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X Minus One - "Almost Human" (1955) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At Professor Blasman's secluded home, an experimental robot called Junior
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: is being educated from a childlike mental state. Then a
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: criminal known as Duke forces his way into the experiment,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: while Blasman's assistant Lola becomes increasingly concerned about Junior's lessons.
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  Speaker 1: From NBC, This is X minus one, episode thirteen, Almost Human,
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  Speaker 1: first heard on August eleventh, nineteen fifty five. George Lefferts
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  Speaker 1: adapted Robert Block's story for radio. The cast includes Santos Ortega,
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  Speaker 1: Joan Allison and Jack Grimes, Ladies and Gentlemen. X minus
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  Speaker 1: one opens the Laboratory Door and now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Cot dompoblastof X minus five four three two X minus
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  Speaker 2: one fire.
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  Speaker 3: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales
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  Speaker 3: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
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  Speaker 3: of the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
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  Speaker 3: could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
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  Speaker 3: Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of
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  Speaker 3: Astounding Science Fiction, presents.
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  Speaker 2: HE minus one one.
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  Speaker 3: The Night Stories, Almost Human by Robert Block. Have you
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  Speaker 3: heard of the new science called cybernetics? It concerns man's
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  Speaker 3: efforts to develop a perfect thinking machine, a robot electronic
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  Speaker 3: brain that will not only do man's work, but even
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  Speaker 3: do his thinking for him, a robot that is almost human.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not impossible at all. In fact, one day
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  Speaker 4: something like this may happen. A tall, suave gentleman in
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  Speaker 4: a black raincoat will walk down the street until he
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  Speaker 4: reaches a shuttered, isolated house, and then he will slowly
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  Speaker 4: mount the front steps, push the doorbear.
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  Speaker 5: Just a minute, I said, just a minute, hold your horses.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think you'd good?
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  Speaker 2: Evening?
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  Speaker 5: My dear duke, Why did you come here?
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  Speaker 2: Curiosity darling? I've been thinking of what you told me
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  Speaker 2: at our chance meeting.
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  Speaker 5: Nurse to me, Duke, you promised me.
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  Speaker 2: I decided to come and take a look for myself.
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  Speaker 2: Where is the professor in his study? Where's in the nursery?
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  Speaker 2: The nursery? How quaint?
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  Speaker 6: And do I take it?
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  Speaker 2: A junior's nurse mate? I helped the professor tell me
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  Speaker 2: as a.
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  Speaker 5: Guest, adukie's a nice otlt guy.
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  Speaker 7: Don't all right, yurse?
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Miss Williams?
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  Speaker 5: Professor? Blast a gentleman here?
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand. I gave orders no one was to
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  Speaker 7: be admitted to the house. He insisted, very well, wait here,
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  Speaker 7: I'll get rid of him. Sir Professor Blossom and I
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  Speaker 7: have come to see jor Junior. There must be some mistake.
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  Speaker 6: Eight.
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  Speaker 7: There are no children in this house. I don't refers.
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  Speaker 2: What you feel pressing against your belly is the muzzle
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  Speaker 2: of a forty five caliber pistle. How shall we visit, Junior?
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  Speaker 2: How what do you know about? I know everything? Shall
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  Speaker 2: we go inside? I warn you On the contrary, I
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  Speaker 2: warn you very well.
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  Speaker 7: This way this is the nursery.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas Junior in the next room behind the door with
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  Speaker 2: a panel in it, very considerately furnished, one of the
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  Speaker 2: ghost figures on the walls, like four toy blocks and
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  Speaker 2: funny rabbit touching. All right, let's say him you can
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  Speaker 2: look through the panel very Oh well, he would have
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  Speaker 2: believed us. Junior isn't very pretty, as he I was
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  Speaker 2: not concerned with esthetics. Why do you hire him?
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  Speaker 7: Is a dangerous The world is not yet ready for
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  Speaker 7: such a thing. Besides, I must study. As you can
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  Speaker 7: see by his play, he is very young, hardly out
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  Speaker 7: of the cradle. I am educating him with the nursery rhymes.
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  Speaker 7: The brain is undeveloped. It must learn its behavior patterns
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  Speaker 7: like any infant.
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  Speaker 2: You call that output monster an infant. Physically, of course,
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  Speaker 2: he'll never change. He is built of chrome, stealing glass
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  Speaker 2: and his brain that is my wonderful instrument. Unlike a human,
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  Speaker 2: he has no heritage, no basic instincts, suches.
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  Speaker 7: Love or hate. These he has yet to learn. In
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  Speaker 7: some respects. He is like a blank tablet. What is
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  Speaker 7: written upon the tablet will remain. You mean, he has
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  Speaker 7: no feelings. He will learn quickly. And now, if your
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  Speaker 7: curiosity is satisfied, I trust you will keep my secret.
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  Speaker 7: If anyone discovered open the door, I beg your pardon
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  Speaker 7: the door. Professor, very well, Junior, come here? What a monster?
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  Speaker 8: Ah wah?
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  Speaker 7: He talks, yes mentally he is about six years old.
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  Speaker 2: Now what is it?
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  Speaker 8: Son?
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  Speaker 9: Who is that? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Let me handle this. You may call me duke.
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  Speaker 8: Son.
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  Speaker 2: I've come to see you.
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  Speaker 9: That's nice.
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  Speaker 10: Nobody ever comes to see me except Lola.
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  Speaker 2: Play with me, Duke certainly, jor oh and Professor. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: while we're playing, you can have Lola and miss Williams
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  Speaker 2: prepare my room, your room. I forgot to tell you
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  Speaker 2: I've decided to stay until the climate changed and I
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: can go out again. Meanwhile, I'll have a chance to
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  Speaker 2: play blocks with a junior. Understand, I begin to understand
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  Speaker 2: you are hiding from the law as you wish. All right, Jor,
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  Speaker 2: your move.
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  Speaker 9: Let's build a bridge.
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  Speaker 2: I have a better idea, Jr. What Let's build a coffin.
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  Speaker 9: A coffin I don't know that word.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll teach you, Junior. I can see the professor
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  Speaker 2: has been neglecting the moral side of your education.
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  Speaker 11: Very sadly, you shouldn't have come here.
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  Speaker 2: Why not, my dear, afraid of me?
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  Speaker 5: No, afraid of myself? You know, good for me. You've
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  Speaker 5: always brought me trouble, except this time.
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  Speaker 2: This time it will be different, Darling. This time I'll
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  Speaker 2: bring you diamonds.
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  Speaker 5: Duke, what have you been teaching that?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing, Honey, I've just been playing with him, very education.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe you.
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  Speaker 2: Who's bothering you today?
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  Speaker 12: When I walked in there, he said to me, I
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  Speaker 12: know how to kill people. Laura, I'll kill you if
• 8:25
  Speaker 12: you want me to.
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  Speaker 2: He's learning very quick.
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  Speaker 5: Duke.
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  Speaker 12: I'm scared of that thing. It's unholy, a machine that
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  Speaker 12: acts like a human with a voice grinding at you,
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  Speaker 12: saying things you'd expect from a child.
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  Speaker 2: You dislike them so much? Why did you take this
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  Speaker 2: job as his nurse man?
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  Speaker 12: Because I wanted to start over again, I answered nat.
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  Speaker 12: The professor didn't ask questions. I would have been all
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  Speaker 12: right too if you hadn't come along.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very glad you did tell me, Darling, because Junior
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  Speaker 2: is going to make us two very successful people. Like
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  Speaker 2: any child, Junior listens to what he's told.
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  Speaker 5: Duke.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know what you're teaching, Junior, but I can guess,
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  Speaker 12: and it is right.
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  Speaker 5: It's evil.
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  Speaker 2: Now right on the blackboard, JUNR. My name is Junior.
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  Speaker 9: My name is Junior.
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  Speaker 2: People are evil.
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  Speaker 9: Evil are evil.
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  Speaker 2: Evil must be destroyed.
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  Speaker 9: Evil must be destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: The professor is evil.
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  Speaker 9: The professor is evil.
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  Speaker 2: The professor must What are you doing? I want you
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  Speaker 2: to keep out of the nursery. Professor, go away.
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  Speaker 7: You you don't even remember me.
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  Speaker 9: I know you.
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  Speaker 10: You are the professor. You want to keep me as
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  Speaker 10: your slave. You didn't tell me that people are evil.
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  Speaker 9: People are not evil evil.
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  Speaker 10: They must be distress. I am not a child any long.
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  Speaker 6: No, you're not a child.
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  Speaker 2: You're amongst j yes, that time is now, Junior.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, keep away from me, Junior, Junior, don't do it.
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  Speaker 11: Listen to me, Junior, listen to me.
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  Speaker 9: I did it?
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  Speaker 11: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Can we go away now?
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  Speaker 8: Duke?
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  Speaker 9: I don't like it here anymore?
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  Speaker 5: Why did you do it?
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  Speaker 2: The professor was in the way. I have to move
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  Speaker 2: very quickly in Ala. You don't plan to come along,
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  Speaker 2: just say so. I can have Junior write your name
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  Speaker 2: and his blackboard.
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  Speaker 5: Where are we going?
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  Speaker 2: We go to Charlie's with Junior, with jor you can't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm relax, my dear. The Duke has great plans for
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  Speaker 2: you too. Wouldn't you like to be in the wealthy
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of your life? No cares, no worries,
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  Speaker 2: just good times and fine clothes all the time.
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  Speaker 5: The only way you get that way is by inheriting me.
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  Speaker 2: Not when you have a fellow like Junior around.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still afraid of you.
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  Speaker 2: Junior. Wouldn't hurt you. You wouldn't hurt Lola, would your Junior?
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  Speaker 9: I like Lola. She's plenty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you say, he thinks you're pretty. Junior is growing
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  Speaker 2: up so down Charlie sure, Duke, Paula and I are
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  Speaker 2: going to hide out here for a while. We need
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  Speaker 2: some help.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, Duke, I'm I'm trying to keep the cops away.
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  Speaker 2: Sure and I listen to me. I need a casing
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  Speaker 2: job done. Oh sure, sure, duke. You know the Armor
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  Speaker 2: Truck Service. Sure, I want to know when they take
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  Speaker 2: the ACME deposits from Boston to Worcester.
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  Speaker 6: Dude, you ain't thinking of a payroll truck, are you.
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  Speaker 6: They got cannons on those trucks. They travel in pairs.
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  Speaker 6: You couldn't get near one.
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  Speaker 2: I asked you to do a casing job, Charlie, sure, Duke,
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  Speaker 2: anything you say, find out what time they passed an hour?
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  Speaker 2: Western Moster's added stretch abroad.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you're gonna pull a job like that, you'll
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  Speaker 6: need fifty men. You want me to get some of
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  Speaker 6: the boys.
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  Speaker 2: I won't need anybody. I've got somebody where. He's out
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  Speaker 2: in the car.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what's his name, doke? Anybody I know?
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  Speaker 13: His name is junior, Junior. I don't know any junior.
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  Speaker 13: You will, Charlie, you will, I'll smock Sam.
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  Speaker 8: Well.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 11: Well, Oh, it sure gets hot in these armored trucks.
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  Speaker 6: You get used to it.
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  Speaker 2: How much we haul in this time? Got two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 11: Brother, could I use a hunk of that?
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  Speaker 2: Who couldn't? What's the first stop?
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  Speaker 14: Acme National Bank? And we unload a payroll of the
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  Speaker 14: bronze and watch plant. Hey, what's that up ahead?
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  Speaker 15: It looks like something shiny on the road. Throw up
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  Speaker 15: your spotlight right it smokes?
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  Speaker 11: You see what I see? It looks like a.
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  Speaker 15: Mechanical traffic cop about eight feet so, standing right in
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  Speaker 15: the middle of the highway. Maybe it's a Halloween gay huh,
• 13:37
  Speaker 15: because they're trying out robot traffic cops.
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  Speaker 11: Can you get pasting?
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  Speaker 14: No, we'll have to slow down. Get on that gun, Sam,
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  Speaker 14: Let's take no chances. Right, I'll give it the horn.
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  Speaker 2: Don't budge.
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  Speaker 14: Where's our rest cart? Truck pulled up right behind us?
• 13:58
  Speaker 14: Thing won't move. It looks like something out of buck
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  Speaker 14: Roger's doing it. That's a heck of a note blocking
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  Speaker 14: traffic like that. I'll have to try and get it
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  Speaker 14: past it. There, girls, well.
• 14:09
  Speaker 11: They smokes moving.
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  Speaker 15: Hell, it's coming toilets.
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  Speaker 5: Get on that gun.
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  Speaker 6: Give it a blast.
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  Speaker 11: Bullets are bouncing right off and it's still coming.
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  Speaker 14: Now back up. I can't the other trucks right behind
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  Speaker 14: it now, it's lifting it on.
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  Speaker 11: It's gonna smash over.
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  Speaker 6: Jeez, if I hadn't have seen it with my own eyes, Duke,
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: we gotta quit this. I matter.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Charlie getting shaky.
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  Speaker 16: The papers say he killed all four drivers. Listen, Duke,
• 14:53
  Speaker 16: that rope and it's hot. We gotta get rid of it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I have to have blubbing one more good robbery.
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: You ain't gonna pull another one.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Why not help me out to the law is going
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: to track that baby. Are you quite finished? Charlie?
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: You got no heart, Dupe, You like Junior all steal inside.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I just a big, warm hearted slab I suppose, flowing
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: with the milk of human kindness.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: I got nerves.
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  Speaker 16: I can't stand that thing, the way it looks at you,
• 15:17
  Speaker 16: with that that iron face and clanking around all the time.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Listen, here it comes, Hello, Junior, Hello, Duke, I've been
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: talking to Charlie. Yes, Duke, do you know what I think? Junior?
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: I think Charlie's yellow. You know what happens to people
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: who turn yellow, don't you?
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: Yes, Gil tell.
• 15:45
  Speaker 10: Him they're evil. We have to describe them.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: You see, Charlie, Junior doesn't black people who sing to
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: police Duke.
• 15:55
  Speaker 16: Wait a minute. You know I never turned Stooley or
• 15:58
  Speaker 16: anything like that. I never saying to the copperies of
• 16:00
  Speaker 16: my life.
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  Speaker 2: You can call me.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want no trouble with you. Stop him, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 9: Less, Duke. I stopped him too, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Take him down to the cellar, Charley, put him down.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Take him down to the cellar, Junior, Yes, Duke, Duke,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: we're next, Darling, stop shooting, Duke.
• 16:27
  Speaker 12: We can't stay here. Charlie's going to be Missy Scott friends.
• 16:30
  Speaker 12: Now I'll have the games after as.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, I don't worry, Darling. The Duke will
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: take care of everything. Where are you going to a
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: travel agency to get some tickets? You and I are
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: going to take a trip.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Lola, you're leaving me alone here.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Juniors shit too, It's just it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: It's being alone with that thing.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Don't you worry. In forty eight hours you and I
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: will be on our way to Switzerland with five hundred
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of bluet.
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  Speaker 5: What about Junior.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Junior will be taking care.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: How can you get rid of it?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Julian will do anything I say, so I really have
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: him get into the furnace and sit there while I
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: fill up with oil and said bye to it. Too
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: bad the Professor couldn't have stayed around to see him
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: growing up. He's almost a man now. Junior is not
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: quite as clever as a man. You find that out
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: after restep center the furnace.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Get rid of Junior before you leave.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: There's no time I'll be back about it. Please and
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: be nice to Junior while I'm gone. Don't show him
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you're afraid of him. Good Bye, Darling, goodbye to.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: H Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: H what Junior?
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: Oil man?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Can't you wait? Duke gets back? He always oils you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 17: I want you to oil me, Lola, all right, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 17: like you to oil me, Lola, Yes, Lola.
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: Do you like Duke Sudan? Do you like me?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: But you know I do jun.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: Lola? What who do you like best? Me or Duke?
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I like you both, Junior?
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Yes? But who do you love?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: What do you know about love? Junior?
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: In the books Man and Woman love? No, Lola, what
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: do you think anyone will ever love me?
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Maybe?
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: Some women can fall in love with anything, Junior, even
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: with something like Duke.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: Why low love?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I don't know?
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: Maybe?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Because well, as long as you think. Your men is
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: the smartest and the strongest.
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: I see, where are you going to wait for? Duke?
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: He won't be home for a while.
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: I'll sit in the hall and wait for him, all
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: right you. I want to be alone and think about what.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: I read in a book today. It was bad to
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: kill people. What does that mean?
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: Bad? Bad?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I don't know, Junior. I guess it's just a word.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Duke. Oh see your while are you sitting
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: in the dark?
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: I was waiting for you, Duke.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Well that's a good boy.
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Lola oiled mate, that's nice.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Junior. I've got a little job
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that's down on the cellar. Let's go down there now, Duke,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: right now, JR.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: All right, Duke. Are we going away soon?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Duke? Yes, Junior, we're going away.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: That's in the cellar, Duke.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: A little surprise to hear June. You'll find out.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: Thank June for the latest news. And now I'll brief
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: into dude.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: I recorded dance music.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, Duke, is that you?
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Duke?
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: Mmm?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Hello, lo Love, I thought I heard Duke coming.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: He came in. Where is he down in the cellar?
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: What's he doing?
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: Nothing?
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Did he say he'd be up soon.
• 22:12
  Speaker 12: No, maybe you better go down and get him.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: He's dead.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, he isn't dead, you said.
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: The woman loves the strongest and the smartest, while I'm
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: stronger and smarter.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: But you are human.
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: I'm almost human, Lola.
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: No, no, stay way, don't touch me those metal part.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I love you, No, no, I love you.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: I love you.
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  Speaker 18: The last thing she heard was the robots, harsh bully
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  Speaker 18: droning it over and over again.
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  Speaker 9: I love you, I love you, I love you.
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  Speaker 18: And strangely enough, it did sound almost human.
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  Speaker 3: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
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  Speaker 3: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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  Speaker 3: of Astounding science fiction. Tonight by transcription, X minus one
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  Speaker 3: has brought you Almost Human, a story by Robert Block
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  Speaker 3: adapted for radio by George Leffards. Featured in the cast
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  Speaker 3: were Santos Ortega as Duke, Joan Allison as Lola, Jackie
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  Speaker 3: Grimes as Junior, Guy Repp as the Professor, Nat Poland
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  Speaker 3: as Charlie, Joseph Julian as Al Lynn Cook as Sam,
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  Speaker 3: and Merrill Joels as the radio voice your announcer, Fred Collins.
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  Speaker 3: X minus one was directed by Ken McGregor and is
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  Speaker 3: an NBC Radio Network production. And now next week, when
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  Speaker 3: the mighty earth Men arrive in their ships of space,
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  Speaker 3: courtesy and proper humility on the part of the natives.
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  Speaker 11: Is expected, but some native inhabitants.
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  Speaker 2: Are too small to be impressed.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens to such an expedition marooned on
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  Speaker 3: a far planet next week at x x minus minus
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  Speaker 3: minus one.
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  Speaker 1: One that was x minus one with almost human good night,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us for another radio theater presentation.