The Next to the Last Guest: Let George Do It (June 20, 1949)

“The Next to the Last Guest” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 20, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Bellentine, a lawyer, is called to the hotel room of an elderly man named Sternman who is running out of time as his hotel is being torn down. Sternman wants George to help distribute his substantial estate to three worthy recipients: an honest accountant named Henry Freeholder, a proud young boxer called Kid McClint, and his niece Francis O'Neill. George begins visiting these potential beneficiaries to explain Sternman's intentions, but his visit to Kid McClint at a local bar ends violently when the young man attacks him.

A condemned hotel being torn down to make room for a drugstore, and a neighborhood bar

Characters: George Bellentine, Sternman, Angel, Francis O'Neill, Henry Freeholder, Kid McClint, Louis the bartender

Listen for: The revelation of why Sternman has chosen these three people and what happens when George tries to inform them of their potential inheritance.

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.