July 27, 2025 • 24 mins
A horror and fantasy anthology series that delves into the eerie and the unknown, offering stories that unsettle and provoke thought. Its minimalist production enhances the chilling narratives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hm hm hm.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Pleas, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and
which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet Please Fortunize is called it
is later than you think.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Answer.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I venture to say that the Germans and the Japs
are trembling in their boots at this moment for a word,
that Lindsey Bradley is on their trail. Lindsey, our loss
is Uncle Sam's game. Your fellow employees wish you success,
(01:14):
adventure and a bushel of medals. And in COVID of
our high esteem for you, in remembrance of the happy
hours we have spent with you on the plant before
we are all one big.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Happy family, I present you with this seventeen.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Jewel solid gold important wristwatch. May it ever remind you
of your good friends here.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
At this arsenal of democracy you.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Are leaving to face our enemies in person.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, well, all I can say, employees Buzz and mister Troupe, all.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I can say is I thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Well, yes, of course it's a beautiful watch, Lindsay. But
for heaven's sake, this is your last night before you
go to camp. And I do wish you could pay
a little attention to me.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh well, well, Vernond, I'm sorry. I never had such
a nice watch though, And how you carry it away?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm sorry, honey.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Really, Oh, for goodness sake, act like it then, uh,
act like what I've met you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Sorry, tess me.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh, I should say, so, I am going to miss you,
hack you.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This isn't as if I was going overseas right away, honey,
Oh my goodness, I'll probably be in the camp for
quite a while to learn things.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Heck, you could come and see me. Off.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Maybe I could get an apartment in the town where
the camp.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Is and the sergeants or whoever it is. We let
you live at home and just.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Go to the camp.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Please. Well, I don't know about that. It'd be wonderful, Lindsay.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But you could come home for me, and you could
have a colonel in for dinner, to be just like home.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Uh huh. First thing you do when you get to
camp is find a nice apartment about four rooms of maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Five, and I'll come right away.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Huh. Well, i'll see honey. You don't seem to be
very excited about it. Well, I don't know how it'll
be at camp.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You know, I might not be able to find an apartment,
and maybe I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Staying there long. You don't want me to be with you,
quite sure. I'd do Berna, But.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You're just gonna leave me here all alone in this
old place where you go off camping out and being
in parade and having some wonderful time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't think it'll be like that. Verna.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Francis Felton wrote last week from Camp Wreckenviche, and he
said he'd lost thirteen pounds.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Well he could stand it, goodness. I just it's wonderful
for the boys in Camp Watch and having sham battles
and couldn's I wonder what you'll be doing this time tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's eleven hours now and I'll be arriving.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
What are you doing with that launch?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Huh? I was just setting over the head eleven hours,
all right? Dad? He used together A lot of you
chest out. You're at attention, my goodness, Graci rye. But
I just I said, silence. Could I ask a question, Lieutenant?
I'm a sergeant. Could I ask a question, sergeant? Please?
(04:34):
What where am I You're crazy? Man? Well, honest, sir,
I'm not sure. Well I'll just refresh your memory.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Bud, you're a Camp Dix, New Jersey, and you're a great, big,
ugly blackwooded private in the infantry, whether.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You like it or not.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, for Heaven's sake, Well, for Heaven's sake, I said,
how I got there? I will never know.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
One minute I was sitting on the davenport with Brenner,
right in my own living room in Highbridge, New Jersey,
just for no reason, setting my watch eleven hours ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And then Bung, I'm alongside the railroad station and Cat.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Dixon it's daylight, and this sergeant, well, now things don't
happen like that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There's no such thing as magic.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But well, how tell me how?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
All right, you can't tell me, so I'll tell you.
I'll tell you how I found it out. It was
an hour later that they let us sit down a
few minutes there.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Was a man sitting alongside me, and he said, I
have a good looking watch, didn't I? So I told
him how the boys of the plant gave it to me,
and he admired it some more, and then.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He said that I know my watch was an hour fast.
So I said, is that so? And I turned it
back and all right, catchy hes to sit and chessed out.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I heard myself saying, my goodness, gracious, why but
I just said, and I said, silence.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Could I ask a question, Lieutenant? I am a sergeant.
Could I ask a question, sergeant? Please? And by goodness,
I went through that whole hour again, and I was
so tired.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And when we got back to the time in the
place where the man said I had a good looking watch,
and I looked at that watch, I didn't say anything
this time.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So time went on the way it up to go on,
and they took.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
As beat but I couldn't eat anything because my stomach
was full of great big butterflies. Finally, when I had
a minute, I got to a phone booth and I
waited forty five minutes, and I got a call through
the highbrids to find out what Berna had to say
about it. And Missus Hulahan from next door answered, and
she said Berna was in bed with the high temperature, and.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What the dickens did I do to her on my
last night at home?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
So I hung up.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Sure, the watch, whatever I said of that, that's how
time it is. Well, now thinks side this could be
a very handy thing, but I have to be careful.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Say, what do you suppose they got that watch? It's
really and then I happen to think of something. My
guysh what would happen if that watch ran down?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Someday? If I forgot to wind it, then it stopped?
Would time stop? Wow?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well, I'm not going to try to find out. You
know this sergeant, he wasn't such a bad fella at that.
I was sitting on my bunk when I'd have to suffer.
There wasn't anybody else in the barracks, and he.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Walked in and I said, hi, sergeant, I watch with you.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Bradley, Oh, I'm just tired. Ain't you going to the movies?
How they run at Pitching Hubridge two months ago?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Take a read? Thanks? Are you going?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I get crit a load? That's so yeah? Got it?
Dear John? Which letter for my girlfriend? Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
You know, Dear John, I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
To tell you, but I have fallen in love with
another guy and you and I will always be good friends.
Oh yeah, great, we'll never get married, KIDDI I am married?
Oh excuse me? You were happy? Well? Oh? Sure, sure, sure,
sure great. We've been married four years here. Huh, you
(08:32):
got uh. This is the kind of vacation though. You know,
she said she might come down here to live near
the camp. You like that? Well, what your monkey? And
with that one, huh, I was just thinking of an experiment.
(08:52):
I'm trying to experiment. Oh nothing, it's nothing, what a bend.
Let's walk over to the PX. So we walked over
to the p X and we had a beer, and
then we had another.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Me and my big mouth.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Beer always makes me talking to every sargeant noticed I
was fiddling with my watch. I couldn't get off my mind.
And finally, finally the beer and I told him the story.
Of course he didn't believe it. He laughed a lot.
He said, I had a great imagination. And then after
a while he walked back to the barracks.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
To me, and we sat down on my bunk again,
and now the place was still empty and was he
was still laughing about my imagination. I got happy. I
told him I privately prove it. Well, how soon will
the movie be out and the fella's come back to
the barcks? Okay? Watch, what are you doing sitting at
(09:48):
ahead an hour?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Why don't you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, Sagan brother. Yeah, see it works all appeared just
I haven't. That's the way there'll be an hour from now.
Oh gosh, what you can do with that thing? Well
I've been using it. Yeah, well I've been setting it
(10:18):
ahead every day for a while before. See if my
wife is going to arrive.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Huh wife, See, well I'd like to have some morning
see uh, so you can hit me for a path
He did that, Sargeant, or so as.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I can go wall. No, Vernon is all right. We
get along all right, but oh heck, she demands. I
mean I never got out before I was drafted and
well done that. I kind of like being my own boss,
(10:53):
that is as far as the army had let you,
you know what I mean. I love Vernon all right,
but I knew what it once she got settled in
an apartment here in town. I had kai.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Bridges and far away I could get a past months
in a while, but been here in town.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I figured that was too close. Yeah. I feel a
lot different about it now, but this is quite a
while ago.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
See nineteen forty four, and I don't e been away
from her a few months, you know what I mean? Okay,
so she knuck up on me after all, I forgot
one night to set my watch ahead, and first thing
next morning I got the.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Word that she was here. So I talked to the
sergeant at and talked a lot of the past. We
kidded a little. I went to town the meter. It
was kind of nice, but gosh, I couldn't get a
word in that way. Mindy, you're so thick. Well I've been.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I know you.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You just won't talk up to these sergeants and majors
and people.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Just let them walk all over you.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You wait lite see somebody in authority.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Oh no, you can't, you can't. You've been drinking. I
bet you've been drinking.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But I'll put a stop to that.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
When we get an apartment here in town. You can
have ginger all at home, and I'll make brownie and
you can have some of the.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Boys over once in a while. Verna, what, Verna? Do
you love me? My silly child? Of course? I do
you give me a kiss? Why I thought that lipstick?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Are you gonna take me out to the camp.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm just dying to see it? My thought. Maybe we'd
stay in.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Town now, Lindsay, I'm not going to sit around in
this dismal towel all day and all night, and there's
all sorts of interesting things going on out for you're camping.
I came down here to enjoy myself and as we're
going to do no matter of what.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So that's the way it was, Jack and the yachity
all the time, and I got off.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm tired of it all of a sudden.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
You know, it used to be I could kind of
shut my ears to the yakayackity, but I seem to
have lost the tricks somehow, And so then I thought, guys,
I'm gonna see how long this is gonna go around.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So I turned my back and I moved the hands
of my watch ahead and night. I got it ten
hours ahead, and I heard a kind of sigh or something,
and I turn around, and you know how there was
this sergeant kissing my wife just as big as you please.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, I grabbed his arm and I tried to yank
him away, but it was just like I wasn't there.
And Berna spoke to him, and it didn't sound like
the yak of the yakaty.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
She used on me, Oh, Sergeant kill Roy, you're so improvedive.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And then I remembered that what I was seeing was
ten hours away, and I quick spun the hands on
my watch back again and dark gun and I went too.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Far back, and you're so far That was where I
came in, and I had to go through all of
it again.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
But then to repeat on the kisses wasn't so bad
until I remembered the way she was going to talk
to Sergeant kill Roy about ten hours from now. Well, Sir,
(14:05):
about five o'clock he showed up, and he told me
I had to go back to camp.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
How do you like that he could stay in town.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He said, and he'd be glad to show my wife
around and keep her entertained. A pius that was away
my poll, and I crossed him.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Up all night.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I waited a couple hours after I got back to camp,
and then I just set the watch ahead and it's
morning and the whole company, including Sergeant killed lawyers, turning
out for revelu.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, she stayed there. She got an apartment such as
it was. He's got a lot of passes.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I took the sides in hingroom me every once in
a while, and everything was as nice as five. I
didn't do much for the watch because they were scared
of it. I think awful good parrot was wound all
the time. I tried once to see if I could
turn it ahead farther than twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I couldn't. When the hands got the twelve hours ahead,
tick right back, you see, twelve hours to hand, just
come right back to where they were when you started. Anyway,
half a days enough for me. I think it's too much.
Think of night. You know they come a day that
always comes a day. A big bunch of us.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Got pulled out early in the morning with our amb
bags and everything out of the kitchen stove hung onto us.
We're off to the races only started and kill Roy.
He's permanent detail these days in cat.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Great deal. Well, I'm smart. I get myself lost in
the dark, and I beat it for a.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Taxi and I haul down the town our apartment and no,
Bernda doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm eve. I don't know where I'm going in. No,
I'm not trying to desert. I want to find out something.
I get in the apartment and Brenda doesn't wake up,
and she looks awful dutiously. But I turned the hands
and I watch ahead three hours. Nothing happened except.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
The bed was all of a sudden empty, and I
could hear burner out in the other room, and of
course it was full daylight now, so.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I hate a big sigh of relief. Everything's all right.
And then.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Oh oh la, your right, dear Dodding, and.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I was so mad. I thought, what's to do? And
then justice turn unlocked the door. I got it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I set my watch backward belonged, and it was already
dark morning again, and she was asleep there in the bed, smiling,
and I got out of the apocleum. I'll fix that,
I said to myself. I'll beat it back to camp
and i'll knock.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That kill ry's head off. And a big MP stepped
up in front of me.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Hey, hey, it easy, Mac.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where you're going with that equipment? Huh oh?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Why?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I I mean hi, I missed the train. Hush, you
missed the train. Huh yeah, that's fighting. Mac. Listened. The
train ain't left, get Mac, Oh, it ain't due to
leave for twenty minutes yet. Mac. So I'll tell you
what I'm gonna do. Just get the chief pay with me. Mac,
(17:23):
I'll deliver a special right to the steps of the car. Okay, mack.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Alight, And so I started my trip overseas handcuffed to
an empty and there wasn't any.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Kissing the bottle I was on that train. But good
then all was jumping up and down in the.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
World wasn't gonna do me any good, because in an
hour and a half I was sitting on a bunk
a by a foot above sea level in the wold
of a great big transport, and the ship was aiming
rapt because as fast as they could turn over the propeller,
Me and my fancy watch. I wish I'd never seen it,
But what can a guy do?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I throw it away? What will happened to stop him?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Maybe time won't stop him? And you see what's happening before. Yeah,
what the chances? So it turned out it was a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I hung out with it because I'm in a whole
A few weeks later with another guy in the bazooka
and mister.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Ramo's tanks are doing all right. I'm scared this.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Fella, the red Bubbinger, his name was, he's my loader,
and we're popping away at crouds whenever we can get
a beat on one. And then there's a kind of
lull and we don't see anybody, so light up the smoke,
red leadings his arms up on the.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Edge of the hole, looks out, looks like deep love
wish Huh what you mean? Yeah, you know, shoot anything,
let me see. And that was the end of Red Gulblinger.
(19:06):
And it was pretty near the end of me except
for the watch. All the German tanks in the world
were heading.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right scrape Ponium blazed me away like the Fourth of July,
only there was no celebration. The air was thick with
Hunk's iron. I think down to pick up my bazukah,
and when the fuck come to me, I reached my watch.
Two hours I'll set it back, I thought, and I did,
and all the tanks and everything disappeared. So I claned
out of the hole and started away from there, and all.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I remember was and everything went black and red and
green and then dead.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh not dead, but I got it ressed through my neck,
and they told me in the hospital at the bullet.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Traveled on down my arm and came out right alongside
of my watch.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And I was pretty scared about the watch. But the
nurse was a nice girl. She laughed, showed me how
she put it on my other arm wound the two,
she said, and I felt bet. Then I remembered I've
never set it ahead again to where it belonged, and
I asked her to said it, but she she tried,
she couldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Something happened to her, and we look, I won't try
to send.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You about all the trouble I had on my arm,
how like I sent back to the States. Come for
the next four years in the hospital, rely sure. I
saw her, and I saw her a lot. She used
to come and see me all the time, and she
was different, seemed like all I'd been through, and it
kind of changed it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
She she felt a sorry for me. Gosh, I got
a bin sorry for myself. You know how it is. Well,
it was a long time those years, with all I
had to do to my neck, my arm.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Once in a while I'd think about side and hil Roy,
but josh Burn it was so different now I knew
everything was okay, so.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I forgot it. The funny thing was, though I couldn't
turn to watch up to her, it belonged all that time.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I tried the nurses, tried the doctor's and I couldn't
do it was no soap. The last time I got
nervous and arratable. I I used to have the you know,
delusions of One day last month, it was the first
thing I had.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
My artificial arm.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I woke up kind of dopey, and I I thought
I seen somebody leave in my room with water read.
I thought I heard the nurse talking to a guards
bidding clothes that looked kind.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Of familiar, and I thought I heard him answer, oh no,
I tell you well. I was just gonna tell Verna
the new arm and everything, and I forgot Sorry, I
get out last week. It was kind of fun. I
went back to high Bridge burn it picked up her
(21:41):
old place as well, and yeah, I'd see it was special.
Nice to me. I putting there felt I could afford it.
Was set on to make that difference in Verna. She
was all right. I mean, she kept kidding me about
the way I fidd it with my watch. I couldn't
tell her.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I was trying to get it set back to where
it belonged. There was two hours worth of difference not watching.
I guess I got into the habit when I felt
so lousy, always puddling at it. You know that when
you send you the door when it's time time getting
her hair.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Fixed, And I wonder who it is? Kill row? Why?
Sure Shore killed wrong?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Glad to see it, Ja Bern They glad to see
it too. But it stood out. Watch it flies, and
I see you still got to streak ways. Yeah, I
still gotta die. How you been? What are you fiddling
of the watch for? Listen? There it got stuck stack. Yeah,
I keep pulling with it. Well, but tell me why
you vincent? You got out the way? She had stopped
pulling without watch you know. I'm sorry, Hey, by Gully,
(22:45):
I got it. I got it. I'll just tell it.
I had two hours to make. Yeah, kinda good time.
Where have you been? All right?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'll meet you?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
That what good lawd Yes? Certainly I did? What well?
How would you like to sit around in a room
for two hours where a guy get your shot?
Speaker 8 (23:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Quiet? Please? For the life is called? It is later
than you think? It was Richmond directed by Willis Cooper
and the lad who was Hope for you was Brewis
Cappel and.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Abby Lewis played Verna Don Briggs with the sageant miscellaneous.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Voices and colorful characterizations, with creations of one at.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Lahimber music for Gui Please is played by Albert Burna,
now away from Willis Scooper.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The characters night started where I'll fetch all of cars
for next week. Next week to have a story for
you called the Thing.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm a pore old boy, and so until next week.
At the same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel.
This program was heard in Canada through the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation and this is the mutual broadcasting system.
Quiet please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hm hm hm.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Pleas, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and
which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet Please Fortunize is called it
is later than you think.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Answer.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I venture to say that the Germans and the Japs
are trembling in their boots at this moment for a word,
that Lindsey Bradley is on their trail. Lindsey, our loss
is Uncle Sam's game. Your fellow employees wish you success,
(01:14):
adventure and a bushel of medals. And in COVID of
our high esteem for you, in remembrance of the happy
hours we have spent with you on the plant before
we are all one big.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Happy family, I present you with this seventeen.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Jewel solid gold important wristwatch. May it ever remind you
of your good friends here.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
At this arsenal of democracy you.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Are leaving to face our enemies in person.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, well, all I can say, employees Buzz and mister Troupe, all.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I can say is I thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Well, yes, of course it's a beautiful watch, Lindsay. But
for heaven's sake, this is your last night before you
go to camp. And I do wish you could pay
a little attention to me.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh well, well, Vernond, I'm sorry. I never had such
a nice watch though, And how you carry it away?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm sorry, honey.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Really, Oh, for goodness sake, act like it then, uh,
act like what I've met you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Sorry, tess me.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh, I should say, so, I am going to miss you,
hack you.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This isn't as if I was going overseas right away, honey,
Oh my goodness, I'll probably be in the camp for
quite a while to learn things.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Heck, you could come and see me. Off.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Maybe I could get an apartment in the town where
the camp.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Is and the sergeants or whoever it is. We let
you live at home and just.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Go to the camp.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Please. Well, I don't know about that. It'd be wonderful, Lindsay.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But you could come home for me, and you could
have a colonel in for dinner, to be just like home.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Uh huh. First thing you do when you get to
camp is find a nice apartment about four rooms of maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Five, and I'll come right away.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Huh. Well, i'll see honey. You don't seem to be
very excited about it. Well, I don't know how it'll
be at camp.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You know, I might not be able to find an apartment,
and maybe I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Staying there long. You don't want me to be with you,
quite sure. I'd do Berna, But.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You're just gonna leave me here all alone in this
old place where you go off camping out and being
in parade and having some wonderful time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't think it'll be like that. Verna.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Francis Felton wrote last week from Camp Wreckenviche, and he
said he'd lost thirteen pounds.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Well he could stand it, goodness. I just it's wonderful
for the boys in Camp Watch and having sham battles
and couldn's I wonder what you'll be doing this time tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's eleven hours now and I'll be arriving.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
What are you doing with that launch?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Huh? I was just setting over the head eleven hours,
all right? Dad? He used together A lot of you
chest out. You're at attention, my goodness, Graci rye. But
I just I said, silence. Could I ask a question, Lieutenant?
I'm a sergeant. Could I ask a question, sergeant? Please?
(04:34):
What where am I You're crazy? Man? Well, honest, sir,
I'm not sure. Well I'll just refresh your memory.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Bud, you're a Camp Dix, New Jersey, and you're a great, big,
ugly blackwooded private in the infantry, whether.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You like it or not.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well, for Heaven's sake, Well, for Heaven's sake, I said,
how I got there? I will never know.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
One minute I was sitting on the davenport with Brenner,
right in my own living room in Highbridge, New Jersey,
just for no reason, setting my watch eleven hours ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And then Bung, I'm alongside the railroad station and Cat.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Dixon it's daylight, and this sergeant, well, now things don't
happen like that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There's no such thing as magic.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But well, how tell me how?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
All right, you can't tell me, so I'll tell you.
I'll tell you how I found it out. It was
an hour later that they let us sit down a
few minutes there.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Was a man sitting alongside me, and he said, I
have a good looking watch, didn't I? So I told
him how the boys of the plant gave it to me,
and he admired it some more, and then.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He said that I know my watch was an hour fast.
So I said, is that so? And I turned it
back and all right, catchy hes to sit and chessed out.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I heard myself saying, my goodness, gracious, why but
I just said, and I said, silence.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Could I ask a question, Lieutenant? I am a sergeant.
Could I ask a question, sergeant? Please? And by goodness,
I went through that whole hour again, and I was
so tired.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And when we got back to the time in the
place where the man said I had a good looking watch,
and I looked at that watch, I didn't say anything
this time.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So time went on the way it up to go on,
and they took.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
As beat but I couldn't eat anything because my stomach
was full of great big butterflies. Finally, when I had
a minute, I got to a phone booth and I
waited forty five minutes, and I got a call through
the highbrids to find out what Berna had to say
about it. And Missus Hulahan from next door answered, and
she said Berna was in bed with the high temperature, and.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What the dickens did I do to her on my
last night at home?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
So I hung up.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Sure, the watch, whatever I said of that, that's how
time it is. Well, now thinks side this could be
a very handy thing, but I have to be careful.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Say, what do you suppose they got that watch? It's
really and then I happen to think of something. My
guysh what would happen if that watch ran down?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Someday? If I forgot to wind it, then it stopped?
Would time stop? Wow?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well, I'm not going to try to find out. You
know this sergeant, he wasn't such a bad fella at that.
I was sitting on my bunk when I'd have to suffer.
There wasn't anybody else in the barracks, and he.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Walked in and I said, hi, sergeant, I watch with you.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Bradley, Oh, I'm just tired. Ain't you going to the movies?
How they run at Pitching Hubridge two months ago?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Take a read? Thanks? Are you going?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I get crit a load? That's so yeah? Got it?
Dear John? Which letter for my girlfriend? Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
You know, Dear John, I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
To tell you, but I have fallen in love with
another guy and you and I will always be good friends.
Oh yeah, great, we'll never get married, KIDDI I am married?
Oh excuse me? You were happy? Well? Oh? Sure, sure, sure,
sure great. We've been married four years here. Huh, you
(08:32):
got uh. This is the kind of vacation though. You know,
she said she might come down here to live near
the camp. You like that? Well, what your monkey? And
with that one, huh, I was just thinking of an experiment.
(08:52):
I'm trying to experiment. Oh nothing, it's nothing, what a bend.
Let's walk over to the PX. So we walked over
to the p X and we had a beer, and
then we had another.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Me and my big mouth.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Beer always makes me talking to every sargeant noticed I
was fiddling with my watch. I couldn't get off my mind.
And finally, finally the beer and I told him the story.
Of course he didn't believe it. He laughed a lot.
He said, I had a great imagination. And then after
a while he walked back to the barracks.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
To me, and we sat down on my bunk again,
and now the place was still empty and was he
was still laughing about my imagination. I got happy. I
told him I privately prove it. Well, how soon will
the movie be out and the fella's come back to
the barcks? Okay? Watch, what are you doing sitting at
(09:48):
ahead an hour?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Why don't you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, Sagan brother. Yeah, see it works all appeared just
I haven't. That's the way there'll be an hour from now.
Oh gosh, what you can do with that thing? Well
I've been using it. Yeah, well I've been setting it
(10:18):
ahead every day for a while before. See if my
wife is going to arrive.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Huh wife, See, well I'd like to have some morning
see uh, so you can hit me for a path
He did that, Sargeant, or so as.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I can go wall. No, Vernon is all right. We
get along all right, but oh heck, she demands. I
mean I never got out before I was drafted and
well done that. I kind of like being my own boss,
(10:53):
that is as far as the army had let you,
you know what I mean. I love Vernon all right,
but I knew what it once she got settled in
an apartment here in town. I had kai.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Bridges and far away I could get a past months
in a while, but been here in town.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I figured that was too close. Yeah. I feel a
lot different about it now, but this is quite a
while ago.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
See nineteen forty four, and I don't e been away
from her a few months, you know what I mean? Okay,
so she knuck up on me after all, I forgot
one night to set my watch ahead, and first thing
next morning I got the.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Word that she was here. So I talked to the
sergeant at and talked a lot of the past. We
kidded a little. I went to town the meter. It
was kind of nice, but gosh, I couldn't get a
word in that way. Mindy, you're so thick. Well I've been.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I know you.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You just won't talk up to these sergeants and majors
and people.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Just let them walk all over you.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You wait lite see somebody in authority.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Oh no, you can't, you can't. You've been drinking. I
bet you've been drinking.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But I'll put a stop to that.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
When we get an apartment here in town. You can
have ginger all at home, and I'll make brownie and
you can have some of the.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Boys over once in a while. Verna, what, Verna? Do
you love me? My silly child? Of course? I do
you give me a kiss? Why I thought that lipstick?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Are you gonna take me out to the camp.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm just dying to see it? My thought. Maybe we'd
stay in.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Town now, Lindsay, I'm not going to sit around in
this dismal towel all day and all night, and there's
all sorts of interesting things going on out for you're camping.
I came down here to enjoy myself and as we're
going to do no matter of what.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So that's the way it was, Jack and the yachity
all the time, and I got off.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm tired of it all of a sudden.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
You know, it used to be I could kind of
shut my ears to the yakayackity, but I seem to
have lost the tricks somehow, And so then I thought, guys,
I'm gonna see how long this is gonna go around.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So I turned my back and I moved the hands
of my watch ahead and night. I got it ten
hours ahead, and I heard a kind of sigh or something,
and I turn around, and you know how there was
this sergeant kissing my wife just as big as you please.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, I grabbed his arm and I tried to yank
him away, but it was just like I wasn't there.
And Berna spoke to him, and it didn't sound like
the yak of the yakaty.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
She used on me, Oh, Sergeant kill Roy, you're so improvedive.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And then I remembered that what I was seeing was
ten hours away, and I quick spun the hands on
my watch back again and dark gun and I went too.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Far back, and you're so far That was where I
came in, and I had to go through all of
it again.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
But then to repeat on the kisses wasn't so bad
until I remembered the way she was going to talk
to Sergeant kill Roy about ten hours from now. Well, Sir,
(14:05):
about five o'clock he showed up, and he told me
I had to go back to camp.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
How do you like that he could stay in town.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He said, and he'd be glad to show my wife
around and keep her entertained. A pius that was away
my poll, and I crossed him.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Up all night.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I waited a couple hours after I got back to camp,
and then I just set the watch ahead and it's
morning and the whole company, including Sergeant killed lawyers, turning
out for revelu.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, she stayed there. She got an apartment such as
it was. He's got a lot of passes.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I took the sides in hingroom me every once in
a while, and everything was as nice as five. I
didn't do much for the watch because they were scared
of it. I think awful good parrot was wound all
the time. I tried once to see if I could
turn it ahead farther than twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I couldn't. When the hands got the twelve hours ahead,
tick right back, you see, twelve hours to hand, just
come right back to where they were when you started. Anyway,
half a days enough for me. I think it's too much.
Think of night. You know they come a day that
always comes a day. A big bunch of us.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Got pulled out early in the morning with our amb
bags and everything out of the kitchen stove hung onto us.
We're off to the races only started and kill Roy.
He's permanent detail these days in cat.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Great deal. Well, I'm smart. I get myself lost in
the dark, and I beat it for a.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Taxi and I haul down the town our apartment and no,
Bernda doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm eve. I don't know where I'm going in. No,
I'm not trying to desert. I want to find out something.
I get in the apartment and Brenda doesn't wake up,
and she looks awful dutiously. But I turned the hands
and I watch ahead three hours. Nothing happened except.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
The bed was all of a sudden empty, and I
could hear burner out in the other room, and of
course it was full daylight now, so.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I hate a big sigh of relief. Everything's all right.
And then.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Oh oh la, your right, dear Dodding, and.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I was so mad. I thought, what's to do? And
then justice turn unlocked the door. I got it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I set my watch backward belonged, and it was already
dark morning again, and she was asleep there in the bed, smiling,
and I got out of the apocleum. I'll fix that,
I said to myself. I'll beat it back to camp
and i'll knock.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That kill ry's head off. And a big MP stepped
up in front of me.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Hey, hey, it easy, Mac.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where you're going with that equipment? Huh oh?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Why?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I I mean hi, I missed the train. Hush, you
missed the train. Huh yeah, that's fighting. Mac. Listened. The
train ain't left, get Mac, Oh, it ain't due to
leave for twenty minutes yet. Mac. So I'll tell you
what I'm gonna do. Just get the chief pay with me. Mac,
(17:23):
I'll deliver a special right to the steps of the car. Okay, mack.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Alight, And so I started my trip overseas handcuffed to
an empty and there wasn't any.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Kissing the bottle I was on that train. But good
then all was jumping up and down in the.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
World wasn't gonna do me any good, because in an
hour and a half I was sitting on a bunk
a by a foot above sea level in the wold
of a great big transport, and the ship was aiming
rapt because as fast as they could turn over the propeller,
Me and my fancy watch. I wish I'd never seen it,
But what can a guy do?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I throw it away? What will happened to stop him?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Maybe time won't stop him? And you see what's happening before. Yeah,
what the chances? So it turned out it was a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I hung out with it because I'm in a whole
A few weeks later with another guy in the bazooka
and mister.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Ramo's tanks are doing all right. I'm scared this.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Fella, the red Bubbinger, his name was, he's my loader,
and we're popping away at crouds whenever we can get
a beat on one. And then there's a kind of
lull and we don't see anybody, so light up the smoke,
red leadings his arms up on the.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Edge of the hole, looks out, looks like deep love
wish Huh what you mean? Yeah, you know, shoot anything,
let me see. And that was the end of Red Gulblinger.
(19:06):
And it was pretty near the end of me except
for the watch. All the German tanks in the world
were heading.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right scrape Ponium blazed me away like the Fourth of July,
only there was no celebration. The air was thick with
Hunk's iron. I think down to pick up my bazukah,
and when the fuck come to me, I reached my watch.
Two hours I'll set it back, I thought, and I did,
and all the tanks and everything disappeared. So I claned
out of the hole and started away from there, and all.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I remember was and everything went black and red and
green and then dead.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh not dead, but I got it ressed through my neck,
and they told me in the hospital at the bullet.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Traveled on down my arm and came out right alongside
of my watch.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And I was pretty scared about the watch. But the
nurse was a nice girl. She laughed, showed me how
she put it on my other arm wound the two,
she said, and I felt bet. Then I remembered I've
never set it ahead again to where it belonged, and
I asked her to said it, but she she tried,
she couldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Something happened to her, and we look, I won't try
to send.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You about all the trouble I had on my arm,
how like I sent back to the States. Come for
the next four years in the hospital, rely sure. I
saw her, and I saw her a lot. She used
to come and see me all the time, and she
was different, seemed like all I'd been through, and it
kind of changed it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
She she felt a sorry for me. Gosh, I got
a bin sorry for myself. You know how it is. Well,
it was a long time those years, with all I
had to do to my neck, my arm.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Once in a while I'd think about side and hil Roy,
but josh Burn it was so different now I knew
everything was okay, so.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I forgot it. The funny thing was, though I couldn't
turn to watch up to her, it belonged all that time.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I tried the nurses, tried the doctor's and I couldn't
do it was no soap. The last time I got
nervous and arratable. I I used to have the you know,
delusions of One day last month, it was the first
thing I had.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
My artificial arm.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I woke up kind of dopey, and I I thought
I seen somebody leave in my room with water read.
I thought I heard the nurse talking to a guards
bidding clothes that looked kind.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Of familiar, and I thought I heard him answer, oh no,
I tell you well. I was just gonna tell Verna
the new arm and everything, and I forgot Sorry, I
get out last week. It was kind of fun. I
went back to high Bridge burn it picked up her
(21:41):
old place as well, and yeah, I'd see it was special.
Nice to me. I putting there felt I could afford it.
Was set on to make that difference in Verna. She
was all right. I mean, she kept kidding me about
the way I fidd it with my watch. I couldn't
tell her.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I was trying to get it set back to where
it belonged. There was two hours worth of difference not watching.
I guess I got into the habit when I felt
so lousy, always puddling at it. You know that when
you send you the door when it's time time getting
her hair.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Fixed, And I wonder who it is? Kill row? Why?
Sure Shore killed wrong?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Glad to see it, Ja Bern They glad to see
it too. But it stood out. Watch it flies, and
I see you still got to streak ways. Yeah, I
still gotta die. How you been? What are you fiddling
of the watch for? Listen? There it got stuck stack. Yeah,
I keep pulling with it. Well, but tell me why
you vincent? You got out the way? She had stopped
pulling without watch you know. I'm sorry, Hey, by Gully,
(22:45):
I got it. I got it. I'll just tell it.
I had two hours to make. Yeah, kinda good time.
Where have you been? All right?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'll meet you?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
That what good lawd Yes? Certainly I did? What well?
How would you like to sit around in a room
for two hours where a guy get your shot?
Speaker 8 (23:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Quiet? Please? For the life is called? It is later
than you think? It was Richmond directed by Willis Cooper
and the lad who was Hope for you was Brewis
Cappel and.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Abby Lewis played Verna Don Briggs with the sageant miscellaneous.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Voices and colorful characterizations, with creations of one at.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Lahimber music for Gui Please is played by Albert Burna,
now away from Willis Scooper.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The characters night started where I'll fetch all of cars
for next week. Next week to have a story for
you called the Thing.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm a pore old boy, and so until next week.
At the same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel.
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