I'm JJ Zacharias and with today's FanDuel Hurry Up, it's week 16. Let's talk about the waiver wire and let's start with Amenra St. Brown. Over his last three games, he's seen 12, 12 and 11 targets. In fantasy football, we buy volume. I don't care what offense you're part of, if you're seeing that kind of volume, you're going to produce to some degree and that's what Amenra St. Brown has done. Over his last three games, he's had two top 10 performances and this week he gets the Atlanta Falcons secondary one that is very, very beatable. So I would definitely be adding St. Brown this week if he's still on your waiver wire. Next there's Samaj P. Rine. Joe Mixon over his last few games has not been seeing that much work through the air. And actually over his last five games, Samaj P. Rine has out targeted him 13 to 8. Now Mixon is dealing with an ankle injury. If he is out, P. Rine should see a lot of work in that bangles backfield. That's why you should be adding him. And then finally, Ronald Jones, Leonard Fournette. He's going to be sidelined with what looks like a hamstring injury. Ronald Jones steps in last season without Leonard Fournette. Jones averaged over 22 opportunities per game and this is in an offense. It's obviously very good. They should score a lot of points. I wouldn't expect Ronald Jones to see the kind of target shares that Leonard Fournette was seeing. Before this past week, Fournette had a double digit percentage target share in all but one game this year. That's why we saw a little Kishon Vaughn out there this past week in sustains because Ronald Jones is not that much of a pass catcher. But even still, in this Buccaneers offense, if he's going to see the early down work and probably the goal line work as well, he's going to be very usable in fantasy football. So Ronald Jones should be added this week off the wire.


All right, you guys have probably seen the news about the Baltimore Bridge. If you haven't seen videos of the bridge collapsing, they're quite striking. It's worth seeing. It's interesting engineering in terms of how the whole bridge collapses, the central section of the bridge. It's a bridge that's made of section and the whole center of the bridge just collapses. I mean, basically what happened is a ship on the waterway exiting, I think it was exiting, the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports in the United States, lost its basically lost control and drifted. It let, I guess, the authorities know that it was losing control and it was likely, it was probably, they would hit the bridge. They landed up hitting one of the columns of the bridge and because it is a vertical force on a column, a vertical force, most of the force a bridge is designed to handle is obviously horizontal. It's from the top, it's down and this is a vertical force on a column. It just buckled and the whole bridge just came crashing down. The photos, I mean, the video is quite striking. You can see it from multiple angles and horrible and quite tragic. The bridge could have been a lot worse in the sense that because the ship had let the authorities know they had tried to close the road off. So you can actually see cars passing as it's drifting towards the column and then there are very few or any cars driving along once the ship hits so that reduced the number of casualties. There was some workmen, the bridge was not a repair, so there's some workmen on the bridge who hit the water. Last I saw, I mean, originally the estimates were about 20 people from the construction crew were missing in the water. One had been rescued, one or two have been rescued. Last I saw there were only six missing in the water, but I think we'll know more as the day progresses. It is an interesting engineering feat today, a bridge like this would be, a number of different things would be done in order to prevent it from an accident like this. I mean, this is not a crazy accident, right? You would think a bridge could withstand this force coming from the side, but remember this is a, I don't know, I saw some way, this is the ship that went 500 feet off course, again that's pretty rare, but you can imagine that the bridge should have been designed to deal with it and why it would collapse. Let's, let me just give you a quick update on this.  The bridge, the bridge, other bridges have collapsed on similar strikes in 1980, a Sunshine Skyway bridge collapsed when a vessel strikes again, one of the columns, that's the weak point in a bridge like this. This bridge was hit by a container ship, a container ship that was fully loaded. We're talking about well over three million pounds, right? No bridge I think is designed of three million pounds of that's equivalent static force of hitting a column from the side. The bridge had three spans, but once you take out one, they all collapse on top of the other. The other spans a whole because the centerpiece is hinged and once those collapse, the rest of the bridge is fine. So this is designed to look like this, designed to collapse. What usually happens is that you, a modern bridge is built to prevent a ship from hitting the column, so what they do is around the column, they will put lots of rocks and other things, sand and rocks and build it out, so the ship doesn't literally hit the column, it hits the sand barrier with the rocks and so the whole force is not hitting a thin column on which the bridge rests. And you'll see that when they rebuild this, they will build it quite differently. So it's going to be interesting also, modern bridges often have cables. The cables are there to take some of the stress off of the center column so the column could get weakened, but the cables would hold it up at least for a while until you came in and reinforced the column. So a lot of modern bridges would not collapse the way this bridge did and it'll be interesting to see what the bridge looks like once they rebuild it and what the cost is and everything. Talk about costs. This bridge, the bridge that just collapsed was built in 1977 and it cost $61 million, which is about $343 million in 2024. I'm going to make a guess that the new bridge that replaces it will cost anywhere between I don't know, five to ten times that amount. So probably looking at one and a half to three billion dollars. Not because it has to cost that much, but because, and not because of inflation, we're taking into account inflation from 61 to 343, that's inflation. No, but because of regulation and all the constraints on building today and the environmental concerns and the million things that you have to do today when you construct anything that you didn't have to do in the column, the old days. So yes, this bridge is going to cost a fortune to fix the other thing that I don't think people are taking into account. This is going to take quite a while to build. Again everything takes a lot longer than it used to take and this is not a section of a highway that collapses like in Philadelphia. This is a bridge of a waterway. In the meantime, this is going to have a pretty negative consequence to the Port of Baltimore. Again, one of the busiest ports in the United States. I'll also note that, you know, they're going to have to dredge this area, they're going to have to take out the bridge and take out the stuff that collapsed into there. There is a foreign dredge act of 1906, which you're probably not familiar with. But the foreign dredge act of 1906 says that dredging operations in the United States waters, in U.S. waters, must be the dredging equipment, must be built in the United States, be owned and chartered by a U.S. citizen. That's the Jones Act for dredging. So one can anticipate that there are fewer dredging capabilities than would otherwise be available, that these dredging capabilities are far more expensive than they should be because they have to be American built and American owned and American flagged and American personnel and American this and American that. So we have kind of a Jones Act for dredging. That's kind of interesting. Let's see what else. Yeah, there was a great post by, you know, so this bridge collapse tragic and unfortunate and sad, but it highlights a bunch of issues in our economy, like the foreign dredging act, which is absurd and ridiculous. But so this is going to cost a fortune to fix, it's going to cost a fortune to dredge, it's going to cost a fortune to reopen the Port of Baltimore. These are real costs on the economy. These are real costs to all of us. These are real costs to progress. It's sad and, yeah, it, you know, I think Mark says the ship was dealing with power issues. Yeah, basically they lost power and it drifted into the column and they kind of had a sense that that was happening. And it's one of these big container ships. So God, I mean, that hits a column. It doesn't have to be at very high speeds because of the mass involved, that is the force. But here is, here is Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey, for those of you who do not know, is a representative, I think from Ohio, maybe not from Ohio, anyway, from the Midwest, and he is considered the most libertarian, I mean, seriously, the most libertarian member of Congress, yes, Kentucky, I think you're right, he's from Kentucky. So the most libertarian member of Congress, this is what he writes. My district has 250 miles of the Ohio River with three dams, city water intakes and a dozen bridges. The Jones Act requires shipping on inland waterways to be conducted with vessels built, registered, and crewed in the United States. I support the Jones Act. Even if it is protectionist, I don't know, I'm speechless. I have no idea what he's talking about, so he doesn't want foreign vessels traveling in the inland waterways of the Ohio River, because in Kentucky, because of what, you know, American ships that are built flagged the safer. I mean, is there evidence of this? Is this just xenophobia? I mean, this is the most libertarian member of Congress. Now he's really, really bad on foreign policy. But I thought he'd be good on this. But no, he's supporter of the Jones Act. The number one stupidest act that we have in the books, well, they're probably stupid, but certainly one of the most stupidest acts that we have in the book. Massies, I mean, this is it. The Republican Party is finished. It's history. It's junk. It should be trashed in the junk keep of history if this is the most free-market person. Now, it turns out that in spite of what Thomas Massie is saying, foreign vessels can and do operate on US inland waterways. So in spite of the Jones Act, foreign vessels can navigate through these inlands. They just can't go between two American ports. And if you think that Jones Act vessels don't collide with bridges and other infrastructure, then you're delusional. And it's a completely arbitrary assertion. But there's a number of examples, one at least of a Jones Act vessel hitting a bridge in Kentucky in January 26, 2012. So this idea that Jones Act ships don't hit bridges, bizarre, silly, ignorant, and very non, I don't know, what you'd think traditionally of libertarian. But here is a libertarian member of Congress, Republican, coming out for the Jones Act because somehow it protects the bridges in Kentucky, which it doesn't.  And this is politics today.  What else can you say? I mean, I don't know what else you can say about this stuff. Anyway, right now, ever this moment, I guess the websites where you can find who is operating on the waterways. As we speak right now, there are foreign vessels on US inland waterways, not just American vessels. So I guess you should be very, very, very worried. I mean, it might even be the case that some of those vessels operating in the inland waters of the United States, maybe some of them are even, God forbid, maybe some of them are even owned by the Chinese. And that, of course, would be the end of times.


You mentioned Lloyd Blankfein, that was a fabulous interview. You got him to talk about tweeting. Yeah, I mean Lloyd is, he's done with letting the firm be characterized by others. He wants to be characterized by himself. Three of six, by the way, have been somewhat critical of the president. He said, look, I reflect the, I want to defend the institution. Now, I mean, I've known Lloyd for 30, let's see, 1983, I don't know, 34 years. And Lloyd is a guy who represents to me a lot. I mean, I just played with an open hand. I mean, I've known him for a long time. He was very helpful for me in my career. He's always very kind to me. And it's very hard to say anything like other and good works because they came through the Great Recession well. But he did say something very interesting. He said, if you came through it well, that means you must have done better. And he doesn't want that to be that kind of defining thing. He also explained once again how people are supposed to be committed to public service as part of their job. Now, you could say even that is cynical.  Now, is it a virtuous circle? I mean, here's what I say. I could have made more money had I not had to go do, you know, go to community service. You could have, I mean, but that's, you know, that's short term greedy. That's not the way he thinks.  And that's pretty venal. The people I worked with at Goldman, who subsequently went on, did not go back. It was like, I did my time, I made my money, and now I'm going to go do the great things. And that was really another lesson that I learned at the firm, which is that, you know, you can make enough money.  Now, somehow that's been interpreted as being Goldman having these octopus tentacles everywhere. But what it really was was the ethos. The ethos was you made a lot of money, go do something for the government, go do something good for the world. And a vast majority of my friends who retire from Goldman, and many of them have because they did very, did well, are doing these great things, building schools or working in the environment or helping certain charities full time, or doing things that are great for themselves, but also great for humanity or helping particular causes. I could go over and over and over. The number of people at Goldman who are working, who work at Goldman when I was there, who are now doing these great charities, or they're working in government, Mnuchin or, you know, obviously Gary Cohen, who was a friend. And I was joking with Lloyd.  And you have to call Mr. Cohen or whoever. And I don't like to pretend because I'm not, you know, I'm a guy who was a business guy who came into journalism. And it's hard for me to act as if I don't know who Gary Cohen is when I was at his birthday party last year. It's hard for me to say I don't know Lloyd when Lloyd was the only person who was nice to me for the first six months when I was a Goldman. I mean, you remember this stuff. And so it's a little more problematic for me to assert myself. No, I do it. I want to do what's right for the viewers. I always want to do. So I asked, you know, I asked the question about whether the, you know, they were fine.  I asked the question, wouldn't they do better without the Volcker rule? I do my job. But I also do my job within the confines of being conversational, not trying to play gotcha. Because I just don't think there's a gotcha there. And Jim, you have another big interview coming up tonight on Med Money with the CEO of IBM. Yeah, Jenny Rometti is a person who I think has tried mightily to get IBM to be far more analytical, far more cognitive. That's what the Watson stand stands for, artificial intelligence, all the things that we hear about from the great people in tech right now, whether it be Jeff Bezos, whether it be Mark Benioff, whether it be the people who run Google, people run Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. The issue here is they've got a big legacy business. And how do you deal with that legacy business, which hurts your gross margins and is dropping off and at the same time, be able to make enough money on the cognitive businesses on the, you know, the special businesses that are growing fast. And also, how do we deal with the Warren Buffett issue that he decided that he didn't want to be as big, although he still owns a lot? How does Jenny Rometti deal?  And I say, no, I do have women on. I try to have as many women on as possible. It's just that there's not many women CEOs. And my daughters don't understand that at all. They say, well, dad, you just better get them all. And I'm fortunate enough to have Jenny Rometti, but I'm also always thinking in the back of my mind that my two daughters are saying, dad, what is it about women that you won't put them on? And I have to explain the real situation. All right, that's tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern on CNBC.


And a high-ranking police officer is being investigated by the FBI for allegedly making an arrest at the request of an Instagram influencer, Rimon Abbas, who has pleaded rather guilty to money laundering according to the U.S. Justice Department. Linder and police spokesman Frank Mbass sent a statement to CNN confirming that he received an indictment for Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kiari from the FBI and an internal investigation has been ordered. Sickle to the receipt of allegations and indictment processes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation against one of the personnel of the Nigerian police force, DCP Abba Kiari, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Al-Khalibaba, has ordered an internal review of the allegations. The statement read.


Texas Independence Group denies claims of Russian support. The Texas Nationalist Movement has denied Russian involvement in its cause after one of its supporters was accused of being Russian on X. Former congressman, author and political commentator Adam Kinzinger took to the social media site to point out the wording used by another user Jason Dorman, who is a supporter of the Texas-based movement that advocates the state removing itself from the U.S. and becoming an independent nation in its own right. Newsweek reports. Dorman posted on X his thoughts on why Texas is a superpower that would function well as an independent country. He wrote that Texas has a warm water pot as well as its own natural gas and major tech industries. Another user posting under the name Jack's House of the Way claimed that Dorman's wording sounded Russian, writing this is obviously a Russian. Only Russia talks about the value of a warm water pot because the U.S. as a whole has several and this has never been an issue for us. Warm water pots are pots that remain ice-free throughout the entire year. Almost all U.S. ports are warm water pots, with few exceptions that are mainly in the waters surrounding Alaska, the northernmost U.S. state. Kinzinger then quoted the post adding, This is so true. No American would say warm water pot.  The Texas nationalist movement rebuffed the claims.  It wrote on X, We know Jason. He lives in Texas. He has attended our events. He is not a Russian, but stop spreading propaganda and misinformation. The topic of Texas leaving the U.S. has been reignited in recent weeks due to the continued standoff between the federal government and Texas lawmakers over the U.S.-Mexico border.


Watermark Art Center in Bemidji is showcasing two contemporary and traditional pieces that focus on the works of indigenous artists. One gallery features art that talks about understanding culture through sound. Another gallery is on Native Land. It's a photography exhibit that features four local artists. The photos highlight how the artists view their land. When you think about it, Native Land is everywhere on this continent. And that we wanted people from the area to share their experience of being an indigenous person and how they see the land that they call home. The gallery also features a community-driven exhibition where people can send in their own images. Understanding our concept that this is Native Land and what does that mean to you? So this is an all-community part of the exhibit. The gallery is ongoing until the 24th. You can send your pictures through Instagram or Facebook using the hashtag on Native Land, hashtag Watermark Art Center. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Diameter at breast height, or DBH, is one of the most commonly used terms in forestry. The industry standard measures DBH on the outside of a tree at 4.5 feet above the ground on the uphill side. Diameter is the cross-sectional width of a tree, but because we must measure the circumference of a standing tree, we use a special tape. This tape is called a diameter tape, or D-tape. It has markings that have been calibrated to allow the user to measure diameter directly from a measure of the circumference. Other specialized tools to measure DBH include a Biltmore stick or tree calipers. To measure DBH on your own without using one of these specialized tools, stretch a string or measuring tape around the tree to determine the circumference in inches. Then, divide the circumference by 3.14 or pi to get the diameter measurement in inches. Tree deformities such as knots, cankers, and forks can potentially alter where DBH is measured on a tree. If any of these occur at 4.5 feet on the tree, measure the tree diameter above this point depending on the type of deformity. Forked trees are handled differently depending on whether the fork originates above or below 4.5 feet. For example, if a tree forks below 4.5 feet, consider it two trees. If the fork is above 4.5 feet, consider it one tree. The diameter at breast height and the height of the tree are the two most important measurements in forestry and make up the foundation for calculating weight, volume, and subsequent value of individual trees or forest stands.


My name's Regan. I work for Anthony J. Lyon Detective Bureau. They call me the Lyons Eye. Jeff Regan investigators starring Paul Dubov as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon. So stand by for mystery and suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the man behind the rod. She was ported and relieved. She had sharp cams, lift and overlap, and Dick Elcock loved her. Before the case was closed she came close to killing me, but I didn't know about that when I walked into the Lyon Detective Bureau office. The Lyon, my boss, Anthony J. was sitting behind his desk studying a photo. He had that, we got a new client beam on his face. Well, Jeffrey, here you are. That's right. We've got a new client, my boy. Very buxy. How much? It's $300, Jeffrey. $150 this morning or $150 at the close of the case. Who's the photo? It is Jennifer B. It's the B's hands for Jennifer's displacement, Jeffrey. Don't stop now. Well, Jennifer displaces 230 cubic inches, you see. So of course she's B. Of course. As to her foot pounds of torque, now let me see. Mr. Elcock told me when he was here this morning, but I don't see... Elcock, who's he? A new client, Jeffrey. He wants us to get his son, Dick Elcock, away from Jennifer here. Let me see that photograph. Certainly, my boy. Here you are. So that's it. Jennifer's one of those souped up jobs, a hot rod. Exactly. She develops 140 miles per hour at 8,000 rpm. Mr. Elcock feels that's a little bit too much for his boy, Dick. I see what he means. It would, of course, as Mr. Elcock said this morning. He'd hardly hire private detectives merely to check on his son if he didn't have reason to think something queer was going on, Jeffrey. Now we're getting somewhere. Elcock, say what? Well, something to do with somebody named Salvatore, Jeffrey. Salvatore? Yes. Mr. Elcock's heard them quarreling over the phone. His son and Salvatore? That's right. Threats, veiled threats, recriminations, that sort of thing. Nothing more specific? No. Well, you know how it is. A father doesn't like the eavesdrop. That is not too obvious, Lee Jeffrey. Guess not. Salvatore. Well, that's the start, I guess. Plenty of Salvatore's around LA. You hadn't know the last name, or it didn't help much. I phoned our client Mr. Elcock. He didn't know Salvatore's last name. All he could give me was that his son was a pretty decent kid, but nuts over speed and motors. About noon I went down onto the street, and that was when I came up with something. Paper, Mr. Regan? Afternoon edition's just out. Yeah, okay. Here you are, Mr. Regan. Thanks. There you go. Keep the change. Gee, thanks, Mr. Regan. I glance through the news, turn to the sport page, and there it was. Photo of Jennifer B. Lowered body, no fenders, chrome dual exhausts, cut down top, slot windows. Jennifer B. Expensive looking hot rod. Dick Elcock was racing her at 2 p.m. on a dirt track above Santa Monica, the paper said. Check my watch? It was 12.15. There was time to pick up the line and make the first race. The paper listed the others who were racing hot rods. One name interested me, Salvatore Marino. Over this way, Lyon. Yeah, I'm right with you, Jeffrey. Here, through the crowd. Yeah. There, that passageway goes out to the track. Oh, you want to find Dick Elcock before the races start? Is that it, Jeffrey? We've got a quarter of an hour before 2 o'clock, might as well use it. Yes, yes. Hey. What is it, Jeffrey? They're ahead at the end of the passage. Come on, Lyon. Yeah, but Jeffrey, it's just a young man, one of the hot rod races. Dungarees, T-shirt, white crash helmet. Driving goggles shoved up on the crash helmet. The hot rod driver, sure. Well, then, Jeffrey, I don't see it. Look at the expression on his face. Yeah, he doesn't look very trustworthy, does he, Jeffrey? He's watching for something just outside the passage. All right, take it easy. Now he doesn't see us. He was thin-faced, sly, and the back of his T-shirt was the number seven. I glanced at the clipping I tore from the paper, names and numbers of the drivers. Dick Elcock? No. Salvatore Marino? Salvatore Marino was number two. Dick Elcock was number nine. Number seven. Somebody else. James Prichard. Lyon and I got three quarters up the passage before we saw in Prichard's hand a long reaming tool pointed steel shaft. That was when... Salvatore! I got business, Prichard. No, hold it! Keep out of it! This fight between Elcock and me. Number two hot rod driver in the passageway, Salvatore Marino. Then another driver in the passage, number nine, Dick Elcock. Salvatore Marino jumped him. Come on, Lyon, grab Marino. I'll get Elcock. Get out, Jeffrey. Don't be hasty. Come on, you keep out of it, Prichard. I ain't in this. Come on, you two. Wake it up! No, I'm just alone. He's been after me a month and I'm gonna clean him up. Yeah, sure, Dick.  You and MacArthur.  See what, jerk? Come on, Lyon! Come on! All right, now, now, now, boys. What's this all about? Well, Sal jumped me, Mr. Miller. He's been asking for it. All right, all right, all right. All right, we all know it's because of the girl, Francie Prichard, huh? That reminded me. I looked around. James Prichard had disappeared. It is because of Francie Prichard, isn't it? Yes, Mr. Miller. Yeah, it is. I thought so. Oh, you gentlemen, who are you? My name's Regan. This is Mr. Lyon. Thank you for being kind enough to intervene. We're private detectives. Yes, yes, Lyon Detective Bureau. I see. And you're here on business, perhaps? Oh, I am! Hold it, Lyon. Maybe we are. Well, I'm Jack Miller. I sponsor these afternoon hot rod races.  Perhaps you gentlemen... Oh, Sal, Dick, class B trial, start in five minutes. Yes, Mr. Miller. You two, it better get to your cars. Okay, Mr. Miller. And we'll discuss what just happened later, Dick Sal. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Okay. Oh, and you gentlemen, perhaps you would accompany me to my office where we can talk. Uh, cigars, gentlemen. Oh, thank you, Mr. Miller. Yes, we're racing class Bs this afternoon. 183 to 250 cubic inch displacement. Who's Francie Prichard, Miller? Your professional concern, Mr. Egan, is with Miss Prichard? With Dick Elcock. His concern seems to be with Francie Prichard. Oh, yes, yes. I see how it is now. She, James Prichard's sister? That's right, she is. Dick Elcock's father has engaged us to check up on his boy, Mr. Miller. To get the record straight, Miller, it's this hot rod stuff Elcock's worried about. Oh, yes, yes. Some parents do consider hot rods dangerous. That's one of the reasons I sponsor this track, you see, to keep the boys from racing in the streets. What do you get out of running the show, Miller? A certain spiritual satisfaction, Mr. Egan. Oh, now, now, Mr. Miller, I'm sure Mr. Egan didn't mean to imply that. And too, Mr. Egan, I have a speed shop, as they are called. Uh, dealing in hot rod and special car accessory equipment. It's quite a profitable business. It figured there'd be something like that. Which of the two motives you consider the chief one will be an index to your own character, Mr. Egan? Yeah. I see what you mean. Well, gentlemen, the first preliminary is about to start. If you'd care to watch from my bar. Look there, Jeffrey. There's Jennifer B. Dick Elcock's hot rod. I didn't know the cars carried passengers, Miller. Sometimes. That hot rod took cars over from Elcock at the wheel. Salvatore Marino. Jeffrey, Salvatore Marino's passenger is a girl. Yeah. Francie Pritchard, Miller. Oh, yes. Yes, that's Miss Pritchard, Mr. Egan. Hey, that's Jennifer B. Moving to the front now. And right beside Elcock's car, that's Salvatore Marino. Hey, Jeffrey! Jeffrey, did you see that? Marino tried to side swipe Elcock.  Marino ought to be disqualified. Oh, now, gentlemen, you ought to understand a certain amount of leeway. Naturally high competitive spinach of the board. Sure, sure, competitive for Francie Pritchard. Look what's going on out there on the track. Good, Jeffrey, those boys are going to crash if they're not careful. It wasn't just Marino that ought to be thrown off the track, our client Elcock's son, too. Marino and Elcock were battling it out at 60 and 70 miles an hour, skidding, gunning, slowing dirt. Well, it was a clean-cut case. You didn't have to be a genius to see it was a love feud. Elcock and Marino against each other. Motive, love for Francie. Sure, it was simple. All of a sudden, I thought of something. Dick Elcock trying to smash Marino's car because Salvatore Marino was his rival for Francie. Yeah, Marino driving, but Francie, a passenger in the same car.  You put it that way and it didn't make sense. First trials ended with Marino and Elcock finishing 1-2, both qualified for the big race. There were three more heats to be run off before the big race started. I told the lion to keep an eye on the track. Miller stepped out of the box a second and I told him to keep an eye on Miller. Then I went out back of the track where the drivers were tuning up their hot rods. Dick Elcock had his hand under the hood of a car. The car wasn't the Jennifer B. Dick, Dick, don't, don't, but into it, don't. I'm not doing anything. That's Marino's car, isn't it? Oh, who are you? Name's Regan. Well, what have you got to do with it? I heard him tell Mr. Miller, Francie. He's a detective. Oh, well, then you know, Mr. Regan. I know about you, Francie, and Salvatore Marino and Dick Elcock here. What about the, the rest? Rest? Gimme. Oh, no, no, I... Don't tell him anything, Francie. No, Dick, no, I won't. Listen, Elcock, your father hired me. That's why I'm here. He doesn't like you messing around hot rods. After watching your prelim, I see what he means. I'm old enough to do what I want to.  Now give it to me. Why did you try to run Marino off the track on the preliminary? Well, because of Francie. That's what I thought at first. You and Salvatore rivaled for Francie. That checks, huh, Francie? Well, yes. Sure, love triangle. Only Elcock, you couldn't hurt Salvatore out there on the track without hurting Francie. They were in the same car. So what was really on your mind? I was sore at Salvatore.  A minute ago, you had your hand under the hood of Salvatore's car here to mess it up because you saw at him. Yes. That all of it? That's all of it. Listen, Elcock, you're into something. Maybe way in over your head. That's true, Mr. Regan. You keep out of it, Francie. No. Listen to him. Listen to Mr. Regan, Dick. I know what I'm doing. You and Marino were jamming each other out there on the track and Miller isn't going to disqualify you for the main race. Why? You won't answer that one, huh? Well, maybe Miller will. I found Miller and Lyon back in Miller's office under the stands. Miller wouldn't disqualify Elcock and Marino. Hedged, put on a cool smile, said he didn't feel it justified. I told him my job was to protect Dick Elcock. That was what Elcock's dad had bought himself, a 150 down and 150 to come. Mr. Regan, why don't you ride with Dick Elcock in the race? Huh? Each driver will have a passenger. That's not a bad idea, Lord. Jevrey, it might be dangerous, very dangerous, my boy. You know Lyon, you're right. Well, Jevrey, are you sure you really are? Gotta protect Elcock. That's what we're hired for. And besides, Miller, there's something screwy going on here at your track. Maybe during the big race I'll find out what. I went back out to where the hot rods were warming up before going to the start of the main race. Something screwy was going on at Miller's hot rod track, all right? Something wrong. Real wrong. There's a clot of hot rod drivers, mechanics and girlfriends around something on the ground and I shoved in. All right, all right, don't crowd. Stay back for the ambulance, please. Please stay back. Elcock, what's up? It's fancy, Mr. Regan. Oh, Tommy, help with the stretcher. Is she hurt badly, doctor? Oh, I can't tell. She's unconscious. What happened? Well, somebody hit Francie over the head, Mr. Regan. Yes, here, just at the temple. We were all watching the end of the last preliminary and then we turned around and there she was, Mr. Regan, slumped on the ground. Nobody saw what happened? No, no. Nice of the race covered any quite Francie might have made. I, I suppose so.  Maybe it wasn't somebody who hated Francie, Elcock. What? I don't, I don't understand. Maybe it was somebody who loved her. Knocked Francie out so she wouldn't ride with Salvatore Marino in the big race. Just in case, Elcock, anything should happen to Marino's car. It was a five-sided triangle. Dick Elcock and Salvatore Marino in love with Francie Pritchard. That part was clear. Only after that the things smogged up. There was James Pritchard, Francie's brother, in it somewhere. And Miller, sponsor of the hot rod track. Miller wouldn't disqualify Marino and Elcock for the main race. When you could see with your eyes shut, the kids were going to fight it out with their hot rods on the track. The track ambulance carried Francie Pritchard off. Before I had time to check around and maybe get a lead on who slugged it, the loudspeaker system was announcing the main race. I'm going to show you the hot rod classics of the afternoon. Check your programs, please, as the qualifying entrance are announced. Number two, Salvatore Marino. Number five, Tommy Tomlinson. Number seven, James Pritchard. Number eight, Harry Essman. Number nine, Dick Elcock. I went over to Jennifer B. Her headlights taped to prevent flying glass, fire extinguisher ready in case of a crash. Dick Elcock was strapping himself into the bucket seat behind the wheel. I can't talk to you now, Mr. Regan. The race starts in just a second. I'm riding with you, Elcock. You can't do that. Any special reason? Well, just that I'm... Well, Mr. Miller won't lecture. Here's suggestion. Mr. Miller said you should ride with me in that race. Yeah. You got an extra one of those crash helmets? No. No, I don't want you to ride with me. Listen, Elcock, I could go to the phone right now and call your dad, tell him where you are, what you're doing, describe the way you and Salvatore Marino drove in that first prelim. Oh, don't do that, Mr. Regan. Or I could phone the cops. Tell them about Francie Pritchard. I could give the cops a pretty solid story, Dick, on who might have assaulted her, what the motive might have been. They might figure they had enough to lock you up. I didn't hit Francie, Mr. Regan. I wouldn't do that. Maybe you wouldn't. Maybe you didn't do it. I'd tell you I didn't. If that's true, Elcock, you better help me prove it. You got an extra crash helmet? Yes. Well, yes, I had, Mr. Regan, with my gear in the back of the car. Get it, Elcock. Yeah, go ahead, get it. I'll be right back. The lion was standing up in Miller's box, 20 or 30 yards on up the track, signaling me. I went over and the lion was alone in the box. Jeffrey, Jeffrey, I've got to talk to you a minute. Shoot, that's all right. Well, Jeffrey, something very strange is going on here. Where's Miller? That's just it. We came back up from the office and then he excused himself. Said he had to go back down under the stands and speak to some of the track officials. Go on. Well, when he didn't come back, I went down to see what had happened to him. I've checked everywhere, Jeffrey. Mr. Miller has disappeared. That's all right. You saw the ambulance go up to the other end of the track a little while ago. Yes. Somebody knocked Francie Pritchard cold. Jeffrey. The lion, did Miller leave his box before or after that? Right. Right, it was afterwards, Jeffrey. Yeah, after Francie was hit. Yeah, well, maybe that fifth. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, Jeffrey, I'm not sure I'd follow you. Listen, lion, I got to get back to Dick Elcox's car for the race. Yeah, but, Jeffrey. I had to find Miller. Jeffrey, I told you he's not here. Yeah, but wherever he is, find him, lion. It's important. And it's all right. Hurry up, Mr. Regan. We'll get rolling in 20 or 30 seconds. Got a crash helmet for me, Dick? Yeah, here. Okay. And belt yourself into the seat. Sure. Anything I can do during the race? Well, this is the fire extinguisher clipped here under the wheel post. We crack up and get pinned in the car. I get the picture. When we get the signal, we go into a roll in low gear. The whole field. When we hit the start and get waved into the race, we run the gear. Then hold high, wide open. Yeah. Where is he sounding swell? Maybe we'll win the race, Mr. Regan. Maybe if we finish it. Line of hopped-up gelops moving in low toward the start. Car next to the Jennifer B, close. Driver hunched under white crash helmet. Goggles covering half his face. But you could see the driver was Salvatore Marino. Marino turned and yelled at Elcock. I'm going to crash, you dick, or what you did to Branson. Before Elcock could answer, we hit the start of the race. We hit the first turn in the pack. Cars bouncing together, jarring each other. The pack was solid up the backstretch. Began to spring out, going into the second lap. Jennifer B was low to the track, skidding under the slewed-up dirt. You smelled scorched oil. You jerked and snapped in your bucket seat. Fourth lap. Half a dozen liters to clear the pack. Elcock, Marino, Jimmy Pritchard, two or three others. Marino, Pritchard, Elcock's Jim for BI was riding in tight together, bunched. Then all of a sudden, Marino shot ahead. It's got it, like Sal said. What's got what? Sal's your love. Look at him pull out. Hey, Marino slagging up. Mr. Regan, we've got to get out of the car. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. My side's jammed against the rail. Marino drove us into the rail. Can we get out on your side? See if this door will open. No, no, it's okay. Let's get out. Watch our chance. It's not now.  Then Elcock and I made a break for it. Then we were in the infield. Safe. The funny thing, when we were safe, fear came. Gosh, that was close. It sure was. When you think of what could have happened, she could have caught fire. We could have. Oh, holy smoke, Mr. Regan. We might be dead now. Maybe your dad's not too far off the beam, Dick, wanting you to give up this Jalopy racing. Gee, I guess he sure isn't. And what's happened to Francie, too, because of this? Yeah, you didn't slug her, Dick. You love her. I do, Mr. Regan. Yeah, but what you said? Said maybe whoever slugged Francie did it because he loved her. Yes, Mr. Regan. Well, watch the race. The race? Watch Marino's car. Sal's way out ahead. Nobody will catch him now. Triple carb manifold deal sure soups up his crate. Triple carb manifold? Then unusual on a racing Jalopy? No, no, but Sal's worked out some improvements. Get simultaneous carburization. Events like that could be worth dope. Yeah, it could. Elcock, Miller knew about it. Yes, Mr. Regan. Dick. Huh? Watch car number seven. Pritchard? Pritchard. Well, Pritchard's dropping back out of the field. Well, let Salvatore Marino lap him, Dick. But why would he do that? Because his car's not fast enough to catch Marino. Sure I know that. He wants Marino alongside of him, Dick. Mr. Regan. Then Pritch. Pritch. Pritchard. Pranti's brother. You mean when Sal comes alongside of him? And we can't do a thing about it, Dick. But Pritch. Sure, Pritch. He conked his sister to keep her out of Marino's car during the race. I didn't think that Pritchard... You knew Miller was in it. Yes, Mr. Regan. Yeah, yes, I did. That was why you tried to block Marino out of the running in the prelim. You wanted to put him out of commission. You knew Miller wanted him smashed up. Pranti told me she heard him talk. You figured a little smash up in the prelim would be better than the big one in the main event. Because you thought Pranti would be riding with him. Yes. That was it, Mr. Regan. But why, Mr. Regan? Mr. Miller and now you say Pritch. What have they got against Salvatore? Nothing, Dick. Nothing? That's it. Nothing. But that doesn't make sense. Look, Dick. Marino's lapping Pritchard now. Pulling alongside him. Pulling alongside him. Mr. Regan. He's gonna crash him. Oh, no! You can see Pritchard now, Mr. Regan. Thanks, Doc. Well, Dick. Yes, Mr. Regan? Why don't you check the other hospital by phone while I'm inside? See how Pranti's coming along. Yes, Mr. Regan. Uh, this way, Doc. In here. Okay. It's gonna be all right. Oh, yes. Yes. Where are the other boys? Heard a little more seriously. He'll pull through it all, of course. Now, in this room. Just go on in, Mr. Regan. It's quite all right. Wait a second. The room's empty. What? Pritchard's run out. There was a fire stairs at the other end of the hospital corridor. One of the nurses had seen Pritchard going that way. Thought he was a patient, a loud up and around. I hit the stairs fast and got outside. There was a bumpy road circling the hospital grounds and a figure in a hospital bath broke 20 yards away, and I took off. All right, Pritchard. Stay back. Stay back. Still packing that ramming tool, huh? Convenient. Makes a difference. Possession of it easy to explain around hot rods. Okay, Pritchard. Use it.  And face a murder rap? Pritchard, you haven't got the nerve. Yeah? Sure I have. You better quit now with a jail sentence for assault. Well, put me up to it. Sure he did. Put you up to smashing up Salvatore Marino during the race. Put you up to it, but you did it, Pritchard. Didn't want frantic it. Get hurt, Pritchard. Yeah, I know. That makes you a notch better than Miller anyway. But it isn't saying very much for you, Pritchard. Pritchard dropped the ramming tool. I took him back to the hospital. I had a couple of interns guard him. Then I phoned the cops.  He checked by phone on Francie. She was all right. So that about wrapped it up. Except for one little thing. Miller. The man bombed. The man behind the rod that picked off Salvatore. I went out to where my car was parked, and that was when I saw a blimp with crash helmet and goggles coming toward me. Jeffrey! Lion! Jeffrey! You seem surprised to see me. I'm on the case too, you know. Lion, where'd you get that thing? Is this hot rod, Jeffrey? Hot rod? That's a 1930 model. Yes, but with a 1947 engine, Jeffrey, imported and relieved special hair, intake manifold, stroke, de-stroke, piston popped up, flywheel chopped, baffles installed. Oh, you wouldn't believe it, Jeffrey, but this car does 130 miles an hour. You know that. I did it. Huh? Well, Jeffrey, it was like this. It began to appear that Mr. Miller was implicated in this case. Uh-huh, go on. And you asked me to find him, Jeffrey. So wherever he was. Sure. So realizing he had a head start, my boy, I borrowed a car from one of the spectators at the drag. Well, I found that Mr. Miller had taken the coast highway north, running away. That checks. He had one of those speedy, foreign cars, Jeffrey. It seems Mr. Miller has some quite considerable sorts of income. That checks too. Yes, I'm sure it does. Well, Jeffrey, Mr. Miller's car was very fast, but I just, uh, went through the gears, held high, wide open, and, uh... You caught Miller. Uh... No, Jeffrey. No. No, I got arrested in Malibu for speeding. Exceeding the speed limit by, uh, well, by 103 miles an hour, Jeffrey. 128 to 25 miles old. Lyon, do you realize it's Miller who was behind this whole case? Of course I do, Jeffrey. That is, I suspect it as much. He's been milking ideas from the kids around his track for months. Changing him around a little, marketing him is his own stuff. Then Salvatore Marino turned up a triple carburetor manifold, really worth money. You tripled the car? Yeah. Miller wanted the car it was in, smashed up, so it wouldn't get out. The idea was Marino. Oh, so that was it? And you do 128 through Malibu and let him get away. Oh, Mr. Miller didn't get away, Jeffrey. What? Oh, he was right ahead of me, so the police stopped him too. Not doing quite my speed, of course. They said he was only doing 107 in his foreign car. And when I told him a few things about him, Jeffrey, they locked him up. You mean that Miller? Yeah, that's right, Jeffrey. In the Malibu station. In a cell. Lyon, my boy? Sometimes you amazed me. Oh, now, now, Jeffrey, it was nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing. Nothing at all. Jeff Regan, investigator, is written by William Frug and William Pfeifield, produced and directed by Sterling Tracy and stars Paul Dubava's Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon. Original music is by Dick Aaron. Jeff Regan, investigator, is heard each week at the same time over CBS. Bob Stephenson speaking, inviting you to be with us again next Wednesday at 9 for more suspense and mystery and adventure with Jeff Regan, investigator.


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