Retro Radio Podcast

All resources possible have been sent to a fledgling nation to set it up in democracy. Now its up to Steve Mitchell to ensure democracy is protected. Blackmail runs rampant, and Steve has to stop it.

Sensitive documents that affect national security are at stake. A chilly ride in a cable car that runs between mountain peaks is the place to start. It’s a trip that ends in danger, and death.

Meeting his contact, Steve wants to get down to who he can trust. He confirms the document is up for grabs to the highest bidder. He also finds out the mild mannered little man is nobody to be taken lightly. Steve has to endure some good old fashioned beatings, and being roughed up. How long will he be able to hold out with his secrets?

Taking advantage of an opportunity, Steve escapes. Lisa is good with first aid, but is she someone who can be trusted? Is she yet another force that he has to deal with? The idea seems to be to get rid of Steve, and narrow the competition for bidding on the secret papers. Is it possible that Steve might play a little game of fear of his own to pit the other goons against each other?

After finding an ad in the want ads with the coat of arms found with the baby, Lum and Abner discuss what to do next. Lum is worried that they’ll have to give the baby up if they respond to the newspaper ad. To help decide the right thing to do, Lum wants to contact the newspaper editor.

The call goes to the county seat through Maimie, the phone operator, who takes time to gossip with Lum. The gossiping operator fills in some of the happenings of the residents of Pine Ridge, but will that call ever be put through?

Editor Ed Beckley, lets Lum know about the ad, and the man who placed it. Does he know anything further about the coat of arms? Has Lum’s curiosity been satisfied enough to trust the baby to him? There’s still a little bit of gossip for Maimie to share, and she calls back to pass it along.

Investigating the coat of arms the baby had in a locket, Abner gets confused as Lum tells what the possibilities mean. Is the baby a little young to have joined a lodge? Is the baby actually a 21 year old midget? Is the baby royalty?

Grandpap enters to hear the details of the locket. He knows he saw the insignia somewhere, and finds it in a recent newspaper. Before he locates it, he reads a couple strange news items on local families, and their family doings. Marriages, lost parrots, , and elopements to Mexico.

Sure enough, Lum spots the insignia in the want ads. What new developments are in store?

The insurance business has been slow, so Squire Skimp pops into the Jot Em Down store to try to sell an insurance policy to Lum and Abner for the baby. Abner gets confused over paying the premiums on a policy for the baby. Is it legal? Shouldn’t the baby pay his own bills?

The insurance blanks are in hand, but there’s a slight problem. Abner points out the baby still has no name. Will Squire be able to settle the matter? How will they find the baby’s legal name?

A locket may help learn more about the baby’s identity. Not wanting to see a sale slip through his fingers, Squire sets out to do what he can to identify the baby. Meanwhile, Lum and Abner discover a coat of arms. What does the insignia mean?

Reach for your favorite paper, and your favorite section.

* Between acts the musical cues play. The stage manager worries over his star act.

* Bugs Baer’s character Whattaman has been dealing with a rival to the boxing ring. Just how tough is Toots Jackson?

* Will Rogersrecent article dealt with horses and wide open spaces. A short humorous drama demonstrates the step away from the Hollywood scene to the glimpse of modern cowboy life.

* OO Macintyre shares, with Billy Murray reading, what he thinks is wrong with radio sound affects, radio personalities, and other tidbits of behind the scenes personalities.

* Milt Gross has a character, Joe Runt. The soft spoken man is faced with ordering at a restaurant, and worried over his wasteline.

The Warner Jensen orchestra opens with, Careless. Charlie is still under the weather, and this week we can hear it in both his and Edgar’s voices. It looks like a surgery to remove tonsils is unavoidable. Dr Edgar again serves mostly to disturb Charlie. World famous young pianist, Jose Iturbi plays, the Ritual Fire Dance.

Dorothy Lamour sings, Beginners Luck. Its time for a romantic drama with Josephine Hutchinson playing Kitty Baine. Don Ameche plays her leading man, Alan. She shares her fears as men march off to war, and not knowing if this will be the last time she sees Alan. Station break.

The Warner Jensen orchestra play a medley of Ira Gershwin tunes to include: Alexander’s Ragtime Band, and more.

WC Fields is feeling fine, and ready to torment Don Ameche, especially in regard to pitching the wrong sponsor, namely Paramount studio, not Chase and Sandborne. He tells about an elephant on a train, and a trip to the hospital. Clang clang clang! Charlie enters to continue his feuding with WC. A little politeness doesn’t go far in hiding their undercurrent of hostility.

His ramblings wander through the topics of leprosy, portmanteau’s, acting extras, skeletons and his grandmother. Josephine Hutchinson, star from Alice in Wonderland, meets WC Fields. Since he was the egg that fell off the wall, the two compare notes on the film. He is so over the top, and in his own world, she can hardly keep a straight face in reciting the Jabberwocky poem. Don Ameche sings a tune from Hawaii, Sweet Leilani.

Charlie gets to meet Jose Iturbi, and they share some common ground in entertainment… if there is any. At Charlie’s request Jose plays Chopsticks… but with a flourish. He then goes into other classical stylings of the melody.

Note: The ‘young’ Jose Iturbi was born in 1895, making him one year younger than Jack Benny, and 1 year older than George Burns. In 1937 he would have been 42. He reached the expertise in piano to have made his first world tour in 1912, at a very early age indeed. He first conducted an orchestra in 1933. Just a year earlier he had been in a plane crash, and feared he would never play or conduct again.

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A great need for secrecy has John going to Nick Carter for help. The secret turns deadly, as Nick meets some of John’s friends who might want to do him in. Gunshots, fleeing footsteps, and a host of clues to unravel are dropped at Nick’s feet.

Taking Patsy with him, Nick explores behind locked doors, until a skeleton is turned up in one of them. Well, if not a skeleton, a dead body none the less. The high speed car chases, and gunplay just won’t stop. What has Nick gotten himself into this time?

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