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Speaker 2: Matter from Hollywood. It's signed now for Johnny, Nick Waters, Johnny,

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Northeastern Fidelity and Bonding. Oh high NK. How's it you?

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Good and bad? Johnny? Good and bad? Well, I'm sure

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there's nothing good you've called me about. What's the problem.

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Fifteen dollars lost? Straight a stolen? I doesn't know, Yeah,

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probably stolen? Ever hear of the old Anxion furniture company,

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I have not sounds like a gag. It's no gag.

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Some of the finest traditional furniture in the world comes

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out of that planet. Really, it's up in northern Massachusetts

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and the little town north of Pittsburgh and a run.

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I have a bunch of real Carrick Honeyman. Well, I

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when you go up there, you wear a dark blue suit,

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white shirt and black horn hand tie. Oh and suspenders.

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Be sure you wear suspenders. And you're kidding one and

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watch Cower at the office. And let me tell you

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about Yeah, I think i'd better Bob Bailey and the

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exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact Extent

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accounts America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars

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and now act one of Yours Truly Johnny Dollars Express

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accounts of Better Advice Fresal Investigator Johnny to the Northeastern

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Fidelity and Bonzie Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut, following us

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account of expensive incurred during my investigation of the food

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face matter expense account out of one after shaving, showering,

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and donning the most funereal clothes I could find it right,

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have one a dollar ten taxi to Nick Weldon's office

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of Northeastern Fidelity and Bondy. Just remember what I told you, Johnny,

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The old Aangxion Furniture company is run by a bunch

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of characters. Yeah, that's what intrees me. That's why I

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came over here. Old crafts went all right, the old

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school may take them a couple of years to make

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an ordinary straight back chair, but when it's done, it's

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the most beautiful thing you ever saw. And the finish

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they get on the pieces they turn out beautiful and

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expensive too, oh sure, but worth it. Any piece of

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furniture they make will last one hundred five hundred years. Yeah,

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the real honest craftsman, the kind you don't see anymore. Well,

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apparently somebody wasn't too honest with them, so tell me

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all the tell me. It seems one of their lads

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is run off with some of the company money. Now

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you mentioned a fifty eight thousand bucks yep, fifty eight

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four hundred and thirty three to be exact, and those

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boys are exact? Or what did the police have to say? Nothing?

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They will never call in. Well why not? I told

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you the place is run by a flock a real character.

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Oh brother, they must be. What did this happen sometime

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within the past three and a half years, and you've

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just found out about it. Now, that's right? Well how

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come I told you? Yeah, thank you? There are a

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bunch of characters. But didn't their policy state that any

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claim had to be filed in sixty days of the

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loss or we waived that for him? Struck it from

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the policy? Why? Because they don't like to be rushed

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in anything rushed after all, sixty day. Don't forget they

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only discovered the loss of bit over a month ago.

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They even took a month to let you know about it. Yeah,

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and yet you say it could have occurred as much

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as three and a half years ago. Yeah, yeah, I know.

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But why don't you save the questions for mister J.

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Worthington Keysley? Oh see, the senior member of the organization.

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I guess you'd call them. There are no officers, you know, president,

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vice president and so on. You mean a company big

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enough to suffer a cash loss of fifty eight thousand dollars, Johnny,

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I told yeah, Yeah, that's right to told them. Yeah,

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so will you go up there and see what what? Nick?

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I'm going up there for just one reason, on expensive

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count of course, of course, and that is to take

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a good look at these crazy characters you've been telling

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me about. Had them two Gray twenty five for bus

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the Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where at the terminal I picked up

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a local, the North Weldon home of the old Aangzheime

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Furniture Company, the name was appropriate. Located on the outskirts

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of the quiet little New England town, it consisted of

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a huge vine like building that looked as though it

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had been standing there since the year one. So hounded

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by stately elm trees and a couple of narled ancient folks,

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it looked well, very picturesque. A large wrought iron weathercock

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raced one end of the high peachingle looked down on

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broad lawns well kept flower beds. The road leading up

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to it was just an old fashioned did row, and

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I kicked up the dust as I plodded along. Then

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suddenly I stopped for there at the side instead of

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automobiles were believe it, I'm not horses, horses and carriages

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and a bicycler two or three. It was almost this

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all picture of fifty or sixty years ago had suddenly

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come to light. And then inside when I promised that

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Jay wedding in Keysley. Well, he looked like one of

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the Smith brothers and was sitting in front of a

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fine but ancient roll top desk. Of course we do,

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mister Dalla. Our fathers and their fathers before them all

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wall full beards. Therefore we do too. Would you like

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a bit of stuff sell? No? Thanks? Yes, it's one

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of the traditions, the traditions to which we are here

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in order that we may continue to fabricate the superlative

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filature to which we become famous over the past one

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hundred and seven years. And I take it, mister Keesley,

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that the same thing applies to the horses and carriages

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out there at the sime. Yes, they were good enough

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for our grandparents, so they are good enough for us.

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I suppose that's why I should have suspected mister Tuller,

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mister Tuller, Rosco, James Piller, mister Dollar. Here, sir, there's

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a picture of him in this group photograph taken on

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the occasion are one hundred anniversary. I feel like ore

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A yell Beaver. I'm afraid his mighty shock of hair

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and magnificent beard mis led me. Back in nineteen forty

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one when I hired him. Yes, and I suppose I

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should have known when he gave up pause from sorry

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to drive one of those newfangled motor cars. Sure not what,

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mister Kesley, but he was no longer a man suited

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to our fine establishment. Is he the one who took

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off with your fifty eight thousand dollars fifty eight thousand,

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four hundred and thirty three dollars and forty one cents?

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Are you sure? I mean sure it was he? Beyond

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the shadow of a doubt, sir. He was the only

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one beside himself who had a key to the vault

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in which we kept our building fund. And when he

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suddenly left us three years, five months and sixteen days ago, Yes, yes,

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I should have known. But you didn't discover the loss

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until recently. It was June twenty first, but four minutes

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after ten that I went down to the vault for

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the first time in four years. We have something ext

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to put aside, and you discovered the money was missing.

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The vault was empty except for this note goodbye suckers,

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solid word signed taller. So he seems to doll up. Yeah, yes,

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I know, it looks like he's our man, no question

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about it, And you have no idea where he might

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have gone, none whatsoever. Well, surely there must be some clue,

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none whatsoever, that you must find him. But that was

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three and a half years ago, exactly three years fifteen.

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So where do I start. Unless your company decides simply

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to reimburse this for our loss, that mister Dollar is

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up to you. Backt too, of your truly Johnny Dollar.

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In a moment. Sometimes we may wonder why a football

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team doesn't quit playing and walk off the field when

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it finds itself fifty points behind with only a few

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minutes of play to go. What is that indomitable spirit

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that fills men with hope and keeps them going in

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spite of terrific art, keeps them going just to play

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the game according to the rules, just to get the

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job done as well as they know how. This kind

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of spirit pervaded the feelings of heavy bomber crews of

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the Ninth Air Force on that day of glory August first,

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nineteen forty three, the day of one of the most

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secretly planned surprised bombing missions of World War II, the

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day of the low level attacks on the Romanian oil

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refineries at Floreesti. More than one hundred seventy B twenty

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four heavily loaded bombers took off in a swirl of

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red dust from Benghazi, Libya to bomb a highly defended

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priority target. The element of surprise in the low level

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attack was to be one of their greatest weapons, but

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things went wrong from the start. Three planes exploded during

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takeoff operations, eleven more aborted due to engine trouble. Of

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those that reached the target area, less than one third

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returned to home base. The leaders of the mission encountered

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navigation difficulties and difficulty in identifying the specific targets, and

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due to the loss of that elemental hope surprised. They

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also enculted devastating enemy firepower from black and fighting. The

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mission was partially successful, but a horrifying experience. Five Medals

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of Honor were awarded to the heroes of the Floesti

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Raid for valorous action above and beyond the call of duty.

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At any time the men would have been justified in

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turning back, but they had a code of conduct that

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made them want to see the unequal game through to

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the end. It was a job that had to be done.

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A charge of the light Brigade in the air as

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they flew down the valley of death to glory. And

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now Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and the

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two faced matter all came mister Keasley. It looks like

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this man Tweller is the one who walked off of

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the money in your safe when he left your employee,

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no question about it. And unless you can find him,

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your company will have to pay the full amount of

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the laws. Yeah. Well, even if I do find him,

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the chances are he'll have sprent that money after all

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three years and a half, exactly three years five months.

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And you say you have no idea whatsoever as to

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where he might have gone with that much money. He

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could be anywhere in the world. Ah, where did he live?

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I don't know, sir what. After all, it was none

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of my affair. But if he worked for you a

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number of years, I make it a rule never deprive

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the affairs of others except the course for the manufacturer

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of time finish is concerned. Well, doesn't anybody in there

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this organization know anything about Twiller? Possibly mister Bottomley, who

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see he is presently engaged in creating a hippophyte table

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in the shop, come we go'll speak with him, A

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huge shop dated back a hundred years at least. There

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wasn't a single power tool, not even a buzz song,

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but some of the tools looked as though they might

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have been used to build the art. Eight or ten men,

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all of them old, all wearing dark trousers, suspenders and

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white aprons, were busy turning out fine pieces of furniture camply,

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almost lovingly, and every one of them wore his own

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distinctive whole beer way for tradition. Mister Keasley led the

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way to a man who is gently turning here as

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you're some kind of a sideboard. Good morning, mister Bottomley.

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Good morning, mister Keasley. You must pardon this intrusions to Bottomley.

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It must be for good reason, mister Keasley, though you

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must understand that I cannot afford interruption if I him

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to finished by the year coming. Of course, I wish

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you to meet mister Johnny Dallah. Good morning, mister w A.

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He is an investigator, mister Bottomley, come to get us

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back to the money be lost. Then he must find

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mister Twiller exactly. Good morning, mister Phurston, Good morning, mister Keasley.

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Tells me you know where this man Twyller lived. He

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was my neighbor, lived alone next door to me. Where

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And I assure you, sir, I had no idea of

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his designs from the company building front. Yes, I'm sure,

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But now, if you're just morning. He drove me to

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work in his carriage until he purchased that abominable motor car.

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All I refuse to ride in it, sir, and bought

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myself a bicycle. You did properly, mister Bottomley, Good morning,

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mister Woodstone, my names. Well, just where is mister Twiller lived,

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mister Bottomley in the village of north Weldon, East north

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Weldon on Peach Avenue. Well, and perhaps the authorities there

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will be able to give me some kind of a lead.

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The authority make the police, mister Keys, the police. Good heavens,

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I hope not the dollar. Surely not the police. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, Please,

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these gentlemen are writes the dollar. Think of the block

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or not? Good need? Now look, your loss amounts to

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fifty eight thousand dollars fifty eight thousand four. If I

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don't find this man, my company is gonna have to

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pay off. I know, what the police. Now, Look, my

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immediate job is to find this Rosco James Twiller. And

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if I need the help of the police to do it.

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Who's the chief of police in north Wellman? Well? Yeah,

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the mayor, mister Dollar. What's his name? John Kimworthy Wilkins,

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mister Doll. And here you know, we do not mix

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with the townspeople, mister Dollar. We don't even go with

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the Dollar. But I do have a picture of the mayor. Yes,

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sir Blottomly, where did you get this? He's running for

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re election, mister Keyesday. I found this, this poster in

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my carriage. Will get rid of it? Man, this is indecent. No, no,

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wait a minute, let me see the headible disgusting. Why

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this place to have the thing without the walls but

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final company? Oh no, no, wonder the old boys were

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shot for his honor. The mayor of North and East

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north Wealdon was not only as bald as a bigot ball,

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but the top of off was clean shaven. Yeah, a

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picture like this within the walls of the All Anxime

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Furniture Company was real sacrilege. But I still hadn't done

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my job. I had to find this man twiller or

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let the company pay on fifty eight thousand bucks, how

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to find him? I hadn't the least idea act free

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of your truly a Johnny dollar in a moment. Times

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have changed, and so has the man. During the eighteenth

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and nineteenth centuries, warfare, with its musket fire and cavalry

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charges and cannonades, was a simple, direct, easily understood type

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of conflict. The undisciplined but shopeyed revolutionaries hid behind trees

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and hedgerows to pick off the advancing British truths. The wild, dashing,

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helpful leather cavalry charges of the Civil War and Custom's

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encounter with sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians were thor courageous,

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simple and direct, But they were far removed from the

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developments of the atomic age, which demands selectivity, skill and

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rigorous training. Until recently, the soldier's general level of knowledge

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determined his job suitability. They However, with more and more

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complex weapons and equipment being used, the military needs large

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numbers of skilled technicians. To that end, tests have been

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developed to find men with intelligence and technical aptitude, and

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to develop in these men the needs of the future. Yes,

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kinds of change, and so as the man. And now

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at three, if yours proved Johnny Dollar and the two

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faced matter, I found the mayor of North Weldon sitting

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comfortably on the shaded porch of his home, fanning himself

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with an election placard and sitting in what looked suspiciously

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like a gym and colnic. If you're certain I can't

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teach you a I made to mister Dollar, No thanks,

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Maya Welkins. Now, as I start to say, when I

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first came here, I did hear something some humor about

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money having been taken from the old Langsyne Furniture company.

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But until they lodge a complaint with me, we see,

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I'm most who chief of police. Yes, well, what I

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can see, they're pretty slow about things like that. Yeah,

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they're slow about everything, but they make magnificent furnitures. I

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could see that. Tell me, did you know this Roscoe

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Twiller at all gone before I came to North Wales?

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And all that was only three and a half years ago,

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and I came after that that you're the mayor of

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the town village. Really, miss Dollar, But lovely place. I've

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already I've liked it ever since the first time I

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saw it. And when the people learned that my police record,

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my record in police work out in Ohio, why they

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insisted that I take over my present job. Told him,

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I see, and you have no idea where I could

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get a lead on this Manta. Sorry, he don't. The

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people at the Turntagy factory have any ideas about him,

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none whatsoever. You're sure, I'm sure. Well, if what you've

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told me is too about his seeing the money, I

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mean he is probably far far away. Yep, I'm afraid so,

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just as far as I am from solving this case.

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Were we chatting on for a few minutes, and then

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I left him in the hope of winnings from the

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first while neighbor who might be able to give me

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some help. I headed across town toward Peach Avenue, and

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as I was about to pass the bus stop.

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Speaker 3: And another Redskins, Well.

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Speaker 2: Hi the cowboy. Huh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am a cowboy and a police London an

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artist and sure my name is.

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Speaker 2: Tony doing.

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Speaker 3: I want to see some of my artistical drawings. Yeah,

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just look at the cigarette advertisement with my own crams too.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy, that's the most beautiful mustache I ever saw on

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any girl.

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Speaker 3: My teacher says, I'm gonna go up and be a

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great all.

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Speaker 2: Sure, first I have to get a paint.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and see what I've done with this one.

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Speaker 2: Sure, that's all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's running through re elections. That's why he has

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all these signs on. He looks a lot better with

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something hair.

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Speaker 2: On his old bald head and a little che I'm.

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Speaker 3: Gonna put a beard on like some of those old

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men at the factory with Jimmy, stay with her, old man,

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only they never come down.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 3: That isn't that what God?

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Speaker 4: One of them?

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Speaker 2: There? Jimmy, that's so good. I'm going to say, yes, sir,

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thanks a lot. I sure do you know that? Good Jimmy,

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You'll never know how good you are. Rare back so soon,

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mister doll Maya Wilkins, or rather Chief Wilkins. Yeah, I

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have to ask you to make an arrest.

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Speaker 5: Me.

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Speaker 2: And you've the found a man that you've been looking for.

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If there's any question about it, I'll make a civilian arrest.

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I don't understand, only a few minutes to go. Only

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a few minutes ago, I was blind as a bat

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to the most obvious possibility in the world. You showed

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up in this town a short time after Roscoe Twiller left. Yeah,

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that's true, Roscoe Twiller with a heavy shock of hair

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and a thick beard. Clarify, I understand the tall man

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out at the old lang Syne furniture You queen shaven

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completely bald, mister. I should have realized by the funny

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pink tint on the top of your nugg and that

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you've been using some kind of hairy moover. I beg

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your pardonship air look at yourself, right, but you Roscoe

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James Twiller, Elius John Kenworthy of wolken Now now, mister Darland,

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how beat that if I make a search of your house,

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off find the key to that vault in the furniture factory,

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No TI thru it way. Yeah, do you want to

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make the arrest yourself? Twidder or Shalanta. I don't know

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why Twiller gave up so easily. I guess it was

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because I caught him completely off guard. Even signed the

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confession promised to pay back what he cought. So from

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here on in it's up to the courts, and all

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thanks to a little kid who like to draw mustaches

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on billboards. Expense account total and pulling the finest paints

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that I could find for my little pal Jimmy. Oh

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hey wait, I gotta pad this. It only comes out

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to nine dollars and eighty cents. Yours truly, Johnny Dull.

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Speaker 6: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is colerating Bob Bailey. Orig nates

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in Hollywood, and it's written, produced and directed by Jack Gunstone.

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Herdinar cast Will Will White, her Vigrantloris Lewis at Gad Barrier,

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Richard Beale, Bill Dames, and Gus Babe be sure to

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join us same time and Satan for another exciting story

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of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 2: This is Roy Rowan.

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Speaker 4: Speaking Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: A colorful story and the eccentric nature of this factory

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and how it works, I think really did work and

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make for an interesting story, and I thought the solution

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was clever. The big problem was that this is one

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where the title gave away the punch line. As soon

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as the mayor stated that he hadn't been in town

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the same time as the guy who worked at the factory.

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You guessed it, and I think that it might have

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been at least a little more difficult if the title

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didn't give it away. Listener comments and feedeback, and we

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start out over on Spotify where not when comments are

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regarding the Wayward Killered matter and the discussion of guns

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on planes air hot hijackings is what stopped people from

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bringing weapons into the cabins. Yes, back in the nineteen

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sixties you had people hijacking planes to fly them to Cuba,

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and so that's served to be an impetus to ban

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people from carrying weapons in the cabin or in their

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carry on luggage. So the age of Johnny Dollar being

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able to carry on a plane or rapidly approaching a conclusion.

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And then on YouTube regarding the virtuous mobster matter, Eric comments,

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I can't help but notice that Johnstone likes to making

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his recurring characters real characters. Eccentric millionaire Alvin cart Right,

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the lovelorn, fighting irishwoman Meg, the guy whose name I

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forgot that pays all his bills in money. He literally

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runs through the laundry, the legendary money launderer Durango Laramie.

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I think you mean George Reid of Floyd's of London.

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There might be a couple I've forgotten here, but aside

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from Pat mcackin in the Gang at Lake Mahobby eccentric

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for eccentricity seems to be the through line, and I

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think that that's a fair observation, and if I had

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a theorist to why that might be. If you look

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at Johnstone's radio career, he really cut his he artistically

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in a lot of the serial dramas that were broadcast

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and targeted towards kids, though enjoyed by adults as well.

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He did Buck Rogers and also directed Superman, and both

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those series had these just very big characters who were

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really popular with the audience. So I think that he

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liked those characters from there and really went about creating

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the same sort of characters for Johnny Dollary.

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Speaker 4: Well, there are.

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Speaker 1: People who really don't like those type of characters, there

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were quite enough who did to make the show successful. Well,

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thanks so much, appreciate the comment.

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Speaker 2: Eric.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

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Speaker 1: Your support, Paul, that will do it for today. If

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Speaker 7: Where that was the difference between Guido Goldoni and me,

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he and his partisan sport fire with fire. They'd never

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heard of the democratic process, but I had, and I

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believed in it. That was why Guido and I could

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fight side by side and respect each other as soldiers,

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and yet never become friends.

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Speaker 5: You've not lived under the FASCISTI, Roberto. You've not had

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a wife and child murdered as I have. With the

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men you hung in the square responsible for that. Every

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black shirt is responsible the men in square, Alberto, police

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all of them. When Guido Gordon he finds them, they.

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Speaker 2: Pay for the crime. They should pay, of course, But

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but but but what what what? Roberto?

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Speaker 5: I don't like men who say yes, but.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they can be trusted.

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Speaker 5: You have no right to say that to Roberto.

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Speaker 2: Forget it. Rosen, I'm leaving all of you soon.

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Speaker 7: You won't have to trust me much longer.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,

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