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Speaker 1: I hope you're going to enjoy it. From February twenty
sixth of nineteen fifty. Here now is episode six of
Christopher London The Terrible Price of Sugar.
Speaker 3: With a knife in his back, a nameless Filipino in
San Francisco with a bullet in her body, a girl
in Mid Pacific.
Speaker 4: There were others. There were so many others, eight thousand
of them.
Speaker 5: On an island in the Philippines.
Speaker 6: The National Broadcasting Company presents Christopher London, created especially for
radio by the world's foremost mystery writer, Earl Stanley Gardner.
Are used and directed by William N. Robson and starring
mister Glenn Ford.
Speaker 5: I Am Christopher London. The whole Thing started with a
vague conversation about the murder of an unknown Philippine you know,
mister Andrews's, president of the San Francisco Sugar Company. Either
could not or would not say what, if anything, he suspected.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, mister London.
Speaker 6: I can't tell you what I think because I don't
know what I think.
Speaker 5: I get the impression that it is not the murder
that worries you.
Speaker 4: Why shouldn't.
Speaker 6: I never saw the man, no idea who he was
or why he tried to get to me.
Speaker 5: The knife in his back for doctors wonder how he
ever made it to my door a knife in his back,
with your name and address in his pocket, and his
body terribly scarred, as if he'd been beaten for years.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's all very mysterious, but the police are investigating,
and I suppose they learn the truth.
Speaker 2: Of the time.
Speaker 3: That's not what I wanted to see you about.
Speaker 7: Or what else?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: The price of sugar, The price of sugar exactly.
Speaker 7: Now, this is all I can tell you.
Speaker 8: Oh, come in there.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is Christopher London, my niece Lindon.
Speaker 9: I've heard about you, mister London.
Speaker 5: No, whatever you've heard, I deny every word.
Speaker 9: Of it is, mister London sailing with me. Uncle.
Speaker 3: Uh, maybe I'm the same ship would be a better
way to put it.
Speaker 1: Yes, my dear, I wanted to.
Speaker 5: Go to Manila.
Speaker 9: Then you've got to go, mister London, whether you want
to or not. You're as good as a board ship already.
Speaker 7: Well, i'd better get ashore, mister London.
Speaker 5: There's still a few minutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 7: How do you like a staple?
Speaker 5: Oh it's very elegant.
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 5: Now, is there anything else you want to know? You
want me to find out how a company named Southern
Cross is able to go on under selling your product?
And that's all.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 5: Frankly, Frankly, mister Andrews, I don't get the reason for
all this, this outlay of money in the stateroom.
Speaker 4: Don't you. Maybe it's because if you don't come.
Speaker 7: Back, I'd like to think you die.
Speaker 6: The luxurious.
Speaker 5: Well London, Oh my goshd will wait to call me
at the Gangway's keep an eye on her, will you, and.
Speaker 3: Look out for yourself too.
Speaker 5: The ship was beautiful, the night was dark, and the
sea was calm. Hawaii was a long way beyond the
horizon and Manila and the Philippines still father. The girl
beside me at the rail was very, very lovely. She
sighed rather happily and said.
Speaker 9: My uncle said you'd probably asked me a love question.
Speaker 5: Did he, miss Anders?
Speaker 9: Won't Linda do?
Speaker 5: Linda? Christ We've got that settled. Let's get back to
the questions your uncle said I would ask. Did he
say what they'd be?
Speaker 10: Not exactly?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: Did he say what your answers would be exactly?
Speaker 9: Shall we walk around the deck?
Speaker 5: We walked once around the deck, and then we went
into the cocktail lounge and had a coffee and brandy
at a little table in a quiet corner.
Speaker 9: You know, Christopher, I think this is going to be
a good voyage.
Speaker 5: I hope it is. Have you ever been out to
Manila before?
Speaker 9: Oh, lots of times. I've gone with my uncle every
time he went, every since I can remember. On my
parents died when I was a baby. Is that explained anything?
Speaker 5: It does a little. I suppose you know a lot
about your uncle's business.
Speaker 10: Then that's one of the questions.
Speaker 5: I said you'd ask me, And the answer, yeser is
he is.
Speaker 9: I think I know as much about his business as
he does.
Speaker 5: You're a very interesting girl, Linda.
Speaker 9: You know that's what I always say. I always say, Linda,
you're a very interesting girl. Oh don't look now at
the man coming.
Speaker 4: You don't know me and I don't know you. But
that ain't no reason why we can't yell at each
other over the fence. Now is I'm Jim Blake from Texas,
a lone star state. And where I go I buy
the drinks a waiter.
Speaker 9: Uh, won't you sit down, miss Blake?
Speaker 4: I am saiding milank, ma'am. My name is Blake.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's what I thought, you said, one of the
New Jersey Blake's no doubt. Now you know that is
real funny. Oh, I'm sorry people's always yoking me about Texas.
Speaker 4: What'd you say your name was?
Speaker 5: I didn't say. However, it's London, Christopher London.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm mighty glad to know you, Chris. You and
miss London half.
Speaker 5: Fifteen or twenty years later, Linda and I pride ourselves
out of the heart of Texas. She said she was tired,
so I took her to her stateroom door. Good night, Linda,
sleep well, come in for a minute, all right, just
for a minute.
Speaker 9: It's something I want to give you. Sit down while
I find it. Maria not finished.
Speaker 5: No, Linda's personal made a pretty girl from the Islands
was still unpacking trunks, and in a moment Linda returned
with a small decorated jewel case in her hands.
Speaker 9: Here it is, Christopher, keep it for me.
Speaker 7: Will you look?
Speaker 5: If this is jewelry, you'd better give it to the
personal keep it's not jewelry, and your mind. If I
asked just what it is.
Speaker 9: Well it's nothing.
Speaker 5: It's just that I'd rather you kept it all right?
Speaker 9: Good night, Linda, until tomorrow, Christopher.
Speaker 5: I took the jewel case back to my stateroom and
found that somebody had shoved a note under my door.
It read, take off that beard. We know you. The
writer had a sense of humor, but in my experience,
the most dangerous enemies are those that laugh. I took
a closer look at the little jewel case. It had
one of those intricate Chinese locks that are easy to
break but not easy to open without the proper key.
I put the box in a pillowcase and carried it
to the office of the ship's doctor. No, what can
I do for you, mister London. Your laboratory is equipped
with X ray, I suppose, doctor, Yes, of course. Well
I know this sounds a little strange, but I wonder
if you'd take a picture of this, this box here,
just as it is. It was exactly what I expected.
I carried the box back to my stateroom, shoved it
on the bunk, and went to bed. I don't know
how long I've been asleep when suddenly there was a
knock on the door. I was out of bed like
a shot. Just a second. Yes, time to ask keep
you will come at one huh. Oh, yes, she's all right.
I'll be there in a minute. Put on a pair
of pants and shirt, hurright into the corridor.
Speaker 8: And collided with Look where you're.
Speaker 4: Going, can't you? Oh?
Speaker 7: Sorry, hurry.
Speaker 9: Christopher.
Speaker 5: What's the matter?
Speaker 9: But I just couldn't sleep and I was lonely.
Speaker 5: Oh no, look, look you realize it's two a m.
Speaker 9: Well, of course, if you'd rather go.
Speaker 5: Back to bed, all right, all right, what do you
want to do?
Speaker 9: Would you like to play some.
Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't like to play some general me.
Speaker 9: No, Well, men love to talk about themselves. Let's talk
about you.
Speaker 7: Okay, get the cards?
Speaker 5: We played a few hands in silence, and then Linda asked.
Speaker 9: Christopher, what did you think of mister Blake, the lone
star stranger?
Speaker 5: Have you ever been in Texas?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: Why I wonder if he has. Do you mean you
think I'm forget him? I've got Jim. And now if
you think that I've been away from my cabin long enough,
I'm going back.
Speaker 9: Away from your cabin long enough. I don't understand.
Speaker 5: Well, I just wondered if that precious jewel box of
you r S would still be there.
Speaker 9: You don't make somebody's taking it.
Speaker 5: Would it make any difference?
Speaker 9: You opened it, but you had to break the lock off,
didn't you.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Because the lock was filled with sudder, it couldn't be opening.
Speaker 5: Well, I didn't open the case, Linda, And why are
you so casual about it? Because it was filled to
the top with just what you said was in it? Nothing.
But now I'll save you the trouble of asking I
had the thing extu rydon Oh, yeah, she can say
that again.
Speaker 9: I'll forgive me, Christopher. It was just a sort of
a trial. My uncle and I wanted to be sure
you were clever enough for this job, and you are clever, Crystal,
really clever. You're the only man I ever met who
smarter than I. Dar. Would you consider kissing me good night?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll consider it. When I finally got back to
my stateroom, the jewel case was no longer under the
bed where I'd put it, But I think that as
I went to sleep again, I may have had a
smile on my face. The days that followed were filled
with shovel board, and the nights were filled with dancing.
Jim Blake, the Texas Steer, was usually close by, but
in time, well, in time, he got used to him.
Speaker 7: As you would have bad head called.
Speaker 5: Every night. When I turned in, I could expect to
find another humorous little message chuck under my door, such
as roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet,
and you'll be a long time dead. Meanwhile, in odd
moments with Linda, I managed to get a little more
information about sugar growing and refining. One moonlit night when
we were together on the boat deck.
Speaker 9: Isn't it magic? Darny, isn't it simply magic? Christopher, I'm
talking to you.
Speaker 5: Well, oh, I'm sorry, sorry, what.
Speaker 9: Are you thinking about?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Sugar?
Speaker 5: I guess. Oh, now you say this Southern Cross Company
is selling sugar at a price that is actually below
your cost. That's right, although your cost higher than they
should be.
Speaker 9: There is low in the industry, and I don't want
to talk about it.
Speaker 10: Now, Darling.
Speaker 5: Oh, perhaps they may have developed some noon better method
of refining.
Speaker 9: Possibly, that's what you're supposed to find out, Christopher, I'm cold.
Speaker 5: A few days after leaving Honolulu, on the way to Manila,
we entered a bank of thick fog, like a damp,
clinging shroud. And it was in the fog that tragedy struck.
Suddenly and without warning. I was standing at the rail
the stern, looking out of nothing, listening to the fog
goorn on the beat of the ship's engines. When I
couldn't see a thing, I ran in the direction of
the sound. Groping through the fog, I found I found
a white coat flapping emptily cotton of boat.
Speaker 3: David.
Speaker 5: It was Linda's coat.
Speaker 6: You're listening to, Christopher London, starring Glenn Ford.
Speaker 5: It was an apparently harmless mission that Anders had asked
me to undertake, simply to find out how it was
possible for a rival sugar refining company to undersell his product.
Mister Anders had warned me that the job might be dangerous,
and so it was. I stood on deck in the
swirling fog, holding Linda's coat in my hands, and feeling
sick at heart. The liner's searchlights were vainly glaring through
the mist, but it was useless and everybody knew it.
I started for the radio room to send a message standers,
and a big figure moved behind me.
Speaker 9: Christopher, Linda, what's the matter and what are you doing
with my coach? I told Maria to weare it when
I sent it?
Speaker 6: To look for you?
Speaker 9: And then Christopher? Was it?
Speaker 4: Maria?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid, so, oh Maria. An hour or so later
I found Texas Jim Blake in the bar.
Speaker 4: Well how in London double Scotch, and sold of my
friend here. That was right in my asty business about
miss Ander's maid, wasn't it. Don't understand you think you
heard a shot?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I heard a shot real.
Speaker 4: Only who do you think would the one that killed
that poor girl if I was in charge of this boat.
I looked for a gun that had been fired lately.
I doubt if you find it at the bottom of
the ocean. You think you throw it overboard, wouldn't you? Well,
now I suppose I would. That reminds me of the
story I heard about a cat folk back in Texas.
Seems to you, mister Blake, Do you ever get tired
of that action? How's that what I just talked? The
way folks talk in Texas. This ain't no accent, son,
that's Texas thought.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay. Oh, by the way, were you in Dallas
or Galveston when Maria was shot and fished over the
side running?
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a simple question. Why do you
care where I was at when that shot was fun?
You think I killed her?
Speaker 5: Did you in Texas? Yes? Yes, I know in Texas
they shoot men for less than that.
Speaker 4: You're joking me again, London. You know Lonnon, I've been
thinking now. Naturally, I know miss Lennon. Her uncle is
interested in the sugar business in the Philippines, And just
as it happens, I got an interest in yogar myself.
I'm from Starkman company named the Southern.
Speaker 5: Cragl Do you ever hear of the Southern Cross sugar? Sure,
I've heard of it. They got a plantation of something
like fifty square miles on the island of Negro saven'.
Speaker 4: Here fifty square miles of sugar cane. That's what they
tell us four stockolders. But I'm from Texas and I
don't believe nothing that I don't see folks that run
this year, Dick say we can sell more sugar and
cheaper than any other company in the world. Well, I
got money in this proposition, Chris, good Texas money, and
I won't see for myself. You and Miss Linda wouldn't
want to come along? Would you sort of look over
plantation with me?
Speaker 5: Why, mister Blake, I just bet Miss Lindon I would
be charmed to look over the Southern Cross plantation with you.
Or you're always joking in London, but I may not
invitation seriously, and I'm in it seriously.
Speaker 4: Well, I lend that is yes, wonderful. Tomorrow we'll be
in Manila. I got me boat waiting for him, and
then tell me that trip the Negroes just ain't nothing.
Have another drunk.
Speaker 5: A little later, I went down to Linda's state room
to escort at dinner, Christopher, I'm ready, Linda. I've been
talking to Jim Blake.
Speaker 9: The Texas Steers.
Speaker 5: He's not funny. I think he's a killer if I
think he tried to kill you and got Marie instead.
Now he wants you and me to visit the Southern
Cross Plantation. Says he has Texas money in it.
Speaker 9: But why, Christopher, I don't understand.
Speaker 5: Why would he either a trapper a showcase? I don't know.
I still don't know, neither do I. Whatever it is, though,
you're gonna stay in Manila while I take a look
at it. There's no point in it's both taking a chance.
I left Linda and Manila at the local office of
her uncle's company. Blake and I went on together to
the island of Negros and a huge Southern Cross plantation.
It rained constantly, and the growl of distant thunder was
almost continuous. The director of the plantation was a suave
expressionist fellow named Juanibara, who used words as if he
were translating from another language coming from the South. He's
the artists, daddy bout.
Speaker 4: If you haven't been in a Texas storm, you don't
know what a storm is really alive? What time is
it quit?
Speaker 5: That's about four?
Speaker 4: Well, now let me see if We've done pretty well
for one day's inspection. They're going through the refiner from
top to bottom. Saw the load and dark drove through
one of the fields of sugar king Well, what do
you say? Would go back to half and have a
drink as.
Speaker 5: I could use one, blake.
Speaker 7: We drove back to the director's house.
Speaker 5: I asked a few innocent questions. Uh iy borah changing out.
Tell me how many men does it take to do
the work in a place for science? You think seven
may thousand, maybe shoven. Oh, that's a lot of men.
Where do you keep them? Where do I keep him?
I mean, where do they live? See on the plantation here?
I know that. Hey, Chris, I'm in thinking about that refinement.
Are you much of an engineer enough to understand the
simple process of refining sugar? It seems like a good plant,
as you say, shang out London, the plant each but
he is just the same like many of us, no difference. Yes, yes,
I suppose. So I was asking about the workers on
the place. What's that? Wait a minute, stop the car, I.
Speaker 8: Said, to stop the car.
Speaker 5: No, it's not to be wished to interfere.
Speaker 6: The whipping that poor devil to death.
Speaker 4: Maybe he deserved it, all right, bar.
Speaker 5: Nobody could deserve punishment like that if it's the only
thing the bad ones understand saying your love.
Speaker 7: And the subject was dropped just like that.
Speaker 5: A few moments later, the bar led blaking me out
in front of the plantation house and drove the jeep
way to the garage. For a moment we stood together
in the rain. He seemed a little subdued, too.
Speaker 4: Bad about what we've seen back there? I guess say
we are human. No, they're more like.
Speaker 5: Ann would you beat a horse or dog to death?
Speaker 4: Here's a stockholder, this yere plantation. I'm gonna talk to
the bar about that. You coming in? Uh?
Speaker 5: No, No, you're going ahead.
Speaker 7: I'll be right with you.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sure I am talking. Rain ain't nothing locked extas.
Speaker 5: There was something ominous about the place. Not just the
steady rain, nor the thunder grumbling in the distance, Not
just the cruelty I had glimpsed in a sudden jungle.
Not was something more. It was something worse than I
was willing to let myself believe. As I entered the house,
I saw that the living room was dark and apparently deserted,
But there was a log blazing in the fireplace, so
feeling damp and cold, I went and held my hands
to a swamp sen your London. Well, oh, hello, I
am dolorous Senor London.
Speaker 3: Hello, Dolores.
Speaker 9: I was told you like Scotch and Tuda. Yes, yes,
I have a drink or ready for you here by
the fire. He drinks for me too.
Speaker 5: Well, you or somebody seems to think of everything. No thanks,
Hey you're missus Ibarra.
Speaker 9: I suppose Signora, I am just dolorous.
Speaker 10: Did your drink as you would have it?
Speaker 5: It's just right dolorous, yes, Doloris, just right?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 10: How can I say I had expected you to be
the same. I got a friends of the peaky bar,
but you are different, so very different.
Speaker 5: I suppose you were told to get me to talk
another time. It might be kind of pleasant to play
that game, but not tonight. There's something I want to
ask you, even though I don't expect an answer. If
I asked you to come away with me away from
this plantation, right not tonight, would they let us go?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 5: I do not know that's the answer I expected, and
I'm want to change it to some dry clothes. How
long she'd been standing there in the doorway. I don't know.
I hadn't heard a sound. But as I turned away
from Dolores and started to.
Speaker 9: My room, Hello, Christopher.
Speaker 5: Linda, I told you not to come.
Speaker 9: Aren't you glad to see me?
Speaker 5: Ah, Linda. I wasn't hired to be your companion or
your bodyguard? Now, I was hired to make one single investigation.
Speaker 9: Yes, how's the investigation?
Speaker 5: You don't Your uncle wants to know how Southern Cross
is able to undersell him. I think I'm beginning to understand.
Speaker 9: I got a wire in Manila from my uncle. He's
making some kind of a deal. He wants you to
drop the whole thing.
Speaker 7: And that was that.
Speaker 5: I was just to drop the whole thing. But the
whole thing was something I couldn't drop. Too much blood
had been shed. Late that night, when the others were asleep,
I stole out of the house. The center of the
storm had veered around the east and seemed somewhat nearer.
By the flashes of lightning. I found the road I
was looking for. The roady bar had avoided during our
tour of inspection. The path wound through the jungle for
perhaps a quarter of a mile and then came to
what was unmistakably a concentration camp. The miserable collection of
shelters was completely surrounded by a high stockade of steel
and barbed wire. The single gate was guarded by a
sentry with a stommy gun. One look was another. Now
I knew the secret of the Southern Cross's success forced
labor slavery. I returned to the house and cautiously opened
the door.
Speaker 4: Well, hardy, Chris, I enough walking, he dick your gun, boy.
Speaker 9: It will be better you do not do things glass, Christopher,
I told you to drop the whole thing. Now, see
what you've done. You've ruined everything.
Speaker 4: It's late, but I guess we don't feel much like
sleeping doing so let's just sat down in front of
the bar and swap yarn.
Speaker 5: Isn't one of the mob mission? Where's the Lord?
Speaker 4: We don't need her for this little party. Tell me here, baby,
come here and sit down beside me. All right, No, now,
if we're all together, I'll call the meetings water. What
happened to that Texas draw partner? I guess I'm just
a big cam at heart, but it serves a purpose.
With that twang, you can talk to anybody and get
away with practically anything.
Speaker 9: Christopher the night we sail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, London's smart. He's a lot too smart for his
own good. I kept telling him that on those notes
I left for him under Kevin noise.
Speaker 5: But will I be interrupting if I ask a few questions? No?
Speaker 4: No, no, go ahead?
Speaker 5: Well, first about me, I assume you have some kind
of plan in mind. Oh yeah, yeah, yes, that's what
I figured.
Speaker 9: If only you'd listen to me. Christofore it was too late.
Speaker 5: Do youse talk of answers?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 7: Why can't we not dispose?
Speaker 5: I'm showing your London without the lay program.
Speaker 4: Take it easy. There's no hurry anything else you want
to know London.
Speaker 5: I think I already know most of it. I suppose
the Filipino who was killed in San Francisco came from here.
Speaker 4: That's a right, managed to sneak off to place somehow,
I see. Naturally I had to kill him. That was closer.
Speaker 9: I hate this story.
Speaker 5: I didn't know you scared so easily. Linda. Oh, by
the way, was it you who killed your maid?
Speaker 4: Maria?
Speaker 9: Well, I had Christopher. She caught killing me together. And
guess how it was, she said, you were going to
tell you so, so I had to.
Speaker 5: You know, Linda, for a nice girl, you're something out
of a nightmare.
Speaker 10: Christopher.
Speaker 9: You shouldn't talk to me like that. After all, it
it wasn't it.
Speaker 10: Like that?
Speaker 5: Did the house listen?
Speaker 1: This is not honest, I would go.
Speaker 5: That was a split second of confusion, But a split
second can be the difference between life and death. I
threw myself at Blake, slamming my shoulder with I got
out of there with a broken left arm and a revolver.
I don't know whether it was Blake's ory bars. I
don't know how much damage I did, but at least
there was nobody following me. As I retraced the road
to the slaves stockade, the century was standing at the gate,
holding a Tommy gun cradled in his arm. I got
as close to him as I could, sheltered by the
trunk of a huge mahogany tree, less than fifteen feet.
Speaker 8: From the gate, and then he heard me, Well, who
about there, I'll listen to me very carefully. I'm giving
you a chance to save your life. Drop your gun
and open that gate. Who are you a friend? Open
the gate and let those men out and I'll give
you one more chance. I don't want to hurt you
those men out. That's the way it's got to be.
Speaker 5: I'm Lilda. She's dead too, yes, Miss Randers with the others.
When the men streamed out of the stockade, there was
not stopping them, but she died instantly with her bullet
through her heart.
Speaker 3: What she did sounds as impossible as all the rest
of it. Then, actual slavery sounds impossible too. Have you
any idea how much actual slavery still exists in the
world today. It's not a companying thought, but one we
can't afford not to think about. Freedom is still something
to fight for.
Speaker 6: That was Christopher London, starring Glenn Ford and created especially
for radio by the world's most widely read mystery writer,
Earl Stanley Gardner. Christopher London is produced and directed by
William N. Robeson and was tonight written by Mindrid Lords.
Musical score was composed and conducted by Lynn Murray. A
support supporting company included John Banks, Virginia, Greg Barton, Yarborough,
Ted Decarfier, Alan Reid and Ben Wright. Mystery fans, you'll
find two other great house packed adventure programs on most
of these MVC stations every Monday Night. Listen Tomorrow night
for Night Beat and Dangerous Assignment in one hour of
intrigue and adventure on MVC. On Night Beat, you'll meet
Randy Stone that's portrayed by Frank Lovejoy. You'll travel to
night Beat of a newspaper with Randy as he searches
the big city for the story to make good reading
in the morning editions. Then it's time for Brian Don
Levy in Dangerous Assignments. Wherever there's trouble brewing throughout the world,
there you'll find Soldier of Fortune Don Levy chasing down
the forces of evils of their very layers. These two programs,
Night be and Dangerous Assignments add up to one hour
of the best in action packed adventure mystery, and you'll
hear them both Tomorrow night on NBC and be with
us again next week at this time when Christopher London
returns with another exciting excursion against crime. Stay tuned for
the Phil Harrises and then Sam Spade on NBC.
Speaker 2: Welcome Back Well. This was one of the more dramatic
radio programs. This is actually one of my favorite ever
of any program This was well done, dramatic, with a
lot of surprises in twists and turns, and I loved
it as much the second time as I did the
first time I listened to it quite a while back.
This is definitely a show with some staying power and
this timeless battle for freedom. All right, Well, that'll actually
do it for today. Comments from podcast ally greatly enjoy
the shows. Thank you so much for your support. We
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