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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.

12 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 00:04:09 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- He left her in the outer office and corrected my assumption.

[...]

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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