September 5, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M h. Fantas see then selvni turnpike. I'll restraind it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How do you mischief? Mind?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
If I come in set the.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wroundpe like the door.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's sort of that blame rose along this highway?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Where shall my feet?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wouldn't hold up another mile?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You hitch him? Yep? Going first?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know? Uh, come firt yep, come a fence?
Smart piece?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Hm getting pretty old? Be hitchhiking? Get many rides? Yep?
Had anything to eat lately? And much coffee?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Smells good?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It is good? Make it myself? How about a cup?
Warm you up?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Matter of fact, don't have one with you? Any man spread?
Any what man spread? Never heard of it? No?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I forgot reckn you never have?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Hey, h, mister nice and hot?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
How much old?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Just a nickel? What a nickel is taking out of
that much blide?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Hey? Hold on, this ain't no nickel. What's that?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Mischief? I say?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
This ain't no nickel. It's a gold coin. Hey, don't
you know it's against the law to have gold in
your position?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
These days?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The swah m wild. Well, well we went off the
gold standard years ago. Everybody turned in their goal. Well
they turned into the government. Well we got silver in exchange.
Let me see you best returned my coin?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, this coin is old. Ain't a stranger? I'm what Yeah,
old at the head of the King of England on it.
You see the date very well, see everything.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Take this coin instead. I gave you the gold run
by mistake.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, brother, I'm making no mistake and I give it
back to you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
To my way of thinking right now, that gold coin
ain't worth a plug nickel. Yeah, I think you'll find
this one's legal tender.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah. Thanks?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How about a sandwich? What uh a sandwich? And what
you're talking about now?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You're a queer one?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, wrapped up in this wax paper a sandwich? Ever
seen nothing like that before?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Watch Taiwan on the house, eh, I said, try one?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Oh charge yours?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Oh thanks, good goney.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, you got to admit it is ok. Frown here.
I always have a good word to say for Joe
Davis and his coffee. And don't you know what you're
heading for? Stranger? No, and mis slanders round here?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How come you mean you're just a roaming about but
no particular end in mind. No, I've planned what I
intend to do for years.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, what are you intended to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'll discuss with no one.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, okay, don't get the idea of nosing into your business. Uh.
How's the sandwich that I said? H how's the sandwich? Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh this is I'm so good. It's funny. That's good
boiled ham going like it? Mm, well, you got no
kick coming in that payport? I intend to pay. Nope,
no charge and I always pay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's well, this is one you don't have to strangers,
especially since you don't like the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I've paid every debt I ever owed except one. Well,
one's not so bad. You probably get it paid off someday. Yeah,
out of pay. I waited long enough. I can wait
a while longer for more copy s thing. H this
is funny.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
By the way, you have.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
To know how many people in these parks.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Quite a few. Yes, they will running on the Any
folks with red hair, red hair?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, well let me think No, no, can't say the hair?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, I'm just interested in folks with red hair. Are
you only take rides in cars with men with red hair?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Why is that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Ain't got a pretty good reason. You see the man
I own that debt to has red hair.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oo. Hazy, prasy and red. Mm.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And why are you putting up for the night in
Sure Bends.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, there's a tourist cap 'em about two miles up
the turnpipe.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Might stop in there place?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Have many customers, Yeah, yep, quite a few. Longest time again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Then stopped there and then have a look around lester
if uh, if you don't mind my saying, so you
got me puzzled and so.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah you sure have those uh those clothes you're wearing.
Never seen anything like him before in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Probably there.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well again, what do you mean by that? Oh? Now
especially you'll show the mysterious one. Uh, you better have
another cup of coffee? Oh thanks, I got to that then. Huh.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now I'm old fashioned. I smoke the pipe.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, okay, go up there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Huh say what.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Kind of tobacco is that? Any or it's King's choice?
Never heard of it?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Ye, reckon? You never had something.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
New older than you were. Mm, where can you buy it? Reckon?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You came anymore? Oh? Quit making it about a hundred
years or so back.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You wouldn't remember, Oh you ribbing me?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Huh, of course I wouldn't remember a hundred years back,
and it would you you'd be surprised, mister. What do
you mean? Especially, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Look, you smokeing tobacco a hundred years old. Nothing particularly
remarkable about that, is there. I always say, what's old
belongs to the old.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I reckon, you're not more than sixty sixty or sixty
five at most.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My friend, suppose you'd take sixty, double it and add
a century.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
What double sixty and at one hundred, why that's that's
two hundred and twenty year.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
This dick is excellent. Have a match, man, man where
it's sure match here you be, thank you? I have
a customer.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh yeah, uh. Generally somebody stops for a few gowns
of gas along about this time. Very sad that city
aread around that gasoline? He back a minute, old HAMMERK yes, sir,
little gas.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I it's like a little information. Well got a lot
of that too, h Can you tell me the way
to Pine Knob? Pine Knobb? What's that tourist camp? Old?
It's the town pine Nob, Pennsylvania. Never heard of it.
It's out this way, someplace supposed to be about eighty
miles out of Pittsburgh in this direction.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, see Pittsburgh's about seventy eight miles back.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Well, then I should be pretty close.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Never heard telling no pine Knob, and living here man
and boy for forty years, ain't never seen nothing in
the place. O.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We're here to tell. Well, I know it's out here, someplace.
I followed my directions here. I don't know whether to
take that cross road or follow the turnpikes. Ah, I
can't tell you, mister.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Rabe sich e. Oh fine, now you say mystery. Yes,
it's a small.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Town somewhere in this neighbor not in this neighborhood. It ain't.
You don't happen to remember anything about it? Do you?
Old Timmer? And some nice hat you're wearing? Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I send me some nice hat you're wearing?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Did you ever hear of pine Knob?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Mine?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
See it?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You see what hat?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Forget my hat? Do you know anything about pie? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I might after I've seen the hat.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Look here, if you know how I can get the
pie Knob?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Let him have a gang at the hat with the
old boy.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He hasn't got all these marbles. Oh, oh, very well.
Here you can buy it and any hatshop for ten
dollars free initials. If you want him.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, right, nice?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What's that the hat? Oh? You haven't even looked at it?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No, I was admiring the gentleman's hair.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
What about my hair? I said, it's nice? Right, red
red hair runs with my family. Now how about the hat? Back?
And a little information?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh, your inites in the band came? Could the last
name be minor?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, well that's right. Oh you saw my driver's license
on the steering.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Poor Now how'd you know? I just hoped I was right?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh, hang it all?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Do you or don't you know how I can get
the pine?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Now? Yes? I know? Will you tell me that?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No I came to that?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Because the way it seldom travels? It never find it
by directions?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Then can you go there with me to show me
the way? There's nothing i'd like better to take you
to pine up? Yeah, well that's more like it. I'll
pay you for whatever your time.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
To it I collect, all right, I assure you my
times are practically no value whatsoever. Come on around and
get him a ride in the back.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No word, come out in front with me?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
No, ain't I prefer the back.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Same as to you. Better you with the old boy
as much as you can.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He ain't as bright as he probably used to be.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh, alright, alright, old I m'a hug him. Oh, thanks
a lot. Oh you're welcome. Come back and see me. Well,
I I see him come, and I see him go.
But that old gent beats anything I've ever set eyes on. Oh, oh,
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man drop his bag of the backer mm almost half full.
King's Choice the smoker's friend Raymond Tobacco Company, established seventeen fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
We leave the turnpike in a minute or two, then
how far?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Not for m a road? Good?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Don't see good?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I say? Does my chatter bore you? Old timer especially?
And you can give me the impression you don't want
to talk.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
People talk too much nowadays.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Me. I like to talk, especially when I'm driving. Helps
make the miles go faster. They turn up their head,
they wear after the right. There's no place to turn off. Yes,
there is, you see it there?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
See yes?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But I that road it it wasn't there a moment ago,
It's been for years. It's the road to take.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
This isn't any ordinary road, all right. There is no
automobile tracks, never been an automobile on this road. I
don't understand you well presently nothing but wagon tracks.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's right, wagons and the stagecoach.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Stagecoach. Yes, you can see the hoof marks in the softer. Oh,
I was noticing six cold black horses, the pride of Pennsylvany.
What's that? Now that's important, I say, Look behind behind? Yes,
look where's the turnpike? We have left it?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Ah behind?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh not fire less than a half a mile. We
should be able to see it from here.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, nowhere in view.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The buildings along the turnpike, where they all of that
is passed passed? Yes, there is no turnpike. That are
no buildings, nothing but open prairie land, trees, hills, tall grass,
no fences, no other roads except this one.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The only round for miles around.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But what does it take? It's a pine number, that's
where I wanted to go. Well, yes, but if you
ask me to show you the way the pine nup.
This is that everything's changed, So suddenly everything's different, Yes, naturally.
But why did you ever ask yourself what time really is? Time?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yes, mister minor time, I don't follow you. Suppose long
time ago something had happened to you. Suppose that incident.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Was so important, so outstanding in your.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Life it was necessary for you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
To do something about it. I still don't understand.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Let me put it into the present instead of the past.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Supposed today, something should happen to you. Suppose it is
so out of the ordinary that you'd never forget it,
Barber Blad, something you think needs revenge, revenge. And suppose
you decided your spirit would never rest until you'd found
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that revenge, even though many scores of years that passed away.
Why I don't know what would you do, mister manor
what could you do but roam from place to place
seeking that revenge? You're talking over my head, am I?
You certainly are.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
What I'm getting at. Is this, If you'd find yourself
in just such a situation, time would suddenly may have
no meaning to you. Think no more about the past
or the present or the future.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Time would be something unknown to you. Things you call
the future now wouldn't be future at all. Incidents you
called past wouldn't be past. They'd be now what you
call present, all rolled up into one mm. That's a
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strange way of reasoning, not so strange once you've experienced it.
If you ever experienced it, I assure you, yes, you
mean the things that have happened in the past are
actually happening now precisely, and things in the future are
taking place now too. Naturally, one case being possible are
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the naturally followers. Oh, I just some philosopher's theory, much
smaller than a mere fel ain't. Oh, you know better
than that, and so do I. What's happened in the
past has happened, what's going to happen certainly isn't taking
place now us Ray, I'll change your mind about that
before this day ends. Oh no, not me, mister. By
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the way, you haven't told me your name.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Names are unimportant, only incidents are important.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, you haven't said how you knew my name, That
was quite obvious, your red hair, your initials in your
hat band. I still don't see how you pine nob Yeah, yeah,
down in the valley. And where did get its name
pine Nobby?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Cause in the center of the town you'll find a
little mound the three pine trees growing from it. Cause
under these trees that men have been trying for their lives.
It's found them that men have been hanged.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's a pleasant thought. The town seems deserted.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yes, I suppose it is.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Why now, what.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Do you mean you see yah, stage always is over there.
The stage is in see and can put up there
the cars from it? Right, So this is pine mob.
I say, I've been on the stage coach with the
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reins in his hands and the other man handing up
that metal box flat. Listen to what they say. All right, Hank,
that's a goal. I gotta take good care of it.
You know where they're gonna get this gold going right
on through a kelby. Anybody tries to stop the stage
district on the right front, rust Al partner, see you
(17:56):
in a week.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Cone By, get up there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Those two men, the one on the stage coach exactly
he looks and talks exactly like you, and the other
one like me, must follow that stage. Start the car.
I don't understand all this. Start the car on the stage.
I'd take my oath, but those two men are I got.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Goin to talk.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Follow the stage. What is this a dream? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I went a long time with this day.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What do you mean? Yes, nine scar years. I waited
nine score and three normal lifetimes, and finally the day
is here. Look here, whoever you are, would you mind
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telling me just what this is all about? Why are
we following that stagecoach, See it's beginning. What's beginning? Stage?
See he stopped? Yeah, something wrong more than you think.
Ride right up behind it. Maybe we can help now,
there's nothing we can do. Stop right behind the stage.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah good.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Look we got a man standing at the side of
the stage, coach talking to the driver.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm watching you.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He's the man with the red hair, the man who
looks exactly like me and the other went on the stage.
He's the exact image of you. What's what happens? Miss?
What's up?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Partner following me out of town?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Did ye?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah? I sure did? The hank I reckon, I better
take that gold, take the gold or just take it?
Hand it down, hank ho hold on?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Why any want that gold?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Game? Stop asking questions, Just hand out the box.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't think God is better gain.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I look himing business yep on the gun on me, Partner,
I mean business, Hank, hand down that gold.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're robbing this goal.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'm taking it and clearing out here.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Tell folks are settling out west. I aim to go there.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Can I done?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Trusted you like a brother.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I never thought the dad come and.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Hand me down the gold? Hank kiss goal going to koe.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It ain't going no farther than it is right now.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm taking it with me. Put away here, gun.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Don't argue with me, Hank, I'll shoot you if I have.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
To, and you have to.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I ain't handing down this broke.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Keep those hands on the rain, snartting on the lafe.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Don't go for that gun. Shot me. Ain't cold? No,
no right, I didn't have a chance you you I
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didn't carry just right. No, I didn't do that. I
didn't shoot you. Gone for no gun? You've married me? No,
for heaven's sake, this is real. I've never fired a
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gun in my life. Do you think it isn't real? Oh,
it can't be. Now do you understand what I meant
by no past, no future? That man on the stage
you one hundred and eighty years ago, on this spot,
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But it can't be you. That man on the stage
was shot. He fell. She's lying there on the ground. Now, hey,
turn around, see for yourself. Gone, everything's gone, everything but
you and me. I didn't kill you. That man with
the red hair, the one who spoke like you, looked
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like you, with the first memory of your family to
settle in his country, he was my partner. I trusted him.
He murdered me, but I didn't. How debt is about
to be paid? Oh you can't blame me for something
that happened almost two hundred years ago. I waited this
long for my revenge. I won't let it pass by.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now turn into the car.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
No, no, keep away, don't come hear me, don't touch
that wheel.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Time has come.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I'm driving now. No, I said, Oh, you can't murder me.
I have nothing to do with that shooting.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Can't he will escape?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I will, I will do. I knew you were some devil.
You brought me here to kill me, but you can't.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
You can't to can road and around the plane.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Up there nothing but a thousand well down the mountain side,
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dar answer Steve Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Night's original tale of
dark fantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios of
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wk Y. Ben Morris played can miner, Red Wayne was
heard as Hank, and mure Height was the filling station attendant.
Next Friday Night at the same time, listen to the
nineteenth in this series of unusual and original tales of
dark fantasy created by Scott Bishop. Next week's story is
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called Convoy for Atlantice a fantastic yarn of ships that disappear,
disappear in the night, the strange and valuable treasures which
arise from the sea. An adventure that takes us down
to the very bottom of the mighty Atlantic Ocean for
a special observation of the Convoy for Atlantis. Don't miss
(24:14):
this weird tale of an ancient race that lives again
on a mighty sunken continent. Tom Paxton speaking dark fantasy,
comes to you from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
This is the National Broadcasting Company
M h. Fantas see then selvni turnpike. I'll restraind it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How do you mischief? Mind?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
If I come in set the.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wroundpe like the door.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's sort of that blame rose along this highway?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Where shall my feet?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wouldn't hold up another mile?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You hitch him? Yep? Going first?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know? Uh, come firt yep, come a fence?
Smart piece?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Hm getting pretty old? Be hitchhiking? Get many rides? Yep?
Had anything to eat lately? And much coffee?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Smells good?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It is good? Make it myself? How about a cup?
Warm you up?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Matter of fact, don't have one with you? Any man spread?
Any what man spread? Never heard of it? No?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I forgot reckn you never have?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Hey, h, mister nice and hot?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
How much old?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Just a nickel? What a nickel is taking out of
that much blide?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Hey? Hold on, this ain't no nickel. What's that?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Mischief? I say?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
This ain't no nickel. It's a gold coin. Hey, don't
you know it's against the law to have gold in
your position?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
These days?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The swah m wild. Well, well we went off the
gold standard years ago. Everybody turned in their goal. Well
they turned into the government. Well we got silver in exchange.
Let me see you best returned my coin?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, this coin is old. Ain't a stranger? I'm what Yeah,
old at the head of the King of England on it.
You see the date very well, see everything.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Take this coin instead. I gave you the gold run
by mistake.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, brother, I'm making no mistake and I give it
back to you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
To my way of thinking right now, that gold coin
ain't worth a plug nickel. Yeah, I think you'll find
this one's legal tender.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah. Thanks?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How about a sandwich? What uh a sandwich? And what
you're talking about now?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You're a queer one?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, wrapped up in this wax paper a sandwich? Ever
seen nothing like that before?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Watch Taiwan on the house, eh, I said, try one?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Oh charge yours?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Oh thanks, good goney.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, you got to admit it is ok. Frown here.
I always have a good word to say for Joe
Davis and his coffee. And don't you know what you're
heading for? Stranger? No, and mis slanders round here?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How come you mean you're just a roaming about but
no particular end in mind. No, I've planned what I
intend to do for years.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, what are you intended to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'll discuss with no one.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, okay, don't get the idea of nosing into your business. Uh.
How's the sandwich that I said? H how's the sandwich? Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh this is I'm so good. It's funny. That's good
boiled ham going like it? Mm, well, you got no
kick coming in that payport? I intend to pay. Nope,
no charge and I always pay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's well, this is one you don't have to strangers,
especially since you don't like the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I've paid every debt I ever owed except one. Well,
one's not so bad. You probably get it paid off someday. Yeah,
out of pay. I waited long enough. I can wait
a while longer for more copy s thing. H this
is funny.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
By the way, you have.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
To know how many people in these parks.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Quite a few. Yes, they will running on the Any
folks with red hair, red hair?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, well let me think No, no, can't say the hair?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, I'm just interested in folks with red hair. Are
you only take rides in cars with men with red hair?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Why is that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Ain't got a pretty good reason. You see the man
I own that debt to has red hair.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oo. Hazy, prasy and red. Mm.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And why are you putting up for the night in
Sure Bends.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, there's a tourist cap 'em about two miles up
the turnpipe.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Might stop in there place?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Have many customers, Yeah, yep, quite a few. Longest time again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Then stopped there and then have a look around lester
if uh, if you don't mind my saying, so you
got me puzzled and so.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah you sure have those uh those clothes you're wearing.
Never seen anything like him before in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Probably there.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well again, what do you mean by that? Oh? Now
especially you'll show the mysterious one. Uh, you better have
another cup of coffee? Oh thanks, I got to that then. Huh.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now I'm old fashioned. I smoke the pipe.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, okay, go up there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Huh say what.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Kind of tobacco is that? Any or it's King's choice?
Never heard of it?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Ye, reckon? You never had something.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
New older than you were. Mm, where can you buy it? Reckon?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You came anymore? Oh? Quit making it about a hundred
years or so back.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You wouldn't remember, Oh you ribbing me?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Huh, of course I wouldn't remember a hundred years back,
and it would you you'd be surprised, mister. What do
you mean? Especially, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Look, you smokeing tobacco a hundred years old. Nothing particularly
remarkable about that, is there. I always say, what's old
belongs to the old.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I reckon, you're not more than sixty sixty or sixty
five at most.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My friend, suppose you'd take sixty, double it and add
a century.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
What double sixty and at one hundred, why that's that's
two hundred and twenty year.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
This dick is excellent. Have a match, man, man where
it's sure match here you be, thank you? I have
a customer.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh yeah, uh. Generally somebody stops for a few gowns
of gas along about this time. Very sad that city
aread around that gasoline? He back a minute, old HAMMERK yes, sir,
little gas.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I it's like a little information. Well got a lot
of that too, h Can you tell me the way
to Pine Knob? Pine Knobb? What's that tourist camp? Old?
It's the town pine Nob, Pennsylvania. Never heard of it.
It's out this way, someplace supposed to be about eighty
miles out of Pittsburgh in this direction.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, see Pittsburgh's about seventy eight miles back.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Well, then I should be pretty close.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Never heard telling no pine Knob, and living here man
and boy for forty years, ain't never seen nothing in
the place. O.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We're here to tell. Well, I know it's out here, someplace.
I followed my directions here. I don't know whether to
take that cross road or follow the turnpikes. Ah, I
can't tell you, mister.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Rabe sich e. Oh fine, now you say mystery. Yes,
it's a small.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Town somewhere in this neighbor not in this neighborhood. It ain't.
You don't happen to remember anything about it? Do you?
Old Timmer? And some nice hat you're wearing? Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I send me some nice hat you're wearing?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Did you ever hear of pine Knob?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Mine?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
See it?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You see what hat?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Forget my hat? Do you know anything about pie? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I might after I've seen the hat.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Look here, if you know how I can get the
pie Knob?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Let him have a gang at the hat with the
old boy.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He hasn't got all these marbles. Oh, oh, very well.
Here you can buy it and any hatshop for ten
dollars free initials. If you want him.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, right, nice?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What's that the hat? Oh? You haven't even looked at it?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No, I was admiring the gentleman's hair.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
What about my hair? I said, it's nice? Right, red
red hair runs with my family. Now how about the hat? Back?
And a little information?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh, your inites in the band came? Could the last
name be minor?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, well that's right. Oh you saw my driver's license
on the steering.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Poor Now how'd you know? I just hoped I was right?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh, hang it all?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Do you or don't you know how I can get
the pine?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Now? Yes? I know? Will you tell me that?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No I came to that?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Because the way it seldom travels? It never find it
by directions?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Then can you go there with me to show me
the way? There's nothing i'd like better to take you
to pine up? Yeah, well that's more like it. I'll
pay you for whatever your time.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
To it I collect, all right, I assure you my
times are practically no value whatsoever. Come on around and
get him a ride in the back.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No word, come out in front with me?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
No, ain't I prefer the back.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Same as to you. Better you with the old boy
as much as you can.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He ain't as bright as he probably used to be.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh, alright, alright, old I m'a hug him. Oh, thanks
a lot. Oh you're welcome. Come back and see me. Well,
I I see him come, and I see him go.
But that old gent beats anything I've ever set eyes on. Oh, oh,
(10:51):
man drop his bag of the backer mm almost half full.
King's Choice the smoker's friend Raymond Tobacco Company, established seventeen fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
We leave the turnpike in a minute or two, then
how far?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Not for m a road? Good?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Don't see good?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I say? Does my chatter bore you? Old timer especially?
And you can give me the impression you don't want
to talk.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
People talk too much nowadays.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Me. I like to talk, especially when I'm driving. Helps
make the miles go faster. They turn up their head,
they wear after the right. There's no place to turn off. Yes,
there is, you see it there?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
See yes?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But I that road it it wasn't there a moment ago,
It's been for years. It's the road to take.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
This isn't any ordinary road, all right. There is no
automobile tracks, never been an automobile on this road. I
don't understand you well presently nothing but wagon tracks.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's right, wagons and the stagecoach.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Stagecoach. Yes, you can see the hoof marks in the softer. Oh,
I was noticing six cold black horses, the pride of Pennsylvany.
What's that? Now that's important, I say, Look behind behind? Yes,
look where's the turnpike? We have left it?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Ah behind?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh not fire less than a half a mile. We
should be able to see it from here.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, nowhere in view.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The buildings along the turnpike, where they all of that
is passed passed? Yes, there is no turnpike. That are
no buildings, nothing but open prairie land, trees, hills, tall grass,
no fences, no other roads except this one.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The only round for miles around.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But what does it take? It's a pine number, that's
where I wanted to go. Well, yes, but if you
ask me to show you the way the pine nup.
This is that everything's changed, So suddenly everything's different, Yes, naturally.
But why did you ever ask yourself what time really is? Time?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yes, mister minor time, I don't follow you. Suppose long
time ago something had happened to you. Suppose that incident.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Was so important, so outstanding in your.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Life it was necessary for you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
To do something about it. I still don't understand.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Let me put it into the present instead of the past.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Supposed today, something should happen to you. Suppose it is
so out of the ordinary that you'd never forget it,
Barber Blad, something you think needs revenge, revenge. And suppose
you decided your spirit would never rest until you'd found
(14:29):
that revenge, even though many scores of years that passed away.
Why I don't know what would you do, mister manor
what could you do but roam from place to place
seeking that revenge? You're talking over my head, am I?
You certainly are.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
What I'm getting at. Is this, If you'd find yourself
in just such a situation, time would suddenly may have
no meaning to you. Think no more about the past
or the present or the future.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Time would be something unknown to you. Things you call
the future now wouldn't be future at all. Incidents you
called past wouldn't be past. They'd be now what you
call present, all rolled up into one mm. That's a
(15:33):
strange way of reasoning, not so strange once you've experienced it.
If you ever experienced it, I assure you, yes, you
mean the things that have happened in the past are
actually happening now precisely, and things in the future are
taking place now too. Naturally, one case being possible are
(15:55):
the naturally followers. Oh, I just some philosopher's theory, much
smaller than a mere fel ain't. Oh, you know better
than that, and so do I. What's happened in the
past has happened, what's going to happen certainly isn't taking
place now us Ray, I'll change your mind about that
before this day ends. Oh no, not me, mister. By
(16:20):
the way, you haven't told me your name.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Names are unimportant, only incidents are important.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, you haven't said how you knew my name, That
was quite obvious, your red hair, your initials in your
hat band. I still don't see how you pine nob Yeah, yeah,
down in the valley. And where did get its name
pine Nobby?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Cause in the center of the town you'll find a
little mound the three pine trees growing from it. Cause
under these trees that men have been trying for their lives.
It's found them that men have been hanged.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's a pleasant thought. The town seems deserted.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yes, I suppose it is.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Why now, what.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Do you mean you see yah, stage always is over there.
The stage is in see and can put up there
the cars from it? Right, So this is pine mob.
I say, I've been on the stage coach with the
(17:34):
reins in his hands and the other man handing up
that metal box flat. Listen to what they say. All right, Hank,
that's a goal. I gotta take good care of it.
You know where they're gonna get this gold going right
on through a kelby. Anybody tries to stop the stage
district on the right front, rust Al partner, see you
(17:56):
in a week.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Cone By, get up there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Those two men, the one on the stage coach exactly
he looks and talks exactly like you, and the other
one like me, must follow that stage. Start the car.
I don't understand all this. Start the car on the stage.
I'd take my oath, but those two men are I got.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Goin to talk.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Follow the stage. What is this a dream? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I went a long time with this day.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What do you mean? Yes, nine scar years. I waited
nine score and three normal lifetimes, and finally the day
is here. Look here, whoever you are, would you mind
(18:51):
telling me just what this is all about? Why are
we following that stagecoach, See it's beginning. What's beginning? Stage?
See he stopped? Yeah, something wrong more than you think.
Ride right up behind it. Maybe we can help now,
there's nothing we can do. Stop right behind the stage.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah good.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Look we got a man standing at the side of
the stage, coach talking to the driver.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm watching you.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He's the man with the red hair, the man who
looks exactly like me and the other went on the stage.
He's the exact image of you. What's what happens? Miss?
What's up?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Partner following me out of town?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Did ye?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah? I sure did? The hank I reckon, I better
take that gold, take the gold or just take it?
Hand it down, hank ho hold on?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Why any want that gold?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Game? Stop asking questions, Just hand out the box.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't think God is better gain.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I look himing business yep on the gun on me, Partner,
I mean business, Hank, hand down that gold.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're robbing this goal.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'm taking it and clearing out here.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Tell folks are settling out west. I aim to go there.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Can I done?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Trusted you like a brother.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I never thought the dad come and.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Hand me down the gold? Hank kiss goal going to koe.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It ain't going no farther than it is right now.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm taking it with me. Put away here, gun.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Don't argue with me, Hank, I'll shoot you if I have.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
To, and you have to.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I ain't handing down this broke.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Keep those hands on the rain, snartting on the lafe.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Don't go for that gun. Shot me. Ain't cold? No,
no right, I didn't have a chance you you I
(20:54):
didn't carry just right. No, I didn't do that. I
didn't shoot you. Gone for no gun? You've married me? No,
for heaven's sake, this is real. I've never fired a
(21:15):
gun in my life. Do you think it isn't real? Oh,
it can't be. Now do you understand what I meant
by no past, no future? That man on the stage
you one hundred and eighty years ago, on this spot,
(21:37):
But it can't be you. That man on the stage
was shot. He fell. She's lying there on the ground. Now, hey,
turn around, see for yourself. Gone, everything's gone, everything but
you and me. I didn't kill you. That man with
the red hair, the one who spoke like you, looked
(21:58):
like you, with the first memory of your family to
settle in his country, he was my partner. I trusted him.
He murdered me, but I didn't. How debt is about
to be paid? Oh you can't blame me for something
that happened almost two hundred years ago. I waited this
long for my revenge. I won't let it pass by.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now turn into the car.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
No, no, keep away, don't come hear me, don't touch
that wheel.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Time has come.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I'm driving now. No, I said, Oh, you can't murder me.
I have nothing to do with that shooting.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Can't he will escape?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I will, I will do. I knew you were some devil.
You brought me here to kill me, but you can't.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
You can't to can road and around the plane.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Up there nothing but a thousand well down the mountain side,
(23:03):
dar answer Steve Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Night's original tale of
dark fantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios of
(23:25):
wk Y. Ben Morris played can miner, Red Wayne was
heard as Hank, and mure Height was the filling station attendant.
Next Friday Night at the same time, listen to the
nineteenth in this series of unusual and original tales of
dark fantasy created by Scott Bishop. Next week's story is
(23:50):
called Convoy for Atlantice a fantastic yarn of ships that disappear,
disappear in the night, the strange and valuable treasures which
arise from the sea. An adventure that takes us down
to the very bottom of the mighty Atlantic Ocean for
a special observation of the Convoy for Atlantis. Don't miss
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this weird tale of an ancient race that lives again
on a mighty sunken continent. Tom Paxton speaking dark fantasy,
comes to you from Oklahoma City.
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