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Lights Out - The Word · Lights Out

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  Ionized yeast presents lights out. Everybody is later than you think. This is
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  our Joe Bler. Yes, this tonight is not a play of horror.
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  There is no terror in it, only wonder For the day of which we
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  speak was a strange, wonderful day. About it. Warried, you're a
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  warried, you're a paper read all about it, ward express the observation roof
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  going up. You can hear it face front place. If forget all about
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  what's happening outside, newspapers and things, don't let it spoil this. Nothing
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  can spoil being with you. Michael, Sweet, you can't hardly feel the
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  elevator movie. It is moving, Michael, sure, look at the Liot's
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  twenty fifth floor already. It doesn't seem possible. Oh, you're mine too,
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  because we're going so fast. No, it's something about air pressure,
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  you know, like getting on top of a mountain. Gee, look at
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  those lights. We're at the fiftieth floor. At least they say so.
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  It's so scary. I'm wonderful. Just think one hundred and two floors up
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  in the air. I'm this elevator. Mister h You have to changeth at
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  thirty six again? Oh, oh thanks, looky seventieth floor already. Of
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  course, this is one of the longest elevator shops in the wild. Yeah,
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  I should think it is that they're fooling is Yeah, I had.
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  There's an extra paper out that the wars go. Please huh if you don't
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  mind, we don't want to talk about those things. Oh yeah, I
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  don't find you. Wow, fire as we go? Where do we next?
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  Elevator right over there, sir? Thanks, better hold out of my
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  army. Yes. Why does everyone have to talk about the world all the
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  time? Michael, that's just the way it is. I guess. Come
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  ahead, watch your step. I wonder how much you can see off there?
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  Oh, New York. The guide book says, how as we go?
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  Yeah, I mean this is where were eighty four? Mister, take
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  the elevator right over there for the observation rope. Oh thanks, Come on,
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  Michael, we no sooner got in and we got out six floors higher
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  and at least, he says, So, I guess this is the place
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  where we get Oh, come on, evil and never get closer to heaven.
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  Observation roof next up a hundred the second floor. And I used to
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  think that I was getting up high when I climbed the Apple Tree Observation roof
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  hunt the second floor. Gosh, its price is right all right, Eve,
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  this is in the windlow? Will it be all Oh Michael, it's
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  all glassed in. Yeah. Oh, Michael, how wonderful. Michael.
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  Come over here. Look the ocean out there. You can see the Statue
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  of Liberty. Oh, it's wonderful. And you didn't want to come up
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  here. It's like the world right under it. I'm scared a bit,
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  are you? Oh? Why should I be? It's just wonderful. Look
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  over here. Well you quit running around here like a doodle bug over the
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  river. Which one is that? Well, I don't know, Brooklyn or
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  something. Oh, so many buildings. I had no idea New York was
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  so so spread out, so many buildings, so wonderful. Yeah, from
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  up here, what did you see? Michael? I said, it's all
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  wonderful from up here. But get down there, and I thought it's like
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  one of those Hollywood, you know, glamour stars when she gets up in
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  the morning. Michael, what do you know about things like that? I
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  know you're super colossal or something when you wake up. Oh you are.
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  Your eyelash is sort of fluttering, and then you stretch out just like a
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  little pup dog. Like a pup dog, michaels that room. Oh I
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  don't know the words. I just know that I'm glader every minute that you're
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  married me. You married me. I don't argue with your husband. Husband,
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  Eh lips so soft yours hunt glad. No one else's up here,
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  Michael. Two dollars and twenty cents to make love to me or to see
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  the sight I married a beautiful cashiers. You're like, you're going to see
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  me for ninety nine years and maybe this is the last time we'll ever be
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  able to get away from the farm and see New York this way and we
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  Michael, huh, look over there, Hey, how do you like that?
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  Clouds? Where did they come from? Oh? The usual place clouds
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  come from, I suppose, but so quickly or up playing to high look
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  at them coming right at us. It's a strong window, guys. Oh,
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  Michael is so exciting up in the clouds made the order for you and
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  me. Rain there goes the rest of our day. Sure a good thing
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  they got this place last day. Oh e, it's only like me.
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  Oh no, you've been in thunderstars before. What is the clouds they're fighting?
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  Huh? Look at them fighting each other? Well, was that any
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  reason to be afraid? Gosh, thunderclouds always sort of boil around like armies
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  fighting. Eve, what kind of talk is there? Armies fighting? Why
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  do you keep saying that I can't help it? I keep thinking, we
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  don't think. Remember we said our honeymoon we wouldn't think about anything but us.
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  But this is us. How can I be heavy when all over the
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  world? All right, I will talk about it. I'll talk about it
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  once and for all, and then you and I won't have to talk about
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  it anymore. Gosh, I don't know anything about about those things, and
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  newspapers are always talking about Maybe I'm not so smart as the people who live
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  in this town and all the other big towns when it comes to dodging taxi
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  cabs and throwing wise cracks. But I know this. I don't want to
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  own everything I can get my hands on. And I know that it isn't
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  right for some people to have too much and some people have too little.
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  And I know that when I go to fight, I will fight, and
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  it'll be for what I know is right, for the kind of world where
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  all the little people have a chance, no matter what they look like,
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  or what their name is or what their blood is, Because no matter what
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  any little dictator says, people all over the world are just like you and
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  me. All they want and all I want is happy work and someone they
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  care about to work for, and a little time left over and which just
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  to enjoy being alive. I love you, Michael. Let's go down just
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  a minute more. Storm's breaking. Yeah, I guess it is the first
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  time in my life I ever talked like that. You're very good, Michael.
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  I'm not bright, but good, Michael. Look other one. You
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  just can't see anything down there. Yeah, air's full of miss that's why
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  see things, and yet you don't see them. Let's go all right,
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  hold out of my arm. If it's still raining when we get down,
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  we'll take a taxi back to the hotel. Right. I guess this is
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  the button I pressed get the elevator up here. I don't want to bring
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  them up. Gosh, thunderstorms and everything. It's been some experience, hasn't
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  it. Yes. I sure jumped out of my skin when you scream.
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  I mean, when you saw those thunderclouds. I didn't Michael, well,
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  you certainly did kind of. I sure don't know much about it, then
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  I did. I mean you were afraid of the clouds, and then you
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  weren't afraid of the thunder and lightning. Clouds were horrible. Hey, what's
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  the matter with that elevator ring again? That's all I've been doing. Something
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  must be wrong with it. The button. Yeah, no answer, that's
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  plain enough. Don't Oh, we certainly can't walk down. You'll come up
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  for it. Gosh, my thumb's getting sore or punching this thing something.
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  Sure he is out of water. Maybe we had they walked down one hundred
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  and two floors. No, no, I mean just as the next landing
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  where we can get the next elevator. See you stair away? Huh okay,
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  I guess there's nothing else to do about it. Come on, don't
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  walk so fast here. It isn't so bad walking downstairs. You're just well,
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  you take my arm. We go, missus Smith. You know elevators
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  are all right, But me, I'll take the good old fashioned horse step
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  one hundred and fifty fifty one fifty two. Fty, Michael, looks that
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  door s's eighty six. Hello, Loujah, we're here, sure, a
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  heavy door. Alright, Eve, go through, Yes, eh, and
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  I we'll find out what was the matter? Elevators? H Here we are
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  Georgia Rope. Yeah, gosh, we're the elevator man. Maybe we just
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  better wait? Wait, I want to ride? Where are they? Nobody
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  in the hall? Hey, Michael, don't I got to get someone to
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  run the contraptions. Hey, elevator man. No, you won't like it.
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  Gosh, I don't like being stuck up here? Hey? Is there
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  someone here to run these elevators? No one? Now, what'll we do?
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  Well? The last elevator stopped at the eightieth floor, didn't it?
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  You mean walker again? I guess we'll have to Yeah, and what could
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  have happened to him? Hey? Hey, isn't anyone here? He ever?
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  Want to get downstairs? Hey, it's well, there's got to be
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  somebody on this floor. I don't get so excited, Michael. Gosh,
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  there's any floors between us and the street. We can't walk all that way.
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  We'll have to telephone. Yeah, telephone, that's it. I'll call
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  the operator and tell her what's happening. Come on, Michael, await for
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  me. Michael. You can't go in there long. It's a private office,
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  for sure, but they won't mind it. But hey, can you
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  be there? No one here going off with the elevator, man, I'll
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  bet you well. At least they left the telephone. I hope I can
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  dial this thing right here, it says operator Michael. They won't like it
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  at all if they come back in here. In fine, we walked right
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  in with out of it. Gosh, what's the matter the telephone here?
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  Listen? Son? Sort of did I I'll say, here, give it
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  to me. I got to get somebody. Hey, listen, operator,
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  how about answering operator? Operator Michael? Yeah, oh is this a mess?
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  I have to walk down. I guess where is every one in this
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  building? Guys you Michael? Maybe there's been a fire. Yeah, maybe,
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  Michael. Quick, Let's get to the shairway and get out of here.
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  Quick. Michael, howe are we going five or six floors? Are
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  this quote tight to my arm? We have to walk? We have to
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  walk. Yeah, the whole building can't be empty, Michael. I tried
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  every office on that floor. I tell you there was no one. No
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  one. Oh gosh, it's a ascuriest thing. It can't be a fire,
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  Michael, No, it's no smoke or anything. But where is everyone,
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  Michael? Where? I don't know. I don't know, honest,
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  Michael, Honey, I'm as tired of trying to figure it out as I
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  am walking down the whole blasted one hundred and two floors, floor after floor,
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  offices all fixed up as if people were working in them, and and
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  no one there. I give up, I'd say you, Michael. The
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  war huh? I mean the war news. Everybody ran out into the street.
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  No e does that makes sense? A whole skyscraper emptied out just to
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  grab newspaper, Michael, about a war that's all the way over the ocean.
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  Oh, that makes about as little sense as everything else. Well,
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  this is it? Are we? So help me? The main floor all
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  out? Oh gosh, all right, Michael, don't don't sit down,
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  hurry hurry away out of here in the street. Don't you want to know
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  what's happened? Well? Yeah, sure, that door says to the street.
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  Let's go get a wait for me, Michael. You're glad to get
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  out of this place. Come on up we go, yes, Michael,
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  gosh, Oh Michael, it's all right, deary, it's all right,
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  Michael. What's happened? Not a person in the streets. There were so
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  many, yeah, Michael, Michael, listen, I don't hear anything.
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  Listen the wind. Yes, that's it. That's it, only the wind,
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  Michael. Don't you remember ever since we got to New York, all
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  day yesterday, all night, all morning. The noise, Michael, don't
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  you remember the noise? Yes, sir, No, nothing but the wind.
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  What's happened? Why it's so quiet? Now? What are the people?
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  Michael? Tell me? Do you want to rest? No, just
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  keep walking, all right. If we don't need one, Michael, if
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  we only need one person, you don't stop it. Of course we'll meet
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  someone. We've got to. There's millions of people in this town. Millions,
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  I tell you, not a thing, of course. Dog, there's
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  an explanation. I tell you, there's an explanation for everything. Everyone's gone
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  somewhere, that's all gone somewhere. Where are they gone, Michael? Careful
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  automobile standing still like all the rest. Crazy people leave their cars standing right
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  in the middle of the street. But they'll come back. They got you.
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  Millions of people, I tell you, people, Where are you?
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  People? Hey, somebody come out blast here, come out people, people,
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  Stop your people? Where are you empty speople? Feeling them? Ally?
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  People? Oh? Hold me, what's happened to us? What?
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  No? No, I gotta stop asking questions. I gotta keep going.
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  I gotta find someone. They'll tell us they here? What tremble? What
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  is it here? Michael? I just thought, I thought, why all
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  these empty streets? Michael listened to me. What if there is no one
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  else? Huh? What if you and I are the only ones? Lift
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  Michael? Yes, I can't walk another step. All right, we'll rest
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  where anywhere. It doesn't matter much, does he? Old New York sellars?
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  You ought to know that by now. No, do you know where
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  we are? No Broadway Times Square? Well, I give you a Times
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  Square. It's all yours, wedding press, Yeah, yours, shops and
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  big signs, and all the taxi cabs and buses and cars standing around yours
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  yours to have and a loser Bernop. I'm sorry, guess I'm a little
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  goofy. Let's keep going, all right, tired? Yeah, it's going
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  to get dark soon. Yeah, we're here, it's been Nope, how
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  do you know? I tried the light switches all along the way. I
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  won't be afraid in the dark and I guess that's one advantage we've got coming
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  from the country. There'll be people there, won't there, I don't think
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  so why do you say that? Well, and we went to that store
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  before. There were radio sets, battery ones. I tried them. We
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  weren't looking, there was nothing on the air. What does that mean?
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  It means what you said before. Maybe it's true. Where's the only?
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  The only? Yeah, somehow I'm not as frightened as I was. Me
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  neither my head. I'm just all mixed up, that's all. They left
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  the doors open and the automobiles right in the middle of the street, and
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  everything's just as if they stopped right in the middle of what they were doing.
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  Why Why that word's got me busy chasing around in my head millions of
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  people. Where have they disappeared? To it? If we only had some
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  idea, any idea, what's the matter? Why? Good newspaper light at
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  your feet? Huh? Pick it up? The headline or fury rages,
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  Armies march in Europe? Well the headline, well, what is it the
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  same one as this morning? Couldn't that be the answer answer to what?
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  What are you talking about? Why they disappeared? You get hold of yourself.
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  What's a war thousands of miles away got to do with this? It's
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  the same over there. People gone, Yes, let's keep going, No
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  the curb. Let's sit here all right now. You gotta tell me what
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  you started to say. Don't laugh at me when I say it. Just
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  tell me. Maybe God got tired of it. What He's been so patient
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  waiting all these years for people to learn how to live on the earth,
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  so today, well he just got tired and took everybody away. Michael,
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  don't look at me like that is what I said any more crazy than what's
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  happened. Look, this street should be like daylight with electric signs. There
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  should be so many people around us, and automobiles coming and going in a
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  streetcars and a whole city living. But there's nothing, Michael. Who else
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  could have taken them away? Why can't it be true he got so tired
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  of the horrible mess they making of things that he took them away. Yes,
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  that's it he No, I stopped it. No, it's crazy talk.
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  I won't listen crazy because we don't understand. It's impossible. I tell
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  you, why is it impossible? Michael? I don't know very much,
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  but I know this. I've been thinking about it all the time we've been
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  walking. Called the way people got here on Earth, any name you want,
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  But no matter how you see it, when you really think about it,
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  it's all a miracle. Things joining in the empty air and growing,
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  burning and cooling, the animals growing other things that couldn't move, the animals
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  changing for millions of years until there were men. I tell you, it's
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  all crazy and impossible, and yet someone made it happen. So why not
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  this? Yes, if he made men, why couldn't he get tired of
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  the way they were doing things and destroy them? I can't believe it's you
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  talking. I think I'm saying the truth. Someone made mankind, and that's
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  someone just destroyed them. And what are we doing here? We're flesh and
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  blood like the rest. Maybe he just forgot us, or maybe why it
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  doesn't matter. Tell me maybe you and I, Well, maybe he wanted
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  just a couple of people to start over with. You say crazy things,
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  and then you say crazy. What if it's true, Michael? Think what
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  if it's true? The things you said up on the roof during the storm,
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  those good things, Maybe he heard them and liked them. Getting so
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  dark? Maybe he heard them and liked them. I'm alway tired. Let's
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  find a place to sleep, all right, I'll help you. Where'll we
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  go? Any place where? We can go? Any place? Now?
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  Yes, let's hurry. They'll be terrible in the streets when it's very dark.
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  Yes, we'll wait, Michael. Huh, why should we hurry and
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  be afraid? Who can harm us? Now? You're right, Oliver,
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  the harm is out of the city now, Michael, you don't quite believe
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  all the things I said before. But tomorrow, when the sun is shining
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  again, and we really know that this happened and isn't kind of a dream,
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  you will believe then, won't you. Michael? Maybe you're thinking something.
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  Tell me what. Well, if what you think did happen, maybe
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  maybe he left a few more people like us at different places on the earth,
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  I mean, plain ordinary people to join together and make a new world.
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  We'll have to help run things, Michael. Yes, But but if
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  we don't know anything about running a world, You and I we're just you
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  and me? How can we do better than they did? And millions of
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  them? Maybe maybe by remembering something they sort of forgot what it's just too
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  the won to others is they should do unto you, ladies and gentlemen,
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  This is Linda Donell. I speak to you now while your hearts and minds
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  are full of tonight's play, because what I'm about to say to you is
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  close to what you've been hearing. The victories a few days ago sang in
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  the headlines, But today's headlines speak in a deeper voice of reality, a
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  voice which says, more of our men must die before this war is won.
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  If that realistic thought is unpleasant, you and I can do something about
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  it. We can give our men all of the finest war equipment possible when
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  they need it, at the time they need it. And the time has
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  come now, because the attack is now. It's hard to conceive, isn't
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  it, of any decent human being wanting to make profit out of this war.
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  So if there's extra money in your pay envelope, spend it in the
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  only manner that will enable you to face the future with a clear conscience.
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  Put those dollars into war bonds. Back the attack now with your dollars,
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  and when that final victory does come, a part of it will be yours.
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  Thank you, Linda Darnell. Ladies and gentlemen, the makers of ironized
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  Yeast, we're happy to devote their entire commercial time on Tonight's program to the
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  Third War Long Drive in cooperation with the drug, cosmetic and Allied industries.
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  Mister robler Well, first, a word of thanks to Linda Darnell and of
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  course the mercies mckaybridge and Byron Kine for Tonight's beautiful performances. And is later
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  than you think. H