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The Life of Riley · November 12, 1944 · 28 min · 4,250 words
The transcript of “Big Football Bet”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast November 12, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Life of Riley plays The Life of Riley free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Here he is, folks. You laughed with him when he played the Marine in the movie Wake Island, and soon you'll see him with Alan Ladd and Brian Donlevi in two years before the mask. He's Hollywood's magnificent mug. I came up to hard way. When I was six years old, the doctor discovered I had an extremely high IQ. But luckily I grew out of it. The American
Meet Institute presents William Bendex in the life of Riley, the meet people of America, providing a great food for a great nation. If all the areas of these United States devoted largely to pasture and grazing lands for raising your annual meat supply were put together, you could drop 20 states the size of New York
on it and still have room to spare. Yes, sirs, we're a nation of meat eaters, America. Now on behalf of all those engaged in supplying meat to the nation, the American Meat Institute presents the life of Riley.
Right now Riley and his friend Jim Gillis are talking about the big football game of the season, which to them means the battle next Friday between the green goats to the John J. Boscoitz Junior High School and the Maroon Mallers of Mazzappa Junior High. Listen to the enlightening debate.
Yes, yes, oh, yes, yes. Listen, Riley, I'm telling you, like a friend, them bucks are with green goats, ain't got a chance against them, it's upper maulers. Yeah, who says so? My boy, Elmer says so.
You ought to know, he's captain of the mazepers, the trouble with you, Gillis, is you're pretty juicy. I'm a one of these, okay, but just because your boy's got a team, that domain of payment's gonna win.
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