October 28, 2025 • 24 mins
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama which aired between 1949 and 1962. "The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Of the eight different actors who played Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey is likely considered the most popular. Bailey's interpretation presented a tough, streetwise character, but also sensitive and thoughtful. During it's time, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollaires.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Johnny, this is Lee Hawkins Connonental Inseorance pussco Way, my
old fishing power. You're still holding down the Ohio branch
to the company there in Columbus.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes, John, I am but a brother.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I never will forget the great fishing you and I
had over on Darby Creek a couple of years back,
and a long about this time every year the years
really hits to me. They have the streams played that
yet from the spring Range.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh, quite the contrary.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
As a matter of how about little Raccoon Creek down there,
Jackson boy, I remember those big channel cats in the baths.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Johnny, you listening? Oh sure, I'm all here.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The big river is con on a rampage again spring Foot.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Do you mean the Ohio?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And every other river of any size. The rains is
still coming down.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I see old town's being washed away by the food waters,
death and.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Destruction all over.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh. I'm sorry, Lee, I didn't mean to sound so well.
You know, mentioned fishing, and I lose my head.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Look, Johnny, I need you out here. Can you come
right away?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
See any fishing we do anything for the monies.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Of People.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Dailey and the exciting adventures of the man with the
action Tact Expense Accoud, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator or
is truly Johnny Dollars and now act one of yours
truly Johnny Dollar expense accounts of it Special Investigator Johnny
(01:47):
Dollars to the Continental Insurance and Trust Company, Columbus, Ohio office.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Following has the kount of expenses encourage during my investigation
of the Wayward River matter expense accout, I have won
forty three dollars and a half transportation to New York
and a flag ship to Columbus, Ohio. It was finely
thirty pm and raining hard when the big porne and
planes sat down gently at Port Columbus Airport. So I'm
seven miles out of town.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
My plan was to go into the Fort Hayes Hotel
and call Lee.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hawkins from there. So after picking up my luggage, I
headed for the door on a taxi stamp.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But Lee, it seems that other idea here. Let me
help you with the bell.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm sorry, So I'm just looking for a.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Section leapt cars right out here gunning.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
How soon we get started?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The better, you know, right to the sor yeah, well wait,
as soon we get started, where where.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Are we going to the town of Conterret, one hundred miles.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
To throws out.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'll come on, I want to get throw Hey, come on,
come up.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Whatever you're saying, come on, hunting brother, I didn't just
filling to ring ring.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Why don't you read the papers. I'm rating my gress
for wrong walking on three or four weeks and they
have a mean right ahead of the un listen all
about Lee Little the plugs along the Ohio pretty severe
this year, Johnny. I was somewhat later than usual. Yeah,
that much. I did read about half a dozen of
the big cities have been taking a real beating in
spite of all their preparations for the big run on.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, that's true all over the country.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So what you don't read about the headlines though, it
was a little place like Conterret, my old hometown, Johnny,
And so a lot of policies there, particularly to the
local shopkeepers, you know, on their stock merchandise. So there's
been a lot of flood damage and your company's having
to pay up a lot of claims.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm not s so far, the town's been lucky.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Most of the reason bad storms have been across the
state line.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Up in Pennsylvania or over in West Virginia. Team was
true last year and the year before. So the people.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Down around Cottaret Farmers mostly haven't gone ahead with their
flood control project the way they should have.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's kind of rett right.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
On the Ohio.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
No, it's in a valley a few miles north.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's down the Crooked River, and parts of the town
are actually below the river bank.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And you see what that means.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, I sure can't. Most of the year, which is quiet,
lazy stream about fifty or sixty beet wyatts. But when
the feeder streams up in the hills start pouring water down,
and if it overflows half the time will go with it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
He slipped right.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Down into the Ohio.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Please Shady know enough to prepare for this sort of thing, Shanny,
Like I said in Lucky, so far this present storm
has been bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And longer than anything they've ever had.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What about the Safe Food Control Commissioner, whatever it's called.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Can't they do anything less?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Spaces watch the little bird like carterret when there are
a hundred bigger and more important towns in the same fix. Yeah,
I see what's the nazing. Before the lines went down,
I got a call from bread Nor. Look, one of
my biggest counts down there, take hardware. Unless the river
goes down, He's gonna lose the whole place. That means
over one hundred thousand dollars insurance plan. But what can
(04:51):
I possibly do lead, I don't know, Johnny and I
just storm up. We were heading south on around twenty
three and by the time we reached Kiliconpi, the rain
has led up to a riston. By the time we
reached Jackson, where we let the main highway, it had
let up entirely. But I noticed that every little stream
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we passed with overflowing its banks. Finally, must have been
after midnight. We pulled up on a low hill overlooking
the town of Cataract, and it started to rain again.
Terrain high below the crooked river was this terrible, terrifying
thing to watch follow. Lines were up, but maybe hundreds.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Of kerosene and gasoline.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Went in his flank lice and licensed cars showed only
two plains, the round, rushing and raking turns. The press
of the coupee man. He stripped of the waste of
banker and the ditch figure side by side, the farmer
and the merchant toil plantically, the reimport the levee with
bags of sandstone, cement, anything they could find, while the
river laughed hungrily at their freak, trying to.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Undermine him bank when as quickly as it was built
up back and then we're other things. I'm doing the.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Sand bag pulldosing additional strings, the letting, hauling frontloads of
sand and rock and gravel, digging, shoveling, killing anything they
could do. I'd never seen a more dedicated group of people, men,
women's children, all working in as common carts, not just
for themselves, but there's a survivor of their neighbors. They're power.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And the ugly river was like a thing alive, pawing
and ceasing to destroy. Hume, floating masses of degree.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Grew by an express range speed, whirling down, and the
psych out as the embanker fighting to break it down,
thousands of tons of wreckage, not the houses, chicken, full
strees and brush, anything that would float. I said, they're
appalled and almost overwhelmed by, feeling up how to help?
Can't they see they were up here on this hill
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they could see, but they're losing Brown Johnny. The river's
rising passes and they can build up the little Yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Looks that way.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'm out with your guys. You haven't you see they
need help down there. Anybody doesn't help body shot.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's right, young, and we ought to go down there
and help for whatever it is who played for one
section where they're all work. He is right about the
coming the Peristas, because the levee goes there, it'll shoot
the whole section down, not.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Into the Ohio River.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Luck Lee, Look back there come highness. The reason why
the water.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is climbing up. Don't you see that old railroad bridge,
the trees, the mud, the ruffle its paddle against it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That railroad pressel has become a regular dam.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They are right, one that's.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
There planning up there, the strong gret gift and the
higher it gets soon with the water moneing up behind it.
That way, the levee over Perrys pet'll go in a
matter of a minute.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, But break that.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Damn somehow and the water will get through down the
Cocking River into the Ohio. Yeah, break that dam and
it'll save the town.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
But how toney, how.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, how of yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now for another.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's bell Weather. My husband.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Agree, but when are you going to serve dinner? In
a few minutes here? Okay, I wait, do you a.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Minute, Donalds, I want you to hear my speech.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do you mean the safety speech for the PTA meeting?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do I have to do?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
You want dinner?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Blackmailer?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Where do you want me to sit on the sofa?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
No, no, in the dining room. I've got to practice
projecting my boidon projecting your boy?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Are you kidding? All?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
That's fine? Okay, Now after the President introduces me, I'll say, madam, chair, ladies.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Parents, visitors.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
According to the National Safety Council, last year in the
United States, four four hundred and fifty youngsters under fifteen
years were killed in traffic exceps. Oh please, Donald, don't interrupt.
Four four hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh that's an awful one, Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Dear, it is well. Then I go on to say,
ladies and gentlemen, how can we help prevent traffic accidents
from killing and maiming our youngsters? We must remember that
children will act like children. Therefore, we drive by schools,
playgrounds in the neighborhood where children are playing, we must
act like mature adults and be on the sharp lookout
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for that sudden ball bouncing across the street with a
little child running after. And that's very young, honey. As
soon as children are old enough to understand, it is
up to us, the parents, to instill in their minds
the dangers of playing near traffic. Children must be taught
to obey all safety rules and safety patrols, to board
and alight from the school bus without horse play. And
(09:51):
above all, we adults should obey all safety rules because
children mimic their parents. The honey, you active talks like
a professional sakers.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, you're really good.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh that's my Donald, that's my dog. Now Act two
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. And the wayward River matters.
(10:36):
From our vantage point on the hill above the little
town of Kyderret, we could see why the crooked river
was rising so fast, threatened to dulp the town. You're right,
dunning the degree against the old railroad.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Pressel has made a dam. And somehow we've got to
break that game.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, any stores down there. Any of them carry dnamite,
you know, down there on Kerry Street. Not to sy
company and come on on Norlock, one of my biggest clients.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's a let right. His face will take the front
of the book. Yeah, is he down there? Yes, man
putting ten back rock.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They won't mean a thing at the lett, he goes,
Why does he sing? Those fans back on up to
the River's there where they could do some fook Johnny.
He's the young man in town looking after his personal property.
The only one's self is not to listen. He's also
the man who's always a poet, chilling something about this group.
Maybe at brett Lee.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
He's got to get down there and get some dynamite.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The group's we've passed, still vainly trying to chick up
holes in the levee alms, bat on the sweets because
they weren't working with him, trying to save their town,
the racing crooked river, until they thought finally we slogged
away to the Norlock supply coming.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm very sweet nor for him.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Days and get around my place and let he goes along.
Come down, you're more ten days more, and your craziness
to nor lock.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You're wasting your time.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Why she's your harkin.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Why that levee goes? Nothing will save this place.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You won't.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
He's right. No, get him in on up to the
levee where they'll do some good.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
God.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Then you've had in turns to my place and left away.
It won't be if we save the town. We need dynamite.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, this is khinny dog in church invest fitter.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Walk?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Look, there's no time to stand around the top.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
We need dynamite, a lot of it for car.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We'n't like it from up the river. It's shammed against
the old railroad.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That's some towns of town.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And I say, don't regular dam that's what's backing up
the water. No, I've seen you're gonna bull that up.
That's right now, where's the dynamite.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Anybody's going on this taboo a pisser wherever it came to.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Any part of that doors use a way to be killed.
He's right, he suicide to go up there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Come on, let's have the dynamite and you win. Get
up a five where you can help.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Now you wait, hold that truck.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
With all the bangs you can, but get up.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
There fast, and don't tell what about my shirt?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Harlock? Where's that dynamite?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't want to give a poop.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Hold listen, mister, no I you if you show a god,
if you would go out on that railroad rim somebody.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
If we don't, the whole town will go.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And I tell you why.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's a dollar?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Are you threatening to shoot?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Put that away?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I got wait handlessly, you're a crazy dollar.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
But that's done away, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
No, Lock, it's up to you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What do you mean unless you give us the dynamite,
I'll blast the lock off this place of yours and
get it myself.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, oh, all right in here, but I'll tell you
you're mad.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I was nor Lock mad.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'll pick them with the panic that all too often
seizes a man when they're going gets sucked.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But he did give us the dynamite. Well, then with
two of us work, when Lee Hawkins and I trudged
through the mud and the night loader with.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Cases of dynamites back to the old railroad press.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And when we got there, I wanted up. Maybe nor
Locke wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right after all, and it wouldn't be suicide to go out.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
On the.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Pile up of debris against it with shoes and back
of it. The deadby brown water swirled and Eddie's growing
a teleographs old railroad guys, huge treeses pounding against it,
scattering of the old framework of the cup. If only
they'd shrink hard enough to break it down, break the
dams the half they would. By that time, the son
of Cataret would be lost. As somebody had to do
(14:15):
the show, and it looked like I'd elected myself. I'm
not quite clear on what happened during that next twenty
or thirty minutes. They seemed like thirty years of a nightmare.
I edged my way out on that rickety framework, a
fuse case of dynoide under my arm. It was dark,
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and I had to feel my way along over planks
and boards and trees. If the force of the water
had thrown up on the trust the wires leading back
to the plunge that was set off the charge with
catch and drag, but I knew I had to reach
the first long span to make exclosive goist work, And
all the while the old bridge creaked and groaned and shook,
the impact of the records being thrown.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Against it, got an angry water.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But then finally his job was done, and I felt
my way.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Back to the side. Ry got hyeah, Yeah, I am,
I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Let me be ready here, don't you see you go
ready about He's going to go stack over the town
as a captain.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Daughter sush book, kayle.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
The point, all right, right, and lie down quick, get
down there.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
She goes.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Back. Three of your yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
you know who said my political ideal is democracy. Everyone
should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
I am convinced that degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence,
for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proved that
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illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. Those words were written
by the great scientist Albert Einstein. Einstein saw the weaknesses
of a government in which too much power was centered
in too few people, a government based upon violence. Einstein
saw the danger of elevating a person to so high
(16:41):
a level that he might seize power to which he
was not entitled. Such a situation is not in the
American tradition. Remember the words of Albert Einstein. They are
part of your American heritage. Degeneracy follows every autocratic system
of violence. No act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar
(17:03):
and the Wayward River matters. The charge of dynamite on
the old railroad bridge had broken the dam that the
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angry River had thrown up against it, and had released
the little town from the threat of being washed down
the valley into the Ohio River. The men and women
and children, spent from having struggled against the racing water
throughout the night and all the day before, went quietly
back to their homes and farms to rest and sleep.
And nature defeated and gave up.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The rain stops and the sky is cleared.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Even the charging yellow waters of the crooked River seemed
to diminish.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
In a sort of frustration. What damage had been done
to the town?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Could wait?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No people were arresting refreshed as Lee Hawkins and I
plodded wearily over to the village, and I noticed that
the streets were deserting. Yeah, even as the long gray
fingers of dawn reached up into the sky. The town
exhausted and slept, unmindful of the loose in someone's bankyard.
It starts a rousing.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Now did we rouse the engine? But picked a couple
of rooms and settled down the rest out where you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
But I couldn't sleep. Somewhere in the back of my
brain a little worry began to form, to peck away
at me. In all of Canterret the night before, there
had been one man, and one man only, who had
ignored the common good to look after his own selfish interests.
Coming into Lee's room and awakening.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Oh no, Johnny, so did I did hard to go
back to sleep?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Come on, just a couple of questions, Lee, listen to me.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh, I don't you let me sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Over one hundred thousand insurance?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You said.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
One hundred and I don't know if you asked me.
That's too much for a business of any kind in
the town, this size, much too much. So maybe I
gave him a break on his valuation, yeah, you know,
to help sign up some of the other merchant But
one hundred thousand of insurance money would give him enough
to live on the rest of his life. Look, why
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don't you go back to bed?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He knew about that. Damn at the railroad trestle and
so far as I could see, he was the only
one who did well. Everybody else was so busy at
the levee. But did he try to do anything about it? No,
and said he went through the motions of trying to
protect his property. But he knew that if that levee broke,
nothing was safe.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, all right, chalk it up the panic.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Panic. He fought to keep us from getting that dynamite,
the one thing that could save the town. He kept
those work when away from where they might have done
some good at the levee. He alone wanted that levee
to break. But good heavens, Johnny, you what you're right?
You must be? Yeah, I'm right. I'm going out. We'll
look for mister fred Norlock.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
There is Missoulaut there, everybody, That's what I want to
find out.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I found Fred Norlach alone ilb.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
On me in a bank the river side of the
levee or.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Anyone down below couldn't see him, and he was working
with a shovel of crow box. Beside him was a
pile of dynamite. I'd given him that idea, all right.
Nor Lock laid down that shovel dollars the river didn't
do it the way you planned last night?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Did it?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Because if you but you're not going to stop me
now and I'll put that thing down, I'll kill you.
Go if you got me crosses and nobody will.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Know, because there's nobody around. I'll where your buddy in
the river, nobody ever know.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Sure, set up a small charge enough to breach the levee.
That's right, it's already and you can't suck and the
river will fresh through destroy that feeling business of yours
down there. Take visit the homes of the valley, the
lives stock.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Maybe even the people gave your hand in that pocket.
So what sure me?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Huh? And if I go to town, goes to yes.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But if I can out throw it, lest I was
able to go.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yes, Now you walk straight ahead to the hedge of
the river.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Who no, no, no, Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Nock's body was never recovered.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He lived alone. He died alone, a crooked man in
the crooked river. Nor was he moorn in the little town.
He tried to destroy.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Scont sol including transportation back to Hartford.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
One hundred dollars even yours truly, Johnny dollars, yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar is Storrying Bob Bailey, Rich Nason, Hollywood, and
is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote
today's story. Heard in our cast with Jeff Stratton, Frank Burstall,
Bob Bruce and Parley bear Rychael Sound tatterns by Tom
Henley and Bill James. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station, or another exciting story of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollars. This is Roy Rowland speaking.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You're a Police.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Johnny Dollar has been a presentation of the United States
Armed Forces Radio and Television servi
From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollaires.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Johnny, this is Lee Hawkins Connonental Inseorance pussco Way, my
old fishing power. You're still holding down the Ohio branch
to the company there in Columbus.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes, John, I am but a brother.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I never will forget the great fishing you and I
had over on Darby Creek a couple of years back,
and a long about this time every year the years
really hits to me. They have the streams played that
yet from the spring Range.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh, quite the contrary.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
As a matter of how about little Raccoon Creek down there,
Jackson boy, I remember those big channel cats in the baths.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Johnny, you listening? Oh sure, I'm all here.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The big river is con on a rampage again spring Foot.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Do you mean the Ohio?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And every other river of any size. The rains is
still coming down.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I see old town's being washed away by the food waters,
death and.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Destruction all over.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh. I'm sorry, Lee, I didn't mean to sound so well.
You know, mentioned fishing, and I lose my head.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Look, Johnny, I need you out here. Can you come
right away?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
See any fishing we do anything for the monies.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Of People.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Dailey and the exciting adventures of the man with the
action Tact Expense Accoud, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator or
is truly Johnny Dollars and now act one of yours
truly Johnny Dollar expense accounts of it Special Investigator Johnny
(01:47):
Dollars to the Continental Insurance and Trust Company, Columbus, Ohio office.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Following has the kount of expenses encourage during my investigation
of the Wayward River matter expense accout, I have won
forty three dollars and a half transportation to New York
and a flag ship to Columbus, Ohio. It was finely
thirty pm and raining hard when the big porne and
planes sat down gently at Port Columbus Airport. So I'm
seven miles out of town.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
My plan was to go into the Fort Hayes Hotel
and call Lee.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hawkins from there. So after picking up my luggage, I
headed for the door on a taxi stamp.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But Lee, it seems that other idea here. Let me
help you with the bell.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm sorry, So I'm just looking for a.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Section leapt cars right out here gunning.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
How soon we get started?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The better, you know, right to the sor yeah, well wait,
as soon we get started, where where.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Are we going to the town of Conterret, one hundred miles.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
To throws out.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'll come on, I want to get throw Hey, come on,
come up.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Whatever you're saying, come on, hunting brother, I didn't just
filling to ring ring.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Why don't you read the papers. I'm rating my gress
for wrong walking on three or four weeks and they
have a mean right ahead of the un listen all
about Lee Little the plugs along the Ohio pretty severe
this year, Johnny. I was somewhat later than usual. Yeah,
that much. I did read about half a dozen of
the big cities have been taking a real beating in
spite of all their preparations for the big run on.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, that's true all over the country.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So what you don't read about the headlines though, it
was a little place like Conterret, my old hometown, Johnny,
And so a lot of policies there, particularly to the
local shopkeepers, you know, on their stock merchandise. So there's
been a lot of flood damage and your company's having
to pay up a lot of claims.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm not s so far, the town's been lucky.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Most of the reason bad storms have been across the
state line.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Up in Pennsylvania or over in West Virginia. Team was
true last year and the year before. So the people.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Down around Cottaret Farmers mostly haven't gone ahead with their
flood control project the way they should have.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's kind of rett right.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
On the Ohio.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
No, it's in a valley a few miles north.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's down the Crooked River, and parts of the town
are actually below the river bank.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And you see what that means.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, I sure can't. Most of the year, which is quiet,
lazy stream about fifty or sixty beet wyatts. But when
the feeder streams up in the hills start pouring water down,
and if it overflows half the time will go with it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
He slipped right.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Down into the Ohio.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Please Shady know enough to prepare for this sort of thing, Shanny,
Like I said in Lucky, so far this present storm
has been bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And longer than anything they've ever had.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What about the Safe Food Control Commissioner, whatever it's called.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Can't they do anything less?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Spaces watch the little bird like carterret when there are
a hundred bigger and more important towns in the same fix. Yeah,
I see what's the nazing. Before the lines went down,
I got a call from bread Nor. Look, one of
my biggest counts down there, take hardware. Unless the river
goes down, He's gonna lose the whole place. That means
over one hundred thousand dollars insurance plan. But what can
(04:51):
I possibly do lead, I don't know, Johnny and I
just storm up. We were heading south on around twenty
three and by the time we reached Kiliconpi, the rain
has led up to a riston. By the time we
reached Jackson, where we let the main highway, it had
let up entirely. But I noticed that every little stream
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we passed with overflowing its banks. Finally, must have been
after midnight. We pulled up on a low hill overlooking
the town of Cataract, and it started to rain again.
Terrain high below the crooked river was this terrible, terrifying
thing to watch follow. Lines were up, but maybe hundreds.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Of kerosene and gasoline.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Went in his flank lice and licensed cars showed only
two plains, the round, rushing and raking turns. The press
of the coupee man. He stripped of the waste of
banker and the ditch figure side by side, the farmer
and the merchant toil plantically, the reimport the levee with
bags of sandstone, cement, anything they could find, while the
river laughed hungrily at their freak, trying to.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Undermine him bank when as quickly as it was built
up back and then we're other things. I'm doing the.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Sand bag pulldosing additional strings, the letting, hauling frontloads of
sand and rock and gravel, digging, shoveling, killing anything they
could do. I'd never seen a more dedicated group of people, men,
women's children, all working in as common carts, not just
for themselves, but there's a survivor of their neighbors. They're power.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And the ugly river was like a thing alive, pawing
and ceasing to destroy. Hume, floating masses of degree.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Grew by an express range speed, whirling down, and the
psych out as the embanker fighting to break it down,
thousands of tons of wreckage, not the houses, chicken, full
strees and brush, anything that would float. I said, they're
appalled and almost overwhelmed by, feeling up how to help?
Can't they see they were up here on this hill
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they could see, but they're losing Brown Johnny. The river's
rising passes and they can build up the little Yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Looks that way.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'm out with your guys. You haven't you see they
need help down there. Anybody doesn't help body shot.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's right, young, and we ought to go down there
and help for whatever it is who played for one
section where they're all work. He is right about the
coming the Peristas, because the levee goes there, it'll shoot
the whole section down, not.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Into the Ohio River.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Luck Lee, Look back there come highness. The reason why
the water.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is climbing up. Don't you see that old railroad bridge,
the trees, the mud, the ruffle its paddle against it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That railroad pressel has become a regular dam.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They are right, one that's.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
There planning up there, the strong gret gift and the
higher it gets soon with the water moneing up behind it.
That way, the levee over Perrys pet'll go in a
matter of a minute.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, But break that.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Damn somehow and the water will get through down the
Cocking River into the Ohio. Yeah, break that dam and
it'll save the town.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
But how toney, how.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, how of yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now for another.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's bell Weather. My husband.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Agree, but when are you going to serve dinner? In
a few minutes here? Okay, I wait, do you a.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Minute, Donalds, I want you to hear my speech.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do you mean the safety speech for the PTA meeting?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do I have to do?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
You want dinner?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Blackmailer?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Where do you want me to sit on the sofa?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
No, no, in the dining room. I've got to practice
projecting my boidon projecting your boy?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Are you kidding? All?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
That's fine? Okay, Now after the President introduces me, I'll say, madam, chair, ladies.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Parents, visitors.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
According to the National Safety Council, last year in the
United States, four four hundred and fifty youngsters under fifteen
years were killed in traffic exceps. Oh please, Donald, don't interrupt.
Four four hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh that's an awful one, Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Dear, it is well. Then I go on to say,
ladies and gentlemen, how can we help prevent traffic accidents
from killing and maiming our youngsters? We must remember that
children will act like children. Therefore, we drive by schools,
playgrounds in the neighborhood where children are playing, we must
act like mature adults and be on the sharp lookout
(09:28):
for that sudden ball bouncing across the street with a
little child running after. And that's very young, honey. As
soon as children are old enough to understand, it is
up to us, the parents, to instill in their minds
the dangers of playing near traffic. Children must be taught
to obey all safety rules and safety patrols, to board
and alight from the school bus without horse play. And
(09:51):
above all, we adults should obey all safety rules because
children mimic their parents. The honey, you active talks like
a professional sakers.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, you're really good.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh that's my Donald, that's my dog. Now Act two
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. And the wayward River matters.
(10:36):
From our vantage point on the hill above the little
town of Kyderret, we could see why the crooked river
was rising so fast, threatened to dulp the town. You're right,
dunning the degree against the old railroad.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Pressel has made a dam. And somehow we've got to
break that game.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, any stores down there. Any of them carry dnamite,
you know, down there on Kerry Street. Not to sy
company and come on on Norlock, one of my biggest clients.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's a let right. His face will take the front
of the book. Yeah, is he down there? Yes, man
putting ten back rock.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They won't mean a thing at the lett, he goes,
Why does he sing? Those fans back on up to
the River's there where they could do some fook Johnny.
He's the young man in town looking after his personal property.
The only one's self is not to listen. He's also
the man who's always a poet, chilling something about this group.
Maybe at brett Lee.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
He's got to get down there and get some dynamite.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The group's we've passed, still vainly trying to chick up
holes in the levee alms, bat on the sweets because
they weren't working with him, trying to save their town,
the racing crooked river, until they thought finally we slogged
away to the Norlock supply coming.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm very sweet nor for him.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Days and get around my place and let he goes along.
Come down, you're more ten days more, and your craziness
to nor lock.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You're wasting your time.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Why she's your harkin.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Why that levee goes? Nothing will save this place.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You won't.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
He's right. No, get him in on up to the
levee where they'll do some good.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
God.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Then you've had in turns to my place and left away.
It won't be if we save the town. We need dynamite.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, this is khinny dog in church invest fitter.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Walk?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Look, there's no time to stand around the top.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
We need dynamite, a lot of it for car.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We'n't like it from up the river. It's shammed against
the old railroad.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That's some towns of town.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And I say, don't regular dam that's what's backing up
the water. No, I've seen you're gonna bull that up.
That's right now, where's the dynamite.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Anybody's going on this taboo a pisser wherever it came to.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Any part of that doors use a way to be killed.
He's right, he suicide to go up there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Come on, let's have the dynamite and you win. Get
up a five where you can help.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Now you wait, hold that truck.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
With all the bangs you can, but get up.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
There fast, and don't tell what about my shirt?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Harlock? Where's that dynamite?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't want to give a poop.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Hold listen, mister, no I you if you show a god,
if you would go out on that railroad rim somebody.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
If we don't, the whole town will go.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And I tell you why.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's a dollar?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Are you threatening to shoot?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Put that away?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I got wait handlessly, you're a crazy dollar.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
But that's done away, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
No, Lock, it's up to you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What do you mean unless you give us the dynamite,
I'll blast the lock off this place of yours and
get it myself.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, oh, all right in here, but I'll tell you
you're mad.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I was nor Lock mad.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I'll pick them with the panic that all too often
seizes a man when they're going gets sucked.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But he did give us the dynamite. Well, then with
two of us work, when Lee Hawkins and I trudged
through the mud and the night loader with.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Cases of dynamites back to the old railroad press.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And when we got there, I wanted up. Maybe nor
Locke wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right after all, and it wouldn't be suicide to go out.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
On the.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Pile up of debris against it with shoes and back
of it. The deadby brown water swirled and Eddie's growing
a teleographs old railroad guys, huge treeses pounding against it,
scattering of the old framework of the cup. If only
they'd shrink hard enough to break it down, break the
dams the half they would. By that time, the son
of Cataret would be lost. As somebody had to do
(14:15):
the show, and it looked like I'd elected myself. I'm
not quite clear on what happened during that next twenty
or thirty minutes. They seemed like thirty years of a nightmare.
I edged my way out on that rickety framework, a
fuse case of dynoide under my arm. It was dark,
(14:36):
and I had to feel my way along over planks
and boards and trees. If the force of the water
had thrown up on the trust the wires leading back
to the plunge that was set off the charge with
catch and drag, but I knew I had to reach
the first long span to make exclosive goist work, And
all the while the old bridge creaked and groaned and shook,
the impact of the records being thrown.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Against it, got an angry water.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But then finally his job was done, and I felt
my way.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Back to the side. Ry got hyeah, Yeah, I am,
I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Let me be ready here, don't you see you go
ready about He's going to go stack over the town
as a captain.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Daughter sush book, kayle.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
The point, all right, right, and lie down quick, get
down there.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
She goes.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Back. Three of your yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
you know who said my political ideal is democracy. Everyone
should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
I am convinced that degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence,
for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proved that
(16:21):
illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. Those words were written
by the great scientist Albert Einstein. Einstein saw the weaknesses
of a government in which too much power was centered
in too few people, a government based upon violence. Einstein
saw the danger of elevating a person to so high
(16:41):
a level that he might seize power to which he
was not entitled. Such a situation is not in the
American tradition. Remember the words of Albert Einstein. They are
part of your American heritage. Degeneracy follows every autocratic system
of violence. No act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar
(17:03):
and the Wayward River matters. The charge of dynamite on
the old railroad bridge had broken the dam that the
(17:24):
angry River had thrown up against it, and had released
the little town from the threat of being washed down
the valley into the Ohio River. The men and women
and children, spent from having struggled against the racing water
throughout the night and all the day before, went quietly
back to their homes and farms to rest and sleep.
And nature defeated and gave up.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The rain stops and the sky is cleared.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Even the charging yellow waters of the crooked River seemed
to diminish.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
In a sort of frustration. What damage had been done
to the town?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Could wait?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No people were arresting refreshed as Lee Hawkins and I
plodded wearily over to the village, and I noticed that
the streets were deserting. Yeah, even as the long gray
fingers of dawn reached up into the sky. The town
exhausted and slept, unmindful of the loose in someone's bankyard.
It starts a rousing.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Now did we rouse the engine? But picked a couple
of rooms and settled down the rest out where you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
But I couldn't sleep. Somewhere in the back of my
brain a little worry began to form, to peck away
at me. In all of Canterret the night before, there
had been one man, and one man only, who had
ignored the common good to look after his own selfish interests.
Coming into Lee's room and awakening.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Oh no, Johnny, so did I did hard to go
back to sleep?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Come on, just a couple of questions, Lee, listen to me.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh, I don't you let me sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Over one hundred thousand insurance?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You said.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
One hundred and I don't know if you asked me.
That's too much for a business of any kind in
the town, this size, much too much. So maybe I
gave him a break on his valuation, yeah, you know,
to help sign up some of the other merchant But
one hundred thousand of insurance money would give him enough
to live on the rest of his life. Look, why
(19:21):
don't you go back to bed?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He knew about that. Damn at the railroad trestle and
so far as I could see, he was the only
one who did well. Everybody else was so busy at
the levee. But did he try to do anything about it? No,
and said he went through the motions of trying to
protect his property. But he knew that if that levee broke,
nothing was safe.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, all right, chalk it up the panic.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Panic. He fought to keep us from getting that dynamite,
the one thing that could save the town. He kept
those work when away from where they might have done
some good at the levee. He alone wanted that levee
to break. But good heavens, Johnny, you what you're right?
You must be? Yeah, I'm right. I'm going out. We'll
look for mister fred Norlock.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
There is Missoulaut there, everybody, That's what I want to
find out.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I found Fred Norlach alone ilb.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
On me in a bank the river side of the
levee or.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Anyone down below couldn't see him, and he was working
with a shovel of crow box. Beside him was a
pile of dynamite. I'd given him that idea, all right.
Nor Lock laid down that shovel dollars the river didn't
do it the way you planned last night?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Did it?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Because if you but you're not going to stop me
now and I'll put that thing down, I'll kill you.
Go if you got me crosses and nobody will.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Know, because there's nobody around. I'll where your buddy in
the river, nobody ever know.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Sure, set up a small charge enough to breach the levee.
That's right, it's already and you can't suck and the
river will fresh through destroy that feeling business of yours
down there. Take visit the homes of the valley, the
lives stock.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Maybe even the people gave your hand in that pocket.
So what sure me?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Huh? And if I go to town, goes to yes.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But if I can out throw it, lest I was
able to go.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yes, Now you walk straight ahead to the hedge of
the river.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Who no, no, no, Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Nock's body was never recovered.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He lived alone. He died alone, a crooked man in
the crooked river. Nor was he moorn in the little town.
He tried to destroy.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Scont sol including transportation back to Hartford.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
One hundred dollars even yours truly, Johnny dollars, yours truly,
(22:33):
Johnny Dollar is Storrying Bob Bailey, Rich Nason, Hollywood, and
is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote
today's story. Heard in our cast with Jeff Stratton, Frank Burstall,
Bob Bruce and Parley bear Rychael Sound tatterns by Tom
Henley and Bill James. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station, or another exciting story of yours, truly,
(22:56):
Johnny Dollars. This is Roy Rowland speaking.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You're a Police.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.