The Pearling Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 19, 1956)

“The Pearling Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 19, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates why David Pirling paid a reporter in Key West to print a false story about his death. After learning the story was fabricated and later retracted, Dollar traces Pirling to his Long Island estate and confronts him about the scheme, but Pirling refuses to explain his motives beyond insisting he meant no harm.

Key West and Long Island, present day

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Morton Scott, David Pirling, Mrs. Pirling, Gracie Edwards

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's determination to uncover why Pirling orchestrated the fake death story despite repeated refusals to explain himself, and Mrs. Pirling's surprising approach to Dollar in a follow-up conversation.

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.