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Speaker 1: Welcome to our four thousand, nine hundred and fiftieth episode

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special from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Grant.

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Before we get started, I want to encourage you, if

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you are enjoying the program, to please follow us using

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Speaker 2: Well, we're turning.

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Speaker 1: To a series that we've visited a few times, the

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only ones on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.

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It has also featured on the Amazing World of Radio

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and even on the Old Time Radio Snack Wagon. The

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series Proudly We Hailed had a very long and twisting

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history during which it had multiple hosts. It had a

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period where it was fifteen minutes long, and it had

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a period where it was half an hour long. It

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was produced sometimes in New York, sometimes in Hollywood. Today

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we're turning to an era of the program that we've

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not visited. The program began with C. P. McGregor, the

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prolific radio producer, as the host of the program, but

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in late nineteen fifty the series shifted to New York,

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with Lee Tracy serving as host of the series and

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also star of most episodes, including today. The original air

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date on this one is October twenty ninth, nineteen fifty

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and the title is follow that man.

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Speaker 3: Proudly we hail, no for another.

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Speaker 4: Proudly we Hail one of radio's outstanding traumatic half hours,

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starring Lee Tracy, and presented transcribed by Your Army and

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Your Air Force from Radio City, New York. Here is

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your host and star on Proudly we Hail, the distinguished

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Broadway stage screen and radio star Lee Tracy.

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Speaker 5: Thank you Kenneth bang Hard, and hello everyone, welcome again

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to Proudly we Hail. You're really going to enjoy this program.

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It's all about a private eye.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: I'm anxious to begin the play, so I'll be back

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in just a moment after a few words from Ken Banghart.

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Speaker 4: Highly important words too, Lee, Your Army and your Air

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Force need men and women right now, and if you volunteer,

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you'll have your own choice of a number of fields.

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So why don't you visit your nearest Army and Air

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Force recruiting station today and now, Lee, our audience is

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eager to hear what a private eye does how we operate.

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Speaker 5: Don't believe me, Ken, This particular investigator certainly gets into

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some mighty tight spots. But well, you know, us private

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eyes never a dull moment in our lives.

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Speaker 4: With our star Lee Tracy in the role of Clint Flint,

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your Army and your Air Force present the proudly we

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hail production of Follow that Man.

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Speaker 5: Clint Flint's the name occupation, Private Eye. Midland City is

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my beach. The city is peaceful and quiet and dull.

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At a rainy Monday afternoon. My office is in the

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cellar of the Parker Building looks out on a panmoraic

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view of the furnace. I never get tired of that view.

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It means something to me. Only I've never been able

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to figure out what my girl Friday is. Myrtle Lush.

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You just heard her sweet spirited laughter a couple of

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seconds ago. Myrtle's a cute kid, plenty smart. I wouldn't

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be in business without her. Like I said, cute kid.

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The case I'm going to tell you about I call

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the Blue Goose Caper. It all started the day she

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showed up. I remember, I was sitting in my office

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looking out of the furnace thinking things over when Myrtle

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gently intruded upon my thoughts. Myrtle, how many times have

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I told you not to use the coal shoot so

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much fun. There wouldn't be someone out there to see me,

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would there?

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Speaker 7: Yes, it's a woman, and she said she had to

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see you right away.

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Speaker 5: Well what does she look like? All right? Send her in?

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After Murdle went out, I sat there alone for a moment,

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thinking about things, my eyes on the furnace. That's how

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it was when she walked into my life and my business.

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You meet a lot of people, all kinds. I was

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used to that sort of thing, but when our eyes

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found each other and locked, everything changed for me. Skin

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like curdled yogurt, tawny hair, with a faint smell of

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burnt ashes, eyes pink and searching. It's difficult to describe

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those first impressions. They seared their way deep into me

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time stood there and waited for us to catch up. Strange,

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maddening creature that she was. She was the first to

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break the silence.

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Speaker 7: Hey are you one of them? Seeing noise?

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Speaker 5: I'm Clint Flint, private operator at your service. Won't you

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sit down?

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Speaker 7: Miss lam Rod McGee is the name? You got quite

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a layout here.

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Speaker 6: It serves nice view too.

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Speaker 5: I can see that we understand each other.

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Speaker 7: That's the way I am understanding.

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Speaker 5: How can I help you, miss McGhee.

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Speaker 7: Haha, call me flam Clint.

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Speaker 5: All right, Flam, what's the caper?

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Speaker 7: You make it hard for a girl to breathe Clint,

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My brother Ram is missing. I'm scared. I'm scared, way

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down deep inside. I have a feeling.

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Speaker 5: Suppose you just give me the whole thing right from

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the beginning.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's kind of hard to know where to start.

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Ram is not a bad boy. Heigh strung, I gets

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you'd call him. He had a run in with the

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law a few years back with throwing an old lady

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down a flight of stairs. He was just at that age.

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Speaker 5: You know, sure you can't help boysh enthusiasmic.

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Speaker 7: Well, Ram learned his lesson, and when he got off

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for good behavior, you never saw such a sweet girl.

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He didn't try to throw anybody downstairs for a long time.

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But then then he got mixed up with the crowd.

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Speaker 5: The crowd flying, Yeah, the.

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Speaker 7: Big boys at that classy nightclub li Rookery Charmont.

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Speaker 5: The place got on Grove and Vine.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the joint. Anyhow, Big Nick Splotch took a

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liking to Ram. Nick runs the place. Well, to make

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it short, it wasn't long before Ram was a part

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of the crowd. Overnight he changed. He threw another old

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lady downstairs and went out to live at the racetrack.

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I heard he was doing a lot of gambling and

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losing heavy. And one of the boys told me he

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owed Big Nick ten Gee's and Nick was kind of sore. Well,

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that crowd of the rookery place for keeps, and something

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Ram said that night made me feel like they were

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going out to get him.

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Speaker 5: What was that, Flam?

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Speaker 7: He said, Big Nick's going to ventilate me if I

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don't pay up the dough I owe him.

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Speaker 5: Flam. Have you gone to the police.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what could they do?

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Speaker 5: Smart girl? I don't like it. I don't like any

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of it. Now, think hard. What time was it Tuesday

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night that you saw him?

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Speaker 7: Eight o'clock on the button?

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Speaker 5: Are you sure?

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Speaker 6: You sure?

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Speaker 5: Don't lie to me, Flam. I can't do anything for

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you if you try to hide things. Now, what time

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was it?

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Speaker 7: Well, all right, it was to rate.

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Speaker 5: That's better. If you want me to find your brother,

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don't try to cover up for it.

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Speaker 7: I know, but it's not easy to say these things.

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Speaker 5: Listen, Flam. I want you to go home and get

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a good night's sleep. You'll feel a whole lot better tomorrow.

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In the meantime, I'll do a little nosing around.

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Speaker 7: You mean you'll take the case.

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Speaker 5: Yep, that's just what I mean.

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Speaker 7: But I'm broke.

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Speaker 5: Never mind about that. Now, just leave your address and

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phone number with myrtle. I'll get in touch with your

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as soon as I can track down a couple of leaps.

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Speaker 7: You may look like a dumb lug, but you sure

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got a good heart.

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Speaker 5: After she'd gone, I sat there alone in the growing darkness,

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looking out at the furnace. After a while, I got

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out of fifth of milk and poured myself four straight fingers.

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I took a neat well I'd made my decision. I

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knew a lot of heads might fall before I was through.

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It might even mean curtains for Clint Flint. But this

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was my kind of case. I left my car at

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the corner of Congrave and walked slowly west forward Dickinson.

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It was a dark, muddy night with a smell of rain.

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With my snap brim hat pulled low over my eyes,

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I took the wrong turn suddenly found myself back at

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my car again. I shrugged my wide shoulders and figured

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if it was going to be like that, all right,

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I can play it on the cuff. Two five minutes later,

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I walked into l rookery. Charma, your minds are barn

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like place full of glass blocks with pronium plated cigarette girls.

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There's a lot of class caters to the distaff side.

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I ambled up to the padded barn quickly sized up

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the situation. There are only a couple there, But seated

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at the far end of the bar, all by yourself

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was Big Nick's girl Strager. We'd known each other in

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the fourth grade. I walked over and sat down on

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the stool beside her.

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Speaker 2: What ll it be?

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Speaker 5: Mac, double milk on the rocks? Oh?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 5: He hello? Little Clint Flint and so Hi Strager. Haw's trick.

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Speaker 7: I haven't seen him in months.

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Speaker 5: And let's not get personal.

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Speaker 6: Hi, Honey, this luck bother you.

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Speaker 5: Nikki. Nah, he's just puzzling through his ears.

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Speaker 8: He got something on your mind, Flint? Or is this

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a purely social visit?

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Speaker 3: A little of both.

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Speaker 6: Nick, there was something on your mind that would have

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to be little play.

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Speaker 5: It for laughs, Neck, That's what I like.

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Speaker 7: Plenty of laughs all around.

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Speaker 6: Shut up, stugger, All right, what do you want to

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make it fast?

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Speaker 5: And it'd be quieter in your office, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 8: So now we've got to have quiet a you know,

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as a matter of fact, it would be quieter, much

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quieter right this way, mister Flint.

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Speaker 5: This was beginning to get interesting. There was tension in

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the air. I could see it flickering through Stregger's long

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green hair. I could see it rippling and big Nick's

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bulging shoulders that I followed him cat footing down a

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dimly lit hallway. We came to a big, heavy door

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on the left hand side. It was mark private. Go carefully, Flint,

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a small voice worn, Go carefully.

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Speaker 6: Go right in, Fats Killer, come in here.

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Speaker 5: Fats and the Killer were two of the largest ugliest

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torpedoes I'd ever set eyes on. They looked mean too.

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I realized I'd have a soft pedal my approach if

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I wanted to get out of this place in one piece.

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Wouldn't pay to be too direct now. The best attack

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would be a subtle flanking movement.

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Speaker 6: You were saying, mister Flint.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't saying, Nick. I was asking, what do you

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know about the disappearance of Ram McGee? Who's Ram McGee,

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you're lying and I know it.

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Speaker 6: That's killer. Would you be so good as to take

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care of mister flint for me?

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Speaker 5: They led me down and narrow, dimly lit hallway toward

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a door at the far end. I knew I'd have

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to play this one close to the chest. These babies

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were rough. They meant business. You came to the door,

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SATs opened it and pushed me out ahead of it.

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I saw her on the back porch. Before me. There

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was a long wooden stairway leading down into a courtyard

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filled with ash cans. This was no time to await development.

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This was a time for action. I moved fast, tore

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my arm away from fats and grab freeze neck. After

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a while, I pulled myself out of an ash can.

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My head hurt. There was a taste of melon rind

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and my mouth. When I got the melon rind out,

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I felt much better. I brushed myself off, picked up

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my hat and pulled it low over my eyes. Then

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I went out to the street and the limped slowly

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north and Gavin Road. No one had to tell me

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I was onto something big. The pieces were all there, true,

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some of them didn't quite fit, but the outline of

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the pattern were becoming clearer. It was big, big, and dirty.

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I tooled along on Sebastian heading knees to kept working

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the whole thing over my mind. I knew despite everything,

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I was making progress. I knew too, I had to

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be awfully careful from here on in setting it up

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like a chess problem. I could see certain ramifications. When

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I came to Gramercy, I turned left onto the racetrack road.

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A few minutes later, dim the lights pulled up one

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hundred feet away from the racetrack station. The stadium stood

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huge and silent and empty against the night sky. I

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got out of the car, sticking close to the shadows,

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made my way toward the main entrance. All around the

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stadium there ran a wire fence about ten feet high.

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I realized it could be only one way to get in.

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I backed off about twenty feet from the fence. I

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got set and spurted forward. At the right instant, I leaped.

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After I had gotten up, brushed myself off. I knew

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there had to be another way. I limped on. In

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a few seconds. I came to the main entrance. Once inside,

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I stopped, let my eyes become accustomed to the darkness.

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Suddenly the hair went up on the back of my neck.

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I knew I wasn't alone. Someone was in the passageway

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with me. I stood motionless, frozen, not moving a muscle.

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The chips were down. I steeled myself to wait, to

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keep calm. It was a vague, vague something moving ahead

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of me. I sprang forward in a dive.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 5: I got up and brushed myself off again. Already in

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my mind there was a faint glimmer of light, intangible, yes,

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but it was growing. Five minutes later I found what

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I had known must be there by the betting windows.

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Enough light came in so I could see him, sitting

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in a chair tilted against the wall. His head dropped

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forward on his chest soundlessly. I edged closer to him.

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My reasoning had been right. Everything fitted into place. It

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was now or never. I got set and plunged forward.

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When I was over, got to my feet slowly. He

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put up a terrific fight. Now he lay motionless. I

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reached down. I grabbed him by the shoulders, and I

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hauled him up right, got him onto my back and

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headed for the main entrance. I knew this wasn't a

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healthy place. To stay, but I'd better get out and

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get out quick. There wasn't much time left. Lee.

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Speaker 4: We're really getting a bang out of your portrayal of

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Clint Flint, the glint in all American private eyes. We'll

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be looking forward to the second act of follow that

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man in just a moment. Right now, however, I like

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all of our audience to join me for a brief

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but very serious message. It's to the men and women

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of the medical profession. As you've dotless heard over the

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year before, your United States Army and your United States

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Air Force need physicians, dentists, nurses, and other medical personnel,

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and as we all know, both services always go all

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out to provide the very highest standards of care. So

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you doctors, dentists, nurses, dietitians, therapists, veterinarians who volunteer now

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will not only receive extra benefits, but at the same

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time will also be serving your country when needed. Most

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write or wire the Surgeon General of the United States

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Army or the Surgeon General of the United States Air Force.

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Speaker 3: In Washington, d C.

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Speaker 4: Today you are listening to proudly we hail and now

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for the second act with your star Lee Tracy, as

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Clint Flint in the proudly we hail production of follow

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that man.

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Speaker 7: Miss McGee is here, mister Flint, All right, Channerin does

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nothing ever?

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Speaker 6: Go home?

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Speaker 5: I don't know she lives here. Sit down, Flam.

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Speaker 7: What's it all about?

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Speaker 5: It's about Ram?

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Speaker 3: Ram? Who your brother?

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Speaker 5: Ram?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 6: That lug?

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Speaker 5: Look here, Flam. You did want me to find him?

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Didn't brace yourself? Flam? I've found your brother?

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Speaker 2: Holy cow?

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Speaker 7: Is he in one piece?

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Speaker 5: More or less? He put up a terrific fight. Didn't

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want to come with me because he was scared, But

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I brought him along anyway. Where you got him in

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that closet?

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Speaker 7: Well, get him out. Let's have a look at him.

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Speaker 5: Sit right where you are, and don't be afraid, afraid

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of what of anything that frightens you. I'll see that

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no harm comes to you.

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Speaker 7: Are you gonna take Ram out of that closet?

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Speaker 5: Patience, my dear? Tie him up and gagging? Now, listen, Ram,

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your sister's here, so you can just relax. Nobody's gonna

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hurt you. Old still, will I cut these cords?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Gag? Okay, fella, come on out and say hello to Flam.

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Where who's that? What your brother, Ram A card That

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ain't my brother, Ram, That ain't anybody's brother. Ram.

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Speaker 7: I'm getting naughty. You awaken a girl.

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Speaker 5: Cut that out.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna have you thrown in jail.

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Speaker 3: I want to cop.

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Speaker 5: What's your name? You pulling down?

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Speaker 6: Let me on me? Sit still?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 5: What's your name?

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Speaker 6: My name is Matt Weavin.

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Speaker 5: Now you let me go quiet down? What were you

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doing out of that racetrack?

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Speaker 6: What was I doing?

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Speaker 5: What was I well?

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Speaker 6: That's where I wait the night watchman.

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Speaker 3: You're lying?

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Speaker 6: You're crazy?

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Speaker 5: Oh don't you ever learn? I don't want to make

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this tough for you, but you're gonna talk if I

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have to choke the life out of here. You understand,

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all right? Now, let's have it from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: When do you want?

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Speaker 5: Where's Ram Maghee? Where is he?

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Speaker 2: How shit?

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Speaker 5: I now?

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Speaker 2: I never heard of him?

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Speaker 3: You let me out here, not till your talk.

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Speaker 2: I ain't done nothing wrong. I don't know know Ram McGee.

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Speaker 1: And when I get out of here, I'm gonna go

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to a company.

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Speaker 2: Have you thrown in jail?

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's the way you want to play ball, Scram,

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but just remember I won't be responsible. You're hiding what

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you know, and when it catches up to you, I

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won't be there to give you a hand. It's too

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big for you to play alone. I could have made

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it worth your while. Now scram get out of here.

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I ever see you around again, I'll forget how my gentleman,

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I sat there alone in the office, going over the

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whole thing from the very beginning. True elements of confusion

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still remain, but I knew with absolute certainty that only

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one made your piece was missing from the puzzle. When

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I had that, I had everything. I knew now where

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I would find it. The risk was doubled, but once committed,

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I could not retreat. L Rookery Charmond was my destination

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once again. I sat in a padded barroom, Streger next

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to me. Haven't I seen you around someplace? Yeah, Streger,

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I guess you have. I knew I couldn't forget a

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face like that. Taunts won't get you anywhere. Streger. You're

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a pretty sharp tomato, but you can play it a

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little bit too close to the back board. I can strega.

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I want you to answer me one question. Where's Ram McGee?

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I don't know where is he? Look, what do you

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got to gain? By clamming up. You play straight with

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me and I'll see that you get a break. Oh

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that's wonderful, lover boy, Why don't you go home to

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I'm trying to be nice about this. I'm sure you are,

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just because you're want to be your back again. I

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get around Nick.

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Speaker 6: Maybe you'd like to go where it's quiet again.

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Speaker 5: That might not be a bad idea this time. I

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think Straga had better come along.

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Speaker 6: Stregga, you come too.

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Speaker 8: We're all going where we can be real nice and quiet.

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Speaker 5: I followed them down the narrow, dimly lit hallway to

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the door mark Private. There was something very familiar about

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the whole scene, but I couldn't quite put my finger

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on it. This I realized it would be for high

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stakes winner take all. It was now or never.

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Speaker 2: I'm right in.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna be quiet in the corner.

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Speaker 3: Is that all right? Now?

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Speaker 5: Sure?

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Speaker 6: You can be quiet any place you want. Can't see Clinton.

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Speaker 5: That'll depend on a lot of things.

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Speaker 6: Excuse me a second. That's a killer. Come on in here, okay, boys, Ah,

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you were saying.

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Speaker 5: Clint, just this, I want you to come around with I.

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Speaker 6: Think you've met Fats and Killer.

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Speaker 5: I've seen him around Hi, sit.

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Speaker 6: Boy, Okay, well.

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Speaker 5: Listening, I don't want to take up too much of

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your time. I I just want the answer to one question.

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Speaker 6: Well, it doesn't seem too hard to take. What's the question?

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Speaker 5: Don't make it difficult for all of us? Where's ram My? Gee?

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Speaker 6: You know I swear you said in that chair and

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asked me that before.

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Speaker 5: Don't hedge. I want it straight. That's the way I

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like it. Well, where is it here? That's more like it.

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Speaker 3: Go on?

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Speaker 5: You know where he is?

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Speaker 8: You killer, Trump double you boys, show mister Flint out.

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Speaker 6: The game's over.

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Speaker 2: They lighted a pleasure.

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Speaker 5: I'll be seeing you any time, boy, anytime at all.

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Speaker 6: Everything on the home.

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Speaker 5: They let me down the narrow dimly let the hallway

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toward a door I knew i'd seen before. They pushed

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me out on the back porch. A long flight of

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wooden stairs dropped away before me to a courtyard filled

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with ash cans. I knew this scene, if only I

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could place it. This was no time for thought, however,

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this was a time to act and fast. I pulled

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back away from them, pure, my arm free from Killer's grasp,

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swung sharply on the balls of my feet, flashed out

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with my right, with everything I had behind it. After

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a while, I pride myself flew from me ash can

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I had somehow become tangled with There was a taste

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of ashes in my mouth, but after I'd spit them out,

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I felt better. I picked up my snap brim hat,

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pulled it low over my eyes. After brushing myself off,

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I limped slowly out to the street. Dawn was just

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beginning to color the sky. A lot had happened this night,

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A lot I'd never forget. It had been a long

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night and a rough one, but everything fitted together, everything

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was in its place. I had the answer at last.

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It was the next morning. I sat in my office,

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looking out at the furnace, waiting for the hands of

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the clock to reach ten. I'd made up my mind

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I wouldn't call her before that. She needed her sleep

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and I needed to do some thinking. The whole thing was,

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in one sense fantastically simple, in another most complex. I

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worked it over in my mind, looking at it from

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all angles. Then it was ten o'clock. I picked up

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the phone, dialed her.

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Speaker 7: Number, Vanillie's Bowling Alley.

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Speaker 5: Lamb hich this this Clinton flam.

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Speaker 7: Oh Clint Good morning, Clint. How are you feeling today?

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Speaker 5: I'll do flam. I got some news for you. I

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don't want you to get excited, but I'm onto something big.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 7: That's well, Clint. I always knew you'd make good. What's

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it all about?

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Speaker 5: I don't think it'll be long before I know exactly

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where your brother is.

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Speaker 7: You want to speak to him?

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Speaker 2: Big to who?

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Speaker 7: My brother Ram? He's right here, showed up bright and

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early this morning.

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Speaker 5: What where was He went down to.

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Speaker 7: Atlantic City for a few days. Said he had a

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nice time too.

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Speaker 5: I knew that was it. If he'd stayed there another day,

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i'd a found him. Sure, what do you want to

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find him for?

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Speaker 7: Clint? When he's right here.

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Speaker 5: Let's put all that behind this flam. We can forget

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if we try hard, we can. What how about lunch?

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We'll talk it over. See.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Clint, I can't. I'm getting married today. How

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about tomorrow?

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Speaker 5: Getting married?

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Speaker 2: Who?

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Speaker 5: Who's a lucky guy?

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Speaker 7: Big Nicked Blatch. I'm gonna be missus, Big Nick. Do

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you know him? He's an awful nice guy.

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Speaker 5: I sat there for a long long time after that,

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seeing nothing, not even the furnace. I felt like I'd

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been hitting the teeth with a lotus cement. Nothing made

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any sense anymore. She'd meant everything, and now she was

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gone out of my life forever. Well, a guy in

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my business should know better. In the fall for a dame,

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I always did learn the hard way, but I knew

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deep down things would never be quite the same. What

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is it, Myrtle is a woman to see you, mister Flint?

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A woman? What does she look like? Sender in sender in.

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Speaker 4: Slee many thanks for making all of his laugh and

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congratulations on being a private eye.

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Speaker 3: You know that Clint Flint was quite a boy.

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Speaker 5: Well, Canna was a lot of fun. But I'm sure

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that all of us realize that the real life private

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eyes do a wonderful job and service. And speaking of service,

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you have a message of real importance.

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Speaker 4: Well, we've had our laugh with Clint Flint, ladies and gentlemen,

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but right now I'd like to get in a few

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serious words. Let's face it, building up the defense of

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our nation isn't an easy job. You can do your

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part by joining the United States Army. For instance, You

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young men can have a choice of several branches if

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you volunteer immediately engineers, armor, infantry, artillery, take your choice.

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Ask your nearest US Army and US Air Force Recruiting

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station for full details. Today this has been another program

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on Proudly we Hail, presented in cooperation with this station

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by your Army and your Air Forcedly we Hail stars

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Lee Tracy. Supporting mister Tracy in the cast were Miriam Wolf,

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Patricia Hustley, Helen Christian, Jo DeSantis, Jack Jason, and Bill Lipton.

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Follow That Man was written by Dewittcup The music was

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composed and conducted by John Guaneri. Proudly we Hail, as

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directed by Charles Wilkes. This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and

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here again is your host and star Lee Tracy.

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Speaker 5: We hope you'll be with us next week for another

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Proudly we Hail presentation. It's entitled Concerto and it's a

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touching romantic story together with some wonderful music.

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Speaker 2: Go bye, welcome back.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: Lee Tracy was doing his best at parodying Sam Spade,

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and I think that there are elements of parody both

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of the radio program as well as the film, particularly

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when he went into that hole tell me the truth thing,

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and she admitted it was eight ten rather than eight o'clock,

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and this was an episode that had some funny moments.

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I thought it was kind of cute when they had

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the bridge game breakout. I do think there's a sense

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in which there really wasn't enough comedic or blot material

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to keep this at a high quality.

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Speaker 2: For a whole half hour.

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Speaker 1: It felt like it could have been a sketch from

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a radio comedy series or even a fifteen minute program

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and held up a bit better, but still I thought

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it was though that had its moments. Now we'll talk

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a little bit about Lee Tracy here. Tracy had a

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fascinating career, beginning on Broadway and then coming into film

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during the pre code era. Probably the greatest recognition of

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his career would come in nineteen sixty five when he

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was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

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for his performance in The Best Man. He also would

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become a radio private eye, although we don't have much

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record of it, as he was actually the last actor

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to play Martin Kin on the radio. He also did

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play him on television, of course, in the fourth season

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of that series, and you can find a few episodes

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with Lee Tracy available, but sadly, as is the case

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with the rest of the Martin Kain Radio cannon, none

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of the radio episode survive. Now it's time to thank

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our Patreon supporter of the day. I want to go

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ahead and think Bruce, Patreon supporter since March of twenty

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twenty four, currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus.

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Speaker 2: Level of four dollars or more per month.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your support, Bruce, and that will

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do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please

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follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure

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to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from.

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We are going on hiatus for the next week. Join

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us for a special week of Encore programs, including a

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series of programs looking at Barton Yarborough, and then we

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will return on Monday, April twentieth with an episode of

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The Saint. In the meantime, do send your comments to

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Box thirteen, Act Great Detectives dot yit, follow us on

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