Cbs Radio Workshop - "Space Merchants Part 2" (1957)

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On an overcrowded, polluted earth ruled by advertising power. Copywriter
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Mitchell Courtney is assigned to sell emigration to Venus. This
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is CBS Radio Workshop Space Merchants, Part two, Episode fifty six,
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first broadcast on CBS February twenty fourth, nineteen fifty seven,
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the concluding half of a two part adaptation of Frederick
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Pohl and C. M. Kornbluff's novel The Space Merchants. Stotts
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Cottsworth plays Courtney, with Virginia Kay as Kathy. Charles Munroe
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adapted the novel for radio, and Paul Roberts directed and
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produced as Courtney's immense campaign advances opposition to the corporate
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order challenges both his assignment and the world around him.
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Now back to the golden age of radio.
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You are a board a cargo jet in the twenty
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second century.
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Here's a man we had trouble with and the whole
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of the time.
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What's his complaint?
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And he claims he's Mitchell Courtney, a copy smith's star
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class or the Follower's shock and advertising company.
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He says he's been Shanghai toboard this jet.
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Roll up his sleeve, let's see his social security tattoo.
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Yeah one three oh four dash nine nine seven four
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dash one four one six dash one five six one
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eight seven seventy two three liar, get him out of here.
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If these with shock and advertising, you'd have a low number.
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Can't you see it's been altered. Let me use the
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radio and talk to missus shocking himself.
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Ha ha ha.
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Whe're from mister Courtney the dead. Take a look at
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this copy of Today's New York Times dated February seventeen,
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twenty one and fifty seven.
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Mitchell Courtney, head of the Venus Rocket Project. If the
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Fowler shockun Advertising firm has been found dead in little America.
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Now wait a minute. A man by the name of
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Matt Runstead knocked me out there. But can't you see
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that I'm alive? I am Mitchell corn Haha.
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You can prove that after ten years, ten years, my
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manifest shows that you're not an advertising man. You're only
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a consumer named George Groby. You've signed up for ten
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years labor and Costa Rica, and those ten years begin
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as soon as this jet sets down. Take him back
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to the.
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Whole The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to Man's imagination, The
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Theater of the Mind. The CBS Radio Workshop continues Part
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two of The Space Merchants by C. M. Kornbluth and
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Frederick Pohle. Today, the Workshop resumes the story of Mitchell
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Courtney Copysmith's star class with the world's greatest advertising agency
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of the Future, Follower shopun associates the tale of a
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rocket ride to Venus.
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I lay on my filthy bunk in the hold of
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the cargo jets, trying to think of a way to
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get back to New York. I wanted to find out
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why Matt Unstead had knocked me out and had me shanghaied.
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Who wanted to get me off?
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The Venus Projects, the advertising campaign we dreamed up to
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colonize Venus.
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I wanted to get back to my wife, Campy.
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There was nothing I could do until this cargo jet
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landed in Costa Rica. Will use comps commers gay. Now,
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what's your name Mitchell Courtney?
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Mitchell court Oh, yeah, you're the bumb we had trouble
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with on the plane.
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Sorry, my name is George Groby. Oh that's better. What
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do you want to do here? Groby got any choice
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of job, anything, anything. The sun drenched plantations of Costa
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Rica have to offer. I'm here to clasp the deft
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hands of independent farmers with pride in their work. I'm
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here to extract the juicy, ripe goodness of chlorella protein. Say,
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how'd you learn that? That's our prime impact? Commercial?
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Learn it?
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I wrote it. But don't let that stand in your way.
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Groby, You're not going Did I get anywhere being a
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wise guy?
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Yes, sir, you're a sign.
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Is a Clorilla scum skimmer, third class report for duty
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an assignment to a bunk at Tier forty eight Dormitory Z.
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The heart of Clorilla products is a strange, glutinous, ever
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growing organism called Chicken Little. It provides one third of
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the world with the protein that replaces old fashioned meat.
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It grows in huge, sweating vats, and only the constant
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slicing keeps it from overgrowing and covering Costa Rica and
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its neighbors, or in time, the face of the earth.
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I had written of.
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Its delights many times in the agency, but I now
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came to note at firsthand I was assigned to skim
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the scum which dripped from its sides.
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She stinks pretty bad, don't you are here?
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But she's beautiful chicken little Orkay, No, she's pretty offul.
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Okay, this is the first time I ever hear you
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say the advertisements are wrong. Go in to town with
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me tonight, Orkay.
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I made one friend, the master slicer named Herrera.
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He's been aloof and stand office at first befitting his
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high station. But now he befriended me. I mean a
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lot of favors. I didn't know why until that night.
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We went on the town to a dark, almost empty cafe.
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Okay, I have much you very carefully. You don't belong
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here doing this work, but.
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Dat I am I ever gonna get out.
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You have the brains, Orkay, not like the others, and thanks,
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but good of brains here.
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I'm so tired half the time I can't think.
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Okay, I want to put my life in your pants.
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Do you ever hear of the CONCIS. But CONCIS, of course?
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You know what the CONCIS stand for.
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Sure, World Conservation Association.
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I mean their ideas. Oh, I know you have heard
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they are dangered. I want a revolution.
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I want to go back to the old ways, real meat,
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real grains and fruits. They want to break for the consumer.
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They say nothing in packages, nothing test and guaranteed.
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Do you think they are so wrong after six months?
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Here here?
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Or hey, take this pamphlet, read it, then talk to
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me again, or denounce me.
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I am not afraid the Kanci underground opposed everything is
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self respecting twenty second century advertising man like me believed.
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I would have denounced.
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Terra to the Colorilla authority is the next.
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Day, except for one thing.
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If I joined the Concis first, if I learned their
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organization and secrets, I'd have a better bargaining position and
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getting back to New York. I joined them. The irony
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was the Concis were a lot better organized than I'd suspected,
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and after six months they decided they needed me in
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New York, and it was they who engineered my return
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to the city. I returned to New York on a
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secret mission for the Conciers. Two weeks after being in
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New York, I got the secret sign to attend the
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CONCI meeting at the Metropolitan Museum as my first taste
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of luxury in more than a year. I hailed a
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Cadillac petticab and told the driver to take me to
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the Metropolitan Museum.
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You can't do better to visit the Metropolitan Museum Master
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World's greatest Masterplaces. Don't miss the painting on the first floor.
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It's called I dreamed I was ice fishing in my
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wonderfum Bra.
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I read it brought a million and a half, got
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a satelass.
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Don't miss the theatric collection. It got dancing cigarette. Say,
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uh you mind? If we stop a second, these no
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Cadillac cabs will hide the pedal. Okay, get out?
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Oh no you don't.
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What's the idea of the gun?
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I recognize you when you walked out of Grand Central,
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mister Mitchell Courtney.
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What do you want with me?
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I want you to get out of a cab and
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come with me to the Taunton Agency. They want for
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the big fat, juicy reward for anybody wh'll bring them
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the inside story of Folly shockuns Venus Rocket project.
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And you're the boy who headed it out. So you're
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the boys who shanghied me and got me off the project.
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That or not, I don't know who did. Wait, you're
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glad we found you, the boy with all those night
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secrets about colonizing God, what's those secrets?
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Come on, get out of care.
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Drop that gun, drop it or break your neck. I
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grabbed the gun and hit him behind the air. Then
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I ran across Fifth Avenue and lost myself in a
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group of consumers on the sidewalk rolling back towards Sharkun Towers.
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I jumped off and ran to the express elevator. I
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walked down the corridor to the Shakan's office. It was
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dark and deserted. Then down the corridor I saw lights
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under my old office door.
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I walked up to it and I didn't knock.
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Hester.
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Mitch, Oh, no, it's all right. I'm alive.
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Oh Mitch, they said you were dead.
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Matt lunstaid, yes, everyone believed you did. My wife did,
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Kathy believe him? Hester.
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We'll get her on the phone for me. Call her.
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She's disappeared me. No one's been able to find her
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after the news of your death. She just closed her
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office and disappeared to be.
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Shocking knows where she is. Where is Shocking? Hester?
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Well, he caught the moon rocket yesterday morning. He was
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going over your notes on the Venus project. He's taking
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it over, yes, from Matt Runstead. It was going bad.
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That's trying to ruin our campaign.
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Hester. You've got to get me aboard the next Moon rocket.
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Use the name George Grobi Runstead and a Taunton agency.
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You'll try to stop a man named Courtney. I've got
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a lot to tell, mister shocking.
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Passengers. This way please, We are now on the Moon tour.
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Us to the Moon to the left, Visitors on business
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to the right.
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Now for the name George Groby, copy Analyst class four
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Groby copy Analysts four. Oh God, this way please, Yes, sir,
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this man says his name is George Groby. Fine, you're
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under arrest, Groby, but go of me. I'm here to
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see Fouler shack. Mister Runstead down on the earth told
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us to expect you. I don't know what you're talking about.
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You may be interested to know that your secretary, Miss
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Hester Barnes, is being tried for treason. She's charged with
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forging documents and passing them to you. The forty third
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Amendment to the United States Constitution, treason to any registered
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advertising agency is punishable by death. Hold him for the
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return passage in a similar charge. Garden that God had
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his knight's in my back.
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As we walk down the streets past storefronts with signs
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Moon made Fashion, stunning conversation pieces proved you were here.
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Souvenirs of Luna cheapest in town. Moon suits rented fifty
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years without a blowout. Ye tasty GOODI shop on ye
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Moon Warren. Astron readings by appointment only. Hold what is it?
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You sure your name's Grovy? Positive?
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Ever know a man named Herrera? Well? Yes, Herrera. Now
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wish we.
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Could find out what you're up to, Groby. Send out
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a costa rica a report in New York. Never show
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up at a meeting there. Then you turn up at
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Fowler Shakans Agency and get your passage on a moon rock.
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I mean you're a shot up.
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Now go into Astrons there you'll hide you till our
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top boss up here comes. First, take my nightstick, knock
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me out with it, then point it at the street
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light and blast it out.
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Hit me hard, but not too.
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Oh this is going to cost me two strikes in
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a week's pay.
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Oh my concert training was really paying off. Astroan took
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me in stride, hit me in a room under his floor,
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gave me something to eat, and I fell asleep. I
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waked with a light pouring down into my face.
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You can come up now, Groby, the chief is here
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to see you in that room back there, I'll see
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you're not disturbed.
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Thanks over here, into the light, mister Groby Kathy, What
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are you doing here?
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Mitch?
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Why didn't you stay on ice? What crazy thing have
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you done to turn up here?
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I'm crazy? Why shouldn't I be crazy? My wife a
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kingpin consert?
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What a shock? You? A star class copy smith married
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to a kNs.
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Matt's one of you? You got Matt Runstead to shanghai
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me m.
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Like a fool.
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I thought if I could get you away from Fowler Shakan,
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I might bring you to your senses.
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Trying to decide what was best for poor little Mitch. Mitch.
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I loved you, You loved me, You actually were in
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love with me, Yes.
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I was, in spite of everything you stood for. But
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you are not going to talk to Fowler Shakan.
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I'm not Mitch.
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I don't want you to ruin Venus the way you've
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ruined the world.
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A woman of ideals, What do you plan to do
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with me?
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Are you going to report to Fowler Shakan? Yes, then
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there is nothing I can do for you.
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Then let me tell you something before you turn me
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over to restaurant on your friends outside I've been shanghaied,
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robbed my name, forced to work like a slave in
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the tropics. I've had all I can take of others
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deciding what to do about poor old Mitch.
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Your godfriend left this night stick with me. You know
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what he does, Kathy, get.
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On that phone and call Fowler's Shatun and tell him
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where I am. Then get out, take your friends with you.
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I'll give you two days to vanish, but this time
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stay out of sight forever.
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Go on call Shocking.
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This is doctor Evans, Mitchell Courtney's widow. I'd like to
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speak to mister Shockun.
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Please match my boy.
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I'm going to fatten you up and turn venus section
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back to you. You know my policy. Find a good horse,
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give him his head and back him to the limit.
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You've never let me down, and venus sections in rotten shape.
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Nobody's applying for space on the Venus Rocket. The whole
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campaigns at sea the end of seas are down to
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three point thirty seven for North America. They should before
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and rising. We've got to get those eighteen hundred consumers
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on board the Venus Rocket.
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When we got back to Worth, Matt Runstead had disappeared.
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I arranged for Hester to be released from Alcatraz, and
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she returned in triumph in Sharkan's private jet. I began
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to whip the Venus Rocket project back into shape. I
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was living again, writing new jingles, starting new rumors by
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word of mouth, developing new techniques, until finally, Mitch, a
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big day has come.
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Eighteen hundred consumers have volunteered to write our rocket to Venus.
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Now I've arranged for Congress to meet tomorrow, and my boy,
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I want you to address them as Fowler Shakans personal representative,
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requesting a takeoff date.
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Gentlemen, the Senate is now in session. You all received
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the recording of the opening prayer last night. So let's
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hear from the Senator from Corella Limited and the Senator
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from Corela Limited passes and difference from the Senator from
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Alaska Mining.
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A Senator from Alaska Mining passes in favor of the
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Senator from the United States and Smelling. A Senator from
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the United Steel and Smelling passes in favor of the
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Senator from Caribbean Fruit.
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The Senator from Caribbean Fruits passes in favor of the
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Senator from Yummy Coola.
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My dear fellow senators, thank you all for graciously allowing
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me to speak before we pass upon this very important
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bill concerning the Venus Rocket. The people of this great
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republic of ours, extending from Atlantic see we to pacifically.
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Suddenly, I since something had gone wrong. I'd been sitting
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back thinking about Campy, thinking of her face, her voice,
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a smile, before we'd married. I was wondering where she was,
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what she thought of all this, and the speaker's voice
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focused my attention upon him. I hadn't been worried. Foller
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Shunkin owned two thirds of this gathering, but there was
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something about old yummy collar that troubled me. He wasn't
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addressing his fellows. He was looking up, addressing me, a
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big grin on his face. I leaned forward just in
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time for the weenie.
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In a brief discussion I had before this session, mister
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Taunton gave me some information in private. But I feel
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it my public duty to ask a couple of questions
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of mister Courtney.
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Who is president.
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I would like to ask mister Courtney if the name
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of George Groby is familiar to him. I would like
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to ask if mister Courtney is George Groby. I would
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like to ask mister Courtney if when he was known
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as George Groby he was a member in good standing
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of the World Conservationist Association, known the most of us
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Lole American the content.
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Below.
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There was a raging tidal wave of Taunton congressmen and
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shot un congressmen battling for the first time in history.
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Shots were being fired in anger on the Senate floor.
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If Taunton hadn't tipped off or Yummy Coola, I knew
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who had the conscience.
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Somehow I didn't mind.
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I realized that for some time now I'd really been
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one of them. A little man besides me, dressed in black,
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suddenly seized my arm and let me outside. Jordan, you'll
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find a car outside ready to take you to the airport.
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Mister Courtney, what airport? Don't stop to ask questions. Just
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go wherever you're taking You'll be protected, fat sham, You'll
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be all right.
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I guarantee that, who are you the president? Good luck,
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God bless you.
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I had to admire that little man's courage. He'd walked
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back into that raging den of lions without a quiver.
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Aboard the jetliner. I wondered what would happen to him
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when they found out he'd sent me to safety?
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Or was it to safety?
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I tried to ask questions of the men aboard the liner,
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but they looked the other way and kept absolutely quiet.
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You can climb out now, mister Kartney.
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They're all ready for you over there at the Venus rocket.
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There's no time to lose. Say look here, I don't
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want to go to Venus.
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Who's in charge here?
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I won't go aboard that rocket. Everybody's aboard. But you
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come on, mister Kartney.
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Passenger fasten them in for the takeoff.
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Fastener off, Mitch, Mitch, are you in here?
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Kathy?
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Kathy?
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Where are you up here?
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Over your head?
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Stop floating around? Come down here and unfasten me.
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All right, I'll try, but we're beyond the law of gravity.
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We're on the way to Venus with eighteen hundred conservationists.
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How did you get out of a highness?
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A steward set me free, then floated away.
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I have to talk to you me.
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You threatened to kill me, Remember, yes, I remember you
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could have Mitch in time, but you never told shock
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and who of where I was?
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Why didn't you?
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Because I love you, Kathy, and I think that for
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a long time, I've been coming over to your side.
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And you're willing to face life on Venus.
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Yes, it's time people got a break.
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People, not consumers. Oh. I like hearing you say that.
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And I love you too, Mitch. Oh, Mitch, Mitch, you
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broke my hold on your harness.
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Come back here. I just wanted to put my arms
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around you.
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There'll be plenty of time for that on Venus.
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Come back here.
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Unbuttle your harness and catch me.
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I can't who invented this crazy gimmick anyway?
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Oh Mitch, Mitch.
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You've stopped talking like an advertising man.
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Kiss me.
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The CBS Radio Workshop has presented Part two of The
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Space Merchants, adapted for radio by Charles S. Monroe, original
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music composed and conducted by Samuel Matlofsky, Produced and directed
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in New York by Paul Roberts. Stotts Cotsworth starred as Mitchell.
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Courtney Virginia Kay as Kathy. Others in the cast were
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Ralph Camargo, Leon Janney, Joseph boland, Ian, Martin Jackson, Beck,
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Ed Prentiss, Joe Julian, Mary Patten, Bob Dryden, Ralph Bell
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and Joe Helgeson. These sound effects were devised by Tom
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Buchanan and Tom Perkins. The engineer Jack Katz. This is
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Ted Pearson inviting you to listen again next week when
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from Hollywood, the CBS Radio Workshop presents The Engine No
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One Loved. It's the story of a Civil War locomotive
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that wound up its career in the children's amusement park.
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This is the CBS Radio Network.
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CBS Radio Workshop has brought us Space Merchants Part two.
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Good Night, and keep the old radio dial glowing. Follow
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