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Bold Venture - Death By A Fighting Bird

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Bold Venture - Death By A Fighting Bird

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0:00President Barack Obama. Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st. Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections. What's up, fools? Man of the day, we saw here from the WWE. When it's just me between matches, it's day one is. And that means it's chumba time. With hundreds of casino style games and new titles arriving weekly, there's always something for us to try and chumba casino. The daily booze make it even more fun and have me about to get them all doing my down time. Ready for a fun way to chill out and enjoy a few minutes for yourself? Let's chum. No purchase necessary. VGW VW prohibited by laws, he teased and seized. 21 plus sponsored by chumba casino.

1:00President Barack Obama. Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st. Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Lauren Becolle. Together in the sultry setting of Tarticle of Anna and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean. Oh, venture.

2:00Once again, the magic names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Becolle bring you bold venture and a tale of mystery, adventure and intrigue. All right, sailor, have Anna Cuba where we started from? Where we get off? Out. How long can you keep it up to play? Come on, come on, off the boat. I said how long can you keep it up? You've been so ever since we left Key West that we didn't need him so we didn't pick up a car now. But sailor, a guy named Skahn sends us a wire. He says meet him in Key West. Move his cargo.

3:03I didn't want to go. You wanted to go. All right. And Mr. Skahn and whatever he wanted us to bring to Evanna weren't there. But we had a boat ride to Key West and back. You and me. That's nothing, huh? Come on, sailor. Let's get off the boat. Give our help. I don't need any help. What are you angry about? The money we didn't make? No, it was time away from Evanna. But I didn't have to be away from her. You talk about Evanna like it with your woman. Do I? How do you talk about me behind my back? Walk ahead of me and I'll take you something. There's your, Evanna. A cost fight. Come on, let's take a look, sailor. How's your bloodmush today? No, let's get on with you. Consider it, sailor. Two birds who steal fur is slashing each other to pieces. Let's pause and cheer. Come on. Let's watch for a while. People get to enjoy this sort of thing to find out why. I don't want to find out why. I'll see you back at Shannon's place. All right. Okay, let's go.

4:06You got a bang out of watching this? No, it gives me a chance to get better. It makes me an honest man. The cut-side discourse to you, huh? See, your taste are too delicate or perhaps... What's this like? A new way to catch the Yankee Dollar? Or perhaps the Yankee merchandise. I really ask you what this is, Amigo. Who are you? Please let me tell you the story of my life. I am a poet. I guess that's worth a dollar. Give me a dollar, please. You won't know, if I can do this. Please let me refuse the money. Please let me return to the matter of the Yankee merchandise you have brought from Keyway. This is a man with a problem, say. You are the people from the boat, the boat's venture. We are the people from the boat, the boat's venture. My heart rimes, nice going, say that. Then it is a simple matter. See, if you are the people from the boat, it is simple. We would make arrangements for the removal of the merchandise. Look, Shelley, the Mario. My name, permit me. That is my name.

5:07The Mario, sure. I forgot my memories a little shaky. Mine too. I still. So we are having a tough time remembering what this is all about. Slow reading, huh? Are you trying to be clever, Amigo? Or perhaps you have pleasure in tweaking my patience. The merchandise, permit me, but the merchandise, it is a matter of life and death. When shall we remove it from your boat? The poet only knows one power and strength. Yeah, way them goodbyes. A fun farewell now. But it is a matter of you cannot be merchandise. If it can be in life, it can be in death. You cannot refuse about the merchandise. The merchandise. If they want to be happy and leave a changed life, never make the pretty woman your wife. Therefore, for my logical part of you,

6:09Mario, woman, ugly are the new. A pretty woman makes a husband look small, and then he very often falls without her. Therefore, for my logical part of you, Mario, woman, ugly are the new. Ah, ladies here, lad. Mr. Slay, why you come back so soon to King Moses, because you love me? Why else, King Moses? I tell you why else. Because on Chifty Key West, something sour must have turned more sour. Am I inevitably correct? You are inevitably correct, King Moses. You come back to make King Moses sloppy with happiness, Mr. Slay. Therefore, ought to be about. Bring us something to eat, King. Oh, an ecstasy, a joy, a frenzy, a cheat. Just bring us something to eat. Right now, Mr. Slay. You really do love him, don't you, Slay? Uh-huh. Like he was my own. How long does it take for someone to be your own?

7:11Ah, that depends. Ready with the food, King? Ready. Yours, Mr. Slay. Yours, Lady Sailor. You talk that smile inside myself. I get my guitar. I got song for you. The food, King. A lady approach who waits for Slay. A lady so handsome, no one can hate. A lady who in hotel did register. A lady who finds joy, maybe despair. Hey, don't you miss your channel, but I think perhaps you were looking for me. For a baby. No, sir, no. Well, I don't know you, but I think perhaps I was looking for you. For a baby. Right. President Barack Obama. Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st.

8:11Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections. Teleredic here from 2311 Racing. Game nights fun until someone spends five minutes lining up one shot. Shock, breathe, reach shock, still aiming. While we figure it out, I fire up Chamba Casino. I can spin anywhere, anytime, and there's always a new social casino game every week. Spins happen way faster than that shot. Play now at cumbacastino.com. Let's Chamba. Sponsored by Chamba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group Fortware prohibited by law. 21 plus terms and conditions apply. President Barack Obama. Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st.

9:12Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections. Now I want to explain something to you about the hotel business trailer. I am what is known as a mine host that comes in two parts. Mine and host. Sit down, baby. Feel you have not answered my question, senior chairman. You look for me? I look for a lot of things. Why particularly for you? Because you are the man who brought his boat in support only a little while ago. Oh, a lady wants a boat ride. Why don't you try the nearest tunnel of love, Miss Phoebe? This is included in the place you must pay for the merchandise? No, baby. I throw that in for free. Wait a minute. You said merchandise, baby. Isn't that what you said? Yes. Phoebe, the gentleman follows your question. Will you answer the gentleman's question? You know very well about it if you want. Sure, sure.

10:12But, uh, let's hear it from your own red lips. Now I understand, it's a matter of more money, huh? Well, we expected it and we despised you for it, but we will pay it. I have one six days. I will wait for you there. But give me ten minutes to arrange for more money. When I pay your price, there will be no more delay. Is it final? It is final. I will wait for you. Now let's see, uh, six days, she said. And that's what she said, Slay. That's just what she said. You know, Slay, well, I think I can handle this alone. Why don't you wait for me downstairs, huh? Because I'm afraid of the dark. I cry in it. And that's what I thought. Now you know. Slay that, no? It's already out into us once today. Well, as a little lady, it's a bookie for GameCock fight.

11:14And let's go. Slay, look, look, a face, a body. Now, slash to ribbons. Slash to death by a GameCock. Slay, oh, Slay. Now how do you like Havana's sailor? This is Slay. This is Slay. This is Slay. This is Slay that's wearing out his office floor, King Moses. Tell me, I'll tell him. The police have made a family well through the front door, Lady Sailor. They have fired, let it's gone. Thanks, I'll tell Mr. Slay. You want anything I can do for the after the police occasion, Lady Sailor? You, Mr. Slay. You want anything I can do for the after the police occasion, Lady Sailor? You, Mr. Slay. No, I'll call if we want anything. My guest are me and Hamlet outside.

12:14You open the women whistle for King Moses. We do want them. Slay. Slay. What are you trying to build? All right, I don't blame you, Slay. I know, it's hard to believe. What's hard to believe? Beautiful woman killed by a fighting bird, a bird with steel spurs on it. Slay. In my hotel, girl locked in a room, in my hotel with a bird, bred to slash for blood. I don't like cops in my place. Cops are for the tourist trade, not... Is that all that bothers you? The fact that the police were here? What do you want bothers me? I didn't ask you a question, I didn't ask for you. All right, Slay, all right. Kind of a jerk, am I any how? Man tell me to take care of his daughter. So I take care of his daughter. You. What am I? Out of my mind? I don't need you hanging around here, Slay. Well, I don't need anything about you. I got along great before. Before my father died? What do you want me to do, Slay?

13:15Please? Well... Sit down, Slay. You're sweating? Just trick I know. It's hot, so I sweat. Do you want me to fan you? I'll fan you. You like me to fan you, Slay? I bet. Look at you, the way you addressed. Dreams, the way you're hair is. Man has to walk towards you and know you're a woman. Why don't you do something about your hair, Sailor? What's the matter with it? I don't want a woman with hair like that, they didn't. Well, they're like what? Like this? You can touch it, Slay. Touch it. Go ahead. Touch it. Touch it. Hands with the door. We'll answer it. Yeah. It's underneath me. Hey, it's a poet. Kellan's a command. He can wave the fan. And next to the nation for the events of this afternoon, I'd ignore them. See?

14:15I don't make a chuff this time, Mario. What are you trying to tell us? A tragedy. The killing of the girl, BB, there's a tragedy. Now, what do you know about, baby? BB was the sister of my wife. She means what does it mean? Look, if you don't... It's almost 2.30, Mario. Yes. Now, put me up here. It is very wrong that BB is dead. A wrong that is part of an even greater wrong. So help me. A kind of wrong. Like so. The merchandise you have brought. Those of us on an island, you know, here in the Caribbean. Those of us who wait for the guns. Guns? So that's it. That's the merchandise. Guns, precisely. Perhaps there is a better way to purchase human dignity once we do not know about it. We need those guns. And you think we have the guns to your evolution? Of course. Like so. You came with the boat. But, for me, I will answer it. A compatriot I am expecting. He's to meet me here.

15:19Mario, let's fight. Help him. He's shot. Yeah. Yeah, shot dead. Like so. Now, back to bold venture. Our stars, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren McCall, and the second act of our story. A lady she coming to Shannon's place, a directed figure, and loads of lights, then the lady she died in Shannon's place, again cocked with spurt, he sliced her face.

16:19A poet he came to Mr. Slaid, make big apology for being late. He explains his wounds to Mr. Slaid, what bullied in heart, bring him forth to Slaid. Mr. Slaid, he turned to Lady Sela, he says, you know. No, I'm not kidding. Do I call the police again, Mr. Slaid? No, two people die in my place, that makes it personal. I like that poet. You're not always a real tough man, are you, Slaid? I said, I like that poet. And that girl, baby? And that girl, baby. What about it? Did you like her, too? She had a problem. She can't have me for help if she died. My father said you'd be a man like that. Why don't you get out of here, Sela? Why don't you go back to the States? Look at the mess. I'm in it. You're in it. Why don't you leave, Sela?

17:20You don't know, do you? Mr. Slaid. Yeah, what do you want, King? The other dead gentleman's papers from his pocket. Oh, let's have a look. Mario... Ivana. 64 Ave and I don't look her. We're going calling, huh, Selaid? A man like Mario dies, somebody's got to tell somebody, because somebody might want to know. I would. I'd want to know. Let's go to Ave and need to look her, Sela. Oh, baby, baby. Yes? What is it you want, Senorita? Oh, we, uh, we come to... Is it about, baby? My sister, baby. You have come to tell me of her death. It has already been revealed to me. Just a minute, Senorita. I am called Celestine. Will it not be easier for you, too? Yeah. Easier. If your baby's sister than the poor Mario, uh, Mario...

18:22He's my husband. Yes. A poet than the husband. I'm fortunate, am I not? You have friends of Mario? Yes. Friends. Selaid, I can't do it. You tell it. Thanks, Lowe. Uh, Senorita Celestine, uh, your husband. What a... He is it of my husband. What is it? He's dead. Okay, okay, Sela. How long can you take to tell a woman her husband's dead? He said he was going through the water, Senorita. To write me a verse. Is it too verse? Who are you? Are you other police? Well, Mario, Mario's friends. You want to find this murderer? It will not bring him back. Mario was telling us something before he died, about a revolution, about gun. Mario was to me, a man who loved me, who wrote little verses for me. From this other Mario that you speak, I know nothing.

19:23Who won? Senorita Yenne Parada, maybe. Senorita Yenne spoke often with Mario, late into the night, while I slept. I would bring them food and leave them to talk among men. Where would we find Senorita Yenne? Yes, a villa. Seventeen have needed quarters. I think there is nothing more for us to say to each other. Are they your friends of Mario's? Come right in, Senor. Senorita. Senorita Yenne? No, Senor. I am the boss. Where's that Yenne? In the other pouring, with the rest of the guests, there is a concert this way. In here, I believe you are there. There is some concert. That girl, when she's dancing, she's like,

20:24she's wonderful. Yeah, we were starting. Am I being rude? Yes, yes you are. Can't you see that girls trying to express herself? I'm your host. My name is Etienne, this way please. Yeah, yeah, sure. Celestine, I call. She told me to expect you. If you tell you about her husband? About Mario? Yes, yes. Did you talk to him? Not your record, Etienne. Not slow, Senor. In here, but all this room. Pepe! Hey, what is this? Who is this guy? These are the ones, Pepe. The men and women we hadn't waiting for. Not Senor. You will tell us. Why have you come to the canyon? Because I don't like my hotel, I'll be loud stuck with dead bodies. First, the girl was killed and a poet. But you know why? Yes, yes. I would know why. Who are you, Etienne? Why should you know so much?

21:25He does not embarrass me to say that I am a patriot. You see, BB and Mario were revolutionary. They were killed by our enemy. First, we know. They were killed to prevent them from taking guns across the Caribbean to our islands. The guns they thought were on your boat. We shall proceed without BB and Mario. Man, it's talking like he's got the guns anyhow, Slate. See, we have them. They came on another boat, not yours. Well, use them in good health. Let's go, Sailor. Wait for you. I knew it. Pick over your shoulder, Slate. I just did. Question, what's the caliber of the gun that he has in his hand? A 32 or a 38. Looks like a 32. It's a 38. You will help us then. I hope you don't want. We have the guns. You have a boat. It's necessary to have both to get the guns to my island. Besides, I prefer not to have you roaming the streets of Helena until we have this boat of the weapons. To launch the roam the streets. Me, Daddy.

22:25It will be possible to send your mole quickly. There is a great need for it. You admire the view, Senor, huh? This cliff that screams down into the sea or perhaps Senor is afraid of such fights. But the view is magnetic, I know. The guns are nice, too. You have exquisite taste, Senor. In guns, in boats, and in the... And me? I can precise, Senor. See how wrong you can be, Slay? The man said that you had that. Get off at any at the end. How do we play now? Oh, no place, Senor. I assure you. Hard work. That is below in your boat waiting for the guns. You will see that he gets in. Then you will take us to our destination on your exquisite boat. You may not lock them all away from this cliff down to the boat? Not quite so hard. Senor, you see, we are prepared.

23:26A cargo net. Winch. You place the guns in the net, then load them to Peppie. Quick. Simple. Like pie. It'll be like pie, what it's like. I'll help. I didn't know, Senorita. No, no. You will simply spend there. Because you will inspire the Senor to magnetize an effort. You may begin, Senor. What happens when we're through here? You will be killed. I ask you so like questions. But it's so easy for you. You have but to die. Me, I have to commit a murder. My heart plays for you. Thank you, Senorita. But did not send you off for one load. Lord the Winch. Anyone, please, please, let us see. Let us in. I'm glad you're happy, Senorita. Yeah, we're glad. Thanks for saving our lives.

24:27It was messy, but thanks. My heart is treated with kindness for your bulls. We'll drink to your heart filled with kindness and the vanity. Let your boy to take that gun away and we'll go. You are so kind to come and tell me of my husband's death. I want to do something gracious for you. In Shannon's place. Do something gracious for us. In Shannon's place. I will not burn it one to kill you. You will die as suicide. I wouldn't have it any other way. Tell us about killing people, Celestine. So you're born that way or did it come on you all of a sudden? It's right to make a revolution. You were foolish enough to stumble into it. It is a pippy you stumbled into the wrong side. You and one here are the right ones. You are all alike. For it's revolutionary's adventurous. All with the intellect of brain fleets. Bebe Mario at the end of Pepe. Pepe is dead also. One to care of it. Bebe was your sister. Now it is. They were fools.

25:28They are happier dead. Now we're the edge of the cliff. Happy now, Celestine. You're real happy? What? You came to Avanna. You got what you came for, huh? Exciting romance, a tropic moon. People killed. You're going crazy. What are you talking about? What you wanted, isn't it, Celestine? That's why you came to me because it was empty for a girl like you back there from wherever you came from. Real empty. Why, why are you? Oh, slap me, Celestine. I'll break in two. No one. No, do not put your hand on him. I think they're my lull. Don't keep the gun in his bag. They were killing each other. Celestine, watch it. You want it if you've got a gun in your bag. I've got it in my bag. One, say for one. Scissors. The gun. Get her, Celestine. Pick it up. How are you, Celestine? Let me go. Don't struggle, Celestine. Relax. Enjoy yourself, Hunter. Tend the guy. I'm taking you back to a van.

26:28Oh, you take your hands off me. Let me go. No, no, Celestine. I'm holding your real tight till the Havana police take you away from me. You hold her that tight. She's not going to be in any condition for the police. What about one? You've got a gun in your hand, aren't you, Celestine? Oh, sure. Sorry. I forgot for a moment. Oh, get with it, Celestine. Keep that gun pointed to one. We get back to a van. Then what? Then Shannon's place. Better back there. I want you with me. How do you like it, Celestine? I like what? Dancing with me. It's all right.

27:29I'm wearing a dress now. Yeah, I know this. In my hair. Do you like it this way? Do you like my hair this way, Celestine? Let's get out of here. I like it here. Come on, let's go. Go ahead. I'll find somebody who likes it this way. Come on, let's go. Go ahead. I'll find somebody who likes it there. I said, come on. Why? Well, there's a breeze outside. That's a breeze got to do with it. I want to see what it does to your hair. And so our two stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, have brought to a close our latest bold venture story. Special music was composed and conducted by David Roe. May we invite you to listen again next week at this time for another exciting adventure, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together in bold venture.

28:47President Barack Obama. Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st. Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 Racing. Victory Lane? Yeah, it's even better with Chamba by my side. Race to ChambaCasino.com. Let's Chamba. No purchase necessary, VTW Group. Boy, we're prohibited by law. CTNC's 21 plus sponsored by Chamba Casino. President Barack Obama. Virginia, we are counting on you. Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election and wield unchecked power

29:50for two more years. But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st. Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. Paid for by Virginians for fair elections.

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