Episode 409: The Widow's Gorilla

[00:00:16] Speaker A: The mysterious old radio listening society podcast. Welcome to the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society, a podcast dedicated to suspense, crime and horror stories from the golden age of radio. I'm Eric. [00:00:35] Speaker B: I'm Tim. [00:00:36] Speaker C: And I'm Joshua. [00:00:37] Speaker A: We love mysterious old time radio stories, but do they stand the test of time? That's what we're here to find out. [00:00:43] Speaker B: This week I've brought an episode from a series we have not yet sampled on this podcast, the Adventures of the Falcon. The show made its debut on the Blue network on April 10, 1943 and ran until November 27, 1954. [00:00:56] Speaker C: The Falcon is an alias for Detective Michael Waring, a character created in a series of novels by Charles H. Huff, writing under the pseudonym Drexel Drake in the 1930s. The radio adaptation was prompted in part by a series of successful movies by RKO featuring a different character named the Falcon from a different series of novels, namely the character Gay Lawrence by Michael Arwen. The Michael Waring version of the character was featured in a few movies starring John Calvert and a television series starring Charles McGraw. [00:01:31] Speaker A: Over the 11 years of the show's run, five different actors played the title role, including Barry Kroger, James Migan, Les Tremaine, Les Damon and George Petrie. The episode we're about to Listen to, the Case of the Widow's Gorilla, features Les Damon as the Falcon and was first broadcast November 12, 1950. [00:01:52] Speaker C: It's late at night and a chill has set in. You're alone and the only light you see is coming from an antique radio. Listen to the sounds coming from the speaker, listen to the music and listen to the voices. [00:02:08] Speaker D: The Craft Foods Company brings you the Adventures of the Falcon, starring Les Demon. [00:02:17] Speaker E: Hello? Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh, Doris, thanks for the call, but tonight is out for me. I'm working for a businessman who has killed off his competition, and the question is, did he do it literally? [00:02:36] Speaker D: This is Ed Herlihy, friends, inviting you on behalf of the Kraft Foods Company to listen to the Adventures of the Pulkin. You met the Falcon first in his bestselling novels. Then you saw him in his thrilling motion picture series. Now join him on the air when the Falcon solves the case of the Widow's Gorilla. Sunday afternoon in time for another thrilling adventure of the Falcon. But first, a word about another kind of adventure, an adventure in flavor. For right now at your grocer's, there's a wonderful new salad oil for use in your homemade salad dressings, your cooking, your baking. 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He breaks the revolver, sees that it's loaded, closes it and is raising it to his head when he hears a sound behind him. He turns to see his wife Lois standing in the doorway. [00:04:45] Speaker F: Raymond, what are you doing? [00:04:47] Speaker G: What does it look like I'm doing? [00:04:48] Speaker F: Give me that gun. [00:04:49] Speaker G: Stay away from me. [00:04:50] Speaker F: Please, Raymond, let me have it. [00:04:52] Speaker G: Stay away or you'll really get hurt. [00:04:54] Speaker F: Don't you listen to reason? [00:04:55] Speaker G: What can you say? Business is ruined. Kendrick's got the best of me. There's nothing left. [00:05:00] Speaker F: Are you just going to quit? Let him win so easily? [00:05:02] Speaker G: He's already won. Driven me to the wall. There's nothing I can do. [00:05:05] Speaker F: There must be something. [00:05:07] Speaker G: Bankruptcy, disgrace. [00:05:09] Speaker F: You just start feeling sorry for yourself and really work at it. You'd find a way out. [00:05:12] Speaker G: Ow. [00:05:12] Speaker F: Don't ask me. You're the brain. [00:05:14] Speaker G: I tell you it's no use. Only other way out would. Hey, wait a minute. That's an idea. If Kendrick would fall for it. [00:05:24] Speaker F: What is it? [00:05:24] Speaker G: Yes, it's a possibility. [00:05:25] Speaker F: What is? What are you talking about? [00:05:26] Speaker G: You'll see if it works. Have to figure out how to present it to Kendrick. He might just go for it. He just might. Well, there's the proposition. Kendrick, what do you say? [00:05:49] Speaker H: Is that all you have to offer? All? [00:05:51] Speaker G: Look, it's all in your favor. Everything the way. [00:05:53] Speaker H: Sorry, arsady, I'm not interested. But don't you see it's not worth discussing. When you asked me to come over this morning, I thought you had a worthwhile offer. I can't waste my time on this. Good day. Oh, sorry. [00:06:04] Speaker G: No, Kendrick, wait. [00:06:05] Speaker H: Perhaps your time isn't valuable or. Sorry. [00:06:08] Speaker E: Mine is. [00:06:09] Speaker H: Good day again. [00:06:11] Speaker G: I might have known he wouldn't be interested. I should have known. Why do I try to kid myself? What's the use, dear Lois, it's no use. I knew that it wouldn't be. But I tried to pretend I'm sorry about everything. But there's only one way out. You took the gun last night, but you didn't know. I have another. [00:06:42] Speaker I: Try to forgive me, Ray. [00:07:10] Speaker E: Excuse me, miss. [00:07:11] Speaker C: Yes? [00:07:11] Speaker E: I'd like to see Mr. Kendrick. [00:07:13] Speaker F: Hey, you know something? [00:07:14] Speaker A: What? [00:07:14] Speaker F: You look an awful lot like the Falcon. [00:07:16] Speaker E: Well, it's the shape of my face. [00:07:17] Speaker F: It's amazing. I've seen pictures of him. [00:07:20] Speaker E: Will you please tell Mr. Kendrick I'm here? He's expecting me. [00:07:22] Speaker F: Your name? [00:07:23] Speaker E: Michael Waring? [00:07:24] Speaker F: Yes, sir. Michael Waring. You are the Falcon? [00:07:29] Speaker I: Yes. [00:07:29] Speaker E: Small world, isn't it? Now, will you tell Kendrick I'm going [00:07:32] Speaker H: out for a few minutes. If Mr. Waring comes, ask him to wait. [00:07:35] Speaker F: This is Mr. Waring. [00:07:36] Speaker H: Oh, fine. I'm not going out after all. Come on in, Waring. [00:07:41] Speaker E: Right. [00:07:43] Speaker H: And if anyone else comes, I don't want to be disturbed. Yes, sir. Now, Waring, I guess you wonder what a man like me wants with a detective. [00:07:51] Speaker E: Oh, I wouldn't say that. Happens in the best of families. [00:07:54] Speaker H: What happens? [00:07:55] Speaker E: Needing detectives. [00:07:56] Speaker I: Oh. [00:07:56] Speaker H: Oh, that. Thought you meant murder. I wonder how you knew. [00:08:00] Speaker E: So that's why I'm here. [00:08:02] Speaker H: Yes. The police just left. You read about it in the paper tomorrow. [00:08:06] Speaker E: What'll I read? [00:08:07] Speaker H: I have a nice little business here, Waring. Been growing steadily the past few years. This week I drove my chief competitor, Raymond Arsatte, to the wall. Bankruptcy. [00:08:17] Speaker E: Bully for you. [00:08:18] Speaker H: Got a call from him this morning. Could I come right over? I went. What he offered was a merger. I don't need him. He needs me. [00:08:27] Speaker C: Well? [00:08:28] Speaker H: Well, I told him I wasn't interested and left. An hour later he's found shot through the head. [00:08:35] Speaker E: That's one way to get rid of competition. [00:08:36] Speaker H: I didn't do it. [00:08:37] Speaker E: All right, chum, all right. [00:08:39] Speaker H: But the medical examiner says he got it right around the time I was there. [00:08:43] Speaker E: But he was alive when you left? [00:08:44] Speaker H: Definitely. Only I have no proof. But I have a theory. Waring, See what you think of it. All right, I say suicide. [00:08:52] Speaker E: Was there a note? [00:08:53] Speaker H: They didn't find any. But here's the way I see it. Or Sati knew he was licked and blames me. He decides to give up and shoots himself. But he does it in a way to get back at me. He kills. He calls me on a silly pretext, waits till I leave, and then kills himself intentionally, leaving no notes. Or I'll be blamed. [00:09:17] Speaker E: Hmm. [00:09:18] Speaker H: You don't buy it? [00:09:19] Speaker E: It's possible. Who found the body? [00:09:21] Speaker H: A Leonard Stribling. He arrived an hour after me. [00:09:24] Speaker E: You know anything about Stribling? [00:09:26] Speaker H: I understand he's a bookie or soddy, like the horses. [00:09:29] Speaker E: All right, Kendrick. I'll drop round and see Stribling. You're playing a long shot, and I have an idea he's just the boy to quote me the od. [00:09:51] Speaker D: Hello. [00:09:51] Speaker E: My name is Mike Waring. I'd like to see Leonard Stripling, please. I'm Stribling the bookie. [00:09:56] Speaker I: Look around you, Waring. Look around you. Can't you see this is a loan office? [00:09:59] Speaker E: It's convenient. You clean them, lend them the money, then clean them all over again. Get them coming and going. [00:10:04] Speaker I: You got the wrong Leonard Stribling. [00:10:06] Speaker E: Didn't you? Find Raymond or Saudi's body. [00:10:08] Speaker I: So what? [00:10:08] Speaker E: I've got the right Leonard Stripling. [00:10:10] Speaker I: Look, I don't know what you want wearing, but whatever it is, you're wasting your time. The law's had me on the grill already. And I'm clear. Osati was killed an hour before I [00:10:17] Speaker D: went up to his place. [00:10:18] Speaker I: And I can account for every second of that hour with witnesses. [00:10:21] Speaker E: So you didn't kill him. What's the chances he killed himself? [00:10:25] Speaker G: Suicide? [00:10:25] Speaker E: Mm. Are you sure there wasn't a note? [00:10:28] Speaker I: Who you working for? Waring Insurance company. [00:10:30] Speaker E: What insurance company? [00:10:31] Speaker I: Osati's. He had a 30 grand policy. Didn't you know? [00:10:35] Speaker E: I'm just beginning. Tell me more. [00:10:37] Speaker I: No, you tell me who you're working for. [00:10:40] Speaker E: That's no secret. Kendrick. [00:10:42] Speaker I: Kendrick, huh? Good. [00:10:44] Speaker G: Very good. [00:10:45] Speaker E: You like that? [00:10:47] Speaker I: Come on in here, Waring. [00:10:49] Speaker E: Okay. [00:10:53] Speaker I: Now, look, Kendrick is in this kind of deep. Hmm. [00:10:58] Speaker H: So? [00:10:59] Speaker I: Well, I suppose there was a note. A suicide note? I don't say there was. But if there was, that'd be all the proof Kendrick would need that he didn't knock off Horsadi, right? [00:11:10] Speaker E: Right. [00:11:11] Speaker I: Note like that ought to be worth a lot to Kendrick. [00:11:14] Speaker E: How much? [00:11:15] Speaker I: Don't ask me. Kendrick's the only one who can answer that. But before he starts figuring, maybe you'd better remind him that he's not the only one who'd be interested in the note. [00:11:24] Speaker E: Who else? [00:11:25] Speaker I: Osadi's widow. Why? [00:11:26] Speaker E: Suicide clause. [00:11:27] Speaker I: You guessed it, chum. The clause is in effect. If Osadi killed himself, the insurance is void, meaning that Mrs. O is out a cool 30 grand. [00:11:37] Speaker E: I get the picture. [00:11:38] Speaker I: Good. Show it to Kendrick. He may appreciate art too. [00:11:59] Speaker C: Yes? [00:11:59] Speaker E: Are you Lois or Satya? [00:12:01] Speaker F: Yes. [00:12:01] Speaker E: My name is Mike Waring. I'd like to talk to you for a minute. May I come in? [00:12:04] Speaker F: What's it about? [00:12:05] Speaker E: Your husband's death. [00:12:06] Speaker F: I don't want to think about it anymore. You'll have to go. [00:12:08] Speaker E: I know how you feel. But before I go, I thought you might like to know I've just seen Leonard Stripling. [00:12:13] Speaker F: What of it? [00:12:14] Speaker E: He tried to sell me your husband's suicide note. [00:12:17] Speaker H: What? [00:12:17] Speaker E: Yes, Mrs. Arsadi. Stribling says your husband killed himself and he's dickering with you to sell you the note so you can cash in on the insurance. [00:12:24] Speaker F: That's a lie. I haven't seen Stribling. [00:12:27] Speaker E: Than you will. He wants to get us bidding against each other. [00:12:29] Speaker F: What's your interest in the note? [00:12:31] Speaker E: Well, it could save me a lot of trouble. If you buy it, you're just going to wind up in a jam with the insurance company. [00:12:38] Speaker F: What an awful thing to say. To suggest that I do such a thing. It isn't enough what I've gone through, you have to come here. Make such accusations. [00:12:46] Speaker E: I didn't accuse. I advised. [00:12:47] Speaker F: Get out of here. [00:12:49] Speaker E: Sure. So long. [00:12:51] Speaker F: Marbury. Marbury, come here. [00:12:54] Speaker E: Yeah? [00:12:55] Speaker J: Mrs. Osadi, what's the trouble? [00:12:58] Speaker F: A man just left Michael Waring. You can catch him before he reaches the street. I want you to see that he doesn't get distributed. If he tries to stop him. I don't care what you do, only stop him. You understand? Miracle Whip has a flavor so pleasing. Miracle Whip tastes so lively, so teasing. [00:13:29] Speaker D: Miracle Whip only one of its kind. [00:13:32] Speaker F: Miracle Whip best salad dressing you'll find. [00:13:35] Speaker D: Miracle Whip is the only one of its kind because it's different. A different type of salad dressing. Made from a secret craft recipe, Miracle Whip combines the best qualities of boiled dressing and old fashioned mayonnaise. So it's truly distinctive and and delicious. With a flavor millions of folks call just exactly right. Try it, won't you? One taste will tell you why it's America's favorite salad dressing. The one and only Miracle Whip. Now back to the Adventures of the falcon. 10 minutes have passed since Lois Orsate ordered Marbury to keep Mike from stripling. Now in a restaurant, Mike enters the phone book to put in a call to his client. As he dials, Mike looks through the glass door and sees Marbury earnestly studying the pages of a telephone book and from time to time shooting glances at Mike that are meant to be unnoticed. Hello, Kendrick? [00:14:39] Speaker E: Yes, Mike Waring. [00:14:40] Speaker H: Oh, yes, Waring. Any luck? [00:14:43] Speaker E: Yeah, you were right. Looks like Osadi killed himself. [00:14:45] Speaker H: I knew it. [00:14:46] Speaker E: But you were also wrong. What's that you said? Osadi didn't leave a note because he wanted you blamed. [00:14:51] Speaker H: Uh huh. [00:14:52] Speaker E: Well, there is a note. [00:14:53] Speaker D: There is. [00:14:54] Speaker E: So Stribling claims. So what becomes of your theory? [00:14:57] Speaker H: Well, it's still suicide. But Stribling told the police there wasn't [00:15:00] Speaker E: any note because he wants to peddle it to the highest bidder. [00:15:03] Speaker H: Oh, but who else would be interested? [00:15:06] Speaker E: Mrs. Osadi. I tried to talk her out of the deal, but no dice. She put a tail on me. [00:15:11] Speaker H: What? [00:15:12] Speaker E: Yeah, Flat faced Joe who's making such a production of being inconspicuous that he stands out like an overcoat in July. He's right outside this phone booth waiting to pick me up again. [00:15:20] Speaker H: What are you gonna do? [00:15:22] Speaker D: Have dinner. [00:15:22] Speaker E: I'm hungry. [00:15:23] Speaker H: All right, Waring, but about that note. I'm willing to pay. I don't like being involved with murder [00:15:29] Speaker E: and I don't like blackmail. I'll go up and see Stribling as soon as I finish dinner. [00:15:33] Speaker H: And the man who's following you? [00:15:35] Speaker E: Well, if he's still with me after dinner, I'll call him on it. If he's as bad a liar as he is a tail, I should learn plenty. All right, chum, what are we playing? Plan. You've been following me ever since I left Osadis. [00:16:04] Speaker J: You own the sidewalk. [00:16:06] Speaker E: Well, considering taxes, sometimes I wonder. [00:16:08] Speaker J: You want to walk, you walk. I want to walk, I walk. It doesn't say somebody's following somebody. [00:16:14] Speaker E: All right, walk. I'll wait here. [00:16:16] Speaker J: I'll walk when I feel like it. [00:16:18] Speaker E: You mean when I feel like it. Now look, chum, I've been in this racket long enough to know when I'm being tailed. [00:16:22] Speaker J: In that case, you've been in the racket long enough to be familiar with one of these. [00:16:27] Speaker E: No gun. Yes. [00:16:29] Speaker J: Well, turn around. [00:16:31] Speaker I: Go on. [00:16:33] Speaker J: Now start walking. [00:16:35] Speaker E: Where to? [00:16:35] Speaker J: Straight ahead. Remember, I'm right behind you. [00:16:39] Speaker E: Well, under the circumstances, I'm not likely to forget. You know, I'm sorry you're so attached to me. I'm really not your type at all. [00:16:46] Speaker J: Maybe you have a point. Turn into that alley. All right, now stop. [00:16:56] Speaker E: I have an idea. This is the part I don't like. [00:16:58] Speaker J: Don't like? You love it. This is where I leave you. That's where you want it, isn't it? Well, yes, but only before I go, I better say goodbye, like so. [00:17:21] Speaker G: All right, pal, on your feet. [00:17:24] Speaker E: Oh, hello, officer. [00:17:25] Speaker G: Come on, get up. [00:17:26] Speaker E: I'll try. [00:17:27] Speaker G: Emmaus. Can't handle it. Shouldn't touch it. [00:17:29] Speaker D: What? [00:17:29] Speaker G: You heard me. [00:17:31] Speaker E: You think I'm drunk? [00:17:32] Speaker I: No. [00:17:32] Speaker G: That aroma issuing from you is doubtless genuine attar of roses. [00:17:36] Speaker E: What? Oh, yeah, he must have doused the stuff on me. [00:17:40] Speaker G: Oh, you didn't drink it. Somebody doused you. [00:17:43] Speaker E: Look, officer, I was sapped. Here's the lump if you want to feel it. [00:17:46] Speaker G: Hey, neat job, right? Back in the year. Maybe I was wrong. [00:17:51] Speaker E: Yeah, maybe. What time is it, officer? [00:17:54] Speaker G: A little after eight. [00:17:55] Speaker E: Then I've only been out a few minutes. There may still be time. [00:17:58] Speaker D: Huh. [00:17:59] Speaker E: The thug obviously works for Mrs. Orsadi. I thought I could scare her into tossing in her hand, but the strong arm act means she's shooting for the pot. That means I've got to work fast. [00:18:07] Speaker G: What'd you say? [00:18:08] Speaker E: She wants to beat me to a deal with Stribling. But if she gets that note, I'm cooked. When the gavel comes down, I have to be a high bidder. I've got to get up there. [00:18:15] Speaker G: All right, pal, run along. You're not drunk. You're crazy. [00:18:31] Speaker E: Harrison Departments. [00:18:33] Speaker I: O', Callaghan, 308. Just a moment. I connect you? [00:18:37] Speaker G: Yes, sir. [00:18:38] Speaker I: Now, what can I do for you? [00:18:39] Speaker E: What apartment is Stribling's? I want to talk to him. [00:18:42] Speaker I: I'm afraid that is impossible. Sir is not seeing anyone. [00:18:45] Speaker E: He'll see me. [00:18:45] Speaker I: I do not think so, sir. [00:18:47] Speaker D: Why not? [00:18:48] Speaker I: Mr. Stripling is dead. [00:19:02] Speaker F: Oh, you again. [00:19:04] Speaker E: That's right, Mrs. Osaka. [00:19:05] Speaker F: What do you want this time? [00:19:06] Speaker E: The thug. Where is he? [00:19:07] Speaker C: Thug? [00:19:08] Speaker E: The character who followed me when I left here before. [00:19:10] Speaker F: I don't know what you're talking about. [00:19:11] Speaker E: You do know what I'm talking about. He didn't tail me here. He did tail me from here. You must be the link. [00:19:16] Speaker F: Now see here, Mr. Waring. [00:19:17] Speaker E: I know, I know this is no way to talk to a poor, bereaved widow. But it so happens I've just been slugged by the poor widow's gorilla. And a thing like that doesn't put me on my best behavior. Now, where is he? [00:19:26] Speaker F: Look, if you don't stop bothering me, I'm going to call the police. [00:19:29] Speaker E: Don't bother. They'll be around. I've already talked to them. [00:19:31] Speaker C: You what? [00:19:32] Speaker E: I told you, you were flirting with trouble. Well, the trouble's here. There's been a murder. [00:19:36] Speaker C: Murder? [00:19:37] Speaker E: Yeah, murder. And your playmate may have some of the answers on it. So where can I find him? [00:19:41] Speaker F: How many times do I have to Tell you. [00:19:42] Speaker E: All right, all right. I keep thinking you listen to reason, but I see you're determined to do it the hard way, so I might as well run along. I'm just wasting my time here. [00:19:50] Speaker F: I'm glad you finally realized that. Goodbye, Mr. Waring. [00:20:06] Speaker G: Hello? [00:20:09] Speaker H: Oh, yes, Waring. I've been trying to reach you. I want to know what I owe you so we can settle up. [00:20:16] Speaker E: You mean I'm canned? [00:20:17] Speaker H: No. It's just I don't need your services anymore. [00:20:21] Speaker E: How come? [00:20:22] Speaker H: Have you seen Stribling tonight? Yeah. Well, didn't he tell you? [00:20:26] Speaker B: No. [00:20:27] Speaker E: He's not in a talkative mood. What should he have told me about the note? What about it? [00:20:31] Speaker H: I got it from him. You what? I have Orati suicide note. Got it from Stribling tonight. So you can see, as far as you're concerned, the case is closed. [00:20:41] Speaker E: Well, maybe Kendrick. But as far as you're concerned, believe me, it's just starting. [00:20:55] Speaker D: This is Ed Hurley. He again. Friends, I do want to tell you something. I'm sure you mothers especially will want to know. It's how to get the finest cheese food you can buy for your family. It's simple, really. Just be sure you buy Velveeta, Kraft's delicious pasteurized processed cheese food. Velveeta tastes good, and it's so good for you, too. For Velveeta is rich in important food values from milk, and it's as digestible as milk itself. So it's perfect anytime for snacks, sandwiches and grand hot dishes. Try it. Won't you, mother make Velveeta your handy helper. Just be sure you get genuine Velveeta, the pasteurized processed cheese food of top quality made by Kraft. Now back to the Adventures of the falcon. It is 20 minutes since Kendrick told Mike over the phone about having Orsati's suicide note. And since he has the note, Kendrick thinks he no longer needs Mike. But Mike has different ideas on the subject and he's gone over to Kendrick's to present them. [00:22:10] Speaker E: So you say you bought the note from Stribling? [00:22:12] Speaker H: That's right, Waring. I don't see why you're so excited about it. No, no, the note's conclusive. Unmistakably in Orsadi's handwriting. [00:22:19] Speaker E: All right, Kendrick. You've proved you didn't kill Orsadi. Now what about Stribling, huh? [00:22:24] Speaker H: What about him? [00:22:25] Speaker E: I suppose you don't know that he was killed tonight. [00:22:27] Speaker D: What? Good heavens. [00:22:30] Speaker E: You walk out of one murder app right into another. So it looks like my services Are still very much required. [00:22:35] Speaker H: You're not joking. [00:22:36] Speaker E: When I work for YOX Kendrick, I pull cuter stuff than this. [00:22:39] Speaker H: What do we do first? [00:22:40] Speaker E: A quick run through to see where we stand. Like why did you go up to Striplings? I told you I'd handle it. [00:22:45] Speaker H: He called me right after you did. Wanted to know how much I'd Pay. He claimed Mrs. Osati had offered 15,000. I offered 20. [00:22:53] Speaker E: And you took it right over to him. [00:22:55] Speaker H: That's right. [00:22:55] Speaker E: When'd you get there? [00:22:56] Speaker H: Around 7:30. [00:22:58] Speaker E: How long did you stay? [00:22:59] Speaker H: 5, 10 minutes. [00:23:00] Speaker E: Oh, great. You were there right around the time he was killed. [00:23:03] Speaker H: Oh, no. [00:23:03] Speaker E: The neighbors heard the shots. [00:23:04] Speaker H: He was alive when I left. [00:23:05] Speaker E: Yes, and was killed right after 7:40. You're in a rut. Or Saddie and Stribling right back where you started. Only this time there's no note. [00:23:13] Speaker H: There may be another difference, too. [00:23:16] Speaker E: What's that? [00:23:16] Speaker H: It was known that I was up at Orsati's. Possibly. No one knows I went to Stribling's. [00:23:21] Speaker E: I know. [00:23:22] Speaker H: Except you. Look, I'm scared to death of a murder charge, waring. I've paid 20,000 already to clear myself of one. How much do you want? [00:23:32] Speaker E: You save your pennies, Kendrick. I work for my 50 a day, plus expenses. And if I can't clear you that way, you better have cash on hand for a good lawyer. [00:23:40] Speaker H: You've got to clear me. [00:23:41] Speaker E: All right, then let me do it my way. I'm going to make one last attempt at getting Lois Orsadi to talk. Oh, and you better come with me. I want to keep my eye on you. [00:23:50] Speaker H: Why? [00:23:51] Speaker E: Because Mrs. Orsadi has a gorilla working for her. And if she gets the idea you have the note, he may come calling. And take my word for it, Kendrick, you wouldn't enjoy the. All right, here we are. [00:24:15] Speaker D: 4:12. [00:24:18] Speaker E: Now remember, Kendrick, let me do the talking. [00:24:20] Speaker H: All right. [00:24:21] Speaker E: Well, just one thing before we go in. Did you ever meet Stribling before tonight? [00:24:25] Speaker H: No. Why? [00:24:26] Speaker D: Oh, good. [00:24:27] Speaker E: Let me. [00:24:27] Speaker F: Oh, not you again. [00:24:29] Speaker E: Yes, and this time I'm coming in. [00:24:31] Speaker F: I see you are. What do I have to do? [00:24:34] Speaker E: Just be your charming self. [00:24:36] Speaker F: All right, let's get this over with once and for all. [00:24:38] Speaker E: That suits me fine. You know Mr. Kendrick? [00:24:40] Speaker F: Yes, I know him. He killed my husband. [00:24:42] Speaker H: Now see here, Mrs. Ossadi. I'll handle it. [00:24:43] Speaker E: Kendrick. Mrs. Ossari. I told you your husband killed himself. Now we have proof. [00:24:48] Speaker F: Then Kendrick drove him to it. [00:24:49] Speaker H: It was strictly business. Up and up. If your husband wasn't Mr. Kendrick, I'll handle it. [00:24:54] Speaker E: Sorry, Mrs. Osada. Your husband killed himself. We have a note to prove it. [00:24:58] Speaker F: You have it? [00:24:59] Speaker E: Yes, right here. [00:25:00] Speaker C: Nuh. [00:25:00] Speaker E: Don't touch. But you can see it's in your husband's handwriting. [00:25:04] Speaker F: Where did you get it? [00:25:04] Speaker E: From Stribling. [00:25:05] Speaker F: You killed him for it. [00:25:07] Speaker E: Who told you he's dead? [00:25:08] Speaker F: The police were here. [00:25:09] Speaker E: I see. [00:25:09] Speaker F: Yes, they were here all right. It's not enough I've lost a husband. No, no. All day long. You and the police and the police and you. [00:25:16] Speaker E: That's too bad. You know, I could have more sympathy with you if you weren't involved with that gorilla. And if you didn't lie about your dealings with Stribling. [00:25:23] Speaker F: I didn't have any dealings with Stribling. [00:25:24] Speaker E: He said different. [00:25:25] Speaker F: He was lying. [00:25:26] Speaker E: I doubt it. He wouldn't have closed the deal with us until he heard your last offer. [00:25:29] Speaker F: He didn't close the deal. You killed him. That's how you got the note. [00:25:32] Speaker E: What makes you so sure? [00:25:33] Speaker F: Because he obviously was killed for the note and you've got it. [00:25:36] Speaker E: That's nice going, Mrs. Ossadi, but there's one hitch. [00:25:39] Speaker F: What's that? [00:25:40] Speaker E: Kendrick never met Stribling before. So when he bought the note. How do we know he bought it from Stribling? [00:25:45] Speaker F: What? [00:25:46] Speaker H: Welling? You mean that wasn't Stribling? [00:25:49] Speaker E: Someone could have killed Stribling for the note, then sold it to you, pretending to be Stribling. [00:25:52] Speaker F: But who? [00:25:53] Speaker E: Well, obviously not you, Mrs. Orsada. You couldn't have masqueraded as a man. But your gorilla. [00:25:57] Speaker F: I've told you. [00:25:57] Speaker E: You told me you don't know the gorilla. But there's a good possibility that he's a murderer. Now if you want to keep on covering for him, you may wind up as an accessory. [00:26:05] Speaker F: I didn't have anything to do with the murder. [00:26:07] Speaker E: But you did have something to do with the murderer. And if you don't talk now, he'll still prove it when we find him. After all, I've seen him. I've described him to the police. Now it's just a matter of time. [00:26:16] Speaker F: What do you want me to do? [00:26:18] Speaker E: Tell us his name. Tell us where we can find him. [00:26:21] Speaker F: All right. But you understand I didn't know he was going to kill Stribling. [00:26:25] Speaker E: Uh huh. [00:26:25] Speaker F: Stribling phoned me, said he had something that I might be interested in. I hired Marbury to find out about it and that's all. [00:26:32] Speaker E: Marbury? So that's his name? [00:26:33] Speaker F: Yes. Jack Marbury. [00:26:34] Speaker E: Right. [00:26:34] Speaker F: But I didn't know he'd Commit murder. I'm still not sure that he did. All I know is when you came, I ordered him to follow you. Later he called back, said he followed you home. [00:26:43] Speaker E: Home? [00:26:44] Speaker F: That's what he said. Then he said he went up to Striblings, but just as he got to the door, he heard a shot. [00:26:49] Speaker E: Oh, he heard the shot? [00:26:50] Speaker F: That's what he said. [00:26:51] Speaker H: Looks like you've hit it, Waring. He was lying to her. He went up. Kid killed Stribling for the note, sold it to me. [00:26:58] Speaker E: Where can we find her? Mrs. Ossaddy? [00:27:00] Speaker F: Well, perhaps if you try looking for me. [00:27:03] Speaker E: Marbury Reach. [00:27:04] Speaker J: All of you. I saw Waring come in here, so I went around the back. I thought you might need me, sweetheart, but I was wrong. You don't need me. What you need is a good smack in the teeth. [00:27:18] Speaker H: Waring is going for a. [00:27:19] Speaker E: Now's my chance. Good. [00:27:23] Speaker G: Waring. [00:27:24] Speaker H: You knocked him out. But he's not. [00:27:27] Speaker E: Not the one who sold you the note. I didn't think he would be. But you said. I know what I said. Because I was trying to catch a murderer. And you know Kendrick. Looks like I did. Yes. [00:27:35] Speaker G: Who? [00:27:36] Speaker E: Kendrick. It's obvious. The broken hearted widow Lois Orsati. [00:27:54] Speaker G: Yes? [00:27:54] Speaker F: Mr. Waring is here. [00:27:56] Speaker H: All right, send him in. Hello, Waring. Come in. Sit down. [00:28:02] Speaker E: Thanks, Kendrick. Well, I got the whole story out of her at headquarters. [00:28:07] Speaker H: Good. One thing I still don't understand, Welling, maybe you can explain. [00:28:12] Speaker E: What's that? [00:28:13] Speaker H: Why'd she do it? The note was what everyone was after. Killing Stribling didn't get it for her. [00:28:19] Speaker E: She wanted the note because she'd lose 30,000 if it fell into your hands. [00:28:23] Speaker H: Precisely. [00:28:23] Speaker E: But Stripling called her, told her you had offered 20,000 cash. Yeah, she couldn't see topping your bid. What she'd have left out of 30 wouldn't be worth the risk. [00:28:32] Speaker H: Mm. [00:28:33] Speaker E: But she knew 20,000 in cash would be changing hands at Stribling's, so she went there with a gun to collect it. She figured if she couldn't protect her 30, she'd settle for your 20. [00:28:46] Speaker H: I see. [00:28:46] Speaker E: She knew Stripling would be in no position to call copper, so it seemed safe. Only he put up a struggle and she had to shoot him. [00:28:53] Speaker H: Aha. And just how did you know it was she? [00:28:58] Speaker E: Well, first of all, I didn't think [00:28:59] Speaker H: it was you flattering. Why not? [00:29:02] Speaker E: Well, you were just trying to clear yourself of one murder rap. I couldn't see you exposing yourself to another just to wipe out the first. [00:29:08] Speaker H: Very well. You've cleared Me. Still, that doesn't prove. [00:29:12] Speaker E: Well, you didn't do it. I knew Marbury didn't. [00:29:14] Speaker H: How'd you know Marbury didn't? [00:29:17] Speaker E: Because Stribling was killed at 7:40. And it so happens that at that exact time, Marbury was sitting across from me in a restaurant, keeping an eye on me. [00:29:24] Speaker H: Oh. [00:29:26] Speaker E: So that left Mrs. Orsadi. Of course there was the outside chance that the job was pulled by someone not directly involved in the case. But I squashed that by giving Mrs. Orsadi a chance to finger Marbury and Chief Elbow. Well, she figured the more fall guys she had lined up, the safer she'd be. But when she tried to place Marbury at Striblings at the time of the shooting, that proved she was lying. [00:29:47] Speaker H: Very good, Waring. Very good indeed. And now here's your check. [00:29:53] Speaker E: Thank you. [00:29:54] Speaker H: And I guess that's just about all, huh? [00:29:57] Speaker E: Oh, just one more thing. [00:29:59] Speaker H: What's that? [00:30:00] Speaker E: What's the name of that cute little secretary of yours? [00:30:02] Speaker H: Her name? Oh, it's Mrs. Kendrick. [00:30:07] Speaker E: Oh. Well, as you were saying, Kendrick. I guess that's just about all. [00:30:11] Speaker H: So long, [00:30:21] Speaker D: Friends. America's Defense program has placed on the Red Cross one of the greatest responsibilities it has ever had to assume. Now, in addition to day to day aid to the the sick and injured, the Red Cross must extend its services to the men of our growing armed forces in camps and hospitals at home and overseas. Now too, the Red Cross must recruit, train and equip millions of home defense volunteers in first aid and home nursing. And the Red Cross system of blood banks must be expanded to meet greater civilian and military needs. That's why Red Cross needs your help. By giving as generously as you can to the Red Cross, you are helping to mobilize for the defense of your family, your community, your country. [00:31:06] Speaker E: This is NBC, the national broadcasting company. [00:31:13] Speaker A: That was the case of the widow's gorilla from the Adventures of the Falcon, here on the mysterious old Radio Listening Society podcast once again. I'm Eric. [00:31:23] Speaker B: I'm Tim. [00:31:23] Speaker C: And I'm Joshua. [00:31:25] Speaker A: Tim brought that for us this week. Something we've never listened, the podcast. And something that has been on my list of. I'm going to listen to some of these, see if I can find one to bring to the podcast. I've just ever actually sat down and listened to any of them, but it's always been something I thought, well, we should give this a whirl. I will tell you how horrifyingly disappointed I am. There was no gorilla. [00:31:51] Speaker C: This was a thirst trap. And I was so angry. [00:31:56] Speaker A: The Falcon isn't. He doesn't turn into a falcon. He doesn't dress like a falcon. He doesn't have falcon powers. [00:32:04] Speaker C: He doesn't have a falcon cry that knocks people over. [00:32:08] Speaker A: There is. I knew nothing about this series, and I assumed the Falcon was, you know, marvelesque in the Falcon or something. [00:32:17] Speaker B: And a robot dog sidekick. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Right, right. Oh, right. Dynamut and the Falcon. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Right, Falcon. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Yeah, the Blue Falcon. [00:32:25] Speaker C: Right. [00:32:25] Speaker A: Oh, God, that was great. Anyway, yeah, he's just a guy, a detective. What I. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Let me tell you how this happened. Yeah, I love finding new. New series I hadn't experienced before. I was on the hunt. Like, I want something new. I'm going to browse the Internet, search around. I found this, like, oh, all the surrounding episodes sound like crap, so I probably might enjoy it, but it's just torturing you and listeners and everyone to try to suffer through it. So I won't do that. Try. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Even the audio quality. [00:32:55] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, try and try. And so then I found the Adventures of the Falcon. As much as your initial thoughts might be, I was on the same track and like, oh, I will check this out. And I saw there's many surviving episodes, which was encouraging. And then just like, I don't know where to start. Oh, there's one with the gorilla in the name. Well, and the whole time I went into it, like, oh, I will deign to try this. I will grant this thing half hour of my attention because it has gorilla in the name. And then listen to it. And I loved it. So despite all of the lies that go up front with this, they were lies I told myself and I brought it to you without correcting those lies just because I wanted to have the same experience, hopefully that you enjoyed it as much as I did. [00:33:40] Speaker A: So I will concur after getting over the disappointment of no actual gorilla or no actual superhero falcon or even a blue mask. Nothing, Nothing. I know the Green Hornet's not a hornet, but at least he wore a mask. And there was some kind of buzzing sound. [00:34:00] Speaker B: And as I understand, nowhere in the books, nowhere in any movies, nowhere does it explain why he's called the Falcon. [00:34:06] Speaker A: Wow. Okay, so you take all that aside and you say, all right, I'm just gonna set that over here. [00:34:11] Speaker C: Take the title, you take the premise, you take the name of the character, you take all that away, and what do you got? A pretty good noir, Pretty substandard Sam [00:34:21] Speaker A: Spade clone, what you have. I thought it was pretty good piece of noir. [00:34:26] Speaker C: You know what? I'll Be honest. I had the Eric moment where I was just angry the entire time that there wasn't a gorilla. Because I have a history with the falcon as well. Like you guys, I came across it many years ago and went like, hey, this sounds like it could be exciting to bring to the podcast. And I listened to them and they. To me, they think they say it at some point in here. Like, Sunday afternoon in time for another thrilling adventure of the Falcon. I'm like, yeah, this is a Sunday afternoon. Depressing. Kind of just standard show to me. And so then Tim sent this and I went, oh, he found one, a crazy one with a gorilla. There's an opening line too, when the character we meet right at the top, Raymond, who says he owns a novelty business. And I'm like, oh, the widow, the gorilla, the whoopee cushion. This is gonna be so good. [00:35:23] Speaker A: Chattering teeth and rubber chickens and gorillas, exploding cigars. [00:35:29] Speaker C: So excited. And then I was like, like you said, it's a pretty good noir. But my expectations were for something else. I will say I found Les Daemon dull. Yeah. I feel like he delivered all his quips with contempt instead of wit. It just. It didn't really, like, bounce along again. I couldn't help but compare it to things like Sam Spade and things like that. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Sure. [00:35:53] Speaker B: My enjoyment is just a mirror image of that. With the expectations I went in with. Cleared that bar. Like, oh, this is better than I was expecting by an amount. [00:36:04] Speaker A: In the heyday of noir films. They are painful mirrors of human endeavor and tragedy. And they're difficult movies. These are people in desperate situations and terrible things, and they're difficult. That's the best way I can put. Noir is sometimes mistaken as swashbuckling detectives solving crimes. And they really aren't. Noir is people in desperate situations and very real scenarios. And that's what makes them compelling and also difficult. I. I keep saying that word, but it also. [00:36:45] Speaker B: What makes the character sympathetic. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And this has that. To actually hear somebody commit that. [00:36:53] Speaker B: We hear the guy out there. Yeah. [00:36:55] Speaker A: And take their own life on a radio show was jarring. Like, oh, I thought for sure something would stop him or that we would cut away. And we were left to imagine it instead in a very rough, tumble noir style. We hear it and the groan and the thud. Right. Like, so we therefore see it because [00:37:23] Speaker C: Sunday afternoon in time for suicide. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Right. It's gritty. And then it gets darker where she's sad. I think legitimately that her husband. I think there's love there and everything. And you can do this you can get out of this. But then she turns dark. His wife. Like, okay, now I. But I'm going to at least get this money. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Right. [00:37:45] Speaker A: And that is another level to this, of how bad things are going. Right. And how human condition and how decisions get made. And I don't know, I just think it's a big, giant bowl of difficult material to deal with. And therefore, I think it's a compelling story. And I do like the solving of it and how he traps her. And it's also interesting, the guy that drove him to his death actually becomes sympathetic a little bit. [00:38:20] Speaker B: Yeah. He's not a hero, but he's also, like, he can make an argument for his own actions. [00:38:26] Speaker A: I'm just doing business. [00:38:27] Speaker C: Yeah. I just thought it was all cartoony. Like, I didn't feel any emotion, really. She just wanted the money. He didn't want to be framed for the murder. I didn't feel like anyone felt for anyone. [00:38:36] Speaker A: I think I took that from the opening where she was like, don't worry about it. You're gonna be okay. [00:38:42] Speaker C: I just assumed. Then she left the second gun first gun away. And then later he comes back like, oh, cool. My. My backup suicide. I mean, I hear you and I'm like, oh, that's compelling. But I just didn't hear any of that in what was performed or in. In the script. To. [00:38:57] Speaker A: To my ear, I heard a woman in sadness and desperation driven to finding. At least I'm gonna get this money. And I'll go to, you know, and then turns to the dark way of getting it. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Of at least. Yeah. At least I can get 20,000. [00:39:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Even that part was, like, desperate for some kind of joy or some kind. Something good to come out of this. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Because she was. Her life, like, right. [00:39:23] Speaker B: What her life's like at all. [00:39:24] Speaker A: Which is why I keep saying the word noir. Like, that's very. You've also talked people in bad situations, [00:39:31] Speaker C: but good people who are sad and filled with grief don't just have instant access to a quote unquote gorilla who they can hire to be muscled to do things. Like. That's what I meant. Where it just like. Well, now this plot needed me to be the grieving wife in the first scene, but now I'm the scheming wife. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Sure. [00:39:50] Speaker C: So that did have noir. I just thought it was a shallower style of noir, which I still enjoy, but I just didn't find it emotionally gritty. [00:39:58] Speaker A: They were in the phone book back then under gorilla. [00:40:02] Speaker B: And I'm sure when he showed up, she's like, oh, I was kind of hoping for a Nevermind, you'll do it. We've talked in the past about mysteries on radio. Can be hard to have a sufficient number of suspects to differentiate them to not make it perfunctory. And that was the part of this I really liked is the mystery I thought held together. Well, of the number. There's not a lot of suspects, but no one seemed as a sort of nominal suspect and the plot moved around them. [00:40:35] Speaker C: Well. [00:40:35] Speaker B: And the resolution I thought was successful and not obvious. [00:40:40] Speaker A: I agree. [00:40:41] Speaker C: It was a strong solution once I got over the gorilla hump. Yeah, I would say the solution was strong. I did not see it coming. And it was a double solution. Right. You thought it was the one direction that the gorilla had committed the murder and that would have been fine. Yeah. So like it one upped itself. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Don't Google gorilla hump. [00:41:04] Speaker B: I too think I did myself a disservice here because I assumed by giving you an episode of like it's an episode called the Widow's Gorilla that there'd be like, oh, another gorilla story. I did not intentionally did. I want to set up your. [00:41:18] Speaker C: You have underestimated my passion for gorilla related old time radio shows. [00:41:24] Speaker A: I really would have an actual gorilla. [00:41:29] Speaker B: But I'm sorry. No, sorry that I did that. [00:41:32] Speaker A: No, that's their fault. [00:41:34] Speaker C: I honestly thought you chose this for the Kraft Food commercials. I was like, okay, he's giving me Kraft Cheese commercials and no gorilla. He is really coming for me. [00:41:47] Speaker A: Is this the one with the Miracle Whip? Miracle Whip. [00:41:50] Speaker C: It's got Miracle Whip. It's got Velveeta, which by the way, [00:41:53] Speaker A: apparently used to be pronounced Miracle Whip, not Miracle Whip. They were saying Miracle Whip as the emphasis on whip. [00:42:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:02] Speaker A: Instead of Miracle Whip. Instead of Miracle Whip. Do you get what I'm saying? [00:42:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. They didn't. [00:42:07] Speaker A: And it's now Miracle Whip. What kind of whip is it? It's a Miracle Whip. [00:42:11] Speaker B: They didn't want to has the inherent disappointment. Ah, Miracle Whip. [00:42:14] Speaker A: Yeah. But that song was awesome. [00:42:16] Speaker B: But I did not. I guess I never understood what the difference between Miracle Whip, Miracle Whip and mayonnaise was. [00:42:25] Speaker A: Miracle Whip is mayonnaise with things added to it. [00:42:28] Speaker C: There you go. [00:42:29] Speaker A: There's other things in it also, by the way we put it on sandwiches. Whatever. The fact that it originally was something you put on a salad is a lot for me to think about. I can't imagine putting Miracle Whip on lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and just eating it like that. [00:42:45] Speaker B: I would love to at a Restaurant ask for it as a dressing miracle. It you have like, mayonnaise and something else to put into it. [00:42:56] Speaker C: The words strung together. Craft salad oil. Just really gross. It's not refined. It's super fined. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Right? [00:43:09] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a process that removes all health benefits. [00:43:13] Speaker B: So I was really hoping you'd like this because. [00:43:14] Speaker C: Nothing but an oily residue. [00:43:16] Speaker B: All I'm bringing from now on is ventures of falcon and craft food product advertisements. [00:43:22] Speaker A: You know what? If that's in exchange for never hearing Dr. Tim or whatever you brought that time. [00:43:27] Speaker B: Medicine woman. Huh? Dr. Tim. Medicine woman. [00:43:29] Speaker A: No. What was the. Tim. [00:43:31] Speaker B: Dr. Tim. [00:43:31] Speaker C: Detective. [00:43:32] Speaker A: Yeah. I will take the falcon ad infinitum over ever hearing that again. [00:43:38] Speaker B: I owe you guys some gorillas. I see that now. [00:43:41] Speaker C: You do? Did the gorilla douse the falcon in booze just to discredit. [00:43:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that's an interesting, weird thing. Like, why is he doused in booze? [00:43:54] Speaker B: Dispensation. And get him picked up by the cops as a. As a, you know, hobo rather than a crime victim? Yeah, that's how I took it. [00:44:01] Speaker C: Cops really didn't have much to do then. Yet arrest people based on scent. You smell like craft salad oil, sir. [00:44:14] Speaker A: The problem with that plot point is that it doesn't. It doesn't evolve in anything, doesn't resolve anything. It happens in the. Oh, he tried to make me look drunk. Okay. And then we move on from that. So it's unnecessary. [00:44:29] Speaker B: It's the mystery engine to get the gorilla out of his sight for a little while. [00:44:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I understand how it serves the plot, [00:44:36] Speaker A: but you don't need the booze on him, though, to do that. He's knocked out. [00:44:41] Speaker B: I think there's a lot of times when I didn't need the booze where. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Where I had the booze. Okay, good point. [00:44:51] Speaker C: Although it did lead to. One of my favorite moments in here is when the cop admires the gorilla's handiwork with the SAP. He's like, neat job. [00:45:00] Speaker A: Wow. [00:45:01] Speaker C: What if he wants to become a cop? [00:45:02] Speaker A: Quality gorilla. [00:45:03] Speaker B: That must have hit you. [00:45:07] Speaker C: Nice one. [00:45:09] Speaker A: Again, we brought this up before. The amount of head injuries that are suffered from in our fiction from 1900 to, I don't know, I guess present day. You can't get hit in the head like that without some kind of consequence. You can't hit a guy in the head with a gun. And you go, that left a mark. [00:45:33] Speaker B: I love him discussing this. He said from, I don't know, at some period of time, head injuries are bad for you. [00:45:43] Speaker C: It was a Different time. Yeah, I'm still stuck on the Velveeta. When you are a food and you have to start your pitch with Velveeta. Tastes good. That seems like a really base requirement. Makes me a little nervous. Like an airline. Our planes fly. [00:46:06] Speaker B: The marketing team is like, are we okay to say this? Is this. Will we get in trouble if we say this? [00:46:10] Speaker A: Our planes fly. Spirit Airlines mostly fly. [00:46:16] Speaker C: Oh, we're gonna lose that sponsorship now. Spirit Airlines, [00:46:23] Speaker A: if that was ever on the table, I would say anything. Spirit Islands, guests of the mysterious old radio listening society, travel via Spirit Airlines. [00:46:36] Speaker B: It tastes good. [00:46:42] Speaker A: I also kind of liked the little [00:46:44] Speaker B: variety of one flirtatious moment is like, hey, what's her name? Like, oh, your wife. [00:46:52] Speaker C: Question for you. Did you listen to many more than this? [00:46:55] Speaker B: Just this one. [00:46:55] Speaker C: Okay. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Gorilla first. [00:46:57] Speaker C: So my question is, and I listened to one or two of these years ago and now I can't remember, does he have an assistant or a secretary? Because that stood out to me, that this is very unusual. Almost every private eye show has a sidekick, a secretary, someone to assist Dynamite. [00:47:20] Speaker B: There's a couple other actors who are listed as sort of regular featured players, like playing a consistent character. I don't know if any of those were specifically girlfriend, assistant secretary. I know consistently the show starts with this one sided phone call where he's talking to someone. [00:47:41] Speaker A: So it's a Johnny Dollar ripoff. [00:47:44] Speaker B: Yeah. To sort of describe the upcoming case. But to answer your question, way too long. No, not that I know of. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Start over. [00:47:53] Speaker B: Okay. Please go to google ice.com. [00:47:57] Speaker C: so anyway, the widow has a gorilla. [00:48:00] Speaker E: It's a widow gorilla. [00:48:03] Speaker A: Should we vote? [00:48:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:06] Speaker A: I liked it once I got out of my head what I was hoping it would be. I still want someone to write the Falcon the way I want it, but I thought this was a good piece of detective noir. Yeah, I thought it was great. [00:48:24] Speaker B: I'm similar of particularly because I had been surfing a bunch of different series and kind of like, nah, nah. So when I found this one that felt above average, it sounded really good. And I don't want to undercut my admiration of this episode too much, but I know this is not great, but it's. I was shocked. Not shocked, surprised. How much integrity the story had and how much I liked the character. Yeah, I was happy to bring it [00:48:56] Speaker A: and I'll hunt for more just to follow up. Compared to other detective radio dramas, it's not in a lot of their leagues. It's not one of the best things I've ever heard in this genre, but it's pretty good. It's okay. [00:49:10] Speaker C: I think it comes down to what you're looking for in a mystery program. And in addition to my great desire for an actual gorilla, which is a completely unfair. That's pretty fair in the title. I take it back. [00:49:25] Speaker B: But not many shows deliver on the gorillas. [00:49:28] Speaker C: I've found them all. But that aside, I think I've mentioned this in the podcast before that what I like about mystery programs is not the mystery, it's the detective. And so I find him generic. Which I think that is why I had kind of a meh response to it. Because I'm not there for the mystery. In terms of the mystery, I will totally give it to you. It really holds up. So good job there. But I like my mysteries with slightly more charismatic or eccentric detectives. But this is arguably competent. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Is that right? [00:50:08] Speaker C: It stands the test of time for sure. [00:50:10] Speaker A: Tim, tell him stuff. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Please go visit ghoulish delights.com that is the home of this podcast. We have a bunch of episodes there. You you can leave comments on them. You can search through if there's a specific thing. Like I know they did this episode once. It was from the series. You can search for it either in a search bar or by series. It's a lot of function there. A lot of function for your podcast needs. You'll also find a link to our store if you want to buy some swag and a link to our Patreon page. [00:50:37] Speaker C: Yes, go to patreon.com themorals and support this podcast, please. We need all the help we can get and in exchange we have bonus podcasts. We have Zoom Happy Hours. We have Zoom Book clubs. Last time we were discussing Zoom's slumber parties. Who knows what will happen at the high level? It gets weird. So support us and find out. Go to patreon.com themorals and the Mysterious [00:51:09] Speaker A: Old Radio Listening Society Pod Theater Company. I'll get it right one of these days. We perform on stage. Live recreations of old time radio drama and a lot of our own original work to come see us performing. You just find out what, where, when, how, how to get tickets. All of the Information is at ghoulishdelights.com we'd love to see you there at one of our shows. And we do a lot of them, so there's a lot of opportunity. And if you're a Patreon, you get access to the audio recordings of those live performances. What's coming up next? [00:51:42] Speaker C: Next is your pick. Eric. [00:51:44] Speaker A: We're going back to suspense in an episode called Phobia. Until then. [00:51:51] Speaker E: But it so happens I've just been slugged by the poor widow's gorilla. [00:51:54] Speaker C: Metaphorical gorilla. You son of a.