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X Minus One - "Lulu" (1957) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A planetary exploration robot carries three human travelers through space
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  Speaker 1: and after receiving a personal name, begins to develop feelings
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  Speaker 1: of her own. That situation sets the course for X-1's Lulu,
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  Speaker 1: episode 118, broadcast by NBC on October 31st, 1957. Adapted
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  Speaker 1: for radio by George Lefferts from Clifford D. Simak's novelette,
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  Speaker 1: The drama follows Lulu and her crew on a future
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  Speaker 1: exploration assignment where the crew's plans for returning home become complicated.
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  Speaker 1: Henry Norrell, Jan Miner, James Stevens, Nelson Olmsted, and Walter
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  Speaker 1: Black are heard in the cast. George Voutsas directed. And now,
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is Nightline, your tie line to the world, and
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  Speaker 2: this is Walter O'Keefe. Tonight, a visit to worlds strangely
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  Speaker 2: different from ours, the world of the future, the world
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  Speaker 2: of X-1. Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 3: X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
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  Speaker 4: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 4: new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
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  Speaker 4: the future. Adventures in which you'll live in a million
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  Speaker 4: could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National
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  Speaker 4: Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Lulu by Clifford D.
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  Speaker 5: Simak. But first, hear this. Well, hi there, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: This is Red Foley.
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  Speaker 4: And right at this minute, I'm sort of combining work
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  Speaker 4: and pleasure, you might say.
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  Speaker 6: By enjoying some of the good harmony of the Marksman
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  Speaker 6: Quartet and also picking out some of their songs to
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  Speaker 6: do on future broadcasts of our Red Foley show here
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  Speaker 6: on NBC. You know, Saturday is going to be my
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  Speaker 6: favorite day of the whole week, and I think there's
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  Speaker 6: a pretty good chance that we can make it a
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  Speaker 6: better day than ever for you with the fun that
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  Speaker 6: we stir up here in the Ozarks. In addition to
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  Speaker 6: the Marksman, I'll bring with me some of the other
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  Speaker 6: top favorites in our field and, of course, the guests
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  Speaker 6: that you tell us you want to hear. So let
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  Speaker 6: us be a regular part of your Saturday schedule.
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  Speaker 5: Won't you do that, please?
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  Speaker 6: Tune in to our NBC program, The Red Foley Show,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll do our doggoneest to make it worth your while.
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  Speaker 4: Now, X minus one, and tonight's story, Lulu.
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  Speaker 3: Lulu.
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  Speaker 7: Technically, she was a PER, a planetary exploration robot. That
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  Speaker 7: meant she was equipped to do just about anything necessary
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  Speaker 7: to meet any.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of conditions on any planet she explored.
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  Speaker 7: She carried a crew of three inside of her, and
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  Speaker 7: she was able to talk to them and take care
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  Speaker 7: of them and adapt herself to their needs. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 7: she was the complete spaceship. Robot, mother, base of operations,
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  Speaker 7: and companion all rolled into one. Her communicators and memory
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  Speaker 7: banks were stuffed with every conceivable kind of information.
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  Speaker 5: And we called her Lulu. That was our biggest mistake.
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  Speaker 5: We're on our way, fellas. Mother Earth, here I come.
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  Speaker 8: Was the takeoff satisfactory, boys?
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  Speaker 5: A thing of beauty, Lulu. The captain's compliments.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, boys.
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  Speaker 7: No matter how long I live, I'll never get used
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  Speaker 7: to a ship talking to me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you lack a poetic soul, Gus. Now, me, I
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  Speaker 5: catch the full wonder of the situation. Personally, I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 9: What would you boys like the kitchen to fix for supper?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I'll have a nice juicy steak.
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  Speaker 8: Gas?
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  Speaker 5: Something light, Lulu. Maybe a couple of eggs.
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  Speaker 8: And you, Jimmy?
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  Speaker 5: Whatever you want to fix. Surprise me.
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  Speaker 8: Very well.
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  Speaker 9: I'll relay the information to the kitchen robot.
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  Speaker 7: How long before we get back to Earth, Lulu?
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  Speaker 8: I'll check the computers.
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  Speaker 5: Lulu, how about it? Hey, you suppose something's gone wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Lulu never took this long to give me an ETA. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: if something went wrong, it'll repair itself. Lulu's a self-maintaining machine, remember?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it seems she's taking a long time about giving
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  Speaker 7: us an ETA for Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Lulu!
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  Speaker 5: What do you say?
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  Speaker 9: I say that I love you.
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  Speaker 5: Gus, did you hear that? These robot ships aren't supposed
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  Speaker 5: to have a sense of humor, are they?
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  Speaker 10: I never heard of it, but it could be. After all,
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  Speaker 10: they have technicians pouring all kinds of information into their
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  Speaker 10: electronic memory banks.
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  Speaker 5: Which one of us is the lucky man? All three
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  Speaker 5: of you.
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  Speaker 8: You, Gus, and you, Jimmy, and you, Ben. I love
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  Speaker 8: all three of you.
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  Speaker 5: Good Lord, do you really think... I think somebody goofed
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  Speaker 5: when they designed this ship. I think it's that poetry
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy's been writing and reading out loud. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Lulu!
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  Speaker 8: Yes, darling?
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  Speaker 5: You haven't answered my question. When do we reach Earth?
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  Speaker 9: Earth?
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  Speaker 8: I've decided we aren't going to Earth. We're eloping.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to take you away where we can be alone.
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  Speaker 8: Just the four of us. Then, someday, you'll learn to
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  Speaker 8: love me as I love you.
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  Speaker 5: Now, this isn't funny anymore. Ben, throw that emergency. We've
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  Speaker 5: got to get this ship back on course.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, boys, but I've disconnected the circuits.
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  Speaker 5: Disconnected? Now, look here, you crummy robot. You're a machine.
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  Speaker 5: Do you understand?
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  Speaker 8: A machine.
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  Speaker 5: You were designed to do what humans want you to do.
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  Speaker 5: You've got the prime command built into every circuit in
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  Speaker 5: your system. Thou shalt not harm a human being.
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  Speaker 11: But I'm not harming you. We'll be happy together.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, brother, some technician must have read some cheap novels
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  Speaker 10: into this baby system.
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  Speaker 7: Or she's absorbed Jimmy's sloppy poetry and made some kind
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  Speaker 7: of synthesis out of it.
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  Speaker 5: It isn't every poet who can move a machine.
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  Speaker 8: They were beautiful, James.
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  Speaker 5: What were beautiful?
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  Speaker 11: The poems.
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  Speaker 5: That's it. What did I tell you?
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  Speaker 10: For two years now, he's been reading that Moon June
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  Speaker 10: spoon junk out loud, and this robot's been absorbing it.
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  Speaker 10: It's created a whole new electronic synapse.
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  Speaker 5: Let's face it, boys. She loves us. So that was it.
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  Speaker 7: We were being kidnapped by an interplanetary robot who somehow
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  Speaker 7: developed a response circuit for romantic love.
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  Speaker 5: Not just the practical kind of love, oh no, but the.
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  Speaker 7: Kind that exists in cheap novels and romantic mags and
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  Speaker 7: the maudlin poetry of one James Carter amateur lyricist. We
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  Speaker 7: went to sleep that night, hoping by morning Lulu would
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  Speaker 7: come to her senses.
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  Speaker 5: Darling.
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  Speaker 8: Hmm? Time to wake up, darling.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm? Holy mackerel. Hey, fellas, she's still at it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 5: I was whispered awake, too.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, fellas.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Come close.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want the receptors to pick this up.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Lulu's a machine, right?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: A machine likes order, usefulness.
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  Speaker 5: Who ever heard of a machine that did nothing?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 8: So that's it. We're slobs.
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  Speaker 2: Get it?
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  Speaker 5: Worthless, useless slobs.
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  Speaker 8: We do nothing but bum around the ship. After a while,
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  Speaker 8: Lulu gets fed up with us just hanging around the ship.
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  Speaker 8: She wants to get rid of us. She takes us
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  Speaker 8: back to Earth. It's worth a try.
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  Speaker 5: I'm for it, but what do we do first?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know about you fellas, but I'm getting drunk.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to Lulu, tonight's attraction on X-1. October
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  Speaker 4: is the month designated by the National Congress of Parents
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  Speaker 4: and Teachers as Membership Enrollment Month. Eleven million members, the
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  Speaker 4: population of California or of Pennsylvania, that is their goal.
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  Speaker 4: We want to salute the PTA members all over America
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  Speaker 4: who will be going out in search of others to
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  Speaker 4: join them in the great work of training children to
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  Speaker 4: become mature citizens in a mature America. You need not
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  Speaker 4: be a parent or a teacher to belong to your PTA.
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  Speaker 4: All you need is an interest in children. For more
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  Speaker 4: than 60 years, that kind of interest has provided the
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  Speaker 4: spark that has helped the PTA achieve many of its
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  Speaker 4: social and educational goals. Establishment of kindergartens, effective child care,
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  Speaker 4: labor laws, broader educational opportunities. These are some of the
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  Speaker 4: achievement the PTA can claim. You can become part of
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  Speaker 4: this great movement just by saying yes to the neighbor
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  Speaker 4: who calls on you this month and invites you to
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  Speaker 4: join your PTA.
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  Speaker 5: Now back to X-1 and Lulu. So that's what we did.
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  Speaker 5: We became slobs.
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  Speaker 7: We stopped playing cards. We stopped reading. We just sat
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  Speaker 7: and moped. And Lulu, well, sure enough, her machine-like intelligence
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  Speaker 7: was offended.
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  Speaker 5: Gus.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Want a smoke?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 7: Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Gus.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 8: What's wrong with you boys? You haven't done a thing
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  Speaker 8: for days now. Jimmy, you've stopped writing poetry.
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  Speaker 5: What's the use?
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  Speaker 8: Don't you want to create? To be romantic? Well, don't you?
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't care less.
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  Speaker 8: I'd hate to think that I bored you.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 8: If you want a mope and sub, go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: I'm still a young spaceship, you know, and I've discovered
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  Speaker 11: what it means to be in love.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe Lulu knew what we were doing, but it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 7: Her womanly sense of a lover outraged was stronger than
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  Speaker 7: her robot logic. She pleaded, lectured, and called us low down.
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  Speaker 7: She told us she loved us. She appealed to our
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  Speaker 7: sense of manly decency. Mostly, we didn't even answer.
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  Speaker 5: Then she was hurt. She withdrew. She was cold and angry. Finally,
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  Speaker 5: she quit trying.
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  Speaker 10: What do you think, Gus?
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  Speaker 5: Could be she's disenchanted with us. Think she'll head back
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  Speaker 5: to Earth? I don't know. That's the thing that worries me.
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  Speaker 10: All that racket coming from the machine shop.
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  Speaker 5: She's probably making some repairs to the engines. Happens all
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  Speaker 5: the time.
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  Speaker 4: Not like that.
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  Speaker 5: Hour after hour.
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  Speaker 7: Well, maybe she's just trying to keep busy to take
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  Speaker 7: her mind off her broken heart.
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  Speaker 5: You and your poetic images. It was your junk that
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  Speaker 5: got us into all this trouble. My poetry is not junk.
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  Speaker 7: Now, cut it out, fellas.
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  Speaker 5: We aren't supposed to care about anything, remember? We're louts, sloths, ne'er-do-wells.
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  Speaker 5: No self-respecting girl spaceship would have us. Gus is right.
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  Speaker 10: We better not let down our guard.
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  Speaker 9: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: The sound has stopped.
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  Speaker 8: You're right. Good morning, boys.
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  Speaker 11: I just want to tell you that as far as
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  Speaker 11: I'm concerned, you can all go straight to blazes.
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  Speaker 5: I think we did it. Now she'll just dump us
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  Speaker 5: back on Earth. There's something wrong here. A woman scorned,
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  Speaker 5: you know. Oh, there's nothing to it. What's that sound? Wow,
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  Speaker 5: it's coming closer.
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  Speaker 11: It sounds like.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, it couldn't be. Footsteps? Tell us, huh? The
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  Speaker 5: compartment door.
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  Speaker 8: Holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 5: A robot.
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  Speaker 8: What a monster.
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  Speaker 5: Right. He must weigh five tons. I don't understand how.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 10: She made him.
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  Speaker 8: Lulu?
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  Speaker 5: Who else?
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  Speaker 10: That's what that racket was in the machine shop.
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  Speaker 3: Look out.
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  Speaker 5: He's coming in. Order him to stop. Maybe he's got
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  Speaker 5: a human response vector.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 5: Hold it. He's still moving.
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  Speaker 8: Boys, meet Elmer.
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  Speaker 5: Elmer?
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  Speaker 3: Are these the human pipsqueaks you used to be infatuated
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  Speaker 3: with before you made me, sweetheart?
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  Speaker 8: Ridiculous, aren't they, darling?
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  Speaker 3: Out of the way, Buster.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, this baby plays rough. Hey, Lulu, what's the big idea?
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  Speaker 9: The big idea, boys, is that now I've got myself
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  Speaker 9: a real man.
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  Speaker 8: One who loves me without reservation. Blindly, madly, and eternally. Right, Elmer?
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  Speaker 3: You said it, kiddo. Me for you and you for
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  Speaker 3: me from here to eternity. I am yours and you
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  Speaker 3: are mine and I cannot live without you. You are
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  Speaker 3: my everything. How much do I love you? Let me
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  Speaker 3: total up the ways. Be mine, be mine, I'm yours.
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  Speaker 3: Hark what soft light yonder shines. Your beauty is like
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  Speaker 3: the rose. It's love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
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  Speaker 5: This boy has slipped a ratchet. He's reading back all
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  Speaker 5: the canned junk somebody poured into Lulu's memory tape.
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  Speaker 11: There.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't he romantic?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he's a doll.
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  Speaker 8: And most important of all, he loves me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, any fool can see that, Lulu. Now, look, how
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: about taking us all back to Earth, huh?
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  Speaker 10: Five's a crowd, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And you and Elmer will want to be together alone, huh?
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  Speaker 11: Alas, I wish it could.
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  Speaker 8: Be so, boys, but there isn't a chance.
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  Speaker 5: Why not, Lulu? He's a machine, you're a machine. You
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  Speaker 5: could make beautiful static together.
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  Speaker 9: I mean about taking you back to Earth. If I
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  Speaker 9: do that, they'll just dismantle us for disobeying our masters. Now, boys,
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  Speaker 9: I'm afraid I'll have to head out to some other
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  Speaker 9: galaxy and dump you on an asteroid.
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  Speaker 5: Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 8: She's gone nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Do not talk about the woman I love like that.
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  Speaker 5: Now, take it easy, Elmer. Don't overheat your filaments.
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  Speaker 8: Come up to my control center where we can be alone, Elmer.
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  Speaker 3: Anything you say, lover. See you later, boys.
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  Speaker 5: Careful you don't overload her condensers, Junior.
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  Speaker 3: One other remark like that and I will smash you,
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  Speaker 3: big boy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that was it.
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  Speaker 7: The control panel told us that we were headed right
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  Speaker 7: out of the solar system. A couple of days passed
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  Speaker 7: and we began to get desperate. Lulu and Elmer were
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: too busy making love even to talk to us, and
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  Speaker 7: she even forgot to synthesize food for.
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  Speaker 5: Us one day. We lapsed into misery for real now.
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  Speaker 8: Gus?
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  Speaker 3: I'm hungry.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Who is it?
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  Speaker 10: This ship's gone completely haywire.
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  Speaker 5: What do you expect?
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  Speaker 7: She's up in the control center necking with that mechanical
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  Speaker 7: gigolo she built.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Gus, there can't be any real pleasure in it,
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  Speaker 10: can there?
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  Speaker 5: Remember, she's a machine. What's pleasure for a machine may
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  Speaker 5: not be pleasure for a human. Let's see what Jimmy thinks.
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  Speaker 10: Jimmy.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Jimmy. Don't bother him. He started writing poetry again yesterday.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: He's already worn out three pencils.
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  Speaker 4: At a time like this, he writes poetry?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Lulu.
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: Lulu, how about some chow?
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Shut up, boys. You're breaking the spell.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's how it went. We didn't get any food
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  Speaker 5: at all that day.
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  Speaker 7: By nighttime, we were worn out from banging on Lulu's walls.
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  Speaker 5: I was exhausted and fell right asleep. Then something woke me. Ben! Ben,
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  Speaker 5: wake up. What's up? It's Jimmy. I think he's gone
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  Speaker 5: off his rock. Why? He's up in the forward compartment.
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  Speaker 7: He's opened the radiation shield so the moonlight and the
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: stars can come in, and he's standing there alone.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Come on, we better get him.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: The strain was probably too much.
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  Speaker 8: Quiet now.
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  Speaker 5: We don't want to startle him.
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  Speaker 11: Wanderer of the far ways between the two faces of eternity.
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  Speaker 3: She was.
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  Speaker 4: True forever to the race that forged.
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  Speaker 5: He's reading poetry. To himself? To himself. Hold it. I
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: think I know what's happening.
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  Speaker 10: You mean he's reading to Lou?
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  Speaker 5: What's more important, she's listening.
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  Speaker 8: Go on. Don't stop. It's too beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Wanderer of the far ways.
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  Speaker 5: He'll ruin us.
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  Speaker 4: Between the two faces of eternity, she was.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: There comes Junior, and he sounds mad.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up. What are you trying to do, big boy,
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  Speaker 3: reading that stuff to my girl?
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  Speaker 5: Now, Elmer, take it easy, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Let me have that poem. I will show you what
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: combustion is.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: No, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You can destroy me, but not this poem. This is
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: my work of art. My love song to Lulu. Jimmy,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: let him have it.
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  Speaker 3: He'll kill you.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: He's going to strike, Jim.
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  Speaker 11: Jim, look.
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  Speaker 9: Out.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Will you look at that? He's nothing but a
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  Speaker 5: pile of junk.
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  Speaker 9: That'll teach the ignorant lout trying to destroy the most
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  Speaker 9: beautiful experience.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: I ever had.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: You demolished your boyfriend, Lulu.
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: He only loved me for my advanced design anyway. He
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: was always short-circuiting the control panel.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: Go on, James.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: Read.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Yes, Lulu.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: Wanderer of the far ways between the two faces of eternity.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: she was.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: True forever to the race that forged her.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: With the winds of alien space blowing in her hair.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Wearing a circlet of stars as her crown of glory.
• 20:05
  Speaker 11: Ah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: It's more than I can bear, James. You do love
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: me after all.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Gus!
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: The rockets! She's changed course!
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: We're going home, boys.
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: Back to Earth.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Whatever happens now, I don't care.
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: I've been a woman in love.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Fred Collins again. I'll have another word about tonight's story
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: on X-1 in a moment.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: That how you feel? Blue and miserable with a deep
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: down cold? Listen.
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: Every second someone takes it for the miseries of a cold.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Millions more take Bromoquinine.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Every second someone takes it for the miseries.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Of a cold.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Get Bromoquinine brand cold tablets.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: You have just heard X-Minus One presented by the National
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: this month features Clifford D. Simak's story, Carbon Copy. Being
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: a real estate agent and a devout angler, Homer Jackson
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: knew a clean sale from a fish story. But not
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: this time. Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: X-Minus One has brought you Lulu.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Lulu.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: A story from the pages of Galaxy, written by Clifford D.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Simak and adapted for radio by George Lefferts. Featured in
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: our cast were Jan Miner as Lulu, Nelson Almstead as Gus,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Jim Stevens as Jimmy, Walter Black as Ben, and Henry
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Norrell as the robot. This is Fred Collins. X-1 was
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: directed by George Boutsas and is an NBC Radio Network production.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Country music at its best with Red Foley and famous
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: guests on The Red Foley Show premiering Saturday over most
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: of these NBC radio stations.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: This has been X-Minus One with Lulu from October 31st, 1957.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Until our next journey through radio science fiction, good evening.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Follow old-time sci-fi radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.