October 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to South Carolina to investigate the disappearance of an ex-mobster who had gone straight.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 22, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jeanne Tatum; Jack Kruschen; Les Tremayne; Billy Halop; Frank Gerstle; Gil Stratton Jr.
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 22, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jeanne Tatum; Jack Kruschen; Les Tremayne; Billy Halop; Frank Gerstle; Gil Stratton Jr.
When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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This week are playing back Road in the twenty fifth century.
On Tuesday, we started the first of two episodes featuring
Buck Rogers, and for that episode, I'm joined by Alan Liska,
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who wrote the Yours Truly Johnny Dollar comic, and he's
got a new Buck Rogers comic and is sharing some
of his insights on the character and on the surviving
radio episodes. Encourage you to check that out at Great
Adventures dot info. We have the very first episode of
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Buck Rogers posted, and we'll have the next part posted
next Tuesday. Again, check that out at Great Adventures dot info.
All right, well, we kind of got out of order.
The episode that I played last week I should have
played this week, and so we kind of got them reversed.
But after that we'll be back on track. Here though,
(01:56):
from June twenty second, nineteen fifty eight is the Virtue
with Monster.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellen Jerry.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
This is your all p Lefty Lefty for sure, you
remember Lefty stimpa you know down here, invite.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You virtue feet by chill fight you some oh for sure?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah you remember me and the boys we occupied this
Carraway plantation. Yeah, you're in the pad River.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well sure of course. Listen. Are you having trouble again
a little man Carraway?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Oh no, shuh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Not a bit.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
And you know how we stopped them and the boys
from making trouble for us, Lefty, We bought them out,
that's all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
We give them a hundred cheez for the place cash money.
Now we own a whole entire plantation. Well, good for you,
and I want your problem.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, Jerny, we fixed this place up real night. Since
you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You always spend a lot of dawn, so so we
want to buy a lot of now insurance on it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Oh well, then hop on over to George down and
see your old friend Joe Picka Tello about it. Oh,
after all, he's your insurance as yeah, is he Well,
sure of course he is. Didn't he send you all
the other insurance? You Lefty? That something happened to Joe.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
What you mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I talked on the phone, asked him to come out here.
He says okay, but he don't come.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You think somebody's knocked him off.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
And I call him again, he's sukay again, give me
right over, but he still don't come.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, have you gone over to Georgetown to see him?
To see what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Five?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Six, maybe even a half a dozen times? What every time?
He ain't day, Lefty, I don't get it. That's what
I'm trying to tell you. There's something wrong about it, Johnny.
And if I want you, I come down here and
fine out.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know something? I think you're right?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Bailey and The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the
Action Pact Expenser God America is fabulous. Freeland Insurance Investigator
is truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Now I won the viewers.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by a special investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Continental Insurance Company Home Office, New York,
(04:32):
New York. Following is an account of expenses incurred during
my investigation of the Virtuous Mobster Matter. Expense account I
had of won seven dollars eighty five cents trained to
New York City and taxi to the office of Continental
Insurance Company. Fortunately, my contact there, Ben or Love, was in.
(04:53):
Come in, mister dollar, come in, thanks, how I am
Sit down?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Thanks now, mister all a minute, don't tell me you
never received that check for your services down in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, yes, I got that that mailed out to you
nearly two months ago. Yes, I said, I got it.
I am good.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Incidentally, I thoroughly enjoyed your report on that case, the
village of Virtue matter. You called it a why a
group of ex gangsters should decide to settle in a
town called Virtue? I'll never understand. Well, were they really
behaving themselves as your report indicated, or have they been
using that old plantation for a sort of hideout.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Their records have been cleaned down there for over twenty
years now, is that so?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Well, maybe the answer to organized crime is to give
all those fellows a nice, quiet plantation to live off.
So I must say that when our agent down there,
Joseph Picatello.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's about Joe that I've come to time.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Must say that I was a bit concerned when I
found Joe had sold policies to characters like Lefty Stemper
and Bully Magoon and Flippy lack of mister all Eye.
Those were the very sort of men that Thomas and
ju we chased out of New York when he was
va some years ago, all hours before due with the
game Governor. You know, so, naturally, what are you going
to say about Joe Piccadello? Have you heard from Joel recently?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
No, I don't think I have now that you mentioned,
because I just talked over the phone.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Wait, you must understand one thing.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Mister dor wants that our office down there in Georgetown
is probably the smallest one we have in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Joe really doesn't have much business for us. You know, yes,
I understand. I understood that when I talked to him
in April.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
If it worked for those those mobsters over in mobsters,
mister arwell, if it wasn't for them and some of
the townspeople to whom we've issued policies, I, mister Donner,
has something happened to Joe Picadello.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's what I want to find out, because now.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
That I think about it, excuse me, miss Bailey. Yes, mister,
did you ever get a reply on the harmon policy
from mister Piccadello in our Georgetown office?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No, sir, I've written mister Picateller several times.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Thank you dollar. We wrote Joe about that harmon matter
over four weeks ago. Well didn't it occur to you
to phone him and find out why he hasn't answered
to you?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
But it involves such a small policy that yes, perhaps
i'd better try to call him, Miss Bailey. Wait, yes,
nothing I said nothing. Well, mister Donnard or mister Rawloff,
if something has happened at your Piga Tello, well look.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Instead of spreading the alarm, how about if I quietly
run on down there. But have you reason to believe
something wrong has happened to him? Only from what his
clients down there at the plantation of told me over
the phone.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
You think perhaps some of his old Gangland enemies have
got to him after twenty years.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't know, but if you locame my expense again,
I'll go down there and.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Say, well, now, mister Donnan, and if you want I'll
go down there anyway, But there's the danger too. This
might be a very dangerous. Let me let me.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Hear from you as soon as you can, mister.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Dollar, Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now.
Speaker 10 (08:05):
For another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's bell weather.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
My husband, Donald, it's your pooring, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Can you see all right?
Speaker 12 (08:25):
Oh yeah, I can see the windshield wipers are operating
with mechanical profession. You notice there are no more streets either,
since I put on the new rubber blade.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
You know, I think every driver should have his windshield
wipers in good order.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
It's much safer. It would be much safer if everyone
would slow down during wet weather.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Like my husband is doing right now, just being cautious. Raba.
Speaker 12 (08:46):
We don't want an accident and move down for I
don't want an accident anytime.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Well, the experts say that accidents just don't happen. Something
causes accidents, and that cause can be.
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Prevented, by the way, in what kind of weather.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Do you think most accidents are?
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Care Oh like saying rain or snowy weather or any
slippery weather When visibility is.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Unfair at the wrong anthwer deer wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Are you serious?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Statistics show that eight.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Out of ten accidents occur when the weather is clear
or with a cloudy overcast.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Are you posited on the wine?
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Oh here's our house to Oh yeah.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
Now you said right here, Reba, I'll get out with
the umbrella, and then I'll come around and open your ear.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
All right?
Speaker 11 (09:35):
Anyway, I wonder why, I wonder why?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What why?
Speaker 12 (09:39):
Eight out of ten accidents happen in clear weather.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Oh well, I don't.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Know for sure, sergeant, but I do know that you
drew very carefully light in the rain.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
Think now, if everyone grow as carefully during clear, dry weather,
there'd be less accidents.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I'm sure that must be it. People automatically get cautious
in the rain and snow. Too bad. They don't stay
that way in good way. You will, won't you?
Speaker 11 (10:03):
I mean, drive safely in good weather too.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
I promise that's mine. Donald, that's my doll.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
And now I do of yours truly. Johnny Dollar and
the virtuous mobster matter.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Expenser gun had him two twenty eight dollars even transportation
in incidentals New York City to Georgetown South Carolina. It
was late when I pulled into the prosperous little southern
community that was dark, pitch dark. I am three fifty
bucks deposit on a rental car. I am four seventy
cents for a sandwich and a coca and all night diner.
Then I drove over to Joe Piccotello's on a side
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street near the park, the small frame building that served
as both paulfus and living quarters. But Joe was dark.
But in the hope he might be asleep in his
little apartment of above, I'm not I'll answer. Until I
was about to turn and go back to my car,
there was the sound of a door slamming somewhere inside,
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but still no light showed and knocked again, and faintly
I heard footsteps approaching. But why hadn't Joe turned on
the light in there?
Speaker 11 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What do you want? Joe? Yeah, Joe, open up. It's
Johnny Dollar. Johnny Dollar insurance investigator.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
You know, investigator, that's what you said.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Are you kidding? What's the matter with you? Pole? Open up? Yeah? Sure, Hi, Joe.
What's the idea of no lights in here? You forget
to pay your bell or something? Maybe?
Speaker 13 (11:53):
What do you want why investigator, you said, Willie?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 9 (11:58):
Willie?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
What is it? Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
No, you don't?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
All right, Willie?
Speaker 13 (12:14):
I got his gun. I hit him again? Yeah again,
once more?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, Okay, he is out like a life. Yeah. What
do you want I should do with him?
Speaker 14 (12:34):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You're crazy?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Willie?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You mean you don't know? Okay, but but bless him here.
It's gonna make a lot of noise. If any way, listen,
hate your car coming down the street.
Speaker 13 (12:50):
That's again, he said, so he wouldn't be working along
going not the back way.
Speaker 15 (13:06):
I don't don't. You'll see no lights on, Lefty.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Maybe Joe's went to bed if he's that.
Speaker 15 (13:12):
He didn't answer the phone when you called them.
Speaker 16 (13:14):
Listen, Flippy, Johnny and Dollar told me I should come
down here and look for Joe myself.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So come on, we'll see.
Speaker 15 (13:21):
Whatever you say, Lefty. Only I thought that Johnny was
coming down here himself.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Huh hey, look the doors open?
Speaker 15 (13:31):
Yeah you you look what what I stepped on?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Joe? Joe? What happened to you?
Speaker 15 (13:37):
That ain't Joe, It's it's Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hey, you're right, Flippy, somebody must let's anyway, Oh, Johnny Johnny, Johnny,
it's me.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
It's me, Lefty and me Flippy Johnny.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, you're right, you're right. This to you, Johnny, Yeah,
we'll moorize him.
Speaker 15 (14:05):
Sure, what happened in here?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know who done this to you? Johnny?
Speaker 15 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it was help me lay up on the sofa.
He's easy.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Here, yeah, Johnny, listen to me.
Speaker 15 (14:26):
Oh, Johnny, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I can't believe it, but I can see him in
the light of the stool show pig of Tellow, Smoky
pigg of Tellow down. This to you. Theother guy with
him called him will he will the lump. Why why
did he do it? I don't know. I did very
strange when he came to the door. And I don't
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get it. He was my power he was your power.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
Man, well like the lump with him. That that's what
I don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It means he's went back, That's what it means.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
He's went back to the old rack dope smuggling him
and Willie Laumpa's partners in the old days.
Speaker 15 (15:04):
But twenty years, Joe's straight, Lefty look like you and
me and Bully McCool.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, for twenty years, you and me and bully.
Speaker 16 (15:12):
The only guns we ever used was for hunting, for
killing snakes, not no more.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What are your mean? Left?
Speaker 16 (15:18):
He Joe Pigotello done this to you? Johnny means only
one thing. There's only one thing we can do.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, he's right, Johnny, Oh no, left here, Johnny. First,
we take you back to the plantation. When you get
all right again, no, listen to me, And we find
Joe picketteller flipp and bullying me, and we.
Speaker 13 (15:37):
Do, well, what are you Pump's doing here?
Speaker 11 (15:41):
Huh h?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
That's right? Who'd you expected? What's the big eye?
Speaker 16 (15:45):
All right, don't move because Joe I'm gonna blast your
head off.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Fact three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment
do you know who said?
Speaker 17 (16:03):
Every individual in society has certain powers, rights, and privileges
which no other individual can justly abridge or destroy. Those
words were written by Noah Webster, the man who compiled
America's first Great dictionary. Mister Webster knew that if the
country which he had seen come into being were to succeed,
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the rights of the individual have to be protected. Each
person is entitled to certain basic rights, powers, and privileges
which must not be taken away because of the whim
of someone with greater power. In the United States, the
individual is important regardless of his wealth, power, or position.
(16:47):
The importance of the individual is closely linked to the
American tradition. Remember the words of Noah Webster, they are
part of your American heritage. The right and privileges of
the individual must be preserved.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No I free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
virtuous Mobster matter.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
To say, the atmosphere was tense there on Joe Piccatello's
office in Georgetown, South Carolina, would be the understatement of
the week. After the beating I'd taken for the ex
gangster in one of his pals. My old friends Lefty
and Flippy had come in and found me there, and
they couldn't understand why Joe had done this to me unless.
Speaker 16 (17:34):
Amaze, He's went back, That's what it means, went back
to the rackets.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Willie was quit him.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And when Willie was partners of the old days though nuts.
So the two of them swore to get you. And
then suddenly we looked up to see someone standing in
the doorway. Joe. It was Joe Piccatello.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
That's right.
Speaker 15 (17:51):
Now we're expected what all.
Speaker 16 (17:53):
Right, don't move because Joe, I'm gonna blest you ahead,
and I've put that thing down left the.
Speaker 15 (18:00):
Don't move a gag or something?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Is it a gag? What you've done at Johnny Dollar?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I said, one move and I'll give it there.
Speaker 15 (18:08):
Johnny, turn around, Joe, I'll shoot you in the back.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You dirty? What did they do to you?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Johnny? Listen, Lufty, Flippy, I'll.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Kill you for this.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What are you talking about? Your dirty rock?
Speaker 18 (18:18):
Lefty Johnny's my pal like you used to be before
you went back in the rackets, went back in the racket.
Speaker 15 (18:23):
H Yeah, with that dupeound Willy the Lump.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What do you know about Willy the Lump? Plenty? Now
that you're back with them, you're crazy.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
It's no good, Joe, because Johnny recognized you, You and.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Willy the Lump. When you wipe them over, I tell.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You that I had twenty years.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You and Bully and Flippy and me. We showed we
could do it straight. We could be respectable. Me and
a boy's at the plantation. You down here, but now
you spoiled. You're ruining for.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
All of us.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Luck with your little don't move We made a deal,
you and me and the boys twenty years ago.
Speaker 18 (18:54):
If anybody slips, anybody breaks up our respectable life.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
He gotta go.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is that the deal?
Speaker 13 (19:00):
Yeah, that was the deal. But you don't know what
you're talking about. What you say, I'm going back, all.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Right, so you your laws. He's come. You not only
go back and do this to Johnny dot of my friend.
The guy who believed in it is Lefty. So for
that you got a gut he Listen now, Joe right, Lefty,
give me a gun, Lefty.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
No, Johnny, that was the deal.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You ever use a gun on a man, you'll go
up for the rest of your life. Johnny, it's for you.
I'm hand it over, Lefty. Okay, thanks. You see it
it wasn't Joe who worked me over. I thought it was.
It did look like him, it sounded like that, and I
was look at his hands, his face is closed. Is
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this the man I fought with him here five minutes ago? Sure?
Maybe I did get the worst of it with two
of them on top of me, but believe me, I
cut them up. Some tool he's right, Lefty.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Yeah, But then I don't if it wasn't him.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The twin the twin.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
You're right, Lefty, it must be the twins, the.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Twin here, all right, boys, let me in on a
tour with the Sheplock or the twin they called him,
that's what the law called him, called him, Joe, the
twins because they looked like each other, they talked like
each other. Yeah, there was always the allibie for each other.
Speaker 15 (20:19):
But what shep lock or doing here.
Speaker 18 (20:22):
I can't tell you, not yet, all right, Joe, all right,
I believe you about not working over Johnny here because
of what he says about well about you not being
mussed up.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
But if you and Shepherd back in the rack, not left,
that's straight, all right?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Then tell me where you've been.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Three four weeks now, we don't know where. The insurance
company don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Why.
Speaker 13 (20:50):
Well, I can't tell you that. Listen you listen. If
Sheppard will you have been here, they'll be coming back? Why, Yeah, Joe,
I can't tell you. I can't tell you, all right, listen, well,
listening to Joe the secret cerbrush.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well after those killings up in Baltimore during that smuggling, Joe.
Speaker 13 (21:13):
Yeah, Johnny, they knew the twins shepwalk when Willie. Well,
the boys in Washington knew they did it, but they
didn't know where.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
To find him.
Speaker 13 (21:20):
Well, go on, Joe, So they sped the way the
secret Cyprus sped the way that I knew where Shep
and Willy were, that I would lead.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Them to him. You knew where he was, huh No, but.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
The law boys knew that to flush him out, get
Shepping Willy out looking for me, gune in for me, and.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The Secret Service didn't keep you under cover. Yeah, until
today back in Washington. I talked to you on your
phone right here.
Speaker 13 (21:41):
At the line was raked through to Washington.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You said, until today, Joe.
Speaker 13 (21:46):
Yeah, because Shepp and Willy didn't show, the law boys
had to make them show.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So then they sent you here as living baits. Yeah,
and they passed the word that you'd be here. That's it, Johnny.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
That's why Shepper Willy will wait here when you came.
That's why I'll come back now that I'm here. Boy,
if you stuck your knock out for the sake of
going straight, I couldn't help myself. A secret Service rigged
on me. Guy named Phillips. But now you're rolling it,
so flip me. Tine out the lights.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, let's get out of here.
Speaker 17 (22:19):
And what oh listen, we was crooks but never killers,
but it's killers.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's coming to get Joe. Well you ain't, Lefty, but
they won't and they won't get you, Johnny. Sorry, Lefty,
I can't move. Then we're staying for you and Joe.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Yeah right, so turn out the lights for me to
lakewise them.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
That's right, your own pile shep block or keep her
riding on him, Willie, don't worry, ship, investigator, aunt dolla,
I need a secret service. Yes, they knew we should
have killed him when we had your dollar. So we
thought these boys driving up was reinforcements. Reinforcements.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
We should have known this a good serbance. Wasn't that bright?
All right?
Speaker 13 (23:03):
Will he first come when I keep this gun on him?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Sure? None of you trying to dollar? We got his gun.
Oh okay, Jess, what do you intend doing? Queen ship?
What do you think? All right?
Speaker 13 (23:18):
Joe gets it first, but you're gonna post so it
don't make no noise.
Speaker 14 (23:22):
Go ahead, Willie, Yeah you got him boat, and I
thought you couldn't move.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Yeah, my boy, Thanks Johnny.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Thanks thank Lefty for giving me his gun when I
asked for a show. Oh hey, look, any of you
guys know a good doctor. Yeah. I've said it before
and I say it again. In this insurance business, you
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never know what you'll run into. Expense account total including
a flock of medical expenses and the trip back to
Hartford one hundred and seventy four dollars even, Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, Originates in Hollywood.
That is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were Jeene Jatum,
Jack Krushian, Less Tremade, Billy Helen, Frank Urstol and Gil
Stratton Junior.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Be sure to join us next.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Week, same time and station, or another exciting story of
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
This is Royal Rowlan.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Speaking Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not a bad episode. It's another example of Johnstone creating
a group of characters or a single character, and rather
than just having them as one time used, he decides
he's going to do a callback, make them maybe recurring.
I do wonder whether doing a second episode with this
group was a good idea this soon, but it was
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enjoyable for what it was. On the bright side, now
Johnny knows that a blood oath is what's keeping the
X mobsters on the straight and narrow, which should be
a comfort to the insurance company as long as they
don't worry too much about having to pay off in
the event that someone violates the oath. Listener comments, and
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fayback now we start over on YouTube. Have a comment
regarding the Wayward River matter. Listener writes, the story is timeless.
It could have been written about last year in North
Carolina when the hurricanes came through. Well, I think definitely
the idea of small towns not prepared for floods and
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the real risk that it poses to those communities really
does make a timeless story. Maybe not going to a
store to get dynamite, but the flooding part and the
peril I think absolutely. Then have a comment. This comes
from W. Baker third, regarding the village of Virtue. Matter
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so the first or I guess prequel to this story writs.
At the beginning of the episode, Johnny jokes about payment
of his own life insurance if things don't go well.
This begs the question why would Johnny have a life insurance?
Who would be the beneficiary. Well, the obvious and honest
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answer to both is I don't know, But I can
speculate not so much on the beneficiary but why he
might have had the policy. And I think it's safe
to say that we think differently about life insurance in
the twenty first century than people might have thought about
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it in the nineteen fifties. Now, certainly it was thought
about as a way to take care of your loved
ones in the event of your passing, but I think
it was far more common to think of life insurance,
particularly whole life, as an investment vehicle. Now there are
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still people who will think of it that way. There
is a whole.
Speaker 19 (28:50):
Debate in the world of finance and personal finance on
the question of whole life as an investment, But I
think it was more commonly viewed that way in the
late nineteen fifties, particularly by someone like Johnny who worked
in the industry.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Now today, the sort of mainstream investing advice you would
here given to someone like Johnny is to put money
into an IRA and put that money into something like
an smpmdex fund, and then also do that in post
tax accounts if you had more than the maximum to
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save well. In nineteen fifty eight, they didn't have iras
and they didn't have index funds, and after the Great
stock market Crash of nineteen twenty nine, people were very
jumpy about the idea of investing in the stock market.
And in fact, if you listen to a lot of
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old time radio, it eitherre is a very strong under
a current of don't buy stocks, don't invest in stock
now not everyone held to that, but there's no indication
of Johnny ever being invested in the stock market. But
he also has relatively low expenses beyond his apartment rent
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and things he actually ends up paying for himself. And
given Johnny's connections in the insurance industry, he probably could
have gotten a policy at a discount. So he probably
viewed the life insurance policy as an investment, and it
had benefits that he would have liked. There were some
tax benefits, cash value of the policy built up over time,
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and if Johnny ever ran into a tight spot, he
could borrow against that cash value, and there are probably
other benefits. But my point here is that it could
have very well made sense as an investment vehicle, even
if if he didn't have any family to take care
of particularly given that many of the things that we
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might use in the twenty first century instead were not
yet available and would not become available until the seventies. Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and thank Carissa, Patreon
supporter since March of twenty twenty four, currently supporting the
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Speaker 13 (31:58):
This is an expect on a day signing until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Hit there we go through your fingers crushed.
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Don't turn off your radios, people of Fribourg.
Speaker 9 (32:10):
This is for you.
Speaker 20 (32:12):
I am your voice of freedom, bringing you news as
it actually exists, not as the propaganda ministry would like.
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You to believe.
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That's good wonderful. It wasn't fifty sons of Friburg who
died at the Anzio Beach had but five hundred. You mothers, wives, sweethearts,
who have not heard from your men. You think the
males are slow? Is that why you haven't received letters?
Your men will never write again. They were killed at Anzio. Women,
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They are taking your men away? What do you have
for compensation?
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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This week are playing back Road in the twenty fifth century.
On Tuesday, we started the first of two episodes featuring
Buck Rogers, and for that episode, I'm joined by Alan Liska,
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who wrote the Yours Truly Johnny Dollar comic, and he's
got a new Buck Rogers comic and is sharing some
of his insights on the character and on the surviving
radio episodes. Encourage you to check that out at Great
Adventures dot info. We have the very first episode of
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Buck Rogers posted, and we'll have the next part posted
next Tuesday. Again, check that out at Great Adventures dot info.
All right, well, we kind of got out of order.
The episode that I played last week I should have
played this week, and so we kind of got them reversed.
But after that we'll be back on track. Here though,
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from June twenty second, nineteen fifty eight is the Virtue
with Monster.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellen Jerry.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
This is your all p Lefty Lefty for sure, you
remember Lefty stimpa you know down here, invite.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You virtue feet by chill fight you some oh for sure?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah you remember me and the boys we occupied this
Carraway plantation. Yeah, you're in the pad River.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well sure of course. Listen. Are you having trouble again
a little man Carraway?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Oh no, shuh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Not a bit.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
And you know how we stopped them and the boys
from making trouble for us, Lefty, We bought them out,
that's all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
We give them a hundred cheez for the place cash money.
Now we own a whole entire plantation. Well, good for you,
and I want your problem.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, Jerny, we fixed this place up real night. Since
you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You always spend a lot of dawn, so so we
want to buy a lot of now insurance on it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Oh well, then hop on over to George down and
see your old friend Joe Picka Tello about it. Oh,
after all, he's your insurance as yeah, is he Well,
sure of course he is. Didn't he send you all
the other insurance? You Lefty? That something happened to Joe.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
What you mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I talked on the phone, asked him to come out here.
He says okay, but he don't come.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You think somebody's knocked him off.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
And I call him again, he's sukay again, give me
right over, but he still don't come.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, have you gone over to Georgetown to see him?
To see what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Five?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Six, maybe even a half a dozen times? What every time?
He ain't day, Lefty, I don't get it. That's what
I'm trying to tell you. There's something wrong about it, Johnny.
And if I want you, I come down here and
fine out.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know something? I think you're right?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Bailey and The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the
Action Pact Expenser God America is fabulous. Freeland Insurance Investigator
is truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Now I won the viewers.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by a special investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Continental Insurance Company Home Office, New York,
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New York. Following is an account of expenses incurred during
my investigation of the Virtuous Mobster Matter. Expense account I
had of won seven dollars eighty five cents trained to
New York City and taxi to the office of Continental
Insurance Company. Fortunately, my contact there, Ben or Love, was in.
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Come in, mister dollar, come in, thanks, how I am
Sit down?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Thanks now, mister all a minute, don't tell me you
never received that check for your services down in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, yes, I got that that mailed out to you
nearly two months ago. Yes, I said, I got it.
I am good.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Incidentally, I thoroughly enjoyed your report on that case, the
village of Virtue matter. You called it a why a
group of ex gangsters should decide to settle in a
town called Virtue? I'll never understand. Well, were they really
behaving themselves as your report indicated, or have they been
using that old plantation for a sort of hideout.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Their records have been cleaned down there for over twenty
years now, is that so?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Well, maybe the answer to organized crime is to give
all those fellows a nice, quiet plantation to live off.
So I must say that when our agent down there,
Joseph Picatello.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's about Joe that I've come to time.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Must say that I was a bit concerned when I
found Joe had sold policies to characters like Lefty Stemper
and Bully Magoon and Flippy lack of mister all Eye.
Those were the very sort of men that Thomas and
ju we chased out of New York when he was
va some years ago, all hours before due with the
game Governor. You know, so, naturally, what are you going
to say about Joe Piccadello? Have you heard from Joel recently?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
No, I don't think I have now that you mentioned,
because I just talked over the phone.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Wait, you must understand one thing.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Mister dor wants that our office down there in Georgetown
is probably the smallest one we have in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Joe really doesn't have much business for us. You know, yes,
I understand. I understood that when I talked to him
in April.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
If it worked for those those mobsters over in mobsters,
mister arwell, if it wasn't for them and some of
the townspeople to whom we've issued policies, I, mister Donner,
has something happened to Joe Picadello.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's what I want to find out, because now.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
That I think about it, excuse me, miss Bailey. Yes, mister,
did you ever get a reply on the harmon policy
from mister Piccadello in our Georgetown office?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No, sir, I've written mister Picateller several times.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Thank you dollar. We wrote Joe about that harmon matter
over four weeks ago. Well didn't it occur to you
to phone him and find out why he hasn't answered
to you?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
But it involves such a small policy that yes, perhaps
i'd better try to call him, Miss Bailey. Wait, yes,
nothing I said nothing. Well, mister Donnard or mister Rawloff,
if something has happened at your Piga Tello, well look.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Instead of spreading the alarm, how about if I quietly
run on down there. But have you reason to believe
something wrong has happened to him? Only from what his
clients down there at the plantation of told me over
the phone.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
You think perhaps some of his old Gangland enemies have
got to him after twenty years.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't know, but if you locame my expense again,
I'll go down there and.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Say, well, now, mister Donnan, and if you want I'll
go down there anyway, But there's the danger too. This
might be a very dangerous. Let me let me.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Hear from you as soon as you can, mister.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Dollar, Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now.
Speaker 10 (08:05):
For another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's bell weather.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
My husband, Donald, it's your pooring, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Can you see all right?
Speaker 12 (08:25):
Oh yeah, I can see the windshield wipers are operating
with mechanical profession. You notice there are no more streets either,
since I put on the new rubber blade.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
You know, I think every driver should have his windshield
wipers in good order.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
It's much safer. It would be much safer if everyone
would slow down during wet weather.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Like my husband is doing right now, just being cautious. Raba.
Speaker 12 (08:46):
We don't want an accident and move down for I
don't want an accident anytime.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Well, the experts say that accidents just don't happen. Something
causes accidents, and that cause can be.
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Prevented, by the way, in what kind of weather.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Do you think most accidents are?
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Care Oh like saying rain or snowy weather or any
slippery weather When visibility is.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Unfair at the wrong anthwer deer wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Are you serious?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Statistics show that eight.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Out of ten accidents occur when the weather is clear
or with a cloudy overcast.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Are you posited on the wine?
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Oh here's our house to Oh yeah.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
Now you said right here, Reba, I'll get out with
the umbrella, and then I'll come around and open your ear.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
All right?
Speaker 11 (09:35):
Anyway, I wonder why, I wonder why?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What why?
Speaker 12 (09:39):
Eight out of ten accidents happen in clear weather.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Oh well, I don't.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Know for sure, sergeant, but I do know that you
drew very carefully light in the rain.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
Think now, if everyone grow as carefully during clear, dry weather,
there'd be less accidents.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I'm sure that must be it. People automatically get cautious
in the rain and snow. Too bad. They don't stay
that way in good way. You will, won't you?
Speaker 11 (10:03):
I mean, drive safely in good weather too.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
I promise that's mine. Donald, that's my doll.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
And now I do of yours truly. Johnny Dollar and
the virtuous mobster matter.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Expenser gun had him two twenty eight dollars even transportation
in incidentals New York City to Georgetown South Carolina. It
was late when I pulled into the prosperous little southern
community that was dark, pitch dark. I am three fifty
bucks deposit on a rental car. I am four seventy
cents for a sandwich and a coca and all night diner.
Then I drove over to Joe Piccotello's on a side
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street near the park, the small frame building that served
as both paulfus and living quarters. But Joe was dark.
But in the hope he might be asleep in his
little apartment of above, I'm not I'll answer. Until I
was about to turn and go back to my car,
there was the sound of a door slamming somewhere inside,
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but still no light showed and knocked again, and faintly
I heard footsteps approaching. But why hadn't Joe turned on
the light in there?
Speaker 11 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What do you want? Joe? Yeah, Joe, open up. It's
Johnny Dollar. Johnny Dollar insurance investigator.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
You know, investigator, that's what you said.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Are you kidding? What's the matter with you? Pole? Open up? Yeah? Sure, Hi, Joe.
What's the idea of no lights in here? You forget
to pay your bell or something? Maybe?
Speaker 13 (11:53):
What do you want why investigator, you said, Willie?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 9 (11:58):
Willie?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
What is it? Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
No, you don't?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
All right, Willie?
Speaker 13 (12:14):
I got his gun. I hit him again? Yeah again,
once more?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, Okay, he is out like a life. Yeah. What
do you want I should do with him?
Speaker 14 (12:34):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You're crazy?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Willie?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You mean you don't know? Okay, but but bless him here.
It's gonna make a lot of noise. If any way, listen,
hate your car coming down the street.
Speaker 13 (12:50):
That's again, he said, so he wouldn't be working along
going not the back way.
Speaker 15 (13:06):
I don't don't. You'll see no lights on, Lefty.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Maybe Joe's went to bed if he's that.
Speaker 15 (13:12):
He didn't answer the phone when you called them.
Speaker 16 (13:14):
Listen, Flippy, Johnny and Dollar told me I should come
down here and look for Joe myself.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So come on, we'll see.
Speaker 15 (13:21):
Whatever you say, Lefty. Only I thought that Johnny was
coming down here himself.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Huh hey, look the doors open?
Speaker 15 (13:31):
Yeah you you look what what I stepped on?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Joe? Joe? What happened to you?
Speaker 15 (13:37):
That ain't Joe, It's it's Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hey, you're right, Flippy, somebody must let's anyway, Oh, Johnny Johnny, Johnny,
it's me.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
It's me, Lefty and me Flippy Johnny.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, you're right, you're right. This to you, Johnny, Yeah,
we'll moorize him.
Speaker 15 (14:05):
Sure, what happened in here?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know who done this to you? Johnny?
Speaker 15 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it was help me lay up on the sofa.
He's easy.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Here, yeah, Johnny, listen to me.
Speaker 15 (14:26):
Oh, Johnny, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I can't believe it, but I can see him in
the light of the stool show pig of Tellow, Smoky
pigg of Tellow down. This to you. Theother guy with
him called him will he will the lump. Why why
did he do it? I don't know. I did very
strange when he came to the door. And I don't
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get it. He was my power he was your power.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
Man, well like the lump with him. That that's what
I don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It means he's went back, That's what it means.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
He's went back to the old rack dope smuggling him
and Willie Laumpa's partners in the old days.
Speaker 15 (15:04):
But twenty years, Joe's straight, Lefty look like you and
me and Bully McCool.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, for twenty years, you and me and bully.
Speaker 16 (15:12):
The only guns we ever used was for hunting, for
killing snakes, not no more.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What are your mean? Left?
Speaker 16 (15:18):
He Joe Pigotello done this to you? Johnny means only
one thing. There's only one thing we can do.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, he's right, Johnny, Oh no, left here, Johnny. First,
we take you back to the plantation. When you get
all right again, no, listen to me, And we find
Joe picketteller flipp and bullying me, and we.
Speaker 13 (15:37):
Do, well, what are you Pump's doing here?
Speaker 11 (15:41):
Huh h?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
That's right? Who'd you expected? What's the big eye?
Speaker 16 (15:45):
All right, don't move because Joe I'm gonna blast your
head off.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Fact three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment
do you know who said?
Speaker 17 (16:03):
Every individual in society has certain powers, rights, and privileges
which no other individual can justly abridge or destroy. Those
words were written by Noah Webster, the man who compiled
America's first Great dictionary. Mister Webster knew that if the
country which he had seen come into being were to succeed,
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the rights of the individual have to be protected. Each
person is entitled to certain basic rights, powers, and privileges
which must not be taken away because of the whim
of someone with greater power. In the United States, the
individual is important regardless of his wealth, power, or position.
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The importance of the individual is closely linked to the
American tradition. Remember the words of Noah Webster, they are
part of your American heritage. The right and privileges of
the individual must be preserved.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No I free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
virtuous Mobster matter.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
To say, the atmosphere was tense there on Joe Piccatello's
office in Georgetown, South Carolina, would be the understatement of
the week. After the beating I'd taken for the ex
gangster in one of his pals. My old friends Lefty
and Flippy had come in and found me there, and
they couldn't understand why Joe had done this to me unless.
Speaker 16 (17:34):
Amaze, He's went back, That's what it means, went back
to the rackets.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Willie was quit him.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And when Willie was partners of the old days though nuts.
So the two of them swore to get you. And
then suddenly we looked up to see someone standing in
the doorway. Joe. It was Joe Piccatello.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
That's right.
Speaker 15 (17:51):
Now we're expected what all.
Speaker 16 (17:53):
Right, don't move because Joe, I'm gonna blest you ahead,
and I've put that thing down left the.
Speaker 15 (18:00):
Don't move a gag or something?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Is it a gag? What you've done at Johnny Dollar?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I said, one move and I'll give it there.
Speaker 15 (18:08):
Johnny, turn around, Joe, I'll shoot you in the back.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You dirty? What did they do to you?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Johnny? Listen, Lufty, Flippy, I'll.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Kill you for this.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What are you talking about? Your dirty rock?
Speaker 18 (18:18):
Lefty Johnny's my pal like you used to be before
you went back in the rackets, went back in the racket.
Speaker 15 (18:23):
H Yeah, with that dupeound Willy the Lump.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What do you know about Willy the Lump? Plenty? Now
that you're back with them, you're crazy.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
It's no good, Joe, because Johnny recognized you, You and.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Willy the Lump. When you wipe them over, I tell.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You that I had twenty years.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You and Bully and Flippy and me. We showed we
could do it straight. We could be respectable. Me and
a boy's at the plantation. You down here, but now
you spoiled. You're ruining for.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
All of us.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Luck with your little don't move We made a deal,
you and me and the boys twenty years ago.
Speaker 18 (18:54):
If anybody slips, anybody breaks up our respectable life.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
He gotta go.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is that the deal?
Speaker 13 (19:00):
Yeah, that was the deal. But you don't know what
you're talking about. What you say, I'm going back, all.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Right, so you your laws. He's come. You not only
go back and do this to Johnny dot of my friend.
The guy who believed in it is Lefty. So for
that you got a gut he Listen now, Joe right, Lefty,
give me a gun, Lefty.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
No, Johnny, that was the deal.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You ever use a gun on a man, you'll go
up for the rest of your life. Johnny, it's for you.
I'm hand it over, Lefty. Okay, thanks. You see it
it wasn't Joe who worked me over. I thought it was.
It did look like him, it sounded like that, and I
was look at his hands, his face is closed. Is
(19:45):
this the man I fought with him here five minutes ago? Sure?
Maybe I did get the worst of it with two
of them on top of me, but believe me, I
cut them up. Some tool he's right, Lefty.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Yeah, But then I don't if it wasn't him.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The twin the twin.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
You're right, Lefty, it must be the twins, the.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Twin here, all right, boys, let me in on a
tour with the Sheplock or the twin they called him,
that's what the law called him, called him, Joe, the
twins because they looked like each other, they talked like
each other. Yeah, there was always the allibie for each other.
Speaker 15 (20:19):
But what shep lock or doing here.
Speaker 18 (20:22):
I can't tell you, not yet, all right, Joe, all right,
I believe you about not working over Johnny here because
of what he says about well about you not being
mussed up.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
But if you and Shepherd back in the rack, not left,
that's straight, all right?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Then tell me where you've been.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Three four weeks now, we don't know where. The insurance
company don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Why.
Speaker 13 (20:50):
Well, I can't tell you that. Listen you listen. If
Sheppard will you have been here, they'll be coming back? Why, Yeah, Joe,
I can't tell you. I can't tell you, all right, listen, well,
listening to Joe the secret cerbrush.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well after those killings up in Baltimore during that smuggling, Joe.
Speaker 13 (21:13):
Yeah, Johnny, they knew the twins shepwalk when Willie. Well,
the boys in Washington knew they did it, but they
didn't know where.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
To find him.
Speaker 13 (21:20):
Well, go on, Joe, So they sped the way the
secret Cyprus sped the way that I knew where Shep
and Willy were, that I would lead.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Them to him. You knew where he was, huh No, but.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
The law boys knew that to flush him out, get
Shepping Willy out looking for me, gune in for me, and.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The Secret Service didn't keep you under cover. Yeah, until
today back in Washington. I talked to you on your
phone right here.
Speaker 13 (21:41):
At the line was raked through to Washington.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You said, until today, Joe.
Speaker 13 (21:46):
Yeah, because Shepp and Willy didn't show, the law boys
had to make them show.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So then they sent you here as living baits. Yeah,
and they passed the word that you'd be here. That's it, Johnny.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
That's why Shepper Willy will wait here when you came.
That's why I'll come back now that I'm here. Boy,
if you stuck your knock out for the sake of
going straight, I couldn't help myself. A secret Service rigged
on me. Guy named Phillips. But now you're rolling it,
so flip me. Tine out the lights.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, let's get out of here.
Speaker 17 (22:19):
And what oh listen, we was crooks but never killers,
but it's killers.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's coming to get Joe. Well you ain't, Lefty, but
they won't and they won't get you, Johnny. Sorry, Lefty,
I can't move. Then we're staying for you and Joe.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Yeah right, so turn out the lights for me to
lakewise them.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
That's right, your own pile shep block or keep her
riding on him, Willie, don't worry, ship, investigator, aunt dolla,
I need a secret service. Yes, they knew we should
have killed him when we had your dollar. So we
thought these boys driving up was reinforcements. Reinforcements.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
We should have known this a good serbance. Wasn't that bright?
All right?
Speaker 13 (23:03):
Will he first come when I keep this gun on him?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Sure? None of you trying to dollar? We got his gun.
Oh okay, Jess, what do you intend doing? Queen ship?
What do you think? All right?
Speaker 13 (23:18):
Joe gets it first, but you're gonna post so it
don't make no noise.
Speaker 14 (23:22):
Go ahead, Willie, Yeah you got him boat, and I
thought you couldn't move.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Yeah, my boy, Thanks Johnny.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Thanks thank Lefty for giving me his gun when I
asked for a show. Oh hey, look, any of you
guys know a good doctor. Yeah. I've said it before
and I say it again. In this insurance business, you
(24:05):
never know what you'll run into. Expense account total including
a flock of medical expenses and the trip back to
Hartford one hundred and seventy four dollars even, Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, Originates in Hollywood.
That is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were Jeene Jatum,
Jack Krushian, Less Tremade, Billy Helen, Frank Urstol and Gil
Stratton Junior.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Be sure to join us next.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Week, same time and station, or another exciting story of
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
This is Royal Rowlan.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Speaking Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not a bad episode. It's another example of Johnstone creating
a group of characters or a single character, and rather
than just having them as one time used, he decides
he's going to do a callback, make them maybe recurring.
I do wonder whether doing a second episode with this
group was a good idea this soon, but it was
(26:35):
enjoyable for what it was. On the bright side, now
Johnny knows that a blood oath is what's keeping the
X mobsters on the straight and narrow, which should be
a comfort to the insurance company as long as they
don't worry too much about having to pay off in
the event that someone violates the oath. Listener comments, and
(26:55):
fayback now we start over on YouTube. Have a comment
regarding the Wayward River matter. Listener writes, the story is timeless.
It could have been written about last year in North
Carolina when the hurricanes came through. Well, I think definitely
the idea of small towns not prepared for floods and
(27:16):
the real risk that it poses to those communities really
does make a timeless story. Maybe not going to a
store to get dynamite, but the flooding part and the
peril I think absolutely. Then have a comment. This comes
from W. Baker third, regarding the village of Virtue. Matter
(27:41):
so the first or I guess prequel to this story writs.
At the beginning of the episode, Johnny jokes about payment
of his own life insurance if things don't go well.
This begs the question why would Johnny have a life insurance?
Who would be the beneficiary. Well, the obvious and honest
(28:02):
answer to both is I don't know, But I can
speculate not so much on the beneficiary but why he
might have had the policy. And I think it's safe
to say that we think differently about life insurance in
the twenty first century than people might have thought about
(28:23):
it in the nineteen fifties. Now, certainly it was thought
about as a way to take care of your loved
ones in the event of your passing, but I think
it was far more common to think of life insurance,
particularly whole life, as an investment vehicle. Now there are
(28:43):
still people who will think of it that way. There
is a whole.
Speaker 19 (28:50):
Debate in the world of finance and personal finance on
the question of whole life as an investment, But I
think it was more commonly viewed that way in the
late nineteen fifties, particularly by someone like Johnny who worked
in the industry.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Now today, the sort of mainstream investing advice you would
here given to someone like Johnny is to put money
into an IRA and put that money into something like
an smpmdex fund, and then also do that in post
tax accounts if you had more than the maximum to
(29:34):
save well. In nineteen fifty eight, they didn't have iras
and they didn't have index funds, and after the Great
stock market Crash of nineteen twenty nine, people were very
jumpy about the idea of investing in the stock market.
And in fact, if you listen to a lot of
(29:55):
old time radio, it eitherre is a very strong under
a current of don't buy stocks, don't invest in stock
now not everyone held to that, but there's no indication
of Johnny ever being invested in the stock market. But
he also has relatively low expenses beyond his apartment rent
(30:19):
and things he actually ends up paying for himself. And
given Johnny's connections in the insurance industry, he probably could
have gotten a policy at a discount. So he probably
viewed the life insurance policy as an investment, and it
had benefits that he would have liked. There were some
tax benefits, cash value of the policy built up over time,
(30:44):
and if Johnny ever ran into a tight spot, he
could borrow against that cash value, and there are probably
other benefits. But my point here is that it could
have very well made sense as an investment vehicle, even
if if he didn't have any family to take care
of particularly given that many of the things that we
(31:06):
might use in the twenty first century instead were not
yet available and would not become available until the seventies. Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and thank Carissa, Patreon
supporter since March of twenty twenty four, currently supporting the
podcast at the Shawmus level of four dollars or more
(31:28):
per month. Thanks so much for your support, Carrissa. That
will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,
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(31:50):
tomorrow as we turn to the great adventurers of old
time radio and Cloak and Dagger, where.
Speaker 13 (31:58):
This is an expect on a day signing until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Hit there we go through your fingers crushed.
Speaker 20 (32:07):
Don't turn off your radios, people of Fribourg.
Speaker 9 (32:10):
This is for you.
Speaker 20 (32:12):
I am your voice of freedom, bringing you news as
it actually exists, not as the propaganda ministry would like.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
You to believe.
Speaker 20 (32:21):
That's good wonderful. It wasn't fifty sons of Friburg who
died at the Anzio Beach had but five hundred. You mothers, wives, sweethearts,
who have not heard from your men. You think the
males are slow? Is that why you haven't received letters?
Your men will never write again. They were killed at Anzio. Women,
(32:47):
They are taking your men away? What do you have
for compensation?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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