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You can't bring that whole beast back because he weighs thirty tons or more.

5 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 00:14:12 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- The next couple of days we trekked around the neighborhood. And then headed over to the sauropod swamp, over to the west.

- We were staked out along the edge of the lake, watching a big beggar out in the swamp, waving his head about.

- And they're the big ones. They look something like the Brontosaur.

- Can't we shoot him?

- I wouldn't.

- Why not?

- Well, there's no point to it, and it's not sporting.

- Look, if you kill one in the water, he sinks and can't be recovered. And if you kill one on land... Well, the only trophy is that little head on the top of that long neck.

- You can't bring that whole beast back because he weighs thirty tons or more.

- That museum in New York got one.

- Oh, yes.

- But they sent a party of forty-eight to the Early Cretaceous with a fifty-caliber machine gun.

- They spent two solid months hacking and sawing the carcass apart and hauling it to the time machine.

- I know the chap on the project, and he still has nightmares in which he smells decomposed dinosaur.

- And they also had to kill a dozen big theropods who came in for the party.

[...]

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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