The Falcon - Larcenous Lark

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1:24Sheep is one more awards over its lifetime than any other SUV brand, even the cheap grille or register trademarts of FCA US LLC. Enjoy big savings with Red Hot deals at Vons and Albertsons. This week at Vons and Albertsons, baby back pork ribs are 2.99 per pound with membership where applicable limit three racks. And ballpark hot dogs or hamburger buns, eight count are 2.99 with digital coupon. Plus personal seedless watermelons or canelope are 1.99 each with digital coupon. Enjoy fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in, these deals will last. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. And now the case of a larceness lock. It's late Wednesday night in New York. And an Arne Kessler is very private gambling club on E69th Street. Tall handsome grey hair George Watkins stands at the end of the dice table shaking

2:27that ice cup in his manicured hand and makes his roll. I was your number right off. Once again Watkins shakes the cup. Come on little five and makes his roll. Seven Watkins smiles Riley shrugs lightly, puts down the cup and pushes through the crowd. He finds the door to Kessler's private office open and walks in. Kessler is seated at the desk. Oh Watkins, sit down. Thanks. How did you go tonight? For you fine, I'm clean. Tough luck. I'll bound a chain. How's my credit? Stranged the limit. I'm afraid I'll have to close the book on you. That's all I wanted to know. Good evening Kessler. You're down for 35 grand Watkins. That's a lot of groceries. I understand. I'm a realist Kessler. Don't fool myself. No false pride. I have to face the fact. The moment I'm no big shot, I'm flat and bummed investment.

3:31I'm surprised you carried me this far. Oh you'll pay off. I'm glad you're so sure. It's my business to be sure. In that case, a little more credit. No, let's not overdo a good thing. You're just paying that 35 and you're going to have all the credit you like. All right. I'll get it. You bet you were Watkins. You bet. All right, Rex, here you are. Just sign these papers and I'll run along. Just a minute Watkins, we had to get this. How do you like this phrase? You're right. It's corny. Maybe it's better like this. Now it's better be four. Rex, please. I've got to be going.

4:31Okay, Watkins, give me the papers. Here you are. Here's the pen. You know, it's funny. I had it the right way in my head, but it's gone. It's dirty. No. I tell you, if I could remember, it's terrific. All right, Rex, but look what you're doing. Sign in my name. I've got to look for that. Don't even read what you sign. We can't be bothered. That's what I pay Watkins for. My business manager. How Watkins? That's right. Now, now these checks. All right. I think you'd be interested. Interested? In where, Razzis and double entries and capital gains, I say it's spillage and to Watkins with it. Okay, Watkins, hey. Right, now you can get back to your word. And it's so long, Rex. Goodbye, Mr. Wong. Yeah, I'll be seeing you. Bye. You got to catch it. It's a natural belief, wrong. What do you know about him? Who? Watkins. Oh, great. Save me nearly 10 grand in income taxes last year. If you don't even check on him, I... Rita, Rita, I know what I'm doing. I make the mula. What conceives that I don't spend it faster than I make it, so... Who's the C. He doesn't spend it? Oh, for the love of Pete Rieger.

5:32Wait a minute. You expect me to marry you? You've got to have some sense of responsibility. Yeah, sure, sure. Maybe. Baby, maybe there it is. Da da da da da da da. I know I did it. You like? Not bad! Not bad. It's great. What are you doing? Call on my no-good of an agent. Rex, I'm trying to take- I got not now, honey, not now. Hello. Halloren. Halloren, listen. I've got a number, even you'll be able to sell it. Who is it? Who is it? Who is it? The coal porter of the 50s. I'm telling you I've got something that'll make you. Racks? Who else? Look, Racks, before you get all out of the house. Now, will you shut up? You haven't even heard it yet. heard it yet goes with those lyrics I showed you yesterday now listen here well nice to know but Halloween this is it how soon can you get it to Sinatra the reason of a right we can't look I don't want any argument all the time I bang out songs that sell themselves you try to sit on it wasn't for that contract believe me brother you'd be out but this into the corn ball why were you

6:33before I took over strictly minor leagues house the big leisure you're beaten huh you got a nice tune I'll go and I can't look shut up I want you over here this afternoon understand that creep always got to give me conversation you think a guy get some encouragement once in a while but no nice Tony says and you won't even listen got a gap about what I listen Rex it's just that I'm worried you have to turn everything over to watch you all right look I'll take it once more slow now try to dig at this time baby will you when you get in the chips your higher self-adviseless manager everybody does it I'm not the only one so much for telling me that everybody doesn't just sign papers and checks without even knowing what they are all right let's not get in a hassle about it well if we're gonna get married well says we're gonna get married well if it's gonna be nag nag nag all it's not serious maybe I am I don't know why was only trying to be helpful I don't why you have a piece of cake look baby I got a great idea banging a lot of my head I want to get it on paper do you have to pitch a

7:35hissing now I'm sorry Rex I want you cut it out honey honey look dog gone it listen will you all right I'll call what I'll get an appointment see he'll explain just how I stand financially black and white get it all figured out now will you please turn off the Niagara and let me get to work oh oh kissler hello artkins mind if I come in no of course not thanks matter of fact I I have something for you glad to hear it here you are until three four five grand oh god at least even thirty it may take a little time oh that's all right just so long as you settle up before you leave town leave tell what makes it you bought a ticket for Chicago this morning how do you

8:41know have you been having me followed let's just say I have a very sensitive weager board hmm you see what guns when I have money outstanding I like to keep in touch that's why I don't want you going away until the account is closed I should have expected this very well catcher you you've got me no use denying there's the ticket I I was leaving the matter of fact I'm on a bit of a spot let's let's face it I am trapped how strong I'll tell you always was one for cards on the table it's like this that five thousand I just paid you came from Rex Elber only Elber doesn't know it I had counted on him for considerably more from time to time you understand you can't rush these things or they show up well Elber called a few minutes ago wants to go over the account I know what's gotten into him all of a sudden but there it is happy to face it he wants to counting and I can't possibly explain the check I cast it and if it hadn't happened

9:44so fast or you were going to run out well what can I do uh perhaps if you give me back that five thousand and I return it to Rex he he may not press the charges sure I blow five grand if Elber decides not to play ball you're in the soup anyhow it was a thought I don't call that thinking well what can I do Elber isn't your only client you have others that's why I give you credit now they watch closer still I I suppose over a period of time I could raise the rest I take it time I won't rush things so long as I get payments on a card like this every so often but I don't have time that's just it Elber wants to show down today can't you stall him not for long only I could keep him from asking about that check that there must be something I can do not only there must be Watkins the better babe

10:52come in does over okay now what can I do hey wait a minute so what's the idea yeah yeah this where Mike wearing lives the Falcon yeah you him I'm he of power is my name Vic Haloran Rex Elber's agent congratulations on what being Elber's agent it must be a gold mine gold and goose more like somebody kill him oh yeah so why I'm here I needed to take it heard a lot about you always figure anybody as a reputation you must have something on the wall I'll concede the point should we go inside and talk business no need I'll only be a minute I discovered the body see so I'm on a spot cops just put me through the ringer any reason you should be suspected other than discovering the body and they suspect everybody oh and you've got nothing to worry

11:54about no more than anybody else all right it's like this see who likes his agent all the time how come you are doing more for me Rex and me had words often loud words hmm but he's my meal ticket I'm gonna knock off my own meal ticket I asked the golden goose get out of will you wearing okay Haloran try read of Vaughan war of the zigzag club you think she did it she'll make stuff in it how do you know she's a damn Rex's current if I leave me anything like this always include the day man I'll make a note of it James are trouble you can count it nothing but trouble Haloran you're speaking of the women I love take it from me wearing nothing but trouble spoken like a confirmed bachelor bachelor I'm paying alimony three ways now get on it wearing will you Mike wearing has been in Vic Haloran's employer for 20 minutes just long enough to get from his own place to the zigzag club where Rita Vaughan has just admitted him to a dressing room all right

12:58mr. wearing now what is well there's no question about it you're a dame what is detective and dames are trouble oh I have it on your authority of a three-time loser and you're looking for trouble for exelvis trouble were you it I was his dame but I had nothing to do with his death so if that's all you want you might as well run along who said it's all I want I can tell you who killed Rex if that's what you want well I'd like to get around with that angel but I'm in no hurry this business manager George Watkins why do you say that Rex had an appointment with Watkins today to check on Watkins handling of Rex's affairs the murder was a little too opportune to be a coincidence all right Rita I'll check on it well you can't check on it in here hey you seem in a hurry to get rid I'm on a few minutes I'd like to get ready and the show must go on you said it mr. wearing this is Matt Rogers from Los Cultures this with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang this is Bowen Yang from Los Cultures this is Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang you know when people try out new food and suddenly it's like wait that's the reaction a lot of people are having when they first try QB mayo it's the one

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16:14jeep and the jeep grill register trademarks of FCA us LLC maybe you think I'm taking Rex's death to you think it doesn't mean anything could I get out of here with you hello George Watkins run who wants to know Mike wearing well well the park this is an unexpected pleasure you must be on a kitchen I must be can I have your drink no thanks you get around a lot 33 I'll come you'll get around here could be I like to live you know better than the buck for house percentage well that's no way to encourage business some kinds of business I can do without see you're looking for George Watkins yeah I understand he's a regular patron here I wanted to

17:19confirm it you expect answers from me and no I guess not is that all you wanted well I'd like to know how Watkins was doing I didn't think you'd tell me I'm not crazy I start talking about my clients affairs I'd be out of business fast well that case I guess I'm just wasting my time around here I'm glad to realize it might as well be running oh no need to run wearing you can walk as long as it's to the nearest exit hello hello I guess this is how he castler ask castler what is it oh no that Rick Selva wanted an accounting with you today well I didn't know anyone did except you why Mike wearing was just here the Balkan he guessed you'd been losing the tables oh dear oh I see still guessing I didn't give anything but if he's checking I don't think

18:20you can prove anything but I know you want to know yes yes thanks castler look at it put him on to of course that girl what girl Rita Vaughan never did care for her style of singing maybe I can figure a way to make her change her tune oh hello Rita oh mr. wearing back again huh yeah I thought I'd catch the last show but as long as your table hopping how about purchasing it mine for a while well I only have a minute outside over there all right I've been checking on Watkins I'm not anything uh huh he likes the gamble oh well I could explain uh-uh what's wrong speaker the devil hello ms. Watkins hello Rita am I interrupting anything as you certainly are but sit down you old devil

19:22I beg your pardon mr. Watkins this is Michael wearing wearing oh yes yes I've heard of you from on a castler why do you ask that why don't you answer it I want to talk to Rita getting a line I was here for a while I'll have to disappoint both of you time for my number do you like it as Rita talking about me wearing as Rita I intend to all right ladies and gentlemen now here she is a little lady of hope in waiting for her to play and sing for you Rita Vaughan well I have something that I hope will be a treat for you it's a brand new number that I wrote myself and here it is for the first time anywhere I hope you like it

20:24I wonder why she didn't come back to the table wearing she said something scared her didn't just hear a face when she left the floor what can I I didn't notice that's why I wanted to get back here to the dressing room there it is somebody's in there yeah look I was walking let's see if the store some light yeah it is yes Rita come to take you in my arms not while you're waiting shooting I am sorry wearing she missed so I see halloween but let's not give her another shot at you what are you doing here anyway telling her off she's a crook he hit me that's why I read the gun it was self defense she's a crook a great robber did you hit him we were arguing did you hit her what difference is your head of halloween well maybe I did and the gunplay really was self defense I told you but I want a halloween to tell me well yes it was all right then I can let her go which is I enjoy holding you in my arms Rita I like it under different circumstances now what went on and here well when I heard a singing that song did you hear I didn't see you in the club I was over the side near the door all right you heard the song yeah she said it was her song she made it up I did Rex call him this morning all hopped up here's a new number place it

21:26for me over the phone it's this very song wearing it's very sorry I played it for Rex that's where he got he said it was his we were going to publish it under his name we thought it would be more popular look I know Rex's style you can I know his style too I was influenced by it I admit that but I wrote that song that's a lie I'll even if it is how the others at any call to slug the girl though did you just toss that in because you don't like day I couldn't help blowing my lid wearing I'm I'm sorry but this crooked day all right all right hold it freedom you say you made up this song when this morning Rex was working on a tune it was something like this one but not the same what can you were there you remember yes well then what can left and Rex and I were talking and all of a sudden it came to me and you played it for Rex yes and he played it for Haloran yes and he told me I know what he told you did you play it for anyone else freedom until tonight no and it's just your wording as talerans well yes I don't know that you hope to prove wearing each one will stick to his own story oh I think I'll prove plenty what can what who killed Rex elder you what I've proved who killed Rex elder maybe that

22:28isn't as important as who wrote the music but it should determine who's going to have to face it who wearing well considering that Watkins is in deep de Kessler where'd you get that idea maybe from Kessler himself you couldn't why not because I because I don't owe him that's not what Kessler told me what he didn't tell you anything what makes you so sure he told me he didn't and there must be something he could he took out oh don't too late wearing I've got the gun from her now what good do you think it's going to do you well there's one sure thing won't do you any good if you make a move so stay where you are all of you I'm getting out of here 15 minutes of pass since George Watkins grabbed Rita's gun and beat her hasty retreat from this Xag Club Mike has used that time to hurry to Arnie Kessler's apartment where Kessler's thug rocky is just how should him in here he is Mr Kessler yeah all right wearing what is it this time well I

23:35put you on kind of a spot Kessler I figured I ought to tell you what kind of a spot I told George Watkins you tipped me about his own you he grabbed the gun and cleared out I thought he might come here thanks the warning I can take care of myself sure still I thought you ought to know arrived but how come he felt your bluff oh I guess he's out of his element I imagine that until the day except for weakness for gambling Watkins stuck pretty close to the straight now yeah and since he really is in the heart to you is he is running out or to clinch it how do I know he ran out just because you say so and I see you're not as green as Watkins disappointed no I expected it well that could be the answer to if I'm bluffing yeah Iraqi okay Mr Kessler and just in case wearing isn't bluffing that's Watkins check him for our territory right I want to see Kessler sure turn around why so far you're right wearing it's Watkins when you get to know me better Kessler you'll never doubt me I'm glad all right Mr Kessler here he is and here's his heater wearing hello

24:41Watkins I've been expecting you I should have known you are on his side that's what he wants you to think but if you shut up and let me do the talk certainly certainly he might as well face it I I've bundled again played right into his hand maybe but now we have him on our home ground please Kessler no violent not what I had in mind at least for now as long as we're both here together he can't play one off against the other like he's been doing oh that's not necessary I've proved my point I wouldn't say so you rattled Watkins he lost his hair and came running to you why to check on what you told him he thought I might have lied about him you mean you wanted to see if you told the truth about him it's not you Kessler I know he's in luck to you now that I know who the murder is it's the only thing that makes sense oh you know that too I sure wearing I know how it looks out of the talking Watkins are you suggesting that Watkins killed Elba where well I haven't said that but I thought you shouldn't jump to conclusions Watkins well but then I don't understand

25:42unless you think I'm the murderer what difference does it make if I owe Kessler money my relation with him doesn't affect anyone else it affects Kessler but surely you can't think he killed Rex why why they didn't even know each other I know they didn't well then I wait Elba demanded an accounting with you today didn't he Watkins never mind on answer but you know he did and you've been juggling the account to pay off Kessler so you get pennicked well shut up Watkins yes all right you told Kessler about the spot you were in you paid off part of what you owed him but there was still a heavy balance Elba sent you to jail Kessler would never get his balance so he killed Elba to protect his investment so that's how many times I have to tell you to shut up Watkins I'm the one you like to shut up Kessler but before you decide on the rough play you so thoughtfully post phone before you ought to know the police know I came up here yeah I think I'd have stuck my neck out like this otherwise let's face it Kessler the jig is up

26:47one thing I don't understand wearing what's that hollering you said my argument with Rita about the song is what tipped you to the murderer as it did but if Kessler's the murderer he had nothing to do with the song that's just the point why he didn't know Elba had nothing to do with it then how did look look Alara regardless of who really wrote the song either way we know that until last night only you and Rita and Elba had ever heard the song right yes but when I was at Kessler's before Rita played it at the club Kessler was humming the song he was he was so I knew he must have been an Albert remember Elba was at the piano when he was murdered he must have been playing the tune and Kessler killed him and I see so that takes care of the murder now everything is settled except who really wrote the song all of that that settle too oh it is yeah yes I was wrong Rita wrote it all right we had a long talk and she convinced me oh yeah yeah yeah quite a day wearing quite a day like you didn't like James who me oh all I said was anybody who falls for a day must be nuts

27:52well wearing take hands with Napoleon Bonaparte this is Ashley Akinati from the almost famous podcast you ever notice you and your spouse keep saying we need to get away but you never actually plan anything that was us until we did something fun and spontaneous we went to resort pass.com there are hundreds of hotel resorts pools and spots and private beaches that you can enjoy you can spend the day at a luxury resort pool spa massage without booking an overnight stay and listen I may have only been like 15 minutes from home but it felt like it was a whole different world and I'm thinking this is exactly what I needed so just go to resort pass.com choose your resort choose your day luxury resort day passes start at just $1,5 once you post your daycation people are going to ask where you are good to resort pass.com

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