1 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,399 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,439 --> 00:00:41,920 going to bring you this week's episode of Your Truly 4 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,560 Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,000 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,000 favorite podcast software. And remember, as you're making your travel plans, 7 00:00:54,039 --> 00:00:57,159 remember Johnny Dollar air dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot 8 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,799 com is a price line affiliate link, so part of 9 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:03,840 your purchase price supports the great Detectives of Old Time 10 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,040 Radio at no additional cost to you. So remember when 11 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:10,840 making your travel plans, check Johnny Dollar Air dot com. 12 00:01:10,879 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: First. 13 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: Well, we are now after that lost episode we've been 14 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:19,480 talking about. The original air date on today's episode is 15 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:24,439 September seventh, nineteen fifty eight, and the title is the 16 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:26,239 Malibu Mystery. 17 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:31,159 Speaker 3: Matter from Hollywood. It's time now, Paul. 18 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, Johnny Dollar, Peter Henley and Western Maritime and Property Insurance. 19 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: Holy look, you always started making calls with Florid Amston 20 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:53,439 Henley across the country, mister dollars to find out that 21 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,640 you're right here in Los Angeles. And that's right. The 22 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,959 Beverly Hill. Not here in Beverly Hill. I've cleared up 23 00:01:58,959 --> 00:02:00,760 the case that brought me here, so as soon as 24 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:03,159 I have breakfast, if they serve it at this unearthly hour, 25 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:05,400 I'll pack up my bags and go back to heart Rid. 26 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:07,200 Please don't Oh, what's up? 27 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 4: I want to where clans is? 28 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 3: A doctor present us with a claim that I think 29 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,199 you want to investigate as long as you're write here. Yeah, 30 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,520 what sort of a claim for the loss of his yacht? 31 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,080 How much of a claim? Between one hundred and fifty 32 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,520 and two dollars? Wow? You know where Mallebo Beach is? Yeah? Sure, 33 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,280 up the coast a few miles used to be a 34 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:28,000 famous movie colony, that sort of thing. That's the place. 35 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,680 And if you can find some means of transportation, I'll 36 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:33,759 meet you at the Malibou kid on expensive comments to Hanley, 37 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,960 I can find anything on a claim that could run 38 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,120 to a quarter of a million, I'm sure you won't 39 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,199 be Chinsey, mister. I'll see it's amountable. 40 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 5: Pier Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man 41 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:57,560 with the Action packed expensing out America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. 42 00:02:57,599 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 3: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 43 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 5: And now act one of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. 44 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,439 Speaker 3: Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the 45 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:30,919 Western Maritime and Property Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California. Following 46 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,479 is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of 47 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:44,680 the Malible mystery matter. Expense account aud of one two 48 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:46,719 and a quarter for a fancy breakfast in my room 49 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:49,439 at the Beverly Hilton. It had them two fifty dollars 50 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,639 deposit it on the best looking rental car I could fine. 51 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,919 I drove out Santa Monica Boulevard at the Coast Highway 52 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:56,800 and then north along the edge of the Blue Pacific, 53 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,599 some twelve or thirteen miles to Malible for a long 54 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:03,120 fishing per stuck out into the ocean. Cars were parked 55 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,280 for half a mile on either side of the pier entrance, 56 00:04:05,759 --> 00:04:07,759 and I looked as don't half the population of la 57 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,759 which crowded out on the peer itself thanks to an 58 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:12,879 ambulance to pull away from the curb and headed south 59 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:30,040 toward town. I found a parking street. Mister dollars, Yeah, 60 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:36,360 oh high, Miss Henley, come along out on the pier 61 00:04:36,439 --> 00:04:39,439 all right, what's all the mobs so early? In the morning. 62 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,480 Apparently word of an accident like this gets around quickly. 63 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:45,000 But kind of an accident, don't you see the Coast 64 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,079 Guard vessels are the circling around. Yeah? Did this boat 65 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,360 you were talking about sync out there? That take us, 66 00:04:51,439 --> 00:04:54,240 mister Dollar one hundred and fifty thousand dollars diesel? Y 67 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:59,160 on what happened to her? Apparently it just blew up. Survivors, 68 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:02,639 mister miss is Randolph Meryll, and the steward in Beckham 69 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,839 managed to get him to the launch for you, pretending 70 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,439 you picked up by the Coast Guard. Well, skipper went 71 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:11,399 down with the young at least no tracer. His daughter 72 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,720 has been founded yet, Captain Rowlands, but few people just 73 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:17,079 have to get back off of pit. 74 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 6: All. 75 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:21,199 Speaker 3: It's Hanley. I wish is Johnny Taller, a special investigator 76 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:24,519 for my insurance company. Captain rawlins of the Coast Guard. Dollar. 77 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,519 I can't if you found anything out there, Captain, not 78 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,240 a sign of the titus. Mister Hanley. Yeah, it's mighty 79 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,519 deep water and I'm afraid that, like mister Merrill and 80 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,879 his wife told us, he just blew herself to Smitheren. Yeah, 81 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,319 even from here, I can see some wreckage floating in 82 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:44,519 and they're all working around the oil slick out there. 83 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:47,800 So the grapples ought to be able to find something 84 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,879 down below, some traces of a hull or machinery or something. 85 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,879 When did it happen? Oh two two and a half 86 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,319 hours ago one of our craft got out. I throw 87 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:03,000 it from Santa Monica Harbor, not more than forty minutes 88 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,360 after she went down. How'd you find out about it? 89 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:11,560 Bong call from somebody living along the beach. Potato stood 90 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,720 out there blowing the whistle and fog going woke him up. 91 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,040 By the time he got out of bed, he said, 92 00:06:18,079 --> 00:06:21,319 it looked like the regular fireworks display about a half 93 00:06:21,399 --> 00:06:25,160 mile off shore. Huh you see where they put a mocker. Boy, 94 00:06:26,519 --> 00:06:29,480 wouldn't the wind and current move? That's slick and whatever 95 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:33,040 wreckage There is no wind. That's why there's still some 96 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,199 fog out there, and they're allowing for drift. Don't worry 97 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:39,279 if there's anything left to the data, so those boys 98 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,959 will find it now. I excuse me, would you please? 99 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,800 I gotta keep a check on operations. Yeah, sure, captain, 100 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,120 see you lent out Henley, you say, mister missus marl 101 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,279 are okay? Yes? If the Coast Guard in Santa Monica 102 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,199 through with them. They're probably back at the home in Westward. 103 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:57,480 I think i'd like to talk to them by all means. Oh, 104 00:06:57,519 --> 00:07:00,079 I don't exactly see any particular reason for investing. We 105 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:02,560 had a company polace you, mister Dollar, on any claim 106 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,879 over one hundred picks. Yeah, but the claim can't have 107 00:07:04,879 --> 00:07:07,160 been made yet. I don't worry it will be win 108 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,839 a minute. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars yacht. But 109 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:12,920 you said the claim could go as high as a 110 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,879 quarter million. Yeah, that's because of missus Merrill's jewelry, which 111 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:18,160 you always took with it. I always had lost too. 112 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:20,720 I don't know. I haven't yet talked to her. Then 113 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:22,759 let's do it. Tell but I haven't been for a 114 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,240 friend of mine living up on the hill behind the beach, 115 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:28,199 who was also awakened and saw the explosion, I wouldn't 116 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,759 have known about it even more soon. Yeah, come on, 117 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:38,959 let's talk to the Marylands. Pete Hanley had his own car, 118 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,959 so I tailed him to the Meryl home in Westward. 119 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,720 It wasn't a nice but certainly not a fancy section. 120 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:45,959 I'd have thought a man with one hundred and fifty 121 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:48,439 thousand dollars. Yacht would live in the study bel Air property. 122 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,639 The Brentwood Hills was every Palisades one of the sections 123 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:55,360 that displayed a little more well. However, mister Merrill pretty 124 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,199 well explained it, and quite frankly, when I had to 125 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,879 take such a loss in selling out my lastics business, 126 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,720 I decided we'd better at Trench a bit. 127 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,879 Speaker 7: And really, mister Dollar, I don't miss that lovely big 128 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:08,439 place we had in bel Air one bit. After all, 129 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,000 they just the two of us, and we don't do 130 00:08:10,079 --> 00:08:12,600 a lot of entertaining my coffee. 131 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 3: No nos. A matter of fact, Dollar, I was thinking 132 00:08:15,399 --> 00:08:18,519 of selling potatoes for we know, to be frank about it, 133 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,600 for purely economic reasons. Oh wouldn't it have been pretty 134 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,399 high to get your price for a boat like that? Possibly? 135 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:28,560 Quite frankly, the maintenance on it alone became quite a 136 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,080 burden after I lost my business. But no matter. Now 137 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,480 the insurance will pay for are mister and missus Merrill. 138 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,919 There is one thing that I must find out. Yes, 139 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,720 miss Hammy, this is Merrill jewelry. No, thank Evans, No, 140 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:43,960 that's safe. 141 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,039 Speaker 7: Careful dear the glass top on that table. 142 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 3: Oh sorry, no, you. 143 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,399 Speaker 7: See mister Hanley, The jewels were the first thing I 144 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,559 thought of when the engine on the Tatus started making 145 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:54,919 funny sounds and woke me up. 146 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad of that. Here they are. 147 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,399 Speaker 2: All satan sound the test? Did I keep them in? 148 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:07,039 Speaker 7: I'll look at the Missidalla I beat beautiful, yes. 149 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 3: Very But now suppose you tell me just what happened 150 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,840 out there on the yacht. They said they'd been cruising 151 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:19,519 peacefully up the coast, all hands on board asleep except 152 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:22,240 for the skip at the wheel. Then the engine started 153 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,679 making strange sounds, shaking the whole yacht. The marrels and 154 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,679 the crew jumped out of their beds and rushed on deck. 155 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,799 By then, the captain had discovered something wrong with a 156 00:09:30,879 --> 00:09:33,480 fuel system, so he ordered them off from the tender 157 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:37,000 while he tried to operate the extinguisher system. Then, barely 158 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:39,879 minutes after they cleared a side, came a series of explosions, 159 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,519 and that was the last they saw the Tatus and 160 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,600 the captain. As for the marrals, they were humbly glad 161 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:50,200 they'd been lucky enough to escape. Lucky Suddenly sitting there, 162 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:55,080 I'd be toying with the jewels. I discovered something that. Yeah, 163 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,600 they believed me. This case did need investigation, needed it 164 00:09:59,759 --> 00:10:18,960 back back two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment. 165 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 6: And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant 166 00:10:21,519 --> 00:10:22,440 Donald bell Weather. 167 00:10:23,039 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 2: My husband, Hi, honey, to fix the winds? 168 00:10:36,039 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: Your wife rus a sure dead river? How that? Oh 169 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:42,879 you fixed him? Good for you, Donald, Thank you right there. 170 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:48,000 Well that's that now if the rains were prepared for it, huh? 171 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,120 I feel better now, Oh, me too. 172 00:10:50,879 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 6: A driver has to see the danger if he expects 173 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:56,080 to avoid it, that's right, and also keeps the back 174 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,840 and side window is clear and rain and snowy weather. 175 00:10:58,720 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 3: That's right. 176 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 6: Oh, how about the horn? 177 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:02,519 Speaker 3: Lorn? 178 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 6: The horn doesn't work, sergeant. 179 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 3: Aren't you going to fix it? 180 00:11:06,519 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 6: No? 181 00:11:06,799 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 3: I don't think so, Frankly, Reba, I hate horns. Whenever 182 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,159 there's a traffic jam, the first thing some guys do 183 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:16,519 is bother horn, which does absolutely no good. Of course, 184 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,240 not all it does is jar everyone's nerves. No, I 185 00:11:19,919 --> 00:11:21,200 don't think I'll fix the horse. 186 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 6: But now wait a minute. 187 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 3: Done. 188 00:11:23,039 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 6: Look, Supposing we're driving along and suddenly we see a 189 00:11:25,879 --> 00:11:28,159 youngster on his bicycle headed right out into the street, 190 00:11:28,799 --> 00:11:31,320 founding that horn warn't even possibly avoid. 191 00:11:31,039 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 2: A tragic accident, Yes, that's true. 192 00:11:34,519 --> 00:11:36,919 Speaker 6: Or supposing we're driving on the highway and just as 193 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,519 we're about to pass a car, that car decides to 194 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:41,799 pull out into our lane and pass the car ahead 195 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:42,399 of him. 196 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:44,039 Speaker 2: He obviously doesn't see us. 197 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 6: We won't hear a shout, but one little beef on 198 00:11:47,399 --> 00:11:50,440 that horn, and he'll automatically scoop back and avoid a collision. 199 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 3: Raby, you've convinced me, even though it can be a nuisance, 200 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,399 the automobile horn is a necessity. 201 00:11:57,519 --> 00:12:02,399 Speaker 6: Then you're repaired immediately, My Donald, that's my dollar. 202 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,759 Speaker 5: Now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the 203 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:17,120 Malavou mystery matters. 204 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:26,039 Speaker 3: Remember when you were a kid and first found out 205 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,360 about how mercury would play a piece of gold make 206 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:30,639 it look like silver, How you went around putting it 207 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,120 on everything made of gold that you could find. And 208 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,679 remember when you first learned that the diamond put a 209 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,200 scratch on glass, How you went around with your mother's 210 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,360 engagement ring cutting grooves and window panes, glass tabletops and 211 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:45,080 so on. Okay, sitting there listening to the Marrals tell 212 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,759 about the explosion on their yacht, I toyed with some 213 00:12:47,799 --> 00:12:49,919 of the beautiful jewelry. Missus Merrill had been able to 214 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:55,039 save jewelry in short for one hundred thousand dollars. Absent mindedly, 215 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,320 I dragged the diamond in one of her rings across 216 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,879 the glass top of the coffee table a couple of times, 217 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,399 then again with pressure, and it did not cut into 218 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,879 the glass. I tried a couple of the other so 219 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,759 called diamonds among her jewels, same results, no result. Those 220 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:19,639 highly insured jewels were paced. Oh, mister Dollar, looks like 221 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,840 we have the whole story now, Yeah, sure looks that way. 222 00:13:22,879 --> 00:13:25,720 And mister Merrow, whenever you're ready, you just file your 223 00:13:25,759 --> 00:13:28,080 claim and we'll take care of him, all right, Stanley. 224 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:32,120 And quite frankly, well why kid about it? Now that 225 00:13:32,159 --> 00:13:34,600 I've lost my business, I can well use the money. 226 00:13:34,919 --> 00:13:38,159 Oh and I'm kind of surprised you haven't sold some 227 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,799 of these jewels. Dollar. There is a thing called sentiment, 228 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:43,919 but even money can't buy. 229 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:47,399 Speaker 7: Of course, mister Dollar, before I part with these jewels, yes, 230 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:47,919 I'm sure. 231 00:13:48,440 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 3: Shall we go, Hanley? They don't give perfectly sative side 232 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,600 with a Meryll's account of the wreck? Why go back 233 00:14:02,639 --> 00:14:06,960 to Malibu? Did I? Say, I was perfectly satisfying, Haleen. Look, 234 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,519 wouldn't you feel a lot better if that wreck could 235 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,480 be located, maybe brought up for examination. Yes, but you're 236 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,360 certainly lucky missus. Merrill saved that fortune and Jeury, what jewelry? 237 00:14:17,519 --> 00:14:19,879 What are you talking about? You saw it yourself and 238 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,120 I can it's covered for one hundred thousand dollars that 239 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,679 jewelry that she showed me. What are you getting out dollard? Look, 240 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:30,519 I take it Merrill's business came a cropper. I'm like, yes, 241 00:14:30,559 --> 00:14:33,159 he simply bit off more than he could chew, you know, 242 00:14:33,399 --> 00:14:37,960 overestimated his market, overexpanded, matter of fact, than thankful these 243 00:14:38,039 --> 00:14:40,039 past couple of years that I didn't prove it's bit 244 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,879 to invest in it. Merroll is quite a promoter, you know, 245 00:14:43,159 --> 00:14:47,120 you mean a crook? Why didn't see that? No, here's 246 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,879 Bella a stake where he used to live, is yeh? 247 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,200 Her jewelry, that sort of thing. It will all impress 248 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,320 the people he got the financi venture. A real fast 249 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,519 guy was somebody else's buck hand, all right, I guess 250 00:14:59,559 --> 00:15:01,639 you could say that about us. So that's why you 251 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,360 wanted me to investigate this. So called accident to a shot. No, 252 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,039 not a torment. I've told what do you mean by 253 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,159 soap call? Hanley? You say a friend of yours actually 254 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:14,840 saw the explosion. That's how I learned of it, almost 255 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,159 as soon as the Coastguard. But not if you know 256 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,639 the address. That's where we're going. I told you he 257 00:15:19,679 --> 00:15:22,080 lives up on a hill over looking Malibu Beach. On 258 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,600 the first We're going to stop at the Cinamonica Coastguard 259 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:26,799 station and pick up a charter or two. Why also, 260 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,720 if you know a good surveyor, will take him along 261 00:15:28,759 --> 00:15:31,679 with us? Dog? Yeah, Henny, I've got an idea that 262 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:39,279 may save your company a lot of money. At the 263 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:42,240 Coastguard station, we picked up a navigation chart and the 264 00:15:42,279 --> 00:15:45,240 topographical map of the Malibu area. Then we picked up 265 00:15:45,279 --> 00:15:47,559 a surveyor named Buckley, who dragged along one of those 266 00:15:47,559 --> 00:15:51,200 tripods surveying instruments. Then onto the house of Hanley's friend 267 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,840 up at the Malibu Hills, and from him we got 268 00:15:53,879 --> 00:15:56,919 some information to begin to bear out some of my suspicions. Yeah, 269 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,000 that's right, that's right. When I heard the yacht's whistle, 270 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:02,679 little foghorn, I hopped out of bed and I stood 271 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,559 right here in this doorway to the port. Huh, leaning 272 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,399 against it the way you are right now, mister Duncan. Yeah, yeah, 273 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:08,799 that's right. 274 00:16:08,919 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 4: Yeah. 275 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:11,679 Speaker 3: Because it was so dark, was so foggy out there 276 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:14,320 over the ocean. I was about to go back to bed, 277 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,240 and then boom the boat exploded. Where. Oh, I can 278 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,000 tell you exactly where from here that is? What do 279 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:23,960 you mean? Well, the flash the flash had made, it 280 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000 was right square between those two trees. All right, mister Barkley. 281 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,559 Instead up your transit and get a line on that. Yep, 282 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,120 then PLoP the line on this map, right Dollar, Look 283 00:16:35,159 --> 00:16:37,559 you look, can't lee see that? Michael boy with the 284 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:40,120 coast guide boats are looking for the wreck. Well, the 285 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,639 line mister Dupkin has given us is nowhere in that 286 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,480 Well yeah, mister Duncan. Do you suppose any of your 287 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,440 neighbors heard the noise and get up for a look. 288 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,360 I certainly would think so, then we really have something 289 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,200 to work on. But Dollar, I still don't understand you will, 290 00:16:54,279 --> 00:17:04,079 mister Hanley, you will plenty. 291 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:03,759 Speaker 5: BacT free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in. 292 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:07,519 Speaker 3: A moment, Times have changed, and so has the man. 293 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,240 How often do we hear the phrase ah, those were 294 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:15,400 the good old days. But were they? Let's look at 295 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,000 the record. During the War of eighteen hundred and twelve, 296 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,200 the man who discharged a missile of destruction had a 297 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:27,480 pretty simple job. A lighted taper, a fuse, some gunpowder, 298 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,200 a metal ball, then an explosion, and a metal ball 299 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,279 was propelled toward its target located a few hundred yards away. 300 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,319 Now go back in time to the year thirteen hundred 301 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,799 and twenty seven. Again the operation was simple, the taper, 302 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,799 the gunpowder, but this time an enlarged arrow fitted into 303 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:53,559 a block of metal. A man and mail, a smoky 304 00:17:53,559 --> 00:17:58,880 explosion and the arrow flies a few hundred feet. Now 305 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,599 come up to the seated before a complicated control panel. 306 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,400 Is another man ready to discharge a missile. He, however, 307 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,519 is a far cry from that artillery man of eighteen 308 00:18:10,599 --> 00:18:14,400 twelve or the cannoneer of thirteen twenty seven. This man 309 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:20,519 is a skilled, tutored technician. He knows his job. He 310 00:18:20,559 --> 00:18:24,640 pushes a button and a sleek, slim pointed missile blasts 311 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,279 its way into the heavens. Its trajectory has been predetermined 312 00:18:28,279 --> 00:18:33,680 by other men with modern day technicological nohow. The missile 313 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:37,000 lands not a few hundred feet or yards from its 314 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:41,759 launching site, but three thousand, four thousand, or five thousand 315 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:47,480 miles away. Quite a difference, isn't it. As times have changed, 316 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,799 so has the man, and now act free of yours, truly, 317 00:18:52,960 --> 00:19:00,799 Johnny Dollar and the Malibu mystery matter. Pete Hanley, the 318 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:03,200 insurance man and partly of the surveyor, and I continued 319 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,680 our interviews of people living along Malible Beach. You'd seen 320 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,480 the unexplored, yes, sir. 321 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 7: I just rode right up in bed and I could 322 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,880 see straight out my front. 323 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:14,799 Speaker 3: Window, and you saw the actual explosion, Missus Green. I 324 00:19:15,039 --> 00:19:20,319 certainly did rap right out through there. Good, thank you. Okay, 325 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,160 mister Brackley, get a beat on it with your surveying 326 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:28,960 instrument and plot it on the map. Right, that's right, Yes, 327 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,279 see the flash right the other side of that big 328 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,559 uliander butt up there in the yard. And you were 329 00:19:33,599 --> 00:19:37,559 standing right here, mister Pump exactly, Yes, sir, Why like 330 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,319 lit up the whole scar, Okay, mister Barkley, right, why 331 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:41,319 even through the fog. 332 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:46,079 Speaker 2: I could see it just friend day, I'll say I did. 333 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 3: Gee. 334 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,519 Speaker 2: You see, he was having a little party and I 335 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:49,839 just got in the kitchen to make. 336 00:19:49,839 --> 00:19:50,559 Speaker 6: Some scrambled bay. 337 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,839 Speaker 2: Yes, well not just where it have to be an 338 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,240 up all night and having some drinks. 339 00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 3: Well, where were you standing? 340 00:19:55,559 --> 00:19:57,279 Speaker 2: Whistle started and the fog one. 341 00:19:57,319 --> 00:20:01,599 Speaker 6: We came out here right where you're standing on gluey gee, 342 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:02,400 Me and my friend. 343 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 2: We thought it was the fourth of July all over again. 344 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:16,599 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so, according to our survey Captain Rawlins, your 345 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,160 boats have been looking in the wrong area for that wreck. Yeah, 346 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,960 misster Dollar. According to this chart that surveyor made, the 347 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:25,519 tatoes went down right on top of calico rocks. That's 348 00:20:25,519 --> 00:20:27,920 a formation only about thirty feet below the surface. That 349 00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:30,160 means that our divers will have no trouble at all 350 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,079 finding the racks and then go to it. Captain, we'll 351 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,920 be at the Beverly Hilton. Let me know what you find. 352 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:40,319 We'll do, mister Dollar, wright them three five twenty five 353 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,200 for some lunch. Then we went up to my roman 354 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,839 and a waited. Finally, a couple of hours later came 355 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,000 the call from Captain Rowlands. 356 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,839 Speaker 4: Almost Dollar, our divers didn't find a sign of her, 357 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,640 not a sign of the tatus or any part of her. 358 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,839 But yes, Captain, we did find a lot of Well, 359 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,160 we looked like heavy cans when it burst over, like 360 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,839 maybe they'd contained some kind of explosive exactly like that, and. 361 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 3: Some heavy logs and tight chain west into the rucks 362 00:21:04,559 --> 00:21:07,200 like an explosion of driven them in a raft, maybe 363 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,279 a load of with dynamite or something to make the explosion. 364 00:21:09,319 --> 00:21:12,240 Everybody saw exactly. But what I don't understand is the 365 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,240 oil slick we've found, the wreckage floating around. Captain. I 366 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,839 think that oil slick and the flat somewhere planted out there. Look, 367 00:21:19,039 --> 00:21:21,400 check every port of the Mexican coast, large or small 368 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,839 for the tatus. I'll talk to you lady. Come on, Hemmy, 369 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:31,039 we're going out to see the Merrows. On the way 370 00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:33,720 out to Westwood, I wanted, I was satisfied. I was 371 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:36,319 sure I knew just how Merrill had pulled his little 372 00:21:36,319 --> 00:21:40,799 fraud little what's little about a few hundred thousand bucks, 373 00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:42,480 But I needed more than that for the sake of 374 00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:44,920 the insurance company who would have to prosecute it. So 375 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000 when we got there, I decided to try a bluff. 376 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,079 I'm in, mister dollars, it's the Henley. I didn't expect 377 00:21:50,079 --> 00:21:51,160 to see you back here at. 378 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 2: The phone yes, won't you gentlemen sit down? 379 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 3: Merrol, I think you ought to know. The coast guard 380 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,319 finally found something out there, off. Oh yeah, the remains 381 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:08,160 of your skipper on the Tatus. What that's impossible, Nancy, 382 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:13,880 also evidence that he'd been murdered, murdered, probably by you, Meryl. 383 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 2: No, he's still alive. 384 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,839 Speaker 3: What fancy can you prove it? Yes? Would you rather 385 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,519 have your husband charge with his murder? 386 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 6: No? 387 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 2: He in Mexico with a. 388 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 3: Yacht, Nancy fire, That's what I figured, at some remote 389 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,480 little port on the coast of Mexico, he and the 390 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:34,839 Tatus Dollar where the yacht can be completely gone over disguise. Meanwhile, 391 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,960 of course, you thought you'd collect the insurance on air 392 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,359 because of the completely phony wreck you almost got away 393 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,880 with thanks to the fog and the doctor Nancy fool, 394 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:49,440 I could all right, how did you find out dollar? 395 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,720 Your wife's phony jewels? Tip me off that you are 396 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:56,839 not exactly paragons of virtue. Name of the paste, Hanley 397 00:22:56,839 --> 00:22:58,839 and nothing else. And I'll lay odds they'll sell the 398 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,640 originals that they point and they carefully lose the fakes. 399 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,559 Why didn't they claim to lose them in the wreck? 400 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:06,319 All that would have been overplaying their hand. Apparently having 401 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,720 saved those jewels made the wreck with all them are legitimate. 402 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,559 But the really clever stunt was dumping oil on the 403 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:13,559 water and some odd bits of wreckage. You are away from 404 00:23:13,599 --> 00:23:16,160 the spot where they blew off the raft. Yeah, it 405 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:18,279 almost kept the Coast Guide from finding the cans of 406 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,039 explosives they've used for the little fireworks display. But Meryl, 407 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,440 the only thing around here that's been sunk is you Dollar. 408 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:30,680 I'll fight you and this this insurance company with every 409 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:33,000 legal trick in the book. You know something, mister maryl 410 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:41,799 I don't think you'll get the first base. Yeah, when 411 00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:43,880 a krook tries to pull a fast one on an 412 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,759 honest insurance company. But you'll see what I mean when 413 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:49,920 the courts get through with Maryland his wife. Expense acount 414 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,839 total including mileage on the Reddle carn A couple of 415 00:23:51,839 --> 00:23:55,720 extra days to Beverly Hilton, one hundred and fifty Yours, Truly, 416 00:23:56,319 --> 00:23:57,279 Johnny Dallas. 417 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, written Nathan 418 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,160 Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. 419 00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:26,359 Heard in our cast were Paula Winslow, Eleanor Ortley, Gene Tatum, 420 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,559 Ben Wright, Harry Bartel will write Laurence Dobkin and Barney 421 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:33,519 Phillips be shure to join us next week, same time 422 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,920 and station, or another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 423 00:24:38,279 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 3: This is Roy Rowan speaking your Trulie. Johnny Dollar has 424 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,119 been a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio 425 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,440 and Television Service. 426 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. A good case where Johnny finds the right 427 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,559 person to save the insurance company money, despite the agent 428 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,079 doing the typical thing of trying to tell Johnny there's 429 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,440 no case. And I just do continue to be puzzled 430 00:25:48,559 --> 00:25:52,799 why you would call in this very expensive, top flight 431 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,759 investigator who will charge you a lot of money if 432 00:25:55,799 --> 00:26:00,799 you're not going to trust his judgment. Now, this episode 433 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,680 has an interesting feature and it might be evidence of 434 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,480 the challenges that Johnstone faced in trying to establish continuity. 435 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,319 At the start of the episode, It's mentions that Johnny's 436 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,880 last case was in California and so it was just 437 00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:20,279 hanging around the problem with that is that John Abbott, 438 00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:24,720 who wrote the Who Is Johnny Dollar matter, actually tracked 439 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,319 down the script that aired during that week, and the 440 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,519 episode the Limping liability matter involved Johnny going to New 441 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,960 York in a case involving Smoky. Now, I won't go 442 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:41,680 into all the plot, but I will say reading Abbott's synopsis, 443 00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:43,839 it sounds like a really good story. In fact, it 444 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,640 might be the best Smoky story that there was, So 445 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,960 it's a shame that it's missing. But at any rate, 446 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,799 that story had Johnny in New York this episode, and 447 00:26:53,839 --> 00:26:57,200 the next star in California. And then we have an 448 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,559 episode that aired on September twenty first, Johnson Payil Matter, 449 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,079 where Pat McCracken calls Johnny and tells him he's been 450 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,920 working too hard and that Johnny needs to take a 451 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:13,519 vacation to southern California, which makes little sense given that 452 00:27:13,559 --> 00:27:17,359 the last two cases have been in California. It seems 453 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,279 likely to me that the Johnson Payil Matter was either 454 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:25,839 the episode that would have originally aired on August thirty 455 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,000 first or September seventh, but the order got switched. Now, 456 00:27:30,079 --> 00:27:32,880 I tend to imagine this sort of thing happening if 457 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,559 there's a conflict between the writer and the director, with 458 00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:39,720 there being a deadline to have the script in and 459 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,920 the writer not being able to make it, and the 460 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,160 director having to reach out to another writer. In this case, 461 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,400 Johnstone is the director and he's the one who wrote 462 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:54,119 all the scripts. So let's go ahead and disregard that theory. 463 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,799 For this particular episode. It may have been a case 464 00:27:58,839 --> 00:28:02,160 of something with the network. Also may have been about 465 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,160 actor availability. But at any rate, it's time now for 466 00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:11,160 listener comments and feedback. And we have a couple comments 467 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:18,720 regarding the Glacier Ghost matter over on Instagram Brains Benton Rights, 468 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:22,359 how fond to hear this lost episode? Hope Johnny got 469 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,640 a messive trout on Facebook. Emmett Rights, what a great 470 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:30,640 Christmas present, Thank you, Adam. And then I've got an email. 471 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,000 Time to get out your crystal ball. You said there 472 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,200 were three recently discovered Johnny Dollar episodes. It may be 473 00:28:38,359 --> 00:28:41,039 wonder do you think if AI were to get the 474 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,519 Johnny Dollar scripts, voices, tone, and all that makes up 475 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,480 Johnny Dollar, that it would be able to recreate all 476 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:53,920 the lost episodes. Well that's a tough question, certainly, not 477 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,960 with the technology that's available today. In addition, there are 478 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:04,680 some episodisodes even during the Hollywood era of Johnny Dowler 479 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,319 for which there are no scripts available, and all of 480 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:12,759 the New York scripts are missing, so unless those were 481 00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:18,119 somehow recovered, it couldn't recreate all the lost episodes. And 482 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,279 then even with those that are in existence, there are 483 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:27,119 legal challenges because those are held by the Paiey Center 484 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,160 at UCLA after having been relocated from the Thousand Oaks Library, 485 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,000 and are subject to copyright in a different way than 486 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:42,039 our scrips, and so there would be some legal wrangling 487 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,119 about that, and the Pailey Center wouldn't release anything until 488 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,119 they were sure that it was legally allowed for them 489 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:55,000 to do so. Now, if AI advances a bet and 490 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:01,000 all those legal hurdles were cleared, could you recreate lost 491 00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:06,039 Golden age of radio scraps? I suppose. Now you may 492 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:09,000 be detecting that I'm not the greatest fan of this, 493 00:30:09,279 --> 00:30:12,680 and let me be clear that I'm not some anti 494 00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:18,559 AI person. It has its uses. There are some things 495 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:25,279 that philosophically, though, I feel, really are human endeavors in pursuits, 496 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,079 and acting tends to be one of those things. Yeah. 497 00:30:29,119 --> 00:30:33,599 I know there's all the rage about AI actors and whatever. 498 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,559 Modern Hollywood can do what it would like, but I 499 00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:40,720 think the strength of the way the Golden Age of 500 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:46,119 radio worked is in human interaction and human connection, there's 501 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,359 an individual element to it. It's first of all in 502 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:56,599 the performer and the choices that they make with their performance, 503 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,519 and there are all sorts of choices. On a very 504 00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:04,240 basic level, you might start by choosing what type of 505 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,799 voice you're going to do. There were several performers during 506 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:11,480 the Golden Age of Radio that had several places they 507 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:16,079 could go beyond just older, young, or basic stuff like that, 508 00:31:16,519 --> 00:31:19,480 and the words you might emphasize, and the way you 509 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:25,000 might deliver a line, and in many programs, it's also 510 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,559 a matter of the way the actors relate to each other. 511 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,839 And one thing about the Golden Age of Radio that 512 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,519 is special is just how much so many of these 513 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,079 actors worked with each other. And when you think about 514 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:47,759 the Hollywood and New York radio communities, they were relatively 515 00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:52,119 small groups of people, with so many folks who did 516 00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:58,599 thousands and thousands of performances together. And it's something that 517 00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:03,279 on that scale we have never seen before, I think, 518 00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:07,720 in history, and we will never see again where you 519 00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:14,160 had this very elite group of maybe fifty to one 520 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:20,480 hundred actors on each coast that worked together on so 521 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,960 many different programs We're talking thousands and thousands of performances 522 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:30,519 by so many actors. If we were able to get 523 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:35,319 accurate totals as opposed to just what survived. Think about 524 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:40,319 how many programs people like Howard mcneer did or Virginia 525 00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:45,960 greg and there is this really unique human element of 526 00:32:46,519 --> 00:32:51,599 actors playing off of each other and a performance chemistry 527 00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:56,720 between actors, which is such a big part of what 528 00:32:57,079 --> 00:33:01,799 made the Golden age of radio magical. Well, someday, could 529 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:06,759 you create a machine that could imitate the voice of 530 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,359 Bob Bailey and Virginia Grag and program that machine to 531 00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:18,359 make choices based on whatever machine logic that it might say? Sure, 532 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,519 are you going to produce something that will seamlessly replicate 533 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:28,440 the experience of listening to the lost episodes? I don't 534 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,799 really think so. I think what you would find if 535 00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:37,119 you were to create something like that from scratch, it 536 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,200 would have kind of an uncanny Valley feel if you 537 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:49,960 heard the original radio programs for the existing episodes. And 538 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,279 I think a lot of people be like it, you know, 539 00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:58,160 just not quite able to lay their finger on the 540 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,119 exact thing that's missing. But I suspect the human elements, 541 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,519 So I mean, so my answer is, yeah, it could happen, 542 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,840 but it's not going to happen in a way that 543 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,760 be satisfactory for me. I think a far more interesting 544 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:19,280 use of AI, and that I'm more optimistic and positive about, 545 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,480 is using it for audio editing and clearing up some 546 00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:29,719 of the really junkie sounding episodes out there. S Burdvack, 547 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,920 the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy, 548 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,599 has done some incredible work in this past year to 549 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,039 begin to leverage AI tools to clean up the more 550 00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:47,280 muffled recordings out there, and again, I think that's where 551 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,159 it makes sense to invest the time, energy and resources. 552 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,480 I feel like, maybe it's just me, but I feel 553 00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:59,280 like any efforts along those lines are going to be 554 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,039 a lot of work. It's going to be a long 555 00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:05,960 time coming, and it is probably not going to be 556 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,400 a satisfying result. So that's my take, but I do 557 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,480 appreciate the question. And then we have a comment from 558 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,400 doctor who done it regarding the Donald Bellow Weather sketches. 559 00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:22,679 Donald and Reba need to have some kids. Every time 560 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,440 they are talking, it's always about auto accidents. Well, the 561 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,039 thing is that with those two that if they had 562 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:37,280 kids the primary motivation would be to have an entire 563 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,320 slew of new safety as you used to talk about, 564 00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:45,199 although maybe that might not be as big a preoccupation 565 00:35:45,559 --> 00:35:49,440 in the late fifties or whenever those particular ads were 566 00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:54,119 aired as it would be today. All right, well, now 567 00:35:54,199 --> 00:35:58,199 it is time to think our Patreon supporter of the day, 568 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,679 and I want to go ahead and think Jack patreonon 569 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,400 supporter since November twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at 570 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,280 the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents 571 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,159 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Jack, 572 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,840 and that will do it for today, and that will 573 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,320 do it for this year in terms of new episodes, 574 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,960 at least on this Great Detectives of Old Time Radio feed. 575 00:36:22,199 --> 00:36:25,519 We will have a New Year's Eve episode of the 576 00:36:25,519 --> 00:36:29,840 Amazing World of Radio at Amazing dot Great Detectives dot net, 577 00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:32,599 and we will have new episodes of the Old Time 578 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,679 Radio snack Wagon till January fifth, and so we will 579 00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:43,000 be bringing you encores through Saturday, January tenth. Then on Sunday, 580 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:49,519 January eleventh, we'll present the premiere of our Tarzan series 581 00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:53,639 on the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio and return 582 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,960 on January twelfth, to your typical great Detectives of Old 583 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,480 Time radio lineup. I want to go ahead and thank 584 00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:05,960 everyone so much for listening during a very challenging year 585 00:37:06,039 --> 00:37:10,280 we've had in twenty twenty five. Appreciate all of your support, 586 00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:13,159 and I wanted to just close by wishing you all 587 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:17,480 a safe and happy and last New year. But for 588 00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:21,800 now from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham 589 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,320 signing off.