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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Auto light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers bring you,
mister Elliott Lewis, in Tonight's presentation of how Spence Tonight
Auto Light presents a story of revenge, the desperate effort
of a murderer to destroy the man who had committed
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him to prison. The story is called Concerto for Killer
and Eyewitnesses. Our star, the producer director of suspense, mister Elliott.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
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and eye witnesses, hoping once again to keep you in house.
I'm my name is Jesse Crandall, Detective Sergeant, Central Division,
Chicago Police Department.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I was assigned to a special detail along with Detective
Sergeant Abe Delaney. On the first day of this week.
Our duty was to escort prisoner Edward Sitko to the
State Penitentiary at Joliet, where he was to await execution.
A train left the main terminal at five in the afternoon.
We all took prescribed precaution because there was se chilly
handcuffed both of us, who was wearing county jail issue clothing.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
No hand.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You guys have to walk me through the station for
a fellow who doesn't care who he kills.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
You're pretty touchy, had all the opinions I wanted to judge. Copy,
you're just supposed to see. I get all right, that's enough, Sitco.
We'll see that. You get there, Eddie boy, all safe
and down and ready for the chair. Tell us puck
the shut up, Tell him a shut up. I'm the
last calf you'll ever call a punk shit call now
keep going, tie off him, deleting for him? Uh sure, yes,
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be sure fit go Yeah? How come you're so stupid? Sitcoe?
How come you trusted Dallas Kenyon when nobody else did.
I never trusted anybody ever If you didn't trust him, Sitco?
How come he knew who you killed? Were you killed?
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When you did it?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Car sixty four compartment A this car.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Third second goal the right? What's your SIPs? Thank you?
Come on? Hey here it is a fourteen? Uh huh.
The taxpayers wanted to be sure you got only the best.
Did your boy Kenyon ever treat you? Look Edie? It's
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too late to be uh, yeah, Eddie, you should have
been tough with Dallas Kenyon instead of that too. The
hood he sent you out after you killed the wrong guy. Eddie,
I'm not said yet. Maybe I'll still get the right one.
Gonna write him a poison pen letter. It's too late
to come. You killed a man. Now you're gonna pay
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for him.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Oh no, and.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Then now be inside in the dining car.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And then now be inside in the dining car.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
H I'll get a bite now, this key now here? Yeah? Thanks, Oh,
I want me to bring you back a newspaper, sit
call nothing anem. I want to read first guy I
ever took up to the dead cell who didn't want
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to read his own profull.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Sergeant Delaney was in the dining cars. We pulled out
into the outer yards. That's when the train lunched phones
I went off balance for a moment. Siko threw his
weight on me and we crashed to the floor.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Wore cover. He brought his knee up into my face.
One for you. I was momentarily stunned.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
He went through my pocket, spound the keys, and unlocked
the handcuffs. Sergeant de Laney returned at that moment. Sitko
slammed against the door, locking it, and then he struck
me across the temple with a handcuffs.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Won't for your plan.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Before I lost consciousness, I saw it, he said, co
open the train window and jumped.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
I was in my room praying for him. I hope
the little prayer would do for him what he'd never
been able to do for himself. It was Angela's time,
six o'clock when I heard him on the stairway outside
my door.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yeah, flum me in.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
As a matters? I should like to see me?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
First time in my life, I've been glad the trains
run through this allows his dirty neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I don't understand, Dallas Kenyon.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
He's waiting for me. He don't know it, but he's waiting,
and I'm gonna be there to close money.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
A gun canyon Kenyon, he's gonna kill again.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Were clothes get out of here? Ready?
Speaker 9 (07:08):
What?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Get out? I got nothing on yours. I gave all
your things to the neighbors, to the boys in the block.
I thought they'd need some warm clothes to wear. They
thought over him, and he tormed the shreds they wanted souvenirs.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
They're growing up like you because.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
They think you're a man. They think it's somebody you
who cheated and robbed and murdered.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Shut up, Come on, give me some money, Give me
some money.
Speaker 11 (07:36):
I got nothing nothing, Go away, Leave.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Me alone, Go away. Eh. I walk out that door
and you yell cap it? Eh?
Speaker 11 (07:44):
Why don't you kill me?
Speaker 12 (07:45):
Then, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Do i't kill me? No?
Speaker 13 (07:50):
Because you already killed me Eddie fifteen years ago.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Fifteen years I've operated a legitimate business fifteen years and
nothing like this has ever happened to me. It's very
frightening that such a thing to the current a large
city like Chicago, very frightening. I read the newspapers, and
I know all about it.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Is his school.
Speaker 11 (08:22):
I read about his threats against this man, Dallas Kenyon
and all that. But I never thought that I, George Barbatt,
would ever need the man.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
What back inside? It's six thirty time to crck, cut
back in. I'm wanning. You don't yell? Don't you want anything? Yeah?
I don't want to yell. What do I want to
yell and get killed for?
Speaker 14 (08:40):
For?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Your guns? Were your guns? Good gun? Every hot shop
has guns? Where are they a gun or what's a
fellow sticking up a store? Who were your gunsir? Sicel
any citco? I saw your pictures in the paper shop.
Speaker 11 (08:59):
Over there in the case. Yeah, that case all aguns?
You want all of them? Anything here, it's yours, all
of it. But please leave me alone. Please let me alone.
On your right, on your right, second draw, if it's
all your please just let me alone.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I got a change close on the right the rat.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
Yes, you can see I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Can you see that? Yeah? This will do. It'll fit nice,
nice in the shoulders, and I know it's a fit, yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Expecting anybody.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
A friend of mine, our portendency.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
He runs the barbershop two doors down. We have beer
sometimes after work.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
But if he comes, I'll send him away. I want
to help you, honestly. I hate to see anybody get
a raw deal. And that man you talked about during
your trial at Dallas Kenyon, he give you a bad deal.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I'm sure he gave you a bad deal. Did you
hear me?
Speaker 11 (10:06):
I said, I hate to see anybody get a raw deal,
And that Dallas Kenyon, if it's perfectly like it was made,
just for you.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I helped you, didn't.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
I I believe in giving a man a chance.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I'm a little man. I I can't hurt you. Kenyan,
he's the one you want.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Yeah, you need money, ticket, take it, all of me anything.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Please yet to take it.
Speaker 15 (10:33):
You might need it if you have party, go and
I cord.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
You can trust me, please, mister, I don't trust no, no,
no no, I'm a grown man. Please, please don't beat
me up.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
It's humility for a grown man to cry.
Speaker 10 (10:52):
Don't beat me up.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Please do everybody or give them a little man.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now, I'll give you a break, little man.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
No, you just got your break.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Kenny Tate, license operator, City of Chicago. You'll see a
front and side of me right by the meter. I
never go under and I never go over, and I
never make wrong change.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I never rolled drunks. It's a job.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
It helps you to learn people. That's what I said,
learn people. You can tell a lot by the way
a woman lights a cigarette or a man reaches to
pay his fare. I was just cruising when I saw
Eddie said go. I didn't know it was him at first.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Straight ahead, I'll tell you what to turn right. One
night isn't it want the radio one? No, turn right
next to the corner. Sure go, I get this storm
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faster and not the night.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
I've never seen so many cops flowing around, never minded tickets,
never mind, that's it. We'll pay for pay, Let's get moving.
That's what they all say. Like just last week, I
pay for him. Yeah, trying to make the fight. Why
I said, trying to make the fight fight?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Yeah, I want to make a fight.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Oh well, then you'll just make it start a date thirty.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Turn here, turn here?
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Thought you wanted to go to the fight. I'm sorry,
I'll take go back on the mexicanner. Hey, won't caution nothing,
I'll pull down the flank. When you look at that
second squad calming a block, I wonder what's up won
if they're looking for somebody? Please stopping for signal, mister
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it's red. Can make a right turn in the downtown
district against the stop signal.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
It says, go stop fast? What are you doing? Don't
turn left? Please? Please? Don't you love me?
Speaker 12 (13:37):
I don't come here.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Auto light is bringing you. Mister.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
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Speaker 6 (14:17):
How spence, say.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Harlo before we go on vacation. I've got a question,
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
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Speaker 3 (14:46):
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Speaker 6 (14:51):
It does, halp.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
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Speaker 3 (14:55):
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Speaker 1 (14:58):
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Speaker 6 (15:12):
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Speaker 8 (15:15):
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
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production of Concerto for Killer and Eyewitnesses, A tale well
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calculated to keep you in house.
Speaker 16 (15:45):
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This beautiful meaning type bot put it up under the light.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Boise. It's turning for the poll.
Speaker 12 (16:15):
That's right now?
Speaker 16 (16:18):
Can we start the betting of sixty dollars?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Do I hear sixty dollars?
Speaker 16 (16:24):
Fifty dollars? Do I hear fifty dollars? All right, that's
forty five dollars? Do I hear forty five dollars?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I tell your.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Folks it's worth your life getting anything sold here?
Speaker 12 (16:37):
Now look at this man.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Help you watch for anybody come in here in the
last ten minutes. What a lot of people? Scott the
tall man, heavy bill? Hey, you had a bullet wound?
Limp maybe bullet? No, No, we haven't seen anyone. Did
he sit? He's dangerous? You can see him. Notify the police. Oh,
I'm sorry, that will happen.
Speaker 17 (17:00):
I take it away, boy, you know, get out, Get
out of my weight, Come out of my weight, Get
out of my way.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
That cou got's great. Great.
Speaker 14 (17:39):
I seen him once when he was at the Roxy
and I, oh, yeah, Well it was just a night
like any other night. I'm the elevator boy, the regular
clerks across the street, dipping his bill. So I'm having
myself a ball. I got a little routine that somebody's
gonna pay money for someday. And that's what I was
doing when he walks in. Okay, the window sheet is
broken and the vein is coming in.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Higher still lives here.
Speaker 14 (18:03):
Yeah, I want to wait, but she's not in.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
She's always out.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
I wish I could go out these night jobs. Allows
me your friend of hers? Yeah, oh yeah, wish I
was a friend of hers. I'm dish she.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Dancing singer, nightclub and look at the clubs.
Speaker 14 (18:19):
I like nightclubs, not big spreads, jive joints. Most people
don't like them anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Me.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I like them. Look, I want to wait in her apartment.
Speaker 14 (18:28):
Wait in her apartment. Oh gee, I don't know she
knows me. I'm a raging I'm not supposed to, buddy,
and I haven't seen you.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Up and out of town. I'm a raging. I've been
booking her agent.
Speaker 14 (18:38):
Yeah, you've been booking her. Huh, hey, you handle any band?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Well, yeah, sure, lots of band. Take me up.
Speaker 14 (18:45):
You don't stand Tenton?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yeah yeah, I know him. Well, yeah, introduce me.
Speaker 14 (18:49):
I got a little act ideas seeing it.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Yeah, just ask miss Banell solid.
Speaker 14 (18:53):
You just made yourself a deal. It's on this floor.
Come on, I mean, it's my neck if you're telling me.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
But nobody nobody, Oh you Sheldon's guys are jumping. Why
is that? Everybody's jumping?
Speaker 14 (19:05):
They read the papers, that's what's romenam read the papers
and get all looped up. May I only read downby
got no nerves?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
This is it?
Speaker 16 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (19:17):
And uh, don't forget my knockdown.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Of Cantons more fixed the first thing, Tomorre.
Speaker 14 (19:22):
You want me to shut that window? No, okay, She
said she'd be back in a few minutes. She said, monyana,
manyana manyana.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Is good enough on me? Ye h, who's that? Eddy?
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Oh Ddy, I can't believe it's really you.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Let me tell you outside, Let me tell you I
was here.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Nobody told me anything.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Eddy Hard.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
You're gonna help me the rest of the way. That's
why I came here.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Eddie.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
You're bleeding.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Take your hands off me.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Eddie. You heard that I know a doctor who can.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Help y'all called.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Never expected to see me again, did you? Nobody expect
to see Eddie sit again. He's all through? Isn't it?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Good, Old Eddie wrapped up in a murder rapp is
not it? Teddy?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
No, Eddie, No, that isn't it at all. You're wrong.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Well, I'm right about one thing. Kenyan. Set me up there, Eddy.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
I've got to get you out of here. They'll be
looking for you everywhere.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
They'll come here to Ny sent me there, Kenyon, pull
the cops. That's where we're going going.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
We're going going where.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Any see Dallas.
Speaker 15 (21:07):
Kenyon, that's where they'll be waiting for you. That's the
first place I'll go.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
They wouldn't stop, you kidding.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You could just drive right through the gate and old
friend I right behind you on the floor of the car.
Speaker 15 (21:16):
Look, Eddie, I hate him as much as you do.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
I hate him for what he did for you, but I.
Speaker 15 (21:20):
Haven't seen him or heard from him since the trial.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
I hate him, an I got lots of reasons to
help me, don't you see.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
It wouldn't work.
Speaker 15 (21:26):
They teached the car and they start shooting. Please please,
I remember, so we could get away, and if you
forgot to.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Sit around on the steps talking about.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
The downstairs, if we started now.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Edge the only thing I do remember, besides gang fights
and reforms crew and the way they did things.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
They wouldn't look for me, don't you see? They wouldn't
look for me if I were to disappeared.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
It said, is the time to live, and it's time
to die.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Any please listen to me?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Can You's time, baby, my time.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He sits in his big house and lets everybody else
get dirty for him. He promises big pay off, then
he pays like he paid me off, Eddie, just to
stand in front of him and watch him be scared.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
It's like I've been scared. I want to see him die.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
It's his time, Eddie. I love you. Things could be
the way they once work. You forget him. Killing him
won't do you any good. I love you, I love you.
I love you. We can have each other again. I
can get a doctor.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
You'll fix this, and.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Then we can get away together, you and me. It's
a big world. They don't catch everybody thereafter.
Speaker 15 (22:45):
Hear what I'm saying, Eddie, forget Dallas Canyon forget about
killing him.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
It's a miracle that you got away, But you are away.
Don't let this destroy you. Just hating him, there'd be
nothing after that. We have time, Darling, my darling, you
and me, We have time.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Baby, clear, Yes, Dolly, you love me.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Wherever you want me to go?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Eddy, you you'll go anywhere with me.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Here's my car, keys drive around the back of our pet.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
What's wrong? You want me to leave you alone?
Speaker 15 (23:28):
I I don't understand you.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Want me to leave you alone. You don't love me
just to love him?
Speaker 10 (23:36):
No, Edi, No, I told you I haven't seen him.
I heard rohm him since the time. I don't love him.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You always right now.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You wanted me out of here if he could call
and turn me in so you could save him.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
You're not gonna hurt him.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
We got rid of your wont get rid of you.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
You aren't Kenyon.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
You a.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Helly Hi Hey there, hey, hey.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Hie, oh oh oh.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Help help boy.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I was in the Kenyon home that evening and replied
to an urgent call. I became alarmed when a police
called and was established. But I never dreamed that it
would come to what he did. Of course, this man's
Sitco had no way of knowing that I was in
the house. I don't know how he got in without
being seen. I was standing on the top of the
landing in front of mister Kenyon's room when I first
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heard him in the hall below. He'd entered, I imagine
through the basement. He looked about to see if anyone
would interfere with him. Then he saw me. He was
wounded in several places, the shoulder chest. I believe his
face was extraordinary, a mask of pure hate. I stood
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and watched him as he came up. You where is he?
Do you mean, mister Kenyan? What's your room? Is it?
Come on, move, this is mister Kenyon's room. Out of
my way, God, down my way? With the sheet? What's
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the sheet covering him up?
Speaker 11 (25:41):
For?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
I'm the undertaker. Mister Kenyon died of a coronary attack
an hour.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
Ago, no no.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Less across the room and ripped back the sheet covering
the tape. Then he turned and walked out of the room,
the guns killing his hands. The plice meanwhile it enters
the home and seen. Then he again became a railer
and began fire.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, yeo, how spend Presented by Auto Light the Night
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star Mister Elliott Lewis will return in just a moment.
Music for Suspense is imposed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted
by lud Gluskin. Concertto for Killer and Eye Witnesses was
written for suspense by Arthur Ross and E. Jack Newman
and produced and transcribed by Elliot Lewis. In Tonight's story,
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William Conrad was Jesse Crandall Martha went with was the
old woman. Junius Matthews was the pawnbroker. Sidney Miller was
the cab driver. Gil Stratton Junior was the bell hop.
Charlotte Lawrence played Kitty Bonnell, and Jye Novello played the Undertaker.
Others in the cast were Byron Kin and Jack Crusian.
(27:44):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Autolite and here again
is the star of tonight's play, Concertto for Killer and Eyewitnesses.
The producer director of Suspense, Elliot Lewis.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Thank you very much, Charlo, Ladies and gentlemen, We of
the Autolite family hope you enjoyed our show this evening.
This is our last program of the season, but we'll
be back on CBS Radio in September. We hope you'll
join us, and in the meantime, we hope you'll give
the Autolite family an opportunity to be of service to you.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Indeed we do, Elliott and friends. You'll find members of
the Autolite family from coast to coast and throughout the world.
Ninety eight thousand distributors and dealers in the United States
and Canada proudly display the Autolite sign. To them and
to the nearly thirty thousand men and women in auto
lighte plants throughout the country. I wish to extend my
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thanks for a wonderful season on Suspense. Have a good summer, Harlem,
Thanks Elliott friends. Suspense will continue on television throughout the
summer until we return to CBS Radio in September. Here's
wishing you a pleasant summer, and remember you're always right
with Autolite.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
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