1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,200 In just a moment X minus one. But first, when you hear the 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,120 hearty laugh and familiar voice of the Great Guilder Sleep Tomorrow Night, you know 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:13,039 you're in for some hilarious adventures. Because whenever Guildy is around, somehow things 4 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,000 never seem to go as planned. It might be his impulsive nature, or 5 00:00:17,039 --> 00:00:20,600 maybe it's his incurable weakness for the fairest sex. But whatever it is, 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,879 the Great Guildersleeve is bound to keep you laughing for a full twenty five minutes. 7 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:29,039 Tune in tomorrow Night and meet Judge Hooker, Nephew Leroy, I'll keep 8 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:33,359 a Birdie and all the rest of the friendly people from Summerfield as they join 9 00:00:33,439 --> 00:00:37,880 the Great Guilder Sleeve. I'll stay tuned for X minus one on NBC. 10 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:50,880 Come down for Blast Off X minus five four three two X minus one. 11 00:00:51,159 --> 00:01:19,840 Fire from the far horizons of the Unknown. Come transcribed tales of new dimensions 12 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,760 in time and space. These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll 13 00:01:25,799 --> 00:01:29,439 live in a million, could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. 14 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:33,040 The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of 15 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:51,280 Astounding Science Fiction, presents he he he he minus one. Tonight's story time 16 00:01:51,359 --> 00:02:01,480 and time again by h Beam Piper m. It happened during a routine skirmish 17 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:06,959 in the Great War. Patrols advanced from the defense perimeter under jet cover and 18 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,840 preceded by npalm throwers. The enemy defended in depth and mocked up with guide 19 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,199 that ninety eight fired from forty miles to the rear. The blast area was 20 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,599 ten miles in circumference, and the medics didn't find much to pick up over 21 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,000 five hundred yards in. Come on, I'm back it in here. Look 22 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:31,520 on this lowsy with mud more now cut laught more, hold it, stretch 23 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:38,159 it. Come on, travers, get those men out, yes, sir, 24 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:39,879 get them over, line them up. Come on, easy, easy, 25 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:49,039 you want to kill them? Okay, take it away. And I 26 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:53,280 left those joes where they was half a more last of the plank comes. 27 00:02:53,719 --> 00:02:55,759 As long as they're alive, they'll be treated. Get those tags out, 28 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,319 Travers, start taking names. Yes, it's have been a thousand yards in 29 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:07,039 get his dog, take out a mess here. Hartley Allan, Captain G 30 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:14,560 five camera search An seventy three D number so two three eight six nine four 31 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:20,879 oh three dash J. Hartley Allan Hartley. Oh that must be the Hartley 32 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:24,879 that wrote Children of the Mist and Conquers Road. Never heard of them, 33 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,840 Major, I think maybe he's partly conscious. Had I better give him another 34 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,879 shot? Go ahead, sergeant. There's much else we can do for him. 35 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:38,199 So rotten shame? Yeah, and it always okay, Captain, let 36 00:03:38,199 --> 00:04:04,199 me have that on. Oh, Alan, Alan, Okadh, get up? 37 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:10,520 Alan, can't stay in bed all day? I remember that clear as 38 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:15,759 if it were real, hoping at him, hit the deck, remarkably vivid, 39 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:21,160 strange. All are you all right? I'm all right? What's wrong 40 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:30,680 with my voice? Ah ah, it's t Why what are you doing practicing 41 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:35,680 singing? My voice has changed? Is that all? You're growing up? 42 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:41,759 Happy birthday? Happy birthday? Hey, wake up, don wake up. 43 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,439 I'm awake. It's impossible. I am awaken. The way you stepped through 44 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:49,000 that alarm, I'd say it was impossible. Come on out of bed. 45 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,399 I don't understand. You went to better d edition. Now you could wake 46 00:04:53,439 --> 00:04:55,879 up the next morning. Come on, sound breakfast, waiting all the better. 47 00:04:55,879 --> 00:04:59,319 I'll turn it over. All right, all right, it's a dream 48 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:03,240 maybe, but you're wide awake now I am. I'm awake, well, 49 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:09,360 half awake, anyway, that's the weir. Let's say, boniface, isn't 50 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,240 it? What day is it? Are you kidding? You? Forget? 51 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,319 Today's your birthday? No? No, no, I didn't forget neither, 52 00:05:17,319 --> 00:05:24,240 did I? Yes, son, happy thirteenth birthday. You won't guess what's 53 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:30,439 in here? A rifle? A light twenty two rifle. Oh now, 54 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,040 how did you know that? I remembered? Did I spill the beans? 55 00:05:33,079 --> 00:05:39,600 Sometime? I could have sworn it would be a surprise. Well, go 56 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:49,279 on open it? You like it? Yeah? Yeah, it's perfect dead. 57 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,759 I we'll have to lay down rules about using it, and i'll have 58 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,600 to teach you how to operate it. I don't believe in letting a boy 59 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:59,240 handle a gun until he really knows how If I let you play with that 60 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:00,920 thing before I teach you about guns, you'd blow your head off, I 61 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,399 suppose, sir. I'll be shaving. Alan, come down to breakfast when 62 00:06:03,399 --> 00:06:08,519 you're ready. Well, it's a big day today. You're almost a man, 63 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:12,240 almost, so you're still groggy. Snap out of it, Alan, 64 00:06:13,079 --> 00:06:17,800 I will. It's a dream and it's somewhere, but I'm not sure which 65 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:35,680 what. Never mind, Dad, I'll be right down for breakfast. What 66 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:40,240 you're going to do today, Son, I want to do some reading this 67 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:44,079 morning. That's always a good thing to do after breakfast. Suppose you take 68 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:46,560 a walk down to the station and get me at times. Didn't it come 69 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:50,639 well at the times or they don't deliver you a good idea though? Maybe 70 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,560 I'll talk to Sam Ashburn about it. Here's a half dollar Alan, get 71 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,000 anything you want for yourself out of the change. Thanks to finish your milk 72 00:06:58,079 --> 00:07:01,439 before you go dead. Thanks for the money. You're big enough to handle 73 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,279 it. Now, hurry back. I'd like to finish the crossway puzzle before 74 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:19,560 lunch. Here are allen one times. Tell your father the puzzle the stinker 75 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,920 this week? Yeah, thanks, mister Ashburn. The got with the trucks. 76 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,439 When you cross the highway, I'll go across Elton's a lot. It's 77 00:07:25,439 --> 00:07:29,399 a short cut Elton's. You'll have a hard time crossing there. Son, 78 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:32,800 there's four buildings on that block. I thought they burned down. I've seen 79 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:38,240 him this morning, big as live. I guess that didn't happen yet. 80 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:44,279 What did you say, nothing, mister Ashburn, I was just muttering my 81 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:56,360 days. Youngsters talked up, Yes, sir by, mister Ashburn, Monday, 82 00:07:57,399 --> 00:08:03,600 August sixth, nineteen forty five. Okanawa one, I mean Japan. 83 00:08:03,839 --> 00:08:07,720 Hey, Hey Alan, Alan Waite out Hey Larry Morton, Hi, Larry 84 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,439 Hi. El you going to Sunday school? No, I have some things 85 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,879 I want to do at home. Oh, get him fancy pants? Talk 86 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,959 things I want to do at home. Go chase yourself around the block. 87 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,800 Oh, jump in a garbage you can go take a flying jet to the 88 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:24,560 moon. Hey, it's a new one, flying jet to the moon. 89 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,279 You thought up a new one. Al Yeah, I wish I could stay 90 00:08:30,279 --> 00:08:33,720 home from Sunday school when I want to do. How about us going swimming 91 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,120 at the canoe club? After? I wish I could. I got to 92 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,759 stay home. We're expecting company, a couple of ants of mine. Dad 93 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:41,960 wants me to stay home when they come. Answer a pain. Nothing I 94 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,000 can do. You see the football movie at the Grand Boy. What a 95 00:08:46,039 --> 00:08:50,759 team? Notre Dame. I thought you like Cornell Cornell. They couldn't beat 96 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,000 Fasser. Well you're gonna go to Cornell, aren't you me? Cornell? 97 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,720 Fat chance? I'll bet you do. I wouldn't take your money, Well 98 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,240 you wouldn't, but you'll go to Cornell. All right Cornell, far above 99 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:09,240 car UGA's waters. There's an awful smell just the same. You all go 100 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,799 to Cornell. Hello, yeah, I gotta go. Well, so long, 101 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:28,080 Al, I'll see you so long, Larry say you stuck in this 102 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:39,879 corner? A word that mixing? Mm hmm, see it's fits now. 103 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,559 How how did you know that, Alan? That I read it somewhere. 104 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,679 I guess what's you reading now? Tarzan? Again? No, not not 105 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,919 Tarzan. It's refreshing to see you with a book. Sometimes I think I 106 00:09:56,039 --> 00:10:01,240 order forbid comic books in the house. Hmmm. Yeah, it must be 107 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,080 raising the devil with those bombing raids in Japan. How long do you think 108 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,159 the war in Japan will last? Did? Oh hmm? I'd say the 109 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,879 middle of nineteen forty six, and I'll have to invade those islands foot by 110 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:16,600 foot. I don't think so dead. I wouldn't be surprised if the war 111 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:20,840 was over very suddenly. How by magic, There's not a thing on earth 112 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,360 will make those Japanese surrender. You expect somebody to make a pass and it'll 113 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:30,159 be all over by this afternoon. Something like that. M wish you could 114 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,879 a lot of boys dead in the invasion of Japan, mister Hardley, excuse 115 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,720 me please? Oh hello, mister Goutcha. That's Frank Gotchall dead. That's 116 00:10:37,799 --> 00:10:41,080 right. Excuse me, I didn't mean to disturb you. Mister Hartley's all 117 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:45,879 right. Lovely day, isn't it, mister Gutcher and mister Hardley. The 118 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,639 Lord's Day is always beautiful, of course, mister Gutcher, mister Hartley, 119 00:10:50,799 --> 00:10:54,600 I wonder if if you could lend me a gun and some bullets. My 120 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,519 little dog's been hurt and it's been suffering something terrible. Oh, that's too 121 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,799 bad. I want a gun to put the poor thing out of its pain. 122 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,159 Of course, how would a twenty gate shotgun do? You wouldn't want 123 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,879 anything heavy. I was hoping you'd let me have a little gun, maybe 124 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,000 so big pistol, so I could put it in my pocket. It would 125 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,919 look right to carry a honting gun on the Lord's Day, and people wouldn't 126 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,360 understand that it was for work of mercy. Of course, I understand you're 127 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:30,080 a very religious man. The whole world is evil, mister Hardley. Sometimes 128 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,480 it certainly looks like it. Well, I have a cold thirty eight special 129 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,399 from the Auxiliary Police outfit. Well, that's fine, you've got to bring 130 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,000 it right back, mister Gutchall, I might be called out. You'll have 131 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,559 to promise to get it right back. Wait a minute, I just remembered, 132 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,960 remembered what well on it to some contridg just left for the luga. 133 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,840 Then you wouldn't be without the cold. That's right. I haven't got a 134 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:52,399 German automatic. I could let you have that way I wouldn't get stuck. 135 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,919 You'd have to return it promptly, though. Oh wait that I'll get it 136 00:11:56,039 --> 00:11:58,320 high away the contri careful, well, mister Gutchall. That sure turned out 137 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:16,879 nice. Hello place headquarters. This is Blake Hartley. Frank Gotcheler lives on 138 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,840 Campbell Street. That just borrowed a gun from me, ostensibly to shoot a 139 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,919 dog. What no, he has no dog. He intends shooting his wife. 140 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,600 Now listen, he'll walk home. If you hurry, you can get 141 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,679 a man there on time. What no, But I wish you'd get my 142 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:35,120 pistol back to me. It's in the First World War, all right, 143 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:48,240 All right, then you'll take care of it. Goodbye? There you were? 144 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,919 What kept you allen? I couldn't find the cartridges at first. I'll 145 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:54,440 show mister gutcher low works. It's all loaded, ready to shoot. This 146 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,360 is the safety. Just push it forward and up. There were eight shots 147 00:12:58,399 --> 00:13:01,120 in. Did you load the chamber? Sure it's not safe. Now you 148 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:03,799 understand how it works, mister Gutchall. Oh, yes, yes, I 149 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:09,120 understand. Thank you, mister Hartley, Thank you, Soney, goodbye, 150 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,879 good bye, mister Gutchall. Return the gun when you're done. Yes, 151 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:16,679 I'll be done with it soon. Goodbye, Allen. You shouldn't have loaded 152 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:24,480 that gun. I guess it's all over now. I had to keep you 153 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:26,200 from fooling with it. I didn't want you to see. I took out 154 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,840 the firing pin. You what gotchall didn't want that gun to shoot a dog. 155 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,559 He's a fanatic. He sees visions. Here's voices. The voices probably 156 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,320 put him up to this. I'll submit that any man holds intimate conversations with 157 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,879 disembodied spirits isn't to be trusted with the gun. What are you talking about? 158 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,360 While I was at it, I call the police upstairs. I put 159 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,799 a handkerchief over my mouth and told him I was you you? Oh? 160 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:52,240 Why did you have to do that? I couldn't have told him? This 161 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,879 is little Alan Hardy thirteen years old, and suppose he really wants to shoot 162 00:13:54,879 --> 00:13:56,480 a dog. What kind of a mess would I be in? Then? 163 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:01,120 No mess. If I'm wrong, which i'm I'll take the rap for it, 164 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:03,399 dumb kid, Drick, you know. But if i'm might, you'll 165 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,440 have to front for me, give me a lot of cheap boy hero publicity, 166 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,639 which I don't want. This is crazy, and this is absolutely crazy. 167 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:24,960 Maybe we'll have the complete returns in twenty minutes, mister Hardley, mister 168 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:31,559 Blake Hartley, that's right. I'm Detective Sergeant Kuborski from Homicide. Here's your 169 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:35,360 lugur. Thank you. I don't know how you spotted that guy, but 170 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,080 when you busted and he was pointing that gun at his wife and swearing a 171 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:45,759 blue streak because it wouldn't go off, I'm man I was able to help. 172 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,440 You know. They may even have some kind of a citation for you, 173 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:52,120 mister Harley. I don't think that's necessary. In the department, we 174 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,080 figure a little publicity never hurt nobody, even a lawyer. I really would 175 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:01,360 prefer to who kept quiet. Well, whatever you say, we'll want you 176 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,679 to drop around in the morning for a stay. I'll be glad to well, 177 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:11,600 goodbye, goodbye son, goodbye sergeant m h Why don't you take the 178 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:16,960 citation? Dad? Well, you were right. You saved that woman's life. 179 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:30,320 Now let's see you put back the firing pin. Sure hum, all 180 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:37,000 right, Alan, suppose we have a little talk. I explained everything you 181 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,519 did not yesterday. You wouldn't even have known how to take this pistol apart. 182 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:43,080 Today you've been using language and expressing ideas that are outside of everything you've 183 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,639 ever known before. Now I want to know. I hope you're not tying 184 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:50,639 with the medieval notion of obsession. Would you say I'm changed? When did 185 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,720 you first notice this? Last night? You were still my little boy this 186 00:15:54,919 --> 00:16:00,879 morning? I don't know. You've been strange all day. There's been something, 187 00:16:02,799 --> 00:16:06,840 Alan, What's happened to you? I wish I could be sure myself. 188 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:10,799 Did you see when I woke this morning, I hadn't the least recollection 189 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:14,440 of anything I'd done yesterday. August fourth, nineteen forty five. Ooh, 190 00:16:14,879 --> 00:16:18,759 that's serious, Yet, don't a house serious? My last memory was lying 191 00:16:18,799 --> 00:16:22,320 on a stretcher injured by a bomb explosion. I was forty three years old 192 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:27,360 in the year was nineteen seventy five nineteen seventy five. Let's right, you'll 193 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:33,320 be forty three in nineteen seventy five, but a bomb. Yes. During 194 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,000 the Siege of Buffalo in the Third World War, I was a captain in 195 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,360 G five Scientific Warfare General Staff Buffalo. You mean Buffalo, New York. 196 00:16:40,519 --> 00:16:44,000 There had been a transpolar invasion of Canada. I was sent to the front 197 00:16:44,039 --> 00:16:48,159 to check on service failures of a new lubricating oil. A week after I 198 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,559 got there, Ottawa fell and the retreat started. We made a stand at 199 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,159 Buffalo and that was where I got it. I remember being picked up and 200 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,559 getting an arctic injection. The next thing I knew, I was in bed 201 00:16:57,679 --> 00:17:02,120 upstairs and it was nineteen forty five again, and I was back in my 202 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:08,440 own thirteen year old body. Oh, Allan, you just had a nightmare 203 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:11,599 to end all nightmares, that's all. I thought it might be that at 204 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,039 first, but I rejected it. It won't fit the facts. But it's 205 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,799 ridiculous. All this Battle of Buffalo stuff. You picked up something listening to 206 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,559 the radio. All the comment datas have been going on about another war after 207 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,480 this one. You've just got an undigested hunk of HV Calvienborney. You're subconscious, 208 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,359 That's all. It isn't everything. I remember four years of high school, 209 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,759 four years at Cornell, seven years as a reporter on the Philadelphia Record, 210 00:17:33,839 --> 00:17:37,519 three novels, Children of the mist Rows, of Death, Conqueror's Road. 211 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:40,440 You think a thirteen year old can dream up all that stuff, But 212 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,799 it's the only possible explanation. Maybe, But I can speak five languages today 213 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:48,839 that I couldn't yesterday, French, German, Chinese, Russian, and the 214 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,160 little Spanish, although I've got a Mexican accent you could cut with a knife. 215 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,720 But how did it happen? Allan, I can't believe it. All 216 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:02,240 I know is here I am. I've been reading up on time theories. 217 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:07,279 Nobody seems to know much about them. Evidently time exists parallel as another dimension, 218 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:11,079 and I got kicked backwards along it. But how It may have been 219 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:15,720 the radiations from the bomb or the narcotic injection, or both together. But 220 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:19,880 the fact remains, I'm here with full knowledge of my future identity. This 221 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,880 this is quite a shock, Ellen, But you do believe me, don't 222 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:32,880 you? Yes, I suppose I must. You seem so strange as if 223 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:37,240 you weren't my son. I'm your son, all right, same body as 224 00:18:37,319 --> 00:18:44,920 yesterday. I've just had an educational shortcut. Wait a minute, if you 225 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,039 can remember the next thirty years, suppose you tell me when the war is 226 00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:51,359 going to end, this one against the Japs. I mean, oh, 227 00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:55,960 sure, Well, a Japanese surrender will be announced at exactly seven oh one 228 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,240 pm on August fourteenth. That's a week from Tuesday. Tuesday. Hey, 229 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:00,240 better make sure we have only a grub in the house by then. Everything 230 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,640 will be closed up title Thursday morning, even the restaurants. I remember we 231 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,839 had nothing to eat in the hospital, some scraps Tuesday. And that's pretty 232 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,359 sudden, isn't it? Not? After today? What do you mean? 233 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:17,119 What happened today? Plenty? What time is it? Dad? That's eleven 234 00:19:17,319 --> 00:19:21,440 sixteen? Is your watch right? What the second's way? It'll coming exactly 235 00:19:21,519 --> 00:19:25,400 eleven seventeen forty? What will come the radio announcement? What are you getting 236 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,160 at something important on the radio? Well, let's see, Well, don't 237 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,400 bother that it won't work. I remember we had a two brand dot. 238 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:37,079 There is something wrong. When is this announcement of yours? Now? I 239 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:42,240 remembered, I memorized it in journalism school in nineteen fifty four. What time 240 00:19:42,319 --> 00:19:45,839 is it? Eleven eighteen? Oplock, we're breaking into the program now. 241 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:52,240 President Truman has just announced that an atomic bomb has been dropped on the Japanese 242 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:56,440 industrial city of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped sixteen hours ago, and the 243 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,960 announcement was delayed to ascertain the results of the explosion. Man named John Howard 244 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,839 Peterson read that announcement from the Washington newsroom with NBC. I don't believe it. 245 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:11,680 No, listen, but that's the burke Plot factory whistle and the bells 246 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:18,119 of Saint Boniface. Now next the whistle at the volunteer firehouse. You like 247 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:26,599 it, then it's true, it's true. Sure. Then Larry Morton came 248 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,279 buy on his bicycle. Hey, hey, al, now you hear you 249 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,400 hear about the bomb and atomic bomb? Yeah we heard boy, atomic bomb. 250 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:37,319 Oh boy, I gotta go find my Poppey's on the golf course. 251 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,160 Buy out by mister Harley. You knew you knew about it. The next 252 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,960 bomb hit Snagasaki. I thought that stuff about atomic energy was so much fantasy? 253 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,640 Was it was that the kind of bomb that got you? That was 254 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,240 a firecracket to the one that got me. It was a guy that ninety 255 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:59,000 eight exploded ten miles away, and that's going to happen in thirty years, 256 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:07,039 I remembered, how about well, how about me? Oh wait, wait, 257 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:08,720 never mind, I don't think i'd better know when I'm going to die. 258 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:12,279 I couldn't tell you anyway. I had a letter from you just before 259 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,400 I left for the front. You were seventy eight then, and you were 260 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:22,599 still hunting and fishing and flying your own plane. But another war and fought 261 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,640 on American soil. Oh well, and I wish this hadn't happened to you. 262 00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:32,680 It happened, I remember it. But if I can help it, 263 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,200 I'm not going to get killed in any Battle of Buffalo. But if you 264 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:37,599 remember it, if time exists as a parallel dimension, than every tick, 265 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,400 we're getting closer to that Third World War. You know what I remembered when 266 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,759 Gutschall came to borrow that gun. I suppose that you suspected him and more 267 00:21:45,759 --> 00:21:48,559 than me. No, no, no, that wasn't it. The other 268 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,279 time, the first time, when I was really thirteen, I wasn't home. 269 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,480 I'd been swimming at the Canoe club with Larry Morton when I get home 270 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,240 about a half an hour from now, I found the house full of cops. 271 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,480 But if the gun didn't fire, what makes you think it didn't got 272 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:03,200 you'll talk the thirty eight out of you. He went home, shot his 273 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:07,000 wife four times in the body, once behind the ear, and used the 274 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:10,279 six shot to blow his own brains out. That's what you remember. Yes, 275 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:14,799 the cops traced the gun. They took a very poor view of your 276 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,799 lending it to him. You never got it back, but here it is 277 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,079 not the way I remember it. But I didn't want you in trouble, 278 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,480 so I warned you, Dad. I found out the future can be changed. 279 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:32,519 One man can't change the whole future. I stopped a murder on a 280 00:22:32,559 --> 00:22:37,160 suicide with thirty years to work, I can stop a world war. I'll 281 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,559 have the means too, the means unlimited wealth and influence. I've got a 282 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:47,960 good memory, Dad. I want a list out this afternoon, Salt jet 283 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:53,599 pilot citation ponder middle what is this the horses? That's a list of Kentucky 284 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:59,359 Derby winners from nineteen forty six to nineteen seventy You sure I learned that list 285 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,880 on a Better the Eye Offices club in Cincinnati in nineteen seventy one, Assault 286 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,920 paid eight to one. You figure out what we can take in. But 287 00:23:06,039 --> 00:23:08,400 gambling, Oh, this isn't gambling. It's a sure thing. When we 288 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:12,839 get rolling, we'll make the Rockefellers look like Piker's the saw did they do? 289 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,400 M I suppose I quld scrape up five thousand dollars ten years. That'll 290 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:23,759 make a lot of money. Any other little thing you have in mind? 291 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:27,480 Ellen, Oh. By nineteen fifty two, we start building a political organization 292 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:33,519 here in Pennsylvania. In nineteen sixty, I think we can elect you president 293 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,839 president. He's not going a little too far, but why not. Who 294 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,079 wouldn't vote for a politician who was always right? Besides, that's the one 295 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,240 thing we've got to change. In nineteen sixty we had a man in the 296 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:48,359 White House who was good to his wife and sang a nice tenor and that's 297 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:53,039 about all. He followed up so completely we ended up at war. I 298 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,319 think President Hardley might be a little more trusted to take a strong line, 299 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:02,160 but I don't know anything about it. International decisions, I do. I 300 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:04,640 know all the wrong ones. If we can stop one murder, we can 301 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:10,359 stop a war. It's worth a try, isn't it. I guess, 302 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:18,599 So how do I start? As I remember, just after the bomb announcement, 303 00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:22,279 you've got a phone call from the City Fusion Party about the next election. 304 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:23,960 There's a lot of talk about a reform ticket. What call is going 305 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,960 to be important? Dad, it's the turning point now, you've got to 306 00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:30,559 know there it is. Well, what do I do? We'll answered go 307 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,440 ahead, but don't worry out tell you what to do? Go ahead? 308 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:42,240 Hello, Yes, this is Blake Hartley, Judge Cribbins. Yes, just 309 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:48,119 a moment, Allen. He's asking me to run. Oh my Alan? 310 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,039 Oh? Alan, what's the matter Allan? He passed out? Alan? 311 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,880 What do I do now? Alan? Listen to me? Alan, Al 312 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,880 Captain Captain Hartley, Captain Hartley. He was all right, Doctor. I 313 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:18,839 gave him a shot and he was all right. Well he's dead, all 314 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:26,680 right, chargeant make out the tag Hartley? Allan captain dead. April eighth, 315 00:25:26,839 --> 00:25:44,480 nineteen seventy five. Alan, Alan, what happened? Alan? Alan? 316 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,839 Allen? Are you all right? I've got Judge Crimins on the phone. 317 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,920 What do I tell him? What? Alan? Are you all right? 318 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:00,400 You passed out? Sure? All right? Hey, today's my birthday, 319 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,240 isn't it what you give my birthday? Huh? Don't you remember the 320 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:11,839 Third World War? What? Third World War? Dad? What's the money 321 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:18,960 you're looking at me? Funny you don't remember. You're back again, aren't 322 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:26,519 you? Back to thirteen years old? Sure? Thirteen to day? For 323 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,680 corn sake, Dad, you must have died up there. It was only 324 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,279 a mind transfer. That means I'm on my own. I have to do 325 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,160 it myself without your help. Help for what if it's a grass I said 326 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,039 I'd cut it tomorrow. No, no, it's not the grass. I've 327 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,440 got to save your life. Ellen, I can't let you die that way 328 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:55,279 in nineteen seventy five you're talking about dad? You sound goofy. I've got 329 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,880 to change it all by myself. Change what? Never mind? Alan, 330 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,720 you don't know yet. Come on, let's have lunch? Sure dad? 331 00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:10,279 How about my present? Now? Would you give me for my birthday? 332 00:27:10,319 --> 00:27:11,559 In a minute? Sound go on in? Okay? Well hurry up dad? 333 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:18,519 Sure? All right? Hm? Now where did I put that list 334 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:29,240 of horses? You have just heard? 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