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TheVeldt [episode 12], Broadcast 8/4/1955 · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: One one one.
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  Speaker 4: The Night Story Ray Bradbury's Tale the Vault.
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  Speaker 5: This is the office of doctor David MacLean, resident psychiatrist
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  Speaker 5: of the New Chicago Institute of Human Engineering.
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  Speaker 6: All right, miss Carver, will you take this please to
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  Speaker 6: Charles S. Howorth, Senior psychiatrist, New Chicago Institute of Human Engineering.
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  Speaker 6: The following constitutes my report on the case of George
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  Speaker 6: and Lydia Abbott, which we discussed by telephone. Subject George
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  Speaker 6: relates onset of symptoms to the purchase of a sixty
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  Speaker 6: thousand dollars the sound proofed Happy Life home under narcosynthesis.
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  Speaker 6: During initial interviews, Subject described the experience of the following manner.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Carver, would you play back the sonic record of
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  Speaker 6: the initial.
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  Speaker 4: Interview we'd always wanted one, and then we could afford it.
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  Speaker 4: So go on, mister Abbott, tell me about the home.
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  Speaker 4: The home, Well, it was supposed to do everything the
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  Speaker 4: agent told us, and it did. I guess it clothed us,
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  Speaker 4: fed us and rocked us to sleep, played and sang
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  Speaker 4: and it was good to us, very good. Sure, tell
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  Speaker 4: me about the nursery. The nursery. The nursery.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, it was completely automatic, completely automatic.
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  Speaker 4: There were crystalline walls that wavered from two to three dimensions.
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  Speaker 4: There were pseudo textured floors that shifted from brick to
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  Speaker 4: dirt to waving grass. The nursery was the best, But
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  Speaker 4: then we wanted the best for the children. Doctor, I
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  Speaker 4: must be crazy. We have no children. What about Peter
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  Speaker 4: and Wendy? They are your children? Oh no, no, we
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  Speaker 4: have no children, doctor, we have no children. All right,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Carver to continue.
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  Speaker 6: After three sessions, the subject was able to recall and
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  Speaker 6: accept the idea that he had two children. He described
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  Speaker 6: the first day.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Peter and Wendy, this is your nursery.
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  Speaker 7: What's so special about a nursery, Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty, Just go in and see, do we have to
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  Speaker 1: You'll be surprised, gee, go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: I'm scared.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not. Hey, it's nice in here, it is. Come
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  Speaker 7: on in, Wendy, boy, look at the pictures on the walls.
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  Speaker 7: They're real.
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  Speaker 4: They're almost real. You can change them anyway you like,
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  Speaker 4: just by thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, Indy.
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  Speaker 7: Well all right, mommy, Hey, Wendy, Look what I can
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  Speaker 7: do with the pictures.
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  Speaker 8: That's the right rabbit from oz in Wonderland.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, I just thought about it, and there it was.
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  Speaker 8: Let me try, Peter, let me try.
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  Speaker 7: We'll go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Just think.
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  Speaker 8: How about wizard and us. I want to see wizard
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  Speaker 8: and us.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there, there we are.
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  Speaker 3: They like it.
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  Speaker 4: Why shouldn't they. All I have to do is think,
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  Speaker 4: and they've got whatever they want in three dimensions, color, sound,
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  Speaker 4: and smell.
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  Speaker 9: Oh it's nice that we can give them all these advantages.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, what else are we working for? Huh? Well, what
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  Speaker 4: do you want to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Even the Petersons asked us over for bridge.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we don't have to worry about the kids. They'll
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  Speaker 4: be all right in the nursery. Come on, Lydia, we
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  Speaker 4: deserve a night out.
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  Speaker 5: And in the nursery, the walls were a kaleidoscope of
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  Speaker 5: time and space and imagination. The green forest of Sherwood
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  Speaker 5: and the quiet forms of Robin and his merry men
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  Speaker 5: gave way to the role of the high seas.
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  Speaker 4: And the smell of salt in the air.
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  Speaker 5: As Sir Henry Morgan sailed into the harbor at Jamaica,
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  Speaker 5: and behind the crystalline courtz walls, the vacuum tubes and
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  Speaker 5: grids and banks of metal image tapes spun quietly and efficiently,
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  Speaker 5: erasing the line between illusion and reality. Of course, the
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  Speaker 5: electric bill from Consolidated Utilities was tremendous, but it was worthless.
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  Speaker 5: The Happy Life Home breathed contentedly as life he did,
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  Speaker 5: with soft automaticity, as guaranteed in the brochure and bill
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  Speaker 5: of sale.
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  Speaker 3: George M.
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  Speaker 9: George, I wish you'd look at the Nursery's what's wrong
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  Speaker 9: with it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I was in the nursery last week. It's perfectly all right.
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  Speaker 3: It's different now, what do you mean different? I want
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  Speaker 3: you to come and see.
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  Speaker 4: Are the kids there?
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  Speaker 3: No, Mage Allen took them to a show along with
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  Speaker 3: her kids. That's why I want you to look at
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  Speaker 3: it now before they get back.
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  Speaker 4: All right, What you expect me to do? I don't
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  Speaker 4: know I'm no mechanic.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't a question of a leaky faucet.
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  Speaker 4: George. All right, dear, I'm coming. The nursery light flicked
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  Speaker 4: on as they came down the hall.
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  Speaker 5: The relays clicked in, the tubes warmed, and chemical odor,
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  Speaker 5: banks and pipes bubbled into life as they paused before
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  Speaker 5: the closed door.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, George.
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  Speaker 5: On all sides, in three dimensions stretched, the hot, tired
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  Speaker 5: landscapes of an African velt reproduced to the last stick
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  Speaker 5: and pebble and bit of straw. The ceiling above them
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  Speaker 5: became a sky with the hot yellow sun, a wind
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  Speaker 5: blew in from the baked veltland, the hot straw smell
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  Speaker 5: of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden
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  Speaker 5: water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the howl
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  Speaker 5: of the jackal in the distance, and the papery rustling
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  Speaker 5: of the great vultures that wheeled and circled under the
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  Speaker 5: yellow burning sun.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get out of this sun. It's a little too reel, George.
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  Speaker 3: You promised you'd look around.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't see anything.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: There are the vultures, filthy creatures.
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  Speaker 9: There there are the lions far over that way as
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  Speaker 9: I see them.
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  Speaker 3: They're on their way to the water hole.
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  Speaker 4: They've just eaten some animal, a zebra or a baby giraffe. Maybe,
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  Speaker 4: can you see it? Are you sure? It's a little
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  Speaker 4: late to be sure. Nothing over there but clean bone
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  Speaker 4: and the vultures swooping down to what's left.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear that scream?
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  Speaker 4: What scream about?
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  Speaker 8: A moment ago?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry?
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  Speaker 3: No, oh, here come the lions, George Frightening take it
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  Speaker 3: easy video.
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  Speaker 4: They're just illusion.
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  Speaker 5: The lions were fifteen feet away, so real, so startlingly real.
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  Speaker 5: You could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and
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  Speaker 5: your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of
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  Speaker 5: their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in
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  Speaker 5: your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite tapestry. The
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  Speaker 5: yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of
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  Speaker 5: the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and
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  Speaker 5: the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mad.
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  Speaker 3: JJ.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid they're so really an illusion, Lydia, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Watch out.
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  Speaker 4: How quick.
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  Speaker 3: They almost got it.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take it easy, Calm down.
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  Speaker 3: I could feel it.
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  Speaker 4: Get a hold of yourself with here. They aren't real wolves,
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  Speaker 4: that's all it is, crystalloid wolves. They look so, of
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  Speaker 4: course they do, but it's all dimensional color reactionary process,
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  Speaker 4: a metal tape film behind glass screens. It's all over
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  Speaker 4: aphonics and sonics. Oh here, let's take my head.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid did you see? Did you feel it? It's
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  Speaker 3: too real?
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  Speaker 10: And we've got to tell Wendy and Peter not to
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  Speaker 10: read anymore on Africa. Of course, of course I want
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  Speaker 10: you to lock that place up.
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  Speaker 4: But you know how difficult Peter is about that. I
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  Speaker 4: punished him last week by locking the nursery for an
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  Speaker 4: afternoon and he threw a tent from and Wendy too
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  Speaker 4: where they live for the nurses.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be locked, That's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 4: You've been working too hard Lydia. You need a rest.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I don't have enough to do.
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  Speaker 3: I have too much time to think.
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  Speaker 10: All I do is set the menu selected dials at
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  Speaker 10: the beginning of the week.
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  Speaker 4: But that's the whole idea.
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  Speaker 9: The house is automatic, I know, but couldn't we turn
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  Speaker 9: it off for about a week and take a vacation.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you want to fry eggs for.
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  Speaker 3: Me and darn socks. I feel like I don't belong here.
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  Speaker 9: The house is wife and mother and maid. How can
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  Speaker 9: I compete with the African belts, George? Those lions can't
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  Speaker 9: get out of there.
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  Speaker 10: Can they?
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  Speaker 4: Of course not, Dear, I don't think about it anymore.
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  Speaker 4: They ate along.
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  Speaker 5: He sat idly, watching the dining room table produce warm
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  Speaker 5: dishes of food from its mechanical interior.
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  Speaker 4: You forgot to catch up, sh That's better. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: hurt to lock the children out of the nursery for
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  Speaker 4: a while.
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  Speaker 5: It was clear that they had been spending too much
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  Speaker 5: time in Africa.
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  Speaker 4: But Sun, he could feel it on his neck.
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  Speaker 5: Still, like a hot paw and a lions and the
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  Speaker 5: smell of blood. Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic
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  Speaker 5: emanations of the children's minds and created a life to
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  Speaker 5: fulfill their desires. The children thought zebras, and there were zebras, son, son, giraffes, giraffes,
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  Speaker 5: death and death.
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  Speaker 4: They were so young. But long before you knew what death.
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  Speaker 5: Was, you were wishing it on someone else. But this,
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  Speaker 5: the long hot African belt, the awful death in the
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  Speaker 5: jaws of a lion and repeated it again and.
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  Speaker 4: Again and again. The children came home dutifully at eight thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Mom, Hi Pop? Do you want something to eat?
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  Speaker 4: Deer?
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  Speaker 3: We're just having dessert.
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  Speaker 7: We're full of strawberry ice cream and hot do we'll
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  Speaker 7: just sit and watch?
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  Speaker 4: Sure? Uh, Peter, tell us about the nursery. The nursery,
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  Speaker 4: all about Africa and everything.
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: Well, your mother and I were just traveling through Africa
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  Speaker 4: with Roden Reil.
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  Speaker 7: There's no Africa in the nursery.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come now, Peter, we know better.
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  Speaker 8: I don't remember any Africa.
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  Speaker 7: Do you win?
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: Go run and see huh.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, I'll be right now.
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  Speaker 4: Wendy, come back here, Wendy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, she'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: Pop.
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  Speaker 4: She doesn't have to. I've seen it.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, sure, Pop, But Wendy, you'll tell us open
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  Speaker 7: the door.
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  Speaker 8: See, Donnie, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Not in Africa.
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  Speaker 8: It's floddy like in Bandy.
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  Speaker 7: There go the deer. See it is in Africa.
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  Speaker 4: I see it isn't go to bed, but it isn't
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  Speaker 4: nine o'clock. You heard me go to bed.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, good night Mom, good night Pop, good night.
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  Speaker 3: Good night dear. I'll be right here.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, look at this.
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: This is the corner where the lions.
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  Speaker 3: Were, isn't What is that?
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  Speaker 4: You picked up an old wallet of mine. There's a
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  Speaker 4: smell of hot grass on it, the smell of a lion.
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  Speaker 4: It's wet with saliva. It's been chewed, George.
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  Speaker 3: Those smears her blood.
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  Speaker 4: Come on out. Now, let's go to bed. But in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the night he was still awake, and
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  Speaker 4: he knew his wife was awake.
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  Speaker 3: George, how did your wallet get in the nursery?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Wendy must have changed the walls from
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  Speaker 4: the African velt. I'm going to keep it locked. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: it isn't good for the children. My father used to say.
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  Speaker 4: Children are like carpets. They should be stepped on occasionally.
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  Speaker 4: We've never lifted a hand. They're spoiled, and where spoiled.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'll have doctor McLean come tomorrow morning and
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  Speaker 4: have a look at Africa.
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  Speaker 3: But it isn't Africa now, it's Florida and Bambi.
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  Speaker 4: I have a feeling it'll be Africa again before then.
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  Speaker 5: Although they're automatic, sum no beds tried hard.
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  Speaker 4: The two adults could not be rocked to sleep. For
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  Speaker 4: another hour. A smell of cats.
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  Speaker 5: Was in the night air, and in the morning the
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  Speaker 5: stove cooked French toast, and the dining room table poured
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  Speaker 5: the syrup and melted butter.
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  Speaker 7: Pop, you aren't gonna lock up the nursery for good,
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  Speaker 7: are you?
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  Speaker 4: That all depends on what I'm You and your sister.
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  Speaker 3: We feel you should have some variety here.
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  Speaker 7: I wouldn't want the nursery locked up ever.
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  Speaker 4: Well. As a matter of fact, we're thinking of turning
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  Speaker 4: the whole house off for about a month, sort of
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  Speaker 4: camping out.
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  Speaker 3: Be fun for a change, now, don't you think so, Wendy, No.
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  Speaker 7: It'd be Oh. I don't want to do anything but
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  Speaker 7: look and listen and smell. What else is there to do?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? All right, all right, go play in Africa.
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  Speaker 7: Are you going to shut off the house soon?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: We're considering it.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think you better consider it any more.
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  Speaker 4: Pop, I won't have any threats from you.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Pop, Come on, Wendy, let's get back.
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  Speaker 4: After breakfast. Doctor David McLean arrived.
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  Speaker 6: I saw the nursery last year, George. It looked all
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  Speaker 6: right to me. You didn't notice anything unusual. No, the
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  Speaker 6: patterns showed the usual violence, a tendency towards slight paranoia.
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  Speaker 6: All children feel persecuted by their parents are perfectly normal.
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  Speaker 6: There there it is, suppose we take a look at
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  Speaker 6: it now.
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  Speaker 5: They entered without knocking and sent the children out. The
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  Speaker 5: screams had faded, and the lions were feeding quietly under
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  Speaker 5: the trees.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I could see what they really How long
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  Speaker 4: has this been going on a little over a month?
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Certainly doesn't feel good. I don't want feelings, I want facts.
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  Speaker 6: George psychologists never saw a fact in his life. He
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  Speaker 6: knows about feelings. And this doesn't feel good. And my
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  Speaker 6: advice to you is to have the whole room torn
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  Speaker 6: down and your children brought to me every day for
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: the next year.
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  Speaker 4: Of a treatment. Is it that bad? I'm afraid so,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 6: That's why the nursery was developed, originally to let us
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  Speaker 6: examine the patterns left on the wall by a child's mind.
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  Speaker 4: But what is it? What's wrong with Peter and Wendy.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to say. I haven't punished them more than average. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I took away a few gadgets last week. I locked
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  Speaker 4: the nursery to show I meant business.
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  Speaker 6: You've let this room, replace you and your wife and
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  Speaker 6: your children's affections. This room is their real father and mother,
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  Speaker 6: And now you come along and want to shut it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: But you can feel the hatred coming out of that sky. George,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: turn everything off, the nursery, the automatic kitchen, the whole
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  Speaker 6: automatic house to start now. But won't the shock be
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: too much for the time. I don't want them going
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  Speaker 6: any deeper. Let's get out of here. Never liked these rooms.
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  Speaker 4: Those lions look real, don't they. I don't suppose there's
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: any way what that they could become real, Not that
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I know some flaw in the machinery tampering. No, I
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: don't imagine the room will like being turned off. Nothing
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: you ever likes to die, even a room. I wonder
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  Speaker 4: if it hates me for turning it off. Parah, No
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: air is thick today? Hello? Is this your scaff stained
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: brown blood? That's Lydia's come on the main fuse boxes
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  Speaker 4: out here, Go ahead, pull the switch. Yeah, it's off.
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  Speaker 4: The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and kicked
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  Speaker 4: and threw things.
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  Speaker 5: They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped on the furniture, weeping.
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  Speaker 4: It's off, and it stays off, the whole house dies.
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  Speaker 4: As of now. He marched around the house, cutting switches
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  Speaker 4: and pulling fuses.
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  Speaker 7: Don't let them do it. Don't let Pop kill everything.
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  Speaker 8: I hate you, I hate you.
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  Speaker 4: Insults won't catch you anywhere.
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  Speaker 7: I wish you were dead.
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  Speaker 4: We were for a long while. Now we're gonna start
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  Speaker 4: really living instead of being handled. And besides, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to live once.
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  Speaker 7: More, Daddy, Just once more, one more minute of the nursery.
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  Speaker 7: That's all.
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  Speaker 8: Just one more minute, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: George, it can't hurt really.
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  Speaker 4: Oh all right, all right, only shut up one minute
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  Speaker 4: and that's the end.
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  Speaker 7: Hoerever Gee, Thanks Pop, Thanks, and.
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  Speaker 4: Then we're going on a vacation. McLean is coming in
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  Speaker 4: half an hour to help us out. Lydia, turn on
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  Speaker 4: the nursery for just a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Oh boy, come on, Wendy, come on.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks Daddy, thanks a lot.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Just one minute. Remember now, would I put those suitcases, Lydia.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Don't shout, George, I'm right here.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Did you leave them alone in the nurse.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've got to get ready, George.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we better get them out of there
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: before they get involved with those beasts again.
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  Speaker 11: Ho ho, come here, Yady, Come on quick, Wendy, Peter,
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  Speaker 11: what's the matter.
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  Speaker 4: Hurry up?
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: Open the nursery, Wendy, Peter.
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  Speaker 3: They aren't anywhere, Wendy.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Peter, Peter the door. Open the door. They locked up
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: from the outside.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Peter, Peter, Wendy Peter, open the door.
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: Let us help Peter, open the door. It's time to go.
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: Open the door. George, the lions, Peter, dear hear me,
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: open this door. All roundness, George sun Son.
• 21:07
  Speaker 12: Dear Hemmy, let us out.
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  Speaker 5: When doctor David McLean came half hour later, he found
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: the two children in the nurseries, sitting in the center
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: of the open glade, eating a picnic lunch.
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  Speaker 4: Beyond them was the water hole in the yellow veltland.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Above was the hot sun. At a distant doctor McLean saw.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: The lions fighting and clawing, and then settling down to
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: feed in silence under the shady trees.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Hi kids, were your mom and dad?
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Oh, they'll be here directly.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Good, we've got to get along. He squinted at the
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: lions with his hands up to his eyes. Now they
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: were done feeding, and they moved to the water hole
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: to drink.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: A shadow flickered as the vultures dropped down from the
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: blazing sky to finish what the lions left Doctor mcgreen.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Doctor mcgreen, huh, what have a cup of tea?
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  Speaker 6: Which concludes my report to date. There were no lions,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: of course, not in a physical sense. Lydia and George
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: were devoured. However, almost as surely as if there had
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: been lions, their personalities were devoured by the mechanistic marvels
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: which had usurped their role as parents. All four members
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: of the family are under intensive therapy now and are
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: doing as well as can be expected. Send that by
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: teleroop misus owen. Would you ask George Abbott to step inside?
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: I'm ready for him now.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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  Speaker 2: of astounding science fiction. Tonight by transcription, X minus one
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  Speaker 2: has brought you the Velt, Written by Ray Bradbury and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy. Featured in the cast
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: were Mary Patton, Bill Quinn, David Feffer, Beverly Lunceford, Charles
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Penman and John Larkin.
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  Speaker 4: You're announcer Fred Cohn.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: X minus one was directed by Dan Sutter and is
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  Speaker 2: an NBC Radio Network production,