1 00:00:28,719 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,560 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,280 going to bring you this week's episode of yours truly 4 00:00:43,359 --> 00:00:46,920 Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,119 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:55,640 favorite podcast software. And remember, as you're making your travel 7 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,359 plans for twenty twenty six to check out Johnny Dollar 8 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,159 Air doc. 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This job just a 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,840 few miles north of where you. I will take maybe 21 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:42,879 a day to clear it up. 22 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,079 Speaker 2: And you said that last Christmas. Matt and I got 23 00:01:45,079 --> 00:01:47,519 tramped in a budget this season. I'm soak in the sun. 24 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:48,840 Happy New Year, John boy. 25 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,159 Speaker 3: We have a bonus list in this office. Your name 26 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:52,040 could be on it. 27 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 2: Uh there where I am Huh. 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,719 Speaker 3: It's a ghost down named Gatigo. No bron second named 29 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,000 Kringle is breathing his life. 30 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,319 Speaker 2: I thought all prospectors never died. 31 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 3: He wants to change the beneficiary and a fifty downs 32 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:07,959 now policy. But a nephew, Net Kringle threatened suit and 33 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:10,800 we let him. So you contact our agent Jean Craig 34 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:11,479 and Barstow. 35 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:16,159 Speaker 2: That was a new beneficiary, Carmen Kringle, Carmon a burrow, 36 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:17,759 A burrow. 37 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:37,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, if I don't hear from you, Johnny Merry Christmas. 38 00:02:29,039 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 2: Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with 39 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:35,879 the Action Tactic Spens the cous America's fabulous free Lance 40 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:45,039 Insurance Investigator. It's truly Johnny Dollar now Act one. No, 41 00:02:45,319 --> 00:03:04,319 You're truly Johnny Dollars. Expense account submented by a special investigator, 42 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,639 Johnny Dollar. There's a home office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Canadians. 43 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,240 Following is the account of expenses encourage during my investigation 44 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:18,840 of the Carmen Kringle matter expense account on a one 45 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:21,360 a dollar forty telegram to Jean Craig, and Barstall was 46 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,240 telling him where and when to meet me. I had 47 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,319 him two fifty dollars even a while sterner for his 48 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:31,039 chartered plane and the ghost down at Calico. The guys, 49 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,479 there's something about physic country that's good for the soul. 50 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:35,479 And in spite of the heir bumps, I got a 51 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,520 panoramic view of the great More Hobby that tipped my 52 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,759 breath away. The sun's setting rays hit the weird mineral 53 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,919 traders of the Calico range and turned them into a 54 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,280 patchwork of beauty. Night comes quickly in this country, and 55 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:48,080 I turned a well when a Christmas freet cluster of 56 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,919 blinking lights appeared under a wing. By way of answer, 57 00:03:50,919 --> 00:03:52,599 he went the plane into a glide and set us 58 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:54,319 down on a spoolers with a dry like. 59 00:03:54,319 --> 00:04:04,159 Speaker 4: This, Johnny, you want me to wait around with your 60 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:05,199 friend Joseph. 61 00:04:05,599 --> 00:04:07,479 Speaker 5: I thank you. 62 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 2: It seems pretty funny accompany, I asked you, Oh. 63 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:13,639 Speaker 4: Coyote, don't stand too long or freeze is a spot. Okay, 64 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,719 good luck, call me when you want to be picked up. 65 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 2: I walked down plane until I was swallowed by the dark. 66 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:29,759 Then suddenly I got that feeling in the air on 67 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,319 the back of my neck, and I wasn't a longer. 68 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:33,879 The moon was up en up, and they got shadows 69 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,879 and silhouetted in a circle around me was a strained 70 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,959 collection of figures. One of the pack moves towards me, 71 00:04:40,959 --> 00:04:42,879 and for a crazy second, I thought I bumped at 72 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:46,759 the Santa Clauses raindeer. Then a car without life brushing 73 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:49,040 at me. The headlights slammed on and I got a 74 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:56,800 glimpse of a donkey herd scattering into the knife. All right, mister, 75 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,319 walk toward me, slow with your hand. Fine, I've learned 76 00:05:02,319 --> 00:05:04,279 never to wark in with a Winchester ninety fourth. Or 77 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,439 I followed orders. I sparted the weaving headlamps of another 78 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,720 car approaching him. Played it was the agent Jean Craig 79 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,040 Whost Enough, Sonny, I can pop the rappers off a 80 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,040 sideline at sixty yards, don't you make most sudden moves? 81 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,519 It was maybe sixty with gray sideburns and a frosty 82 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,399 go see a Marshall fads into his mother jackets. 83 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 4: All right now, mister, all right, that's the dollar I'm 84 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,160 first to. 85 00:05:27,079 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: Meet him earlier, I'm off the Sorry, mister Dollar, I'm 86 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:33,360 Jean Craig. I shouldn't get here until I grew Doc 87 00:05:33,439 --> 00:05:36,920 Stanger up to Chris. He's got another step back, Marshall. Uh, 88 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,519 some darned fool let down a rail on his parral, 89 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,439 and Chris Kringle holds her God loose. 90 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:42,439 Speaker 4: You don't give it. 91 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 2: Chuck for most of them, mosep Carmen now he's precking 92 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:48,519 because she's running wild. Almost had him tracked down, and 93 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:52,959 this year fella showed up. If you voucher him and Jean, 94 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:56,480 you are Johnny Dollar, aren't you well frozen in fact? Centaly, 95 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:00,800 Come on, I'll drive you into Calico. Chris Ado, have 96 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:03,160 his Carmen back in the corrella for the moon pool. 97 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,600 And Gene, you know, tell the old shower door and 98 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,439 stay alive. Would you we need him around here? Sorry 99 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:12,839 about mistaking un Dollar. 100 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 5: Geene Craig with a. 101 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:27,639 Speaker 2: Jay knew her way around. She was strictly business and 102 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,639 killed me in the fast on the old prospected was 103 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:32,040 the odd name and his desire to change the beneficiary 104 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:35,959 of his policy. Everybody calls him Chris because every year 105 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:38,439 he loads up his bugs with Cays and Saisens for 106 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:39,920 the miners and their families. 107 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: Back in the hill. 108 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:43,439 Speaker 2: The kids really think he is Santa Claus. 109 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 4: I'm afraid it will be a very. 110 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 5: Merry one for this year. 111 00:06:46,319 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 2: But what makes everyone so sure Chris Kringle is giving 112 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,199 him the ghost doax? Spangler says there's nothing exactly wrong 113 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,319 with him. 114 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: Well, I just giving up. 115 00:06:55,759 --> 00:06:57,199 Speaker 2: What's with a Scrooge character? 116 00:06:57,319 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 5: The nephew next king? 117 00:06:58,920 --> 00:06:59,319 Speaker 4: Those teams? 118 00:06:59,319 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 3: All right? 119 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 2: Then with him Willie Dagastino, he doesn't talking for ned. 120 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 5: Do you think he was going to inherit the money? 121 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,519 Speaker 2: Well, maybe he's expecting to. You know, you're making a 122 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,079 good chase for Carmen. Canna Burrow be a beneficiary, Johnny. 123 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,720 Chris can leave it to a three mans at schooner 124 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,720 if he wants, providing a trust to set up. Could 125 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,959 the people of Kalico be that trust if they promise 126 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:21,439 to take. 127 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:21,959 Speaker 3: Care of Carmen? 128 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:22,839 Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess so. 129 00:07:23,199 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 5: Why that's the way, Chris Watson? That way, they'll always 130 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:28,319 be a. 131 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,759 Speaker 2: Fishiness in calis what happens when Carmen goes to Donkey Heavens? 132 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 6: Or is it? 133 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: Burrows has never die They'll always be borrows in Calico, Johnny, 134 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:52,720 and one of them could always be named Carmen act too. 135 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:55,920 If yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment black too, 136 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:13,720 If yours truly Johnny Dollar and the Carmen Kringle matter, Well, 137 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:14,839 here we are, Johnny. 138 00:08:15,279 --> 00:08:18,199 Speaker 3: Calico once the richest silver city in the West. 139 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: It was unbelievable, like seeing a page from the past. 140 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,240 Well they or nuts, same creator of not Verry Farm 141 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,720 in Western historians had bought the old ghost town's battered 142 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:33,600 remnints and restored it to the way it must have 143 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:36,320 appeared in the wild and fever days of the silver loads. 144 00:08:36,879 --> 00:08:39,279 I can think out signs Nail, the weathered bat and boards, 145 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,679 the total of a flourishing and colorful past Joe Saloon, 146 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,399 the Last Chance Hyena House, Hotel, Lane's Recantile, the Calico Prince. 147 00:08:51,799 --> 00:08:54,360 High on a hill at the edge of town, people 148 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:56,679 were gathered at the entrance to a cave that was 149 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,759 illuminated by hundreds of minor slamps. And he gets you huh, 150 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,240 almost like it was planned the other hurt things for 151 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,840 the Christmas Eve pageant. Maybe you should spend Christmas Eve? 152 00:09:10,879 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 5: Hit is Johnny? 153 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 2: You don't have other plans. I have a day with 154 00:09:15,039 --> 00:09:18,879 a steam hated swimming pool. Come on, let's meet the 155 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:24,799 old man. Expense account at him three one hundred bucks 156 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:27,519 for a quarter perfume, or I'll make scarf anything to 157 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,960 wipe the hurt look off of Jean Craig's face. She 158 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,799 led me up the steps to the rickety port. You, 159 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,080 Chris Kringles, wouldn't check. A tall figure carrying a black 160 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:38,840 bag stepped toward us out of the shadows. 161 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad she Will you gut me back to town? Why? 162 00:09:42,879 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 2: Certainly? Doc? 163 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 4: Oh, this is mister Dollar. 164 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 5: Hi, s Chris? Is he still our arms and it 165 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:48,840 couldn't shave? 166 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 2: And sitting out here waiting for you. You haven't seen 167 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,240 the patience a medical man. 168 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,159 Speaker 4: Who's a duty and all that. 169 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,519 Speaker 5: But I'm too old. 170 00:09:55,519 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 2: Talk back to a gun. 171 00:09:57,039 --> 00:09:58,399 Speaker 5: They wouldn't let you in tire. 172 00:09:58,879 --> 00:09:59,879 Speaker 2: Well, I'm not a medical plan. 173 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,279 Speaker 3: Suppose please be careful, Johnny. 174 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:04,759 Speaker 4: I told your star boats tayway and leave the old man. 175 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 5: Well, if I little Genie the policy pictures. 176 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:13,759 Speaker 2: Who are you, mister Biddy Degasino. 177 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 5: This is Johnny Dollar. 178 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 2: He's in the insurance company to see about changing the police. 179 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,399 Who are you talking, Adam, give us some terrorist directions 180 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,399 back to barstove? Have you know policy changing at this 181 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,279 late date. Mister ned Kringle is very bereaved at the 182 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,639 imminence of his uncle's demid just family admitted this, said 183 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:35,600 Alice and most your long, folks, I don't leave. The 184 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:41,240 young man was great, your foot is in the door, mister. 185 00:10:42,919 --> 00:10:43,720 I don't like your. 186 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:45,919 Speaker 5: Foot, and I don't like you. 187 00:10:47,519 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 2: His hand moved to his shoulder holster. But Jean was 188 00:10:49,879 --> 00:10:52,600 standing right beside me. It was Doc with suddenly shouldered 189 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:54,639 past Agasino and fled up the stairs. That gave him 190 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:57,919 my chance. I kicked the door wide, threw him off balance. 191 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,919 I shoved Genie aside, and that was a mistake, because 192 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,559 a million Christmas tree lights blazed up in my skull, 193 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:16,559 and slowly the tree lights faded away, and I saw 194 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,679 a Genie fussing over me and looking worried. A young, 195 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,399 nice looking fellow was seated next to a marbletown table. 196 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,879 Zegastina leaned against the stone fireplace and dangled his gun, 197 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,080 smiling like he had a sack deck. He's all right, 198 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,559 dark lasty cutch, but no fracture. I know how I'll 199 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,360 pull my budget dog the old man, how is he 200 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:38,799 no better, no worse? 201 00:11:39,039 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 5: Just lying up there staring to see you. 202 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:42,519 Speaker 2: I want to see Crid. 203 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 5: I had a right to ned. 204 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 3: I'm an old Sam. 205 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,039 Speaker 2: Wooly wouldn't be okay if Jean just want to let 206 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,919 them die and faces past Carrod, who season holy? These 207 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,399 people have no I get a hero boy in a speak, 208 00:11:54,519 --> 00:11:54,960 shove off. 209 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 4: Go on, come on, Johnny, help me doe. 210 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: How's he gonna feel that sharing blood money with a 211 00:12:04,799 --> 00:12:08,320 foodlo Your uncle paid for that policy with a pick 212 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,799 and a shovel. It took a lot of years, a 213 00:12:10,799 --> 00:12:13,679 lot of sweat, and he's had your name on that 214 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,159 policy ever since you were f oh Man Kringle never 215 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,120 saw paid during his life. Maddy had to give him 216 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,080 money to live on, paid the pems and his policy. 217 00:12:21,919 --> 00:12:23,879 Chris was always tapping the kid, claiming he had a 218 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:27,759 new find. He was gonna mind a million, oh Man, die, 219 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,480 tell him, man, tell him how the old phoney was 220 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:32,600 always taking the bars. Makeingle, Santa Claus, of the money 221 00:12:32,639 --> 00:12:34,600 you give him, will he haven't you got a hold 222 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:35,159 of the money. 223 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 4: I know it's been waiting a long time. 224 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 2: For this me Lily di Agasino. 225 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 4: That's who. 226 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:44,279 Speaker 7: Is that? 227 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 2: True man? Yeah, I thought my uncle would make a 228 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:50,639 strike someday. 229 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 5: I honestly thought he'd strike it rich. 230 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 4: I know he tried. 231 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 5: He did strike it rich ned. 232 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 2: When he dies, every man, woman and child in this 233 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:01,720 town will morn him. 234 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 4: You'll live in their hearts. 235 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 5: How do people remember about you, mister Dagostino. 236 00:13:09,759 --> 00:13:12,399 Speaker 2: All right, I'll get get out and stay off the part. 237 00:13:13,519 --> 00:13:15,879 Speaker 3: Really just rifle and make a hole. 238 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 2: And you're barely big enough. 239 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,799 Speaker 5: To pass up bullax beam through, so you just drop 240 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:20,320 that gun. 241 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:26,399 Speaker 2: I don't know what the shouting is about, but you're. 242 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:27,639 Speaker 5: Jilly carrying side arms. 243 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:31,519 Speaker 2: You're threatening violence, mister Dagostino, And ain't nobody does that 244 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,639 in Calaco as long as I'm the marshall. 245 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,519 Speaker 5: Now you better get that all that. 246 00:13:36,639 --> 00:13:38,039 Speaker 6: I love you too. 247 00:13:38,159 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 2: Let gladys here there. Well, I'll Chris, uh, doc can 248 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,679 tell the old buzzard that I got his Carmen back 249 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,519 in the corral. Jingle bells and all. 250 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:48,799 Speaker 4: Yeah, nice work. 251 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:50,639 Speaker 5: I what hold you? 252 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 2: Mister? 253 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,879 Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right, let's go and let. 254 00:13:56,799 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 5: The square just have a round. Uh almost stay here, willing, 255 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:03,120 I want to be here when Chris, Hey. 256 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 2: That's a good idea. 257 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 3: That way, no food around at the wheel. 258 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,759 Speaker 2: That's smart kid, that med see as the funeral. 259 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 6: And I. 260 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 5: I'll go up now. 261 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,679 Speaker 2: You will run for Marshall, You too, Jenny, Oh yeah, sure, 262 00:14:23,679 --> 00:14:25,240 I take a nice stock on my head. 263 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 3: Day. 264 00:14:27,759 --> 00:14:31,519 Speaker 4: You both better come up to Chris wants to say something. 265 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,399 Speaker 5: I forget on this coral. 266 00:14:35,559 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: Come on, Zegastino must have had another gun in his car, 267 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,200 one of the bullets that's on the market intended well, 268 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:54,720 I boy, wasn't taking any chances that common Kringle would 269 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:59,120 inherit fifty thousand dollars. We found the borough lying on 270 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:12,519 her side quite dead. Jingle bells and all Act three 271 00:15:12,639 --> 00:15:15,600 of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment, Oh, Act 272 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:19,080 three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar, and the Carmen Kringle 273 00:15:19,159 --> 00:15:34,000 matters Marshall, Johnny, how couldn't have been so cruel? Carmen dead? 274 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 3: Not right? 275 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:37,519 Speaker 7: Yeah? 276 00:15:38,159 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 2: I figured Deckestino might be mean enough to try kill him. 277 00:15:41,559 --> 00:15:43,919 Chris is pet bauro. We can't tell him about it 278 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:44,879 with kill him for sure. 279 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 3: You'll have to know the truth. 280 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 2: Gee, you'll have to decide about the world and truth 281 00:15:49,879 --> 00:15:54,639 is always the best and easy this time? Easy huh yeah, 282 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,559 I'll just take these bells off miss, poor little fella, 283 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,799 and I'll put him to belong. Carmon what Carmon Mody 284 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:04,519 over here now? 285 00:16:06,039 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 5: Or you pulled a switch he put these bells on 286 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,159 another book. I didn't trust that easy character, and I 287 00:16:13,279 --> 00:16:13,600 was right. 288 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 2: And nice girl, carlis now you folks going up to 289 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,039 see you, old Chris. I'll keep an eye on this 290 00:16:20,159 --> 00:16:22,200 year fifty thousand dollars jacket. 291 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,519 Speaker 4: That's the way it's going to be, ain't. 292 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,159 Speaker 2: It, Johnny, Yes, sir, that's the way it's going to be. 293 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,080 But I was wrong. The only pulling little old man 294 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:40,200 in the forepost of bed with his white whiskers resting 295 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,120 on the quilt changed his mind again. Even after hearing 296 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,960 about how the Marshall safe common, I wasn't. 297 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 5: Even gonna scratch nig's lean love for that insurance was done. 298 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,360 I tried to shake that guy is stina seeking. He's 299 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:58,720 taking hooks off a neck. If he's not my common, 300 00:16:58,799 --> 00:16:59,720 he's gonna get the money. 301 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:00,559 Speaker 6: Oh. 302 00:17:00,759 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 5: I was scared for a while that I just might 303 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,200 have to up and dive square and up his game 304 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:07,119 and debts. 305 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, Chris. 306 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 3: I'll work my fingers for off paying every ting I know, 307 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:13,559 but I'll pay him. 308 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:14,799 Speaker 6: Back with interest. 309 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,839 Speaker 2: I want you around, James G. 310 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,039 Speaker 5: Chris lifts the lid on that foot locker. The such 311 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:28,240 milling bags. Man, they're pretty heavy, but you look strong 312 00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:33,400 for sure, heavy enough. I got him with silver. It 313 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,279 gets better than children over the Yeah, as you get. 314 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 2: Recognize that, man, maybe you'd better have a good sleep. Chris, 315 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:49,640 is here a plain old brown Yes, it's uranium. Guy. 316 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 5: The last back assay that nine hundred dollars. 317 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,839 Speaker 2: To come, and I got a mountain of a staked 318 00:17:55,839 --> 00:17:57,640 out in both our names dead. 319 00:17:59,160 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 5: Chris. 320 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 2: If you got it, If you and Genie checked with 321 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,279 a barscill bank, you find the days extend credit. 322 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:12,319 Speaker 5: On the strength of that essay you reckon, you can spend. 323 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:17,079 Speaker 2: Two days buying in the presences. We will disappoint the 324 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:27,880 folks who expense a count at of four sixty eight dollars. 325 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,759 Even telephone calls to five principal cities where I thought 326 00:18:30,799 --> 00:18:35,160 Willie Degastino might be remembered. The police department had a 327 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,519 long list of reasons why they remembered Willie. That was 328 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:42,119 my Christmas present to them expense count aut of five, 329 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,359 another fifty truck rant on a hall of presents we 330 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:53,359 brought for Ned to give away come Christmas morning. And 331 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,519 then it was Christmas Eve. We sat on the Kringle's 332 00:18:56,599 --> 00:18:59,039 porch and watched the procession up to the Maggie mind, 333 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:02,519 the flickering lights from the miners lamps reflecting on the 334 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:06,319 faces of the happy children. Oh, Chris was bundled up 335 00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:09,720 in blanket, his little eyes twinkling, chuckling to himself like 336 00:19:09,839 --> 00:19:11,839 he knew all the answers to the universe. 337 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,799 Speaker 6: Jane was there to him tend and nice, isn't it Johnny. 338 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: Kind of nice? Marshall ed Nola was one of the 339 00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:26,319 wise men in the procession. I recognized the Sidebury and 340 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,160 Duc Spangler couldn't hide his height. Oh he wore an 341 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,400 awful beer. Ned Kringle led the borough that carried the 342 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,519 blessed mother. Yeah, you guessed it. The borough was common Cranle. 343 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,640 Extent account total including return to Palm Springs and incidental 344 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,759 two hundred and twenty nine dollars and seventy five cents. 345 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:50,720 But forget it, pat, This is the best holiday I 346 00:19:50,799 --> 00:19:53,759 ever had, and I was only cold at the start 347 00:19:55,519 --> 00:19:58,319 from all of us to all of you. May this 348 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:05,359 be your very yes Christmas. Yep, you're silly, junny up. 349 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back. A really good, sweet Christmas script with some 350 00:21:24,519 --> 00:21:29,200 nice heartwarming touches that doesn't get too far away from 351 00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:32,519 being true to the spirit of Johnny Dollar. It's not 352 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,519 the nickt Sher Matter, but it's a good, solid story, 353 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,440 really impressive because it unfolded in around twenty minutes of storytime. 354 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:46,160 I also understand why it'd rank higher in terms of 355 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,039 most enjoyable Christmas is for Johnny, as during the nixt 356 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:54,119 sher matter, he was shot at and nearly died in 357 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,920 a snow storm and had to kill a man in 358 00:21:57,039 --> 00:22:00,480 self defense. So only getting knocked out and having a 359 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:06,279 minor concussion makes this a Christmas win. If there was 360 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,079 one complaint I had, it was the idea of her 361 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,640 being hurt by Johnny not expressing interest in spending the holiday. 362 00:22:16,319 --> 00:22:18,920 I hate to point this out, but she was trying 363 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,319 to pick up a stranger in a friendly, not creepy way. 364 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,119 But you still can't reasonably get upset if this stranger 365 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:28,480 goes ahead and says no. 366 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:29,079 Speaker 2: Now. 367 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:31,799 Speaker 1: It's worth noting that the name of the writer of 368 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,799 the script was Robert Bainter, and that's actually a pen 369 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,799 name for Bob Bailey, with Bainter being his middle name 370 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:47,440 after his godmother early acting legend Fae Bainter. This was 371 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,160 something done during the Golden Age of radio because there 372 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,559 were rules about paying the same person for both writing 373 00:22:54,799 --> 00:23:00,519 and acting. And you see something very similar are when 374 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,680 Betsy Drake wrote an episode of Mister and Missus Blanding's 375 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,640 she used a pen name for the same reason. Now, 376 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:14,880 this may have been the last script that Bob Bailey wrote, 377 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:18,960 but it wasn't the first. Bailey had sat out on 378 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:23,519 a writing career no later than nineteen fifty three, though 379 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:28,519 he may have started writing earlier. There are thirteen scripts 380 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,079 of Let George Do It where the writer is credited 381 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:37,720 as Lloyd London in nineteen fifty one, in nineteen fifty two, Okay, 382 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:43,039 Lloyd's of London. Given that's an obvious pseudonym and the 383 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,640 industry rules I just mentioned, and that Bailey would eventually 384 00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:51,519 get the writing bug, it seems likely that Bailey first 385 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,119 tried writing on his own series, and that would make 386 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,960 sense budget wise because in nineteen fifty one and two 387 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,400 fifty two radio budgets were starting to contract, and so 388 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,599 the sponsors could have probably paid Bailey less to write 389 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,000 the script than they would have a normal professional writer, 390 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,519 particularly since he was also earning a salary as the star. 391 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,519 I can't prove it, but I would be very shocked 392 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:22,599 if someone else had been Lloyd London. Bailey had actually 393 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,880 quit Let George Do It in the fall of nineteen 394 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,480 fifty three to pursue a writing career. Now, as he 395 00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:34,000 told Zuma Palmer of the Los Angeles Evening Citizen, he 396 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,039 was under no illusion that he was a great writer. 397 00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:40,440 He viewed writing as a bridge to get to direct 398 00:24:40,559 --> 00:24:44,000 motion picture or film. Perhaps he decided to take this 399 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,640 direction in his career after Let George Do It TV 400 00:24:47,839 --> 00:24:51,680 series was shelved. The moment the production team saw him, 401 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,200 he may have concluded that television was the future and 402 00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:58,480 that the way the industry worked, he'd never make it 403 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:01,200 in front of the camera. And certainly there are quite 404 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,920 a few examples of people who worked in radio and 405 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,279 then went into writing, directing, or producing behind the camera. 406 00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:13,079 Examples include Sheldon Lennard, Tony Barrett, as well as his 407 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:19,039 predecessor as Johnny Doller, William Charles Russell William Conrad, who 408 00:25:19,599 --> 00:25:23,480 was rejected as the on screen Matt Dillon produced and 409 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:29,039 directed throughout the late nineteen fifties into the sixties. It 410 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,400 just didn't end up working out for Bailey. He had 411 00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:36,759 a promising start. You might even say he made a 412 00:25:36,799 --> 00:25:41,359 splash and there's a pun it's coming up. He and 413 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,960 co writer Hugh King sold one, perhaps two stories for 414 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,759 movies to RKO. They also co wrote an episode of 415 00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:55,920 the Ford Television Theater, which was a backdoor pilot for 416 00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:01,200 a legal comedy series called The Legal Beagles. Unfortunately now 417 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,880 they're worked out. When it came to the stories that 418 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:09,160 were sold to RKO, one of them became the film Underwater. 419 00:26:09,519 --> 00:26:12,960 And in fact, I found a news report that Bailey 420 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:18,200 took a vacation to Hawaii for his fortieth birthday in 421 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,279 June of nineteen fifty three, and it's likely he was 422 00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:26,599 mixing a little business with pleasure, as Hawaii would be 423 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,200 one of the locations that the film was shot at. 424 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,559 But the film was a troubled production. A lot of 425 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,519 it can come back to the fact that Howard Hughes 426 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,319 was involved and he owned RKO at the time. It 427 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,559 was massively expensive to shoot and it took a very 428 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:49,200 long time, and there was all sorts of drama surrounding 429 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:55,160 the picture, including the fact that Howard Hughes was kind 430 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,599 of creepy towards Jane Russell. Film had a big premiere, 431 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:04,640 of course, as Howard Hughes was involved, he had it underwater, 432 00:27:05,599 --> 00:27:09,319 but the film is not well remembered. It was in 433 00:27:09,519 --> 00:27:13,000 fact in the book The Hollywood Hall of Shame The 434 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:19,680 Most Expensive Flops by Harry and Michael Medvet. This had 435 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,200 very little to do with Bailey and Hugh King, his 436 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,000 co writer, as they just wrote the story, but the 437 00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:33,759 production did not go well. As for a potential second film, 438 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:39,039 in the interview that he gave to Zuma Palmer, he 439 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,920 stated that they had sold a story called Below the Timberline, 440 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,200 and this was never made. And given the fact that 441 00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:53,920 RKO fell in the late nineteen fifties, it seems probable 442 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,319 that they bought the story but just never developed it. 443 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,480 As for the Lee Hicles, I've seen the episode of 444 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,200 the Ford Television Theater. It's not awful, but it's not 445 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,759 good either. It's about a husband and wife attorney team 446 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,440 who get a continuance in a legal case so that 447 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:20,400 they can have a second honeymoon. However, a demand for 448 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,839 justice up ends their plans. Now, it had two good 449 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,640 actors in the leads, in Richard Dinning and Lorraine Day. 450 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:33,240 It's the tope of series that could have worked. If 451 00:28:33,319 --> 00:28:36,759 someone saw the potential and worked to smooth out the 452 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,799 rough edges, it really could have made it. But it's 453 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,119 not some cosmic injustice that it didn't. Bailey's writing career 454 00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:49,720 stoleed out a bit. It was during these couple of 455 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,319 years between fifty three or fifty four and fifty five 456 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,960 he did quite a few radio guest appearances. He also 457 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:00,880 did some movie parts, and he actually they hadn't done 458 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,519 much of either of those during his time when he 459 00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:08,720 was playing George Valentine on Let George Do It, and 460 00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:11,279 the state of his writing career may have been why 461 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,720 he was available to do Johnny Dollar two years after 462 00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:20,839 stepping aside on his last program. Now, after he landed 463 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,200 Johnny Dollar, he still continued to write. He co wrote 464 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:28,359 some episodes of Fury, which is the horse version of 465 00:29:28,519 --> 00:29:31,480 Lassie or the horse version of Flipper, however you'd like 466 00:29:31,599 --> 00:29:34,440 to look at it. He also co wrote a large 467 00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:38,960 number of episodes of the syndicated series Hawkeye and the 468 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,759 Last of the Mohicans. He also stated in the Zuma 469 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:49,680 Palmer interview that he'd written episodes for a series called 470 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,240 The Phantom Pirate. However, I can't find any evidence of 471 00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:56,680 that series actually being produced, though there was a pilot 472 00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:59,599 for the series earlier in the nineteen fifties, and I 473 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,000 believe I found some whisperings of a revival on the 474 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:09,279 late fifties. Likely Bailey and King sold scripts or sold 475 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,759 storylines four series that just ended up not being produced. 476 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:19,160 None of this would get Bailey close to being behind 477 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,519 the camera. The last script he wrote that was produced 478 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,160 was a March nineteen fifty eight episode of Fury, though 479 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,200 given TV production timelines, it's likely that this episode was 480 00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:34,720 written after that. Bailey may have made a practical decision, 481 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,319 or he may just have lost the mood to write, 482 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,279 which to him might have been fatal for him pursuing 483 00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:45,680 this sort of career. Bailey described himself as someone who 484 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,079 liked to write when he had a compulsion, whether it 485 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,440 was early in the morning, or he might get started 486 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,480 at ten o'clock and pull an all nighter and stay 487 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:59,640 up till four am. And I think from the zoom 488 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,319 upon or peace in particularly with someone who oosed creativity. 489 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,599 He built and sold an early American furniture he painted, 490 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,000 and had even talked to a gallery owner about doing 491 00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:16,440 some showings. He often read about a type of dish 492 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,400 and would spontaneously go home, take over the kitchen and 493 00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:24,279 try to cook it. Babe Lee told Palmer, if I 494 00:31:24,359 --> 00:31:28,079 would concentrate on one field, I would probably go further. 495 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,680 But being creative in several I feel enriches my life. 496 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:33,839 Speaker 3: All right. 497 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: Well, listener comments and feedback now, and we start on 498 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,039 YouTube with a couple of comments regarding the two face matter, 499 00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:46,160 kind of in the same vein. Listener comments, this has 500 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,920 to be the earliest depiction of an Amish community used 501 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,160 as a plot device that I've ever heard. An Unseen 502 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,759 Happiness says, this sounds like someone was trying to describe 503 00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:03,200 or explain the Amish without having met any Amish people. 504 00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:08,599 I definitely feel like the show was maybe a little 505 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,680 bit evocative of the Amish. Yet the series didn't describe 506 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:19,480 them as particularly religious or tied to any ethnic group, 507 00:32:19,759 --> 00:32:23,720 which may have reflected a sensitivity they've shown in other 508 00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:28,880 areas to going after minority religious or ethnic groups. Instead, 509 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,119 the episode treats them as just a group of eccentrics, 510 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:38,079 which can make it seem a bit shallow, particularly if 511 00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:41,759 you catch what Johnstone might have been going for. And 512 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:48,440 then Harrison comments regarding the wayward Killer matter, gotta hate 513 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,880 it when you toss yourself out a second floor last 514 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,279 window to throw off the cops, only to make yourself 515 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:59,640 look even guiltier. Thanks so much, appreciate the comment, Harrison. 516 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,279 Now now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of 517 00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:05,079 the day, and I want to thank Debbie, Patreon supporter 518 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,440 since October twenty fifteen, currently supporting the podcast at the 519 00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:13,400 Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or 520 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,920 more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Debbie, 521 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,680 and that will do it for today. 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We 532 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:05,559 will be back on Sunday with a special episode where. 533 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 6: You ashamed of your friendship with a private detective? Or 534 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,920 do you consider my features more acceptable when buried beneath 535 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,239 the depths of a snowy beer? 536 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 7: Oh, my dear homes, do take me seriously. I'm not joking. 537 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:17,400 I assure your. 538 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,119 Speaker 6: Cause not a cause? 539 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 2: Right? 540 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 3: You? 541 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 6: You want me to attend your party in disguise? Why 542 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,760 I'm giving you some very valuable. 543 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,800 Speaker 7: Presents diamond and onyx cuff links in platinum and ruby earrings, 544 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,880 and then such like. And I've wrapped each of the 545 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,119 presents in banknotes. 546 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 6: Jure, where aren't these presents now in a. 547 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,320 Speaker 7: Sack in charge of my butler. I am going to 548 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,239 dress up a Santa Clause and give him out myself 549 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,880 until I got the warning letter. That's why I've come 550 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:44,119 to you. 551 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:45,519 Speaker 6: Warning letter. 552 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:48,599 Speaker 7: Eh, yes, I received it by this evening's post. Listen 553 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:53,800 to this, my dear lord whittickumb, Your generosity with Christmas 554 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,519 presents borders on ostentation. 555 00:34:56,119 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 6: We do not approve either. 556 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 7: We receive five thousand pounds in sovereigns at post rest 557 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,039 Ont Box three seven nine by six o'clock on Christmas Eve, 558 00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:08,920 or I'm afraid to Christmas party will be conspicuous by 559 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,199 its absence of presence. 560 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 6: You see that note wig, will you he is here? 561 00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:18,119 Thanks m H. Clean paper from a penny notebook. Writing 562 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:23,800 is obviously disguised it Why, George, Yes, whitting Comb, I 563 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,320 accept the case. I'll come with you to your party 564 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,239 at once, and furthermore, I shall follow your suggestion regarding 565 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,480 the disguise rested as Santa Claus, I shall be less 566 00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:36,599 likely to attract suspicion and delighted homes. But what made 567 00:35:36,639 --> 00:35:39,679 you decide so suddenly? This writing, my dear fellow, is writing. 568 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,320 It's in a false hand. I'd know that characteristic m 569 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,280 in my dear Whittickum. I've seen it too often at 570 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,360 the beginning of a signature. 571 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: If you'll be with us, then in the meantime, send 572 00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:56,280 your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 573 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,719 follow us on Twitter Radio Detectors, and check us out 574 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:05,559 on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great detectives from Boise, Idaho. 575 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,119 This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.