We Do a lil Radio Round Here

Ajouté : 2026-05-23

[00:00:11]The June bugs are going crazy right now out here.

[00:00:17]I'm so afraid they're going to fly into my hair.

[00:00:21]I'm just expecting as soon as I start this stream off, the June bug's going to fly into my hair and then I'm going to shriek like a girl. And then I'm going to run away and everybody's going to laugh at me.

[00:00:38]How's it going everybody? Welcome to Exposing Powerful Lies.

[00:00:41]I was sitting here and I was like, I got nothing better to do. I got to wake up early for work. But then again, why not listen to the radio? There's no reason.

[00:00:53]There's no reason we can't right now listen to the radio.

[00:00:57]Then again, why shouldn't we when it's there waiting for us?

[00:01:03]I took off my headphones at the end of the stream last night and as I was about to close out OBS, I was like, damn, dude. I look so much better without the headphones. I wish I I didn't have to wear these things. So, I'm taking I'm taking a nice little couple of minutes. Got my headphones right here before I slap them on and look like a dork. Let's get to the intro song. What's up everybody? Welcome, welcome. Please remember to like and share and all that jazz. And we're just going to do a little bit of radio chill streaming for the homies. Be right back.

[00:01:36]Peace out.

[00:02:05]My My mother now down my hand.

[00:02:39]This is how I don't think now.

[00:03:35]You want my fingers down my power.

[00:04:30]Oh yeah. Oh yeah, I'm gonna have to wear these freaking headphones eventually, but we're just gonna we're just gonna drag it along as long as I can. What's everybody? What's up everybody? Welcome to Exposing Powerful Eyes. I was sitting here. I was about to listen to the radio on my own and I'm like, why do that when I can listen to it with the homies, dude? So, let's just kick it right off.

[00:04:52]There's not a lot of preamble today. Not a lot to say other than um there was one thing I wanted to say. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[00:05:01]Yeah. I was thinking about what could we do while we listen to the radio. You know what I mean? Because some of these some of these shows we listen to it and it gives you a lot of fodder for joking and talking and then sometimes we're listening to the radio and I'm just sitting there like the whole show and I feel bad. So, I've been spinning some ideas in my mind of different things to do whilst listening to the radio. And you know, video games, it's kind of lame, dude. And it's too much too much going on on the screen.

[00:05:35]So, I thought maybe maybe I'd draw a pretty little picture, get a second camera, post it up, be sketching, be doodling while we're radioing. Different ideas going through my through my noggin. Now, today I have at least two episodes pulled up that we're going to listen to. Um, I found them recently.

[00:05:55]Now, the first one we're going to listen to, I didn't actually finish it on my own. So, we're going to experience it together. We're going to experience the joys, the peaks and valleys, the highs and the lows of this episode together. I have no idea what's going to happen, which I much prefer to be honest. I much prefer it that way. Please let me know.

[00:06:15]Yesterday, we had a little bit of technical difficulties, so let me know if we stumble on into any of those. And also same with audio. You know, it's hard for me to to manage the audio levels. So, please let me know if the audio gets messed up. Do I have tobacco?

[00:06:29]Yes, I do. Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate you, brother. If anybody wants to support the the show, we got the super chat links in the chat in the description. Other than that, dude, we're just going to kick right on off into it. If this is your first time here, we're listening to old school oldtime radio shows from the 1950s.

[00:06:47]And anyone who guesses the closest to how the episode will conclude gets five gold stars. Other than that, let's just let's just jump right on into it, y'all.

[00:06:56]I guess I'll put my headphones on now.

[00:07:05]All right, there we go. What's up, Mr. Westford, dude? What's going on, bro?

[00:07:09]What's up, Jeff Perry? What's up?

[00:07:12]I got to be real careful with where I put this freaking microphone, too, because I noticed that the first stream we did this week, I was breathing right into the mic. And that's like a little pet peeve of mine, dude. That's really annoying hearing somebody breathe. So, hopefully we'll keep the microphone far enough away from my face face so it isn't so annoying.

[00:07:34]Now, this first episode we're listening to today is called Accounts Payable, episode 354 of Suspense. Let's get right into it. Thank you all so much for being here. Please like and share.

[00:07:49]I'm going to kick that green screen on.

[00:07:54]Wait a minute.

[00:07:57]Suspense.

[00:08:04]Autoite and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Edward Arnold in account payable, a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear.

[00:08:17]>> It's a pip for pep and power.

[00:08:19]>> What is Harlo?

[00:08:20]>> A be for bustling bounce and brawn.

[00:08:22]>> Yeah, but what?

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[00:08:29]>> Mr. Westford, you're you're weed eating right now. It's sunny where you are. Oh, are you over in like California or something like that? Dude, it's 9:48 p.m. where I am, and it is hot today, dude. It is a hot day out today.

[00:08:43]>> Why it's larger liquid reserve above the plates, as compared to ordinary batteries, helps leak one of the leading causes of battery failure. It has an extra lifeguard, too, fiberglass retaining mats to protect every positive plate. Yes, sir. In tests conducted according to SAPEL life cycle standards, AutoLightlight StayFull batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without Stay Full features. So friends, get an Autolight Stay Full battery for your car. And remember, you're always right with Autoite. Oh, a reminder, suspense on television may be seen in many parts of the country every Tuesday night.

[00:09:19]And now with account payable and with the performance of Mr. Redwood Arnold Autolight hopes once again to keep you in suspend.

[00:09:32]When you wait for something, a minute seems like an hour. An hour like a century. I've heard that all my life.

[00:09:38]But now, waiting for a door to open, a door at the far end of a big office. At last, I realize the true meaning of those words.

[00:09:46]He's in there in that office, but he won't.

[00:09:49]>> Alfred Vickers is here. The show can start now. Thank you, Alfred. I appreciate that, dude. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Kirk.

[00:09:55]>> Be the one to open the door this time. A dead man doesn't open doors.

[00:10:01]That body. Sooner or later, someone will have to discover that body. But why do I feel it? Must be later.

[00:10:13]It seems like almost all my life I've watched Mr. Waterberry's door. The door at the far end of the office marked private. Bang open in that biting snarling voice.

[00:10:21]>> Mr. Baker, Mr. Timothy Becker, will you come in here?

[00:10:27]>> And I'd quickly lay down my pencil, take off my eye shade, pick up the accounts payable ledger, and walk the full length of the office with all eyes upon me until I was at that impersonal frosted glass door. As many times as I'd walked down that aisle, as well as I knew these people all around me, it still made me uncomfortable. And as many times as I' I'd been in Mr. Waterberry's office, I still trembled slightly inside.

[00:10:54]>> Well, Baker, have you the accounts payable ledger with you?

[00:10:57]>> Yes, Mr. Waterberry, right here. Oh, >> drop a chair, Baker. I want to go over these with you.

[00:11:05]>> I'll I'll stand if you don't mind.

[00:11:08]>> Stand. That's right. Those chairs are too heavy for you to move. That it too heavy.

[00:11:18]Too heavy. Too heavy. Waterbur's favorite joke. Because I'm a big man, but he's a wiry giant. There were only two things we had in common, Mr. Waterbury and I. We worked in the same office, and we were both sick men.

[00:11:39]Sick how? Sick in the head.

[00:11:42]Sick. Sick how, dude.

[00:11:45]>> But after 5:00, after 5:00, my life was different. I shook off my bonds and I was king. My daughter, my Jesse would be waiting for me. And every night, I knew that there was no indignity that John Woodbury or anyone else in the world could subject me to. That wasn't more than outweighed by a single smile from my little girl.

[00:12:11]Jesse. Jesse, darling, >> I'll be with you in a second, Dad.

[00:12:14]Dinner's all ready.

[00:12:15]>> All right, dear. I'll wash up.

[00:12:21]>> Here, kiss me.

[00:12:23]>> GO, GET AWAY FROM ME. MY FACE is all wet. All right, there.

[00:12:29]>> Not another until I'm fed and care for.

[00:12:32]>> I got your favorite tonight. Lamb stew.

[00:12:34]>> Fine.

[00:12:37]Yes. There's only one play set, aren't you?

[00:12:39]>> And Mr. Timothy Baker, how can you have such a brilliant, beautiful, thoughtful daughter when you're so absent- minded?

[00:12:45]>> Wednesday night, remember dinner date?

[00:12:47]Remember fraternity party? Remember?

[00:12:49]>> Oh, yes.

[00:12:53]>> I completely forgot. Tonight it >> Well, well, and what time do you leave?

[00:12:58]>> Well, I I'll have a cup of coffee with you, and then I'm going over to Margaret's house, and the boys will pick us up there.

[00:13:03]>> Ah, that's wonderful. At last, an evening alone, peace and quiet.

[00:13:09]>> Baker, you won't know what to do with yourself. Well, you'll sit up and read a mystery book till I come home. And then you'll say, "Home already? Didn't you enjoy yourself?"

[00:13:17]>> All right. All right. You win. Who's taking you?

[00:13:21]>> I don't know >> what.

[00:13:23]>> Won't know. In fact, until he picks me up at Margaret. Isn't it exciting?

[00:13:26]>> Yes, I'm sure. Well, all right. There's my napkin.

[00:13:34]And sure enough, I was sitting up in bed with a mystery book when she came home.

[00:13:39]I heard her close the door and come up the stairs. Jesse.

[00:13:44]>> Dad, put down that book and get to sleep.

[00:13:46]>> Enjoy yourself.

[00:13:48]>> Well, I had a wonderful time, Dad.

[00:13:50]Perfectly branded. It's 2:00 and you've got to get up at 7:00. And so, good night.

[00:13:55]>> Good night, dear.

[00:14:02]I knew that someday Jesse would marry and leave me for a home of her own. It didn't worry me, although I thought 20 was well a rather tender age. She was so shy this time, no mention of the boy, just a new bloom in her cheeks, a distant look in her eyes. During the days that followed, I was practically living in the house by myself. Jess was so lost in her own little world.

[00:14:28]Then there was a black night, the night I heard the door slam.

[00:14:33]It wasn't like Jesse not to say good night, even if it was only a cold word through my closed door. I sat still for a moment, then put down my book and got out of bed.

[00:14:44]I could hear Jesse sobbing.

[00:14:48]I >> I'm sorry. Good night, Dad.

[00:14:51]>> Jesse. Jesse, what's the matter?

[00:14:54]Nothing. It's nothing.

[00:14:56]>> Jesse, darling, what's wrong?

[00:14:59]>> Well, Dad, I I'm so unhappy.

[00:15:01]>> Oh, there. Sweetheart, what's the trouble?

[00:15:06]Nothing can be that bad. Nothing in the world should make you cry like that.

[00:15:11]>> It's Bill. You know, Dad, I'm so in love with him. I know it. And I Oh.

[00:15:16]>> Oh, I see. You had a fight.

[00:15:19]>> Well, no. No. Oh, he hasn't done a thing except be sweet and wonderful and thoughtful and kind and >> Well, then what's wrong?

[00:15:25]>> That is awful. That's terrible.

[00:15:28]>> Hasn't he got a job?

[00:15:29]>> He's done.

[00:15:29]>> I can see why you're crying.

[00:15:31]>> Being here, he'll be a doctor in about another year. No, it's not that. It's It's his father.

[00:15:37]>> His father?

[00:15:38]>> It's his father. He didn't know Bill was going with me. When he met me, when he bumped into us on the street by mistake, he even seemed to like me until >> what? Um, come tell me. Tell me.

[00:15:51]>> Look, Dad. Bill's father is Mr. Waterberry, and when he found out I was your daughter, he >> Oh, ouch, dude. Ouch.

[00:16:03]I felt the blood rush to my head and my body grow weak. Mr. John Waterman.

[00:16:08]>> He liked me until he knew I was your daughter.

[00:16:12]>> The daughter of a bookkeeper. Even his head bookkeeper wasn't fit for his son.

[00:16:15]His son was going to be a doctor. I felt myself going busy.

[00:16:19]>> Oh, Dad, sit down. Huh?

[00:16:20]>> Oh, Dad is not another attack, is it?

[00:16:22]Oh, please sit here.

[00:16:24]>> Oh, I didn't mean to upset you. Oh, Dad.

[00:16:33]>> I was prepared for the next day. I knew Mr. Waterbury would call me. And for the first time in my life, I was prepared to stand up to him. He could do what he wanted to me, but not to my Jesse. I'd quit. I'd take her to South America. I did.

[00:16:47]>> Baker, come in here at once.

[00:16:58]>> I thought you were going to take her to South America and quit. Dude, he's ready. Getting ready to fold.

[00:17:02]>> Well, come in, Baker.

[00:17:04]>> Getting ready to fold up.

[00:17:05]>> Yes, Mr. Waterberry.

[00:17:06]>> Close that door.

[00:17:08]>> Yes, Mr. Waterberry.

[00:17:10]>> Baker, how long have you worked for me?

[00:17:13]Uh 22 years last November, sir.

[00:17:16]>> And this is how you pay me back.

[00:17:18]>> I don't understand.

[00:17:19]>> You understand, Baker? My son graduates from medical school in just one year.

[00:17:24]He'll do it without a wife. I won't have him getting serious with a girl, especially one who can do him no good. A doctor, a young doctor, starting out today. Needs to marry position, family, society. Otherwise, he's lit before he begins. Do you understand me? Uh >> yes, sir.

[00:17:40]>> Now, I have nothing against you. Your daughter is a pretty girl, but let her go with her own class. Let her stay in her own class.

[00:17:46]>> But Mr. Waterberry, >> let her date those other peasants, those other filthy poor people.

[00:17:51]>> Yes. I I >> Yes. Yes. What is it? What is it?

[00:17:55]>> Well, I I didn't know she was going with your son.

[00:17:58]>> Well, she has been. And I WON'T HAVE IT.

[00:18:00]YOU HERE? I WON'T HAVE IT.

[00:18:02]>> PLEASE, MR. WATERBURY, don't get excited. Your asthma.

[00:18:05]>> Oh, blasty asthma. I won't have it. You understand? I won't have it.

[00:18:09]>> Please don't excite yourself. I'm not excited.

[00:18:11]>> But sir, are you >> I'm all right.

[00:18:14]The needle in my desk drawer.

[00:18:19]Get the needle.

[00:18:21]>> For the past 10 years, Mr. Water's asthma attacks had grown increasingly severe until he was forced to have an adrenal hypermic honey at all times. For just such a case as this, the adrenaline was magic. The coughing stopped, the sandbank in his chair, white, exhausted.

[00:18:39]That That's my final word, Baker.

[00:18:42]Tell your daughter.

[00:18:44]>> Yes, sir.

[00:18:44]>> I I think I'm going to take the rest of the day off.

[00:18:48]>> Uh, Mr. Waterbury, I have to work on some records in the safe. Uh, what should I do?

[00:18:54]>> I'll leave it open. Make sure you close the safe when you leave. And lock my door.

[00:18:59]>> Yes, sir.

[00:19:04]>> How I hated myself. weakling power.

[00:19:08]But 22 years is a long time. The ingrained habit of 22 years kept me the bookkeeper, him the boss. I opened the safe and took out Mr. Waterberry's private ledger. In so doing, I knocked over a small lock box. The key was still in the lock, and curiosity got the better of me. I snapped up the lid, AND $500 bills. two thick packets of $500 bills. I counted 50 bills in each pack.

[00:19:38]$50,000.

[00:19:40]My mind raced. I remembered stories, rumors of black market operations and drugs. If this was the result, no wonder it was in cash and in the box. Waterbury had been to the bank yesterday and had come back with the package. This must be it. Undeclarable profit. Money without record. Money without claim. illegal profit.

[00:20:03]If it was lost, no police force could be called in to recover it. It was uh I was watching someone else, a tired old bookkeeper removing the money from the box, putting it in a large envelope. He stuffed the lock box with a package of blers, and I realized that >> But how does this help your daughter, dude? Like, is he going to take it and then give it to his daughter so that she can get married to this dude's son and run away? Like, is his son going to be okay with that?

[00:20:34]>> But this was me. This was Timothy Bacon.

[00:20:37]I was stealing the money. I locked the box, replaced it. I was putting the key in my pocket when I heard a hand on the door. I raised the seat cushion of the big black leather chair, jammed the envelope under it, and turned to the ledger I was working on.

[00:20:52]>> Oh, Baker.

[00:20:52]>> Yes, Mr. Waterbury. Yes.

[00:20:54]>> I was halfway out of the building. I forgot something. Did you see a little black metal box in the safe?

[00:20:58]>> Box? Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Do you mean that one over there?

[00:21:02]>> Oh, yes, that's it. I've got to take it home.

[00:22:00]Goodbye, Vicker. And don't forget to talk to your daughter tonight. A final warning. Remember?

[00:22:05]>> Yes, Mr. Waterbury. I will.

[00:22:06]>> And remember to lock the safe.

[00:22:08]>> Yes, Mr. Waterbury. He closed the door and I stood there. I was thinking very clearly. He hadn't missed the key. But before long, he would. And his next move would be to break the box open. And then then he would remember. He would suspect me. That money was mine. I'd earned it.

[00:22:28]It would it would take me to South America. It would take us, Jesse, and me away from all the John Waterberries of the world. But I needed time.

[00:22:35]>> Okay. Okay. Hang on a second.

[00:22:38]So because you worked for this guy for 20 years, his $50,000 of illegally ill gotten gained money is yours and your daughter who wants to marry this dude's doctor, soon to be doctor son, you're going to take your daughter to South America. I don't think she's going to like that. Dude, >> I had to get out before he discovered his loss. How?

[00:23:00]And I mean, even if I did get away, he he wouldn't know I had done it. and vindictive. He >> Yeah, I'm not liking this plan. I don't think this plan's very good.

[00:23:09]>> Keep after me as long as he lived. As as long as he lived.

[00:23:19]>> Oh yeah, let's just let's just throw murder on top of that. That's great.

[00:23:23]Just keeps getting better and better.

[00:23:25]>> But what if Mr. John Waterberry were to die before he opened that box?

[00:23:44]Autoite is bringing you Mr. Redwood Arnold in account payable. Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills. Suspense.

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[00:25:20]Yes, I had the solution. Mr. Waterbury would die and I would have $50,000, a fitting retirement sum for 20 years, two years of hard work. But But how?

[00:25:32]I looked around the room and knew that I was thinking more clearly, more quickly than I ever had in my life. My eyes came to rest upon a group of sample bottles, samples of new Waterberry Drug Company products. I picked up one small bottle marked poison.

[00:25:50]I felt a sudden rush of blood to my head. My body seemed to be floating, weak. I was persspiring, but something kept driving me to act and act quickly.

[00:25:59]Poison.

[00:26:01]Poison.

[00:26:02]And how to administer it? How to the hypodermic needle? Of course.

[00:26:13]Poison. Self-inflicted.

[00:26:16]Technical.

[00:26:16]>> This guy's getting This guy's getting a little weird, dude. like you're kind of enjoying this. I'm starting to think that maybe this was like in in his heart this whole time he's been working with this guy. He's just been waiting for the opportunity to kill this dude. Like like it's supposed to be like a uh sort of opportunity, right? Like just out of the blue like, "Oh man, he's being a jerk to my daughter. Oh, I found this money." But now I'm starting to think this is a little premeditated.

[00:26:44]>> Suicide. It would be easy. Simple.

[00:26:47]I emptied the adrenaline out of Mr. Waterbury's everpresent hypodomic needle and filled it with the colorless liquid from the bottle in my hand. This was the poison of freedom. The poison of my freedom.

[00:26:59]>> Mr. Baker, I'm sorry.

[00:27:00]>> What? What? What is it, Mr. Jones? What is it?

[00:27:02]>> Mr. Baker, I'm in awful trouble. Could you come right away, please? I've got Abene, Texas on the phone. And Mr. Baker, if Mr. Waterbury finds out, I'll get fired.

[00:27:10]>> Oh, all right. All right. I'll be right there.

[00:27:11]>> No, no, Mr. Baker, please. Please come now.

[00:27:13]>> Oh, all right. Lock lock the safe, will you? Oh, >> sure thing. It was a maddening interruption. I was shaking with >> That's actually a good guess. Mr. Westford says the guys involved in the illicit business going to come looking for the money. That's probably That's probably pretty close. I only listened to the first half of this episode. So, I have no idea.

[00:27:32]>> Impatience. And yet, as I stroed to the telephone, as I talked to our representative in Texas, I felt a new authority in my manner, a new strength of character.

[00:27:41]>> Yes, Mr. Peterson.

[00:27:43]>> Yes. The shipment is completely insured.

[00:27:45]You haven't a thing. You haven't a thing to worry about. No, sir. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. Goodbye.

[00:27:51]>> You have lots of authority when you want to use it.

[00:27:53]>> Well, Miss Jones, you you shouldn't get so excited it doesn't pay.

[00:27:57]>> Oh, >> and now may I go back to my work?

[00:27:59]>> Of course, Mr. Baker.

[00:28:03]>> Miss Jones. Miss Jones.

[00:28:04]>> Yes, >> Miss Jones. This door to Mr. Waterberry's office, I I can't open it.

[00:28:07]>> Well, you told me to lock it.

[00:28:08]>> Lock it, you stupid fool. Don't you know I I haven't got the key? Don't you know nobody but Mr. Waterberry has the key?

[00:28:14]>> Who told me to lock it? The safe. The safe. I I told you to lock the safe, not the office. How am I going to get in there?

[00:28:20]>> Baker. Mr. Baker. Please sit here. YOU PURPLE. MR. BAKER. GOT TO GIVE ME A HAND.

[00:28:28]>> Did he just die?

[00:28:32]>> Yes, I had fainted.

[00:28:34]All I could visualize was that envelope under the cushion of a chair in Mr. Water's office. the envelope with $50,000 so near and I couldn't get into that office until the next day.

[00:28:46]>> Why even the cleaning woman had to get a key for Mr. Waterberry himself to go in there once a week.

[00:28:52]>> Well, I went home. There was nothing else to do.

[00:28:56]>> That sucks, bro. That sucks, dude.

[00:28:59]>> Look off and tired. Dad, why don't you go to bed?

[00:29:02]>> Oh, I'm really not tired, Jesse. I'm just a little nervous.

[00:29:06]>> But I've told you you shouldn't be.

[00:29:08]Don't worry about Bill or Mr. Waterberry or me. I won't.

[00:29:11]>> We'll work things out. You wait and see.

[00:29:13]>> Of course, dear. Of course. Yes. I'll get to bed right away.

[00:29:23]But it was no use. Sleep just wouldn't come.

[00:29:28]No, I could I could only think of Mr. order of a lock box without a key.

[00:29:33]$50,000 of the broken heart of my darling Jesse and of a hypodermic needle filled with poison.

[00:29:41]Finally, it was morning and I was in the office. Mr. B Waterberry was in when I arrived, even though I came a half hour early. The reports were that Waterberry was a raging man. I waited on edge.

[00:29:56]>> Baker, Mr. Baker, will you come in here?

[00:29:59]Yes, sir.

[00:30:03]>> Baker, when you were working here yesterday, did you see that lock box?

[00:30:08]>> Oh, of course, Mr. Waterbury. I handed it to >> Oh, is the money going to be gone, dude?

[00:30:13]Is the money going to be gone? That's what I'm curious about.

[00:30:16]>> You don't you remember?

[00:30:17]>> That's not what I mean. Did you see the key?

[00:30:19]>> Key?

[00:30:19]>> Key? Yes, the key to the box. Was it in the safe?

[00:30:22]>> I don't know what you're talking about, sir. I didn't see any key.

[00:30:25]>> You fool. Didn't you see anything?

[00:30:27]>> No, sir.

[00:30:27]>> Baker, come here. Now, here is the safe.

[00:30:29]You examine it. I've got to find that key. I've been all through it. Do you hear? It's not there.

[00:30:34]>> Well, I I I'll look for it, Mr. Waterbury.

[00:30:36]>> Look there. Look here. Maybe I fell under here.

[00:30:41]>> I'm I'm sorry. I I can't find anything that even resembles a key.

[00:30:47]>> I'll get it. I'll get it. I'LL GET IT.

[00:30:49]>> YES. THIS IS JOHN WATERBERRY.

[00:30:53]WHAT?

[00:30:54]OH, NO. It can't be.

[00:30:59]Thank you. I'll find out about this right now. Baker, >> this dude is so messed up, dude.

[00:31:07]>> Oh my gosh. I'm just waiting for him to keel over.

[00:31:10]>> YOU KNOW THAT, BAKER? MY BOY BILL.

[00:31:17]>> MR. WATERBERRY.

[00:31:18]>> NEEDLE, get the needle.

[00:31:21]>> I started to open mechanically the desk drawer when I froze to the spot. Water boy was writhing on the floor, gasping for breath, turning a deep red color. I couldn't move. His eyes started to bulge and his face was contorted with agony.

[00:31:34]The drawer which held the hypodmic needle was half open in my hand when another thought flashed through my brain.

[00:31:40]Poison can be traced. Death from suffocation in the throws of an asthmatic attack could not be.

[00:31:48]Slowly, I close the desk drawers. Yeah, but if he survives, then he's going to be like, "Why the hell did you just try to watch me die, dude?"

[00:31:55]>> Near Waterberry. He could hardly breathe. He gasped spikes.

[00:32:00]Years of incestant bow beating flashed before me as I watched him transfixed.

[00:32:08]Then, with one final convuls of gasp, he stopped breathing and fell back.

[00:32:14]I waited until every muscle spasm stopped.

[00:32:18]I reached over and felt his heart and I knew that at last Mr. John Waterbury was dead.

[00:32:31]>> RIP rep.

[00:32:35]>> As soon as I caught control of myself, I backed out of his office as though as I as I was still talking to him. Yes, Mr. Waterberry. I'll take care of those accounts payable right away, sir. Yes, sir.

[00:32:48]Baker, how is he? You look scared to death.

[00:32:51]>> Oh, he's bad this morning.

[00:32:52]>> He's really on the war path.

[00:32:55]>> He said you're not to bother him under any circumstances.

[00:32:58]>> So, don't let any calls through or anything until he gives you the go.

[00:33:01]>> Oh, don't worry. You couldn't get me inside that office. Not for anything.

[00:33:04]>> Did he grab the envelope? Did I miss something? Like, did he cuz the envelope was underneath the cushion of the chair.

[00:33:11]Did it mention him grabbing it? I didn't hear that.

[00:33:14]>> I don't blame you. I hope I never have to go in there again.

[00:33:20]I came back to my desk. An hour would give me time. An hour and I can compose myself so that I can face that dead body on the floor without exposing myself. I need that hour. Peter Galloway, my assistant, came up to me a few moments ago and did you go over that ledger of the old man's yesterday?

[00:33:39]>> Well, I didn't get too much chance, Peter. I Miss Jones called me out of the office.

[00:33:44]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know. Mr. Jones was in a jam again. You got locked out. Yeah, I remember.

[00:33:48]>> Hey, it's lucky you didn't leave that account's payable ledger in there. Oh, the old man would have blown his top.

[00:33:54]>> Yes, but he he blew his top anyhow.

[00:33:57]>> Oh, yeah. I wonder what's eating him.

[00:33:59]>> I don't know.

[00:34:00]>> Well, I got to get to that ledger. Oh, I'll just have to go in and beard the lion in his den.

[00:34:04]>> No, no, no, no. You can't.

[00:34:06]>> What? What?

[00:34:07]>> I mean, I mean, you better wait an hour or so. I'll go in there in a little while and get it for you.

[00:34:13]>> Yeah, but I need it. There's something in there I need, too. I I Be a good boy, Peter. Have patience.

[00:34:19]You've got a wife and a family. You need your job. I've worked here for 22 years.

[00:34:24]I know Mr. Waterberry now. Don't go in there just now.

[00:34:27]>> Well, okay, if you say so. What did you leave in there?

[00:34:31]>> Well, I left.

[00:34:32]>> Dude, every single episode of these shows, like, they can never act nonchalant. They always have to act the most suspiciously ever.

[00:34:42]Oh, just something personal. Oh. Oh, I see.

[00:34:47]>> Like, is the hour really that important?

[00:34:49]Like, he could have he could have just started yelling like, "Oh my gosh, he died of an asthma attack. Grab the envelope, put it in your pocket, have them call an ambulance." Like, what the hell is the hour even for?

[00:35:02]>> Something personal. $50,000 that rightfully belong to me. After Peter Gallaway went back to his desk, I relaxed for a moment. And now I Why? Why am I so frightened? I sooner or later someone will have to discover that body.

[00:35:19]But why do I feel that it must be later?

[00:35:22]Bill Waterberry. Young Waterberry. My Jesse's Bill just came in. Miss Jones is arguing with him.

[00:35:26]>> Miss Jones, I know you're efficient. I know what a terror dad is. But this is important.

[00:35:30]>> But he doesn't want to be disturbed. Mr. Bill, >> I know his blood pressure is up and I know what's causing it. I'm the doctor.

[00:35:35]When he sees me, he'll explode completely or he'll calm down. Uh, did he get a phone call about 3/4 of an hour ago?

[00:35:40]>> Yes, I I I think he did, but he left instruction.

[00:35:43]>> Yeah, I I know who called him. I know what his trouble is. You catch me if I come fly it out.

[00:35:47]>> Mr. Sure is.

[00:35:51]>> Won't even answer.

[00:35:53]>> Well, here goes.

[00:35:56]>> Uh, Mr. Baker, I was >> Shut up.

[00:35:59]>> Oh, >> I'm sorry. I mean that. Uh, >> can I have some help in here, please?

[00:36:03]It's dad. He's He's passed out. Passed out in here.

[00:36:06]>> Here. Gi, you take his feet. We'll get him up off the floor. Get him up.

[00:36:10]>> That's it.

[00:36:12]>> You ought to get a pillow for his head.

[00:36:13]Tim. Tim, get a pillow.

[00:36:14]>> A pillow?

[00:36:15]>> Yeah. Yeah. Get anything. Miss Jones?

[00:36:16]Uh, Miss Jones, go get a glass of water.

[00:36:18]Yeah. How's How's it coming, Bill?

[00:36:19]>> Where can I find a pillow?

[00:36:21]>> I don't know. Take that cushion off the black leather chair. That'll do.

[00:36:25]>> The black leather chair.

[00:36:26]>> Don't Don't bother, Mr. Baker.

[00:36:30]>> What?

[00:36:31]>> I said don't bother. It isn't necessary.

[00:36:35]My father's dead. Dead.

[00:36:38]>> Must have had a bad attack and couldn't get to his adrenaline.

[00:36:41]>> I knew it had happened someday. I I just knew it.

[00:36:44]>> What do we do? Call the hospital or the the police?

[00:36:47]>> I think you'd better call the police and report it.

[00:36:51]>> Mr. Baker, would you would you please now? Come on. Snap out of it. Tim. Tim, you're shaking like a leaf.

[00:36:58]>> Oh, here. Here. I'll do it.

[00:37:00]>> Tim. Tim. Mr. >> Baker. Why you fainted again?

[00:37:03]>> What? No, he he'll be all right. He's just fainted.

[00:37:05]>> Get a doctor >> here. Let me take care of him. I'm almost a doctor. I've got to take care of him. He doesn't know it, but he's my father-in-law. I married his daughter this morning. And how is he? When will I open his collar?

[00:37:14]>> Oh snap, dude. Oh snap. He got married that morning.

[00:37:19]>> Say this is serious.

[00:37:20]>> What is it? Is he going to be all right?

[00:37:22]Oh, poor Mr. >> Do you think I better call somebody? His pulse is terribly weak.

[00:37:26]>> And this whole this whole time I'm like, why doesn't this dude like check in with Jenny and see like what she thinks?

[00:37:33]Normal painting spell. He almost feels >> something. Do something.

[00:37:35]>> All right. What?

[00:37:36]>> I know. Roll up a sleeve, Miss Jones.

[00:37:39]>> Adrenaline. A shot of adrenaline will bring him right around. Galloway. On the top of dad's desk is a little >> No, no, no. Not that >> black box and a hypo needle. It's filled with adrenaline. Hurry up. Bring it over here.

[00:37:50]>> Oh, that's so dirty, dude. That's so messed up.

[00:37:55]>> That's it.

[00:37:56]>> O.

[00:37:57]>> Now good.

[00:38:02]He'll be all right now.

[00:38:15]Ain't that always the way, dude? Always get killed by their own mischief.

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[00:41:22]Man, dude. So good, dude. I love these.

[00:41:24]I love these so much. I just I just can't help it, dude. I'm a freaking sucker for old radio, dude. The freaking just the atmosphere, the vibe of the old advertisements, the whole shebang, dude.

[00:41:39]I just love it so much. Jeff says, "Movie night suggestion, Crime and Punishment starring Edward Arnold and Peter Lori." I don't I don't think I've ever seen that, dude.

[00:41:49]Thank you. Let's check it out. Crime and Punishment full movie. Edward Arnold.

[00:42:02]Okay, it's on there, dude. Let's do it, man. Let's do it up. That'll be uh that that's a good idea for next time, dude.

[00:42:10]We'll do a little movie night stream.

[00:42:13]Oh man, I'm a sucker for that radio, dude. I just can't get enough of it.

[00:42:18]Thank you all so much for being here. I got to wake up early tomorrow morning for work, so I'll probably just wrap it up now. We do got one more episode to listen to, but maybe we'll just save that one for next time. I don't know if I'll be able to do any more streams during the weekday, but the weekends the weekends are where it's at. I got a lot more time on the weekend to do that. But if we can find the time, we will definitely be checking this out. Thank you all so much for being here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope you enjoy the radio as much as I do.

[00:42:49]And until next time, Lil Ew.