The Wrong One Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 12, 1961)

“The Wrong One Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 12, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to Florida to visit an unusual client named Emmett Denery who has sent an urgent, misspelled letter demanding quick payment on an insurance policy before something happens. Earl Foreman, Johnny's boss, claims the visit is just a routine client call, but Johnny suspects there's more to the story given his history of stumbling into trouble in Florida. Johnny heads into the dangerous Everglades swamp country to locate Denery and his partner Waldo Blake.

Sarasota and the Everglades swamp country of Florida in 1961

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Earl Foreman, Emmett Denery, Waldo Blake, Ben Osceola, Pete Fisher, Mike Foreman, Don Boomer

Listen for: Johnny's skepticism about Earl's true reason for sending him to Florida, the mysterious threatening letter from Emmett Denery, and Johnny's dangerous journey into the swamp to locate the client

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.