December 16, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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On Loudly we.
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Hail, Proudly we Hail, and now another Proudly we Hail,
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Therefore it presents the party we hail production Christmas stories.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The roads twisted and turned, with the wild country heating
ever southward.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It was an old road that had known the passing
of countless generations. It was a narrow road where.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
A man's safety often dependent on the numbers who traveled.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
With him after dark, with an empty road where only
madmen beggars in the unwaryed death foot or.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It ran through the.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Land in which the people were oppressed, poverty stricken.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It ran through the land called ud.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hey, why do we parry? The light will be gone
in another hour.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
My use is always in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm not that young, my friend. You may ride this
road at Roman during the light, but after darkning, I.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Know, I know we're not liked? Are we marrious?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
By whom?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The people here? We joke?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We call the wretches who infest this broken land people?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And what would you call them?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Ha?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Ha ha?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I have some point names you like to hear them?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
The yoke of the conqueror lies heavily on their shoulders.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They not only hate us, they hate each other.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And yet even with Herod.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The rule them, their spirit is strong. Herod's that sellied pirate.
I don't know why Augustus doesn't haven't fled the lion.
Augustus sent me to this land to observe the people
and their conditions.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know that I gathered it from what you said.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I've been here little more than a month, but it
took me only a day to see that this was
not a happy land. And yet there's a feeling for it,
a feeling I can't quite place. Almost so it's a
feeling of not knowing when somebody's gonna cry and cut
their throat. How long have you been stationed here, Marius?
(04:02):
Four or five years?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Five?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And by Jupiter, I won't be sorry to leave.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Have you learned anything about these people? And that's yes,
yes I have, and the fact that I'm still alive
proves it. Now you maybe my superior years and positions,
but I insist that we could speak to our mounts.
Where do we stop this night?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I know of an end. It's not too bad.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Lies in the city aheads, the city of David, a
place called Bethlehem. Thankaver, bring more wine here, Larston thought
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Gas observing Marius, observing he does a driving business.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
This one must be one of their pilgrimages. They're always
having them for one thing.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Or they have but one god, and it is not
of stone, as ours are not alone. Should give you
an idea of the madness that runs in their veins
they keep up?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Why so proud of this night?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Racs Feezer to decreased us.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
All must sign the royal register.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Man, woman and child.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They come.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Ah, that's it now, I recall.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
All right, put the wine down and gulf.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yes, there was talk of this inherited court that slipped
my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well mine as well. Well, you'll have plenty of chance
to observe the people.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now gave a stroke of luck. Well wine, No, no,
I've had.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He not poison, but one must like his sirt yes, yes,
of course, Okay, is what is it?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Come over?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Are?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You will?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You're not yoursel?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes? Sorry? May this I'm not very good company, am I? My?
My thoughts will not let me rest thoughts of what
they're not easily explained. Oh well that's I'm weary of life.
Rome is great, Rome is powerful, Justice is done, and
I am a successful and honored man.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Still is there anything else the man could wish for?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Again?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Probably not that Maybe one reason for my mood. I'm
I might a man searching for something.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I'm not knowing what it is, but I never felt
it so strongly.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
As he is. Perhaps your homesake for Rome, sack of
Rome earlier, m I shock you, But in my heart
I'm sick of it, sick of it riches, it's power,
its decadence, sick of its God. You speak blaspheming, I
speak what is in my mind? Then I would speak
it softly lest we are over heard.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Er.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yes, yes, if one must be cautious at all times.
This land has affected you easily gave it does that
to them, It's affected me. I'll grant you that. I
wish I knew why. I think I'll go for a
walk here to join me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Do you wanna be found them?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A daughter in the morning, but conquerors who are afraid
to step out of doors after dirk? Yay, I'll take
my chance if I.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Juice your heart on a man's patient day.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Here then and drink your wine. I'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
If anything happened to you, Augustus would have my hide
you me. I must come.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We'll go stumble around in the dark and dare the
knives of beggars.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Then they watch it like jackals waiting to stripe.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And were you one of them, how would you watch it?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What would you have me to do? Stand here and
please those dark and more chill at every breath.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I have never seen a nice so dark, so quiet.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
All the more reasons for us to get back inside.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Do you do you have the feeling as though everything
was folding it?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I do not. I have a feeling that you've lost
your mind and need a position.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What do you plan to do? Stand out on this
hill all night?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
The only life seems to be coming from the hind.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And now Augustus can hang me up on my heels.
But that's just where I'm heading. We'll know without you enough, Marias, come,
we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I have been a poor friend.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm afraid an uncommon strange one this night.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yes it's true, I am not myself.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
If by morning you're not recovered, I'll summon a.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Position to conjure the evil spirit from me.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And watch your step. It comes right on. Not what
from you? Enough?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Perhaps I can breathe freely again. God's a favorite, you know,
although I know not why a welcome light and all
the darkness? I wonder why someone comes and from behind
I like a dark calmness. So a little bit of
stone throw for me, and no one would their attackers here.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So you think standon is alliance of whoever it is passed?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Do you think if they measures calm, they would announce
their coming.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I tell you you don't know these people, but you
do it, I say, Gays, Oh as you.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Wish, But uh they come brigands, a cut throat thieves
in the.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Night with a.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Man and his woman riding a dark ears. A fine
thing for two proud women to be afraid of. Cause
if you like gas, but if you know the look,
they go to the same in his wied Come on on,
we'll have a better look at these dangerous people well,
because I take precautions for your safety.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
There's no reason to mock.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I do not mean to mothia, Marius. I think you
over cautious.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
They could come from the moon for all of me,
who asked the czar we speak lodging for the night.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'll steak elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There's no room here.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And fill up my wife. Her time is near.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Tell me not your troubles, but more than enough of
my own.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
There is no place you could put us now, now
be gone, My dear is chill?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Could you tell? I can tell you nothing but to
go away and speak your hole there? Who speaks?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh, sir, I should see you.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You have no room for these people.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
None, I swear it, even the floor's face.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Take me.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I saw clean hay in your stable. What about that?
Why can't they stay there? I've got If you would
care to say, we shall stay, and gladly I thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
No need. It's a dark night and cold.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Let us go in.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Marius, you are listening to the special Pardy We Hail
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Christmas program presented by your Army and your Air Force,
an original play entitled Christmas Story.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now with your star Conrad Nagel and the role of Gaieth.
Here is the second.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Actor, Gaius, What is it?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Can't you sleep?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'm sorry if I woke you, Marius. I was asleep.
I had a strange dream. I can't remember if very well,
but it woke me, and our sleep will not come.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You'd have drunk more wine, dull old gaze?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
What am I going to do with you?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
The best thing is to stop worrying. The innkeeper nearly
fell over in a fit when you spoke up. Since
when as a Roman got out.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Of his way towards this the rabble? Oh, how blind
you are?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
They were not a rabble. The man had a fine face,
and the woman was beautiful to look upon, not like
other women. Because their clothes were poor? Does that make
them rabble? Eh?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Get some great days. We have a long way to
travel tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
If I keep my eyes shut tight or that sup
with colored I should be tired, have yet had nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But there's no shutting out my thoughts.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Why why do I feel this way?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
My life passing before me like an empty vessel on
a dark scene? Put Marius the right. Is this man
full of demons? A driver land of madness. What manner
of people are the us to go around in ranks?
Workenmen have yet look skywork your god of strength and mercy, Strength.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Have mercy? How is one to get the other? The
merciful of weak and the press and the strong? I
without my.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Say hatd.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
With that man and his way. He had no fear
of me, Yet me there was there heed in his eyes.
I believe he was grateful. And the woman, it seems
she smiling. There was warmth in me.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And were I'm not a worm, I'm not conqueror.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I might know them and be their friends.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It must be cold in that stable, with.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Nothing al the thoughts? What magic is this?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Marius?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Marius way? That wake up man? What is it?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Flatter?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Gay?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Stop taking me like I was a rag?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Down?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Look at the light out there here, kanyes of gaze.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You've been leaving again.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I have not been dreaming. What is that light? Where
did it come from?
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's only the moon. You've never seen the moon? Gaze?
Now sit down here, look at you, just shake it.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I was lying at thinking. I opened my eyes and
suddenly the room was filled with a strange light. Have
you ever known the moon? Or shine? So brightly bawn.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Since the dark night it always seems to shine brightly.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
There is no moon tonight. Huh, there was no moon
last night. You'll recall we mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Well, oh well it must have been wrong. Oh what
else could it be?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I don't know. This window was too small to see.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I'm going outside to have a look, are you man?
I told you I was lying there and it filled
the room.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I know, I know it came out of the clouds.
You know how dark?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's right to tell you the moon never made a
light like this.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
If you don't lower your voice, you'll wake everyone in
the inn. They'll think you've gone mad too, think us
your life.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm going out, all right, all right, we'll go outside,
we'll look at the moon, and then.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We'll come back here. And if you disturbed me once
more this night, gaiz, I swear by Jupiter, I'll well,
I'll tie you to your bed.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
When when it happened, it was as though I heard voices,
a great many voices singing. Now, no, tell me it's
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the moon, that magic twitchery. Oh the gods are angry
all No, your marbled gods have not to do with
this it's the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That star is falling right on it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It falls not but hangs over us. There is peace
and its light. There is no evil in there, only goodness.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And I am not afraid.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
What what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It must be a meaning? No stars show them so blackly?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What's the clothes?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I know not the meaning, but the trouble is gone
from my heart.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
He look there, I'll just come, beeon your God.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Down from the hills. They must be shepherds, and they
seem in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Perhaps they know the meaning.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
How could the signorant beggars know anything?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Stay clear to my saying, Oh, Marius, Marius, when would
you learn? When will you?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Will you come with me?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Or will you stay here?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And diamonds? Brave as any man?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Then take your hand from your sword and come bo. Oh,
good friends, wait, wait for us, good friends. Indeed they'll
run like rabbits when they see the color of our claws.
Let's hope not.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
They seem to be waiting for us, and in this
life they can see your helmet.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Too frightened to run. Now, watch them grow at your
feet and say nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We need no harm, but we'll have words with you.
Oh please, please, do not be afraid.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
We fear not. Will you address to row Marius.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Be still you you are shepherds, Yes, we are shepherds.
Our flocks are in the fields about, and you leave
them without protection.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
They are safe.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
The Lord watched them. No harm can come to them.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
May may I ask what you do here? Well?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Speak up what you're spoken bias, good shepherds.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We we could not sleep the light Wolcus know you
its meaning, it's true meaning you're a Roman.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You wouldn't believe our word.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Forget my race if you can. I am a man
like yourself, and I would know. It is news that
all should know, even a Roman.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Tell him so be it you ask of the light,
We too saw it and did not completely understand.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
At first.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We we were afraid.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well because of our faith start fear.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
It was written long ago by the prophet Is says
that great things would come to pass in the city
of David.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
To those who watched in the fields.
Speaker 10 (20:15):
The prophet wrote, the light would bring glad tidings for all.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The world this night and all of us we were keeping.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
What darkness is like a great black foam?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Even the fire gives no right.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Never has it been so quiet.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
In her charges of sa They believe not.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
If they sleep, not to see just one star.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The jackals are hushed. Who is known a night when
the jackals did not cry?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Now the night will pass, no matter how dark or
how quiet our brathern.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
In the next field, they too hurt the blind of death.
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He really sad Hi.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But the heart beats another tune.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
The law and watches authorizing.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Like I shall say, David, sound say.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The Lord is my shepherd.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I shall a word. He maketh me to lie down
in green patch.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
He leadeth me beside, still warm.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And she was starring in the mom.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Guideth me in the path with righteousness for his neighbor
save day.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So I walk through the family of the shadow of death.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I will fear no evil, for.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Thou art with me. I arrive, my fa.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Your words are music in the heart of a weary
For the darkness is no lessons.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
The silence girls.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
What is there in either a harmss.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Be not praised.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So behold I bring your hiding.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The great joy shall be to all the people.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Will there point you in the.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Day and the city of a stager who is Christ
the law? And this is the sign of he shall
follow the daize wrapped in swaddling close and.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
R and alady lying in a manger, and.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Know you where to find this manger?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
The scars shines over it.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I can take you to the exact place.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yay, just don't tell me you believe the raving lies.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Be silent. Either be silent or go back to your bed. Now, friends,
if you will follow me, I think I can lead
you to the place.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
You see the The babe was wrapped in swottling clothes?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
How how could they know?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They told you how they knew? Do you not know
the truth when you hear it?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But but it is.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Beyond belief, No, Marius, No, it is not beyond my belief.
Now they know and worship the tires emmanually call him
God with us.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
I I don't understand, nor I completely, Marius.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But I have a feeling like none I've ever known
that this night will be remembered, remembered long after we
are dust. Something has happened here, this night not meant
for any one race or people, but for all man.
Speaker 12 (24:04):
Came from this day forward.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That maybe, And gentlemen, here speaking for the men and
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women of your army.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And your Air Force is our distinguished stars. To Conrade Lego,
we're friends.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Frankly, I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You all what it means for me to be the spocusmoners.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Of the men and women of our army in our
Air Force and extend to you there.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Best wishes for Christmas nineteen fifty one. Now, many things
have been said, many ways about what we all believe
in and are willing to fight to keep. At this season,
it seems to me that well at one of the
important reasons for our feeling as we all do about
our way of life is a year in our country.
We can say Merry Christmas, and meaning Christmas is always wonderful,
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of course, but it seems to me at this time
in all our lives, it means more than ever to
all of us, more even the the mystic magic than
always comes with Christmas.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
For I feel that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Christmas has come to symbolize what we and our fighting
forces stand for.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Throughout the entire world.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The men and women of our armed forces are serving
and fighting to maintain the truths that were written long ago.
Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace,
goodwill for our man. And so I'm speaking for all
of us on Croudly we Hail, and a spokesman for
our Army and our Air Force. The happiest of Christmas
(26:20):
is to you all.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
This has been the special Christmas program on Croudly we Hail,
presented transcribed coast to coast by.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
The United States Army and the United.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
States Air Force Recruiting Service.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Proudly we Hail, Stars.
Speaker 11 (26:45):
Comrade Nago, this is kennethang Art joining Comrade Legal and
speaking for all of us on Proudly we Hail, wishing
you all a very, very Christmas.
Stay tuned for the next half hour for one of
radio's outstanding dramatic productions.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On Loudly we.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hail, Proudly we Hail, and now another Proudly we Hail,
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one of radio's outstanding dramatic half hours, passed by coast
to coast in collaboration of this station and presented by
your Army and your Air Force from Radio City, New York.
Here is your host and star on Proudly.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We Hail, with a single star of the theater, screen, radio,
and television.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Conrad Magel just kind of sang hard hello, everyone, welcome
again through proudly we Hailed. We're especially please present our
Christmas program, an original play entitled Christmas Story. Our first
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act taking will rise in just a moment after this brief,
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the facts. Volunteer today and now with your star Conrad
Leggel and the role of gais your Army at your
Therefore it presents the party we hail production Christmas stories.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The roads twisted and turned, with the wild country heating
ever southward.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It was an old road that had known the passing
of countless generations. It was a narrow road where.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
A man's safety often dependent on the numbers who traveled.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
With him after dark, with an empty road where only
madmen beggars in the unwaryed death foot or.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It ran through the.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Land in which the people were oppressed, poverty stricken.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It ran through the land called ud.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hey, why do we parry? The light will be gone
in another hour.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
My use is always in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm not that young, my friend. You may ride this
road at Roman during the light, but after darkning, I.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Know, I know we're not liked? Are we marrious?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
By whom?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The people here? We joke?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We call the wretches who infest this broken land people?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And what would you call them?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Ha?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Ha ha?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I have some point names you like to hear them?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
The yoke of the conqueror lies heavily on their shoulders.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They not only hate us, they hate each other.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And yet even with Herod.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The rule them, their spirit is strong. Herod's that sellied pirate.
I don't know why Augustus doesn't haven't fled the lion.
Augustus sent me to this land to observe the people
and their conditions.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know that I gathered it from what you said.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I've been here little more than a month, but it
took me only a day to see that this was
not a happy land. And yet there's a feeling for it,
a feeling I can't quite place. Almost so it's a
feeling of not knowing when somebody's gonna cry and cut
their throat. How long have you been stationed here, Marius?
(04:02):
Four or five years?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Five?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And by Jupiter, I won't be sorry to leave.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Have you learned anything about these people? And that's yes,
yes I have, and the fact that I'm still alive
proves it. Now you maybe my superior years and positions,
but I insist that we could speak to our mounts.
Where do we stop this night?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I know of an end. It's not too bad.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Lies in the city aheads, the city of David, a
place called Bethlehem. Thankaver, bring more wine here, Larston thought
(04:50):
Gas observing Marius, observing he does a driving business.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
This one must be one of their pilgrimages. They're always
having them for one thing.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Or they have but one god, and it is not
of stone, as ours are not alone. Should give you
an idea of the madness that runs in their veins
they keep up?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Why so proud of this night?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Racs Feezer to decreased us.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
All must sign the royal register.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Man, woman and child.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They come.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Ah, that's it now, I recall.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
All right, put the wine down and gulf.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yes, there was talk of this inherited court that slipped
my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well mine as well. Well, you'll have plenty of chance
to observe the people.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now gave a stroke of luck. Well wine, No, no,
I've had.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He not poison, but one must like his sirt yes, yes,
of course, Okay, is what is it?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Come over?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Are?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You will?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You're not yoursel?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes? Sorry? May this I'm not very good company, am I? My?
My thoughts will not let me rest thoughts of what
they're not easily explained. Oh well that's I'm weary of life.
Rome is great, Rome is powerful, Justice is done, and
I am a successful and honored man.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Still is there anything else the man could wish for?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Again?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Probably not that Maybe one reason for my mood. I'm
I might a man searching for something.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I'm not knowing what it is, but I never felt
it so strongly.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
As he is. Perhaps your homesake for Rome, sack of
Rome earlier, m I shock you, But in my heart
I'm sick of it, sick of it riches, it's power,
its decadence, sick of its God. You speak blaspheming, I
speak what is in my mind? Then I would speak
it softly lest we are over heard.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Er.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yes, yes, if one must be cautious at all times.
This land has affected you easily gave it does that
to them, It's affected me. I'll grant you that. I
wish I knew why. I think I'll go for a
walk here to join me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Do you wanna be found them?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A daughter in the morning, but conquerors who are afraid
to step out of doors after dirk? Yay, I'll take
my chance if I.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Juice your heart on a man's patient day.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Here then and drink your wine. I'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
If anything happened to you, Augustus would have my hide
you me. I must come.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We'll go stumble around in the dark and dare the
knives of beggars.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Then they watch it like jackals waiting to stripe.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And were you one of them, how would you watch it?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What would you have me to do? Stand here and
please those dark and more chill at every breath.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I have never seen a nice so dark, so quiet.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
All the more reasons for us to get back inside.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Do you do you have the feeling as though everything
was folding it?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I do not. I have a feeling that you've lost
your mind and need a position.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What do you plan to do? Stand out on this
hill all night?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
The only life seems to be coming from the hind.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And now Augustus can hang me up on my heels.
But that's just where I'm heading. We'll know without you enough, Marias, come,
we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I have been a poor friend.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm afraid an uncommon strange one this night.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yes it's true, I am not myself.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
If by morning you're not recovered, I'll summon a.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Position to conjure the evil spirit from me.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And watch your step. It comes right on. Not what
from you? Enough?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Perhaps I can breathe freely again. God's a favorite, you know,
although I know not why a welcome light and all
the darkness? I wonder why someone comes and from behind
I like a dark calmness. So a little bit of
stone throw for me, and no one would their attackers here.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So you think standon is alliance of whoever it is passed?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Do you think if they measures calm, they would announce
their coming.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I tell you you don't know these people, but you
do it, I say, Gays, Oh as you.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Wish, But uh they come brigands, a cut throat thieves
in the.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Night with a.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Man and his woman riding a dark ears. A fine
thing for two proud women to be afraid of. Cause
if you like gas, but if you know the look,
they go to the same in his wied Come on on,
we'll have a better look at these dangerous people well,
because I take precautions for your safety.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
There's no reason to mock.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I do not mean to mothia, Marius. I think you
over cautious.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
They could come from the moon for all of me,
who asked the czar we speak lodging for the night.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'll steak elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There's no room here.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And fill up my wife. Her time is near.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Tell me not your troubles, but more than enough of
my own.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
There is no place you could put us now, now
be gone, My dear is chill?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Could you tell? I can tell you nothing but to
go away and speak your hole there? Who speaks?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh, sir, I should see you.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You have no room for these people.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
None, I swear it, even the floor's face.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Take me.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I saw clean hay in your stable. What about that?
Why can't they stay there? I've got If you would
care to say, we shall stay, and gladly I thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
No need. It's a dark night and cold.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Let us go in.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Marius, you are listening to the special Pardy We Hail
(11:46):
Christmas program presented by your Army and your Air Force,
an original play entitled Christmas Story.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now with your star Conrad Nagel and the role of Gaieth.
Here is the second.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Actor, Gaius, What is it?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Can't you sleep?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'm sorry if I woke you, Marius. I was asleep.
I had a strange dream. I can't remember if very well,
but it woke me, and our sleep will not come.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You'd have drunk more wine, dull old gaze?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
What am I going to do with you?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
The best thing is to stop worrying. The innkeeper nearly
fell over in a fit when you spoke up. Since
when as a Roman got out.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Of his way towards this the rabble? Oh, how blind
you are?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
They were not a rabble. The man had a fine face,
and the woman was beautiful to look upon, not like
other women. Because their clothes were poor? Does that make
them rabble? Eh?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Get some great days. We have a long way to
travel tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
If I keep my eyes shut tight or that sup
with colored I should be tired, have yet had nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But there's no shutting out my thoughts.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Why why do I feel this way?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
My life passing before me like an empty vessel on
a dark scene? Put Marius the right. Is this man
full of demons? A driver land of madness. What manner
of people are the us to go around in ranks?
Workenmen have yet look skywork your god of strength and mercy, Strength.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Have mercy? How is one to get the other? The
merciful of weak and the press and the strong? I
without my.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Say hatd.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
With that man and his way. He had no fear
of me, Yet me there was there heed in his eyes.
I believe he was grateful. And the woman, it seems
she smiling. There was warmth in me.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And were I'm not a worm, I'm not conqueror.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I might know them and be their friends.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It must be cold in that stable, with.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Nothing al the thoughts? What magic is this?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Marius?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Marius way? That wake up man? What is it?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Flatter?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Gay?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Stop taking me like I was a rag?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Down?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Look at the light out there here, kanyes of gaze.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You've been leaving again.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I have not been dreaming. What is that light? Where
did it come from?
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's only the moon. You've never seen the moon? Gaze?
Now sit down here, look at you, just shake it.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I was lying at thinking. I opened my eyes and
suddenly the room was filled with a strange light. Have
you ever known the moon? Or shine? So brightly bawn.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Since the dark night it always seems to shine brightly.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
There is no moon tonight. Huh, there was no moon
last night. You'll recall we mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Well, oh well it must have been wrong. Oh what
else could it be?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I don't know. This window was too small to see.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I'm going outside to have a look, are you man?
I told you I was lying there and it filled
the room.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I know, I know it came out of the clouds.
You know how dark?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's right to tell you the moon never made a
light like this.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
If you don't lower your voice, you'll wake everyone in
the inn. They'll think you've gone mad too, think us
your life.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm going out, all right, all right, we'll go outside,
we'll look at the moon, and then.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We'll come back here. And if you disturbed me once
more this night, gaiz, I swear by Jupiter, I'll well,
I'll tie you to your bed.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
When when it happened, it was as though I heard voices,
a great many voices singing. Now, no, tell me it's
(17:00):
the moon, that magic twitchery. Oh the gods are angry
all No, your marbled gods have not to do with
this it's the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That star is falling right on it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It falls not but hangs over us. There is peace
and its light. There is no evil in there, only goodness.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And I am not afraid.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
What what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It must be a meaning? No stars show them so blackly?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What's the clothes?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I know not the meaning, but the trouble is gone
from my heart.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
He look there, I'll just come, beeon your God.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Down from the hills. They must be shepherds, and they
seem in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Perhaps they know the meaning.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
How could the signorant beggars know anything?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Stay clear to my saying, Oh, Marius, Marius, when would
you learn? When will you?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Will you come with me?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Or will you stay here?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And diamonds? Brave as any man?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Then take your hand from your sword and come bo. Oh,
good friends, wait, wait for us, good friends. Indeed they'll
run like rabbits when they see the color of our claws.
Let's hope not.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
They seem to be waiting for us, and in this
life they can see your helmet.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Too frightened to run. Now, watch them grow at your
feet and say nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We need no harm, but we'll have words with you.
Oh please, please, do not be afraid.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
We fear not. Will you address to row Marius.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Be still you you are shepherds, Yes, we are shepherds.
Our flocks are in the fields about, and you leave
them without protection.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
They are safe.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
The Lord watched them. No harm can come to them.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
May may I ask what you do here? Well?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Speak up what you're spoken bias, good shepherds.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We we could not sleep the light Wolcus know you
its meaning, it's true meaning you're a Roman.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You wouldn't believe our word.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Forget my race if you can. I am a man
like yourself, and I would know. It is news that
all should know, even a Roman.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Tell him so be it you ask of the light,
We too saw it and did not completely understand.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
At first.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We we were afraid.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well because of our faith start fear.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
It was written long ago by the prophet Is says
that great things would come to pass in the city
of David.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
To those who watched in the fields.
Speaker 10 (20:15):
The prophet wrote, the light would bring glad tidings for all.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The world this night and all of us we were keeping.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
What darkness is like a great black foam?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Even the fire gives no right.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Never has it been so quiet.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
In her charges of sa They believe not.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
If they sleep, not to see just one star.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The jackals are hushed. Who is known a night when
the jackals did not cry?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Now the night will pass, no matter how dark or
how quiet our brathern.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
In the next field, they too hurt the blind of death.
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He really sad Hi.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But the heart beats another tune.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
The law and watches authorizing.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Like I shall say, David, sound say.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The Lord is my shepherd.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I shall a word. He maketh me to lie down
in green patch.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
He leadeth me beside, still warm.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And she was starring in the mom.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Guideth me in the path with righteousness for his neighbor
save day.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So I walk through the family of the shadow of death.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I will fear no evil, for.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Thou art with me. I arrive, my fa.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Your words are music in the heart of a weary
For the darkness is no lessons.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
The silence girls.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
What is there in either a harmss.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Be not praised.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So behold I bring your hiding.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The great joy shall be to all the people.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Will there point you in the.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Day and the city of a stager who is Christ
the law? And this is the sign of he shall
follow the daize wrapped in swaddling close and.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
R and alady lying in a manger, and.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Know you where to find this manger?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
The scars shines over it.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I can take you to the exact place.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yay, just don't tell me you believe the raving lies.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Be silent. Either be silent or go back to your bed. Now, friends,
if you will follow me, I think I can lead
you to the place.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
You see the The babe was wrapped in swottling clothes?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
How how could they know?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They told you how they knew? Do you not know
the truth when you hear it?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But but it is.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Beyond belief, No, Marius, No, it is not beyond my belief.
Now they know and worship the tires emmanually call him
God with us.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
I I don't understand, nor I completely, Marius.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But I have a feeling like none I've ever known
that this night will be remembered, remembered long after we
are dust. Something has happened here, this night not meant
for any one race or people, but for all man.
Speaker 12 (24:04):
Came from this day forward.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That maybe, And gentlemen, here speaking for the men and
(25:02):
women of your army.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And your Air Force is our distinguished stars. To Conrade Lego,
we're friends.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Frankly, I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You all what it means for me to be the spocusmoners.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Of the men and women of our army in our
Air Force and extend to you there.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Best wishes for Christmas nineteen fifty one. Now, many things
have been said, many ways about what we all believe
in and are willing to fight to keep. At this season,
it seems to me that well at one of the
important reasons for our feeling as we all do about
our way of life is a year in our country.
We can say Merry Christmas, and meaning Christmas is always wonderful,
(25:40):
of course, but it seems to me at this time
in all our lives, it means more than ever to
all of us, more even the the mystic magic than
always comes with Christmas.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
For I feel that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Christmas has come to symbolize what we and our fighting
forces stand for.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Throughout the entire world.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The men and women of our armed forces are serving
and fighting to maintain the truths that were written long ago.
Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace,
goodwill for our man. And so I'm speaking for all
of us on Croudly we Hail, and a spokesman for
our Army and our Air Force. The happiest of Christmas
(26:20):
is to you all.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
This has been the special Christmas program on Croudly we Hail,
presented transcribed coast to coast by.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
The United States Army and the United.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
States Air Force Recruiting Service.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Proudly we Hail, Stars.
Speaker 11 (26:45):
Comrade Nago, this is kennethang Art joining Comrade Legal and
speaking for all of us on Proudly we Hail, wishing
you all a very, very Christmas.
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
Dateline NBC
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