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Speaker 1: School of Humans.

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Speaker 2: This podcast is based on the true story of explorer, inventor, visionary,

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Speaker 2: and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,

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Speaker 2: and characters have been altered for dramatic purposes. Consider using

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Speaker 2: headphones to enhance your listening experience. We've created an immersive

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Speaker 2: soundscape to tell our story.

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Speaker 3: Betty, yes, MISSI stick.

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Speaker 1: Did the call go through? Thank you, Betty?

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Speaker 4: Lucky Tom?

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Speaker 1: Who are you trying to kill?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Dallas?

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Speaker 4: So I don't get a thank you?

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Speaker 5: Well, if you're funding the Yetti hunt, then yes, you

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Speaker 5: got a big thank you. Otherwise, no, that check you

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Speaker 5: sent me for twenty thousand, it's just another ploy.

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Speaker 4: Don't pretend you don't like blay in the.

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Speaker 5: Hero I like to think I dabble running institutes advancing

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Speaker 5: science and innovation.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess that's its own kind of hero.

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Speaker 4: Oh so, now being a hero isn't enough. You have

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Speaker 4: to play god?

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Speaker 1: What do you want?

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Speaker 4: The US has a bad case of the Kamis. There's

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Speaker 4: an asset we've had our eye on that China wants

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Speaker 4: to exterminate. We need to get to it before they do.

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Speaker 5: Dulles, There's only one thing I'm going to trek through

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Speaker 5: those Himalayas for well, what if.

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Speaker 4: I said that what I'm after could help you find

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Speaker 4: your Yetni?

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Speaker 1: What's the mission?

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Speaker 4: Operation yellow Hat?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, see that's not a good name for an operation.

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Speaker 1: All right, that must have been yours? Okay, who's the asset?

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Speaker 4: Are you recording this?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 8: Heyppish, Hey you?

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Speaker 1: And if I don't.

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Speaker 9: What the hell?

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Speaker 5: Google?

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Speaker 10: What is Operation yellow Hat?

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Speaker 8: Google?

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't quite get that.

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Speaker 10: Google, Operation yellow Hat, CIA mission Himalayas.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I don't have access to classified.

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Speaker 4: Information classifying information.

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Speaker 7: Oh, therefore I cannot provide any further information on Operation

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Speaker 7: yellow Hat?

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Speaker 1: Oh shit?

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Speaker 4: Would you like me.

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Speaker 11: To play yellow my cold play? No?

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Speaker 9: Off?

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Speaker 4: Google Off?

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Speaker 10: Okay, Hey Blair, you're probably asleep, so don't respond to

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Speaker 10: this until you're awake and fully caffeinated.

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Speaker 2: Ah, you're not gonna lave this.

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Speaker 10: I just found something even stranger on these tapes than

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Speaker 10: the Yettie hunt. Granddad's expedition may have been a cover

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Speaker 10: for something big. I wanted to give you the heads

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Speaker 10: up because if it is a cover for some government

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Speaker 10: covert mission, nothing, I mean nothing, not even that tape

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Speaker 10: you found can be leaked.

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Speaker 3: Okay, bye, there's nothing like bubbles for breakfast a glass, mister.

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Speaker 5: Slick, thank you, your highness, but I'm actually still a

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Speaker 5: little buzz from my exchange with your guards at the hotel.

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Speaker 1: Please call me Maharaja.

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Speaker 6: It's specific.

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Speaker 1: Well, if we're getting specific, why am I here?

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Speaker 6: Well, your reputation precedes you, mister Slick, which is why

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Speaker 6: my Tibetan guards were that aggressive. Yeah, your hunt threatens

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Speaker 6: a creature. Their culture revers my roger.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I'm not hunting the YETI to kill it. I'm

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Speaker 1: a man of science.

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Speaker 6: But those in your rank don't believe what they can see.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, some don't, but I'm not one of them.

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Speaker 5: Science is about exploring the unknown.

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Speaker 6: So what do you know about the elusive Yetti.

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Speaker 5: It's a large bipedal primate like creature. It walks upright

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Speaker 5: like a human, but its arms hang down to its

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Speaker 5: but its body is covered in long, matted hair, and

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Speaker 5: its tracks are roughly twelve inches long by six inches wide.

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Speaker 5: So he's a big boy, and he stinks.

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Speaker 1: Announces his arrival with the stench of decay.

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Speaker 6: Descriptive. What do you want with it?

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Speaker 5: I believe the Yeti is the missing link between Homo

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Speaker 5: sapiens and primates.

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Speaker 6: To track the Yeti is an expedition of life and death.

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Speaker 6: Mister Slick, you need more than science to drive you.

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Speaker 6: Remember that yety is not just human. It's a beast

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Speaker 6: whose name means all, devouring, demon, fascinating.

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Speaker 5: Keep going.

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Speaker 6: There's been a lore of its precision in the art

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Speaker 6: of the kill, its ability to hypnotize what one look

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Speaker 6: phraising its victims so it can.

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Speaker 2: Strike and more.

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Speaker 1: This is great.

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Speaker 6: Keep going, and it's scream Oh ear shuttering like a

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Speaker 6: tip of a carving knife piercing the ear drum.

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Speaker 9: Oh.

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Speaker 12: Ouch.

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Speaker 6: Yes, there have been footprints, tufts of hair droppings, the

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Speaker 6: sacrifices of skinned animals found outside monasteries, but that's it.

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Speaker 6: No one has been able to find the Yetty. It's

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Speaker 6: some mystery that does not want to be solved.

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Speaker 12: Perfect.

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Speaker 5: That's why I'm here, mister Slick.

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Speaker 6: It's a parent. You won't be deterred. I know another

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Speaker 6: man with the same fortitude. He's been on the Yettis

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Speaker 6: trail before and survived it. Do I know him, No,

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Speaker 6: But he knows.

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Speaker 11: You Chapter four. This is the mostly true tale of

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Speaker 11: Tom Slick, mystery hunter.

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Speaker 5: Tom Slick, September twelfth, nineteen fifty seven. I stand here

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Speaker 5: on the bank of the Holy River Ganges, among India's

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Speaker 5: burning dead, the smoke carrying their souls from lifeless bodies

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Speaker 5: to a god they believe will grant them another season

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Speaker 5: around the sun. This infernal Shangri La is where I

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Speaker 5: was told to meet the man as focused in his

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Speaker 5: pursuit of the Yetti.

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Speaker 1: As I am. That's your cue, Go ahead, introduce yourself.

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Speaker 9: I don't trust that thing.

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Speaker 1: I'll be using it throughout the expedition.

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Speaker 9: So it'll know me as Bud. But just Bud.

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Speaker 1: Fine, we will know you as just Bud. What theatrics

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Speaker 1: for a burial?

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Speaker 5: The suffocating smoke, the strings of blood, orange marigolds, the

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Speaker 5: stench of burning flesh, and at my feet the charred

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Speaker 5: carcass of Bud's last trekking companion.

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Speaker 9: His name was Sing. It meant lion, and like an

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Speaker 9: ironic shit sandwich, he was maimed by one.

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Speaker 1: That is grim.

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Speaker 9: I dragged his corpse down the mountains so his soul

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Speaker 9: could meet his maker on.

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Speaker 1: Holy lamb A goodbye sing.

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Speaker 9: I've hunted beasts all over the world and come face

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Speaker 9: to face with some who could spit my scull into

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Speaker 9: with the flick of their pinky. Used to thrill me

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Speaker 9: those moments where I could smell death's breath.

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Speaker 5: And if I'm understanding you correctly, the thrill is gone.

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Speaker 9: Now it's the animal no one has caught, and very

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Speaker 9: few of scenes seduces me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I get it.

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Speaker 5: I share the same obsession I know.

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Speaker 9: Tenzing Norgay told.

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Speaker 1: Me, oh yeah, the sherpa who summoned.

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Speaker 9: Everest indeed Edmund Hillary's right hand man. They have their

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Speaker 9: sights set on a Yeti hunt, but they've told me

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Speaker 9: the billionaire Texan might get to it first.

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Speaker 4: Me. Well, yeah, if.

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Speaker 9: I there, really, the Yetty is more to me than

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Speaker 9: a trophy. Its mythical story carried me through the bloody

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Speaker 9: bowels of war, the perilous carnage of hunts, and other

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Speaker 9: lethal expeditions where I nearly died.

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Speaker 5: I picked up on there that didn't.

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Speaker 9: You can't die when you haven't found what you're living for.

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Speaker 1: Now you can say that again. You know your obsession

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Speaker 1: actually might run deeper than mine.

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Speaker 9: Bud, not when you see what I've got.

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Speaker 5: Sorry.

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Speaker 10: I tried to be quiet, but you don't know how coffee.

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Speaker 10: I prefer a nitro colbrew ivy.

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Speaker 1: But sure, Halle, did you stay up?

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Speaker 10: I fell asleep during one of the tapes. I think

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Speaker 10: it's the one where Granddad meets this guy Bud, who

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Speaker 10: I think ended up leading the expedition in the Himalayas

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Speaker 10: with him YETI hat. Well, yeah, but now it looks

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Speaker 10: like the yetti was actually a cover up for some

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Speaker 10: covert CIA mission called Operation Yellow Hat.

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Speaker 7: I think I need at least a pot of coffee

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Speaker 7: before we unpack any of that.

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Speaker 10: I'm right there with you here, I'll stick another tape.

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Speaker 12: Inn.

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Speaker 10: It's just a.

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Speaker 1: Photograph, Bud, it's proof. No let me see it.

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Speaker 9: Don't touch it or I'll or you what.

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Speaker 1: You'll cut me with a butter knife. Come on, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: I won't smudget.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Is that a gnarled hand in the photo? Or it's

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Speaker 1: a yetti paw?

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean it could technically be a hairy hand. Okay,

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Speaker 5: we haven't deducted the percentage of Homo sapien and the

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Speaker 5: Yeties makeup yet.

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Speaker 9: Blah blah. Whatever it is, it's proof.

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Speaker 5: Blah blah, you, okay, where did you find it?

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Speaker 9: Encased in glass in the sanctuary of the Pangbochet monastery.

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Speaker 9: Where's that the entrails of the Himalayas. The monks in

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Speaker 9: the monastery believe this Paul brings luck, so I wasn't

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Speaker 9: allowed to touch it, But they were so confused by my camera,

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Speaker 9: calling the flash a sign from God that I stole

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Speaker 5: And here it is, and here we are.

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Speaker 9: You ready to hunt this thing down and turn our

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Speaker 4: Why am i?

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Speaker 5: My father used to tell me a coward dies a

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Speaker 5: thousand deaths, brave man only one, and he lived by

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Speaker 5: that motto, which made him a legend. His legend kind

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Speaker 5: of haunts me just as much as the man of

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Speaker 1: You know, my father told me about the Yetti.

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Speaker 5: He was mesmerized by it. Like the Maharaja. He thought

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Speaker 5: it was a mystery that could never be solved. So no,

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Speaker 5: as a man of science, I will not hunt down

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Speaker 5: some fantasy, but I will expose one of the greatest

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Speaker 5: mysteries of our time.

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Speaker 9: Does that mean you want to do this?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: You didn't get that Yeah, long winded, slick. No, I'm articulate,

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Speaker 1: I'm vivid. Yeah, there's a difference. Come in.

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Speaker 11: The society and drumkissistic?

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Speaker 6: What do you want stuff calling?

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Speaker 1: Did you tell him I'm not here?

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Speaker 9: He seems to know that's not true. Well, I'll leave

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Speaker 9: you to it, Slick, I got the goods team, permits, maps,

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Speaker 9: if you got.

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Speaker 1: The cash, let's do this.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll be here tomorrow to start planning. Five am shop.

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Speaker 9: I expect breakfast and a real knife, noted.

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Speaker 4: Bitty.

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Speaker 1: Is he still on the line.

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Speaker 4: No, he left a message this time.

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Speaker 1: What do you say?

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Speaker 9: All he said was are you feeling lucky?

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Speaker 4: And I said yes, I'm always lucky.

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Speaker 7: Ah, are you feeling lucky?

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Speaker 1: The code from Dulles? This is the Operation Yellow Hat thing.

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Speaker 2: I was telling you about.

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Speaker 7: You know, when he was alive, Dad never talked about

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Speaker 10: Well, maybe it's because ultimately it became some cover for

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Speaker 10: It sounds like he believes the Yetti stuff.

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Speaker 1: So you still think it's fake? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Do you?

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Speaker 7: I mean, who knows what to believe anymore?

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Speaker 10: Who you believe in the YEDDI.

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Speaker 7: I don't know, liv I want to believe why.

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Speaker 1: Because they add it. Tom Slick February fourth, nineteen fifty eight.

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Speaker 1: Our hunt for the elusive Yetti begins.

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Speaker 9: Still don't get why we needed the dogs.

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Speaker 1: Oh he's catching a cent Bud.

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Speaker 9: That mongrel better get after it. He ate my damn

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Speaker 9: breakfast this morning. I almost shot him, but I'm saving

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Speaker 5: You know you got a funny sense of humor, Bud,

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Speaker 5: who said I had a.

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Speaker 1: Sense of humor.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna go up ahead with the hound to see

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Speaker 9: if he's a waste of money.

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Speaker 5: My money. So I brought in the new year here

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Speaker 5: in the snowy bosom of the Himalayas, known to my

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Speaker 5: team of Sherpas as the Mother of the world, who,

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Speaker 5: from her great height, keeps an eye on all. We're

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Speaker 5: almost five weeks in on an expedition that took over

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Speaker 5: three months to assemble. They're twenty eight of us, but

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Speaker 5: we've been split into teams, all hitting various coordinates of

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Speaker 5: known as the Yetties Stomping Ground. The Sherpists say it's

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Speaker 5: a sacred path where mysticism blooms. I don't know what

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Speaker 5: that means, but I want to find.

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Speaker 12: Out, mister tom I said, the coordinates left a marker

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Speaker 1: So the walk he's working out here?

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Speaker 12: Oh, yes, we are not alone, Dawa.

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Speaker 5: I know you're working for Dallas, but this is not

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Speaker 5: just his mission, mister Tom.

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Speaker 12: I grew up with the law of the Yeti, and

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Speaker 12: I know how you seek it. The world needs to

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Speaker 12: bear witness to the Yeti's magic to understand their own

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Speaker 4: Do I get it?

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Speaker 1: The Yeti? It's holy to you and it's the missing

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Speaker 1: link to me. But I do believe both those things

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Speaker 1: will inform humanity more about itself.

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Speaker 5: Over, dang it, He's only supposed to communicate with you, Dawa,

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Speaker 5: so the rest of the team won't catch on.

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Speaker 12: You want me to tell him you're not here? You

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Speaker 12: aren't that lucky, Tommy, I know you're there.

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Speaker 1: Over, How does he always know?

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Speaker 5: Tom Dulles, you told me it only communicate with Dawa. Now, look,

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Speaker 5: if others know about your operation, both missions suffer, Tommy.

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Speaker 4: The reds are moving in it three weeks.

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Speaker 11: They could have hands on our target.

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Speaker 7: The escape party is crime the coordinate your setting will

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Speaker 7: be their only way out.

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Speaker 1: Donald, what is that?

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Speaker 2: What are we hearing?

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Speaker 12: Tonnie?

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Speaker 4: I didn't finish what I was saying. I didn't get

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Speaker 1: Over over, copy dullas, gotta.

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Speaker 5: Go over Tommy, Tom Slick February fourth continued.

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Speaker 1: The team's up ahead.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like they found something. We don't have trap set

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Speaker 5: and the tranquilizer guns with the other team, so if

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Speaker 5: they have eyes on the yetti, we're gonna have to

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Speaker 5: wing it.

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Speaker 1: My god, look at that spot. What's going on?

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Speaker 9: You don't smell that?

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Speaker 4: Ah?

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Speaker 11: Oh to your lord?

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Speaker 9: What an animal pushed out a glorious morning shit when

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Speaker 9: I've been stopped up for the past four days.

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Speaker 5: Let me take off my pack and get a better look.

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Speaker 5: How do we know this is YETI scap.

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Speaker 9: You don't see the hoft digested rat in that?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: That yet?

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Speaker 5: You must have been constantly hammy gloves and sample bags.

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Speaker 5: They're in the front pocket of my pack.

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Speaker 9: I've hunted big game hole over the world and I've

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Speaker 9: never seen.

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Speaker 1: Anything like that.

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Speaker 5: The smell, it's dang definitely a carnivore.

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Speaker 1: Looks like some parasitic eggsack. Dawa opened the bag for me.

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Speaker 12: Mister Tumman, did you see this?

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Speaker 9: It was onto your pack?

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Speaker 1: Oh my God, Holy holy, I'll.

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Speaker 12: Never missed this.

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Speaker 5: This footprint must be around thirteen inches long five inches wide.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I knew it.

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Speaker 11: It's a bipedal.

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Speaker 1: What a what walks on two feet not four like

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Speaker 1: a human?

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Speaker 9: No claw marks either.

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Speaker 2: We gotta get a cast.

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Speaker 5: To this team set up camp down the hill, but

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Speaker 5: DAWA will secure this as a research site. What was

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Speaker 5: that what?

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear anything, tom Tom You didn't hear that?

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Speaker 9: No, Tom, Tommy over, you're groin it's talking.

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Speaker 4: H What are you up to?

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Speaker 6: Sick?

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Speaker 1: Can't say, Tommy, I know you're there.

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Speaker 4: Over.

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Speaker 1: I don't do bullshit.

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Speaker 9: If you're not gonna be truthful with me, I don't

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Speaker 9: want any parts of this hunt.

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Speaker 3: If you do not pick up now, I will consider

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Speaker 3: that a violation against Operation Yellow Hack, which has been

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Speaker 3: facilitated by the US government.

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Speaker 1: This holds the penalty of a decade behind.

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Speaker 5: Harve me right, answer.

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Speaker 1: It possibly a life.

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Speaker 5: Come on, pick up and I'll wipe out all your

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Speaker 5: any trace of your legacy. Slick here over.

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Speaker 12: Finally, Lah, mister Tom, he has a gun.

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Speaker 1: Whoa, But it's me Slick, And if.

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Speaker 9: You don't stop telling me what's going on, I'll pull trigger.

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Speaker 1: Okay, easy, Easy, I told you I don't.

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Speaker 9: Have a sense of humor.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know ours.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna need a move.

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Speaker 1: Flick now over what target I told you?

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Speaker 5: I can't say, mister Tom tell him now when I

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Speaker 5: tell you this, but you're gonna need to forget it immediately.

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Speaker 5: Believe me when I tell you I have more inconspicuous

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Speaker 9: Well that woke me up.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, how did the tape just cut out? There

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Speaker 1: better be more to this one.

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Speaker 7: There has to be, you know there there are only

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Speaker 7: four more tapes in here.

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Speaker 10: Let me get this Blair, What did you do?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 4: I found more tapes?

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Speaker 11: Yay, Tom Slick. Mystery Hunter is a production of School

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Speaker 11: of Humans and iHeart pod Casts, starring Owen Wilson as

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Speaker 11: Tom Slick, Sissy Spasick as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick.

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Speaker 11: Written and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart,

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Speaker 11: Executive produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasic, Skyler Fiske, Jeb Stewart,

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Speaker 11: Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, l C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and

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Speaker 11: Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,

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Speaker 11: sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger, Casting by

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Speaker 11: Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter, sag coordination by Daisy Church

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Speaker 11: and Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catel. Special

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Speaker 11: thanks to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang

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Speaker 8: Episode four, cast Ian Shaw as Bud, Dave Willis as

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Speaker 8: Alan Dulles, Cameron Shaikh as the Maharaja, Vince Canless as Dawa,

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Speaker 8: Neil Reddy as Biddy, Julia Chris Gal as the Google

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Speaker 8: Voice Assistant, Mike Shotts as the Voice of God, and

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Speaker 8: the introductory voiceover with additional roles voiced by David Devrees,

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Speaker 8: Michael Mao and Phil Clark. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is

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