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Mystery - Moonlight Radio — Quiet Please - It's Later Than You Think. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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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. Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters design not politicians. Vote yes by April 21st. The mutual broadcasting system presents Quiet Fleet, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper
and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet please for tonight is called It is later than you think. And so I venture to say that the Germans and the Japs are crumbling in their boots at this moment for the word that Lindsey Bradley is on their trail. Lindsey, our loss is Uncle Sam's game. Your fellow employees wish you success and venture an abusual of medals and in token of our highest team for you. In remembrance of the happy hours we have spent with you in the plant for we are all one big happy family. I present you with this 17 jewel solid gold imported wristwatch. May I never remind you of your good friends here at this arsenal of democracy you
are leaving to pace our enemies in person. Well all I can say for employees because and Mr. Troop all I can say is I thank you. Well yes of course it's a beautiful watch Lindsey but for heaven's sake this is your last night before you go to camp and I do wish you could pay a little attention to me. Oh well very nice I'm sorry I I never had such a nice watch so I'm like how you carry it away I'm sorry honey really. Oh for goodness sake I'd like it then. I'd like what? I'd like your sorry. Just me. Oh
I should say so. I am going to miss you. I didn't know if I was going overseas right away honey. Oh my goodness I'll probably be in the camp for quite a while learning things. Heck you could come and see me off. Maybe I could get an apartment in the town where the camp is and the sergeants or whoever it is will let you live at home and just go to the camp please. Well I don't know about that. It would be wonderful Lindsey but you could come home for meals and you could have a kind of dinner to be just like home. First thing you do when you get to camp is find a nice apartment about four rooms and maybe five and I'll come right away huh. Well I see honey. You don't seem to be very excited about it. Well I didn't know how to be a camp you know I might not be able to find an apartment and maybe I wouldn't be staying there long. You don't want me to be with you. Why you sure I do remember that. You just want to leave me here all alone in this
old place but you go off camping out and being in parade to have a wonderful time. Well I don't think it'll be like that Bernada. Francis Stelton wrote last week from camp reconvision he said he'd lost 13 pounds. Well he could stand it. Goodness I just bet it's wonderful for the boys in camp marching and having shan battles and I wonder what you'll be doing this time tomorrow. 11 hours now and I'll be arriving. What are you doing with that watch huh. I was just sitting on the head 11 hours. All right get the news together all of you. Jenny and Jess are at your attention. My good inspiration. Why? But I just said silence. Could I ask a question Lieutenant? I'm a sergeant. Could I ask a question Sergeant? Please what? Where am I? You crazy Mack? Well she's honest. Sir I'm not sure. Well I'll just refresh your memory but you're a caftix new jersey and you're
a great big ugly flat-footed private in the infantry. Well do you like it or not? Well for heaven's sake. Well for heaven's sake I'm set. How I got there I will never know. One minute I was sitting on the davenport with Brenner right in my own living room in highbridge New Jersey just for no reason setting my watch 11 hours ahead and then along side the railroad station and caftix and its daylight and this sergeant. Well now things don't happen like that. There's no such thing as magic but tell me how. All right you can't tell me so I'll tell you well I'll tell you how I found it out. It was an hour later that they let us sit down a few minutes. There was a man sitting alongside me and he said I had a good looking watch didn't I so I told him how the boys at the plant gave it to me and he admired it some more and then he said did I know my watch was in our
fast so I said is that so and I turned it back and all right get your hands together all of you cheer me in just out your meditation and I heard myself say my conversation why but I just said and I said silence could I ask a question lieutenant I'm a sergeant could I ask a question sergeant please and by goodness I went through that whole hour again and I was so tired normally got back to the time in the place where the man said I had a good looking watch and I looked at that watch I didn't say anything this time so time and on the way it ought to go on and they took us eat but I I couldn't eat anything because my stomach was full of great big butterflies finally when I had a minute I got to a phone booth and I waited 45 minutes and I got a call through the high bridge to find out what Brenna had to say about it and Mrs. Hooverhand from next door answered and she said Brenna was in bed with a high temperature and what the
Dickens that I do to her on my last night at home so I hung up sure the watch whatever I'd said of that that's how time it is well now things side this good to you very handy thing and what I have to be careful say what do you suppose they got that watch is really and then I happen to think of something my gosh what would happen if that watch ran down some day if I forgot to wind it and it stopped would time stop wow well I'm not going to try to find out 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
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choices and meetings with your colleagues and at dinner parties listen to big technology podcast wherever you get your podcasts you know this sergeant he wasn't such a bad fellow that I was sitting on my bunk when I'd have to suffer there wasn't anybody else in the barracks and he walked in I said hi sergeant I watched with you Bradley oh I'm just tired ain't you going to the movies how they run that picture in high bridge two months ago you can take a red thanks now you going? I get kind of low oh that's so yeah got a dear John of which letter from my girlfriend oh you know dear John I don't know how to tell you but I have fallen in love with another guy and you and I will always be good friends oh yeah grace whenever gets married children hi hi I'm married oh excuse me you happy whoa sure sure sure great we married four years
miserable you got this is a kind of vacation though you know she said she might come down here to live near the camp you like that what you're monkey and with that watch huh I was thinking of an experiment what kind of experiment oh nothing there's nothing oh what a beer let's walk over to the px so we walked over to the px and we had a beer and then we had another and and me and my big mouth beer always makes me talk to you this sergeant noticed I was filling with my watch I couldn't get off my mind and finally finally the beer and I told him the story of course he didn't believe it he laughed a lot he said I had a great imagination then after a while he walked back to the barracks of me and we sat down on my bunk again and well the place was still empty and he was he was still laughing about my imagination I told him my privilege
how will you prove it don't you well I'm sure the movie be out and the fellas come back to the barracks and that way okay watch what are you doing sitting at a head an hour okay sergeant see marks leave all the kids just on nothing that's the way they'll be an hour from now oh gosh what you can do with that thing well I've been using it yeah oh I've been sitting at a head every day for a while what for she if my wife is going to arrive huh why well I'd like to have someone and see oh so you can hit me for a pass either that sergeant or or so I can go and walk no burn us all right we get along all right but oh heck she demands
I mean I never got out before I was drafted and guarded I kind of like being my own boss that is as far as the army it lets you you know what I mean I love burn all right but I knew what it'd be once she got settled on the problem here in town hey hi bridges and far away I could get a pass once in a while but but here in town now I figured I was too close yeah I feel a lot different about it now but this was quite a while ago see 1944 and I don't even know wait for a few months do you know what I mean okay so she snuck up on me after all I forgot one night to stop my watch ahead and first thing next morning I got to where that she was here so I talked to the sergeant out and talked to her all over the past we kidded a little hi I went to town the meters it's kind of nice with gosh I couldn't get a word in its way Lindsay you're so fair well I I've been I know you you just won't talk up to these sergeants and mages and people just let them
walk all over you you wait I see somebody in authority oh no you can't you can't you've been drinking I bet you've been drinking but I'll put a stop to that when we get in the apartment here in town you can have ginger ale at home and I'll make brownies and you can have some of the boys over once in a while grandma what do you love me I silly child of course I do you give me a kiss now I want that lipstick are you gonna take me out to the camp I'm just dying to see it my I thought maybe we'd say in town now Lindsay I'm not going to sit around in this dismal town all day and all night when there's all sorts of interesting things going on out for your camping I've been down here to enjoy myself and that's what we're going to do no matter what so that's the way it was yackety yackety all the time and I go off for tired of it all of a sudden you know used to be I could kind of shut my ears to the yackety yackety but I seemed to lost the tricks I'm home so then I thought gosh I'm going to see how long this is going to go on
so I turned my back and I moved the hands of my watch ahead and I got a 10 hours ahead and I I heard a kind of sigh or something and I turned around and you know what there was this sergeant just in my wife just as big as you please well I I grabbed his arm and I tried to yank him away but it was just like I wasn't there and when I spoke to him and it didn't sound like the yackety yackety she used on me oh Sergeant Joe Roy you're so impulsive and then I remembered that what I was seeing was 10 hours away and I I quick spun the hands of my watch back again and dog got it I went too far back and that was where I came in and I had to go through all of it again but I wasn't going to repeat on the kisses wasn't so bad till I remembered the way she was going to talk to Sergeant Joe Roy about 10 hours from now
well sir about five o'clock he showed up and he told me I had to go back to camp how do you like that he could stay in town he said and he'd be glad to show my wife around and keep her entertained whilst that was away my pal and I crossed him up all right I waited a couple hours after I got back to camp and then I just set the watch ahead and it's morning and the whole company including Sergeant Joe Roy is turning out for a revelry well she stayed there she got an apartment such as it was how you've got a lot of passes I took the sergeant from me every once in a while and everything was as nice as five I didn't do much for the watch because I was scared of it I took all the good care it was wound all the time I tried once to see if I could turn it ahead farther than 12 hours but I couldn't when the hands got the 12 hours ahead the other than just take right back please eat 12 hours the hands just come right back to where they were when it started anyway half
a day's enough for me and it's too much take a day another come a day there always comes a day a big bunch of us that pulled out earlier the money with our A&B bags and everything other kitchen store hung on to us we're off to the races only Sergeant Joe Roy he's permanent detail these days in camp great deal well I'm smart I get myself lost in the dark and I beat her a taxi and I hurried down to town on our apartment and all Bernadette doesn't know I'm leaving I I didn't know where I'm going yet oh I'm not trying to deserve I want to find out something I get in the apartment and Bernadette doesn't wake up and she looks awful curiously but I turned the hands in my watch ahead three hours I can't happen except the bed was all of a sudden empty and I could hear Bernadette out in the other room and of course it was full day like now sorry he was a big sigh relief and it was all right
and then I was so mad I thought what to do women just as her and unlock the door I got it I set my watch back where belong and it was early dark morning again and she was asleep there in the bed smiling and I got out of the apartment I don't take stand I said to myself I'll beat it back to camp on knock that kill rise head off and I'll speak in peace step up and front of me hey hey it easy Mack where you going well that equipment oh why are you I mean uh I missed the train huh oh you missed the train huh yeah that's fine Mack listen the train ain't left yet Mack oh and I do believe a twenty minutes yet Mack so I'll tell you what I'm going to do
just get in the Jeep here with me Mack I'll deliver you special right to the steps of the car I'll train next and so I started my triple receipts handcuffed to an empty and there isn't any kid in the bottle that was on that train but good and then all that jumping up and down in the world wasn't going to do me any good because in an hour and a half I was sitting on a bunker about a foot above sea level and the hole did a great big transport and the ship was aimed on the graph I feel as fast as they could turn over the propeller me and my fancy watch I wish I'd never seen it but what can a guy do I throw it away what will happen and stop them oh always maybe time won't stop them and you see what's happened before yeah I'm working chances so turned out it was a good thing I don't know because I'm in a hole
if you would say with another guy and a bazooka and mr. Rama's tanks are doing all right I'm scared just thought I was red dubbinger his name was he's my lawyer and we're popping away across whenever we can get a beat on one then there's a kind of law and we don't see anybody so light up the smoke red means his arms up on the edge of the hole works out looks like the what's your name you know what do you think let me see and that was the end of red dubbinger and it was pretty near the end of me except for the watch all the German tanks in the world were heading right to the state point and blazing away like the fourth of July only it wasn't no celebration the air was stick with hunts iron I leaned down to pick up my bazooka and the fuck company I reached my watch two hours off at a pack
I thought and I did and all the tanks and everything disappeared so I I got it a hole and saw the way from there and all I remember was yeah and everything went black and red and green and then dead oh well not dead but I got a breath through my neck and they called me in the hospital the bullet travel on down my arm and came out right alongside my watch I was pretty scared about the watch the nurse is a nice girl she left showed me how she put on my other arm wound the two she said and I felt petty then I remember that I've never said it ahead again to where it belonged then I asked her to set it and she tried she couldn't so I'm gonna happen to her when we look I don't try to tell you about all the trouble I heard of my arm how I got sent back to the states come through next four years in the hospital her and sure saw her and I saw her a lot she used to come and see me all the time and she was different seemed like all I'd been
true and kind of changed it she got so sorry for me just I got the gun so I can myself you know how it is well it was a long time those years with all I had to do to my neck my arm once in a while I think about sides of the world it just burned it it's so different now I knew everything was okay so I forgot it anything was all I couldn't turn the watch up the word belong all that time I tried the nurse has tried the doctors I couldn't do this little so the most time I got nervous near it a boy I used to have good you know the machines one day last month it was the first day I had my artificial arm I work up kind of dope you know I thought I see somebody even my room before to read up I thought I heard the nurse talking to a guy and somebody closed the look kind of familiar and I thought I heard him answer
well I was going to talk room on the new arm and everything I forgot sorry I got up last week it was kind of fun I went back to high bridge when it picked up her old place swell and yeah she was special nice to me I think being there if I like it afforded is that I'm going to make a difference in the room is all right I mean she got fit in there but the way I fit it with my watch I couldn't tell her I was trying to get it set back to great belong there was through all I was worth a difference in that watch it and I guess I got into the habit when I fell so that was the always good one I didn't know that I'm going to send you a good boy when this time I'm getting my hair fixed and I wonder who it is yeah that's me kill robot I like a minute make it I'm like sure I've got the shirt you'll want I'm glad to see it but see for him be glad to see you too it is the bomb watch it flies and I see you still got quick war right oh yes good got it uh how you been that he is fiddling with the warp war isn't there got stuck stuck yeah I keep
fooling with it we're telling where you've been since you got out the race you'd start fooling with that watch you know I'm sorry hey but it's going I got it I got it I'll just set it ahead two hours a minute yeah I'm gonna put a time we've been all right I'm going to do that good long yes it's a good idea what well how would you like to sit around in a room for two hours in a car get your shot why please for the night is called it is later than you think it was written and directed by with a school group on the man who spoke you was very shuffled and Abby Lewis played her
in a non-briggs with the sergeant miscellaneous voices and colorful characterizations with creations is one at lavender music is why please is played by all the drama now the way from what is confirmed the characters in the night stars are all fictional of course for next week next week to have a story for you called the thing on the purple bar and so until nicely get the same time I'm quietly yours Ernest Chappell this program was heard in Canada through the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation this is the mutual broadcasting system step into the world of power loyalty and luck I'm gonna make him an awful weekend with you with family canolies and spins mean everything now you want to get mixed up in the family business introducing
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