This is Rumble Strip. I'm Erica Heilman. I lied. I didn't play a Larry show on Friday because I was

working on another show, but I'm going to play it today. And I also lied because it's not the last one I want to

play. I'm going to just carry on with my regular shows, but I'll run the Larry shows also. And if

you want to listen you can this one is

called Death in Venice he produced it in the early 80s it's narrated by Joe Frank

and Larry wrote and performed all the music in the story here's death in Venice I call these, oh, I used to know the name, Conquishals, anyway, cat's paw.

I call them Cat's paw.

Yeah, I try to get different ones when the kids come, you know, so you have something different. Shells and bits of glass.

This is Venice, Florida, off Route 41, along the Gulf Coast, a retirement community.

At dawn, the air is cool. I walk down to the beach to hunt in the sand.

There are bones, fossil teeth.

I don't know what to do with them.

If you retire, you have to keep busy.

There's one I like to get this one. I don't know if it's in too.

Every once in a while I'll get one a halfway decent size sharks too.

My wife is a lucky one. She never does what I do.

Go along and pick them up here.

She'll walk along the beach and all of a sudden she'll reach down and come up with a giant. Funny part of it is. Her eyes on a shop is mine. I give them

all the grandkids. They come down, those little rascals take them home, put them in little

plastic envelopes and the next

thing you know they're selling them for a dollar apiece about 15 shocksteak

like this so they took a whole coffee can home full last time and they wrote

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