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Oh, he told me quite a tale. Said he'd lost his wallet back there. That it contained some very valuable papers.

9 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:24:06 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- But quite luckily, a steel manufacturer turned up who wanted a mastodon head for his den.

- Well, we were standing in the laboratory at the university, waiting for the time chamber.

- The technician, he's a bookish chap, a theoretical temporal physicist was watching his dials and scopes.

- Oh, by the way, you just missed him.

- Hm? Missed who?

- That last client of yours, Mr. James.

- Well, that's good luck. What was he doing here?

- Oh, he told me quite a tale. Said he'd lost his wallet back there. That it contained some very valuable papers.

- It must have been valuable. He paid the university fee of five thousand dollars for the use of the chamber. He's on his way back there now.

- Back where?

- Well, he told me to send him back a few minutes before you arrived the last time. Then he could see himself drop the wallet.

- He's gonna stand there and watch himself come out?

- Yeah, but doesn't that create what you chaps call a - a paradox?

- What happens when a man tries to occupy the same time twice?

- Well, we don't know. It's never been tried before.

[...]

X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

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