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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: Oh we're gonna die.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna die.

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Speaker 5: Come on, you're an oss man. Dullas what you've never looked?

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Speaker 5: Guests wearing the eye I try to avert my case,

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Speaker 5: and you're lucky.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no, I don't believe in luck. I believe

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Speaker 6: in survival.

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Speaker 4: Hey lang fella, Uh wake up?

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Speaker 6: Come on, man, I'm checking you right.

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Speaker 7: In the ribs.

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Speaker 8: Oh he's how cool?

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Speaker 4: God damn it, Slick.

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Speaker 6: Why'd you have to hit him?

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Speaker 4: Because I'm a Nazi hunter.

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Speaker 9: That's wine.

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Speaker 1: Mom, You expect me to listen to this without wine? Hurry? Shoot,

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Speaker 1: this wants the screw cap. Did you see the wine opener?

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Speaker 10: Don't tell me.

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Speaker 2: It's in one of these boxes.

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Speaker 6: Oh, it's in one of these boxes.

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Speaker 1: Sorry. So if dad's flying the plant, well no, he

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Speaker 1: doesn't know how to fly.

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Speaker 11: Oh right, but I mean, yeah, he is flying it.

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Speaker 7: And they're still headed for the Panama Canal. From what

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Speaker 7: Granddad said, all they can see is water.

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Speaker 9: So I'm guessing they're somewhere over the.

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Speaker 1: Pacific with a ticking time bomb lane just set up and.

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Speaker 2: The flying torpedo doodle thing attached.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they get out of this one. Okay, Mom,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to listen to this if it's too much.

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Speaker 1: These are my father's untold stories. I am listening, okay

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Speaker 1: about nut I don't thank God?

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Speaker 12: Why not?

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Speaker 1: Its helps with the nerves.

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Speaker 13: Okay, I'm present play.

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Speaker 9: Yes, knew this.

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Speaker 4: Red button did something.

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Speaker 6: Well that will come right up.

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Speaker 4: There we go.

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Speaker 14: That dead Dodo got dump.

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Speaker 10: But we still have an issue.

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Speaker 6: Your chatty friend Lang, if you disarm this bomb, I

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Speaker 6: will protect you. I can't protect you.

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Speaker 7: You're idiot.

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Speaker 1: You have killed Abatsi and Pedica.

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Speaker 8: Even if you lends this thing is stick me in

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Speaker 8: some visits.

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Speaker 9: They will hand me down.

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Speaker 1: Then they will torture me, and they will watch as

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Speaker 1: I suffer an excruciating death.

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Speaker 13: What is that to live for?

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Speaker 11: Listen to me.

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Speaker 3: The United States government will take care of you.

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Speaker 4: An Operation Pelican good name.

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Speaker 6: By the way, top top top you know when I

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Speaker 6: was lying back there, right, Oh, come on.

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Speaker 4: Just run it by Rose. Well you guys are all friends.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, war criminals don't generally make a great impression.

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Speaker 5: Look, Lang has intel on the heavyweights behind this operation,

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Speaker 5: and let's not forget.

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Speaker 4: That our lives are in his hands.

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Speaker 5: This is timmy No, give me your knife, dolls and

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Speaker 5: take the wheel, the wheel.

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Speaker 6: No, look, just keep her steady. No, no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 4: If you make any sudden movements, there's.

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Speaker 10: A chowder box here will detonate and we're fish food. God,

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Speaker 10: this cloak and dagger.

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Speaker 6: Shit, why didn't I just become a congressman?

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Speaker 10: Hey, Lang, quick question, ayesholder.

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Speaker 4: What's your favorite color? If you look like a blue guy?

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Speaker 9: Exuse me?

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Speaker 4: No, no, wrong game. Let me explain the rules.

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Speaker 5: So we have a bomb here, and from what I see,

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Speaker 5: there are about three, no four, different color wires making

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Speaker 5: this thing tick. If I cut one of these wires,

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Speaker 10: Shut off the bomb.

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Speaker 9: Of lost pieces.

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Speaker 4: And that's how you play roulette.

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Speaker 6: All right, Lang, listen to me. I have a lot

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Speaker 6: of power in my country. Shu, Yeah, I mean, people

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Speaker 6: don't hail me or anything but sure. Yeah, look, your

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Speaker 6: mission was subverted by US Americans. You're a trader now.

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Speaker 6: But if you're dead, there's no one around to protect

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Speaker 6: your family.

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Speaker 10: I have no wife, I have not too good.

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Speaker 4: That's kind of sad.

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Speaker 6: What about a mother.

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Speaker 13: You gotta have a mother, a sex.

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Speaker 4: I know sh'll be snatched. It just mutilated by the

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Speaker 4: men you call comrades. Oh nine.

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Speaker 6: Now keep in mind those are the same men who

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Speaker 6: killed your true love wilburt or hydri nine, Fritz nine.

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Speaker 11: That's why oss bitch, dominique, shit, shit shit, Dallas holder steady.

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Speaker 6: Uh, it's a great seconds of TV explodes, dulls.

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Speaker 4: What's your type?

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Speaker 8: Wonsreprenets Now, Dallas, listen to me, all right, all right?

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Speaker 4: Yellow wire or brown wire?

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I'm married to burnette, but I have

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Speaker 6: a thing for red heads.

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Speaker 4: Red wire it is. Yeah, I prefer blondes too.

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Speaker 14: Bron roan.

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Speaker 9: God's the roan wire.

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Speaker 4: What if I told you I just cut the red one.

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Speaker 4: I was telling the truth. Cut the brown one more?

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Speaker 9: Is he? Oh? No? My number one kid?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 5: See Dallas, Now this is a man staring death right

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Speaker 5: in the eye.

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Speaker 6: Slick cut the brown wire.

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Speaker 5: Now, oh, God, you believe in luck now, dulles, No,

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Speaker 5: You're just one lucky bastard.

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Speaker 1: Chapter three.

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Speaker 8: This is the mostly true tale of Tom Slick, mystery hunter.

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Speaker 1: God that a but blood pressure checked after that.

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Speaker 7: So if Granddad doesn't know how to fly, how do

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Speaker 7: they land?

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Speaker 1: Google? Look up Slick Airways. Dad couldn't fly then, but

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Speaker 1: he learned.

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Speaker 12: Slick Airways was established in nineteen forty six by Tom and.

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Speaker 1: Earl Slick, daddish brother. Yeah, I got that.

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Speaker 12: They used the surplus of Curtis C forty six airplanes

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Speaker 12: from World War II, and by nineteen fifty one it

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Speaker 12: was the largest all cargo airline in the United States.

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Speaker 11: So they started their airline five years after Granddad and

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Speaker 11: Dallas took down that Nazi plane.

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Speaker 12: And they operated until nineteen sixty six. For a period

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Speaker 12: of time Slick Airways was shut down. It is alleged

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Speaker 12: that that time the planes were being used for covert

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Speaker 12: missions organized by the US government.

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Speaker 1: So the CIA was her big client guest Dad and

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Speaker 1: pressed dollars with his landing. I knew you knew more

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Speaker 1: than you were letting on.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what happened to the Nazi lang?

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Speaker 1: Now that I don't know.

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Speaker 9: I guess that's the point.

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Speaker 11: I mean, the CIA did hide Nazis post war and

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Speaker 11: then use them as spies in the Cold War.

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Speaker 1: Right, let's blame dulls for that.

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Speaker 9: Okay, you pick one?

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Speaker 7: Oh got one?

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Speaker 5: Tom Slick August twenty sixth, nineteen fifty seven. I'm on

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Speaker 5: a little stopover in London with my birthday gift here

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Speaker 5: strapped to my back. I'll be recording everything.

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Speaker 8: WHOA, alright, you drive on the right side.

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Speaker 4: I won't have to.

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Speaker 3: These are the times I remember why tell us aptly

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Speaker 3: nickname me Lucky Tom after our little rendezvous with death

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Speaker 3: over the Pacific nearly what sixteen years ago? Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: what he didn't know is that name belongs to my father,

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Speaker 3: Tom Slick Senior. Just like the dream that now has

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Speaker 3: me traveling to the other side of the world. But

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Speaker 3: now I have to contend with uh, the insufferably civilized Brits.

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Speaker 7: There's none of that.

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Speaker 1: Whatever that is in the Getick Club.

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Speaker 10: That is the future. I'm recording this conversation as we speak, Sir,

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Speaker 10: h members value of that privacy.

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Speaker 13: Hold on there, Johnson. This is my good friend Tom Slick.

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Speaker 4: He's here to see me.

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Speaker 10: Jimmy Stewart. It is good to have friends who are movies.

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Speaker 1: Mister Stewart's I was just tending the gentleman about the.

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Speaker 13: Rules, now, John Soon, No, Tom is no gentleman. He

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Speaker 13: plays by his own set of rules.

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Speaker 5: Jimmy, come on, don't pretend you're not a savage.

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Speaker 10: Oh savage?

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Speaker 9: Wait?

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Speaker 1: Is that like Jimmy Stewart.

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Speaker 8: Jimmy Stewart, like the actor from the Christmas Movie is

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Speaker 8: a wonderful lie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and rear Window and Harvey and Verdigo. And he

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Speaker 1: was friends with Granddad. Oh, dad got around.

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Speaker 7: He got mixed up with the Hollywood crowd and was

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Speaker 7: popular because he talked about his inventions.

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Speaker 1: His experiments, and his adventures, not studio gossip.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He and Howard Hughes really hit it off.

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Speaker 11: The guy Leonardo DiCaprio have played in The Aviator.

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Speaker 1: Jesus, if anyone ever makes a movie about that, I

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Speaker 1: hope people don't define his life by the heck that

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Speaker 1: plays him.

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Speaker 13: Oh gosh, well you here. Howard Hughes is at it again.

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Speaker 13: He's a dreamer, tried to up end history by building

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Speaker 13: a flying boat.

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Speaker 10: It's just a prototype.

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Speaker 13: Well he's calling it the Hercules.

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Speaker 10: Well, He's nothing if not subtle.

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Speaker 4: Right, you know Howard and I are.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're pals obviously, but he tries so hard

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Speaker 13: I think he just wants to change the world. Yeah,

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Speaker 13: in his own unique way.

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Speaker 5: And what if you were to change the world in

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Speaker 5: some way but no one knew it was you, would

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Speaker 5: that make it any less significant?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 13: No, Tom, I'm a movie star with the mercy of

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Speaker 13: public consumption.

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Speaker 4: And I like it.

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Speaker 13: Your second Scotch, Yeah, I always got free drinks. Yeah,

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Speaker 13: So tell me what brings you to London.

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Speaker 10: I am on my way to India.

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Speaker 13: What a country? Well, Glory and I tagged along on

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Speaker 13: a tiger hunting expedition over there.

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Speaker 10: It's kind of a shame to take down a tiger,

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Speaker 10: isn't it?

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Speaker 13: Oh, your old sap. I'm America's sweetheart. I don't kill

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Speaker 13: anything unless I play to eat it with big game.

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Speaker 10: How do you catch the animal without harming it?

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Speaker 13: Well, you stun it. Our guide told us about a

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Speaker 13: tranquilizer gun that was used on a behemoth lion in

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Speaker 13: Africa that the Bronx Zoo had its eye on. Uh huh, Now,

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Speaker 13: potent sedative was used. The lion was knocked out the

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Speaker 13: entire journey back. Now it's like me up for public consumption.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, where's that gun now?

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Speaker 13: Most likely New York. Now it's got to cost a

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Speaker 13: pretty penny.

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Speaker 10: Why asking, Well, I'm preparing for a hunt in India.

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Speaker 10: What are you tracking the yetti?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 13: Tom, Now, don't you go trying to beat Hughes's bizarre pursuits.

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Speaker 13: You're a scientist and he's arguably insane.

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Speaker 5: Look, thank you, but everything's under control at home, and

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Speaker 10: So I have this time where.

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Speaker 13: I come on, Tom, the Yetti. This whole cryptozoology thing

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Speaker 5: In nineteen ten, there was the Komodo dragon. In nineteen

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Speaker 5: That discovery established the creature's place in zoology.

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Speaker 10: That's no punchline, Jimmy, that is science.

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Speaker 13: Oh, there's no yetti. There's been a handful of expeditions

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Speaker 10: It weren't led by me.

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Speaker 13: Johnson, sir, we're gonna need a couple more drinks. Yeah,

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Speaker 13: make mine a double.

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Speaker 10: Yes, indeed, sir, nothing for me, Thanks.

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Speaker 13: Fine, Tom, Let's say this YETI is real. What are

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Speaker 13: you gonna do when you spend a million dollars on

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Speaker 4: You got?

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Speaker 13: You got frozen toes. You're out in the in the

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Speaker 10: I'll keep looking.

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Speaker 13: Uh huh oh, I don't think it's a good idea.

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Speaker 5: Well I didn't think it's a wonderful life was a

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Speaker 13: Uh touchet.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's Blair again.

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Speaker 1: I have to get this. I'm exhausted. Anyway, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: Be sure you don't want to get through the tape

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Speaker 2: of me tonight.

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Speaker 1: You'll fill me in tomorrow. But if you're staying up,

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Speaker 13: Okay, good night, Blair.

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Speaker 14: I know, I know. I don't do calls. So yes,

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Speaker 5: To kill me.

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Speaker 2: What did you do, Blair?

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Speaker 1: What happened.

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Speaker 14: I kind of sort of released a statement that the

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Speaker 13: But there's just one tape.

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Speaker 14: You said you found more. Have you listened to them all?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 9: Granddad mentions the YETI.

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Speaker 11: But don't you think if you'd found something on that

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Speaker 14: You still have a whole box of tapes to listen to.

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Speaker 14: So what's the harmun finding out?

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Speaker 2: Baiting the press with fake news live?

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Speaker 14: This could be big okay donor money, big Texas monthly

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Speaker 14: than New York Times, a freaking podcast. They're all coming.

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Speaker 13: How many people did you reach out to?

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Speaker 14: TikTok oh?

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Speaker 12: My?

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Speaker 11: Take everything about the YETI off social media and just

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Speaker 11: give me a minute.

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Speaker 14: You have twenty hours until your speech at an event

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Speaker 14: dedicated to your legendary grandfather, which opens an exhibit that

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Speaker 14: will hopefully fund another year of science. So basically, you're

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Speaker 14: saving lives, no pressure. Thanks, text me when you figured

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Speaker 14: it out. I have hives from this column.

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Speaker 8: Uh well, fuck.

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Speaker 5: Tom Slick September seventh, nineteen fifty seven. I made it

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Speaker 5: to India. Good god, it's a feast of sound culture

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Speaker 10: Cow manure makes you feel alive.

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Speaker 4: Who careful? That nearly ended me? Maybe I am one

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Speaker 4: lucky Tom. You have a beautiful day too, sir.

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Speaker 10: Lovely people the assault with a smile.

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Speaker 8: It's nice, mister Thomas Snick, Good day, sir.

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Speaker 7: You ever call here, may assist you in holding the receiver.

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Speaker 4: It no, thank you, I'll take it from here.

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Speaker 14: Oh night, mister slick.

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Speaker 4: Mabel, Mabel is that you?

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Speaker 15: You know me always bumped you on, mister Slick, So

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Speaker 9: You spoke to Betty the kids. You know Claire lost

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Speaker 15: Oh, you're taking the vitamins out, putting your suit case right,

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Speaker 15: and you're not drinking the water.

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Speaker 9: Please tell me you are not drinking that water.

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Speaker 4: All of the above, Mabel. Good and thanks for the

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Speaker 9: Okay, so couverle updates. I got my hands on that

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Speaker 9: tranquil as a gun. Here's a beast.

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Speaker 15: It's being shipped to Texas and your brother will stick

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Speaker 15: it on the cargo plane with the dogs.

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Speaker 4: The bloodhounds.

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Speaker 9: Yes they are huge, mister slick and the poops.

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Speaker 15: Well, come Christmas time, I hope my bonus looks as

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Speaker 9: Oh, they can't with snow booties. No frumps, wait, footie.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's all falling into place. Mabel, whoa what now?

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Speaker 9: I've been going over the numbers with the accounting.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, you have fifteen thousand in your personal account to

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Speaker 4: That sounds reasonable.

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Speaker 15: You won't have a team, poor dogs, or any chance

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Speaker 4: So this whole thing is gonna cost me thirty thousand.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I don't want to take any money out

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Speaker 3: of my institutes.

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Speaker 9: Well that's the thing.

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Speaker 10: Uh huh.

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Speaker 9: A check came in the mail, now, thought brother?

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Speaker 5: I thought, hello, Maybel you there, Maybel, I can't hear you.

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Speaker 4: Can you hear me, Mabel? What did you say about

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Speaker 9: Halfway around the world. Of course you can't hear me.

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Speaker 4: I can hear you. Now, what were you saying?

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Speaker 15: I said, you do have thirty thousand to put towards

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Speaker 15: this thing.

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Speaker 9: It's just not all yours.

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Speaker 4: I'm not following. You're being mysterious Mabel.

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Speaker 9: Oh God. A check came in the mail three days ago.

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Speaker 15: Now there was a note that said something like, I

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Speaker 9: Here is what you'll need to complete what you've started.

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Speaker 9: And there was a check for fifteen thousand for twenty.

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Speaker 15: So now you have thirty five thousand to put towards

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Speaker 9: Whoa brilliant hurt?

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Speaker 4: What? No, no, butts?

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Speaker 9: The check isn't exactly made out to you?

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Speaker 4: Well, who's it made out to?

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Speaker 9: Look at Tom shit? Yes, yes he did, right on

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Speaker 9: my shoe, Right on my shoe. Bad boy, bad boy.

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Speaker 4: Dollars?

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Speaker 10: What are you playing at?

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Speaker 8: Tom Slick? Mystery Hunter is a production of Fool of

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Speaker 8: Humans and iHeart Podcasts, starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,

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Speaker 8: Cissy Spasick as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written

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Speaker 8: and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive

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Speaker 8: produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasick, Skyler Fiske, Jeb Stewart,

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Speaker 8: Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, L. C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and

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Speaker 8: sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger. Casting by

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Speaker 8: Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Daisy Church

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Speaker 8: thanks to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang

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Speaker 16: Michael Mao as Jimmy Stewart, David Devrees as Hines Lang

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Speaker 16: the London Cappy, Julia Christgau as the Google Voice Assistant,

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Speaker 16: and Phil Clark. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is Maya Howard

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Speaker 16: Special thanks to Lucas Riley.

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