Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 011760, episode 674 - The Evaporated Clue Matter
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Jacab R Singer
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🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Johnny Dollar. Henry Baskham, Johnny, at Forest Aid Insurance Company. Well, hi-ah, Hanks, for a long, long time. Yeah, I know. Johnny, are you free to come down here and look into something for us? Henry, as long as somebody pays my expense account, and, of course, a nice fat fee, I'll go anywhere. Johnny, for once, you're not going to be able to pad that freewheeling expense account of yours. Any bets? Why not? Because the investigation I want you to make is right here in New York City. |
| 0:24.5 | Oh. Johnny, for once, you're not going to be able to pad that freewheeling expense account of yours. Any bets? Why not? |
| 0:21.3 | Because the investigation I want you to make is right here in New York City. Oh, well, there's always the fee to fall back on. How much? The usual percentage of the face value of the policy. Okay, only how big is the policy? Johnny, hold your hat. It's about 200... Well, I mean, it's just under... What? 200 bucks? Johnny? Listen, Hank, my cut on a policy as small as that wouldn't buy me a sandwich and a cup of coffee. |
| 0:40.5 | No, listen. And I suppose. Well, I mean, it's just under... What? $200? Johnny. Listen, Hank, my cut on a policy as small as that wouldn't buy me a sandwich and a cup of coffee. |
| 0:40.5 | No, listen. And I suppose you'll question every penny I put on the expense account. Look, you didn't... Why don't you just pay it off and save you and me in the company a lot of time, labor, and soap? What kind of a policy is? Straight life. Huh? but listen you didn't let me finish. The face value of this policy is a little under $200,000. |
| 0:57.6 | $200,000. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.7 | Well? |
| 1:01.8 | Hank, my buddy, my bosom pal. |
| 1:04.1 | For an assignment like that, for the nice commission that's going to pay me, I'd walk to |
| 1:08.6 | New York. |
| 1:09.1 | Only maybe you'd better grab a plane or a train instead. |
| 1:11.5 | Right, I'll be there. |
| 1:20.9 | CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey |
| 1:23.4 | in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-fact expense account. |
| 1:27.7 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 1:30.6 | Yours truly. |
| 1:31.9 | Johnny Dollar. |
| 1:36.3 | Are you smoking more now but enjoying it less? |
| 1:44.5 | Have a real cigarette, have a camel. |
| 1:47.8 | The best tobacco makes the very best smoke. |
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