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  Speaker 1: On November seventh, nineteen fifty six, NBC presented episode seventy
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  Speaker 1: four of X minus one. Appointment in Tomorrow is Ernest
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  Speaker 1: Canoy's radio adaptation of a Fritz liber story. Set in
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  Speaker 1: an America approaching the end of the twentieth century, still
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  Speaker 1: marked by World War III. The influential thinkers shape public
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  Speaker 1: life through Mazie, a vast computer brain said to provide
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  Speaker 1: answers to society's biggest questions. The original story appeared in
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  Speaker 1: Galaxy Science Fiction in July nineteen fifty one. Charles Penman,
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  Speaker 1: Dean Olmquist, Arthur Hughes, Bob Hastings, Pat Hassley, Ted Osborne,
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  Speaker 1: and Floyd mack Head. The cast, with Daniel Sutter directing.
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  Speaker 1: Scientific authority, political power, and public belief meet around Mazee.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Com Down for blast off X minus five four three
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  Speaker 2: two X minus one. Fire from the far horizons of
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  Speaker 2: the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time
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  Speaker 2: and space. These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 3: Adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
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  Speaker 3: on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in
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  Speaker 3: cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine presents.
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  Speaker 4: He minus minus minus.
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  Speaker 5: One one one.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight Appointment in Tomorrow by Fritz liber.
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  Speaker 6: The first angry rays of the sun, which surprisingly enough
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  Speaker 6: still rose in the east at twenty four hour intervals,
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  Speaker 6: pierced the lacy tops of Atlantic combers and touched thousands
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  Speaker 6: of sleeping Americans with unconscious fear because of the unpleasant
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  Speaker 6: similarity to the ray from World War three's thermonucular weapons.
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  Speaker 6: This was America approaching the end of the twentieth century,
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  Speaker 6: America of the mask fad for women and the neocretan
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  Speaker 6: dress styles, America of your local radiation hospital, of the
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  Speaker 6: endless War, and the loyalty detector in his bedroom in
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  Speaker 6: the Thinkers Foundation, George Helmut.
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  Speaker 7: Sleptus adding a quantum equal to the resultant of Gess.
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  Speaker 6: Repeating his educational Sandman Curd learnedly in his ear, droning
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  Speaker 6: Tenser calculus through the night, filling the hours that used
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  Speaker 6: to hold Man's formless fears and floating anxieties with the
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  Speaker 6: rigid form and anchored shapes of mathematics. Precisely, at eight,
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  Speaker 6: the siderial alarm went off.
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  Speaker 3: Sway ready shower ninety six point eight commands.
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  Speaker 6: Under the soothing spray of the body temperature roboshower. Helmut
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  Speaker 6: took a deep breath and cast his mind to the
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  Speaker 6: limits of the world and his knowledge. It was a
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  Speaker 6: somewhat shadowy vision, but he noted with the impartial approval,
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  Speaker 6: definitely less shadowy than yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Up dry blast comments.
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  Speaker 6: Employing a rapid metal scanning technique, he cleared his memory
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  Speaker 6: chains of false associations, including those.
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  Speaker 3: Acquired while asleep.
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  Speaker 6: He felt the snap of clearing non thalomic reasoning returning
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  Speaker 6: as the brain surged into clear, sharp control.
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  Speaker 3: Op clothing color key seven oh five.
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  Speaker 6: He stepped into his clothing, the severe tunic tights and
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  Speaker 6: soccasins of the modern businessman.
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  Speaker 8: He smiled.
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  Speaker 6: The next big move had come to him in his sleep,
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  Speaker 6: as many of his best decisions did, because he utilized
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  Speaker 6: the time saving technique of somno thought, which could function
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  Speaker 6: at the same time as somno learning.
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  Speaker 9: Attention robo locator category rocket physicist classification.
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  Speaker 3: Genius level.
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  Speaker 9: Time limit for search twenty minutes, commence take dictation, Dear
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  Speaker 9: fellow scientist, project is contemplated that we'll have a crucial
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  Speaker 9: bearing on man's future in deep space. Ample non military
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  Speaker 9: government funds are available. There was a time when professional
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  Speaker 9: men scoffed at the thinker's foundation. Then there was a
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  Speaker 9: time when the thinkers perforce neglected the professional men. Now
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  Speaker 9: both times are past. I would like to consultrate this
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  Speaker 9: afternoon three o'clock shop Thinkers Foundation, Signed George Helmut, end
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  Speaker 9: of dictation.
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  Speaker 10: The President is waiting to see Maizie, Sir. He has
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  Speaker 10: the general staff with him.
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  Speaker 3: Martian piece to him. Tell him I'll be down in
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  Speaker 3: a few minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Huge as a primitive nuclear reactor, Mazie, the great electronic brain,
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  Speaker 6: loomed over the knot of hushed, voiced men. Its front
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  Speaker 6: was an orderly expanse of controls, indicators, tell tales, and terminals,
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  Speaker 6: the upper ones reached by a chair on a boom.
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  Speaker 3: This was the machine with a.
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  Speaker 6: Million times as many synapses as the human brain, The
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  Speaker 6: machine that remembered by cutting delicate little notches on the
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  Speaker 6: rims of molecules. This was the machine that timid cyberneticists
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  Speaker 6: and stuffy professional scientists had said could not be built. Yet,
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  Speaker 6: this was the machine that the thinkers, with characteristic Yankee
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  Speaker 6: push had built and named with characteristic irreverence.
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  Speaker 3: Maizie have you.
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  Speaker 11: The question for the Damish president here, mister Helmut, I
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  Speaker 11: see the question on the Pakistan crisis is a little touchy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if there is enough data to answer it.
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  Speaker 3: Maizie will do so well.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, I didn't mean to live.
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  Speaker 9: If you will excuse me, gentlemen, I will code the
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  Speaker 9: questions from Asia OH section five question four whom would
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  Speaker 9: that come from?
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  Speaker 11: A number four physics upperly in his research team. I see,
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  Speaker 11: thank you, mister President.
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  Speaker 3: While I'm coding the tape, there will be time to
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  Speaker 3: watch the takeoff of the Mars rocket.
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  Speaker 8: Beautiful, beautiful.
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  Speaker 11: I've often wanted to go to New Mexico. As a
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  Speaker 11: matter of fact, I've always wanted to go right through
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  Speaker 11: to Mars, mister President. My chief of staff thinks the
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  Speaker 11: project should be under the army instead of the thinkers found.
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  Speaker 3: Mister President, this is the way Maisie designed the project.
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  Speaker 8: I know, I know that's what I told him.
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  Speaker 11: Still, I wish you people could bring back a few
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  Speaker 11: of those wise little devils from Mars.
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  Speaker 8: It would be a good thing for the party, the country.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite unthinkable. The telepathic abilities and the Martians make
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  Speaker 3: them extremely sensitive the conflicts of ordinary Earth minds would
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  Speaker 3: impinge on them psychotically. Only the thinkers can contact them
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  Speaker 3: because of the clear training and errorless memory chains.
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  Speaker 12: Perhaps someday in the future, Ah Bear goes the rocket.
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  Speaker 9: Beautiful, Beautiful, I am ready to submit the question tapes
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  Speaker 9: to Mazie.
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  Speaker 3: Standback, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 8: Well sorry, sorry, and now.
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  Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, Mazie.
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  Speaker 6: Is thinking the question tape like a New Year's streamer,
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  Speaker 6: tossed out of a high window into the night, sped
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  Speaker 6: on its dark way along spinning rollers, Curling with an
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  Speaker 6: intricate aimlessness, It tantalized the silver fingers of a thousand relays,
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  Speaker 6: saucily evaded the glances of ten thousand electric eyes, infitially,
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  Speaker 6: darted down a narrow, black alleyway of memory banks, and,
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  Speaker 6: reaching the center of the cube, suddenly emerged into a
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  Speaker 6: small room where a sweating fat man in shorts sat
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  Speaker 6: drinking beer.
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  Speaker 4: Here comes, Get off my lap, honey, I've got work
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 5: Get it wait, I said, get Oh, you didn't have
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  Speaker 5: to do that. When Mazie thinks, she thinks, open up
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  Speaker 5: another beer.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I'm not a robot.
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  Speaker 4: Barney, Honey, do what you're told, or I'll ship you out,
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  Speaker 4: or they'll work some of the upholstery off that frame,
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  Speaker 4: slopping radioactive mud.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to get nasty. Y. Here's your beer.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, that's better.
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  Speaker 5: It makes you fat.
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  Speaker 4: I like to be fat. It makes our relationship more poignant.
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  Speaker 4: Pass me the questions and get over to your keyboard.
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  Speaker 5: You're a greasy pig, but.
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  Speaker 4: Such an attractive pig. Start taping. H why is that dirty?
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  Speaker 4: One of the questions. Does mazie stand for males L?
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  Speaker 4: For what males L? Does it look? You just keep
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  Speaker 4: sitting on your brains and let me to the thinking tape.
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  Speaker 4: Mazie does not stand for male cell. Mazie stands for
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  Speaker 4: amazing humorously given the form of a girl's name.
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  Speaker 5: Who is mailzell Edgar Allan Poe?
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: It's a story male Cell's Chess Player, about an automaton
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  Speaker 4: that was supposed to play chess.
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  Speaker 5: Pope proved it had a man inside it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and they want to know if Mazie They're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Mazie doesn't have a man inside it.
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  Speaker 3: Just a love of conceited large.
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  Speaker 5: You could hit me with that.
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  Speaker 4: Look at my drere hit me another glass of beer.
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  Speaker 4: I must have come from the physics section the Research
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  Speaker 4: Institute oppuy in that EIGHTE Farquhar, and we'll look into that,
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  Speaker 4: all right, start taping question one. The Midterm Action vitacast
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  Speaker 4: should be spaced as follows.
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  Speaker 6: Morton Opperly's living room was quite behind the times. Instead
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  Speaker 6: of reading tapes, there were books, and instead of a
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  Speaker 6: four x six TV screen there was a Picasso, still
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  Speaker 6: faintly radioactive from being smuggled out of the Manhattan Crater.
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  Speaker 6: Two physicists faced each other across the table, old mister
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  Speaker 6: Opperly and young mister Farquhar.
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  Speaker 13: About that male zel question, Willie, why do you keep
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  Speaker 13: teasing the zoo animals?
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  Speaker 7: Because the thinkers are Charlatans who must be exposed. We
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  Speaker 7: know they're Mazie is no more than a tea.
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  Speaker 5: Leaf reading fake.
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  Speaker 7: We've praced their Mars rockets, and we know they go
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  Speaker 7: into orbit five hundred miles above earth and stay there
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  Speaker 7: until it's time to come down with the latest miraculous Martian.
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  Speaker 13: Mental science already exposed the thinkers very thoroughly. You know
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  Speaker 13: the good it did, Ah Willard. The age we live
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  Speaker 13: in wants magicians. A scientist tells people the truth when
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  Speaker 13: times are good. When the truth offers no threat, people
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  Speaker 13: don't mind. But when times are very, very bad, well,
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  Speaker 13: a magician tells people what they wish were true, that
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  Speaker 13: perpetual motion works, that colored lights can cure cancer, that
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  Speaker 13: a psychosis is no worse than a bad cold, than
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  Speaker 13: that they live forever. In good times, magicians are laughed at.
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  Speaker 13: They're the luxury of a spoiled, wealthy few. But in
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  Speaker 13: bad times people sell their souls for magic cures and
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  Speaker 13: buy perpetual motion machines to power their war rockets.
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  Speaker 7: Are we supposed to beg off from a job because
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  Speaker 7: it's difficult and dangerous?
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  Speaker 13: In my day, Willard, I was one of the frightened men.
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  Speaker 13: Later I was one of the angry men, and then
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  Speaker 13: one of the minds of despair. And now I'm convinced
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  Speaker 13: that all of my reactions were futile.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly you reacted, You didn't act if you men who
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  Speaker 7: discovered atomic energy had only formed a secret league, if
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  Speaker 7: you'd only had the guts and foresight to use your
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  Speaker 7: tremendous bargaining power.
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  Speaker 13: To Dillard, we scientists weren't the stuff of which cloak
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  Speaker 13: and dagger men are made. Can you imagine Oppenheimer wearing
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  Speaker 13: a mask, go old Einstein sneaking into the White House
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  Speaker 13: with a bomb in his briefcase. That's not the way
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  Speaker 13: power sees. New ideas aren't useful to men bargaining for power,
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  Speaker 13: only established facts or lies.
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  Speaker 7: On what do you want to do? Surrender the world
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  Speaker 7: to Charlatans without a struggle. The thinkers are vulnerable. Their
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  Speaker 7: power is based on a series of lies.
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  Speaker 13: All power is the greater the lie, the greater the power.
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  Speaker 7: What's it based on a few lucky guesses, some faith, healing,
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  Speaker 7: some science.
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  Speaker 5: Focus on the power.
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  Speaker 13: Of the thinkers isn't based on what they've got, but
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  Speaker 13: on what the world hasn't got. Peace, honor, a good conscience.
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  Speaker 13: They've sent for me ooh, Jan Treggeran no, George Helmut.
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  Speaker 13: I got the radiogram an hour ago.
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  Speaker 7: They know they'll have to produce a real nuclear rocket
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  Speaker 7: pretty soon, and they'll need our help.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 7: Will you think it might be a trap? After the
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  Speaker 7: malz l question, you think they might want to shut
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  Speaker 7: me up.
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  Speaker 13: I'm not afraid for your life. I'm worried about other
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  Speaker 13: things they might do to you.
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  Speaker 7: They'd better be worried about the things I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: do to them.
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  Speaker 11: Marching peace to you. Willard Baquah, you have entered the
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  Speaker 11: Thinkers Foundation. Please remain on the slideway.
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  Speaker 5: I want to see George Helmut.
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  Speaker 11: May we take your hat and coat? What the do
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  Speaker 11: not be alarmed in visible radiations. That's flaughtering all all
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  Speaker 11: the germs in your body, while more delicate emanations are
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  Speaker 11: producing a benign rearrangement of your emotion.
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  Speaker 5: Clap trap.
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  Speaker 7: I can recognize a fourteen cycle sonic note when I
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  Speaker 7: hear one, Where's Helmut?
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  Speaker 10: This way?
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  Speaker 7: Please Helmut, cut out all this swami stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Where are you? I am afraid mister Hamlt won't be
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  Speaker 5: able to meet you. Mister park Water, I am a
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  Speaker 5: young tregeron. Perhaps you can have your conversation with me.
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  Speaker 6: George Helmut waited in a conference room with two dozen
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  Speaker 6: empty chairs. He had prepared by a two hours rest
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  Speaker 6: with the SOMNO teacher on four volume for this conference.
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  Speaker 6: Having strengthened his mind by hard years of SOMNO learning,
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  Speaker 6: memory straightening, and sensory training, he had assured himself of
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  Speaker 6: the executive power to control the technicians and direct their
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  Speaker 6: specialized abilities. Together, they would have built the true Mars rocket,
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  Speaker 6: But unfortunately no one came.
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  Speaker 3: Where are they report?
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  Speaker 10: No word from the door master.
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  Speaker 3: They can't all be late.
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  Speaker 10: Did you check the calls have been put through?
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  Speaker 3: What response?
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  Speaker 11: Doctor Burnside reports he received the second message just in time?
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  Speaker 3: What second message?
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  Speaker 10: The message calling off the meeting?
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  Speaker 3: Did he read the text of the second message back?
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  Speaker 10: Shall I play it back?
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  Speaker 3: Never mind? How was it signed? The signature?
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  Speaker 10: Signature mister Jan Tregeron?
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  Speaker 6: George Helmut dejectedly examined his organizational charts and then, tapping
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  Speaker 6: his stylo on the pad, he extended his mental aura,
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  Speaker 6: cleared his memory chains of error, accelerated his cerebral processes
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  Speaker 6: by the harbor Gerson process he had practiced for so
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  Speaker 6: many years. Slowly he could feel the tight bart squeezing.
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  Speaker 6: Disappointment ed he was in control again, treggerun he was
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  Speaker 6: the one to bland Tregeran, who was so used to
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  Speaker 6: working by deception that he must be shown the light.
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  Speaker 13: Well, Willard, how was your adventure among the magicians?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they didn't hurt me, you're sure?
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  Speaker 13: And are you as determined as ever to smash and
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  Speaker 13: expose the thinkers?
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  Speaker 7: Of course, only from now on I won't embarrass you
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  Speaker 7: by asking any male Zell questions.
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  Speaker 5: After this, I shall bore from within.
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  Speaker 13: Now where have I heard that phrase before? Do I
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  Speaker 13: understand that you were becoming a thinker?
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  Speaker 3: Willard?
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, that's the only way to smash them.
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  Speaker 7: I'll trick all their triggeries, organize a fifth column, then strike.
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  Speaker 13: The end, justifying the means. Of course, of course, I
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  Speaker 13: wonder if becoming a thinker doesn't simply mean that you've
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  Speaker 13: decided to use lies and tricks as your chief method.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're working with Helmuth, not Helmut trigger.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid that Helmut's career as a thinker is going
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  Speaker 7: to have quite a setback.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, goodbye.
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  Speaker 8: When I.
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  Speaker 9: Troun I want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 4: No, please stay, ye, stay, you are enjoyed this. George
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  Speaker 4: has that errorless memory channel teg around.
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  Speaker 3: You know why I'm here?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I've been sadly remissing my pre cognition and clairvoyant's exercise.
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  Speaker 4: I've been too busy with other things, other people, other exercises.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't need measure to get You just.
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  Speaker 12: Run ahead and canceled the conference without consulting me.
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  Speaker 5: You called it without consulting me. Shouldn't do that sort
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  Speaker 5: of a thing, George.
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  Speaker 12: I was absolutely sure of my ground, perfectly prepared. I
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  Speaker 12: visualized it, the rocket boosting up on chemical power, then
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  Speaker 12: setting sail sale.
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  Speaker 4: Sale, a nuclear reactor rockets, Georgia, fabulous.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, sail, the streams of nuclear reflecting material and the
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  Speaker 12: rocket feeding maison streams behind it. I can see it
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  Speaker 12: all complete, except for technical details.
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  Speaker 5: George, you are a thinker, our real finger I know.
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  Speaker 4: Now look here, George, every man should stick to his trade.
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  Speaker 4: Technology isn't ours.
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  Speaker 12: You know as well as I do that we're going
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  Speaker 12: to have a nuclear spaceship and actually go to Mars someday,
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  Speaker 12: are we? Yes, just as we're going to have to
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  Speaker 12: build an actual Mazie. I helped you work the thinkers.
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  Speaker 12: At least I was your first partner. Our basic idea
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  Speaker 12: was that the time had come to apply science to
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  Speaker 12: the life.
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  Speaker 3: Of man on a large scale.
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  Speaker 12: The only thing holding the world back from this was
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  Speaker 12: the ignorance and superstition of the average man, and the
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  Speaker 12: stubbiness and lack of enterprise of the academic scientists. Their
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  Speaker 12: worship of facts, even when the facts were clearly dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: Splendid spreaded Caddy get me another beer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm filing my nails.
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  Speaker 5: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 12: Everybody wanted the new world, the trips to Mars, the
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  Speaker 12: knowledge of the human brain. All they lacked was the
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  Speaker 12: nerve to take the first big step, and that was
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  Speaker 12: what we.
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  Speaker 3: Supplied ysure beer.
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  Speaker 9: There was no time for slow and careful body. We
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  Speaker 9: couldn't afford to check a double check.
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  Speaker 12: We couldn't wait for the grudging approval of the professionals.
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  Speaker 12: We had to use fake, stunts, tricks, anything to get
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  Speaker 12: over the big point. Once that was done, mankind was
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  Speaker 12: headed down the new road. It was easy to just
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  Speaker 12: heal the breach with the professionals, to make good in
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  Speaker 12: actuality what had been made good in pretense.
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  Speaker 5: Very good.
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  Speaker 12: The beer we build Masie, we built the Mars rocket.
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  Speaker 12: We discovered the wisdom of the Martians. We sold the
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  Speaker 12: people and the science. The professionals had been too high
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  Speaker 12: toned to advertise or bring into the marketplace.
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  Speaker 3: But now that we'd succeeded, it's.
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  Speaker 12: Time to let accomplishment catch up with imagination, to implement
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  Speaker 12: fantasy with fact. You suppose I would have gone in
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  Speaker 12: with you if I hadn't known that someday we'd actually
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  Speaker 12: make what we claimed we had already made.
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  Speaker 8: Oh oh was that it?
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  Speaker 3: John? The days come and I'm the man I prepared myself.
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  Speaker 5: Caddie, clear the decks, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I know you just want room to point that fat finger.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: I wanted to stay, all right, George.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Look, every revolutionary wants to see the big change tape
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: place in his lifetime. But time for the second stand, George.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: The average man's exactly where he was ten years ago
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  Speaker 4: when we took over, except he's got.
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  Speaker 5: A new god. More than ever.
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  Speaker 4: He thinks of Mars as a Hollywood paradise with wise
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: men and yummy princesses.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Are like, Caddy, here, do you think I'm yummy? Really?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Shut up, Mazie? Is is Mama magnified a million times.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: The professional scientists, they're more jealous of Stuffer than ever.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: All they like to do is turn the clock back
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  Speaker 4: to a genteel dream world of square caps and quadrangle.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I said, shut up, George.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe in ten thousand years will be ready for the
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: second big step. Meanwhile, the clever will rule the stupid,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: The realists will rule the dreamers. George, did you actually
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: think you could have bossed those professionals? Nuclear scientists, rocket physicists.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Oh nowls than me. Boy, they'd have torn you to
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: pieces in twenty minutes, and glad of the chance, Georgia
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: baffled me. You know that Mazie in the Mars, All
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: that are fakes. Yet you believe in your somno learning
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and consciousness, expansion and optimism pumping like a corn fat Yoko.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: There is a place for the man who has the courage.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: To dream, sure in a straight jacket, or George, you
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: remind me of those men who used to put out
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: those lower little magazines with Caddy's grandmother on the cover
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: in outer space and in a stripped down baiting suit.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: My grandmother never, I said, shut up. That's what it is,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: frustrated little men playing science God, the generations of Pimpley
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: high school chemistry students and gas station attendants, conning them
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: into thinking they're in the know, sprinkling a few formulas
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: to the garbage and playing Adam Smasher, and then being
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: very solemn about the role of imagination in science. George,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: the trouble with you is they forgot to take your
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: zap gun and space cadepty coder pin away from you
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: when you turn thirteen.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: That's your honest opinion.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: It's more than.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: That, George, get a hold of yourself and quit taking
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: fantasy in the veins.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: That's an order.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Jan. The strange part of it is that I know
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: as well as you do that Mazy and the Mars
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  Speaker 3: trips are fakes. But some things aren't.
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: The human mind, Jan is a tool that hasn't been
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: perfected yet. There are more things in heaven than Earth
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: that are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Who's ratio? I said, shut up?
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: This is the last full cackle shory you've been fooling
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: around with. Esp.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Huh, telepathy, maybe a little hypnotism maybe.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: All right, guess what I've got in my drawer.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Extend your consciousness telepath it, visualize it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Never mind, I'll slave you in the metal effort. It's
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: a pistol. See.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Now, let me tell you something. I've got a couple
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: of boys waiting outside. They'll take you by jet to
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: New Mexico. George, congratulations, you're leaving for Mars tomorrow.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Mars.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, I've decided Mars to be the best place for you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: We'll arrange it so that your trip is say two
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: years long. Perhaps in that time orbiting up there, you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Will learn a little Martian wisdom.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: For example, the big liar must never fall for his
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: own lie. Meanwhile, I got a replacement for you. His
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: name is Willard Faquah, but I sent for him. Yes,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: you see, I too believe in cooperation with the scientists,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: but my subversion. I'll offer them the hand of friendship
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: with a big fat bribe in it. You know what
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: the bribe is, the power to destroy me. That's what
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: I'm offering. Join us, learn our secrets, bore from within,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: bide your time before your strike. But while he's biding,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I'll have him. And when he's ready to strike, you'll
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: find us not quite the time. Wait a little bit,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: enjoy the power. Play with fat old Yon tragerin like
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: a cat, and by then.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I'll have him.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: You can't replace me on.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, you were a good mind, George.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: When we needed catchy slogans, ray guns, plastic he much
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: fancy sweat.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I warned you, John, don't underestimate the mind. The human brain.
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: Even Caddy here is a fascinating instrument. For example, I
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: had a little talk with Caddy last week.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Very boring, ah but useful. But when we were finished,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: her mind had something it didn't have before.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: You always were educational.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: Caddy, look at me, Look at me, Look at me. Now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: put your hand on his arm.
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: Now now take his gun, Caddy, I've got his gun.
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: What now I see there is a place for the dreamer,
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: the man who believes, who can use his mind. I'm
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: going to get rid of you beyond because the man
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: who dares the dream will ruled.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Caddy. Look at me, look at me, point the gun
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: at him, Look at me. I could anymore.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: It's too ridiculous, Yan, take your silly gun back.
• 26:48
  Speaker 12: It's too heavy, Caddy, Caddy, I come on you, look
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: at me.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Look at the power of the mind.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Hey, boys, come in and get him.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I don't understand that, Caddy, Caddy, get me all right.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I'll look at you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Poor superman.
• 27:24
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• 27:27
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• 27:37
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• 27:41
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• 27:54
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• 27:58
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• 28:32
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