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Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: Well, we are now after that lost episode we've been
talking about. The original air date on today's episode is
September seventh, nineteen fifty eight, and the title is the
Malibu Mystery.
Speaker 3: Matter from Hollywood. It's time now, Paul.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Johnny Dollar, Peter Henley and Western Maritime and Property Insurance.
Speaker 3: Holy look, you always started making calls with Florid Amston
Henley across the country, mister dollars to find out that
you're right here in Los Angeles. And that's right. The
Beverly Hill. Not here in Beverly Hill. I've cleared up
the case that brought me here, so as soon as
I have breakfast, if they serve it at this unearthly hour,
I'll pack up my bags and go back to heart Rid.
Please don't Oh, what's up?
Speaker 4: I want to where clans is?
Speaker 3: A doctor present us with a claim that I think
you want to investigate as long as you're write here. Yeah,
what sort of a claim for the loss of his yacht?
How much of a claim? Between one hundred and fifty
and two dollars? Wow? You know where Mallebo Beach is? Yeah? Sure,
up the coast a few miles used to be a
famous movie colony, that sort of thing. That's the place.
And if you can find some means of transportation, I'll
meet you at the Malibou kid on expensive comments to Hanley,
I can find anything on a claim that could run
to a quarter of a million, I'm sure you won't
be Chinsey, mister. I'll see it's amountable.
Speaker 5: Pier Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man
with the Action packed expensing out America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5: And now act one of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3: Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Western Maritime and Property Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California. Following
is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the Malible mystery matter. Expense account aud of one two
and a quarter for a fancy breakfast in my room
at the Beverly Hilton. It had them two fifty dollars
deposit it on the best looking rental car I could fine.
I drove out Santa Monica Boulevard at the Coast Highway
and then north along the edge of the Blue Pacific,
some twelve or thirteen miles to Malible for a long
fishing per stuck out into the ocean. Cars were parked
for half a mile on either side of the pier entrance,
and I looked as don't half the population of la
which crowded out on the peer itself thanks to an
ambulance to pull away from the curb and headed south
toward town. I found a parking street. Mister dollars, Yeah,
oh high, Miss Henley, come along out on the pier
all right, what's all the mobs so early? In the morning.
Apparently word of an accident like this gets around quickly.
But kind of an accident, don't you see the Coast
Guard vessels are the circling around. Yeah? Did this boat
you were talking about sync out there? That take us,
mister Dollar one hundred and fifty thousand dollars diesel? Y
on what happened to her? Apparently it just blew up. Survivors,
mister miss is Randolph Meryll, and the steward in Beckham
managed to get him to the launch for you, pretending
you picked up by the Coast Guard. Well, skipper went
down with the young at least no tracer. His daughter
has been founded yet, Captain Rowlands, but few people just
have to get back off of pit.
Speaker 6: All.
Speaker 3: It's Hanley. I wish is Johnny Taller, a special investigator
for my insurance company. Captain rawlins of the Coast Guard. Dollar.
I can't if you found anything out there, Captain, not
a sign of the titus. Mister Hanley. Yeah, it's mighty
deep water and I'm afraid that, like mister Merrill and
his wife told us, he just blew herself to Smitheren. Yeah,
even from here, I can see some wreckage floating in
and they're all working around the oil slick out there.
So the grapples ought to be able to find something
down below, some traces of a hull or machinery or something.
When did it happen? Oh two two and a half
hours ago one of our craft got out. I throw
it from Santa Monica Harbor, not more than forty minutes
after she went down. How'd you find out about it?
Bong call from somebody living along the beach. Potato stood
out there blowing the whistle and fog going woke him up.
By the time he got out of bed, he said,
it looked like the regular fireworks display about a half
mile off shore. Huh you see where they put a mocker. Boy,
wouldn't the wind and current move? That's slick and whatever
wreckage There is no wind. That's why there's still some
fog out there, and they're allowing for drift. Don't worry
if there's anything left to the data, so those boys
will find it now. I excuse me, would you please?
I gotta keep a check on operations. Yeah, sure, captain,
see you lent out Henley, you say, mister missus marl
are okay? Yes? If the Coast Guard in Santa Monica
through with them. They're probably back at the home in Westward.
I think i'd like to talk to them by all means. Oh,
I don't exactly see any particular reason for investing. We
had a company polace you, mister Dollar, on any claim
over one hundred picks. Yeah, but the claim can't have
been made yet. I don't worry it will be win
a minute. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars yacht. But
you said the claim could go as high as a
quarter million. Yeah, that's because of missus Merrill's jewelry, which
you always took with it. I always had lost too.
I don't know. I haven't yet talked to her. Then
let's do it. Tell but I haven't been for a
friend of mine living up on the hill behind the beach,
who was also awakened and saw the explosion, I wouldn't
have known about it even more soon. Yeah, come on,
let's talk to the Marylands. Pete Hanley had his own car,
so I tailed him to the Meryl home in Westward.
It wasn't a nice but certainly not a fancy section.
I'd have thought a man with one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Yacht would live in the study bel Air property.
The Brentwood Hills was every Palisades one of the sections
that displayed a little more well. However, mister Merrill pretty
well explained it, and quite frankly, when I had to
take such a loss in selling out my lastics business,
I decided we'd better at Trench a bit.
Speaker 7: And really, mister Dollar, I don't miss that lovely big
place we had in bel Air one bit. After all,
they just the two of us, and we don't do
a lot of entertaining my coffee.
Speaker 3: No nos. A matter of fact, Dollar, I was thinking
of selling potatoes for we know, to be frank about it,
for purely economic reasons. Oh wouldn't it have been pretty
high to get your price for a boat like that? Possibly?
Quite frankly, the maintenance on it alone became quite a
burden after I lost my business. But no matter. Now
the insurance will pay for are mister and missus Merrill.
There is one thing that I must find out. Yes,
miss Hammy, this is Merrill jewelry. No, thank Evans, No,
that's safe.
Speaker 7: Careful dear the glass top on that table.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, no, you.
Speaker 7: See mister Hanley, The jewels were the first thing I
thought of when the engine on the Tatus started making
funny sounds and woke me up.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad of that. Here they are.
Speaker 2: All satan sound the test? Did I keep them in?
Speaker 7: I'll look at the Missidalla I beat beautiful, yes.
Speaker 3: Very But now suppose you tell me just what happened
out there on the yacht. They said they'd been cruising
peacefully up the coast, all hands on board asleep except
for the skip at the wheel. Then the engine started
making strange sounds, shaking the whole yacht. The marrels and
the crew jumped out of their beds and rushed on deck.
By then, the captain had discovered something wrong with a
fuel system, so he ordered them off from the tender
while he tried to operate the extinguisher system. Then, barely
minutes after they cleared a side, came a series of explosions,
and that was the last they saw the Tatus and
the captain. As for the marrals, they were humbly glad
they'd been lucky enough to escape. Lucky Suddenly sitting there,
I'd be toying with the jewels. I discovered something that. Yeah,
they believed me. This case did need investigation, needed it
back back two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 6: And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
Donald bell Weather.
Speaker 2: My husband, Hi, honey, to fix the winds?
Speaker 3: Your wife rus a sure dead river? How that? Oh
you fixed him? Good for you, Donald, Thank you right there.
Well that's that now if the rains were prepared for it, huh?
I feel better now, Oh, me too.
Speaker 6: A driver has to see the danger if he expects
to avoid it, that's right, and also keeps the back
and side window is clear and rain and snowy weather.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 6: Oh, how about the horn?
Speaker 3: Lorn?
Speaker 6: The horn doesn't work, sergeant.
Speaker 3: Aren't you going to fix it?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: I don't think so, Frankly, Reba, I hate horns. Whenever
there's a traffic jam, the first thing some guys do
is bother horn, which does absolutely no good. Of course,
not all it does is jar everyone's nerves. No, I
don't think I'll fix the horse.
Speaker 6: But now wait a minute.
Speaker 3: Done.
Speaker 6: Look, Supposing we're driving along and suddenly we see a
youngster on his bicycle headed right out into the street,
founding that horn warn't even possibly avoid.
Speaker 2: A tragic accident, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 6: Or supposing we're driving on the highway and just as
we're about to pass a car, that car decides to
pull out into our lane and pass the car ahead
of him.
Speaker 2: He obviously doesn't see us.
Speaker 6: We won't hear a shout, but one little beef on
that horn, and he'll automatically scoop back and avoid a collision.
Speaker 3: Raby, you've convinced me, even though it can be a nuisance,
the automobile horn is a necessity.
Speaker 6: Then you're repaired immediately, My Donald, that's my dollar.
Speaker 5: Now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
Malavou mystery matters.
Speaker 3: Remember when you were a kid and first found out
about how mercury would play a piece of gold make
it look like silver, How you went around putting it
on everything made of gold that you could find. And
remember when you first learned that the diamond put a
scratch on glass, How you went around with your mother's
engagement ring cutting grooves and window panes, glass tabletops and
so on. Okay, sitting there listening to the Marrals tell
about the explosion on their yacht, I toyed with some
of the beautiful jewelry. Missus Merrill had been able to
save jewelry in short for one hundred thousand dollars. Absent mindedly,
I dragged the diamond in one of her rings across
the glass top of the coffee table a couple of times,
then again with pressure, and it did not cut into
the glass. I tried a couple of the other so
called diamonds among her jewels, same results, no result. Those
highly insured jewels were paced. Oh, mister Dollar, looks like
we have the whole story now, Yeah, sure looks that way.
And mister Merrow, whenever you're ready, you just file your
claim and we'll take care of him, all right, Stanley.
And quite frankly, well why kid about it? Now that
I've lost my business, I can well use the money.
Oh and I'm kind of surprised you haven't sold some
of these jewels. Dollar. There is a thing called sentiment,
but even money can't buy.
Speaker 7: Of course, mister Dollar, before I part with these jewels, yes,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Shall we go, Hanley? They don't give perfectly sative side
with a Meryll's account of the wreck? Why go back
to Malibu? Did I? Say, I was perfectly satisfying, Haleen. Look,
wouldn't you feel a lot better if that wreck could
be located, maybe brought up for examination. Yes, but you're
certainly lucky missus. Merrill saved that fortune and Jeury, what jewelry?
What are you talking about? You saw it yourself and
I can it's covered for one hundred thousand dollars that
jewelry that she showed me. What are you getting out dollard? Look,
I take it Merrill's business came a cropper. I'm like, yes,
he simply bit off more than he could chew, you know,
overestimated his market, overexpanded, matter of fact, than thankful these
past couple of years that I didn't prove it's bit
to invest in it. Merroll is quite a promoter, you know,
you mean a crook? Why didn't see that? No, here's
Bella a stake where he used to live, is yeh?
Her jewelry, that sort of thing. It will all impress
the people he got the financi venture. A real fast
guy was somebody else's buck hand, all right, I guess
you could say that about us. So that's why you
wanted me to investigate this. So called accident to a shot. No,
not a torment. I've told what do you mean by
soap call? Hanley? You say a friend of yours actually
saw the explosion. That's how I learned of it, almost
as soon as the Coastguard. But not if you know
the address. That's where we're going. I told you he
lives up on a hill over looking Malibu Beach. On
the first We're going to stop at the Cinamonica Coastguard
station and pick up a charter or two. Why also,
if you know a good surveyor, will take him along
with us? Dog? Yeah, Henny, I've got an idea that
may save your company a lot of money. At the
Coastguard station, we picked up a navigation chart and the
topographical map of the Malibu area. Then we picked up
a surveyor named Buckley, who dragged along one of those
tripods surveying instruments. Then onto the house of Hanley's friend
up at the Malibu Hills, and from him we got
some information to begin to bear out some of my suspicions. Yeah,
that's right, that's right. When I heard the yacht's whistle,
little foghorn, I hopped out of bed and I stood
right here in this doorway to the port. Huh, leaning
against it the way you are right now, mister Duncan. Yeah, yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because it was so dark, was so foggy out there
over the ocean. I was about to go back to bed,
and then boom the boat exploded. Where. Oh, I can
tell you exactly where from here that is? What do
you mean? Well, the flash the flash had made, it
was right square between those two trees. All right, mister Barkley.
Instead up your transit and get a line on that. Yep,
then PLoP the line on this map, right Dollar, Look
you look, can't lee see that? Michael boy with the
coast guide boats are looking for the wreck. Well, the
line mister Dupkin has given us is nowhere in that
Well yeah, mister Duncan. Do you suppose any of your
neighbors heard the noise and get up for a look.
I certainly would think so, then we really have something
to work on. But Dollar, I still don't understand you will,
mister Hanley, you will plenty.
Speaker 5: BacT free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in.
Speaker 3: A moment, Times have changed, and so has the man.
How often do we hear the phrase ah, those were
the good old days. But were they? Let's look at
the record. During the War of eighteen hundred and twelve,
the man who discharged a missile of destruction had a
pretty simple job. A lighted taper, a fuse, some gunpowder,
a metal ball, then an explosion, and a metal ball
was propelled toward its target located a few hundred yards away.
Now go back in time to the year thirteen hundred
and twenty seven. Again the operation was simple, the taper,
the gunpowder, but this time an enlarged arrow fitted into
a block of metal. A man and mail, a smoky
explosion and the arrow flies a few hundred feet. Now
come up to the seated before a complicated control panel.
Is another man ready to discharge a missile. He, however,
is a far cry from that artillery man of eighteen
twelve or the cannoneer of thirteen twenty seven. This man
is a skilled, tutored technician. He knows his job. He
pushes a button and a sleek, slim pointed missile blasts
its way into the heavens. Its trajectory has been predetermined
by other men with modern day technicological nohow. The missile
lands not a few hundred feet or yards from its
launching site, but three thousand, four thousand, or five thousand
miles away. Quite a difference, isn't it. As times have changed,
so has the man, and now act free of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar and the Malibu mystery matter. Pete Hanley, the
insurance man and partly of the surveyor, and I continued
our interviews of people living along Malible Beach. You'd seen
the unexplored, yes, sir.
Speaker 7: I just rode right up in bed and I could
see straight out my front.
Speaker 3: Window, and you saw the actual explosion, Missus Green. I
certainly did rap right out through there. Good, thank you. Okay,
mister Brackley, get a beat on it with your surveying
instrument and plot it on the map. Right, that's right, Yes,
see the flash right the other side of that big
uliander butt up there in the yard. And you were
standing right here, mister Pump exactly, Yes, sir, Why like
lit up the whole scar, Okay, mister Barkley, right, why
even through the fog.
Speaker 2: I could see it just friend day, I'll say I did.
Speaker 3: Gee.
Speaker 2: You see, he was having a little party and I
just got in the kitchen to make.
Speaker 6: Some scrambled bay.
Speaker 2: Yes, well not just where it have to be an
up all night and having some drinks.
Speaker 3: Well, where were you standing?
Speaker 2: Whistle started and the fog one.
Speaker 6: We came out here right where you're standing on gluey gee,
Me and my friend.
Speaker 2: We thought it was the fourth of July all over again.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so, according to our survey Captain Rawlins, your
boats have been looking in the wrong area for that wreck. Yeah,
misster Dollar. According to this chart that surveyor made, the
tatoes went down right on top of calico rocks. That's
a formation only about thirty feet below the surface. That
means that our divers will have no trouble at all
finding the racks and then go to it. Captain, we'll
be at the Beverly Hilton. Let me know what you find.
We'll do, mister Dollar, wright them three five twenty five
for some lunch. Then we went up to my roman
and a waited. Finally, a couple of hours later came
the call from Captain Rowlands.
Speaker 4: Almost Dollar, our divers didn't find a sign of her,
not a sign of the tatus or any part of her.
But yes, Captain, we did find a lot of Well,
we looked like heavy cans when it burst over, like
maybe they'd contained some kind of explosive exactly like that, and.
Speaker 3: Some heavy logs and tight chain west into the rucks
like an explosion of driven them in a raft, maybe
a load of with dynamite or something to make the explosion.
Everybody saw exactly. But what I don't understand is the
oil slick we've found, the wreckage floating around. Captain. I
think that oil slick and the flat somewhere planted out there. Look,
check every port of the Mexican coast, large or small
for the tatus. I'll talk to you lady. Come on, Hemmy,
we're going out to see the Merrows. On the way
out to Westwood, I wanted, I was satisfied. I was
sure I knew just how Merrill had pulled his little
fraud little what's little about a few hundred thousand bucks,
But I needed more than that for the sake of
the insurance company who would have to prosecute it. So
when we got there, I decided to try a bluff.
I'm in, mister dollars, it's the Henley. I didn't expect
to see you back here at.
Speaker 2: The phone yes, won't you gentlemen sit down?
Speaker 3: Merrol, I think you ought to know. The coast guard
finally found something out there, off. Oh yeah, the remains
of your skipper on the Tatus. What that's impossible, Nancy,
also evidence that he'd been murdered, murdered, probably by you, Meryl.
Speaker 2: No, he's still alive.
Speaker 3: What fancy can you prove it? Yes? Would you rather
have your husband charge with his murder?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: He in Mexico with a.
Speaker 3: Yacht, Nancy fire, That's what I figured, at some remote
little port on the coast of Mexico, he and the
Tatus Dollar where the yacht can be completely gone over disguise. Meanwhile,
of course, you thought you'd collect the insurance on air
because of the completely phony wreck you almost got away
with thanks to the fog and the doctor Nancy fool,
I could all right, how did you find out dollar?
Your wife's phony jewels? Tip me off that you are
not exactly paragons of virtue. Name of the paste, Hanley
and nothing else. And I'll lay odds they'll sell the
originals that they point and they carefully lose the fakes.
Why didn't they claim to lose them in the wreck?
All that would have been overplaying their hand. Apparently having
saved those jewels made the wreck with all them are legitimate.
But the really clever stunt was dumping oil on the
water and some odd bits of wreckage. You are away from
the spot where they blew off the raft. Yeah, it
almost kept the Coast Guide from finding the cans of
explosives they've used for the little fireworks display. But Meryl,
the only thing around here that's been sunk is you Dollar.
I'll fight you and this this insurance company with every
legal trick in the book. You know something, mister maryl
I don't think you'll get the first base. Yeah, when
a krook tries to pull a fast one on an
honest insurance company. But you'll see what I mean when
the courts get through with Maryland his wife. Expense acount
total including mileage on the Reddle carn A couple of
extra days to Beverly Hilton, one hundred and fifty Yours, Truly,
Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, written Nathan
Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Heard in our cast were Paula Winslow, Eleanor Ortley, Gene Tatum,
Ben Wright, Harry Bartel will write Laurence Dobkin and Barney
Phillips be shure to join us next week, same time
and station, or another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3: This is Roy Rowan speaking your Trulie. Johnny Dollar has
been a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio
and Television Service.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. A good case where Johnny finds the right
person to save the insurance company money, despite the agent
doing the typical thing of trying to tell Johnny there's
no case. And I just do continue to be puzzled
why you would call in this very expensive, top flight
investigator who will charge you a lot of money if
you're not going to trust his judgment. Now, this episode
has an interesting feature and it might be evidence of
the challenges that Johnstone faced in trying to establish continuity.
At the start of the episode, It's mentions that Johnny's
last case was in California and so it was just
hanging around the problem with that is that John Abbott,
who wrote the Who Is Johnny Dollar matter, actually tracked
down the script that aired during that week, and the
episode the Limping liability matter involved Johnny going to New
York in a case involving Smoky. Now, I won't go
into all the plot, but I will say reading Abbott's synopsis,
it sounds like a really good story. In fact, it
might be the best Smoky story that there was, So
it's a shame that it's missing. But at any rate,
that story had Johnny in New York this episode, and
the next star in California. And then we have an
episode that aired on September twenty first, Johnson Payil Matter,
where Pat McCracken calls Johnny and tells him he's been
working too hard and that Johnny needs to take a
vacation to southern California, which makes little sense given that
the last two cases have been in California. It seems
likely to me that the Johnson Payil Matter was either
the episode that would have originally aired on August thirty
first or September seventh, but the order got switched. Now,
I tend to imagine this sort of thing happening if
there's a conflict between the writer and the director, with
there being a deadline to have the script in and
the writer not being able to make it, and the
director having to reach out to another writer. In this case,
Johnstone is the director and he's the one who wrote
all the scripts. So let's go ahead and disregard that theory.
For this particular episode. It may have been a case
of something with the network. Also may have been about
actor availability. But at any rate, it's time now for
listener comments and feedback. And we have a couple comments
regarding the Glacier Ghost matter over on Instagram Brains Benton Rights,
how fond to hear this lost episode? Hope Johnny got
a messive trout on Facebook. Emmett Rights, what a great
Christmas present, Thank you, Adam. And then I've got an email.
Time to get out your crystal ball. You said there
were three recently discovered Johnny Dollar episodes. It may be
wonder do you think if AI were to get the
Johnny Dollar scripts, voices, tone, and all that makes up
Johnny Dollar, that it would be able to recreate all
the lost episodes. Well that's a tough question, certainly, not
with the technology that's available today. In addition, there are
some episodisodes even during the Hollywood era of Johnny Dowler
for which there are no scripts available, and all of
the New York scripts are missing, so unless those were
somehow recovered, it couldn't recreate all the lost episodes. And
then even with those that are in existence, there are
legal challenges because those are held by the Paiey Center
at UCLA after having been relocated from the Thousand Oaks Library,
and are subject to copyright in a different way than
our scrips, and so there would be some legal wrangling
about that, and the Pailey Center wouldn't release anything until
they were sure that it was legally allowed for them
to do so. Now, if AI advances a bet and
all those legal hurdles were cleared, could you recreate lost
Golden age of radio scraps? I suppose. Now you may
be detecting that I'm not the greatest fan of this,
and let me be clear that I'm not some anti
AI person. It has its uses. There are some things
that philosophically, though, I feel, really are human endeavors in pursuits,
and acting tends to be one of those things. Yeah.
I know there's all the rage about AI actors and whatever.
Modern Hollywood can do what it would like, but I
think the strength of the way the Golden Age of
radio worked is in human interaction and human connection, there's
an individual element to it. It's first of all in
the performer and the choices that they make with their performance,
and there are all sorts of choices. On a very
basic level, you might start by choosing what type of
voice you're going to do. There were several performers during
the Golden Age of Radio that had several places they
could go beyond just older, young, or basic stuff like that,
and the words you might emphasize, and the way you
might deliver a line, and in many programs, it's also
a matter of the way the actors relate to each other.
And one thing about the Golden Age of Radio that
is special is just how much so many of these
actors worked with each other. And when you think about
the Hollywood and New York radio communities, they were relatively
small groups of people, with so many folks who did
thousands and thousands of performances together. And it's something that
on that scale we have never seen before, I think,
in history, and we will never see again where you
had this very elite group of maybe fifty to one
hundred actors on each coast that worked together on so
many different programs We're talking thousands and thousands of performances
by so many actors. If we were able to get
accurate totals as opposed to just what survived. Think about
how many programs people like Howard mcneer did or Virginia
greg and there is this really unique human element of
actors playing off of each other and a performance chemistry
between actors, which is such a big part of what
made the Golden age of radio magical. Well, someday, could
you create a machine that could imitate the voice of
Bob Bailey and Virginia Grag and program that machine to
make choices based on whatever machine logic that it might say? Sure,
are you going to produce something that will seamlessly replicate
the experience of listening to the lost episodes? I don't
really think so. I think what you would find if
you were to create something like that from scratch, it
would have kind of an uncanny Valley feel if you
heard the original radio programs for the existing episodes. And
I think a lot of people be like it, you know,
just not quite able to lay their finger on the
exact thing that's missing. But I suspect the human elements,
So I mean, so my answer is, yeah, it could happen,
but it's not going to happen in a way that
be satisfactory for me. I think a far more interesting
use of AI, and that I'm more optimistic and positive about,
is using it for audio editing and clearing up some
of the really junkie sounding episodes out there. S Burdvack,
the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy,
has done some incredible work in this past year to
begin to leverage AI tools to clean up the more
muffled recordings out there, and again, I think that's where
it makes sense to invest the time, energy and resources.
I feel like, maybe it's just me, but I feel
like any efforts along those lines are going to be
a lot of work. It's going to be a long
time coming, and it is probably not going to be
a satisfying result. So that's my take, but I do
appreciate the question. And then we have a comment from
doctor who done it regarding the Donald Bellow Weather sketches.
Donald and Reba need to have some kids. Every time
they are talking, it's always about auto accidents. Well, the
thing is that with those two that if they had
kids the primary motivation would be to have an entire
slew of new safety as you used to talk about,
although maybe that might not be as big a preoccupation
in the late fifties or whenever those particular ads were
aired as it would be today. All right, well, now
it is time to think our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and think Jack patreonon
supporter since November twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at
the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents
or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Jack,
and that will do it for today, and that will
do it for this year in terms of new episodes,
at least on this Great Detectives of Old Time Radio feed.
We will have a New Year's Eve episode of the
Amazing World of Radio at Amazing dot Great Detectives dot net,
and we will have new episodes of the Old Time
Radio snack Wagon till January fifth, and so we will
be bringing you encores through Saturday, January tenth. Then on Sunday,
January eleventh, we'll present the premiere of our Tarzan series
on the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio and return
on January twelfth, to your typical great Detectives of Old
Time radio lineup. I want to go ahead and thank
everyone so much for listening during a very challenging year
we've had in twenty twenty five. Appreciate all of your support,
and I wanted to just close by wishing you all
a safe and happy and last New year. But for
now from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham
signing off.