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You can joke about it like that with the ants halfway across the ditch?

5 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:14:35 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Ah, we'll fix them. Blath? How 'bout those shovels and petrol sprinklers... you passed them out to the men?

- It has been done.

- Then get all hands here in a hurry! This looks like the spot for action!

- Commissioner? Beginning to see what I was talking about?

- What do you mean?

- About intelligence being more than a match for anything it tackles.

- Take the ants. They've got no intelligence. If they had, they'd have attacked along the whole length of the ditch instead of a narrow front like this. They'd've been across by now.

- Too bad I'm not running their campaign for them.

- You can joke about it like that with the ants halfway across the ditch?

- All right, men! Busy with the shovels now! Dump some sand and clods on 'em! See how they like that!

- You, with the petrol sprinklers! Start pumping!

- They don't like it, Commissioner! They don't like it a bit! Look at 'em!

- Yes. But look at the ones on the far side of the ditch... whole clumps of them rolling into the water. The rest are using them for bridges.

- Yes, smarter than I thought. They're widening their front, too.

[...]

Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) Sound Clip

Leiningen Versus the Ants (Escape)Quotes with voice clips from Leiningen Versus the Ants - Escape Radio Show episode aired on January 14th, 1948, based on a story by Carl Stephenson.

Actors: William Conrad (Leiningen), Lou Merrill (The Commissioner)

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