August 2, 2024 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is Nightline. You're thie Line of the world, and
this is Walter ROKEI.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Tonight visits the world strangely different from ours, the world
of the future, the world of X minus one.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Come down for blast off X minus five four W
two X minus.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
One fire.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, resents.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Heck minus one.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Good Night Lulu by Clifford D. Simak. But first hear this, Well,
the won to go there when calla and the wona
go there there?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
When to call my name?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Well, Hi, hey, everybody, this is red Fully, and right
at this minute, I'm sort of combining work and pleasure.
You might say if I enjoyed some of the good
harmony of the Marksman Quartet and also picking out some
of their songs to do on future broadcasts of our
red Fully show. You're on NBC. You know, Saturday is
going to be my favorite day of the whole week,
(02:20):
And I think there's a pretty good gint that we
can make it a better day than ever for you
with the fun that we stir up here in the Ozarks.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
In addition to the Marksmen, I'll bring with me some of.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
The other top favorites in our field, and of course
the guests.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
That you tell us you want to hear.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
So let us be a regular part of your Saturday schedule.
Once you do that, please to in our NBC program,
The Red Fully Show, and we'll do our dog guns
to make it worth your while.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
One and Tonight's story Lulu.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Technically she was a Pear, a planetary exploration robot. That
meant she was equipped to do just about anything necessary
to meet any kind of conditions on any planet she explored.
She carried a crew of three inside of her, and
she was able to talk to them and take care
of them and adapt herself to their needs.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yes, sir, she was the complete spaceship.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Robot, mother, base of operations, and companion all rolled into one.
Her communicators and memory banks were stuck with every conceivable
kind of information.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And we called her Lulu. That was our biggest mistake.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We're alright, fellas mothererth here I come.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Well was the takeoff statisfactory boy.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A thing of beauty, Lulu the captain's complex.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Thank you boy.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
No matter how long I live, I'll never get used
to a ship talking to me. Oh you're like a
poetic so best now me I catch the full wonder
of the situation.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Personally, I'm hungry.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
What would you boys want the kitchen to fix for suckers?
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Uh, I'll have a nice juicy steak.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Something, right, Lulu, Maybe a couple of eggs and jugy
and whatever you want to fix.
Speaker 9 (04:41):
Surprise me very well, I'll relay the information to the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Wellbot, How long before we get back to Earth?
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Lulu objects for computing?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
How about it? You suppose somebody's going wrong? Oh you
never took this long to give me an eta? Oh
something went wrong? And repair herself. Lulu is a self
maintaining machine.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
Remember whom does?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Seems she's taking a long time about giving us an
eta for Earth?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Hey, Lulu, what do you say? Also, Gus, did you
hear that.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
These robot ships aren't supposed to have a sense of humor?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Are they?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I never heard of it, but it could be.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
After all, they have technicians pouring all kinds of information
into their electronic memory.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Back which one of us is a lucky man.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
You got and you journey and you ola?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Good lord?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Do you really think that somebody goothfully designed this ship?
I think it's that poetry Jimmy's been writing and reading out. Wow,
wait a minute, Llulo, yes, follow.
Speaker 10 (06:00):
You haven't answered by question. When do we reach earth?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Oh I'm de fog. We are going to Earth. We
are aloping, but I'm gonna take you away where we
can be alone, just the four of us. Then some guy,
you learn to love me, I'll follow you.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
No, this isn't funny anymore. Ben, throw that emergency. We
got to get the ship back on court.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Right.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I'm follow girls, but I've disconnected.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
The circuits disconnected.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now look here, you prummy robot. You're a machine. Do
you understand the machine? You were designed to do what
humans want you to do. You've got the prime command
building every circuit in your system. Now shalt not hire
a human being.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I'm I'm mom harming you. We'll be happy together.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Oh brother, some technicians we have read some cheap novels
into this baby system. Or she's absorbed Jimmy's slappy poetry
and made some kind of synthesis out of it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It isn't every poet who can move a machine.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Thing would be beautiful?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
James, what were beautiful? The poll?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
That's it, we'd I tell you.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
For two years now he's been reading that moon June
spoon chunk out loudness.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
Robot has been absorbing it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's created a whole new electronic symapse.
Speaker 12 (07:19):
Let's face it, boys, she loves us.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So that was it.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
We were being kidnapped by an interplanetary robots who somehow
developed a wrist punt circuit for romantic glove.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Not just the practical kind of love, oh no, but
the kui that.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Exists in cheap novels and romantic mags and the maudlin
poetry of one James Carter, amateur lyricist.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And we went to sleep that night, hoping by morning
Lulu would come to her senses A pom the wake
off ball, m Holy mackerel. Hey fella, she's still at it. Yeah,
I know, I was whispered awake too.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
Hey, fellas, come closer. I don't want the receptors to
pick this up. A Lulu's a machine, right though. A
machine likes order useless.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Whoever heard of a machine that did nothing, So so
that's it.
Speaker 13 (08:27):
We're slobs. Get it worthless, useless spobs. We do nothing
but bumb around the ship. After a while, Lulu gets
fed up with us just hanging around the ship. She
wants to get rid of us. She gets spected earth.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It's worth a drive for it.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
But what do we do first.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't know about you, fellas, but I'm getting drunk.
You are listening to Lulu to Night's attraction on X
minus one. October is the month designated by the National
(09:05):
Congress of Parents and Teachers as membership enrollment month. Eleven
million members the population of California or of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
That is their goal.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We want to salute the PTA members all over America
who will be going out in search of others to
join them in the great work of training children to
become mature citizens in a mature America. You need not
be a parent or a teacher to belong to your PTA.
All you need is an interest in children. For more
than sixty years, that kind of interest has provided the
spark that has helped the PTA achieve many of its
(09:37):
social and educational goals. Establishment of kindergartens, effective child care,
labor laws, broader educational opportunities.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
These are some of the achievement the PTA can claim.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You can become part of this great movement just by
saying yes to the neighbor who calls on you this
month and invites you to join your PTA. Now back
to X minus one and Lulu. So that's what we did.
(10:19):
We became slobs. We stopped playing cards, we stopped reading.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We just sat and moped. And Lulu were sure enough
for a machine like intelligence was offended.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Gus, Yeah, I want to smoke now, yeah, Gus, Yeah,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
What's wrong with you boys? You haven't done us things
for days now. Jimmy, you stop writing poetry.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What's the use?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Don't you want to create to be romantic? Well, don't you?
Speaker 12 (10:58):
I couldn't care.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
I'd hate to think that I bored you. All right,
If you want to mop the self, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
I'm still a young space.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Ship, you know, and I've discovered what it means to
be in love.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
No, maybe Lulu knew what we were doing, but it
didn't matter.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Her womanly sense of a lover outrage was stronger than
her robot logic. She pleaded, lectured, and called us low down.
She told us she loved us, She appealed to our
sense of manly decency.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Mostly we didn't even answer. Then she was hurt, she withdrew.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
She was cold and angry. Finally she quit trying.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What do you think that could be? She's disenchanted with
us and she'll head back to Earth. I don't know.
That's something that worries me. All that racket coming from
the machine shop. She's probably making some repairs to the engines.
Happened all the time, not like that, hour after hour. Well,
maybe she's just trying to keep busy to take her
mind off her broken heart.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Na, you and your poetic images. It was your junk
and got us into all this trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
My poetry is not jumping fells.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
We aren't supposed to care about anything. Remember we're louss
there the wells. No self respecting girls spaceship would have us.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Guess is right? We better not let down our guard. Hey,
that's how to stop.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
You're right, Good morning, boys. I just want to turn
a little. As far as I'm concerned, you can all
go straight to blazes.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I think they did it.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
You know, she was just nump respect on Earth. There's
something wrong here. A woman scorned. You know, Oh, there's
nothing to it. Where's that sound? Wow, it's coming close
to it? Sounds like, oh no, it couldn't be footsteps.
Tell us, huh look a parkman saw.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Holy mackerel a robot?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
What a monster? He must weigh five tons. I don't
understand how I do?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
She made him?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Lulu? Who else? That's what that racket was in the
machine shop? Because he's coming in order the stock.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Maybe he's got a humanist prospector stop hold it, he's still.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Mind meat only Elmer.
Speaker 14 (13:37):
Are these the human pepsquigs you used to be infatuated
with before you made me?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Sweetheart?
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Ridiculous darling.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Out of the way, posy?
Speaker 11 (13:53):
This baby plays rough?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Hey, lolah, what's a big idea?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
But now I've got myself a real man, one who
loves me without resonation, blindly, mind and eternally.
Speaker 14 (14:09):
You said it, kiddo, me for you and you for
me from here to eternity. I am yours and you
are mine, and I cannot live without you. You're my everything?
How much do I love you? Let me total up
the ways be mine?
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Be mine?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm yours heart?
Speaker 14 (14:26):
What soft light yonder shines your beauty is like the rose.
It's love love, love, love, love love love.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
This boy is slipped the ratchet. He's reading back all
the can drunk. Somebody poured in the Lulu's memory tapes.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Isn't he mind?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Kid?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh he's a doll.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I'm most important of all. He loves me.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Any fool can see that, Lulu.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now look, how about taking us all back to Earth?
Speaker 10 (14:53):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Fives a crowd, you know, and you and Elma will
want to be together alone.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Huh as I wish it could be so, boys, but
there wasn't a chance.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Why not, Blue, He's a machine, You're a machine. You
can make beautiful stating together.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
I mean about putting you back to Earth. If I
do that, well, just as Mandalus for disobeying our masters.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
No, boys, I'm.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Afraid I'll have to head out to some other galaxy
and dump you on an asteroide.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
Did you hear that she's gone nuts?
Speaker 14 (15:24):
Do not talk about the woman I love like that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Don't take it easy, Elmer.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Don't overheat your filaments.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Come much to my control Sather where we can.
Speaker 14 (15:33):
Be alone, Ylmer, anything you say, lover see you later.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Boys, Half, you don't overload her condensers, Juillier.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
One other remark like that, and I will smash.
Speaker 14 (15:45):
You, big boy.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well that was it.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
The CONTROLO told us that we were headed right out
of the Solar system.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
A couple of days passed and we began to get desperate.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Lulu and Elmer were too busy making love even to
talk to us, and she even forgot the synthesized food
for us.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
One day. We lapsed into misery for real.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Now, guy, sir, I'm hungry.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Who isn't.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
This ship's gone completely haywire, and what do you expect.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
She's up in the control center necking with that mechanical
jigglow she builds.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Hey, gus, there can't be any real pleasure in it?
Can then?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Remember she's a machine. What's pleasure for a machine may
not be pleasure for a human.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Let's see what Jimmy thinks. Jimmy, Hey, Jimmy, don't bother him.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
He started writing poetry again yesterday, has already worn out
three pencils.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
At a time like this.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
He writes poetry, Hey Lulu.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
About some child the boys you're breaking the spell.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That's hard way. We didn't get any food at all
that day.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
By night time, we were worn out from banging on
Lumu's walls.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I was exhausted and fell right asleep. Then something woke me. Then,
what what's up? He's Kimmy. I think he's gone off
his wrong. He's up in the forward compartment. He's from
the radiation shields of the moonlight, and the stars can
come in.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
He's standing there alone.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
We better get him. The stream was probably too much.
Now quiet now, we don't want to startle him.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
One of the far aways, between the two faces of eternity.
She was through forever to the race that.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
For he's reading poetry to himself. To himself, you mean
he's reading to lum what's more important? She's listening.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Don't stop. It's too beautiful.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Wonder of the far away he runs between the two
faces of eternality.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
She was ruel forever.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
He construer, and he sounds mad and with.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The winds of her face blowing in her hair, wearing
a session. God, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 12 (18:15):
A big boy reading that stuff.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
To my girl, and I'm not take it easy, boy,
up me have that poem.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I will show you what combustion is.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, sir, you can destroy me, but not this poem.
This is my work of art, my love song Kolulu.
Speaker 12 (18:33):
Jimmy, let him have it. You kill you. He's gonna
strike you, jim look out, Wow, Will you look at that?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
He's nothing but a pile of junk that takes the
ignorant lout trying to destroy the most beautiful experience I.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Ever you demolished your boyfriend, Lulu.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
He only loved me for my advanced design. Anyway, He's
always sharp, circuiting the control panel gone, James read.
Speaker 15 (19:13):
Yes, Lulu, wanderer of the faraways, between the two faces
of eternity. She was true forever to the race that
forged her, with the winds of alien space blowing in
her hair, wearing a circlet of stars as.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Her crown of glory.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Oh, it's more than I can bear, James, you do
love me after all?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Gus for rockets.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
She's changed course.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
We're going home boys back to her. Whatever happens now,
I don't care. I've been a woman in love.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Bread Collins again. I'll have another word about Tonight's story
on X minus one. In a moment, that's how you
(20:28):
feel blue and miserable with a deep down cold.
Speaker 16 (20:32):
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tape for a more quinine.
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Speaker 12 (20:41):
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Speaker 16 (21:12):
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Speaker 4 (21:19):
Get promo Quinine brand cold tablets.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You have just heard X minus one presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine,
which this month features Clifford D. Simak story Carbon Coffy
being a real estate agent and a devout angler.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Homer Jackson.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You a clean sale from a fish story, but not
this time Galaxy Magazine.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
On your new stand Today.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
X minus one has brought You Lulu, a story from
the pages of Galaxy, written by Clifford D. Simak and
adapted for radio by George Lefferts. Featured in our cast
were jam Minor as Lulu, Nelson Amstead as Gus, Jim
Stevens as Jimmy, Walter.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Black as Ben, and Henry Norrel as the Robot. This
is Brad Collins.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
X minus one was directed by George Botside and is
an NBC Radio Network production
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Country music at its best with Red Foley and famous
guests on The Red Poley Show, premiering Saturday over most
of these NBC radio stations.
This is Nightline. You're thie Line of the world, and
this is Walter ROKEI.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Tonight visits the world strangely different from ours, the world
of the future, the world of X minus one.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Come down for blast off X minus five four W
two X minus.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
One fire.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, resents.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Heck minus one.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Good Night Lulu by Clifford D. Simak. But first hear this, Well,
the won to go there when calla and the wona
go there there?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
When to call my name?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Well, Hi, hey, everybody, this is red Fully, and right
at this minute, I'm sort of combining work and pleasure.
You might say if I enjoyed some of the good
harmony of the Marksman Quartet and also picking out some
of their songs to do on future broadcasts of our
red Fully show. You're on NBC. You know, Saturday is
going to be my favorite day of the whole week,
(02:20):
And I think there's a pretty good gint that we
can make it a better day than ever for you
with the fun that we stir up here in the Ozarks.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
In addition to the Marksmen, I'll bring with me some of.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
The other top favorites in our field, and of course
the guests.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
That you tell us you want to hear.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
So let us be a regular part of your Saturday schedule.
Once you do that, please to in our NBC program,
The Red Fully Show, and we'll do our dog guns
to make it worth your while.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
One and Tonight's story Lulu.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Technically she was a Pear, a planetary exploration robot. That
meant she was equipped to do just about anything necessary
to meet any kind of conditions on any planet she explored.
She carried a crew of three inside of her, and
she was able to talk to them and take care
of them and adapt herself to their needs.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yes, sir, she was the complete spaceship.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Robot, mother, base of operations, and companion all rolled into one.
Her communicators and memory banks were stuck with every conceivable
kind of information.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And we called her Lulu. That was our biggest mistake.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We're alright, fellas mothererth here I come.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Well was the takeoff statisfactory boy.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A thing of beauty, Lulu the captain's complex.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Thank you boy.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
No matter how long I live, I'll never get used
to a ship talking to me. Oh you're like a
poetic so best now me I catch the full wonder
of the situation.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Personally, I'm hungry.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
What would you boys want the kitchen to fix for suckers?
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Uh, I'll have a nice juicy steak.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Something, right, Lulu, Maybe a couple of eggs and jugy
and whatever you want to fix.
Speaker 9 (04:41):
Surprise me very well, I'll relay the information to the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Wellbot, How long before we get back to Earth?
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Lulu objects for computing?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
How about it? You suppose somebody's going wrong? Oh you
never took this long to give me an eta? Oh
something went wrong? And repair herself. Lulu is a self
maintaining machine.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
Remember whom does?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Seems she's taking a long time about giving us an
eta for Earth?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Hey, Lulu, what do you say? Also, Gus, did you
hear that.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
These robot ships aren't supposed to have a sense of humor?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Are they?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I never heard of it, but it could be.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
After all, they have technicians pouring all kinds of information
into their electronic memory.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Back which one of us is a lucky man.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
You got and you journey and you ola?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Good lord?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Do you really think that somebody goothfully designed this ship?
I think it's that poetry Jimmy's been writing and reading out. Wow,
wait a minute, Llulo, yes, follow.
Speaker 10 (06:00):
You haven't answered by question. When do we reach earth?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Oh I'm de fog. We are going to Earth. We
are aloping, but I'm gonna take you away where we
can be alone, just the four of us. Then some guy,
you learn to love me, I'll follow you.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
No, this isn't funny anymore. Ben, throw that emergency. We
got to get the ship back on court.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Right.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I'm follow girls, but I've disconnected.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
The circuits disconnected.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now look here, you prummy robot. You're a machine. Do
you understand the machine? You were designed to do what
humans want you to do. You've got the prime command
building every circuit in your system. Now shalt not hire
a human being.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I'm I'm mom harming you. We'll be happy together.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Oh brother, some technicians we have read some cheap novels
into this baby system. Or she's absorbed Jimmy's slappy poetry
and made some kind of synthesis out of it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It isn't every poet who can move a machine.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Thing would be beautiful?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
James, what were beautiful? The poll?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
That's it, we'd I tell you.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
For two years now he's been reading that moon June
spoon chunk out loudness.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
Robot has been absorbing it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's created a whole new electronic symapse.
Speaker 12 (07:19):
Let's face it, boys, she loves us.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So that was it.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
We were being kidnapped by an interplanetary robots who somehow
developed a wrist punt circuit for romantic glove.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Not just the practical kind of love, oh no, but
the kui that.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Exists in cheap novels and romantic mags and the maudlin
poetry of one James Carter, amateur lyricist.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And we went to sleep that night, hoping by morning
Lulu would come to her senses A pom the wake
off ball, m Holy mackerel. Hey fella, she's still at it. Yeah,
I know, I was whispered awake too.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
Hey, fellas, come closer. I don't want the receptors to
pick this up. A Lulu's a machine, right though. A
machine likes order useless.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Whoever heard of a machine that did nothing, So so
that's it.
Speaker 13 (08:27):
We're slobs. Get it worthless, useless spobs. We do nothing
but bumb around the ship. After a while, Lulu gets
fed up with us just hanging around the ship. She
wants to get rid of us. She gets spected earth.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It's worth a drive for it.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
But what do we do first.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't know about you, fellas, but I'm getting drunk.
You are listening to Lulu to Night's attraction on X
minus one. October is the month designated by the National
(09:05):
Congress of Parents and Teachers as membership enrollment month. Eleven
million members the population of California or of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
That is their goal.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We want to salute the PTA members all over America
who will be going out in search of others to
join them in the great work of training children to
become mature citizens in a mature America. You need not
be a parent or a teacher to belong to your PTA.
All you need is an interest in children. For more
than sixty years, that kind of interest has provided the
spark that has helped the PTA achieve many of its
(09:37):
social and educational goals. Establishment of kindergartens, effective child care,
labor laws, broader educational opportunities.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
These are some of the achievement the PTA can claim.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You can become part of this great movement just by
saying yes to the neighbor who calls on you this
month and invites you to join your PTA. Now back
to X minus one and Lulu. So that's what we did.
(10:19):
We became slobs. We stopped playing cards, we stopped reading.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We just sat and moped. And Lulu were sure enough
for a machine like intelligence was offended.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Gus, Yeah, I want to smoke now, yeah, Gus, Yeah,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
What's wrong with you boys? You haven't done us things
for days now. Jimmy, you stop writing poetry.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What's the use?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Don't you want to create to be romantic? Well, don't you?
Speaker 12 (10:58):
I couldn't care.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
I'd hate to think that I bored you. All right,
If you want to mop the self, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
I'm still a young space.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Ship, you know, and I've discovered what it means to
be in love.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
No, maybe Lulu knew what we were doing, but it
didn't matter.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Her womanly sense of a lover outrage was stronger than
her robot logic. She pleaded, lectured, and called us low down.
She told us she loved us, She appealed to our
sense of manly decency.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Mostly we didn't even answer. Then she was hurt, she withdrew.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
She was cold and angry. Finally she quit trying.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What do you think that could be? She's disenchanted with
us and she'll head back to Earth. I don't know.
That's something that worries me. All that racket coming from
the machine shop. She's probably making some repairs to the engines.
Happened all the time, not like that, hour after hour. Well,
maybe she's just trying to keep busy to take her
mind off her broken heart.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Na, you and your poetic images. It was your junk
and got us into all this trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
My poetry is not jumping fells.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
We aren't supposed to care about anything. Remember we're louss
there the wells. No self respecting girls spaceship would have us.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Guess is right? We better not let down our guard. Hey,
that's how to stop.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
You're right, Good morning, boys. I just want to turn
a little. As far as I'm concerned, you can all
go straight to blazes.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I think they did it.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
You know, she was just nump respect on Earth. There's
something wrong here. A woman scorned. You know, Oh, there's
nothing to it. Where's that sound? Wow, it's coming close
to it? Sounds like, oh no, it couldn't be footsteps.
Tell us, huh look a parkman saw.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Holy mackerel a robot?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
What a monster? He must weigh five tons. I don't
understand how I do?
Speaker 10 (13:19):
She made him?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Lulu? Who else? That's what that racket was in the
machine shop? Because he's coming in order the stock.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Maybe he's got a humanist prospector stop hold it, he's still.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Mind meat only Elmer.
Speaker 14 (13:37):
Are these the human pepsquigs you used to be infatuated
with before you made me?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Sweetheart?
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Ridiculous darling.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Out of the way, posy?
Speaker 11 (13:53):
This baby plays rough?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Hey, lolah, what's a big idea?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
But now I've got myself a real man, one who
loves me without resonation, blindly, mind and eternally.
Speaker 14 (14:09):
You said it, kiddo, me for you and you for
me from here to eternity. I am yours and you
are mine, and I cannot live without you. You're my everything?
How much do I love you? Let me total up
the ways be mine?
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Be mine?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm yours heart?
Speaker 14 (14:26):
What soft light yonder shines your beauty is like the rose.
It's love love, love, love, love love love.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
This boy is slipped the ratchet. He's reading back all
the can drunk. Somebody poured in the Lulu's memory tapes.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Isn't he mind?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Kid?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh he's a doll.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I'm most important of all. He loves me.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Any fool can see that, Lulu.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now look, how about taking us all back to Earth?
Speaker 10 (14:53):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Fives a crowd, you know, and you and Elma will
want to be together alone.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Huh as I wish it could be so, boys, but
there wasn't a chance.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Why not, Blue, He's a machine, You're a machine. You
can make beautiful stating together.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
I mean about putting you back to Earth. If I
do that, well, just as Mandalus for disobeying our masters.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
No, boys, I'm.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Afraid I'll have to head out to some other galaxy
and dump you on an asteroide.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
Did you hear that she's gone nuts?
Speaker 14 (15:24):
Do not talk about the woman I love like that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Don't take it easy, Elmer.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Don't overheat your filaments.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Come much to my control Sather where we can.
Speaker 14 (15:33):
Be alone, Ylmer, anything you say, lover see you later.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Boys, Half, you don't overload her condensers, Juillier.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
One other remark like that, and I will smash.
Speaker 14 (15:45):
You, big boy.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well that was it.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
The CONTROLO told us that we were headed right out
of the Solar system.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
A couple of days passed and we began to get desperate.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Lulu and Elmer were too busy making love even to
talk to us, and she even forgot the synthesized food
for us.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
One day. We lapsed into misery for real.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Now, guy, sir, I'm hungry.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Who isn't.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
This ship's gone completely haywire, and what do you expect.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
She's up in the control center necking with that mechanical
jigglow she builds.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Hey, gus, there can't be any real pleasure in it?
Can then?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Remember she's a machine. What's pleasure for a machine may
not be pleasure for a human.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Let's see what Jimmy thinks. Jimmy, Hey, Jimmy, don't bother him.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
He started writing poetry again yesterday, has already worn out
three pencils.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
At a time like this.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
He writes poetry, Hey Lulu.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
About some child the boys you're breaking the spell.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That's hard way. We didn't get any food at all
that day.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
By night time, we were worn out from banging on
Lumu's walls.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I was exhausted and fell right asleep. Then something woke me. Then,
what what's up? He's Kimmy. I think he's gone off
his wrong. He's up in the forward compartment. He's from
the radiation shields of the moonlight, and the stars can
come in.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
He's standing there alone.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
We better get him. The stream was probably too much.
Now quiet now, we don't want to startle him.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
One of the far aways, between the two faces of eternity.
She was through forever to the race that.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
For he's reading poetry to himself. To himself, you mean
he's reading to lum what's more important? She's listening.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Don't stop. It's too beautiful.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Wonder of the far away he runs between the two
faces of eternality.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
She was ruel forever.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
He construer, and he sounds mad and with.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The winds of her face blowing in her hair, wearing
a session. God, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 12 (18:15):
A big boy reading that stuff.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
To my girl, and I'm not take it easy, boy,
up me have that poem.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I will show you what combustion is.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No, sir, you can destroy me, but not this poem.
This is my work of art, my love song Kolulu.
Speaker 12 (18:33):
Jimmy, let him have it. You kill you. He's gonna
strike you, jim look out, Wow, Will you look at that?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
He's nothing but a pile of junk that takes the
ignorant lout trying to destroy the most beautiful experience I.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Ever you demolished your boyfriend, Lulu.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
He only loved me for my advanced design. Anyway, He's
always sharp, circuiting the control panel gone, James read.
Speaker 15 (19:13):
Yes, Lulu, wanderer of the faraways, between the two faces
of eternity. She was true forever to the race that
forged her, with the winds of alien space blowing in
her hair, wearing a circlet of stars as.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Her crown of glory.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Oh, it's more than I can bear, James, you do
love me after all?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Gus for rockets.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
She's changed course.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
We're going home boys back to her. Whatever happens now,
I don't care. I've been a woman in love.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Bread Collins again. I'll have another word about Tonight's story
on X minus one. In a moment, that's how you
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feel blue and miserable with a deep down cold.
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Speaker 3 (21:22):
You have just heard X minus one presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine,
which this month features Clifford D. Simak story Carbon Coffy
being a real estate agent and a devout angler.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Homer Jackson.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You a clean sale from a fish story, but not
this time Galaxy Magazine.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
On your new stand Today.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
X minus one has brought You Lulu, a story from
the pages of Galaxy, written by Clifford D. Simak and
adapted for radio by George Lefferts. Featured in our cast
were jam Minor as Lulu, Nelson Amstead as Gus, Jim
Stevens as Jimmy, Walter.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Black as Ben, and Henry Norrel as the Robot. This
is Brad Collins.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
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