Summary
A young movie nerd from Los Angeles finds himself in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s redemption film, “The Outsiders,” thanks to a strange cosmic twist of fate (and a pair of mail-order shoes).
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW I'm Bob Carlson and this is unfiction. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Unfictional. |
| 0:10.0 | This is a mysterious traveler inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. |
| 0:19.0 | The mysterious traveler was a radio series that ran for 10 years in the 1940s. |
| 0:24.6 | Every episode started with these words. |
| 0:27.2 | I hope you will enjoy the trip |
| 0:29.4 | that it will trade you a little and cheer you a little. This man is Maurice Tarplin. |
| 0:34.0 | Why tonight we're going to see what happens when an honest man descends into the murky |
| 0:39.5 | deaths of murder and despair. |
| 0:41.5 | He was an actor and wrote novels, but this was his most famous |
| 0:45.3 | gig. I take this same train every week at the same time. In every episode the story was different, the actors were different, |
| 0:55.9 | Maurice was the only constant. He would welcome you, the listener, into his world, |
| 1:01.3 | the world of the show. |
| 1:03.0 | As we meet the visiting car. |
| 1:07.0 | Or the knives of death, or the man with the stolen face, |
| 1:10.0 | mind over murder, or the Locomotive Ghost? |
| 1:15.0 | I'll make you believe me. |
| 1:17.0 | The story they wouldn't give me a chance to tell. |
| 1:19.0 | Yes, go right ahead, Mr. Aradway. |
| 1:21.0 | I'll just sit here and make myself comfortable. We may not know where we're going, but |
| 1:25.0 | we may not know where we're going, but Maurice would tell you that's a good thing, |
| 1:30.0 | just let go and follow wherever he's going into the mystery. |
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