The Sea Legs Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 1, 1956)

“The Sea Legs Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 1, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Nicaragua to investigate a claim on the sunken ship Sea Legs. The ship went down off the Baudero Islands, and Johnny suspects the owner's wife, Mrs. Landfaire, is making a fraudulent $400,000 insurance claim. With help from Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascaro, a ham radio operator and bush pilot, Johnny examines the wreck site and discovers something troubling about the supposed accident.

Nicaragua's east coast, including the towns of Porto Gardo and Bluefields, and the waters around the Baudero Islands

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mrs. Douglas Landfaire, Pat, Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascaro, Captain Ramirez

Listen for: Johnny's deduction about why no wreckage from the Sea Legs washed ashore at Oscar's cove, despite wreckage from the Landfaires' previous boat appearing there

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.