The Further You Go, the Less You Know
Description
A religious teacher convinces a con artist that he's actually Leonardo DaVinci brought back to life and talks him into creating a new version of the Mona Lisa.
A spiritual guru persuades a professional deceiver to believe that he really is the reborn DaVinci and gets him to paint a modern Mona Lisa.
Bridges Barzell, a hustler downcast because the gullible population is rapidly decreasing, meets up with an old girlfriend, Dimples Kovacs, who’s worried about her husband, Leonard. Also a veteran hustler, Leonard has been conned by a guru into believing he is the reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci. Under the guru’s influence, Leonard is painting a second portrait of Mona Lisa, which the conniving guru figures will put millions into his pocket.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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