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At the Post [episode 107], Broadcast 8/15/1957 · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: M hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: Contdown for blast off x minus five four three two
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  Speaker 2: x minus one Fire from the far horizons of the
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  Speaker 2: Unknown comtaales of new dimensions in time and space. These
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  Speaker 2: are stories of the future adventures in which you'll live
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  Speaker 2: in a million, could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds.
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  Speaker 2: The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
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  Speaker 2: presents One Goodnight at the Post by H. L.
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  Speaker 1: Gold.
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  Speaker 3: When I comitted a blue ribbon on forty ninth Street
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  Speaker 3: west of Broadway, I could tell right away. Nobody told
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  Speaker 3: Doc Hawkins about my misfortune. Doc the point one really
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  Speaker 3: writes a daily medical column for the Racing Form and
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  Speaker 3: where celebraton is being sprung from the alcoholic war. He
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  Speaker 3: got one look at me and he choked on a
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  Speaker 3: piece of go filter fish.
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  Speaker 4: What happened? What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Look at that?
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  Speaker 4: Clocker's become a character.
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  Speaker 3: I'll lay you off, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Look at that a gray flannel suit, a black tie clocker.
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  Speaker 5: Where is your purple and green jacked sports jacket? Where
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  Speaker 5: you're two? Told sweet Shoes, why you've become a character?
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  Speaker 3: I was Zelda's I did. She wanted to make a
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  Speaker 3: gentleman on.
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  Speaker 4: Him, wanted too.
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  Speaker 5: Why you two kids got married just before they took
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  Speaker 5: my snakes away? Don't tell me you've a fit already.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know, doc, no, what happened. It was right
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  Speaker 3: after you try to take the warts off the fire
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  Speaker 3: hydrant that Zelda started hearing voices. It got real bad?
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  Speaker 4: How bad?
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  Speaker 5: But she's at Glendale Center up state. I just came
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  Speaker 5: back from visiting. What did the psychiatrist give you a diagnosis?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it memorized kaded tonia de menshia prika.
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  Speaker 5: Oh rough, very rough. The outlook is never good in
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  Speaker 5: such cases.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they can't help her, but I will now Claka.
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  Speaker 5: You're a race handa kappa. You run the best tip
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  Speaker 5: sheet on Broadway. But people are not horses. You've got
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  Speaker 5: to think of your public. For instance, what's good at Hyaliah?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: My bar bill is about to be foreclosed? And I
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  Speaker 5: can use a long shot.
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  Speaker 3: Those chartist don't know what's wrong with Zelda.
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  Speaker 4: I do you do well?
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  Speaker 3: Almost? I'm so close I can hear the finish line
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  Speaker 3: camera clicking.
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  Speaker 5: Now, that's very interesting, and perhaps we can collaborate on
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  Speaker 5: an article for the Psychiatric journal.
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  Speaker 3: All right, look look at these chots look here here,
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  Speaker 3: I use the same system I used to dope the races. Look,
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  Speaker 3: Zelda's got catatonia. She used to be a hoofer before
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  Speaker 3: we got married, and now she does time steps all day.
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  Speaker 5: Stereotype movements are typical of catatonia.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get it. She does time steps the first
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  Speaker 3: thing you learn, and hoofing over and over ten or
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  Speaker 3: fifteen hours a day, and she keeps talking like she's
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  Speaker 3: given lessons to some jerk kiddo. Can't get it straight.
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  Speaker 3: And I hear when these catatonics pull out, they don't
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  Speaker 3: remember much or maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing protective them.
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  Speaker 5: These yat they work harder and longer at what they're doing,
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  Speaker 5: and they ever did when they were regular citizens, and
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  Speaker 5: they don't get a red scent for it.
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  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 3: I said they were getting stiffed. Anybody who works that
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  Speaker 3: hard or to get paid.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand what you're getting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what are they knocking themselves out for? If it's
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  Speaker 3: for free? Doc, I tell you I missed that mouse.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta save her. She can't see her here is,
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  Speaker 3: but she can sure see her hear something, And I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna dope her locker.
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  Speaker 4: It's too much for you.
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  Speaker 3: Too much for me? High Who was It? Said Warlock
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  Speaker 3: had turned into a dog in his third year. Who
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  Speaker 3: was It? Had seven winners the opening day at Belmont.
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  Speaker 3: You take my word for a doc. I'll beat the
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  Speaker 3: schizophrenia handicap. I hadn't been paying much attention to my
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  Speaker 3: tip sheet while I was doping a cat of Tonia domes.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you I missed, Zelda. I missed the bobby
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  Speaker 3: pins on the floor, and the nylon stuck on a
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  Speaker 3: shower rack, the toothpaste tubes squeezed from the top. I
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  Speaker 3: had to get her back somehow. Next day, I took
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  Speaker 3: a cab, went out to that place. I sat in
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  Speaker 3: the room and watched her dance. Oh it was something,
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  Speaker 3: because Zelda was worth watching, even with her eyes blank
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  Speaker 3: and her feet shuffling through that simple time step.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Locke, visiting time is almost stopped?
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, Zelda? Listen, Zelda? How long can
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  Speaker 3: they take to learn a time step?
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  Speaker 4: She can't hear you.
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  Speaker 3: Look, kid, I don't know who these squares are that
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  Speaker 3: you're working for, but tell them if they take you,
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  Speaker 3: they got to take me too, you hear. I had
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  Speaker 3: an idea, Now, I had a dope that Zelder was
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  Speaker 3: showing them how to dance, whoever they are, And the
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  Speaker 3: only way I could springer was to find out who
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  Speaker 3: was controlling her and what they were after the first
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  Speaker 3: step was to get them interested in me and what
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  Speaker 3: I know about racing to open horses. So I stood
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  Speaker 3: there next to Zelder and I started to talk. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the first thing you gotta figure is bloodlines. You take
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  Speaker 3: a horse, you gotta know back maybe four or five
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  Speaker 3: generations on both sides. Then you got to know where
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  Speaker 3: the colt was fooled, what time of year, because all
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  Speaker 3: horses are one year old on the first of January,
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  Speaker 3: and there's confirmation train. You take a horse with good
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  Speaker 3: blood lines, break them in and a spring on a
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  Speaker 3: hot train and surface right. And the first thing you know,
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  Speaker 3: you got a horse with a shin splint. Oh they
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  Speaker 3: may cover it up, but if you know what's there.
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  Speaker 3: I once threw a horse ran and highal ear it
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  Speaker 3: was scared of flamingo, had a fine record at ghof
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  Speaker 3: stream and gooie. But when he got down a highalee
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  Speaker 3: and got one look at the flamingos, he wouldn't run
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  Speaker 3: for beans.
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  Speaker 4: Just the locker.
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  Speaker 3: You all right, shot up by him. Businock, you better
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  Speaker 3: on a horse that's scared of flamingos at highale, and
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna come in with your tail between your legs.
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  Speaker 3: I kept coming back every day. I just sit there
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  Speaker 3: next to Zelda while she did a timestep, and I
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  Speaker 3: talk about horses, over and over, and then finally, finally
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  Speaker 3: I started to hear voices.
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  Speaker 6: F locker, locker, this way, clocker, come this way, this way, clocker.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, now, come with me.
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  Speaker 3: Like it was a fog. I could see the attendant,
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  Speaker 3: his white coat, asking me questions, and I couldn't hear them.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I just kept on talking about the horses. And then
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  Speaker 3: suddenly I wasn't there. I was somewhere else. I was
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  Speaker 3: in a big square, and the buildings looked like the
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  Speaker 3: new Roosevelt Raceway, all modern, or maybe like the World's
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  Speaker 3: Fair with trees and statues, and there were hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: people standing around, and they all looked scared. There was
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  Speaker 3: a little man with bifocals and a vest with pins
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  Speaker 3: and needles, and it's standing next to me. He looks scared,
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  Speaker 3: but I knew it had worked. I was on my
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  Speaker 3: way to Zelde. How did I get here. Excuse me, mister,
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  Speaker 3: how did I get here? I don't know. I can't
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  Speaker 3: take time for pleasure troops.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a customer coming in tomorrow for fittings.
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  Speaker 3: You're positively murder me if her dress isn't ready, she
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  Speaker 3: can't murder you, not anymore. You mean we're dead, don't
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  Speaker 3: ask me. But I don't think you're dead that much.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you. Some of the people in the
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  Speaker 3: crowd that complaining they had families to take care, while
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  Speaker 3: others were worried about leaving their businesses.
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  Speaker 4: And they all grew.
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  Speaker 3: Quiet when a man climbed up on a big platform
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  Speaker 3: in front. He was a very tall and dignified guy,
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  Speaker 3: and he had formal clothes and a white bird, like
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  Speaker 3: the chief mourner at a politician's funeral.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, please feel at ease.
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  Speaker 1: You are not in any danger. No harm will come
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  Speaker 1: to you. If you will listening carefully to this orientation lecture,
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  Speaker 1: you will know where you are and why.
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  Speaker 5: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: It's a picture.
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  Speaker 1: Friends. I know you are puzzled at all this. Now
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  Speaker 1: let me explain. You've been chosen yes, carefully screened and
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  Speaker 1: selected to help us in what is undoubtedly the greatest
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  Speaker 1: cause of all history. You will learn more about it
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  Speaker 1: as we work together in this fast and noble experiment.
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  Speaker 4: What experiment? What is it?
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  Speaker 3: I got it picked? This is a picture. These guys
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  Speaker 3: are out for some smells like a can.
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  Speaker 1: Let me state this in its simplest terms. Now you
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  Speaker 1: know that there are billions of stars in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: and that the stars have planets. A good many of
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  Speaker 1: these planets are inhabited. In almost all instances, the dominant
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  Speaker 1: form of life is quite different from yours. I am
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  Speaker 1: not of your planet or a solar system. I am
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  Speaker 1: not formed as you see me. My true appearance would
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  Speaker 1: seem to be rather confusing to human eyes.
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  Speaker 3: N s get to the point.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is, we are not here, and neither are you.
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  Speaker 1: Here is a projection of thought, a hypothetical point in space,
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  Speaker 1: a place that exists only by mental force. Actually, our
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  Speaker 1: bodies are on our own respective planets.
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  Speaker 3: What's he's saying? What does he mean? Way? He'll give
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  Speaker 3: us the convincer after the build up.
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  Speaker 1: Our civilization is considerably older than yours. For many of
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  Speaker 1: your centuries, we've explored the universe, both physically and telepathically.
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  Speaker 1: And during this exploration we discovered your planet. We tried
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  Speaker 1: to establish communication, but there were grave difficulties, and it
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  Speaker 1: was the time of your dark ages. And I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: to report that those people we did make contact with
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  Speaker 1: who generally burned at the stake.
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  Speaker 3: Here it comes, he's getting ready to slip us the sting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you ought to say a thing like
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  Speaker 3: that about a fine, decent gentleman. He's obviously very sinsy.
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  Speaker 1: The problem we face is that the human race is doomed.
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  Speaker 1: The history of your race is a record of incessant wars,
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  Speaker 1: each more devastating than the last. And how finally man
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  Speaker 1: has chained the power of worldwide destruction. The next war,
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  Speaker 1: or the one after that, will unquestionably be the end
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  Speaker 1: not only of civilization, but of humanity, perhaps even of
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  Speaker 1: your entire planet. Then why have we brought you here?
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  Speaker 1: Because man, in spite of his suicidal blunders, is a
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  Speaker 1: magnificent race. He must not vanish without leaving a complete
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  Speaker 1: recent of his achievements. This is the task we must
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  Speaker 1: work together on. Each of you has a skill, a talent,
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  Speaker 1: a special knowledge we need for the immense record we're compiling.
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  Speaker 1: Every area of human society must be covered, and so
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  Speaker 1: we need you urgently. Your data will become part of
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  Speaker 1: an imperishable social document that shall exist untold eons after
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  Speaker 1: mankind has vanished.
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  Speaker 3: He had a slick time. He had that crowd in
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  Speaker 3: upon his hand, like a small time drift of sell
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  Speaker 3: on pearl necklace on six to even. They all cheer.
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  Speaker 3: They were all flattered to think that they were joining
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  Speaker 3: in this fast project to make a record of the
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  Speaker 3: human race. After a while they broke us up in
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  Speaker 3: the divisions, and I got hurted into a building marked
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  Speaker 3: sports and rackets. They took my name and my occupation
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  Speaker 3: like I was applying for unemployment insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's our problem, mister Locke. We're making two kinds
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  Speaker 1: of perpetual records. One is written more precisely microscribed. The
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  Speaker 1: other is a wonderfully exact duplicate of your cerebral pattern
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  Speaker 1: in more durable material than brain matter. Of course, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the substance we use in place of brain cells absorbs
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  Speaker 1: memory quite slowly, but you'll be happy to know that
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  Speaker 1: the impression, once made can never be lost or erased.
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  Speaker 3: The lighted tickled the pieces I.
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  Speaker 7: Knew you would be.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's proceed, shall we first a basic description of
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  Speaker 1: horse racing.
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  Speaker 3: I started telling them about horse racing, but they held
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  Speaker 3: me down to one sense. They said I had to
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  Speaker 3: repeat it over and over so that that recording thing
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  Speaker 3: could get it. They had a picture of my body
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  Speaker 3: back on Earth, lying and a bed in a hospital,
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  Speaker 3: just saying that one sentence over and over again.
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  Speaker 7: Well that's enough for the day, isn't it amazing?
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  Speaker 1: We have a more detailed record of human society than
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  Speaker 1: man himself ever had.
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  Speaker 7: Your life, my life, the life.
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  Speaker 1: Of this zelder whom you came here to rescue, all
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  Speaker 1: are trivial for we must all die eventually, but the project,
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  Speaker 1: the project will last eternally.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling me you know what I'm here for.
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  Speaker 1: To secure the return of your wife. I would naturally
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  Speaker 1: be aware that you'd submitted yourself to our control voluntarily.
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  Speaker 7: It was in your file that was sent to me
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  Speaker 7: by Admissions.
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  Speaker 3: And why did you let me in?
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  Speaker 7: Because, my dear friend, we all sick.
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  Speaker 3: Leave out the front pitch. I'm here on business.
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  Speaker 7: As you wish.
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  Speaker 1: We let you in as you express it, because you
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  Speaker 1: have knowledge that we should include.
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  Speaker 7: In our archives.
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  Speaker 1: We hoped you'd recognize the merit and scope of our undertaking.
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  Speaker 7: Most people do once they're told.
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  Speaker 3: Zelda too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, Zelda is extremely cooperative, quite convinced.
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  Speaker 7: Would you like to see her?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Sure I would pore.
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  Speaker 7: That can be arranged.
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  Speaker 1: I'll call the arts in an entertainment section and arrange
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  Speaker 1: a meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Selter Sell the baby Clocker get here. Oh, hello, Clocker,
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  Speaker 3: you're glad to see me. I spent months and shot
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  Speaker 3: every time i've got just to find you.
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  Speaker 8: For sure, I'm glad to see you, hunt, but I
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  Speaker 8: can't waste any time. This work is so important.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you. That carn artist with
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  Speaker 3: a white beard.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't he wonderful?
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  Speaker 4: Clocker?
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  Speaker 8: Aren't they all wonderful regular scientists devoting their whole lives
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  Speaker 8: to this terrific cause?
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  Speaker 3: What's so wonderful about that? They could let the earth
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  Speaker 3: go boom?
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  Speaker 8: It wouldn't mean a thing to them. Everybody wiped out,
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  Speaker 8: just like they never were any people, not even as
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  Speaker 8: much wicked of us as the dinosaurs? Gee, wouldn't that
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  Speaker 8: make you feel simply awful?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't feel a thing. Well, I'm worried about is us, baby,
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  Speaker 3: who cares about the rest of the world doing a
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  Speaker 3: disappearing act.
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  Speaker 8: I do, and so do they. They aren't selfish like
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  Speaker 8: some people I could mention selfish.
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  Speaker 3: You're done right, I am Zelda. Listen. I am selfish
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  Speaker 3: because I got a wife and I'm not so botter
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  Speaker 3: and I want to back.
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  Speaker 8: I have to help out on this project. It's the
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  Speaker 8: least I can do for.
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  Speaker 3: History, his three wted history of it. Though for us,
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  Speaker 3: go turn in your time God Baby, tell them you
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  Speaker 3: got a date with me back on Earth.
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  Speaker 8: No, this is my job as much as there is more.
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  Speaker 8: Even they don't keep anybody here against their will. I'm
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  Speaker 8: staying because I want to clocker, excuse me. I've got
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  Speaker 8: to get back. I'm teaching them the soft shoe.
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  Speaker 1: Now, are you satisfied?
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  Speaker 7: Nominister?
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  Speaker 3: Look, listen, take away the doom. Pushing a racket falls. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose you're all square, Suppose you're leveling. You're knocking yourself
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  Speaker 3: out because your guess is we're going to commit suicide.
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  Speaker 7: Is there any doubt of it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you honestly believe the Holocaust can be averted?
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  Speaker 3: I think it can be stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Yeh.
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  Speaker 3: Listen between these catatonics and me. We could tell them
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  Speaker 3: what it's all about. I notice you got people from
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  Speaker 3: all over the world here to get along fine, because
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  Speaker 3: they have a job to do and don't have time
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  Speaker 3: to hate each other. Well, it could be like that
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  Speaker 3: back on earth.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Locke.
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  Speaker 1: We have experimented in the manner you suggest, but a
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  Speaker 1: human psychological mechanism defeated us. Yeah, what was that protective amnesia?
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  Speaker 1: They completely and absolutely forgot everything they'd learned here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what are the odds on me remembering?
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  Speaker 7: Well, you are our first volunteer.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I'll give you a deal. You let me out,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe I'll be the first case that didn't get
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  Speaker 3: amnesia and I can tell a world all about this.
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  Speaker 3: I'll come back. If I layim out, you can pick
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  Speaker 3: me up any time you want. But if I make headway,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta let Zelda go to It's.
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  Speaker 7: A very reasonable proposition.
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  Speaker 1: We'll lift our control, mister Locke for a suitable time.
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  Speaker 1: If you can arouse a measurable opposition to racial suicide
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  Speaker 1: measurable mind you, then we agree to release your wife
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  Speaker 1: and revise our policy completely.
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  Speaker 3: I came to it, Glendale. It took me about two
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  Speaker 3: weeks to convince him that I was all right again.
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  Speaker 3: But I had to convince the world that they were
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: throwing a racin, that they needed a salivi attest. So
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  Speaker 3: I started to write it all out in my tip sheet,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: in and around the horses. Around that time, I ran
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  Speaker 3: in the dock.
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  Speaker 5: Flucker, my boy, you no idea how anxious we were
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  Speaker 5: about you. But Juelo king fit, I'm glad to say thanks,
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  Speaker 5: which I could say the same about you and the
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: rest of the world.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to worry about us.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: We will muddle along somehow, you think so, huh. I'm
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: glad to see you got your tip sheet going again.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: As long as the bobtails run, who cares what happens
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: to anything else?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Curse. Nobody listened to me. I had posters printed telling everybody.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I hired sandwichmen to walk through the city. I made
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: speeches in Columbus Circle. I told everybody doomsday was near.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I sent letters to Congress, to the un editors and newspapers.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Nobody paid any attention. I sneaked into the balcony of
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the General Assembly and tried to shout a speech, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: he threw me out, very polite. I wrote the whole
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: thing up for a magazine, and they printed it and
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: sent me a check and told me if I had
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: any more fiction, I'd be glad to run it. They
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: kept trying to tell everybody the truth about the Catatonics.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: We ought to go to the hospitals and get ourselves
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: let in and have the aliens take over and show
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: us where we're going. Nobody would listen. And then finally
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I went back out to Glendale.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, mister Locke, we were wondering when you come visit
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: your wife and been away.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I want my own room back, but you are perfectly normal.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Give me a half hour alone and you'll be glad
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: to give me my room. Well here I am back again.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Oh misster Locke.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give you all arrested a dope on raising.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: You won't have any trouble with me.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Then you're convinced you failed.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I'm not dummy. I know when I'm licked.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: So do we miss the Locke?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Naturally, you have no way of detecting the effect you've had.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: We do. The result is.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: That, because of your experiment, we're gladly revising our policy.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Eh is this a rib? Nobody listened to me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Oh, but they did.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Visits to catatonics have increased considerably.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: When the visitors are alone with our human.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Associates, they tentatively followed the directions you gave them in
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: your article. Not all do, to be sure, only those
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: who feel as strongly about being within loved ones as
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you do about your wife. We've accepted four voluntary applicants.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: You mean, I made it right?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: How long we shall have to increase our staff as
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the numbers of voluntary applicants increases geometrically, and then we'll
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: be able to release the first group to go back
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and carry the message whenever you care to. Mister Locke,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you and your wife are free to leave.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but I'll tell you what I owe you plenty.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I'll help make that record before I go, I'll teach
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: you how to dope the horses. Is that what you want?
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: All right? Then let's go. The quicker we get started,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the quicker we can get back.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine,
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: which this month features a Touch of e Flat by
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: Joe Gibson, a story with warning never let anyone point
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: any weapon at you, even something as harmless looking as
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: a water pistol. It may be a cooling gun. Galaxy
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: magazine on your new stand today Tonight X minus one
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: has brought You at the Post, a story from the
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: pages of Galaxy, written by H. L. Gold and adapted
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: for radio by Ernest Connoy. Featured in our cast were
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: Frank Maxwell as the Clocker and Thomas as his time
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: step and wife Zelda Arnold Moss as the otherworldly One,
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: John Griggs as the doc who wasn't won really, and
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: Sam Raskin as the confused little tailor with his mouthful
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: of pins. You're announcer Fred Collins. X minus one was
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: directed by Kenneth MacGregor and as an NBC Radio Network production,
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: Oh