1 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,679 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:42,439 going to bring you this week's episode of Yours truly 4 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,240 Johnny Dollar. But first I want to encourage you. If 5 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,960 you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 6 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,880 podcast software. And as you're making travel plans, remember Johnny 7 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,520 Dollar air dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot com is 8 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,479 a Priceline affiliate link, so part of your purchase price 9 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,399 support the great Detectives of Old Time Radio at no 10 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:07,480 additional cost to you. But now, from June fifteenth, nineteen 11 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:11,400 fifty eight, here is the delectable damsel matter. 12 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,519 Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now for. 13 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:25,879 Speaker 3: Johnny Dellar, Ralph Single, Johnny Modo Guarantee Insurance Company. 14 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 2: Oh higher rip. How's Hollywood's most eligible bachelor? 15 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 4: Listen? 16 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,519 Speaker 5: Do you know who Hildegard Ransom is? 17 00:01:32,599 --> 00:01:35,159 Speaker 2: Are you kidding that Gal's coming out party hit the 18 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,359 society column of every newspaper in the country. 19 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 4: Yeah? 20 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 6: I know, So how'd you like to have a date 21 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:41,239 with her? 22 00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:44,079 Speaker 2: Hey? Wait a minute, weren't you dating the luscious Hilly 23 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:45,079 Ransom a while back? 24 00:01:45,519 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 7: Hey? 25 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was, but I threw her over. 26 00:01:48,519 --> 00:01:51,719 Speaker 2: Oh riff, You just don't appreciate the finer things of life. 27 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,799 Speaker 3: Oh no, but if you had to put up with 28 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,760 some of her wild ideas or crazy. 29 00:01:56,439 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: At So what what difference does it make? All that beauty, 30 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:00,239 all that money? 31 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,959 Speaker 3: I ask you, you want to date with it at. 32 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:04,959 Speaker 5: Company expense for? 33 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 8: How? 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 5: Why not then grab the first plane you can and 35 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:08,400 fly on out it? 36 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm on my Uh what's the catch? 37 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,759 Speaker 3: Rip, I'll meet you at the Los Angeles International Airport. 38 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:16,039 Speaker 9: Yeah? 39 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,879 Speaker 2: Fine, I suppose you give me some idea. Hmmm, huh huh. 40 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:32,039 Speaker 10: Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with 41 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,360 the Action Packed Expensive Out America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigators. 42 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny 43 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,199 Dollar the Mono Guarantee Insurance Company, Los Angeles Office. Following 44 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,719 is an acount of expense has incurred during my investigation 45 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:10,479 of the delectable Damsel Matter expense account out. I won 46 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,719 one hundred and seven dollars even Hartford to New York 47 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:15,000 and a DC seven main line at the Los Angeles 48 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,039 Single is a good name for Rip. He has a 49 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,879 knack for meeting wealthy, important people, particularly women. Yeah, they 50 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,360 practically swoon under his spell, and he sells them insurance. 51 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,719 I'm not sure I approve his love him and leading tactics, 52 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:33,400 but it's no wonder he knew Hildy Ransom heirs to 53 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,120 a couple of million bucks high Johnny, but he hadn't 54 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,439 told me why he wanted me to meet her, and 55 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,240 I was sure it wasn't just for a date. 56 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,639 Speaker 3: Okay, dreaming, Jenny, h your baggage is right here on 57 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,400 the wreck. Come on, I'll help you put in the car. 58 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 5: And we'll take off. 59 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,639 Speaker 2: Oh hi, rep sure, where's the car. 60 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:51,919 Speaker 5: Over here in the parking lot? 61 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,159 Speaker 3: Hey, what were you dreaming about there at the luggage pickup? 62 00:03:55,199 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 8: Oh? 63 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: Hildy guard Ransom? Who else? And I take if you're 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,680 a little romance with her? The one hit the headlines 65 00:04:00,719 --> 00:04:03,240 a while, bag, it's all over? Oh sure, sure? 66 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: But I got our insurance business, all of it, and Johnny, 67 00:04:07,599 --> 00:04:09,520 if I had to, I could live off the premiums 68 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,560 of that one account. 69 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,719 Speaker 2: Alone, and I must be pretty big, because if I 70 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:16,240 remember the way you live, fancy close, fancy apartment, Well 71 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:16,959 you can't. 72 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 5: Take it with you, boy, Besides, it's all good for 73 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:19,480 my business. 74 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:25,439 Speaker 2: Here we are. Hey, you like this little truck? The 75 00:04:25,519 --> 00:04:27,639 little old truck was a brand new Eldorado B a 76 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,680 Ritz special paint job, gold fittings instead of chrome, every 77 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,639 accessory you can think of, including a bar in the backseat. Yeah, playboy, 78 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,959 party boy, rip single hadn't changed a bit. 79 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 5: And if you make contacts, make him right where the 80 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:42,879 money is. 81 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:46,319 Speaker 3: And if it's a pretty girl that has the money 82 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,759 and you can charm her into your arms, maybe you 83 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:50,160 made us. 84 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, now tell me Rep Johnny. Did you ever 85 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,160 hear a cape star? 86 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 9: Was that? 87 00:04:56,519 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 3: Well, it's an emerald as big as a Robin's egg 88 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:02,319 in a fourteen at mounting, loaded with diamonds and rubies, 89 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:06,759 a brooch value nearly three hundred thousand plans. 90 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 2: That's hilly guide ransom onsen Uh huh? Or did how'd 91 00:05:10,319 --> 00:05:10,759 she lose it? 92 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,759 Speaker 5: Well, all I know is that she called me and 93 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:14,399 she said it was missing, and that she wants me to. 94 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,319 Speaker 3: Go out and have a look out where. Well, I 95 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,240 don't want that wacky dame to get her hands on 96 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,680 me again. You heard of some of her crazy escapades, 97 00:05:22,079 --> 00:05:23,759 like at the time she flooded half of the bell 98 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:24,439 Air estates. 99 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:26,959 Speaker 5: What well, she didn't like the looks of. 100 00:05:26,879 --> 00:05:29,079 Speaker 3: A fire plug on her five acres up there, so 101 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:31,480 she had the gardener plant some dynamite under it. 102 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,879 Speaker 2: Oh, brother, I gotta do something for the laugh, she said, 103 00:05:35,079 --> 00:05:37,160 the old story of the idle rich with too much 104 00:05:37,199 --> 00:05:37,959 time on her hands. 105 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 5: Huh, that's right. 106 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:41,959 Speaker 2: What kind of stuff can lead to trouble sometimes? Or 107 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:42,920 is she ripped? Bell Air? 108 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,959 Speaker 5: Did you say? Well when she's home, which isn't awful? 109 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 7: Right now? 110 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:47,199 Speaker 9: I think? 111 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:48,319 Speaker 2: What the sam? 112 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 7: Hell? 113 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 6: Oh sure, sure? 114 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,439 Speaker 2: All it comforts a home here? Not hello? 115 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:54,079 Speaker 11: All right? 116 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,759 Speaker 10: Just one one too one, that's right, operator Mama. 117 00:05:56,759 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 12: Please I have a call for you. 118 00:05:58,199 --> 00:06:00,319 Speaker 2: Oh thanks, brother. When I get rich and to put 119 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:02,920 a mobile phone in my car, it doesn't cost much as. 120 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 13: A matter of every single Are you coming out here 121 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:05,560 to see. 122 00:06:05,319 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 5: Me or aunt you? 123 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: Oh? Well, now, Hildy, is fifth. 124 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 12: Time I've called and rip. If you don't do something 125 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,160 about my loss of the Cape Star, you call. 126 00:06:13,079 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 5: The police, Well, sure of course. 127 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 13: I might have known you would, so they'll tell the papers. 128 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,360 More publicity for you in that lousy insurance business. 129 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,639 Speaker 3: For Hildy, I always notify the police you know what 130 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:25,240 that means. 131 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 12: It means reporters, photographers, cops, half the town falling all 132 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:29,600 over themselves. 133 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 3: When I get in, you're somebody else. 134 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,639 Speaker 13: And I don't mean the cops. If you don't get out, 135 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:39,839 I'll cancel every policy I have with you. 136 00:06:39,959 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 5: My own. 137 00:06:40,439 --> 00:06:43,399 Speaker 13: The house is the cars, this old tom everything here. 138 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 5: You take this, Johnny Hash sure, Hello, not all? Didn't 139 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:47,720 you hear what I said? 140 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:48,319 Speaker 2: Miss? 141 00:06:48,439 --> 00:06:49,959 Speaker 1: Uh? 142 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 14: What sad? 143 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar? 144 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,959 Speaker 12: Johnny, So we got you. Well, now we'll have some 145 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,839 actions because you'll come out here away, won't you. 146 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 2: Well, that depends. 147 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 12: I don't know what to do. 148 00:07:04,319 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 13: James Starr, Emerald gone and Rip so busy can't leave 149 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:13,199 his office. Johnny, you have to complete Well, look. 150 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 12: I knew you would, honey, and I'll be waiting for you, 151 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:16,959 Rip con tell you how to get here. 152 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:17,879 Speaker 1: Good bye? 153 00:07:19,279 --> 00:07:23,639 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, don't be fool Johnny. 154 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,759 Speaker 5: She really is that charming when she wants to be. 155 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: Okay, Rip take me to her. 156 00:07:28,959 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 5: Uh not quite. 157 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,519 Speaker 3: That old tub she mentioned is our one hundred and 158 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:35,480 sixty five foot diesel yacht. Why and near as I 159 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,040 can guess, it's about four score and seventy miles off shore. 160 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 2: Do you expect me to walk. 161 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,279 Speaker 5: Oh, she also has a cruiser, a fifty eight footer 162 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:44,160 parked down at Balboa. You can go in that. 163 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,759 Speaker 2: And you had better swing around, brother, we're driving north. 164 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: Oh, there's a private airport up here, off to the 165 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,639 pub of Boulevard where I keep my plane. 166 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,439 Speaker 2: Your own plane, sure, holy smokeing. 167 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,319 Speaker 10: Act two of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment, 168 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,160 our flag. 169 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 4: Now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there stands 170 00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:16,879 yet another flag representing one of the fifty states. Mississippi's 171 00:08:16,879 --> 00:08:21,439 state flag is a horizontal tricolor blue, white and red. 172 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 6: In the upper corner on. 173 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:25,439 Speaker 4: A field of red is the blue cross of Saint 174 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,879 Andrew bearing thirteen white stars for the original states of 175 00:08:29,879 --> 00:08:33,320 the Union. This cross, made in the form of an 176 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,759 X or saltier, was adopted from the national flag of Scotland. 177 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:41,279 It is also found on the state flags of Georgia 178 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:46,639 and Alabama. Mississippi state flag, the flag of the twentieth 179 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,879 state to enter the Union, was adopted on February seventh, 180 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:51,480 eighteen hundred and ninety four. 181 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 10: And now Act two of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and 182 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,320 the Delectable Damsel matter. 183 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 2: During the ride from Los Angeles to Balboa and rip 184 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:07,039 Single's private plane. He admitted to me that he hadn't 185 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,080 made all his money in the insurance business. Seems a 186 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:14,320 rich uncle had conveniently died some years before Lucky Stiff 187 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,159 a rip. 188 00:09:15,279 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 3: I mean, look, all I know, Johnny, is that Hildy 189 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:24,200 took the Cape Star Emil along with her on this 190 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,120 yachting trip, and. 191 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:25,639 Speaker 5: Now it's gone. 192 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:26,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, how much of a trip. 193 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 7: Oh? 194 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:28,879 Speaker 5: Lord knows where she's been. 195 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,519 Speaker 3: She said, she might have en up in China, the Philippines, 196 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,120 most anywhere. You see, she has the money, she has 197 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:37,559 the time. She's done everything under the sun that normal 198 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,360 people do. So now she keeps looking for the unusual, 199 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:41,919 anything for through. 200 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, when did she discover the stone was missing? 201 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,240 She radioed to me today from out on the high seat. 202 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 5: Yeah. 203 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 3: She says she was certain she had it the day 204 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,000 before that because she warned, and then when she went 205 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:53,519 to look for it, it was gone. 206 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: Some remember the crudeut pots. 207 00:09:55,759 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 5: I don't know. Maybe she dropped it. 208 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 2: Overboard, you mean, purposely to collect the insuran. Who knows. Oh, look, 209 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,000 she has so much money, who knows. Maybe maybe she 210 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:05,960 hasn't lost it at all. 211 00:10:06,039 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 5: She just wants company. 212 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,919 Speaker 3: Oh look, there's Newport and Balboa down below. I'll circle 213 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,080 Hildy's little summer house before we land. 214 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:21,639 Speaker 2: Hildy Ransom's little summer house turned out to be a 215 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:24,240 mansion right on the waterfront, and tied up to the 216 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:26,919 long dock was not only the cruiser, but a snappy 217 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,919 little speedboat, a small sailboat and a couple of out boards. 218 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,600 Oh very nice, Not so, the skipper of the cruiser. No, 219 00:10:33,919 --> 00:10:35,639 my order is the last time I spoke to the 220 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:37,960 Hill tomorrow were to take you out to a mister 221 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,120 single nobody else. 222 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,399 Speaker 3: Look, we just talked him as Ransom by radio, and 223 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,240 she wants you to take mister dollarant that. 224 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,799 Speaker 2: And I tell you my last daughter, what cat your 225 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,080 last order? Hey look, hey, wait a minute, please, Skipper, 226 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,559 have you got a radio on this cruiser? All right, 227 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,080 then make contact with the Hill tomorrow find out for yourself. Okay, 228 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:56,720 I'll do it at the same time. You can get 229 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,519 a position. Okay, we'll see. 230 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:05,279 Speaker 3: Well, give dear hildem my love or whatever else you 231 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,759 can think of, anything that will keep her from switching 232 00:11:07,759 --> 00:11:08,919 her insurance to somebody else. 233 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 2: You are allow, Serence. 234 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:13,919 Speaker 9: You don't like you did. 235 00:11:14,159 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: No, were you ever really serious with her rip? 236 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure, but I'm just not the marrying kid. 237 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,480 So Johnny, the field is clear for you. And if 238 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,399 you want to latch on to a few million bucks, 239 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:32,080 she's really mighty sweet attractive gal. Well, let me know 240 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:36,360 how you make out, Johnny, and please find that Emerald. 241 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,639 Speaker 9: I beg your pardon, sir. 242 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're ready to say or whenever the gentleman's ready. 243 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: Okay, skipper, let's go. The Closer turned out to be 244 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,120 a dilly luxury from Stemda Stern, and the trip out 245 00:11:53,159 --> 00:11:56,000 to the Hildemora took much longer than I expected, in 246 00:11:56,039 --> 00:11:58,000 spite of the powerful engines that sent us through the 247 00:11:58,039 --> 00:12:00,559 water at over eighteen knots. It was well after dawn 248 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,039 the next morning we hold too alongside the Hill of Morning, 249 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,159 and that one hundred and sixty five foot diesel yacht 250 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,679 made the cruis. It looked like a broken down robot. 251 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:15,679 As for Hildy Ransom five foot six or seven. She 252 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:19,720 was blonde, and she was beautiful, with quick blue eyes 253 00:12:19,799 --> 00:12:23,879 that had fun and laughter sparkling at it and a figure. 254 00:12:27,879 --> 00:12:31,039 Speaker 11: Well, come on, Johnny, come aboard, and Madi you give 255 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,279 your grover around in case you forgotta wants to go 256 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:34,080 ashore again. 257 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,039 Speaker 13: Hi, Johnny, welcome aboard the old tub. 258 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 2: You call this floating promis a tub well. 259 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 11: After the holes, but got shot into it, so wonder 260 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,360 we're still afloat. 261 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:45,279 Speaker 2: You've been shot in? 262 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:47,919 Speaker 11: Oh, for mosta on the China coast, we had a 263 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,200 bar for a while. I thought some of the Red 264 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,960 aircraft were going to strap us one night old, but 265 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:55,200 it got too dark for them, and the captain, the 266 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,720 old fuddy duddy, turned off all our running lights and 267 00:12:57,759 --> 00:12:58,399 we headed out to. 268 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,639 Speaker 2: See you again under the sun. You're doing off the 269 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:02,080 China Coastmas. 270 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 11: Ransom, Hildy, Oh, just finding out what goes on in 271 00:13:06,039 --> 00:13:06,399 the world. 272 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 13: You know what I really wanted to do. 273 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,519 Speaker 11: Why they have visited Joe in lie the Red General 274 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,600 why not? But they wouldn't let us ashore along enough 275 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:19,080 without a lot of fuss and bother. So now let's 276 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,000 go in to my quarters and talk about the kpstock. Yeah, okay, 277 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,080 I could kill that Rip single for not coming out here. 278 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:30,639 Speaker 13: But I'm so glad you could. Oh you're even better 279 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:31,720 looking than i'd heard. 280 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 2: Ah. 281 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 13: Are you as much of a wolf as Rip says 282 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:36,279 you are. 283 00:13:36,879 --> 00:13:39,039 Speaker 2: Oh well, no, wait a minute, eh. 284 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 11: I'll find out for myself. Might be fun finding out Johnny. 285 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: For a minute, I began to wonder, maybe Rip wasn't 286 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,039 the only one in this affair who turned on the 287 00:13:53,159 --> 00:13:56,559 charm to further his own ends. Hildy Ransom, Let's face, 288 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,240 it was wealthy there to well, who'll do anything for thrill? 289 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,240 Couple her with a character like riff single, yeah, I wondered. 290 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,799 But then walking along the deck with her, I saw 291 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:11,080 something that suddenly changed my mind. One of the crew 292 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:14,000 who ducked into a doorway when he spotted me who 293 00:14:14,039 --> 00:14:17,320 I wasn't sure, but I had a sudden metal image 294 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,480 of his eyes somewhere in the past, looking at me 295 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:21,600 over the sights of a gun. 296 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,519 Speaker 10: Act three. If yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment. 297 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,759 Speaker 8: Let me ask you a question. What is the most 298 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:34,480 important thing to a fighting man? 299 00:14:35,159 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: His gun? 300 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:39,279 Speaker 8: You may answer, You might also answer the Code of 301 00:14:39,399 --> 00:14:41,759 conduct of the men of the Armed Forces of the 302 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,679 United States, because you know it is something just as 303 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:48,879 necessary to the fighting man as his gun. And just 304 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:51,200 as he keeps his gun cleaned and oil because his 305 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,559 life may depend on it, so does he keep ever 306 00:14:53,679 --> 00:14:57,039 forward in his mind his code of conduct, because his 307 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:00,960 life and honor depend on it. Part of the code 308 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,600 reads quote, I will never surrender of my own free will. 309 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:08,159 If in command, I will never surrender my men while 310 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,679 they still have means to resist unquote. During the bloody 311 00:15:12,679 --> 00:15:15,320 and costly campaign on the Island of Saipan and World 312 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,279 War II, the code of the soldier meant something to 313 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,720 the men, and to one man in particular, essentially a quiet, 314 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:25,879 peace loving man. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, while with a 315 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,120 hundred fifth Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, was 316 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,039 up against it one night in nineteen forty four when 317 00:15:32,039 --> 00:15:34,799 the enemy launched an attack which called for them to 318 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,919 die in honor. Sergeant Baker proved a good work both ways. 319 00:15:40,159 --> 00:15:43,240 The enemy attack fell like a saber blow and continually 320 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,080 hurled Baker's company back with each savage thrust. During the 321 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,639 ensuing days of action, Baker wiped out an enemy position 322 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:53,799 with a Bezuokah, killed fourteen of the enemy in a 323 00:15:53,799 --> 00:15:56,200 machine gun ambush using only his M one rifle and 324 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,320 a couple of grenades, and then killed six more a 325 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,279 little farther on in a last ditch stand. One night 326 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:06,600 the company dug in to withstand the next furious assault 327 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:09,240 in the dark. As the enemy rolled over them in 328 00:16:09,279 --> 00:16:13,200 a thunderous attack of firepower, Sergeant Baker suffered a mangled 329 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,639 leg from a grenade. Shooting and clubbing the enemy with 330 00:16:16,679 --> 00:16:19,559 his rifle, he dragged himself out of the foxhole. Three 331 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,440 of his men tried to give him aid. Two of 332 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,639 them were shot. From the third man, Baker got a 333 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:28,120 cigarette and the pistol and told him to leave. As 334 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,279 the rest of the company moved back, Baker propped himself 335 00:16:31,279 --> 00:16:34,799 against a telephone pole, calmly puffed on his cigarette and 336 00:16:34,919 --> 00:16:38,759 blazed away with his automatic. He was later found in 337 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:41,879 that position with eight of the enemy dead around him, 338 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,080 one for each shot, and the empty gun in his 339 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:49,279 lifeless hand. Sergeant Baker didn't consider the medal of honor 340 00:16:49,399 --> 00:16:52,960 he might get. He considered the job that had to 341 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,919 be done. His honor was at stake. Surrender wasn't in 342 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,080 his code of conduct. 343 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 10: Now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the 344 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:04,960 delectable Damsel matter. 345 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:17,519 Speaker 11: I suppose I could have waited till we got in 346 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,319 to report the loss of the Emerald. Just sit down, Johnny, 347 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:21,599 and I'll have some drinks brought in. 348 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,039 Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, I'll listen. 349 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 11: Because of where we've been on this trip, we'll have 350 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,440 to go through customs and there'll be the police and 351 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,319 the reporters and so on, and whoever took the Cape 352 00:17:31,319 --> 00:17:32,759 Star might have a chance to do. 353 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 9: Well. 354 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 2: What's the matter that drawer where. 355 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 13: I kept it? 356 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 11: I'm sure I left that closed after I'd hunted for it. 357 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,839 And excuse me, Johnny. 358 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,279 Speaker 13: Yeah, look, look it's here, the Cape Star. It's back. 359 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 2: You're sure, yes, of course, here, look at it, and 360 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,319 you're sure it wasn't there before. 361 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 13: Of course I am. I turned this cabin upside down. 362 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 2: Hildy. This isn't some kind of a gag, isn't it? 363 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,359 What I mean? You're having me come all the way 364 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,960 out here to find something that wasn't lost after all? 365 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 13: Johnny, Oh, Johnny, how can you say such a thing? 366 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:15,319 Of course not. 367 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,759 Speaker 11: Now that you are here and the Star is safe 368 00:18:20,759 --> 00:18:25,200 and sound, I think we'll have fun together, Hildy. I've 369 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,160 got so tired of the other guests I have on board, 370 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,440 and stuffy old Professor Randolph and he's boring wife, and 371 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:34,440 Jolly Burton and that girl he's always pawning over. 372 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 2: The cape Star was actually missing. 373 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 13: I swear it, Johnny. 374 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: All right, then, I still have a job to do. 375 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:44,440 I want to meet these guests of yours. Also. I 376 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:45,200 want to talk to the. 377 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 13: Crew, of course, John. But later I'll have some drinks 378 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,319 brought in and plan. 379 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,759 Speaker 11: I saw the ball between now and when we put 380 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:55,279 onto port. 381 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:01,599 Speaker 13: Yes, Miss Ransom, Yes, captain. 382 00:19:02,039 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 6: One of the men one of the crew names McCarty. 383 00:19:05,759 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 2: It looked like appendicitist, ma'am, and I took the liberty 384 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,359 of sending him ashore in the cruiser. 385 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,279 Speaker 6: It'll get there long before weekend. 386 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:13,559 Speaker 13: Of course, Captain, you've done exactly right. 387 00:19:13,599 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 2: Why mite, I'm not so sure that. Hi, Johnny mccartty, huh, 388 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:19,599 short dark with a scar on his chin. 389 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 6: Yes, sir, they've already left. 390 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 2: What Yes, tender one, That McCatty is the man I want, 391 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:30,400 john Nellie, we got to stop. A radio called at 392 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,680 the cruiser brought no response, and I had a sneaking 393 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,759 suspicion the skipper of it had a gun in his back, 394 00:19:34,799 --> 00:19:37,920 a gun held by the supposedly sick McCarty, and the 395 00:19:38,039 --> 00:19:40,240 yacht to spider size and power could never catch up 396 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:42,640 with that cruiser in a thousand years. If you're right, 397 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,920 mister Dollar, we'll radio to the coast guard. He intercepted it, 398 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,160 but I couldn't be sure that I was right. And 399 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,519 then I noticed the speedboat slung between debits on the 400 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:50,319 yachts after deck. 401 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 13: Of course, John, and I'll go after them with you. 402 00:19:52,799 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: Oh no, you want? 403 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 11: Yes? 404 00:19:54,079 --> 00:19:55,519 Speaker 13: The kid com please no? 405 00:19:58,839 --> 00:20:01,599 Speaker 2: Then sixth sake ten minutes later, however long it took 406 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,799 to get the speedboat overside, the first mate and I 407 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,920 were tearing across the ocean in pursuit of the cruiser. 408 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:09,759 Speaker 15: That cruiser will do an even twenty knots if he 409 00:20:09,799 --> 00:20:12,160 opens her wife, mister dollar, but she's no match for 410 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,319 this baby, and pour it on. Come on, you see him? Yeah, sure, dude, 411 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,160 get ahead, Yeah yeah, I see him too. But where's 412 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,440 a snipper. McCarty's up in the bridge a load. 413 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 5: He look out that pump of smoke. 414 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:23,559 Speaker 2: He' shooting at us. 415 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 15: And hang on, I'm gonna stir around. But he never 416 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:27,920 hit us at this range anyhow, hay out low. 417 00:20:28,079 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 5: He might get lucky. 418 00:20:29,039 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 15: You got a gun to answer him. 419 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 4: No, it was a very crystoe. 420 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 15: Use it for shooting up the steps players. Where is 421 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,440 it this cabinet under the dash? 422 00:20:37,599 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 5: You see it? 423 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 2: Yeah right, it's no match for a thirty eight. 424 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 15: But if you can swerve us in close enough, keep 425 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,400 swerving right, Hey, look having to ring load and get 426 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:47,880 us in there. 427 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:48,319 Speaker 9: Crass. 428 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 5: Here we go. 429 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 3: We'll let him have it. 430 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,039 Speaker 4: Let him have it. 431 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 15: Yeah, you're good him, You got him. 432 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 7: Come on, give mean not the law here right here? 433 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:01,440 Watch him. 434 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:04,559 Speaker 2: Huh he's taking courts. Hey, you're right, but good. 435 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:05,599 Speaker 5: He's turning, he's. 436 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 4: Turning it on. 437 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,279 Speaker 2: I kind of pieced things together after the yacht, the 438 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,559 Hildemara picked us up. My sheer luck, my shot with 439 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,839 a flare gun had struck mccartty full on. He was 440 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,599 badly burned. And after the smash up, the mate had 441 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,960 pulled me out of the drink. By then the yacht caught. 442 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 4: Up with us. 443 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,799 Speaker 13: And did you know what he was doing, Johnny, that 444 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,680 man who called himself McCarty a oh hi hi healthy, 445 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,640 smuggling narcotics that he picked up in China. He knew 446 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,519 he'd never get through customs when we came to. 447 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 11: Port, so he stole the Cape Star just long enough 448 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,079 to make sure the cruiser would come out to us. 449 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 13: He knew I'd sent for somebody. 450 00:21:55,759 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I get it. Then he played sick to 451 00:21:58,319 --> 00:22:00,920 go back on the cruiser that way avoid customs and 452 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:01,359 the police. 453 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:02,839 Speaker 13: Yeah, Tony, or is he now? 454 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:05,799 Speaker 11: Hellow locked up? After the way you hit him with 455 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:12,200 that player. Well now he is sick, don it. We 456 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:16,160 didn't have to get him into a doctor. Gee, Johnny, 457 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,759 you and I could cruise around and. 458 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:25,559 Speaker 13: Well it will be two or three days before we 459 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:26,240 get support. 460 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 2: Three days and what are three days? But oh well, 461 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,960 expensive count total including transportation back to high for two 462 00:22:43,039 --> 00:22:47,960 hundred and thirty dollars. Ether remarks. It's funny, isn't he. 463 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:50,519 You never know what you're going to get into when 464 00:22:50,559 --> 00:22:53,359 you take on even the most routine kind of case. 465 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,279 Yours truly, Johnny dog. 466 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 7: Our star will return it in just a moment. 467 00:23:12,039 --> 00:23:15,799 Speaker 9: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star 468 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,960 there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states. 469 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,240 Iowa's state flag was adopted from a design made during 470 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,200 World War One for use by the state regiments. An 471 00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:31,839 eagle stands on a field of white with wings outspread, 472 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:35,240 in the manner used by the American Indians to signify 473 00:23:35,519 --> 00:23:39,440 speed and wisdom. In his beak is a blue streamer 474 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,200 inscribed with the state's motto our liberties we prize and 475 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,920 our rights We will maintain. Iowa's state flag, the flag 476 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,519 of the twenty ninth state to enter the Union, was 477 00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:54,240 adopted on March twenty ninth, nineteen twenty one. 478 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 2: And now here's our star to tell you about next 479 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,039 week's story. Next week. Well, the case is called the 480 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,759 Virtuous Mobster Matter. And if you can't figure what that means, 481 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,160 well join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 482 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,039 Speaker 7: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 483 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,519 Speaker 10: Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is produced and 484 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:31,400 directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story. Heard 485 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,039 in our cast where Virginia Gregg, Jat Stratton, Barney Phillips, 486 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,440 Jack Moyles, and Frank Gerstall. Be sure to join us 487 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,119 next week, same time and stationed or another exciting story 488 00:24:42,519 --> 00:25:13,240 of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is the United States 489 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,759 Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 490 00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, just as a general rule, if you 491 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,079 bark at a woman during narration, you probably shouldn't give 492 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,319 her a hay Now if she suggests you're a wolf, 493 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,759 I gotta say that that rip guy was a bit 494 00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:25,079 of a trip. I mean, just so much luxury, his 495 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,200 own private plane. And can you imagine this guy had 496 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,960 a phone in his car. Can you imagine going around 497 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:34,079 everywhere with. 498 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 5: A phone. 499 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,559 Speaker 1: In all series? And this is one of the earlier 500 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:44,680 portrayals of the car phone that I've encountered. Now. Of course, 501 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,559 a lot of the smart private detectives would have them 502 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,759 on television in the nineteen sixties, not really notable at all. 503 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,640 And then of course you had in the seventies mister 504 00:26:55,799 --> 00:27:00,480 Frank Cannon played by the great William Conrad, who had 505 00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:03,240 that as a standard part of his equipment. And I 506 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,920 think that was throughout the entire run of that series. 507 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,039 All right, well, listener comments and feedback now, and we 508 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:15,000 start out over on Instagram where Brains Benton wrote, just 509 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,759 finished listening to the Road to the Valentine Matter. What 510 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,480 a fun ride. I really enjoyed seeing how the same 511 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,799 story could be told in so many different ways. Jeff 512 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,319 Reagan's version was classic, hard boiled, straight forward and gritty, 513 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,000 not be leaning into the melodrama in the best way, 514 00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:39,519 and William Conrad's performance was a standout lunch dollar didn't 515 00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:42,680 quite land for me, maybe because the Gangster's already dead 516 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:47,000 when it starts, or maybe because Lunch Johnny can't help 517 00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:51,440 but pale next to Bailey's. The Valentine Matter was a treat. 518 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:54,359 As a serial with five episodes, the characters had room 519 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,839 to breathe and grow. Maybe an unfair advantage when trying 520 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,359 to pick a fave, but it may for rich listening experience. 521 00:28:01,839 --> 00:28:05,400 Thanks for putting this together. It was such an interesting 522 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:12,079 way to explore storytelling across formats and voices. Well, thank 523 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:16,160 you so much. Appreciate the comment, Brains. Then we turned 524 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,759 to YouTube, where James wrote, regarding the episode The Midnight 525 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,400 Sun Matter, what an excellent episode, perhaps the most thrilling 526 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:27,319 one I've heard yet. Johnstone did a great job of 527 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,599 keeping the listener at the edge of the seat. Thanks 528 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,200 for all you do, Adam, and thank you. And then 529 00:28:35,079 --> 00:28:38,680 one comment here, this one regarding the Falcon episode The 530 00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:43,279 Case of the Snappy Snapshot? Ron wrote, do you think 531 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:46,480 I could still send for the Baseball Book? Well, Ryan, sir, 532 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,079 you can try, and I will admit that I've had 533 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,759 moments listening to various old time radio programs hearing the 534 00:28:55,839 --> 00:29:00,519 promotion and you just need to send in the stamp request. 535 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,319 I've thought, yeah, that's pretty good. I wish I could 536 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,240 do that. And I'll be honest that I think that 537 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,920 if I was ever given a chance to time travel, 538 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,759 I would probably waste it messing around with whole time 539 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,119 radio stuff. I'm going to get things set up so 540 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:23,759 I can finally get those Superman pens. I really want 541 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:30,039 those things and without paying seventy dollars on eBay. Thanks 542 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:33,519 so much, Ryan, sir. And now it is time to 543 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,920 thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want 544 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,759 to go ahead and thank Ronda, as this is our 545 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,319 first Friday in October. Ronda has been one of our 546 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,519 Patreon supporters since October twenty twenty, and again, thank you 547 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,519 so much for your support over the last five years. 548 00:29:54,759 --> 00:29:58,039 Really appreciate it, Ronda. And that will do it for today. 549 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,200 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 550 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,839 favorite podcast software and be sure and rate and review 551 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,920 the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back 552 00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:12,960 next Friday with another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. 553 00:30:13,039 --> 00:30:16,839 But join us back here tomorrow for Great Adventurers of 554 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,799 Old Time Radio and Cloak and Dagger, where Santa Lu, 555 00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:24,480 What do you say, Saint. 556 00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 14: Tong Kiang's wild donkeys as good black animals as other 557 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,920 white man has. What's he talking about? What other white men? Asking? 558 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:44,000 Acquired Lasa? Strangers leave here two days ago and way 559 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:51,720 also to Holy City of Russia were batch which crooked cross. 560 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 2: So natzis we're in a race. Ester, We've got to 561 00:30:55,799 --> 00:30:57,160 reach Lasa before they do. 562 00:30:57,599 --> 00:30:59,839 Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send 563 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,480 you comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. 564 00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:08,279 Follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives. Check us out on Instagram, Instagram, 565 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,279 dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is 566 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:14,359 your host, Adam Graham signing off.