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Speaker 1: adult content and language. What's in a name? Let's try

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Speaker 1: something say or think of the name of the last

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Speaker 1: person you saw. Now, did you imagine the letters that

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Speaker 1: And if you stay with that image of them, your

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Speaker 1: just from a word, just from their name. There are

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Speaker 1: so little information that the circumstances leading to the death

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Speaker 1: Hank briggs use of his imagination just got him a

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Speaker 1: new name. It's Zeros. Granted it was the name of

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Speaker 1: with this case. And what's in this particular name is

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Speaker 1: an entirely unexplored world which Hank Briggs was about to

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Speaker 1: enter from Vox Popula and the Los Angeles. Harold, this

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Speaker 1: is the Angel of Vine. My old heart ain't gain

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Speaker 1: and no ground because my angels. These are snippets of

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Speaker 1: the recordings from Hank's steak out of cereals. It's thorough,

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Speaker 1: not so much informatively, but thorough and sheer. Volume four

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Speaker 1: separate tapes for a total of fourteen recorded hours over

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Speaker 1: what I think was roughly eight or nine days. My

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Speaker 1: excuse me, pal, you run this place? Yeah, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking around Crates the salmon because I run this place. Hey, Anton,

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Speaker 1: Now that one's gotta go in the cooler. It's a

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Speaker 1: people call me tiny while are you're stepping over him?

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Speaker 1: Or before? Was that? Jesus? Nothing? Listen, Tiny, maybe you

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Speaker 1: see anyone coming to donor. I do my job so

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Speaker 1: I can be out of my way, simple as that.

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Speaker 1: To sound philosophy, Yeah, yeah, because people mistake me for

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Speaker 1: a philosopher all the time. We've done here. And who

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Speaker 1: You're pretty persistent for not wasn't a mess. Who's asking?

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Speaker 1: Labor union? Labor union? What are you some sort of commie?

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Speaker 1: Get out of here, your clown clown? Le'm asking your question.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't being really nice to you, and I don't

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Speaker 1: I'm not patient. Draft My wife nuts who thanks buddy,

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Speaker 1: it was a joker. I don't think it was. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to inconvenient you. I'm just here to

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Speaker 1: Ask for Alistair. He's the manager. He comes in around them.

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Speaker 1: But you didn't get his name from me, because I

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Speaker 1: I don't need any trouble. You can tell him I

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Speaker 1: Hank has no direct contact with anyone named Alistair within

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Speaker 1: I'm with Local forty seven. I'm Hank Braves, Diane Mosley,

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Speaker 1: do here? I would coach check cigarette girl? Don't they

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Speaker 1: it's about Barnaby's hand, Barnaby the piano player. Obviously it isn't.

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Speaker 1: What's your question, Hank Briggs? Was it? We gotta get inside?

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Speaker 1: Did either of you know Marlene? Marie Evans? Never heard

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Speaker 1: don't know her? Frenie? We agree, Sony bitch? Oh hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a creepy. Let's get tossed on the sunset.

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Speaker 1: Just a a few questions. You can't be back here, sir,

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Speaker 1: this is private property. All right, I'm going. I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Hank didn believed the cigarette girl, and he was right

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Speaker 1: not to, but he was wrong when he said he

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Speaker 1: didn't have patience. Hank Briggs had enough patience to spend

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Speaker 1: an entire week scouring the paper for baseball scores while

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Speaker 1: Diane Moseley, the co check girl. Nice. Catch up with

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Speaker 1: you later, Diane. Yeah, it's okay. He startled me. He

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Speaker 1: shouldn't do that. I'm sorry. It didn't mean to scare you.

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Speaker 1: Henk Briggs, yeah, I remember you. Do you mind if

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Speaker 1: we walk? No? No, not at all? Cigarette, No, thank you?

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Speaker 1: Did you know Marley? Yes? But not well, you know

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Speaker 1: she was. She was real nice, so polite, always a

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Speaker 1: please and thank you, no matter what. Were you too close? Well?

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Speaker 1: I mean we didn't socialize outside of work more than

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think so. She was certainly

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Speaker 1: mean relaxed around James Dean. I mean, are you kidding me? Nice?

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Speaker 1: Why did you pretend not to know her? We were

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Speaker 1: It would have shut us down. Why. I can't afford

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Speaker 1: to lose my job, Mr Briggs, I promise you you're

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Speaker 1: not going to That's not why I'm here. They didn't

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Speaker 1: want a chance anyone looking at the books. Okay, there

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Speaker 1: are no books. It pays in cash. And since Marlene

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Speaker 1: had already quit the club when it happened, she wasn't

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Speaker 1: to privates. Privates What what's that? I don't know. That's

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Speaker 1: what she called him. Were these privates arranged through the club? No?

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Speaker 1: Who then? I don't know. Well, did you work with

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Speaker 1: anyone else? Diane? I'm not a cop. I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to get anyone in trouble here. I promised that you

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Speaker 1: were in that giant bouncer you got at the front door.

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Speaker 1: Will never ever see me again. I just need a name, please, Fish, Fish, Fish,

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Speaker 1: that's what I thought, you said. He runs a club

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Speaker 1: asked me if I wanted to make some good money

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Speaker 1: working for him, like three or four times would make

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Speaker 1: here in a night, Like I said, I'm not real outgoing,

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Speaker 1: so I said no. Well, please don't not tell anybody.

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Speaker 1: I told you all of this, and there's no need

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Speaker 1: Can I help you get somewhere? Thank you? And it's

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Speaker 1: hey day. The historic Central Avenue Jazz Corridor, or the

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Speaker 1: nights of drink, dance, and authentic live jazz unlike any

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Speaker 1: Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Lena Horne. These were

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Speaker 1: by other gangsters. The Battle was a lesser known venue

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Speaker 1: than the others and opened just at the tail end

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Speaker 1: for a few nights, Hank carefully assumed the role of

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Speaker 1: bar fly very much. I haven't heard the name fish

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Speaker 1: once since I've been here. I got three viable contenders, though,

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Speaker 1: At ten of this we are that steals trio dude,

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Speaker 1: forget to tip your that's last called buddy, Yeah, why not?

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Speaker 1: I'll take one more? Still on, still on it. There

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Speaker 1: you go. Thanks, keep the change this sea taking our

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Speaker 1: years bound. You made it just in time, drink up fast.

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Speaker 1: Good point, Good point. I was gonna say the same

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Speaker 1: thing to you, just taking my time, unless you're gonna

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Speaker 1: sit here another night talking to yourself? Can I help

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Speaker 1: you with something uncanny? There you go, taking the words

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Speaker 1: right out of my mouth again. Only cut the chitchen.

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Speaker 1: What you want? What makes you think? Good? Nights? Ago?

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Speaker 1: You asked the trumpet player by the name of Ellis

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Speaker 1: that this was Fish's joint. Fish Frank, hand me that

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Speaker 1: bottle and two glasses. You got it. Why don't we

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Speaker 1: head to my office and talk about whatever the hell

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Speaker 1: it is got you looking so skittish. I'll be in

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Speaker 1: the back it rayneeds me. Uncle. It's been a long

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Speaker 1: time since a white man came asking for me. What

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Speaker 1: are you playing that? I see plenty of white people

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Speaker 1: in there, Oh them, No, they are customers. They're down

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Speaker 1: here slumming to get a taste of a real experience. You.

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Speaker 1: I got no idea why you're here, but I do know.

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Speaker 1: I clocked you the seince you walked in. You don't

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Speaker 1: exactly scream jazz man, set jass down. Do you hear

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Speaker 1: about Shepherd's money? No good? Am I gonna need this?

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Speaker 1: No good? As long as we square on that what

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Speaker 1: you want? Where was Marline Murray Evans work in the

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Speaker 1: night she was murdered? Little ship? You just came out

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Speaker 1: and said it just like that. You ain't messing around,

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Speaker 1: aren't you. I know that she worked for you doing

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Speaker 1: privates wherever the hell that is? Privates? Kind of foolish nonsense,

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Speaker 1: is that? What did she do for you? Look? I

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Speaker 1: don't keep track of them all. Sure, I get it.

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Speaker 1: A businessman like you does tons of deals. Definitely too

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Speaker 1: We did a party at Leonard Schawles that week, Leonard

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he's paying good afternoon. So how may I

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Speaker 1: help you? I'm supposed to be beating someone here. Irwin Ogelman. Yes,

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Speaker 1: A quick reminder, Erwin Fogelman was the director who had

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Speaker 1: Briggs Musso's huh and I think they were gonna let

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Speaker 1: oldest honor? What can you tell me about Leonard Shaw? Uh?

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Speaker 1: He's a prick. Say this. He's mean just for the

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Speaker 1: How many people like that? Everyone? I used to say,

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Speaker 1: keep them full of champagne. What a prick? Anyway you'd

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Speaker 1: Leo took absolute pleasure in firing me. He and I

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Speaker 1: double tenderloine for your gentlemen, Please be careful. The play

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Speaker 1: Did you ever see my picture divided before the fall?

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid I didn't wife and I don't get out much.

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Speaker 1: It's rhetorical Hank, I never made it. Pardon Leo gave

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Speaker 1: Set it up with my girl, Yeah, hand deliver a

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Speaker 1: Mr Shaw here, ghoes just here to drop up this script? No,

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Speaker 1: And just like that, Hank Briggs was face to face

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