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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Who knows what evil looks in the hearts of men.
The Shadow nos.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
While we're waiting for the first act of the Shadow's
latest adventure to begin, I'd like to ask every motorist
to do this. Take a ride on the new good
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Speaker 1 (01:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:02):
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Speaker 1 (01:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:30):
The Shadow, the serious character weighs, poses distress and helps
the forces of law.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And order, is, in reality, the Monk Cranston, wealthy young
man about town.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Marble Lanes is the
only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs,
the only one who knows the true identity of that
master of other people's minds. The Shadows.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The Day's story, the man who murdered time.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Ah Yes Joan mister Clmston on behalf of all the
employees of the club.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wish to thank you for your generous New Year's
gift of the personnel. It's quite oraight Stewart. Happy New
Year the same to you, sir, and may I thank
you too, mister Hughes for your gift.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You're very welcome to it. Happy new Year, Happy new Yet.
I wish I could have made it more Clanston, but
it hasn't been a.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Terribly good year. He I'm sorry to hear it, Jews. Oh,
by the way, how is missus Hughes feeling these days poorly?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well? The doctors the sanitarium say you may pull out
of it next year.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's why I'm looking forward to the new year so
eagerly we'll use it. Sir. There's anything I can do
in the way of financial assistant, thanks, oh ma'am.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But it won't be necessary. I expect to be out
of debt very shortly, business improving. No what trust fund
is coming to in two weeks inheritance from my uncle Matthew.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You know we'll have been delighted to hear a user well,
only eight hours to a brand new year, and you
hope for all of us, Amen, to raft. Are you
coming to my New Year's epody tonight? Don't you know why?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm meant to tell your Cranson that I'll be late.
I got a call this morning from a second cousin
of mine. Wants me to come to see him this evening.
Brilliant scientist. But I suspect he's losing his mind. Oh,
nobody claims to have invented a time machine.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's a time machine. It's a fantastic isn't it?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I have come mused, is anything really fantastic in the
modern world of science? Thirty years ago, the notion that
a human voice could circle the Earth without the aid
of wires would have been called not only fantastic but impossible.
Radio liquid light airplanes all were called fantastic in their time.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But the day there except fed tax Why not the
time machine with the heir? I'm from Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Anyway, I'm really going to see my cousin, not.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Because of his alleged invention, but not because he's dying.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh that's too bad. Yes, the poor chaff got him
an incurable heart condition.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
If they told me that doctors don't give him more
than a few days to live, well, I've got to
be off season nights are used only a miracle keep
me awake, Manston, a miracle like the time machine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well here will it think that's water? You better know?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, yes, better use not just better get into bed,
will it? Frankly, I didn't expect to find you up in.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
About dress to kill rest, to kill very good, that's
in that phrase. Well why not? This is probably the
last day of my life. I'm sure it's not as
bad as all that. Willard. If you take racle arm,
come use, I'll never see the new year.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's what you're really thinking.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Know what I've done today?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What will it? The things I've wanted to do all
my life, packed them all into this one long, glorious day.
I've smoked two dollars cigars, eating the finest foods, for
thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Worth of completely usefuls things, just for the fun of
indulging myself.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Broke.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I am then how to.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Borrow dear cousin spend other people's money in current enormous
debts payable next year, next year, which will never come.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm sorry? What are you sorry about it?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I'm not, matter of fact, I've just begun to celebrate
and you mist join me. You's absolutely insist. I bought
a marvelous sherry today, a rare vintage.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Your answer, you.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Needn't bother to sherry John, Yes, sir, I have it here,
so fine, fine, put it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
On the table.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Myself.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's all gone. Hey, you are yours? Drink hardy?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
How do you like it next to ambrosia?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Huh's a flavor?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It will grow on you.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Finish the jewels. Drink to my last day on her?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, no, will it not to that?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
To my last day on her?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And yours might be a cousin true, I last me.
Use I told you that today I meant to satisfy
every ambition.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I ever had.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I've left for the last my greatest ambition of all.
You kill you?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Who you're joy thinks?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I use? But why what have I ever done to you?
Why haven't you done to me?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You've been a ball in my throat ever since we
were boys together.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I believe you really hadn't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Been for you, I'd have been Uncle Matthew's fair haired boy,
his favorite, his pet.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He would have raised me in luxury instead of you,
who led with him. You would have left me his money,
not you, you're Junos.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You had everything while I starved, scrape suffered.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I've throwed it over.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
That, my fine cousin a whole lifetime, and.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now this wonderful day, this last day of the year,
I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you,
not once for a thousand times. You see that machine
in the corner, Calm, that's my time.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Machine, your time machine. Yes, I remember you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Do you know what this machine can do? It can
prevent the future from happening, the future from pepy Oh no, no, look,
will look let me call you a physician.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I'll be a pool I'm saying as you are. It's
a scientific machine, not a madman's toy.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You know how it works, of course not. I'll explain it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
To the simple terms.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Use.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
What is time?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Time is time?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Time is like a railroad track, a straight railroad track used,
and the world is a train running along that track.
On the track behind us lies yesterday, December thirtieth. The
day we're traveling along that section of track we call
December thirty first, And at midnight tonight, the train you are,
the whole universe is scheduled to plunge straight ahead into
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January first of the new year.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You follow me so far?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You yes?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
What has this to do with your so called time machine?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Just this, Using a revolutionary principle of physics, my own discovery,
my machine bends the straight track of time, curves, it
curves it so that the time track forms of perfect circle, and.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You'll pull it to scientific fact. I've done it, me story.
Listen to me use.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Midnight tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
When I turn on the switch, time will instantly be
curved back on itself, so that instead of continuing into
January first, we'll go back twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We'll live December thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
First over again and again and again, like a phonograph
leeder caught in the grooves. If you believe that this
tab will never end, that you can make December thirty
first repeat itself forever.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Laugh you pool, you won't laugh long.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Today. I've been especially careful to make it the fullest.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Happiest day of my life because I'm going to live
this wonderful day forever. I'll patch time in that pool
and hold it there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
The future will never come. I'll never have to pay
my debt, despite my bad heart.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'll never die.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I'll have to be as insane as you to believe
that what you like a demonstrations how to be hit
are well it demonstrate that's the proper scientific spirit.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Use, I have set the machine to affect merely this
house and ourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What incident of the last half hour do you want
me to make repeat itself?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Choose for the butler and the Johann and the sherry. Eh,
very good.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I want you to bear in mind that just
as time.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Will be repeated here in this room for the next
few moments, so can I repeat time throughout the whole world,
not once, but again and again.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now let you adjust my machine, eh? Now the clow
is the circuit scarry?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
John? Yes, I have it used hand, Fine, put the
on the table.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Now I do it myself.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's all John?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The automatic circuit cut us off and we're back in
ordinary time again.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Convince use, it can't be. It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's a trick. You'll be saying that for all eternity.
I'm gonna go out here, are you cousin right?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
If you can, I can, I'm better life.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I can't get out of this chair.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You feel pain?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Now, don't you?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Use? Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Horrible tail, you shouldn't have drunk the sherry us. Your
graphs contained the slow poison.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You see, no, no help. There's an acidote on the table.
You see that little green bottle of view, just beyond
the reach of your fingers.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Ironic.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
If you could only know you were on I try.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh you can see me, how very very sad. All
you can do is look at the antidote while you
die in agony.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Please help me. I don't want to tire this a
little while.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Now, cut a little while, almost midnight. You'll die just
before midnight, and then I'll turn on my machine, set
it to affect the whole world forever, and tie them
all over the world, and slap back twenty four hours.
Everybody in the world will live December thirty first, over
again and again, forever and ever. You too, You You'll
visit me again, drink the poison cherry again, Die again,
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Live again, Die again.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Is the loveliest New Year's Eve party I ever check. Margo,
I wonder what's happened to yours? He said he'd be later.
Money that comes from now year.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yearn en.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Parlo money. Where are we?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I'm still in your arms, dancing with you, But it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The party, the New Year's Eve party in your apartments.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
How could that be?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't know, Margo. What what does that awful crash?
I don't know, But look around you, Margo. We're dancing
in the Honolulu club.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
But we were dancing in the Hallolula club right here
last night, last night, at midnight, I mean, twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Four hours ago. Oh I I don't know what I mean.
Keep dancing with me, mother, I've got to figure this out.
Seems like a dream, yet that's it. The marg is
a dream.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I dreamed through the whole day December, hilly.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
First, right up to midnight. Then that's crash, and I
woke up here in Honolu club. Mag It wasn't a dream.
I came, didn't What was it with Mark? I don't know.
I don't know. But something's gone wrong, Mather. Something's gone
wrong with the whole world. Everything seems all right the mark.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Mother, hold on to me, don't let go.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Let's walk back to our.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Table, all right. I don't understand, he told me not Nogo.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You remember last night, just about this time, as we
were dancing, a waiter accidentally dropped.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
A whole trayful of dishes for yes, that's so. The
mon you what has happened? He dropped it, just as
he did last night. Yes, I see it all now, Margo.
We actually lived through December thirty first, will everybody, the
whole world.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But just as the last stoke of midnight came, something
happened to time time. Yes, I must back twenty four
hours instead of going on to January first. The world
went back to the first moment of December thirty first.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But nobody else seems to realize what's happened. Yes, that
is strange. Apparently everybody's forgotten that they lived through the
last day of the year. Why do we remember? Muggo.
I believe that the same power that makes me invisible
to others has something to do with this. What do
you mean them? You're told? Go in India, I was
studying with Yogia Greece.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I developed my powers of concentration, my power of will,
to such an extent that apparently this accident of time
doesn't affect me. How long I'll be able to fight
against it?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I don't know that I haven't draw power. Mark sad
you are.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Remember too, Marble because of the instant time flashback you
happened to be dancing with me. You were in my
arms with in the holl of my will, my influence. No,
just so long as you're touching me, you'll remember too, holamud, I.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Can't believe that I can. Well, then try it. Let
go me go on, let go Marvel. All all right,
you write, Lamark. You remember the Higgins, don't you?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yes, that's the sad day.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, they're very anxious that you and I go down
with you. What am I saying? What happened? Hold him at?
You're holding me again, Marvel.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
The instant you let go of me, you said exactly
what you said twenty four hours before when I gradu you,
you snapped back three of the new time stones.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Then it's true.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Hold him on, I'm afraid. Don't let go mar Oh,
but it's horrible. People will go on living through Decemberter
refers to it Kennedy, never knowing, never realizing you Morsel,
never be a new year, absolutely direct. Unless this can
be stopped, how can any one stop it? Nothing human
could have caused it? Being life is to happen. I'm
not so sure.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Margo, who has told me that a cousin of his
a brilliant scientist claimed to have invented a time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Machine, that cousin of Le may be responsible for what's
happened to time? Who this man way be near?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You just didn't say. I'll have to find him someway.
And when I do, Mugo, it will be as the Shadow.
Perhaps the Shadow will be able to switch time back
to normal, bring the new year to a world doomed
to live a day which never ends, and just ben
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if the curtain rises, an act too of the Shadow's adventure.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Meanwhile, a word to you, muver it? Do you slow
down passing the school? Do you pass up the cars
on a hill?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Do you come to a full stop.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
At street intersection? The Shadow workers The terrific core of
debts and injuries indicates that too many motorists fail to
exercise caution, fail to consider the other fellow. Plays safe,
It pays a motorists.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Here is one thing more, If you only realize the
importance that safe tires too play in safe motoring, you
wouldn't hesitate a minute to put the new Gudrid safety
silver Towns with the life Saver tread on your car.
Who remember, this new silver Town is much more than
a new tire. It's a new kind of tire safety.
On the inside it has the famous blowout protection of
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the good rich Golden Fly, and on the outside it
has the amazing new light saber tread, the tread that
sweeps wet roads so dry you can actually light a
match on its track. Yes, sir, that's ready dry. So
it's hardly surprising that Silver Towns will give you the
quickest non skid stops you've ever had.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Margo, keep calling under me, I will lama, we can
walk my apartments and sorrow. Oh, why don't you let
me come with you? No, mother, this is the shadows.
Job may be dangerous. I want you to be see
raising a world gone mad. Oh we'll watch yourself speak
of slippery with ice. Yeah, we'll to me more tightly,
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of course. Yet what happens? Somebody call? Oh you remember
Margot last.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Night on this very stuff, same taxi, the same corner,
same person, and stuck down.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It's happened over.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Again, yes, Margo, and it will happen all over again
every twenty four hours from now until doomsday.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Which look of that woman over and over? Unless I
can put time back on its pack, muggle, I must
I hurry. Oh, look at that poor man shivering in
the doorway there. He hasn't even an overcoat. He looks
hungry for de Margle. You remember last night. In a moment,
he'll step out of that doorway and ask me for
a diamond. Here three, listen, could you give me a
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cup of cottes that it's a cold of freezing. Oh thanks, thanks.
There's one thing I'm glad of, Lamart. He doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
He doesn't always doom to shiver and freeze and scrive
like that forever and millions like him, millions of unfortunate
shivering and starving all over the world.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And I that machine. I must find that machine.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But right here we are, muggle, don't better to take
me out.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
There's so much for you to do, so much, Lamart.
The doorman will let me in. It's exactly the same
time we got home last night, this laying bad night,
and it's cry in the months sign you was his
cousin since times.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Repeating himself, I always say when you will meeting on
the afternoon of my club?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Does he met me yesterday? We pop as we talk,
then perhaps you be able to tell me.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Pn it's funny not witchess to night, says my strength,
strength of my willworth hitting away.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Could have been much as you've got to be playing
the world needs your strength. You're craning my power strength away.
The wind is very fighting this lad, Yes it is said.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Will you take me up to my apartment? Yes you're mister.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Gone, say upstairs, good bye Marco until tomorrow. Tomorrow Heapa
comes on behalf of all the employees of the club.
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I wish to thank you for your generous a few years.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Can't you here?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Don't you want to say what I'm being to you?
And may I thank you too, mister Hughes for your
dear welcome to it, Happy new year, Happy new Yeah
to you, cured stop. I wish I could have made
it more Cranston, but it hasn't been a perturbly good year. Us.
Let me take your hand. You're merely repeating what you
said twenty four hours ago. Poorly.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Don't listen to my face.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
You made for a lot of poo. Is your PRIs wish?
So I hope he's not attuned my will. I'll have
to following. Make him lead me to this cousin at case,
think of the three death very thoughtless and it's constant.
I will pass him to be feeling.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I must hold on until you visits his cousin, and
then you.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Can be It's impossible to pick a dream and might
never be saying that for all, I'm getting out of there.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
AI. You can't side of if.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
You can, I can.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I can't paralyzed.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I can't get out of this scare you you can
you you're not paralyzed.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Horrible things. There is no pain drunk you hear me?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You're that seemed slow poison so hell hell, I have.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Helped you use it. You are not poisoned. I substitute
this antidote, but the poison of the glasses shry would
have ended you. You're not poisoned. That to you exert
you w a jun to my Try to get.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Out of this here, ye hold me, hold me, I'll try.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I've broken the clip. The time start a little. Having
something happen that didn't happen yesterday. You did something just now.
You didn't do that. You take the antidote instead of
the poisoner. Try try you. I heard the voice the boys.
There's no one here, no one but try and said,
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cheer out the cheer. I'm standing. I'm pleased. Thank the
thoud yours? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Wh Who are you? I don't think me.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Moving me? Who are you?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Never mind? Who I am? Yours? Get out of this
house at once. Go to the home of your friend.
Someone quenched her. You want to attend the New Year's
He's parted there. Remember God, our yours. You don't need
me to hold you now. I will you to mold
a little?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Why almost midnight you die? Just before midnight?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Where am I?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You feel?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
My partner with it?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I hold it you fast? Fast? Do you hear? I
will submit to my will. It dominates you, it spatches you,
and the feel of the evil timespur you cast over
the world.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm powerless in the grip of some invisible force, and
it speaks, who are you?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Who? I have the shadow? The shadow? Doctor Willard. You
are guilty of the greatest crime ever perpetrated against mankind.
You thought to condemn the rest of the world to
an eternity of cold and darkness and so on.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, I didn't mean to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You wanted an eternal life of pressure of evil. You
try to stave off forever the death that hung over you,
like a soul or god to satisfy your selfishness. You
tried to, you did break the laws of nature, so
you must be bunnished. Doctor, will not to vanish. In
a moment, I shall smash your devilish time machine, reduce
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it to sprinters and scrap. And the instant the machine
is smashed, time will snap back to normal. Instantaneously, time
will take up whether that does when you put the
machine into operation, And so will come what you thought
would destroyed forever that you year, the blessed new year
that means new hope and happiness for the good and
the innocent people of the world. Well for you, it
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will bring what got the creek for you? Yes, no, no,
don't smash machine.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Give me one day of life, just one.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He'll smashing myself. Not one, r not one, not one
for the time stop eleven. Well it's a new year,
a man, Yes, Mogo, the new year. I lost? Why
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you use? I'm sorry to be rae life. I don't
know what happened to me. I feel as if I
if I just woked up from a bad dream.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I found myself running running up here.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
This is you?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You all No, he's all right, Mango, You are all right,
aren't you you Hey, hey, kids, I am what.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Time is it.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It's just about twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's a you. It's happy new Year, New year, Yeah,
Happy new Year. Every matter of fact. The mons to me.
I had a dream too. It's strangest sort of dreams.
Perhaps you did mar them well.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Anyways, Happy New Year, the mon Happy New Year. Today's
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program is based on a story copyrighted by the Shadow magazine.
All the characters and all the places named are pysticians.
Any similarity to Christians living or dead is pulical incidental.
The Shadow Magazine is now on sale at your local
news tap.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
The weed of Crime, There's bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay the Shadow node