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Decoder Ring Theatre

Black Jack Justice (51) - Those Who Wait

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

Audio, Kids & Family, Comedy, Mystery, Full, Book, Comic, Cast, Comics, Adventure, Radio, Drama, Superhero, Fiction, Stories For Kids, Otr, Thriller, Play, Theatre, Pulp, Detective, Theater

4.8661 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2012

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It is said by some that good things come to those who wait. It’s an interesting idea, and like most interesting ideas, it’s sufficiently vague as to be effectively meaningless. We all wait, therefore we each see ourselves as the potential recipient of the aforementioned good things. And we find this good, so the adage becomes a truism. Thing is, as comforting as it is, it ain’t quite true.

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0:00.0

Once again, Decoder Ring Theater presents another page from the casebook of that Master of Mystery,

0:07.8

that's Sultan of Sleothing, Martin Bracknell's immortal detective, Black Jack Justice,

0:13.7

starring Christopher Mott as Jack and Andrea Lyons as Trixie Dixon Girl Detective.

0:26.0

Thank you. as Trixie Dixon Girl Detective. The name's Justice. Jack, Justice.

0:30.0

I'm a Seamus, a gumshoe, a private dick, what have you?

0:33.3

I've heard them all.

0:34.8

It is perhaps the most deliberately contrary position yet held by mortal flesh,

0:39.4

a function which requires a man of action, of iron resolve and steely determination,

0:44.3

and it remains upon the balance of life's great ledger,

0:47.9

largely a role which involves sitting on the delicate parts of one's anatomy

0:51.1

contemplating the great questions of the universe.

0:54.0

Questions like, who are we really? Why are we here? And is it going to rain or should I walk

1:00.8

three blocks to the Ukrainian place and get some parochies? As I continue this journey of

1:05.7

contemplation, I am occasionally called upon to reflect on certain commonly held pearls of wisdom and find parallels within my own rivaled little tales of adventure.

1:15.3

I know. You know all this. It's episode 51. Still, some of you might be new.

1:21.2

Hello.

1:22.6

It is said by some that good things come to those who wait.

1:26.5

It's an interesting idea, and like most

1:28.4

interesting ideas, it's sufficiently vague as to be effectively meaningless. We all wait. We wait

1:34.6

for the bus, wait for football season, wait for a price to drop, wait for a new model to come out.

1:39.9

We wait for someone to bring us some sour cream for these parogies, and most of all, we wait for

1:44.6

someone soft and nurse-shaped to finish working two weeks of entirely inconvenient night shifts.

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