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That's an attractive thought, but we can't let him go. He'd get lost or starve.

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 00:16:25 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Now, just a moment, old man. You're behaving like a confounded skite with more money than brains.

- I should never have brought you along.

- If that's how you feel, give me some food, and I'll go back to the base by myself.

- Now, don't be a bigger ass than you can help. That's quite impossible.

- All right, I'll go alone! I wouldn't want to pollute your air with my presence!

- That's an attractive thought, but we can't let him go. He'd get lost or starve.

- All right, I'll go after him.

- We stumbled along for several more days... James on his good behavior, for a change.

- And on the first of May, we broke camp and headed north to the hills.

- Ah, it was hot and sticky. We were soon panting and sweating like horses, when I picked up the smell of carrion and heard the thrumming of the flies.

- We found a huge ceratopsian lying dead in a little hollow on the edge of the copse. He must have weighed six or eight tons alive.

[...]

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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