November 27, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
DBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
A little work, a little play, a sunbeam in a
winter's day. These are all the things I crave. Between
the cradle and the grave. Between the cradle and the
grave is but a moment, a moment in time, the
tiniest tick of eternity. But sometimes there is a moment
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that may last forever.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What do you want, Emily?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know what I want. That's for Tommy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But what can I do for Tommy?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
You can do everything.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I'm doing everything for Tommy. I can't do anymore, and.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You will do you want to destroy me.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
If doing the right thing destroys you, then you're better off.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Debt Our mystery drama Guilty Secret was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Mandel Kramer.
It is sponsored in part by Contact, the Twelve Hour
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Cold Capsule and Greyhound Package Express. I'll be back shortly
with that one. There is an incurable disease that attacks
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so many people in public life. Although it's victims are
found all over the country, by far the greatest number
of those afflicted are concentrated in Washington, DC. We're not
sure if the cause is a bacterium, best.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Cellus or virus.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
In any case, the name for it is irreverently given
as bugus presidentialis. Once written by bugus presidentialis a man
will know neither rest nor peace until he is elected
president of the United States, which accounts for all those
fidgitive people in politics. Well, we're about to observe bugus
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presidentialis in action.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Hello, Senator ahem, Well sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I didn't know you were in town Fluin this morning. Well, well,
what brings you here?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
What brings me to the office of the junior senator
of one of the least popular states of the Union.
You asked the question, you answered, well, do you want
to run for president? Do I what I think you
heard me?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I assume you mean president of the United States. Well,
I'll tell you the truth, Jim, I never thought about it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's not the truth. Everybody thinks about it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, I mean, seriously, So to why.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Melvin Lewis Blaisdell, a fighting district attorney, fine reform governor,
now a quiet competence senator and only forty two years
of age.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I look, Jim, I promised the people of my state
that I'd actively pursue their interests in.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
The Senator, of course, but you would have a higher
duty to the people of your country.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
The parties in trouble, is it?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No? No, we suddenly realize we have a chance to win.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
The other side hasn't really solved the basic problems, the economy,
the environment, and so forth.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, do we have a program that'll solve them?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
No, But it's our turn to holler, turn those rascals out,
and turn these rascals in.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Why me?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
George Hay's and Frank Rodgers are killing each other off?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Now made the best win, But the.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Best man won't win, and he'll drag the other one
down with him.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Surely for the sake of party unity.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What unity?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Hayes and Rogers are having a blood feud.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We need you?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Why me?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's the second time you asked that question. You might
answer it because it's the magical meeting of the man
and the moment.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
What did you say? Hmm?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
What did I say? And it came out of nowhere?
The magical meeting of the man in the moment. That's
our slogan.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But what does it mean, Joe?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Does it matter now?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You're a fresh face, a youthful face. You come from
a one party state, so you never had to slug
it out with the opposition. You never made any real enemies.
The liberals think you're really a liberal. The conservatives think
you're really a conservative.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
What I email?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I dislike labels.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Jim, there, you are everybody's friend.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But it's too late. Why half the primaries are already over.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
They proved absolutely nothing. We've still got five of the
big ones ready and waiting.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But why me, Jim?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You know, I think that'll look good on your tombstone.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look sure, I want it. I've been bitten by the bug.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You know how long ago when I first got into politics,
and you know when that was in third grade, when
I ran for milk monitor.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now I started in kindergarten.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
You're going to make it now.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I want to prepare for it. I want to build
up a record in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
First, you're ready.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Now it's a magical meeting of the so on and
so forth.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Whatever it was I said before.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
We're tired. We the people are tired of the same
machine made candidates. And I tell you, Mili is a
ground swell out there for a true man of the people.
There is letters to the newspapers inquiring about this quiet
but dedicated Senator Blaisdell.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I haven't read any of you.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh, Jim, how do you know that I'll be able?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
We've had a few through private polls taken and your
name headed the list, So, mister abou Bennard, And that's
how it is.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I wonder if I'm really qualified.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No humility is wasted on me.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Do you really think I can get the nomination?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I know you can't, and you're the one who can win,
mister independent, the unbossed candidate. It's the people who nominated you.
Mail all over the country, the plain, ordinary everyday people.
They formed the clubs, They went out and rang the doorbells.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Which reminds me, Jim, money, don't worry about money. Funny,
the time comes when you least expected.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you want to talk it over with Laura?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Laura that's the name of Senator Thompson's wife.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Oh, oh, yeah, yours is Oh we'll wait, wait now,
don't tell me Gloria. Yes, and she's an I said,
pretty enough to turn on the man, and.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Not so beautiful as she turns off the ladies. And
those four.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Good looking kids of yours three, Jim, Well, they're good looking.
I have to see about getting the grounds well started.
Those are the hardest to arrange, the spontaneous ones.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We'll do it, mel Blaisdell.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
His only debt is to the folks who voted for him,
also to those who didn't. Was there ever a man
more generous in victory?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And we'll talk more later in the day. I got
a million wheels to set in motions, Jim.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I can't believe it, believe it. I wonder if I'll
be able to sleep tonight.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
That's one of the things you'll have to give up.
I'll check with you later.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So long mail.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Congratulations, Thanks Jim, don't thank me, thank the people. Oh yes, Jim,
there's just one thing.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It's something we have to talk about just one time
and then we can forget it. Yes, Neil, I want
you to tell me there won't be any surprises, surprises,
and let's say a week before election day, the other
side won't be able to come out with a surprise
surprise surprise we couldn't recover from like they have found
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absolute proof that you were actually Jackie Ripper, nor you
took a million dollars or even fifteen cents from a
utility company or an oil company.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know the kinds of things I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
So are there have to be any surprises? And I
don't answer quickly? Will there be? Can there be any surprises?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, Jim, there won't be any surprises.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Run out street library and the talking.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Hello, Emily, Yes, Emily, it's I know.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Emily. I must talk to you. I thought we agreed
to Emily. I must.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I don't see any reason.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Please, I'll explain.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
What is there to explain?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Please?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
No, the break is clean.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It's final.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Please, Emily, you must talk to me. There is no point, Emily.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I must talk to you for only five minutes, just
five minutes. Now you know that place along route by
ninety five?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Emily, Yes, we can sit in your car. Who do
you followed?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Why would anyone follow me?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm sorry, I'm late. I had to make sure that
I wasn't being followed. Well, Melvin, Melvin, you're the only
person who ever called me Melvin?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Is that why we're here to reminisce? How's the boy fine?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I mean, how's he doing?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He's going to misery school.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Isn't he Yes, that's good, that's that's very good. And
what is the point of all this? Why make it
so hard on yourself and on me?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
After all?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I am is far but we agreed it would be
best all around that fact was forgotten.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I can't be that cold blooded about it.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You're supporting him, and very generously too.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Emily, who knows about the child? You do? I do?
Who else?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Is that what you wanted to ask?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Who else knows that I'm his father?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Only you and I know that?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
How many times have I told I have to be sure?
All right?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I'll tell you again exactly the same. When I found
out I was I went to New York. You know
that I had the baby at a private hospital. When
I came back here, I told everyone who was my
sister's son that she had died in childbirth. Still the
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same story.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
It's just that I have to be certain that no
one else.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
No one doubted me when I told it the first time,
and no one's ever made an issue of it since.
After all, who cares about us? A librarian named Emily Hawkins?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Who you about?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You and me?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Nobody?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Are you bossing?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Melvin I really resent this entire conversation and the people talk.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
There are those girls who like to say, you know
who I've been dating. I am not one of those
girls that nobody knows about it.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Nobody ever knew, and nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Now, Emily, tomorrow morning, you're going to read something in
the paper, a statement by me. Yes, I'm going to
announce that I've been prevailed upon to seek the nomination
for president.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Congratulations. I'll vote for you.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And believe anyone even had the slightest die Melvin.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I told you, nobody knows, nobody will.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Ever know, because you could destroy man.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Why would I want to do that? What I'm saying,
poor Melson, Look, it isn't it if you seduced me.
You know, I was just as willing as you were
more if you want the truth. And then later you
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didn't abandon me. You were even willing to divorce your wife.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I walked out on you. I have no hold on you,
no claim on you.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Millions of people may not take that view of it.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
But millions of people aren't ever going to know about it.
Oh Melson, it wasn't love that brought us together.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It was loneliness. This is a bad town for a
single girl.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And for a married man without his wife, and.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
So we made our mistake.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You're paying for it, Emily.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
You have a child, You're paying even more. You don't
have the baby, same memory, same Melvin.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh, I'm sorry. I don't work out this.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Way, Melvin. We really must never see.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Each other again.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yes, but it's it's okay to deliver the money the
same way though.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
The baby and I don't need that much.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Goodbye, Melton, Emily, Emily, I'm so ashamed of myself for what.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But the way I panicked? You know what I thought?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Tell me I had a crazy idea that you would
try to blackmail me. Now it's the spot that I've
been placed in. You can imagine the crazy things it
does to him.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And this is only the beginning.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
No, I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Now you and I are a closed book, Melvin.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, I'd like to kiss you goodbye for old times sake.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Better not Melvin. You might open the book?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
And how many pages are there in that book? Certainly
a great many interesting ones have already been turned. And
what lies ahead? Surprises we thought there aren't supposed to
be any not much. Well, it's only a short while
you'll act too. Power, said Lord, acton, tends to corrupt,
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no doubt, because power may be looked upon as a disease,
a disease so virulent that not only does its textual
possession corrupt, but even its prospect will corrode. The mere
idea of power changes all the senses in the human body.
Most important, it sharpens the eye. Oh, not the eyes
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in the head, but the eyes in the ego. We
are listening to a political speech. We cannot look back
to the old methods, but we can and must make
sure of the old virtues. Honesty, loyalty, integrity. These are
the basic qualities of the American people, and these must
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be the basic qualities of America's leaders. Thank you, well,
how did I sound?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Glory?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
You are sensational, mel I not, and so are you?
Glory me.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I can't do anything.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Oh, yes, you did. You did?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Sat there?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That is an art and is science.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
To just sit on a platform.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
To sit there and look adoringly.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
As your husband, Well, I do, ad And what don't
we see on your face? Well, I don't know exactly
what he's talking about. Honesty, integrity, loyalty. You're in Melvin,
You're in Jim, was I really effective?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Common?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Mel Why did I tell you about humilody?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Hello, yes, I'm missus blaster hum Oh well, uh, thank you.
My husband's a great fan of yours too. Of course,
I'll let you speak to the senators. That fad of
this continusic stern Jim brab Marlowe.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Good lord, I can't stand at one in gett a war?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Now why do I want to talk to him?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I arrange for him to call you.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Why because he sells millions of records and his name
has the highest recognition factor in the country. Well, look,
no further, that's what's wrong with America. Oh ahead, Meal,
his time is very valuable. Trouble with these so called
singers is that they never blow their noses.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Hello, yes, mister marlow Well, thank you. I'm a great
fan of yours too. Yes, well, it is the truth,
the essential American music.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
You do well, I'd be honored, mister Morrow.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Please you'll have to call me mel Well certainly. Well, look,
when you're in the neighborhood, you must drop in on us. Well,
we're just folks too. I will indeed, yes, and thank
you goodbye. Oh, I think I'm going to be sick.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
What can write?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, you can't cance what old Jim Bob wanted to die?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I can.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, you don't count. You probably put him up to it.
I did.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
You don't know what the coup this is. He wants
to be MC at the inaugural ball, and that's.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Cheap enough for what he You're going to do?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
What is he going to do?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
He's going to write the theme song of the campaign,
the Magical Meeting of the Man in the moment.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You imagine him whining that all over the country.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Oh darling, you're just going to have to pretend you
love it. Jim, I want to tell you about now.
He means what he says now's a very decent guy.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Means you don't have to sell me to Jim.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
When the people sends it. That is why he'll be
nominated and elected. You know, there are men in public
life who brag about their devotion to their wives and
their children. We know it's phony, but not now.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
His wife, his three boys.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Are his world.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We know that too.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
He now looks at fatherhood as a privilege. He just
can't understand how a man can neglect his children, not
to mention abandon them. Now It's just never too busy
for his kids.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
There's always time for a.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Ball game or right or just to sit around. You know,
he's the most unusual find.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I'm getting a headache. I think my halo
is I'm too tired.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
I want Jim to know all about you.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
When Al first came to Washington.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
He wasn't going to interrupt the boys' schooling. He came
here alone, and he lived here alone for a full year.
It was very difficult for Mail to be separated from us.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You know.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
He almost changed his mind about the Senate, but the
boys and I said, you've got to do it.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Because one day we'll all live in the White House
and know it's going to happen.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
No, no, I'm so proud, so proud.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
O my good name.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
You must be senator place to her?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
But your aunt, aren't you? Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I happen to know this.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
You comes You're quite off, and I just can't get
over it.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I mean, an important senator sitting on a park bench.
You you're in charge of.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Those children, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yes, Yes, I'm their nursery school teacher.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
My name is un They're lovely children.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh yes, she Oh, it's such a special age.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Tommy, you mustn't get there during with your shovel.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
She only wants to share.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
He's so cute, but he's going to be a problem.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Oh he realizes she has no daddy like.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
The other kids.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Oh that's too bad, Tommy Hawkins.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Yes, he's an orphan.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
She was adopted by his aunt, lovely woman. She's a library.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Oh, Senator, I know you're going to win.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
He has such blonde hair and such blue eyes.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
You know why, And that's because you just sit here
on a bench like everyone.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Else, smile, can break your heart and just talk.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
About ordinary every day thing.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
But Senator, is something wrong?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh yeah, no, I just something in my eyes here.
Oh we have such a chillful smug. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You it here if you wash your chailfholt.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Oh would you please take me?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I know you're a dress senator. Hey, senator, you know something.
You're going to go all the way.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I'd mortgage the house to bet on it. I've been
pushing the hare for forty five years in this town.
I've seen him come and go. But I by that
you right off the bat. You did when you first
come here must have been nearly four years ago. I
said to myself, this fella's on his way. I was right.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I remember I I'd picked you up a couple of
three times. You'd leave the Center's office building, and where
would you go to some real hot night spot like
a lot of the mother congressmen who were on the town. No, sir, yeah,
I remember where I take you. You do sure to
the library?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
The library.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Yeah, they're run out straight library in the library. That's
why you used to.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Go for a good time.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
All the other guys are calmcatting around. We're here a
man like you, sanity, but while he's in the home
and the family and marriage. Yeah, marriage is taking a
bad business these days, ain't it.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah? Yeah, it's something wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What do you ask?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
What you keep?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Goss?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Can can't you sleep?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Darn? You're shivering?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Gloria, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I realize right now, this very minute, I realize that
I'm going to get the nomination, but.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Obvious right after the California turn.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
What I'm saying is that I realize it for the
first time.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's going to happen to me.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
I'm going to leave that convention as the nominee of the.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Party, of course. Now, of course I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
What's there to be frightened?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Of of course.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I know it's the awesome responsibility, but we bought No
you can do the job.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Frightened, Gloria, what.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Tell me now? Please tell me what I can't now?
Speaker 8 (24:30):
I know that once you become president there'll be certain
secrets you can share with no one, not even me,
at certain times when you'll have to be all alone.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
But surely it hasn't fight.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It yet it now?
Speaker 8 (24:46):
What what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
You're getting dressed to go out? It's this hour where
Please don't ask.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Me, Gloria.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Certainly you can tell me.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Ray one must know about this.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I'll be back very soon. Please tell me, Gloria, Please
don't ask me.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Please Emily.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Now then you know we can't meet each other anymore.
I know even this now tonight, it could be a.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Disaster for you, Emily.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What am I going to do about? What about us?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What is there to do?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Now? You've never told anyone you had ever gone out
with me?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Now then I keep telling you.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Over and how positive there's no way that anyone could
ever know.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Please get hold of you, sir, because.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I've got to do that I've got, Emily, Do you
realize that I've got that nomination sewed up? Everybody knows that,
and the polls say that I can win the election easily,
and you're going to But I have a nightmare, Emily,
a recurring.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Nightmare, shivering till on the heater.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I have the nomination, and I'm running for election, and
I'm ahead, just as the poles say I am.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And then just a.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Week before election day the headlines break but you and
me and Tommy No, then that's how they do it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They'd save it for the final week of the campaign.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That I keep telling you, this is absolutely and.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Miss Night made the newspaper, headlines, for radio, the TV commentators, everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Take shots at me.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I'm the greatest hypocrite whoever ran.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
For the office.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Nobody, No, Lily.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I can't tell you the links to which my opponents
will go to investigate, the depths to which they'll sink.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Have they already found out who they know?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Are they saving it for the last first second?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well? Are they? As you know, all's fair in.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Love and war and of course politics, which is a
combination of both, as the philosophers will tell you, anxiety
is the natural state of man, and so Senator Blasdel
has more than his share. And if you're anxious with
the third act, it shall arrive in just a few moments.
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Is it a mushroom or a toadstool? Is the bite
of the snake harmless or fatal? Are there sharks in
that beautiful lagoon? In the final analysis, the definitive answer
can only be supplied by the one who tastes, the
one who is bitten, or the one who swims. This
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may be finding out the hard way, but what other
way is there to truly acquire wisdom?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Emily, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
What is there that you can do?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Step aside?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
How could you do that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I can simply say I changed my mind about seeking
the office.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Your career would be over if the other side knows
about us.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
My career is over anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
But you can't be sure that.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
They never can't be sure of anything. All I have
is thousands here. I don't know what to think and
me there's no way for anyone to know.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Is that you keep asking and asking.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I'm sure, don't sound.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
You keep hammering at me.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Iman, I just keep reviewing every moment.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I don't see what I walked into the library that evening.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
We never saw each other before.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Started when I asked her about a book no.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
One was close enough to overhear.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I don't know what got into me, what even made
me ask. I just couldn't help myself, and.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I couldn't either.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
We never wend anywhere, not to your place or to mine,
not even to a motel, so there's no desk clerk
who might remember. We just meet here.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Like high school kids.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Never even went to a restaurant. You'd bring dinner here.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
M Chinese food, pizza, and we'd.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Spend the evening off the side of the road, hidden by.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
The trees, a friendly darkness.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
So we were never seen anywhere together.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Now, then what is it you're saying?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I mean, it's just the pressure.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
But you're asking for a job that places is more
pressure on a man than any other position in the world.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Then maybe, yes, now, then you have the intelligence and
the understanding to withstand pressure.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I know, But I am a guilty secret.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Why is it guilty? And for that matter, why must
it be kept secrets?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
What are you saying? Do you mean that you.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Will no, no, never, It's for you to acknowledge this trial.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Maybe that's what's bothering you.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I'd lose the election.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Then you have to decide either withdraw or just put
it out of your mind. Yes, final, and this is
the last time we will ever see each other.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
And as we approach the convention, the conviction is growing
that Senator Melvin Lewis Blaisdell is the choice. Perhaps this
is truly the magical meeting of the man and the moment.
Daily he seems to be gaining in stature. He manifests
the coolness, a calmness, a confidence.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
As you can see now you've got the media nicely
in hand.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, well what do you say?
Speaker 6 (30:48):
What is what I wanted to ask you?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't understand. I mean no.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
And then you you seem to be able to look
on your face.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Why is it signifying a look?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
It's either worried, thoughtful. I don't know way, sol I'm
not aware of it. Glory is concerned.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
She spoke to me.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
He was seen to be having bad dreams. What do
you dream of them?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I don't remember.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Last week she said, you got dressed in the middle
of the night and went out.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Where do you go nowhere?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Scared? Sure, Well, that's only natural. You'll feel better soon.
School's over in a couple more days, and you'll be
able to have the kids campaign with you.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I know I miss him.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Being a good father is also good politics. The photographed grade.
You will have four good looking kids, real boys. What
did you say, I said, Dad, good looking kids? How
many did you say I had? I said I had four? Well,
why did you say I had four boys?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Really?
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I guess I just forgot the last time.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
The day you wanted to know if i'd make the race,
you also said I had four.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Well, no, I just don't remember half the time. Why
did you say I had four?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why are you so excited?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
That's wrung? Look to him? What is it you want?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
What do I want?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yes, all your life you've pulled the strings.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You've been the power behind the party.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
You've always made things happen for other people. What do
you want for yourself? I'm not sure I understand.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I'm sorry. I guess. I guess I'm a little tired.
I don't know what got into me.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Well, don't worry about it. Everybody gets sedgy, nervous, I've
seen campaigns where nobody would talk to each other, and
I had no right not think nothing of it.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Just get yourself a good night's sleep.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
You said that was one of the things I'd have
to give up, remember about to sleep.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
No taxi, No, I don't want a taxi. Yes you do,
Sunday my dollars. You just go on my taxi.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You know why you're going on my taxi? Because I
ain't know where you're going.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
You're going to ringan Oaks Street.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Why would I wanna go to Roanoke.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Street cause you wanna go to the library.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
And why you wanna go to the library?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
That pretty good looking blonde behind the deads.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh you kid, what do you want? What do you want?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
What do you think who wants?
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Oh no, no, it's nothing, it's nothing glory. I forget it,
don't do worry about it.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Just please let me go back to sweet.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Fre Sen.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Who are you, Juniella? I don't know anyone named June Milla.
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
You're shifting the part and look at.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
The children are.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Important sanity and come here.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
To look at the children.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Then I know you weren't looking at the children.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Look at a child, one child.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
It right, I don't know what I am driving?
Speaker 9 (35:00):
He comes here to look at that one little boy,
a little Tommy Hawkin.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
What are you saying? And then I look closely, ascure.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
And closely a little time, and you've got the same hand,
the same mine, the same thing.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
He is your little No, no, do you ben him?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
I know one thing.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I don't want to be mousey.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Jane let up anymore.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
I don't want to waste my luck ending a bunch
of miserable breasts.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
But I know it was a fort choice. To whom
you do I stand it?
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Tell me to whom?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You wake up?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
You're heading a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
You kept shouting what do you want? What did who want?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And fine, I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Show me.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I'll tell you. I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
You're shouting at me.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
I'm sorry, I just can't talk about it.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Ladies and gentlemen, we are here at historic Convention Hall.
The long trail for the nomination has come to an end.
Tomorrow night, the party chooses its candidate Earlier today, I
take an interview with Senator Bladeo. Senator, they say, you
have the nomination in your pocket.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Well, our chances look good.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
The experts say this has been perhaps the most skillfully
managed campaign in history. Would you agree?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I can't imagine how it was managed.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
It just grew. I say what I mean, and I
mean what I say, and what you see is what
there is.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
What you're saying is we won't be in for any.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Surprise, No, no surprises.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I'm here, Melvin, here in my car.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Emily, I told you we can't meet anymore.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I had to see you.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's too dangerous.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
I have secret servicemen around me now. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
What do you want.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Tommy is your son too. I know that your other
boys they'll live in the White House.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Only if I'm elected, they'll be able to say their
father is the president.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
But you're Tommy's father too.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
I know that, but nobody else knows it, and it
isn't see Emily, what can we do?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
You know what it means to be the son of
the president.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
What can we do? Emily?
Speaker 5 (37:38):
I don't want my son to be cheated.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
I know?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I only know. I don't want Tommy to be cheated.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
I've got to get out of here now, then come back,
come back. I got to get away, get away from everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Get it well, Jim, Jim, what are you doing? They
get killed running alone.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
On the highway and I'd get in.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
What he's doing?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
How is Emily?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Emily? And I know all about Emily.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
You knew I always knew about Emily.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
That's why it slipped out. That's why you.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Said, four kids, What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Remember a while ago you asked me what I wanted. Well,
I always wanted to be president of the United States.
But I don't have to look at the personality you
knew about Emily that I can be next best the
man who runs the president. I've got you in.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
My pocket, all right, said Jeon. I'm taking you home.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
What did you call me?
Speaker 6 (38:50):
I I'm sorry. I shouldn't have rupted in.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I won't in the future.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
That's right, you won't, because there is I'm going to
be a future now.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
No, because I'm bowing out.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
You're what you heard me, I'm stepping down.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I don't want to. I heard you, but I don't
believe you. I can't live this way. I don't want it.
I don't want it. I don't want it.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I don't want it now.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
We keep, darling, What is it you keep dreaming about?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
I don't know what issue you don't want I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I don't remember.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Jim, suppose I were to call it off right now?
Call it off?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I suppose I were to say that that I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Well, any man of sense will have to be afraid.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Don't you want to be passive?
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yes, yes, I do?
Speaker 5 (40:03):
How how badly?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
How badly?
Speaker 6 (40:08):
It's funny, it's always put that way.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
How badly? Why not? How goodly?
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Not a time of jokes?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
In less than an hour, you're going to be nominated.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
Now, how much do you want it?
Speaker 6 (40:23):
I want it more than anything in the world.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
And why do you even talk about calling it off?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Gloria Darling?
Speaker 6 (40:32):
You believe in me, no matter what may happen.
Speaker 8 (40:36):
Oh, what can happen?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
What can happen? Maybe? Maybe nothing? Maybe nothing?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Then again, well, every man and woman has a secret,
and in the eyes of the world.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
It could be a guilty secret.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And we live in a world of surprises.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
And if you wait just a few moments, I may
be back with a surprise myself. The awful power of
life and death is held by human hands. Human beings
are strange creatures, which is why it is possible to
write so many stories about them.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
We ourselves can.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Be blamed for much of what happens. Don't we elevate
our leaders because we.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Think they're gods?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
And then when we discover they're as human as we are,
don't we drag them.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
Down to the dust.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
We deal with human beings and all variations thereof right
here seven times each week. Our cast included Mendel Kramer,
lay On, Janny e v Justter and Terry Teene. The
entire production is under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
This is EV G.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
For another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Until next time, Pleasant
DBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
A little work, a little play, a sunbeam in a
winter's day. These are all the things I crave. Between
the cradle and the grave. Between the cradle and the
grave is but a moment, a moment in time, the
tiniest tick of eternity. But sometimes there is a moment
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that may last forever.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What do you want, Emily?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know what I want. That's for Tommy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But what can I do for Tommy?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
You can do everything.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I'm doing everything for Tommy. I can't do anymore, and.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You will do you want to destroy me.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
If doing the right thing destroys you, then you're better off.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Debt Our mystery drama Guilty Secret was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Mandel Kramer.
It is sponsored in part by Contact, the Twelve Hour
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Cold Capsule and Greyhound Package Express. I'll be back shortly
with that one. There is an incurable disease that attacks
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so many people in public life. Although it's victims are
found all over the country, by far the greatest number
of those afflicted are concentrated in Washington, DC. We're not
sure if the cause is a bacterium, best.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Cellus or virus.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
In any case, the name for it is irreverently given
as bugus presidentialis. Once written by bugus presidentialis a man
will know neither rest nor peace until he is elected
president of the United States, which accounts for all those
fidgitive people in politics. Well, we're about to observe bugus
(02:30):
presidentialis in action.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Hello, Senator ahem, Well sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I didn't know you were in town Fluin this morning. Well, well,
what brings you here?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
What brings me to the office of the junior senator
of one of the least popular states of the Union.
You asked the question, you answered, well, do you want
to run for president? Do I what I think you
heard me?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I assume you mean president of the United States. Well,
I'll tell you the truth, Jim, I never thought about it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's not the truth. Everybody thinks about it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, I mean, seriously, So to why.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Melvin Lewis Blaisdell, a fighting district attorney, fine reform governor,
now a quiet competence senator and only forty two years
of age.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I look, Jim, I promised the people of my state
that I'd actively pursue their interests in.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
The Senator, of course, but you would have a higher
duty to the people of your country.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
The parties in trouble, is it?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No? No, we suddenly realize we have a chance to win.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
The other side hasn't really solved the basic problems, the economy,
the environment, and so forth.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, do we have a program that'll solve them?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
No, But it's our turn to holler, turn those rascals out,
and turn these rascals in.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Why me?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
George Hay's and Frank Rodgers are killing each other off?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Now made the best win, But the.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Best man won't win, and he'll drag the other one
down with him.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Surely for the sake of party unity.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What unity?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Hayes and Rogers are having a blood feud.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We need you?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Why me?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's the second time you asked that question. You might
answer it because it's the magical meeting of the man
and the moment.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
What did you say? Hmm?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
What did I say? And it came out of nowhere?
The magical meeting of the man in the moment. That's
our slogan.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But what does it mean, Joe?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Does it matter now?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You're a fresh face, a youthful face. You come from
a one party state, so you never had to slug
it out with the opposition. You never made any real enemies.
The liberals think you're really a liberal. The conservatives think
you're really a conservative.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
What I email?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I dislike labels.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Jim, there, you are everybody's friend.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But it's too late. Why half the primaries are already over.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
They proved absolutely nothing. We've still got five of the
big ones ready and waiting.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But why me, Jim?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You know, I think that'll look good on your tombstone.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look sure, I want it. I've been bitten by the bug.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You know how long ago when I first got into politics,
and you know when that was in third grade, when
I ran for milk monitor.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now I started in kindergarten.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
You're going to make it now.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I want to prepare for it. I want to build
up a record in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
First, you're ready.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Now it's a magical meeting of the so on and
so forth.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Whatever it was I said before.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
We're tired. We the people are tired of the same
machine made candidates. And I tell you, Mili is a
ground swell out there for a true man of the people.
There is letters to the newspapers inquiring about this quiet
but dedicated Senator Blaisdell.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I haven't read any of you.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh, Jim, how do you know that I'll be able?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
We've had a few through private polls taken and your
name headed the list, So, mister abou Bennard, And that's
how it is.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I wonder if I'm really qualified.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No humility is wasted on me.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Do you really think I can get the nomination?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I know you can't, and you're the one who can win,
mister independent, the unbossed candidate. It's the people who nominated you.
Mail all over the country, the plain, ordinary everyday people.
They formed the clubs, They went out and rang the doorbells.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Which reminds me, Jim, money, don't worry about money. Funny,
the time comes when you least expected.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you want to talk it over with Laura?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Laura that's the name of Senator Thompson's wife.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Oh, oh, yeah, yours is Oh we'll wait, wait now,
don't tell me Gloria. Yes, and she's an I said,
pretty enough to turn on the man, and.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Not so beautiful as she turns off the ladies. And
those four.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Good looking kids of yours three, Jim, Well, they're good looking.
I have to see about getting the grounds well started.
Those are the hardest to arrange, the spontaneous ones.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We'll do it, mel Blaisdell.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
His only debt is to the folks who voted for him,
also to those who didn't. Was there ever a man
more generous in victory?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And we'll talk more later in the day. I got
a million wheels to set in motions, Jim.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I can't believe it, believe it. I wonder if I'll
be able to sleep tonight.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
That's one of the things you'll have to give up.
I'll check with you later.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So long mail.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Congratulations, Thanks Jim, don't thank me, thank the people. Oh yes, Jim,
there's just one thing.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It's something we have to talk about just one time
and then we can forget it. Yes, Neil, I want
you to tell me there won't be any surprises, surprises,
and let's say a week before election day, the other
side won't be able to come out with a surprise
surprise surprise we couldn't recover from like they have found
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absolute proof that you were actually Jackie Ripper, nor you
took a million dollars or even fifteen cents from a
utility company or an oil company.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know the kinds of things I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
So are there have to be any surprises? And I
don't answer quickly? Will there be? Can there be any surprises?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, Jim, there won't be any surprises.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Run out street library and the talking.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Hello, Emily, Yes, Emily, it's I know.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Emily. I must talk to you. I thought we agreed
to Emily. I must.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I don't see any reason.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Please, I'll explain.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
What is there to explain?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Please?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
No, the break is clean.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It's final.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Please, Emily, you must talk to me. There is no point, Emily.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I must talk to you for only five minutes, just
five minutes. Now you know that place along route by
ninety five?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Emily, Yes, we can sit in your car. Who do
you followed?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Why would anyone follow me?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm sorry, I'm late. I had to make sure that
I wasn't being followed. Well, Melvin, Melvin, you're the only
person who ever called me Melvin?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Is that why we're here to reminisce? How's the boy fine?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I mean, how's he doing?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He's going to misery school.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Isn't he Yes, that's good, that's that's very good. And
what is the point of all this? Why make it
so hard on yourself and on me?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
After all?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I am is far but we agreed it would be
best all around that fact was forgotten.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I can't be that cold blooded about it.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You're supporting him, and very generously too.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Emily, who knows about the child? You do? I do?
Who else?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Is that what you wanted to ask?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Who else knows that I'm his father?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Only you and I know that?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
How many times have I told I have to be sure?
All right?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I'll tell you again exactly the same. When I found
out I was I went to New York. You know
that I had the baby at a private hospital. When
I came back here, I told everyone who was my
sister's son that she had died in childbirth. Still the
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same story.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
It's just that I have to be certain that no
one else.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
No one doubted me when I told it the first time,
and no one's ever made an issue of it since.
After all, who cares about us? A librarian named Emily Hawkins?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Who you about?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You and me?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Nobody?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Are you bossing?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Melvin I really resent this entire conversation and the people talk.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
There are those girls who like to say, you know
who I've been dating. I am not one of those
girls that nobody knows about it.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Nobody ever knew, and nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Now, Emily, tomorrow morning, you're going to read something in
the paper, a statement by me. Yes, I'm going to
announce that I've been prevailed upon to seek the nomination
for president.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Congratulations. I'll vote for you.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And believe anyone even had the slightest die Melvin.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I told you, nobody knows, nobody will.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Ever know, because you could destroy man.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Why would I want to do that? What I'm saying,
poor Melson, Look, it isn't it if you seduced me.
You know, I was just as willing as you were
more if you want the truth. And then later you
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didn't abandon me. You were even willing to divorce your wife.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I walked out on you. I have no hold on you,
no claim on you.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Millions of people may not take that view of it.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
But millions of people aren't ever going to know about it.
Oh Melson, it wasn't love that brought us together.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It was loneliness. This is a bad town for a
single girl.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And for a married man without his wife, and.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
So we made our mistake.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You're paying for it, Emily.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
You have a child, You're paying even more. You don't
have the baby, same memory, same Melvin.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh, I'm sorry. I don't work out this.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Way, Melvin. We really must never see.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Each other again.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yes, but it's it's okay to deliver the money the
same way though.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
The baby and I don't need that much.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Goodbye, Melton, Emily, Emily, I'm so ashamed of myself for what.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But the way I panicked? You know what I thought?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Tell me I had a crazy idea that you would
try to blackmail me. Now it's the spot that I've
been placed in. You can imagine the crazy things it
does to him.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And this is only the beginning.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
No, I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Now you and I are a closed book, Melvin.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, I'd like to kiss you goodbye for old times sake.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Better not Melvin. You might open the book?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
And how many pages are there in that book? Certainly
a great many interesting ones have already been turned. And
what lies ahead? Surprises we thought there aren't supposed to
be any not much. Well, it's only a short while
you'll act too. Power, said Lord, acton, tends to corrupt,
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no doubt, because power may be looked upon as a disease,
a disease so virulent that not only does its textual
possession corrupt, but even its prospect will corrode. The mere
idea of power changes all the senses in the human body.
Most important, it sharpens the eye. Oh, not the eyes
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in the head, but the eyes in the ego. We
are listening to a political speech. We cannot look back
to the old methods, but we can and must make
sure of the old virtues. Honesty, loyalty, integrity. These are
the basic qualities of the American people, and these must
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be the basic qualities of America's leaders. Thank you, well,
how did I sound?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Glory?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
You are sensational, mel I not, and so are you?
Glory me.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I can't do anything.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Oh, yes, you did. You did?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Sat there?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That is an art and is science.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
To just sit on a platform.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
To sit there and look adoringly.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
As your husband, Well, I do, ad And what don't
we see on your face? Well, I don't know exactly
what he's talking about. Honesty, integrity, loyalty. You're in Melvin,
You're in Jim, was I really effective?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Common?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Mel Why did I tell you about humilody?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Hello, yes, I'm missus blaster hum Oh well, uh, thank you.
My husband's a great fan of yours too. Of course,
I'll let you speak to the senators. That fad of
this continusic stern Jim brab Marlowe.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Good lord, I can't stand at one in gett a war?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Now why do I want to talk to him?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I arrange for him to call you.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Why because he sells millions of records and his name
has the highest recognition factor in the country. Well, look,
no further, that's what's wrong with America. Oh ahead, Meal,
his time is very valuable. Trouble with these so called
singers is that they never blow their noses.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Hello, yes, mister marlow Well, thank you. I'm a great
fan of yours too. Yes, well, it is the truth,
the essential American music.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
You do well, I'd be honored, mister Morrow.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Please you'll have to call me mel Well certainly. Well, look,
when you're in the neighborhood, you must drop in on us. Well,
we're just folks too. I will indeed, yes, and thank
you goodbye. Oh, I think I'm going to be sick.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
What can write?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, you can't cance what old Jim Bob wanted to die?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I can.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, you don't count. You probably put him up to it.
I did.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
You don't know what the coup this is. He wants
to be MC at the inaugural ball, and that's.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Cheap enough for what he You're going to do?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
What is he going to do?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
He's going to write the theme song of the campaign,
the Magical Meeting of the Man in the moment.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You imagine him whining that all over the country.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Oh darling, you're just going to have to pretend you
love it. Jim, I want to tell you about now.
He means what he says now's a very decent guy.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Means you don't have to sell me to Jim.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
When the people sends it. That is why he'll be
nominated and elected. You know, there are men in public
life who brag about their devotion to their wives and
their children. We know it's phony, but not now.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
His wife, his three boys.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Are his world.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We know that too.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
He now looks at fatherhood as a privilege. He just
can't understand how a man can neglect his children, not
to mention abandon them. Now It's just never too busy
for his kids.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
There's always time for a.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Ball game or right or just to sit around. You know,
he's the most unusual find.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I'm getting a headache. I think my halo
is I'm too tired.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
I want Jim to know all about you.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
When Al first came to Washington.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
He wasn't going to interrupt the boys' schooling. He came
here alone, and he lived here alone for a full year.
It was very difficult for Mail to be separated from us.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You know.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
He almost changed his mind about the Senate, but the
boys and I said, you've got to do it.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Because one day we'll all live in the White House
and know it's going to happen.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
No, no, I'm so proud, so proud.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
O my good name.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
You must be senator place to her?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
But your aunt, aren't you? Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I happen to know this.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
You comes You're quite off, and I just can't get
over it.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I mean, an important senator sitting on a park bench.
You you're in charge of.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Those children, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yes, Yes, I'm their nursery school teacher.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
My name is un They're lovely children.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh yes, she Oh, it's such a special age.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Tommy, you mustn't get there during with your shovel.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
She only wants to share.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
He's so cute, but he's going to be a problem.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Oh he realizes she has no daddy like.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
The other kids.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Oh that's too bad, Tommy Hawkins.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Yes, he's an orphan.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
She was adopted by his aunt, lovely woman. She's a library.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Oh, Senator, I know you're going to win.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
He has such blonde hair and such blue eyes.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
You know why, And that's because you just sit here
on a bench like everyone.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Else, smile, can break your heart and just talk.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
About ordinary every day thing.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
But Senator, is something wrong?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh yeah, no, I just something in my eyes here.
Oh we have such a chillful smug. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You it here if you wash your chailfholt.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Oh would you please take me?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I know you're a dress senator. Hey, senator, you know something.
You're going to go all the way.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I'd mortgage the house to bet on it. I've been
pushing the hare for forty five years in this town.
I've seen him come and go. But I by that
you right off the bat. You did when you first
come here must have been nearly four years ago. I
said to myself, this fella's on his way. I was right.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I remember I I'd picked you up a couple of
three times. You'd leave the Center's office building, and where
would you go to some real hot night spot like
a lot of the mother congressmen who were on the town. No, sir, yeah,
I remember where I take you. You do sure to
the library?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
The library.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Yeah, they're run out straight library in the library. That's
why you used to.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Go for a good time.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
All the other guys are calmcatting around. We're here a
man like you, sanity, but while he's in the home
and the family and marriage. Yeah, marriage is taking a
bad business these days, ain't it.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah? Yeah, it's something wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What do you ask?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
What you keep?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Goss?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Can can't you sleep?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Darn? You're shivering?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Gloria, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I realize right now, this very minute, I realize that
I'm going to get the nomination, but.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Obvious right after the California turn.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
What I'm saying is that I realize it for the
first time.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's going to happen to me.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
I'm going to leave that convention as the nominee of the.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Party, of course. Now, of course I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
What's there to be frightened?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Of of course.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I know it's the awesome responsibility, but we bought No
you can do the job.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Frightened, Gloria, what.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Tell me now? Please tell me what I can't now?
Speaker 8 (24:30):
I know that once you become president there'll be certain
secrets you can share with no one, not even me,
at certain times when you'll have to be all alone.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
But surely it hasn't fight.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It yet it now?
Speaker 8 (24:46):
What what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
You're getting dressed to go out? It's this hour where
Please don't ask.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Me, Gloria.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Certainly you can tell me.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Ray one must know about this.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I'll be back very soon. Please tell me, Gloria, Please
don't ask me.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Please Emily.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Now then you know we can't meet each other anymore.
I know even this now tonight, it could be a.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Disaster for you, Emily.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What am I going to do about? What about us?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What is there to do?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Now? You've never told anyone you had ever gone out
with me?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Now then I keep telling you.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Over and how positive there's no way that anyone could
ever know.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Please get hold of you, sir, because.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I've got to do that I've got, Emily, Do you
realize that I've got that nomination sewed up? Everybody knows that,
and the polls say that I can win the election easily,
and you're going to But I have a nightmare, Emily,
a recurring.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Nightmare, shivering till on the heater.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I have the nomination, and I'm running for election, and
I'm ahead, just as the poles say I am.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And then just a.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Week before election day the headlines break but you and
me and Tommy No, then that's how they do it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They'd save it for the final week of the campaign.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That I keep telling you, this is absolutely and.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Miss Night made the newspaper, headlines, for radio, the TV commentators, everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Take shots at me.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I'm the greatest hypocrite whoever ran.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
For the office.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Nobody, No, Lily.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I can't tell you the links to which my opponents
will go to investigate, the depths to which they'll sink.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Have they already found out who they know?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Are they saving it for the last first second?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well? Are they? As you know, all's fair in.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Love and war and of course politics, which is a
combination of both, as the philosophers will tell you, anxiety
is the natural state of man, and so Senator Blasdel
has more than his share. And if you're anxious with
the third act, it shall arrive in just a few moments.
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Is it a mushroom or a toadstool? Is the bite
of the snake harmless or fatal? Are there sharks in
that beautiful lagoon? In the final analysis, the definitive answer
can only be supplied by the one who tastes, the
one who is bitten, or the one who swims. This
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may be finding out the hard way, but what other
way is there to truly acquire wisdom?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Emily, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
What is there that you can do?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Step aside?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
How could you do that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I can simply say I changed my mind about seeking
the office.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Your career would be over if the other side knows
about us.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
My career is over anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
But you can't be sure that.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
They never can't be sure of anything. All I have
is thousands here. I don't know what to think and
me there's no way for anyone to know.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Is that you keep asking and asking.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I'm sure, don't sound.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
You keep hammering at me.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Iman, I just keep reviewing every moment.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I don't see what I walked into the library that evening.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
We never saw each other before.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Started when I asked her about a book no.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
One was close enough to overhear.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I don't know what got into me, what even made
me ask. I just couldn't help myself, and.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I couldn't either.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
We never wend anywhere, not to your place or to mine,
not even to a motel, so there's no desk clerk
who might remember. We just meet here.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Like high school kids.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Never even went to a restaurant. You'd bring dinner here.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
M Chinese food, pizza, and we'd.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Spend the evening off the side of the road, hidden by.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
The trees, a friendly darkness.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
So we were never seen anywhere together.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Now, then what is it you're saying?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I mean, it's just the pressure.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
But you're asking for a job that places is more
pressure on a man than any other position in the world.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Then maybe, yes, now, then you have the intelligence and
the understanding to withstand pressure.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I know, But I am a guilty secret.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Why is it guilty? And for that matter, why must
it be kept secrets?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
What are you saying? Do you mean that you.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Will no, no, never, It's for you to acknowledge this trial.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Maybe that's what's bothering you.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I'd lose the election.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Then you have to decide either withdraw or just put
it out of your mind. Yes, final, and this is
the last time we will ever see each other.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
And as we approach the convention, the conviction is growing
that Senator Melvin Lewis Blaisdell is the choice. Perhaps this
is truly the magical meeting of the man and the moment.
Daily he seems to be gaining in stature. He manifests
the coolness, a calmness, a confidence.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
As you can see now you've got the media nicely
in hand.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, well what do you say?
Speaker 6 (30:48):
What is what I wanted to ask you?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't understand. I mean no.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
And then you you seem to be able to look
on your face.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Why is it signifying a look?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
It's either worried, thoughtful. I don't know way, sol I'm
not aware of it. Glory is concerned.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
She spoke to me.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
He was seen to be having bad dreams. What do
you dream of them?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I don't remember.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Last week she said, you got dressed in the middle
of the night and went out.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Where do you go nowhere?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Scared? Sure, Well, that's only natural. You'll feel better soon.
School's over in a couple more days, and you'll be
able to have the kids campaign with you.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I know I miss him.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Being a good father is also good politics. The photographed grade.
You will have four good looking kids, real boys. What
did you say, I said, Dad, good looking kids? How
many did you say I had? I said I had four? Well,
why did you say I had four boys?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Really?
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I guess I just forgot the last time.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
The day you wanted to know if i'd make the race,
you also said I had four.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Well, no, I just don't remember half the time. Why
did you say I had four?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why are you so excited?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
That's wrung? Look to him? What is it you want?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
What do I want?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yes, all your life you've pulled the strings.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You've been the power behind the party.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
You've always made things happen for other people. What do
you want for yourself? I'm not sure I understand.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I'm sorry. I guess. I guess I'm a little tired.
I don't know what got into me.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Well, don't worry about it. Everybody gets sedgy, nervous, I've
seen campaigns where nobody would talk to each other, and
I had no right not think nothing of it.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Just get yourself a good night's sleep.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
You said that was one of the things I'd have
to give up, remember about to sleep.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
No taxi, No, I don't want a taxi. Yes you do,
Sunday my dollars. You just go on my taxi.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You know why you're going on my taxi? Because I
ain't know where you're going.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
You're going to ringan Oaks Street.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Why would I wanna go to Roanoke.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Street cause you wanna go to the library.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
And why you wanna go to the library?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
That pretty good looking blonde behind the deads.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh you kid, what do you want? What do you want?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
What do you think who wants?
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Oh no, no, it's nothing, it's nothing glory. I forget it,
don't do worry about it.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Just please let me go back to sweet.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Fre Sen.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Who are you, Juniella? I don't know anyone named June Milla.
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
You're shifting the part and look at.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
The children are.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Important sanity and come here.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
To look at the children.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Then I know you weren't looking at the children.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Look at a child, one child.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
It right, I don't know what I am driving?
Speaker 9 (35:00):
He comes here to look at that one little boy,
a little Tommy Hawkin.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
What are you saying? And then I look closely, ascure.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
And closely a little time, and you've got the same hand,
the same mine, the same thing.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
He is your little No, no, do you ben him?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
I know one thing.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I don't want to be mousey.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Jane let up anymore.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
I don't want to waste my luck ending a bunch
of miserable breasts.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
But I know it was a fort choice. To whom
you do I stand it?
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Tell me to whom?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You wake up?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
You're heading a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
You kept shouting what do you want? What did who want?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And fine, I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Show me.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I'll tell you. I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
You're shouting at me.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
I'm sorry, I just can't talk about it.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Ladies and gentlemen, we are here at historic Convention Hall.
The long trail for the nomination has come to an end.
Tomorrow night, the party chooses its candidate Earlier today, I
take an interview with Senator Bladeo. Senator, they say, you
have the nomination in your pocket.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Well, our chances look good.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
The experts say this has been perhaps the most skillfully
managed campaign in history. Would you agree?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I can't imagine how it was managed.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
It just grew. I say what I mean, and I
mean what I say, and what you see is what
there is.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
What you're saying is we won't be in for any.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Surprise, No, no surprises.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I'm here, Melvin, here in my car.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Emily, I told you we can't meet anymore.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I had to see you.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's too dangerous.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
I have secret servicemen around me now. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
What do you want.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Tommy is your son too. I know that your other
boys they'll live in the White House.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Only if I'm elected, they'll be able to say their
father is the president.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
But you're Tommy's father too.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
I know that, but nobody else knows it, and it
isn't see Emily, what can we do?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
You know what it means to be the son of
the president.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
What can we do? Emily?
Speaker 5 (37:38):
I don't want my son to be cheated.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
I know?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I only know. I don't want Tommy to be cheated.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
I've got to get out of here now, then come back,
come back. I got to get away, get away from everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Get it well, Jim, Jim, what are you doing? They
get killed running alone.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
On the highway and I'd get in.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
What he's doing?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
How is Emily?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Emily? And I know all about Emily.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
You knew I always knew about Emily.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
That's why it slipped out. That's why you.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Said, four kids, What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Remember a while ago you asked me what I wanted. Well,
I always wanted to be president of the United States.
But I don't have to look at the personality you
knew about Emily that I can be next best the
man who runs the president. I've got you in.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
My pocket, all right, said Jeon. I'm taking you home.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
What did you call me?
Speaker 6 (38:50):
I I'm sorry. I shouldn't have rupted in.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I won't in the future.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
That's right, you won't, because there is I'm going to
be a future now.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
No, because I'm bowing out.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
You're what you heard me, I'm stepping down.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I don't want to. I heard you, but I don't
believe you. I can't live this way. I don't want it.
I don't want it. I don't want it.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I don't want it now.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
We keep, darling, What is it you keep dreaming about?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
I don't know what issue you don't want I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I don't remember.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Jim, suppose I were to call it off right now?
Call it off?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I suppose I were to say that that I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Well, any man of sense will have to be afraid.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Don't you want to be passive?
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yes, yes, I do?
Speaker 5 (40:03):
How how badly?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
How badly?
Speaker 6 (40:08):
It's funny, it's always put that way.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
How badly? Why not? How goodly?
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Not a time of jokes?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
In less than an hour, you're going to be nominated.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
Now, how much do you want it?
Speaker 6 (40:23):
I want it more than anything in the world.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
And why do you even talk about calling it off?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Gloria Darling?
Speaker 6 (40:32):
You believe in me, no matter what may happen.
Speaker 8 (40:36):
Oh, what can happen?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
What can happen? Maybe? Maybe nothing? Maybe nothing?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Then again, well, every man and woman has a secret,
and in the eyes of the world.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
It could be a guilty secret.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And we live in a world of surprises.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
And if you wait just a few moments, I may
be back with a surprise myself. The awful power of
life and death is held by human hands. Human beings
are strange creatures, which is why it is possible to
write so many stories about them.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
We ourselves can.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Be blamed for much of what happens. Don't we elevate
our leaders because we.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Think they're gods?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
And then when we discover they're as human as we are,
don't we drag them.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
Down to the dust.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
We deal with human beings and all variations thereof right
here seven times each week. Our cast included Mendel Kramer,
lay On, Janny e v Justter and Terry Teene. The
entire production is under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
This is EV G.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
For another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Until next time, Pleasant
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