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Great Detectives dot net. As I mentioned, we ended up

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finishing Bulldog Drummond abruptly a week early, and I did

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not want to reschedule the rest of the year, So

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we're playing a midweek special which will bring us another

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episode of Malay Mystery Theater. And this is actually a

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story we played an adaptation of back in season seven

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in an episode of Escape starring Jeff Chandler, and we

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recently got season seven uploaded on our Volume three feed,

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and I was thinking that it would be fun to

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revisit that story because there was an escape version with

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Willard Waterman. I found out that there was an entirely

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different version that was actually done for the Molay Mystery Theater,

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which is kind of appropriate for what will be bringing

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you next week. So here now from March eighth, nineteen

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forty six is the episode Red Wine.

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Speaker 2: And now the Molay Mystery Theater presented by M Lle

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Molay the Heavier Brushless shaving Cream for heavy Beards.

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Speaker 3: Good evening.

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Speaker 4: This is Jeffrey Bones welcoming you to the program that

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presents the best in detective and mystery fiction. Tonight, we

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have selected for you a masterful story of suspense entitled

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red Wine. In red Wine, we have an unusual think.

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It's a mystery story that stood a good chance of

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being completely lost to mystery fans. It is published more

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than fifteen years ago, and to the best of my knowledge,

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has never been republished in any mystery anthology. And so

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it is with great pleasure that we now present L. G.

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Blockmann's Red Wine. It's an extraordinary story and one that

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certainly does not deserve to be forgotten.

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Speaker 2: Before you begin your story, mister Barnes, here's something.

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Speaker 5: It will pay the men in our audience.

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Speaker 6: Not to forget.

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Speaker 2: If you have wiry, hard to cut whiskers or a

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tender skin, and you dread the agony of that morning shave,

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then shaved with Molay, the heavier brushless shaving crane. Yes,

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sir man, it's smooth, so smooth. It's slack, so slack.

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It's a small, smooth, slack slake shave.

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Speaker 5: You get with M. L. L. E.

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Speaker 2: Molay, the heavier brushless cream for tender skins. That's right,

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Molay is a heavier cream, the kind of cream you

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need if you have a wiry, hard to cut beard

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or a tender skin. Because Molay is heavier, it softens

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your whiskers, holds them up straighter, and makes them easy

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to cut. So you shave faster, closer, easier, and you

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shave painlessly with Molay, the heavier brushless cream for tender skins.

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Speaker 7: Molay.

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Speaker 2: And now here is Jeffrey Barnes with Tonight's Molay Mystery

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red Wine. This happened at Bohar Plantation down in the

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valley of the Amazon, And the men who grow rubber

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in the jungle will vouch for the story, and they

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tell it nights in the bar of Maraccas, And they say.

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Speaker 6: That it had to do with three who were hunted, and.

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Speaker 4: The fourth the hunter fall, and all they say, and

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the bitter ending in a bottle of red wine. The

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four sit at the table, no sound as the dealer

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fixed the cards. The lamp shines wearily on the set faces.

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The dealer's eyes move slowly watching each man. Joe Best hard,

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heavy lipped, sensual, I opened with two box, Dick hallap easy,

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full muscled, sometimes smiling above that. Three William Carr quiet, quick,

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handy with a knife, all right along. The dealer's eyes

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move slowly, watching each man inside the stifling room. The

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never ceasing smell of coagulating rubber from the mill, the dull,

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wet heat of the jungle cards. Gentlemen, the dealer spoke,

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boyd trasker. The dealer, I'll take two. Joe Best takes

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two cards. And now the fifth man in the room,

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Don Hernando Valcar, gets up from his chair in the

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far corner and comes close to the table.

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Speaker 3: Uh is permitted to watch, senor Uh? Thank you?

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Speaker 5: Cards?

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Speaker 7: Helop three cards.

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Speaker 6: Car?

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Speaker 7: One could.

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Speaker 5: Dealers stands Pat well Best you opened opener, checks a

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bit hel up, check car check out at fifty bucks.

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Speaker 7: I r all, I can stand at this cat and

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mouse stuff.

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Speaker 5: What do you mean?

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Speaker 7: I mean, Trasker, You're.

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Speaker 5: An out and out pony.

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Speaker 7: You're not watching the game at all.

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Speaker 5: You're watching us.

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Speaker 7: You heard what I said, Trasker.

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Speaker 5: I heard you best.

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Speaker 7: What are you here, Fort Treska? Yeah, Treska.

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Speaker 8: You said you were a stockholder and Boha rubber Boja

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is privately owned.

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Speaker 7: There are no stockholders.

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Speaker 5: Somebody was snooping around my bunk this morning. What are

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you here for, Treska. Somebody went to my foot locker

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two days in the morning at Tresky. You better go

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back where you came from. We don't like.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Jen tileman Jan, we don't.

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Speaker 5: Like you either. Back easy for what a native flight cup?

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So he's Don hernandol Baca. So he's police chief of

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my Raka. So what So we're American citizens, all three

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of us. Why do you here, Fort Tresker.

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Speaker 8: Maybe we can help you find what you're looking for, Treska.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you can calm. I'm looking for a murderer named

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Jerome Steek.

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Speaker 7: Jerome Steek, So yeah.

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Speaker 5: Jerome Steak wanted in San Francisco for the murder of

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his wife.

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Speaker 7: Known to have escaped to Brazil. Brazil's a big place.

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Speaker 5: Treska, also known to have paddled down the Amazon Valley

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to Boha Rubber Place. Antation appearance, of course, will be altered.

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Dark hair, probably bleached blonde.

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Speaker 7: Now I'm blonde, Treska.

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Speaker 3: See all three of you are. That is what I

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told the Senuel Trosca when he first came to my

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office in Moncas. I said, all three men are blonde, Senor,

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I said.

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Speaker 5: Go on. Jerome Steek is an American, quite cultured, very

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well read, connoisseur of wine, fond of horse racing, women,

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good clothes. Also a heavy gambler. So that's why you

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arranged this poker game to see how we bet.

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Speaker 7: Jerome Steak is also very clever. He's a good actor.

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Speaker 5: He's capable of concealing his breeding, of passing himself off

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as a ship's engineer. Say or a Steve adoor Field hand,

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I'm a ship's engineer. You want to see my papers.

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I don't want anything help except except what accept to

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admit I've made a mistake.

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Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, that's better, don Henando, I apologize. I should

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have listened to you.

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Speaker 3: I told you, was it wild goose change?

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Speaker 5: I had to see it for myself, well have you? Yes,

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it's quite obvious that none of you is drome stick.

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So when the launch comes up the river again, I'll

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take it and return to the United States. Launch won't

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be here for a week. That's unfortunate. Best you will

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have to put up with me until then.

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Speaker 8: Awake is a long time trisk. Four guys could get

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on each other's lives in a week. We'll have to

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take a chance on that car. My nerves are pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Yes, this joke as trunk right, must be something here

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for the love, Oh, don Nando, I didn't hear you right, Nerve,

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don't be foolish.

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Speaker 3: I would not blame you my friend coming here to

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the bunk house. I'm snooping. This is an unwise thing

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you do. If that Joe Best saw you're going through,

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he's trunk senor Trasca. Please come away from here. I

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have heard the men talk. I am responsible for your safety.

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Speaker 5: You're a good guy. And Nando relax, please, I have

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heard the talk.

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Speaker 3: He's a dangerous man.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm going to do when I get home.

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And Ando I'm going to make you an honorary member

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of the San Francisco Police.

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Speaker 3: Ah dun l nandovaka San Francisco Police.

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Speaker 5: That is nice, an honorary member for helping us catch

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Jerome Steak.

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Speaker 3: Steak, Santa Maria, why you keep mentioning his name? You

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already said you have made a mistake, that you do

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not believe any of these men.

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Speaker 7: They said that for a reason, Hernando, one of them

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is Steak.

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Speaker 5: Come here. If you were a field hand and a

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rubber plantation, would you be reading the poems of Charles

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al Jernon swin.

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Speaker 3: Burn Senor I do not understand.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I's in your best. What's the matter with reading

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swind nothing at all best, It's just a little unusual.

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Jerome Steak is the sort of a man who might

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read love poems Joe Best.

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Speaker 7: Wouldn't He might?

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Speaker 5: And he might not put that book back in my trunk, trasker,

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close the trunk and get out of here. Before I

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Steak was known to have a severe temper.

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Speaker 3: Are you on your best? He would not be good

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to resolve the violence. After all, he's a law in

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Morocca's these three I am only it's all believed.

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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, put the gun down. But I'm telling you, Trasker,

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you're poking your nose into trouble. Car seems to have

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enough bottles hanging around here looking for something, mister Tress.

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Speaker 5: Oh hello, Car, I cut myself. I was told there

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was some peroxide in this first aid cabinet. Funny they

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told you to come all the way down to my

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shack for peroxide, is it?

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Speaker 8: I think so they have. I had dined up at

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the main office, that's all.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I had dines much better for cuts, particularly little scratches

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like that. Thanks, Car, I remember that I would if

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I were you at TRESK.

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Speaker 7: You can't be too careful.

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Speaker 5: That's right, especially when your bottle labeled machine oil contains peroxide.

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Speaker 7: My fool people, meaning nothing important.

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Speaker 5: I was just thinking peroxide is bad for the hair, tends.

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Speaker 8: To bleach it, does it? Really, that's what they say, Traska.

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You lied to us the other day. That apology of

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yours was a store. You still think one of us

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is this Jerome Steak could be Car. I've got five

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days to find out.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Trasky, you've got five days if you live that floor.

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Speaker 4: As the curtain falls on Act one of our story.

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It looks as though board Trasker is in for plenty

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of trouble, and very shortly. The chances are mister Trasker

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would much rather be back in San Francisco right now

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than risking his life in the Brazilian jungle. Well, mister Barnes,

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I don't know about mister Trasker, but I do know this,

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there are a lot of men who'd rather face all

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the tortures of the worst jungle than go through the

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punishment of a morning shave.

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Speaker 6: Well almost You.

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Speaker 2: See, many a man has a wiry, hard to cut

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beard or a tender skin, and shaving can really be painful.

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And yet it needn't be, not if they shave with

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Molay brushless shaving cream, the heavier cream for tender skins. Yes,

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Molay is a heavier cream, the cream that softens your whiskers,

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sets them up straighter, and lets your razor sweep right

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through them. With Molay, you shave faster, closer, easier, and

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you shave painlessly. Try it and see if you don't

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say it's smooth, so smooth.

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Speaker 6: It's slick, sol slick.

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Speaker 5: It's a smooth, smooth, slick slake shave you get with.

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Speaker 2: Molay the heavier brushless cream for tender skins Molay allow.

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Back to Jeffrey Barnes and Act two of The Moley Mystery,

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Red Wine. Boyd Trasker, San Francisco detective is on a

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rubber plantation and the jungles of the Amazon looking for

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a murderer named Jerome Steak. He is convinced that one

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of the Americans there is the murderer. When he challenges

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the three men, each denies he is Jerome Steak. The

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search becomes a hunt. One man hunting, three hunted.

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Speaker 4: Joe Best, William Carr, Dick Hallop the hunted, Boyd Trasker

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the hunter. But as the hours of the week slip by,

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the tension grows tighter, the hostility comes out in the open,

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and the tables are turned.

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Speaker 6: The hunter becomes the hunted.

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Speaker 4: Then one afternoon, the four go off into the jungle

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to shoot wild pigs.

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Speaker 3: Say you Trusco s.

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Speaker 5: Trusca, you are all right? Did you come from Hernando?

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Speaker 3: You are all right?

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Speaker 5: I told you not to worry about me.

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Speaker 3: I could not help it. I had to come when

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I heard you had agreed to go peek hunting me

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those men.

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Speaker 5: I can take care of myself.

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Speaker 3: What's such unnecessary risks this jungle? Anything?

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Speaker 7: What you want me to do?

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Speaker 5: They came to me this morning, all three of them,

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and said they always hunt pig on the day off,

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and would I like to come along?

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Speaker 3: But it would be so easy. A hunting accident, Pean.

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Everybody is so sorry, and you are dead.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm expecting at any minute, what a hunting accident?

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One of those men out there on a brushious steak.

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I feel certain of it. He already has one murder

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towards credit, and I'm going to find out if he

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has nerve enough to try a seconds that little rise

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of ground ahead, See, they gave me that as my post.

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When the pig is sided, a car is somewhere to

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the left, vest is over there to the right, by

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that clump of trees, and help is behind us now and.

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Speaker 3: All right, please do not go to your posts, Insca.

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Speaker 5: I don't intend to, huh, but my son helmet is going.

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My son helmet will show just above the bushes in

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the spot where I'm supposed to be.

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Speaker 6: Wait.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I'm coming with you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Please send your trasca, please, Fernando, and stay down

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this is your post right here?

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Speaker 6: Yes, wait away.

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Speaker 5: Here goes send you all wait Traska's helmet showing just

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above the bush. No one would trask us helmet. Gentlemen,

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this Jerome Steek watching.

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Speaker 3: This will prove nothing.

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Speaker 7: Let's see now, watch.

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Speaker 3: Santa Maria.

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Speaker 5: Didn't take them long?

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Speaker 7: Did it?

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Speaker 5: Clean through the helmet? Lean through the helmet and the

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direction indicated clear as a weather vein. It came from behind.

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Speaker 3: Us, behind, Send your holop, he's behind.

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Speaker 5: Help was behind us, but car and Best could drop back.

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It could have been any one of them, but it

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was one of them.

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Speaker 7: What you say now, don Hernando?

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Speaker 3: What do I say now? I say you are right? Senor?

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Who of these three men? Easily murderer Jerome Steak.

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Speaker 6: That was the first attempt on board Traska's life.

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Speaker 4: The second attempt involves a melee man catcher, that horrible

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machine that is set off by a concealed wire and

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plunges spiked bamboo steaks into its victim.

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Speaker 3: So sen you trust, Senor Trush.

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Speaker 5: I'm all right, Henando. Luckily for me, I've travel in Java.

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Speaker 7: I know the setup of a melee man catcher when

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I see one.

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Speaker 5: My houseboy wasn't so fortunate.

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Speaker 3: Oh poor Manuel, those Bomboo steaks pierced right through.

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Speaker 5: How could a melee man catcher suddenly appear outside my shack?

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Jerome Steak lived many years in Java. He could answer

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that that.

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Speaker 4: Was attempt number two on Tasker's life, and then that

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night attempt number three.

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Speaker 3: Din this way quick, she said, Oh see what has happened,

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mother of Heaven a bush master.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was curled up between my bed sheets. I

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got it just in time if I hadn't been on

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the lookout for something.

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Speaker 3: Devious snake in all the world.

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Speaker 5: Yes, another quaint device of our friend, Jerome Steak.

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Speaker 4: The hunter has become the hunted, and both are working

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against time.

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Speaker 3: One day left, Sire, I cannot stand much more of you.

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Speaker 5: You won't have to, Rnando. It has been Steak's life

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of mine. Now it's going to be steaks.

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Speaker 3: You are sure the riva won't arrive tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: I know, but I still haven't played my trump card.

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You're trunk, yes, Fernando. In North America we call it

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our ace in the hole. Oh God, event, I let

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drink about an hour? Right? The bike man, gentlemen's gone.

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Speaker 7: How are you doing here, Tresker? This is a private part.

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Speaker 5: I don't expect to stay best.

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Speaker 6: Good Amen.

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Speaker 5: I came to extend an invitation. Yeah, off, how you

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get with any of your invitations, trasker. Will you listen

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or not? If it'll help get you out of here

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any faster, go ahead, spill it tomorrow. I am leaving

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Boha for good, and i'd like to leave with no

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hard feelings. If you let me, boys, I want to

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throw a party for you. We're having a party, a

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real party, on board the steamer before I sail. I

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know the skipper of the Salvador, and the skipper knows food.

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He has a top notch wine cellar board specializes in

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Chateau malerve. He also has a fine Chinese cook. What

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do you say? Ah?

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Speaker 7: The devil with you and your party?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, An, We don't like Transkan.

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Speaker 5: We made no bones about it, but I think we

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should take him up on this offer. After all, good

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food and wine don't turn up around here every day.

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Speaker 7: I'll leave your show, Transk.

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Speaker 5: Thanks, Hallop and you calm, it's okay with hellup, it's

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okay with me. That leaves you best, and I won't

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like any better. Trus you being thank you gentlemen, you

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will come on to lunch with me. Oh, we'll paddle

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down a river ourselves as you like. Well, good night,

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I'll see you on the steamer tomorrow. I have an idea.

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It'll be a party. You'll never forget.

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Speaker 4: This is Jeffrey Barnes again. In just a moment, we'll

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return you to Act three of red Wine. Don't let

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specks of dandriff on your coat collar embarrass you. Do

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what thousands are doing for relief from this social and

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business handicap. Use double danderine. You'll quickly discover.

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Speaker 9: The double danderine is unlike so many hair preparations available today,

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preparations that really do no more to fight a common

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type of dandrift than plain water does. That is, they

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simply remove loose dandreff. Double danderene, you see, actually combats

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this dandriff by killing on contact. The germs that many

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outstanding authorities contend are cars. I repeat, it actually kills

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them on contact.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 9: The amazing effectiveness of double danderene is due to a

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special ingredient called al zam an activatiseptic so remarkably efficient

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that many hospitals use it and among hair preparations. Double

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danderene and double dandurene alone has it. So try double

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danderene and see if you don't agree that most ordinary

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hair preparations can't compare with its dandriff combating effectiveness. If

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you're not satisfied, return the empty bottle and get your

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money back by double danderene at your druggists.

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Speaker 5: I like miss Ta Taska flight sim setti I sens

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antos letti everything. Letty you taste o yang, everything smells perfect.

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That's proven up for me.

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Speaker 7: You're a great.

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Speaker 5: Dyna and own.

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Speaker 3: See see is the change you say? Oh young, he's

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number warm.

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Speaker 7: Cook.

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Speaker 5: My guests have arrived.

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Speaker 3: They are waiting in the sheep.

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Speaker 5: Sell on, let's go. Then everything is already. I don't

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forget you. Bring in the ice cubes when I call

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for you, see, I will bring them. I will remember.

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He's old, planted good Now, don hernando. I am ready

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for my ace in the hole. Yes, I've told you before.

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Jerome Steak is a connoisseur of good food and rare wine.

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Now this little bottle of Chateau Malure will be his finish,

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this little bottle. It will as surely as he meant

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his melee man catcher to finish me midway through the dinner.

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I'll rise and call for silence. Gentlemen, I'll say, in

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a moment, I'll open this rare vintage wine. I'd be

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pleased if all of you will join me in a

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farewell drink. You're having a good time, boy, God, I

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may I have your attention for just the moment, gentlemen. Please, gentlemen,

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in a moment, I'll open this rare vintage wine. I'll

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be pleased if all of you will join me in

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a farewell drink. Why not pour it off?

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Speaker 7: Might as well go the lemmon.

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Speaker 5: This wine is Chau nineteen eleven. Pour it out, never

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mind the build up. The vineyards produced real nectar that year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, let's drink and not talk.

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Speaker 5: Okay, best here she comes, Mmm, okay, pass the bottle around.

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Just have a whiff of it here, best smell it

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smells okay, here here, take a sniff. Make the man happy.

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I'll tryscrab it fred drinking some as you say. The glasses, gentlemen,

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now we're getting somewhere.

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Speaker 7: Pass them down, all right.

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Speaker 5: It's precious stuff. You will taste no other like it.

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Class for Joe Best, one to take calap and one

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for William Carr. Well, let's hope it tastes as good

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as you've tried to make it sound. Well, Helop, I

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assure you, Uh, don Lenando.

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Speaker 7: Hernando, what's he doing here?

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Speaker 5: He was with me in the launch, don Nando Froscar

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calling had the ice pail, see.

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Speaker 6: Right, ice pail?

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Speaker 8: Yes, Helop, Look are we gonna drink this wine or not?

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Speaker 5: We're going to drink a car We just removed the

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cover from the pail and drop a cube of ice

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into each glass. It'll add to the refreshment. One cube

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for Joe Best.

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Speaker 7: I can't wait to have any.

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Speaker 5: And one for William.

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Speaker 7: Hey, hey, you're not going to put ice some ice

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to melt?

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Speaker 6: Hey, what's the matica?

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Speaker 5: Why not? Car Well?

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Speaker 7: And any fool knows it?

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Speaker 8: Yes, car Well, Well, I mean everyone knows that Chateau

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melas drunken room temperature.

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Speaker 5: Everyone does. I don't think so, Carr. I think that

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is something only Jerome Steak would know. William Carr, or

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if you prefer Jerome Steak, I arrest you for the

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murder of your wife.

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Speaker 4: William Carr was arrested, but Joe Best and Dick helap

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our freed the next morning, best and help push their

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canoe into the river and start peddling upstream toward home.

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Speaker 7: Two of you are at Liberty to return up river to.

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Speaker 5: Boorha at Pompa's pool. Dad, I just can't get it

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through my head. Quiet Billyka who just thought it could

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be our friend Bilika? Yeah, nice guy, all this you

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know best.

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Speaker 7: When you come to think of it. That was pretty

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dark clever at Trask.

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Speaker 5: He figured only a guy who really knew his liquor

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would walk.

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Speaker 7: And have an ice putting his wine.

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Speaker 5: He's sure enough, trap Bill with those cubes in the

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Chateau Malure nineteen eleven.

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Speaker 7: Pretty clever, i'd see.

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Speaker 5: Maybe, and maybe not so clear?

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Speaker 7: What do you mean not so clever?

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Speaker 5: Any wine merchant could tell you howp There was no

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Chateau Malare in nineteen eleven.

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Speaker 7: It was a bad year. The vineyards didn't bottle. Yes, that's.

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Speaker 6: The best.

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute.

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Speaker 5: Only one man around these parts that know a thing

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like that, Jerome Steek.

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Speaker 7: That's right.

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Speaker 5: Oh, keep right on paddling, helop and don't turn around.

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You might be sorry. You you're gonna kill me, I suppose, Oh, yes,

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you're the only man alive who knows I'm your own steak.

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I can hardly allow you to return to poor hour

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of that knowledge.

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Speaker 7: I'd be embarrassed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you'll be even more embarrassed when you try to

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shoot that revolver. I emptied the chambers this morning, you see, best, Trask,

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and I've been trying to find you for months. We

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narrowed it down to un car but we were stimied

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from there. We had to hear it from your own mouth.

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We chose this way, counting on your ego. I wouldn't

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try anything, Joe.

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Speaker 7: The chambers in this gun are quite well loaded. I see.

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Speaker 5: Shall we be getting back to the Salvador? Trascor will

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be waiting, I guess, sir. We can finish the bottle

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if you like.

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Speaker 6: Bottle.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Hello, always was a sucker for red wine.

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Speaker 4: Now this is Jeffrey Barnes again inviting you to be

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with us next week when we present a comedy mystery

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by Joseph Ruscolle entitled The Case of the Missing Mind,

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you'll meet a delightful little Broadway wise guy named Kenny

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who has one of the most mad, exciting, hilarious experiences

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on record.

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Speaker 6: When he meets a strange mystic named Aladdin.

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Speaker 4: So join us next week to meet two wonderful characters

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in the Case of the Missing Mind.

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Speaker 2: The original music for the Molee Mystery Theater is composed

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and conducted by Alexander Semdler. Red Wine was written by L. G.

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Blackman and adapted for radio by Louis Pellettier and Jacques Fink.

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Kenneth Lynch was featured in tonight's program, This is dan

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Seymour saying good night until next Friday, when the Mystery

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Theater presents the Case of the Missing Mind.

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Speaker 4: Tonight's Mystery Theater presentation came to you from New York's

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Radio City.

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Speaker 7: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I thought it was an enjoyable episode and

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a nice chance to see Ken Lynch in action as

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the lead. I still think the escape version is better

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because it's more faithful to the source material. There were

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two big twists in this episode. The first was from

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the short story and the revelation about the ice and

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the Red Wine. The second was an original to the

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Mullay Mystery Theater, and it's not a great one. The

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idea that Trasker had an inside man of the three

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and therefore there were really only two suspects. Kind of

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diminishes the mystery. And if Trasker did have a secret partner,

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it seems like they could have wrapped this up much

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earlier rather than this dragging out for days and weeks.

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If nothing else, having someone among the three suspects should

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have prevented the murderer from going out and setting up

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elaborate death traps for Trasker. I mean, you would think, however,

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this story may despite some of the issues with the adaptation.

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Oh Molay for bringing it to light, because who knows

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if the Escape adaptation or a later TV adaptation with

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David Niven on the Four Star Playhouse would have come

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to fruition if Molay hadn't highlighted the story. There were

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a lot of mystery stories that were published at the

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same time as Red Wine, with so many popular mystery

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magazines that some have just really been lost in the

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and been forgotten, even though they're perfectly fine stories. So

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Molay may have spared red Wine from that fate. All right, Well,

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now it's time to think our Patreon supporter of the

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day and I want to go head and thanks Susan,

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who's been one of our Patreon supporters since March twenty

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twenty three, currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmas level

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of four dollars or more per month. Thank you so

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much for your support, Susan, and that will actually do

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it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow

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featuring Hoarstone of the Desk Squad. In the meantime, send

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