March 7, 2026 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Vs. Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'd rather be handsome than homely. I'd rather be youthful
than old. If i can't have a bushel of silver,
I'll do with a barrel of gold. So said a
gentleman named James wrote, And who is to say that
he has not expressed the basic philosophy of mankind?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Or put it this way?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
As we're about to do take the cash and let
the credit go.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You're saying we should commit a robbery.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Julie, Yes, Chris, Now, I was pretty definite and specific.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I thought, is this why we went to college?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Obviously we didn't learn how to make a living there,
But Julie, we did learn how to study. And Chris,
I have really given careful thought and study to how
this can be done.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Our mystery drama, The Big ten Cent Hustle, was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Earl Hammond. It is sponsored in part by True Value
Hardware Stores and the Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with that one. Would you buy any chance happen
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to remember the clarion call of the Barker chep right up,
ladies and gentlemen, I'm for ten cents, one dime and
five a dollar. Oh yes, And for that ten cent
piece there was a promise of delights far beyond your
wildest expectations. In those days, the dime with a coin
of substance, a piece of money to be taken seriously. Well,
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while we cannot turn back the clock, it is possible
now and then, here and there to find a dime
that's worth far more than its face value. And such
a one is the double thirty four. And what is
the double thirty four? Well, why not let it tell
its own story? That's right, We're to have a story
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told by a dime, as if that inanimate piece of
metal could actually think and speak.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Why not listen?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I was bored? Or would you prefer?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I said, mate?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So how about mint?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
In nineteen thirty four, I was one of oh, I
don't know, thirty forty million. We all looked exactly alike.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We were called Mercury.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Dies because everybody thought our face was that of the
ancient Greek god Mercury wearing a winged helmet.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It was just the goddess Liberty. We all wore that face,
plus the word liberty and the motto in God we trust,
and underneath her neck we had our date nineteen thirty four,
except me, I had nineteen thirty four stamped on me twice.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
How did that happen? Why was my date stamped twice?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, the machinery was going full speed at the mint fit,
did you hear it? For the tiny fraction of a second,
something got sucked and I was held in place for
just a fresh shimmer, an instance too long, And so
my date was stamps on me for a second time.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But who noticed? There were millions of us.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We were gathered together and sacked and packed and shipped
all over the country. And we were, I guess you
could say, funneled into banks and out into the world.
The class of nineteen thirty four. I could have gone anywhere,
into anyone's pocket. I found myself in a bag with
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about one hundred of my fellows, and I saw the
light of day for the first time on a marble tabletop.
Man I could see I was in a home, a mansion,
a place of enormous wealth and grandeur. I heard voices,
one young risk, the other fold in correct, aged sir, Yes,
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stress it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
What is it your dime, sir? My my dimes.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's a good day to day, sir?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
The doctor says you should go out?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh all right, all right, it's good for you. Trescit
tresct it my age.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Nothing is good by well, sir.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You should show your face?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Why for public relations? Public relation't you say you happen
to be the richest man in the world. In a
few weeks, a months, a year or two, perhaps I
shall be no richer than anyone else. Simply put the
dimes in this little purse for yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Ah, the dimes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's something that the public has come to expect from you,
this little gesture of handing out dimes to the people.
It does your image no end of good a dime.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I remember, Treshkit, I was a very young man. I
worked all day, chopped wood for fourteen hours and aver
a dime.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Now Adams will make sure you're bunds up warmly and
we're off orinary. Don't make it sound as if you're
walking a dog.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Bresket.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He was, as I have already told you, an old man,
an incredibly old man, slowly assisted on either side by
nurses and servants. He walked, or should I say, tattered,
from the door of his magnificent mansion to the door
of his magnificent limousine.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Over here.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Suddenly a crowd had gathered. Hands were extended, and as
he moved towards his motor car, he would reach into
his person for a dime, then extended his arm slowly
and dropped the coin into someone's waking, expectant palm. I
was lifted out of the sack and I felt myselfie
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and gripped feverishly. Then I was in a pocket and
I was all alone. Any luck, lots of luck, all
of it bad. What are we gonna do, Joe, nothing's
coming in, Maggie, old girl, cheer up.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Something did come in today. See, And I spread new
shiny dime a dime. Maybe it'll be a charm.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I was walking down the street, you know, and I
passed by the old man's mansion and he came out,
and you know he's always handing out dimes.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well he can afford it. He's got millions, you got
it that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's nice of him.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You better be careful. He may go broke.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Wait a minute, Just wait a minute, what's the matter.
He sure won't go broke giving out dimes like this one.
What do you mean this dime's no good? It looks
to be okay, Yeah, look closer.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
See what the date on it? The nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh what about it? Oh yeah, sure it's s marked twice.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Oh that means it's damaged good. Huh. Yes, when your
luck is out, it's out.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
All the way.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Does that mean we can't use this dime?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't think so maybe we can pass it off
on somebody, Jill, let's quit this crazy talk about a dime.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, we'll Conrad wait for his money.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
On the truck, it's more than just a truck. Oh
for the fruit.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh, it wasn't your fault.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
The roads were washed out, nobody could get through.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You want to be in the trucking business. Nobody wants
to hear your heart luck stories. They just want the
merchandise delivered on time. Joe, that truck was a total wreck.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
But your insurance. My insurance is.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Only so I can pay the other guy if I
hit him, if I crack up myself, I'm out of luck.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Maybe you shouldn't have gone into business.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Isn't that just what your father said?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Just because he's my father? Did that mean he had
to be wrong? I'm sorry, Joe, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The worst of it's going to be listening to him
saying I.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Told you so, Well, how how much money do we need?
I figure, oh, two thousand, two thousand, Yeah, might just
as well be two million.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well I could ask him. No, Joe, it means so
much to you to have the truck and to pay off.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's why you can't ask your father. He'd give it
to you with no strains attached.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wow, yes, not? What are you having your purse?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You all I have right now is that broken down dime?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Mike did have two cents.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
But I bought a newspaper.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Why is there any good news anywhere?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I bought the paper, Joe, just so I could look
at the wand edds Oh hate, Joe, our jobs they're
still open.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well what are you saying, Oh, it's jobs.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, they're not our jobs.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
He's advertising him. It means he must be hiring couples
and firing them. He's not satisfying.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Please Joe, but my wife is not going to be
a maid.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I thought we were through it with.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
All that working for rich people. Back to the old grind.
Uh me the chauffeur, handyman, and you the maid housekeeper?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
This time?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What do you mean this time?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well? I saw mister Meir's today, you watch.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I walked over to his place.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
How could you go back there after we quit?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Look?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I said to him, we're the best couple you ever had,
mister MEAs, and we're willing to come back.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Maggie, he'll give us the same money.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Joe, Honey, we haven't any choice.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So when do we start?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I thought we'd get there before supper, or else we
could talk your watch and buy our own groceries.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right, all right, you win.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh we're going to walk to our place of employment
and get there in time for supper.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
What do you say we start?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You can drive the car back tomorrow and pick up
our things.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, say goodbye to this place. You know, I thought
this was going to be a lucky time.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Maybe it will be one day.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Let's keep it earth and I'll tell you how broke
we are. We can't even afford to throw away a
worthless ten cent piece.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's us. And once again I was in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know you don't believe word it is, but it's true.
You know, everything that's made exists for a purpose. Mine
was to be worth ten cents, and here I was
being told I was worth nothing. Well I was brand
new and experienced ignorant. How did I know that was
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a completely false statement of my true value?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, they were walking down.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
The street, Joe and Maggie. I was still in his pocket.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You really don't mind going back into service.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Could be that's what I was meant for.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh Joe, don't say that.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Maybe I don't have that head or the talent for business.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You're as smart as most of them.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
They stopphman, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I know what I want to do with this dime.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I'm gonna give it to that beggar sitting against.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
The building and the one selling the pencils. He's not
selling him, He.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Just has him for show.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
You don't dare take one.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Help a poor man, Help a poor man, poor man.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You'll listen to him.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I've seen that one around. They say he has stocks
and bonds and owns apartment buildings.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
A poor man, the poor, unfortunate, sickle man.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know why I want him to have this dime?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Maybe, all right, tell me, because the second I dropped
this into his tin cup, we will be flat broke.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
We will not have a penny in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Bless you, less you, thank you kindly the dime. They
think my business for my health. Good job. And now
I disappeared into a greasy sack where I made the
acquaintance of some other coins for the first time, pennies,
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Nichols quarters. But I must say none were as shiny,
new or as sprightly handsome as me. At the end
of the day we went to the home of my
new owner. He was called, or even referred to himself
as the Moucher. Evidently he had a great deal of money,
both silver and paper and even gold. We were all
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spread out on the table, and he liked to pick
us up one by one. He picked me up, and
he looked at me very closely, this ugly, unkempt man,
odorous man. Evidently he liked my face better than I
liked his, because he clutched.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Me very tightly. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I can't believe it, but why not it's true? Don't
I have the evidence right here? Hello? Is this Fallowfield
coin shomp? You mister Foulfield, You know me, the moucher.
We we done business before. Now look I got a
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new uncirculated nineteen thirty four mercury dime. You follow this
Now it's got a double date. Yeah, you heard me?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
How much?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Two thousand dollars? I'll think about it. Two thousand dollars.
Well you knew that all along. Certainly you knew it'd
be worth more, far more than the face value of
ten cents. And the money represents only a fraction of
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the true value. Think of what it's already been worth
to us in terms of sheer drama.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And this is only the end of act one.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
This Christmas True value hardware stores offer gifts for cooks
who don't want to live in the kitchen. If only
we knew where fortune hides, the place where hidden wealth abides,
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but desert, waste and ocean deeps the silent secret stubborn keeps. Yes, well,
perhaps who says that fortune must be found in a desert,
or beneath the sea, or on a remote mountaintop. This
is the story of a dime that happens to be
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worth two thousand dollars at first appraisal, and it seems
quite capable of telling its own story. Two thousand dollars.
Here a fact, mister fellow. Feel two thousand dollars. I'll
think about your offer. Ee, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He picked up a greasy rag. He rubbed me with it,
and he kept repeating, two thousand dollars. Well, it wasn't
very long before I heard a knock on the door.
Quickly he gathered all the money together.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And locked us in a drawer. Who's here, I'll feel?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I want?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Vote of in? You alone? Sure will be with me.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's a matter.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Won't you come in and leave me?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Shut the door?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah? If it peculiar, your old age fella can't be
too careful of what crooks we want to rob your much?
I guess it's true. What's true? What everybody says? What
does everybody say? That's your millionaires? He got limousines, farting houses,
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stock crazy. Probably I got a bag on the streets
from my livings.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I get coins, So why.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I look at him?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Maybe here and there. Want to me worth a couple
of pennies more than that says in the face. Right, Oh,
I put a few cents away in the bank. But
it's from my old age, right O. A man's gotta
worry about his old age, don't he Whether the dime
eh dime? Come on, I don't mind you playing a
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little bit hard to get My time is valuable. Okay,
I'll leave you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Look at her.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
He was one of those sharp featured, sparse haired men
who wore thin wire rimmed glasses. A fellow you would
hate to have to do business with because you knew
he would always.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Come out on top.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
He told me between his fingers. He appeared at me. Oh,
you could withhold no secrets from a searching gaze like that.
Finally he put me down. I said, twenty five hundred. Okay, well,
well what I don't know now? Listen mooch eh, the
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love supplying demand hasn't yet had a chance to operate
on his coin. I understand. No, it's brand new, the
market doesn't nobody yet.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Maybe it'll never be worth more than a dom or.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That ain't true, and you know it. I'm taken a
risk buyer for twenty five. Now I'm taking a risk
selling it the way you take for it much more
than twenty five? How much more? Oh, you gotta do
go shopping around? You can't do that? No, why you
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know why? It's supposed to be a penniless bigger. Now
you want a way to get out that you're making
the rounds with a dime with all that money. I
don't think so. I say you better stick with me.
I keep on mouse shut about your financial situation. Now
that has got to be worth a good deal for you.
We don't give you the right to cheat a poor man.
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I got a favorite customer. I'll see what she'll offer.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Have we got a deal?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Mister Meir's residence? Who's calling?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Please?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh just one.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Minute, mister me Yes, what is it, Maggie?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Do you wish to speak to her?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Mister fallow Field? Fellow Field? Oh? Yes, yes, indeed, Hey
fallow Field, what have you got for me today? And what? Yes?
Does sound interesting? How much? Now? List in Fallowfield. I
know you're entitled to your prophet, but don't think you
can get rich on me alone. Well, tomorrow's Sunday, and
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now either wonder much could transact business on Sabbath, wouldn't
you say, well, pick it up from your fellow on
Monday and bring it down to my office, right, goodbye.
Just fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It is the most fantastic thing, A double nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I beg your pardon, sir.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Do you do you know anything about coins.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Maggie, Well, so I know one from another.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It can be very interesting and very valuable if you
know what to look for. I suppose so. Now, mister Vallowfield,
he's the new mesmetist, sir. Here's an expert on coins.
He has a shop buys and selves. Yeah, I see,
well he knows where he can get hold of a
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brand new mercury time the day it is stamped twice twice, yes, Maggie, twice.
Something must have been forty with one of the pressures
in the mint. But you see, we're close to the
end of the year and no one had discovered any
other coins that were stabbed twice. So this is one
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in the median or I should say one in thirty
or forty million, or however many were turned out.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
And you say it it's worth.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well in the long run, Maggie, no one could safely
say this time, just what it could be worth. But
I gambled three or four thousand or so on it
right here now, three or four thousand maybe? Hey, you
all right, it can't be But it is, Joe, it is.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He'd give three or four thousands.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Maybe more.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I can't believe, believe that it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
How could we know?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What are we going to do about?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
How could we know? There's so many things in this
world I just don't know about. I never realized what
an ignorant man.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I want answer the question? What question?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
What are we going to do about it?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You talk as if there's something we can do about it?
It's our time? Hours?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, hours?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We gave it away? We didn't know what we were doing, broll.
That's that's why tough luck.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yes, I would guess so.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
No, No, we made a mistake. We shouldn't have to
pay for it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We always have to pay for our mistakes.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Maggie.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I want our dime, but it's ours no longer.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Joe, listen to me. Listen to me for once. Now,
go out and get what belongs to you, but.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
It doesn't belong to me.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Get that dime back, Get you got you buy something,
you give the man a big bill instead.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Of a small one.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You discover your error if the man gives you your.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Money back, if he's honest, the same thing here. And
if that beggar isn't an honest man, let him take
the consequences.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What consequences.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Here, here's a.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Dime, a brand new, shiny mercury dime. But it's only
got one date. It's only worth ten cents?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Is he Maggie?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Take it to him, Say to him, here, here's the dime,
and we meant to give you.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Maggie, you've got to do it. Joe, You've got to
But what if he just lasts in my face? What then?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Then then I don't know that that'll be It'll be
up to you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
What'll be up to me?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
The next move?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Do you know what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Maybe there won't be a next move. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
It'll depend on how you feel.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What do you want? I want to come in?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Tell you you can't. Just I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Then shut the door.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Who are you? I'll shut it for you. No, I'll
earn you for the.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Comp I wouldn't try that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I just shut up. Look, you got you got it
all wrong. You've been listening to all kinds of crazy talks.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Hey, bach, I don't have.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Any door hitting away. I can just about get.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Enough to eat.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I didn't come here to steal your money. I don't
care if you got a million bucks stashed away.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
What do you want you remember me?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I've never seen you for my whole life.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yesterday, before yesterday, I was walking past you with my wife.
A lot of guys walk past me with my wife,
and I dropped a dime in your cup, A dime,
A very special dime. What would be so special about
a dime?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I made a mistake. I gave you the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I want it back.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I do know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You know what I'm talking about. You know the dime
I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, nor don't even making arrangements to sell it with Well,
you can't.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It's small.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You take your.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Head troph of me.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
If we're not done, call me.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Let go over.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
No, I don't, I don't have it over hand it over.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well. This is Joe, good natured, mild manner, Joe about
whom it was said in the ordinary way.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. Yes, indeed, money, money
can do it to.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
All of us.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Money is a philosopher's stone. Money can change us overnight
on the spot. What sort of change as it wrought
in Joe? For that, we need a third act, which
I shall deliver. Presently, we shall fish the stream of life,
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said the poet, with silken lines and silver hooks. We
don't have any silver hooks for you at this time,
but we do have a silver coin. Actually it's a dime,
a murcury dime made of pure, well almost pure silver,
nine hundred parts of the precious metal, alloyed to one
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hundred parts copper. Good enough, especially since this particular coin
is worth far more than ten cents. Four reasons we've
been talking about don't make door mean if that time,
I'll give you another one. I don't have it, little man,
he was here?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Who was hitting the mast with a coin? Guy?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Lie?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And why swearing I've turned this place outside down inside out?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Ain't here.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I'll tell you, I don't there. I'm not gonna tell
what in stuff all my life. I'll get that coin,
even if I have to tell you he was here.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I told you the guy was here already you're a.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Lie, and.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
It took the dame with you. Hey, hey, look, talk
to me, say something. I didn't do nothing. I didn't
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do nothing. I didn't I didn't care you, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I was just holding on to him, Maggie. I wasn't
choking him or anything.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I know, Joe, I know, he just dies. It happened, Sure,
it happened.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It must have had a heart attack. That's exactly what.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It was, a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Look, I threatened him, sure, But when I would have
come down to it, I wouldn't killed him.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Of course you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
But but I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Now, Joe, he died of a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
How did he get the heart attack? I gave it
to her?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Joe, you can't blame yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh oh else, am I gonna blame her?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
You can blame me.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
No, you had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I should have let you alone. I steamed you up.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No, No, No, I wanted to do it.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I had to do it. I had to prove I
can just go out.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
There and take it.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
But every time I try, it always goes wrongs.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Alone and no, I killed the guy.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Since I'm telling a story. In addition to being a dime.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm also a poet, and I enjoy poetic license, and
that's what I claim for this scene you've just heard
between Joe and Mackie. But the scene between Joe and
the moucher.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Uh h.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I was there in a sack on the moucher's table,
And not half an hour after the distraught Joe left.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
The premises, there was a knock on the door. What
what y'all?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's funny, and then leaves the door open a march
woch well uh oh wroch uh well, it's too bad,
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perhaps smooth if you had let it more, he was
emplary life. He would have died within the bosom of
the lodge and loving family. Instead roll on on the
selfish floor of a miserable hovel. And the money moved,
the money you so misily accumerated, what's to be gone
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of the down, what's to become it?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Were you ever able to hear a person thinking? Really?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I did, because the next thing I knew, the sat
that I was in, with all the coins and bills
and stocks and runs, found itself under mister Fallowfield's arm, and.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
We were off and away. What the world, Oh what
a world?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Where's to Maria's please? Ayah, there's miss Fallowfield. I believe
you're expecting my call. Oh, thank you, ah, Miss Mayer.
The coin which your inspections? Aren't you have to tomorrow
after the close of business, I say six pm, Yes, sir,
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I'll rid your doorstep on the button. Whoa, yes, yes,
Cone's beauty, lovely, agnificent, But all there's no trouble about price, sir.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
We will taggle a bit for the sake of.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Form, but is to arrive at the most equitable arrangement
as usual.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That was Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I now was.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Presting mister fallow Fields safe and so I was unable
to witness what you're about to hear next. But once
again I was able to put it all together. By
the way it ended, it seems we are dealing with
two new folk, Chris and Judy.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Hey, you know who's playing the first jumping on that arrange?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
But no, and I don't care.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Hey, what'd you turn off for?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
How much longer do you intend to sit around and
listen to those records?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Hey, Julia? I have to listen to those records?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Why, Chris? Why?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Because sooner or later I'll get an assignment to write
a piece about them.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I know, but I've watched as sooner turns to later,
and now I believe that later he's going to become.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Never, Julie, we can't lose home.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
You'll never get a writing assignment.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Come on, don't say that there are no jobs.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Look experience writers, people with credits, even they're out of work.
Everybody is starting to talk about the WPA thing.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I still believe.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I'm sure. Meanwhile the government's talking about putting everybody on
the door.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Look out the window and what the little shop across
the street, Well, what about it? What does the sign say?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
What's the difference?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Read it?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Frederick Fallowfield coins.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
So so every now and then mister Fallowfield comes out
of that shop, He locks the door. He has a
little velvety looking sack in his hand. He puts the
sack into his pocket. Do you know why?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
No, I don't care.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Pay attention, Julie.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
What are you driving at?
Speaker 4 (35:21):
He has some valuable gold and silver coins that he's
taking to a customer, okay, and they have to be
worth a couple of hundred, maybe one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So follow him.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Wait till you get to a moral less deserted spot.
Pretend you have a gun.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Do you know what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Well, how can you say it?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Well, it isn't easy.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
You want me to commit a robbery, a hold up?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yes, and the only reason I want you to do
it is because I care.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh no, Julie, that's not where we went the college for.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
What did we go to college for, Chris?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I wanted to be a music cologist.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
And you yes, I wanted to be a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Well, we have to keep trying, Chris, how do you
wake up?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
We don't have any choice.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't want to have a theoretical argument about ethics
and how people can be driven to crime by circumstance.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
All I know is it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Of course it's wrong. And what else are we going
to do besides the baby?
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
What baby? Our baby, Julie, Yes, Chris, a baby, Julie.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I need money for a doctor for everything that a
baby means. Surely to hold up that man across the street,
I suggest him for a reason. We know the situation.
It's not my going into a bank or a store
or anything. Like that, Julie, I get a ten cent
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cap pistol. Okay, you use a handkerchief to tie it
around your face up under your eyes. But what if,
uh yeah, what if it goes wrong? Okay, you'll be caught.
But Chris, the times are going for you. We'll get
some sob sister report it to write a real tear jerker.
You know how they eat it up. Well, father to
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be desperate for his wife, an expected child, forced to
commit hold up, and you didn't really mean to hurt anybody.
Your gun was a toy.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Hyeah.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Figure, you even risked your life because if your so
called victim were armed, he could have killed you.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
That's a poet.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
And say you're caught, you go to trial, and who
will be your lawyer?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
You?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yes, me your pregnant wife. Hmmm, I asked you, Chris,
will there be a dry eye on that jury in
that courtroom anywhere in these United States?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Hey? You know what, we'll even get job offers from
all over. Maybe it even pays to get caught.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
No, I figure, what's in that sack? Kill carry? Give
you worth as much as a thousand that'll keep us
for a while. Julie, you're a genius, darling, go downstairs
and buy a cap pistol, Chris. Yeah. Now, now he
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just turned out the lights in the star.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Maybe he's closing for the day.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Put on your coat and half the pistol and the handkerchief. Ready,
he's not closing up for good. He stays open until eight.
It's only a quarter to six. It means he's taking
something to a customer.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Now, okay, how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Great? Just great?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
You sure, Chris?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Don't worry?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Remember now we figured it all out. He goes down
the street. That's the alley.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
If you go out the back way, you can get
to the alley before he does call him in there.
Take the sack, and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yes, and so there is to it.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Are you sure you're okay?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Honey?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
How can we lose?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Hold it? Buddy?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Just step inside here?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Now you do what I what I tell you, I'll
blow your head off.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Just those.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Inside your right hand pockets. You you got a sack,
all right, I do hand over. Don't don't don't be there,
just just just shut up, very big loud.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, yeah, you're just hand over the sack. You get here,
the is there's nothing in it, really, I said, hand
is over all right, all right, don't be nervous.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
You put your hand in your pocket and and take
it out again, slow, slowly, so bad the head that's
its hands it over.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Just what you say.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Don't you now turn around and start walking?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Uh, walk down.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
The street and and keep walking. Hello, Julie, Chris, where
are you in a phone? Chris? What happened? Did you
do it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Sure I did it? Tell the one dime Chris, one
thin measley, dye.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
It must even some mistake kind of sure was, and
we made it. Or I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
You know what I did with that dime? I put
it into the slot so I could call you up
and tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
But it only costs a nico to make a phone call.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
That's what the operator told me. But I said, honey,
you just keep the change. And so there it was
in the collection box of the pay telephone, our dime,
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and soon it will slip back into the huge and
illimitable exchange of all the millions and billions of coins.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
That are pasted about daily from hand to hand.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And if anybody ever stopped to look at it twice,
We don't know because it was never heard of again.
Every now and then, a patient and hard working wife
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turns suddenly on her husband. I will not be taken
for granted, she shouts and forthwith she A murders him,
b leaves him, C takes the lover, D goes out,
makes a glorious career for herself. E any or all
of the above being taken for granted, and taking things
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for granted can result in fantastic losses.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Just don't count your change, look at your change. Our
cast included Earl Hammond.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Russell Horton, William Griffiths, Bryner Raeburn and Robert Dryden. The
entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown and
now a preview of our next tale, Who you have
to be?
Speaker 2 (43:02):
My name isn't Michael? I mean that's not what I'm
called by its path.
Speaker 4 (43:06):
It's a long time, do you know?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
And who remembers all the names?
Speaker 4 (43:10):
The way they can change with the pass in years,
They're still the one expected?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Are you not expected?
Speaker 4 (43:18):
The voice was after telling me you'd be back. Did
you not hear it yourself? The voice that is, why
are you here again?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm not here again, Ah.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
There now, it had to be such an important anniversary,
twenty one years.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
You had to be here here for what to strike.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Off the chains, set the soul at liberty to rest
in peace.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Miss Connaught. Forgive me, but I really don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Marshall in writing you to return to our Mystery Theater
for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant
Vs. Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'd rather be handsome than homely. I'd rather be youthful
than old. If i can't have a bushel of silver,
I'll do with a barrel of gold. So said a
gentleman named James wrote, And who is to say that
he has not expressed the basic philosophy of mankind?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Or put it this way?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
As we're about to do take the cash and let
the credit go.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You're saying we should commit a robbery.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Julie, Yes, Chris, Now, I was pretty definite and specific.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I thought, is this why we went to college?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Obviously we didn't learn how to make a living there,
But Julie, we did learn how to study. And Chris,
I have really given careful thought and study to how
this can be done.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Our mystery drama, The Big ten Cent Hustle, was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Earl Hammond. It is sponsored in part by True Value
Hardware Stores and the Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with that one. Would you buy any chance happen
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to remember the clarion call of the Barker chep right up,
ladies and gentlemen, I'm for ten cents, one dime and
five a dollar. Oh yes, And for that ten cent
piece there was a promise of delights far beyond your
wildest expectations. In those days, the dime with a coin
of substance, a piece of money to be taken seriously. Well,
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while we cannot turn back the clock, it is possible
now and then, here and there to find a dime
that's worth far more than its face value. And such
a one is the double thirty four. And what is
the double thirty four? Well, why not let it tell
its own story? That's right, We're to have a story
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told by a dime, as if that inanimate piece of
metal could actually think and speak.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Why not listen?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I was bored? Or would you prefer?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I said, mate?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So how about mint?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
In nineteen thirty four, I was one of oh, I
don't know, thirty forty million. We all looked exactly alike.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We were called Mercury.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Dies because everybody thought our face was that of the
ancient Greek god Mercury wearing a winged helmet.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It was just the goddess Liberty. We all wore that face,
plus the word liberty and the motto in God we trust,
and underneath her neck we had our date nineteen thirty four,
except me, I had nineteen thirty four stamped on me twice.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
How did that happen? Why was my date stamped twice?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, the machinery was going full speed at the mint fit,
did you hear it? For the tiny fraction of a second,
something got sucked and I was held in place for
just a fresh shimmer, an instance too long, And so
my date was stamps on me for a second time.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But who noticed? There were millions of us.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We were gathered together and sacked and packed and shipped
all over the country. And we were, I guess you
could say, funneled into banks and out into the world.
The class of nineteen thirty four. I could have gone anywhere,
into anyone's pocket. I found myself in a bag with
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about one hundred of my fellows, and I saw the
light of day for the first time on a marble tabletop.
Man I could see I was in a home, a mansion,
a place of enormous wealth and grandeur. I heard voices,
one young risk, the other fold in correct, aged sir, Yes,
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stress it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
What is it your dime, sir? My my dimes.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's a good day to day, sir?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
The doctor says you should go out?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh all right, all right, it's good for you. Trescit
tresct it my age.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Nothing is good by well, sir.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You should show your face?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Why for public relations? Public relation't you say you happen
to be the richest man in the world. In a
few weeks, a months, a year or two, perhaps I
shall be no richer than anyone else. Simply put the
dimes in this little purse for yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Ah, the dimes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's something that the public has come to expect from you,
this little gesture of handing out dimes to the people.
It does your image no end of good a dime.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I remember, Treshkit, I was a very young man. I
worked all day, chopped wood for fourteen hours and aver
a dime.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Now Adams will make sure you're bunds up warmly and
we're off orinary. Don't make it sound as if you're
walking a dog.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Bresket.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He was, as I have already told you, an old man,
an incredibly old man, slowly assisted on either side by
nurses and servants. He walked, or should I say, tattered,
from the door of his magnificent mansion to the door
of his magnificent limousine.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Over here.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Suddenly a crowd had gathered. Hands were extended, and as
he moved towards his motor car, he would reach into
his person for a dime, then extended his arm slowly
and dropped the coin into someone's waking, expectant palm. I
was lifted out of the sack and I felt myselfie
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and gripped feverishly. Then I was in a pocket and
I was all alone. Any luck, lots of luck, all
of it bad. What are we gonna do, Joe, nothing's
coming in, Maggie, old girl, cheer up.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Something did come in today. See, And I spread new
shiny dime a dime. Maybe it'll be a charm.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I was walking down the street, you know, and I
passed by the old man's mansion and he came out,
and you know he's always handing out dimes.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well he can afford it. He's got millions, you got
it that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's nice of him.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You better be careful. He may go broke.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Wait a minute, Just wait a minute, what's the matter.
He sure won't go broke giving out dimes like this one.
What do you mean this dime's no good? It looks
to be okay, Yeah, look closer.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
See what the date on it? The nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh what about it? Oh yeah, sure it's s marked twice.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Oh that means it's damaged good. Huh. Yes, when your
luck is out, it's out.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
All the way.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Does that mean we can't use this dime?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't think so maybe we can pass it off
on somebody, Jill, let's quit this crazy talk about a dime.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, we'll Conrad wait for his money.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
On the truck, it's more than just a truck. Oh
for the fruit.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh, it wasn't your fault.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
The roads were washed out, nobody could get through.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You want to be in the trucking business. Nobody wants
to hear your heart luck stories. They just want the
merchandise delivered on time. Joe, that truck was a total wreck.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
But your insurance. My insurance is.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Only so I can pay the other guy if I
hit him, if I crack up myself, I'm out of luck.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Maybe you shouldn't have gone into business.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Isn't that just what your father said?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Just because he's my father? Did that mean he had
to be wrong? I'm sorry, Joe, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The worst of it's going to be listening to him
saying I.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Told you so, Well, how how much money do we need?
I figure, oh, two thousand, two thousand, Yeah, might just
as well be two million.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well I could ask him. No, Joe, it means so
much to you to have the truck and to pay off.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's why you can't ask your father. He'd give it
to you with no strains attached.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wow, yes, not? What are you having your purse?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You all I have right now is that broken down dime?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Mike did have two cents.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
But I bought a newspaper.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Why is there any good news anywhere?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I bought the paper, Joe, just so I could look
at the wand edds Oh hate, Joe, our jobs they're
still open.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well what are you saying, Oh, it's jobs.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, they're not our jobs.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
He's advertising him. It means he must be hiring couples
and firing them. He's not satisfying.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Please Joe, but my wife is not going to be
a maid.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I thought we were through it with.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
All that working for rich people. Back to the old grind.
Uh me the chauffeur, handyman, and you the maid housekeeper?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
This time?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What do you mean this time?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well? I saw mister Meir's today, you watch.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I walked over to his place.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
How could you go back there after we quit?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Look?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I said to him, we're the best couple you ever had,
mister MEAs, and we're willing to come back.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Maggie, he'll give us the same money.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Joe, Honey, we haven't any choice.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So when do we start?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I thought we'd get there before supper, or else we
could talk your watch and buy our own groceries.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right, all right, you win.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh we're going to walk to our place of employment
and get there in time for supper.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
What do you say we start?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You can drive the car back tomorrow and pick up
our things.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, say goodbye to this place. You know, I thought
this was going to be a lucky time.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Maybe it will be one day.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Let's keep it earth and I'll tell you how broke
we are. We can't even afford to throw away a
worthless ten cent piece.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's us. And once again I was in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know you don't believe word it is, but it's true.
You know, everything that's made exists for a purpose. Mine
was to be worth ten cents, and here I was
being told I was worth nothing. Well I was brand
new and experienced ignorant. How did I know that was
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a completely false statement of my true value?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Well, they were walking down.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
The street, Joe and Maggie. I was still in his pocket.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You really don't mind going back into service.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Could be that's what I was meant for.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh Joe, don't say that.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Maybe I don't have that head or the talent for business.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You're as smart as most of them.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
They stopphman, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I know what I want to do with this dime.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I'm gonna give it to that beggar sitting against.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
The building and the one selling the pencils. He's not
selling him, He.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Just has him for show.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
You don't dare take one.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Help a poor man, Help a poor man, poor man.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You'll listen to him.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I've seen that one around. They say he has stocks
and bonds and owns apartment buildings.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
A poor man, the poor, unfortunate, sickle man.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know why I want him to have this dime?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Maybe, all right, tell me, because the second I dropped
this into his tin cup, we will be flat broke.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
We will not have a penny in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Bless you, less you, thank you kindly the dime. They
think my business for my health. Good job. And now
I disappeared into a greasy sack where I made the
acquaintance of some other coins for the first time, pennies,
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Nichols quarters. But I must say none were as shiny,
new or as sprightly handsome as me. At the end
of the day we went to the home of my
new owner. He was called, or even referred to himself
as the Moucher. Evidently he had a great deal of money,
both silver and paper and even gold. We were all
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spread out on the table, and he liked to pick
us up one by one. He picked me up, and
he looked at me very closely, this ugly, unkempt man,
odorous man. Evidently he liked my face better than I
liked his, because he clutched.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Me very tightly. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I can't believe it, but why not it's true? Don't
I have the evidence right here? Hello? Is this Fallowfield
coin shomp? You mister Foulfield, You know me, the moucher.
We we done business before. Now look I got a
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new uncirculated nineteen thirty four mercury dime. You follow this
Now it's got a double date. Yeah, you heard me?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
How much?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Two thousand dollars? I'll think about it. Two thousand dollars.
Well you knew that all along. Certainly you knew it'd
be worth more, far more than the face value of
ten cents. And the money represents only a fraction of
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the true value. Think of what it's already been worth
to us in terms of sheer drama.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And this is only the end of act one.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
This Christmas True value hardware stores offer gifts for cooks
who don't want to live in the kitchen. If only
we knew where fortune hides, the place where hidden wealth abides,
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but desert, waste and ocean deeps the silent secret stubborn keeps. Yes, well,
perhaps who says that fortune must be found in a desert,
or beneath the sea, or on a remote mountaintop. This
is the story of a dime that happens to be
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worth two thousand dollars at first appraisal, and it seems
quite capable of telling its own story. Two thousand dollars.
Here a fact, mister fellow. Feel two thousand dollars. I'll
think about your offer. Ee, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He picked up a greasy rag. He rubbed me with it,
and he kept repeating, two thousand dollars. Well, it wasn't
very long before I heard a knock on the door.
Quickly he gathered all the money together.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And locked us in a drawer. Who's here, I'll feel?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I want?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Vote of in? You alone? Sure will be with me.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's a matter.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Won't you come in and leave me?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Shut the door?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah? If it peculiar, your old age fella can't be
too careful of what crooks we want to rob your much?
I guess it's true. What's true? What everybody says? What
does everybody say? That's your millionaires? He got limousines, farting houses,
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stock crazy. Probably I got a bag on the streets
from my livings.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I get coins, So why.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I look at him?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Maybe here and there. Want to me worth a couple
of pennies more than that says in the face. Right, Oh,
I put a few cents away in the bank. But
it's from my old age, right O. A man's gotta
worry about his old age, don't he Whether the dime
eh dime? Come on, I don't mind you playing a
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little bit hard to get My time is valuable. Okay,
I'll leave you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Look at her.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
He was one of those sharp featured, sparse haired men
who wore thin wire rimmed glasses. A fellow you would
hate to have to do business with because you knew
he would always.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Come out on top.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
He told me between his fingers. He appeared at me. Oh,
you could withhold no secrets from a searching gaze like that.
Finally he put me down. I said, twenty five hundred. Okay, well,
well what I don't know now? Listen mooch eh, the
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love supplying demand hasn't yet had a chance to operate
on his coin. I understand. No, it's brand new, the
market doesn't nobody yet.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Maybe it'll never be worth more than a dom or.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That ain't true, and you know it. I'm taken a
risk buyer for twenty five. Now I'm taking a risk
selling it the way you take for it much more
than twenty five? How much more? Oh, you gotta do
go shopping around? You can't do that? No, why you
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know why? It's supposed to be a penniless bigger. Now
you want a way to get out that you're making
the rounds with a dime with all that money. I
don't think so. I say you better stick with me.
I keep on mouse shut about your financial situation. Now
that has got to be worth a good deal for you.
We don't give you the right to cheat a poor man.
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I got a favorite customer. I'll see what she'll offer.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Have we got a deal?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Mister Meir's residence? Who's calling?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Please?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh just one.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Minute, mister me Yes, what is it, Maggie?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Do you wish to speak to her?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Mister fallow Field? Fellow Field? Oh? Yes, yes, indeed, Hey
fallow Field, what have you got for me today? And what? Yes?
Does sound interesting? How much? Now? List in Fallowfield. I
know you're entitled to your prophet, but don't think you
can get rich on me alone. Well, tomorrow's Sunday, and
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now either wonder much could transact business on Sabbath, wouldn't
you say, well, pick it up from your fellow on
Monday and bring it down to my office, right, goodbye.
Just fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It is the most fantastic thing, A double nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I beg your pardon, sir.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Do you do you know anything about coins.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Maggie, Well, so I know one from another.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It can be very interesting and very valuable if you
know what to look for. I suppose so. Now, mister Vallowfield,
he's the new mesmetist, sir. Here's an expert on coins.
He has a shop buys and selves. Yeah, I see,
well he knows where he can get hold of a
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brand new mercury time the day it is stamped twice twice, yes, Maggie, twice.
Something must have been forty with one of the pressures
in the mint. But you see, we're close to the
end of the year and no one had discovered any
other coins that were stabbed twice. So this is one
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in the median or I should say one in thirty
or forty million, or however many were turned out.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
And you say it it's worth.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well in the long run, Maggie, no one could safely
say this time, just what it could be worth. But
I gambled three or four thousand or so on it
right here now, three or four thousand maybe? Hey, you
all right, it can't be But it is, Joe, it is.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He'd give three or four thousands.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Maybe more.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I can't believe, believe that it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
How could we know?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What are we going to do about?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
How could we know? There's so many things in this
world I just don't know about. I never realized what
an ignorant man.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I want answer the question? What question?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
What are we going to do about it?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You talk as if there's something we can do about it?
It's our time? Hours?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, hours?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We gave it away? We didn't know what we were doing, broll.
That's that's why tough luck.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yes, I would guess so.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
No, No, we made a mistake. We shouldn't have to
pay for it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We always have to pay for our mistakes.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Maggie.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I want our dime, but it's ours no longer.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Joe, listen to me. Listen to me for once. Now,
go out and get what belongs to you, but.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
It doesn't belong to me.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Get that dime back, Get you got you buy something,
you give the man a big bill instead.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Of a small one.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You discover your error if the man gives you your.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Money back, if he's honest, the same thing here. And
if that beggar isn't an honest man, let him take
the consequences.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What consequences.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Here, here's a.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Dime, a brand new, shiny mercury dime. But it's only
got one date. It's only worth ten cents?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Is he Maggie?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Take it to him, Say to him, here, here's the dime,
and we meant to give you.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Maggie, you've got to do it. Joe, You've got to
But what if he just lasts in my face? What then?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Then then I don't know that that'll be It'll be
up to you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
What'll be up to me?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
The next move?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Do you know what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Maybe there won't be a next move. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
It'll depend on how you feel.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What do you want? I want to come in?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Tell you you can't. Just I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Then shut the door.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Who are you? I'll shut it for you. No, I'll
earn you for the.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Comp I wouldn't try that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I just shut up. Look, you got you got it
all wrong. You've been listening to all kinds of crazy talks.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Hey, bach, I don't have.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Any door hitting away. I can just about get.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Enough to eat.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I didn't come here to steal your money. I don't
care if you got a million bucks stashed away.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
What do you want you remember me?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I've never seen you for my whole life.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yesterday, before yesterday, I was walking past you with my wife.
A lot of guys walk past me with my wife,
and I dropped a dime in your cup, A dime,
A very special dime. What would be so special about
a dime?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I made a mistake. I gave you the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I want it back.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I do know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You know what I'm talking about. You know the dime
I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, nor don't even making arrangements to sell it with Well,
you can't.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It's small.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You take your.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Head troph of me.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
If we're not done, call me.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Let go over.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
No, I don't, I don't have it over hand it over.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well. This is Joe, good natured, mild manner, Joe about
whom it was said in the ordinary way.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. Yes, indeed, money, money
can do it to.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
All of us.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Money is a philosopher's stone. Money can change us overnight
on the spot. What sort of change as it wrought
in Joe? For that, we need a third act, which
I shall deliver. Presently, we shall fish the stream of life,
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said the poet, with silken lines and silver hooks. We
don't have any silver hooks for you at this time,
but we do have a silver coin. Actually it's a dime,
a murcury dime made of pure, well almost pure silver,
nine hundred parts of the precious metal, alloyed to one
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hundred parts copper. Good enough, especially since this particular coin
is worth far more than ten cents. Four reasons we've
been talking about don't make door mean if that time,
I'll give you another one. I don't have it, little man,
he was here?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Who was hitting the mast with a coin? Guy?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Lie?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And why swearing I've turned this place outside down inside out?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Ain't here.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I'll tell you, I don't there. I'm not gonna tell
what in stuff all my life. I'll get that coin,
even if I have to tell you he was here.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I told you the guy was here already you're a.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Lie, and.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
It took the dame with you. Hey, hey, look, talk
to me, say something. I didn't do nothing. I didn't
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do nothing. I didn't I didn't care you, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I was just holding on to him, Maggie. I wasn't
choking him or anything.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I know, Joe, I know, he just dies. It happened, Sure,
it happened.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It must have had a heart attack. That's exactly what.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It was, a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Look, I threatened him, sure, But when I would have
come down to it, I wouldn't killed him.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Of course you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
But but I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Now, Joe, he died of a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
How did he get the heart attack? I gave it
to her?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Joe, you can't blame yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh oh else, am I gonna blame her?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
You can blame me.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
No, you had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I should have let you alone. I steamed you up.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No, No, No, I wanted to do it.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I had to do it. I had to prove I
can just go out.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
There and take it.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
But every time I try, it always goes wrongs.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Alone and no, I killed the guy.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Since I'm telling a story. In addition to being a dime.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm also a poet, and I enjoy poetic license, and
that's what I claim for this scene you've just heard
between Joe and Mackie. But the scene between Joe and
the moucher.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Uh h.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I was there in a sack on the moucher's table,
And not half an hour after the distraught Joe left.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
The premises, there was a knock on the door. What
what y'all?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's funny, and then leaves the door open a march
woch well uh oh wroch uh well, it's too bad,
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perhaps smooth if you had let it more, he was
emplary life. He would have died within the bosom of
the lodge and loving family. Instead roll on on the
selfish floor of a miserable hovel. And the money moved,
the money you so misily accumerated, what's to be gone
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of the down, what's to become it?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Were you ever able to hear a person thinking? Really?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I did, because the next thing I knew, the sat
that I was in, with all the coins and bills
and stocks and runs, found itself under mister Fallowfield's arm, and.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
We were off and away. What the world, Oh what
a world?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Where's to Maria's please? Ayah, there's miss Fallowfield. I believe
you're expecting my call. Oh, thank you, ah, Miss Mayer.
The coin which your inspections? Aren't you have to tomorrow
after the close of business, I say six pm, Yes, sir,
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I'll rid your doorstep on the button. Whoa, yes, yes,
Cone's beauty, lovely, agnificent, But all there's no trouble about price, sir.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
We will taggle a bit for the sake of.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Form, but is to arrive at the most equitable arrangement
as usual.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That was Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I now was.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Presting mister fallow Fields safe and so I was unable
to witness what you're about to hear next. But once
again I was able to put it all together. By
the way it ended, it seems we are dealing with
two new folk, Chris and Judy.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Hey, you know who's playing the first jumping on that arrange?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
But no, and I don't care.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Hey, what'd you turn off for?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
How much longer do you intend to sit around and
listen to those records?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Hey, Julia? I have to listen to those records?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Why, Chris? Why?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Because sooner or later I'll get an assignment to write
a piece about them.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I know, but I've watched as sooner turns to later,
and now I believe that later he's going to become.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Never, Julie, we can't lose home.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
You'll never get a writing assignment.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Come on, don't say that there are no jobs.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Look experience writers, people with credits, even they're out of work.
Everybody is starting to talk about the WPA thing.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I still believe.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I'm sure. Meanwhile the government's talking about putting everybody on
the door.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Look out the window and what the little shop across
the street, Well, what about it? What does the sign say?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
What's the difference?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Read it?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Frederick Fallowfield coins.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
So so every now and then mister Fallowfield comes out
of that shop, He locks the door. He has a
little velvety looking sack in his hand. He puts the
sack into his pocket. Do you know why?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
No, I don't care.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Pay attention, Julie.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
What are you driving at?
Speaker 4 (35:21):
He has some valuable gold and silver coins that he's
taking to a customer, okay, and they have to be
worth a couple of hundred, maybe one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So follow him.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Wait till you get to a moral less deserted spot.
Pretend you have a gun.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Do you know what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Well, how can you say it?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Well, it isn't easy.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
You want me to commit a robbery, a hold up?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yes, and the only reason I want you to do
it is because I care.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh no, Julie, that's not where we went the college for.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
What did we go to college for, Chris?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I wanted to be a music cologist.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
And you yes, I wanted to be a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Well, we have to keep trying, Chris, how do you
wake up?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
We don't have any choice.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't want to have a theoretical argument about ethics
and how people can be driven to crime by circumstance.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
All I know is it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Of course it's wrong. And what else are we going
to do besides the baby?
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
What baby? Our baby, Julie, Yes, Chris, a baby, Julie.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I need money for a doctor for everything that a
baby means. Surely to hold up that man across the street,
I suggest him for a reason. We know the situation.
It's not my going into a bank or a store
or anything. Like that, Julie, I get a ten cent
(37:03):
cap pistol. Okay, you use a handkerchief to tie it
around your face up under your eyes. But what if,
uh yeah, what if it goes wrong? Okay, you'll be caught.
But Chris, the times are going for you. We'll get
some sob sister report it to write a real tear jerker.
You know how they eat it up. Well, father to
(37:26):
be desperate for his wife, an expected child, forced to
commit hold up, and you didn't really mean to hurt anybody.
Your gun was a toy.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Hyeah.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Figure, you even risked your life because if your so
called victim were armed, he could have killed you.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
That's a poet.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
And say you're caught, you go to trial, and who
will be your lawyer?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
You?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yes, me your pregnant wife. Hmmm, I asked you, Chris,
will there be a dry eye on that jury in
that courtroom anywhere in these United States?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Hey? You know what, we'll even get job offers from
all over. Maybe it even pays to get caught.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
No, I figure, what's in that sack? Kill carry? Give
you worth as much as a thousand that'll keep us
for a while. Julie, you're a genius, darling, go downstairs
and buy a cap pistol, Chris. Yeah. Now, now he
(38:30):
just turned out the lights in the star.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Maybe he's closing for the day.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Put on your coat and half the pistol and the handkerchief. Ready,
he's not closing up for good. He stays open until eight.
It's only a quarter to six. It means he's taking
something to a customer.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Now, okay, how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Great? Just great?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
You sure, Chris?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Don't worry?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Remember now we figured it all out. He goes down
the street. That's the alley.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
If you go out the back way, you can get
to the alley before he does call him in there.
Take the sack, and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yes, and so there is to it.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Are you sure you're okay?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Honey?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
How can we lose?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Hold it? Buddy?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Just step inside here?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Now you do what I what I tell you, I'll
blow your head off.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Just those.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Inside your right hand pockets. You you got a sack,
all right, I do hand over. Don't don't don't be there,
just just just shut up, very big loud.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, yeah, you're just hand over the sack. You get here,
the is there's nothing in it, really, I said, hand
is over all right, all right, don't be nervous.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
You put your hand in your pocket and and take
it out again, slow, slowly, so bad the head that's
its hands it over.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Just what you say.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Don't you now turn around and start walking?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Uh, walk down.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
The street and and keep walking. Hello, Julie, Chris, where
are you in a phone? Chris? What happened? Did you
do it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Sure I did it? Tell the one dime Chris, one
thin measley, dye.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
It must even some mistake kind of sure was, and
we made it. Or I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
You know what I did with that dime? I put
it into the slot so I could call you up
and tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
But it only costs a nico to make a phone call.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
That's what the operator told me. But I said, honey,
you just keep the change. And so there it was
in the collection box of the pay telephone, our dime,
(41:35):
and soon it will slip back into the huge and
illimitable exchange of all the millions and billions of coins.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
That are pasted about daily from hand to hand.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And if anybody ever stopped to look at it twice,
We don't know because it was never heard of again.
Every now and then, a patient and hard working wife
(42:08):
turns suddenly on her husband. I will not be taken
for granted, she shouts and forthwith she A murders him,
b leaves him, C takes the lover, D goes out,
makes a glorious career for herself. E any or all
of the above being taken for granted, and taking things
(42:31):
for granted can result in fantastic losses.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Just don't count your change, look at your change. Our
cast included Earl Hammond.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Russell Horton, William Griffiths, Bryner Raeburn and Robert Dryden. The
entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown and
now a preview of our next tale, Who you have
to be?
Speaker 2 (43:02):
My name isn't Michael? I mean that's not what I'm
called by its path.
Speaker 4 (43:06):
It's a long time, do you know?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
And who remembers all the names?
Speaker 4 (43:10):
The way they can change with the pass in years,
They're still the one expected?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Are you not expected?
Speaker 4 (43:18):
The voice was after telling me you'd be back. Did
you not hear it yourself? The voice that is, why
are you here again?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm not here again, Ah.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
There now, it had to be such an important anniversary,
twenty one years.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
You had to be here here for what to strike.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Off the chains, set the soul at liberty to rest
in peace.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Miss Connaught. Forgive me, but I really don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Marshall in writing you to return to our Mystery Theater
for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant
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