August 17, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Auto Life and It's sixty thousand dealers and service stations
bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, starring tonight mister
Gregory Peck in Ampton Leader's production of Hitchhike Poker, a
tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I want to ride, young fella.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Are you bad?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh? Hi?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Happy? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
That's how I met Jay's to Belvin and his canary
yellow convertible.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's how I took the ride. I'll be a long
time forgetting.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
He looked to be about forty five, and he wasn't
bad looking for a guy that all. He was well built,
about my size, no gray in his hair, and that
coat he was wearing. Boy, I'll bet plenty of camels
went under the clippers for that one.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So you're a student day I graduate from Berkeley this year.
I suppose you're a vet. Oh yes, more than half
the guy's are vets. What's your name?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sm Ridge Fowler?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Married?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Not me?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Don't tell me you're a woman hated.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh no, it's not that.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's just well, I have enough trouble feeding myself.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I said the same thing years ago. But you'll change
your mind when the right girl comes along ninety eighteen
sixty three.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Dud, huh oh?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Didn't you ever play license plate poker?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
License plate poker? Never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's just like regular poker, except instead of drawing cottage,
you draw license plates. Now I do that hand, There
was nothing in it. Next car we see, it'll be
your hand he comes from. Now watch the license plate
four j thirty one thirty four, two pair threes and fours.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You beat me. Hey, that's a good game. What are
the states?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I'll make it easy on yourself. Shall we say one
hundred thousand dollars a hand?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
See what I mean? And good Joe.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
A lot of laughs in small talk. And all the
time that convertible eating the miles.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What a car.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We practically flew through Selina, San Luis, Obispo and Santa Marina.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, San, what do you say to a hamburger? I
know a little place in San Dinez where they make
a hamburger that drips with royalty?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You dropped me sold and.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
On the side French fried onions, huicting potatoes and the
cooldest beer in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Stop you're killing me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now tell me did I overrate the place for that
was terrific. The trouble is to give you too much
food in there. I've got the quid eating like that.
My clothes are getting tight, especially this coat. That coat
sure is a beauty. Nuts about camels here you shee.
I got an idea. Why don't you try it on?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh no, mister Bell and I I didn't mean it ahead.
You're just enough tinner than I am that I ought
to fit your fine. Oh gosh, here.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Go ahead try it on. College boy, can always use
a coat.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's a good fit. It was made for you, liar,
I don't know what to say. That's a coat for
a king.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, I guess that makes you a monarch, then, son,
because it's your coat now.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I couldn't get over it. Coat like that mine.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I bet Mom's eyes will really pop when she sees
it on me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Must have cost a year's tuition.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I climb back into the car and slapped it down
into the maroon leather.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Seat and waited for him while he made a phone call. Boy,
I felt like a king, all right. I was deep
in the day dream when he came out of the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, right here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Hey, look a straight huh? I drew a straight two
J three, four, five six, really straight.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's the highest hand today.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
How to be tough to beat time, tuck.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We drove for quite a while, not talking much. We
left Highway one on one at sanday Nez, where we
got the Hamburgers. There weren't many cars on the road,
and Belin hadn't been able to draw anything to beat
my straight. In fact, he seemed to lose interest in
the game. He was concentrating on the road. It was
a treacherous road, curved and.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
High, full of hair, con turned, but he handled a
car beautifully, taking those curves fast but sure, never slowing
down a bit.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So I liked speed, but all of a sudden I
felt nervous the way he was hugging the edge.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I turned to look at him to say something, and
the words stuck in my throat. It changed no more
than smiling hopes, and Steady was fastened to the wheel
like a hawk.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
That's what he looked like, a hawk, ready to strike.
I was tongue tied at the change. You mean, I
guess My reflexes worked slowly, but his didn't. He threw
over in his door, twisted the wheel bay tell of
the sun. He jump where when the car hurt like
the space.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I was alone in, it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Threw me against the door.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I'm not too fear at this point, but the next
thing I knew I was plying through space again, only.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
This time I was free of the car. I landed
sprawled against the side of the hill. Now began to
slip draw. I am wildly.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Desperately for just anything to stop myself.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
When it happened, it was the trunk of it twisted,
narrowed old tree that grew out of the hillside, hit
me square.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
In the stomach, knocked the wind right out of me.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I lay there to hurt the care It was a
minute or two before I got up enough breath to move.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Finally I edged my way up the cliff, hand over hand.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It was brutal, but I surprised to discover that I
hadn't fallen as far as it seemed. I was climbing
around the bottles of boulders, not more than eight feet
from roadside level when I looked.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And there was Belded, a gun in his hand.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Knocked in the bullets still off the bulders.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He wanted me bad, that was for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He wanted to kill me, Why why I waited crouched
and I heard the horn. I came out from behind
the boulders, crawled up on the road. Belden was nowhere
in sight. I didn't see what kind of a car
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it was. I didn't even think to look. All I
saw was.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He beat my straight four L fifty five fifty five.
That was the license, four.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
L five five five four of a kind.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All of a sudden, I was shaking. I looked at myself.
I was beat up, cut, filthy. But what was worse,
the camel's hair coat was a mess. King. I had
to laugh. Beldin was king. I was just the joker.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
My back hurt, my head frob aked all over, but
I walked every inch of the way back to Santa Ennez.
It was dark by the time I got there. When
I stood in front of the police station, I realized
for the first time the meaning of the word sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I took a deep breath.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I wanted to tell the police's pray as story as possible.
I opened the door.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Est officer, the boy who stole my car forced me out,
took my coat. Just look in the side pocket of
the coat, you'll find my wallet.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Horsles fens. Auto light is bringing you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Mister Gregory beck In radios outstands theater of thrills suspense.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I'm sure getting a big kick cut of greg g
repectnay good.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Maybe you'll put that old picture album away now?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Why Mary, don't you like old photo?
Speaker 9 (09:18):
No, they make us look so silly. Besides, all it
made you do is talk about autolite, And when it
comes to autolite, I'd rather listen to Frank Martin. He
really knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
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Car owners everywhere tell us auto light batteries are the
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Speaker 4 (10:00):
Mary, I could have told you all that never stopped
looking at this own.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
So fans stop at your neighborhood autolied dealers and get
an auto light stafold battery. Then you'll know what fast
starts really are. And remember this, The auto light staphole
battery you buy needs water only three times a year
in normal car. You you know, Mary, I can repeat
every word Frank Martin said about auto light stay full batteries,
auto light station.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He suspense again, and now auto light brings back to
Hollywood soundstage. Mister Gregory peck has Ridge Fowler in hitchhike
polker a tale well calculated to keep you in suspend.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What was Felden doing here in the police station? What
was he trying to pull?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I knew even before I put my hand in the
coat that Beldin's wallet would be there. And I knew
too that the police would never believe me no matter
what I said.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I was trapped. The desk sergeant was waiting for me
to talk.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
It was dry, my tongue was paralyzed, my brain spinning.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, and you got to save yourself. You don't understand,
you see, he gave me the code. I didn't know
about the wallet. That's the best you can do. But
I tell you. He picked me up when I was
hitch hiking. I was going home from school for the weekend.
Then he forced me off the road. He tried to
kill me. He shot it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Sergeant, let the boy go.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But mister, I've changed my mind.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't intend to press charges.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But this kid's crazy easy, Sergeant, he's a war that.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Oh no, no, no, lock me up.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Please don't believe him.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Everyone is entitled the one mistake. Any boy who is
big enough to come into the police station voluntarily give
himself up deserves another chance. If I could have erased
the memory of his face, mo uck him up, twisted
that wheel and screamed, so sonny, all these benevolent words
were fooled, and he like they were fooling. The desk
Satchant Beldin was bursting with sweetness and light. But every
word he said to release me only typing the wad tighter.
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And I knew, just as sure as I was standing there,
he wasn't through with it. Like walking out of that door,
I would be like releasing the clay bird at a tratch.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, it's a for you, mister Darlin, if you're sure
it won't cause any more trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'm positive, But after tonight, this young man will be
no trouble to anyone.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
No trouble to anyone. After tonight. I had to get
away from there. I had to run. I don't know
how long I ran. I didn't know where I was.
The sound was behind me.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
To start breath, I tried to light a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
My hands shook like I had the palsy.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It was like the South Pacific, snipers and trees, But.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But what trees where?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Then I saw the bright glaring me on ahead mac
and Oal's one signs said and wayside rest trucks welcome
the other. Just to think he's service station and a
lunch wagon. But it was an oasis to me.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Hardie. Hey, what's the matter bout you?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Sick?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No? No, I'm I'm all right. You sure look green
here on the gills. Been in a fighter? How soon
will the trucks start coming through? You got a long wait?
But two three hours been in an accident. Look, mister,
I've got to get a ride to o Hi. Do
you mind if I hang around and wait?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I don't mind. Won't do no good.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Though he ain't allowed to pick up rider's company rules
might be lucky and catch a wildcarey, but I doubted.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh thanks you? Sure you all right?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Maybe you better go next door and give yourself a
cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Sure, look like you could use one. Yeah, that's a
good idea. Hey, I for a ride. Turns up, I'll
call you. Thanks. Mac. Oh, I'm not Mac. I'm hell
Mac works days. I still halfway decent, and I came
out of the lunch wagon.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I'd cleaned myself up and reduced my capital for fifteen cents.
AL had a customer, Yes and no lady, lady, Hey bud,
come here?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Huh? I got you a ride? O Hi? Oh? You
happy with the little lady here? She's been driving all day?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Got novel headache, she's going straight.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh Hi, here's a fellow. I was telling you about
lady that needed to ride to Oh Hi.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Oh, I'm afraid you misunderstood. I just said I wished
I had somebody to drive me.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I don't blame you for not wanting to take a ride,
but I'd appreciate it if you'd change your mind.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I've got to get to O Hi tonight.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
Well, I I am Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Go ahead, miss easy nice. Well, if you'll vouch for it.
Wait a minute, lady, I don't vouch for anybody, all right,
I guess it'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It was a pleasure to drive for She didn't say much,
and I didn't feel like talking.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
She just sat there beside me, her eyes closed, resting.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Once in a while, I snatched a quick look at her.
She had long, dark eyelashes resting on her marble like cheeks,
hands pollen in her lap. I found myself remembering when
the ripe girl comes along. I was trying to remember
who said it. When I saw her looking at me,
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feel better, much better.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
I'm ashamed of myself, hesitating to let her drive my car.
I'm afraid I'm over cautious.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, I wouldn't say that. Can't be too careful.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
One reads of such awful things happening.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
On the road.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, awful things. I hadn't thought of poling since we
left Al's gas station. Now he was back in the
front of my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You're going off as fast. These curves are treacherous. I
guess I'm just anxious to get home.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yes, do you want to kill us both?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're almost side swell, I'm sorry, I what are you honking?
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Now? Bo?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
He's gone, you're your horn? What about it? Oh nothing,
I I thought i'd heard it before before.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
Oh look, maybe i'd better do it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh no, no, I'm sorry. I'll be all right. I'm sorry.
I'd be sewing up my sleeves if I didn't get
a hold of myself.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I must have been crazy thinking that her horn was
the same as the one that had hanked for Belden
when I was hanging on the side of that hill.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It was just a horn.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
A lot of horns sound alike. I tried to steady myself.
I didn't want her to catch on how rattle I was.
I turned to her to apologize, just putting a cigarette
in her mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It was purely automatic.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
She was sitting up straight, tense, Her eyes were glued
to the road ahead. Then it hit me I'd been
over this road earlier tonight with beld It. Suddenly it
loomed up that that wide bank curved just ahead the
spot where bell and it tried to kill me. My
hands froze on the wheel, put my breath, and then
I saw her hand reach out.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What are you doing? Let go my wrist? What's wrong
with you?
Speaker 10 (17:29):
I was only reaching with the cigarette lader on the
dash floor.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm sorry, let that curved back period.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Pull over and stop, pull over.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'm going to drive. She drove about a mile. I guess.
Neither one of us said anything. Then, without any warning,
she took a sharp turn off the highway and down
a rutted dirt road. Hey miss, you're leaving the highway.
We better stop a while. You don't look so well
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right now.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Don't look better? Have a drink. I'm reaching the glove
compartment to find some scots.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh really, I'm all right, But then maybe I need it.
Maybe what's the drink? Maybe it was the girl, Maybe
it was just relief, But I felt peace for the
first time that night. I watched her inhale.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
The glow from the cigarette lit up her high cheekbones.
I couldn't see her eyes until she turned her head.
What's your name, Ridge, Mine's Virginia.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Hi. Hi.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You must think I'm pretty much of a jerk the
way I've been acting.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's all right. Things like that happened to everybody. Yeah,
I guess, so. Look, I'm all right now I could drive.
What's your hurry?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, right, I thought, what's the matter.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Don't you like to sit here with me? Oh no,
it's it's just that I thought you were in a hurry.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
I'm not no, are you No?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, I I'm in no hurry at all.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
She didn't seem to be moving with so valuable. I
caught a place of whore. I'm perfume in her hair.
She smiled at me, one of those elusive smiles, half innocent,
half Her.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Head touched my shoulder. I accepted the invitation. I like you, Rich,
I like you a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yeah, you know tonight back in the filling station when
I first saw you. I it's the matter, Rich, the
nrich license tag on your key ring. Yes, four L
five five five five.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Four of a kind, four of it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You play license plate poker. I'm afraid so riche four
fires some license with a car that picked belting up
after he tried to kill me. That's right, then you're
in it with me, Sonny. I'll throw it out of
the car hard.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
My face buried in the dirt, didn't God, But it
would have been much easier if I had only my
mind functioned.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Everything else seemed paralyzed her. You took your time getting here.
I was delayed. You were supposed to be here waiting.
What if I had been able to keep him.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh, I knew I could depend on you, darling, to
detain him. What is that supposed to me? You have
to go as far as you're dead. Just let him
kiss you.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
Do you know a better way to keep a man
on ice?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Perfect wife? A little help me?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Shut up?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Put him in the back seat.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Just a woman, darling. I'm gonna do it right this time.
But be no slipper, no fool. Put that gun away.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Don't you realize if a bullet is found on the body,
it won't be accidental death?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Always so right?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Aren't you done? Only because you're so stupid?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Stupid?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Am I who planning this whole thing?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You didn't badly? If you hadn't look right in the
first place, his body.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Would be burned up by now, along with the car.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And I'll put him in.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The back.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Melvin's wife. But what why did they want to kill me?
Why Belden picked me up? Throw me in the back
of the car.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Uh huh, hand me the ranch, Virginia Stewart.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
This time, form like oblivion rushed over me. After a second,
the pain was gone, and so was I. Consciousness returned
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in sponses. Oh my head was like a short wave receiver.
Now static, now clear, now clear, now static now.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
And behind us nobody. We're almost there. Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
No one's discovered the car yet?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Of course, not the way it's lying. Nobody will see
it till daylight. And then Jay Stewart felt the movie
found dead, burned to an unrecognizable crisp. Can shake this place?
Go to South America?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You can go.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
I have to stick around, remember to collect the insurance
and pretend I'm heartbroken you're dead?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Will that be so hard? He didn't talk like this
when you married me. But of course there was a
lot more money then. Yes, swindle from suckers. Since when
have you become fussy about where money comes from? Let's
change you the schoolboy.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Don't be a fool.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
All right, we've gotta work fast. Give me a handle
that wait, h becomes a car.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The end of the line.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But anyway, now I knew why I was a stand
in for a corpse.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I'll live in this, buckers, as I get out of
the car, walk clear, Yes, this was.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It, and will neither side of me. I had to think,
think straight. My body's skill felt numb. Chance if only
my muscles coordinated. Wait, till he dragged me.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Out of the car, and then I'd fight Virginia, get
the gasoline can out.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I fell him, grabbed me into the armpits. I opened
my eyes just in time to see that murderous wrench
in the girl's hand as she brought it down.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
My eyes closed. Oh hit me hard. But it wasn't
the wrench. It was Belding. The wrench had folded him
up and he collapsed on top of me.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
And nerve in My body was alert now. I didn't
know what would come next, but I was ready for it.
She pulled Beldian's body off me. She wasn't aware of
me watching them. She was too busy dragging Belding over
to the rim.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Of the cliff. She was transfigured with hate.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Well, Steward, that's how you planned it, accidental, dad.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So then she kicked him and he disappeared over the edge.
I didn't wait to see anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I crawled out of that car and I started to
run right down the middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
She saw me, wait hey, but I kept right on going.
I glanced back. She started the car was coming right
at me. First, I thought she was just trying to
catch up to me. Then I really, she was trying.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
To run me down.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
She was trying to kill me. I was crossing to
the left side of the road. She was right behind me,
he says. The question of second said suddenly.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Around the bend of big Top, I was sat between them.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I stood stunned with her her scream ringing through my
head and the picture of her in the car swerving
off into space, into the canyon below.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But you are right, Yeah, what happened. She went off
the road, a crazy woman driving. We'll have to report it.
Come on, I give you a right into town. Can
hear me? Don't you want to ride? Yeah? Yeah? Sure?
What are you staring at your license plate? See him?
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One one one one? Hey, it wasn't my fault. You
saw how it happened. Four races, four races had won.
I've taken the last heaven.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
But as long as I live, I'll jump out of
my skin whenever a car pulls up and her voice
asks
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Want to ride, young fella.
Suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Auto Life and It's sixty thousand dealers and service stations
bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, starring tonight mister
Gregory Peck in Ampton Leader's production of Hitchhike Poker, a
tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I want to ride, young fella.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Are you bad?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh? Hi?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Happy? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
That's how I met Jay's to Belvin and his canary
yellow convertible.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's how I took the ride. I'll be a long
time forgetting.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
He looked to be about forty five, and he wasn't
bad looking for a guy that all. He was well built,
about my size, no gray in his hair, and that
coat he was wearing. Boy, I'll bet plenty of camels
went under the clippers for that one.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So you're a student day I graduate from Berkeley this year.
I suppose you're a vet. Oh yes, more than half
the guy's are vets. What's your name?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sm Ridge Fowler?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Married?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Not me?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Don't tell me you're a woman hated.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh no, it's not that.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's just well, I have enough trouble feeding myself.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I said the same thing years ago. But you'll change
your mind when the right girl comes along ninety eighteen
sixty three.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Dud, huh oh?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Didn't you ever play license plate poker?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
License plate poker? Never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's just like regular poker, except instead of drawing cottage,
you draw license plates. Now I do that hand, There
was nothing in it. Next car we see, it'll be
your hand he comes from. Now watch the license plate
four j thirty one thirty four, two pair threes and fours.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You beat me. Hey, that's a good game. What are
the states?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I'll make it easy on yourself. Shall we say one
hundred thousand dollars a hand?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
See what I mean? And good Joe.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
A lot of laughs in small talk. And all the
time that convertible eating the miles.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What a car.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We practically flew through Selina, San Luis, Obispo and Santa Marina.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, San, what do you say to a hamburger? I
know a little place in San Dinez where they make
a hamburger that drips with royalty?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You dropped me sold and.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
On the side French fried onions, huicting potatoes and the
cooldest beer in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Stop you're killing me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now tell me did I overrate the place for that
was terrific. The trouble is to give you too much
food in there. I've got the quid eating like that.
My clothes are getting tight, especially this coat. That coat
sure is a beauty. Nuts about camels here you shee.
I got an idea. Why don't you try it on?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh no, mister Bell and I I didn't mean it ahead.
You're just enough tinner than I am that I ought
to fit your fine. Oh gosh, here.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Go ahead try it on. College boy, can always use
a coat.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's a good fit. It was made for you, liar,
I don't know what to say. That's a coat for
a king.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, I guess that makes you a monarch, then, son,
because it's your coat now.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I couldn't get over it. Coat like that mine.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I bet Mom's eyes will really pop when she sees
it on me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Must have cost a year's tuition.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I climb back into the car and slapped it down
into the maroon leather.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Seat and waited for him while he made a phone call. Boy,
I felt like a king, all right. I was deep
in the day dream when he came out of the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, right here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Hey, look a straight huh? I drew a straight two
J three, four, five six, really straight.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's the highest hand today.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
How to be tough to beat time, tuck.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We drove for quite a while, not talking much. We
left Highway one on one at sanday Nez, where we
got the Hamburgers. There weren't many cars on the road,
and Belin hadn't been able to draw anything to beat
my straight. In fact, he seemed to lose interest in
the game. He was concentrating on the road. It was
a treacherous road, curved and.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
High, full of hair, con turned, but he handled a
car beautifully, taking those curves fast but sure, never slowing
down a bit.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So I liked speed, but all of a sudden I
felt nervous the way he was hugging the edge.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I turned to look at him to say something, and
the words stuck in my throat. It changed no more
than smiling hopes, and Steady was fastened to the wheel
like a hawk.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
That's what he looked like, a hawk, ready to strike.
I was tongue tied at the change. You mean, I
guess My reflexes worked slowly, but his didn't. He threw
over in his door, twisted the wheel bay tell of
the sun. He jump where when the car hurt like
the space.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I was alone in, it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Threw me against the door.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I'm not too fear at this point, but the next
thing I knew I was plying through space again, only.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
This time I was free of the car. I landed
sprawled against the side of the hill. Now began to
slip draw. I am wildly.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Desperately for just anything to stop myself.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
When it happened, it was the trunk of it twisted,
narrowed old tree that grew out of the hillside, hit
me square.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
In the stomach, knocked the wind right out of me.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I lay there to hurt the care It was a
minute or two before I got up enough breath to move.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Finally I edged my way up the cliff, hand over hand.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It was brutal, but I surprised to discover that I
hadn't fallen as far as it seemed. I was climbing
around the bottles of boulders, not more than eight feet
from roadside level when I looked.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And there was Belded, a gun in his hand.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Knocked in the bullets still off the bulders.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He wanted me bad, that was for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He wanted to kill me, Why why I waited crouched
and I heard the horn. I came out from behind
the boulders, crawled up on the road. Belden was nowhere
in sight. I didn't see what kind of a car
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it was. I didn't even think to look. All I
saw was.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He beat my straight four L fifty five fifty five.
That was the license, four.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
L five five five four of a kind.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All of a sudden, I was shaking. I looked at myself.
I was beat up, cut, filthy. But what was worse,
the camel's hair coat was a mess. King. I had
to laugh. Beldin was king. I was just the joker.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
My back hurt, my head frob aked all over, but
I walked every inch of the way back to Santa Ennez.
It was dark by the time I got there. When
I stood in front of the police station, I realized
for the first time the meaning of the word sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I took a deep breath.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I wanted to tell the police's pray as story as possible.
I opened the door.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Est officer, the boy who stole my car forced me out,
took my coat. Just look in the side pocket of
the coat, you'll find my wallet.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
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Speaker 2 (08:57):
Mister Gregory beck In radios outstands theater of thrills suspense.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I'm sure getting a big kick cut of greg g
repectnay good.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Maybe you'll put that old picture album away now?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Why Mary, don't you like old photo?
Speaker 9 (09:18):
No, they make us look so silly. Besides, all it
made you do is talk about autolite, And when it
comes to autolite, I'd rather listen to Frank Martin. He
really knows what he's talking about.
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Speaker 4 (10:00):
Mary, I could have told you all that never stopped
looking at this own.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
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an auto light stafold battery. Then you'll know what fast
starts really are. And remember this, The auto light staphole
battery you buy needs water only three times a year
in normal car. You you know, Mary, I can repeat
every word Frank Martin said about auto light stay full batteries,
auto light station.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He suspense again, and now auto light brings back to
Hollywood soundstage. Mister Gregory peck has Ridge Fowler in hitchhike
polker a tale well calculated to keep you in suspend.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What was Felden doing here in the police station? What
was he trying to pull?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I knew even before I put my hand in the
coat that Beldin's wallet would be there. And I knew
too that the police would never believe me no matter
what I said.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I was trapped. The desk sergeant was waiting for me
to talk.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
It was dry, my tongue was paralyzed, my brain spinning.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, and you got to save yourself. You don't understand,
you see, he gave me the code. I didn't know
about the wallet. That's the best you can do. But
I tell you. He picked me up when I was
hitch hiking. I was going home from school for the weekend.
Then he forced me off the road. He tried to
kill me. He shot it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Sergeant, let the boy go.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But mister, I've changed my mind.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I don't intend to press charges.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But this kid's crazy easy, Sergeant, he's a war that.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Oh no, no, no, lock me up.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Please don't believe him.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Everyone is entitled the one mistake. Any boy who is
big enough to come into the police station voluntarily give
himself up deserves another chance. If I could have erased
the memory of his face, mo uck him up, twisted
that wheel and screamed, so sonny, all these benevolent words
were fooled, and he like they were fooling. The desk
Satchant Beldin was bursting with sweetness and light. But every
word he said to release me only typing the wad tighter.
(11:57):
And I knew, just as sure as I was standing there,
he wasn't through with it. Like walking out of that door,
I would be like releasing the clay bird at a tratch.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, it's a for you, mister Darlin, if you're sure
it won't cause any more trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'm positive, But after tonight, this young man will be
no trouble to anyone.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
No trouble to anyone. After tonight. I had to get
away from there. I had to run. I don't know
how long I ran. I didn't know where I was.
The sound was behind me.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
To start breath, I tried to light a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
My hands shook like I had the palsy.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It was like the South Pacific, snipers and trees, But.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But what trees where?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Then I saw the bright glaring me on ahead mac
and Oal's one signs said and wayside rest trucks welcome
the other. Just to think he's service station and a
lunch wagon. But it was an oasis to me.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Hardie. Hey, what's the matter bout you?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Sick?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No? No, I'm I'm all right. You sure look green
here on the gills. Been in a fighter? How soon
will the trucks start coming through? You got a long wait?
But two three hours been in an accident. Look, mister,
I've got to get a ride to o Hi. Do
you mind if I hang around and wait?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I don't mind. Won't do no good.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Though he ain't allowed to pick up rider's company rules
might be lucky and catch a wildcarey, but I doubted.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh thanks you? Sure you all right?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Maybe you better go next door and give yourself a
cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Sure, look like you could use one. Yeah, that's a
good idea. Hey, I for a ride. Turns up, I'll
call you. Thanks. Mac. Oh, I'm not Mac. I'm hell
Mac works days. I still halfway decent, and I came
out of the lunch wagon.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I'd cleaned myself up and reduced my capital for fifteen cents.
AL had a customer, Yes and no lady, lady, Hey bud,
come here?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Huh? I got you a ride? O Hi? Oh? You
happy with the little lady here? She's been driving all day?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Got novel headache, she's going straight.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh Hi, here's a fellow. I was telling you about
lady that needed to ride to Oh Hi.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Oh, I'm afraid you misunderstood. I just said I wished
I had somebody to drive me.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I don't blame you for not wanting to take a ride,
but I'd appreciate it if you'd change your mind.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I've got to get to O Hi tonight.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
Well, I I am Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Go ahead, miss easy nice. Well, if you'll vouch for it.
Wait a minute, lady, I don't vouch for anybody, all right,
I guess it'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It was a pleasure to drive for She didn't say much,
and I didn't feel like talking.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
She just sat there beside me, her eyes closed, resting.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Once in a while, I snatched a quick look at her.
She had long, dark eyelashes resting on her marble like cheeks,
hands pollen in her lap. I found myself remembering when
the ripe girl comes along. I was trying to remember
who said it. When I saw her looking at me,
(15:32):
feel better, much better.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
I'm ashamed of myself, hesitating to let her drive my car.
I'm afraid I'm over cautious.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, I wouldn't say that. Can't be too careful.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
One reads of such awful things happening.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
On the road.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, awful things. I hadn't thought of poling since we
left Al's gas station. Now he was back in the
front of my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You're going off as fast. These curves are treacherous. I
guess I'm just anxious to get home.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yes, do you want to kill us both?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're almost side swell, I'm sorry, I what are you honking?
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Now? Bo?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
He's gone, you're your horn? What about it? Oh nothing,
I I thought i'd heard it before before.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
Oh look, maybe i'd better do it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh no, no, I'm sorry. I'll be all right. I'm sorry.
I'd be sewing up my sleeves if I didn't get
a hold of myself.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I must have been crazy thinking that her horn was
the same as the one that had hanked for Belden
when I was hanging on the side of that hill.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It was just a horn.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
A lot of horns sound alike. I tried to steady myself.
I didn't want her to catch on how rattle I was.
I turned to her to apologize, just putting a cigarette
in her mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It was purely automatic.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
She was sitting up straight, tense, Her eyes were glued
to the road ahead. Then it hit me I'd been
over this road earlier tonight with beld It. Suddenly it
loomed up that that wide bank curved just ahead the
spot where bell and it tried to kill me. My
hands froze on the wheel, put my breath, and then
I saw her hand reach out.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What are you doing? Let go my wrist? What's wrong
with you?
Speaker 10 (17:29):
I was only reaching with the cigarette lader on the
dash floor.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm sorry, let that curved back period.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Pull over and stop, pull over.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'm going to drive. She drove about a mile. I guess.
Neither one of us said anything. Then, without any warning,
she took a sharp turn off the highway and down
a rutted dirt road. Hey miss, you're leaving the highway.
We better stop a while. You don't look so well
(18:00):
right now.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Don't look better? Have a drink. I'm reaching the glove
compartment to find some scots.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh really, I'm all right, But then maybe I need it.
Maybe what's the drink? Maybe it was the girl, Maybe
it was just relief, But I felt peace for the
first time that night. I watched her inhale.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
The glow from the cigarette lit up her high cheekbones.
I couldn't see her eyes until she turned her head.
What's your name, Ridge, Mine's Virginia.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Hi. Hi.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You must think I'm pretty much of a jerk the
way I've been acting.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's all right. Things like that happened to everybody. Yeah,
I guess, so. Look, I'm all right now I could drive.
What's your hurry?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, right, I thought, what's the matter.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Don't you like to sit here with me? Oh no,
it's it's just that I thought you were in a hurry.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
I'm not no, are you No?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, I I'm in no hurry at all.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
She didn't seem to be moving with so valuable. I
caught a place of whore. I'm perfume in her hair.
She smiled at me, one of those elusive smiles, half innocent,
half Her.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Head touched my shoulder. I accepted the invitation. I like you, Rich,
I like you a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yeah, you know tonight back in the filling station when
I first saw you. I it's the matter, Rich, the
nrich license tag on your key ring. Yes, four L
five five five five.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Four of a kind, four of it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You play license plate poker. I'm afraid so riche four
fires some license with a car that picked belting up
after he tried to kill me. That's right, then you're
in it with me, Sonny. I'll throw it out of
the car hard.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
My face buried in the dirt, didn't God, But it
would have been much easier if I had only my
mind functioned.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Everything else seemed paralyzed her. You took your time getting here.
I was delayed. You were supposed to be here waiting.
What if I had been able to keep him.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh, I knew I could depend on you, darling, to
detain him. What is that supposed to me? You have
to go as far as you're dead. Just let him
kiss you.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
Do you know a better way to keep a man
on ice?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Perfect wife? A little help me?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Shut up?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Put him in the back seat.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Just a woman, darling. I'm gonna do it right this time.
But be no slipper, no fool. Put that gun away.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Don't you realize if a bullet is found on the body,
it won't be accidental death?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Always so right?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Aren't you done? Only because you're so stupid?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Stupid?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Am I who planning this whole thing?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You didn't badly? If you hadn't look right in the
first place, his body.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Would be burned up by now, along with the car.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And I'll put him in.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The back.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Melvin's wife. But what why did they want to kill me?
Why Belden picked me up? Throw me in the back
of the car.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Uh huh, hand me the ranch, Virginia Stewart.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
This time, form like oblivion rushed over me. After a second,
the pain was gone, and so was I. Consciousness returned
(21:51):
in sponses. Oh my head was like a short wave receiver.
Now static, now clear, now clear, now static now.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
And behind us nobody. We're almost there. Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
No one's discovered the car yet?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Of course, not the way it's lying. Nobody will see
it till daylight. And then Jay Stewart felt the movie
found dead, burned to an unrecognizable crisp. Can shake this place?
Go to South America?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You can go.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
I have to stick around, remember to collect the insurance
and pretend I'm heartbroken you're dead?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Will that be so hard? He didn't talk like this
when you married me. But of course there was a
lot more money then. Yes, swindle from suckers. Since when
have you become fussy about where money comes from? Let's
change you the schoolboy.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Don't be a fool.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
All right, we've gotta work fast. Give me a handle
that wait, h becomes a car.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The end of the line.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But anyway, now I knew why I was a stand
in for a corpse.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I'll live in this, buckers, as I get out of
the car, walk clear, Yes, this was.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It, and will neither side of me. I had to think,
think straight. My body's skill felt numb. Chance if only
my muscles coordinated. Wait, till he dragged me.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Out of the car, and then I'd fight Virginia, get
the gasoline can out.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I fell him, grabbed me into the armpits. I opened
my eyes just in time to see that murderous wrench
in the girl's hand as she brought it down.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
My eyes closed. Oh hit me hard. But it wasn't
the wrench. It was Belding. The wrench had folded him
up and he collapsed on top of me.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
And nerve in My body was alert now. I didn't
know what would come next, but I was ready for it.
She pulled Beldian's body off me. She wasn't aware of
me watching them. She was too busy dragging Belding over
to the rim.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Of the cliff. She was transfigured with hate.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Well, Steward, that's how you planned it, accidental, dad.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So then she kicked him and he disappeared over the edge.
I didn't wait to see anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I crawled out of that car and I started to
run right down the middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
She saw me, wait hey, but I kept right on going.
I glanced back. She started the car was coming right
at me. First, I thought she was just trying to
catch up to me. Then I really, she was trying.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
To run me down.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
She was trying to kill me. I was crossing to
the left side of the road. She was right behind me,
he says. The question of second said suddenly.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Around the bend of big Top, I was sat between them.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I stood stunned with her her scream ringing through my
head and the picture of her in the car swerving
off into space, into the canyon below.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But you are right, Yeah, what happened. She went off
the road, a crazy woman driving. We'll have to report it.
Come on, I give you a right into town. Can
hear me? Don't you want to ride? Yeah? Yeah? Sure?
What are you staring at your license plate? See him?
(25:08):
One one one one? Hey, it wasn't my fault. You
saw how it happened. Four races, four races had won.
I've taken the last heaven.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
But as long as I live, I'll jump out of
my skin whenever a car pulls up and her voice
asks
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Want to ride, young fella.
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New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!