live happily 411 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000 ever after? In Somebody's comic strip next week, South America and a story 412 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:56,839 about a family spat involving several million people, a high government official and his 413 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:02,119 girlfriend. Judging from the picture, it might be well worth covering. This 414 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:22,200 is Oshay, That's thirty. This has been a presentation of the Hollywood Program 415 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:34,559 Department will come back. Let's just start off with the best part about this 416 00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:40,559 pilot, and that is that in an era when so many people were impersonating 417 00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:45,839 Sydney green Street. I don't think anybody was better at it than her. 418 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,759 Butterfield, Well, of course we'll hear tomorrow as the chief on Dangerous Assignment, 419 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,799 but this is just a really good impersonation. I mean, absolutely nailed 420 00:32:55,839 --> 00:33:01,640 it. The series starred High Averback, which I think, judging by listener 421 00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:09,200 demographic series, who would probably be best remembered as the voice of the Loudspeaker 422 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:15,640 on Mash, a series he also produced, and I got reminded recently as 423 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:22,920 I was rewatching some f Troope or our Storch special we're going to play on 424 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,279 the Amazing World of Radio. He also was the executive producer of f Troope, 425 00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:32,759 but to contemporary audiences for this program, he was probably best known as 426 00:33:32,839 --> 00:33:38,720 an announcer, particularly on The Bob Hope Show. It's an interesting portrayal of 427 00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:45,640 a reporter, and I do love at the end how they really don't care 428 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:51,559 about these two villainous people and they're like as like I can't do anything to 429 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,440 stop this. Yeah, it's an interesting bit of realism. Plus, you 430 00:33:55,559 --> 00:34:01,599 know, the use of the sound recorder in that whipment to that degree is 431 00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:07,320 an interesting choice and certainly would make it stand out from other programs. I 432 00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:15,599 do have a feeling, having listened to even just two episodes of O'Hara i 433 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:21,800 e. Jack Moyle's show after Rocky Jordan, that this does seem like it 434 00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:27,840 might be a little bit too similar to that series. It's only ran for 435 00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:32,719 twenty six weeks, and who knows, maybe this script might have been a 436 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:39,920 reworking of a script from O'Hara. Don't have enough episodes of that series to 437 00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:46,880 know for sure. There were quite a few programs that featured reporter heroes. 438 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:54,000 I as we were looking at Mercedes McCambridge, she starred in a series called 439 00:34:54,280 --> 00:35:00,960 Wire Service as one of three rotating stars in the series who were each slobe 440 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:07,800 trotting reporters. And there were quite a few series that focused on that on 441 00:35:07,039 --> 00:35:12,440 television, and I think that, you know, as well as radio, 442 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:17,800 and there was almost a lot of them. And this is O'Shea is not 443 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,840 even the only unmade pilot featuring a reporter. There was also a series, 444 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,840 San Francisco Final, starring Jeff Chandler, that we played all the way back 445 00:35:31,159 --> 00:35:37,519 in season one, and honestly like San Francisco Final more than this, I 446 00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:45,559 think it's grasp of the cultures are kind of superficial at Bess and I can 447 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:50,000 see why this didn't get picked up, but it's an interesting oddity, particularly 448 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:55,559 for her Butterfield's performance. Well, now we turned to listener comments and feedback, 449 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,280 and we have this comment from Kevin on Petreon, who rides Adam. 450 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,440 I've been listening to The Great Detectives and some of your other podcasts for a 451 00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:09,480 few years, and belatedly I'm getting around and contributing. I really appreciate your 452 00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:14,760 passion for old time radio and the efforts you put into bringing these shows and 453 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:19,599 the many wonderful performers and creators back to life. Thank you for doing what 454 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,239 you do. Well, Thank you so much, Kevin, and I appreciate 455 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:28,039 your support. All Right, Well, now we get to talking about Hard 456 00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:34,280 Tuesday's schedule for next season, and this gets complicated. So let's start with 457 00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:38,719 this simple part of it, and that is that when we get into the 458 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:45,119 Bob Bailey serials, we're going to be playing one serial per week, and 459 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:52,559 so this time through what we'll be doing is every Tuesday will feature two fifteen 460 00:36:52,639 --> 00:36:59,599 minute episodes of Johnny Dowler, and then on Friday we will play three of 461 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,119 the fifteen minute episodes, and that way we'll be able to get through all 462 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,079 of the five parts. Now, of course, there is a six parter, 463 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:14,239 and there's a non part, and there are or cereals where one episode 464 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,559 is missing, so we'll have to work around that. But that is our 465 00:37:16,639 --> 00:37:23,920 general plan for the fifty eight week Bob Bailey serial run. Now what that 466 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:31,280 means is that anything else we are doing on Tuesday needs to wrap up at 467 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:36,639 the same time. We finish all of the pre Bob Bailey episodes, and 468 00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:45,119 I recalculated and I dropped a couple of short series meet Miss Sherlocke and Martin 469 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:52,760 Caine, and move those two season fifteen and set I Hate Crime to start 470 00:37:53,119 --> 00:38:00,719 next week. And then I'm doing a little bit of research online and every 471 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:07,079 source for I Hate Crime has thirteen episodes in circulation. I find a listing 472 00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:13,000 where we have fifteen episodes. There were sixteen listed, but one is a 473 00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:19,800 duplicate, So that means that my figuring is now off by two episodes, 474 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:27,480 which is frustrating. And after I Hate Crime, we had Sarah's private paper, 475 00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:30,679 which by nature of the series, I want to do while we are 476 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,480 playing Sam Spade, so that has to say put. So what that means 477 00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:40,440 is that Matthew Slade will not be played this season. That's non episodes. 478 00:38:40,679 --> 00:38:45,840 We don't have space for it. I did think about doing some silly things, 479 00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:51,519 like having a week where I played two episodes of Matthew Slade rather than 480 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:58,719 one, and then editing them so that like when we have the separate show 481 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,880 feed, we have two episodes. And no, that's just too complicated. 482 00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:08,320 So we're going to go ahead and move Matthew Slade too season sixteen, and 483 00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:15,199 by then, hopefully I will have acquired the Day of the Phoenix saga, 484 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:20,519 which I was going to play Matthew Slade without and hope that we somehow found 485 00:39:20,599 --> 00:39:24,320 it. But now I guess I bought myself two more years to try and 486 00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:29,559 track down a copy. So that still leaves us seven episodes short. And 487 00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:32,400 what are we going to do with those seven episodes? Well, here's the 488 00:39:32,519 --> 00:39:38,039 plan. First, we are going to replay Doctor Tim Detective. Now, 489 00:39:38,119 --> 00:39:45,199 this was a series that when we first did the Johnny Dollars serials, we 490 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:51,440 did two episodes on Monday, two episodes on Wednesday, and one episode on 491 00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:55,000 Friday, and then on Friday we threw in a fifteen minute episode of another 492 00:39:55,199 --> 00:39:59,719 series, and that made sense at the time, and we played the Doctor 493 00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:05,679 Him series essentially just entirely that way, and then a few years ago we 494 00:40:06,039 --> 00:40:10,559 found an additional episode and we played that fifteen minute episode as a standalone. 495 00:40:10,599 --> 00:40:14,880 But we did made sense at the time for what we were trying to do, 496 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:20,920 particularly with the Johnny Doller. But I think because essentially we would play 497 00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:28,519 Johnny Doller first, it doesn't really make sense in the archive because to listen 498 00:40:28,559 --> 00:40:34,239 to Doctor Tim you have to listen to the fifth part of the Johnny Doller 499 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:40,000 episode, which is in our Forgotten Detective's feed, disconnected from anything else. 500 00:40:40,159 --> 00:40:45,320 So that people can just properly enjoy this series, and then long term, 501 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:52,920 we can have the episodes so that people can listen to them in our Forgotten 502 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,880 Detective's archive, which is a pretty big feed for us. We've had twenty 503 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,880 plus thousand downloads from it this year. So we're going to go ahead and 504 00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:08,119 go back through that series on its own, and then we will move Meet 505 00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:15,920 Miss Sherlock up to season fourteen from where we had it scheduled in season fifteen 506 00:41:16,039 --> 00:41:22,719 after moving it down from season thirteen, and then I think we'll tentatively plan 507 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:27,960 on doing an episode of the series The Crime Club, although that one episode 508 00:41:28,039 --> 00:41:31,800 can be flexible and I can be open like if you know in a surprise 509 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:36,920 episode pops up. I've got some room. But we will plan on an 510 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:42,400 episode of the Crime Club and hopefully I can be done ja going the schedule, 511 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:49,320 that's what we have plan for Tuesday, and we so again we're going 512 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:55,719 to start next Tuesday with I Hate Crime, and then following that Sarah's Private 513 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:01,280 Caper for one week, our replay of Doctor Your Tim Detective, an episode 514 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:07,360 of The Crime Club, and then Tuesday and Friday will be yours truly Johnny 515 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:13,480 Dollar Days for fifty eight weeks, and that will get us through the entirety 516 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,199 of season fourteen. Now with that, let's go ahead and thank our Patreon 517 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:24,400 supporter of the day. Thank you to Brian, Patreon supporter since May of 518 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:30,840 twenty twenty, currently supporting us at the detective sergeant level US seven dollars and 519 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,679 fourteen cents or more per month. Again, thanks so much for your support. 520 00:42:35,039 --> 00:42:38,159 That will do it for today. Join us back here next Tuesday for 521 00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:45,519 I Hate Crime. But listening tomorrow as Steve Mitchell heads alf on a dangerous 522 00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:52,599 assignment? Where Hey, Hey, where are you? Hey? Who are 523 00:42:52,639 --> 00:43:00,039 you? Uncle? Look? Where's the American? Put the topic? Oh, 524 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,000 he's mister Marco. Who is mister Marco? Who is he? Anyway, 525 00:43:05,079 --> 00:43:07,239 he was staying the next room, next door. Where is the American? 526 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:13,639 Who had? I wish I knew the windows? Yeah, blood on 527 00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,679 the silk American. Michael went out the window and down the fight escape. 528 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:21,519 No, look, I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 529 00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:25,320 if you have a comment, email it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives 530 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:30,400 dot net, Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out 531 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:37,400 on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Ottaho. 532 00:43:37,679 --> 00:43:39,280 This is your host, Adam Grahamson and Off