04 _4. The Little People

[00:00:00] Female Speaker: My grandmother told me when she was a little girl, the whole family would sit and listen to the radio.

[00:00:05] Male Speaker: You mean those big wooden cabinets they used to call talking furniture?

[00:00:08] Female Speaker: I guess. Anyway, she thought there were tiny people who lived in the radio and performed plays four them.

[00:00:14] Male Speaker: All right, the little people.

[00:00:16] Female Speaker: You know about that?

[00:00:17] Male Speaker: I used to have dreams about them.

[00:00:19] Female Speaker: Little people who lived inside radios.

[00:00:21] Male Speaker: They were real; I mean, in my dreams.

[00:00:24] Female Speaker: And they performed plays?

[00:00:25] Male Speaker: Well, they were more like horror storeys. There was one called Herman’s cave. Herman would come out of his cave and say:

[00:00:33] Herman: Children, when you play with dead things, wash your hands. [laughs]

[00:00:45] Female Speaker: Oh, Herman’s really weird.

[00:00:47] Herman: Would you like to hear the storey of the little girl who lost her little mind? [laughs]

[00:00:58] Male Speaker: Right about then, I’d wake up terrified.

[00:01:00] Female Speaker: And you thought Herman lived in your radio?

[00:01:03] Male Speaker: I knew his cave was in there and it was filled with little people, and they loved to scare the bejesus out of me.

[00:01:08] Female Speaker: Do you like horror storeys?

[00:01:09] Male Speaker: God, no. But Herman did teach me one thing.

[00:01:13] Female Speaker: What?

[00:01:13] Male Speaker: How to laugh. [laughs]
[call disconnects]

[00:01:25] Male Speaker: Hello. Hello.

[00:01:28] Herman: [laughs]

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