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I'm just looking for ways to kind of build commuter community around this content So before I some of you start tuning out we're gonna get into the program. Okay, so today's episode is We're gonna be listening to episode 14 Eric. The title is Eric Kelby Body buried in a nursery So again, we talked last week about this thing kind of the title sometimes spoiled the episodes We may maybe spoil some of the surprises In the near future Dragnet changes how they named their episodes and it's like the big blank the big bank robbery the big auto theft and so you know like the general theme But it doesn't like come right out and tell you who the main character is or what, you know What happens in this episode? so I'm excited for that point because then I can share the title and we still get to Like listen and not really know where the story is going This episode originally aired on Saturday, September 3rd, 1949. 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Arman on the new pet milk show tomorrow night on NBC And now here's another in NBC's great parade of new shows The story you were about to hear is true Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent NBC brings you drag net You're a detective sergeant you're assigned to a homicide detail a Man's wife has suddenly dropped from sight On the surface it appears only as a routine missing persons case You start to investigate Suspicion grows There is evidence of possible foul play your job Find the woman or find her murderer Drag net the documented trauma of an actual crime Investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home your family and your life For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles police department You will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files From beginning to end from crime to punishment Drag net is the story of your police force in action It was Wednesday, September 15th was warm in Los Angeles We were working the day watch out of homicide My partner's Ben Romero the boss is Ed Backstrand chief of detectives. My name's Friday I was on the way back from lunch and it was 12 56 when I got to room 42 homicide Hi, Ben. How do you got something for us? Here's a report right here Gardner by the name of Eric Kelby called in day for yesterday Said his wife disappeared from their home out in the valley Sunday night says he thinks she left him That happens every day Bargetty. Not this way it doesn't a waltz. You and I went out yesterday to interview the guy Story doesn't add. Why not? Oh, none of her clothes are missing. I never luggage She even left her pocketbook behind full of money Found out from the neighbors a missing woman as a 17 year old boy by a former marriage So what an only child mother doze on the kid shouldn't even say goodbye to him How did this Eric Kelby impress you pretty grouchy with Walsh and me no cooperation wants to find his wife, doesn't he? I don't know if he does or not It's no help. I'll tell you that I see that report a minute now. Yeah Agnes Trumbull Kelby age 39 Kelby's a second husband first one died a little after the boy was born Disappeared Sunday night from her home 546 Blasco Road between 78 o'clock. What did Kelby call him Monday afternoon? Said he thought his wife might be spend the night with her sister He found out she wasn't called us. Do you meet the boy while you were out there bugging? Yeah, that's another thing Kid came riding in on a bike while we were talking to one of the neighbors Trying to talk to him, but the old man came out hustle him inside the house Then he starts eating us out. Hmm. What'd they say told us was our job to find his wife Not to go pride into a stepson's affairs. Well, it's a new slant I bought her friends and relatives run here. Yeah, any besides your sister Walsh located a couple of ranch. I think he's checked me at them. I'll tell you boys What would you react? Hmm or get his worry and again on listen boys. It's no fooling matter. This is one of bed on It's a homicide. All right How about a copy of this report? Missing persons by getting who's that? Oh Yes Yes About why oh sure All right, son four o'clock. Yeah. Good. Bye That was Kelby stepson. What do you want think something's happened to his mother? Oh In police work missing persons detail is not a department separate in itself It is organized as a part of the homicide bureau According to Barghetti who took the call the boy said he suspected his stepfather and he didn't want him to know of any Meeting between him and police officers He would meet the officers that afternoon at 4 p.m. In a restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue At 315 Ben and I left the office and drove out to the meeting place The Dairyland fountain and coffee shop. We arrived there at 345 At eight minutes to five the Kelby boys still had not arrived Youngster is not very problem. Let's wait a little while longer. Yeah, well, yeah, thanks More coffee. No, thanks. I guess the boy isn't gonna show Think something's happened 15 minutes after we left the coffee shop We drove up in front of the gate of the Kelby nursery on the Alaska Road The house itself was set well back on the property was covered about four acres The entire nursery was surrounded by a six-foot steel wire fence It looked like almost every available foot of ground inside was planted with some kind of a flower or shrub Kelby met us at the gate. Yes. What do you men want? Police officers. Are you mr. Kelby? Yes, what do you want? Well, if you'll shut those dogs up for a minute We'd like to ask you a few questions. I'm busy now. Can't you come back tomorrow? Pretty important, mr. Kelby, I think we better talk right now All right, we have to Red! Giant! Down! You two hide me. Quiet! All right, now what do you want? Mine if we come inside. These watchdogs of mine are pretty vicious. We can talk here at the gate All right, mr. Kelby. This is Sergeant Romero. My name's Friday We've been assigned to look into your wife's disappearance Did you find anything yet? Nothing definite. Maybe you can help us Would you tell us exactly what happened the night your wife disappeared? What do you mean? What happened? Well, when did you last see her? When she first noticed she was gone You finished up Sunday night dinner about seven o'clock and I laid down for a nap Agnes went out on the front porch for some air I woke up a little before eight and went outside to look for her. She was gone Nobody saw her leave, mr. Kelby? Not that I know of. Maybe some of our nosy neighbors I don't know How about your stepson? Wasn't he around Sunday night? When did he get back from the show? About ten. I think. Why? Where's your stepson now? Who are you looking for? My wife or my stepson? Both, mr. Kelby. Where's your stepson? Gone. I took him over to my sister's in Alhambra Then feeling bad since his mother disappeared, figured the change would do him good Where did you take him over, your sister's, Kelby? This afternoon. What's that got to do with it? We'd like to talk to Bruce No, no. I can't allow it. The boy's too upset. I can't allow it I'm afraid you're going to have to allow it Listen, mr. You can get off this property right now. No cops giving me sass Nobody's giving you sass, Kelby. We want to talk to your stepson. That's all He might give us a clue as to the whereabouts of your wife And I say you can't see the boy Once more, you cops couldn't find thorns in a rose patch I'll get somebody else to look for Agnes It's my business anyway. Nobody else's It's our business too, if anything's happened to her What are you talking about? You better get your coat, mr. Kelby. We're taking in for questioning You come through that gate and I'm going to let these dogs go, accidentally I'd hate to shoot the dogs. I go on the house and get your coat Eric Kelby turned and made his way up the path and into the house Five minutes later, he came out Without a word to either of us, he came down the path, closed the gate behind him And got into our car On the way back to headquarters, he chatted pleasantly about the weather The nursery business and his dogs When we pulled up in front of the city hall, we met the reason For his sudden change in temperament His lawyer was waiting for us at the door We took Kelby to one of the interrogation rooms His lawyer tagged along We tried to question him, but the lawyer objected to two out of every three questions we asked Was hopeless, we knew it So did the lawyer We released Kelby, but we did get the name and address of his sister Where the stepson Bruce was staying After they left, Ben and I got back in the car And drove out to Alhambra to check on the boy Well, get ahead of this and peg right, Joe It's a real sleeper Yeah, I'd like to know how the stepson missed that date with us this afternoon I don't know if the kid called us from the house His stepfather could have overheard him It's possible Sister's house ought to be along this block, shouldn't it? Yeah, let's see 1408, 1406 All right, he's a great car, he's 1402 Right That's a nice looking little place, isn't it? Well kept Yeah, it's a nice neighborhood I wonder how the lot prices run out here Yes, what is it? Police officers, ma'am Are you Miss Kelby? First of Kelby, yes, that's my name Why? We talked to your brother earlier today, Miss Kelby He said that you brought his stepson Bruce here to stay for a while We'd like to see him Bruce? Yes, he was here until about one hour and a half ago I went to the store and when I came back he was gone Have you any idea where he might be, Miss Kelby? Well, I telephoned my brother Eric's place just before you came to the door He's not there I don't know where he might be I'm worried about him, he seems so upset This business about his mother's disappearance, you know Would you mind if we came in and looked around, Miss Kelby? Well, no, not at all We went in and looked the house over from one end to the other It wasn't a trace of the boy We drove back to Kelby's nursery and satisfied ourselves the boy wasn't there Then we came back to Alhambra and we kept an eye on Miss Bertha Kelby's home until midnight No one came or went At five minutes past midnight the lights went off in the living room A few minutes later in the back of the house The next morning when Ben and I checked in for work as usual at eight o'clock We met with Captain the homicide, Frank Kearney What makes you two so positive there has been any foul play in this Kelby thing? Must just it, Cap, but not positive It's a whole set up, it smells bad For instance, that lawyer, for man's innocent He doesn't need a lawyer to sit with him in the interrogation room And tell him not to answer questions Number two, that kid's telephone call Maybe he doesn't get along with his stepfather It happens, you know Maybe he's trying to get back at him for something or other Maybe, then why is Kelby hiding him out? You sure he's hiding him out? No other way to take it, Cap The Kelby woman walked away from her home Sunday night Nobody saw her, she took nothing with her No clothes, no luggage, no money You checked with the family doctor Yesterday, he told us Mrs. Kelby was in perfect health We double-checked the wanderers' file and the repeaters' file And missing persons, couldn't find her name in either one How about her relatives in town? I haven't had a chance to talk to them yet, Cap We'll check them this morning Well, one thing's certain, the woman couldn't have gone very far We checked the sheriff's office, the jails, the hospitals We sent out a teletype and an APB Every cop in the city has her description She's been gone almost four days, but nobody's seen her How does that add up to you? It doesn't You better move on it Check every one of Mrs. Kelby's friends and relatives Right, Frank Then try the neighbors As long as I've been a cop, neighbors have been able to tell everything about anyone All that day, Ben and I made the rounds First stop was the Western National Bank, where Mrs. Kelby maintained her account Her saving statement showed a total balance of $31,564.17 Her separate checking account had a balance of $842.71 At the farmer's mutual, we found the record of an insurance policy Issued to Agnes Trumbull Kelby It was a 20-pay life policy covering the insured in the amount of $30,000 The beneficiary was listed as the insured son, Bruce Trumbull Kelby If living upon the receipt of such due proof If not, the insured's husband, Eric J. Kelby By the time we finished checking her financial status, the odds were piling up fast From only casual reports, we knew that Eric Kelby was a frugal man If he was greedy as well, if he wanted or needed money badly enough to kill Then he had all the motives necessary to murder his wife Maybe a stepson too Ben and I started to make the rounds of Mrs. Kelby's friends and relatives Our first stop was at the apartment of Agnes Kelby's sister A talkative maiden lady in her early 60s Agnes just isn't that kind Oh, I'm worried sick about this, I really am And Bruce, the poor lad, he must be hot-sick And Eric, what does Eric say about all this? He says he thinks his wife left him Left him? Why, that's ridiculous, how strange Can you think of any good reason why your sister would leave Mr. Kelby? I? Why, no They had tiffs, of course, small ones But of course there was that argument about Bruce The two of them always seem to be arguing about Bruce How do you mean, ma'am? Oh, well, raising the boy and all, you know Last time I talked to them, they were tipping about whether or not Bruce should be paid For working in the nursery for Eric And the strangest thing Eric seemed to be so upset about at all Imagine All in the count of paying the boy a few dollars for good, honest work in that silly nursery Well, you know, I'm the outspoken kind, and I just told Eric Eric, I said don't be an old meanie Pay the boy That was the extent of the information which Mrs. Kelby's sister had to offer Next we called on an aunt, Mrs. James D. Trumbull, 83 years old She could hardly understand our questions, let alone answer them She hadn't seen her niece Agnes in a year After that we paid a visit to one of Mrs. Kelby's friends, a Mrs. Lillian Humboldt Well, I'm sorry, Sergeant, but I can't think of any good reason why she would leave him Unless that silly business about Bruce got out of hand You know, maybe Eric is just a little jambos of the boy Next we called on Daisy McLeod, who worked as a daymaid for Mrs. Kelby Officer, what Mr. and Mrs. Kelby thought, what they said, what they did It's none of my business I come in the morning, I do my work, I do it well I'm not the nosy type, and I don't pry I take half an hour for lunch, and when I'm through I take my pay And I don't expect tips, and I take the bus home I'm not the picking through the keyhole kind sneaking around corners listening But what I couldn't tell you about that, man Exactly what do you mean, Mrs. McLeod? Oh, he's a hard man, you know They're always arguing about the boy Bruce this, Bruce that He's a nice boy, I think He's never done anything to me Oh, but the arguments came on her all the time Should the boy be paid for working? Shouldn't he? Why? Why not? When Ben and I finished with a list of Mrs. Kelby's friends, relatives, and employees We started out on the neighbors None of them saw Mrs. Kelby after 6 p.m. the night she disappeared Two of the neighbors said they saw the porch light burning after 7 p.m. But both said the porch was empty Mrs. Kelby was not sitting in her chair at the usual time after dinner According to them that was one of her habits It was 10 minutes to 6 for the time Ben and I got back to the office The light was still burning in Captain Kearney's office Full day, Joe, a lot of money Yeah I don't know what the captain's hanging around for Let's find out Get anything? What a good luck, Kearney Good. I've got some more for you Just walked in 5 minutes ago What do you mean, Frank? Who walked in? Bruce Kelby He's waiting in the next room We went in the next room and met Bruce Kelby He was small for a 17-year-old Dark-haired and a little on the sickly side He told us that he couldn't keep the date he made with this on the phone Because his stepfather apparently did overhear the conversation And drove him directly to his sister's home in Alhambra We asked him why he was so sure that his stepfather was responsible for his mother's sudden disappearance For one thing, all three of us usually go to the early show on Sunday night Eric, Mom and me But last Sunday, Eric said he wasn't feeling good And he wanted Mom to stay home and take care of him Then he told me to go on ahead to the show, so I did What time did you get home, son? About 9.30, quarter to 10 What was your stepfather doing when you got home? Sitting in the living room, reading the paper You notice anything unusual about the way he acted? He was nervous and jumpy, more than usual, I think Anything else? Yes, sir When I came in through the front yard, I noticed the dogs had mud all over their paws They'd been out somewhere in the nursery plots And they won't go out in the plots unless Eric's with them He doesn't want them to trample the seedlings What would your stepfather be doing out in the nursery at night? Does he usually do some work at night? No, sir, none of the plots are even lighted, only the greenhouses And the paths in the greenhouses are usually gravel, aren't they? No mud around It's my job to see that the greenhouse paths are kept gravel I know they're not muddy, I fixed them the day before, Saturday What do you think it means, son? What? I don't know, I don't want to think about it I just know he's done something, he's done something to her Did your stepfather give you any reason for keeping you away from the police officers the other day? No, sir, he said people were getting nosy And he said it might be better for me over at Aunt Bertha's She's his sister Do you think your Aunt Bertha might know where your mother is? No, we hardly ever see her We don't know her well at all We've heard your mother and your stepfather argued about whether you should be paid for your work in the nursery When I started to work for him, he promised he'd pay me I was saving up to buy a 31 Model A And then after a couple of months when he didn't pay me, I asked him He told me I ought to be glad to work for him for nothing And your mother argued with him over that? Sure, it was her money that bought the nursery anyway How did you get away from your aunt's place last night? Well, Bertha had some shopping to do and she left me alone She locked the door to my room Even the screen over the window in my room was nailed down, but I kicked it out and got away I stayed at a friend's house last night Thought about where you're going to stay tonight? I don't know, but I'm not going home And I'm not going back to Bertha's place either I'll get a room How'd you like to stay at my house a few days? Sure, nice of you, sir Maybe I'd better not Mom might not like it Oh, I'll take care of that Now let's hop out and get some dinner Sure, darn nice of you, sir All right, son, come with me What do you think, Joe? He could be lying Yeah Now what, Cap? Shall we bring Kelby in again? No, not yet He's found out by now from his sister that the boy's gone He probably figures the police station is the first place he'd come Wouldn't do much good pulling him in now, Ben We couldn't even question him Tend to want his lawyer to be waiting for us when we got back That's the problem How do we get to this Kelby without his lawyer finding out? Well, what about the early morning, Cap? Say tomorrow, about five or six a.m. Think you'd be looking for us then? Yeah, that might do it We can just get by that pack of hounds he owns Without waking the whole neighborhood, might work If we could just question him alone I'd got an idea it wouldn't take much to make him cop out All right, give it a try Get out there in the early morning And bring him in for questioning as quietly as possible I'll be in at six a.m. if you want me before then call me at home All right, Frank Kelby's got a smart lawyer It's going to be plenty hard to convict him without a body And corroborating evidence He's got four acres out there, Cap He can hide a lot of bodies in four acres Well, that's what I mean This case isn't ending, it's just beginning The next morning, Ben and I met at the office About a few minutes past four a.m. We had a cup of coffee and a donut in an all night restaurant And then we started for the Kelby place out on Belasco Road We took four pounds of fresh horse meat with us To keep the dogs quiet if they raised a fuss It was 28 minutes past four when Ben pulled the car to a stop A few hundred feet from the gate to the Kelby nursery We got out of the car and made our way down the road to the gate I reached in and tried the latch It was padlocked, the dog started in Okay, Ben, looks like we'll have to jump the fence Toss some of that horse meat over to him Yeah, yeah, here That's it, come on, let's climb Keep an eye on those hounds, looks like they could chew your legs off, Ben Here comes a third one, Ben, toss some more meat Yeah, there you are, boy, go get it, go get it, boy Look, Ben, light's going on in the house Come on, let's make it fast Who is it? Who's there? I'll set the dogs on you Police officers, Mr. Kelby What? What are you doing out here this time of night? You're under arrest, Kelby, get your coat You cops are asking for a peck of trouble Get your coat Where's my stepson? What have you done with him? What have you done with your wife? You're going to pay for this, I'll have your jobs That's not the first time we've heard that, Kelby, let's go Lights burning in the captain's office Yeah, all right, Kelby, in here I'll pay for this, mark my word Ben, take him in the office here and stay with him I'll see if Frank's in yet Right, Joe, come on, Kelby, inside Friday? Do you bring in Kelby? He's down in the interrogation room, Ben's with him Somebody saw you Don't think so They must've Kelby's lawyer's sitting in the next room Kelby again refused to answer any questions without the advice of his attorney We released him That day, Captain Kearney sent out two men to keep an eye on the nursery and report on all of Kelby's movements Shortly after seven o'clock that night, just after nightfall we tried once again to bring in Kelby for questioning without his lawyer's knowledge It didn't work Little after we booked him, his lawyer obtained a writ of habeas corpus We had to release him again The two men assigned to stake out the Kelby place reported definitely that somebody was tipping the lawyer whenever unknown visitors showed up at the nursery and drove off with Kelby There was nothing we could do about it The next morning, Kearney came up with a lead I had a long talk with the boy last night Accidentally, I think he's given us a pretty good lead Yeah? There's only one way we'll ever get a conviction That's by finding the body and evidence to tie Kelby in Yeah, that'll do it Where do we start looking? In a new rose bed next to one of the greenhouses in Kelby's nursery The kid came up with it last night I'll come First, Kelby's crazy about saving a dollar and making one Yeah In the nursery trade, especially where you have a limited area to work in, like Kelby, you cultivate every foot of ground Every bit of soil you've got is planted with something Kelby's not the type to waste anything Especially he's not the kind that would let ground life follow when he could plant something that might bring in a few dollars next season Ruse tells me his stepfather has every inch of those four acres planted Every inch Except a six by nine foot plot of ground in that rose garden Oh, it sounds like a long shot to me, Frank The boy said he prepared that piece of ground for planting late Saturday afternoon His stepfather wanted it ready for Sunday morning The plot of ground is still vacant I'd have planted it yesterday, Cap When's the last time you checked? Before I came to work this morning I called the men on stake out next to the nursery They told me the plot's still empty It's worth a chance, Frank When do we look it over? Tonight I don't want Kelby or his lawyer to know a thing until we find that body Well, how are we going to work it? We'll order up a crew from the crime lab They can take probings through that plot and all around it They can tell us without any guesswork how deep that ground's been worked over lately When do you want to start? Be here in the office at 8.30 tonight If my hunches are any good we'll find a body It was ten minutes past nine that night when we got to the Kelby place Lieutenant Lee Jones and his assistants Lee, Ben and two other men from homicide The men on stake out told us that Kelby had left about 20 minutes before in a dark blue coop Ben brought along the usual supply of horse meat for the dogs so we didn't have any trouble there We found the empty plot of ground in the rose bed next to the greenhouse exactly as Bruce described it to Kearney Ground's been worked over all right, boys At least four to five feet down All right, Lee, let's start digging Romero, take care of the dogs Watson, grab one of these shovels Right, Cap Hey, Kelby said these dogs were vicious, didn't he? Yeah, why? Look at these hounds They're no more vicious than a lively cold look You're digging it Get that light over here, will you? Thanks What is it, Lee? Let me see Teeth Set of false teeth Been in the ground long? Don't think so Judging from the shape they're in How far down would you say, Yali? A couple feet The ground's real soft Lee, come here a minute What is it? A body Here's a shoulder All right, you men over here with Watson Get the dirt off the face Romero, you got a picture of the Kelby woman? Yeah, I'll cap it Let's see I'll get it Thanks Get the light down here Aren't you paid off, Frank? That's her Ben and I went back to the car and notified communications to broadcast a want for murder on Eric Kelby His description, together with the description of the car and license number of the car he was driving was rebroadcast every 15 minutes Then we went back to check the house We found the front door unlocked We went inside and looked around In one bedroom we found clothes scattered over the bed and the floor There was only one old soup remaining in the closet On the table next to the bed we found an airline's timetable We got to the phone and notified communications to alert all police details at railroad stations bus terminals and airlines and then to send out an APB on the teletype After that we checked for the airlines One of them told us that a man answering Kelby's description had booked passage for Mexico City The plane was scheduled to take off at 1040 that night from Burbank Airport Ben's watch said four minutes past 10 We called the detail at the airport and alerted them Then we drove over to check in person It was 1035 p.m. when Ben and I took up our positions just inside gate 3 where passengers were boarding flight 72 from Mexico City He's cutting it close Joe Got about four minutes more to make it plain We waited The crowd got thicker as departure time came closer At 1039 Eric Kelby came through the main entrance across the terminal through gate 3 into a parahand I don't understand What does this mean? We found your wife's body Kelby What? I don't know what you're talking about In the rose patch next to the greenhouse Your lawyer can't help this time Mexico City would have been a nice trip Expensive I'll plead insanity I didn't know what I was doing Be a nice vacation next year Joe Mexico City I'm gonna talk to my wife about it I didn't mean it, she slapped me We were arguing about the boy I didn't mean it I don't know if you did or not Kelby But you killed her Come on You missed your plane The story you have just heard is true Only the names were changed to protect the innocent Eric Kelby was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree He is now awaiting execution in the lethal gas chamber at the state penitentiary You have just heard the 14th in a new series of authentic cases transcribed from official files Technical advice for dragnet comes from the office of W.A. Wharton acting chief of police Los Angeles Police Department Tonight's program is dedicated to William J. Weston Jr. of the Washington D.C. Police Department who on the evening of March 4th, 1945 gave his life so that yours might be more secure Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles If you enjoy tonight's production of Dragnet you'll want to listen to Richard Diamond private detective as played by the screen's romantic tough guy, Dick Powell The Pet Milk Show, usually heard at this time has moved to a new time period on Sunday nights Be sure to hear Larry Douglas and Kay Arman on the new Pet Milk Show tomorrow night on NBC This is NBC, the national broadcasting company Alright everybody, how do we like that one? Unlike Joshua, I can't really comment too much on the story because I was distracted this time The conversation keeps getting better but I'll go back and listen to it This one's an episode I didn't listen to ahead of time so I didn't have notes written out but based on the title I'm sure it has something to do with the body buried in the nursery Yeah, Lisa, thanks You always sign off with Have a Great Day It's great, I appreciate it We learned some interesting stuff about the crowd here today So I asked what people's hobbies are Thomas likes Since the episode's over I'm just going to go through a few notable comments here and then we will drop but I thought it was funny when they originally go talk to the guy This is when I was listening to the story They're talking to the guy and he says Don't come in, I might let go of these dogs and then there's a little bit of pause and he says accidentally Yeah, I'm sure it'd be accidental Then I asked people what their hobbies are because I wanted to know and we have a few Let me see this Hobbies What are everyone's hobbies? Life with Roscoe likes trains Oops, sorry Train shows and Thomas likes watching old movies and puzzles in addition to old time radio Joshua Oops, I clicked the wrong one Joshua does a lot of work on YouTube He manages a page for his church and a lot of shorts I'm planning to do some shorts for this I think there's a cool opportunity for I'm going to call it old time tech or something like that They talk about a teletype in here Let's do a short on what the teletype is and how it was used I think that would be really interesting to add some color to this thing Lee commented in here she does astrology Very interesting I've not done a whole lot I'm not super into that or I don't know a lot about it but something I'd be curious to learn more about We started talking about books because Thomas likes books a lot Then we got into some favorite books I think Joshua said he likes Dracula, Frankenstein The Dark Universe Then we went through We started talking about the universal dark universe which maybe has some overlap It's kind of the same era when in the 19, I actually don't know when these movies were published but as television and films started taking off they have this great villain these great monster movies that were created these great characters and a couple years ago Universal Studios was looking at all the success of Marvel and with them having Iron Man and then you have Captain America and then you bring them together in a movie and the stories just build and they had a really good run for a long time it's kind of dying off now because stories have to be they're just overly complicated in my opinion now at the beginning it was really fun seeing characters that you knew from somewhere else up here in other movies and Universal wanted to do that with these classic villains or these classic monsters that they had the IP for so the plan was to launch this universe with a reboot of The Mummy which I didn't watch the Boris Karloff Mummy I think it's Boris Karloff that did it I really liked the Brendan Fraser one the very first one so it came out it's just called The Mummy as Brendan Fraser they did two other ones after it that were not good as a fan of the first one the other ones were not good and then that was like the only thing that they did in the monster universe for a while they did a it wasn't a universe at the time that was just a standalone mummy story then they've done I think Universal has done a couple invisible man movies but a couple years back they thought sweet we're going to copy the MCU which is the Marvel Cinematic Universe we're going to make the Universal Dark Universe or I think it's called the Dark Universe and we're going to bring all these monster storylines together they made a big bet on Tom Cruise with the reboot of The Mummy and normally I like Tom Cruise movies I think Top Gun Maverick was I've seen that movie my kids that are too young to see it they know the soundtrack and they've commented to my wife how much I love that movie but they that movie the reboot with Tom Cruise The Mummy bombed so in a spectacular fashion that Universal kind of pulled the plug on this whole thing but if you watch that movie which I haven't seen it because the reviews were super bad I just saw I've seen clips of it but in that movie they have Russell Crow and he is Dr. Jekyll so he hasn't become Mr. Hyde yet that he's the his character is the one that's like tracking these phenomenon across the world so he was going to be the connecting thread through these movies that he would go and you know look for Dracula he would go and look for the creature from the Black Lagoon things like that but unfortunately we will never see that vision come to fruition at least with that set of characters I love Russell Crow so that was a bummer for me but anyway Josh with insist we gotta do one we gotta make our own old time radio universe bring in these detectives from across these series bring in Jack Webb maybe through time travel or something get him in touch with Sherlock Holmes or Dick Tracy Philip Marlowe I guess they wouldn't need time travel for some of those people they overlap the same periods but maybe once our audience gets big enough and we have some good writers I think it would be fun to at least attempt you know someone writes a good script let's get some you know amateur voice actors or let's just try it ourselves and pick a character and bring some new stories to life anyway this is the longest I've rambled on after the end of the stream but I was really enjoying the conversation today and as what's the case with Joshua because of the conversation I did not track the plot of the stories I need to go back maybe tomorrow listen to this one so I'm caught up and I can know what's happening in Dragnet World come Wednesday great life with Roscoe says listen to Harry Lyme I don't know what that is but I'll look it up thank you Thomas for confirming says Boris Karloff was the mummy in the first universal movie oh thanks he's doing he's digging up the factoids here 1931 since the 1950s was the old universal movies so yeah it overlaps with this I mean getting the Jack Benny program set up over the weekend Jack Benny started broadcasting in like the 1930s I think early 30s as well maybe like 33 I think it's when he started and then he ended in 54 so during that whole run of his show they're launching these classic classic films this one Thomas you asked if I've seen the scripts yet I haven't my this is one of many projects that I do my life has been crazier than normal but I know that you've left a comment I need to go back and look at it because I do want to make I do want to make it easy for people that are hard of hearing or you know whatever that they can enjoy this stuff as well and they can read through it so there's a there's a listener on the old-time radio archive channel that leaves a lot of comments it's always asking for captions so if I could find one I have a 2,000 videos over on that original channel so it would be hard to create captions for all those but something like this that we just do 3 a week it would be great to have captions of the story or not captions but scripts of the story available for people and then also I don't know if people know about genius.com genius.com is a website for music lyrics and they have this cool feature where people can highlight sections of the lyrics like for example in in American Pie I think is the name of it by Don McLean he sings um there's a clip that like the day the music died is what he said and you can highlight that and like what does he mean you know so people can highlight and they can leave comments and people can upvote the comments and stuff I would love to have a platform where we can upload old-time radio transcripts that then allow people to annotate that stuff and leave their own comments or factoids about it or if someone makes a reference in the script to some episode that happened earlier someone can highlight it and say he's referring to blah blah blah so that's the full vision of this transcript library would be transcripts plus annotations but I have the idea but not the um practical ability to do the execution so I'm just I write it down in a notebook something like this and then we go through and um you know maybe later in the future I know how to connect the dots or I meet someone who knows how to connect the dots and we can work together on something like that but anyway wow this is this has been a great one thank you all for being here I hope you have a great week and I hope to see you on Wednesday