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X Minus One - "Venus Is a Man's World" (Old Time Radio, 1957) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: 150 years in the future, 13-year-old Ferdinand Ford travels aboard
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  Speaker 1: the luxury spaceship Eleanor Roosevelt, bound for Venus with hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of Earth women seeking husbands. On Earth, women govern after
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: war has sharply reduced the male population. On Venus, men
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: are still available amid a frontier culture. From NBC's X-Minus
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  Speaker 1: One comes Episode 87. Venus is a Man's World, first
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  Speaker 1: broadcast February 6th, 1957. William Tenn's story, first published in
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  Speaker 1: Galaxy Science Fiction, was adapted for radio by Arthur Small,
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Bellabio plays Ford, and Daniel Sutter directs. Presented by
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  Speaker 1: NBC in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, this journey
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  Speaker 1: now leaves Earth behind, and now, the original broadcast.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff. X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X
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  Speaker 2: minus 1, fire.
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  Speaker 3: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 3: new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 2: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 3: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 3: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 3: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 4: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, the time 150 years from now, the place, a
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  Speaker 3: luxury spaceship en route to Venus, the story, Venus is
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  Speaker 3: a Man's World, by William Tenn.
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  Speaker 1: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 5: Some fellows are lucky. They have brothers, but not me.
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  Speaker 5: I have nothing but sisters. Two of them, Carrie and Evelyn.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes Carrie isn't too bad, for a girl, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: But Evelyn, boy, she's hopeless. It was Evelyn's idea to
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  Speaker 5: put me on that spaceship, jam-packed with 300 females. And
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  Speaker 5: all of them aching to get themselves husbands. In the
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  Speaker 5: one place that's still to be had, the planet Venus. Well, anyway,
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  Speaker 5: 20 minutes after we took off from the spaceport, I
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  Speaker 5: was bored stiff.
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  Speaker 6: Ferdinand, do stop fidgeting and sit down.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have anything to do.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll read to you and Carrie. Would you like that?
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  Speaker 5: No. I want to do something.
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  Speaker 7: What's the name of the book, sis?
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's titled Family Problems of the Frontier Woman. Doesn't
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  Speaker 8: it sound intriguing?
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  Speaker 5: Peachy keen.
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  Speaker 6: That's enough out of you, young man. Why don't you
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  Speaker 6: take a walk around the ship?
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  Speaker 7: Can I go with Ferdinand, sis?
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  Speaker 6: Wouldn't you rather we start the book?
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  Speaker 5: You should, Carrie. Every girl should read about the family
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  Speaker 5: problems of the frontier woman. Keep quiet, you boy.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, children, let's have enough of that. Now, go ahead,
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  Speaker 8: run along, you two. And Carrie, look after Ferdinand. See
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  Speaker 8: that he keeps out of mischief.
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  Speaker 5: Gee, this is one big ship, isn't it? Uh-huh. I
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  Speaker 5: sort of wish we were on a cargo ship instead
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  Speaker 5: of this liner.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 7: This is super.
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  Speaker 5: On a cargo ship. We could go climbing from deck
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  Speaker 5: to deck on a ladder. We could even go to
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  Speaker 5: the bridge or the fo'c'sle. Talk with the crew.
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  Speaker 6: That's silly.
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  Speaker 7: Why would anyone want to do that?
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  Speaker 5: Because ships' crews are men.
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  Speaker 9: Only because we women are too busy with important things
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  Speaker 9: like government to run ships.
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  Speaker 5: Says you. Hey, what are you looking at?
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  Speaker 7: This sign.
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  Speaker 9: In the event of disaster affecting the oxygen content of
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  Speaker 9: the companionway, break glass with hammer upon wall, remove spacesuit,
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  Speaker 9: and proceed to don it.
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  Speaker 5: Boy, I hope we have that kind of a disaster.
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  Speaker 5: I sure would like to get into one of those. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: you're silly.
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  Speaker 6: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go exploring down this way. I see some portholes.
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  Speaker 9: And I see a sign that says, Notice. Passengers are
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  Speaker 9: not permitted past this point.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. There's no one around. And besides, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: really a passenger.
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  Speaker 7: Ferdinand, you say you're not really a passenger. Well, what
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  Speaker 7: do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: You have to be a citizen of a planet in
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  Speaker 5: order to get a passport, right? I'm not sure. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you. Ever since they passed that male-y suffrage act,
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  Speaker 5: only women can be Earth citizens. You and Evelyn are passengers,
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  Speaker 5: all right.
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  Speaker 7: But me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just a male dependent. So when a sign says,
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  Speaker 5: off limits for passengers, it doesn't mean me. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: a passenger, see?
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  Speaker 7: Keep away from that door, Ferdinand. Can't you see the sign?
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  Speaker 5: You and your old signs.
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  Speaker 7: Ferdinand, let's go back to the cabin.
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  Speaker 5: I want to see what's behind this door.
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  Speaker 7: If you don't come back with me this very minute,
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell Evelyn.
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  Speaker 5: So what? Hey, this looks like a sonic lock. I
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  Speaker 5: wonder if it works by knock or voice.
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  Speaker 7: Ferdinand, I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: Say, I remember one voice key. I wonder if it'll work. 2023,
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  Speaker 5: open Sesame.
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  Speaker 6: Ferdinand!
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  Speaker 5: Out of all the million possible combinations, I hit it
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  Speaker 5: just right. The door clicked open into a dimly lit hole.
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  Speaker 5: As the door closed, my hand closed around my throat.
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  Speaker 5: The lights came on, and I found myself staring up
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  Speaker 5: the muzzle of a highly polished blaster held by the
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  Speaker 5: biggest man I'd ever seen. We just stood there looking
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  Speaker 5: at each other for a while, until finally he said.
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  Speaker 2: Why, you're only a tadpole.
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  Speaker 5: Sir?
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  Speaker 2: The little tadpole. I must be getting jumpy enough to splash.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Ferdinand Sparling. I'm very pleased to meet you, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: I hope for your sake you aren't a tadpole brother
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  Speaker 2: to one of them husbandless senoras.
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  Speaker 5: Husbandless what?
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  Speaker 2: And you're a herd of females looking to nest. I
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  Speaker 2: come from Flatway, folks.
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  Speaker 5: You're a Venusian? Yep.
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  Speaker 2: What part of Earth are you from? And what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing on a spaceship to Venus?
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  Speaker 5: You know, the three out of four.
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  Speaker 2: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: The three out of four. No more than three women
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  Speaker 5: out of every four on Earth can expect to find husbands.
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  Speaker 5: Not enough men to go around, you know, with the
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  Speaker 5: Third Atomic War and all. Why, back in the 20th century,
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  Speaker 5: some of our best men went to the planets. My
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  Speaker 5: sister Evelyn says that by now, most of the men
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  Speaker 5: on Earth aren't even worth marrying.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. Those busybody and you're I took care
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  Speaker 2: of that. Kurt, what a place. I had a belly full.
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  Speaker 5: Why did you come in the first place?
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  Speaker 2: I came looking for a wife. Women are pretty scarce
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  Speaker 2: on Venus. I heard that there was a surplus of
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  Speaker 2: them on Earth.
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  Speaker 5: I can't understand why any man would even want to
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  Speaker 5: marry a woman.
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  Speaker 2: How old are you, Tadpole?
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  Speaker 5: Thirteen. Almost fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that explains a lot of things, Tadpole.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't explain why you're heading back to Venus.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was in trouble the minute I landed on
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  Speaker 2: that woman's world. I didn't know I had to register
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  Speaker 2: at a government-operated hotel for transient males. Imagine, they told
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  Speaker 2: me a man couldn't say anything in court. All talking
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  Speaker 2: was done by female attorneys to a female judge. But
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  Speaker 2: I told them off. I told them where I come from.
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  Speaker 2: A man spoke his piece when he had a mind to,
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  Speaker 2: and his woman walked by his side.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I was found guilty of this and contempt of that.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't going to serve all those fancy little
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  Speaker 2: prison sentences, so I broke out and stowed away.
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  Speaker 7: You mean that you're breaking the law right now?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: I guess so. I'm also a man outside the law.
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  Speaker 5: We're in this together.
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  Speaker 2: Shake, Ferdinand. Ferdinand? That's not a right label for a
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  Speaker 2: sprouting tadpole. I'll call you Ford. My name's Butt. Butt
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  Speaker 2: Lee Brown.
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  Speaker 5: Is Butt a nickname like Ford?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, short for Alberta. But I haven't found a man
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  Speaker 2: who can draw a blaster fast enough to call me that.
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  Speaker 2: You see, Pop came over in the 80s. We're the
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  Speaker 2: first wave of immigrants from Ontario. Named all of us
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  Speaker 2: boys after Canadian provinces. I was the youngest, so I
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  Speaker 2: got the name they were saving for a girl.
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  Speaker 5: Golly, Mr. Butt. You must have had a lot of brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Full nest. There's Sass. His real name is Saskatchewan. Manny,
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  Speaker 2: after Manitoba. And Uke, he was named for Yukon. I
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  Speaker 2: got one for every province and territory in Canada.
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  Speaker 5: Raleigh, all I have is two sisters. Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's Carrie. She's almost 16.
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  Speaker 2: How about your other sister? Is she a little older?
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  Speaker 5: She's old, all right. Evelyn's almost 21.
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  Speaker 7: She pretty?
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  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Your sister Evelyn.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know. She's healthy. She's got very good teeth.
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  Speaker 2: If I know her breed, she's bossy and opinionated.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know the women.
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  Speaker 2: There goes the dinner gong, Ford. You better scat. Growing
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  Speaker 2: tadpoles need their vitamins.
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  Speaker 5: Could I bring you some chow? I could stuff it
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  Speaker 5: in my pocket and sneak it back here.
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  Speaker 2: No, thanks. I've stashed away enough provisions. I got plenty
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  Speaker 2: of kelp and Venusian mud grapes to last the trip.
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  Speaker 2: You better shove off, Ford, or they'll start looking for you.
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  Speaker 5: Guess I had better. Well, I'll see you right after dinner, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Butt. Just plain butt to you, Ford.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay. I'll be seeing you. 20-23. Open Sesame.
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  Speaker 6: Ferdinand, please be seated. I want to talk with you.
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  Speaker 5: No, they just rang the dinner bell. I am aware
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 6: Now, where have you been?
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  Speaker 5: Around.
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  Speaker 6: I demand a straight answer. Where have you been, Ferdinand?
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  Speaker 5: I told you, sis, around. And don't call me Ferdinand.
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  Speaker 5: Call me Ford. That's what Butt calls me.
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  Speaker 6: Butt? Who is Butt?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, nobody. I just made it up.
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  Speaker 6: Ferdinand?
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 6: You must.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you promise you won't turn him in. Well, Butt's
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  Speaker 5: my friend. He's a Venusian. He's going home.
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  Speaker 8: About our ship, the Eleanor Roosevelt... Ferdinand, don't you realize
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  Speaker 8: you've been consorting with a stowaway, a criminal? What sort
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  Speaker 8: of anti-social ideas has this warmongering masculinist been putting into
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  Speaker 8: your head?
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  Speaker 5: But it's a nice guy. He asked about you. Oh, indeed.
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  Speaker 5: I told him you had very good teeth.
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  Speaker 6: Really? Well, take me to this man.
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  Speaker 5: I will if you promise not to turn him in.
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  Speaker 7: No, I promise.
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  Speaker 5: He's in there. The door has a sonic lock. I
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  Speaker 5: know the combination. Watch.
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  Speaker 6: 2023.
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  Speaker 5: Open Sesame.
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  Speaker 6: It's so dark in there.
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  Speaker 5: But, hey, but, I brought along my sister Evelyn. She'd
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  Speaker 5: like to meet you. It's all right. Put on the lights. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: An honor, Miss Sparling. Please come right in.
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  Speaker 6: First, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Bott, I want.
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  Speaker 2: It's Brown. Butt Lee Brown.
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  Speaker 6: First, Mr. Brown, you realize that you are committing two crimes. One,
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  Speaker 6: the political crime of traveling without a visa, and two,
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  Speaker 6: the criminal act of stowing away without paying your fare.
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  Speaker 5: Golly, Sid, that's no way to talk to Butt.
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  Speaker 6: I take it you either have no defense or care
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  Speaker 6: to make none?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if all the Inura talk like that. And
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: you want to foul up Venus.
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  Speaker 8: We haven't done so badly on Earth after the mess
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  Speaker 8: you men made of politics.
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  Speaker 2: Hear, hear.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, hear, hear.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you keep quiet, Ferdinand. And another point, Mr. Butt
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  Speaker 6: Lee Brown. I don't suppose you know that under space regulations,
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: you've made this poor child an accessory.
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  Speaker 5: But it didn't make me anything.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not talk law, female. Let's talk sense. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: trouble because I went to Earth to look for a wife.
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  Speaker 2: You're standing right here now because you're on your way
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  Speaker 2: to Venus for a husband. So, let's.
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: Let's? Let's what? Are you daring to suggest that.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Miss Farley, no hoopla. I'm saying let's get married
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  Speaker 2: and you know it.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus, say yes.
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  Speaker 8: And what makes you think that I consider you a
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  Speaker 8: desirable husband?
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  Speaker 2: Figure it this way. If you wanted a poodle, you're
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  Speaker 2: pretty enough to pick one up on Earth. When you
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: go charging off to Venus, you don't want a poodle,
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: you want a man, and I'm one. I own three
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: islands in the Galurton Archipelago. Good farmland. When they're cleared,
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  Speaker 2: I got no bad habits. I'll start having my own way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm passable good-looking. My teeth are good, too. Besides, if
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  Speaker 2: you marry me, you'll be the first mated on this ship,
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: and that's a splash most nesting females like to make.
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  Speaker 6: You know, there's more to marriage than just doing.
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  Speaker 2: So there is. Well, we can try each other for taste.
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  Speaker 2: Now me, I'd vote yes.
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  Speaker 5: Me too, I'd vote yes.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'll cast my vote.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you guessed it. She broke her promise. I suppose
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  Speaker 5: the kiss did it. She putted a stowaway to the
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  Speaker 5: captain and he sent the detail from the ship's crew
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  Speaker 5: to Holtbutt off to the brig. Well, later that afternoon,
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  Speaker 5: all the passengers, 300 females and me, gathered in the
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  Speaker 5: lounge for the hearing. It's all on account of you.
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  Speaker 6: Shush!
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: Don't shush me. You promised your word wouldn't get Bun
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  Speaker 5: into trouble.
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  Speaker 6: And you see it. Shush!
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: The captain is rapping for quiet.
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  Speaker 4: By authority vested in me under the Pomona College Treaty,
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  Speaker 4: the stowaway, Evanusian, Butley Brown, will be tried for violation
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  Speaker 4: of Article 16 to 21, inclusive of the Space Transport Code.
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  Speaker 2: Purser, bring in the prisoner.
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  Speaker 6: Ladies, ladies. They're cheap extroverts, and they call themselves responsible. Ladies,
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  Speaker 6: dear ladies.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, ladies.
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  Speaker 4: But, Lee Brown, I order your person and belongings impounded
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  Speaker 4: for the duration of this voyage as set forth in
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  Speaker 4: Sections 41 and 45.
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  Speaker 8: Captain, the sections are 43 and 45.
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  Speaker 2: You're quite right, Miss Farling.
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  Speaker 4: Sections 43 and 45 of the Mother Anita Law Emergency
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  Speaker 4: Interplanetary Directive.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you even going to give me a fair trial
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  Speaker 2: before you hang me?
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  Speaker 6: Come to me! Come to me! Ladies, I beg of you, ladies.
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  Speaker 2: Captain, what exactly are the charges against me?
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  Speaker 6: You're a stowaway.
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  Speaker 2: I can pay for my passage. You can?
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: Well, then I guess we can dismiss the charges. Ladies,
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: gentle ladies. Just a moment, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Barling?
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: I demand justice. You can't let him off that lightly. Besides,
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: there's the other charge.
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  Speaker 2: What other charge?
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Assault.
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  Speaker 8: That comes under Sections 18 through 35 of the MacDonald Law.
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  Speaker 2: It does?
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  Speaker 10: Well, then would you tell the court in your own
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  Speaker 10: words exactly what happened?
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  Speaker 6: Well, when I first laid eyes on Mr.
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: Brown, he seemed to be a fundamentally decent chap, despite
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  Speaker 8: his barbaric notions on equality between the sexes or worse.
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: I was positive I could shame him into a more
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  Speaker 8: rational social behavior and make him give himself up.
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  Speaker 2: Go on, Miss Farling.
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  Speaker 8: Just as I was getting over the colossal impudence involved
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  Speaker 8: in his proposing marriage and was considering the offer seriously
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: on its merits, as one should consider all suggestions, he
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: deliberately dropped the pretense of reason.
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  Speaker 2: Get her. Ferdinand!
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  Speaker 5: My name is Ford, and you're nothing but a big snitch.
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  Speaker 5: You promised not to get Butt into trouble.
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  Speaker 6: Your name is Ferdinand, and stop trying to act forcefully
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  Speaker 6: like a girl. It doesn't become you.
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  Speaker 10: Miss Sparling, did I understand you to say that you
• 15:53
  Speaker 10: were considering Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Brown's proposal of marriage? That is true.
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  Speaker 8: I will not deny that he appealed to me. He
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: appealed to me as most savage ancients appeal to their women,
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  Speaker 8: as an emotional machine. Throw the proper switches, says his theory,
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  Speaker 8: and the female surrenders herself ecstatically to the doubtful and
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  Speaker 8: bloody murk of masculine plans.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid I still don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: What exactly did Mr.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Brown do?
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  Speaker 6: He kissed me. Ladies, ladies, please, ladies.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Brown, do you deny kissing Miss Barling?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: No, Miss Barling, do you deny enjoying the kiss?
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  Speaker 6: Your question is irrelevant and immaterial.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, she enjoyed it. How would you know? Well, I
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: was right there. I could tell the way she acted.
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  Speaker 5: She sort of held the back of his neck, closed
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: her eyes, and just hung on.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: What were you doing there?
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  Speaker 5: I introduced him. I met Bud first, then I took
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: sis over there to meet him.
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  Speaker 7: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Ferdinand Sparling, I hereby order your detention for the duration
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: of this voyage for aiding and abetting a stowaway as
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: set forth in sections 41 and.
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  Speaker 6: 43 and 45.
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  Speaker 8: And you can't arrest Ferdinand.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: He's only a child. You gave me your word no
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: charges would be lodged against the boy.
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: That was the usual promise one makes to an informer.
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: But I made it before I knew it was Butley
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: Brown you were talking about.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to arrest Butley Brown.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: You forced me.
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: So I'm breaking my promise to you, just as I
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: understand you broke your promise to your brother. I'm afraid
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: both Ferdinand and Butley Brown will be picked up at
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: New Kalamazoo Spaceport and sent terror ward for trial.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: But I used all our money to buy passage.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: You will have to return with your brother.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: There is a way out.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: There is? Well, tell me, please. Miss Sparling, if you'd
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: marry Brown... Now, don't look at me like that.
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: If you'd marry Brown, he would go on your passport
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: as a dependent male member of your family.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Do you think I'd marry that, that, that Desperado? Why,
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: he doesn't know enough to sit back and let a
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: woman run things. Captain, you should be ashamed of yourself.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I'll marry him!
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: Perhaps I should be, but that's what comes of putting
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: men in responsible positions. See here, Miss Sparling, I didn't
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: want to arrest Brown. I'd still prefer not to. The
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: officers and crew of my ship all go along with me.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Why not?
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Men always think like men. They never use logic. They
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: just rely on masculine intuition.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: Maybe so. This ship's crew are all residents of Earth.
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: But our work requires us to be on Venus several
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: times a year. We wouldn't want to cross any member
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: of the Brown clan. They're all men of influence on
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: the polar continent.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't doubt that for a second.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: If anyone gets in their way, they merely oxidize them
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: with a blaster.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Take butt. He's a big man in his own bailiwick.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Big alert and archipelago.
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: When he wants to put somebody in office, well, he
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: just appoints them.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Mr. Brown has that much influence, you say?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Uh, power, actually.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: The kind a strong man usually wields in a newly
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: settled community.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mr. Brown.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: If I marry you, would you promise to see that
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: I'm appointed resident governor of the Galurton Acapulco?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Attaboy, but don't give in.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Ferdinand, this does not concern you. Mr. Brown, I might
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: even consider a county clerkship.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Stick by your blasters, but show me you're a real man.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: Brown, it would seem to me that if you really
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: want to marry this attractive young lady... A compromise could
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: be worked out.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I could make her sheriff. Oh, no.
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: Would the position of sheriff of the Galurton Archipelago be acceptable,
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: Miss Barling?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I'll marry you here and now.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I want to be a bridesmaid. Always a bridesmaid.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Never a bride.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I see every bride.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Have sold out. Why did you do it? You don't
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: have to marry her for my sake. I wouldn't care
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: what they did to me.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: That's all right, Ted. Oh, I'd do anything for my
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: favorite brother-in-law.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: I'd sure like to be your brother-in-law. But gosh, you
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: don't have to marry, sis. You've got any one of
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: these 300 females.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: Why marry sis?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I'm stubborn, but I like at first to keep on liking.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: What I want at first, I keep on wanting until
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but making her sheriff, what's going to happen to
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: our man's world?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Don't worry none about that, Ford, my boy. Wait till
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: after we meet and go out to my island. She'll
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: find herself sheriff over exactly two earth males, you and me.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: And I got a hunch that'll keep her pretty busy, huh?
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: How about that, huh?
• 20:42
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• 20:51
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• 20:54
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• 20:55
  Speaker 3: The Earthmen who thought they couldn't hurt a friendly alien
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: if their lives depended on it. while all the time
• 21:00
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• 21:05
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• 21:10
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• 21:13
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• 21:18
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• 21:21
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• 21:26
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• 21:29
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• 21:31
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• 21:36
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• 21:54
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• 21:57
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• 22:00
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• 22:05
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• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:14
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• 22:19
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• 22:31
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