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So when we heard of Professor Prochaska's time machine at Washington University, we caught the next plane to St. Louis.

8 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 00:04:03 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You're planning to shoot reptiles weighing two to three times as much as an elephant.

- No, I'll tell you, I won't take anybody hunting dinosaur who can't handle a six-nought-nought.

- Look, let's pour another drink and I'll tell you why.

- You see, I went into the partnership with the Raja about five years ago. I call him that because he's the hereditary monarch of Janpur... it means nothing, of course.

- We both wanted to do a bit of hunting again. And Africa's all played out... it's too civilized now.

- So when we heard of Professor Prochaska's time machine at Washington University, we caught the next plane to St. Louis.

- The foundation administering the machine had worked out an arrangement splitting the time between scientific parties and hunters who wanted to try their luck at prehistoric game.

- Hunters paid through the nose, of course, to support the project.

- Well, it was about our fifth safari that Courtney James showed up.

- He's what you chaps call a playboy, a big bloke, handsome in a way, florid, beginning to turn to fat.

- He was on his fourth wife and, when he showed up at the office with a blonde, I assumed that this was the fourth Mrs. James.

[...]

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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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