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get your podcast from now. From September twenty third, nineteen
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forty four, here is Talking Drums.
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Adventure Ahead, The National Broadcasting Company presents another in the
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series of Famous stories for the young of all ages.
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Adventure Ahead this week, an exciting story of Western Africa.
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Talking Drums by Waldo Flemings, the story of a young
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man who dared to go into the jungle and learn
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the secret of the mysterious and sacred Talking drums. Adventure Ahead.
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The Gold Coast of Western Africa, a wilderness of unknown mystery, Steepton,
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Jungalore and native superstition, untamed, unchotted, forgotten by a world
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at war. Young Philip Barring came back to the Gold
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Coast after a year in the States, anxious to return
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to the land he knew as home.
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Is it Mary?
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Hello, helcme back, Welcome back, Hello, Commissioner. I didn't expect
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a reception when I landed.
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I have some use for you, oh from your father
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up north. I wanted to see you before you started inland. Yes,
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here we can talk in my arbit all right there,
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those the shanty natives can't seem to work or do
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anything unless they're noisy about it.
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That's right, sir. But it's a good sign they're happy
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and at peace with the world.
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Yeah. I only wish things were as peaceful up in
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the North country where you're going.
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Philip or what do you mean, sir, has there been
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any trouble about the railroad.
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Well, the work's progressing slowly, much too slowly.
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You mean we haven't reached a Puntwy yet.
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Well, the construction gangs are about ten miles from the
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Puntui now, but ten miles in this jungle is like
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a hundred miles anywhere else.
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But what's wrong? The last letter from my father, just
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a few months ago said the work was going along.
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Okay.
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Things have changed since then, Philip, what do you mean, commissioned?
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Your father says, the native workmen act as if they
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were under a spell of some kind. That's strange, yes,
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and difficult to understand. Frankly, I'm glad you've come back
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to the Gold Coast, Philip, because you speak a shanty,
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you get along well with the blacks, understand their customs, religion.
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That's right, Commissioner. It's just possible, Philip.
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That you can find out what's wrong up there, that
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you can succeed where other white men have failed.
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Well, I certainly do my best, Commissioner.
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It's important, young man, very important, that the railroad be
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completed all the way to a Puntway on schedule, with
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depending on your father and his workman to finish the
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railroad on time.
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Your name wouldn't be Philip barring Wooded.
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Yeah, yes, I expect it would. Are you mister O'Hara,
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my father's new foreman, that.
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I I am, But it's it's just Mike timmy friend.
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How I Mike? Well, hop in the car and will
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be getting along right you are? He? Can't we look
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familiar to you? Yes, it's sure does.
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There's something about this part of Africa, the shafty country,
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sort of appeals to me.
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Maybe so, but it doesn't appeal to me, not with
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all the trouble we've been having lately.
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Trouble what do you mean, Mike, Not the way the
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natives have been acting like they were scared.
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I try to work harder and finish the railroad on time.
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But well, why why are they like that?
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Why are they scared?
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I'll show you a way, Hi, I don't see why
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they Listen huh, listen. You hear that talking drums, the
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Intimpani drums.
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You hear them all the time nowadays. In the closer
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our workmen get to inpunt me. The noise that the
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drums get seems to be a lot of us scattered
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around the jungle.
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They religious drum, they're sacred.
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Maybe so, but they're a nuisance.
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Every time they hear them drums, the natives just stop
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what they're doing and listen, like like they were scared.
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And my guess is they're talking about trouble, trouble for.
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The railroad, the intimpane, the shanty talking drums. So you
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come back, Philip, Yes, father, Like I wrote, I feel
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I belong here on the old Coast.
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Well, I'm not so sure, Philip, but since you're back,
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maybe you can make yourself useful.
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I don't know why you're not so glad to see me,
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are you saying?
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Well, of course I am, Philip, But this is no
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place for you. You belong in a civilized country where
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you can study your music and live a normal life.
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This is no place for you.
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The railroad before that steel track reaches at Punt Grey,
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there'll be a trouble, I'm sure of it.
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But maybe I could help.
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If you knew something about those drums they use and
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what they're talking about, maybe you could help me. But
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as it is, there's much for you to do. Naturally,
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you can stay in the construction camp here live in
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my tent, just as we used to live. And Utassi,
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you'll take care of us. He's always he's inside of
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the tent. I expect to be glad to see you. Well,
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I haven't got work to do, Yes.
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Sir Philip, my boss Philip. You come by, Bass Philip,
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come back.
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Yes, and here I am so glad you.
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Come back, Bass Philip. Long time miss you.
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Well I missed you too, Tassi and the Gold Coast. Thanks,
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haven't changed much in a year.
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Well, yes, something's changed since you go ahead?
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What do you mean.
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I cannot talk about that with white man? Which doctors?
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No like chumumo cheap no like?
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Oh? Why what's wrong with the natives of Tussie? What's
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bothering man? Why is there trouble?
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I cannot tell the white man. I cannot tell why not? Well,
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I want to tell you, boss Philip.
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I want to tell you father, because you so good
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to a Tassy, let me work for you.
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But I am a shanty. I cannot tell a white
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man what is wrong?
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All right with Tassy? Sometime I wish you'd talk to me,
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take me into your confidence like you used to do.
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Well, I you listen, I hear what Tumpani drums.
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What is it a message?
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Yes, message from Jumumo cheep. That's what my people tell me.
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What are the drums saying?
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I cannot tell you. I am a Shanti message, not
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for a white man. I cannot tell you, mister.
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Oh yes, Mike, you hear them drums just now?
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Of course?
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What's wrong with the natives?
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Well, our roadbed survey to run right through that grove
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of trees up ahead there, and these blash claim its
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the sacred grove and they won't cut them trees.
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Who said the trees are sacred?
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Jummumu, chief of the tribe north of here. He's the
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one probably sent that dram message.
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Always something here late, They always something to hold up
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our work, Mike. It's how far is Jummumu's tribe from here.
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It's supposed to be five or six miles northeast.
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Why I'd like to send you up there, Mike and
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talk with the old man's He was on his mind
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all right, Mister badding is drumming and agitating our workman's
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got us top I have an idea that old Jamumu
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himself is the hand of the trouble leaking. If you
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could talk to him. Maybe you could find out what's wrong,
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what's bothering him.
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Sounds like a good idea to me, mister Batting, But
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I can't speak a shance.
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Don't take along a native who knows some English. You
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could use them as a guide too.
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What about your son, Philip Philip, Oh, that's out of
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the question.
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He's a real smart lad, Mister Badding understand Lisa Shanty's
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talks to them like there was his own brothers.
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He'd make himself useful.
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Maybe you're right, Yes, stake Fillip with you.
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We're going in the right direction, lad.
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Oh, yes, I know.
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Most all of this part of the jungle has that too.
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Yes it Tassi and I used to.
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Hunt up here along this trail. It looks like awful
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wild country around here.
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Oh, it's not so wild when you get used to it.
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Shotis can pick a path through here, even on the
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darkest night.
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That's something else they don't like about them, natives. You
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never know when they're gonna sneak up on you some night.
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You can't trust one of them.
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Oh, you can.
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Trust most of them, Mike. If you understand them, then
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what do you mean last?
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Well, they have strange tribal customs and ceremonies. Their religions
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jammed full of fetishes about not cutting certain trees or
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not crossing certain rivers and things like that. But you
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have to learn to accept their fetishes and witchcraft even
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if you don't believe them.
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Well, who says what's the fetish and what ain't?
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Well?
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The witch doctors most had the drums.
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Yeah, mightst be getting near the village.
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Say who plays them drums?
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The witch doctor?
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They're probably announcing our arrival right now, come on.
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Here we are, Mike, the first time I've ever seen
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a native village.
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Careful now, Jerick yeri wo Jomomo, we're friends, come to
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see great chief Jermumo.
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Down it.
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Come on mind, sure, he says, Jimmumo is expecting. This
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must be the chief's hut. Yeah, Obi, who yeah, this
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is it all right?
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Say that what a layout?
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He look look at the scouts.
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Yeah hope mine never gets up there.
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Oh Jermomo, great chief of a shanty otana.
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Noa we bring peace.
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Speak.
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My father, who builds railroad, sends his greetings.
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Ola know Dormomo, Hey.
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You come here, oh Kotoko monka to talk of peace.
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Peace the railroad great Germomo must be built all the
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way to a punchway.
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But the Senti people want no railroad, ring only trouble sickness, sickness.
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You will see all the people sick in much trouble.
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T Oh, what do you say that?
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It's a proverb when the snake is stirred at fight,
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Jermomo means if we continue to build a railroad. He
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means to stop us somehow, but he can't, Great Jermomo,
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No kotoko monk and toa we want only peace. We
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want to help a shanty waka.
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Railroad.
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As much work to your people, many work from my father.
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This Sano and my people give much help.
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And now, great Jermumu, we need your help.
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Eh.
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Hey, how can I help? Great white man nim belling? Eh?
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He is not great without your health. He bows to you,
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who are truly great?
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Jimomu, Eh, hey he do this?
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Yes, Great Jermomo.
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You speak, how can Timumu help white man being?
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He asks you to remove taboo go no from trees
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near river where we were. He asked that you sent
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Wesch doctor with his drums to our railroad camp to
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remove the taboo. If curse of ashanti gods is taken
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from trees by witch doctor.
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We can cut trees and build our railroads.
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Good, Yes, I help you if you help me.
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What your main, Great Germomo, I.
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Send witch doctor and coompany drums to railroad camp and
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take away and USI from tees. But which doctor and
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dumbs must stay at camp to protect you from evil spirits?
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I want which doctor and drums at railroad camp?
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Say?
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That sounds pretty good?
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That's the trouble sounds too good? Thanks me, sish that
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are taking up on you off man, and I don't know.
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We gotta get that railroad through to a punt.
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Oh great chief Jermoo, Yes you have decided you're off
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a very kind Oh great Germomo for my father and
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his workman.
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I accepts it is well Atmai.
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Can I at great taking company drums?
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Good in the white man takes from trees.
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Ok, I will do and then stay with white men that,
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in my faith keep evil spirit from the road camp.
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Good? But inso who helped build railroad? You you understand?
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I understand, great mmove, I take problems and go I understand,
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I understand.
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And everything seems to be all right. Mister barring. The
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fetters are gone, the trees are down, and the blacks
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are working again.
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That's right, Well, you.
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Too certainly got results. But somehow it's it's incredible Mummo
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would send his witch doctor here.
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He's going to stay here father with his drums.
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Almost too good to be true. It doesn't seem possible
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that old Jimmu suddenly turned friendly.
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Well, you can thank young Philip here for putting it
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across her. He sure made friends with that old chief.
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How well, Earn'll have to be getting.
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Along, Okay, Mike, I just can't understand it. Hill.
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What's that, sir?
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Why Jimmumu wants one of his witch doctors here at
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our camp?
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Well, Jimmumu said Achimi would keep away evil spirits so
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we can build.
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A rare road.
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But the drums, well, so that Achi Mike can communicate
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with Jimma.
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Somehow, I've got a feeling those drums are going to
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be in trouble. Of course, I may be wrong. Let's
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go have a look at them, Philip. Let's see those
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talking drums. Oh, these are the talking drums.
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Eh, Yes, sir, there's a large one for the deep
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low tones and a small drum for the high tones
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by pounding on them with those heavy sticks. The witch
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doctors sends out his message in some sort of shanty code.
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You you watching my atto, me at atto?
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You speak English? Some I understand.
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Tell me other drums in jungle like these.
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Oo canoe natua always two drums.
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They're made out of wood a tree, drunk and painted
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over with those weird designs. Certainly are interesting.
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White man group touch into fanny room.
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Don't worry, we won't touching. Go on, thank you drumming.
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These drums are very sacred to these shanties. Only the
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witch doctors are allowed to touch them.
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That's why I'm surprised and suspicious right into our care.
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You know, I think this is actually my will stand
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watching Dassi.
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Come here.
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Yes, yes, those.
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Drums for talking drums? You understand them?
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Yes?
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What are they saying? What's actually my drumming on them?
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I cannot tell you that. I cannot tell.
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I understand those drums, No, sir, but I haven't given
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up yet. What about the men, sir? The natives on
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the road.
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Game not so good? Thirty more are today thirty They
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all claim they're sick, too sick to work.
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I wonder what they're up to. I wonder that has
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anything to do with actually my and the drums.
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It's very possible, but there's no way we can.
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Tell unless we could understand the language of the drum.
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But you tried, and I'm going to have another talk
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with the Tassi tonight. Maybe maybe he'll tell me the
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secret of the talking drums. Tassi, Tassi, I want you
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to help me.
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Of course I help you. I do that.
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I want you to tell me about those chanty drums,
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a Tassy. I want to know the secret of the
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talking drums. Yes, I want you to tell me how
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to understand them when they speak.
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No, no, no, no, that's Philip. I cannot tell you
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about the timpani.
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But you must tell me.
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If I talk about sacred drums to white man, they
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will kill me.
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Oh oh, well, men of great Jummo, which doctors? That's you?
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Might but well I won't tell him.
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No, no, I cannot tell like man.
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You're right, of Tassi, you can't tell white men about
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the drums, but you could tell me.
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Eh, but you are like men.
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In some ways I am, but some ways I'm not.
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I not understand bass Philippe, what do you mean.
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My skin's lighter than yours.
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That's true enough.
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But I'm not like most white men. I understand Ashantis
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because I've lived here almost all my life. Yes, I
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speak your language. I know your customs, your religion, your
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gods of the jungle. Yes, that is true, O Tassi.
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If you told me how to understand the drums, I'm
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sure the spirit of a Timpani would not be angry.
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Because I've lived with Ya Shanti so long. I'm I'm
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almost one myself.
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I could tell you and spirit of m Tumpani not
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to be angry. But the Barachi may and Jimmumo.
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If you tell me about the drums of Tassi, I
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give you my word that Jimmumo or the witch doctor
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will never know. There'll be a secret between you and
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me and the great spirit of Antumpani. All right, all right,
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I tell you, I kiitch you. Thank you, Tassy. How
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soon can we start now?
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Tonight? All right?
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And how long will it take for me to learn?
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One to night? And not long?
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But we must say, all right, Tassy, tell me everything
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that I must know to understand the talking drums.
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Now you listen, Basil, all right, Remember the drums speak
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only words a shanty words.
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I don't like it, mister Parring, I don't like it.
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How many new men said today fifteen?
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But they ain't really sick.
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It's going to be trouble. Now you are almost done finish,
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you'll remember what I tell him.
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I won't forget it, tassy.
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If you remember that they talk, it's not hard to understand.
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Company drums. Now you listen, all right, he might send
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message to.
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You here, Yes, tell me what.
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He says, all right, this message or or great Tomo
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chief of all shady.
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Yes, yes, many men.
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Yes, many men sick here at white man's can is right?
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Boss man chief worry he need a man.
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To to work on on that mean railroad.
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All ah men.
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Make to seem sick. But when time comes and you
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give the signals, these.
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Men rise up to fight. All Ashanti will join to
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kill white man drive railroad from our land. We fight soon, right, well,
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then we haven't a minute to lose.
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We'll be soon much fighting.
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And that's why Jamuma wanted that witch doctor hear with
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his drums, so Achimi could excite our workmen and make
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them revolt.
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You know, tell a Chimai that I help you.
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No, no, he'll never know. But right now. I'm going
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to tell my.
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Father about it.
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That's the whole story, the reason Achimai is here, and
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the reason the natives refuse to work.
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We have much time. The Ashantis are mobilized for battle.
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There's no telling when they misstrike.
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Every one of our workmen will join him when the
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fight start. Yes, why there will only be three of
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us against at least a thousand of them.
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It certainly won't be a long fight. You might as
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well organize ourselves the best we can.
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Hire rifles.
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Most of our guns are gone, must have been stole
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out of the storehouse last night.
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And something's wrong with the car. She's busted, water.
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Run and it looks like, oh Mumo's out smarter ess
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at every turn. What do you mean, Yashanti tribes are
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planning to attack and kill us? Maybe it's night attackers. Listen, eh,
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Philips learned the secret of the drums he has. I'm
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afraid it's too late to help us now.
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But what are we going to do, mister Ballot, I
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don't know.
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I don't know, and I've got it.
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What did they say, Philip?
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The drums?
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It was actually my relaying a message to Jimumo in
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the jungle. It just said, hold yourselves in readiness. The
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time has almost come. Tonight we strike, and.
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There's only one thing we can do. Let's that leave everything,
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get out of here fast as we can, head.
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For the coat and lose the railroad.
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What else can we do? Philip, I don't like to
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just give up, but we can't hold off all those natives.
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All right, I'm from pulling out of here myself.
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But isn't there something we can do.
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When they wish they were Philip? But to stop this rebellion,
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we'd have to exert a stronger power over the natives
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than ol Jamumo himself.
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It's hopeless, a stronger power than Jimumo. Hmhm, Hey, I've
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got an idea. What is it those talking drums sacred
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to the natives? Why the chanties believe anything they hear
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on those drums? And if I could send a message
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on those drums and tell them to stop fighting? Yes,
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I know the secret of Intempani. I could pound out
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a message I think and say it was the voice
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of the spirit of Intempani. Even if they didn't believe
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the message, perhaps it would confuse.
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Hey, listen to them, natives.
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That must be on that all right, the work one.
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That must mean they're about ready to hear.
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Well, they won't be long. Oh, let's get out of
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this jungle.
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The drums it's a signal. Actually, my he's drumming the signal.
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Yes, hey, let's get out of here. They'll kill us.
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Oh where can we go?
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Oh, we can't wait here in the tent. The drums,
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the drums. Father, you must let me try to stop
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them with the talking drums.
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So all the way across the query.
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He'll be shot down.
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It's dark.
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I can run. It's worth a chance, all right, don
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but I'll go with you.
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You may need help, thanks, father, Let's go.
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Careful now, Ah, my son, that's actually my see him
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in the darkness.
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You go ahead, calip it.
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Get out those drums.
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I'll take care of him.
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That's that's what man.
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Oh no, we won't you cheap bakery to kill you.
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Out of the way, you phony witch doctor.
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Let me have those drums.
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It's a good thing they can't see us in the dark.
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Oh, here goes.
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Good luck to.
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My shanty's stop stop, listen to me a shanty. I
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am great god of the infant pani drums. I order
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you a shanty's. Do not fight the white man. Do
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not fight them.
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They are your friends.
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It's working, Philipp's working. They're going back.
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Must be peace, always peace in the Ashanti country. The
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railroad will bring this peace. Make friends with the white man.
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Go back to your work. I command you, great God
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of the talking drums has spoken, who is people?
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And informally opening this new link in the railroad between
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Epuntway and Kamasi. I would like to pay tribute to
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the man responsible for its construction, mister H. S. Berry,
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and to young Philip Barry, for his service in averting bloodshed,
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furthering the cause of peace on the Gold Coast, and
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aiding materially and the completion of this rail I am
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directed to extend to you the thanks of the government
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and to confer upon you a scholarship of one thousand pounds,
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to be used anywhere you choose to further your study
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of music.
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Thank you, Commissioner.
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That's quite a surprise getting all that money.
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For them, Yes, Commissioner, is the least we can do
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to show our appreciation. I'm afraid most of the credit
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goes to a Tassi here.
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Thank you, Philip.
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I never would have run the secret of the drums
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if it hadn't been for a Tassi.
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Well, we tried to give the native boy something for
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his work. A Bury, I no want money.
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And when I help you buss Philip, you my friend,
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like you say you almost?
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Yes?
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I know?
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Well Philip, yes?
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How soon do you think you'll leave to go back
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to the States for your music scholarship.
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I'm not going back, father, What did you say? I said,
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I'm not going back. I want to stay here on
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the Gold Coast. Why well, as far as my scholarship goes,
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I think there's a great field for musical research in
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the Ashanti talking Drums. And besides, this is my adopted country.
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I want to stay here with you and the railroad
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in Utassi. This is the land here on the Gold
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Coast where I belong, the Land of the Talking Drum.
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Adventure Ahead has presented the story Talking Drums by Waldo
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Fleming and a radio dramatization written by Tom Gutei. In
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today's play, the part of Philip Barring was played by
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Jack Manning. Others in the cast were Juan O Hernandez Ken, Reynard,
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Jim Tanzi, Nicholas Joy, and Bernard Lenro. The music was
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composed by Leo Tempinski and the orchestra was directed by
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Henri Nosco. The entire production was under the direction of
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Joseph Mansfield. NBC and its affiliated independent stations present Adventure
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Ahead as a public service. This is the National Broadcasting Company.
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Welcome back. A really solid adventure story in a jungle,
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and I think with a nons lockable hero who's working
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to bridge the gap between two worlds. This is an
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episode where it falls or rises on the strength of
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its sound effects work, because the way the drums come
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across is going to determine the rest of the story.
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And now work on that was fantastic. It really built
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the tension as you went through the story and felt
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the coming peril. Another one of these tremendous forgotten tales.
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Now I didn't want to talk a little bit more
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about something I found out about one of the episodes
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we played a couple of weeks back, a tooth for
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Paul Revere. Now, I have to admit I was a
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bit taken by that last scene between Lies Butterwick and
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Paul Revere. There was just something about it and I
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got a little bit curious because Adventure Ahead, compared to
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the other long running seaies that ran. It is kind
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of like a very obscure junior series. So I listened
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a little bit to that same scene in both the
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Cavalcade of America and the Escape adaptations, and what I
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noticed is that Adventure Ahead was the only one to
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go with the idea of Lidge Butterwick as a young farmer. Now,
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I don't think that the other two series were wrong,
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but I think Adventure Ahead was more right. It was
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a good choice now, first of all, with the idea
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of targeting a young audience, it helps to connect to
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that audience if your hero is a young man who
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is coming of age. But I think it also just
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works dramatically better, and the scene is played so earnestly.
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I just wanted to go ahead and give it some
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right that I hadn't necessarily appreciated at the time. And
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I hope folks are enjoying Adventure Ahead. We've not got
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as much feedback on it, but it is such a
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well produced Ritch series. Well, now it's time to thank
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our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
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go thank Gretchen Patreon supporter since September twenty seventeen, currently
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supporting the podcast at the secret Agent level of four
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dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Gretchen,
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and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
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last episode of Adventure Ahead for now anyway, join us
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back here on Saturday for the final episode of Kloak
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and Dagger. In the meantime, send your comments to buy
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Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot nit from Boise, Idaho.
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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going to bring you this week's episode of Adventure Ahead.
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But first I do want to encourage you. If you're
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enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software.
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And I want to encourage you to check out our
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other podcast And today I'm highlighting the old time Radio
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snack Wagon. With the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, you
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never know quite what you're gonna get. We play a
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variety of programs from a variety of different series, including
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self contained episodes as well as excerpts of longer programs
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you could hear from some great Hollywood star or some
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forgotten radio name from days gone by. All of it
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interesting and entertaining, and this sort of thing that you
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can listen to while taking a quick walk through the
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store her quick drive to pick up the kids. Enjoy
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the snackable podcast at snackwagon dot net or wherever you
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get your podcast from now. From September twenty third, nineteen
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forty four, here is Talking Drums.
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Adventure Ahead, The National Broadcasting Company presents another in the
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series of Famous stories for the young of all ages.
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Adventure Ahead this week, an exciting story of Western Africa.
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Talking Drums by Waldo Flemings, the story of a young
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man who dared to go into the jungle and learn
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the secret of the mysterious and sacred Talking drums. Adventure Ahead.
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The Gold Coast of Western Africa, a wilderness of unknown mystery, Steepton,
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Jungalore and native superstition, untamed, unchotted, forgotten by a world
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at war. Young Philip Barring came back to the Gold
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Coast after a year in the States, anxious to return
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to the land he knew as home.
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Is it Mary?
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Hello, helcme back, Welcome back, Hello, Commissioner. I didn't expect
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a reception when I landed.
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I have some use for you, oh from your father
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up north. I wanted to see you before you started inland. Yes,
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here we can talk in my arbit all right there,
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those the shanty natives can't seem to work or do
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anything unless they're noisy about it.
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That's right, sir. But it's a good sign they're happy
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and at peace with the world.
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Yeah. I only wish things were as peaceful up in
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the North country where you're going.
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Philip or what do you mean, sir, has there been
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any trouble about the railroad.
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Well, the work's progressing slowly, much too slowly.
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You mean we haven't reached a Puntwy yet.
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Well, the construction gangs are about ten miles from the
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Puntui now, but ten miles in this jungle is like
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a hundred miles anywhere else.
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But what's wrong? The last letter from my father, just
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a few months ago said the work was going along.
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Okay.
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Things have changed since then, Philip, what do you mean, commissioned?
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Your father says, the native workmen act as if they
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were under a spell of some kind. That's strange, yes,
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and difficult to understand. Frankly, I'm glad you've come back
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to the Gold Coast, Philip, because you speak a shanty,
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you get along well with the blacks, understand their customs, religion.
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That's right, Commissioner. It's just possible, Philip.
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That you can find out what's wrong up there, that
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you can succeed where other white men have failed.
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Well, I certainly do my best, Commissioner.
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It's important, young man, very important, that the railroad be
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completed all the way to a Puntway on schedule, with
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depending on your father and his workman to finish the
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railroad on time.
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Your name wouldn't be Philip barring Wooded.
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Yeah, yes, I expect it would. Are you mister O'Hara,
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my father's new foreman, that.
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I I am, But it's it's just Mike timmy friend.
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How I Mike? Well, hop in the car and will
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be getting along right you are? He? Can't we look
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familiar to you? Yes, it's sure does.
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There's something about this part of Africa, the shafty country,
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sort of appeals to me.
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Maybe so, but it doesn't appeal to me, not with
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all the trouble we've been having lately.
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Trouble what do you mean, Mike, Not the way the
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natives have been acting like they were scared.
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I try to work harder and finish the railroad on time.
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But well, why why are they like that?
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Why are they scared?
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I'll show you a way, Hi, I don't see why
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they Listen huh, listen. You hear that talking drums, the
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Intimpani drums.
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You hear them all the time nowadays. In the closer
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our workmen get to inpunt me. The noise that the
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drums get seems to be a lot of us scattered
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around the jungle.
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They religious drum, they're sacred.
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Maybe so, but they're a nuisance.
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Every time they hear them drums, the natives just stop
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what they're doing and listen, like like they were scared.
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And my guess is they're talking about trouble, trouble for.
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The railroad, the intimpane, the shanty talking drums. So you
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come back, Philip, Yes, father, Like I wrote, I feel
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I belong here on the old Coast.
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Well, I'm not so sure, Philip, but since you're back,
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maybe you can make yourself useful.
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I don't know why you're not so glad to see me,
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are you saying?
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Well, of course I am, Philip, But this is no
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place for you. You belong in a civilized country where
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you can study your music and live a normal life.
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This is no place for you.
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The railroad before that steel track reaches at Punt Grey,
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there'll be a trouble, I'm sure of it.
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But maybe I could help.
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If you knew something about those drums they use and
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what they're talking about, maybe you could help me. But
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as it is, there's much for you to do. Naturally,
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you can stay in the construction camp here live in
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my tent, just as we used to live. And Utassi,
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you'll take care of us. He's always he's inside of
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the tent. I expect to be glad to see you. Well,
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I haven't got work to do, Yes.
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Sir Philip, my boss Philip. You come by, Bass Philip,
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come back.
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Yes, and here I am so glad you.
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Come back, Bass Philip. Long time miss you.
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Well I missed you too, Tassi and the Gold Coast. Thanks,
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haven't changed much in a year.
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Well, yes, something's changed since you go ahead?
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What do you mean.
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I cannot talk about that with white man? Which doctors?
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No like chumumo cheap no like?
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Oh? Why what's wrong with the natives of Tussie? What's
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bothering man? Why is there trouble?
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I cannot tell the white man. I cannot tell why not? Well,
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I want to tell you, boss Philip.
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I want to tell you father, because you so good
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to a Tassy, let me work for you.
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But I am a shanty. I cannot tell a white
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man what is wrong?
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All right with Tassy? Sometime I wish you'd talk to me,
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take me into your confidence like you used to do.
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Well, I you listen, I hear what Tumpani drums.
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What is it a message?
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Yes, message from Jumumo cheep. That's what my people tell me.
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What are the drums saying?
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I cannot tell you. I am a Shanti message, not
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for a white man. I cannot tell you, mister.
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Oh yes, Mike, you hear them drums just now?
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Of course?
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What's wrong with the natives?
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Well, our roadbed survey to run right through that grove
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of trees up ahead there, and these blash claim its
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the sacred grove and they won't cut them trees.
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Who said the trees are sacred?
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Jummumu, chief of the tribe north of here. He's the
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one probably sent that dram message.
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Always something here late, They always something to hold up
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our work, Mike. It's how far is Jummumu's tribe from here.
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It's supposed to be five or six miles northeast.
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Why I'd like to send you up there, Mike and
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talk with the old man's He was on his mind
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all right, Mister badding is drumming and agitating our workman's
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got us top I have an idea that old Jamumu
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himself is the hand of the trouble leaking. If you
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could talk to him. Maybe you could find out what's wrong,
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what's bothering him.
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Sounds like a good idea to me, mister Batting, But
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I can't speak a shance.
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Don't take along a native who knows some English. You
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could use them as a guide too.
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What about your son, Philip Philip, Oh, that's out of
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the question.
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He's a real smart lad, Mister Badding understand Lisa Shanty's
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talks to them like there was his own brothers.
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He'd make himself useful.
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Maybe you're right, Yes, stake Fillip with you.
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We're going in the right direction, lad.
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Oh, yes, I know.
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Most all of this part of the jungle has that too.
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Yes it Tassi and I used to.
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Hunt up here along this trail. It looks like awful
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wild country around here.
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Oh, it's not so wild when you get used to it.
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Shotis can pick a path through here, even on the
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darkest night.
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That's something else they don't like about them, natives. You
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never know when they're gonna sneak up on you some night.
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You can't trust one of them.
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Oh, you can.
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Trust most of them, Mike. If you understand them, then
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what do you mean last?
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Well, they have strange tribal customs and ceremonies. Their religions
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jammed full of fetishes about not cutting certain trees or
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not crossing certain rivers and things like that. But you
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have to learn to accept their fetishes and witchcraft even
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if you don't believe them.
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Well, who says what's the fetish and what ain't?
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Well?
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The witch doctors most had the drums.
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Yeah, mightst be getting near the village.
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Say who plays them drums?
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The witch doctor?
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They're probably announcing our arrival right now, come on.
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Here we are, Mike, the first time I've ever seen
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a native village.
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Careful now, Jerick yeri wo Jomomo, we're friends, come to
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see great chief Jermumo.
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Down it.
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Come on mind, sure, he says, Jimmumo is expecting. This
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must be the chief's hut. Yeah, Obi, who yeah, this
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is it all right?
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Say that what a layout?
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He look look at the scouts.
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Yeah hope mine never gets up there.
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Oh Jermomo, great chief of a shanty otana.
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Noa we bring peace.
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Speak.
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My father, who builds railroad, sends his greetings.
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Ola know Dormomo, Hey.
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You come here, oh Kotoko monka to talk of peace.
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Peace the railroad great Germomo must be built all the
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way to a punchway.
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But the Senti people want no railroad, ring only trouble sickness, sickness.
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You will see all the people sick in much trouble.
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T Oh, what do you say that?
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It's a proverb when the snake is stirred at fight,
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Jermomo means if we continue to build a railroad. He
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means to stop us somehow, but he can't, Great Jermomo,
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No kotoko monk and toa we want only peace. We
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want to help a shanty waka.
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Railroad.
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As much work to your people, many work from my father.
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This Sano and my people give much help.
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And now, great Jermumu, we need your help.
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Eh.
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Hey, how can I help? Great white man nim belling? Eh?
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He is not great without your health. He bows to you,
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who are truly great?
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Jimomu, Eh, hey he do this?
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Yes, Great Jermomo.
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You speak, how can Timumu help white man being?
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He asks you to remove taboo go no from trees
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near river where we were. He asked that you sent
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Wesch doctor with his drums to our railroad camp to
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remove the taboo. If curse of ashanti gods is taken
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from trees by witch doctor.
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We can cut trees and build our railroads.
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Good, Yes, I help you if you help me.
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What your main, Great Germomo, I.
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Send witch doctor and coompany drums to railroad camp and
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take away and USI from tees. But which doctor and
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dumbs must stay at camp to protect you from evil spirits?
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I want which doctor and drums at railroad camp?
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Say?
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That sounds pretty good?
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That's the trouble sounds too good? Thanks me, sish that
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are taking up on you off man, and I don't know.
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We gotta get that railroad through to a punt.
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Oh great chief Jermoo, Yes you have decided you're off
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a very kind Oh great Germomo for my father and
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his workman.
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I accepts it is well Atmai.
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Can I at great taking company drums?
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Good in the white man takes from trees.
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Ok, I will do and then stay with white men that,
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in my faith keep evil spirit from the road camp.
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Good? But inso who helped build railroad? You you understand?
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I understand, great mmove, I take problems and go I understand,
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I understand.
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And everything seems to be all right. Mister barring. The
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fetters are gone, the trees are down, and the blacks
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are working again.
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That's right, Well, you.
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Too certainly got results. But somehow it's it's incredible Mummo
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would send his witch doctor here.
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He's going to stay here father with his drums.
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Almost too good to be true. It doesn't seem possible
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that old Jimmu suddenly turned friendly.
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Well, you can thank young Philip here for putting it
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across her. He sure made friends with that old chief.
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How well, Earn'll have to be getting.
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Along, Okay, Mike, I just can't understand it. Hill.
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What's that, sir?
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Why Jimmumu wants one of his witch doctors here at
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our camp?
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Well, Jimmumu said Achimi would keep away evil spirits so
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we can build.
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A rare road.
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But the drums, well, so that Achi Mike can communicate
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with Jimma.
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Somehow, I've got a feeling those drums are going to
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be in trouble. Of course, I may be wrong. Let's
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go have a look at them, Philip. Let's see those
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talking drums. Oh, these are the talking drums.
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Eh, Yes, sir, there's a large one for the deep
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low tones and a small drum for the high tones
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by pounding on them with those heavy sticks. The witch
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doctors sends out his message in some sort of shanty code.
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You you watching my atto, me at atto?
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You speak English? Some I understand.
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Tell me other drums in jungle like these.
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Oo canoe natua always two drums.
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They're made out of wood a tree, drunk and painted
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over with those weird designs. Certainly are interesting.
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White man group touch into fanny room.
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Don't worry, we won't touching. Go on, thank you drumming.
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These drums are very sacred to these shanties. Only the
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witch doctors are allowed to touch them.
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That's why I'm surprised and suspicious right into our care.
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You know, I think this is actually my will stand
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watching Dassi.
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Come here.
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Yes, yes, those.
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Drums for talking drums? You understand them?
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Yes?
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What are they saying? What's actually my drumming on them?
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I cannot tell you that. I cannot tell.
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I understand those drums, No, sir, but I haven't given
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up yet. What about the men, sir? The natives on
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the road.
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Game not so good? Thirty more are today thirty They
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all claim they're sick, too sick to work.
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I wonder what they're up to. I wonder that has
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anything to do with actually my and the drums.
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It's very possible, but there's no way we can.
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Tell unless we could understand the language of the drum.
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But you tried, and I'm going to have another talk
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with the Tassi tonight. Maybe maybe he'll tell me the
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secret of the talking drums. Tassi, Tassi, I want you
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to help me.
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Of course I help you. I do that.
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I want you to tell me about those chanty drums,
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a Tassy. I want to know the secret of the
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talking drums. Yes, I want you to tell me how
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to understand them when they speak.
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No, no, no, no, that's Philip. I cannot tell you
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about the timpani.
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But you must tell me.
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If I talk about sacred drums to white man, they
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will kill me.
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Oh oh, well, men of great Jummo, which doctors? That's you?
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Might but well I won't tell him.
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No, no, I cannot tell like man.
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You're right, of Tassi, you can't tell white men about
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the drums, but you could tell me.
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Eh, but you are like men.
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In some ways I am, but some ways I'm not.
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I not understand bass Philippe, what do you mean.
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My skin's lighter than yours.
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That's true enough.
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But I'm not like most white men. I understand Ashantis
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because I've lived here almost all my life. Yes, I
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speak your language. I know your customs, your religion, your
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gods of the jungle. Yes, that is true, O Tassi.
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If you told me how to understand the drums, I'm
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sure the spirit of a Timpani would not be angry.
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Because I've lived with Ya Shanti so long. I'm I'm
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almost one myself.
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I could tell you and spirit of m Tumpani not
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to be angry. But the Barachi may and Jimmumo.
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If you tell me about the drums of Tassi, I
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give you my word that Jimmumo or the witch doctor
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will never know. There'll be a secret between you and
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me and the great spirit of Antumpani. All right, all right,
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I tell you, I kiitch you. Thank you, Tassy. How
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soon can we start now?
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Tonight? All right?
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And how long will it take for me to learn?
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One to night? And not long?
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But we must say, all right, Tassy, tell me everything
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that I must know to understand the talking drums.
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Now you listen, Basil, all right, Remember the drums speak
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only words a shanty words.
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I don't like it, mister Parring, I don't like it.
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How many new men said today fifteen?
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But they ain't really sick.
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It's going to be trouble. Now you are almost done finish,
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you'll remember what I tell him.
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I won't forget it, tassy.
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If you remember that they talk, it's not hard to understand.
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Company drums. Now you listen, all right, he might send
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message to.
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You here, Yes, tell me what.
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He says, all right, this message or or great Tomo
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chief of all shady.
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Yes, yes, many men.
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Yes, many men sick here at white man's can is right?
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Boss man chief worry he need a man.
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To to work on on that mean railroad.
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All ah men.
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Make to seem sick. But when time comes and you
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give the signals, these.
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Men rise up to fight. All Ashanti will join to
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kill white man drive railroad from our land. We fight soon, right, well,
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then we haven't a minute to lose.
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We'll be soon much fighting.
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And that's why Jamuma wanted that witch doctor hear with
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his drums, so Achimi could excite our workmen and make
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them revolt.
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You know, tell a Chimai that I help you.
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No, no, he'll never know. But right now. I'm going
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to tell my.
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Father about it.
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That's the whole story, the reason Achimai is here, and
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the reason the natives refuse to work.
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We have much time. The Ashantis are mobilized for battle.
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There's no telling when they misstrike.
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Every one of our workmen will join him when the
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fight start. Yes, why there will only be three of
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us against at least a thousand of them.
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It certainly won't be a long fight. You might as
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well organize ourselves the best we can.
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Hire rifles.
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Most of our guns are gone, must have been stole
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out of the storehouse last night.
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And something's wrong with the car. She's busted, water.
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Run and it looks like, oh Mumo's out smarter ess
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at every turn. What do you mean, Yashanti tribes are
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planning to attack and kill us? Maybe it's night attackers. Listen, eh,
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Philips learned the secret of the drums he has. I'm
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afraid it's too late to help us now.
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But what are we going to do, mister Ballot, I
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don't know.
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I don't know, and I've got it.
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What did they say, Philip?
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The drums?
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It was actually my relaying a message to Jimumo in
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the jungle. It just said, hold yourselves in readiness. The
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time has almost come. Tonight we strike, and.
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There's only one thing we can do. Let's that leave everything,
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get out of here fast as we can, head.
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For the coat and lose the railroad.
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What else can we do? Philip, I don't like to
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just give up, but we can't hold off all those natives.
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All right, I'm from pulling out of here myself.
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But isn't there something we can do.
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When they wish they were Philip? But to stop this rebellion,
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we'd have to exert a stronger power over the natives
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than ol Jamumo himself.
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It's hopeless, a stronger power than Jimumo. Hmhm, Hey, I've
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got an idea. What is it those talking drums sacred
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to the natives? Why the chanties believe anything they hear
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on those drums? And if I could send a message
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on those drums and tell them to stop fighting? Yes,
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I know the secret of Intempani. I could pound out
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a message I think and say it was the voice
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of the spirit of Intempani. Even if they didn't believe
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the message, perhaps it would confuse.
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Hey, listen to them, natives.
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That must be on that all right, the work one.
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That must mean they're about ready to hear.
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Well, they won't be long. Oh, let's get out of
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this jungle.
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The drums it's a signal. Actually, my he's drumming the signal.
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Yes, hey, let's get out of here. They'll kill us.
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Oh where can we go?
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Oh, we can't wait here in the tent. The drums,
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the drums. Father, you must let me try to stop
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them with the talking drums.
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So all the way across the query.
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He'll be shot down.
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It's dark.
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I can run. It's worth a chance, all right, don
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but I'll go with you.
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You may need help, thanks, father, Let's go.
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Careful now, Ah, my son, that's actually my see him
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in the darkness.
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You go ahead, calip it.
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Get out those drums.
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I'll take care of him.
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That's that's what man.
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Oh no, we won't you cheap bakery to kill you.
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Out of the way, you phony witch doctor.
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Let me have those drums.
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It's a good thing they can't see us in the dark.
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Oh, here goes.
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Good luck to.
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My shanty's stop stop, listen to me a shanty. I
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am great god of the infant pani drums. I order
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you a shanty's. Do not fight the white man. Do
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not fight them.
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They are your friends.
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It's working, Philipp's working. They're going back.
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Must be peace, always peace in the Ashanti country. The
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railroad will bring this peace. Make friends with the white man.
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Go back to your work. I command you, great God
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of the talking drums has spoken, who is people?
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And informally opening this new link in the railroad between
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Epuntway and Kamasi. I would like to pay tribute to
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the man responsible for its construction, mister H. S. Berry,
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and to young Philip Barry, for his service in averting bloodshed,
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furthering the cause of peace on the Gold Coast, and
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aiding materially and the completion of this rail I am
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directed to extend to you the thanks of the government
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and to confer upon you a scholarship of one thousand pounds,
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to be used anywhere you choose to further your study
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of music.
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Thank you, Commissioner.
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That's quite a surprise getting all that money.
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For them, Yes, Commissioner, is the least we can do
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to show our appreciation. I'm afraid most of the credit
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goes to a Tassi here.
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Thank you, Philip.
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I never would have run the secret of the drums
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if it hadn't been for a Tassi.
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Well, we tried to give the native boy something for
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his work. A Bury, I no want money.
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And when I help you buss Philip, you my friend,
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like you say you almost?
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Yes?
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I know?
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Well Philip, yes?
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How soon do you think you'll leave to go back
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to the States for your music scholarship.
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I'm not going back, father, What did you say? I said,
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I'm not going back. I want to stay here on
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the Gold Coast. Why well, as far as my scholarship goes,
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I think there's a great field for musical research in
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the Ashanti talking Drums. And besides, this is my adopted country.
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I want to stay here with you and the railroad
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in Utassi. This is the land here on the Gold
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Coast where I belong, the Land of the Talking Drum.
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Adventure Ahead has presented the story Talking Drums by Waldo
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Fleming and a radio dramatization written by Tom Gutei. In
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today's play, the part of Philip Barring was played by
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Jack Manning. Others in the cast were Juan O Hernandez Ken, Reynard,
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Jim Tanzi, Nicholas Joy, and Bernard Lenro. The music was
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composed by Leo Tempinski and the orchestra was directed by
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Henri Nosco. The entire production was under the direction of
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Joseph Mansfield. NBC and its affiliated independent stations present Adventure
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Ahead as a public service. This is the National Broadcasting Company.
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Welcome back. A really solid adventure story in a jungle,
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and I think with a nons lockable hero who's working
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to bridge the gap between two worlds. This is an
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episode where it falls or rises on the strength of
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its sound effects work, because the way the drums come
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across is going to determine the rest of the story.
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And now work on that was fantastic. It really built
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the tension as you went through the story and felt
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the coming peril. Another one of these tremendous forgotten tales.
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Now I didn't want to talk a little bit more
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about something I found out about one of the episodes
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we played a couple of weeks back, a tooth for
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Paul Revere. Now, I have to admit I was a
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bit taken by that last scene between Lies Butterwick and
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Paul Revere. There was just something about it and I
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got a little bit curious because Adventure Ahead, compared to
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the other long running seaies that ran. It is kind
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of like a very obscure junior series. So I listened
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a little bit to that same scene in both the
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Cavalcade of America and the Escape adaptations, and what I
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noticed is that Adventure Ahead was the only one to
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go with the idea of Lidge Butterwick as a young farmer. Now,
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I don't think that the other two series were wrong,
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but I think Adventure Ahead was more right. It was
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a good choice now, first of all, with the idea
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of targeting a young audience, it helps to connect to
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that audience if your hero is a young man who
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is coming of age. But I think it also just
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works dramatically better, and the scene is played so earnestly.
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I just wanted to go ahead and give it some
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right that I hadn't necessarily appreciated at the time. And
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I hope folks are enjoying Adventure Ahead. We've not got
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as much feedback on it, but it is such a
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well produced Ritch series. Well, now it's time to thank
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our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
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go thank Gretchen Patreon supporter since September twenty seventeen, currently
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supporting the podcast at the secret Agent level of four
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dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Gretchen,
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and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
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the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software,
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like the video, subscribe to the channel, and mark the
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notification bell. We will be back next Tuesday for our
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last episode of Adventure Ahead for now anyway, join us
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back here on Saturday for the final episode of Kloak
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and Dagger. In the meantime, send your comments to buy
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Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot nit from Boise, Idaho.
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
