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Speaker 2: Blast off X minus five four three two X minus

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Speaker 3: From the far horizons of the Unknown. Come transcribe tales

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Speaker 4: One Tonight Project masterdon by Clifford D. Simak, Mister Secretary,

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and I present mister Hudson of Masterdonia, Mascedonia. Mister Hudson,

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this is the Secretary of State, honored sir now as

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Chief of Protocol for the Department.

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Speaker 5: I've all right, mister Kingston, I have much time. I'm

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due at a meeting of a standate Foreign Relations Committee

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of two. If you've passed mister Hudson in, I'll assume

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everything is quite proper. Now, then, mister Hudson, I understand

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you've been here several times seeking recognition for your country.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right. I had a hard time making your

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staff believe I was in earnest, are you, mister Hudson,

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Oh very much so you are an American, mister Hudson,

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I assume you are acting as a representative for Macecedonia

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rather than as a principle in the matter. Oh no, no, no,

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I claim dual citizenship, Sir, I am a Mascedonian.

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Speaker 5: You pardon me, but I've never heard of your country. Well,

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it's a new nation, but quite legitimate.

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Speaker 1: We have a constitution, a democratic form of government, July

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elected officials, and a code of laws. We are a free,

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peace loving people, and we are possessed of a vast

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amount of natural resources.

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Speaker 5: And please tell me, mister Hudson, just where are you located.

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I gathered it was somewhere in Asia. Oh no, no,

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technically you are our nearest neighbor.

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Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. Now look here, Hudson, you can't. If you'll

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give me just a moment, mister secretary, I have considerable evidence.

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I'll have to ask you to leave.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, sir, I had Mister Hudson, you've submitted a

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document signed by a certain Wesley Animal.

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Speaker 1: He's our first president. You see, we'd like to established

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diplomatic relations. After all, we are a sister republic. We'd

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like to negotiate a trade agreement, and of course we'd

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be grateful for assistance under the foreign A program.

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Speaker 5: Naturally, who wouldn't, mister Secretary? All right, Kingston, we're.

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Speaker 1: Prepared to offer something in return for one thing, sanctuary. Sanctuary.

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I understand that in the present state of international tensions,

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a fool proof sanctuary is not something to be sneezed at.

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Speaker 5: All Right, Kingston, I think we've had enough. Show mister

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Hudson out.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's have the story again. Look, mister, I

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don't want any trouble.

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Speaker 6: Just tell the story again. You want to cooperate with

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the FBI, don't you sure?

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Speaker 1: Sure I do, sure, But I just don't want any trouble,

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all right. Start of you found the briefcase in the booth. Yeah, yeah,

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that's right. I brought my beer over from the bay,

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you know, and this fellow just went out a minute before,

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so I figured he must have left it. I run

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after him. You didn't see him, though, no, So.

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Speaker 4: I just kind of looked in the briefcase, you know,

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I mean to identify it, that's all.

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Speaker 1: I don't steal. Then you came to us, Yeah, yeah,

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that's right. I mean, after all, when I saw that stuff,

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I just figured I was way over my head.

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Speaker 6: You know, all right, don't say anything about this. Do

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you understand we'd rather you just forgot the whole thing?

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Speaker 3: Oh sure, shoe listen some things I don't want to remember,

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Speaker 6: Hello, is this doctor Harrison of the Paleontology Department. This

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is mister Jenkins at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We

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have some movie we'd like you to look over.

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Speaker 1: Mmm. Oh we acquired it.

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Speaker 6: Big shaggy elephants and tigers with teeth down to their neck. No, no,

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it's not fakes. Our labs are sure of that whatever

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is on those films is real.

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Speaker 1: Mhm No, we don't know. That's why we called you.

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Speaker 6: We haven't the slightest idea where those pictures were shot.

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Speaker 1: I was flying epodermics. This is a fine, healthy but

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Mosquita is as big as hummingbirds. Oh careful, sun, you're

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knocking the climate of the capital city of Macedonia. Some

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capital city, One palm tree and a boy scout puff

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tent wes. This's the wildest thing we ever did. What

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if Chuck can't get back Chuck Hudson is a man

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of many parts have faith? Supposen't they putting him in jail?

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the helicopter we should have gone along. Do you think

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they'll do it? Cooper? Oh? Why the United States? Do

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you think they'll recognize us? Not if they know that

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Macedonia is the United States fifty thousand years ago. Well,

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we have to get legal recognition first, otherwise it wouldn't

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be safe. Well, there goes that mestodon again. Good old Buster,

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where is he? Weren't there over the groves? Ah, he's lonely.

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What it probably is? It must have been run out

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of the herd by some younger boom, so he hangs

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around like some homeless dog. One thing worries me, Wes,

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all chipped in for the helicopter, But can you just

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claim territory on your own like we did? Why not

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we found it? It's ours? Hey, Buster's coming this way,

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give me the right. No wait, wait, wait, maybe he's

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only bluffing that Master don comes through here. He'll stop

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everything flat. I'll get him three steps more. Would be

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such a shame to plaster him a nice old monster

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one more step than he gets it. Hey, let's chuck.

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He's back. I wish he could fly that helicopter better.

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You might reckon well anyway, he scared Buster off. Both

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does fires up? Wes. You don't want to saber tooth

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Watson through here, do you? And better a stockade up

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some night? I heard of mastodon. I'll come busting in here,

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and they ever hit the helicopter, we be dead ducks.

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We never get back. We'll be stuck back here in

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the Plaistocene age. I won't feel safe. Do we get

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another helicopters? Mastodons carry a lot of ivory, and the

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mammoth's up north. Oh sure, sure, and get shocked in

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the jug for smuggling ivory. The only way to cash

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in on the time unit is to get diplomatic recognition

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for Mascedonia. We've got a good case, you said so yourself.

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Saber tooth time by the grove. I don't like that.

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Sounds closer they poke up that fire, will you coop?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Well that's blustered. Here he is. He's tangling with a

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saber tooth. Lay three to five on Buster Cat's drawn blood.

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I'll take five dollars of it. Come on, Buster, roll

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on him. Cat's on his head.

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Speaker 7: Now, hey, hey he's coming this look out west, turn

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him shoot eat that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tiger's gone. You won't get fired either, will wait?

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Oh no, no, good old busting. Trust him to drop

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dead right across the helicopter. Oh we can fix it.

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Caw we We probably won't even be able to roll

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Buster off of it. And the rotor blades are twisted

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in the frame. Is a mess, A total mess, gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: Herb, Herb, you're the key and the administration.

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Speaker 1: You swing a big stick on the hill. You can't

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give up on Project Mastodon now.

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Speaker 5: Less, it's been ten years. If they were coming back,

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they'd be here by now.

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Speaker 2: Look, I've been working on this ever since we got

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those films. I traced their lives from the time they

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were born till the time they disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Adams was the brains.

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Speaker 2: The other two were quite capable of helping him carry

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it out. Hudson new all the angle.

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Speaker 5: Less, I've sneak your appropriation through four times.

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Speaker 1: Now there's a limit, but I've got the proof.

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Speaker 2: We've had every palaeontologist in the country, go over those films.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't be faked. Who would know to put linx

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tassels on the years of saber tooth tigers? Who would

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know that young masterdens were black? And the location we

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tracked down Adams Farm, just from landmarks in the prehistoric

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landscape in those films. We've got to contact them. Look less.

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Speaker 5: Even assuming it's all true, a planet has only a

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grand total of resources. If we get Adams a device

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time machine, if we exploit resources of prehistoric America, won't

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we be rubbing ourselves of our own heritage?

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Speaker 2: Look herb, I've been over all that with the AEC.

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There's a lot of lead in southwestern Wisconsin. If we

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go back far enough, we can catch it when it's uranium.

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Speaker 5: The whole research project hasn't turned up a lead on

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Adams machine.

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Speaker 2: If it exists, we've got to keep watching that farm.

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They might return. We've got to keep looking for them,

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no matter how long it takes.

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Speaker 1: Listen West, we can't stay around here much longer. Oh,

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Butter's getting a little too strong. Yeah, well, I'll have

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the time unit clear of the helicopter in a few minutes.

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Bless his heart. Ready, those vultures are half into him.

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I have him picked clean inside of we Oh, give

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me the hexs men twenty wes?

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Speaker 8: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it all right? The time unit? Well, we won't

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do until we try and coop, and then of course

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it's too late. Either does or doesn't. The problem is,

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how are we gonna use it without the copter? Couldn't

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we take a chance on using it on the ground. No,

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we have to get up in the air. You don't

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want to take a chance of arriving in the twentieth

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century about six feet underground. Wait a minute, West, it's

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gotta be higher here than in the twentieth century. Look,

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these hills have stood here since the Jurassic era. They

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gotta be weathered down.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 1: The only safe way is to build a platform about

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twelve feet high. Let should be enough to clears. I

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suppose we come out in the other end two feet

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higher when we fall, which would you rather do? Take

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a chance on the broken leg or stage? Okay, okay, now,

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why don't we build a platform out of here? You

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Speaker 8: All right, I got it.

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Speaker 1: Chuck comes the next stone.

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, Hey, look, ond you want a whole pilot?

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Speaker 1: Come down. I'm sorry, Okay, Wes handed up, give me.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's about twelve feet, isn't it what it took

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Speaker 1: Days to pile it up? Oh god, I'm coming down.

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All right, don't start an avalanche. Well, pretty soon we'll

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be able to turn it all over again if the

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unit work. Now, that isn't all. We don't have any

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proof we've been back here. We'll be stone broke another helicopter.

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It costs thirty thousand dollars. Can walk into a bank

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and borrow thirty grand if I go a short trip

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to the stone age, Wes. Where do you figure we are?

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I mean on a farm. I think we're clear of

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the barn and the silo. I hope, so the way

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I figured, we're a straddle at barbed wire fence at

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the south end of the orchard. Wow, we might as

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well give it a try. All right, don't get the unit.

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You two climb up on top of the pyramid. You ready,

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they gonna work? West, I don't know who got pretty

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well bang up when Buster hit the copter I haven't

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got the equipment to check the waveforms. All right, stand

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around close then, Jeanne's a little might be quite a drock.

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Go ahead and push the button. Okay, one, two, three,

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Nothing doesn't work. Well, that's that we're stuck. I'm sorry, Less.

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There's nothing you can do, herb you've been out of

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government for five years.

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Speaker 5: If there's anything I can do, the board of Directors instructed.

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Speaker 1: Me to offer you no, thank you? What are you

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going to do? I mean, now that you're retired, I

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bought a farm in Wisconsin. You haven't given up. I'm

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the only one.

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Speaker 2: They closed Project Mastered on down three years ago, and

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they've been hinting ever since that I'd.

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Speaker 1: Be happier retired, old Bowers.

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Speaker 2: He's the crackpot from Project Masterdon.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Les, but it has been twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes it has.

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Speaker 2: But think of it from a military point of view,

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hidden bases in enemy territory itself, centuries removed in time,

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yet only seconds away. If we had bases like that.

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Speaker 5: And shelters, relax Less, it's all over.

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Speaker 1: You're sure it's all over, Ah, Mess, You should be

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more careful. We've only been stuck a month now. Someday

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we'll run out of AMMO and then it's bows and arrow.

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It's cool. I'll be snow sowed, Cooper. I'm worried about Wes.

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He takes it pretty hard. As long as he's tinkering

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on the time unit, he's happy. Oh, he isn't going

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to repair the unit. He hasn't got a chance back

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in the workshop the tools. Maybe well, anyway, the hunting's great,

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and maybe we better start saving bullets for a big game.

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We won't be lords of creation around here long without

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our guns. Yeah, and if one of us gets sick

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or breaks a light, well, nobody lives forever. Wes is

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a lucky one. He's got that time unit to tinker with.

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Come on, we better get back to camp. Hey, Hey, what,

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come on? What wet? There's no sign of him. Wait,

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there's a note on the door with never mind. Listen here, guys,

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I don't want to get your hopes up again and

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have you disappointed. But I think I may have found

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the trouble. I'm going to try it out. If it works,

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I'll be back to get you. Wes. What a fool.

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A unit can't work? He must be off his rocker. Wait,

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a minute, coop, Look that pyramid. It took us ten

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days to pilo stones up. It's gone.

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Speaker 8: The pyramid of rocks, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: What the I've all the confounded? Now what's going on

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out there?

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Speaker 4: Rocks?

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Speaker 1: Who dumped those rocks? My car? Who's out there?

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Speaker 8: It's all right?

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Speaker 2: Don't you move, mister? I got a forty five pointed

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at je. Well you better there was a brand new

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car where you dump that?

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Speaker 1: Lord of rocks? Who the devil are you? My name

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is Wesley Adams. Adams man. Where have you been all

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these years?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 1: I don't suppose you believe me, but the fact is

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I've been waiting for you for twenty five years. The

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others all gave up. I'm sorry about your car. Never mind,

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I'll be right down and now. Don't touch a thing,

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don't go anywhere. But it can't be twenty five years.

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It's only been a few months Macedonian time. Twenty five years, man,

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it's been a long way to the unit. It's been

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badly calibrated. You see. It is acurate for more than

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fifty thousand years at a jump. If the setting has.

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Speaker 2: Moved, well we better call Washington. I imagine you'll want

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the same terms before terms recognition, economic aid from Mascedonia

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defense pack. I listen, Adams, you've got those SAPs over

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a barrel.

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Speaker 1: You can get anything you want now, Unit. I'll have

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to calibrate to the day to go back for them.

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Or don't worry about it.

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Speaker 2: You can have every scientist in the country working on

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it now. You got them right where you want them. Hello,

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a long distance. This is Major General Leslie Bowers, retired.

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I want to put a call to the President of

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the United States White House, Washington. You can tell them

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I'm placing the call for the president of the Republic

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of Mascedonia.

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Speaker 1: Come on, o, son of fire, put another log on.

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It's cold. It's good cold story. It's for the first boy.

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When West gets back, we'll be millionaires. Furs jin singh

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rude ivory. If he gets back, it's been five years.

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I'll come back. I feel it in my bones. Well,

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he better find it before we get too old to

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enjoy anything. Unfortunately, there's no social security in master Doom.

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Don't you worry. West is working on it right now.

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I can feel it.

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Speaker 6: Hello, Charlie, some just came through on a ticker. I

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want you to get a background story on it, and

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we just recognized Master Dony.

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Speaker 1: What how should I know her?

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Speaker 6: Look it up in the encyclopedia.

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Speaker 1: Humh.

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Speaker 6: Now the item says formal recognition was delayed five years

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until communication could be established certain technical difficulties. What I

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don't know wherever it is. I don't see what difficulties

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could hold up five years. It stands the reason. Wherever

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the place is, you could walk there in five years. Nah, No,

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it's not important. You know these postage stamp countries, Monica, Luxembourg,

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They're all alike. What's so different about Master DONI.

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Speaker 4: By transcription, X minus one has brought you Project Masterdon,

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Simak and adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in

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Edward Johnson, Frank Maxwell, Robert Hastings, John Larkin, and Joseph Julian.

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Speaker 1: Listen next week for the Murryland Yester's story If You

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Was a Motlin, a tale in which the child like

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natives of a strange planet pull a real switch on

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a red headed female witch and everyone doubles in brass.

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That's next week on X minus one.