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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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minus one.
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Fire from the far Horizons of the Unknown, comtails of
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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
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Speaker 5 (01:26):
One Tonight Crime Difference.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
But first hear this.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Farmer, since the dawn of history, a key factor and
the survival of civilization.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The American farmer as great.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
And vital, a force for our survival in the space
age of today as he was at the time of
the founding of our nation. If we are to survive,
he must survive in the Central States, the Northeast, the South,
and the West, and in the far West, in the
face of drought and floods, under the pressure of fluctuating markets,
in spite of obstacles created by nature and man, the
(02:19):
farmer must survive. This is Richard Harkness inviting you to
join us as Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson and
key members of the House and Senate Agriculture committees meets
spokesman from the five great farming areas of our country
on Congress Faces the Farmer, a special and vital broadcast
Monday Night over most of these NBC stations aw X
(02:51):
minus one and Tonight's story Crime Difference. Every guy reaches
the point once in his lifetime where he gets.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
One hundred and forty percent fed up with his wife.
Understand now, I've got nothing against marriage. Marriage is great,
a good red blooded American.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Institution, Only it's so permanent, especially when you're married.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
To a woman like march Ah. She was a dream to.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Look at, tawny hair and sulky gray eyes and a
shape that could set your teeth chattering. But she had
a tongue like a number ten would rasp, and a
list of grievances long enough to pay for a ballroom.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Why do you always upset me in the morning when
I've got aheadache.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm not trying to upset now. I'm trying to have
my coffee so I can go down to the office
and the.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Living I'm living go ahead, run away. That's all you've
done all our married life. Whenever there's something unpleasant to
be faced.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
You run away.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I've even forgotten what the unpleasant something was. Well, then
I'll remind you.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
It's your own selfish, indulgent nature, staying out TI last
the midnight when I was here waiting and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Suffering and was working. I was at the office working.
You know you were at the.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Office, dear, I phone, Remember you weren't working your.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Breathath Oh listen, listen. I fired miss Carver. She was okay,
but I fired her for you. It was her last day.
We all had a couple of drinks, that's all.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Maybe we just weren't meant for each other.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
If we'd been living back in the blissful fifties, I
might have divorced her. But this was nineteen seventy four,
and what with the Family Togetherness Act of sixty eight
and the Agrieved Spouse Compensation Act of sixty.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Nine, I'd have been an outcast and a pauper.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
For the rest of my life.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
So you can't really blame me, can you? For looking
for another way out? I mean, oh, come, oh, hi,
Harry boy nay George, I just took your new secretary
out in the way.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is she here already?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Boy? I tell you, if I had a secretary like that,
the first thing I do is go out and get
myself an ego prime a wife, an ego prime a dupe,
look at it myself to send home to the wife evenings.
You know that's strictly against the law, Harry was beating,
but everybody does it anyway. I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
It's indecent, joking, Georgie, boy, just joking.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Still, it's it's fun to think about.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Freedom from wife, absolutely safe and harmless, not even too
expensive if you had the right context.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
You're coming, mister Fakna. Yeah, and Jay Lemont, your new.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Secretary, would I tell you, Georgie?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Boy, Ah, Harry, if you don't mind, I'd like to
get right down to work with miss Lamont.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Excuse us? Why not?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Don't forget what we were talking about. Huh, Georgie, I
happen to know a fellow with just the right context
for that deal.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Sure, so on Terry along by miss Lamart.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I glad to have you aboard, Miss Lamond.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Miss LeMond is so formal mister Blickendorf called me Jerry
when I worked for him.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Oh, Hank, or you must be the girl he had.
You must accompanied him on his business trip to Real Well.
He spoke very highly of you. I'm sure we'll get
along just fine.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
I feel the same way. I prefer working for a
younger man than mister blick Anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
We'll be back with act too of prime difference in
just a moment, but first hear this. Here are the
facts about Asian According to medical and public health authorities,
Asian flu is a highly contagious type of influenza. Its
death rate is low, but its great danger lies in
the fact that an entire city could be disrupted by
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an epidemic. Asian flu is caused by a virus. It
can be spread through the air by the sneezing or
coughing of an infected person. The American Medical Association and
the United States Public Health Service believes there is a
distinct probability that this country may suffer another epidemic this year.
For this reason, a vaccine has been developed, which is
(07:33):
the only known preventative against asian flu. It provides immunity
in ten to fourteen days, protects for one year, it
is safe and reactions when they occur are mild. Individuals
known to be sensitive to eggs should not take the vaccine.
Contact your family, physician, or local health authorities. Call your
doctor or local authorities for further information.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Now back to X minus one.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Then tonight's story prime different.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
When I came home to dinner that night, Marge was
waiting with a full barade. She let me get my
first bite of dinner halfway to my mouth and then
opened up.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I hear you got a new secretary today. I also
hear she's five dad and tastes out at thirty eight,
twenty five, thirty six and likes men.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's quite a spy system you've got there.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
She is at much of a secretary either.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
She's a perfectly good secretary.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
That isn't what Molly Blickendorff said.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I don't care what Molly Blickendorf said. Where are you going?
I have to make a business call. I forgot.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
I supposed it to be.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Too much to expect you to do your work at
the office.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
With got Miss.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Hurry, George Faircloth, listen, Harry, you know that conversation we
had this afternoon. Could you put me in touch with
your friend, Yes, as soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
The following evening, I found myself at the door of
a dingy office in an ancient warehouse up near Fourteenth Street.
A little rodent of a man answered, yes, brother, I'm
George Faircloth.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Harry sent me.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Oh yeah, step inside, brother, I've been told that you
can supply me with Yes, brother, it might be possible.
We get quite a few busy executives who are in
a hurrican can't be bothered with licensing a utility prime.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Mister.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
If I wanted an ordinary utility prime, I wouldn't have
hiked up here.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'd have picked up the phone and ordered it.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I want a super de Luke's ego prime with all
the circuits open.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
In short, a carbon copy of me, George fair quast Well,
just step back here, brother five.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
These domestic situations.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Can be awkward. You understand.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
If the Feds fo out about this, you were in
as much trouble as we are.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm more worried about my wife finding out.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
He's your mind. Brother.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We've never had one yet, except for that little shut
off control in the hair behind the ear. These ego
primes are identical with living humans. Now if you just
step back into the lab and take your clothes off wheels.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
All I spent a busy two hours under the NP microphones.
The artists worked outside taking casts and impressions, while the
technicians worked inside feeding all my brain patterns into Junati panagraph.
(11:00):
I came out of it pretty woozy, but I shot
a happy old fixed that. Then I waited in the
recovery room until the salesman walked in, followed by a tall,
sandy haired man with tired blue eyes wearing a business.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Suit who looked remarkably like me.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Mister Fairclaw.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yes, meet mister Fairclaw Prime.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
So this is me? Check George? What heeve it talks
like me? I?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
How up to?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I've got a dozen Junyati tubes in my crannial vault
with your speech patterns on them.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
How be dog gone?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Nice jobbing?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
What's fantastic?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
The shut off mechanism is behind his right ear, bringing.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Me in every two months for the regular two month
refill and pattern accommodation.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
All right, let me get a few things straight. How
do we change places?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
George Prime has remote recall. You just signaled him with
this transmitter and he'll come to you.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Wherever you are a girl.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Suppose I call you GP for George Prime. Okay with me, George,
right now, there's the matter of the check. Oh yes,
right here, Oh mad out.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Good, thank you and good luck.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, well let's go, GP.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I'd like you to meet the little woman.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Half an hour later, George Prime put my pipe in
his mouth and walked into the house. I stayed out
in my workshop in the garage and listened. Five minutes later,
they were fighting. It sounded so familiar.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
I laughed out loud when I caught a cab and
headed uptown toward Jerry's place. We had to fight an evening,
and I rolled in just as George Prime was starting
the car, business.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Suit and briefcase ready for work. I slipped into the garage.
He hold it, hold it, Oh you're back.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
How'd it go?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
S Well, you didn't tell me you were married to
a female Bengal tiger.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Well she didn't suspect it, she, of course not.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What'd you do well for until about one am?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Then went to our respective corners and subbed, you think
you can handle it?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Listen, she's really a sweet girl underneath.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Now I'll be so attentive and sweet so soft enough
you wait and see. Well, don't overdo it. She is
my wife, you know, naturally. Now you're sure you understand
the recall signal perfectly when you buzz the recall, I
wait for the first logical opportunity to join you, and
then you take over. Right now, climb into the trunk
here and I'll shut you off and lock you in right. Oh, well,
(13:45):
I'll see you tonight, old man, I see you the night, George.
I could go on at some length about my exploits,
but I won't. In the end, it was like buying
a three dimension TV set. After a week or two,
the novelty starts to wear off. Well, I got it
(14:07):
down to wear Tuesday and Thursday nights. I was informally out,
while formally in the rest of the time George Prime
was in the box.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, Marge didn't suspect the thing.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
In fact, George Prime was having a remarkable effect on her.
Oh that you, George?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Hello, Oh you look tired.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Have a hard day.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, now did you mention it?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I did you know?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Why don't you just sit down and relax? I fixed
to Martini before dinner.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Huh, that sounds like as fun as I did. Are
you all right?
Speaker 8 (14:41):
I'm fine?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Buy nothing?
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Well what are you looking at?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Are you you you've done something for your hair or
something like it?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, you know I've always thought you were a darn
beautiful woman.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Well, thank you the fair class.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
You know you're not so bad yourself.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Since you well, since you stopped scowling and snapping, I
guess that's a compliment, George, isn't about time when you
stopped playing each other?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That's what I've always wanted, Mark, so have I will you?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
You've changed so much recently, we changed, you know, you've
when you've been less irritable and more considerate and so
much more vital.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Oh you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I sound afraid I do, George.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yeah, Look, let's have dinner and some wine and spend
a nice evening.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Together like what you do and when we were first married.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
That sounds wine always small?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Has?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
What time names?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Seven thirty one?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Well, listen, I have to run down the corner for
some tobacco. I wouldn't want to spend a relaxing evening
without tobacco, you know.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
But there's seven you're holding?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well, I watch something fresh you chiber wine? I won't
be a minute, All right, dear, hurry back.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I'd forgotten all about my date with Jerry. Actually I
didn't want to keep it.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
The idea of spending a quiet evening with Marge was
really appealing for a change, but.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I had to run over and explain to Jerry.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
So I sent George Prime in to keep Marge company
until I got back, which was about midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
As I walked down the path, I looked in the window.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
George Prime was there, and he was kissing my wife
the way I hadn't kissed her in years, and she
wasn't exactly fighting him off either.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I almost wore off my thumb on that recall button
before he came out to the garage.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You there, George, it's me GP. What's upout time? I'm sorry,
old man.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Sorry, Look I saw what was going on in there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, you know, being I am.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
A super Delux's model, I should say you are the
first thing. Tomorrow, big boy, I'm taking you in to
have your circuits rewired. Look aren't you being a little
overly jealous?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, I mean, for a man who wanted to get
rid of his wife.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I never said that.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Oh, I could never understand, and that personally I.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Listen, she's the one who's going to be suspicious if
I don't get back there.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Now you can meet that dressing gown. You get back
to that box.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Tomorrow morning, back to the factory. Marge was waiting for
me and one of those flimsy things that I'd given
her when we were first married.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I must say, she looks so charming and lovely that
my heart just murmured. And so I was overwhelm with
a sense.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Of guilt, and I wanted to tell her what i'd done.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
You finally got back. I thought you'd never get here.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Oh are you you look rather?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's the idea, Margie. Listen, I've got to tell you something,
and before I do, I want you to know that,
in spite of the cat I've been I do love you.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I always have.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
And you don't have to tell me anything.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Oh this is important and it'll shock you. In fact,
you may never speak to me.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
I know what you're going to tell me. You mean
about George Pride, great Scotch. You knew and of course George.
Now you don't think I could be fooled by something
out of the lab, do you? You've known all along,
all along all March. Then tomorrow morning we'll send that
(18:24):
stuff down me back to the factory, and then we'll
live the way we've always wanted.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Oh, yes, dearest, the way we've always wonded.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I just don't know where.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
If it did, then why not begin by just kissing me?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I kissed her tenderly, and her lips were softer and
more responsive than I've never known her.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Yes, she'd certainly changed. I turned out the lamb. I
ran my fingers through her frankmin tawny hair. My thumb
stopped at a little depression behind her ear, and then
suddenly I knew what had happened. It was a turn
off switch, of course, and I George Faircloth was now
(19:18):
married to Marge.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Prime Fred Collins again, And I'll have another word about
X minus one in a moment. But first, if that's
(19:39):
the game you're missing, because I'm a mean cold, here's
something you should know.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Every second someone takes.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
X minus one has brought you Prime Difference, written by
Alan E. Norse and adapted for radio by George Lepards.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Featured in our cast were lost in.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Serbias, George and George Prime and Lauren as Marge Evelyn
Juster as Jerry Merrill Jowels as the salesman, and John
Thomas as Harriet business Bred Collins X minus one was
directed by George Utsans and is an NBC radiometric production.
(20:25):
We pause now for station identification. We pause now for
station identification.
This is Nightline. You're open door at people and places,
and this is waldro Keith Nightline invite you to.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Listen in on NBC's award winning science fiction series X
minus one.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Come down for Blast of X minus five for three
two X minus one.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Fire from the far Horizons of the Unknown, comtails of
(01:06):
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, presents.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
One Tonight Crime Difference.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
But first hear this.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Farmer, since the dawn of history, a key factor and
the survival of civilization.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The American farmer as great.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
And vital, a force for our survival in the space
age of today as he was at the time of
the founding of our nation. If we are to survive,
he must survive in the Central States, the Northeast, the South,
and the West, and in the far West, in the
face of drought and floods, under the pressure of fluctuating markets,
in spite of obstacles created by nature and man, the
(02:19):
farmer must survive. This is Richard Harkness inviting you to
join us as Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson and
key members of the House and Senate Agriculture committees meets
spokesman from the five great farming areas of our country
on Congress Faces the Farmer, a special and vital broadcast
Monday Night over most of these NBC stations aw X
(02:51):
minus one and Tonight's story Crime Difference. Every guy reaches
the point once in his lifetime where he gets.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
One hundred and forty percent fed up with his wife.
Understand now, I've got nothing against marriage. Marriage is great,
a good red blooded American.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Institution, Only it's so permanent, especially when you're married.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
To a woman like march Ah. She was a dream to.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Look at, tawny hair and sulky gray eyes and a
shape that could set your teeth chattering. But she had
a tongue like a number ten would rasp, and a
list of grievances long enough to pay for a ballroom.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Why do you always upset me in the morning when
I've got aheadache.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm not trying to upset now. I'm trying to have
my coffee so I can go down to the office
and the.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Living I'm living go ahead, run away. That's all you've
done all our married life. Whenever there's something unpleasant to
be faced.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
You run away.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I've even forgotten what the unpleasant something was. Well, then
I'll remind you.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
It's your own selfish, indulgent nature, staying out TI last
the midnight when I was here waiting and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Suffering and was working. I was at the office working.
You know you were at the.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Office, dear, I phone, Remember you weren't working your.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Breathath Oh listen, listen. I fired miss Carver. She was okay,
but I fired her for you. It was her last day.
We all had a couple of drinks, that's all.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Maybe we just weren't meant for each other.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
If we'd been living back in the blissful fifties, I
might have divorced her. But this was nineteen seventy four,
and what with the Family Togetherness Act of sixty eight
and the Agrieved Spouse Compensation Act of sixty.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Nine, I'd have been an outcast and a pauper.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
For the rest of my life.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
So you can't really blame me, can you? For looking
for another way out? I mean, oh, come, oh, hi,
Harry boy nay George, I just took your new secretary
out in the way.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is she here already?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Boy? I tell you, if I had a secretary like that,
the first thing I do is go out and get
myself an ego prime a wife, an ego prime a dupe,
look at it myself to send home to the wife evenings.
You know that's strictly against the law, Harry was beating,
but everybody does it anyway. I wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
It's indecent, joking, Georgie, boy, just joking.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Still, it's it's fun to think about.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Freedom from wife, absolutely safe and harmless, not even too
expensive if you had the right context.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
You're coming, mister Fakna. Yeah, and Jay Lemont, your new.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Secretary, would I tell you, Georgie?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Boy, Ah, Harry, if you don't mind, I'd like to
get right down to work with miss Lamont.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Excuse us? Why not?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Don't forget what we were talking about. Huh, Georgie, I
happen to know a fellow with just the right context
for that deal.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Sure, so on Terry along by miss Lamart.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I glad to have you aboard, Miss Lamond.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Miss LeMond is so formal mister Blickendorf called me Jerry
when I worked for him.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Oh, Hank, or you must be the girl he had.
You must accompanied him on his business trip to Real Well.
He spoke very highly of you. I'm sure we'll get
along just fine.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
I feel the same way. I prefer working for a
younger man than mister blick Anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
We'll be back with act too of prime difference in
just a moment, but first hear this. Here are the
facts about Asian According to medical and public health authorities,
Asian flu is a highly contagious type of influenza. Its
death rate is low, but its great danger lies in
the fact that an entire city could be disrupted by
(07:12):
an epidemic. Asian flu is caused by a virus. It
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Speaker 6 (08:05):
Now back to X minus one.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Then tonight's story prime different.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
When I came home to dinner that night, Marge was
waiting with a full barade. She let me get my
first bite of dinner halfway to my mouth and then
opened up.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I hear you got a new secretary today. I also
hear she's five dad and tastes out at thirty eight,
twenty five, thirty six and likes men.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's quite a spy system you've got there.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
She is at much of a secretary either.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
She's a perfectly good secretary.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
That isn't what Molly Blickendorff said.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I don't care what Molly Blickendorf said. Where are you going?
I have to make a business call. I forgot.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
I supposed it to be.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Too much to expect you to do your work at
the office.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
With got Miss.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Hurry, George Faircloth, listen, Harry, you know that conversation we
had this afternoon. Could you put me in touch with
your friend, Yes, as soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
The following evening, I found myself at the door of
a dingy office in an ancient warehouse up near Fourteenth Street.
A little rodent of a man answered, yes, brother, I'm
George Faircloth.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Harry sent me.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Oh yeah, step inside, brother, I've been told that you
can supply me with Yes, brother, it might be possible.
We get quite a few busy executives who are in
a hurrican can't be bothered with licensing a utility prime.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Mister.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
If I wanted an ordinary utility prime, I wouldn't have
hiked up here.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'd have picked up the phone and ordered it.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I want a super de Luke's ego prime with all
the circuits open.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
In short, a carbon copy of me, George fair quast Well,
just step back here, brother five.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
These domestic situations.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Can be awkward. You understand.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
If the Feds fo out about this, you were in
as much trouble as we are.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm more worried about my wife finding out.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
He's your mind. Brother.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We've never had one yet, except for that little shut
off control in the hair behind the ear. These ego
primes are identical with living humans. Now if you just
step back into the lab and take your clothes off wheels.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
All I spent a busy two hours under the NP microphones.
The artists worked outside taking casts and impressions, while the
technicians worked inside feeding all my brain patterns into Junati panagraph.
(11:00):
I came out of it pretty woozy, but I shot
a happy old fixed that. Then I waited in the
recovery room until the salesman walked in, followed by a tall,
sandy haired man with tired blue eyes wearing a business.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Suit who looked remarkably like me.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Mister Fairclaw.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yes, meet mister Fairclaw Prime.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
So this is me? Check George? What heeve it talks
like me? I?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
How up to?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I've got a dozen Junyati tubes in my crannial vault
with your speech patterns on them.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
How be dog gone?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Nice jobbing?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
What's fantastic?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
The shut off mechanism is behind his right ear, bringing.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Me in every two months for the regular two month
refill and pattern accommodation.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
All right, let me get a few things straight. How
do we change places?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
George Prime has remote recall. You just signaled him with
this transmitter and he'll come to you.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Wherever you are a girl.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Suppose I call you GP for George Prime. Okay with me, George,
right now, there's the matter of the check. Oh yes,
right here, Oh mad out.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Good, thank you and good luck.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, well let's go, GP.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I'd like you to meet the little woman.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Half an hour later, George Prime put my pipe in
his mouth and walked into the house. I stayed out
in my workshop in the garage and listened. Five minutes later,
they were fighting. It sounded so familiar.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
I laughed out loud when I caught a cab and
headed uptown toward Jerry's place. We had to fight an evening,
and I rolled in just as George Prime was starting
the car, business.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Suit and briefcase ready for work. I slipped into the garage.
He hold it, hold it, Oh you're back.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
How'd it go?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
S Well, you didn't tell me you were married to
a female Bengal tiger.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Well she didn't suspect it, she, of course not.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What'd you do well for until about one am?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Then went to our respective corners and subbed, you think
you can handle it?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Listen, she's really a sweet girl underneath.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Now I'll be so attentive and sweet so soft enough
you wait and see. Well, don't overdo it. She is
my wife, you know, naturally. Now you're sure you understand
the recall signal perfectly when you buzz the recall, I
wait for the first logical opportunity to join you, and
then you take over. Right now, climb into the trunk
here and I'll shut you off and lock you in right. Oh, well,
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I'll see you tonight, old man, I see you the night, George.
I could go on at some length about my exploits,
but I won't. In the end, it was like buying
a three dimension TV set. After a week or two,
the novelty starts to wear off. Well, I got it
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down to wear Tuesday and Thursday nights. I was informally out,
while formally in the rest of the time George Prime
was in the box.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, Marge didn't suspect the thing.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
In fact, George Prime was having a remarkable effect on her.
Oh that you, George?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Hello, Oh you look tired.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Have a hard day.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, now did you mention it?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I did you know?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Why don't you just sit down and relax? I fixed
to Martini before dinner.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Huh, that sounds like as fun as I did. Are
you all right?
Speaker 8 (14:41):
I'm fine?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Buy nothing?
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Well what are you looking at?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Are you you you've done something for your hair or
something like it?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, you know I've always thought you were a darn
beautiful woman.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Well, thank you the fair class.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
You know you're not so bad yourself.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Since you well, since you stopped scowling and snapping, I
guess that's a compliment, George, isn't about time when you
stopped playing each other?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That's what I've always wanted, Mark, so have I will you?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
You've changed so much recently, we changed, you know, you've
when you've been less irritable and more considerate and so
much more vital.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Oh you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I sound afraid I do, George.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yeah, Look, let's have dinner and some wine and spend
a nice evening.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Together like what you do and when we were first married.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
That sounds wine always small?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Has?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
What time names?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Seven thirty one?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Well, listen, I have to run down the corner for
some tobacco. I wouldn't want to spend a relaxing evening
without tobacco, you know.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
But there's seven you're holding?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well, I watch something fresh you chiber wine? I won't
be a minute, All right, dear, hurry back.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I'd forgotten all about my date with Jerry. Actually I
didn't want to keep it.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
The idea of spending a quiet evening with Marge was
really appealing for a change, but.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I had to run over and explain to Jerry.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
So I sent George Prime in to keep Marge company
until I got back, which was about midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
As I walked down the path, I looked in the window.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
George Prime was there, and he was kissing my wife
the way I hadn't kissed her in years, and she
wasn't exactly fighting him off either.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I almost wore off my thumb on that recall button
before he came out to the garage.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You there, George, it's me GP. What's upout time? I'm sorry,
old man.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Sorry, Look I saw what was going on in there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, you know, being I am.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
A super Delux's model, I should say you are the
first thing. Tomorrow, big boy, I'm taking you in to
have your circuits rewired. Look aren't you being a little
overly jealous?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, I mean, for a man who wanted to get
rid of his wife.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I never said that.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Oh, I could never understand, and that personally I.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Listen, she's the one who's going to be suspicious if
I don't get back there.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Now you can meet that dressing gown. You get back
to that box.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Tomorrow morning, back to the factory. Marge was waiting for
me and one of those flimsy things that I'd given
her when we were first married.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I must say, she looks so charming and lovely that
my heart just murmured. And so I was overwhelm with
a sense.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Of guilt, and I wanted to tell her what i'd done.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
You finally got back. I thought you'd never get here.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Oh are you you look rather?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's the idea, Margie. Listen, I've got to tell you something,
and before I do, I want you to know that,
in spite of the cat I've been I do love you.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I always have.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
And you don't have to tell me anything.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Oh this is important and it'll shock you. In fact,
you may never speak to me.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
I know what you're going to tell me. You mean
about George Pride, great Scotch. You knew and of course George.
Now you don't think I could be fooled by something
out of the lab, do you? You've known all along,
all along all March. Then tomorrow morning we'll send that
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stuff down me back to the factory, and then we'll
live the way we've always wanted.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Oh, yes, dearest, the way we've always wonded.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I just don't know where.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
If it did, then why not begin by just kissing me?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I kissed her tenderly, and her lips were softer and
more responsive than I've never known her.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Yes, she'd certainly changed. I turned out the lamb. I
ran my fingers through her frankmin tawny hair. My thumb
stopped at a little depression behind her ear, and then
suddenly I knew what had happened. It was a turn
off switch, of course, and I George Faircloth was now
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married to Marge.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Prime Fred Collins again, And I'll have another word about
X minus one in a moment. But first, if that's
(19:39):
the game you're missing, because I'm a mean cold, here's
something you should know.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Every second someone takes.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
X minus one has brought you Prime Difference, written by
Alan E. Norse and adapted for radio by George Lepards.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Featured in our cast were lost in.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Serbias, George and George Prime and Lauren as Marge Evelyn
Juster as Jerry Merrill Jowels as the salesman, and John
Thomas as Harriet business Bred Collins X minus one was
directed by George Utsans and is an NBC radiometric production.
(20:25):
We pause now for station identification. We pause now for
station identification.
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