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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Diamond Matter (EP4890)
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Today's Mystery: An insurance case was closed, but the agency forgot about a fraudulent claim for the jewelry. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; Ben...
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. But first, if you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And when making your travel plans in 2026, remember johnnydoller air.com johnnydoller air.com is a Priceline affiliate link. So part of your purchase price supports the great detectives of Old Time Radio at no additional cost to you. So remember when making your travel plans. Check out johnnydoller air.com now from September 14, 1958, here is the Wayward Diamonds Matter.
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From Hollywood. It's time now for. Johnny Dollar, Peter Handley at Western Maritime and property. Oh yeah, Mr. Hanley, I found this message to call you. You're still in town at the Beverly Hilton? Yes, that's right. I thought you'd be back in Hartford by now. When I can enjoy a spot like this on expense account. What? This California weather, this swimming pool here at the hotel. Wait. No, no, no, wait. You say on expense account? Why, sure. Call it. You cleared up that matter for us. You proved conclusively that Randolph Merrill did not lose his yacht. That the explosion and the sink. That's right. And incidentally, as you anticipated, the yacht was found in a small Mexican seaport all ready to be rebuilt and repainted to thoroughly disguise. Good. Now, Mr. Hanley. Oh, by the way, in spite of his earlier vindictiveness, Merrill has decided to plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the court. Has he signed a confession? Well, no. Then I'll bet he changes his tune by the time he goes to trial. Sure, that's an old trick to slow things up, gain time. Are you having Mrs. Merrill held as an accessory? Merrill has made and signed a statement completely clearing her. So to hold her now would only complicate matters. Hanley, either you haven't yet read my expense account report or I forgot to. Or I forgot to tell you what tipped me off. That that bear was trying to pull something on us. Oh, what was it, Mr. Dollar? Her jewels that you'd insured for $100,000. Oh, no. Oh, yes. Hanley, that jewelry Mrs. Merrill showed us was fake paste. You. You still think I ought to go back to Hartford? No, no, no, no. Not until you found out where the real jewels are. Can you come down to the office, Mr. Dollar? Right away? Sure, if you like. No, no, no, no. I'll drive out there to your hotel. Whatever you say. Yes, I'll drive out there. I'll be there right away. Scotch and soda be all right? Yeah. What? You suddenly sound as though. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the man with the Action Packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Western Maritime and Property Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the wayward diamonds matter. Expense account Item one. Two dollars and a quarter for drinks in my room at the Beverly Hilton. By the time room service had delivered them, collected the chip and left, Peter Hanley arrived. Yeah, Come in. I make no bones about it, Mr. Toller. I had completely forgotten about those jewels of Mrs. Merrill's. Yeah, well, I can't say that I blame you. We were so intent on exposing the so called sinking of that yacht. Exactly. All right, all right, relax here. Come on now, sit down and relax while we map out a plan of Action. Thank you. After you hung up, I suddenly remembered that you had mentioned the fact that those jewels were fake to Mrs. Merrow herself. Yeah, that's right. All right. Well, how did you know that they were fakes, Mr. Dollar? You remember when we sat in their living room out in Westwood while they gave us that cock and bull story about the yacht going down? Yes, yes, I remember all right. She handed me the jewels to look at. I kind of absentmindedly dragged one of the so called diamonds across the glass top of the coffee table and realized it didn't scratch it. Did any of the others. Which proved they weren't diamonds at all, but some kind of imitations. Look, why, why kid about it, Hanley? Up to that point they'd had me believing their story about losing that yacht. You weren't alone, Dol. Weren't alone. But now I suppose we'd better call in the police about that jewelry. Why the police? To see if they can find the originals. Now look, look. The Merrells are a clever pair. They proved that when they almost got away with a $150,000 claim against you for a boat that didn't sink after all. Very true, $. Very true. So you can be pretty sure they didn't take the diamonds out of that jewelry and just hand them over to some fence around here. Yes, you're right. Later, I suppose she figured to lose the fakes, have them stolen, then claim the insurance. Yeah, probably. If we hadn't nabbed the old man for the yacht. Fraud, you say she hasn't been helped? No, but I see now that we. She should have been. In spite of her husband's statement that she was completely innocent of any complicity in the whole scheme. Yeah, I think she should have. You know, it's gonna take a lot of money to defend him. And with him in the clink, she's the logical one to raise it with the diamonds. The real diamonds? That's my guess. Very well then. I'll go over to police headquarters right away. Charge her with fraud, you know, because of the diamonds themselves. And see that she is held until she tells us where we can recover them. Hadn't you better get evidence of fraud first? Mere fact that she substituted paste for the real diamonds in that jewelry, darling. Well, a lot of people do that. Never wear the real stuff in public unless they have a lot of guards around. Well, even so. No, Hanley, you've got to prove that she's actually got rid of the real ones. Or tries to. You see, I don't think she's had a chance to yet. Why not? No, no. Listen, I'm running up a nice fat item for you on my expense account. What kind of an item? Well, so far it only amounts to $100 and $150. What for? Fee to a private detective agency. Somebody to tailor 24 hours a day in the hope of finding out what she's doing with the genuine stones. More important, to find out how she'll try to dispose of them. But you may have done that some time ago. I done it. Why? It's only recently they've needed dough. Granted, they had two plans. The phony sinking of the yacht and later, if that worked, a phony loss of their phony diamonds. But why later? To run them both together would look suspicious. What's more, apparently saving the jewels made the yacht accident look legitimate. Yes, I suppose. Sure. Remember this? She made a big thing of having saved her jewelry when we still believed the wreck was legitimate. That's right. She made a big point of displaying those phonies to us because she wanted to be sure we'd not only see them, but believe they were the originals. That we'd be witness to the fact she still had them. Yes, I see. But she must recall that you finally recognized them as Pace. Yeah, but like, you and I almost forgot about it simply because they had nothing directly to do with the matters at hand. And she may think that we have forgotten. I mean, I doubt it. The point is, now she needs money. He saw to it that she stayed free to raise it and the diamonds are probably her only way of getting it. Which is why I put a detective on her. Oh, excuse me, Johnny Dollar. Yeah? What? Well, how did. Yeah, well, look, I'll be right over. What is it, Dollar? Oh, that detective I was talking about has just lost his job. I don't understand. He just came to. Came to? Yeah, at the home of Mrs. Merrill. He's in her home? Yes, but she isn't. She's gone. Act Two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment. Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat mood much of the time, there are some who just can't get enough of a good fight. Particularly if there's a good, sound reason for it. In July 1900, when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising, the battle was a furiously fought affair. Army Private Robert H. Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the 9th United States Infantry Division was in the thick of the fracas. Although he had been wounded previously, while carrying a wounded comrade to a place of safety, he rejoined his command, which partly occupied an exposed position on a dike. Private Von Schlick remained there after his company had been withdrawn and in spite of the hail of bullets around him, single handedly continued to fire into the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the fact that he was a conspicuous target, he refused to leave the fight until he was literally shot off his position by the enemy. Private Robert von Schlick earned the Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to duty and added heroic background to the code of conduct of American fighting men. And now, Act Two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the Wayward Diamonds. In separate cars. I still had my rental job. Pete Hanley, the insurance man, and I drove out to Westwood, just beyond Beverly Hills. You're sure that detective was here at the Merrill home when he called you? Well, that's what he said. But if he was supposed to simply tail. Come on, come on. Mr. Dollar? Yeah, that's right. And I take it you're Sam. Bench it. Holy smoke, what happened to you? Where's Mrs. Merrill? Well, like I told you on the phone, Mr. Dollox is gone. Any idea where? Oh, sir. Hey, you mind if I sit down? I don't feel so good. No, no, go ahead. Go on, sit down. All right, y' all sit. Yeah. Now, what happened? Well, I was walking up and down the street. Huh? You know, real casual. So as not, there was no street. You've been walking up and down in front of this house all morning? Oh, yeah, all morning. But like I say, real casual. So where did you ever learn to be a detective? Some correspondence course? Oh, now, look, Dolly, you shouldn't talk like that. I resent it. Okay, all right, go ahead and resent it. But prowling up and down in front of the house? My brother runs a very good detective agent. Yeah. And if he didn't think I was a good operator, if he wouldn't. All right, what happened? Well, I see her come out the back door, you know, Ms. Merrill. Wow. And I see her go out and she opens up the garage. And where were you? Well, by good luck, I just happened to be in front of the driveway about then. So, real casual, I lean over and. And I start tying up my shoelaces, you know, so she won't get suspicious of me, you see. Go on, go on. Well, she gets in the car and she gives me a look, but that's all. So I figures, me being a casual, no, she's not wise to what I'm doing around here, you know? I bet she wasn't. But that's where you're wrong, $. Cause somehow she must have figured it out, even with me being so casual. All right, all right, what happened? Well, dollar she comes bound out of the garage so fast I didn't have Harley. And she maybe casually ran you down, so was casual about it. By the time I pick myself up and I find out I got any busted bones, she's down the street and around the corner. What kind of a car was she driving? What was the license number? I don't know. You don't know? Well, then how will happen so far? Look, whoever assigned you to this job ought to call you my brother. And don't you go say anything about my brother. How did you get into this house? Well, my order said if she made any move, I was to phone you. I figured nearest phone was in here. How did you get in? Well, I looked around and seen one of the back windows was open. You have any authority to enter this house? A warrant, maybe? No, but I have my orders to phone you just as soon as I could. Like I said, I figured the nearest phone. You want to see my orders? No, I don't. Well, look, see here. Now, you look. You can take those back to your office and shove them in your darling brother's face. Oh, now you're saying things against my brother. Don't forget to tell him you're fired. Oh, now, look, dollar anybody can make one little mistake. You asked me, you've made them all. Now, go on, get out of that chair and get out of here. Oh, no, listen, I suppose that car that's parked right across the street, I suppose that's yours. Sure. Oh, so if she made a move, I could follow without wasting no time. Real casual, huh? So she wouldn't know you were following her. Of course. All right, go on, get out. Oh, now, look, you wasn't really serious about you being fired? You bet I was. And you can tell your brother he and his agency are. Oh, go on. I. I'll settle with him later. Look, I. I'm not used to being treated like this. And when I tell my brother. Oh, brother. Well, Hanny, it looks like I called in the wrong detective agency. I am afraid so. And I suppose you and I have no more right to be in this house than that idiot had. So perhaps we'd better leave. Yeah, sure, but not until you get on the phone and call the Department of Motor Vehicles. Oh, find out from them the year, make and model of Mrs. Nancy Merrill's car. Or better still, I can. I can call my office. Your office? Yes. We issued the insurance on that car. Well, good. Meantime, rather than just sit here and twiddle my thumbs, I'm gonna have a look around. But, Dolly, if our simply being here is illegal, will you stop worrying about it and get on that phone? In the bedroom, I found the jewel box all right, but no sign of the jewels. However, in a desk, I did find a receipt. A receipt of bill for some work done by a jeweler in Westwood Village. The amount of the bill. Yeah, it was more than enough to cover the substituting phonies for the diamonds in that jewelry. So when Hanley got the description of Nancy Merrill's, I sent him over to West LA Police headquarters to have my pals over there put out an APB on it. Then I hopped into my own car and headed for the jewelry store in Westwood. You know something? If I'd had any idea of what was waiting for me there, believe me, I'd never have gone alone. Act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment, our flag now numbers 50 stars, and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the 50 states. Kentucky's state flag is dark blue with the seal of the Commonwealth encircled by a wreath of goldenrod, the state flower. Within the seal, two friends embrace, their right hands clasped, their left resting on each other's shoulders, their feet on the verge of a precipice which illustrates the motto beneath them. United we stand, divided we fall. Kentucky's state flag, the flag of the 15th state to enter the Union was adopted on March 26, 1918. And now, Act 3 of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the Wayward Diamonds. Howard's Hillcrest Jewelry is a small but very exclusive shop on Wayburn Avenue in the Westwood Village section of Los Angeles. There, with the help of a receipt I'd found in Nancy Merrill's desk, I hope to get on the track of the missing diamonds. I entered the snooty little shop and asked for the owner. I'm sorry, my good man, but Mr. Hard, Howard is engaged with one of our important clients. Well, I'm here on rather important business. Well, if you care to leave your name. And he wishes to see you, perhaps we shall call you. Ah, Mrs. Smythe can look. Pastor, how delightful this see you again. And did little like the jeweled color we selected for him. Such a lovely puppy. You know, he's the favorite of all my donkey friends. Just as you're my favorite, maybe I'd better look for this Howard myself. Mrs. Smith Kenworthy you have no idea how it brightens the day that you drop in. Oops, wrong department. What can I show you today? No, no, but please. Oh, Nancy. Nancy, my dear. Yes, Howard, my pet? When I removed the genuine diamonds from your various pieces and replaced them with paste, it was with the distinct understanding. I know, dear, I know. But now I have to have the real stones put back. Why? As I understood, it was in order to have the fake gems stolen so that you could collect on the insurance. Oh, of course it was. Of course. Not so loud, Howard. Our plan to claim that the yacht exploded, failed. Randolph is in jail. He didn't involve you in that. I must say, rather foolish plot. Oh, no. But I have to go through the motions of getting him legal help. Excellent, my dear. I hope they keep him in jail. Howard, Randolph has stood in the way of our romance too long, my pet. Howard, please listen. Because of the yacht, they sent an insurance investigator out here. Investigator? Yes, a Mr. Johnny Dollar. Dollar? Good heavens. You know him? I know about him. I don't like this. And he found that these jewels I have now are paste. Now, you've got to put the original stones back so that when he sees them again, he'll think he was mistaken. Impossible. I've already disposed of them through various connections. Why did you show him those fakes? Well, I thought. I thought. You thought wrong. Your st. Stupid wench. Oh, how. Don't you see? You may have opened the door to investigation of some of the other favors I've been doing you and other customers to beat your insurance companies. Oh, but I didn't think. Oh, of course you didn't. But if Dollar ever connects me with those imitations. Oh, dear, I know. And if they ever find out that the loss you faked here in the store that you collected so much on. Nancy, if they ever discover that that was faked, I'll go up for life, thanks to. Oh, no. I could kill you for being such a fool. Oh, but darling, I didn't know. I didn't realize. You don't know anything. Howard, please. Oh, shut up. Shut up and let me think. But if there's anything. Anything I can do. I said shut up. Howard, will you be quiet? I got to think this thing out. I knew from the beginning that that stupid trick with the yacht wouldn't work out. I told you so. But it fooled the police and the Coast Guard. How are we to know the insurance company would send that Johnny Dollar out here? Will you stop talking about him? We've got to figure a way out of this. Mess. Who else besides Dollar knows about the phony jewels I made up for you? No one, Howard. Except my husband, of course. Are you sure? How could they know? What if your husband talks? Oh, he doesn't dare. Don't you see? He's the one who sent me here to get the stones back. So the Dollar can't prove he saw the imitations. And I tell you, I can't get them back. They're probably scattered all over the country by now. But don't you see? Unless we can show them to him. The real ones, I mean. Show them to this Johnny Donald. No, no, no, it's impossible. So that means only one thing, Nancy. Replacing the fakes with some other genuine stone. No, no, that would take months. No, Nancy, it means that I have to get rid of this mandala. That gun? That's right. You. You'd kill him? Yes, Nancy, I'll kill him if I can find him. I'll save you the trouble of looking for me. Howard. What? $? And is that the gun you plan to kill me with? Yes, that's right. And I think I'd better kill you right now. Howard, darling, please. Oh, put that thing down, Howard. You're not gonna shoot with customers out front. My private vault is just outside this of my office, $. And it's open in there. The sound of a shot won't be heard out front. No kidding? No kidding. All right, walk out that little door. Walk. You don't really leave me much choice, do you? Open it. Carefully. No tricks. Tricks? With a gun on my back? All right, open the door. Go ahead. It seems stuck. Maybe you'd better open it. I said no tricks. You open it. Howard, you don't know what you're doing. You bet I do. Go ahead, $. You may be sorry for this, you know. Will you quit sawing and open it? What have you say? Mr. Howard. Mr. Howard. Oh, now what? Mr. Howard, there are some men here to see Nancy. Go out and tell them I'm not to be disturbed. I'll see them in a few minutes. Oh, please, dear, go ahead. Go on. Mr. Howard, these men are from the police. The police? Well, bless Peter Hammond. Oh, no, you. Yes, I do. Are you all right? Those shots are. Johnny. Hi, Pete. Huh? Oh, thank heavens. Thank heaven. Yeah, looks like he's okay, Mr. Hanley. But $1 under the sun did you do to our friend Howard here? Well, we had a little argument, Sergeant. I'll tell you all about it, and then you can haul him off to the clink. Oh, hey, listen, if you've got something on Howard. Howard, you'll be our friend for life, Sergeant. Got plenty. Good. Because, brother, we've been trying to catch up with him for years. Coincidentally. Have you got a cell for Mrs. Merrill, too? You bet we have. Expense account item 2. $50 in legal fees to make a deposition so I won't have to hang around for a trial or two or three. And I have a sneaking suspicion that Howard and Merrill and his wife are going to have a long, long time to think things over. Expense account total, including additional mileage on my rental car and the trip Back to Hartford. 218. Even yours truly. Shiny dollar. Our star will return in just a moment. There are some men who, after being practically pushed into the service, find their element and commit heroic deeds. Frank Luke was that sort of young man. Soon after the United States entered World War I, Luke was taunted by his patriotic family into joining up. He was commissioned a second lieutenant after completing his flight training with the Signal Corps Air Service. That small beginning of today's mighty Air Force. Lieutenant Luke found it difficult to accept the discipline so necessary in the military. When he got to France and was assigned to the English Spads, his attitude worried his commanding officer. But Luke's performance in the air didn't. In less than two months in aerial combat, he accounted for seven enemy aircraft and earned himself the nickname of Balloon Buster for knocking down 11 or 12 of those menaces to the ground troops. The observation balloons. For his gallant action in the face of great danger and overwhelming odds, he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and the Medal of Honor. Shortly before the end of the war, Lt. Frank Luke made his last heroic combat flight. After having just returned from a sizzling air battle. He refueled his Spad and took off on an extra duty mission. Pursued by eight enemy planes, he shot down three balloons. He was wounded, and his plane was so badly damaged in the action that he had to make a forced landing in a German cemetery. Perhaps the irony of it struck him at the time. When called upon to surrender, he preferred to open fire with his automatic and fight to the death. Though he was only 21 years of age, Lieutenant Frank Luke May have had trouble adjusting to the military life, but when he did, he was a gallant fighter and a credit to his country. Now, here's our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week, a quiet little fishing pier on the coast of California. Only they call it the Pier of Death. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnston. Zone Heard in our cast were Paula Winslow, Ben Wright, Jack Crucian, Jack Edwards, Marvin Miller and Joseph Kearns. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollard. This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the united states armed forces radio and television service.
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This is the story of the 1. As the purchasing manager at a manufacturing plant, she knows the only thing more important than having the right safety gear is having it there when you need it. That's why she partners with Grainger for auto reordering, so her team members can count on her to have cut resistant gloves on hand and each shift can run safely and efficiently. Call 1-800-GRAINGER, click grainger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done. Welcome back. This episode was frustrating. Essentially the core of the story is everyone being incompetent, starting with Mr. Hanley. So let me get this straight. You're going off and working with prosecutors and cutting deals and you haven't bothered to read the investigator's report? Now Johnny, to his credit, tried to be nice and raised the possibility, which he had to know was nonsense, that he had left out of his report the detail about the jewels. But when he said either you haven't read the report I sent, but then Peter and Johnny was saying, or I forgot to mention about this detail, but Hanley interrupted him and said I haven't even, while Johnny continued on with the sentence. So this all comes back to him not doing just basic due diligence. Now I do think in another context, the private investigator who was there as nepotism could have worked. He would have been perfectly fine comic relief if the rest of the story held up. And then we get to the jewelry store where Johnny is able to slip back into the private areas of the jewelry store because why should the jewelry store clerks be any more competent than anyone else in this story? And he gets to overhear Mr. Howard and Mrs. Merrill discussing all of their sins and felonies allowed to each other for expositional purposes, as people tend to do before Mr. Howard decides that he is going to take out Johnny Dollar. And this is next part was something I could not relate to because if I happen to overhear someone saying that I needed to be killed and they were brandishing a gun, I wouldn't walk in and say hey, it's me. That's not something I would do. And Johnny talked about how he should have brought someone along, really all he needed to bring along was a God. But I think Johnstone recognized that if he just captured the criminals after overhearing them exposit that, that wouldn't be dramatically satisfying. But then you have the portion where Johnny points out that Mr. Howard wasn't going to shoot him because his customers would hear. And then Mr. Howard points out that he has a vault that's soundproof and instructs Johnny to go back to that vault. And then Johnny says something that actually got me to audibly react to the show, yell at the show. He said, well, I guess you haven't left me any choice. And I said, yes, he has. Don't go to the vault. There is one place in this entire building where he can kill you and not be detected. If you don't want to get shot, don't go there. Now, there are ways you can make that work dramatically. If, say, there was somebody else who might get hurt, your hero might go along with it because he's scared of doing something that gets somebody else hurt, but you just got the criminals there. Or if somebody is panicking and not thinking clearly and logically, but Johnny was. Johnny understood that if Howard killed him, all of Howard's customers would hear it. And that gets canceled out as soon as Howard tells him, there is one portion of the building where I can safely kill you. And Johnny's reaction is, well, I guess I don't have any choice but to go there. Is there some rule of insurance investigators that maybe was around in 1958 that's been lost to the ages that says if a man with a gun orders you to go to a soundproof room where he can kill you without being detected, you have to go there. That's the only logical explanation. And then, of course, at the end, Johnny gets bailed out when the police show up, which is a favorite ending of Jack Johnstone for these sort of stories, which I don't think reflects particularly well on the hero. I mean, maybe it's a pro law enforcement message, support your local police, save an insurance investigator. But Joan Stone uses it way too much. And I think particularly with the private detective, you get an idea that this episode was intended to be comedic. But I feel like. And Johnstone can tell comedy episodes that work. And I think when Johnstone writes Johnny Dollar and it's actually amusing and funny, it tends to be eccentric characters interacting with Johnny and Johnny responding in a believable way that leads to humor that actually works. This just makes everyone the Keystone Cops. So what are the weaker episodes so far? Well, listener comments and feedback now. And we start over on Spotify with some comments regarding the Malibu Mystery Manor. Harrison writes, tonight the part of Mr. Dobkin will be played by Mr. Dobkin. Yeah, that's an interesting quirk of Jack Johnstone. He didn't have actors play themselves, but he had them play characters with their same name. And I guess with everything that he was doing, he just didn't have time to give everyone a character an original name. That's the best explanation I can come up with. Mechanic 66 writes, Good one. And then regarding the Neil Breer matter encore, it says a really good episode. It seemed about 50% longer than the non serialized episodes. Well about that one thing with the pre Bailey stories, most of them was that you had a pretty good space to tell a story in. If you were dealing with a sustaining episode which was network sponsored, you often had something like 26 minutes to tell the story compared to maybe 19. You know, not counting commercials, theme music, PSAs, whatever. And that extra time really does make a difference. I personally tend to prefer the serial episodes and the first episode first season of Bob Bailey. But then after that I tend to prefer the o' Brien and Lund episodes over the later ones just because they had more rooms and tended to be better stories. Over on Patreon, Jeff wrote, I know o' Brien was Johnny Dollar for two and a half years, but this is the first time I've heard an o' Brien episode. I know I'm beyond on this front lol. It was interesting to hear his vocal style difference from Bob Bailey. At this point all of the o' Brien episodes are probably off of our main feed, but if anyone is interested to go and listen to past Johnny Dollars, I'd encourage you to check out our great detectives, yours truly Johnny Dollar feed which has all of the Johnny Dollar episodes in it with all of the various actors. It's quite extensive, but thanks so much. Appreciate the comment Jeff. And then over on our listener survey on Blueberry, Fred writes, johnny Dollar gives me a good listening experience when I can't sleep well. So glad to be of assistance Fred. And then from YouTube a couple more comments on the Malibu Mystery Manor. James says great episode and Mildred says, I agree. Well thank you so much. Appreciate the comments. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day and I Want to thank MJ Patreon supporter since February 2018 supporting the podcast at the rookie level of $2 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support mj and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast Please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We will be back next Friday with another episode of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. But join us back here tomorrow as we give way to the great adventure Old Time Radio. 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