Daily Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke - Crack-Up John Dehner

https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Welcome to Daily Gunsmoke, your go-to podcast for diving into the legendary tales of Marshal Matt Dillon and the untamed landscape of Dodge City from the classic old-time radio series, "Gunsmoke." Join us every day as we explore a unique episode filled with high-stakes gunfights, complex moral issues, and the raw drama that cemented Gunsmoke's place as a cornerstone of American entertainment. Experience the adventures of Dillon, Miss Kitty, Doc Adams, and Chester Proudfoot as they navigate the challenges of life and law on the frontier. Don't miss a moment of these timeless stories—tune into Daily Gunsmoke for your daily dose of the Wild West.

Duration:: 31m
Broadcast on:: 11 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad, the France drug story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States marshal, the first man they looked for and the last thing what a meet. It's a chance job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely. Marshall Dillon, come in, Marshall. Come in. Hello, Cedars. You've got time to give me a haircut. You're the only customer I've had in an hour, Marshall. If you hang your coat and your gun belt right over there, I'll get things ready for you. Okay. See, I haven't seen you around town lately, Marshall. Well, I've been over in Abilene for a week. I just got back late last night. Oh, must come in on the midnight Santa Fe, huh? Yeah, that's right. I wish I could get out of Dodge once in a while. Well, not the way I have to do it, you wouldn't. Maybe you're right, Marshall. Maybe you're right. Hey, there's a new chair you got, isn't it? Yes, sir. The finest barber's chair. West of St. Louis. Ha, ha, ha. Pretty fancy. All right. Ugh. Comfortable? Well, I'll tell you after I find out if you've raised your prices to pay for it. Yeah, let me get this cloth over here. Here we are. Haircut's still a quarter, Marshall. What about shaves? The price of a shave's gone up a dime, Marshall. A dime. Now, Marshall, you wouldn't stand in the way of progress for the sake of a dime, would you? How about who's progress? Hmm. Anyway, you don't need a shave, not today. Yeah. That's a good thing. St. Marshall, you know me below at the long branch. Yeah. Well, last Wednesday night. Oh, take the chair, stranger. I'll be with you in a few minutes. Last Wednesday night. In a few minutes. Yeah, that's right. You're next, right in line. Barber. What? I ain't next. Well, of course you are. Nobody's ahead of you. I said I ain't next. You mean you won't wait? That's right. Oh, sure you will. I work fast. It won't be longer than 10 minutes at the most. Now, you just sit down. I want a shave. I want a ride now. You can cut his hair later. What? What? You heard me. Now, look, mister, you don't know who you are. Shut up, taters. Get out of that chair, mister. Take this sheet off of me, taters. All right. There. Okay, mister, I'm hot. And move. I want to sit down. You don't understand? I don't understand what. I didn't get out of that chair so as you can have it. You're going to be troublesome, ain't you? I am. And there isn't much you can do about it. Isn't there? You don't see very well, mister. What? I'm not wearing a gun that's hanging on the wall over there. You're going to shoot an unarmed man in front of a witness. Go get your gun. Put it on. Now. Do it. You look, mister. How you going to make me do it? Shoot me? Well, it's your gun now. I don't like killings, but if you don't turn around and walk out that door, I'm going to half-kill you with my fists. Now, get moving. All right. You got me this time, but next time you'll be wearing a gun, it'll be some different than. Oh, my goodness, Marcin, you took an awful change. Who was it? He was. I never saw him before, but he might have killed you, Marcin. Ah, that'd have been murdered. You can get hung for a murder. Now, go check and let's get this haircut over with. He won't be back. Oh, Mr. Dylan. Hello, Chester. I was looking for you. Well, I've been right here in the office the past half hour. Yes, I know. I'm past the barbershop. Teeter's told me. And he told me how you handle that fellow, too. Oh, do they? Teeter's described him to me, Mr. Dylan. I know who he is. You do? He come here about a week ago. Just after you went to Abilene. Oh, what's his name? Springer. Nate Springer. What? I should have tried, Mr. Dylan. He was sure that was Nate Springer. I couldn't have had nobody else. Why? He said you don't know him. I've heard about him. You have? Where? All over. Nate Springer's got quite a reputation. Is that gunmen you mean? Yeah, he's a gunman. They say he's the most nerveless gunman that ever lived. He's all eyes. That Masterson told me once that out in Arizona, a man got the drop on him and Springer started to laugh. The man asked him what he was laughing about and Springer said he'd never had before. And he didn't want to die without seeing what it was like. Oh, forevermore. What happened? It's kind of hard to shoot a man who's enjoying his first laugh. Yeah. My. I'll be dying. What do you suppose he's doing in Dodge? Springer's a killer. A paid killer. That's all he's ever done anywhere. Then why don't you go arrest him? Well, he's not wanted that I know of. There are no circulars out on him. Well, but you can't wait till he kills somebody. No. And I can't put him in jail till he does. This is L&M filters. It stands out from all the rest. Miracle tip. Much more flavor. L&M's got everything. It's the best. Yes, L&M is best. It stands out from all the rest. 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He, uh, he's sitting over there in the corner, Doc. He is. Well, where? There. Alone with his back to the wall. Oh, yes. Oh, he looks like a killer. He is. Yeah. You see how he keeps turning around? Oh, it's like he thinks everybody in this room's his enemy. Man like that doesn't have friends. Uh-oh. Oh, at least getting up, Matt. Oh, well, he's coming this way. Yeah. He hasn't finished his dinner. He better turn around, Doc. Ah, okay. But you keep your eye on him. I don't like that, Matt. Hey, you. Me? What was you staring at me for? I wasn't staring at you. No mine stares at me without a reason. I don't like it. I want to know why he was doing it. Oh, no. Okay, Mr., you're getting yourself all upset or not. I know you ruined your dinner working yourself up there. Tell me why you were staring at me. I put a hole in you. I'll do it. Well, you're awful jumpy for a big gun man. Tell me I saw that springer. You're getting into this, Mr. I am. Who are you anyway? Matt Dillon. Dillon. That's right. I knew I'd run into you sooner or later. Oh, why? My line of work is all with some of all men, one in the fear. Sure. And it'll happen here, springer. You'll kill anybody. Fair fights, fair fighting. Now, when you paid to pick a fight with a man, like I said, Marshall, I knew I'd run into you. Springer, when I find out who you're after, I can probably find out who's paying you. And I'll jail you and him both. You're going to lose a lot of sleep trying to find out, Marshall. I can stand it. The other one that needs sleep, springer, a lot of it, without any bad dreams. Oh, well, it looks like the man of ice is starting to melt, man. Yeah. You know, something's happening to him, Dark. And whatever it is, it isn't good. [MUSIC] Kitty. I didn't say you, Matt. Sit down. If you got time. Well, I don't have to go to work till I have to sundown. Good. Guess I might as well sit here and watch Front Street with you as the one in the mouth. A little air is good for you. And a lot of it had beaten better. Well, you ought to buy a horse, Kitty. Take a ride at the river every day or so. Until broke, Matt. Well, I'll lend you one. I got a little bay that's pretty gentle. Imagine having more than one horse. That's about all the government gives me, Kitty. A couple of cheap horses. I've seen you riding your own. Well, I've got to keep him in shape in case I decide to quit. The day you quit, that horse will be as old as a man. I hope you're right, Kitty. Hey, look, Matt. What? Walking down the middle of the street. Yeah, Springer. Now, who'd expect a man like Springer to have a little yellow dog? I don't know the dog's his, Kitty. Maybe he's just following it. He's right at his heel. I don't think Springer knows it. Oh, he's trying to sniff at him. Matt, he shot him. Poor little dog. He didn't do anything. I'll be back, Kitty. Well, what do you want? Well, she was just a dog. Did you think he was going to bite you or Springer? It might have. How do I know? I don't know what it was. Could have been anything. Or anybody. I knew it wasn't a man. But you just said it. Here's what I said. That dog shouldn't have been sniffing around. Not around you, that's for sure. Well, why don't you go get a drink, Springer? I think you need one. I don't drink, Marshall. Never. Huh? You don't have any vices, do you? Marshall! Nothing. Go ahead. Matt, is he crazy or something? I don't know, Kitty. Well, he's a meanest man I ever saw. He didn't shoot that dog out of meanness. No, why then? He's jumpy. Well, if he's that jumpy, nobody needs worry about him. He's more dangerous now than the way everybody tells me he used to be. What do you mean? Suppose instead of a dog sniffing at his heel, it's been a man who just happened to bump into him. I'd hate to be the man. He'd probably get killed. That's right. Then Springer shouldn't be carrying a gun, Matt. Yeah, I know. Well, why don't you take it off him or run him out of town? I did that whoever's paying him would just hire another gunman, Kitty. The only way to stop this killing is to find out who that is. Well, I hope you do, before it's too late. That night I had Chester follow Springer around, keep an eye on him. But all he did was to buck the pharaoh bank for a few hours and then go to bed earlier than the most respectable citizens. The next day, Chester went back to trailer name while I sat in the office and tried to figure a way to trap him into telling me who'd hired him. By mid-afternoon, I was no further than when I'd started. The only idea I had was to choke it out of him. Mr. Dylan? Yeah, what is it, Chester? That dog on Nate Springer, he almost shot a girl over there. What? A girl over at the Alpha Gams. What do you mean he almost shot her? Well, sir, he stayed in his room all morning, so just before noon. Never mind that. What about the girl? That's what I'm getting to. And then just afternoon, he went over at the Alpha Gams and started gambling. He was sitting at the table in the corner with his back again, one of them wooden windows. Uh-huh. Well, one of the girls that works here, well, I guess she needed some air. So she slipped in behind Springer's chair and started pushing on that shut-out. So what if she got that far? He was raking in a pot. But when he heard her, I'd never seen a man move so fast, Mr. Dylan. Why that poor girl near fainted the way he jumped around at him. She's lucky she doesn't get shot. He had his six guns stuck right in her face. He was within a hair, letting go of that hammer. And then when he saw who it was, oh, he started cussing here, something pierced. Yeah. Well, he's getting worse. He's going to kill somebody sure, acting that way. Yeah. And it won't even be the one he come here to kill. Oh, fancy him about to shoot a woman. Well, I guess I can't wait any longer, Joseph. What you gonna do? 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I don't remember. Been until three years. Maybe just a lot of rumor. You know how talk gets started sometime. Why at Earth was the first man who told me about him? No. Look, when we get inside here, you go to the bar and stay there, huh? Yes, sir. [KNOCKING] There he is, Mr. Dillon. I see him. All right, sir. Spranger. Spranger, come all the way here. [INAUDIBLE] You're interrupting my game or-- Your game's over, Spranger, for good. What does that mean? Get out of dodge. Well, if you've been paid in advance, you better give him his money back. You're not gonna earn it. Your same name? It's an hour to sundown. You'll be out of town before dark. It's a long time since a man's talked to me like that, Marshal. How long's it been since a dog scared you under shooting him? I said she drove on a woman, huh? You lost your nerve, Spranger. You weren't gonna kill anybody. Shut up. Yeah, I'll shut up. If you tell me who hired you. No. Then who are you supposed to kill? I won't kill you. Okay, I didn't think you wouldn't. Let you be out before dark, Spranger. And don't ever come back. Ever. No. Oh, hello, man. Dark. Yeah, what are you standing out here for? Why aren't you inside with your feet on your desk the way you usually are? I'm waiting with somebody, Dark. Oh? Oh, you're sounding serious. It's Nate Spranger. He's got about 20 minutes to leave, Tom. Was that so? Why? Finally had to come around here, there. He's still in the olive reganza with it. If he doesn't come out before dark, I can go in and after him. Oh, uh-uh, here comes some of these. Right. Oh, that's Chester. Oh, yes. Is there going to be a shooting, man? I've got it, Dark. Spranger's already back down. Well, you never know. I'm going to get my things ready just to tell you. Sure, Dark. Hey, Mr. Dylan, I thought I'd better come tell you. What? Spranger's been bellyed up to that bar for the last half hour. He has. He's been taking on one glass after another. Dark was right, you never know. What? He's getting ready to use his gun, Chester. And I'm going over and stopping. Hey, look. You just come out. Yeah. He's headed this way. You'll stay here. Why shouldn't I thought you didn't drink, Spranger? I never did before. Well, you started too late. You haven't time to find your man. You'll leave him ton. I've found him. What? You. You are going to kill. Who hired you, Spranger? Let's draw, Marshal. I feel like it now. Let's draw. I'll be a fool, you drunk. Not that drunk. I can kill you. I'll be all right again. Now. Now. You shouldn't have tried it, Spranger. He... I had to... Why? You were prison two years. I come out scared. Lost my nerve in that prison. Then why did you take this job? I... I had to. Who hired you, Spranger? I didn't, Marshal. I hired me. I had to face somebody like you to get my nerve back. Don't you understand? Yeah. Yeah, I understand. Didn't work. No. And I paid everything I had for it. It... it cost me... everything... in the world. Spranger. (Sighs) (Sighs) (Sighs) (Dramatic orchestral music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And now our star, William Conrad. Thank you, George. If you're a filter tip smoker, you should be smoking L&Ms. When you try L&Ms, the first thing you'll notice is how mild they are, how easy they draw. With L&Ms, pure white miracle tip, you enjoy all the taste. Try L&Ms today. You'll like 'em. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Nunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. Our story was specially written for "Gunsmoke" by John Meston, with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey, sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Ray Kemper, featured in the cast were John Dainer and Harry Bartell. 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