August 21, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We didn't do anything wrong hardly by Roger Quakendall. After all,
they only borrowed it a little while just to fix it.
I mean, it wasn't like we swiped anything. We maybe
borrowed a couple of things, like, but gee, we put
(00:21):
everything back like we found it pretty near, even like
the compressor we got from Stinky Brinker that his old
man wasn't using. And I traded my outboard motor for
my old man. My father made me trade back. But
it was like Skinny said, you know, Skinny, Skinny Thompson,
(00:41):
he's the one you guys keep callin the boy genius,
but shucks, he's no. Well yeah, it's like Skinny said,
we didn't need an outboard motor, and we did need
a compressor. You've got to have a compressor on a spaceship.
Everybody knows that. And that old compression chamber. That old man,
(01:02):
I mean, mister Fields, let us use didn't have a compressor. Sure,
he said we could use it anyway. He said we
could play with it. And Skinny said we were going
to make a spaceship out of it, and he said
go ahead. Well no, he didn't say it exactly like that.
I mean, well, like he didn't take it serious sort
(01:25):
of anyway. It was a swell spaceship. It had four
portholes on it and an air lock and real bunks
in it and lots of room for all that stuff
that Skinny put in there. But it didn't have a compressor.
And that's why what stuff, oh, you know, the stuff
that Skinny put in there, like the radar he made
(01:46):
out of a TV set, and the anti gravity and
the atomic power plant he invented to run it all with.
He's awful smart, skin he is, but he's not like
what you think of a genius. You know, he's not
all the time using big and he doesn't look like
a genius. I mean we call him skinny because he
used to be skinny, but he isn't now. I mean
(02:10):
he's maybe small for his age anyway, he's smaller than me,
and I'm the same age as he is. Course I'm
big for my age, so that doesn't mean much, does it. Well,
I guess Stinky Brinker started it. He's always riding Skinny
about one thing or another. But Skinny never gets mad,
and it's a good thing for Stinker too. I saw
(02:32):
Skinny clean up a bunch of ninth graders, well a
couple of them. Anyway, they were saying, well, I guess
I won't tell you what they were saying. Anyway, Skinny
used judo. I guess because there wasn't much of a fight. Anyway,
Stinker said something about how he was going to be
a rocket pilot when he grew up, and I told
(02:53):
him that Skinny had told me that there wouldn't be
any rockets and that anti gravity would be the thing
as soon as it was invented. So Stinker said it
never would be invented, and I said it would so
and he said it would not. And I said, well,
if you're going to keep interrupting me, how can I
all right, anyway, Skinny broke into the argument and said
(03:17):
that he could prove mathematically that anti gravity was possible,
and Stinky said sure he could. And Skinny said sure
he could, and Stinky said sure he could. Like that, honestly,
is that any way to argue? I mean, it sounds
like two people agreeing, only Stinky keeps going sure like that.
(03:39):
You know, and Stinky what does he know about mathematics?
He's had to take remedial arithmetic ever since. No, I
don't understand how the anti gravity works, Skinny told me.
But it was something about massan flow and stuff like
that that I didn't understand. The atomic power plant made
more so, where did he get what uranium? G No,
(04:06):
we couldn't afford uranium, So Skinny invented a hydrogen fusion plant.
Anyone can make hydrogen. You just take zinc and sulfuric
acid and uetrium. You mean like heavy hydrogen. No, Skinny
set it would probably work better, But like I said,
(04:26):
we couldn't afford anything fancy. As it was, Skinny had
to pay five or six dollars for that special square
tubing in the anti gravity and the plastic space helmets
we had cost us ninety eight cents each, and it
cost a dollar and a half for the special tube
that Skinny needed to make the TV set into a radar.
You see, we didn't steal anything really. It was mostly
(04:50):
stuff that was just lying around, like the TV set
was up in my attic, and the old refrigerator that
Skinny used the parts to make the atomic power plant
out from. And then a lot of the stuff we
already had, like the skin diving suits we made into
space suits and the vacuum pump that Skinny had already
in the generator. Sure, we did a lot of skin diving,
(05:13):
but that was last summer. That's how we knew about
old man Brinker's compressor that Stinky said was his, and
I traded my outboard Moto for and had to trade back.
And that's how we knew about mister Fields's old compression
chamber and all like that. The rocket, well, it works
on the same principle as the atomic power plant, only
(05:34):
it doesn't work except in a vacuum hardly. Course, you
don't need much of a rocket when you have anti gravity.
Everyone knows that. Well. Anyway, that's how we built the spaceship,
and believe me, it wasn't easy. I mean, with Stinky
all the time bothering us and laughing at us. And
I had to do a lot of lawn mowing to
(05:56):
get money for the square tubing for the anti gravity
and the special tube for the radar and my space helmet.
Stinky called the space helmets kids stuff. He was always
saying things like say hello to the folks on Mars
for me, and bring back a bottle of Canal number
five and all that. Like you know, course they did
(06:16):
look like kid's stuff. I guess we bought them at
the five and dime and they were meant for kids.
Of course, when Skinny got through with them, they worked fine.
We tested them in the airlock of the compression chamber
when we got the compressor in. They tested out pretty
good for a half hour. Then we tried them on
in there. Well, it wasn't a complete vacuum, just twenty
(06:40):
seven inches of mercury, but that was okay for a test.
So anyway, we got ready to take off. Stinky was
there to watch. Of course. He was saying things like farewell,
oh brave pioneers, and stuff like that. I mean, it
was enough to make you sick. He was standing there
laughing and singing something like up in the air, Junior Birdman.
(07:02):
And when we closed the air locked door, we couldn't
hear him. Skinny started up the atomic power plant and
we could see Stinky laughing fit to kill. It takes
a couple of minutes for it to warm up, you know.
So Stinky started throwing rocks to attract our attention, and
Skinny was scared that he'd crack a porthole or something,
so he threw the switch and we took off. Boy,
(07:25):
you should have seen Stinky's face. I mean, you really
should have seen it. One minute he was laughing, you know,
and the next minute he looked like a goldfish. I
guess he always did look like a goldfish, but I
mean even more like then. And he was getting smaller
and smaller because we had taken off. We were gone
(07:48):
pretty near six hours, and it's a good thing. My
mom made me take a lunch. Sure, I told her
where we were going. Well, anyway, I told her we
were maybe going to fly around the world and Skinny
in my spaceship, or maybe go down to Carson's pond.
And she made me take a lunch and made me
promise I wouldn't go swimming alone, and I sure didn't.
(08:10):
But we did go around the world three or four times.
I lost count. Anyway, that's when we saw the satellite
on radar, so Skinny pulled the spaceship over to it
and we got out and looked at it. The spacesuits
worked fine too, Gosh, no, we didn't steal it or
anything like Skinny said. It was just a menace to navigation,
(08:33):
and the batteries were dead and it wasn't working right. Anyway,
so we tied it onto the spaceship and took it home. No,
we had to tie it on top. It was too
big to take inside with the antennas sticking out. Course
we found out how to fold them later. Well. Anyway,
the next day the Russians started squawking about a capitalist
(08:56):
plot and someone had swiped their satellite. Gee. I mean,
with all the satellites up there, who'd missed just one?
So I got worried that they'd find out that we
took it. Course I didn't need to worry because Stinky
told them all right, just like a tattle tale. So anyway,
after Skinny got the batteries recharged, we put it back,
(09:18):
and then when we landed there were hundreds of people
standing around and mister Anderson from the State Department. I
guess you know the rest, except maybe Mister Anderson started
laughing when we told him, and he said it was
the best joke on the Russians he ever heard. I
guess it is when you think about it. I mean,
the Russians complaining about somebody swiping their satellite, and then
(09:42):
the State Department answering a couple of kids borrowed it,
but they put it back. One thing that bothers me though.
We didn't put it back exactly the way we found it,
but I guess it doesn't matter. You see, when we
put it back, we goofed a little. I mean, we
put it back in the same orbit more or less,
but we got it going in the wrong direction. End
(10:08):
of We didn't do anything wrong, hardly by Roger Queen
Kendall
We didn't do anything wrong hardly by Roger Quakendall. After all,
they only borrowed it a little while just to fix it.
I mean, it wasn't like we swiped anything. We maybe
borrowed a couple of things, like, but gee, we put
(00:21):
everything back like we found it pretty near, even like
the compressor we got from Stinky Brinker that his old
man wasn't using. And I traded my outboard motor for
my old man. My father made me trade back. But
it was like Skinny said, you know, Skinny, Skinny Thompson,
(00:41):
he's the one you guys keep callin the boy genius,
but shucks, he's no. Well yeah, it's like Skinny said,
we didn't need an outboard motor, and we did need
a compressor. You've got to have a compressor on a spaceship.
Everybody knows that. And that old compression chamber. That old man,
(01:02):
I mean, mister Fields, let us use didn't have a compressor. Sure,
he said we could use it anyway. He said we
could play with it. And Skinny said we were going
to make a spaceship out of it, and he said
go ahead. Well no, he didn't say it exactly like that.
I mean, well, like he didn't take it serious sort
(01:25):
of anyway. It was a swell spaceship. It had four
portholes on it and an air lock and real bunks
in it and lots of room for all that stuff
that Skinny put in there. But it didn't have a compressor.
And that's why what stuff, oh, you know, the stuff
that Skinny put in there, like the radar he made
(01:46):
out of a TV set, and the anti gravity and
the atomic power plant he invented to run it all with.
He's awful smart, skin he is, but he's not like
what you think of a genius. You know, he's not
all the time using big and he doesn't look like
a genius. I mean we call him skinny because he
used to be skinny, but he isn't now. I mean
(02:10):
he's maybe small for his age anyway, he's smaller than me,
and I'm the same age as he is. Course I'm
big for my age, so that doesn't mean much, does it. Well,
I guess Stinky Brinker started it. He's always riding Skinny
about one thing or another. But Skinny never gets mad,
and it's a good thing for Stinker too. I saw
(02:32):
Skinny clean up a bunch of ninth graders, well a
couple of them. Anyway, they were saying, well, I guess
I won't tell you what they were saying. Anyway, Skinny
used judo. I guess because there wasn't much of a fight. Anyway,
Stinker said something about how he was going to be
a rocket pilot when he grew up, and I told
(02:53):
him that Skinny had told me that there wouldn't be
any rockets and that anti gravity would be the thing
as soon as it was invented. So Stinker said it
never would be invented, and I said it would so
and he said it would not. And I said, well,
if you're going to keep interrupting me, how can I
all right, anyway, Skinny broke into the argument and said
(03:17):
that he could prove mathematically that anti gravity was possible,
and Stinky said sure he could. And Skinny said sure
he could, and Stinky said sure he could. Like that, honestly,
is that any way to argue? I mean, it sounds
like two people agreeing, only Stinky keeps going sure like that.
(03:39):
You know, and Stinky what does he know about mathematics?
He's had to take remedial arithmetic ever since. No, I
don't understand how the anti gravity works, Skinny told me.
But it was something about massan flow and stuff like
that that I didn't understand. The atomic power plant made
more so, where did he get what uranium? G No,
(04:06):
we couldn't afford uranium, So Skinny invented a hydrogen fusion plant.
Anyone can make hydrogen. You just take zinc and sulfuric
acid and uetrium. You mean like heavy hydrogen. No, Skinny
set it would probably work better, But like I said,
(04:26):
we couldn't afford anything fancy. As it was, Skinny had
to pay five or six dollars for that special square
tubing in the anti gravity and the plastic space helmets
we had cost us ninety eight cents each, and it
cost a dollar and a half for the special tube
that Skinny needed to make the TV set into a radar.
You see, we didn't steal anything really. It was mostly
(04:50):
stuff that was just lying around, like the TV set
was up in my attic, and the old refrigerator that
Skinny used the parts to make the atomic power plant
out from. And then a lot of the stuff we
already had, like the skin diving suits we made into
space suits and the vacuum pump that Skinny had already
in the generator. Sure, we did a lot of skin diving,
(05:13):
but that was last summer. That's how we knew about
old man Brinker's compressor that Stinky said was his, and
I traded my outboard Moto for and had to trade back.
And that's how we knew about mister Fields's old compression
chamber and all like that. The rocket, well, it works
on the same principle as the atomic power plant, only
(05:34):
it doesn't work except in a vacuum hardly. Course, you
don't need much of a rocket when you have anti gravity.
Everyone knows that. Well. Anyway, that's how we built the spaceship,
and believe me, it wasn't easy. I mean, with Stinky
all the time bothering us and laughing at us. And
I had to do a lot of lawn mowing to
(05:56):
get money for the square tubing for the anti gravity
and the special tube for the radar and my space helmet.
Stinky called the space helmets kids stuff. He was always
saying things like say hello to the folks on Mars
for me, and bring back a bottle of Canal number
five and all that. Like you know, course they did
(06:16):
look like kid's stuff. I guess we bought them at
the five and dime and they were meant for kids.
Of course, when Skinny got through with them, they worked fine.
We tested them in the airlock of the compression chamber
when we got the compressor in. They tested out pretty
good for a half hour. Then we tried them on
in there. Well, it wasn't a complete vacuum, just twenty
(06:40):
seven inches of mercury, but that was okay for a test.
So anyway, we got ready to take off. Stinky was
there to watch. Of course. He was saying things like farewell,
oh brave pioneers, and stuff like that. I mean, it
was enough to make you sick. He was standing there
laughing and singing something like up in the air, Junior Birdman.
(07:02):
And when we closed the air locked door, we couldn't
hear him. Skinny started up the atomic power plant and
we could see Stinky laughing fit to kill. It takes
a couple of minutes for it to warm up, you know.
So Stinky started throwing rocks to attract our attention, and
Skinny was scared that he'd crack a porthole or something,
so he threw the switch and we took off. Boy,
(07:25):
you should have seen Stinky's face. I mean, you really
should have seen it. One minute he was laughing, you know,
and the next minute he looked like a goldfish. I
guess he always did look like a goldfish, but I
mean even more like then. And he was getting smaller
and smaller because we had taken off. We were gone
(07:48):
pretty near six hours, and it's a good thing. My
mom made me take a lunch. Sure, I told her
where we were going. Well, anyway, I told her we
were maybe going to fly around the world and Skinny
in my spaceship, or maybe go down to Carson's pond.
And she made me take a lunch and made me
promise I wouldn't go swimming alone, and I sure didn't.
(08:10):
But we did go around the world three or four times.
I lost count. Anyway, that's when we saw the satellite
on radar, so Skinny pulled the spaceship over to it
and we got out and looked at it. The spacesuits
worked fine too, Gosh, no, we didn't steal it or
anything like Skinny said. It was just a menace to navigation,
(08:33):
and the batteries were dead and it wasn't working right. Anyway,
so we tied it onto the spaceship and took it home. No,
we had to tie it on top. It was too
big to take inside with the antennas sticking out. Course
we found out how to fold them later. Well. Anyway,
the next day the Russians started squawking about a capitalist
(08:56):
plot and someone had swiped their satellite. Gee. I mean,
with all the satellites up there, who'd missed just one?
So I got worried that they'd find out that we
took it. Course I didn't need to worry because Stinky
told them all right, just like a tattle tale. So anyway,
after Skinny got the batteries recharged, we put it back,
(09:18):
and then when we landed there were hundreds of people
standing around and mister Anderson from the State Department. I
guess you know the rest, except maybe Mister Anderson started
laughing when we told him, and he said it was
the best joke on the Russians he ever heard. I
guess it is when you think about it. I mean,
the Russians complaining about somebody swiping their satellite, and then
(09:42):
the State Department answering a couple of kids borrowed it,
but they put it back. One thing that bothers me though.
We didn't put it back exactly the way we found it,
but I guess it doesn't matter. You see, when we
put it back, we goofed a little. I mean, we
put it back in the same orbit more or less,
but we got it going in the wrong direction. End
(10:08):
of We didn't do anything wrong, hardly by Roger Queen
Kendall
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