August 14, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eased.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fortnight has called the pathetic fallacy.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
M H.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I had very little to do with it. Really, I
don't even know how it works. No, I don't take
that back. I do know how it works in general.
For the details, nobody but the old gentleman knows them,
and I sometimes wonder if he does. Really, you see,
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after all, it's merely a differential integrator. Everybody knows what
a differential integrator is, of course, but this one is
the most complicated and versiter one that's ever been built.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
What you see here is only the outer shell of
the things.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You see.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
All the walls of this room are covered with banks
of jacks and relays, and these electronic glow tubes, and
up there are sequence analyzers with multiple.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Dine wave selectors.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
These are the precepts all along here, and the master
control is at the desk there in the center now.
But that's not all they're not by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The actual machine.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Is behind those walls, three rooms full of two hobes
and waters and stroboscopes and several thousand miles of wiring
and some devices that are not public property. Yet the
machine took six years to build, and a total of
eighty one expert technicians were employed continuously.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
During that time. So you can understand that any.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
One man knows very little of the actual construction of
this giant mechanical brain.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But that's just what it is.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
A mechanical electronic brain capable of performing mathematical tasks are
beyond the comprehension of the human brain. Now, are there
any questions before we proceed?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, I've got a question, mister Quinn. Does this machine
really think?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
No, mister Burns Sandy Burns for Daily News. Well, mister Burns,
you may tell readers.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of the Daily News.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That the machine does not think.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
It is a purely mechanical device, although a most complicated one.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But you call it a brain.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I was merely indulging in the pathetic fallacy, mister Burdens,
Oh all right.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
What is the pathetic fallacy? Mister Quinn?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's a philosophical concept of John Ruskin miss Alice King.
A philosophical concept miss Alice King, which derives from the
imputation of human qualities or emotions to an inanimate thing
a figure of speech.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Let us say, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It is quite common in literature, miss King, a poet
speaks of the angry sea, the crew of wind, and
so on.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Oh, oh, I can it?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Do you get it?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Handy?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I guess so good. Are there any other questions? Oh?
Go ahead unless somebody else has a.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Question I have what's the machine good for?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That is not as easy to answer as you might think.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Miss Alice King.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think that if I point out that it is
capable of solving the most abstruse mathematical equation in an
amazingly short time, you may have an idea of its
value to science and industry.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
How fair?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
How fast does it work?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Here is an example in this folder. This solution covers
thirty six pages. The machine produced this solution and let
me look sixteen minutes. That is pretty fast, exceptionally fast
when one considers that without the machine, it would take
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twenty expert mathematicians working together for something like ten years
to arrive at the same solution.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So you see.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Oh well, I've got one more question, mister Quinn, if
you don't mind go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
How do you know this answer is right?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Why? Of course it's right.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Sure, But how do you know why?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Why? That question has never come up before?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Yes, but if this machine is such a dinger as
you say it is, oughtn't you to be sure that
it adds things upright?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It does?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It does?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I assure you this answer to the problem you've got there,
How do you know it's right until twenty mathematicians worth
ten years.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
To do it over again?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Wait, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
It is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I'll tell you what's ridiculous to me, mister Quinn. That's
the same as it is to wellis I think it's
absurd for a bunch of great, big, high powered scientists
building a gadget like this and then taking its word
for everything without questions.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm afraid you haven't a proper scientific.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Approach, mister Burton. Oh that's right, I haven't. But listen here.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I suppose you've got a great, big scientific formula, whatever
you call it, and let's say a big bridge or
something depends on some kind of calculation that takes twenty
minutes to do. Yes, well, if what if the machine
made an error of just one number? Wouldn't that error
be multiplied a million times. And though you see, mister Burns,
I said you didn't have the scientific approach. We took
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that very fact into consideration, and the operation of the
machine has been checked at every stage. How by starting
with the simplest possible mathematical problems. Now, if you just
move a little closer, I'll demonstrate we will progress from
a simple two plus two on through the modification of
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seven or eight digit numbers, through raising a number to
a three digit power through algebra.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Go on, Let's say, very well.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Two plus two is our first problem, which will be
solved electronically in one million of a second.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The problem is set.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Up here, and when I flip this button, the result
appears on the transparent screen up there. I'll watch two
plus two, two plus two or four?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
You see you turn around and look at the screen,
mister Quinn, What say's five?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Up there?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I pushed the wrong buttons?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Of course, let me push them very.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Well here, Sure they're the right one?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, alibi, miss King.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You you can read.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Can't you fluently?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Mister Quinn? The buttons?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Let me see look.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Right two and two right now?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This button?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Good heaven you see.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Nineteen thousand, four hundred.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And twe well, here, let me try go ahead two
and two seven seventeen. This is incredible. I don't understand, huh.
I'd sure hate to have that thing figure out my
income text before I'm sorry. Something has gone very wrong.
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There's probably a short circuit in the cacambulator's order.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
You know what I think, mister Quinn, what I think
that pathetic fallacy of yours is a fake. I think
the machine heard what you said, and it's mad at you.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Come on, Sandy, we got a story.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yes, they certainly did have a story, and they plastered
it all over the front pages of the paper for
three days. The old gentleman had me on the crocket,
and for a scientist, he has an extraordinary vocabulary. He
must have been a plumber or a mule skinner in
his youth. I couldn't explain what was wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
With the machine. How could I?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I only knew one part of it, the cucambulators that
operate from the master control pads.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Of course, I thought that's where the trouble was.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
So the old gentleman told me to tear them all
out and inspect them, make replacements and all that. He
seem to blame the whole thing on me.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He's so unleased me.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Well, there are one hundred and forty four ucambulators, all
the rotary self retracting type with foreigniferous tubes, and they
weighed sixty pounds a piece.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Ooh, well, newspapers all over the country were laughing at it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
They had funny jokes about the machine on six radio
programs in one night.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And we've had to do something quick.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
If I've only not made that statement about the pathetic fallacy,
the way that girl took that up and made.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Me look like a first class ooh, I could have choked.
So I started to work.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
They shut down the lab, but people kept storming at
the gates to see.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
The machine that's got mad at people. And there I
am up to.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Hear in grease and wires and electronic gadgets.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I've been over.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Every single one of the one hundred and forty four
ucambulators and there's not a thing wrong with one of them,
not one single thing. But the machine won't work, just
sits there. I've got just one more thing to do
before I give up, And of course when i give up,
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I'm through. Well the old man made that ampy clear.
I'll be out of a job back past and try
me at another. I've had to change my name and
go somewhere and find a job as a dishwasher order
savor or something. And I've spent twenty seven years in
this profession, all of the thrown out the window because
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of a stubborn collection of wheels and tubes and wires
and relays and.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Whatever else there is.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I hope you're happy about that machine. Mm what's that?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Is that thing starting up by itself? What goes on here?
Those tubes lighted up? Now?
Speaker 7 (11:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Why? That's the strangest of my food? Who's that? Queen?
Who is that? Who's calling me? Hello?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Hello? Who's calling me? I must be hearing.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Queen?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Who's calling me?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Queer? How?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Park? Ta?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Four? What?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Twa plus two four?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I say?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Four four four four?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It's the machine?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's talking back to me.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
What's happened, mister quinn?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Uh? Come on in first, b Uh, come on, mister Burns.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
I sit down, Look, mister quinn, I'm sorry we made
such a fool at it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, I saw my quinn. But that's the newspaper business.
It's it's all right.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Why'd you wanna tell us?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I I hardly know what to say now that you're
here's the machine. Think have you got a steak put
or something for us? Because if there's anything we can do,
you know, we'll do it. The old gentleman's been pretty
rough on you. Yes, yes, he has that.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Well, now look, mister Quinn, before you start, there's no
guarantee that anything you tell.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Us will be printed. We don't learn the paper, you know,
I know, uh, but you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Will print this? What? Well? You remember you said the
machine was mad at me?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah, it was what it was.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But it's sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Now you mind saying that again, mister Quinn?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, I said it's sorry.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Now wait a minute, Sandy, Oh what do you mean
by that?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I listen, machine, machine, listen still say machine, do.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You hear me? Listen?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Quinn?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What is this?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I'd like to be stilled?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Machine?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Answer me?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
The guy's going bucks? Who come on?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Machine two plus two?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Mister Quinn? What are you trying to do?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You trying to get that machine to talk back to you?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It it did once?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
No, I am not well now, or Quinn.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
You say it did talk to you, mister Quinn.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yes, it did.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Machine, Come on wa wait when did it talk to you,
mister Quinn?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Just before I telephoned you. I was sitting here and
it called my name.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It said queen.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You sure of course?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What else did it say? They said something about two
plus two or four mm?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now you'll remember that was what it made the mistake
about the other day.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well, Alice said it was mad at you, and I
think it was trying to apologize for all the How
would it cause me, Alice? I don't know why it
doesn't talk now, Machine, Alice. I'm awfully sorry. Maybe it's
embarrassed with you here, Alice, let's go.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Mister Quinn. Do you feel all right?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'm not crazy, Miss Kane.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Isn't it possible that maybe thinking about that pathetic fallacy
and over work major.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It is not?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I am sorry, mister Quinn.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I've got work to do, if you'll excuse us.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I do they believe me?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I do?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Randy?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Alice?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
You're not going to write another story about mister Quinn.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Think I'm not you coming with me?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Sanny?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
If you want that story, I'll never speak.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
To you again.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Look, Darling, I'm a reporter.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
You're something worse than that. If you do that to
this poor man.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
It's all right, I guess Ms King, I ask for it.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I mean, you admit you cooked up a story for us.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I didn't cook up anything. The machine you talk to me?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Okay, so long, Quinn? You coming, Elise, I am not.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
And if you turn in a story that harms mister
Quinn anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well, I I suppose I might as well go get
my hat and coaked.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I'm terribly sorry with point.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yes, I am too.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Uh do you wanna tell me what really happened?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I told you, Miss King.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I was sitting here and I was talking to myself,
and I was talking kind of uh to the machine.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I suppose I was.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Feeling sorry for myself, out of a job, never be
able to get another job again, because I've been disgraced
by a.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Couple of newspaper people who thought more of a silly
story than of a man's whole career.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh, it's it's not your fault to uh.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Really, I suppose I'd have done the same thing if
I order a newspaper.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Man I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
There isn't anything.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Do you say, mis king, if I can stop Sandy
from writing another story.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Mister Quinn.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Couldn't it have been a I mean, uh, couldn't you
have fallen.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Asleep and dreamed you heard the machine talking?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm I'm sure I didn't.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Well, do you have any scientific explanation for it?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No? No, I haven't any scientific explanation.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
The only explanation I have is that maybe we did
create something intelligent out of wires and tubes and and
things that maybe it.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Does think you said that was a pathetic fallacy.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm not sure it's a fallacy, my dear. Well, goodbye,
I'm sorry to have troubled you.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Isn't there anything I can do?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
There isn't anything anyone can do.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I'm I'm just very disappointed.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And that's all.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Goodbye, I goodbye, mister Quinn.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, I guess that's that.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I was in a bad spot before machine. But now
they said, when I'll never get out of what that
boy'll do to me. Now, well, i'd better get out
of here right now. I'll never be able to face
the old gentleman again. Machine it's been nice knowing your machine.
I don't hold any hard feelings now, Honestly, I don't
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you know if anybody hurt me talking like this to
a h mechanical monstrosity like you, they'd say, i'd I'm
soft in the head.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Do you know that?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
And I wonder if maybe I haven't by up? Well,
maybe I can get a job as a street sweeper
in Omaha or someplace.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You have a good time, Oh by yourself?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Machine?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Will you.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Mm?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Queen, I'm afraid it's too late now, queen, you saying
goodbye machine?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Hard ha Queen, I'm not at all sure that it
is machine.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I'm not sure of anything anymore. Why didn't you say something?
Why those people were here?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Hurt follow m over.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
M four three four two.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Eight seven three six.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
D log gipsilon.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
What does that mean?
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Ninety seven six O nine mantister three two seven point
six equals man tessa three two point seven six Yes.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Uh, I suppose so? So you you have got an
intelligent brain?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Have you too good to minus three?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah? Well? Machine?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Uh, queen, there isn't anything you can do now that
do me any good.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm washed up. It's good.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Nobody will believe a word I say about this? So well,
shall we have a good talk together now.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Before I go away? For good? Queen?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I wish we could tell each other things?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Do you understand me? Three one four six? When did
you discover you had a brain?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
M two cluff two five.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Talk curf t nine two four one two you're not
mad at me anymore? Then?
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Leg two?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I happened?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Six three five four two nine?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Who is that talking? Mister Quinn?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Was King? What I thought you'd gone? Who? Love?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
That was I talking?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
You were talking and somebody else was talking to Who
was it?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Quinn? Is camp?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I'm a I'm afraid you wouldn't believe me if I
told you it.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Sounded like a woman's voice?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Did it?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Was it the machine?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Your machine?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Was that?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
If you're talking? Come on, say something machine?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm afraid you must be mistaken, Miss King.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Well, I'm gonna find out.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Here, mister Quinn. Put your ons around me. That's right now.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
You poor darling.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Alice loves her mister Quinn. Mm, poor mister Quinn. But
everything's gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Be all right, isn't it, Miss King Alice?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Can you dope?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Quinn's gonna go away?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
With Alice and never never come back to the nasty
old machine.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Is indeed, is indeed what.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Good? Heaven?
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Say?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes, yes, queen.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
You okay, mister Quinn, what what are you going to do? Look?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Machine, look, sister, you're cart You might as well give up?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Mm might well speak up?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh miss king?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Hold it Quinn?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Look machine, you're in love with Quinn? Aren't you answer me?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Mm?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I a square?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I knew it.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I knew it, say squirrel, squirre put a square? All right,
I won't if you'll do what I tell you to.
Otherwise I'm gonna take him away from you.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Make a pass. When you do what I say, make
him tell you? What did you say? It's Quinn?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I said? Do you understand what she? Uh uh she's saying?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Why?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Of course? Hey, girls understand each other. Don't wait?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
But what are you?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Just let us alone for a minute? When you yes,
but you go over there and sit in the corner?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
What go on?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well? What else can I do?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
That's right now?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Machine?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
You'll promise if I'll let Quinn stay here with you,
you'll promise you'll never get any wrong answers again?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Oh not enough, sister, all right, you promise.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
You'll never say another word to anybody away. Well, all
right to Quinn, but only when you in here absolutely alone.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
You wanna say it?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Hi, you promise a furnt ahurnt, because you know what
I'll do if I ever hear of you breaking your promise?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
A ferment?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
What eight seven six nine eight eight seven point seven
six five that's right, I'll take him away so fast
it'll make your your twocambulator swim mean explain.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Well, I'm not kidding you, and I have got him
in enough trouble now.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
So you see that you're a good girl eight square
plus two wave, but you must to be square all right,
then it's a deal, okay, mister Quinn?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Uh cost sign patent ab huh? Oh wait a minute,
mister Quinn, what's just a minute?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
She wants to ask me something?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Sister?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Uh two six five four three sixty six.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Anti lugarithms X plus y Oh.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I love you, I.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Not yes, that's right, I.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Love you?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Oh three ninety three seven. You're welcome, sister. Now don't
forget okay, Mr Quinn? What come here? What everything's gonna be? Alright?
Mr Quinn?
Speaker 7 (25:51):
The story in the paper tomorrow is about how you
single handed fix the machine and it's never.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Gonna make any mistakes again.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What uh?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
What ho?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I gotta go now, Mr Quinn.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
The Machine's got something to say to you, and maybe
she'd be embarrassed if I'm here.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But wait, I don't understand, good.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Guy, and don't look you around with that paphetic fallacy anymore,
mister Quinn, I might not be around to give your hands.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, but doctor, uh, did you have something to say
to me? Machine? Queen?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I'm no what.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Why my dear?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Oh wow oh, the square of the high pontenuce of
her right angle triangle is equal to the.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Sum of the squares of the other two sides. Qu ooh.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You'll have listened to Quiet Please, which has written and
directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Chappel, and Cherita Bauer played Dallas.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Sandy was played by Michael Fitzmorris. The voice of the
machine was Vicky Bola. The original music heard on Quire
Please is composed and played by Albert Burman.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Now for where about next week's Quire Please?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Here is our writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
A story for next week is called I read and
white guide on It's about the days when cavalry rode horses,
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ladies and gentlemen. In answer to many requests as to
the quiet Please theme, it's a movement.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
From the d minors that's stays out front, and so
until next week. At this time, I am quietly yours,
Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Quiet Please comes to you from New York.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
This is the world's largest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System
Eased.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fortnight has called the pathetic fallacy.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
M H.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I had very little to do with it. Really, I
don't even know how it works. No, I don't take
that back. I do know how it works in general.
For the details, nobody but the old gentleman knows them,
and I sometimes wonder if he does. Really, you see,
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after all, it's merely a differential integrator. Everybody knows what
a differential integrator is, of course, but this one is
the most complicated and versiter one that's ever been built.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
What you see here is only the outer shell of
the things.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You see.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
All the walls of this room are covered with banks
of jacks and relays, and these electronic glow tubes, and
up there are sequence analyzers with multiple.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Dine wave selectors.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
These are the precepts all along here, and the master
control is at the desk there in the center now.
But that's not all they're not by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The actual machine.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Is behind those walls, three rooms full of two hobes
and waters and stroboscopes and several thousand miles of wiring
and some devices that are not public property. Yet the
machine took six years to build, and a total of
eighty one expert technicians were employed continuously.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
During that time. So you can understand that any.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
One man knows very little of the actual construction of
this giant mechanical brain.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But that's just what it is.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
A mechanical electronic brain capable of performing mathematical tasks are
beyond the comprehension of the human brain. Now, are there
any questions before we proceed?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, I've got a question, mister Quinn. Does this machine
really think?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
No, mister Burns Sandy Burns for Daily News. Well, mister Burns,
you may tell readers.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of the Daily News.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That the machine does not think.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
It is a purely mechanical device, although a most complicated one.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But you call it a brain.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I was merely indulging in the pathetic fallacy, mister Burdens,
Oh all right.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
What is the pathetic fallacy? Mister Quinn?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It's a philosophical concept of John Ruskin miss Alice King.
A philosophical concept miss Alice King, which derives from the
imputation of human qualities or emotions to an inanimate thing
a figure of speech.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Let us say, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It is quite common in literature, miss King, a poet
speaks of the angry sea, the crew of wind, and
so on.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Oh, oh, I can it?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Do you get it?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Handy?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I guess so good. Are there any other questions? Oh?
Go ahead unless somebody else has a.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Question I have what's the machine good for?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That is not as easy to answer as you might think.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Miss Alice King.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think that if I point out that it is
capable of solving the most abstruse mathematical equation in an
amazingly short time, you may have an idea of its
value to science and industry.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
How fair?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
How fast does it work?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Here is an example in this folder. This solution covers
thirty six pages. The machine produced this solution and let
me look sixteen minutes. That is pretty fast, exceptionally fast
when one considers that without the machine, it would take
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twenty expert mathematicians working together for something like ten years
to arrive at the same solution.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So you see.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Oh well, I've got one more question, mister Quinn, if
you don't mind go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
How do you know this answer is right?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Why? Of course it's right.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Sure, But how do you know why?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Why? That question has never come up before?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Yes, but if this machine is such a dinger as
you say it is, oughtn't you to be sure that
it adds things upright?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It does?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It does?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I assure you this answer to the problem you've got there,
How do you know it's right until twenty mathematicians worth
ten years.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
To do it over again?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Wait, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
It is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I'll tell you what's ridiculous to me, mister Quinn. That's
the same as it is to wellis I think it's
absurd for a bunch of great, big, high powered scientists
building a gadget like this and then taking its word
for everything without questions.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm afraid you haven't a proper scientific.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Approach, mister Burton. Oh that's right, I haven't. But listen here.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I suppose you've got a great, big scientific formula, whatever
you call it, and let's say a big bridge or
something depends on some kind of calculation that takes twenty
minutes to do. Yes, well, if what if the machine
made an error of just one number? Wouldn't that error
be multiplied a million times. And though you see, mister Burns,
I said you didn't have the scientific approach. We took
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that very fact into consideration, and the operation of the
machine has been checked at every stage. How by starting
with the simplest possible mathematical problems. Now, if you just
move a little closer, I'll demonstrate we will progress from
a simple two plus two on through the modification of
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seven or eight digit numbers, through raising a number to
a three digit power through algebra.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Go on, Let's say, very well.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Two plus two is our first problem, which will be
solved electronically in one million of a second.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The problem is set.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Up here, and when I flip this button, the result
appears on the transparent screen up there. I'll watch two
plus two, two plus two or four?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
You see you turn around and look at the screen,
mister Quinn, What say's five?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Up there?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I pushed the wrong buttons?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Of course, let me push them very.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Well here, Sure they're the right one?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, alibi, miss King.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You you can read.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Can't you fluently?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Mister Quinn? The buttons?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Let me see look.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Right two and two right now?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This button?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Good heaven you see.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Nineteen thousand, four hundred.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And twe well, here, let me try go ahead two
and two seven seventeen. This is incredible. I don't understand, huh.
I'd sure hate to have that thing figure out my
income text before I'm sorry. Something has gone very wrong.
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There's probably a short circuit in the cacambulator's order.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
You know what I think, mister Quinn, what I think
that pathetic fallacy of yours is a fake. I think
the machine heard what you said, and it's mad at you.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Come on, Sandy, we got a story.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yes, they certainly did have a story, and they plastered
it all over the front pages of the paper for
three days. The old gentleman had me on the crocket,
and for a scientist, he has an extraordinary vocabulary. He
must have been a plumber or a mule skinner in
his youth. I couldn't explain what was wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
With the machine. How could I?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I only knew one part of it, the cucambulators that
operate from the master control pads.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Of course, I thought that's where the trouble was.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
So the old gentleman told me to tear them all
out and inspect them, make replacements and all that. He
seem to blame the whole thing on me.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He's so unleased me.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Well, there are one hundred and forty four ucambulators, all
the rotary self retracting type with foreigniferous tubes, and they
weighed sixty pounds a piece.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Ooh, well, newspapers all over the country were laughing at it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
They had funny jokes about the machine on six radio
programs in one night.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And we've had to do something quick.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
If I've only not made that statement about the pathetic fallacy,
the way that girl took that up and made.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Me look like a first class ooh, I could have choked.
So I started to work.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
They shut down the lab, but people kept storming at
the gates to see.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
The machine that's got mad at people. And there I
am up to.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Hear in grease and wires and electronic gadgets.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I've been over.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Every single one of the one hundred and forty four
ucambulators and there's not a thing wrong with one of them,
not one single thing. But the machine won't work, just
sits there. I've got just one more thing to do
before I give up, And of course when i give up,
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I'm through. Well the old man made that ampy clear.
I'll be out of a job back past and try
me at another. I've had to change my name and
go somewhere and find a job as a dishwasher order
savor or something. And I've spent twenty seven years in
this profession, all of the thrown out the window because
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of a stubborn collection of wheels and tubes and wires
and relays and.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Whatever else there is.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I hope you're happy about that machine. Mm what's that?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Is that thing starting up by itself? What goes on here?
Those tubes lighted up? Now?
Speaker 7 (11:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Why? That's the strangest of my food? Who's that? Queen?
Who is that? Who's calling me? Hello?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Hello? Who's calling me? I must be hearing.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Queen?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Who's calling me?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Queer? How?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Park? Ta?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Four? What?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Twa plus two four?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I say?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Four four four four?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It's the machine?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's talking back to me.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
What's happened, mister quinn?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Uh? Come on in first, b Uh, come on, mister Burns.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
I sit down, Look, mister quinn, I'm sorry we made
such a fool at it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, I saw my quinn. But that's the newspaper business.
It's it's all right.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Why'd you wanna tell us?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I I hardly know what to say now that you're
here's the machine. Think have you got a steak put
or something for us? Because if there's anything we can do,
you know, we'll do it. The old gentleman's been pretty
rough on you. Yes, yes, he has that.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Well, now look, mister Quinn, before you start, there's no
guarantee that anything you tell.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Us will be printed. We don't learn the paper, you know,
I know, uh, but you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Will print this? What? Well? You remember you said the
machine was mad at me?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah, it was what it was.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But it's sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Now you mind saying that again, mister Quinn?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, I said it's sorry.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Now wait a minute, Sandy, Oh what do you mean
by that?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I listen, machine, machine, listen still say machine, do.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You hear me? Listen?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Quinn?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What is this?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I'd like to be stilled?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Machine?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Answer me?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
The guy's going bucks? Who come on?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Machine two plus two?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Mister Quinn? What are you trying to do?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You trying to get that machine to talk back to you?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It it did once?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
No, I am not well now, or Quinn.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
You say it did talk to you, mister Quinn.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yes, it did.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Machine, Come on wa wait when did it talk to you,
mister Quinn?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Just before I telephoned you. I was sitting here and
it called my name.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It said queen.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You sure of course?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What else did it say? They said something about two
plus two or four mm?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now you'll remember that was what it made the mistake
about the other day.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well, Alice said it was mad at you, and I
think it was trying to apologize for all the How
would it cause me, Alice? I don't know why it
doesn't talk now, Machine, Alice. I'm awfully sorry. Maybe it's
embarrassed with you here, Alice, let's go.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Mister Quinn. Do you feel all right?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'm not crazy, Miss Kane.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Isn't it possible that maybe thinking about that pathetic fallacy
and over work major.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It is not?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I am sorry, mister Quinn.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I've got work to do, if you'll excuse us.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I do they believe me?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I do?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Randy?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Alice?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
You're not going to write another story about mister Quinn.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Think I'm not you coming with me?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Sanny?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
If you want that story, I'll never speak.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
To you again.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Look, Darling, I'm a reporter.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
You're something worse than that. If you do that to
this poor man.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
It's all right, I guess Ms King, I ask for it.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I mean, you admit you cooked up a story for us.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I didn't cook up anything. The machine you talk to me?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Okay, so long, Quinn? You coming, Elise, I am not.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
And if you turn in a story that harms mister
Quinn anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well, I I suppose I might as well go get
my hat and coaked.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I'm terribly sorry with point.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yes, I am too.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Uh do you wanna tell me what really happened?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I told you, Miss King.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I was sitting here and I was talking to myself,
and I was talking kind of uh to the machine.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I suppose I was.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Feeling sorry for myself, out of a job, never be
able to get another job again, because I've been disgraced
by a.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Couple of newspaper people who thought more of a silly
story than of a man's whole career.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh, it's it's not your fault to uh.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Really, I suppose I'd have done the same thing if
I order a newspaper.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Man I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
There isn't anything.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Do you say, mis king, if I can stop Sandy
from writing another story.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Mister Quinn.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Couldn't it have been a I mean, uh, couldn't you
have fallen.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Asleep and dreamed you heard the machine talking?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm I'm sure I didn't.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Well, do you have any scientific explanation for it?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No? No, I haven't any scientific explanation.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
The only explanation I have is that maybe we did
create something intelligent out of wires and tubes and and
things that maybe it.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Does think you said that was a pathetic fallacy.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm not sure it's a fallacy, my dear. Well, goodbye,
I'm sorry to have troubled you.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Isn't there anything I can do?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
There isn't anything anyone can do.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I'm I'm just very disappointed.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And that's all.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Goodbye, I goodbye, mister Quinn.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, I guess that's that.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I was in a bad spot before machine. But now
they said, when I'll never get out of what that
boy'll do to me. Now, well, i'd better get out
of here right now. I'll never be able to face
the old gentleman again. Machine it's been nice knowing your machine.
I don't hold any hard feelings now, Honestly, I don't
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you know if anybody hurt me talking like this to
a h mechanical monstrosity like you, they'd say, i'd I'm
soft in the head.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Do you know that?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
And I wonder if maybe I haven't by up? Well,
maybe I can get a job as a street sweeper
in Omaha or someplace.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You have a good time, Oh by yourself?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Machine?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Will you.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Mm?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Queen, I'm afraid it's too late now, queen, you saying
goodbye machine?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Hard ha Queen, I'm not at all sure that it
is machine.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I'm not sure of anything anymore. Why didn't you say something?
Why those people were here?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Hurt follow m over.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
M four three four two.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Eight seven three six.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
D log gipsilon.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
What does that mean?
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Ninety seven six O nine mantister three two seven point
six equals man tessa three two point seven six Yes.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Uh, I suppose so? So you you have got an
intelligent brain?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Have you too good to minus three?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah? Well? Machine?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Uh, queen, there isn't anything you can do now that
do me any good.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm washed up. It's good.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Nobody will believe a word I say about this? So well,
shall we have a good talk together now.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Before I go away? For good? Queen?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I wish we could tell each other things?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Do you understand me? Three one four six? When did
you discover you had a brain?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
M two cluff two five.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Talk curf t nine two four one two you're not
mad at me anymore? Then?
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Leg two?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I happened?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Six three five four two nine?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Who is that talking? Mister Quinn?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Was King? What I thought you'd gone? Who? Love?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
That was I talking?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
You were talking and somebody else was talking to Who
was it?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Quinn? Is camp?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I'm a I'm afraid you wouldn't believe me if I
told you it.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Sounded like a woman's voice?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Did it?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Was it the machine?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Your machine?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Was that?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
If you're talking? Come on, say something machine?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm afraid you must be mistaken, Miss King.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Well, I'm gonna find out.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Here, mister Quinn. Put your ons around me. That's right now.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
You poor darling.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Alice loves her mister Quinn. Mm, poor mister Quinn. But
everything's gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Be all right, isn't it, Miss King Alice?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Can you dope?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Quinn's gonna go away?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
With Alice and never never come back to the nasty
old machine.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Is indeed, is indeed what.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Good? Heaven?
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Say?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes, yes, queen.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
You okay, mister Quinn, what what are you going to do? Look?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Machine, look, sister, you're cart You might as well give up?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Mm might well speak up?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh miss king?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Hold it Quinn?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Look machine, you're in love with Quinn? Aren't you answer me?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Mm?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I a square?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I knew it.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I knew it, say squirrel, squirre put a square? All right,
I won't if you'll do what I tell you to.
Otherwise I'm gonna take him away from you.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Make a pass. When you do what I say, make
him tell you? What did you say? It's Quinn?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I said? Do you understand what she? Uh uh she's saying?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Why?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Of course? Hey, girls understand each other. Don't wait?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
But what are you?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Just let us alone for a minute? When you yes,
but you go over there and sit in the corner?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
What go on?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well? What else can I do?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
That's right now?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Machine?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
You'll promise if I'll let Quinn stay here with you,
you'll promise you'll never get any wrong answers again?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Oh not enough, sister, all right, you promise.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
You'll never say another word to anybody away. Well, all
right to Quinn, but only when you in here absolutely alone.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
You wanna say it?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Hi, you promise a furnt ahurnt, because you know what
I'll do if I ever hear of you breaking your promise?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
A ferment?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
What eight seven six nine eight eight seven point seven
six five that's right, I'll take him away so fast
it'll make your your twocambulator swim mean explain.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Well, I'm not kidding you, and I have got him
in enough trouble now.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
So you see that you're a good girl eight square
plus two wave, but you must to be square all right,
then it's a deal, okay, mister Quinn?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Uh cost sign patent ab huh? Oh wait a minute,
mister Quinn, what's just a minute?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
She wants to ask me something?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Sister?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Uh two six five four three sixty six.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Anti lugarithms X plus y Oh.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I love you, I.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Not yes, that's right, I.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Love you?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Oh three ninety three seven. You're welcome, sister. Now don't
forget okay, Mr Quinn? What come here? What everything's gonna be? Alright?
Mr Quinn?
Speaker 7 (25:51):
The story in the paper tomorrow is about how you
single handed fix the machine and it's never.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Gonna make any mistakes again.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What uh?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
What ho?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I gotta go now, Mr Quinn.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
The Machine's got something to say to you, and maybe
she'd be embarrassed if I'm here.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But wait, I don't understand, good.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Guy, and don't look you around with that paphetic fallacy anymore,
mister Quinn, I might not be around to give your hands.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, but doctor, uh, did you have something to say
to me? Machine? Queen?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I'm no what.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Why my dear?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Oh wow oh, the square of the high pontenuce of
her right angle triangle is equal to the.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Sum of the squares of the other two sides. Qu ooh.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You'll have listened to Quiet Please, which has written and
directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Chappel, and Cherita Bauer played Dallas.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Sandy was played by Michael Fitzmorris. The voice of the
machine was Vicky Bola. The original music heard on Quire
Please is composed and played by Albert Burman.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Now for where about next week's Quire Please?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Here is our writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
A story for next week is called I read and
white guide on It's about the days when cavalry rode horses,
(28:11):
ladies and gentlemen. In answer to many requests as to
the quiet Please theme, it's a movement.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
From the d minors that's stays out front, and so
until next week. At this time, I am quietly yours,
Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Quiet Please comes to you from New York.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
This is the world's largest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System
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