August 1, 2024 • 21 mins
After Tom Slick stares death in the eye and survives, he decides to chase his greatest dream: Finding the Yeti.
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“Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter” Stars Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk
Written and Directed by Caroline Slaughter
Story Edited by Jeb Stuart
Produced and Assistant Directed by Emilia Brock
Original Score, Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering by Jesse Nighswonger
Executive Produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek, Schuyler Fisk, Jeb Stuart, Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, L.C. Crowley, Brandon Barr and Virginia Prescott
Special thanks to historian Catherine Nixon Cooke whose expert advice on Tom Slick Jr. and book – “Tom Slick, Mystery Hunter!” – served as inspiration for the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
School of Humans.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This podcast is based on the true story of explorer, inventor, visionary,
and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,
and characters have been altered for dramatic purposes. Consider using
headphones to enhance your listening experience. We've created an immersive
(00:29):
soundscape to tell our story.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh we're gonna die.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We're gonna die.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Come on, you're an oss man. Dullas what you've never looked?
Guests wearing the eye I try to avert my case,
and you're lucky.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
No, no, no, I don't believe in luck. I believe
in survival.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Hey lang fella, Uh wake up?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Come on, man, I'm checking you right.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
In the ribs.
Speaker 8 (01:00):
Oh he's how cool?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
God damn it, Slick.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Why'd you have to hit him?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because I'm a Nazi hunter.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
That's wine.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Mom, You expect me to listen to this without wine? Hurry? Shoot,
this wants the screw cap. Did you see the wine opener?
Speaker 10 (01:21):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's in one of these boxes.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, it's in one of these boxes.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Sorry. So if dad's flying the plant, well no, he
doesn't know how to fly.
Speaker 11 (01:30):
Oh right, but I mean, yeah, he is flying it.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
And they're still headed for the Panama Canal. From what
Granddad said, all they can see is water.
Speaker 9 (01:38):
So I'm guessing they're somewhere over the.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Pacific with a ticking time bomb lane just set up and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The flying torpedo doodle thing attached.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know how they get out of this one. Okay, Mom,
you don't have to listen to this if it's too much.
These are my father's untold stories. I am listening, okay
about nut I don't thank God?
Speaker 12 (02:00):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Its helps with the nerves.
Speaker 13 (02:02):
Okay, I'm present play.
Speaker 9 (02:10):
Yes, knew this.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Red button did something.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Well that will come right up.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
There we go.
Speaker 14 (02:17):
That dead Dodo got dump.
Speaker 10 (02:21):
But we still have an issue.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Your chatty friend Lang, if you disarm this bomb, I
will protect you. I can't protect you.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
You're idiot.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You have killed Abatsi and Pedica.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Even if you lends this thing is stick me in
some visits.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
They will hand me down.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Then they will torture me, and they will watch as
I suffer an excruciating death.
Speaker 13 (02:46):
What is that to live for?
Speaker 11 (02:47):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The United States government will take care of you.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
An Operation Pelican good name.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
By the way, top top top you know when I
was lying back there, right, Oh, come on.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Just run it by Rose. Well you guys are all friends.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yeah, war criminals don't generally make a great impression.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Look, Lang has intel on the heavyweights behind this operation,
and let's not forget.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
That our lives are in his hands.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
This is timmy No, give me your knife, dolls and
take the wheel, the wheel.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, look, just keep her steady. No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If you make any sudden movements, there's.
Speaker 10 (03:24):
A chowder box here will detonate and we're fish food. God,
this cloak and dagger.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Shit, why didn't I just become a congressman?
Speaker 10 (03:34):
Hey, Lang, quick question, ayesholder.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
What's your favorite color? If you look like a blue guy?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Exuse me?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No, no, wrong game. Let me explain the rules.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So we have a bomb here, and from what I see,
there are about three, no four, different color wires making
this thing tick. If I cut one of these wires,
it could do nothing, or if we're really lucky, it'll.
Speaker 10 (03:56):
Shut off the bomb.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
Of lost pieces.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And that's how you play roulette.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
All right, Lang, listen to me. I have a lot
of power in my country. Shu, Yeah, I mean, people
don't hail me or anything but sure. Yeah, look, your
mission was subverted by US Americans. You're a trader now.
But if you're dead, there's no one around to protect
your family.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
I have no wife, I have not too good.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That's kind of sad.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
What about a mother.
Speaker 13 (04:24):
You gotta have a mother, a sex.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I know sh'll be snatched. It just mutilated by the
men you call comrades. Oh nine.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Now keep in mind those are the same men who
killed your true love wilburt or hydri nine, Fritz nine.
Speaker 11 (04:42):
That's why oss bitch, dominique, shit, shit shit, Dallas holder steady.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Uh, it's a great seconds of TV explodes, dulls.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What's your type?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Wonsreprenets Now, Dallas, listen to me, all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yellow wire or brown wire?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well, I mean, I'm married to burnette, but I have
a thing for red heads.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Red wire it is. Yeah, I prefer blondes too.
Speaker 14 (05:08):
Bron roan.
Speaker 9 (05:10):
God's the roan wire.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
What if I told you I just cut the red one.
I was telling the truth. Cut the brown one more?
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Is he? Oh? No? My number one kid?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
See Dallas, Now this is a man staring death right
in the eye.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Slick cut the brown wire.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Now, oh, God, you believe in luck now, dulles, No,
You're just one lucky bastard.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Chapter three.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
This is the mostly true tale of Tom Slick, mystery hunter.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
God that a but blood pressure checked after that.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
So if Granddad doesn't know how to fly, how do
they land?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Google? Look up Slick Airways. Dad couldn't fly then, but
he learned.
Speaker 12 (06:29):
Slick Airways was established in nineteen forty six by Tom and.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Earl Slick, daddish brother. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 12 (06:36):
They used the surplus of Curtis C forty six airplanes
from World War II, and by nineteen fifty one it
was the largest all cargo airline in the United States.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
So they started their airline five years after Granddad and
Dallas took down that Nazi plane.
Speaker 12 (06:52):
And they operated until nineteen sixty six. For a period
of time Slick Airways was shut down. It is alleged
that that time the planes were being used for covert
missions organized by the US government.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So the CIA was her big client guest Dad and
pressed dollars with his landing. I knew you knew more
than you were letting on.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, So what happened to the Nazi lang?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Now that I don't know.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
I guess that's the point.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
I mean, the CIA did hide Nazis post war and
then use them as spies in the Cold War.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Right, let's blame dulls for that.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Okay, you pick one?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Oh got one?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Tom Slick August twenty sixth, nineteen fifty seven. I'm on
a little stopover in London with my birthday gift here
strapped to my back. I'll be recording everything.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
WHOA, alright, you drive on the right side.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I won't have to.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
These are the times I remember why tell us aptly
nickname me Lucky Tom after our little rendezvous with death
over the Pacific nearly what sixteen years ago? Yeah, but
what he didn't know is that name belongs to my father,
Tom Slick Senior. Just like the dream that now has
(08:25):
me traveling to the other side of the world. But
now I have to contend with uh, the insufferably civilized Brits.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
There's none of that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Whatever that is in the Getick Club.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
That is the future. I'm recording this conversation as we speak, Sir,
h members value of that privacy.
Speaker 13 (08:50):
Hold on there, Johnson. This is my good friend Tom Slick.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
He's here to see me.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Jimmy Stewart. It is good to have friends who are movies.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Mister Stewart's I was just tending the gentleman about the.
Speaker 13 (09:03):
Rules, now, John Soon, No, Tom is no gentleman. He
plays by his own set of rules.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Jimmy, come on, don't pretend you're not a savage.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Oh savage?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is that like Jimmy Stewart.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Jimmy Stewart, like the actor from the Christmas Movie is
a wonderful lie.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, and rear Window and Harvey and Verdigo. And he
was friends with Granddad. Oh, dad got around.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
He got mixed up with the Hollywood crowd and was
popular because he talked about his inventions.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
His experiments, and his adventures, not studio gossip.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
He and Howard Hughes really hit it off.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
The guy Leonardo DiCaprio have played in The Aviator.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Jesus, if anyone ever makes a movie about that, I
hope people don't define his life by the heck that
plays him.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Oh gosh, well you here. Howard Hughes is at it again.
He's a dreamer, tried to up end history by building
a flying boat.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
It's just a prototype.
Speaker 13 (10:07):
Well he's calling it the Hercules.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Well, He's nothing if not subtle.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Right, you know Howard and I are.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
You know, we're pals obviously, but he tries so hard
to shock people.
Speaker 13 (10:18):
I think he just wants to change the world. Yeah,
in his own unique way.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And what if you were to change the world in
some way but no one knew it was you, would
that make it any less significant?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (10:31):
No, Tom, I'm a movie star with the mercy of
public consumption.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
And I like it.
Speaker 13 (10:37):
Your second Scotch, Yeah, I always got free drinks. Yeah,
So tell me what brings you to London.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
I am on my way to India.
Speaker 13 (10:47):
What a country? Well, Glory and I tagged along on
a tiger hunting expedition over there.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
It's kind of a shame to take down a tiger,
isn't it?
Speaker 13 (10:54):
Oh, your old sap. I'm America's sweetheart. I don't kill
anything unless I play to eat it with big game.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
How do you catch the animal without harming it?
Speaker 13 (11:04):
Well, you stun it. Our guide told us about a
tranquilizer gun that was used on a behemoth lion in
Africa that the Bronx Zoo had its eye on. Uh huh, Now,
potent sedative was used. The lion was knocked out the
entire journey back. Now it's like me up for public consumption.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Yeah, where's that gun now?
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Most likely New York. Now it's got to cost a
pretty penny.
Speaker 10 (11:27):
Why asking, Well, I'm preparing for a hunt in India.
What are you tracking the yetti?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (11:33):
Tom, Now, don't you go trying to beat Hughes's bizarre pursuits.
You're a scientist and he's arguably insane.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Look, thank you, but everything's under control at home, and
my institutes are prepared to live without me for at
least a year.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
So I have this time where.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
I come on, Tom, the Yetti. This whole cryptozoology thing
is a fad, bordering on a joke.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
In nineteen ten, there was the Komodo dragon. In nineteen
thirty four, the giant panda. These hidden creatures were considered mysts,
but one person believed in them. That belief led to discovery.
That discovery established the creature's place in zoology.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
That's no punchline, Jimmy, that is science.
Speaker 13 (12:20):
Oh, there's no yetti. There's been a handful of expeditions
in the Himalayas that have come up with nothing.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
It weren't led by me.
Speaker 13 (12:29):
Johnson, sir, we're gonna need a couple more drinks. Yeah,
make mine a double.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Yes, indeed, sir, nothing for me, Thanks.
Speaker 13 (12:42):
Fine, Tom, Let's say this YETI is real. What are
you gonna do when you spend a million dollars on
this thing?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You got?
Speaker 13 (12:50):
You got frozen toes. You're out in the in the
middle of the Himalayas by yourself with a tracker, and
like everyone else, you don't find it.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
I'll keep looking.
Speaker 13 (13:01):
Uh huh oh, I don't think it's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Well I didn't think it's a wonderful life was a
good idea, and look how that turned out.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
Uh touchet.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh it's Blair again.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I have to get this. I'm exhausted. Anyway, I'm gonna
head up.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Be sure you don't want to get through the tape
of me tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You'll fill me in tomorrow. But if you're staying up,
I can put the kettle on.
Speaker 13 (13:26):
Okay, good night, Blair.
Speaker 14 (13:31):
I know, I know. I don't do calls. So yes,
the news is big. Who died, but hopefully it won't
involve death unless after hearing this you want.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
To kill me.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What did you do, Blair?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What happened.
Speaker 14 (13:54):
I kind of sort of released a statement that the
exhibit would feature your granddad's yettie hunt, and we share
details at the event tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (14:02):
But there's just one tape.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
You said you found more. Have you listened to them all?
Speaker 13 (14:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
No, I mean the one I just listened to.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Granddad mentions the YETI.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
But don't you think if you'd found something on that
expedition it would be in history books.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
You still have a whole box of tapes to listen to.
So what's the harmun finding out?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Baiting the press with fake news live?
Speaker 14 (14:25):
This could be big okay donor money, big Texas monthly
than New York Times, a freaking podcast. They're all coming.
Speaker 13 (14:38):
How many people did you reach out to?
Speaker 14 (14:40):
TikTok oh?
Speaker 12 (14:41):
My?
Speaker 11 (14:42):
Take everything about the YETI off social media and just
give me a minute.
Speaker 14 (14:47):
You have twenty hours until your speech at an event
dedicated to your legendary grandfather, which opens an exhibit that
will hopefully fund another year of science. So basically, you're
saving lives, no pressure. Thanks, text me when you figured
it out. I have hives from this column.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Uh well, fuck.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Tom Slick September seventh, nineteen fifty seven. I made it
to India. Good god, it's a feast of sound culture
people and the stink of sacred.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Cow manure makes you feel alive.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Who careful? That nearly ended me? Maybe I am one
lucky Tom. You have a beautiful day too, sir.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Lovely people the assault with a smile.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
It's nice, mister Thomas Snick, Good day, sir.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
You ever call here, may assist you in holding the receiver.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
It no, thank you, I'll take it from here.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
Oh night, mister slick.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Mabel, Mabel is that you?
Speaker 15 (16:14):
You know me always bumped you on, mister Slick, So
you made it okay?
Speaker 9 (16:19):
You spoke to Betty the kids. You know Claire lost
a tooth last week.
Speaker 15 (16:22):
Oh, you're taking the vitamins out, putting your suit case right,
and you're not drinking the water.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Please tell me you are not drinking that water.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
All of the above, Mabel. Good and thanks for the
update on Claire.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Okay, so couverle updates. I got my hands on that
tranquil as a gun. Here's a beast.
Speaker 15 (16:40):
It's being shipped to Texas and your brother will stick
it on the cargo plane with the dogs.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
The bloodhounds.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yes they are huge, mister slick and the poops.
Speaker 15 (16:52):
Well, come Christmas time, I hope my bonus looks as
big as they are.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Oh, they can't with snow booties. No frumps, wait, footie.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yes, it's all falling into place. Mabel, whoa what now?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
I've been going over the numbers with the accounting.
Speaker 15 (17:08):
Yeah, you have fifteen thousand in your personal account to
put towards this expedition.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
That sounds reasonable.
Speaker 15 (17:16):
You won't have a team, poor dogs, or any chance
of survival for even a month in those mountains without
an addition of fifteen thousand.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
So this whole thing is gonna cost me thirty thousand.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yes, sir, I don't want to take any money out
of my institutes.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Uh huh.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
A check came in the mail, now, thought brother?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I thought, hello, Maybel you there, Maybel, I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Can you hear me, Mabel? What did you say about
a check.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Halfway around the world. Of course you can't hear me.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I can hear you. Now, what were you saying?
Speaker 15 (17:53):
I said, you do have thirty thousand to put towards
this thing.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
It's just not all yours.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I'm not following. You're being mysterious Mabel.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Oh God. A check came in the mail three days ago.
Speaker 15 (18:10):
Now there was a note that said something like, I
know what you're up to, I know where to find you.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Here is what you'll need to complete what you've started.
And there was a check for fifteen thousand for twenty.
Speaker 15 (18:23):
So now you have thirty five thousand to put towards
this thing.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
Whoa brilliant hurt?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
What? No, no, butts?
Speaker 9 (18:32):
The check isn't exactly made out to you?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Well, who's it made out to?
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Look at Tom shit? Yes, yes he did, right on
my shoe, Right on my shoe. Bad boy, bad boy.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Dollars?
Speaker 10 (18:48):
What are you playing at?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Tom Slick? Mystery Hunter is a production of Fool of
Humans and iHeart Podcasts, starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Cissy Spasick as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written
and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive
produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasick, Skyler Fiske, Jeb Stewart,
(19:22):
Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, L. C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger. Casting by
Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Daisy Church
(19:43):
and Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catle. Special
thanks to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang
and Casey Pegram. For iHeartMedia.
Speaker 16 (19:55):
Episode three cast, Dave Willis as Alan, Ava Davis as Blair,
Michael Mao as Jimmy Stewart, David Devrees as Hines Lang
and Johnson the Butler, Jenny Fleming as Mabel, Neil Ready
(20:16):
as Biddy and the Indian Taxi Driver, Tim Heller as
the London Cappy, Julia Christgau as the Google Voice Assistant,
Mike Shots as the Voice of God, and the introductory
voiceover with additional roles voiced by David Devrees, Michael Mao
(20:36):
and Phil Clark. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is Maya Howard
Special thanks to Lucas Riley.
Speaker 11 (20:46):
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Speaker 12 (21:02):
Could be a
School of Humans.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This podcast is based on the true story of explorer, inventor, visionary,
and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,
and characters have been altered for dramatic purposes. Consider using
headphones to enhance your listening experience. We've created an immersive
(00:29):
soundscape to tell our story.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh we're gonna die.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We're gonna die.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Come on, you're an oss man. Dullas what you've never looked?
Guests wearing the eye I try to avert my case,
and you're lucky.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
No, no, no, I don't believe in luck. I believe
in survival.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Hey lang fella, Uh wake up?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Come on, man, I'm checking you right.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
In the ribs.
Speaker 8 (01:00):
Oh he's how cool?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
God damn it, Slick.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Why'd you have to hit him?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because I'm a Nazi hunter.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
That's wine.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Mom, You expect me to listen to this without wine? Hurry? Shoot,
this wants the screw cap. Did you see the wine opener?
Speaker 10 (01:21):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's in one of these boxes.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, it's in one of these boxes.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Sorry. So if dad's flying the plant, well no, he
doesn't know how to fly.
Speaker 11 (01:30):
Oh right, but I mean, yeah, he is flying it.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
And they're still headed for the Panama Canal. From what
Granddad said, all they can see is water.
Speaker 9 (01:38):
So I'm guessing they're somewhere over the.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Pacific with a ticking time bomb lane just set up and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The flying torpedo doodle thing attached.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know how they get out of this one. Okay, Mom,
you don't have to listen to this if it's too much.
These are my father's untold stories. I am listening, okay
about nut I don't thank God?
Speaker 12 (02:00):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Its helps with the nerves.
Speaker 13 (02:02):
Okay, I'm present play.
Speaker 9 (02:10):
Yes, knew this.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Red button did something.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Well that will come right up.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
There we go.
Speaker 14 (02:17):
That dead Dodo got dump.
Speaker 10 (02:21):
But we still have an issue.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Your chatty friend Lang, if you disarm this bomb, I
will protect you. I can't protect you.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
You're idiot.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You have killed Abatsi and Pedica.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Even if you lends this thing is stick me in
some visits.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
They will hand me down.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Then they will torture me, and they will watch as
I suffer an excruciating death.
Speaker 13 (02:46):
What is that to live for?
Speaker 11 (02:47):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The United States government will take care of you.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
An Operation Pelican good name.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
By the way, top top top you know when I
was lying back there, right, Oh, come on.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Just run it by Rose. Well you guys are all friends.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yeah, war criminals don't generally make a great impression.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Look, Lang has intel on the heavyweights behind this operation,
and let's not forget.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
That our lives are in his hands.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
This is timmy No, give me your knife, dolls and
take the wheel, the wheel.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, look, just keep her steady. No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If you make any sudden movements, there's.
Speaker 10 (03:24):
A chowder box here will detonate and we're fish food. God,
this cloak and dagger.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Shit, why didn't I just become a congressman?
Speaker 10 (03:34):
Hey, Lang, quick question, ayesholder.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
What's your favorite color? If you look like a blue guy?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Exuse me?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No, no, wrong game. Let me explain the rules.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So we have a bomb here, and from what I see,
there are about three, no four, different color wires making
this thing tick. If I cut one of these wires,
it could do nothing, or if we're really lucky, it'll.
Speaker 10 (03:56):
Shut off the bomb.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
Of lost pieces.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And that's how you play roulette.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
All right, Lang, listen to me. I have a lot
of power in my country. Shu, Yeah, I mean, people
don't hail me or anything but sure. Yeah, look, your
mission was subverted by US Americans. You're a trader now.
But if you're dead, there's no one around to protect
your family.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
I have no wife, I have not too good.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That's kind of sad.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
What about a mother.
Speaker 13 (04:24):
You gotta have a mother, a sex.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I know sh'll be snatched. It just mutilated by the
men you call comrades. Oh nine.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Now keep in mind those are the same men who
killed your true love wilburt or hydri nine, Fritz nine.
Speaker 11 (04:42):
That's why oss bitch, dominique, shit, shit shit, Dallas holder steady.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Uh, it's a great seconds of TV explodes, dulls.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What's your type?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Wonsreprenets Now, Dallas, listen to me, all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yellow wire or brown wire?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well, I mean, I'm married to burnette, but I have
a thing for red heads.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Red wire it is. Yeah, I prefer blondes too.
Speaker 14 (05:08):
Bron roan.
Speaker 9 (05:10):
God's the roan wire.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
What if I told you I just cut the red one.
I was telling the truth. Cut the brown one more?
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Is he? Oh? No? My number one kid?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
See Dallas, Now this is a man staring death right
in the eye.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Slick cut the brown wire.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Now, oh, God, you believe in luck now, dulles, No,
You're just one lucky bastard.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Chapter three.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
This is the mostly true tale of Tom Slick, mystery hunter.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
God that a but blood pressure checked after that.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
So if Granddad doesn't know how to fly, how do
they land?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Google? Look up Slick Airways. Dad couldn't fly then, but
he learned.
Speaker 12 (06:29):
Slick Airways was established in nineteen forty six by Tom and.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Earl Slick, daddish brother. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 12 (06:36):
They used the surplus of Curtis C forty six airplanes
from World War II, and by nineteen fifty one it
was the largest all cargo airline in the United States.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
So they started their airline five years after Granddad and
Dallas took down that Nazi plane.
Speaker 12 (06:52):
And they operated until nineteen sixty six. For a period
of time Slick Airways was shut down. It is alleged
that that time the planes were being used for covert
missions organized by the US government.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So the CIA was her big client guest Dad and
pressed dollars with his landing. I knew you knew more
than you were letting on.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, So what happened to the Nazi lang?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Now that I don't know.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
I guess that's the point.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
I mean, the CIA did hide Nazis post war and
then use them as spies in the Cold War.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Right, let's blame dulls for that.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Okay, you pick one?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Oh got one?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Tom Slick August twenty sixth, nineteen fifty seven. I'm on
a little stopover in London with my birthday gift here
strapped to my back. I'll be recording everything.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
WHOA, alright, you drive on the right side.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I won't have to.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
These are the times I remember why tell us aptly
nickname me Lucky Tom after our little rendezvous with death
over the Pacific nearly what sixteen years ago? Yeah, but
what he didn't know is that name belongs to my father,
Tom Slick Senior. Just like the dream that now has
(08:25):
me traveling to the other side of the world. But
now I have to contend with uh, the insufferably civilized Brits.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
There's none of that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Whatever that is in the Getick Club.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
That is the future. I'm recording this conversation as we speak, Sir,
h members value of that privacy.
Speaker 13 (08:50):
Hold on there, Johnson. This is my good friend Tom Slick.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
He's here to see me.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Jimmy Stewart. It is good to have friends who are movies.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Mister Stewart's I was just tending the gentleman about the.
Speaker 13 (09:03):
Rules, now, John Soon, No, Tom is no gentleman. He
plays by his own set of rules.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Jimmy, come on, don't pretend you're not a savage.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Oh savage?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is that like Jimmy Stewart.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Jimmy Stewart, like the actor from the Christmas Movie is
a wonderful lie.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, and rear Window and Harvey and Verdigo. And he
was friends with Granddad. Oh, dad got around.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
He got mixed up with the Hollywood crowd and was
popular because he talked about his inventions.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
His experiments, and his adventures, not studio gossip.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
He and Howard Hughes really hit it off.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
The guy Leonardo DiCaprio have played in The Aviator.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Jesus, if anyone ever makes a movie about that, I
hope people don't define his life by the heck that
plays him.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Oh gosh, well you here. Howard Hughes is at it again.
He's a dreamer, tried to up end history by building
a flying boat.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
It's just a prototype.
Speaker 13 (10:07):
Well he's calling it the Hercules.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Well, He's nothing if not subtle.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Right, you know Howard and I are.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
You know, we're pals obviously, but he tries so hard
to shock people.
Speaker 13 (10:18):
I think he just wants to change the world. Yeah,
in his own unique way.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And what if you were to change the world in
some way but no one knew it was you, would
that make it any less significant?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (10:31):
No, Tom, I'm a movie star with the mercy of
public consumption.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
And I like it.
Speaker 13 (10:37):
Your second Scotch, Yeah, I always got free drinks. Yeah,
So tell me what brings you to London.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
I am on my way to India.
Speaker 13 (10:47):
What a country? Well, Glory and I tagged along on
a tiger hunting expedition over there.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
It's kind of a shame to take down a tiger,
isn't it?
Speaker 13 (10:54):
Oh, your old sap. I'm America's sweetheart. I don't kill
anything unless I play to eat it with big game.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
How do you catch the animal without harming it?
Speaker 13 (11:04):
Well, you stun it. Our guide told us about a
tranquilizer gun that was used on a behemoth lion in
Africa that the Bronx Zoo had its eye on. Uh huh, Now,
potent sedative was used. The lion was knocked out the
entire journey back. Now it's like me up for public consumption.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Yeah, where's that gun now?
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Most likely New York. Now it's got to cost a
pretty penny.
Speaker 10 (11:27):
Why asking, Well, I'm preparing for a hunt in India.
What are you tracking the yetti?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (11:33):
Tom, Now, don't you go trying to beat Hughes's bizarre pursuits.
You're a scientist and he's arguably insane.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Look, thank you, but everything's under control at home, and
my institutes are prepared to live without me for at
least a year.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
So I have this time where.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
I come on, Tom, the Yetti. This whole cryptozoology thing
is a fad, bordering on a joke.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
In nineteen ten, there was the Komodo dragon. In nineteen
thirty four, the giant panda. These hidden creatures were considered mysts,
but one person believed in them. That belief led to discovery.
That discovery established the creature's place in zoology.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
That's no punchline, Jimmy, that is science.
Speaker 13 (12:20):
Oh, there's no yetti. There's been a handful of expeditions
in the Himalayas that have come up with nothing.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
It weren't led by me.
Speaker 13 (12:29):
Johnson, sir, we're gonna need a couple more drinks. Yeah,
make mine a double.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Yes, indeed, sir, nothing for me, Thanks.
Speaker 13 (12:42):
Fine, Tom, Let's say this YETI is real. What are
you gonna do when you spend a million dollars on
this thing?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You got?
Speaker 13 (12:50):
You got frozen toes. You're out in the in the
middle of the Himalayas by yourself with a tracker, and
like everyone else, you don't find it.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
I'll keep looking.
Speaker 13 (13:01):
Uh huh oh, I don't think it's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Well I didn't think it's a wonderful life was a
good idea, and look how that turned out.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
Uh touchet.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh it's Blair again.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I have to get this. I'm exhausted. Anyway, I'm gonna
head up.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Be sure you don't want to get through the tape
of me tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You'll fill me in tomorrow. But if you're staying up,
I can put the kettle on.
Speaker 13 (13:26):
Okay, good night, Blair.
Speaker 14 (13:31):
I know, I know. I don't do calls. So yes,
the news is big. Who died, but hopefully it won't
involve death unless after hearing this you want.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
To kill me.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What did you do, Blair?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What happened.
Speaker 14 (13:54):
I kind of sort of released a statement that the
exhibit would feature your granddad's yettie hunt, and we share
details at the event tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (14:02):
But there's just one tape.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
You said you found more. Have you listened to them all?
Speaker 13 (14:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
No, I mean the one I just listened to.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Granddad mentions the YETI.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
But don't you think if you'd found something on that
expedition it would be in history books.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
You still have a whole box of tapes to listen to.
So what's the harmun finding out?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Baiting the press with fake news live?
Speaker 14 (14:25):
This could be big okay donor money, big Texas monthly
than New York Times, a freaking podcast. They're all coming.
Speaker 13 (14:38):
How many people did you reach out to?
Speaker 14 (14:40):
TikTok oh?
Speaker 12 (14:41):
My?
Speaker 11 (14:42):
Take everything about the YETI off social media and just
give me a minute.
Speaker 14 (14:47):
You have twenty hours until your speech at an event
dedicated to your legendary grandfather, which opens an exhibit that
will hopefully fund another year of science. So basically, you're
saving lives, no pressure. Thanks, text me when you figured
it out. I have hives from this column.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Uh well, fuck.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Tom Slick September seventh, nineteen fifty seven. I made it
to India. Good god, it's a feast of sound culture
people and the stink of sacred.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Cow manure makes you feel alive.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Who careful? That nearly ended me? Maybe I am one
lucky Tom. You have a beautiful day too, sir.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Lovely people the assault with a smile.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
It's nice, mister Thomas Snick, Good day, sir.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
You ever call here, may assist you in holding the receiver.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
It no, thank you, I'll take it from here.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
Oh night, mister slick.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Mabel, Mabel is that you?
Speaker 15 (16:14):
You know me always bumped you on, mister Slick, So
you made it okay?
Speaker 9 (16:19):
You spoke to Betty the kids. You know Claire lost
a tooth last week.
Speaker 15 (16:22):
Oh, you're taking the vitamins out, putting your suit case right,
and you're not drinking the water.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Please tell me you are not drinking that water.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
All of the above, Mabel. Good and thanks for the
update on Claire.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Okay, so couverle updates. I got my hands on that
tranquil as a gun. Here's a beast.
Speaker 15 (16:40):
It's being shipped to Texas and your brother will stick
it on the cargo plane with the dogs.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
The bloodhounds.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yes they are huge, mister slick and the poops.
Speaker 15 (16:52):
Well, come Christmas time, I hope my bonus looks as
big as they are.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Oh, they can't with snow booties. No frumps, wait, footie.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yes, it's all falling into place. Mabel, whoa what now?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
I've been going over the numbers with the accounting.
Speaker 15 (17:08):
Yeah, you have fifteen thousand in your personal account to
put towards this expedition.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
That sounds reasonable.
Speaker 15 (17:16):
You won't have a team, poor dogs, or any chance
of survival for even a month in those mountains without
an addition of fifteen thousand.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
So this whole thing is gonna cost me thirty thousand.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yes, sir, I don't want to take any money out
of my institutes.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Uh huh.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
A check came in the mail, now, thought brother?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I thought, hello, Maybel you there, Maybel, I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Can you hear me, Mabel? What did you say about
a check.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Halfway around the world. Of course you can't hear me.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I can hear you. Now, what were you saying?
Speaker 15 (17:53):
I said, you do have thirty thousand to put towards
this thing.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
It's just not all yours.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I'm not following. You're being mysterious Mabel.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Oh God. A check came in the mail three days ago.
Speaker 15 (18:10):
Now there was a note that said something like, I
know what you're up to, I know where to find you.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Here is what you'll need to complete what you've started.
And there was a check for fifteen thousand for twenty.
Speaker 15 (18:23):
So now you have thirty five thousand to put towards
this thing.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
Whoa brilliant hurt?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
What? No, no, butts?
Speaker 9 (18:32):
The check isn't exactly made out to you?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Well, who's it made out to?
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Look at Tom shit? Yes, yes he did, right on
my shoe, Right on my shoe. Bad boy, bad boy.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Dollars?
Speaker 10 (18:48):
What are you playing at?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Tom Slick? Mystery Hunter is a production of Fool of
Humans and iHeart Podcasts, starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Cissy Spasick as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written
and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive
produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasick, Skyler Fiske, Jeb Stewart,
(19:22):
Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, L. C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger. Casting by
Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Daisy Church
(19:43):
and Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catle. Special
thanks to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang
and Casey Pegram. For iHeartMedia.
Speaker 16 (19:55):
Episode three cast, Dave Willis as Alan, Ava Davis as Blair,
Michael Mao as Jimmy Stewart, David Devrees as Hines Lang
and Johnson the Butler, Jenny Fleming as Mabel, Neil Ready
(20:16):
as Biddy and the Indian Taxi Driver, Tim Heller as
the London Cappy, Julia Christgau as the Google Voice Assistant,
Mike Shots as the Voice of God, and the introductory
voiceover with additional roles voiced by David Devrees, Michael Mao
(20:36):
and Phil Clark. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is Maya Howard
Special thanks to Lucas Riley.
Speaker 11 (20:46):
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