I love this mystery stories about Aztecs!

Having been laid up at home with back and neck problems, CBSRMT has helped me pass the time because I can download it right onto my Blackberry, and it brings back fond memories of listening to it with my dad when I was a kid!! I am soooo happy to have discovered it!!!!

I got an a.m. radio for Christmas when I was 6 and RMT is the only thing I can remember listening to. It came on right after Minnesota Twins games.

Davy, I grew up in Bloomington a couple blocks south of 494 and Nicollet. Being about a mile west of the met (now the mall of america) I heard the fireworks after all the Kicks games. Actually graduated at the Met Center Kennedy class of '86 and was classmates with Kent Hrbek's sister! BTW - I had a Kicks tote bagin 6th grade! lol

(or: "Blake Carrington goes back to the future") John (Carrington from the old "Dynasty" TV show) Forsythe plays Peter Barlow, a resort sales manager who's had an eight week run of poor sales. He claims the problem has been the weather...it's always raining in the supposed-to-be-sunny resort area in some valley he's been attempting to sell units in. His manager essentially relieves him of that duty but wants him to stay with the company. He sends Barlow to Mexico City to investigate some property near that city the company's interested in buying, owned by one Sr. Mendoza (played convincingly and nicely accented by the always-up-to-the-task Arnold Moss). On the way there we suddenly hear some indian chant and tom-tom, and two people talking, then we hear Barlow mumbling something. Sr. Mendoza is a charming host (as is his daughter, who takes a liking to Barlow) but seems to be fascinated by Barlow's interest (or rather, inexplicable knowledge of) of ancient Aztec and Mayan culture from the area. Mendoza is fascinated by an Aztec sun god "Hezcatlipoca(sic?)", who used to demand ritual sacrifices of the heart and blood of a selected unfortunate individual. This being would make the weather unpleasant until a sacrifice was made. In the meantime, Barlow's boss calls and says...guess what?...there's not a cloud in sight now at the resort Barlow'd been unsuccessfully toiling at - Only a brilliant sun in a deep blue sky...

Magnificent. IMO, absolutely magnificent work from Sam Dann, Howard DaSilva, Robert Dryden, Brynna Raeburn and company. DaSilva plays a God-fearing, hard-working, immigrant owner of a small shoe repair store who learns that his son is paying an exhorbitant (for those times) sum of $10.00 per week protection money to a collector who's working for a bigger mob boss, played by Dryden. DaSilva's character doesn't stand for it very long, beating up the collector on his next visit (the collector had tried to intimidate the store owner by force first) and depositing him at a local police station. The police sergeant (also played by the late Mr. Dryden) warns DaSilva he doesn't know what he's up against. The big boss visits DaSilva at his store in admiration of the owners strength and brains, and invites him to work for real money. (The store owner declines, saying if he got into the boss' business the profession wouldn't be big enough for both of them.) The boss warns DaSilva that for turning down the offer the latter is a "chump" and that he'll "never know what hit him". As the boss, Dryden also has an interesting side plot with his young, innocent (blissfully ignorant of her father's work) and optimistic daughter, who wants to open up a learning center for poor children. The newspapers have gotten hold of DaSilva's story and how he stood up to the organized crime. Then his wife brings a package to the store where DaSilva and his son (played by Jack Grimes) are working. DaSilva opens it...it's a time bomb, which goes off in seconds with all three of them there. Again, IMO, this one's worth a listen tonight if you've not yet heard it.