What happens
Jack Benny plays a boastful Hollywood character who has sold a horse to his valet Rochester for four dollars, and the horse is now entered in the Kentucky Derby. Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Don Wilson join him for a broadcast full of jokes about fortune tellers, Jack's carnation giveaway and his planted rubber scheme. Rochester keeps pressing for time off to travel to Louisville, while Jack hears about the horse's chances and considers betting on it. The episode is presented as a Grape Nuts Flakes broadcast on NBC, and it aired on April 25, 1943.
Jack Benny's home and a Hollywood radio broadcast, with Easter season and the Kentucky Derby as the background
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Don Wilson, Princess Corsakoff
Listen for: Rochester's calls about going to Louisville, and Jack's phone call to Princess Corsakoff about the Derby winner
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.