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Old Time Radio Theater

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - 0558 - How to Kill Rudy

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4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2009

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Rudy loves a good murder mystery. Rudy notices that all of Mace Hackers stories seem to take place in reality shortly after the books have been written. When he learns of a book in the series he had never read, Rudy obtains a copy only to find what appears to be a forecast of his future.

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0:00.0

Welcome.

0:04.0

Welcome. I'm E.G. Mars Marshall. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

0:28.1

Ordinarily this proposition would be only of interest to wrens, and not to all wrens either.

0:34.4

Just those tiny puny birds who have an eagle's mentality. Well, fate plays her ironic little

0:41.6

jokes on us all, doesn't she? Sometimes the smallest people can get the biggest ideas. The piranha,

0:49.4

a fish that's half the size of your little finger, is more than a match for the whale, which could be twice the size of your house.

0:59.3

Our mystery drama, How to Kill Rudy, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Paul Hecht.

1:09.0

It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division

1:12.1

and Arnheuser-Busch Incorporated,

1:15.0

Brewers of Budweiser.

1:16.8

I'll be back shortly with Act 1.

1:19.0

The nutritionist will say you are what you eat. There may be some validity to that, but isn't it also true that you are what you read? The ideas, the principles that govern your life, where did they come from?

1:45.4

Did you just create them out of nothing?

1:47.9

Or did you read about them somewhere?

1:51.6

So many books do not end on the last page.

1:56.4

They go on and on forever and ever.

2:02.7

Ah, hello, Rudy.

2:04.6

Good morning, Lieutenant Foster.

2:06.6

Well, now, if you're going to call me Lieutenant Foster,

2:09.7

I'll have to call you Mr. Sleighmaker, huh?

2:13.4

I thought we'd become friends by now.

2:15.8

Joe and Rudy.

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