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Gunsmoke - The Tragedian

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Duration:: 27m
Broadcast on:: 03 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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And that's a sound similar to the historic ringing of the Liberty Bell in 1776. It serves to remind us of the vital part we play today in our nation's government. Be an informed American. Know the ABCs of your government. Under the letter L in the dictionary of U.S. government terms is the word lobby. A lobby is an organized group which seeks to influence legislators for passage or defeat of a bill. The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all citizens the right to petition for or against government decisions. Years ago, people with special favors to ask would stop congressmen in the capital lobbies to talk to them. Soon they became known in political slang as lobbyists. There are lobbies for and against everything. There are lobbies for low tariffs, lobbies for high tariffs, lobbies for federal aid to education, lobbies for rigid farm price supports, lobbies for flexible supports. Lobbies have been referred to as the Third House of Congress, which works behind the scene. Keep the spirit of the Liberty Bell ringing. Be an informed American. Know the ABCs of our nation's government in action. ♪♪ You know, Mr. L. and I sure would feel a lot safer. We had Brad Kyler lost up there in jail like his brother. So would I, Chester? You'd think if he was around town, somebody would have saw him. Maybe he doesn't want to be seen. There might be a certain feeling not known if any minute you might get aboard in the back. That's probably the way he'll try it, too, in the back. Now let's take another look in the long branch. Alright. ♪♪ Hello, Matt. Hi, Kitty. Have you caught Brad Kyler yet, Matt? Haven't even found a trace of him, Kitty. Seems to me you could make his brother talk. Not so far. You got him locked up in jail, isn't that some way of forcing him? Take an axe handle to him, even. Oh, well. No. I'm right down to it, Mr. Kitty. I don't think even that is breaking down. Them collar boys is turprenarming you. Brad, raise both. It's just a pair of cool-blooded killers. Sure they are, I'm proud of. The race that's over there in his cell bragged about the things they've done admits all of. He says he'll never stand trial all of it. Brad will get him out before that. Oh, he's just bluffing, Matt. No. Brad will make a try, at least. Matt. Oh, hello, Thagg. Hey, Matt. If you want to stop a mid-fight, maybe you'll kill him. Huh? You better move in on that poker game over in the corner. What's peaceful enough to me? No, no, it isn't crooked, Matt. I smelled it so I pulled out just now. Some of the others are getting kinda itchy too. I think Ben started about to call a showdown. Oh, it was during the cheating. Well, I figure sat there. Isn't that old fellow over there, by the wall? Yeah. And the fancy vest and the soles of his boots. But he's marked the deck somewhere. Oh, it looks to me. You know who he is? No one knows a stranger that claims he's a big-time stage actor back east. But I think he's mostly hot airy and bad whiskey. All right, mister. This is gone far enough. There it is, Matt. Yeah. You've been winning all fired records to suit me, mister. All right, I think you're pardoned, my dear sir. Don't let off me, fancy dude. All right, and all of you. Take it easy now. Now, now, what's the trouble? Now, this man's been cheating on us. That's trouble. Sir, may I ask if you represent the law here? I'm the U.S. Marshal, yeah. Who are you? I, sir, have the distinction of being Edward Vanderman, a name with which you are, no doubt familiar. No, I can't say that I am. And may I inform you, Marshal, that I am the Edward Vanderman? The Edward Vanderman, who has trod the boards for low these many years before the ground heads of Europe. Always to the wildest display. That's very interesting. 23 weeks as Hamlet at the Coven Garden Music Hall, 31 weeks in the unforgettable role of Macbeth. All right, but what about this poker game? Well, it's a ridiculous accusation. I had the impression I was playing with gentlemen instead of these cropping, heckling creatures. Let me have him, Marshal. Just let me and the boys take him out back for just five minutes. How do you know he was cheating better? He was cheating. We all know it. Look at these cards, nicks and clips and corners, every one of them. He's been working over for the last hour. This luck's been getting better all the time. How about his table stakes there, most of that's yours? Most all of it. He had only five dollars to start with. All right, then, keep it and split it up however you figured. Come on, Vanderman. I beg your pardon? Come on, outside, now move. Not this door. Come on, Chester. Yes, sir. All right, Vanderman, I'm going to make this short. We don't like card sharps and dots. You get out of town tonight. Sir, I am not the card sharp. You were cheating, weren't you? I was... Yes, I was cheating. But it was out of desperation, sir. That and they drink on an empty stomach. Marshal, I can't get out of town. Oh, why not? Well, to put it quite simply, sir, I am broke. What? A matter of unfortunate investments, you might say. At any rate, that city is the end of the line. I have no dissent, and as you can see, I'm not very well equipped for walking. When did you eat last? Oh. Approximately 24 hours ago. All right. Chester, take him over to the jail and give him some of that stew that you made. You can sleep on the cot tonight, and maybe we can figure out something in the morning for him. Okay, thank you. Marshal, you have not only earned my undying gratitude, but I promise I will never crimp another deck as long as I live. Furthermore, you may call me Edward. All right, Edward. But it's a savior gratitude, because you taste that stew of Chester's. Times have changed, and so has the man. In the year 1775, a patriotic, enterprising American by the name of David Bushnell invented a strange craft. It was constructed of two oak beans resembling two platters, clapped together, and propelled by a water screw attached to a hand-operated crank. Another water screw regulated the depth to which the craft could descend. This was the American turtle, the first United States submarine. A hundred and seventy-nine years later, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, the United States came up with another first. This time, however, it was a three thousand ton, fifty-five million dollar vessel powered by an atomic reactor. It was the Nautilus, the world's first atom-powered submarine. And where the American turtle was a one-man operation dependent on courage and brawn, the Nautilus is a complicated network of advanced electronics, the operation of which is dependent upon a team of highly trained, skilled, Navy men. Know their jobs, and do them well. Yes, times have changed, and so has the man. My city have gone clean out of your mind, do you think so, Joe? They're running that old fellow out of town, you stand here and ask me to give him a job. Joe, you need a waiter, you said so yesterday, and where else you're going to find one who can fill in his cook if you want to take a morning off now. How do I know he can cook? Well, he says he can. Try him out. Well, what have you got to lose? My restaurant, maybe, if he was to take an ocean to sell it while my back was turned. Oh, don't you worry about that, Joe. Nobody buy it once they got to look at all them cockroaches. I got no more cockroaches than anybody else in Dodge. Yeah, but yours is bigger. That's because the food here is better. Well, what do you say, Joe? Edward's waiting outside. You want to give him a try? I can't figure what you're up to, Marshall. Spending time trying to get some stranger job ain't got much to do with law enforcement. Now, that might have in the long run. He was broken desperate. That's why he cheated in that card game, and he's still broken desperate. Now, how about it, Joe? All right, Marshall, call on him. Thanks, Joe. Edward, come on in. Hey, Joe, just don't get in no card games with him. Why, that's not the bottom of the... This is Joe Carpy, your new boss. Mr. Carpy, if a dollar, a day, and grubby, he can sleep in a cotton storeroom. You saw overwhelming in your generosity against that. I'm washing them dishes there. Very well. On the customers I am to exercising my unique talents in his scullery, I nonetheless approach the task at hand with a high heart and doubt he'd courage you. Where's the soap? Did he always talk this way? Yeah, mostly. Now, come on, Justin. Thanks again, Joe. Just one thing, Marshall, behind this mask of frivolity, I am eternally grateful to you. I forget it, Edward. Your trust, sir, is not misplaced. I will not disappoint you. I'll drop by the jail when you get a chance, huh? Let's go, Justin. Come, come, my good man. Just hold it. Let it go. That's the matter, Chester. You don't look too happy. Aren't you glad he got the job? No, mister, but I just suddenly remembered Brad Cowell. You ain't forgot about him, have you? Chester, when a man like Cowell has done it for you, yes. You don't forget it too easy. ♪♪♪ If you've got the tray off, big Mr. Jones, we can take you back to him whenever you're ready. All right, Justin. Let's get it over with now. I'm sorry, it's all right. It's my pleasure to fix up for somebody that don't appreciate it. It's a race color, I wouldn't appreciate anything we did for him. You still don't have to be too mean about it. It'll be, it means what got him in jail in the first place. The race? Here's your supper. What is it? That same slot you've been bringing every night? Whatever it is, it's what you get. Take it at least. I'll take it. Make you too happy if I was to starve. All right, get back away from this cell door. ♪♪♪ All right, Chester. Send it inside. Thank you. I can smell that stuff clearly here. When I go here tomorrow night, I'm gonna cook you grip. Tomorrow night, I may not be. All right, Chester. Come on. He'll be here, race, until the day you stand trial. And then my brother'll have something to say about that. Now, at least had plenty of time to say it. Let's keep it in. He'll be here. Don't worry. Before we leave town, we're gonna get you, Marshall. You do that, race. Come on, Chester. You can find out. You can just wait. I need to hear that to honor you and me and I ever seen. Yeah. Marshall? Huh? Hey, come on in. That was the matter, Joe. Marshall, I ought to make you pay the loss yourself. What are you talking about? That galled-down card chart you got me to take on. He's gone. Huh? Took every son out of the till alone with him. Lord knows where he is by now. I got a pretty good idea where he is, Joe. I wish I didn't. ♪♪ Yeah. Here, math. Open it up down there by the end of the poem. I see it. It had a few drinks before it came in, and I just had more sense. Where'd you get the money, math? Stole it and choke the carpet. No. After you got him the job. And I should have known better, I guess, but I hate to see a man down and out pushing against a wall. I'm sorry. Then I'll see you again. No. A toast, gentlemen. A toast is a royal blood of a house of barleycorns. [Laughter] Well, boys. All right. Sorry. Edward. The party's over. Oh, dear me. The sheriff of Nottingham is indeed... Come on, let's go. No, wait, Marshall. This is merely a natural misunderstanding which I can explain quite easily if you will only permit me. Don't bother. But I feel at least I can do under the circumstances. There's only one moment, Marshall, if you will listen to me. All right, let's hear it. Okay. I accepted my menial role this morning with proper humility, Marshall. And throughout the long day I labor diligently and consciously, gratefully, lovely. Then I even tried to deny, in master copies covered, I found a bottle. So I looked, I sniffed, I tasted, I imbibed. And morality and ethics were flung through the wind. As I warned you, drink is my weakness. On an empty stomach, so you said. Well, I neglected to add that a precisely similar effect occurs on a full stomach. I'm sorry, Marshall. Come on, let's go. No, no, wait, wait. I was quite sincere this morning when I promised not to fail your trust, Marshall. Nonetheless, I did fail it. There is no excuse, of course. I suppose that I really should face the fact that I am just a bit on the worthless side. I'm inclined to agree with you, Edward. Yeah, what is it, Chester? Just a few minutes ago when she was doing it. Three different people seen him down by the depot. Oh. Brad Tyler. He's here, all right. This is Dixon Claire. You know, a great deal of publicity has been given lately to NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For over eight years, this alliance of the free world has been protecting the peoples of its 15 member nations from Soviet aggression. Its reason for being echoes the words of Woodrow Wilson back in 1917. Quote, "Our object now is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power. And to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world, such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of these principles." Unquote. No matter how you describe the work of NATO, just remember it's guarding your freedom. [MUSIC] What? Who is it? It's me. Oh, hello, Doc. Can't you find any place to loaf except in front of the jail? Well, with you and Brad Tyler on the power for each other, I figured I might as well just wait right here until one of you needed me. Oh, you're watching your time, Doc. I can't find a hide or a hare of him. He's here in town somewhere. Folks have seen him. I'm not one of them, though. Come on in. Ah, Chester. Has he got it locked? Yeah, I guess so. Chester. Who is it? It's me, Chester. Open up. Oh, all right. Just a minute. Hello, Doc. Yeah, Chester. Sure I am glad to see you, Mr. Jung. I've been sitting here at this rifle and jumping out of my skin every time. Oh, who is? There are no owls. This time of the year, Chester. Well, I know that, Doc. It's just kind of the... Well, I'm Brad Tyler, Mr. Jung. I'm not a sign of him. Ray Tyler has been yelling for the last 15 minutes. He wants to see you when you come in. Mad poor old actor felling and he had much to say. He just sets there in his cell, looks at the floor. I think he's feeling real remorseful for letting you down. He should have thought of that before he stole the money. That's right, no. But I still think it's bothering him, considerable. Chester! Oh, very race yelling again. All right, now go see what he wants. Ah, boil up some coffee, would you, Chester? Roger, we'll take a minute. I got some water all this time. That's you, Chester. No, it's not Chester. You finally got back. What do you want, Rayce? You didn't run into my brother, did you? If I had, he'd be in that cell with you right now. Marshal? Yeah, what a... Never mind him. I got a little business with you myself. No, Marshal, he's got a gun under that place. He's got a house. Drop the gun, Rayce. All right, ladies. You all right, Mr. Dylan? Yeah, I'm all right, Chester. Get the cell keys. Chester? Yeah. Take it easy, Edward. His brother came outside through the gardening, through the cell window, a little while ago. Don't try to talk, Edward. Which one first, man? Never mind, Rayce. I had to kill him here. Let me get so old. Marshal? Yeah, I'm right here. All right, Doc, see what you can do for him. Rayce, Rayce planned to shoot you. Said he'd kill me if I'd warn you. Yeah, but you dead warn me, Edward. It's no use, man. His brother is waiting. Two horses, north end of River Bridge. Oh, I'll get him. You trusted me, Marshal. Nobody has for a long time. But he's never much good at living. But on stage, I was always very good at dying. Death seems they were always my best. Edward. That's it, man. He knew Rayce had shot him, but he still warned me. I don't know, Doc, maybe he was worthless. Like he said, he was pretty good at dying. [Music] Gun smoke. So juiced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal. The story was specially written for gun smoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Messon, featured in the cast were John Dainer, Vic Perron, James Westerfield, and James Musser. Harley Baer is Chester, Howard McNeer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is kiddo. This is George Walsh, inviting you to join us again next week for another story on gun smoke. Gun smoke has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 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