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That's what the jokers that try to mes with me say.

4 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Trumpet Talks (The early life of Louis Armstrong) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:15:16 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- While traveling musicians from the four corners of the Delta convened in the New Orleans bistros, ballrooms, and dance halls and poured out the new music.

(Sidney Bechet 'Wild Man Blues')

- And the kid listened and created sounds of his own from bottles and cans...

- And rattled up and down Basin Street with his boys until one evening his father looked at his wide shoulders and said...

- You've grown as strong as a man, and you're not even nineteen.

- That's what the jokers that try to mes with me say.

- I was thinking, they need a strong man in the turpentine camp... I'd like to have you try it.

- No... no, you won't take him.

- I thought you had left this to me, May.

- Once they take a boy into the turpentine camps... that's all he's good for the rest of his days.

- What else is he going to do?

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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