The Apollo 14 Astronaut says that what they are doing is all a "Simulation" & Joke About Help From Wire Men in The Ceiling.
The two Astronauts set up the large communications antenna, however an Astronaut gets his ceiling support wire cables caught up in the antenna. The other Astronaut and the ceiling stagehands frantically help untangle the support cables. At 3:29 after the Astronaut has just flipped back upright the just opened antenna, he says, "All kinds of freebies in today's Simulation". The astronaut is referring to the hidden wire men helping from high above in the darkened studio ceiling to untangle his support wire cables.
Houstons reply at 3:33 confirms the hidden wire men frantically helping out the Astronaut, "Roger, we've got the boys in the back room working overtime". Then the Astronauts laugh, then one says at 3:38, "Sure have!"
This video as you hear & see it, is located for download at NASA site:
Apollo 14 Video Library Down the Ladder for EVA-1 Journal Text: 114:15:58 RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 44 seconds).
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/video14.html#Landing
NASA did redacted editing & cleaning up of the text, to cover what they really said in the written records of the Astronauts conversations.
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