1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,840 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,079 going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly 4 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,240 Jony Doller. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,719 If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,960 your favorite podcast software. 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Again, check that out at Great Adventures dot info. 18 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,000 All right, well, we kind of got out of order. 19 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,879 The episode that I played last week I should have 20 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,959 played this week, and so we kind of got them reversed. 21 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,480 But after that we'll be back on track. Here though, 22 00:01:56,519 --> 00:01:59,959 from June twenty second, nineteen fifty eight is the Virtue 23 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:01,239 with Monster. 24 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:10,879 Speaker 2: Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellen Jerry. 25 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,759 Speaker 3: This is your all p Lefty Lefty for sure, you 26 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:19,120 remember Lefty stimpa you know down here, invite. 27 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 2: You virtue feet by chill fight you some oh for sure? 28 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 4: Yeah you remember me and the boys we occupied this 29 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,360 Carraway plantation. Yeah, you're in the pad River. 30 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,879 Speaker 2: Well sure of course. Listen. Are you having trouble again 31 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:34,840 a little man Carraway? 32 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 4: Oh no, shuh. 33 00:02:36,199 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 2: Not a bit. 34 00:02:37,159 --> 00:02:38,879 Speaker 4: And you know how we stopped them and the boys 35 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:41,680 from making trouble for us, Lefty, We bought them out, 36 00:02:41,759 --> 00:02:42,960 that's all. Yeah. 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,319 Speaker 3: We give them a hundred cheez for the place cash money. 38 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,439 Now we own a whole entire plantation. Well, good for you, 39 00:02:48,599 --> 00:02:49,599 and I want your problem. 40 00:02:49,719 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 4: Well, Jerny, we fixed this place up real night. Since 41 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:52,639 you've seen it. 42 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 3: You always spend a lot of dawn, so so we 43 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:56,879 want to buy a lot of now insurance on it. 44 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 2: Oh well, then hop on over to George down and 45 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,840 see your old friend Joe Picka Tello about it. Oh, 46 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,240 after all, he's your insurance as yeah, is he Well, 47 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:08,159 sure of course he is. Didn't he send you all 48 00:03:08,159 --> 00:03:12,479 the other insurance? You Lefty? That something happened to Joe. 49 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what it is. 50 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: What you mean, I don't know. 51 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 4: I talked on the phone, asked him to come out here. 52 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,759 He says okay, but he don't come. 53 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:24,159 Speaker 2: You think somebody's knocked him off. 54 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 4: And I call him again, he's sukay again, give me 55 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:28,680 right over, but he still don't come. 56 00:03:28,719 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: Well, have you gone over to Georgetown to see him? 57 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:31,280 To see what's the matter? 58 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 4: Five? 59 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 5: Six, maybe even a half a dozen times? What every time? 60 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,719 He ain't day, Lefty, I don't get it. That's what 61 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:41,159 I'm trying to tell you. There's something wrong about it, Johnny. 62 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,639 And if I want you, I come down here and 63 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:44,199 fine out. 64 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,599 Speaker 2: You know something? I think you're right? 65 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 6: Bailey and The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the 66 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:01,319 Action Pact Expenser God America is fabulous. Freeland Insurance Investigator 67 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:03,319 is truly Johnny Dollar. 68 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 7: Now I won the viewers. 69 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:28,399 Speaker 2: Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by a special investigator 70 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,360 Johnny Dollar to the Continental Insurance Company Home Office, New York, 71 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:35,399 New York. Following is an account of expenses incurred during 72 00:04:35,399 --> 00:04:43,720 my investigation of the Virtuous Mobster Matter. Expense account I 73 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,759 had of won seven dollars eighty five cents trained to 74 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,079 New York City and taxi to the office of Continental 75 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,879 Insurance Company. Fortunately, my contact there, Ben or Love, was in. 76 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,680 Come in, mister dollar, come in, thanks, how I am 77 00:04:55,879 --> 00:04:56,319 Sit down? 78 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 8: Thanks now, mister all a minute, don't tell me you 79 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:02,079 never received that check for your services down in South Carolina. 80 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I got that that mailed out to you 81 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:06,439 nearly two months ago. Yes, I said, I got it. 82 00:05:06,519 --> 00:05:09,240 I am good. 83 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,639 Speaker 8: Incidentally, I thoroughly enjoyed your report on that case, the 84 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:15,399 village of Virtue matter. You called it a why a 85 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,439 group of ex gangsters should decide to settle in a 86 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,720 town called Virtue? I'll never understand. Well, were they really 87 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:23,439 behaving themselves as your report indicated, or have they been 88 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:25,560 using that old plantation for a sort of hideout. 89 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:29,199 Speaker 2: Their records have been cleaned down there for over twenty 90 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:30,319 years now, is that so? 91 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:31,319 Speaker 7: Well? 92 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,879 Speaker 8: Well, maybe the answer to organized crime is to give 93 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:38,360 all those fellows a nice, quiet plantation to live off. 94 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,480 So I must say that when our agent down there, 95 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:41,800 Joseph Picatello. 96 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 2: It's about Joe that I've come to time. 97 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 8: Must say that I was a bit concerned when I 98 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:48,199 found Joe had sold policies to characters like Lefty Stemper 99 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,959 and Bully Magoon and Flippy lack of mister all Eye. 100 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,800 Those were the very sort of men that Thomas and 101 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:54,199 ju we chased out of New York when he was 102 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,519 va some years ago, all hours before due with the 103 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,920 game Governor. You know, so, naturally, what are you going 104 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,800 to say about Joe Piccadello? Have you heard from Joel recently? 105 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 9: No? 106 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 8: No, I don't think I have now that you mentioned, 107 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,720 because I just talked over the phone. 108 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: Wait, you must understand one thing. 109 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 8: Mister dor wants that our office down there in Georgetown 110 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,399 is probably the smallest one we have in the whole country. 111 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,399 Speaker 2: Joe really doesn't have much business for us. You know, yes, 112 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,160 I understand. I understood that when I talked to him 113 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:21,519 in April. 114 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 8: If it worked for those those mobsters over in mobsters, 115 00:06:25,399 --> 00:06:27,160 mister arwell, if it wasn't for them and some of 116 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,839 the townspeople to whom we've issued policies, I, mister Donner, 117 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:33,519 has something happened to Joe Picadello. 118 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,759 Speaker 2: That's what I want to find out, because now. 119 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,879 Speaker 8: That I think about it, excuse me, miss Bailey. Yes, mister, 120 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,120 did you ever get a reply on the harmon policy 121 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,040 from mister Piccadello in our Georgetown office? 122 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 4: No, sir, I've written mister Picateller several times. 123 00:06:48,079 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: Thank you dollar. We wrote Joe about that harmon matter 124 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,120 over four weeks ago. Well didn't it occur to you 125 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,680 to phone him and find out why he hasn't answered 126 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:57,800 to you? 127 00:06:57,879 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 8: But it involves such a small policy that yes, perhaps 128 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,959 i'd better try to call him, Miss Bailey. Wait, yes, 129 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:14,240 nothing I said nothing. Well, mister Donnard or mister Rawloff, 130 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:17,199 if something has happened at your Piga Tello, well look. 131 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:19,759 Speaker 2: Instead of spreading the alarm, how about if I quietly 132 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:22,279 run on down there. But have you reason to believe 133 00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:24,720 something wrong has happened to him? Only from what his 134 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:26,839 clients down there at the plantation of told me over 135 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:27,879 the phone. 136 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 8: You think perhaps some of his old Gangland enemies have 137 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:33,040 got to him after twenty years. 138 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,079 Speaker 2: I don't know, but if you locame my expense again, 139 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:36,839 I'll go down there and. 140 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,639 Speaker 8: Say, well, now, mister Donnan, and if you want I'll 141 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,480 go down there anyway, But there's the danger too. This 142 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:47,319 might be a very dangerous. Let me let me. 143 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: Hear from you as soon as you can, mister. 144 00:07:49,519 --> 00:08:04,079 Speaker 6: Dollar, Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment, 145 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:05,360 and now. 146 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 10: For another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's bell weather. 147 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 11: My husband, Donald, it's your pooring, isn't it. 148 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 7: Can you see all right? 149 00:08:25,639 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I can see the windshield wipers are operating 150 00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:32,320 with mechanical profession. You notice there are no more streets either, 151 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,879 since I put on the new rubber blade. 152 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 10: You know, I think every driver should have his windshield 153 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,360 wipers in good order. 154 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,639 Speaker 7: It's much safer. It would be much safer if everyone 155 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,679 would slow down during wet weather. 156 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 2: Like my husband is doing right now, just being cautious. Raba. 157 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,799 Speaker 12: We don't want an accident and move down for I 158 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:50,200 don't want an accident anytime. 159 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:51,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's for sure. 160 00:08:51,919 --> 00:08:55,879 Speaker 7: Well, the experts say that accidents just don't happen. Something 161 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,159 causes accidents, and that cause can be. 162 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 11: Prevented, by the way, in what kind of weather. 163 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 7: Do you think most accidents are? 164 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,759 Speaker 12: Care Oh like saying rain or snowy weather or any 165 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,799 slippery weather When visibility is. 166 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 7: Unfair at the wrong anthwer deer wrong? 167 00:09:14,039 --> 00:09:14,799 Speaker 2: Are you serious? 168 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,919 Speaker 7: Statistics show that eight. 169 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 10: Out of ten accidents occur when the weather is clear 170 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:21,240 or with a cloudy overcast. 171 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: Are you posited on the wine? 172 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 7: Oh here's our house to Oh yeah. 173 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 12: Now you said right here, Reba, I'll get out with 174 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:35,120 the umbrella, and then I'll come around and open your ear. 175 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:35,519 Speaker 4: All right? 176 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,519 Speaker 11: Anyway, I wonder why, I wonder why? 177 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 2: What why? 178 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 12: Eight out of ten accidents happen in clear weather. 179 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,039 Speaker 2: Oh well, I don't. 180 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 7: Know for sure, sergeant, but I do know that you 181 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,639 drew very carefully light in the rain. 182 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 10: Think now, if everyone grow as carefully during clear, dry weather, 183 00:09:51,919 --> 00:09:53,000 there'd be less accidents. 184 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 2: I'm sure that must be it. People automatically get cautious 185 00:09:57,879 --> 00:10:01,240 in the rain and snow. Too bad. They don't stay 186 00:10:01,279 --> 00:10:03,440 that way in good way. You will, won't you? 187 00:10:03,919 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 11: I mean, drive safely in good weather too. 188 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 7: I promise that's mine. Donald, that's my doll. 189 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,519 Speaker 6: And now I do of yours truly. Johnny Dollar and 190 00:10:24,639 --> 00:10:26,440 the virtuous mobster matter. 191 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,799 Speaker 2: Expenser gun had him two twenty eight dollars even transportation 192 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:37,559 in incidentals New York City to Georgetown South Carolina. It 193 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,919 was late when I pulled into the prosperous little southern 194 00:10:39,919 --> 00:10:43,480 community that was dark, pitch dark. I am three fifty 195 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,080 bucks deposit on a rental car. I am four seventy 196 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,080 cents for a sandwich and a coca and all night diner. 197 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,080 Then I drove over to Joe Piccotello's on a side 198 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,240 street near the park, the small frame building that served 199 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,320 as both paulfus and living quarters. But Joe was dark. 200 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,600 But in the hope he might be asleep in his 201 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:07,000 little apartment of above, I'm not I'll answer. Until I 202 00:11:07,039 --> 00:11:09,039 was about to turn and go back to my car, 203 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,159 there was the sound of a door slamming somewhere inside, 204 00:11:12,639 --> 00:11:17,360 but still no light showed and knocked again, and faintly 205 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,960 I heard footsteps approaching. But why hadn't Joe turned on 206 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:21,679 the light in there? 207 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 11: Yeah? 208 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,639 Speaker 2: What do you want? Joe? Yeah, Joe, open up. It's 209 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:32,240 Johnny Dollar. Johnny Dollar insurance investigator. 210 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 13: You know, investigator, that's what you said. 211 00:11:36,279 --> 00:11:47,279 Speaker 2: Are you kidding? What's the matter with you? Pole? Open up? Yeah? Sure, Hi, Joe. 212 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,559 What's the idea of no lights in here? You forget 213 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,240 to pay your bell or something? Maybe? 214 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,039 Speaker 13: What do you want why investigator, you said, Willie? 215 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 2: Do you hear that? 216 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 9: Willie? 217 00:11:59,440 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 4: Yeah? 218 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 9: What is it? Oh? 219 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 7: No, you don't? 220 00:12:13,919 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 2: All right, Willie? 221 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:20,919 Speaker 13: I got his gun. I hit him again? Yeah again, 222 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:24,600 once more? 223 00:12:29,159 --> 00:12:33,639 Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, he is out like a life. Yeah. What 224 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:34,679 do you want I should do with him? 225 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 14: Now? 226 00:12:36,639 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 2: You're crazy? 227 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 9: Willie? 228 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:43,799 Speaker 2: You mean you don't know? Okay, but but bless him here. 229 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:46,960 It's gonna make a lot of noise. If any way, listen, 230 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,200 hate your car coming down the street. 231 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,279 Speaker 13: That's again, he said, so he wouldn't be working along 232 00:12:53,879 --> 00:13:03,440 going not the back way. 233 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 15: I don't don't. You'll see no lights on, Lefty. 234 00:13:09,279 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: Maybe Joe's went to bed if he's that. 235 00:13:12,159 --> 00:13:14,639 Speaker 15: He didn't answer the phone when you called them. 236 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 16: Listen, Flippy, Johnny and Dollar told me I should come 237 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:18,799 down here and look for Joe myself. 238 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 2: So come on, we'll see. 239 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 15: Whatever you say, Lefty. Only I thought that Johnny was 240 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:26,080 coming down here himself. 241 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,639 Speaker 2: Huh hey, look the doors open? 242 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,919 Speaker 15: Yeah you you look what what I stepped on? 243 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:36,919 Speaker 2: Joe? Joe? What happened to you? 244 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 15: That ain't Joe, It's it's Johnny Dollar. 245 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:50,919 Speaker 2: Hey, you're right, Flippy, somebody must let's anyway, Oh, Johnny Johnny, Johnny, 246 00:13:50,919 --> 00:13:51,200 it's me. 247 00:13:51,399 --> 00:13:55,799 Speaker 13: It's me, Lefty and me Flippy Johnny. 248 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:02,519 Speaker 2: Okay, you're right, you're right. This to you, Johnny, Yeah, 249 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:03,639 we'll moorize him. 250 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,159 Speaker 15: Sure, what happened in here? 251 00:14:09,799 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 2: You know who done this to you? Johnny? 252 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:12,279 Speaker 15: Yeah? 253 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was help me lay up on the sofa. 254 00:14:17,879 --> 00:14:18,480 He's easy. 255 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:20,799 Speaker 4: Yeah. 256 00:14:21,159 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 2: Here, yeah, Johnny, listen to me. 257 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:28,519 Speaker 15: Oh, Johnny, Johnny. 258 00:14:29,039 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: I can't believe it, but I can see him in 259 00:14:31,519 --> 00:14:36,960 the light of the stool show pig of Tellow, Smoky 260 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,639 pigg of Tellow down. This to you. Theother guy with 261 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:44,360 him called him will he will the lump. Why why 262 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,120 did he do it? I don't know. I did very 263 00:14:47,159 --> 00:14:49,360 strange when he came to the door. And I don't 264 00:14:49,399 --> 00:14:51,960 get it. He was my power he was your power. 265 00:14:51,799 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 15: Man, well like the lump with him. That that's what 266 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:55,240 I don't get. 267 00:14:55,679 --> 00:14:58,039 Speaker 2: It means he's went back, That's what it means. 268 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 16: He's went back to the old rack dope smuggling him 269 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,399 and Willie Laumpa's partners in the old days. 270 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 15: But twenty years, Joe's straight, Lefty look like you and 271 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:10,240 me and Bully McCool. 272 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, for twenty years, you and me and bully. 273 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 16: The only guns we ever used was for hunting, for 274 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,519 killing snakes, not no more. 275 00:15:17,679 --> 00:15:18,559 Speaker 2: What are your mean? Left? 276 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,759 Speaker 16: He Joe Pigotello done this to you? Johnny means only 277 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:25,720 one thing. There's only one thing we can do. 278 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,799 Speaker 2: No, he's right, Johnny, Oh no, left here, Johnny. First, 279 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,840 we take you back to the plantation. When you get 280 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,960 all right again, no, listen to me, And we find 281 00:15:34,039 --> 00:15:37,279 Joe picketteller flipp and bullying me, and we. 282 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,919 Speaker 13: Do, well, what are you Pump's doing here? 283 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 11: Huh h? 284 00:15:43,159 --> 00:15:45,559 Speaker 7: That's right? Who'd you expected? What's the big eye? 285 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 16: All right, don't move because Joe I'm gonna blast your 286 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:52,039 head off. 287 00:15:57,159 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 6: Fact three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment 288 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:03,000 do you know who said? 289 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 17: Every individual in society has certain powers, rights, and privileges 290 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:14,279 which no other individual can justly abridge or destroy. Those 291 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,360 words were written by Noah Webster, the man who compiled 292 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:22,559 America's first Great dictionary. Mister Webster knew that if the 293 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,320 country which he had seen come into being were to succeed, 294 00:16:26,039 --> 00:16:29,960 the rights of the individual have to be protected. Each 295 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:34,519 person is entitled to certain basic rights, powers, and privileges 296 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,639 which must not be taken away because of the whim 297 00:16:37,879 --> 00:16:42,240 of someone with greater power. In the United States, the 298 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,559 individual is important regardless of his wealth, power, or position. 299 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,120 The importance of the individual is closely linked to the 300 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:56,480 American tradition. Remember the words of Noah Webster, they are 301 00:16:56,559 --> 00:17:01,320 part of your American heritage. The right and privileges of 302 00:17:01,399 --> 00:17:04,440 the individual must be preserved. 303 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 6: No I free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the 304 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:10,440 virtuous Mobster matter. 305 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:21,039 Speaker 2: To say, the atmosphere was tense there on Joe Piccatello's 306 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:23,759 office in Georgetown, South Carolina, would be the understatement of 307 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:26,200 the week. After the beating I'd taken for the ex 308 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:28,400 gangster in one of his pals. My old friends Lefty 309 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,880 and Flippy had come in and found me there, and 310 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,839 they couldn't understand why Joe had done this to me unless. 311 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 16: Amaze, He's went back, That's what it means, went back 312 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:37,880 to the rackets. 313 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:39,839 Speaker 7: Willie was quit him. 314 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,039 Speaker 2: And when Willie was partners of the old days though nuts. 315 00:17:43,039 --> 00:17:45,720 So the two of them swore to get you. And 316 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:48,160 then suddenly we looked up to see someone standing in 317 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,000 the doorway. Joe. It was Joe Piccatello. 318 00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 7: That's right. 319 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 15: Now we're expected what all. 320 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,839 Speaker 16: Right, don't move because Joe, I'm gonna blest you ahead, 321 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,799 and I've put that thing down left the. 322 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 15: Don't move a gag or something? 323 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:04,319 Speaker 2: Is it a gag? What you've done at Johnny Dollar? 324 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 4: Johnny? 325 00:18:06,079 --> 00:18:07,799 Speaker 2: I said, one move and I'll give it there. 326 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 15: Johnny, turn around, Joe, I'll shoot you in the back. 327 00:18:11,279 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 4: You dirty? What did they do to you? 328 00:18:12,519 --> 00:18:15,799 Speaker 2: Johnny? Listen, Lufty, Flippy, I'll. 329 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 4: Kill you for this. 330 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Your dirty rock? 331 00:18:18,279 --> 00:18:21,759 Speaker 18: Lefty Johnny's my pal like you used to be before 332 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:23,720 you went back in the rackets, went back in the racket. 333 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 15: H Yeah, with that dupeound Willy the Lump. 334 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 2: What do you know about Willy the Lump? Plenty? Now 335 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,640 that you're back with them, you're crazy. 336 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 13: It's no good, Joe, because Johnny recognized you, You and. 337 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 2: Willy the Lump. When you wipe them over, I tell. 338 00:18:36,039 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 4: You that I had twenty years. 339 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 2: You and Bully and Flippy and me. We showed we 340 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,480 could do it straight. We could be respectable. Me and 341 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:45,799 a boy's at the plantation. You down here, but now 342 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:47,519 you spoiled. You're ruining for. 343 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 4: All of us. 344 00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:50,880 Speaker 2: Luck with your little don't move We made a deal, 345 00:18:51,319 --> 00:18:54,440 you and me and the boys twenty years ago. 346 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,839 Speaker 18: If anybody slips, anybody breaks up our respectable life. 347 00:18:58,680 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 4: He gotta go. 348 00:19:00,039 --> 00:19:00,559 Speaker 2: Is that the deal? 349 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 13: Yeah, that was the deal. But you don't know what 350 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,839 you're talking about. What you say, I'm going back, all. 351 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 2: Right, so you your laws. He's come. You not only 352 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,279 go back and do this to Johnny dot of my friend. 353 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,599 The guy who believed in it is Lefty. So for 354 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:16,119 that you got a gut he Listen now, Joe right, Lefty, 355 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,519 give me a gun, Lefty. 356 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,599 Speaker 15: No, Johnny, that was the deal. 357 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 2: You ever use a gun on a man, you'll go 358 00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:27,759 up for the rest of your life. Johnny, it's for you. 359 00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:36,640 I'm hand it over, Lefty. Okay, thanks. You see it 360 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,160 it wasn't Joe who worked me over. I thought it was. 361 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,559 It did look like him, it sounded like that, and I 362 00:19:42,759 --> 00:19:45,880 was look at his hands, his face is closed. Is 363 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,240 this the man I fought with him here five minutes ago? Sure? 364 00:19:49,279 --> 00:19:50,680 Maybe I did get the worst of it with two 365 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,839 of them on top of me, but believe me, I 366 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,400 cut them up. Some tool he's right, Lefty. 367 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,599 Speaker 8: Yeah, But then I don't if it wasn't him. 368 00:20:01,799 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 2: The twin the twin. 369 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 13: You're right, Lefty, it must be the twins, the. 370 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: Twin here, all right, boys, let me in on a 371 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,440 tour with the Sheplock or the twin they called him, 372 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,680 that's what the law called him, called him, Joe, the 373 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,519 twins because they looked like each other, they talked like 374 00:20:16,599 --> 00:20:19,599 each other. Yeah, there was always the allibie for each other. 375 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 15: But what shep lock or doing here. 376 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 18: I can't tell you, not yet, all right, Joe, all right, 377 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,519 I believe you about not working over Johnny here because 378 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:32,880 of what he says about well about you not being 379 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:33,519 mussed up. 380 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 13: But if you and Shepherd back in the rack, not left, 381 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,240 that's straight, all right? 382 00:20:40,319 --> 00:20:41,759 Speaker 2: Then tell me where you've been. 383 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 7: I can't tell you. 384 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 2: Three four weeks now, we don't know where. The insurance 385 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:48,119 company don't know. 386 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 4: Why. 387 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:56,799 Speaker 13: Well, I can't tell you that. Listen you listen. If 388 00:20:56,799 --> 00:20:59,880 Sheppard will you have been here, they'll be coming back? Why, Yeah, Joe, 389 00:21:00,519 --> 00:21:07,200 I can't tell you. I can't tell you, all right, listen, well, 390 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:09,720 listening to Joe the secret cerbrush. 391 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 2: Well after those killings up in Baltimore during that smuggling, Joe. 392 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 13: Yeah, Johnny, they knew the twins shepwalk when Willie. Well, 393 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,720 the boys in Washington knew they did it, but they 394 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:19,359 didn't know where. 395 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:20,319 Speaker 7: To find him. 396 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 13: Well, go on, Joe, So they sped the way the 397 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,519 secret Cyprus sped the way that I knew where Shep 398 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:27,720 and Willy were, that I would lead. 399 00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:30,079 Speaker 2: Them to him. You knew where he was, huh No, but. 400 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:31,799 Speaker 13: The law boys knew that to flush him out, get 401 00:21:31,839 --> 00:21:34,400 Shepping Willy out looking for me, gune in for me, and. 402 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: The Secret Service didn't keep you under cover. Yeah, until 403 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:40,079 today back in Washington. I talked to you on your 404 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,200 phone right here. 405 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,839 Speaker 13: At the line was raked through to Washington. 406 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 2: You said, until today, Joe. 407 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 13: Yeah, because Shepp and Willy didn't show, the law boys 408 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:50,240 had to make them show. 409 00:21:50,759 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 2: So then they sent you here as living baits. Yeah, 410 00:21:55,039 --> 00:21:58,240 and they passed the word that you'd be here. That's it, Johnny. 411 00:21:58,799 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 13: That's why Shepper Willy will wait here when you came. 412 00:22:01,759 --> 00:22:04,720 That's why I'll come back now that I'm here. Boy, 413 00:22:05,799 --> 00:22:07,759 if you stuck your knock out for the sake of 414 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:11,200 going straight, I couldn't help myself. A secret Service rigged 415 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,200 on me. Guy named Phillips. But now you're rolling it, 416 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:16,640 so flip me. Tine out the lights. 417 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get out of here. 418 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 17: And what oh listen, we was crooks but never killers, 419 00:22:24,599 --> 00:22:25,359 but it's killers. 420 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 2: It's coming to get Joe. Well you ain't, Lefty, but 421 00:22:27,839 --> 00:22:31,160 they won't and they won't get you, Johnny. Sorry, Lefty, 422 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,400 I can't move. Then we're staying for you and Joe. 423 00:22:35,559 --> 00:22:37,799 Speaker 7: Yeah right, so turn out the lights for me to 424 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,960 lakewise them. 425 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 13: That's right, your own pile shep block or keep her 426 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,079 riding on him, Willie, don't worry, ship, investigator, aunt dolla, 427 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:53,240 I need a secret service. Yes, they knew we should 428 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,559 have killed him when we had your dollar. So we 429 00:22:55,599 --> 00:23:00,119 thought these boys driving up was reinforcements. Reinforcements. 430 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,799 Speaker 2: We should have known this a good serbance. Wasn't that bright? 431 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:03,880 All right? 432 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,519 Speaker 13: Will he first come when I keep this gun on him? 433 00:23:05,599 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 2: Sure? None of you trying to dollar? We got his gun. 434 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:14,759 Oh okay, Jess, what do you intend doing? Queen ship? 435 00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:17,559 What do you think? All right? 436 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:20,559 Speaker 13: Joe gets it first, but you're gonna post so it 437 00:23:20,599 --> 00:23:21,480 don't make no noise. 438 00:23:22,799 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 14: Go ahead, Willie, Yeah you got him boat, and I 439 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:39,559 thought you couldn't move. 440 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 7: Yeah, my boy, Thanks Johnny. 441 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 2: Thanks thank Lefty for giving me his gun when I 442 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:52,240 asked for a show. Oh hey, look, any of you 443 00:23:52,279 --> 00:24:01,039 guys know a good doctor. Yeah. I've said it before 444 00:24:01,079 --> 00:24:04,960 and I say it again. In this insurance business, you 445 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,920 never know what you'll run into. Expense account total including 446 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,839 a flock of medical expenses and the trip back to 447 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,680 Hartford one hundred and seventy four dollars even, Yours Truly, 448 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,119 Johnny Dollar. 449 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 6: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, Originates in Hollywood. 450 00:24:46,759 --> 00:24:50,359 That is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also 451 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,200 wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were Jeene Jatum, 452 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,480 Jack Krushian, Less Tremade, Billy Helen, Frank Urstol and Gil 453 00:24:58,599 --> 00:24:59,599 Stratton Junior. 454 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,759 Speaker 2: Be sure to join us next. 455 00:25:01,559 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 6: Week, same time and station, or another exciting story of 456 00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:07,000 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. 457 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 2: This is Royal Rowlan. 458 00:25:11,559 --> 00:26:12,519 Speaker 9: Speaking Welcome Back. 459 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: Not a bad episode. It's another example of Johnstone creating 460 00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:20,799 a group of characters or a single character, and rather 461 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,079 than just having them as one time used, he decides 462 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,400 he's going to do a callback, make them maybe recurring. 463 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,440 I do wonder whether doing a second episode with this 464 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:35,000 group was a good idea this soon, but it was 465 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,880 enjoyable for what it was. On the bright side, now 466 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,400 Johnny knows that a blood oath is what's keeping the 467 00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:45,559 X mobsters on the straight and narrow, which should be 468 00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:49,200 a comfort to the insurance company as long as they 469 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,000 don't worry too much about having to pay off in 470 00:26:52,079 --> 00:26:55,400 the event that someone violates the oath. Listener comments, and 471 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,960 fayback now we start over on YouTube. Have a comment 472 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:05,079 regarding the Wayward River matter. Listener writes, the story is timeless. 473 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,559 It could have been written about last year in North 474 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:11,960 Carolina when the hurricanes came through. Well, I think definitely 475 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,720 the idea of small towns not prepared for floods and 476 00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:23,319 the real risk that it poses to those communities really 477 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,400 does make a timeless story. Maybe not going to a 478 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,440 store to get dynamite, but the flooding part and the 479 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:36,079 peril I think absolutely. Then have a comment. This comes 480 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:41,200 from W. Baker third, regarding the village of Virtue. Matter 481 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,920 so the first or I guess prequel to this story writs. 482 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:50,400 At the beginning of the episode, Johnny jokes about payment 483 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,000 of his own life insurance if things don't go well. 484 00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:57,119 This begs the question why would Johnny have a life insurance? 485 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:02,200 Who would be the beneficiary. Well, the obvious and honest 486 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,200 answer to both is I don't know, But I can 487 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,960 speculate not so much on the beneficiary but why he 488 00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:12,480 might have had the policy. And I think it's safe 489 00:28:12,519 --> 00:28:18,559 to say that we think differently about life insurance in 490 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:23,319 the twenty first century than people might have thought about 491 00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:27,480 it in the nineteen fifties. Now, certainly it was thought 492 00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:31,440 about as a way to take care of your loved 493 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,839 ones in the event of your passing, but I think 494 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,400 it was far more common to think of life insurance, 495 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,720 particularly whole life, as an investment vehicle. Now there are 496 00:28:43,839 --> 00:28:47,920 still people who will think of it that way. There 497 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:50,279 is a whole. 498 00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:58,079 Speaker 19: Debate in the world of finance and personal finance on 499 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,000 the question of whole life as an investment, But I 500 00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:06,160 think it was more commonly viewed that way in the 501 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,759 late nineteen fifties, particularly by someone like Johnny who worked 502 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:11,640 in the industry. 503 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: Now today, the sort of mainstream investing advice you would 504 00:29:16,599 --> 00:29:21,720 here given to someone like Johnny is to put money 505 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,680 into an IRA and put that money into something like 506 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,039 an smpmdex fund, and then also do that in post 507 00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:34,839 tax accounts if you had more than the maximum to 508 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,599 save well. In nineteen fifty eight, they didn't have iras 509 00:29:39,119 --> 00:29:43,680 and they didn't have index funds, and after the Great 510 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,680 stock market Crash of nineteen twenty nine, people were very 511 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:52,640 jumpy about the idea of investing in the stock market. 512 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:55,119 And in fact, if you listen to a lot of 513 00:29:55,119 --> 00:30:00,359 old time radio, it eitherre is a very strong under 514 00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:04,599 a current of don't buy stocks, don't invest in stock 515 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,799 now not everyone held to that, but there's no indication 516 00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:13,200 of Johnny ever being invested in the stock market. But 517 00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:18,920 he also has relatively low expenses beyond his apartment rent 518 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,519 and things he actually ends up paying for himself. And 519 00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,839 given Johnny's connections in the insurance industry, he probably could 520 00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:30,599 have gotten a policy at a discount. So he probably 521 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:34,759 viewed the life insurance policy as an investment, and it 522 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,799 had benefits that he would have liked. There were some 523 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,799 tax benefits, cash value of the policy built up over time, 524 00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:47,119 and if Johnny ever ran into a tight spot, he 525 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:52,200 could borrow against that cash value, and there are probably 526 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:56,759 other benefits. But my point here is that it could 527 00:30:56,759 --> 00:30:59,839 have very well made sense as an investment vehicle, even 528 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:02,279 if if he didn't have any family to take care 529 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:06,279 of particularly given that many of the things that we 530 00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:11,160 might use in the twenty first century instead were not 531 00:31:11,359 --> 00:31:15,200 yet available and would not become available until the seventies. Well, 532 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,640 now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 533 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,200 and I want to go ahead and thank Carissa, Patreon 534 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:25,240 supporter since March of twenty twenty four, currently supporting the 535 00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:28,200 podcast at the Shawmus level of four dollars or more 536 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,200 per month. Thanks so much for your support, Carrissa. That 537 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,279 will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, 538 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:39,839 please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be 539 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,920 sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download 540 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,920 it from. We'll be back next Friday with another episode 541 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,480 of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. But join us back here 542 00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:53,720 tomorrow as we turn to the great adventurers of old 543 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:57,240 time radio and Cloak and Dagger, where. 544 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 13: This is an expect on a day signing until tomorrow morning. 545 00:32:04,279 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 2: Hit there we go through your fingers crushed. 546 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:10,039 Speaker 20: Don't turn off your radios, people of Fribourg. 547 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:11,279 Speaker 9: This is for you. 548 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 20: I am your voice of freedom, bringing you news as 549 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,079 it actually exists, not as the propaganda ministry would like. 550 00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:20,599 Speaker 9: You to believe. 551 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 20: That's good wonderful. It wasn't fifty sons of Friburg who 552 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:31,000 died at the Anzio Beach had but five hundred. You mothers, wives, sweethearts, 553 00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:34,599 who have not heard from your men. You think the 554 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,559 males are slow? Is that why you haven't received letters? 555 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:47,039 Your men will never write again. They were killed at Anzio. Women, 556 00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:50,200 They are taking your men away? What do you have 557 00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:51,039 for compensation? 558 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 559 00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:58,480 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives doty, 560 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,880 follow us on twit or at Radio Detectives. Check us 561 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:08,480 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 562 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,359 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.