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everyone at your table. All right, Well, from December seventh,
nineteen fifty Here is the big picture.
Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a juvenile bureau. A pair
of fake talent scouts are at work in your city.
They're victims, young girls seeking careers in Hollywood. The criminals
are vicious, relentless. Your job get them.
Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel, step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case transcribed from official police folence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, May seventh, was mild in Los Angeles,
we're working the day watch out of Juvenile Bureau. My
partner's Ben Romero, the bosses Inspector Bowling, Commander Juvenile Division.
My name's Friday was ten thirteen am when I got
to thirteen thirty five Georgia Street, second floor the squadron. Hi, Hi, Ben, did.
Speaker 5: You pick up that latest run the Stat's office made
for No. I don't think they got it ready yet.
I notice there in the book. It's been ready since yesterday.
You were over there, you could have picked it up. Well, yeah,
what's the matter with you this morning? Don't you feel good?
Just just stink and cool? Seam to be settling my chest? Yeah, sir,
I help you? Yes, I'd like some information please. This
is the two of them.
Speaker 3: Bureau, isn't he?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 4: So there, What can we do for you?
Speaker 8: Mind? If I sit down and climbing those stairs takes
your breath away?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure, a.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 8: My name is Wayne Ken. Were the officers out here
on the convention.
Speaker 6: My home is in Minnesota. Went out last night with
some of the boys at the Conventional. He stopped at
a bar down on your Alvarado Street, Alvarado, Alforado. Anyway,
we were drinking there, and the bartender got to talking
to us, finally offered us some pictures for sale.
Speaker 8: I got one. I'm right here. Let's see.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, there you are. I paid him two dollars
for it. Just look at that, Phil. Do you have
the address of the bar were you bought the Yes, sir,
I have. Now, that's not the reason I'm here though,
not a one man moral squad. I'm not the type
makes a habit of buying. I've seen photographs of young girls.
Speaker 4: Either, Y answer, we understand.
Speaker 8: And I bought this picture from that bartender because I
know the young girl in it.
Speaker 6: She's the daughter of one of my neighbors back home Minnesota,
known her ever since she was a baby. This girl
came out here about eight months ago to live with
a girlfriend. She was crazy for Hollywood. Thought she might
break into the movies or something. She stopped writing her
folks about two months ago. Hasn't been heard from since. Well,
it sounds like a case for a missing person's bill,
mister Kenley. Well, the girls folks have already contacted them.
Nothing's been turned up, nothing at all. Then last night,
just by an accident, the bartender shows me this photograph.
Speaker 5: It's set girl, all right, no mistakes. Well, we'll do
everything we can. They'll straighten it out.
Speaker 6: To that young girl. I know knowner since she was
a baby, good family, good training. She never would have
posed for photograph like this, right, She's just not the type,
that's all.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I understand. What was this young girl's name, mister.
Speaker 6: Kenley, Lois Brewster. That's her real name. When she wrote
her folks, she was using another name while she was
out here. Thought it might help her movie chances.
Speaker 8: Drake. I think that's what it was, Lynda Drake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, about five foot four, one hundred and
fifteen pounds, dark haired, dark eyes.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know where she is?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, we do. We had her case called to
our attention. Where is she sure?
Speaker 7: I no, sir, she's dead.
Speaker 4: Two days before, mister Kenworth, they walked into Juvenile Bureau.
The body of a young girl had been washed up
on the shore just below the beach town of Venice.
Apparently she had taken her own wife. The girl was
a brunette, attractive, not more than seventeen years old. There
was no identification on the body except for a rent
receipt found in one of the pockets of a cotton
jacket that the girl had been wearing. The rent receipt
was made out to Lynda Drake that was signed R. L. King,
eight seventy six Poria Avenue. The address was checked out
and RL King was found to be the girl's landlady.
After identifying the body, she told investigating officers that Lois
Brewster alias Linda Drake had lived at her rooming house
with a girlfriend for about six months. A girlfriend's name
was Joyce Fowler. Alnady went on to explain that the
two girls had moved out about a week before without
leaving a forwarding address. The Faler girl had said that
she would call back for any mail that might be
delivered to the Peoria Avenue address. There had been no
other leads to the dead girl's background or identity until
her former neighbor from Minnesota, mister Wayne Kenworthy, showed up.
Later that day. Ben and I met with Inspector Bowling
and briefed him.
Speaker 7: Here are you were out in business?
Speaker 4: I'll buy that.
Speaker 7: How far have you gotten with it?
Speaker 4: Checked the dead girl's clints with a missing person's building.
Miss Lewis Brusley. We notified the girl's parents in Minnesota.
They're coming out to claim the Bonnie. It's pretty tragic.
She's an only daughter, seventeen years old.
Speaker 5: Same old story. We figure escaper, some plenty talent. Scott
Grabran showed her their bride lages. Gotted a post for
those pictures. One way or another, they can make a
teenage girl go one of a hundred directions.
Speaker 7: After that, this one ended up on a beach. That's
all I care about now.
Speaker 6: How about the girlfriend Lois Brewster was living with, Joyce Fellers.
Speaker 4: No words so far or what about any ideas well?
It pretty much depends on finding this Joyce foul. There's
no background on her. We got out on all points.
Speaker 6: How about phony talent scouts, cheap modeling schools, photographers.
Speaker 7: Check out that angle.
Speaker 4: We put four of them away in the past six months.
Another half dozen of being watched so we can start
double checking him tomorrow.
Speaker 8: How about that picture that old fellow ken Worth they
brought in ened E there, we.
Speaker 4: Gathered a dozen samples just like it. Ones as bad
as the other. They're all printed on the same quality
photographic paper. There's no markings of any kind on them.
There's a common type of paper, all.
Speaker 6: Right, then get on the distribution angle to stay on
at every rotten bum the pedals, this tragic get them.
Speaker 7: I want to write up the.
Speaker 6: Line distributors, wholesalers guy, the prints, the pictures guy.
Speaker 7: That takes them every lousy want of them.
Speaker 4: I still can't figure what's that other Brewster goes a
good home, there, good training, she knew right from wrong.
Speaker 8: Kids.
Speaker 4: Don't forget that in a hurry.
Speaker 7: Might have been our trouble. How do you mean she
remembered it?
Speaker 4: Wednesday May eight, six teams of men from Juvenile Division,
working in conjunction with the Detective Bureau, started to drive
against the obscene literature and photography traffic. Within two weeks,
more than a dozen wholesalers, distributors, and small time peddlers
had been apprehended and were awaiting prosecution. For we still
had failed to uncover any new leads in the lowest
Brewster case. The room mate, Joyce Foller, the all important
witness in the case, was still missing no trace of her.
The dead girl's parents arrived in the city, claimed the body,
and took it back to Minnesota for burial. The drive
continued another week passed. On May twenty ninth, on a
tip from a usually reliable informant, Ben and I checked
out a small photographic studio on Sunset Boulevard operated by
an amo Joseph Martin, who was sullen and uncooperative. We
checked through his files.
Speaker 6: Just what I told you, A few special shots I
cape filed away just for last. Okay, once in a while,
friend drops in and I print one of them up
for him. Yeah, hold that one up to the light.
Some of them are nice looking dolls.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 8: I'd print one up for my friends once in a while.
What kind of friends do you have?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: How about this negative here, Martin? Do you mind printing
this one up for us?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 8: Officer, my compliments. How many copies you want?
Speaker 4: One's enough?
Speaker 6: If you say so, I'd see, ah, one of the best.
I'll print it up right now this way. This one's
a real collector's eye of me, you know, right. A
friend of mine got me the negative a hundred bucks.
It cost me worth it though, I'll make up a
couple of pence.
Speaker 8: Fully.
Speaker 4: One's good.
Speaker 8: Okay, anything you're saying you when I get that light
switch for uh? Yeah, you're the phone, nigger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you picked a good one, alright, Yeah, hit the
paper in there. Yeah, and okay, one print, that's all
you want, that's all. Okay, let's put it in the soup.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I bet you get a kick out of this one,
real beautiful girl.
Speaker 4: How'd you happen to get ahold of this negative?
Speaker 8: You take the picture? No, friend of mine got it
for me. He cost me a scene of Here we go.
Put it in the stubber, here we go. Huh uh?
Speaker 4: How about the guy you got this negative from?
Speaker 7: Did he take the picture?
Speaker 6: No, he bought it from somebody else. I don't know
who cost him three hundred and fifty. Where's the doub huh?
I and I you know we've seen him before. Well
i'd sell you know.
Speaker 4: I brought me from her pictures.
Speaker 6: No, cause you understand I didn't take the picture. I
just bought a negative, that's all. You couldn't tag me.
Speaker 8: For that, could you.
Speaker 4: We're gonna try, mister, get your coat.
Speaker 6: Oh no, wait a minute, how is I'm small fry
in this operation? You'll know that you want the big fish, right.
Speaker 4: We want all of you. You know who they are?
Speaker 8: Some maybe must be worth something to you.
Speaker 4: Well, you know better than Ned Martin. If you cooperate,
we'll mention it in our report. That's all we can do.
Speaker 8: No promises, not a very good offer.
Speaker 4: You're not in a very good position.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: Am Old J. Martin was booked at City Jail for
violation of three eleven PC. His file of lued photographs
and negatives were impounded and booked his evidence. With a
help of information which the suspect had given us, we
were able to round up three wholesalers and another distributor
of obscene books and photographs. Each one of them was
questioned thoroughly. They ran into the same old routine. They
denied knowing anything about the man who was masterminding a
racket or where he was operating. From a lowess Brewster
case dragged on no progress. In virtually every case of
tracing the lube pictures to the point of production, the
investigating officers were able to link the small time peddlers
to their distributor, and the distributor to the wholesaler. That's
where it stopped a dead end. Beyond that, nobody knew
anything about the operation of the racket. Steakhouts were set
up at locations where sales and deliveries of obscene material
were known to have been made. Nothing happened. The drive
stalled Thursday, June eleventh, and now Joe Yes Gabor the first.
Speaker 6: Piece of news nob On the policewoman just call it in.
You know Lois Bluster's girlfriend, Joyce Feller, Yeah, she's been found.
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet called a solution to an
actual case from official police files.
Speaker 4: Like most organized crime, the traffic and obscene literature and
photographs is a racket jealously guarded because of its heavy profit.
It's nationwide and every year its millions of dollars for
underworld promoters and their employees. As an organized business, it's
one of the most vicious and insidious rackets that exist today,
despite the fact that many citizens regarded lightly. Thursday June eleventh,
ten Am Ben and I met with Policewoman Paula Johnson.
She told us at the previous evening, Joyce Fowler, the
girl Lois Brewster had been living with, had gotten into
a brawl with an unidentified man at a bar on
Sunset Boulevard. Police officers arriving at the scene identified her
as the missing girl and handed her over to juvenile authorities.
At ten thirty am, Joyce Fowler was brought to the
interrogation room. She was a tall brunette, fairly attractive. She
looked older than her age. Together with policewoman Paula Johnson,
Ben and I questioned her.
Speaker 9: I was out on a day with this man. We
were sitting at the bar and he started saying things
I didn't like what a row did. So man seemed
cry a bit older than your Joyce. Was he a
good friend of yours? Friend who's about fifty? I guess
I thought he was all right? He wasn't.
Speaker 4: How old are you, Joyce?
Speaker 9: Twenty one? We've checked your background, Joyce, she might as
well tell the truth, all right, I'm seventeen. I'll be
eighteen next week. Look, can't I go get a nasprin.
I've got a terrible hiddie.
Speaker 4: I got something my locker, be right back. Okay.
Speaker 9: I still don't know why I'm here. What do you
want to know?
Speaker 4: Well, you're a good friend of Lois Brewster's. You lived
with her? Is that right?
Speaker 9: Is that why I'm here? It's one of the reasons
Lowis spent eight months out here. Before death. As far
as these officers know, you lived with her during those
eight months. We want to find out what happened to her.
We want to find out what's happening to you. Nothing's
happening to me. I can't take care of myself. That's
what Lowis Brewster thought. George, how about her? You tell
us she didn't know what she was doing. I don't
know what happened to her. I'm to plan for bringing
her out here. But it's not my fault what happened
to her. It's not my fault.
Speaker 4: Whose fault is it?
Speaker 9: All of a whole rotten, dirty punch of her?
Speaker 4: Here's your aspirin.
Speaker 9: Tomb.
Speaker 4: No thanks, I get some more.
Speaker 9: M that's something wrong with us. Didn't you feel well?
Speaker 8: I'll be all right right here you are? Thanks.
Speaker 9: I don't remember too well. It started. Lois came out
to Hollywood to live with me for six months now.
We tried to get modeling jobs, big parts in the movies.
We didn't have much luck. We had to eat pay
the rent, so we took jobs his waitresses at a
drive in place out on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Speaker 4: Are you still working there? No?
Speaker 9: We were only there two weeks and we got this
other job. That's when it started. What was that one
day these two men drove in with a brand new Cadillac,
ordered a couple of cokes. I could tell they were
watching as slow as than me. When they were leaving,
they gave me a card. They said they were talent scouts.
They asked us to come to their offices for interviews.
You still have the card they gave you? No, I
looked for it once. I guess I lost it.
Speaker 4: Would you go on please?
Speaker 9: The older fellow's name was Fred Ramis. The other one
was mister Gilbert. They were both very nice. We didn't
think anything was wrong.
Speaker 4: Didn't you go for the interview?
Speaker 9: Yes, Lois and I both went. They talked to us
a lot, had us read out of his script, walk
up and down. He said both of us showed a
lot of promise. He said they wanted to be our agent,
so we signed a paper. Fred Ramis told us he'd
see we got a break.
Speaker 4: Did either of them ever arrange any legitimate interviews for you?
I mean with the movie studios, radio, television, aming like that.
Speaker 9: No. They took us out quite a bit. Restaurants, nightclubs.
Told us we had to be seen around town. First,
had to show us off to the producers, all important
movie people. Both of them were very nice and did
you keep on working at the Dagon?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: They had me and Lois quit the job, said it
wouldn't look right. We still had deep We still had
to pay our rent. That's when they brought up the
idea of the pictures.
Speaker 4: What pictures do you mean, Joyce?
Speaker 9: I'm sorry? Could I have some more water please?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Fred Ramis and mister Gilbert took us out to
a big night club one night. Fred told us that
if Lois and I had some good pictures taken of ourselves,
he could show them around and get us jobs as models.
That is still we got a break in the movies. Thanks.
Speaker 4: After that time, how long did you norm these two men?
Speaker 9: About about a month and a half. I didn't see
anything wrong in it. So Lois and I went to
this photographer's studio with mister Ramis and we had our portraits,
taking regular pictures. Excuse me, Joyce, did both of these
men know how old your girls were? We told him
the truth, we were both seventeen.
Speaker 4: What happened after that?
Speaker 9: Mister Ramis came back and said he found ot an
advertising agency. They wanted to buy pictures of Lois and
me and said, we get twenty dollars a piece every.
Speaker 4: Time we post for her portraits.
Speaker 9: No for posing and bathing suits, pajamas, things like that.
They was supposed to be for magazine ads. And about
a week he brought us to his office and said
the agency wanted us to pose without clothes, without anything.
He said he'd pay us forty dollars for that. We'll
go on, Jarl.
Speaker 8: They showed us.
Speaker 9: Lots of pictures of models like that. They talked about
it all the time. They kept saying, no, both of us,
Lois and I, did you ever agree a post for
the kind of pictures they wanted. A cat agreed to
something you don't know about. I don't know how it happened,
but it did. Mister Gilbert and Fred Remis, they kept
hanging us out. We used to drink quite a bit
with him. Went on for weeks. I guess one night
there was a big party.
Speaker 7: We drank.
Speaker 9: Lowis and I got separated. I still don't know what happened.
Speaker 8: Let's see.
Speaker 9: Next morning we both woke up with headaches. Fred Ramos
came and showed us the pictures. I felt dirty, Oliver,
I don't know what happened. I swear Blis began to cry.
I hit mister Ramos. I slapped him. Ms, mister Ramis,
tell you. He pretended to be very nice about it.
Said he'd pay us well if we go on posing
for pictures the kind he wanted. If we didn't, he
said he'd wreck any chance we might have in Hollywood.
Said he'd see that the pictures got out, threatened to
send copies to our families, our friends back home.
Speaker 4: Didn't you think of going to the police.
Speaker 9: We talked about it. We were afraid of the publicity,
the newspapers. We just kept going on doing what he said.
It's like a nightmare, kept getting worse, We kept getting
in deeper. Sorry, did she have that in book?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, he recognize these pictures, Charles, Yes, mister Ramis, mister Jobrick,
have you posed for these?
Speaker 9: Yes, that's some of them. Well, it's drag a lot,
so we wouldn't remember. That's that's not why Lois is dead, though,
those pictures aren't the reason.
Speaker 4: Well, how do you mean?
Speaker 9: Joyce, Raymus and Gilbert. They'd fix up dates for us,
they said, the men with their friends. Three or four
times a week they called. We had to go out
with them. We had to do what they said. One
morning we got home about five point thirty in the morning,
Lois changed said she was going for a walk. I
went to bed. She left her note. I never saw
her again. I see madam. Oh yeah, just man, it's
at long distance. Call we placed your home, joys ran.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 9: Thanks, hello, Yeah, it's me Joyce. Yeah, it's just a mistake. Yeah.
How's uncle Henry. It's well, no, no, it's all right.
Don't you worry. Yeah, all right, I'll write you tomorrow. Yeah. Bye,
Thanks for pleasing the call. Surgeons.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll come Bland to do it.
Speaker 9: Anything else you want to know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's just one more thing. Do you still have
that note that Lois Brewster wrote before she died?
Speaker 9: No, I lost it. I remember what it said to him, said,
I'm sorry. It was signed Lewis. That's all.
Speaker 4: Joyce Fowler supplied us with the addresses of Fred Ramis
and his partner Gilbert. She gave us all the names
and addresses of all their friends and employees that she
knew of. She also pointed out their offices and base
of Operations Inspector Bowling ordered an immediate investigation into the
background and business activities of both men. Previously convicted wholesalers
and distributors of obscene photographs were called back in and requestioned.
We finally completed the missing link in the supply line
from the peddler to the producer. Five former workers for
Ramos and Gilbert fingered them as headman controlling the rackets.
Their offices and studio were rated and their files seized
as evidence. On June eighteenth, Fred Ramis and his partner
Harold Gilbert were placed under arrest.
Speaker 7: What's the pitch surgeon? What's this all about? I think
you know, mister Ramis, you can't take me on those pictures.
Speaker 4: You want to get your hat.
Speaker 7: It's artwork, legitimate artwork. My lawyer can prove that he'd
better be good. He bet he is.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm kind of surprised that you cops saying
a word to somebody like that Fowler girl. She doesn't
know what she's talking about. She's a psycho. We sure
I tried to do something with her than that girlfriend
who I signed up as our agent.
Speaker 7: They were hopeless.
Speaker 4: You've got quite a stack of negatives. Here pictures of
both of them, seventeen year old and just candid.
Speaker 7: Shots, you know, spicy for my private collection. There's nothing
wrong in that.
Speaker 11: I figured i'd give the girlth a break, let him
earn a few bucks. Look, I couldn't have treated those
girls better. I took them around, showed them the town.
Speaker 7: Both psychos. I never did trust them.
Speaker 4: Well that's the big difference, Ramis.
Speaker 7: Huh, they trusted you.
Speaker 4: Fred Ramis and Harold Gilbert were brought downtown to inspect
her Bowling's office. Joyce Fowler was seated next to the desk.
Gilbert was brought him. She identified him, He was taken
out and held for booking.
Speaker 7: All right, bring in the next one, all right?
Speaker 6: Come on, yeah, can you identify this man, miss Voller?
Speaker 9: Yes, he's spread Rams.
Speaker 11: It's a trouble, Joyce. When you're satisfied with when I
was paying you settle this between ourselves. If you had
any beech, she could.
Speaker 7: Have come to me.
Speaker 8: You're lucky. Fred.
Speaker 9: I'd kill you now if I could.
Speaker 7: All right, so take him be back in a mat jab.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry. Doesn't do any good. Are there anymore?
Speaker 7: That's about Uh?
Speaker 4: You've helped quite a lot.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm glad I could do it. Is that all, Sergeant?
Speaker 4: Well for now, Yeah, you'll have to testify at the
trial after that. Juvenile Court's going to keep him pretty
close touch with you.
Speaker 9: I see.
Speaker 4: Aren't you going back home, Joyce?
Speaker 8: To Minnesota.
Speaker 9: No, it'd be the same old thing. My aunt be
glad to see me for the first week, and she'd
start all over again, hollering at me. Picking wouldn't be
any use.
Speaker 4: What are you going to do out here?
Speaker 9: Joy You know, I know a nice fell in Santa Monica.
He's going to get me a job at a brand
new drive in cute uniforms.
Speaker 4: But I don't think juvenile Court's going to let you
take a job like that, Joyce.
Speaker 9: I hope so a lot of talent scouts go their
radio movie producers. Did I notice me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I can tell might lead to something.
Speaker 7: The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: On October fourth, trial was held in Superior Court Department
ninety one, city in County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment the results of that trial, Fred Ramis
and Harold Gilbert were tried and convicted on several counts
of rape and loot conduct. They receive sentences as prescribed
by law and are now serving their terms in the
state penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of
authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes
from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 7: Coming up, we the people with Stories of Today on MBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. There are some episodes of old time radio
that allow you to escape to a simpler time. Not
so much with this one, as it deals with a
recurring problem. In fact, a very similar story would be
aired more than seventeen years later on Dragnet in nineteen
sixty eight, and the same sword of thing happens today,
but a lot of different methods are used, and it
doesn't necessarily have to happen in Hollywood. As best I
can remember, there are three episodes dealing with obscene literature
or pictures in the nineteen fifties Dragnet radio series. The
others are The Big Book and then later The Big Producer.
This is easily the most dramatically effective of the three.
The opening scene is very powerful. The idea of this
out of town Guy's shock and heartbreak. That's the tone
for this episode from the beginning. It brings us into
the tragedy of what happened to this young woman and
what it took to make this picture that was just
for laughs. The core idea of this episode is that
there's a story behind the picture. With the big book
and the big producer, you're dealing more with views of
public morase and also the technical aspects of the investigation,
which can still be entertaining as they kind of peel
back that onion to get to the source, but don't
really form that emotional connection. And the series is talking
about what was a very serious issue, and I think
it was an emerging issue at the time because the
rise of mass media had led to the birth of
legitimate industries like film, television, and fashion, with big contracts
and glamour serving as a draw for many young people
or more than could actually find type of work they
wanted in those industries, and there were rackets ready to
take advantage of this situation. And as was often the case,
Dragnet was talking about issues that other programs hadn't or
wouldn't touch on for many years, which could be true
of so many issues like child abuse. This series never
chose to be exploitive or overly graphic in the way
it dealt with these issues. There was a certain, I
think sensitivity, which is why they could tell these stories
even in times when they were more cautious about what
could be discussed on radio or what could be shown
on television. Listener comments and feedback. Now, and we have
a couple of comments from YouTube regarding the Big Parrot.
Betsy says, good one and Kurt says, my father and
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Speaker 8: Well, thank you so much.
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Speaker 12: How long has it been going on?
Speaker 9: How long has what been going on?
Speaker 4: What was bothering you?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 9: What makes you think anything's bothering me?
Speaker 7: Would you be here if they weren't?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm being followed to Wary by whom it's just
the trouble I don't know?
Speaker 7: And what does he look like?
Speaker 9: He's kind of stucky and he's got red hair?
Speaker 12: Does he have a Southern accent? How did you know
he's a large brother of mine? What he's a private
detective named Dixie Hamilton?
Speaker 8: Oh, I see?
Speaker 12: Have you any idea who hired him?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 7: You marry him?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 9: Why?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 12: I would open up with other possibilities. What about your husband?
Speaker 7: What about him? Do you think he's behind it? That's
what I want you to find out.
Speaker 10: If Jack is responsible for this, I will leave him
so fast it he'll make his head swim.
Speaker 7: Is he the jealous time?
Speaker 9: Unfortunately?
Speaker 7: Does he have reason? How dare you look? Dozie?
Speaker 9: It is missus?
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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