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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
ABC presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by
Willis Cooper. The speakers Ernest Chappels Quiet Please. For today
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it is called anonymous. The other night when you called.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Me up after I made that talk on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't suppose you know what happened to you. Maybe
you don't care, but if you've got.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
A few minutes, I kind of like the tech.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you mind listening for a while?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, you other people can listen to if your life.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I I see no way of preventing you fandises about
the fact that might be instructive to you too. You
other people don't know who I am, of course, and
I'm covered and structed as well. You know, though, don't you?
You wouldn't forget that quickly. It's still and listening. You
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know you got nothing better to do. You're listening to
the radio anyway?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Think it easier way, lady? You really started things.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Personally, I started. It was a pretty good speech and
apparently quite a lot of my listeners. But for two
there was a nice batch of mail the next morning,
and of course a lot of phone calls for the
studio when I finished. Finanturally, most of them came some
people who belonged to the party that nominated me would
expect it to be that way that you came from.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
People who vote the other tickets.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
But even they were restrained and polife about disagreeing with me.
I was grateful to them, because it's always good. I
know exactly on fifty points the opposition differs with you.
I thank them policely.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
A foot that you're called here lady.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Really, I I wasn't expecting that. I remember it very clearly, holo.
I was shocked at the time the phone rang. It
was about the tenth call there on the studio. They
announcedly handled it to me. I said, yes, and you said.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You're not old. They see no.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I don't you find out and cla, I hope you
dropped the H.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I beg your pardon, madam, I said, I hope you.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Dropped the H.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Come out listen to yeah, oh im sure. I don't
know why you've said that. Dear lady. You never saw me,
excepting can rather smug the new stepper cuts. You never
heard my voice, it expects on the radio you I
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don't know what it was. It may give you such
unvaribal language. What do you think you didn't like my face,
or my politics, for my nationalogy.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Or of the church I go to, or what.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Not is there about me?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Or about my beliefs, but prompt the printed stranger, which
there's suddenly unnatural death for me, either because you felt
safe hiding you hung a telephone knowing or there's no
way of my finding out.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Who you are. Did you mean it? How were you?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well you have the satisfaction of knowing that broke up
a nice sleep for an at lady.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
My first praec and of course was the indignation, literal indignation,
that a loss of dignity, and it wasn't up to
having people say things like that for me. I could
have forgiven it for my more around me, but a
total stranger. And so I went to bed very.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
An my wife.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
My wife was a very light sleeper, and I suppose
I was making.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Indignant noises for myself, rehearsing what I'd say to you
if I had an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Anyway. I want to be what was it best to sleep?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That I was the m I just wake up and
there's a lot of what time was it?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I got one that was a cool.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Hey, very to stoke.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Why do you want one?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No? You know how with me call about? Let me
see I heard part of the speech Tom. Have you
all it sounded fine? Is it? Cause I've heard it
so many times? You tried to see you E I'm
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not that's nice. Nothing somebody does. Oh I got a phone.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Call that make me mad?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Did you? Yeah? I suppose you were not a politicians?
Let those things? We lost your back? What now I am?
But this one is going to smoke though.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That you're so ner of its about. I'm mad. I
told you, Uh, have you stay? What did great say?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
That?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Do you so much?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah? There's some woman old a woman and what she said?
I haven't a least god or since you hope I
dropped that? Hum I say I wasn't married? Brain it
for being mad? I's not.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
What's a letter U on your mind? No?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm not letting it pay on my mind? How you
even mention it?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You start and tall?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You spot know where it was a thought? No? Personally? Well,
sorry to go to sleep and now was another day?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You know? Good night door, I'm sorry, good night, good night?
How I I go out in the living room getting awake.
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Oh you worked here, I don't think so. I just remembered.
If I don't notice, I mean sure you came to
do it. It sorta makes out a check in the
morning in order to be too late.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
M I'll just be dinner in any connection.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I just suddenly remember. Sure, I know I forgot it.
I'm glad I remembered.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Good night, Good night, very good night. Indeed, try and sleep.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Something enough to say about my blood pushing? How old
do people have to be about dead? Some of these
people about there in bullism or whatever that is, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Blood vessels? First things were wrong to get head or
somebody wishes alout.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You see.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You did it alright there, lady. I got have to
see if I could stop that dripping sharp.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Parts of her.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I never know that it before, and I couldn't help
her any for night.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And what it kept saying. Would you like to listen
to it all night?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Heard what it kept saying, and try to pick up.
All that happened was I got to say one.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Up a game of stopping, and it kept right on dripping.
If right unsay what it had to say? What if
you had to say? And at once I fell asleep
and dreamed. Oh, I rather not tell you about the dreams, TI,
I'd rather let you imagine. You don't know what they
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were about it you set a stage for them. Mm.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And then when I woke up, the first thing I
heard was my wife talking to someone on a telephone
at nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Cheerful at that?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
All okay, I love you fall No, I didn't get
all around the row, whel but I thought it so
many times around the house.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You know, did you particularly he has a talk? I
don't go too. Why, Oh he's all right, still asleep.
I think he got a little.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Hangover this morning. Oh no, I'm not very lady.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I suppose he had a couple with on the committee
man after broadcast.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I don't know. I'm not drunk.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Does talk about Oh somebody called him up afterwards and
said they hopposed he walked dead, That's what I said.
But you know him, you're all sensitive.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
He is house.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He carry on his mind, oh target, Oh no, he
hadn't at stated buy you a whole?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Why he hold that? He was beginning calling up under table?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Good?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Akay?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Why not? When I woke up, I couldn't remember what
it was that didn't disturbed, might sleep so, but she
could only looked in the bedroom.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
To see if I was still asleep.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I didn't have any drinks last night? Didn't you should
I bring you some coffee? I don't know. I hate
drinking coffee on bed before I get my teeth right.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh did you get up?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
How'd you hang over? I haven't got any hangover. I
was talking on the phone to your brother. I heard you.
What are you so cranky about?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
This morning?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
There? I didn't sleep very well.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Dreaming about dropping dead.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I wish I never heard anything so silly in all
my life, letting a little thing like that prey on
your mind?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Nothing praying on my mind.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'd forgotten on about it till I heard you shouting
about it on the telephone morning.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I was talking very quietly, so I wouldn't work you up.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Sorry, more perfectly Well, it's good to be upset about
somebody telling you on the phone that they.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wish you'd drop down here? Would you please stop talking
at just slaying silly? And you know perfectly well and
a person can't wish you to death, I'll answer it,
will you?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Probably your friend?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
My friend, the one that wants you to drop dead.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They can too wish you to death. I remember what
that Australian fella told me about pointing the bones. How
the how the witch doctor points a human fingerborn of
the native. He wants to die, and the native just dies.
Nobody can do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He just dies. That's all there is to it. He's
wished to death. What did you do everybody in the
committee about that woman last night? What do you mean
Heaven's You've got everybody talking about it. I just mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well, that was real.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Secretary, and she says everybody at headquart he's just talking
about it and laughing at you because he's no scared.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'm not scared.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm well.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I wish you'd forget about it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And I got out of bed a moment I thought
I was gonna bow down right then.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And there never feel dizzy when you jump off out
of bed seventy in the morning, and I suppose not.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You're you're probably younger than I am, and things like
that that happened to you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
My heart gave a big jumper knife up. Alright, this
is it, you see. I fired a gun already, and
I said to myself, stockers are being an idiot. I
wanted to take my shower hand in the bright morning light,
the drifting farse that didn't say stop dead, stop dead,
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or what I did last night, I didn't give it
a chance. I turned the water on as hard as
to go, and I jumped in. At the office. At headquarters,
it were different. Everybody was delighted.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
With a speech, and I I found a pile of
notes on my desk congratulating me on what I'd said.
I began to feel better right away. The marriage note said,
great work, boy, you'll be president. Yet one from the.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Radio station, Yeah, a wonderful voice for radio. Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
The telegram the old Senator.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Highly impressed by your talk last night, and the copy
of my speech was excellent.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Written across it, and the chairman signature hand.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The little note on the sheety yellow scratch paper, the
badly typewritten little note, the note from you that said,
I hope you dropped dead. As I looked at it,
and I could almost hear your voice again, I hope
you stopped.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And then the telephone started ringing. I knewood was of course,
I knew i'd hear your.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Voice as soon as I lived at the receiver Oh no,
I said, Oh no, I'm not gonna adds to that.
I've heard her once. I said to myself, look what it's.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Doing to me. I don't want to give her a
lot of chance.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I won't do it. I won't. I won't do it,
and you won't.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Kept right on riding.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And that's when I answer him. I said, I'm not
gonna look at for him. I can hold me again.
I don't have that an idea, Sure, I answer, sure,
I'd listen to you. Sure I could engage in conversation.
I'd have my secretary chase the call while you were.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Talking to me.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'd get you. I'd find you. Might tell you a
few things about anymous telephone calls, anonymous writers too. I'd
have to be careful, wouldn't My hand wasn't when I
thought you a way to I, I didn't do the work.
So I but I'm the best politician man.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Hello tell a min Huh?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Who is that?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Gif? You going to drop ten ol?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Oh what would you do?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Why tell you all walk up about the lock from
the stand you did? I think you better crop for
a dot with me, the doctor, I mean, looking, do
you think that? How you're a kidding maids. Oh, I'm
not that you're going to go into what kids to do?
Like you?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
What you what your can't think? Is there what to think?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What a doctors?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Or I think you about right?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well a lot I suppose old. Okay, if I don't
say like astop, worry, but I'm not worried about how
did that that? That's nice about that doctor? Once you
think I'm mess?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
What's he gonna do with.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Half my name?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
See?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
If my reflexes are all that ask me embarrassing questions
about my childhood, I'm not going to gold. I would be.
It's something about im be happening for me? You think me?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I good cast all the last time I didn't tell
about my hands beat it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And in fact I turned it in my head when
I was three on my left time. Oh wonder a factor?
You here? Not nothing wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I gotta get kicked up once you follow.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yes, I don't want any more.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Pain calls today. Yes, and I'll probably be at the
doctor that at your name for a while if.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You want me jest you want worried about you?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Worried?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Or what about about that woman?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Hoping you'll drop there?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Well you'll get out of here. Very uh oh alright,
well hm, well doct will be all right, be all right, Yeah,
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it's my age, my part, all right, yes, well yes,
what's the matter with it? What do you felt worried about?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yes, the pain of my little finger, not the pain
in your little thing. This one the the least one
hurt so they once in a while.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So well, this had a symptom of vagina. Yes, I
talk to sy Saw. I sent him of hanging name,
about this man, and of a mild and the writer.
I'm not going to be alright doctor.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Listen, my friends, I've never get me into mowatche I've
I no talk, never try to scare your anything.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, what do you mean? I don't want to scrag
your we just if you've got to take chara, you
you understand you have got to take cares.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Nothing that's taking?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Its easy, It won't take. Stop stop working so hard,
stop staying up for all hours, and don't eat so much,
and don't worry about dropping down.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm not worrying about drugs. I'm not worrying. You keep
on worrying about dropping dead. And let's get what will
happened to you? One f I'm go don't kill them,
And god do you think I'm kidding?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Don't stop at the drug store and get this stray
one I said in New Year. You at drug n
all right, and stop worrying. The human mind is a
strange mechanism, marble on one. We really don't know much
about it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You get this dropping dead off your mind?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh, I haven't heard a story about the man that
was granted three wishes as their lady. I went about
the man that was to have his three wishes granted
on one condition.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Un conditioned, he wouldn't think of a hippopotamus quiet he
was wishing.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You never got any of his witches. I never got
your wishes off in my mind either. I came in
my house. How's happened you stay alive?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I went into dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Oh say, I like your dinners. I've got all your
favorite see little invasions.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Blow it all down.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's hot at sea? Will you like it? Butter carriage
even and forty years? Good? What you love time? That's
very nice that you did well. I wanted to take
your mind off of obsession of yours about dropping dead.
That's why I wish your shut up about that. I
I'm trying to forget it.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh why don't forget it?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Then?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, how can I with everybody in town yapping at
me about that? We didn't say a word about I
guess that I wanted you to get it all in
my lass, that's all. Well, if you've shut up about it,
maybe I could.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That's the same I did, taking you the kind of
dinner you like, sending the whole afternoon in the kitchen
and all the peter. You come home and tell me
to shut up.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Sorry, Well I'm not going to shut up.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I've got as much right as talk as you have.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Great big political candidates, plot of those goats on the
radio and get all of us f if some two
women calls you up and hurst you're drop dead, find
public figure you are?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Where you be?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
One of your former seahof one of those.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Little girls you use the yammer abolly, come up with
your class.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No wonder, she hopes you dropped it all right? Can't
take it?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Will I can do?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Why didn't know what you can do? A police?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Certainly do.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let's do it? Then? Well I do go on and
see if no prayer for you up here?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And so my wife left me dear lady. She turned around.
She went out the door, and she said very sweetly,
she said, I hope your girl friend just her wish
the uh lamber door that there. I never think it
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began to hurt again. People are chopping in my temple
to tweech squeech queeh.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Whuh. I felt so busy, I shuck hanging on my shoulders.
You're me very happy. I think I drank two bunces
of water. I didn't do anybody. I got to the
phone and I got a doctor and what things see
(22:43):
the matter? Busy? Uh? I got those pains when you
were a little thinker.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, in my.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Shoulder too, in my head like the look how even
my dinner? I'm sorry? Like two robots and line now
you're you're sure that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I took the broman and might lay down on a bear.
I thought better after a while, that is uh physically
I felt better, but mentally.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And the phone rang after a wire like I can
answer that. I thought, maybe it'll do you want that?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Is it? Why'd you?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Maybe I could talk to your knees and maybe I
guess you just maybe it didn't mean it that when
I'd give me a little bope. I guess a voice
on the phone found it strange when I.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Answered, what is it that you when do you wish
to stick to?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
What numbers?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What number do you want? What number? What number do
you want? Hello?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hello, Hello, good, great, all along with a telephone like
the old song everybody wants me to drop dead?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And he started something there later? Which one do you want?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
H you were? The telephone is a pretty terrible thing sometimes,
John Trumpet said at the trow over the telephoni is
one of the most useful terror devices ever used on
the radio. Did you read that so right? Look at
the under me.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And now's telephone that they call up your friends with
and wish on.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
My happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
The pretty telephone that rings and says tomorrow's well, all
happen to saw parties, and.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
It do you to wish your horrible fate on me?
I stop to wonder that in my ascope fast, I
wonder if I danced to him a dark and dial
just numbered it, if maybe they looking for some trip
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of paper might bring.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
The year there.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'd lead you, but you e I had pleased with
your I beg you to take this.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Purse of years off of me.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And I had to talk to you so badly. I
had to seeing them that I knew you very well,
to close my own almost see you, see you. That's
how should I reach you? You you were anonymous some
somewhere behind the telephone.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It was, but it wasn't that what I'd try.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That was set the hima. Doctors that can do feel
a dialec maybe might find the combination that would renews.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
And hold hollo. Well, all may free your coun Oh hello,
(26:46):
that you aper olfriend? Hello?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
What was it that you did?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Ready? Were you telephoning somebody else?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Tooking?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And they dropped dead? Being anonymous in States? And since
there a long time in the document, one day they
didn't you must point and buy any more numbers. It ran.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
There must be a hundred million.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Combinations on that dial, and only one of the New York.
I got up and looked around the room in.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
The doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You did it all right. I thought you'd like to know.
I put on might happen when I was walking on
the block. I hope you're satis time, and I hope
you're happy because you see there, ladies, I did drop
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that the title of the quiet Please story. You've been
listening to was anonymous. The written and directed by Willis Cooper.
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A man who spoke to you was Ernest Chaplin and
Athena Lord played my wife.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
The doctor was Dan Stutter.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Stanley was also in a chap as you as your
music for Quiet Please is played by Albert Burma. Don't
to worry about next week Quiet Please.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Here is our right director Willis.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Cooper, thank you for listening to our first Quiet Please podcast,
and my second story will become Light the Land, and
so until next week. At the same time, I am
quietly yours and couple. This is Other DC, the American
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Broadcasting Company
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
ABC presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by
Willis Cooper. The speakers Ernest Chappels Quiet Please. For today
(00:38):
it is called anonymous. The other night when you called.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Me up after I made that talk on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't suppose you know what happened to you. Maybe
you don't care, but if you've got.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
A few minutes, I kind of like the tech.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you mind listening for a while?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, you other people can listen to if your life.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I I see no way of preventing you fandises about
the fact that might be instructive to you too. You
other people don't know who I am, of course, and
I'm covered and structed as well. You know, though, don't you?
You wouldn't forget that quickly. It's still and listening. You
(01:28):
know you got nothing better to do. You're listening to
the radio anyway?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Think it easier way, lady? You really started things.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Personally, I started. It was a pretty good speech and
apparently quite a lot of my listeners. But for two
there was a nice batch of mail the next morning,
and of course a lot of phone calls for the
studio when I finished. Finanturally, most of them came some
people who belonged to the party that nominated me would
expect it to be that way that you came from.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
People who vote the other tickets.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
But even they were restrained and polife about disagreeing with me.
I was grateful to them, because it's always good. I
know exactly on fifty points the opposition differs with you.
I thank them policely.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
A foot that you're called here lady.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Really, I I wasn't expecting that. I remember it very clearly, holo.
I was shocked at the time the phone rang. It
was about the tenth call there on the studio. They
announcedly handled it to me. I said, yes, and you said.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You're not old. They see no.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I don't you find out and cla, I hope you
dropped the H.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I beg your pardon, madam, I said, I hope you.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Dropped the H.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Come out listen to yeah, oh im sure. I don't
know why you've said that. Dear lady. You never saw me,
excepting can rather smug the new stepper cuts. You never
heard my voice, it expects on the radio you I
(03:17):
don't know what it was. It may give you such
unvaribal language. What do you think you didn't like my face,
or my politics, for my nationalogy.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Or of the church I go to, or what.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Not is there about me?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Or about my beliefs, but prompt the printed stranger, which
there's suddenly unnatural death for me, either because you felt
safe hiding you hung a telephone knowing or there's no
way of my finding out.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Who you are. Did you mean it? How were you?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well you have the satisfaction of knowing that broke up
a nice sleep for an at lady.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
My first praec and of course was the indignation, literal indignation,
that a loss of dignity, and it wasn't up to
having people say things like that for me. I could
have forgiven it for my more around me, but a
total stranger. And so I went to bed very.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
An my wife.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
My wife was a very light sleeper, and I suppose
I was making.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Indignant noises for myself, rehearsing what I'd say to you
if I had an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Anyway. I want to be what was it best to sleep?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That I was the m I just wake up and
there's a lot of what time was it?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I got one that was a cool.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Hey, very to stoke.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Why do you want one?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No? You know how with me call about? Let me
see I heard part of the speech Tom. Have you
all it sounded fine? Is it? Cause I've heard it
so many times? You tried to see you E I'm
(05:28):
not that's nice. Nothing somebody does. Oh I got a phone.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Call that make me mad?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Did you? Yeah? I suppose you were not a politicians?
Let those things? We lost your back? What now I am?
But this one is going to smoke though.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That you're so ner of its about. I'm mad. I
told you, Uh, have you stay? What did great say?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
That?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Do you so much?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah? There's some woman old a woman and what she said?
I haven't a least god or since you hope I
dropped that? Hum I say I wasn't married? Brain it
for being mad? I's not.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
What's a letter U on your mind? No?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm not letting it pay on my mind? How you
even mention it?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You start and tall?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You spot know where it was a thought? No? Personally? Well,
sorry to go to sleep and now was another day?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You know? Good night door, I'm sorry, good night, good night?
How I I go out in the living room getting awake.
(07:17):
Oh you worked here, I don't think so. I just remembered.
If I don't notice, I mean sure you came to
do it. It sorta makes out a check in the
morning in order to be too late.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
M I'll just be dinner in any connection.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I just suddenly remember. Sure, I know I forgot it.
I'm glad I remembered.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Good night, Good night, very good night. Indeed, try and sleep.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Something enough to say about my blood pushing? How old
do people have to be about dead? Some of these
people about there in bullism or whatever that is, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Blood vessels? First things were wrong to get head or
somebody wishes alout.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You see.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You did it alright there, lady. I got have to
see if I could stop that dripping sharp.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Parts of her.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I never know that it before, and I couldn't help
her any for night.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And what it kept saying. Would you like to listen
to it all night?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Heard what it kept saying, and try to pick up.
All that happened was I got to say one.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Up a game of stopping, and it kept right on dripping.
If right unsay what it had to say? What if
you had to say? And at once I fell asleep
and dreamed. Oh, I rather not tell you about the dreams, TI,
I'd rather let you imagine. You don't know what they
(09:29):
were about it you set a stage for them. Mm.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And then when I woke up, the first thing I
heard was my wife talking to someone on a telephone
at nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Cheerful at that?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
All okay, I love you fall No, I didn't get
all around the row, whel but I thought it so
many times around the house.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You know, did you particularly he has a talk? I
don't go too. Why, Oh he's all right, still asleep.
I think he got a little.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Hangover this morning. Oh no, I'm not very lady.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I suppose he had a couple with on the committee
man after broadcast.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I don't know. I'm not drunk.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Does talk about Oh somebody called him up afterwards and
said they hopposed he walked dead, That's what I said.
But you know him, you're all sensitive.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
He is house.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He carry on his mind, oh target, Oh no, he
hadn't at stated buy you a whole?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Why he hold that? He was beginning calling up under table?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Good?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Akay?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Why not? When I woke up, I couldn't remember what
it was that didn't disturbed, might sleep so, but she
could only looked in the bedroom.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
To see if I was still asleep.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I didn't have any drinks last night? Didn't you should
I bring you some coffee? I don't know. I hate
drinking coffee on bed before I get my teeth right.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh did you get up?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
How'd you hang over? I haven't got any hangover. I
was talking on the phone to your brother. I heard you.
What are you so cranky about?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
This morning?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
There? I didn't sleep very well.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Dreaming about dropping dead.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I wish I never heard anything so silly in all
my life, letting a little thing like that prey on
your mind?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Nothing praying on my mind.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'd forgotten on about it till I heard you shouting
about it on the telephone morning.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I was talking very quietly, so I wouldn't work you up.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Sorry, more perfectly Well, it's good to be upset about
somebody telling you on the phone that they.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wish you'd drop down here? Would you please stop talking
at just slaying silly? And you know perfectly well and
a person can't wish you to death, I'll answer it,
will you?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Probably your friend?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
My friend, the one that wants you to drop dead.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They can too wish you to death. I remember what
that Australian fella told me about pointing the bones. How
the how the witch doctor points a human fingerborn of
the native. He wants to die, and the native just dies.
Nobody can do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He just dies. That's all there is to it. He's
wished to death. What did you do everybody in the
committee about that woman last night? What do you mean
Heaven's You've got everybody talking about it. I just mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well, that was real.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Secretary, and she says everybody at headquart he's just talking
about it and laughing at you because he's no scared.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'm not scared.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm well.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I wish you'd forget about it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And I got out of bed a moment I thought
I was gonna bow down right then.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And there never feel dizzy when you jump off out
of bed seventy in the morning, and I suppose not.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You're you're probably younger than I am, and things like
that that happened to you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
My heart gave a big jumper knife up. Alright, this
is it, you see. I fired a gun already, and
I said to myself, stockers are being an idiot. I
wanted to take my shower hand in the bright morning light,
the drifting farse that didn't say stop dead, stop dead,
(13:26):
or what I did last night, I didn't give it
a chance. I turned the water on as hard as
to go, and I jumped in. At the office. At headquarters,
it were different. Everybody was delighted.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
With a speech, and I I found a pile of
notes on my desk congratulating me on what I'd said.
I began to feel better right away. The marriage note said,
great work, boy, you'll be president. Yet one from the.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Radio station, Yeah, a wonderful voice for radio. Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
The telegram the old Senator.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Highly impressed by your talk last night, and the copy
of my speech was excellent.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Written across it, and the chairman signature hand.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The little note on the sheety yellow scratch paper, the
badly typewritten little note, the note from you that said,
I hope you dropped dead. As I looked at it,
and I could almost hear your voice again, I hope
you stopped.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And then the telephone started ringing. I knewood was of course,
I knew i'd hear your.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Voice as soon as I lived at the receiver Oh no,
I said, Oh no, I'm not gonna adds to that.
I've heard her once. I said to myself, look what it's.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Doing to me. I don't want to give her a
lot of chance.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I won't do it. I won't. I won't do it,
and you won't.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Kept right on riding.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And that's when I answer him. I said, I'm not
gonna look at for him. I can hold me again.
I don't have that an idea, Sure, I answer, sure,
I'd listen to you. Sure I could engage in conversation.
I'd have my secretary chase the call while you were.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Talking to me.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'd get you. I'd find you. Might tell you a
few things about anymous telephone calls, anonymous writers too. I'd
have to be careful, wouldn't My hand wasn't when I
thought you a way to I, I didn't do the work.
So I but I'm the best politician man.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Hello tell a min Huh?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Who is that?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Gif? You going to drop ten ol?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Oh what would you do?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Why tell you all walk up about the lock from
the stand you did? I think you better crop for
a dot with me, the doctor, I mean, looking, do
you think that? How you're a kidding maids. Oh, I'm
not that you're going to go into what kids to do?
Like you?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
What you what your can't think? Is there what to think?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What a doctors?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Or I think you about right?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well a lot I suppose old. Okay, if I don't
say like astop, worry, but I'm not worried about how
did that that? That's nice about that doctor? Once you
think I'm mess?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
What's he gonna do with.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Half my name?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
See?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
If my reflexes are all that ask me embarrassing questions
about my childhood, I'm not going to gold. I would be.
It's something about im be happening for me? You think me?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I good cast all the last time I didn't tell
about my hands beat it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And in fact I turned it in my head when
I was three on my left time. Oh wonder a factor?
You here? Not nothing wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I gotta get kicked up once you follow.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yes, I don't want any more.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Pain calls today. Yes, and I'll probably be at the
doctor that at your name for a while if.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You want me jest you want worried about you?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Worried?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Or what about about that woman?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Hoping you'll drop there?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Well you'll get out of here. Very uh oh alright,
well hm, well doct will be all right, be all right, Yeah,
(18:09):
it's my age, my part, all right, yes, well yes,
what's the matter with it? What do you felt worried about?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yes, the pain of my little finger, not the pain
in your little thing. This one the the least one
hurt so they once in a while.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So well, this had a symptom of vagina. Yes, I
talk to sy Saw. I sent him of hanging name,
about this man, and of a mild and the writer.
I'm not going to be alright doctor.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Listen, my friends, I've never get me into mowatche I've
I no talk, never try to scare your anything.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, what do you mean? I don't want to scrag
your we just if you've got to take chara, you
you understand you have got to take cares.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Nothing that's taking?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Its easy, It won't take. Stop stop working so hard,
stop staying up for all hours, and don't eat so much,
and don't worry about dropping down.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm not worrying about drugs. I'm not worrying. You keep
on worrying about dropping dead. And let's get what will
happened to you? One f I'm go don't kill them,
And god do you think I'm kidding?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Don't stop at the drug store and get this stray
one I said in New Year. You at drug n
all right, and stop worrying. The human mind is a
strange mechanism, marble on one. We really don't know much
about it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You get this dropping dead off your mind?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh, I haven't heard a story about the man that
was granted three wishes as their lady. I went about
the man that was to have his three wishes granted
on one condition.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Un conditioned, he wouldn't think of a hippopotamus quiet he
was wishing.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You never got any of his witches. I never got
your wishes off in my mind either. I came in
my house. How's happened you stay alive?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I went into dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Oh say, I like your dinners. I've got all your
favorite see little invasions.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Blow it all down.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's hot at sea? Will you like it? Butter carriage
even and forty years? Good? What you love time? That's
very nice that you did well. I wanted to take
your mind off of obsession of yours about dropping dead.
That's why I wish your shut up about that. I
I'm trying to forget it.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh why don't forget it?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Then?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, how can I with everybody in town yapping at
me about that? We didn't say a word about I
guess that I wanted you to get it all in
my lass, that's all. Well, if you've shut up about it,
maybe I could.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That's the same I did, taking you the kind of
dinner you like, sending the whole afternoon in the kitchen
and all the peter. You come home and tell me
to shut up.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Sorry, Well I'm not going to shut up.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I've got as much right as talk as you have.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Great big political candidates, plot of those goats on the
radio and get all of us f if some two
women calls you up and hurst you're drop dead, find
public figure you are?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Where you be?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
One of your former seahof one of those.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Little girls you use the yammer abolly, come up with
your class.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No wonder, she hopes you dropped it all right? Can't
take it?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Will I can do?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Why didn't know what you can do? A police?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Certainly do.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let's do it? Then? Well I do go on and
see if no prayer for you up here?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And so my wife left me dear lady. She turned around.
She went out the door, and she said very sweetly,
she said, I hope your girl friend just her wish
the uh lamber door that there. I never think it
(22:12):
began to hurt again. People are chopping in my temple
to tweech squeech queeh.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Whuh. I felt so busy, I shuck hanging on my shoulders.
You're me very happy. I think I drank two bunces
of water. I didn't do anybody. I got to the
phone and I got a doctor and what things see
(22:43):
the matter? Busy? Uh? I got those pains when you
were a little thinker.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, in my.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Shoulder too, in my head like the look how even
my dinner? I'm sorry? Like two robots and line now
you're you're sure that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I took the broman and might lay down on a bear.
I thought better after a while, that is uh physically
I felt better, but mentally.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And the phone rang after a wire like I can
answer that. I thought, maybe it'll do you want that?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Is it? Why'd you?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Maybe I could talk to your knees and maybe I
guess you just maybe it didn't mean it that when
I'd give me a little bope. I guess a voice
on the phone found it strange when I.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Answered, what is it that you when do you wish
to stick to?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
What numbers?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What number do you want? What number? What number do
you want? Hello?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hello, Hello, good, great, all along with a telephone like
the old song everybody wants me to drop dead?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And he started something there later? Which one do you want?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
H you were? The telephone is a pretty terrible thing sometimes,
John Trumpet said at the trow over the telephoni is
one of the most useful terror devices ever used on
the radio. Did you read that so right? Look at
the under me.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And now's telephone that they call up your friends with
and wish on.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
My happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
The pretty telephone that rings and says tomorrow's well, all
happen to saw parties, and.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
It do you to wish your horrible fate on me?
I stop to wonder that in my ascope fast, I
wonder if I danced to him a dark and dial
just numbered it, if maybe they looking for some trip
(25:09):
of paper might bring.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
The year there.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'd lead you, but you e I had pleased with
your I beg you to take this.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Purse of years off of me.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And I had to talk to you so badly. I
had to seeing them that I knew you very well,
to close my own almost see you, see you. That's
how should I reach you? You you were anonymous some
somewhere behind the telephone.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It was, but it wasn't that what I'd try.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That was set the hima. Doctors that can do feel
a dialec maybe might find the combination that would renews.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
And hold hollo. Well, all may free your coun Oh hello,
(26:46):
that you aper olfriend? Hello?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
What was it that you did?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Ready? Were you telephoning somebody else?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Tooking?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And they dropped dead? Being anonymous in States? And since
there a long time in the document, one day they
didn't you must point and buy any more numbers. It ran.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
There must be a hundred million.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Combinations on that dial, and only one of the New York.
I got up and looked around the room in.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
The doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You did it all right. I thought you'd like to know.
I put on might happen when I was walking on
the block. I hope you're satis time, and I hope
you're happy because you see there, ladies, I did drop
(28:14):
that the title of the quiet Please story. You've been
listening to was anonymous. The written and directed by Willis Cooper.
(28:35):
A man who spoke to you was Ernest Chaplin and
Athena Lord played my wife.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
The doctor was Dan Stutter.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Stanley was also in a chap as you as your
music for Quiet Please is played by Albert Burma. Don't
to worry about next week Quiet Please.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Here is our right director Willis.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Cooper, thank you for listening to our first Quiet Please podcast,
and my second story will become Light the Land, and
so until next week. At the same time, I am
quietly yours and couple. This is Other DC, the American
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