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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A journey into the realm of the strange and tell
a bi I hope you will enjoy the chip, that
it will thrill you a little and kill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.
Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.
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Come in welcome. I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Marshall with another strange story about the world of the macabre,
A very real world, by the way, Because if.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You think about it, haven't you said.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
To yourself, I can't believe it, or that's the weirdest
thing I've ever heard. Behind such reactions, there are explanations
of a sort.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Some make sense, others well.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Others defy explanations because we huddle together in our small world,
which is only a small part of an infinite universe,
and nobody knows what unknown influences can change the course
of our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
For Joey O'Hara, it began not with an unknown invoice,
but with a.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Policeman license plate. What's the charge, officer spreading? I clutch
to thirty five limits twenty five?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, I was flatter. Okay, give me the ticket.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We don't write tickets and lifeboard landing you'll have to
follow me. What you're holding me in on a speeding
charge of already five miles an hour?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
What kind of a crazy town is this?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Our mystery drama, The Three Elders of Lifeboat Landing was
written especially for the mystery theater by Roy Windsor and
stars Mason Adams. What began innocently enough many of us
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have been stopped at least once for exceeding the speed limit,
was to lead joy O'Hara into an experience so devastating
that until now it could never be told, and even
now names have been changed. The origin of the experience
was at a lunch between Joey's brother fello'hara and his
client Ross Randall. I'm glad it's horror with than that
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we would you saved me from a bopping fine and
maybe even a jail sentence. You're a very good lawyer,
philm Thank you. Tax cases are tricky, well, I assure you, Phil.
My accountant and I were certain those entertainment charges were deductible. No,
I'll tell you what I'd like to do. Would you
and missus O'Hara be my guests for dinner sometime soon?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
In life for landing. Well, that's not necessary. What would you, well, Woul,
we'd be delighted.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mean maybe you could leave the city mid afternoon
and depending on the weather, we can play around the.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Golf or a few sets of tennis.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
If you prefer that, then your wife can join us
for dinner at the club five fine tennis.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Weather premiting, no problem. We have a bubble you have,
I thought they cost a met where.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Our money's no problem in life for Landing where the
village wants it get ad pays for of course, in
proportion to a person's income. Life for Landing is ideal, Phil,
I know you'll enjoy seeing it. Well, I look forward
to it. Carol and I we have two small children
and we've been thinking about moving out of the city.
School is expensive for we think we'd like to have
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or grow up in one of the suburbs. Well, Life
for Landing is not exactly a suburb film. We're a
village of four thousand in southeastern Long Island.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Actually it's more rural than suburban. Beautiful homes, clean air,
no crime really, no crime none.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Now, if you and missus O'Hara have any interest in
moving out our way, I don't think there'd be any problem.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You just bring the money to the real estate agent.
Not quite.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
First you have to be approved by the three elders.
Oh like being okayed by a private club. Well kind of, yes,
and no, it's an integrated village. But the three elders
who are overseers, if you will, they decide if a
family is suitable for us and we for them only
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then as a family allowed to buy property in life
for landing, Well, isn't that discrimination? We refer to it
as selection. Per see, and what happens? It's one of
the four thousand strays from the beaten path.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not a beaten path. It's an organized, disciplined and
worry free wave line. But what if someone gets out
of line? Then what the three others get him back
online or he leaves sooey, we'll sign your alleged mind.
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E've been editing this newspapers so long. You don't know
a news story from.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
A promotion for Aunt Lily's Golden Grits. You know what's
on my mind? Frank, Yeah, what happened to those two guys?
And what about the cashier that was plugged in and
left for dead on the bank floor? And was up
and around, and next day I saw that myself before
a guard showed me the door. How do you know
it's the same cashier of Tremond Frank, I've been cashing
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checks in lifeboat Land for years on my way to
mon talk for fishing.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's it's the same teller. The hold up guys laid out, well,
how do you know that you don't have a picture.
The little Joey's got big ears, a power of mind.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The conductor on the railroad, he's been taking tickets from
the guys who get on a lifeboat landing and he
hears them talking about the holding no question. The cashier
was killed, but the next day he's back at work,
same cashier. I've put my power over her. The description fits.
It's a miracle.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I love Joey. Run along and play. They get one
of his bugging you. Its months ago. So the cashier
is okay, good, I'll go away. And the two stick up.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Guys and what happened to them? They were caught by
the police of lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But where are they? Who cares? Jail? Probably set upstate,
but they haven't been.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But since they pulled the stick up, they've never been
heard of, and that doesn't grab her. Frank, Now, let
me give you some advice. I've been sitting at this
desk for a long time. Lifeboat Landing's unique. Nothing that
happens out there ever gets reported. I mean ever, not
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by the island papers, not by us. Now maybe that's
because nothing ever does happen.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's wrong. I don't want to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, I do the allowging newspaper reporter. If I couldn't
smell out a story.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know who.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Mister Lord is, don't you? Yeah, assistant for publisher.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He lives in Lifeboat Landing. Very then maybe he can
help me. He want to be out of a job.
What I knew about your interest in those guys? Or
I spoke to mister Lord. He told me politely not
to waste my time of yours on a petty felony.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But the two guys disappeared.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I said as much to mister Lord. He just smiled
and said he assumed they've been dolt. What does that mean? Well,
he said he didn't know, but someone must know. Joey
listened to the old dustry. Keep your nose out of
Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Or else I get the old gave home or worse.
Let me help you down, Thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh lovely.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, this is the grill. The main dining room is upstairs. Night,
isn't it Where those cages on that platform?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Tennis boy? The pool is just beyond them, and the
golf course winds around it along the shoreline. He's beautiful.
He saw the tennis bubblers who drove in.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Very impressive. This place must coast an arm and a lake.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Would you believe five hundred dollars a year for everything
except food and dray? It can't be Ross Randall told
me that you ought to know. And the food is excellent.
I had a late lunch here with him. I've never
tasted better scholarship.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Is he joining us?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah? Any minute. He stayed on in the sauna. He's heavy,
rubbed down. I showered and I came up to look around. Yeah,
you are right, Carol. It is impressive.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Are we staying here? We're having dinner at mister Randall's house.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh what well?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
If we're serious about moving out of the city, I'd
like to see the inside of one of these elegant homes.
I didn't see anything we could afford. I wandered around
a bit, and this village has one US state after another.
The houses must cost a fortune, so you can imagine
what's inside of them.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, I'm glad we had a chance to see the place.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You told mister Randall we've been thinking of moving out
of the city. Yeah, and he's pushing life boat land.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He's not pushing it, Carroll. You move here by invitation.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I do like the idea of someone passing judgment on
whether or not we're good enough for a place like this.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Judgments are passed every day by each of us, Darling.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Don't sound like a lawyer, you know what I mean?
Why can't we live where we please?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
We can, but not in life bordal handing unless the
three elders say we can't.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well that's not democratic.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's autocratic. But can you put down these benefits?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
How did this place come about? You know?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, we'll ask Randall hear. I'm so very glad you
could join us for dinner, missus. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You have a beautiful club, mister Randall, and the village
it's like a picture.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Postcust So you did have a chance to drive around.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We're just for a half hour, but I'm as impressed
with a village as Phil is with your club. Are
the dudes really only five hundred dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Why should they be more? That amount is adequate to
meet our costs.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There are a thousand families here, about four thousand prisons.
Every family belongs to the club. Half a million is
more than enough to meet our bills.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
How did the list come about? I was asking Phil.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, many years ago this was just to have a
potato farming area. But about thirty five years ago a
few men decided to buy the acreage and found a
village of carefully screened families whose frustrations were common to
all the interdependent community. You said it was something like that.
I think that's right. Color, race, religion meant nothing. We
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wanted families that believed in honesty, the work ethic, high
cultural standards, and who ahold waste, ugliness and crime. Now,
if in the judgment of the three elders, the family
qualified for residents here, they could make it possible by saying, okay,
you may buy that house.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Much more than that, we would make certain that you
could buy the house at a price you could afford.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'd be in debt for life.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No, No, only a debt to the community. Now you're
a lawyer, Phil. If you bought a house in life
bat Landing for a pittance, your debt to the community
would be as a lawyer. At any time you might
be called on to prosecute.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Or defend for it, no fee. That's what we mean
by interdependence.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Isn't that kind of community.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, Missus o'harnah. We are elitist in spirit. We believe
in the uncommon man. Riffle Landing is a tribute to him.
What if a family is allowed to move here and
doesn't like it, Russ, what happens then he lee?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And what about his house? He sells it only to
a person the three elders have found acceptable.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
What if he objects, just stops and sets it to
somebody knows who hasn't been approved by the out well
he's worn not to of course, If but say he's
stubborn and he doesn't less, then his house might be
raised level to the ground. We've had that experience only once,
Missus o'harnah, a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Where of use we could use another lawyer effort. He's
seemed all right.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He helped me rigle a lot of that excavationion suit
m he's practicable. I don't know about the right, neither
do I.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Handsome woman, quite intelligent, but her.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Mind's still filled with cliches. It will take time to
get her to accept our kind of ordered society. I
don't understand minds like that. Here we offer everything, literally everything,
but the missus O'Haras of the world pleasure more than
anything that I could defy who act independently? Where she
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might come to see that in time the system burds, oh,
of which reminds me of us. Mister LRD spoke to
me about one of his reporters who is interested in
those two hoodlums who held up the bank and shot
the cashier.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh that's all been disposed of, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It was at the time you did a miraculous job
for Ritz and saving his life. I won't ask you
how I got him back on his feet the next day,
but I'm marvel at your skill.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Thank you. Who's a reporter who might come snooping around joy?
You have your hero haves brother?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh let me see that's too bad. Well, we'll be
an alert for him. Yes, he could be an embarrassment.
So you and I have doubts. Yes, yes, let's have
lots and show the o'hires and houses, and then we'll
meet and hear his opinion. Phills all right, but I'm
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not sure about his.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Wife and the reporter brother. If he becomes assistants, you
will know what to do.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
One definition of society is a voluntary association.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Of individuals for common hens.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Chemists get together and presumably talk chemistry.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Nothing wrong with that, but a village of four thousand
in which it would appear everyone thinks and acts alike.
As Americans, we hold many truths to be self evident,
and one of.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Them is the right to protest. But not in lifeboat landing.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
As we will learn when I return, we're that too.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
As a nation, we are protesters. Protests to Americans is
second nature. We protested the tax on tea and a
nation was born. We protested against slavery, and a terrible
civil war followed. We have died to preserve the right
of each man to independent thought. Perhaps we haven't realized
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the ideal of making the world free for democracy, but
neither have we become robots in an ordered society. In
our story, it's not Yankee go Home, but Joey, get lost.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Joey, I mean it, get lost? Thought that chancel.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Guess who's going to help me get the inside dope?
And what happened to those two guys?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
My brother Phil? You got a brother.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I thought you were one of a kind. I am
Phil's another type. I like you already, which is racket.
Oh hold it that your brother, the lawyer.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Who got ress Rand Love on that tax evasion case.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Uh, that's my brother Phil. He's bought a house in Lifeboat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Landing and he and the family are moving out there
in a couple of weeks. That's my inside track. Baby,
you're a real daily you are.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Wait until I bust the truth across the front page.
Before that happens, you'll be busted out of here. And
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Frank? To stick up? Guys, just vanish and you don't
think it's a story there. I told you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Until my throat is dry, lay off life Boat Landing.
Something smells out there, Frank, and you know it. I've
got a right to ask questions.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
No one can toss me to klaint just for asking questions.
No one has You've been out there.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The bank cashier wouldn't talk to me no, that was
his privilege.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But about the police, Yeah, the police, they said they
didn't know what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well, Frank, that's what's funny. I'm not allowed to talk
at the cashier and nobody else in the bank, including
a security guard, but would even speak to me, and
the police they just smiled and told me to run along.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What goes on out there.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's a tight little community, that's what goes on, and
no hard nosed reporters going to loosen it up.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't believe it. I'll find somebody who'll spill the beans. Yeah,
and your face. Why do you keep saying things like that?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Because, dummy, if you become an annoyance to the three
elders who run the place, you just might join those two.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Hold up as you are being sport, you're scared, are you, Frank?
For your sake? Yeah? Thank you over, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That it'll be over, sir, can I gentlemen, you were
in a pretty high handed community.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yes, mister rrh you do. I go over the speed
limit by ten miles an hour. You did go over
the limit, isn't that? So get it over with? How much?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
There's no file, only a warning, A swell but I
got the message when the cop picked me up. So
what's the point of this little get together? There are
several points, mister Arrah. You're Ross randall right, that's right?
And was your brother Phil who defended me in a
text suit, who has since been allowed to move to
Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So I heard I was on my way to his
housewarming part.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
We won't keep you, but as doctor Hynaman just said,
we must give you a warning.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, shoot, if.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're arrested again, you'll be sent to prison for thirty days.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
In your hat, no, in our jail, you couldn't get
away with that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That is not worth commenting on, mister Harh. As mister
Rlis said, you'll be jailed for thirty days, then I'd
sue you in every court in the land. What kind
of garbage you're trying to hand out? Another warning is
this Your brother and his family are now members of
this community. For his sake, I hope you won't become
an embarrassment to them. You mean an embarrassment like asking
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what happened in that bank robbery and to the two
stick up guys disappeared. I'm a newspaper man. There's a
story there, and I'm going to dig it out or
fish it out if you get what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I don't suppose you have either, mister Randall, Sir Ohara,
this is a civilized village.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
We don't have crime here.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
If crime enters our community, we deal with it quickly
and discreetly. That's why you've been brought before us. Don't
break our laws. We obey them, and visitors must. And
for your own sake, stop your search for those imaginary hoodlums.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, you I for we to go.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Don't you stay overnight? Jelly?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No, thanks, Caroly. Forget what happened, Kit. It's not a
federal case.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It's going to be before I get through at the
PHIL and you're going to help me.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You're back on the vanishing stick up man, give up.
That happened months ago. I wish you'd forget it. How
can you say that? Don't you care? It's none of
my business and you've been told that it's none of yours.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The more I'm told to lay off, the sure I
am that there's something strange about lifeboat Land.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
No, not strange, different is all it is different. It's
highly organized. Each of us helps the other guy. If
I have a problem, I can get help. If someone
here needs legal advice, I'm here to supply it as
a neighborly obligation.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now what's wrong with that? Everything? You have no privacy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You've sold out to a weird society that provides you
with every material benefit in exchange for dumba beating it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You've got it all wrong, Joey. I think, and I
say what I please. I go to work freely.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And come home to a fine house and an ideal community. Phil,
can't you see what kind of place this is? You
call it an interdependent society. When persons spy on each
other and lead plastic lives, that's what I call the
police state.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But Jilly, where else could we find all this? You'll
admit it's a beautiful village, sure.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And Vienna was a beautiful and carefree sitting until the
Nazis took it over. In the Gestapo pay neighbors to
spy on neighbors. Isn't that the system you've got here?
You understand, Carol? I can see it in your eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's too much outsewarming bath, spend the night.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, No, I'll be on my way. Look, both of you,
I'm sorry to be like this. It's your home, your community,
and I wish you well. I hope it works out.
It just wouldn't be for me. I don't like regimentation.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Never mind. It's a great source of satisfaction to me
to have everything organized efficiently. This village works, and everybody obeys,
including the opposition if there is one, of course there is,
but the majority opinion prevails and everyone accepts it. That's brainwashing. Fill, well,
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what about it? Can you help me find out what
happened to those two guys.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You've been told not to snoop joy, meaning you won't
ask questions for me.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, then I'll have to find out for myself. I'll
say good night, I'll see.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You to the pill.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's a long film. Good night.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Please don't stir up trouble, Joey.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'll try not to. But Carol, this place is not
for you.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
If I can't stand it, we can always leave.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I wonder it's one thing to get into a secret
society getting out another.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh. I wish you wouldn't say things like that. It
makes me feel spooky.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You said it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I didn't, but I know how you feel I thought
you were entitled to no. Thanks, Ros, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I said pretty much the same things to my brother
last night. He's a flag waiver, and I'll tell I'm told,
But so we just.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Can't have him prying into the affairs of life on
landing are common good. The elders simply.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Won't permit it. I know, I know, and I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We have no crime because our justice is swift and severe.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That's the only deterrent to crime. Phil Now, we're not cruel,
but we are absolute.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We've had thieves and they've been banished. But makes justice
work in life for the landing.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Is common consent. Once the elders have to consultation.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
With the police and the judge have made a decision,
all four thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Of us accept it. Right now, for some reason, your
brother is found a cause celeb.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And the bank hold up, and he's determined to find
out what happened to the gunment.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I've told him he's been warned off. He asked me
to help.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I told him it's out of my visits, quite right,
and I don't propose to explain what happened. But the
disappearance of the men will have a sagutary effect. Others
will think twice before they try to stick up in
life the land, right, you do like our way of life? Phil,
and missus O'Hara, you're oh very much.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Certainly. I asked because some of the ladies have tea with.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Your wife the other day, and since the vague reluctance
on her part to participate wholeheartedly in their plans for
the next season's plays for a community center. Yeah, I
heard a senteritized present plays both classic and modern and
are pure entertainment. Your wife suggested that we produce at
least one protest play. Its subject was racial violence, and
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the language in it, frankly, is repugnant to anyone who
is in an animal.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Carol has always been a little liberal. Well, the center
exists to entertain, not to ferment trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'll talk it over with the Ross. Good. I went Phil,
speak to your brother.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Our warning to him was not a gesture. He's become
an irritant and if he aggravates the situation, the warning
will have to be acted upon.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's how it is. Yeah, I understand, Just doot does
he think he is?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Ross Randall warning me all he said, was if I
broke the speed limit again, I'd go to.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Jail for thirty days. Ridiculous. I have a lawyer spring
me in half an hour.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Rightn't talking about you being arrested for speeding? Worried about
me snooping into what happened to those two?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Hold them?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Right? Kelley? Why don't you drop not on your life?
What do they mean to you?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
They were just a couple of buns of that caught
robbing a bay.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And vanished shell what so everything?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Look, I don't even know who the guys were, and
they're probably no good. But this is America, Carol Baby,
and those guys were entitled to a hearing before a
judge and then sentenced. They just can't be rubbed out.
That happens in a police day, but not here.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Can't you see that? I give up? Is your net? Joy?
I'm not afraid of Ross Randall. He's not going to
feed me to the sharks the way he did with
those two. Hold them.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Sure jumped to conclusions, but where did they go? Whatever
happened to them? Randall doesn't care to tell me. When
the three elders reach a decision, others act on it.
There are four thousand.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Of us here, Joey us you would have to.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Now feel yes, my law practice in the city is
increased by half since we moved.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
To Lifeboat Landing. We love our house, The schools.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Are good, the village is kept beautifully, the club is marvelous, and.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Our neighbors are congenial. What more could I want? Freedom?
Freedom to think and to act as you please. We
have all of freedom we needy.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Come on, both of you. Let's not get nasty. Joey
were here. We now belong to Lifeboat Landing. You don't
like it, That's okay, so please let's not have any
more quarrels and listen to what Susan trying to found
into your head.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The warning We'll see you in town, Joey, not out here.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Okay, you still don't see Why.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Do you that they've got me marked? I don't know that,
but you sense it. Well, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's not going to stop me. I'm going to expose Lifeboat.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Landing for what it is, a fascist commune. At least
I'm going to try, even though I might end up
in the briny. Aristotle wrote that democracy arose from men
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thinking that if they are equal in any respect. They
are equal in all respects. I don't think it's worked
that way here. You and I have equal rights with
say a famous doctor, But could we pretend to be
equal in the ability to invent the polio vaccine? More
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on the subject as it applies to Lifeboat Landing when
I return with that three. From what I have gathered
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so far, lifeboat Landing on the southeastern shore of Long
Island is the ideal community.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Joey O'Hara disagrees.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
He's a newspaper man, of course, with a natural instinct
for news, and he finds any controlled society repugnant. His
curiosity was aroused by the disappearance of two men who
held up the local bank and vanished.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That's just what it is, Frank. So are some of
the private clubs around town. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Guys from the same college band together, other guys who
like boats, beer drinking, guys.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
By roll over town.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
But they don't decide flatly what taxes are going to pay,
or what happens to a guy who holds up a
liquor store. Okay, you've got something up your sleep, what
is it?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Take a look at this.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
There's a picture of some German soldier and a fatigue jacon.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So it's doctor Fritz Heinemann. Who's he some small pigs Nazi?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's right, Well, there's lots of them still drifting around.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This guy drifted to lifeboat Landing. So what is he
under wanted list?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
No, he came here from South America and took out
citizenship papers in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So what about him.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
He's one of the three elders of the village. Oh,
Heineman is the kind of guy who's still being doctrinated
with law and order and obedience and a system of informers.
Just what lifeboat landing the next Nazi? So what so
he and the other two elders, Roth Randal and some
guy named Larson rule absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That's why there's no crime. Somebody drifts into lifeboat landing
and commits a crime he's never heard of. Again, the
two stick up in.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They got it, Frank, it's easy to cover up two
murders of four thousand persons wanted covered up. And what
I want to do, Frank, is to begin to write
a series.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Of articles about the place. No good, you said, Nobody
out there is willing to talk. What you think is
one thing.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But unless you got facts sweep the inviting a libel suit,
the paper can't fur the story without blessing hard facts.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
You haven't got any.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Oh, sure you know about Heinemann, and you got a
bug in your ear about the two hoods.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But what if you got really huh not have got
more than that?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
But if the three elders weren't worried about an investigation,
would they warn my brother that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I could get hit? Would your brother testify that it'd
been threatened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I do when you've told me about him since he
moved out there.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Your brother wouldn't talk. He is my brother.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
He's also a guy who would probably like to stay alive.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Now what, I just want to come here and talk.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You know that makes me nervous. I feel the way
I used to feel when I hadn't done my homework.
What have I done now?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The play committee?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Oh no, I saw the light. No protest play for
next season.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So I know what you're gonna say, but.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Doesn't conform it to get you done. It's smothering.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I like it here, Carol, But if you don't, we
can always move back to the city.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
But think of what we've got and what we've given up.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I like them in Hello, Raw, Hello Fretz, come on
in thank you? He won't play five minutes to what evening? Missus?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
O'ha Hello doctor Heinemann. Raw, Please sit down? Shall I stay?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I really want me.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
What we have to say is for both of you. Phil,
we think we've made a mistake. I really made a mistake.
But the elders act together. We share credit and errors.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
A mistake.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Elas and I met with mister Larson, the third elder,
and we have concluded reluctantly that lifeboat landing is not
quite right for your family.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I'm sorry to hear that. We like it here very much. Yes,
I think you do, Phil, But what about you, Carol.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I'm getting used to it. It's taking a while because
it's a different experience for me. But I love my
house and everything else about the building is.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Physically it is perfect, and the reason for that is
efficient organization. Some persons fit the York, others do not.
Many personal inclinations have to be repressed for the good
of all. Decisions made by the three elders represent the
majority opinion, and the minority has to accept it, and
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some persons might present that kind of rule is arbitrary,
but it is kind of Is it preferable to constant turmoil?
The elders decide what is best for all and put
it into effect to be efficient and productive. Ouse leads ahead,
sworders for business, sordes.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Government and offen.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, Turmoil and bitterness and neighbors set against neighbor, those
are the very reasons that democracy is inefficient.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
But each of us should be free to say what
he thinks.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
That is the reason for our visits. We suggest it
will be happier if you leave lifeboat landing.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
We would like to have you.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Stay with us, but not as dissidents.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And then feel, there's your brother. I told him to
stay away. It's easy. I'm fond of him. He's still
better on making trouble.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
How could he?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
He can't, but he refuses to believe it. I can
give you one piece of news that you may not
be aware of.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
He's been discharged from his job.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You won't give up visual art well. I do like
him for it, and his wife will come around.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
It seems a shame to tell him to move because
of that brother of his. He could be disposed of
very easily.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Not too obvious.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
The publicity would be unpleasant, and I don't know if
that editor would stand still for the disappearance of Joey O'Hara,
but live out facts.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Would believe what he might say.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
The two hold up men disappear. Joey O'Hara disappears the first.
I'm missing because I will gang to care them, or
how that is missing because he.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Was closed to exposing the game. This kind of thing
could be the lover of us. Let me try something
else first. I have an idea. I'm sure it's okay
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for you to be seen with me, brother Phil mom office.
I mean it. You keep on associating with the headhunter,
they'll kick you out of life boat landing. They're going
to No. Oh, that's the best news I've heard in days.
No kidding.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Remember this happened last night. After him an ranto sugget,
we might be happy if we moved out. They told
me that he'd been fired. I tried to get you
over the float, me and my editor might pal Frank.
I got him home and fell asleep in his living room.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I'm sorry about the job. They editor warned you.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yeah, I know it's not his foot. The word came
down from mister Lord. He's from Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know. Ah, well, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
You're coming back to the city, so that place bugs Carol.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Oh, it's not definite. I suppose I'm the reason they
want you ount it's mostly you. Yes, No, I should
be sorry, but I'm not. Hyneman is a former Nazi.
He settled in Lifeboat Landing and built a model brainwashed village.
It works like a perfect clock. Great if you're a
cross to get wound up and just took away. Heman
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a former Nazi, that's right. Oh, he's an American citizen now.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
But he's he's put together a perfect model of a
town occupied by the Behrmacht. Everybody smiling on the outside,
spying on their neighbors, scared stiff on the inside. Because
if he stepped out of line, the three elders get you.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
That's not quite true. Joy.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Before they take an important position, they pull the heads
of each of the family, and you're going to disagree
with what the elders recommend, not on your life. Another
thing about Hyeman, he is also some kind of face healer,
so as I mean, I've heard that he can affect
some remarkable swords. He's an Internet but he also dabbles
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on the side and faith healing. The reason I at
Princess it was that bank cashier. He was left for dead.
The next day he's up and around good as you.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I don't believe it. The faith healing, I mean, hi,
the guy.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Probably his name.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I believe that I believe anything about Hyneman and those
other two.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Are you all right for money, Joe? Sure, I'm rolling
in about one hundred and forty bucks if you need
any banks. Thanks? And what now? Now, I've got another
surprise for you.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I'm having cocktails at six with Hynaman and Randall at
your community club in lovely Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Oh, come on, what's for resistance? Says Off.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
They're going to tell me all about to hold up
guys who floated away into space. You're quite right, so, Harrah,
I was a member of the Nazi Party. I was
deluded to many of my companions there. That, however, was
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many years ago. I escaped through South America and then
to the United States.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
There I am a citizen.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Everyone in Lifeboat Landing nosing why.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Is the facts to you?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Because the government of Lifeboat Landing reflects an alien philosophy,
your deleted philosophy of absolute rules. Always to believe in
a democracy controlled by the three elders who enforced the
majority rule.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
So two guys stick.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Up your bank, and the majority of pools rubbing them
out exactly you admit you had them disappear.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is without trial and without a defense. Try it. That's murder.
It is self preservation.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Here is our weapons, and all of us believe in it,
and you place yourself above our accepted concept of law.
Be invited you here to demonstrate how justice works in
our village.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
You have warned about speeding. Don't tell me I'm going
to be punished for throwing a cigarette in the street.
You're not going to be punished at all.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
But you are about to be rendered ineffective in your
attempt to expose us for our way of life, which includes,
when it's necessary.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The act of extermination. Or you're giving me a mighty
juicy story, mister Randland. You may feel free to write
it if you want. Your niece, then your nephew, then
missus Allah, and then your brother.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
You'll loup out of sight forever you you murdered them.
Drop your investigations. Well, that's exactly what will happen.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
They're getting out of this sick place, so they're bag remain.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
If we had thought of telling them to leave and
then of dealing with you this way will be less
troubleson is you alive?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
No one will believe your story.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I'll notify every law enforcement agency in the country, and
who would believe you? Your niece is drowned at the beach?
Your nephew, Well, I go on you do that?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Oh, yes, that's as fiendish.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
You like our way of life, and no one will
be allowed to interfere with it. All right, now, you're
free to go. We've warned you, and I assure you
we can act now. I'll get my brother and his
family out of here tonight. Feel free to But will
your brother and his wife believe you? And even if
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they do, who would print your story? You have no facts.
You're helpless, mister O'Hara. You dirty, good ninking mister O'Hara.
Have a nice drive back to the city.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Where you're calling from. Joey What he says?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
They knock off your family one by one?
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Joey, are you sober all right?
Speaker 2 (42:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Save the language? Eh?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, yeah, I'll do better than that.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
I'll have the state police escort filling his family back
to New York, and I'll bust the story all over
tomorrow morning's paper. Yeah yeah, it may cost me my job,
but it be a real jerk not to say.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Four lives, make that five, But I get you to
joey okay, pal hang up and hide out. I'll take over.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
A fantasy.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Of course, it really can't happen here, but back in
nineteen thirty five, Saint Clair Lewis thought it could, and
it was he who anticipated the monstrous war fomented by
a madman who wanted to impose a rigid order on
Europe and then on the rest of the civilized world.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
He failed, just as tyranny.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Failed in the strange village of Lifeboat Landing. I will
return shortly. Everyone believes in law and order, but those
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are ideal which arise from within a free society for
the common good. Try to impose them without common consent,
and there is resistance. The alternative is a police state,
which is just what Joy o'haraf finally managed to expose.
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Our cast included Mason Adams, Anne Shepherd, Mandel Kramer, Robert Phelps,
and Guy Sorell. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown, Missus E. G. Marshall, inviting you to
return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Until next time, pleasant
A journey into the realm of the strange and tell
a bi I hope you will enjoy the chip, that
it will thrill you a little and kill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.
Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.
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Come in welcome. I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Marshall with another strange story about the world of the macabre,
A very real world, by the way, Because if.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You think about it, haven't you said.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
To yourself, I can't believe it, or that's the weirdest
thing I've ever heard. Behind such reactions, there are explanations
of a sort.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Some make sense, others well.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Others defy explanations because we huddle together in our small world,
which is only a small part of an infinite universe,
and nobody knows what unknown influences can change the course
of our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
For Joey O'Hara, it began not with an unknown invoice,
but with a.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Policeman license plate. What's the charge, officer spreading? I clutch
to thirty five limits twenty five?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, I was flatter. Okay, give me the ticket.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We don't write tickets and lifeboard landing you'll have to
follow me. What you're holding me in on a speeding
charge of already five miles an hour?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
What kind of a crazy town is this?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Our mystery drama, The Three Elders of Lifeboat Landing was
written especially for the mystery theater by Roy Windsor and
stars Mason Adams. What began innocently enough many of us
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have been stopped at least once for exceeding the speed limit,
was to lead joy O'Hara into an experience so devastating
that until now it could never be told, and even
now names have been changed. The origin of the experience
was at a lunch between Joey's brother fello'hara and his
client Ross Randall. I'm glad it's horror with than that
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we would you saved me from a bopping fine and
maybe even a jail sentence. You're a very good lawyer,
philm Thank you. Tax cases are tricky, well, I assure you, Phil.
My accountant and I were certain those entertainment charges were deductible. No,
I'll tell you what I'd like to do. Would you
and missus O'Hara be my guests for dinner sometime soon?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
In life for landing. Well, that's not necessary. What would you, well, Woul,
we'd be delighted.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mean maybe you could leave the city mid afternoon
and depending on the weather, we can play around the.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Golf or a few sets of tennis.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
If you prefer that, then your wife can join us
for dinner at the club five fine tennis.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Weather premiting, no problem. We have a bubble you have,
I thought they cost a met where.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Our money's no problem in life for Landing where the
village wants it get ad pays for of course, in
proportion to a person's income. Life for Landing is ideal, Phil,
I know you'll enjoy seeing it. Well, I look forward
to it. Carol and I we have two small children
and we've been thinking about moving out of the city.
School is expensive for we think we'd like to have
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or grow up in one of the suburbs. Well, Life
for Landing is not exactly a suburb film. We're a
village of four thousand in southeastern Long Island.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Actually it's more rural than suburban. Beautiful homes, clean air,
no crime really, no crime none.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Now, if you and missus O'Hara have any interest in
moving out our way, I don't think there'd be any problem.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You just bring the money to the real estate agent.
Not quite.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
First you have to be approved by the three elders.
Oh like being okayed by a private club. Well kind of, yes,
and no, it's an integrated village. But the three elders
who are overseers, if you will, they decide if a
family is suitable for us and we for them only
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then as a family allowed to buy property in life
for landing, Well, isn't that discrimination? We refer to it
as selection. Per see, and what happens? It's one of
the four thousand strays from the beaten path.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not a beaten path. It's an organized, disciplined and
worry free wave line. But what if someone gets out
of line? Then what the three others get him back
online or he leaves sooey, we'll sign your alleged mind.
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E've been editing this newspapers so long. You don't know
a news story from.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
A promotion for Aunt Lily's Golden Grits. You know what's
on my mind? Frank, Yeah, what happened to those two guys?
And what about the cashier that was plugged in and
left for dead on the bank floor? And was up
and around, and next day I saw that myself before
a guard showed me the door. How do you know
it's the same cashier of Tremond Frank, I've been cashing
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checks in lifeboat Land for years on my way to
mon talk for fishing.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's it's the same teller. The hold up guys laid out, well,
how do you know that you don't have a picture.
The little Joey's got big ears, a power of mind.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The conductor on the railroad, he's been taking tickets from
the guys who get on a lifeboat landing and he
hears them talking about the holding no question. The cashier
was killed, but the next day he's back at work,
same cashier. I've put my power over her. The description fits.
It's a miracle.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I love Joey. Run along and play. They get one
of his bugging you. Its months ago. So the cashier
is okay, good, I'll go away. And the two stick up.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Guys and what happened to them? They were caught by
the police of lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But where are they? Who cares? Jail? Probably set upstate,
but they haven't been.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But since they pulled the stick up, they've never been
heard of, and that doesn't grab her. Frank, Now, let
me give you some advice. I've been sitting at this
desk for a long time. Lifeboat Landing's unique. Nothing that
happens out there ever gets reported. I mean ever, not
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by the island papers, not by us. Now maybe that's
because nothing ever does happen.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's wrong. I don't want to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, I do the allowging newspaper reporter. If I couldn't
smell out a story.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know who.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Mister Lord is, don't you? Yeah, assistant for publisher.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He lives in Lifeboat Landing. Very then maybe he can
help me. He want to be out of a job.
What I knew about your interest in those guys? Or
I spoke to mister Lord. He told me politely not
to waste my time of yours on a petty felony.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But the two guys disappeared.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I said as much to mister Lord. He just smiled
and said he assumed they've been dolt. What does that mean? Well,
he said he didn't know, but someone must know. Joey
listened to the old dustry. Keep your nose out of
Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Or else I get the old gave home or worse.
Let me help you down, Thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh lovely.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, this is the grill. The main dining room is upstairs. Night,
isn't it Where those cages on that platform?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Tennis boy? The pool is just beyond them, and the
golf course winds around it along the shoreline. He's beautiful.
He saw the tennis bubblers who drove in.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Very impressive. This place must coast an arm and a lake.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Would you believe five hundred dollars a year for everything
except food and dray? It can't be Ross Randall told
me that you ought to know. And the food is excellent.
I had a late lunch here with him. I've never
tasted better scholarship.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Is he joining us?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah? Any minute. He stayed on in the sauna. He's heavy,
rubbed down. I showered and I came up to look around. Yeah,
you are right, Carol. It is impressive.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Are we staying here? We're having dinner at mister Randall's house.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh what well?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
If we're serious about moving out of the city, I'd
like to see the inside of one of these elegant homes.
I didn't see anything we could afford. I wandered around
a bit, and this village has one US state after another.
The houses must cost a fortune, so you can imagine
what's inside of them.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, I'm glad we had a chance to see the place.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You told mister Randall we've been thinking of moving out
of the city. Yeah, and he's pushing life boat land.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He's not pushing it, Carroll. You move here by invitation.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I do like the idea of someone passing judgment on
whether or not we're good enough for a place like this.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Judgments are passed every day by each of us, Darling.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Don't sound like a lawyer, you know what I mean?
Why can't we live where we please?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
We can, but not in life bordal handing unless the
three elders say we can't.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well that's not democratic.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's autocratic. But can you put down these benefits?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
How did this place come about? You know?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, we'll ask Randall hear. I'm so very glad you
could join us for dinner, missus. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You have a beautiful club, mister Randall, and the village
it's like a picture.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Postcust So you did have a chance to drive around.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We're just for a half hour, but I'm as impressed
with a village as Phil is with your club. Are
the dudes really only five hundred dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Why should they be more? That amount is adequate to
meet our costs.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There are a thousand families here, about four thousand prisons.
Every family belongs to the club. Half a million is
more than enough to meet our bills.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
How did the list come about? I was asking Phil.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, many years ago this was just to have a
potato farming area. But about thirty five years ago a
few men decided to buy the acreage and found a
village of carefully screened families whose frustrations were common to
all the interdependent community. You said it was something like that.
I think that's right. Color, race, religion meant nothing. We
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wanted families that believed in honesty, the work ethic, high
cultural standards, and who ahold waste, ugliness and crime. Now,
if in the judgment of the three elders, the family
qualified for residents here, they could make it possible by saying, okay,
you may buy that house.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Much more than that, we would make certain that you
could buy the house at a price you could afford.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'd be in debt for life.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No, No, only a debt to the community. Now you're
a lawyer, Phil. If you bought a house in life
bat Landing for a pittance, your debt to the community
would be as a lawyer. At any time you might
be called on to prosecute.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Or defend for it, no fee. That's what we mean
by interdependence.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Isn't that kind of community.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, Missus o'harnah. We are elitist in spirit. We believe
in the uncommon man. Riffle Landing is a tribute to him.
What if a family is allowed to move here and
doesn't like it, Russ, what happens then he lee?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And what about his house? He sells it only to
a person the three elders have found acceptable.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
What if he objects, just stops and sets it to
somebody knows who hasn't been approved by the out well
he's worn not to of course, If but say he's
stubborn and he doesn't less, then his house might be
raised level to the ground. We've had that experience only once,
Missus o'harnah, a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Where of use we could use another lawyer effort. He's
seemed all right.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He helped me rigle a lot of that excavationion suit
m he's practicable. I don't know about the right, neither
do I.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Handsome woman, quite intelligent, but her.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Mind's still filled with cliches. It will take time to
get her to accept our kind of ordered society. I
don't understand minds like that. Here we offer everything, literally everything,
but the missus O'Haras of the world pleasure more than
anything that I could defy who act independently? Where she
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might come to see that in time the system burds, oh,
of which reminds me of us. Mister LRD spoke to
me about one of his reporters who is interested in
those two hoodlums who held up the bank and shot
the cashier.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh that's all been disposed of, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It was at the time you did a miraculous job
for Ritz and saving his life. I won't ask you
how I got him back on his feet the next day,
but I'm marvel at your skill.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Thank you. Who's a reporter who might come snooping around joy?
You have your hero haves brother?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh let me see that's too bad. Well, we'll be
an alert for him. Yes, he could be an embarrassment.
So you and I have doubts. Yes, yes, let's have
lots and show the o'hires and houses, and then we'll
meet and hear his opinion. Phills all right, but I'm
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not sure about his.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Wife and the reporter brother. If he becomes assistants, you
will know what to do.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
One definition of society is a voluntary association.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Of individuals for common hens.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Chemists get together and presumably talk chemistry.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Nothing wrong with that, but a village of four thousand
in which it would appear everyone thinks and acts alike.
As Americans, we hold many truths to be self evident,
and one of.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Them is the right to protest. But not in lifeboat landing.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
As we will learn when I return, we're that too.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
As a nation, we are protesters. Protests to Americans is
second nature. We protested the tax on tea and a
nation was born. We protested against slavery, and a terrible
civil war followed. We have died to preserve the right
of each man to independent thought. Perhaps we haven't realized
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the ideal of making the world free for democracy, but
neither have we become robots in an ordered society. In
our story, it's not Yankee go Home, but Joey, get lost.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Joey, I mean it, get lost? Thought that chancel.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Guess who's going to help me get the inside dope?
And what happened to those two guys?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
My brother Phil? You got a brother.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I thought you were one of a kind. I am
Phil's another type. I like you already, which is racket.
Oh hold it that your brother, the lawyer.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Who got ress Rand Love on that tax evasion case.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Uh, that's my brother Phil. He's bought a house in Lifeboat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Landing and he and the family are moving out there
in a couple of weeks. That's my inside track. Baby,
you're a real daily you are.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Wait until I bust the truth across the front page.
Before that happens, you'll be busted out of here. And
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Frank? To stick up? Guys, just vanish and you don't
think it's a story there. I told you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Until my throat is dry, lay off life Boat Landing.
Something smells out there, Frank, and you know it. I've
got a right to ask questions.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
No one can toss me to klaint just for asking questions.
No one has You've been out there.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The bank cashier wouldn't talk to me no, that was
his privilege.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But about the police, Yeah, the police, they said they
didn't know what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well, Frank, that's what's funny. I'm not allowed to talk
at the cashier and nobody else in the bank, including
a security guard, but would even speak to me, and
the police they just smiled and told me to run along.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What goes on out there.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's a tight little community, that's what goes on, and
no hard nosed reporters going to loosen it up.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't believe it. I'll find somebody who'll spill the beans. Yeah,
and your face. Why do you keep saying things like that?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Because, dummy, if you become an annoyance to the three
elders who run the place, you just might join those two.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Hold up as you are being sport, you're scared, are you, Frank?
For your sake? Yeah? Thank you over, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That it'll be over, sir, can I gentlemen, you were
in a pretty high handed community.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yes, mister rrh you do. I go over the speed
limit by ten miles an hour. You did go over
the limit, isn't that? So get it over with? How much?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
There's no file, only a warning, A swell but I
got the message when the cop picked me up. So
what's the point of this little get together? There are
several points, mister Arrah. You're Ross randall right, that's right?
And was your brother Phil who defended me in a
text suit, who has since been allowed to move to
Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So I heard I was on my way to his
housewarming part.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
We won't keep you, but as doctor Hynaman just said,
we must give you a warning.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, shoot, if.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're arrested again, you'll be sent to prison for thirty days.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
In your hat, no, in our jail, you couldn't get
away with that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That is not worth commenting on, mister Harh. As mister
Rlis said, you'll be jailed for thirty days, then I'd
sue you in every court in the land. What kind
of garbage you're trying to hand out? Another warning is
this Your brother and his family are now members of
this community. For his sake, I hope you won't become
an embarrassment to them. You mean an embarrassment like asking
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what happened in that bank robbery and to the two
stick up guys disappeared. I'm a newspaper man. There's a
story there, and I'm going to dig it out or
fish it out if you get what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I don't suppose you have either, mister Randall, Sir Ohara,
this is a civilized village.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
We don't have crime here.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
If crime enters our community, we deal with it quickly
and discreetly. That's why you've been brought before us. Don't
break our laws. We obey them, and visitors must. And
for your own sake, stop your search for those imaginary hoodlums.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, you I for we to go.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Don't you stay overnight? Jelly?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No, thanks, Caroly. Forget what happened, Kit. It's not a
federal case.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It's going to be before I get through at the
PHIL and you're going to help me.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You're back on the vanishing stick up man, give up.
That happened months ago. I wish you'd forget it. How
can you say that? Don't you care? It's none of
my business and you've been told that it's none of yours.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The more I'm told to lay off, the sure I
am that there's something strange about lifeboat Land.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
No, not strange, different is all it is different. It's
highly organized. Each of us helps the other guy. If
I have a problem, I can get help. If someone
here needs legal advice, I'm here to supply it as
a neighborly obligation.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now what's wrong with that? Everything? You have no privacy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You've sold out to a weird society that provides you
with every material benefit in exchange for dumba beating it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You've got it all wrong, Joey. I think, and I
say what I please. I go to work freely.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And come home to a fine house and an ideal community. Phil,
can't you see what kind of place this is? You
call it an interdependent society. When persons spy on each
other and lead plastic lives, that's what I call the
police state.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But Jilly, where else could we find all this? You'll
admit it's a beautiful village, sure.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And Vienna was a beautiful and carefree sitting until the
Nazis took it over. In the Gestapo pay neighbors to
spy on neighbors. Isn't that the system you've got here?
You understand, Carol? I can see it in your eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's too much outsewarming bath, spend the night.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, No, I'll be on my way. Look, both of you,
I'm sorry to be like this. It's your home, your community,
and I wish you well. I hope it works out.
It just wouldn't be for me. I don't like regimentation.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Never mind. It's a great source of satisfaction to me
to have everything organized efficiently. This village works, and everybody obeys,
including the opposition if there is one, of course there is,
but the majority opinion prevails and everyone accepts it. That's brainwashing. Fill, well,
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what about it? Can you help me find out what
happened to those two guys.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You've been told not to snoop joy, meaning you won't
ask questions for me.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, then I'll have to find out for myself. I'll
say good night, I'll see.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You to the pill.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's a long film. Good night.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Please don't stir up trouble, Joey.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'll try not to. But Carol, this place is not
for you.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
If I can't stand it, we can always leave.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I wonder it's one thing to get into a secret
society getting out another.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh. I wish you wouldn't say things like that. It
makes me feel spooky.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You said it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I didn't, but I know how you feel I thought
you were entitled to no. Thanks, Ros, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I said pretty much the same things to my brother
last night. He's a flag waiver, and I'll tell I'm told,
But so we just.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Can't have him prying into the affairs of life on
landing are common good. The elders simply.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Won't permit it. I know, I know, and I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We have no crime because our justice is swift and severe.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That's the only deterrent to crime. Phil Now, we're not cruel,
but we are absolute.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We've had thieves and they've been banished. But makes justice
work in life for the landing.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Is common consent. Once the elders have to consultation.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
With the police and the judge have made a decision,
all four thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Of us accept it. Right now, for some reason, your
brother is found a cause celeb.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And the bank hold up, and he's determined to find
out what happened to the gunment.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I've told him he's been warned off. He asked me
to help.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I told him it's out of my visits, quite right,
and I don't propose to explain what happened. But the
disappearance of the men will have a sagutary effect. Others
will think twice before they try to stick up in
life the land, right, you do like our way of life? Phil,
and missus O'Hara, you're oh very much.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Certainly. I asked because some of the ladies have tea with.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Your wife the other day, and since the vague reluctance
on her part to participate wholeheartedly in their plans for
the next season's plays for a community center. Yeah, I
heard a senteritized present plays both classic and modern and
are pure entertainment. Your wife suggested that we produce at
least one protest play. Its subject was racial violence, and
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the language in it, frankly, is repugnant to anyone who
is in an animal.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Carol has always been a little liberal. Well, the center
exists to entertain, not to ferment trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'll talk it over with the Ross. Good. I went Phil,
speak to your brother.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Our warning to him was not a gesture. He's become
an irritant and if he aggravates the situation, the warning
will have to be acted upon.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's how it is. Yeah, I understand, Just doot does
he think he is?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Ross Randall warning me all he said, was if I
broke the speed limit again, I'd go to.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Jail for thirty days. Ridiculous. I have a lawyer spring
me in half an hour.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Rightn't talking about you being arrested for speeding? Worried about
me snooping into what happened to those two?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Hold them?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Right? Kelley? Why don't you drop not on your life?
What do they mean to you?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
They were just a couple of buns of that caught
robbing a bay.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And vanished shell what so everything?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Look, I don't even know who the guys were, and
they're probably no good. But this is America, Carol Baby,
and those guys were entitled to a hearing before a
judge and then sentenced. They just can't be rubbed out.
That happens in a police day, but not here.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Can't you see that? I give up? Is your net? Joy?
I'm not afraid of Ross Randall. He's not going to
feed me to the sharks the way he did with
those two. Hold them.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Sure jumped to conclusions, but where did they go? Whatever
happened to them? Randall doesn't care to tell me. When
the three elders reach a decision, others act on it.
There are four thousand.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Of us here, Joey us you would have to.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Now feel yes, my law practice in the city is
increased by half since we moved.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
To Lifeboat Landing. We love our house, The schools.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Are good, the village is kept beautifully, the club is marvelous, and.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Our neighbors are congenial. What more could I want? Freedom?
Freedom to think and to act as you please. We
have all of freedom we needy.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Come on, both of you. Let's not get nasty. Joey
were here. We now belong to Lifeboat Landing. You don't
like it, That's okay, so please let's not have any
more quarrels and listen to what Susan trying to found
into your head.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The warning We'll see you in town, Joey, not out here.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Okay, you still don't see Why.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Do you that they've got me marked? I don't know that,
but you sense it. Well, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's not going to stop me. I'm going to expose Lifeboat.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Landing for what it is, a fascist commune. At least
I'm going to try, even though I might end up
in the briny. Aristotle wrote that democracy arose from men
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thinking that if they are equal in any respect. They
are equal in all respects. I don't think it's worked
that way here. You and I have equal rights with
say a famous doctor, But could we pretend to be
equal in the ability to invent the polio vaccine? More
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on the subject as it applies to Lifeboat Landing when
I return with that three. From what I have gathered
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so far, lifeboat Landing on the southeastern shore of Long
Island is the ideal community.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Joey O'Hara disagrees.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
He's a newspaper man, of course, with a natural instinct
for news, and he finds any controlled society repugnant. His
curiosity was aroused by the disappearance of two men who
held up the local bank and vanished.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That's just what it is, Frank. So are some of
the private clubs around town. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Guys from the same college band together, other guys who
like boats, beer drinking, guys.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
By roll over town.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
But they don't decide flatly what taxes are going to pay,
or what happens to a guy who holds up a
liquor store. Okay, you've got something up your sleep, what
is it?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Take a look at this.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
There's a picture of some German soldier and a fatigue jacon.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So it's doctor Fritz Heinemann. Who's he some small pigs Nazi?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's right, Well, there's lots of them still drifting around.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This guy drifted to lifeboat Landing. So what is he
under wanted list?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
No, he came here from South America and took out
citizenship papers in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So what about him.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
He's one of the three elders of the village. Oh,
Heineman is the kind of guy who's still being doctrinated
with law and order and obedience and a system of informers.
Just what lifeboat landing the next Nazi? So what so
he and the other two elders, Roth Randal and some
guy named Larson rule absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That's why there's no crime. Somebody drifts into lifeboat landing
and commits a crime he's never heard of. Again, the
two stick up in.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They got it, Frank, it's easy to cover up two
murders of four thousand persons wanted covered up. And what
I want to do, Frank, is to begin to write
a series.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Of articles about the place. No good, you said, Nobody
out there is willing to talk. What you think is
one thing.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But unless you got facts sweep the inviting a libel suit,
the paper can't fur the story without blessing hard facts.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
You haven't got any.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Oh, sure you know about Heinemann, and you got a
bug in your ear about the two hoods.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But what if you got really huh not have got
more than that?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
But if the three elders weren't worried about an investigation,
would they warn my brother that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I could get hit? Would your brother testify that it'd
been threatened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I do when you've told me about him since he
moved out there.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Your brother wouldn't talk. He is my brother.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
He's also a guy who would probably like to stay alive.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Now what, I just want to come here and talk.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You know that makes me nervous. I feel the way
I used to feel when I hadn't done my homework.
What have I done now?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The play committee?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Oh no, I saw the light. No protest play for
next season.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So I know what you're gonna say, but.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Doesn't conform it to get you done. It's smothering.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I like it here, Carol, But if you don't, we
can always move back to the city.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
But think of what we've got and what we've given up.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I like them in Hello, Raw, Hello Fretz, come on
in thank you? He won't play five minutes to what evening? Missus?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
O'ha Hello doctor Heinemann. Raw, Please sit down? Shall I stay?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I really want me.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
What we have to say is for both of you. Phil,
we think we've made a mistake. I really made a mistake.
But the elders act together. We share credit and errors.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
A mistake.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Elas and I met with mister Larson, the third elder,
and we have concluded reluctantly that lifeboat landing is not
quite right for your family.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I'm sorry to hear that. We like it here very much. Yes,
I think you do, Phil, But what about you, Carol.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I'm getting used to it. It's taking a while because
it's a different experience for me. But I love my
house and everything else about the building is.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Physically it is perfect, and the reason for that is
efficient organization. Some persons fit the York, others do not.
Many personal inclinations have to be repressed for the good
of all. Decisions made by the three elders represent the
majority opinion, and the minority has to accept it, and
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some persons might present that kind of rule is arbitrary,
but it is kind of Is it preferable to constant turmoil?
The elders decide what is best for all and put
it into effect to be efficient and productive. Ouse leads ahead,
sworders for business, sordes.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Government and offen.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, Turmoil and bitterness and neighbors set against neighbor, those
are the very reasons that democracy is inefficient.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
But each of us should be free to say what
he thinks.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
That is the reason for our visits. We suggest it
will be happier if you leave lifeboat landing.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
We would like to have you.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Stay with us, but not as dissidents.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And then feel, there's your brother. I told him to
stay away. It's easy. I'm fond of him. He's still
better on making trouble.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
How could he?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
He can't, but he refuses to believe it. I can
give you one piece of news that you may not
be aware of.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
He's been discharged from his job.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You won't give up visual art well. I do like
him for it, and his wife will come around.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
It seems a shame to tell him to move because
of that brother of his. He could be disposed of
very easily.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Not too obvious.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
The publicity would be unpleasant, and I don't know if
that editor would stand still for the disappearance of Joey O'Hara,
but live out facts.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Would believe what he might say.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
The two hold up men disappear. Joey O'Hara disappears the first.
I'm missing because I will gang to care them, or
how that is missing because he.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Was closed to exposing the game. This kind of thing
could be the lover of us. Let me try something
else first. I have an idea. I'm sure it's okay
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for you to be seen with me, brother Phil mom office.
I mean it. You keep on associating with the headhunter,
they'll kick you out of life boat landing. They're going
to No. Oh, that's the best news I've heard in days.
No kidding.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Remember this happened last night. After him an ranto sugget,
we might be happy if we moved out. They told
me that he'd been fired. I tried to get you
over the float, me and my editor might pal Frank.
I got him home and fell asleep in his living room.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I'm sorry about the job. They editor warned you.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yeah, I know it's not his foot. The word came
down from mister Lord. He's from Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know. Ah, well, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
You're coming back to the city, so that place bugs Carol.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Oh, it's not definite. I suppose I'm the reason they
want you ount it's mostly you. Yes, No, I should
be sorry, but I'm not. Hyneman is a former Nazi.
He settled in Lifeboat Landing and built a model brainwashed village.
It works like a perfect clock. Great if you're a
cross to get wound up and just took away. Heman
(37:31):
a former Nazi, that's right. Oh, he's an American citizen now.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
But he's he's put together a perfect model of a
town occupied by the Behrmacht. Everybody smiling on the outside,
spying on their neighbors, scared stiff on the inside. Because
if he stepped out of line, the three elders get you.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
That's not quite true. Joy.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Before they take an important position, they pull the heads
of each of the family, and you're going to disagree
with what the elders recommend, not on your life. Another
thing about Hyeman, he is also some kind of face healer,
so as I mean, I've heard that he can affect
some remarkable swords. He's an Internet but he also dabbles
(38:15):
on the side and faith healing. The reason I at
Princess it was that bank cashier. He was left for dead.
The next day he's up and around good as you.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I don't believe it. The faith healing, I mean, hi,
the guy.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Probably his name.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I believe that I believe anything about Hyneman and those
other two.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Are you all right for money, Joe? Sure, I'm rolling
in about one hundred and forty bucks if you need
any banks. Thanks? And what now? Now, I've got another
surprise for you.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I'm having cocktails at six with Hynaman and Randall at
your community club in lovely Lifeboat Landing.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Oh, come on, what's for resistance? Says Off.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
They're going to tell me all about to hold up
guys who floated away into space. You're quite right, so, Harrah,
I was a member of the Nazi Party. I was
deluded to many of my companions there. That, however, was
(39:21):
many years ago. I escaped through South America and then
to the United States.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
There I am a citizen.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Everyone in Lifeboat Landing nosing why.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Is the facts to you?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Because the government of Lifeboat Landing reflects an alien philosophy,
your deleted philosophy of absolute rules. Always to believe in
a democracy controlled by the three elders who enforced the
majority rule.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
So two guys stick.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Up your bank, and the majority of pools rubbing them
out exactly you admit you had them disappear.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is without trial and without a defense. Try it. That's murder.
It is self preservation.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Here is our weapons, and all of us believe in it,
and you place yourself above our accepted concept of law.
Be invited you here to demonstrate how justice works in
our village.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
You have warned about speeding. Don't tell me I'm going
to be punished for throwing a cigarette in the street.
You're not going to be punished at all.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
But you are about to be rendered ineffective in your
attempt to expose us for our way of life, which includes,
when it's necessary.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The act of extermination. Or you're giving me a mighty
juicy story, mister Randland. You may feel free to write
it if you want. Your niece, then your nephew, then
missus Allah, and then your brother.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
You'll loup out of sight forever you you murdered them.
Drop your investigations. Well, that's exactly what will happen.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
They're getting out of this sick place, so they're bag remain.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
If we had thought of telling them to leave and
then of dealing with you this way will be less
troubleson is you alive?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
No one will believe your story.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I'll notify every law enforcement agency in the country, and
who would believe you? Your niece is drowned at the beach?
Your nephew, Well, I go on you do that?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Oh, yes, that's as fiendish.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
You like our way of life, and no one will
be allowed to interfere with it. All right, now, you're
free to go. We've warned you, and I assure you
we can act now. I'll get my brother and his
family out of here tonight. Feel free to But will
your brother and his wife believe you? And even if
(41:54):
they do, who would print your story? You have no facts.
You're helpless, mister O'Hara. You dirty, good ninking mister O'Hara.
Have a nice drive back to the city.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Where you're calling from. Joey What he says?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
They knock off your family one by one?
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Joey, are you sober all right?
Speaker 2 (42:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Save the language? Eh?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, yeah, I'll do better than that.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
I'll have the state police escort filling his family back
to New York, and I'll bust the story all over
tomorrow morning's paper. Yeah yeah, it may cost me my job,
but it be a real jerk not to say.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Four lives, make that five, But I get you to
joey okay, pal hang up and hide out. I'll take over.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
A fantasy.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Of course, it really can't happen here, but back in
nineteen thirty five, Saint Clair Lewis thought it could, and
it was he who anticipated the monstrous war fomented by
a madman who wanted to impose a rigid order on
Europe and then on the rest of the civilized world.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
He failed, just as tyranny.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Failed in the strange village of Lifeboat Landing. I will
return shortly. Everyone believes in law and order, but those
(43:59):
are ideal which arise from within a free society for
the common good. Try to impose them without common consent,
and there is resistance. The alternative is a police state,
which is just what Joy o'haraf finally managed to expose.
(44:19):
Our cast included Mason Adams, Anne Shepherd, Mandel Kramer, Robert Phelps,
and Guy Sorell. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown, Missus E. G. Marshall, inviting you to
return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Until next time, pleasant
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