Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to a bonus midweek episode from down these mean streets.

Now today's show is going to be a little different. There's no crime fighting, sluathing,

or detection to be found. But don't worry, there will be plenty of that on Sunday's episode.

Instead, I wanted to share some old-time radio comedy with you.

Now, the last few weeks have been tough, to say the least,

with lockdowns across the country and around the world

with schools closing with cabin fever and with good news increasingly hard to

come by. I've been listening to a lot of old time

radio, particularly the comedies, as a distraction, and it's helped to make the

pandemic a little easier to endure from inside my home. So in what will hopefully be the first

installment of a new weekly series, here are two old-time radio episodes that should turn frowns upside down, at least for a little while.

First up is the Jack Benny program.

Now any list of the great old time radio shows comedy or otherwise is bound to include this landmark long running series

Benny was one of the era's best comedians and he was surrounded with a murderer's row of talented

co-stars. They were so talented that some of them landed their own shows and that

has Jack a little nervous in this episode that aired on NBC on September 29th,

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