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Speaker 2: and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,
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Speaker 3: It's Blair. Leave me a message and I'll text you
Speaker 3: back like a civilized human. Blair, It's live.
Speaker 4: I know you only text, but this is I found
Speaker 4: a box of Grandad's tapes like the one you found
Speaker 4: at the institute. There could be more information in here
Speaker 4: about the expedition in the Himalays. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just call me back up.
Speaker 1: There's only two bottles of cheap red everything else in
Speaker 1: the wine, Celery.
Speaker 3: If you boxed up.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I haven't been around to help more with the packing.
Speaker 1: Well, when the event is over tomorrow and I'll remind
Speaker 1: you that you said that, and.
Speaker 4: I'll just blame the shit wine for messing with my head.
Speaker 5: Oh it's bad, It's really bad.
Speaker 1: So did you find the rest of the machine gun
Speaker 1: Kelly stuff on one of those tapes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right here.
Speaker 6: My first wriddle Monster hunt Well.
Speaker 3: I was tracking down that gangster machine gun Kelly. He
Speaker 3: never told you any of this, not a word.
Speaker 7: Because when the shock of being face to face with
Speaker 7: machine gun Kelly had worn off, the shame of letting
Speaker 7: him just take my stepfather persisted and fueled what came next.
Speaker 7: I called the police first, but when they heard it
Speaker 7: was Charles Erschel who was kidnapped, the call went straight
Speaker 7: to the top.
Speaker 1: We've been on Kelly's trail for.
Speaker 7: The last ten months, to the director of the FBI,
Speaker 7: Jay Edgar Hoover.
Speaker 1: They would quiet for.
Speaker 6: A while, but now I know why.
Speaker 3: Your father's estate was a bigger score than any banking
Speaker 3: could wrong.
Speaker 7: After that call, the FED showed up at our door.
Speaker 7: At the time, there's no way to trace Kelly, so
Speaker 7: we just had to wait for contact.
Speaker 6: God it was grueling.
Speaker 7: I checked the mail every fifteen minutes. Then four days,
Speaker 7: three hours and seven minutes after the abduction, a ransom note.
Speaker 8: Oh thank God, read it, Tom, go on, don't tamper
Speaker 8: with the evidence, son.
Speaker 5: Agent Roper. What does it say about.
Speaker 9: Charles Kelly's demanding two hundred thousand for his release?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: How is he?
Speaker 10: What does Kelly say about that?
Speaker 6: Look?
Speaker 11: Kelly let him write something at the end.
Speaker 5: What does it say?
Speaker 9: All right, says Bernice. Please pay Kelly as quickly as
Speaker 9: you can. I am so low. The only thing that
Speaker 9: keeps me high above the clouds of despair are the
Speaker 9: thoughts of you and God. What then he wrote some
Speaker 9: numbers nine forty five and five forty five might be
Speaker 9: Bible verses.
Speaker 2: Charles isn't any verses.
Speaker 9: Kelly must have given him a Bible makes sense in
Speaker 9: this situation.
Speaker 7: Oh, FBI agents are no at alls. It's part of
Speaker 7: their job description. But they didn't know my stepfather. He
Speaker 7: wrote about despair in that note. That word wasn't a
Speaker 7: part of his vocabulary. He didn't do feelings. Sure a
Speaker 7: fear can do a lot of things to a person,
Speaker 7: but I won't give you a full blown the bottomy.
Speaker 12: I wasn't a note, it was a code.
Speaker 7: The only thing that keeps me high above the clouds
Speaker 7: of despair are my family and God high above the clouds.
Speaker 5: Tom, that doesn't sound like Charles.
Speaker 7: Nine and five forty five aren't Bible versus.
Speaker 3: They're air routes. What come on, think about it, Kelly.
Speaker 6: You's not gonna hide out in some city with a captive.
Speaker 6: He's in a deserted location, and.
Speaker 3: The only thing you hear in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 6: High above the clouds, is a plane flying over son Look.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you they're under an air route.
Speaker 5: Sir, huh, he's onto something.
Speaker 9: Agent Ropert, let me make a call. All right, we
Speaker 9: have a lead. I need you guys to track airport.
Speaker 7: The FBI used my intel to pinpoint the Shannon Ranch
Speaker 7: and Paradise, Texas at the front. A day later they
Speaker 7: raided it. They let me tag along.
Speaker 3: To stay down on three two.
Speaker 7: I was there when they kicked the door in the
Speaker 7: eyes and with more than twenty guns aimed at machine gun,
Speaker 7: Kelly at SOB shoutedoop and lucky for him, the government
Speaker 7: men didn't shoot. Kelly wasn't worth the bullet. They found
Speaker 7: my stepfather caged up out back, alive and just rare,
Speaker 7: and to testify against Kelly in a federal trial that
Speaker 7: would be so notorious they allowed film cameras in the courtroom.
Speaker 7: Kelly and his wife were sentenced to a lifetime behind bars,
Speaker 7: and the trial went on to solidify kidnapping as a
Speaker 7: federal crime. Oh And Jay Edgar Hoover's FBI well, they
Speaker 7: took all the credit for solving the case, but news
Speaker 7: of my involvement got around.
Speaker 8: Tommy Dulles, Oh, I heard you're trying your hand at heroics.
Speaker 12: Had a boy.
Speaker 7: I'm a Navy man now ship out to Santiago, Chili
Speaker 7: on my birthday next week.
Speaker 13: No, I was talking about machine gun Kelly after our
Speaker 13: little hunt for Nessie. I thought you gave up on
Speaker 13: tracking down monsters, but you bagged a biggie with that one.
Speaker 13: Any interest in a more dangerous hunt?
Speaker 3: Well, what do you have in mind?
Speaker 14: Chapter two? This is the mostly true tale of Tom Slick,
Speaker 14: mystery hunter.
Speaker 4: I want to google something before we turn the tape over.
Speaker 1: No I did such good friends with Dallas.
Speaker 5: He always said he was.
Speaker 4: When Dulles reached out to Granddad, he was involved in
Speaker 4: the oss, so he Dulles would have known if Granddad
Speaker 4: was stationed in Chile. I mean I remember him ignoring
Speaker 4: Dallas's call and at the time South America was targeted
Speaker 4: by the Nazis. Really yeah, I just pulled up declassified
Speaker 4: files released in twenty seventeen. They're all about a Nazi
Speaker 4: spir ring headquartered in Chile.
Speaker 1: Nazi spiring headquartered in Chili and Dad was there.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: So what so you're saying Dulls called Granddad because he
Speaker 4: needed regional asset.
Speaker 6: That's my title.
Speaker 8: The OSS already approved it, Dullas.
Speaker 3: What about something like Nazi Hunter? You know that get
Speaker 3: you going?
Speaker 8: Monster Slayer was pitched in the room.
Speaker 11: Believe it or not, Tommy, you know I hate it
Speaker 11: when you call me Tommy Allan, Okay, so what are
Speaker 11: we doing in a dance club?
Speaker 8: Well, if I'm in Chile, I'm drinking red wine and
Speaker 8: picking up loose women at every opportunity, charming as always, Alan,
Speaker 8: I god mother a pirl. What Yeah, I got a
Speaker 8: bite sized microphone.
Speaker 3: In my ear. I'm recording all of this. Wow Ah.
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna expose all the OSS secrets, Tommy, but
Speaker 8: I am gonna let you play.
Speaker 3: With this thing.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 9: Just be discreet under your menu.
Speaker 3: Okay, there we go.
Speaker 8: Stick that box deep in your pocket and you ink
Speaker 8: that warnup into your ear.
Speaker 3: It's bulky.
Speaker 8: That bulger will have the women running, my friend, But
Speaker 8: that's not why we're here, Dulles. Chilean red wine is
Speaker 8: rich and complicated, but the men sitting over there by
Speaker 8: the dance floor don't look.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they are more complex. Hey, yeah you remember Guinness.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, she's gonna lead you to the dance floor
Speaker 8: right past our target observed, But do not make eye contact,
Speaker 8: Just stare at her racks.
Speaker 3: All Come on, follow me.
Speaker 13: I like to drink red wine, not wear it.
Speaker 12: You speak English, right, I'm dominic?
Speaker 10: You are Tom Slick To answer your question, I speak
Speaker 10: English to people I like, and German to people I
Speaker 10: loth enter.
Speaker 5: Your friend over there told us I don't speak at all.
Speaker 8: Rue.
Speaker 3: So you've been clocking the Nazis.
Speaker 5: Too since nineteen thirty three when they shut up here.
Speaker 7: Smart.
Speaker 5: But they're you seeing us? How there's a target here.
Speaker 5: If they hit it, they win the war. Wow, and
Speaker 5: they're close. You see that one guy with the cap on,
Speaker 5: scrowny and big ears.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's here for a reason.
Speaker 3: Who is he?
Speaker 5: Heinz Lane.
Speaker 10: Your friend will have intel on him, but he won't
Speaker 10: know where he keeps ex playing.
Speaker 3: Oh you got some moves.
Speaker 5: You asked me, Todd.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, but I was kind of thinking I was
Speaker 3: gonna lead.
Speaker 10: As the bartender Chiekie for a piscos hour with one
Speaker 10: marchino cherry.
Speaker 5: Okay, and I'll see you in thirteen hours.
Speaker 12: How what is he doing?
Speaker 4: I think they're kissing?
Speaker 5: Oh was he with Grandma?
Speaker 8: Then?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: This was around nineteen forty one.
Speaker 5: So when did they get married?
Speaker 1: Nineteen forty six?
Speaker 5: Okay, so no, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: I would have cost me a lot in therapy bills.
Speaker 7: A pisco sour pleads with, here's one Merchino cherry.
Speaker 3: So she found one?
Speaker 9: What Tommy spy?
Speaker 8: One?
Speaker 9: Oh one?
Speaker 3: Don't suck face with a swallow? She suck my face?
Speaker 3: How was it?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 1: She's one of you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's one of mine, but she can't stand me.
Speaker 3: So wait a second.
Speaker 6: I was a ploy?
Speaker 3: Does I'm the Nazi hunter?
Speaker 10: Biscos sour?
Speaker 6: Oh come on? What was that?
Speaker 3: Hey, jackass? Clean this up? You have a napkin? What
Speaker 3: can lose us? Oh? Yeah, I will use this.
Speaker 8: Do you have club soda?
Speaker 3: Is that the word in your language? Dulls? It's a
Speaker 3: map the napkin. Wait, I'm in charge, so I can
Speaker 3: see it's a map. Oh the target?
Speaker 6: Shit?
Speaker 3: What target?
Speaker 1: What is he talkings?
Speaker 4: Tam got caught, it's unwound, try and fix it.
Speaker 1: Do you think the target is the American embassy or
Speaker 1: maybe the US.
Speaker 4: Troops the Nazis were after something that would end the war.
Speaker 5: Oh so it's got to be a biggie huge.
Speaker 4: But what what treasure did South America have that Hitler wanted?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's working.
Speaker 3: The Panama Canal, that's the target.
Speaker 7: Of course, it makes perfect sense that Hitler's targeting the
Speaker 7: Panama Canal. It's where we shuttle all our troops and
Speaker 7: supplies from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Speaker 3: Where is she?
Speaker 8: I missed a knight of sleep traveling from Chile to Columbia.
Speaker 8: The least she could do is be on.
Speaker 5: Time, slick shit? You trusted me?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Where did you come from there? Your hijacking?
Speaker 8: Look, don let me clear the air. I don't know
Speaker 8: why we can't be friends. I mean, you seem pretty
Speaker 8: close to Tommy here.
Speaker 5: Who's right to have me keel in nineteen thirty eight, Alan.
Speaker 3: And you have never left. Let me live it down.
Speaker 3: Where's the plane.
Speaker 5: Over there refueling?
Speaker 6: That's close?
Speaker 3: Too close? Do they have eyes on us?
Speaker 5: They can't see you. They're in the hangar with the engineers.
Speaker 5: It's just the two of them.
Speaker 10: Heines and my paramour Wielburd you're paramore I didn't know.
Speaker 3: How else do you think she gets her secrets?
Speaker 10: Wilbur's in love with Hines, and I'm just a beard here. Okay,
Speaker 10: that's why he didn't blink when I kissed you. Oh
Speaker 10: but yes, that's how I get my secrets.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 7: So these two lovebirds are going to take down the
Speaker 7: Panama Canal.
Speaker 10: Latin America has been the Nazi's last priority, but when
Speaker 10: he realized how important the canal was to the US
Speaker 10: and Britain, he has a plan.
Speaker 5: To blow it up.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I knew that.
Speaker 10: Heines is an expert pilot, so as soon as he
Speaker 10: was inductrinated, he was sent here.
Speaker 3: So they've got an aerial bomb.
Speaker 10: No, they've got three bombs. That's what they're finishing up
Speaker 10: in that bunker with the engineers.
Speaker 5: And there's a doodle Bog attached to the plane.
Speaker 3: Such an adorable name for such a vicious assassin. A
Speaker 3: torpedo with wings.
Speaker 8: You can leave a hole in the earth twenty to
Speaker 8: thirty meters wide.
Speaker 10: They'll be using the doodle bug to blow up the
Speaker 10: cat in them. If that's destroyed, it not only shuts
Speaker 10: off the canal's passage, it'll mutilate hundreds of soldiers.
Speaker 8: Wonderful Roosevelt has always loathed me. But after I fix this,
Speaker 8: well he'll pretend to like me.
Speaker 7: Wait so this is all happening now?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Oh my god, Slick, that's why.
Speaker 3: You were here? Was that not clear? What about you?
Speaker 5: No, I'm done.
Speaker 3: But you know these guys you have the intel now
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 8: Oh, Dominique, I remember now why I tried to have
Speaker 8: you killed.
Speaker 3: Look, Lenique, motherfucker.
Speaker 10: There's a still away section in the back of the plane.
Speaker 10: You have a ten minute window to get in there.
Speaker 3: And hid go go Okay, okay, but I'm the boss.
Speaker 6: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's all remember that.
Speaker 8: Okay, Dominique, come on all right, by mom?
Speaker 5: Are you doing?
Speaker 1: I just need a minute to sort this out. So
Speaker 1: Dad is now working for the CIA.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the OSS, which then became the CIA in
Speaker 4: nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 5: So he's a spy.
Speaker 3: M sounds like it. Wow.
Speaker 1: Was always rumored that he was some sort of secret agent,
Speaker 1: but he just laughing.
Speaker 10: All.
Speaker 4: Well, now you know granddad was a good old fashioned
Speaker 4: Nazi hunter.
Speaker 1: Oh he's a goddamn hero.
Speaker 3: Who go shit, hear that? Oh yeah, I hear it.
Speaker 3: Dominated her part. You think she took out all three
Speaker 3: bombs in that hangar?
Speaker 11: Uh huh and the Nazis from the sound of it, Yeah,
Speaker 11: I like that.
Speaker 3: Oh good. It's a scrawny one, not the big one
Speaker 3: with the eye patch.
Speaker 15: Shit.
Speaker 3: He's the one who knows how to fly. Oh god,
Speaker 3: we're taking off you fly right?
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: I'm an executive slick. I shine bullshit for a living.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm allowed to kill people.
Speaker 14: So you don't fly.
Speaker 3: I don't fly. I get flown.
Speaker 6: Damn it.
Speaker 3: You don't find well.
Speaker 6: I guess there's always a time to learn.
Speaker 3: I'm headed with the Panama Cana. Oh Operation Pelican. Good God,
Speaker 3: that's cute. It's like something from a children's book. Yuck,
Speaker 3: my hands up's pretty good. Why what would you do?
Speaker 9: All the eagle or that's a.
Speaker 12: Six hundred ko made up from the dogging.
Speaker 13: That's my cue, Tom Toms time dash, I said the
Speaker 13: fuck off schweinhund schwife.
Speaker 3: You listen to me.
Speaker 7: Forty five minutes, this plane is gonna drop a bob
Speaker 7: that could make the swastika the new American flag.
Speaker 3: That's the plan, clod Puller.
Speaker 7: We're over the Pacific now, and you're outnumbered.
Speaker 14: So we're gonna drop that doodle here.
Speaker 1: And finds this plain you dunky that makes you think, Hey,
Speaker 1: well nose dive into the ocean and kill us all.
Speaker 7: You're a Nazi, you bleed narcissism.
Speaker 6: Hey, what's that?
Speaker 3: Oh god, he's just activated a bomb. It's in the
Speaker 3: cockpit where we will shit. If you touch me, I
Speaker 3: would pass it.
Speaker 7: No, now we're in control, but you can't fly.
Speaker 6: Dulls Chance arrives.
Speaker 5: Act it's Blair. I gotta take this.
Speaker 4: Come on live, this is life or that mom spoiler alert,
Speaker 4: granddad lives.
Speaker 3: We're here.
Speaker 12: Just play it.
Speaker 5: I want to see how he almost died.
Speaker 4: Okay, Blair will text if it's important.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's go.
Speaker 6: Oh we're gonna die. We're gonna die.
Speaker 14: Tom Slick Mystery Hunter is a production of School of
Speaker 14: Humans and iHeart Podcasts starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Speaker 14: Cissy Spasick as Claire Slick, Skyler Fisk as Live Slick.
Speaker 14: Written and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart.
Speaker 14: Executive produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek, Skyler Fiske, Jeb Stewart,
Speaker 14: Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, l C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Speaker 14: Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
Speaker 14: sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger, Casting by
Speaker 14: Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter Sad coordination by Daisy Church
Speaker 14: and Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catele. Special
Speaker 14: thanks to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang
Speaker 14: and Casey Pegram. For Iheartmet.
Speaker 15: Episode two cast, Dave Willis as Alan Dulles, Selinas Taribio
Speaker 15: as Dominique, Ava Davis as Blair, Tiffany Morgan as Bernice, Fredis,
Speaker 15: Jackson Beals as Machine Gun Kelly, David Devrees as Heinz Lang,
Speaker 15: maxell Amador as Chickie the Bartender, Tim Heller as Jay
Speaker 15: Edgar Hoover, Mike Schatz as Agent Roper, and the introductory
Speaker 15: voiceover with additional roles voiced by David Devrees, Michael Mao,
Speaker 15: and Phil Clark.
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