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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you this week's episode of Drag Napp.

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Detectives dot net. But now, from August ninth, nineteen fifty one,

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here is the big screen.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The documented story you will hear during

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the next thirty minutes is not a subject commonly discussed.

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It is a criminal problem that is not yet nationwide,

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but it's a problem which is growing rapidly. We present

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it now so that you may recognize it for what

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it is if and when it invades your city. The

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story you were about to hear is true, only the

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names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a

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detective sergeant. You're assigned to Bunco Detail. You begin to

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receive reports of a vicious new racket growing in your city,

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the television repair racket. The repairman lie overcharge bill you

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for work not done for parts not needed for parts

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they don't install your job.

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Speaker 3: Stop them.

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Speaker 4: Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. For

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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles

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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the

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side of the law through an actual case transcribed from

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official police buyos, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.

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Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

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Speaker 5: It was Monday, January nineteenth, was overcast in Los Angeles

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in the day watch out of Bunco Detail. My partner's

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Ben Ramero. The boss is Captain McCauley. My name's Friday.

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Who was nine fifteen am when we got to the

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third floor of the Los Angeles Daily News, the Assistant

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City Editor's office.

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Speaker 6: All right, Friday, come on in so down.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Jack, like you to meet my partner, Ben Ramero. Ben,

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this is Jack Connett, staff writer for the Daily News.

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Speaker 7: All right, can they I don't know you're Ben, Sit down, fellas. Thanks.

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Speaker 6: We just left the skipper over at the City Hall.

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Did the Captain briefly on this thing?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he gave us a parcel, Phil and we've been

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working on it from our end in about two weeks now.

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Speaker 7: Well, Paul Price, he's our radio TV editor. Paul and

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I had a long session with Captain mccaully yesterday and

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I guess now we're all ready.

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Speaker 6: To move on this thing. We'll do everything we can.

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Would you like to fill Ben in and what you

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told me yesterday on the phone. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Well, Price was the one who began getting the first

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complaints here at the paper. Tremendous number of his readers

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wrote him complaints about being victimized by a crooked television repairman.

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Speaker 6: About being charged too much for repair.

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Speaker 7: Partly Yeah, some of the people even sent in receipts

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with their letters. So they felt the guys who fixed

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their sets were dreaming up on neces sary repairs, charging

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him for work not done. So said they knew they

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were built for parts not even replaced or installed in

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their sets.

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Speaker 5: Ben Jack told me yesterday about a letter he got

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in some men said he felt he'd been over charged

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and he just started to belly ache about it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, a fellow to the name of Vincent said, he

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just put up an old fashioned squawk about it, and

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repairman brought the price down at least one third.

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Speaker 6: That doesn't sound very good.

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Speaker 7: We kind of figured operators like that must have too

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many repair sets on hand that their customers can't afford

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to bail out.

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Speaker 6: That's why they cut. Sounds like a ClearCase of a

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two bit jip, doesn't it. Something's got to be done

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Speaker 7: We're ready to give it a big plan our paper

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expose the fraud for what it really is. Captain McCauley says,

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Chief Parker's okay on our plan, and we can count

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on full police cooperation.

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Speaker 6: That's the way we got it, Jack. We were told

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to work with you people till we broke this thing.

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Speaker 7: Fine, we dug up a little amunation to start with.

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I think went around and interviewed about fifteen different television

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repairman in various neighborhoods, and about three out of five

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gave me the same pitch.

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Speaker 6: Whether they know you were with a newspaper.

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Speaker 7: No, I told him I was a factory representative. For

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a new kind of rosmin Cors Soider company. I was

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taking orders. Actually, I dropped in the different stores sh

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out to breeze with him, and they didn't seem to

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get wise. A couple of even placed orders for the start.

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Speaker 6: And why did you find that?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 7: I just wanted to try and get the general attitude

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of some of these jip artists, and I really got

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an air for One of the last places I hit

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was a tiny little hole in the wall out near

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Canoga Park. As I say, about two out of five

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are honest, hard work and repair man. This fellow was

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one of them. What are you getting at, Jack?

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Speaker 6: For a while, this.

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Speaker 7: Fellow worked for a guy that employed about five men

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in the shop, you know, finally quit him because he

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didn't like the way this big operator did business. Fellows

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in the next office, I want you to hear it

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from him, just as I got it.

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Speaker 6: Excuse me, young, Okay, heyk will you come in please? Sure? Master?

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Speaker 7: This is Hank Corter, Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Ben or Merrow

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Police Department. Hank, I wonder if you tell these officers

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a little bit what you told me about kill Gore

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TV specialists.

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Speaker 6: All right, Now, suppose.

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Speaker 7: I'm a customer and I commend to kill Gore's I

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don't like the size of my repair bill. What were

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you instructed to say? We generally tried to talk him

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out of any complaint. Suppose I complained about all the

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multiple charges. I wanted an explanation of the work he did.

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Speaker 9: What then, tell you that it wouldn't do any good

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to explain You wouldn't understand all the technical stuff anyway.

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Speaker 6: Uh huh, tell us killed Gore's attitude with the customer.

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Speaker 10: You mean about the loose wires test?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Please?

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Speaker 9: Well, kill Gore used to tell us that if we

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only charged fifty cents for fixing the loose wire, the

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customer wouldn't believe we really fixed his set.

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Speaker 10: So we used to charge quite a lot more.

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Speaker 6: Well, how much more?

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Speaker 9: For example, for Nichols worth of wire, we'd usually charge

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four dollars and.

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Speaker 11: Seventy five cents. Pretty fair profit, and it's a real run.

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Speaker 6: What else can you tell us?

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Speaker 9: Ah, Well, we'd never let a customer watch any of

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the TV repair a job for example, for customer cause

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it says he thinks.

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Speaker 11: The two is blown out and it'll only be a

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simple replacement job.

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Speaker 9: In his home, and we'd tell him the parts are

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getting hard to get, and we'd have to take his

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set into the shop and charge him a higher rate

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because we had to pay black market prices for the tube.

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Speaker 6: Was there any truth in that? I mean about the

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tubes being hard to get? Not much.

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Speaker 9: Some of them are getting a little hard to get,

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But we never paid any black market prices at Killed Goys.

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Speaker 10: We just slugged the customer, right, So tell.

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Speaker 6: Him about how you used to swap parts on a

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new set.

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Speaker 9: Eh, Well, we lots of times pared a new tube

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for one NOTTS so good, one NOTTS so good. We

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put in a set with a bad too, and the

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bad tube would exchange the factory under one of you guarantee.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't miss an angle, do they? Well that's it.

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Speaker 7: You've heard from a man who couldn't stomach such practice

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and quit went into business. A little bit of a

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shop isn't doing too well, are you, Hank?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 9: But I think I can build up the business that

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don't make quite as much profit as Killed Goers.

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Speaker 11: But I don't chisolm my customers either.

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Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, Hank. I wonder if you'd wait in

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the next office for me.

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Speaker 11: Sure, I hope I've helped a little bit to crack

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down on some of these guys.

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Speaker 6: Well, we think you have, Hank, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 11: Nice to match him, right, See letter seems like a nice.

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Speaker 6: Hey he is.

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Speaker 7: I've checked on him, and I've talked with some of

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his customers since I met him.

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Speaker 6: He's honest. It's a pretty vicious racket in it. Yeah,

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I want to be stopped now.

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Speaker 7: Television is a wonderful medium of entertainment, but a lot

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of the country doesn't have it yet. But when the

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cable goes through and it finally opens up that people

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should know about, the swindlers and crooks will try to

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drip him.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's the same way when radio first came. It

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always seems like when anything new comes along, anything a

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little complicated, maybe a little too involved for the average guy.

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Have a few smart punks victimize him, robbed the consumer line.

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Speaker 5: Well, and naturally we got to have some positive evidence

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before we can finally complaint with the city attorney on

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this thing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, are you follow us to any ideas where.

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Speaker 8: To start on the best way to crack down on

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these crouckt operators is to catch them red handed with

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evidence and hold up in court. Yeah, we think maybe

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we've got an idea.

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Speaker 5: But we were talking to Dick Saunders over in our

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sound lab and he says that he can bungle a

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new TV set and we can market and photograph it

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before it goes out to.

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Speaker 7: Be repaired, and when it's returned or effort's fixed, the

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life what we need to go to court on.

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Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, that's it. We can operate right out of

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one of our own homes and all we have to

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do is hope the repairment overcharges us or tries the gippis. Yeah,

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that's right, let's hope it works. From what we've heard.

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Speaker 5: The staff writer, Jack Connette, Ben and I drove back downtown.

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On the way, it was decided that we'd use Cannet's

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home as the place from which to operate. It was

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centrally located in an average neighborhood. When we got back

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to our office, we contacted one of the local television

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dealers and asked for the loan of one of their sets.

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They recommended Kate Halbert because the chassis is easily accessible

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and any trouble could be located quickly because parks are visible.

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A sixteen inch k Halbert console model was sent to

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our sound lab. Ten eighteen am. We met with Dick Saunders,

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our police lab technician.

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Speaker 12: Here's a set sixteen inch console model, serial numbers CE

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two eight one seven.

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Speaker 6: Nine oh one. What have you done to it to day?

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Speaker 12: Well, first off, I tested the set and it performed perfectly.

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It's a good set, brings in a fine picture. See

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funny test Pattern's fine. Huh, Yeah, it's good. Tested all

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the tubes all okay. How are you marking the set? Yeah?

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Shame you know two about it?

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Speaker 6: Here?

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Speaker 12: Now if you look closely here at the base of

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the socket, see it.

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Speaker 6: What's that this is? It isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Dick?

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Speaker 6: A little tiny dot of green paint.

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Speaker 12: That's right, Ben, I'm marking every part of the set

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with his tiny green dot.

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Speaker 6: Works good.

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Speaker 7: I didn't spot it out out anyone else w especially

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if they didn't know about it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. That so we're hoping.

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Speaker 12: In addition to this type marketing, we've taken all serial

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numbers off the tubes and various parts. Anything that carried

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any form of coding we took down. All major components

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have been marked, transformers, coils, condensers, tuning in it so on.

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Speaker 6: Did you get any pictures in it?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, we did. Took photographs of the set in and

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out of the cabinet. Took them from four different angles,

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just to be sure we were well covered.

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Speaker 6: Well, how did you bungle it?

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Speaker 12: Well, here's what I did to put the set out

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of commission. I burned out the filament of the five

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U four g lough Voll direct fire tube. What's the

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cost of that particular tube, souders, Well, this tube ordinarily

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retails for a dollar sixty five cents.

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Speaker 6: Well, what does that do to the set? I mean

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burning out the tube.

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Speaker 12: By burning out that filament, we cause the sound and

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picture circuits to be completely inoperative.

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Speaker 5: It won't work at all until that particular tube is

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replaced by a good one.

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Speaker 10: That's right, Joe.

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Speaker 6: Well, how big a job would it be to trace

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of troubling?

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Speaker 12: Well, could easily be detected by casual observation or by

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noting that the tube, normally very hot, is cold.

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Speaker 6: How much time would you say that request to make

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a repair like this?

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Speaker 12: Ooh, I just may not. Over half hour would be

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required a place to set an operating order?

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Speaker 6: Half hour?

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Speaker 5: Okay, thanks a lot, Dick, Are you're going to take

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care of getting your set out to Cannet's home right away.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, there's a dress right here. We'll get it

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right out, all right. Fine, if you can try to

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get whoever repairs is set to give you an itemized

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bill of all work done in parts and stall right

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in case you call more than one outfit today, here's

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an extra bad five or four gtube. Thank you, Nick,

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anything you'd like to.

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Speaker 6: Know, No, I think that about covers it for me. Jack.

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One more thing.

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Speaker 7: I was just wondering if somebody spots the trouble right

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away and replaces the tube, what do you think they

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ought to charge to labor and all.

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Speaker 12: I checked through RTA on that this morning. They said

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to make a house call and replace the detective tube

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should not exceed four dollars and fifty cents.

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Speaker 6: Okay, thanks, That does it for now? Yeah, I guess so.

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Speaker 12: Well you're all set, then, I think we'll get what

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you're after.

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Speaker 6: Well, we should. The odds are all on our side.

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Speaker 5: Ten thirty am, Monday, January nineteenth, we left the sound

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Lab on West First Street and walked back to Bunco Division.

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Speaker 6: We met with Captain McCauley and filled him in.

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Speaker 5: We gave him the newspaper man Jack Cannett's address and

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told him he could reach us there. The Console model

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television set was delivered to Canet's home and properly installed.

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When we arrived at his home, we started going through

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the yellow classified section of the phone directory. We made

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a list of several TV service stores, just picked at random.

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We chose a wide variety. We picked stores that were

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listed with large boxed in ads, stores that carried no ads,

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just a listing. Ben called two places and staggered the

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call so that the repairman would arrive about one hour apart.

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It was eleven thirty am when the first man made

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his service call Bart's TV Experts on Hollywood Boulevard. It

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took him forty five minutes. Was twelve fifteen when he

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left Jack Cannett's home.

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Speaker 8: It must have been one of the two out of five.

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Huh yeah, he seems okay. I wonder if I could

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see that bill. Oh here you Gorjoe. Thanks, It looks okay.

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Speaker 5: Replace five U four G tube dollars, sixty five service charge,

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two fifty total charges four dollars and fifteen cents.

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Speaker 8: That kind of bears out connects thinking doesn't remember. When

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we ask him how many men work in the shop,

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he said he's alone. Yeah, I think you'll find that

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that's a pretty good barometer. All the servicemen working alone

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aren't like this guy, But the bigger percentage of the

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honest ones are.

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Speaker 6: When's the next one due to arrive in any minute?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 8: Call the place with the name of Cheney's Video Repairs.

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They over on Beverly Boulevard and had a big end.

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It looks like a pretty big outvent. Oh here's that

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other defective tube that Dick gave us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, better get it in. He's sad.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, let's see here we are. Five few, four, g Okay,

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here you go, thanks Joe, here's a new one the

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guy put in.

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Speaker 6: Got it?

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Speaker 8: Okay, I get this back on again. Okay, yeah, fine,

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better turn it on to make sure it's not working.

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Speaker 6: I got it. How about the two bend? Can you see?

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Is it lighting up?

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 6: Not yet. I pushed his set back against the wall.

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We better leave it on for a while, Jack, just

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to make sure. Yeah, here we are. I gave you

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the other tube. Yeah, I got it right here in

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my pocket.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 6: I'd like to try something if you follower thing, it'll

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be okay, what's it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I got a good little camera, like a three y

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F you know, Candid. I think maybe if I turn

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all the three way lamps up to four. Here's a

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triple A fast film. It's in the camera now, maybe

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we can grab some shots at the gun while he works.

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Speaker 5: What do you think, Well, if you're careful, don't let

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him get wise. Maybe you ought to shoot some of

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all of us, just so he doesn't think anything about it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I figured out. Just sit down on

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that chair over there. But the set make him think

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I'm just testing or something. I think I can bring

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it off without arousing any suspicion. Okay, by get anything,

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the guy's out of line. Will run the shots in

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the daily news.

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Speaker 8: What do you figure on doing, Jackie gonna run a

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series on the TV repair racket.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the plan, leap Pain. He's our executive editor.

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He thinks it's high time somebody exposed a swindle in

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the paper and it'll be the next service man. I

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let him in, right, better turn off the set.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, television repair. That's why I learn from change and

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Beverly Blue Boy.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, come on here, thanks.

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Speaker 10: Oh what's used to be the trouble?

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Speaker 6: We don't know?

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Speaker 10: Is that's right over here?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Thanks?

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Speaker 13: Kay Halbert? Huh sixteen inch nice set? Oh what seems

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to be wrong? If I knows something? Nothing seems to work.

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Speaker 10: What do you mean?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 10: Picture's tall? How about sound?

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Speaker 6: Nothing?

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Speaker 10: Uh huh, I'll be alright to pull the set away

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from the wall.

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Speaker 6: Here, go right are and give you a hand.

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Speaker 10: Oh no, it's sorry, I can handle well.

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Speaker 6: I make some tools out.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 10: How long you have this set?

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Speaker 6: Oh about two or three months?

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Speaker 10: Dark in here? I wonder if we could have a

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little more light.

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Speaker 6: Sure, I'm gonna get these lamps up for you.

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Speaker 10: Thanks.

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Speaker 6: How's that?

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Speaker 13: Oh fine? Thanks? Say it's a nice little camera you

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got there. What kind is it?

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Speaker 7: I like three f one to five limbs? An experimenting

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with some new indoor film. Do you mind being a

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guinea pig?

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Speaker 10: It's all right with me. Shaneaway's good film on me, though, I.

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Speaker 6: Think you're gonna get anything in this light yet.

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Speaker 10: Maybe worth a try anyway, I don't know about this set.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 13: It looks bad, hard to tell without getting it down

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to the shop. Looks to me like your blocking transformers gone.

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Speaker 6: And what's that mean? Well, I take the set in,

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can't fix it here?

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Speaker 10: Huh, I'm afraid not.

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Speaker 13: You see, your parts are getting a little hard to

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get these days, as set manufacturers are having a tough

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time getting quality parts, and sometimes we have to spend several.

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Speaker 10: Hours just tracing the trouble.

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Speaker 5: Well, I guess that knocks out the ball game tonight,

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I fellas sorry, take a couple of.

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Speaker 10: Days at least, want to really check it over.

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Speaker 6: Sure it's not a tube? What kind of stuff? Just

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blue eye?

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Speaker 13: No, that's what most people think every time their set

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goes out. It's definitely not a tube. Oh, it might

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be some bad tubes. But your trouble's a great deal

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more than that.

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Speaker 6: I think you got any idea what it's gonna run us.

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Speaker 10: It's hard to say right off hand.

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Speaker 6: Four or five dollars.

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Speaker 10: No, it's gonna run more than that.

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Speaker 13: I'll take the setting with me now, and I'll get

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it back to you as soon as possible.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna take the whole set, No.

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Speaker 13: I'll just pull a chassis out of the cabinet. Leave

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the cabinet here. Oh say, by the way, yeah.

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Speaker 10: If everything turns out, it you'd like to see those pictures.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if everything turns out, you will.

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Speaker 4: You are listening to Dragnet Authentic Cases from official police files.

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Speaker 5: Thursday, January twenty second, nine am, the TV set was

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returned to reporter Jack Cannett's home after having been repaired

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by a servicing company called Cheney's Video Repairs. We found

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that the man who had come to Cannet's home to

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make the service call was Robert V. Cheney, the owner

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of the service outfit.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 5: As soon as the set was returned, we called the

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sound lab and had it picked up and taken downtown.

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Sergeant Marshall Zeno, who was working with us out of

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Bunco Detail, called and said that Dick Saunders had finished

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his investigation and wanted to see us right away. Ten

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thirty am. We went down to West First Street the

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Police sound Lab. Saunders went over his findings with us.

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Speaker 12: Here are the photographs before and after. Before we go

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over these, let me show you what we found out

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about your repair job. Okay, Oh, here's that receipt Chaney

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he gave you when he returned the set. Yeah, here's

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what the repair bill states. Replaced vertico blocking transformer replaced

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five U four G tube, six AU six tube and

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twelve AU seven tube.

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Speaker 6: And the charge was thirty two dollars and fifty cents.

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Speaker 12: Plus ninety eight cents tax, or a total of thirty

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three dollars and forty eight cents.

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Speaker 6: Well, how does that break down, Dick?

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Speaker 12: What appears that the ninety eight cents tax was for

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twenty eight dollars worth of material used in the repair.

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Speaker 6: Did they really put in all that stuff?

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Speaker 12: You got yourself a prize package in that outfit. All

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they did was to replace the five U four G tube.

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Speaker 6: That's all they did.

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Speaker 12: Yeh, here's the capper. The five U four g is

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a war surplus tube, but it works. Okay.

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Speaker 6: What else did you find?

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Speaker 12: According to the photographs and coding system, no vertical blocking

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transformers six a U six tube or twelve AU seven

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tube were replaced. Let's get back the potus here. You

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can take these along for your package. You see in

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the set here, you know, let me show you see

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this tube is the only part mentioned in the receiver.

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Otherwise it doesn't carry our green paint coating system. Let

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me turn the set around. Here the channel selector here this, yeah,

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that's the tuning knob to bring in the station's channel selector.

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They call it turn't it?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 12: Falls off pretty easy, doesn't it?

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Speaker 6: Sure does? He? Thanks?

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Speaker 12: They left out the spring clip in here. It should

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have been put back in because that's what hold of

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the knob secured to the shaft.

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Speaker 6: I've had that happen on radio sets.

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Speaker 12: Yeah. Sometimes they're a little stubborn to put back in.

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But a good repairman never leave it. H Yeah, something

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else here to sit around in the back.

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Speaker 6: I'll get it there. Oh, thanks Ben?

477
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Speaker 12: See her See how loose the chassis he is in

478
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the cabinet now?

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Speaker 6: It sure is.

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Speaker 12: Wasn't that way when we got it from the Kay

481
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Halbert dealer anymore than the channel selector was faulty. Perfect

482
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shap from the guy. Look at the size of that chassis.

483
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It's pretty heavy, yeah it is. Originally there were four

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screws used to hold the chassis in the wood cabinet.

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Cheney's repair outfit only put one back in. One screw

486
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to hold that heavy chassis. It's a pretty sloppy job,

487
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all right. You know what they'd probably tell you if

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you ask him about this.

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Speaker 6: It only requires one screw.

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Speaker 12: The bad repairment can always improve on factory standards, usually

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for his own convenience, certainly doesn't improve the product.

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Speaker 6: Well, it looks like we got what we were after.

493
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I think we got enough, Joe, I do. Let's see

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what the city attorney thinks.

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Speaker 5: We collected all the evidence in the case against Cheney's

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video Repairs. We met with Captain McCauley and took it

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up to the second floor of the City Hall. We

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met with Assistant City Attorney Boyd Taylor and showed him

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our findings.

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Speaker 6: He issued a warrant for the arrest of Robert W.

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Speaker 5: Cheney, charging him with violation of Section forty four PC,

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one count eleven. Thirty am Thursday, January twenty second, Ben

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and I drove out to make the arrest.

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Speaker 6: Jack Kennett went along with us. This is it Cheney's

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video repairs. Yeah, come on, Jack, there's Cheney behind the car. Yeah,

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oh there, all right?

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Speaker 10: How's the set working?

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 10: We did a good job on that one. Gave you

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a better break on the price, and I thought we could.

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Speaker 6: You know, police officers, you're under arrest.

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Speaker 10: Were your kidding?

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Speaker 13: What for petty theft? Come on, let's go petty theft? Well,

514
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I don't understand. You're the fellows I fix that set

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for up and cress and drive.

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Speaker 10: Aren't you.

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Speaker 6: That's right? Your bill was a little high, wasn't it.

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Speaker 10: Oh No, wait a minute. If that's all that's bother,

519
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you know, let's talk it over.

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Speaker 6: Come on, let's go.

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Speaker 13: Look, I can fix that up with you guys. Just

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tell me how much you want to pay and we'll

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work out something.

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Speaker 5: That seems to be the way you worked to every

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PAYI AD deal right from the start, when you didn't

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can sell us about it till now.

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Speaker 13: Well, look, you know how it is in this business.

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If you don't charge some customers a little money, they

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don't think you did anything to their sets.

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Speaker 6: You gotta try charging them for just the work you do.

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Speaker 10: Can't we get together on this thing. Let's just forget

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the whole deal.

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Speaker 13: You don't know me anything. Now Here here, I'll refund

534
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all your money. We'll call it square.

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Speaker 6: Never mind, just leave them money in the cash register

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and get your code.

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Speaker 8: Can't prove anything anyway, we think we can just step

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around the counter this way.

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Speaker 10: Look, mister, you're not a cop, are you?

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Speaker 3: Oh not?

541
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Speaker 10: Well, then tell them this isn't not a fair deal.

542
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Speaker 13: I'll give you back your money, trait. It's a little

543
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late for that, chenny phone. Let's get some the papers

544
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be ruined. You run out of business.

545
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Speaker 6: That's the way we got it figured. How many men

546
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you have working here for you? Four? Why this right here?

547
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You ever read this?

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Speaker 3: What is it?

549
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Speaker 10: Oh? The thing from the RTA?

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Speaker 6: Here? Read article two? Would you?

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Speaker 3: Two?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 13: I will conduct myself and my business in an honest

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and straightforward manner, meriting and inspiring the confidence of my customers.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I know about this.

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Speaker 6: You remember the RTA Radio Technicians Association at you? Yeah,

557
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I am read Article four?

558
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Speaker 13: Would I propose to charge justin fair price for all

559
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professional services rendered?

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Speaker 6: And I read this article seven.

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Speaker 13: I will engage only in fair and ethical practices recommended

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and approved by the Radio Technicians Association as being conducive

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to public confidence.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: I read all this before.

566
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Speaker 6: It's too bad you didn't remember it.

567
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Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the

568
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names were changed to protect the innocent.

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Speaker 4: On April fifteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department

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eighty two, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.

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In a moment, the results of that trial and now

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here is our star, Jack Webb.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 5: In the few remaining moments, we'd like to take this

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opportunity to thank you once again for your many kind

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letters of encouragement that come in from week to week.

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And also we'd like to answer a few questions about

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00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:36,799
our program which seem common to many of the letters

579
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that we receive from you. Many of you have inquired

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why at the end of the program, in recounting the

581
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punishment of the criminal involved in the particular case, we

582
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generally refer to the sentence received as the term prescribed

583
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by law. Well, we use this reference for the following reason.

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In the state of California, the length of a convicted

585
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crist criminal's prison term is not set by the court,

586
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but by the state adult authority. Most of the time,

587
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a criminal is merely found guilty by the court and

588
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then sentenced to the state penitentiary. After he serves a

589
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year in prison, the convict has a hearing before this

590
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state adult authority, at which time his actual sentence is set.

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So you can see why we can't give you the

592
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actual sentence in many cases. Now, other questions common to

593
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many of your letters concerned some of the authentic technical

594
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police terminology which comes up from time to time on dragnet.

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With the help of George Fennemon, we'd like to explain

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some of the more common ones for you if we may.

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Speaker 6: First, you've heard us used the.

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Speaker 12: Term or the letters APB APB that's in All Points

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bulletin a communication dispatched to all divisions and law enforcement

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agencies throughout the state.

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Speaker 6: And then we feel sure that you remember the term

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mama sheet.

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Speaker 2: A mama sheet is the master information inform on a

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criminal in a police department file. It contains his complete description,

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his habits, relatives, acquaintances, everything about him known to the police.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, George, and thank you ladies and gentlemen for

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your very fine letters from time to time. If we may,

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we'll take this opportunity to explain a few more of

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our authentic police terminology.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Robert W. Cheney, owner and operator of Cheney's Video Repairs,

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was tried and convicted on several counts of violating Section

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forty four PC petty theft. He was fined two hundred

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dollars and received the sentence as prescribed by law. Petty

615
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theft is punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail for

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not more than six months.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Dragnett wishes to thank the Los Angeles

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Daily News and its feature writer Jack Connett for their

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valuable assistance in preparing this case for present. It is

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our combined belief and knowledge that not all television repair

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servicemen are dishonest and unscrupulous in their practices. A great

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percentage of these technicians are forthright and conduct their business

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in strict compliance with the Code of Ethics. It is

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these men who, when informed of the unfair conditions that

625
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exist in their trade, will drive the dishonest and crooked

626
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from their profession.

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Speaker 4: You have just heard drag Met, a series of authentic

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cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office

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of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 6: It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC.

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Speaker 2: For twenty five years, NBC has been bringing you the

632
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,559
very best in radio entertainment.

633
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 7: Listen now to another exciting story on Counterspy coming up

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on MBC.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Well. This was definitely an important episode for

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its time. Television was still in the process of adoption

637
00:28:09,759 --> 00:28:14,880
in nineteen fifty only nine percent of American households had

638
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,880
a television set. This would expand to twenty three percent

639
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by the end of nineteen fifty one, so there were

640
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,000
going to be far more television set owners who could

641
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,599
be victimized, so it was viotal to get this warning out.

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The timelessness comes back to one comment that Romero made

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that the something very similar it happened when radio came out,

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and that it happened with every new technology. And while

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00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,000
it's not exactly the same, every new technology, and we

646
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:56,160
have seen so many over recent years, comes with a

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00:28:56,279 --> 00:29:00,480
new type of scam. It was also kind of prizing

648
00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:03,119
they use the actual name of the reporter as a

649
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,759
character in the story. They do that often with police,

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00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,839
but kind of different, but I understand why they did it.

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I also enjoyed the Jack Web answering the listener questions segment,

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and I don't think they did anymore, which is kind

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00:29:21,119 --> 00:29:23,720
of a shame, because it would be great to have

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those around because sometimes there are unanswered questions or things

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00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:29,960
that we don't know about, or we just have to

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00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:33,519
kind of guests, and so it's great to have something

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00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,759
a bit more authoritative that you can sign to. All right,

658
00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:41,400
listener comments and feedback. Now and we go to Spotify

659
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and we have a couple of comments on The Big Sophomore.

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Don Wright's Wow, this one had Johnny Dollar level sorrow.

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00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:53,319
I'm pretty sure people listening to the original would have

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00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:55,839
turned off the radio, turned to each other and said,

663
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just happened. It would be interesting to figure out how

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listeners reacted to this particular episode. It's not one of

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the ones that's frequently talked about, but it is kind

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of a pattern of drag now and you can see

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it going into the nineteen sixties TV series as well,

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of talking about issues that are generally not dealt with

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or we're not generally dealt with at the time, particularly

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when it comes to kids and their plot and so

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calling to mind this sort of reality that could very

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well have been going on in the listener's own communities.

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I think it's a challenging thing and certainly some listeners

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might not have quite known what to make of it.

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And then Harrison wrote The Big Sophomore. Indeed, the things

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he had to deal with and we'll have to deal

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with psychologically for the rest of his life are herculean

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for anyone to deal with, let alone a teenager. Very true, Harrison.

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All right, well, now it's time to thank our Patreon

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supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead

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and think Todd Uh. Todd has been one of our

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Patreon supporters since January twenty twenty two, currently supporting the

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podcast at the Shawmus level of four dollars or more

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per month. Thank you so much for your support, Todd,

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and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying

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another episode of Dragonet. But join us back here tomorrow

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for yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 14: Where well, Journey, we fix this place up real night,

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since you've seen that you always.

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Speaker 6: Spend a lot of dawn, so so we want to

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buy insurance on it.

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Speaker 15: Oh well, then hop on over to George down and

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see your old friend Joe pick A Tello about it.

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Speaker 6: After all, he's your insuranceation, yeah is he? Well?

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Speaker 15: Sure what cars he is? Didn't he send you all

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the other insurance you lefty? Had something happened to Joe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, only I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean?

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Speaker 3: What is just?

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Speaker 8: I don't know.

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Speaker 14: I talked to him on the phone, asked him to

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come out here. He says okay, but he don't come.

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Thank somebody's knocked him off.

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Speaker 3: And I called him again.

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Speaker 14: He's sukay again, give me right over, but he.

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Speaker 3: Still don't come.

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Speaker 15: Well, have you gone over to Georgetown to see him,

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to see what's the matter?

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Speaker 5: Five?

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Speaker 3: Six, maybe even a half a dozen times?

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Speaker 1: What every time?

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Speaker 14: He ain't lefty? I don't get it. That's what I'm

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trying to tell you. There's something wrong about it, Johnny.

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And if I want you, I come down here and

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fine on.

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

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot yet,

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to your host, Adam Graham, signing off,