October 28, 2025 • 37 mins
Today's Adventure: The classic story of a young man in the 1830s who is hired on a merchant ship that travels from Boston to South America and has to deal with a cruel first mate running the ship.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1944
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Starring: John Thomas; Larry Haines
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1944
Originating from New York
Starring: John Thomas; Larry Haines
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham bring you the first
episode of Adventure Ahead. But first, I do want to
encourage you. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us
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(00:27):
encourage you to check out our other podcast and today
I'm highlighting the Old Time Radio Superman show at Otrsuperman
dot com and through that podcast, over the course of
a decade, I went through every single circulating complete story
of the Superman old time radio program, more than one
(00:49):
thousand episodes, purialized stories involving Kryptonite, finding Nazis, and even
the Ku Klux Klan. Check it out Otrsuperman dot com.
Well now onto Adventure Ahead. Adventure Ahead was a short
lived nineteen forty four anthology series. The series was billed
(01:12):
as famous stories for young people, but as the main
source on that series, the Digital Deli website points out,
these were really stories that were, with perhaps one exception
which is not in circulation, written with a strong appeal
(01:34):
to young men, many coming of age stories throughout the
entire run. There are quite a few subgenres of Adventures
in this collection. And in addition to that, you have
some stories that were considered classics then and are classics now,
such as Robinson Crusoe and others which have faded more
(01:57):
into obscurity, kind of the same what that we encountered
when we were doing the Summer of Robert Louis Stevenson.
I expect we're going to encounter some stories we've heard before,
but also someone's that are forgotten gems. Now, I will
say that we are not going to go through every
(02:18):
episode of Adventure Ahead all at once, because it's an
anthology series. We can jump in and out of it
and come back to it in between series. But we
will be playing episodes every week until our Christmas break.
So now let's go ahead and take a listen to
(02:38):
the first episode, which originally aired August fifth, nineteen forty four,
and it's two years before the mast.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That little Broadcasting Company aper.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Then the first in a new series of famous stories
for young people. Adventure Hits this week, a tale suggested
by that epic of the Seas two years before the
Mast by Richard Henry Dama, a story which has brought
reading excitement through six generations of American boys and girls,
and so.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Adventure ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It was eighteen.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Forty four and the first time that I ever saw
the Pilgrim, I knew she was the ship for me
because in all of Boston Harbor she had the finest lines,
the deepest draft, and masts that almost.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Spraped the sky.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yes, the Clipper Pilgrim seemed the answer to my dreams,
the largest, tallest, most seaworthy ship that I had ever seen,
And even though I'd never been to the sea and
hardly knew my way around a deck, I climbed aboard
to find the captain.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You're looking for somebody, Well, yes, I am.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I want to speak to the captain.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Got after a job? Ay, yes, birth, Yes, sir, he's.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
A fine ship.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Maybe I has worshiped the float in the pokem and
there has better ones too.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
What do you mean you'll find out soon enough?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Captain Tailor signed John?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Do you think you'll take me? I never been to seat.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Will make much difference, as Tripp tokeram stor to sailor
night and we need man.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He look strong enough, husky, you can make a.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Sailor out of y.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Why you might be first mate by the time we
sail back home again.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well, thank you, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
My name's Harris say Semester for the office. I'm just
one of the crew.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
All right, Harris, you'll find Captain Tailor raft At he'd
men to fill out the crew. I expect he'll be
glad to see you.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Oh you want to share before the massy lads? Yes, captain, Yes,
you're kind of young. Any experience I want to learn, sir.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I'm not afraid to.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
Work, mighty anxious to sign aboard. Yes, sir, I am nowhere.
We're bound for well, uh, California, that's where I am.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You know what that means.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
It's a long ways officer.
Speaker 11 (05:07):
It may be a year, two years before we sail
into Boston Harbor again, makes no difference, Captain, I want
to go to sea.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I like to cut your jib lad. Thank you, Captain Taylor.
You will be kind of an apprentice seaman to got
out what we call a toad war.
Speaker 12 (05:22):
The crew will show you the rope.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
I want to take you along to get the drift
of sailing. No, sir, keep your eyes and years open.
Dana and the baby orders are the me the mate, sir.
First meet mister Raggett. Guess it take your gear and
go along. Now report to mister Raggett.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
You're the new man. Yes, mister Raggett, ever been a
stea dana?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, sir ah a landlover, please.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Sir, I want to be a.
Speaker 13 (05:54):
All right away, none of y'all when I talk landing
here understand, yes, Dot Novice that as the rest of
the crew.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
How does a captain expect me to run this ship
with a bunch of shoe CERs, carry pickers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Land lubbers.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
McCabe, it's a cave.
Speaker 13 (06:11):
I make is a new man, McCabe, Give him a
bunk and a bookstore. I make Sana here thinks he
wants to be a tailor. Yes, I'll take that out.
I aim of the time we were on the horn.
He lover hurts that way, mate, Oh did we miss
the McCabe.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And how for your opinion? Well, I don't forget.
Speaker 13 (06:28):
You're just a second mate on the ship, McCabe when
I want your opinion, but I only want I don't
like a man that talks a lot.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
McCabe.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh, make you wish you never failed about the.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Pilbrom Well, then I here all stowed away.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Oh hrh, yeah, I'm already you think we'll sail.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
To sometimes to night. The Winston's up all tell you
a better get some sleep, Diana. Have to we get
on the way because I climbing around the rigging lost tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm too excited to flee after a few months. That
is glad to take your sleep when you can get it.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Especially, what do you mean he's around.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
This?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That you mean we're underweight?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
I gonna move on.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
The sails were loose, the yards were great, and the
clipper pilgrim was on her way, leaning from the damp
knife breeze and rolling with a heavy ground swell.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Everything seemed beautiful that night as we sailed into the
dark Atlantic, bound southward for Cape.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Horn and California. But in the morning things didn't seem
so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
With all the crew on deck, the day started off
with a few words from the captain and mister Agat.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Welcome to the clipper.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Man.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Come off your old hands. You know the work I want,
and new men will manage fine if you obey the officers.
That's me.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
The fush made mister Draggott and shake and made mister
McCabe and I take over mister Raggart.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
All right, How the DAP you didn't sign aboard the
Pilgrim from our pleasure cruise, I expect ever a man
check of it a.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Work After that, we're carter.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
The orders.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Do your duty fare well enough.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
What if you don't, I'll break a man that crosses
me under spend.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
All right, common what run deck? Rest of you below?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
From that day on our work see never de seas.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
For the result was work to do aboard a sailing ship,
rigging to be examined, continually replaced, sails to be members,
and ropes of yards prepared, taking off, mending, putting on,
taking off, mending, putting on.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
There's no rest for those to see, regardless of the weather.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
It was difficult to learn at first the scheme of
things aboard a full rigged clipper, but the crew helped
me in every way.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I never will.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Forget Tom Harris's advice to me before I went aloft
among the sails first time.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
It's not hid Dana, keep one handsiest self, one for
the ship, and never sit their winning.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
The wind blew up and down, the Pilgrim's debts, days
blew in the week and months, but there.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Was always worship it more and worse and still morning,
or mister Raggett thought of that, washing down.
Speaker 14 (09:37):
The deck, rubbing holy sun, boiling up the riggings, racing up,
mending sails, and ship was like a lady's.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Watch, never in repair.
Speaker 14 (09:47):
One afternoon when the weather was right, and we stood
well off the coast of Brazil with a strong wind
at our turns there.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Moves along from your top rope bom.
Speaker 12 (10:01):
Right along, coining up the Wigan cook a lot there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I want to swap that works?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
That works ten time?
Speaker 12 (10:09):
What three mths for this?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What do you think of? See life?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Now?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
It's hard enough, work hard, but I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm got used to it.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I suppose no danna as long as mister Ragget's aboard,
none of the crew get used to this driving, driving
you ship with him before?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Haven't time?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Many times, hard work and never a kind word.
Speaker 14 (10:30):
Well, what about the captain? He's hardly ever up on desk.
Doesn't he know? The mates just stirring trouble. I doubt
it that the tailor truss I made, I'm sure of that.
And since the pats stick so much long, someone has
to take the man. The captain fits in this cabin
most of the time.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
With Captain Taylor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
No one knows, I guess except Dtor Raggitts doctor.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Ragged I does he know about medicine?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I suppose this cabin's full of jars and bottles.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
So does that make him a medical man?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh, he's the maid he keeps the medicine.
Speaker 14 (10:58):
Check.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Well, I hope that is.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
I never get sick on this boy.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
I'm a bag of secures. The remedies for me either, will?
I need to keep me ship shape? Is my good
luck charm logs? I had this and say, can I
see it?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's a lucky elephant.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Oh and ivery Yellowshan. Where'd you get it?
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Harris, India four years ago? Oh, I'll give it to you, Danna,
someday when I.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Quit the sea, I'd like to have it, but that'll
be a long time waiting.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
When's up, Danna?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Hi, squallow off the starboard, dirty weather on away?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
All right?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Getting me a cape horn.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
It won't be many days.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Here's my cave.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
He looks sad. I what's wrong the cave?
Speaker 15 (11:44):
I stuck it again. I just had another step two
with him. Oh, he's been up to me ever since
we left Boston. Hi, I'm afraid of him.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
What are you afraid of?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I don't know. He might do anything.
Speaker 15 (11:56):
As long as the first meet the run in this ship,
we're ahead a great trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
And so it went.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
As we near the horn, mister Aggott seemed more and
more in charge, the keeper of our destiny, and we
scarcely ever saw the captains.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But by that time the spring storms.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Of October broke upon us.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
We were busy hauling, burling canvas to keep.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
The ship upright on course through tempest scales and freezing,
icy rain.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Day after night after.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Day, we plunged through mountainous waves, ribbon westward through the
straits by savage, lashing gales. We were on deck, on watch,
continuously burling sails, tying broken yards and spars, drenched by
rain and snow and sleep and hails and waves that
tried to wash us.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Over there, Hannah dina I slack off Paris.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Hand against the heat pump.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Here's a nutter steady.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Or right there he caught me, fin bill tax, stay
out of it.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Everything washed in a belch, A look out.
Speaker 16 (13:03):
Another we're shifting water, Nah, help them silk a wising this.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
It's macay, easy on there, careful, don.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
What a night? Rough night? Let me have that frigging Harris,
where are you going? What's the names? Why do you
daf order roil? Y'all get it away? But this weather
you can't climb along. Macte pass to order holds on
its snake. The dagger says, I go along, So I
go along.
Speaker 16 (13:37):
He'll never make cutting this count hold on water. There
he is now climbing along.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Here we here, we do data.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
We want to come from this.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
I didn't plong this look out. He's fallen.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Cape was lost. There's nothing we could do the same.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Four days later, when the Cape storm blew itself away, Paris.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And I were fusing.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Ordered cap.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The ragged ordered him, alot, what do you mean, Harris?
He tried to kill McCabe.
Speaker 17 (14:24):
I wonder, Harrison, do you know we're on deck that
night they saw what happened?
Speaker 7 (14:36):
A maid ordered mable man? What an officer in his
right behind order a man alf like that?
Speaker 15 (14:43):
Would he is?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Heyes, mad?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Men, what are we going to do about mister Cato thing?
There's nothing to be done?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Men? Can we go to Captain Taylor?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
No, it wouldn't do any good.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Why what do you mean, we don't know a thing
for certain, and Captain Taylor's sick or well faith in
mister wagon If.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
It is really mad, that's not for us to say.
Why not, Why can't we take along on our own hand?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
We're not mutiny men, And let's see, mutiny is never
the answer to the troubles of a crew.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You'd better think it over.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
With first strong wind behind us, we sailed on northward,
up along the coast of South America, has Chile, Panama,
Mexico closer.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Drawing closer to our goal of California. And throughout the
long five months of travel we suffered neath.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
The stinging lash of mister Waggon's vicious tongue.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
We darned a dusky screamed at us, threatened us and out.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And when the good ship Pilgrim akeret at our destination
San Diego, and our voyage halfway through, the worst, we
hope was over.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
And we celebrated with us Chorle, our first since leading Boston,
as the crew was emptied of her cargole and the
holes refilled with cattle hide.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And then in April we set sail again, bound for
the Cape and hold the Pilgrim was going back to
Boston and we were going home.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
We thought the.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Mate might change, but he was no different than before.
He managed everything, ranted, roared, and ray. He didn't have
a friend aboard the ship. Coming off watch one afternoon,
I brushed with mister Raggett just after he'd left the
captain's cabin.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Oh, excuse me, sir, what are you doing here, Jane?
Why nothing, sir, I'm going forward.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
To my folk. Or get along and scat away from
this cabin.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I don't want none of you swapped, even getting near
Captain Taylor.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Understand, Hi, you look like somebody jag your compass.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I just don't follow the mate.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Oh today, this time.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Outside Captain Taylor's cabin.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Huh, give me the old man medicine. I guess how
is the captain?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
No one knows, but the mate old man hasn't been
out of his cabin since we left California.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
He's been in there alone nearly two months.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Except for mister Raggett.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
I except from mister strict orders of the mate. Nobody
goes inside cabin. Doors most always locked.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Captain Taylor must be very sick.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
We have to take the mates where Dana, he knows
more about medicine than anyone else aboard.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Maybe he knows too much, you know, Harrise. And I'm
curious about that cabin.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Do you suppose someone could get inside.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Find out about Captain Taylor talk to him alone by
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
I mean is the cabin door always locked most of
the time?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
But who data go inside against the mate's orders?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I might what you I'm curious about that cabin, Harris.
I take the chance, mate, he'd kill you if you
can't you that he would that, But it's worth a try.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
If you and the COO will help me.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I have a plan, of course, will help you, Dana.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
We must get word to the captain, tell him about
the ship and the mate.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
The only chance. We must get word to the captain.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Careful, now, mate, I don't here he comes careful.
Speaker 16 (18:27):
Uh, mister Raggett, Well, well, what do you swaps want?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
We we're having trouble binding these spars.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
We can't lash them tight enough, mister.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And may have a look there. Ah, this ropes too wet.
See hi, you two call yourselves sailors. Use them dryer
up like this, make a bite circle around twice.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Captain sailors.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Yeah, what do you want? He was lunch.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I'm sorry to bother you, sir, but I have.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
To talk to you.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
You see, I that is, we of the crew didn't
know how well you were, sir, and we want.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
To you speak for the crew, I sir, this trager
tells me the CRU's going to mutiny.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
You're just satisfied with your work mutiny, that's what he says. Oh, no,
cappin emh.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We well, we're not exactly satisfied with mister Ragget's way
of running the ship in your absence, but we're all working, sir,
working hard.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
There will be no mutant. But he told me, Hey,
it's not true.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Captain Tailors.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Believe me, sir, I speak for all the crews. Why
did the may tell me that mutiny is a serious time?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
I say it is.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
That's in changed about all this, Lad? And he's been
telling me aye.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Mm can I can I help you, sir?
Speaker 12 (20:06):
It's just my complainer, lad, medicine tablet. That's the tablet, captain.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Lad and some water. I went home, lad, sir, these tablets?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Eh? Did mister Aggott give you these?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
High? Lad? And you've been taking the last two months
I'm a sick man. Lad. Of course, Sir, I understand.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
But if I may ask, Sir, do you really feel
better after taking these?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
No?
Speaker 11 (20:49):
Not so much, mister Dragon says. If I don't take
the tablets, I might feel worse.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
The mate told you that, Sir, Hey, Captain, I have
a suspicion at all? Is right?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
What said? Lad? These tablets? What you're talking about, Captain Taylor?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Speaking for the crew, I'd like to tell you about
the way the ship's been run since you've been locked
in here?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
All right, Lad?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
The mate wasn't wrong when he said we talked about
newt but we had a reason, Sir. That's what I
want to do. We agreed that I should come and tell.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
You about these things.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
We thought you'd want to know.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Captain m It's.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Incredible, incredible, Lad, And I've wondered about the mate, and
this explains a lot of things to me.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But what can I do, Lad, I'm too weak to
leave this bed. What can I do? Well?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I may suggest, sir, my lad, First of all, stop
taking these tablets, Sir.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
I don't know what they are, but I'd stake my life.
They're harmful.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But if I stop, Leader, they may get work well.
Possibly ill chance it. Crew in my ship need more
to mean life. I'll chance it.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
He need you sort of take control of the ship again.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
That will be the jay lad. The scheme works, It must.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Work, Captain Taylor.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
You must come back and take command.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
We're five or six weeks off Cape Horn and in
the dead of winner. We can never sail around without.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You, sir. The captain followed our advice and slowly came
around to help again. Lots of exercise, and when he
was hungry we sneaked him bully beef and biscuit. All
aknn to mister ragathough. And then one day in June,
(22:33):
Captain Taylor left this cabin came on deck quite suddenly,
surprising all the cool at work, but most of all
surprising mister Dragon.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
What I needed? What right along?
Speaker 11 (22:50):
H say something about a whip? Mister Dagger? Captain surprised
to see me, amy, ain't.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You you sir? You shouldn't be up?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Oh no, why not, mister Raggon.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Why your help my health?
Speaker 11 (23:04):
I never felt better. You're cure was real good, mister Raggart,
I feel fine?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
You do when you've got no right up here? No man?
Why not I've earned my right to run this ship.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Oh, I've been running a pilgrim for the last three
months and before that, so I understand, and I can
sailor in the Boston myself.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
Oh can you now, mister Wraggon, and nobody will stop? No, well,
I can stop your miss Tomate. You've been running things
too long aboard my ship. You made several big mistakes,
first when you tried to poison me, and then when
you didn't recognize men real men. These men your crew
who But there is not a better crew on any ocean,
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mister Raggarts. You might learn a lot by watching them.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Mute. What if, mister Tomate?
Speaker 11 (23:50):
And if anybody is guilty of insurrection and taking over
the control of the ship, it's you missed.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
To Maate and nobody else. Yes, sir, Yes, if.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
I didn't need every man and jack aboard keep to
get around the horn I told you.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
In the brig mister mate.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
So you're on good behavior, and if you make good
I'd forget about the charges.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
I mean to bring against your mate.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Al Right, sir, what's your step mister Raggarts, And don't
be asking any man jack to do a job.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
You wouldn't do yourself.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
There's a poll headed out of the saucer and edge.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
First to the cape. Storms. You'll have them all the
time from now on, short.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Term sail men, the clothan man, the clord, telling darkster
in the sully. It'll be roughing heavy through the strangest
time of year, mister Raggarts, I, sir captain, you think
you can manage to help us out? I sir, on
your way then, mate, but I need adviti watch your step.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
We prepared for winter weather, but we never expected the
heavy storms that last our ship from stem to stern
as we went around the cape. The worst of all
the storms struck late one night when I come up
on watch, a great ship rolled pitched, wallowed in the
heavy sea ribbon blindly eastward by a gale of grain
and sleek smoke. Soo man could do to keep his
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speed upon the weakest lily decks.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Pina, pina, my sir, my tack hell.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
You see on the lads, my, sir, Harry's man, Yeah,
hian hair cat good. She's rough tonight, lads, Hi, she's heavy.
You lashed along the tight I s hold on heap country.
If the rigging.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Horse we went up through every spar yard.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
I'm flashed out, sir.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
That's right, cat man, we'd hope for the best fads.
Have you seen the maid? Mister Ragger's along with.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Deck cat belamey, mister dragger light along.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
With drag.
Speaker 13 (25:59):
Great namesaggage, Oh snug, I p Captain took another turner
lashing around.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
They's got last, councer.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Hi, it's done all right.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
She's labeled to break off save in the day. Somebody
ought to go it off. He lay her down against
the mass.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
It's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
A man can't climb up in this wind.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
It's see. She's got to me.
Speaker 16 (26:21):
Last can't be done, Captain, not in this weather.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
No, it's the night you set the cable off. But
did you take her?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You hurt him?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Mister Raggs, you sent the cake hopping weather is fatter said, well,
are you gonna honor a loft this time? As the
dragon well top bears got to be amended, mate, you're
going aloft yourself? No, No, I won't.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
No, it's step for the man that's.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Trace the charge in the cable off.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Cham, I won't.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
It's step stretain death.
Speaker 11 (26:45):
All right, mister Raggos, you've had your chance to me
good and you fail her.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Chere.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I won't go up.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I won't.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
I won't know no, idn't kill it.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Hey, Dana, I'll go a off, Sir.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'll go up you.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
She must be last, cawncer.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
I think I can do that.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's a long chance then, I know, Harrison, but I'll
try if I head Captain.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I'm not holding you, Dana.
Speaker 11 (27:04):
But if you think you can make it, I ser
then go it off, Jana, and best all. Thank you, sir,
A winge bitter the ropes ice. Be careful, lad watch
just that, Dana.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Why are the careful?
Speaker 11 (27:18):
I don't know, Harris, mister dagger irsper keep.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Your eye on young Hana doing the job you're upbraide
to do. I'm in higher, higher, spen up.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I clim hang over hand upon the icy rope, riking
sweet and ring feet down and splash my face bullship.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Work money.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Of the food like ours, so my gazing hands and
life look a mess.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I started down to the stack.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Here is his easy and easy, my cat.
Speaker 11 (27:57):
He give your hand, then I'll help you my mesh
your down tight lads, Hi captain as good as Matt
might have come himself hatching another one. You're a brave
flats ain't a brave lads Haggart.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Mister all right, captain, you call yourself a mage. Take
a look at a real seaman.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
And I want to tell you man, members of my crew,
and I know what you went through under the rule
of mister Raggart. And he'll stand trial for his mistige
when we get to Boston.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Alright, since mister.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Raggart's in the brig at leaves us without a first mate,
and since young Dana had the most to do with
bringing mister Raggart to justice, I'd like for Richard Daya
to be first maid of the pilgrim till we get
to Boston Hill.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Congratulations, mister Dana.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I don't know what to say, Harris. You should have
been the one to get the first mate's birth where
you were and at Danna, I didn't. I guess your
good luck White Elephant wasn't working this time.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
One thing more, man, mister, that won't be drawing your
salt down in the break.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
I propos should divide it up equally among the crew.
I just beg you can use the extra money when
we get to Boston.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
When we get to Boston.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Ah, those were magic words to us who have been
away from home so long, and the last weeks and
days went quickly.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
After two long years at sea, two years at sea.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Well, mister Dana, all right, Harris, now that we're sailing
into Boston Harbor, you can drop the formality. Huh why
Well a few hours, I won't be first name and
the pilgrim and our long voyage.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Will just be a memory.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Well in that case, Na, here's a good luck piece
I'd like to give you, you know, tiny elephant you
always liked, Yes, but Henner, little souvenir, Oh, thank you,
little souvenir.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
If I tripped together two years before the mass.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
This story of two years before the Mass suggested by
Richard Henry. Dana's classic of that name was written by
Tom Grute and was the first in NBC's news series
Adventure Ahead. Young Dana was played by John Thomas. Music
was by Doc Whiffle. The entire production was directed by
Joseph Mansfield. During the weeks to come, as each Saturday
morning unfolds Adventure Ahead, you will meet a gallery of
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heroes and heroines who appeal to youthful minded listeners.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Of every age.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
From the pages of books and stories.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Both old than you. Your adventures will come to life,
engaging in their exploits solely for your pleasure. NBC and
its affiliated independent stations present Adventure Ahead as a public service.
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This is a National broadcasting company.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Welcome back Well a great sea adventure story. Much like
the later film that would come out in nineteen forty six,
this episode introduced its own original plot ideas the whole
first mate usurpine, the captain plot, and the first mate
being a particularly odious and cruel person is really original
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to radio. It's important to note that two years before
the Mast was not a novel. It was a travel
story of dating his actual life as a young man
at sea. It was meant to tell an on varnished
tale of his travel and also some of the hardships
that were faced by seamen during that period of the
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mid nineteenth century, as well as to suggest improvements for
their law. The nineteen forty six film featured a sadistic
captain aided by a brutish first mate, and also included
a kidnapped, spoiled, wealthy young man. It seems to have
been influenced by the book and film Mutiny on the
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Bounty as much as it was two years before the mast.
I think it's reasonable to surmise that the plot in
this rate episode was influenced at least partially by being
produced during World War II. The film plot would be
problematic given that order on merchant ships was vital to
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the war effort. So a story of a usurping first mate,
overriding an otherwise benevolent and fair captain through deceit, and
thereby undermining the mission of the ship would have been
a lot more palatable for nineteen forty four. In writing
the book, Dana had actually been concerned about the power
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of captains at sea and working through the idea of
how you balance that need to maintain order on a
ship with the rights and the interest of the ship's crew.
And there was one flogging in particular that Dana took
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issue with. So this is a bit of a departure
from the book, but again I think enjoyable in its
own right. All right, listener comments and feedback now, and
we have a couple of comments on our first buck
Rogers episode, and this first one on Instagram from chars
Mary who writes great episode. I was so impressed with
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the sound quality, and then over on the site called
x we have a comment from Itchy Richie. I was
surprised that your guest speaker did not mention the Duck
Dodgers cartoon. Well, another great episode. I'm really enjoying the
adventure series. Well, thanks so much. And I'm certain that
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Alan was aware of Duck Dodgers or should I say
Duck Dodgers in the twenty fours and a half century.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Darn it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I wish I had the right to the musical cue. Yeah,
I've seen that car the original cartoon myself several times.
Both of them never got into the two thousands TV
series of it. I don't think Duc Dodgers was so
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much a parody of Dock Rogers as a pun on
back Rogers, because if you think about it, that series
probably parodied things like Space Patrol or Captain Video or
Tom Corbett with the eager young Space Cadet more than
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it did Buck Rogers. But Doc Dodgers is such a
perfect name, and you can't really get that with you.
I don't know Space Doc Control or and I don't
think you could actually Captain ducky oh, just saying them,
those would be horrible. Ideas, but Doc Dodgers just has
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that perfect comedic sound. And thanks for bringing that up.
Good memory, because I'm from the generation where that was
one short we had randomly recorded on VHS and so
I saw it quite a bit growing up. All right, Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to thank Bruce, Patreon supporter since November
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twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the cadet level
of two dollars or more per month. Thanks so much
for your support, Bruce, And that will do it for today.
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Graham signing off.
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham bring you the first
episode of Adventure Ahead. But first, I do want to
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Well now onto Adventure Ahead. Adventure Ahead was a short
lived nineteen forty four anthology series. The series was billed
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as famous stories for young people, but as the main
source on that series, the Digital Deli website points out,
these were really stories that were, with perhaps one exception
which is not in circulation, written with a strong appeal
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to young men, many coming of age stories throughout the
entire run. There are quite a few subgenres of Adventures
in this collection. And in addition to that, you have
some stories that were considered classics then and are classics now,
such as Robinson Crusoe and others which have faded more
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into obscurity, kind of the same what that we encountered
when we were doing the Summer of Robert Louis Stevenson.
I expect we're going to encounter some stories we've heard before,
but also someone's that are forgotten gems. Now, I will
say that we are not going to go through every
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episode of Adventure Ahead all at once, because it's an
anthology series. We can jump in and out of it
and come back to it in between series. But we
will be playing episodes every week until our Christmas break.
So now let's go ahead and take a listen to
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the first episode, which originally aired August fifth, nineteen forty four,
and it's two years before the mast.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That little Broadcasting Company aper.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Then the first in a new series of famous stories
for young people. Adventure Hits this week, a tale suggested
by that epic of the Seas two years before the
Mast by Richard Henry Dama, a story which has brought
reading excitement through six generations of American boys and girls,
and so.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Adventure ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It was eighteen.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Forty four and the first time that I ever saw
the Pilgrim, I knew she was the ship for me
because in all of Boston Harbor she had the finest lines,
the deepest draft, and masts that almost.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Spraped the sky.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yes, the Clipper Pilgrim seemed the answer to my dreams,
the largest, tallest, most seaworthy ship that I had ever seen,
And even though I'd never been to the sea and
hardly knew my way around a deck, I climbed aboard
to find the captain.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You're looking for somebody, Well, yes, I am.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I want to speak to the captain.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Got after a job? Ay, yes, birth, Yes, sir, he's.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
A fine ship.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Maybe I has worshiped the float in the pokem and
there has better ones too.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
What do you mean you'll find out soon enough?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Captain Tailor signed John?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Do you think you'll take me? I never been to seat.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Will make much difference, as Tripp tokeram stor to sailor
night and we need man.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He look strong enough, husky, you can make a.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Sailor out of y.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Why you might be first mate by the time we
sail back home again.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well, thank you, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
My name's Harris say Semester for the office. I'm just
one of the crew.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
All right, Harris, you'll find Captain Tailor raft At he'd
men to fill out the crew. I expect he'll be
glad to see you.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Oh you want to share before the massy lads? Yes, captain, Yes,
you're kind of young. Any experience I want to learn, sir.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I'm not afraid to.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
Work, mighty anxious to sign aboard. Yes, sir, I am nowhere.
We're bound for well, uh, California, that's where I am.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You know what that means.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
It's a long ways officer.
Speaker 11 (05:07):
It may be a year, two years before we sail
into Boston Harbor again, makes no difference, Captain, I want
to go to sea.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I like to cut your jib lad. Thank you, Captain Taylor.
You will be kind of an apprentice seaman to got
out what we call a toad war.
Speaker 12 (05:22):
The crew will show you the rope.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
I want to take you along to get the drift
of sailing. No, sir, keep your eyes and years open.
Dana and the baby orders are the me the mate, sir.
First meet mister Raggett. Guess it take your gear and
go along. Now report to mister Raggett.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
You're the new man. Yes, mister Raggett, ever been a
stea dana?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, sir ah a landlover, please.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Sir, I want to be a.
Speaker 13 (05:54):
All right away, none of y'all when I talk landing
here understand, yes, Dot Novice that as the rest of
the crew.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
How does a captain expect me to run this ship
with a bunch of shoe CERs, carry pickers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Land lubbers.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
McCabe, it's a cave.
Speaker 13 (06:11):
I make is a new man, McCabe, Give him a
bunk and a bookstore. I make Sana here thinks he
wants to be a tailor. Yes, I'll take that out.
I aim of the time we were on the horn.
He lover hurts that way, mate, Oh did we miss
the McCabe.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And how for your opinion? Well, I don't forget.
Speaker 13 (06:28):
You're just a second mate on the ship, McCabe when
I want your opinion, but I only want I don't
like a man that talks a lot.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
McCabe.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh, make you wish you never failed about the.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Pilbrom Well, then I here all stowed away.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Oh hrh, yeah, I'm already you think we'll sail.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
To sometimes to night. The Winston's up all tell you
a better get some sleep, Diana. Have to we get
on the way because I climbing around the rigging lost tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm too excited to flee after a few months. That
is glad to take your sleep when you can get it.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Especially, what do you mean he's around.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
This?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That you mean we're underweight?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
I gonna move on.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
The sails were loose, the yards were great, and the
clipper pilgrim was on her way, leaning from the damp
knife breeze and rolling with a heavy ground swell.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Everything seemed beautiful that night as we sailed into the
dark Atlantic, bound southward for Cape.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Horn and California. But in the morning things didn't seem
so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
With all the crew on deck, the day started off
with a few words from the captain and mister Agat.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Welcome to the clipper.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Man.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Come off your old hands. You know the work I want,
and new men will manage fine if you obey the officers.
That's me.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
The fush made mister Draggott and shake and made mister
McCabe and I take over mister Raggart.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
All right, How the DAP you didn't sign aboard the
Pilgrim from our pleasure cruise, I expect ever a man
check of it a.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Work After that, we're carter.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
The orders.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Do your duty fare well enough.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
What if you don't, I'll break a man that crosses
me under spend.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
All right, common what run deck? Rest of you below?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
From that day on our work see never de seas.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
For the result was work to do aboard a sailing ship,
rigging to be examined, continually replaced, sails to be members,
and ropes of yards prepared, taking off, mending, putting on,
taking off, mending, putting on.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
There's no rest for those to see, regardless of the weather.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
It was difficult to learn at first the scheme of
things aboard a full rigged clipper, but the crew helped
me in every way.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I never will.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Forget Tom Harris's advice to me before I went aloft
among the sails first time.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
It's not hid Dana, keep one handsiest self, one for
the ship, and never sit their winning.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
The wind blew up and down, the Pilgrim's debts, days
blew in the week and months, but there.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Was always worship it more and worse and still morning,
or mister Raggett thought of that, washing down.
Speaker 14 (09:37):
The deck, rubbing holy sun, boiling up the riggings, racing up,
mending sails, and ship was like a lady's.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Watch, never in repair.
Speaker 14 (09:47):
One afternoon when the weather was right, and we stood
well off the coast of Brazil with a strong wind
at our turns there.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Moves along from your top rope bom.
Speaker 12 (10:01):
Right along, coining up the Wigan cook a lot there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I want to swap that works?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
That works ten time?
Speaker 12 (10:09):
What three mths for this?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What do you think of? See life?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Now?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
It's hard enough, work hard, but I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm got used to it.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I suppose no danna as long as mister Ragget's aboard,
none of the crew get used to this driving, driving
you ship with him before?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Haven't time?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Many times, hard work and never a kind word.
Speaker 14 (10:30):
Well, what about the captain? He's hardly ever up on desk.
Doesn't he know? The mates just stirring trouble. I doubt
it that the tailor truss I made, I'm sure of that.
And since the pats stick so much long, someone has
to take the man. The captain fits in this cabin
most of the time.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
With Captain Taylor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
No one knows, I guess except Dtor Raggitts doctor.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Ragged I does he know about medicine?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I suppose this cabin's full of jars and bottles.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
So does that make him a medical man?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh, he's the maid he keeps the medicine.
Speaker 14 (10:58):
Check.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Well, I hope that is.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
I never get sick on this boy.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
I'm a bag of secures. The remedies for me either, will?
I need to keep me ship shape? Is my good
luck charm logs? I had this and say, can I
see it?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's a lucky elephant.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Oh and ivery Yellowshan. Where'd you get it?
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Harris, India four years ago? Oh, I'll give it to you, Danna,
someday when I.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Quit the sea, I'd like to have it, but that'll
be a long time waiting.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
When's up, Danna?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Hi, squallow off the starboard, dirty weather on away?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
All right?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Getting me a cape horn.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
It won't be many days.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Here's my cave.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
He looks sad. I what's wrong the cave?
Speaker 15 (11:44):
I stuck it again. I just had another step two
with him. Oh, he's been up to me ever since
we left Boston. Hi, I'm afraid of him.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
What are you afraid of?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I don't know. He might do anything.
Speaker 15 (11:56):
As long as the first meet the run in this ship,
we're ahead a great trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
And so it went.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
As we near the horn, mister Aggott seemed more and
more in charge, the keeper of our destiny, and we
scarcely ever saw the captains.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But by that time the spring storms.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Of October broke upon us.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
We were busy hauling, burling canvas to keep.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
The ship upright on course through tempest scales and freezing,
icy rain.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Day after night after.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Day, we plunged through mountainous waves, ribbon westward through the
straits by savage, lashing gales. We were on deck, on watch,
continuously burling sails, tying broken yards and spars, drenched by
rain and snow and sleep and hails and waves that
tried to wash us.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Over there, Hannah dina I slack off Paris.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Hand against the heat pump.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Here's a nutter steady.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Or right there he caught me, fin bill tax, stay
out of it.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Everything washed in a belch, A look out.
Speaker 16 (13:03):
Another we're shifting water, Nah, help them silk a wising this.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
It's macay, easy on there, careful, don.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
What a night? Rough night? Let me have that frigging Harris,
where are you going? What's the names? Why do you
daf order roil? Y'all get it away? But this weather
you can't climb along. Macte pass to order holds on
its snake. The dagger says, I go along, So I
go along.
Speaker 16 (13:37):
He'll never make cutting this count hold on water. There
he is now climbing along.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Here we here, we do data.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
We want to come from this.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
I didn't plong this look out. He's fallen.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Cape was lost. There's nothing we could do the same.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Four days later, when the Cape storm blew itself away, Paris.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And I were fusing.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Ordered cap.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The ragged ordered him, alot, what do you mean, Harris?
He tried to kill McCabe.
Speaker 17 (14:24):
I wonder, Harrison, do you know we're on deck that
night they saw what happened?
Speaker 7 (14:36):
A maid ordered mable man? What an officer in his
right behind order a man alf like that?
Speaker 15 (14:43):
Would he is?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Heyes, mad?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Men, what are we going to do about mister Cato thing?
There's nothing to be done?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Men? Can we go to Captain Taylor?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
No, it wouldn't do any good.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Why what do you mean, we don't know a thing
for certain, and Captain Taylor's sick or well faith in
mister wagon If.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
It is really mad, that's not for us to say.
Why not, Why can't we take along on our own hand?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
We're not mutiny men, And let's see, mutiny is never
the answer to the troubles of a crew.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You'd better think it over.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
With first strong wind behind us, we sailed on northward,
up along the coast of South America, has Chile, Panama,
Mexico closer.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Drawing closer to our goal of California. And throughout the
long five months of travel we suffered neath.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
The stinging lash of mister Waggon's vicious tongue.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
We darned a dusky screamed at us, threatened us and out.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And when the good ship Pilgrim akeret at our destination
San Diego, and our voyage halfway through, the worst, we
hope was over.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
And we celebrated with us Chorle, our first since leading Boston,
as the crew was emptied of her cargole and the
holes refilled with cattle hide.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And then in April we set sail again, bound for
the Cape and hold the Pilgrim was going back to
Boston and we were going home.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
We thought the.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Mate might change, but he was no different than before.
He managed everything, ranted, roared, and ray. He didn't have
a friend aboard the ship. Coming off watch one afternoon,
I brushed with mister Raggett just after he'd left the
captain's cabin.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Oh, excuse me, sir, what are you doing here, Jane?
Why nothing, sir, I'm going forward.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
To my folk. Or get along and scat away from
this cabin.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I don't want none of you swapped, even getting near
Captain Taylor.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Understand, Hi, you look like somebody jag your compass.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I just don't follow the mate.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Oh today, this time.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Outside Captain Taylor's cabin.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Huh, give me the old man medicine. I guess how
is the captain?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
No one knows, but the mate old man hasn't been
out of his cabin since we left California.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
He's been in there alone nearly two months.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Except for mister Raggett.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
I except from mister strict orders of the mate. Nobody
goes inside cabin. Doors most always locked.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Captain Taylor must be very sick.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
We have to take the mates where Dana, he knows
more about medicine than anyone else aboard.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Maybe he knows too much, you know, Harrise. And I'm
curious about that cabin.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Do you suppose someone could get inside.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Find out about Captain Taylor talk to him alone by
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
I mean is the cabin door always locked most of
the time?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
But who data go inside against the mate's orders?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I might what you I'm curious about that cabin, Harris.
I take the chance, mate, he'd kill you if you
can't you that he would that, But it's worth a try.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
If you and the COO will help me.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I have a plan, of course, will help you, Dana.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
We must get word to the captain, tell him about
the ship and the mate.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
The only chance. We must get word to the captain.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Careful, now, mate, I don't here he comes careful.
Speaker 16 (18:27):
Uh, mister Raggett, Well, well, what do you swaps want?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
We we're having trouble binding these spars.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
We can't lash them tight enough, mister.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And may have a look there. Ah, this ropes too wet.
See hi, you two call yourselves sailors. Use them dryer
up like this, make a bite circle around twice.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Captain sailors.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Yeah, what do you want? He was lunch.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I'm sorry to bother you, sir, but I have.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
To talk to you.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
You see, I that is, we of the crew didn't
know how well you were, sir, and we want.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
To you speak for the crew, I sir, this trager
tells me the CRU's going to mutiny.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
You're just satisfied with your work mutiny, that's what he says. Oh, no,
cappin emh.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We well, we're not exactly satisfied with mister Ragget's way
of running the ship in your absence, but we're all working, sir,
working hard.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
There will be no mutant. But he told me, Hey,
it's not true.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Captain Tailors.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Believe me, sir, I speak for all the crews. Why
did the may tell me that mutiny is a serious time?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
I say it is.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
That's in changed about all this, Lad? And he's been
telling me aye.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Mm can I can I help you, sir?
Speaker 12 (20:06):
It's just my complainer, lad, medicine tablet. That's the tablet, captain.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Lad and some water. I went home, lad, sir, these tablets?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Eh? Did mister Aggott give you these?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
High? Lad? And you've been taking the last two months
I'm a sick man. Lad. Of course, Sir, I understand.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
But if I may ask, Sir, do you really feel
better after taking these?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
No?
Speaker 11 (20:49):
Not so much, mister Dragon says. If I don't take
the tablets, I might feel worse.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
The mate told you that, Sir, Hey, Captain, I have
a suspicion at all? Is right?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
What said? Lad? These tablets? What you're talking about, Captain Taylor?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Speaking for the crew, I'd like to tell you about
the way the ship's been run since you've been locked
in here?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
All right, Lad?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
The mate wasn't wrong when he said we talked about
newt but we had a reason, Sir. That's what I
want to do. We agreed that I should come and tell.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
You about these things.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
We thought you'd want to know.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Captain m It's.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Incredible, incredible, Lad, And I've wondered about the mate, and
this explains a lot of things to me.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But what can I do, Lad, I'm too weak to
leave this bed. What can I do? Well?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I may suggest, sir, my lad, First of all, stop
taking these tablets, Sir.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
I don't know what they are, but I'd stake my life.
They're harmful.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But if I stop, Leader, they may get work well.
Possibly ill chance it. Crew in my ship need more
to mean life. I'll chance it.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
He need you sort of take control of the ship again.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
That will be the jay lad. The scheme works, It must.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Work, Captain Taylor.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
You must come back and take command.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
We're five or six weeks off Cape Horn and in
the dead of winner. We can never sail around without.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You, sir. The captain followed our advice and slowly came
around to help again. Lots of exercise, and when he
was hungry we sneaked him bully beef and biscuit. All
aknn to mister ragathough. And then one day in June,
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Captain Taylor left this cabin came on deck quite suddenly,
surprising all the cool at work, but most of all
surprising mister Dragon.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
What I needed? What right along?
Speaker 11 (22:50):
H say something about a whip? Mister Dagger? Captain surprised
to see me, amy, ain't.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You you sir? You shouldn't be up?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Oh no, why not, mister Raggon.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Why your help my health?
Speaker 11 (23:04):
I never felt better. You're cure was real good, mister Raggart,
I feel fine?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
You do when you've got no right up here? No man?
Why not I've earned my right to run this ship.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Oh, I've been running a pilgrim for the last three
months and before that, so I understand, and I can
sailor in the Boston myself.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
Oh can you now, mister Wraggon, and nobody will stop? No, well,
I can stop your miss Tomate. You've been running things
too long aboard my ship. You made several big mistakes,
first when you tried to poison me, and then when
you didn't recognize men real men. These men your crew
who But there is not a better crew on any ocean,
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mister Raggarts. You might learn a lot by watching them.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Mute. What if, mister Tomate?
Speaker 11 (23:50):
And if anybody is guilty of insurrection and taking over
the control of the ship, it's you missed.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
To Maate and nobody else. Yes, sir, Yes, if.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
I didn't need every man and jack aboard keep to
get around the horn I told you.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
In the brig mister mate.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
So you're on good behavior, and if you make good
I'd forget about the charges.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
I mean to bring against your mate.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Al Right, sir, what's your step mister Raggarts, And don't
be asking any man jack to do a job.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
You wouldn't do yourself.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
There's a poll headed out of the saucer and edge.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
First to the cape. Storms. You'll have them all the
time from now on, short.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Term sail men, the clothan man, the clord, telling darkster
in the sully. It'll be roughing heavy through the strangest
time of year, mister Raggarts, I, sir captain, you think
you can manage to help us out? I sir, on
your way then, mate, but I need adviti watch your step.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
We prepared for winter weather, but we never expected the
heavy storms that last our ship from stem to stern
as we went around the cape. The worst of all
the storms struck late one night when I come up
on watch, a great ship rolled pitched, wallowed in the
heavy sea ribbon blindly eastward by a gale of grain
and sleek smoke. Soo man could do to keep his
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speed upon the weakest lily decks.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Pina, pina, my sir, my tack hell.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
You see on the lads, my, sir, Harry's man, Yeah,
hian hair cat good. She's rough tonight, lads, Hi, she's heavy.
You lashed along the tight I s hold on heap country.
If the rigging.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Horse we went up through every spar yard.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
I'm flashed out, sir.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
That's right, cat man, we'd hope for the best fads.
Have you seen the maid? Mister Ragger's along with.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Deck cat belamey, mister dragger light along.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
With drag.
Speaker 13 (25:59):
Great namesaggage, Oh snug, I p Captain took another turner
lashing around.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
They's got last, councer.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Hi, it's done all right.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
She's labeled to break off save in the day. Somebody
ought to go it off. He lay her down against
the mass.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
It's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
A man can't climb up in this wind.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
It's see. She's got to me.
Speaker 16 (26:21):
Last can't be done, Captain, not in this weather.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
No, it's the night you set the cable off. But
did you take her?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You hurt him?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Mister Raggs, you sent the cake hopping weather is fatter said, well,
are you gonna honor a loft this time? As the
dragon well top bears got to be amended, mate, you're
going aloft yourself? No, No, I won't.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
No, it's step for the man that's.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Trace the charge in the cable off.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Cham, I won't.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
It's step stretain death.
Speaker 11 (26:45):
All right, mister Raggos, you've had your chance to me
good and you fail her.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Chere.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I won't go up.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I won't.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
I won't know no, idn't kill it.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Hey, Dana, I'll go a off, Sir.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'll go up you.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
She must be last, cawncer.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
I think I can do that.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's a long chance then, I know, Harrison, but I'll
try if I head Captain.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I'm not holding you, Dana.
Speaker 11 (27:04):
But if you think you can make it, I ser
then go it off, Jana, and best all. Thank you, sir,
A winge bitter the ropes ice. Be careful, lad watch
just that, Dana.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Why are the careful?
Speaker 11 (27:18):
I don't know, Harris, mister dagger irsper keep.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Your eye on young Hana doing the job you're upbraide
to do. I'm in higher, higher, spen up.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I clim hang over hand upon the icy rope, riking
sweet and ring feet down and splash my face bullship.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Work money.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Of the food like ours, so my gazing hands and
life look a mess.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I started down to the stack.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Here is his easy and easy, my cat.
Speaker 11 (27:57):
He give your hand, then I'll help you my mesh
your down tight lads, Hi captain as good as Matt
might have come himself hatching another one. You're a brave
flats ain't a brave lads Haggart.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Mister all right, captain, you call yourself a mage. Take
a look at a real seaman.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
And I want to tell you man, members of my crew,
and I know what you went through under the rule
of mister Raggart. And he'll stand trial for his mistige
when we get to Boston.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Alright, since mister.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Raggart's in the brig at leaves us without a first mate,
and since young Dana had the most to do with
bringing mister Raggart to justice, I'd like for Richard Daya
to be first maid of the pilgrim till we get
to Boston Hill.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Congratulations, mister Dana.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I don't know what to say, Harris. You should have
been the one to get the first mate's birth where
you were and at Danna, I didn't. I guess your
good luck White Elephant wasn't working this time.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
One thing more, man, mister, that won't be drawing your
salt down in the break.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
I propos should divide it up equally among the crew.
I just beg you can use the extra money when
we get to Boston.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
When we get to Boston.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Ah, those were magic words to us who have been
away from home so long, and the last weeks and
days went quickly.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
After two long years at sea, two years at sea.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Well, mister Dana, all right, Harris, now that we're sailing
into Boston Harbor, you can drop the formality. Huh why
Well a few hours, I won't be first name and
the pilgrim and our long voyage.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Will just be a memory.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Well in that case, Na, here's a good luck piece
I'd like to give you, you know, tiny elephant you
always liked, Yes, but Henner, little souvenir, Oh, thank you,
little souvenir.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
If I tripped together two years before the mass.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
This story of two years before the Mass suggested by
Richard Henry. Dana's classic of that name was written by
Tom Grute and was the first in NBC's news series
Adventure Ahead. Young Dana was played by John Thomas. Music
was by Doc Whiffle. The entire production was directed by
Joseph Mansfield. During the weeks to come, as each Saturday
morning unfolds Adventure Ahead, you will meet a gallery of
(31:00):
heroes and heroines who appeal to youthful minded listeners.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Of every age.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
From the pages of books and stories.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Both old than you. Your adventures will come to life,
engaging in their exploits solely for your pleasure. NBC and
its affiliated independent stations present Adventure Ahead as a public service.
(31:27):
This is a National broadcasting company.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Welcome back Well a great sea adventure story. Much like
the later film that would come out in nineteen forty six,
this episode introduced its own original plot ideas the whole
first mate usurpine, the captain plot, and the first mate
being a particularly odious and cruel person is really original
(32:06):
to radio. It's important to note that two years before
the Mast was not a novel. It was a travel
story of dating his actual life as a young man
at sea. It was meant to tell an on varnished
tale of his travel and also some of the hardships
that were faced by seamen during that period of the
(32:31):
mid nineteenth century, as well as to suggest improvements for
their law. The nineteen forty six film featured a sadistic
captain aided by a brutish first mate, and also included
a kidnapped, spoiled, wealthy young man. It seems to have
been influenced by the book and film Mutiny on the
(32:53):
Bounty as much as it was two years before the mast.
I think it's reasonable to surmise that the plot in
this rate episode was influenced at least partially by being
produced during World War II. The film plot would be
problematic given that order on merchant ships was vital to
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the war effort. So a story of a usurping first mate,
overriding an otherwise benevolent and fair captain through deceit, and
thereby undermining the mission of the ship would have been
a lot more palatable for nineteen forty four. In writing
the book, Dana had actually been concerned about the power
(33:39):
of captains at sea and working through the idea of
how you balance that need to maintain order on a
ship with the rights and the interest of the ship's crew.
And there was one flogging in particular that Dana took
(33:59):
issue with. So this is a bit of a departure
from the book, but again I think enjoyable in its
own right. All right, listener comments and feedback now, and
we have a couple of comments on our first buck
Rogers episode, and this first one on Instagram from chars
Mary who writes great episode. I was so impressed with
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the sound quality, and then over on the site called
x we have a comment from Itchy Richie. I was
surprised that your guest speaker did not mention the Duck
Dodgers cartoon. Well, another great episode. I'm really enjoying the
adventure series. Well, thanks so much. And I'm certain that
(34:44):
Alan was aware of Duck Dodgers or should I say
Duck Dodgers in the twenty fours and a half century.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Darn it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I wish I had the right to the musical cue. Yeah,
I've seen that car the original cartoon myself several times.
Both of them never got into the two thousands TV
series of it. I don't think Duc Dodgers was so
(35:14):
much a parody of Dock Rogers as a pun on
back Rogers, because if you think about it, that series
probably parodied things like Space Patrol or Captain Video or
Tom Corbett with the eager young Space Cadet more than
(35:35):
it did Buck Rogers. But Doc Dodgers is such a
perfect name, and you can't really get that with you.
I don't know Space Doc Control or and I don't
think you could actually Captain ducky oh, just saying them,
those would be horrible. Ideas, but Doc Dodgers just has
(35:56):
that perfect comedic sound. And thanks for bringing that up.
Good memory, because I'm from the generation where that was
one short we had randomly recorded on VHS and so
I saw it quite a bit growing up. All right, Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to thank Bruce, Patreon supporter since November
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twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the cadet level
of two dollars or more per month. Thanks so much
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in mark the notification belt. We will be back next
Tuesday with another episode of Adventure Ahead, but join us
back here on Saturday for Cloak and Dagger. In the meantime,
do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives
dot net. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam
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Graham signing off.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.