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The Island [episode 733], Broadcast 1/12/1958 · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Now The Island starring John Lung, a tale well calculated to.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Keep you in this corporate Lacey was okay, a good marine,
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: but the way I looked at it, he'd been happening
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: too many islands. Battle fatigue can get the best of
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: them anyway. Here I was somewhere at Okinawoa with him
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, and I just as
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: leap be anywhere else. Okay, debori the footprints even ugh,
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: I guess we'd say, for a while, where are we anyhow?
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: A couple of miles behind the javelines, safe as that.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: You worry too much, child, even for a guy on
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: his first patrol. I have a thinking of it as
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: my last. Relaxed like me, and you're that's nothing. It's
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: just a stream of me. Me. Got some kind of
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  Speaker 2: tail adjustment that cuts the wind and sort of screams
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: the limp shoes that to scare it. They sure succeeded.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: You scare easy, pal here, I'm gonna push over for
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: that strict shreka. What kind of drivers ask? It means
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  Speaker 2: terror frightfulness. The Germans got a holossal terror weapons. The
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Jeff's got a few themselves. You take the first watch
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: I'm second, and maybe maybe I just sit here and
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  Speaker 2: dream a while. I'm sure taking a fine time for it.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Did I haven't tell you about my island? Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: told me, Well there's this island. You mightn't tell me
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  Speaker 2: fifty fifty times already, so I'll tell you again. This
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  Speaker 2: island that's not a special place. No rain, no jump,
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  Speaker 2: go rock, no war at it such place and the
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  Speaker 2: time of the man who's never got hungry. All you
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  Speaker 2: got to do is fish a level with the natives. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: big man and friendly. I'd like the men, all the
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  Speaker 2: dames a beautiful He read too many comic books. That's
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  Speaker 2: where I'm fiction to go as soon as I find it,
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  Speaker 2: never going back to state side. I'm going to lay
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  Speaker 2: down under.
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  Speaker 3: That little Banyan tree, rest the.
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  Speaker 2: Wire, let them raid on it. What else could I do?
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  Speaker 2: Argue with him? Live off there. I was a couple
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: of miles behind the enemy lion with a stranger. The
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: guy's narrowed in a thousand yards stairs. Russia works like
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  Speaker 2: a nervous twitch. He raised down about a place that
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  Speaker 2: don't exist. Big Men's beautiful island real.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty different, like nothing you ever saw.
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  Speaker 2: All surrounded by miss then I found myself listening sort
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  Speaker 2: of hit the time I knew I was listening to
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  Speaker 2: battle to team, know what I mean? Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: the corporal has topped too many islands. It seemed too
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  Speaker 2: much death, too many crack up. He was alf cracked
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  Speaker 2: and sprightly that himself was, so what could I do?
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  Speaker 2: Argue with it and pineapple and back to breathe with
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  Speaker 2: the people, and I'll find me a beautiful girl and
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  Speaker 2: we'll Gabory. Yeah, yeah, I'm listening. Look Gabory out there,
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  Speaker 2: come and taught us over there. A bunch of men
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  Speaker 2: on a bunch four three men and a woman say,
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  Speaker 2: heading right for it. Put on that rifle. Somebody can
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  Speaker 2: flip or something. Japs, a man are too big, and
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  Speaker 2: a woman she's beautiful, and the moonlight Chaps and Japs.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't taking no chance. Knock it off, you jerk,
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  Speaker 2: you hit the dame like here you call, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: tifty turk. Come on, I'll go. Let you know the
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  Speaker 2: chapter might be a worry about me. I go my
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  Speaker 2: arm too, not me to Bory. I'll lift a spin
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  Speaker 2: on your grave. Dollar Go okay, I hope you know
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing. Must be around here somewhere. Listen, came
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  Speaker 2: from over there. Come on, here's here. Do you go away?
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  Speaker 2: Break out your first aid kit to bory. Yes, lady,
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  Speaker 2: let me fix your arm. Right, so see bandages And
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  Speaker 2: he took taste and the feeling. You don't get what
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about. She gets the idea. Yeah that's right, lady.
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  Speaker 2: I just won't hurt a bit. Yeah, you just got
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  Speaker 2: nicked a little in the arm. It's just a place wound.
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  Speaker 2: She trusts you. Yeah, she taught me more. You do,
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  Speaker 2: didn't I said you? She was. You'll tell me a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things. How about the mention was with the
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  Speaker 2: big men they want to jet, not jets and the
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  Speaker 2: pig's eye they want to jet. Yeah, yeah, ye see.
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  Speaker 2: And what were they.
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  Speaker 3: My people?
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  Speaker 2: Why? What's your name? You mean I want to go.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go home, scram lose yourself. Oh no, you don't
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  Speaker 2: let her alone, like, hey, you keep out of this
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  Speaker 2: and let her go. I gotta go back to a right, patty,
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  Speaker 2: you still don't catch the body. She ain't from ok Nawa.
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  Speaker 2: He's from that island, an island I was telling me about.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you sma. See Sima means island. So what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing here?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, it's crazier than you are. Whoever? Kaki Chaki? Where
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  Speaker 2: is your island? Where is your gatchi shima in China?
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  Speaker 2: See have a day? What do you know about canoe? Canoe?
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  Speaker 2: What's it like? Taki? What's your island like? Have might
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  Speaker 2: the islands? Let's find a canoe. But to see, lady.
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  Speaker 2: With the canoe, we can get back to our lines
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  Speaker 2: by water.
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  Speaker 3: Tay, can you find a canoe? I think he can.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. She led us through the wood towards the beach.
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  Speaker 2: The moonlight had delicate face was like ancient ivory. Her
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  Speaker 2: hair was long and black and drawn tight over. Her
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  Speaker 2: head was straight with limbs. She walked with dignity. It
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  Speaker 2: was beautiful, beautiful dreams, lazy dreams. For a moment she
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  Speaker 2: had me dreaming too, but only for a moment. Then
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  Speaker 2: we were on the beach and there was a canoe
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  Speaker 2: and leaning against the trower jet's entry. You never know
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  Speaker 2: what hit him, prey up docking in the canoe put
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  Speaker 2: you off the bory? You take a bow? Where too?
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  Speaker 2: Straight out to sea? Do we you know what? I think?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna make it okay, sobory. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: take it easy now. I'm not taking it easy until
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  Speaker 2: we crossed up per How are you gonna tell it
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  Speaker 2: to night? How do you think they got neon signs?
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  Speaker 2: What are you gonna do that? We're gonna stand by
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  Speaker 2: the morning. I don't know. I think it'd be better
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  Speaker 2: to know. However, you think you're out voted, you're outvoted.
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  Speaker 2: Two streats or one pulling rank corporately not not go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: The ship has got one skipper and I met. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted the stuff out you. I'm knocking out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm warning you don't follow up the details. So what
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  Speaker 2: was I going to do? Argue with him? Start a
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: private firefight in the middle of the China Sea. I
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  Speaker 2: was getting a little combat weary myself lately. He was
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  Speaker 2: all charged up, as though as crazy dream has come true.
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  Speaker 2: Buying on the narrow deck of the canoe, I could
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  Speaker 2: hear them droning on about the island.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like other islands is attacking you again, true,
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  Speaker 3: we can't could kill you.
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  Speaker 2: How it's pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Huh the conve's a pretty good, oh, really good sing.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it would be like that. I knew it
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  Speaker 2: and that's the last thing I remember. I guess I
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  Speaker 2: fell asleep, and then Sunday was daylight and Timory look, Timory,
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  Speaker 2: huh what look over there? What do you see? Island?
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: Just an island? Not just an island, my island. How
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  Speaker 2: do you know? Look surrounded by myth. Just like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I tell it to the marine when we get back.
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  Speaker 2: Took an island. Stand by the rams of Borri. We
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  Speaker 2: ain't going back joking out. Now, wait a minute. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want no more trouble from you, and don't make
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  Speaker 2: any of us where you're looking for your rifle. Don't
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  Speaker 2: bother If I got it right here, I'll get your
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  Speaker 2: rum forward. Jeff Tray, move to Bori. You're flirting with
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  Speaker 2: a purple heart. I lean on that paddle. That's right,
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  Speaker 2: We're heading for you. Gotcha, I can straight the coral beaches.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta About four hours later, she was right. It
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  Speaker 2: was a lovely island. Hell here we are, see I
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  Speaker 2: believe in aunt. The boy's funny. So close Tocanao, and
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  Speaker 2: this place looks like I've never heard a shot fired
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  Speaker 2: an anger. Where are your people, Tuchy? I don't way
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  Speaker 2: over here. You m's not come you go back. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sticking around. How about you, Ja boy, I came
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  Speaker 2: this far. I'll sweat it out just for last. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna laugh out of the wrong side of your face.
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  Speaker 3: Not do that.
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  Speaker 2: I just to figure a speech taking. Let's go. The
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  Speaker 2: trails make up pine trees and Cattarina's rattled in the
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  Speaker 2: sweet strong winds from the China seas, and the fields
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  Speaker 2: were lass free bushes. There were lilies in the stat
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  Speaker 2: grass and scarlet flowers. When I was looking for people,
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  Speaker 2: the big men of Lacey's dreams, the girl's all as
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  Speaker 2: lovely as the girl walking beside it. I was tense
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  Speaker 2: with expectancy. He's spend in the trails, tenses and vanished,
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  Speaker 2: had lost them because they have found Taki. But no,
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  Speaker 2: no Taki. My name is Lacy. I'll try it again, Lacy,
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  Speaker 2: l I can well, this is a lily. You are
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  Speaker 2: a lady, and you're a local, so bory I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: call cocky you. You are right the first time. I
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  Speaker 2: so happy. Yeah, me too. I have been dreaming about
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  Speaker 2: you for for so long. I always knew i'd find you.
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  Speaker 3: I never forget what you see. I'll never let you
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  Speaker 3: forget oh la, oh Lacy Hockey, l.
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  Speaker 2: I can mout. They walked on together, the tall marine
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  Speaker 2: and the slim girl with the ivory skin now and
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  Speaker 2: then she look up at Lacy in attained expression cloud
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  Speaker 2: of her face because she were afraid to believe it right,
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  Speaker 2: the loneliness, the weariness of war. The refuge can gree
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  Speaker 2: very soon. Now that dream was burst like a bubble.
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  Speaker 2: To become reality, I had to find out. There was
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  Speaker 2: a tough heart climb, but finally were each the seven
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  Speaker 2: down below it in a little valley where the village
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  Speaker 2: of Taki's people floating up to us with a strange
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  Speaker 2: said hm, maybe maybe it's what you call a ceremony
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  Speaker 2: or something. Maybe it's for us. I bet they know
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  Speaker 2: we're coming. What it is, what happened is supposed the war,
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  Speaker 2: We're not. It's just might people die. Everybody's people die.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to happen sooner or later. Yeah, you know, lad,
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  Speaker 2: like I always say here today, drawing tomorrow. I never
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  Speaker 2: heard it so o foot the boy dropped dead, hat
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  Speaker 2: dry up, Let's go talking. As we went down the
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  Speaker 2: mountain side, the thing stopped. When we got to the village.
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  Speaker 2: It was deserted. You stopped to sick edge of the clearing.
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  Speaker 2: You want to do? I come back to you with father.
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  Speaker 2: You you good, You're gonna stay here on the island
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  Speaker 2: with me to Bori. Oh, I see. I just want
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  Speaker 2: one good look at your big men and beautiful women
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  Speaker 2: in the native habitat. Then I'm shoving off Okinawa. Little
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: skeptical huh Yeah, something's cooly about this place. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure what it is, but I got to find out
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  Speaker 2: or it will drive me crazy the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 2: You mean crazy like me. I didn't say that. Since
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: we left Okinawa, you've been giving me a bad time.
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  Speaker 2: It was mutual, and now you call me crazy. I
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: know what I said. I know what you think. I
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: know what you'll do. Once you get back to Okinawa.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: You'll tell the MPs I went over the hill. You'll
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: tell them where I am, and they'll come after me.
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  Speaker 2: You are crazy. I'm just crazy enough to make sure
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: that you keep your trap shut. Remember, Tobori, I said
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  Speaker 2: I'd be around to spit on your grave. Stop kidding
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: out with that, right, I ain't kidding. I'm gonna kid
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: you the boy, But first you're gonna see I was right.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I want to see the expression on that smart Alex
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  Speaker 2: face to yours when you admitted. And then I'm gonna
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: kid you, hen I come get out and thereby that
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  Speaker 2: three and keep your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 3: Your ship.
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  Speaker 2: You're the head man.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I suppose you could call me there.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Well you're not, you know I am.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Now I'll scream, But what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 2: I want to stay here with Tacky. I'm afraid you came.
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  Speaker 2: Oh work my ways. That's not the point. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want no argument.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot stay why not? He's a lepou, she's.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: She's so beautiful. I know, my son. But in three
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  Speaker 2: years and five years, oh takey Tacky. I tried to
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  Speaker 2: kill you as.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not to know how. And then I could not
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  Speaker 3: even if I wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to last another hour, another minute, goodbye to see.
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  Speaker 3: I never forget you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I won't forget you either. It was like a dream
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: come true for while it was good bye, Phydal.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: What you sat about, it's quite simple, horrible and simple.
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  Speaker 2: Two nights ago the Japanese came through the Leper colony.
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  Speaker 2: They took more than half my patients, took in Alba
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  Speaker 2: and headed them. Told the American line. Why to disrupt
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  Speaker 2: your advance there was no chance of contagion. But well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: my patients aren't all as beautiful as talking. I see
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  Speaker 2: shrectly say, exactly a weapon of terror. The boy, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess we better move out, really tell yeah, long
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  Speaker 2: road back to now? Yeah? For me, the road back
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: is longer than that such them.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: In which John Lundstard in William and Robson's production of
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  Speaker 1: the Islands by Millard Kaufman, in a moment the names
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  Speaker 1: of the night's supporting mister Lund in the Island Where
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  Speaker 1: Lilian by f Jodah Sanders and Hans Conried listened. Listen
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  Speaker 1: again next week when we returned with The Crowded Voice
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  Speaker 1: by Michael Foss, another tale well calculated to keep you
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  Speaker 1: in spense.
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