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"It is not chaos or death.
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It is form and union and plan.
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It is eternal life.
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It is happiness.
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The past and present wilt.
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I have filled them, emptied them,
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and proceed to fill
my next fold of the future.
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Listener up there!
What have you to confide to me?
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Look in my face while I
snuff the sidle of evening.
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Talk honestly, no one else hears you,
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and I stay only a minute longer."
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"Do I contradict myself?
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"Very well then, I contradict myself.
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I am large, I contain multitudes."
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My God.
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What is it?
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Clearly something more
interesting than Whitman.
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California.
There was another earthquake.
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A huge chunk's gone
from Santa Barbara to Fresno.
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- It's fucking crazy.
- Into the ocean.
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- Just like that.
- Alright, alright.
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Settle down.
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Got no connection.
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Anybody else have one?
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No.
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Oh, eh, sorry. Network's still down.
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I've got his file here, though.
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Uh, Dylan's been diving lately.
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I mean, this semester, he's gone
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from As and Bs to Ds.
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You keep hard copies?
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When the network started acting up,
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a lot of us started
keeping hard copies.
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What do you think?
I mean, you think it's coming back?
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Well, I don't, I don't know.
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I remember the world before the internet.
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Why is it so hard to imagine
carrying on without it?
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It is, though, isn't it?
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How do we go back?
How — Can we go back?
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What if it's down for good this time?
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Internet's still down.
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Yeah, but lucky for us,
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I've got hard copies
for each student.
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I think this might be it.
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I don't think it's coming back this time.
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You might be right.
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But I do think we should talk about Emily.
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Her attendance has really fallen off.
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Her attendance?
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Absenteeism's at an all-time high
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all over the world.
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We got doctors and pilots and cops
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and everyone's just
pissing the fuck off, right?
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But you, you want to
talk to us about Emily?
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How are they supposed to study,
anyway?
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Web's been on the fritz
for eight months.
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Half those sites are just garbled.
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I mean, I get it, sites go dark.
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But what about all that other stuff?
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Like, sites are there,
but all the punctuation's wrong.
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Words spelled wrong.
How do you explain that?
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Well, I can't,
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but Brian can still prepare for class.
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I mean, the library's still here.
Internet or not.
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Pornhub's down.
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Did you know that, Mr. Anderson?
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Yeah, I, uh,
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I, I, I had noticed that. Yeah.
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Sorry if Bri's been any trouble.
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It's just me now.
His mom...
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she left, I don't know where.
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That's been happening
a lot more I hear,
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people just ghosting.
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Hers was some star-crossed
boyfriend from high school.
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They dated a month.
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Goddamn month.
She's gonna throw 20 years
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in the trash to chase down a month.
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I guess she never stopped
thinking about him.
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I guess we've all got
someone like that.
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I mean, I get it,
if it really is the end,
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like those kooks
in the purple robes say,
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then who do you want
to be with for it?
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But to leave her son?
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Uh, she says she'll be back.
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I don't know. Um...
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Fuckin' Pornhub.
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What if that never comes back?
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Fuckin' tragedy.
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I mean, even if it is
the end of all things...
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that's just fuckin' mean.
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- Sorry.
- Yeah.
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It's a scene of devastation
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and heartbreak in California,
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as rescue workers sift
through what remains
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of the northern portion
of the state.
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350 dead in North Yorkshire
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as water levels continue to...
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The day Marty Anderson
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first saw the billboard
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was just before the internet
finally went down for good.
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It had been wobbling
for eight months,
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but other problems,
like fires, earthquakes,
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and whole species of birds
and fish dying off
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had taken priority.
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...till today, thought to be
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the largest wildfire
in United States history.
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♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
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♪ Everything is getting high ♪
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Ordinarily,
Marty would've driven home
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by way of the Turnpike bypass,
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but that wasn't possible
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due to the collapse of the bridge
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over Otter Creek.
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♪ So glad we made it ♪
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♪ You gotta ♪
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♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
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♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
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♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
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♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪
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Well, with what happened in California,
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that officially makes Nevada
one of the most
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populous states in the Union now.
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The thing that must be said here is...
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Felicia Gordon is a nurse
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at City General.
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Though for the last few weeks,
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she's felt more like an undertaker.
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The staff, whose numbers
have been dwindling
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since late summer,
have begun referring
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to themselves as the Suicide Squad.
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We'll be back to talk more about this
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and, uh, also about the fires
in the Midwest,
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speaking of water scarcity,
back after this break.
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We'd like to say thank you
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to Charles Krantz
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for 39 great years.
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Thanks, Chuck.
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Hey.
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Heard you got another one.
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Yeah. One more.
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Mine wasn't so lucky.
Slit wrists, so...
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what were we supposed
to do really?
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Hear about Marilou?
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No. What about Marilou?
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She left!
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- Her ex. Remember Pedro?
- Mm-hm.
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He showed up, and I don't know
what he said to her,
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but she walked out
holding his hand.
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And I remember how bad
that divorce was.
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- Do you remember?
- Yeah, I remember.
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Well, I guess that's all bridge water
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'cause off she went.
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...sinkholes that have been opening up.
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I wonder what the stats are.
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You think more people are splitting up
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or getting back together?
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I mean, do you think
marriage rates are up
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or divorce rates —
- Marriages.
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- You're an optimist.
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Divorce takes way longer,
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and I don't think anyone's filing.
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Why bother?
Six months of paperwork at least.
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Probably more.
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Marriage license is one page
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and it takes an hour or so.
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I'm gonna guess marriages.
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Missed you for lunch,
missed you for dinner.
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What's the matter?
Don't you eat anymore?
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Well, I wasn't hungry tonight.
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Weren't you hungry
this morning either?
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Who stole my nylons?
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Egads! The very... Not very.
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Too much rehearsal last night, huh?
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It was kind of a workout.
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That why you slept late?
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Oh, I didn't sleep late.
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I went uptown.
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- Shopping?
- No.
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Hey.
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Hi.
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You hung up?
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Yeah.
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But then I figured
you probably saw it. So...
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How are you?
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I'm okay, I guess.
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How are you?
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I was, um,
thinking about you today.
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We were at work talking
about marriages and divorces.
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Like, which are happening
more now —
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Marriages, I bet.
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Ain't nobody waiting on a divorce.
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What about remarriages?
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You want to buy
a guy a drink first or...
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I bet those are happening.
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I mean, it makes sense.
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People wanting something
comforting and...
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familiar.
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So... how was your day?
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You're just going right for it,
aren't you?
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Humor me.
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It was, um...
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It was a day, I guess.
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You know? Weird.
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Parent-teacher sessions,
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felt like pissing in the wind.
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You know about California, right?
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Yeah.
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I know they're saying most
of it was already evacuated,
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but I heard today
there are hundreds of thousands
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of refugees trekking east.
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Did you know Nevada
is one of the most
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populous states
in the Union now?
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I heard a, a scientist on NPR say
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California is peeling away
like old wallpaper.
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And another Japanese reactor
got inundated this afternoon.
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And they're saying, you know,
it was shut down and all's well,
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but I just, I,
I don't think I believe that.
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Cynic.
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Well, we're living
in cynical times, Marty.
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I mean, some people think
we're living in the last times.
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Not just the religious crazies either.
Not anymore.
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And you are hearing that from
a member in good standing
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of the City General Suicide Squad.
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That's what we call ourselves now.
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No lie.
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We lost six today,
but there's 18 more
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we dragged back,
mostly with naloxone.
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But supplies of that
are getting very thin.
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And I heard
the head pharmacist say
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we might be completely out
by the end of the month.
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That sucks.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, that sucks.
It, it really sucks.
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The internet's down,
and California's hanging
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by a thread.
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There's fires and famines
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and plagues and all the rest.
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I mean, it just
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the center doesn't hold.
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It just won't let up.
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How long is this gonna go on?
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How much can we take
before the whole thing...
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before the whole thing
goes apart, I mean.
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I'm teaching the kids
Carl Sagan right now.
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You ever hear what he said
about the cosmic calendar?
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Uh... I don't know.
I don't think so.
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Well, the universe is
15 billion years old.
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And if you took all of that,
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all, all 15 billion years
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and compress them into
a single calendar year,
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then the Big Bang happens in
the first second, January 1st.
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And, and today,
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oh, right now, we're in
the final millisecond
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of the last minute
of the last day,
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December 31st.
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But if you go back to the start,
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if the, if the Big Bang happens
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at midnight, January 1st,
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then each month of this calendar
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is one and a quarter
billion years long.
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Hey, nobody told me
there was math on this exam.
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The universe starts January 1st,
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but the, uh,
the Milky Way didn't form
264
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until May.
265
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Our sun and our earth,
266
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they don't show up
until mid-September.
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Life appears soon after.
But not us.
268
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No. No, no, we don't appear
for guess how long?
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Again, I was told
there'd be no math.
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December 31st.
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Last day on the calendar,
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and the very first
human beings on Earth
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made their debut
274
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around 10:30 p.m.
275
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10:30 p.m. on the last day.
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And, um, every minute since then
277
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is 30,000 years.
278
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So, 11:46 p.m.,
279
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only 14 minutes ago,
humanity tamed fire
280
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and now we're out of minutes,
we're into seconds.
281
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11:59 and 20 seconds,
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the domestication
of plants and animals begin,
283
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an application for the
human talent for making tools.
284
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11:59 and 35 seconds,
285
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agricultural communities
286
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evolved into the first cities.
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Our recorded history,
288
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everyone we've ever heard of,
289
00:14:14,766 --> 00:14:17,987
every single thing in any one
of our history books...
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happens in the last 10 seconds.
291
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The last 10 seconds
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00:14:26,953 --> 00:14:28,215
of the last minute
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of the last day on the calendar.
294
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December 31st.
295
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So how long is it gonna go on?
296
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I don't know, Fel.
297
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If you're right, and you might be,
298
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that this really is the, the last times
299
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and the universe is dying,
300
00:14:52,021 --> 00:14:53,674
and let's just say it's a fast death,
301
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even if all of this is happening in the,
302
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the last split second,
303
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microsecond,
304
00:15:00,987 --> 00:15:02,553
who knows how long that'll last.
305
00:15:03,163 --> 00:15:06,122
Maybe seconds, maybe eons.
306
00:15:06,427 --> 00:15:09,255
Maybe all this is happening
as the cosmos burps out
307
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its last breath.
308
00:15:12,868 --> 00:15:14,696
Maybe it's all happening in the last
309
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single solitary heartbeat.
310
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Jesus, Marty.
311
00:15:27,143 --> 00:15:28,231
Yeah.
312
00:15:34,716 --> 00:15:36,544
Listen, Fel, I should go.
I've, um...
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I've got tests to grade.
314
00:15:42,637 --> 00:15:43,551
Marty...
315
00:15:45,596 --> 00:15:46,945
the world is going down the drain,
316
00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,642
and all we can say is, "That sucks."
317
00:15:48,643 --> 00:15:51,646
So, maybe we're
going down the drain too.
318
00:15:52,603 --> 00:15:54,083
Maybe.
319
00:15:54,431 --> 00:15:56,737
But, you know,
Chuck Krantz is retiring.
320
00:15:56,738 --> 00:15:58,478
So...
321
00:15:58,479 --> 00:16:01,133
...I guess there's a gleam
of light in the darkness.
322
00:16:01,134 --> 00:16:02,830
Yes.
Thirty-nine great years.
323
00:16:02,831 --> 00:16:04,440
Oh, you saw that weird billboard?
324
00:16:04,441 --> 00:16:06,442
No, it was an ad
on the radio that, um,
325
00:16:06,443 --> 00:16:08,357
that NPR show
I was telling you about.
326
00:16:08,358 --> 00:16:09,924
If they're running ads on NPR,
327
00:16:09,925 --> 00:16:10,751
it really is the end of the world.
328
00:16:12,058 --> 00:16:13,754
Tell me, how does Chuck Krantz
329
00:16:13,755 --> 00:16:15,625
rate this kind of coverage?
330
00:16:15,626 --> 00:16:18,150
I mean... looks like an accountant.
331
00:16:18,151 --> 00:16:19,282
I've never heard of him.
332
00:16:20,370 --> 00:16:22,197
Used an old photo too, I guess.
333
00:16:22,198 --> 00:16:24,069
I mean,
the guy barely looks 40 at all,
334
00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:26,419
let alone 40 years on the job.
335
00:16:26,420 --> 00:16:28,074
The world is full of mysteries.
336
00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:32,687
And, hey, no hard stuff, Marty.
337
00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:34,602
Okay? Have a beer instead.
338
00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:38,171
You got it.
339
00:16:42,131 --> 00:16:44,045
The Ohio EPA has now issued
340
00:16:44,046 --> 00:16:45,786
a code red air quality alert
341
00:16:45,787 --> 00:16:47,440
for Cleveland and its surrounding —
342
00:17:12,509 --> 00:17:15,642
Oh, shit on a stick.
343
00:17:20,256 --> 00:17:21,735
We'd like to say thank you
344
00:17:21,736 --> 00:17:23,128
to Charles Krantz
345
00:17:23,129 --> 00:17:26,218
for 39 great years.
346
00:17:26,219 --> 00:17:27,785
Thanks, Chuck.
347
00:17:55,422 --> 00:17:56,336
Gus!
348
00:17:57,598 --> 00:17:59,643
Oh. Hey, Marty.
349
00:18:00,296 --> 00:18:01,515
Where's your car?
350
00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:03,777
It's... it's on,
351
00:18:03,778 --> 00:18:05,213
it's on the sidewalk halfway down
352
00:18:05,214 --> 00:18:07,302
Main Street Hill with a hundred others.
353
00:18:07,303 --> 00:18:08,869
I finally just had to turn around.
354
00:18:08,870 --> 00:18:10,697
Fuck it, I walked...
355
00:18:10,698 --> 00:18:12,220
What do you think it is,
like, three miles?
356
00:18:12,221 --> 00:18:13,744
I just walked three miles.
357
00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:16,398
Oh, you're going to school.
Hold on a sec.
358
00:18:16,399 --> 00:18:20,228
Uh, real quick,
you gotta, you gotta go,
359
00:18:20,229 --> 00:18:22,230
listen to me,
you gotta go out Route 11
360
00:18:22,231 --> 00:18:24,580
and then hook back on, on, on 19.
361
00:18:24,581 --> 00:18:26,843
Yeah.
There's gonna be plenty of traffic.
362
00:18:26,844 --> 00:18:28,323
You gotta go out at least 20 miles.
363
00:18:28,324 --> 00:18:29,803
You might make it before lunch.
364
00:18:29,804 --> 00:18:32,240
- I wouldn't count on it.
- What happened?
365
00:18:32,241 --> 00:18:34,460
Giant sinkhole opened up
on Market and Main.
366
00:18:34,461 --> 00:18:36,549
Man, the-the thing, it, uh, it's huge.
367
00:18:36,550 --> 00:18:38,812
All the rain probably had
something to do with it,
368
00:18:38,813 --> 00:18:40,596
lack of maintenance
maybe more so.
369
00:18:40,597 --> 00:18:42,903
But it's not my department,
thank God.
370
00:18:42,904 --> 00:18:44,558
But, yeah, there's, there's gotta be
371
00:18:45,254 --> 00:18:46,950
20 cars at the bottom.
372
00:18:46,951 --> 00:18:48,778
And some of the people
in some of those cars,
373
00:18:48,779 --> 00:18:50,345
they ain't comin' back.
374
00:18:50,346 --> 00:18:52,392
Jesus, I was,
I was just there last night,
375
00:18:53,219 --> 00:18:54,741
backed up in traffic.
376
00:18:54,742 --> 00:18:56,047
Thank God you weren't
there this morning.
377
00:18:57,527 --> 00:18:58,963
I assume you know about California.
378
00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,835
I didn't turn on the TV this morning.
379
00:19:01,836 --> 00:19:03,053
- Oh!
- Is there something new?
380
00:19:03,054 --> 00:19:04,665
The, the rest of it went.
381
00:19:06,014 --> 00:19:08,668
I-I mean, th-they're saying that
20% of Northern California
382
00:19:08,669 --> 00:19:11,323
is hanging in there,
which probably means, what, 10%?
383
00:19:11,324 --> 00:19:13,978
But the food-producing regions are —
they're gone.
384
00:19:15,502 --> 00:19:17,198
And with the Midwest turning to charcoal
385
00:19:17,199 --> 00:19:18,895
and Florida flooding, that's like
386
00:19:18,896 --> 00:19:20,681
all the food-producing regions
387
00:19:21,290 --> 00:19:23,378
in the country just gone.
388
00:19:23,379 --> 00:19:24,771
And the same thing with Europe.
389
00:19:24,772 --> 00:19:26,338
I mean, it's famine time in Asia.
390
00:19:26,339 --> 00:19:27,774
There's a million people dead.
391
00:19:27,775 --> 00:19:29,428
They're saying it's the bub-bublonic,
392
00:19:29,429 --> 00:19:30,603
bubonic plague.
- Bubonic.
393
00:19:30,604 --> 00:19:32,561
Bu-Bubonic plague. Yeah.
394
00:19:32,562 --> 00:19:34,868
And the bees, I mean,
they were in trouble a decade ago,
395
00:19:34,869 --> 00:19:36,348
but they're completely gone now.
396
00:19:36,349 --> 00:19:37,566
I mean, there's a couple
of hives or whatever
397
00:19:37,567 --> 00:19:39,046
down in South America,
398
00:19:39,047 --> 00:19:40,961
but there ain't no honey, honey.
399
00:19:40,962 --> 00:19:43,311
And without those little guys,
like, what's gonna pollinate
400
00:19:43,312 --> 00:19:44,747
all the crops we have left?
401
00:19:44,748 --> 00:19:45,792
I mean, I can't do —
402
00:19:45,793 --> 00:19:47,141
Excuse me. One sec.
403
00:19:47,142 --> 00:19:48,447
Yeah, yeah. That's-that's cool.
404
00:19:48,448 --> 00:19:50,318
A-Andrea? Are you,
405
00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:52,190
are you Andrea from Midwest Trust?
406
00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:54,235
I'm Felicia Anderson's husband.
407
00:19:54,236 --> 00:19:56,411
Ex, actually.
408
00:19:56,412 --> 00:19:57,934
I think you and Fel know each other.
409
00:19:57,935 --> 00:19:59,719
We met at a, a, a game night at David's.
410
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,461
- A few game nights.
- Yeah, sure.
411
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,463
What do you want?
412
00:20:03,811 --> 00:20:06,073
I just had a long walk,
and my car is stuck,
413
00:20:06,074 --> 00:20:07,467
and the bank is,
414
00:20:08,032 --> 00:20:09,033
it's leaning.
415
00:20:10,426 --> 00:20:11,427
Leaning?
416
00:20:11,993 --> 00:20:13,037
Yeah.
417
00:20:13,516 --> 00:20:14,909
It's on the edge of the sinkhole.
418
00:20:16,432 --> 00:20:17,998
Guess that's the end of my job.
419
00:20:17,999 --> 00:20:19,652
Hey, I'm curious about the billboard
420
00:20:19,653 --> 00:20:21,175
on the bank building.
421
00:20:21,176 --> 00:20:22,481
- Have you seen it?
- How could I miss it?
422
00:20:22,482 --> 00:20:25,441
And I saw the ads too, on TV.
423
00:20:25,876 --> 00:20:28,226
No more ads for cars
or discount furniture.
424
00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:30,445
Just, "Charles Krantz,
425
00:20:30,446 --> 00:20:32,969
39 great years. Thanks, Chuck."
426
00:20:32,970 --> 00:20:34,536
So, he doesn't work at the bank?
427
00:20:34,537 --> 00:20:37,147
He's not retiring from the bank?
428
00:20:37,148 --> 00:20:39,020
I don't know Charles Krantz.
429
00:20:40,108 --> 00:20:42,371
I think it's just a prank.
Performance art.
430
00:20:44,939 --> 00:20:45,940
Take care.
431
00:20:52,816 --> 00:20:54,296
They look like refugees.
432
00:20:55,515 --> 00:20:56,516
Yeah.
433
00:20:58,909 --> 00:21:00,476
No one looks that concerned.
434
00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:03,173
What good would that do?
435
00:21:03,174 --> 00:21:04,959
All was concerned at the start.
436
00:21:05,699 --> 00:21:07,526
Remember the protests?
You remember...
437
00:21:07,527 --> 00:21:09,397
they knocked over the fence
at the White House,
438
00:21:09,398 --> 00:21:11,312
and all those students got shot?
439
00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,053
- Yeah.
- And the overthrow of the Russian government.
440
00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:15,664
You got the Four Day War
between Pakistan and India
441
00:21:15,665 --> 00:21:20,496
and the fucking...
the volcano in Germany.
442
00:21:20,975 --> 00:21:23,978
There was a volcano in Germany.
That's, that's crazy.
443
00:21:24,457 --> 00:21:26,980
And we just kept saying,
"Oh, it's gonna blow over."
444
00:21:26,981 --> 00:21:29,157
That doesn't look to be happening,
though, does it?
445
00:21:32,029 --> 00:21:33,465
No.
446
00:21:33,466 --> 00:21:35,729
I think that suicides will slow down.
447
00:21:37,339 --> 00:21:41,387
I think people will just... wait.
448
00:21:43,911 --> 00:21:45,304
For what?
449
00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:47,131
The end.
450
00:21:49,873 --> 00:21:51,266
This is the end of everything.
451
00:21:53,181 --> 00:21:54,703
I mean, we're, we're going through
452
00:21:54,704 --> 00:21:56,096
the five stages of grief.
453
00:21:56,097 --> 00:21:57,663
Don't you get it? I mean, we just,
454
00:21:57,664 --> 00:21:59,840
we just landed on the final stage.
455
00:22:00,449 --> 00:22:01,581
Acceptance.
456
00:22:03,583 --> 00:22:04,627
The waiting...
457
00:22:07,238 --> 00:22:08,675
I think that's the hardest part.
458
00:22:10,807 --> 00:22:13,635
And the whole thing, it just,
it-it came out of nowhere, right?
459
00:22:13,636 --> 00:22:16,290
I mean, everyone knew there was
trouble with the environment.
460
00:22:16,291 --> 00:22:18,379
I mean,
I think even the right-wing nutjobs
461
00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:19,815
were secretly, they got it.
462
00:22:19,816 --> 00:22:21,209
But this...
463
00:22:22,819 --> 00:22:23,951
this...
464
00:22:24,517 --> 00:22:29,870
this is just
60 different varieties of shit.
465
00:22:30,436 --> 00:22:33,439
It's just so much shit
that happened fast.
466
00:22:33,917 --> 00:22:36,355
It's like a year, man.
Fourteen months.
467
00:22:38,182 --> 00:22:39,793
Sucks.
468
00:22:44,624 --> 00:22:47,408
Yeah. Sucks.
469
00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:51,544
Huh.
470
00:22:52,153 --> 00:22:53,328
Skywriting.
471
00:22:56,592 --> 00:22:59,029
I haven't seen one of those
since I was a kid.
472
00:23:01,467 --> 00:23:02,598
Oh.
473
00:23:04,165 --> 00:23:05,340
What the fuck?
474
00:23:07,081 --> 00:23:10,824
My sentiments... exactly.
475
00:23:45,685 --> 00:23:47,425
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
where have you been?
476
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:48,601
Are you kidding?
477
00:23:49,036 --> 00:23:50,732
I had to run here.
478
00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:53,779
The traffic's insane,
and half the cars are empty.
479
00:23:53,780 --> 00:23:54,910
Dr. Winston's MIA.
480
00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:56,608
- What?
- Yeah.
481
00:23:56,609 --> 00:23:57,913
He walked in this morning,
and he looked around
482
00:23:57,914 --> 00:23:58,958
and he walked out again.
483
00:23:58,959 --> 00:24:00,481
And now I can't find him.
484
00:24:00,482 --> 00:24:01,875
He dropped his pager
when he walked out.
485
00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:04,746
Okay. I'll scrub in.
486
00:24:04,747 --> 00:24:06,053
The beds are empty.
487
00:24:07,097 --> 00:24:08,663
Most of them walked out.
I-I-I transferred
488
00:24:08,664 --> 00:24:10,317
the last of the stable ones.
489
00:24:10,318 --> 00:24:13,059
But, Felicia, there's something weird.
490
00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:17,456
What is that?
491
00:24:30,251 --> 00:24:31,774
What's wrong with the monitor?
492
00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:34,473
That's the thing, it-it's,
it's not just that one.
493
00:24:59,628 --> 00:25:02,239
I don't know, Fel. I don't know.
494
00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:06,243
I mean...
I might want to get out of here.
495
00:25:07,593 --> 00:25:09,855
I might wanna go home.
496
00:25:09,856 --> 00:25:11,247
I don't think I need
to be here anymore.
497
00:26:56,658 --> 00:26:57,790
You okay, sir?
498
00:26:58,704 --> 00:27:01,096
Yeah. Just taking a rest.
499
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:05,884
I walked downtown
to look at the sinkhole
500
00:27:05,885 --> 00:27:07,929
and take a few pictures
with my phone.
501
00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:11,280
Thought one of the
local TV stations might be interested,
502
00:27:11,281 --> 00:27:14,502
but they all seem to be off the air.
503
00:27:15,546 --> 00:27:17,331
Except for pictures of Krantz.
504
00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:22,205
All Krantz all the time.
505
00:27:23,467 --> 00:27:25,339
- Any idea who he is?
- None.
506
00:27:26,296 --> 00:27:31,649
I've asked two dozen people,
at least. Nobody knows.
507
00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:36,131
Our man, Krantz,
is the Oz of the apocalypse.
508
00:27:36,132 --> 00:27:38,221
Our last meme.
509
00:27:38,918 --> 00:27:41,310
- Where are you heading?
- Harvest Acres.
510
00:27:41,311 --> 00:27:43,313
Nice little enclave off the beaten track.
511
00:27:44,619 --> 00:27:45,881
I'm heading there myself.
512
00:27:47,056 --> 00:27:48,535
- My ex lives there.
- Huh.
513
00:27:48,536 --> 00:27:49,884
Well...
514
00:27:49,885 --> 00:27:51,060
I can walk with you if you like.
515
00:27:52,453 --> 00:27:53,628
What do you do, Sam?
516
00:27:54,542 --> 00:27:56,196
If you still do anything, I mean.
517
00:27:57,980 --> 00:28:01,243
Owner and chief undertaker
for Yarborough Funeral Home.
518
00:28:01,244 --> 00:28:02,984
Oh, man!
519
00:28:02,985 --> 00:28:04,246
Yeah.
520
00:28:04,247 --> 00:28:06,684
We had a boom.
521
00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:07,989
It's hard to feel good about it,
522
00:28:07,990 --> 00:28:09,208
but business was never better
523
00:28:09,209 --> 00:28:10,645
than it was a few weeks ago.
524
00:28:12,125 --> 00:28:16,520
But my real interest's meteorology.
525
00:28:17,783 --> 00:28:20,262
Dreamed of being
a television weatherman
526
00:28:20,263 --> 00:28:22,613
in my salad days,
maybe even one of the networks.
527
00:28:23,789 --> 00:28:25,312
But n-no.
528
00:28:26,052 --> 00:28:27,227
I keep up, though.
529
00:28:27,967 --> 00:28:29,315
Read the journals.
530
00:28:30,534 --> 00:28:32,058
And I can tell you
531
00:28:32,841 --> 00:28:35,277
something amazing if you want to hear.
532
00:28:37,106 --> 00:28:40,719
You know how people say
there are 24 hours in a day?
533
00:28:42,111 --> 00:28:43,243
Well, they're wrong.
534
00:28:44,070 --> 00:28:47,550
There were 23 hours and 56 minutes
535
00:28:47,551 --> 00:28:48,727
in a stellar day.
536
00:28:56,517 --> 00:28:58,214
Plus a few odd seconds.
537
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:00,085
There "were"?
538
00:29:00,086 --> 00:29:03,088
Based on my calculations,
which I assure you
539
00:29:03,089 --> 00:29:04,917
I can back up, my math is good,
540
00:29:06,005 --> 00:29:10,792
there are now 24 hours
and two minutes in a day.
541
00:29:11,401 --> 00:29:13,272
Do you know what that means?
542
00:29:13,273 --> 00:29:15,448
Well, you're saying
the Earth's rotation is slowing down?
543
00:29:15,449 --> 00:29:16,711
Exactly.
544
00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:20,366
Lot of folks think all of these disasters
545
00:29:20,367 --> 00:29:22,194
are 'cause of what
we've done to the environment.
546
00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:24,413
Not so.
547
00:29:24,414 --> 00:29:27,634
I'm the first to admit,
we treated our mother,
548
00:29:27,635 --> 00:29:30,594
yes, she's our mother,
all of us, very badly.
549
00:29:31,421 --> 00:29:33,859
Certainly molested her,
if not outright raped her.
550
00:29:34,685 --> 00:29:37,470
But... we're puny
551
00:29:37,471 --> 00:29:40,604
compared to the great
clock of the universe.
552
00:29:41,867 --> 00:29:42,868
No.
553
00:29:43,346 --> 00:29:44,478
Whatever's happening
554
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,960
is much larger than
environmental degradation.
555
00:29:48,874 --> 00:29:50,092
The math says so.
556
00:29:51,572 --> 00:29:54,053
And, and math can do a lot of things.
557
00:29:54,531 --> 00:29:56,620
I mean, math can be art...
558
00:29:58,100 --> 00:29:59,232
but it can't lie.
559
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,413
You know what?
560
00:30:07,414 --> 00:30:09,242
I think I'll sit
561
00:30:10,243 --> 00:30:12,158
and enjoy the sunset
562
00:30:12,723 --> 00:30:16,030
while I wait for the arthritis
563
00:30:16,031 --> 00:30:17,554
to settle a bit.
564
00:30:17,946 --> 00:30:18,991
You care to join me?
565
00:30:24,213 --> 00:30:25,258
I think I'll go on.
566
00:30:26,476 --> 00:30:29,827
The ex. I understand.
567
00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:33,179
Well, it was nice speaking with you,
Mr. Anderson.
568
00:31:15,351 --> 00:31:16,352
Hey.
569
00:31:17,179 --> 00:31:18,311
Hey.
570
00:31:19,051 --> 00:31:21,791
Don't worry.
I'm going to see my ex-wife,
571
00:31:21,792 --> 00:31:23,142
Felicia Anderson.
572
00:31:24,186 --> 00:31:26,275
I think she's back to Gordon now.
573
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:28,887
She lives on Fern Lane, number 19.
574
00:31:29,975 --> 00:31:31,933
Yeah, I know Miss Gordon.
575
00:31:33,848 --> 00:31:35,067
What are you doing out?
576
00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:38,113
I wanted to go skating.
577
00:31:40,811 --> 00:31:42,074
I used to love skating.
578
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,903
Then you should go skating.
579
00:31:47,949 --> 00:31:49,515
Maybe I should.
580
00:31:49,516 --> 00:31:51,387
Why do you see Miss Gordon
if she's your ex?
581
00:31:53,607 --> 00:31:54,825
I still like her.
582
00:31:55,565 --> 00:31:56,871
Do you fight?
583
00:31:58,133 --> 00:31:59,221
We used to.
584
00:32:01,049 --> 00:32:03,050
We get along better
now that we're exes.
585
00:32:03,051 --> 00:32:05,836
Miss Gordon gives us
gingersnap cookies sometimes.
586
00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:09,143
I like Oreos better, but...
587
00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:11,754
That's just the way
the cookie crumbles, right?
588
00:32:11,755 --> 00:32:13,278
Gingersnaps don't crumble.
589
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:14,453
At least not until you crunch them —
590
00:32:25,204 --> 00:32:26,640
You better go home, I guess.
591
00:32:29,556 --> 00:32:32,428
It's too dark for
skating without streetlights.
592
00:32:33,908 --> 00:32:37,216
Is everything gonna be okay?
593
00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,089
Sure it is.
594
00:33:16,124 --> 00:33:17,517
Go home.
595
00:33:18,648 --> 00:33:20,824
Go home to your Mom and Dad.
596
00:33:23,131 --> 00:33:24,611
Do it now.
597
00:33:58,123 --> 00:33:59,080
Huh?
598
00:34:04,390 --> 00:34:06,914
Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.
599
00:34:07,828 --> 00:34:09,655
- Thank God.
- They, they just...
600
00:34:13,225 --> 00:34:16,096
They just,
they just started showing up.
601
00:34:16,097 --> 00:34:17,533
No, I know, I know, I saw.
602
00:34:18,882 --> 00:34:20,101
Is it just here?
603
00:34:20,971 --> 00:34:22,277
I think it's everywhere.
604
00:34:24,888 --> 00:34:27,282
I think it's almost...
605
00:34:31,982 --> 00:34:32,983
Yeah...
606
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:35,508
Yeah, I think it's almost...
607
00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:19,525
It's the brightest
I've ever seen the stars.
608
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:27,010
Just look at that.
609
00:36:29,404 --> 00:36:32,232
There's Aquila the eagle.
610
00:36:32,233 --> 00:36:33,191
Mm-hm.
611
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:35,236
There's, uh...
612
00:36:35,845 --> 00:36:38,935
Cygnus the swan.
613
00:36:46,508 --> 00:36:47,727
You see it?
614
00:37:01,654 --> 00:37:02,959
And there's the North Sta —
615
00:37:07,312 --> 00:37:08,400
Did you just see that?
616
00:37:09,705 --> 00:37:10,750
Yeah.
617
00:37:16,408 --> 00:37:18,018
There goes Mars.
618
00:37:33,512 --> 00:37:34,817
I'm scared.
619
00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:39,692
I am too.
620
00:37:40,345 --> 00:37:41,694
It's okay, honey.
621
00:37:44,087 --> 00:37:45,132
You go on.
622
00:37:47,917 --> 00:37:49,484
You go on ahead, okay?
623
00:37:55,882 --> 00:37:58,537
Just thirty-nine years.
624
00:38:05,326 --> 00:38:07,196
Thirty-nine great years.
625
00:38:15,380 --> 00:38:16,772
Thanks, Chuck.
626
00:38:27,609 --> 00:38:29,175
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
627
00:38:29,176 --> 00:38:31,395
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
628
00:38:31,396 --> 00:38:33,223
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
629
00:38:34,921 --> 00:38:37,184
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
630
00:38:43,059 --> 00:38:44,409
I love y —
631
00:39:08,694 --> 00:39:10,825
With the help of her friend, Mac,
632
00:39:10,826 --> 00:39:12,479
who has an old van,
633
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,177
Taylor Franck sets up her drum kit
634
00:39:15,178 --> 00:39:16,657
in her favored spot
635
00:39:16,658 --> 00:39:19,268
on the Eighth Street Promenade.
636
00:39:22,098 --> 00:39:24,186
It's Thursday afternoon.
637
00:39:24,187 --> 00:39:27,146
The weather is fucking gorgeous,
638
00:39:27,147 --> 00:39:28,930
and the streets
are thronged with people
639
00:39:28,931 --> 00:39:31,106
looking forward to the weekend,
640
00:39:31,107 --> 00:39:34,066
which is always better
than the weekend itself.
641
00:39:34,067 --> 00:39:36,112
- All good. Taylor?
- Yeah, thanks.
642
00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:38,550
Ten percent is all
the thanks I want, dude.
643
00:39:39,594 --> 00:39:41,900
Taylor, and Mac too,
644
00:39:41,901 --> 00:39:43,510
work part-time
645
00:39:43,511 --> 00:39:45,600
at Doctor Records on Castle Street.
646
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:47,949
But on a good day...
647
00:39:47,950 --> 00:39:50,212
...Taylor can make
almost as much busking.
648
00:39:52,302 --> 00:39:55,435
Busk-drumming isn't what
her parents saw for her
649
00:39:55,436 --> 00:39:57,872
when she enrolled at Juilliard,
650
00:39:57,873 --> 00:40:00,441
and they don't know yet
that she dropped out.
651
00:40:01,442 --> 00:40:04,749
Juilliard wanted you to think
about what you were doing,
652
00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:07,839
but as far as Taylor is concerned,
653
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:12,234
the beat is your friend
and thinking is the enemy.
654
00:40:17,676 --> 00:40:21,505
She starts warming up,
going easy at first.
655
00:40:21,506 --> 00:40:23,769
Slow tempo, no cowbell,
656
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:27,511
not minding that
the magic hat stays empty
657
00:40:27,512 --> 00:40:29,600
except for her two crumpled dollars
658
00:40:29,601 --> 00:40:31,863
and a quarter flipped contemptuously
659
00:40:31,864 --> 00:40:33,647
by a dude on a skateboard.
660
00:40:35,389 --> 00:40:38,610
There is time. There is a way in.
661
00:40:39,219 --> 00:40:42,004
Finding the in is half the fun.
662
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,441
Maybe even most of it.
663
00:40:46,356 --> 00:40:49,184
Janice Halliday is on her way home
664
00:40:49,185 --> 00:40:52,274
from seven hours at Paper and Page,
665
00:40:52,275 --> 00:40:54,321
and may walk all the way to the ocean.
666
00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:59,107
Her boyfriend of 16 months
just broke up with her,
667
00:40:59,108 --> 00:41:01,458
and he did it the modern way.
668
00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:02,981
Motherfucker!
669
00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:04,591
It was totally unexpected,
670
00:41:04,592 --> 00:41:07,376
like having a door
slammed in your face
671
00:41:07,377 --> 00:41:09,510
just as you were getting ready
to walk through it.
672
00:41:10,032 --> 00:41:11,598
- It was...
- Fucking bullshit!
673
00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:13,165
...fucking bullshit.
674
00:41:13,166 --> 00:41:14,993
She isn't in love with him.
675
00:41:14,994 --> 00:41:17,430
Never even kidded herself
that she was.
676
00:41:17,431 --> 00:41:19,301
- But still it...
- Fucking sucks.
677
00:41:19,302 --> 00:41:21,653
...is a dismaying shock just the same.
678
00:41:22,610 --> 00:41:25,003
She supposes she'll have some wine
679
00:41:25,004 --> 00:41:26,658
when she gets home and cry.
680
00:41:27,659 --> 00:41:30,399
Maybe queue up one
of her big band playlists
681
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,402
and dance drunk around the room.
682
00:41:33,099 --> 00:41:35,493
She loved to dance in high school.
683
00:41:35,884 --> 00:41:38,799
Maybe she can recapture
a little of that happiness.
684
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,193
- Fucking really?!
- Excuse me.
685
00:41:41,194 --> 00:41:43,501
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Not you, not you.
686
00:41:44,327 --> 00:41:46,024
Fuck!
687
00:41:46,025 --> 00:41:48,506
Got an oat milk latte for Chuck.
688
00:41:49,463 --> 00:41:50,943
Charles Krantz,
689
00:41:51,770 --> 00:41:53,292
Chuck to his friends,
690
00:41:53,293 --> 00:41:56,338
is dressed in the armor of accountancy.
691
00:41:56,339 --> 00:41:59,560
Gray suit, blue shirt, blue tie.
692
00:41:59,952 --> 00:42:03,999
His Samuel Windsor shoes
are inexpensive but sturdy.
693
00:42:04,957 --> 00:42:07,393
He's here for a week-long conference
694
00:42:07,394 --> 00:42:10,789
titled "Banking in the 21st Century."
695
00:42:11,224 --> 00:42:14,966
He's been sent by his bank,
Midwest Trust,
696
00:42:14,967 --> 00:42:16,359
all expenses paid.
697
00:42:16,882 --> 00:42:20,754
Chuck has enjoyed
the speakers and the panels.
698
00:42:20,755 --> 00:42:22,321
He was on one panel
699
00:42:22,322 --> 00:42:24,410
and is scheduled to be on another
700
00:42:24,411 --> 00:42:27,369
before the conference ends
at noon tomorrow,
701
00:42:27,370 --> 00:42:30,547
but has no wish to spend
his off-duty hours
702
00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:33,246
in the company
of 70 other accountants.
703
00:42:33,768 --> 00:42:35,508
He speaks their language,
704
00:42:35,509 --> 00:42:38,294
but likes to think
he speaks others as well.
705
00:42:39,121 --> 00:42:40,861
At least he did,
706
00:42:40,862 --> 00:42:43,561
although some
of the vocabulary is now lost.
707
00:42:44,953 --> 00:42:48,086
Now, his sensible
Samuel Windsor Oxfords
708
00:42:48,087 --> 00:42:50,611
are taking him for an afternoon walk.
709
00:42:51,003 --> 00:42:52,873
His life is narrower
710
00:42:52,874 --> 00:42:55,049
than the one he once hoped for,
711
00:42:55,050 --> 00:42:56,661
but he's made peace with that.
712
00:42:57,444 --> 00:42:59,488
He understands that narrowing
713
00:42:59,489 --> 00:43:01,666
is the natural order of things.
714
00:43:02,797 --> 00:43:04,581
He has a wife, Ginny,
715
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:07,409
to whom he is scrupulously faithful,
716
00:43:07,410 --> 00:43:09,803
and an intelligent, good-humored son
717
00:43:09,804 --> 00:43:10,849
in middle school.
718
00:43:11,545 --> 00:43:14,591
He also has only nine months to live,
719
00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:16,593
though he doesn't know that yet.
720
00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:24,862
Taylor has been on the job
for 10 minutes now
721
00:43:24,863 --> 00:43:26,952
and has nothing to show for it.
722
00:43:29,955 --> 00:43:32,217
She sees a Mr. Businessman type
723
00:43:32,218 --> 00:43:33,914
coming toward her
724
00:43:33,915 --> 00:43:36,438
and something about him,
God knows what,
725
00:43:36,439 --> 00:43:39,747
makes Taylor want
to announce his approach.
726
00:43:41,575 --> 00:43:44,098
She slips first into a reggae beat,
727
00:43:44,099 --> 00:43:45,840
then something slinkier.
728
00:43:46,275 --> 00:43:50,365
And for the first time today,
Taylor feels a spark
729
00:43:50,366 --> 00:43:53,456
and begins to whack
the cowbell on the downbeat.
730
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:55,545
It's pretty cool.
731
00:43:56,111 --> 00:43:58,809
The groove has arrived,
732
00:43:58,810 --> 00:44:02,422
and the groove is like
a road you want to follow.
733
00:44:02,901 --> 00:44:06,686
She could speed the beat up,
get some tom in there,
734
00:44:06,687 --> 00:44:09,036
but she's watching Mr. Businessman
735
00:44:09,037 --> 00:44:11,083
and that seems wrong for this dude.
736
00:44:12,171 --> 00:44:16,087
She believes Mr. Businessman
will just go on past
737
00:44:16,088 --> 00:44:18,698
on his way to the business hotel,
738
00:44:18,699 --> 00:44:20,308
and when he's gone,
739
00:44:20,309 --> 00:44:22,355
Taylor will switch to something else.
740
00:44:24,879 --> 00:44:28,099
But instead of floating on by...
741
00:45:58,930 --> 00:46:00,018
Woo!
742
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,114
Yeah!
743
00:46:42,016 --> 00:46:44,236
Woo!
744
00:46:45,933 --> 00:46:46,847
Come on.
745
00:46:48,457 --> 00:46:49,502
Come on, little sister.
746
00:46:50,590 --> 00:46:51,720
Let's dance.
747
00:46:51,721 --> 00:46:53,331
Dance.
748
00:46:56,596 --> 00:46:58,510
Yeah!
749
00:46:58,511 --> 00:47:00,643
I'll lead you. I got you.
750
00:47:49,475 --> 00:47:50,650
Uh.
751
00:47:55,611 --> 00:47:58,876
It's okay.
It's my glasses. It's my glasses.
752
00:49:39,846 --> 00:49:40,978
What are we doing?
753
00:49:41,761 --> 00:49:42,805
I don't know.
754
00:49:59,692 --> 00:50:01,215
No more today, folks.
755
00:50:01,868 --> 00:50:03,087
No more today.
756
00:50:03,826 --> 00:50:05,958
No more today.
We gotta quit while we're ahead.
757
00:50:09,528 --> 00:50:11,355
Do you need a-any help at all or...
758
00:50:11,356 --> 00:50:12,878
Here, can you, uh, take this?
759
00:50:12,879 --> 00:50:14,488
- Sure.
- Just, just spin the thingy here.
760
00:50:14,489 --> 00:50:16,534
But watch out for your fingers.
761
00:50:16,535 --> 00:50:18,362
It'll, it'll, it'll get 'em good,
you know what I mean?
762
00:50:18,363 --> 00:50:20,581
Yeah, yeah.
763
00:50:20,582 --> 00:50:22,757
What just happened?
764
00:50:22,758 --> 00:50:24,759
That was incredible.
765
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,196
You dance for a living?
766
00:50:26,197 --> 00:50:27,936
No. Oh, no. I...
767
00:50:27,937 --> 00:50:29,938
- No, I do not, sir.
- What do you do for a living?
768
00:50:29,939 --> 00:50:31,853
Oh, no, I think I — Did I —
I didn't break it, did I?
769
00:50:31,854 --> 00:50:33,291
I think he broke, I think he broke it.
770
00:50:35,293 --> 00:50:36,902
Let's hit the pond.
771
00:50:36,903 --> 00:50:38,644
We'll never find parking by the Common.
772
00:50:39,514 --> 00:50:40,559
We will today.
773
00:50:41,908 --> 00:50:42,909
Today...
774
00:50:44,476 --> 00:50:45,607
is magic.
775
00:50:50,656 --> 00:50:52,092
Where did you learn
to dance like that?
776
00:51:00,144 --> 00:51:02,406
Oh, no, no, no, that's yours.
777
00:51:02,407 --> 00:51:04,016
Nope, we split it even.
778
00:51:04,017 --> 00:51:05,191
By myself,
I wouldn't have made half as much
779
00:51:05,192 --> 00:51:06,237
if I drummed till midnight.
780
00:51:17,422 --> 00:51:18,597
You okay?
781
00:51:20,642 --> 00:51:21,774
Yeah.
782
00:51:23,906 --> 00:51:25,691
Yeah.
Just one of my headaches.
783
00:51:28,346 --> 00:51:30,825
Oh, no, no, no. Come on.
I don't need it. You keep it.
784
00:51:30,826 --> 00:51:32,393
Come on, man, you earned it.
785
00:51:33,264 --> 00:51:34,829
Buy yourself dinner.
786
00:51:34,830 --> 00:51:37,050
Give it away.
But I'm handing it to you.
787
00:51:42,621 --> 00:51:44,404
You could do this for a living,
you know?
788
00:51:44,405 --> 00:51:46,363
I don't know about that.
789
00:51:46,364 --> 00:51:48,452
I really think we could busk
our way to fame and fortune.
790
00:51:52,761 --> 00:51:55,199
What made you stop in front of me?
791
00:51:58,027 --> 00:51:59,290
Why did you start moving?
792
00:52:01,901 --> 00:52:04,642
He could say it was because
he was thinking
793
00:52:04,643 --> 00:52:08,472
about his old half-assed band,
The Retros,
794
00:52:08,473 --> 00:52:11,039
and how he liked to dance
across the stage
795
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:12,738
during instrumental breaks.
796
00:52:14,392 --> 00:52:15,436
But that's not it.
797
00:52:19,571 --> 00:52:20,702
I don't know.
798
00:52:24,489 --> 00:52:25,967
Taylor, we gotta roll,
799
00:52:25,968 --> 00:52:27,186
or you're gonna end up
spending your take
800
00:52:27,187 --> 00:52:28,188
on my parking ticket.
801
00:52:29,972 --> 00:52:33,061
So, you guys don't want
a career change?
802
00:52:33,062 --> 00:52:34,976
Career change? How... I mean...
803
00:52:34,977 --> 00:52:36,413
We'll make a name for ourselves.
804
00:52:38,372 --> 00:52:39,895
You got to get in here before you go.
805
00:52:40,983 --> 00:52:43,071
- Group hug.
- Oh, oh, okay.
806
00:52:43,072 --> 00:52:44,464
- Group hug.
- Okay.
807
00:52:44,465 --> 00:52:45,987
Go.
808
00:52:45,988 --> 00:52:47,251
Come on.
809
00:52:53,866 --> 00:52:55,259
Buskers forever.
810
00:52:55,868 --> 00:52:57,434
Yeah. Buskers forever.
811
00:52:57,435 --> 00:52:59,697
We gotta roll before
the meter maid shows up.
812
00:53:05,921 --> 00:53:07,184
I'm so sorry.
813
00:53:08,054 --> 00:53:09,315
That sucks.
814
00:53:09,316 --> 00:53:11,275
It does suck.
815
00:53:11,927 --> 00:53:13,451
I thought he was a nice guy.
816
00:53:13,886 --> 00:53:16,149
He was a pretty good lover,
and we had fun and all that.
817
00:53:17,672 --> 00:53:19,630
If I can find a video of us dancing,
818
00:53:19,631 --> 00:53:22,372
which I'm gonna look
because I bet we go viral,
819
00:53:22,373 --> 00:53:24,591
I'm gonna send it
to him with a text,
820
00:53:24,592 --> 00:53:27,942
a text that says,
"This is what you're missing."
821
00:53:36,561 --> 00:53:37,823
You're gonna be fine.
822
00:53:40,042 --> 00:53:41,957
I don't know a lot,
but I know that much.
823
00:53:45,396 --> 00:53:47,484
You got a bright sunbeam
in front of you,
824
00:53:47,485 --> 00:53:49,704
and you're gonna step
right into it, I can tell.
825
00:53:53,055 --> 00:53:54,100
But yeah.
826
00:53:56,407 --> 00:53:58,670
It sucks. Not much else to say.
827
00:54:01,629 --> 00:54:03,021
Everything goes down the drain,
828
00:54:03,022 --> 00:54:04,718
and all we can say is,
"That sucks."
829
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:06,460
Mm. Yeah.
830
00:54:08,027 --> 00:54:09,463
Maybe we're going down the drain too.
831
00:54:11,944 --> 00:54:13,206
Maybe.
832
00:54:15,643 --> 00:54:16,601
I'm this way.
833
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,301
Uh, I'm that way.
834
00:54:27,220 --> 00:54:28,395
Thank you for the dance.
835
00:55:24,016 --> 00:55:25,495
As he passes the place
836
00:55:25,496 --> 00:55:27,366
where Taylor set up her drums,
837
00:55:27,367 --> 00:55:29,456
those two questions recur.
838
00:55:32,285 --> 00:55:34,374
Why did he stop to listen?
839
00:55:36,289 --> 00:55:39,031
And why did he start to dance?
840
00:55:42,034 --> 00:55:43,427
He doesn't know.
841
00:55:45,298 --> 00:55:47,866
And would answers
make a good thing better?
842
00:55:51,217 --> 00:55:54,263
Later, he'll lose the ability to walk,
843
00:55:54,916 --> 00:55:57,396
never mind dancing with little sister
844
00:55:57,397 --> 00:55:58,659
on the promenade.
845
00:55:59,747 --> 00:56:02,663
Later, he'll lose the ability to chew food.
846
00:56:04,143 --> 00:56:06,624
Later, he'll forget his wife's name.
847
00:56:08,190 --> 00:56:11,541
Later, he'll lose his grip
on the difference
848
00:56:11,542 --> 00:56:13,674
between waking and sleeping
849
00:56:14,153 --> 00:56:17,330
and enter a land of pain so great
850
00:56:17,809 --> 00:56:20,377
he will wonder
why God made the world.
851
00:56:23,162 --> 00:56:26,077
What he will remember,
occasionally,
852
00:56:26,078 --> 00:56:30,081
is how he stopped
and dropped his briefcase
853
00:56:30,082 --> 00:56:33,564
and began to move his hips
to the beat of the drums.
854
00:56:34,695 --> 00:56:36,304
And he will think
855
00:56:36,305 --> 00:56:38,786
that is why God made the world.
856
00:56:40,832 --> 00:56:41,963
Just that.
857
00:57:06,074 --> 00:57:07,597
Chuck was looking forward
858
00:57:07,598 --> 00:57:09,251
to having a baby sister.
859
00:57:09,948 --> 00:57:11,949
Of course,
he was also looking forward
860
00:57:11,950 --> 00:57:13,951
to having parents,
861
00:57:13,952 --> 00:57:16,736
but none of that worked out
thanks to a patch
862
00:57:16,737 --> 00:57:20,306
of well-hidden ice on an I-95 overpass.
863
00:57:23,570 --> 00:57:26,137
Chuck wasn't in the car
when it happened
864
00:57:26,138 --> 00:57:28,922
because his parents
were having a dinner date
865
00:57:28,923 --> 00:57:32,360
and he was being babysat
by his grandparents,
866
00:57:32,361 --> 00:57:35,626
who, at the time,
he was still calling Zaydee and Bubbie.
867
00:57:36,278 --> 00:57:37,844
He was seven years old.
868
00:57:37,845 --> 00:57:39,543
Excellent job.
869
00:57:40,195 --> 00:57:42,501
For a year and a half, it was a house
870
00:57:42,502 --> 00:57:44,504
of unadulterated sadness.
871
00:57:46,071 --> 00:57:48,942
Albie and Sarah Krantz
had not only lost
872
00:57:48,943 --> 00:57:50,814
their son and daughter-in-law...
873
00:57:50,815 --> 00:57:52,729
Why're you not eating?
874
00:57:52,730 --> 00:57:54,470
...they had lost the granddaughter
875
00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,646
who would've been born
just three months later.
876
00:57:56,647 --> 00:57:58,344
What's going on?
877
00:57:58,779 --> 00:58:01,085
The name had already been picked out...
878
00:58:01,086 --> 00:58:03,522
- Her name is Alyssa.
- ...Alyssa.
879
00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:07,047
When Chuck said that
sounded to him like rain,
880
00:58:07,048 --> 00:58:09,834
his mother had laughed
and cried at the same time.
881
00:58:11,139 --> 00:58:12,489
He never forgot that.
882
00:58:14,839 --> 00:58:16,883
Albie processed his grief
883
00:58:16,884 --> 00:58:19,799
by turning to his two absolutes,
884
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,237
numbers and alcohol.
885
00:58:23,195 --> 00:58:25,718
Sarah, though, could find no joy
886
00:58:25,719 --> 00:58:27,547
in her usual pleasures.
887
00:58:28,113 --> 00:58:30,549
She loved the flavors of life,
888
00:58:30,550 --> 00:58:32,986
music, art, and food,
889
00:58:32,987 --> 00:58:35,511
but now, found the world quiet
890
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:38,210
and gray and flavorless.
891
00:58:40,429 --> 00:58:42,474
Some of the good feelings came back
892
00:58:42,475 --> 00:58:44,868
into the house with time.
893
00:58:44,869 --> 00:58:46,522
There were a lot of takeout meals
894
00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:48,480
after the accident,
895
00:58:48,481 --> 00:58:50,438
but around the time Chuck turned 10,
896
00:58:50,439 --> 00:58:52,833
his grandma started cooking again.
897
00:58:53,747 --> 00:58:56,227
She liked rock-and-roll
while she was cooking.
898
00:58:58,186 --> 00:59:00,710
Music Chuck would've thought
much too young for her,
899
00:59:00,711 --> 00:59:02,800
but which she clearly enjoyed.
900
00:59:05,106 --> 00:59:07,369
♪ Take your baby by the hand ♪
901
00:59:09,676 --> 00:59:12,374
♪ And make her do a high handstand ♪
902
00:59:14,115 --> 00:59:16,683
♪ And take your baby by the heel ♪
903
00:59:19,033 --> 00:59:20,599
♪ And do the next thing that you feel ♪
904
00:59:22,210 --> 00:59:25,256
♪ Come on, little brother, let's dance. ♪
905
00:59:25,257 --> 00:59:28,085
♪ We were so in phase ♪
906
00:59:28,086 --> 00:59:31,568
♪ In our dance hall days ♪
907
00:59:32,699 --> 00:59:36,094
♪ We were cool on craze ♪
908
00:59:37,530 --> 00:59:39,966
♪ When I, you ♪
909
00:59:39,967 --> 00:59:43,101
♪ And everyone we knew could believe ♪
910
00:59:43,623 --> 00:59:46,494
♪ Do and share in what was true ♪
911
00:59:46,495 --> 00:59:47,627
♪ Oh, I said ♪
912
00:59:50,630 --> 00:59:52,371
♪ Dance hall days, love ♪
913
00:59:56,505 --> 00:59:58,856
♪ Take your baby by the hair ♪
914
01:00:01,293 --> 01:00:03,600
♪ And pull her close ♪
♪ and there, there, there ♪
915
01:00:05,863 --> 01:00:08,605
♪ And take your baby by the ears ♪
916
01:00:10,519 --> 01:00:13,435
♪ And play upon her darkest fears ♪
917
01:00:14,654 --> 01:00:16,742
♪ We were so in... ♪
918
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:24,446
You could learn those moves, kiddo.
919
01:00:25,230 --> 01:00:26,231
You're a natural.
920
01:00:27,188 --> 01:00:28,798
Wh-Where did you learn?
921
01:00:28,799 --> 01:00:30,191
High school.
922
01:00:31,062 --> 01:00:32,454
What were you like in high school?
923
01:00:34,326 --> 01:00:36,675
I was a kusit.
924
01:00:36,676 --> 01:00:38,547
But don't you tell
your Zaydee I said that.
925
01:00:39,113 --> 01:00:40,287
He's old school, that one.
926
01:00:43,552 --> 01:00:45,163
Chuck never told.
927
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:48,774
His grandparents' house became
928
01:00:48,775 --> 01:00:50,776
every inch his home
929
01:00:50,777 --> 01:00:52,083
with one exception.
930
01:00:53,301 --> 01:00:55,042
The cupola on the roof.
931
01:00:58,219 --> 01:01:01,353
Chuck was forbidden
to go into the cupola.
932
01:01:01,919 --> 01:01:04,268
That was his grandfather's rule,
933
01:01:04,269 --> 01:01:08,359
and it was absolute, emphatic.
934
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,754
Albie wasn't a stern man
in other matters.
935
01:01:11,755 --> 01:01:14,627
He was downright gentle
in most respects.
936
01:01:15,062 --> 01:01:16,847
But on this point, he was rigid.
937
01:01:20,285 --> 01:01:22,416
Chuck asked about it, of course,
938
01:01:22,417 --> 01:01:23,592
and more than once.
939
01:01:24,245 --> 01:01:25,855
What was up there?
940
01:01:25,856 --> 01:01:28,248
What could you see
from the high window?
941
01:01:28,249 --> 01:01:31,905
And the big question,
why was the room locked?
942
01:01:33,515 --> 01:01:35,603
- Grandma said...
- Because the floor isn't safe
943
01:01:35,604 --> 01:01:37,475
and you might go right through it.
944
01:01:37,476 --> 01:01:39,303
- Grandpa said...
- There's nothing up there
945
01:01:39,304 --> 01:01:41,000
because of that rotten floor.
946
01:01:41,001 --> 01:01:43,089
And the only thing you can
see through the windows
947
01:01:43,090 --> 01:01:44,961
is the shopping center.
948
01:01:44,962 --> 01:01:47,746
He said that until, one night,
949
01:01:47,747 --> 01:01:50,314
just before Chuck's 11th birthday,
950
01:01:50,315 --> 01:01:53,012
when he told
at least part of the truth.
951
01:01:53,013 --> 01:01:54,797
The cosmic calendar
952
01:01:54,798 --> 01:01:57,016
compresses the local history
of the universe
953
01:01:57,017 --> 01:01:59,019
into a single year.
954
01:01:59,367 --> 01:02:01,587
If the universe began on January 1st,
955
01:02:02,109 --> 01:02:04,850
it was not until May
that the Milky Way formed.
956
01:02:04,851 --> 01:02:07,723
Drinking is not good for secrets.
957
01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:10,073
And after the death of his son,
958
01:02:10,074 --> 01:02:13,163
daughter-in-law, and granddaughter-to-be,
959
01:02:13,164 --> 01:02:15,079
Alyssa, who sounds like rain,
960
01:02:15,862 --> 01:02:18,516
Albie Krantz drank a great deal.
961
01:02:18,517 --> 01:02:20,474
Everything humans have ever done
962
01:02:20,475 --> 01:02:22,433
occurred in that bright speck
963
01:02:22,434 --> 01:02:25,349
at the lower right
of the cosmic calendar.
964
01:02:25,350 --> 01:02:27,177
I'll bet you could see
965
01:02:27,178 --> 01:02:29,135
way past the Westford Mall
966
01:02:29,136 --> 01:02:30,268
from the cupola.
967
01:02:31,965 --> 01:02:35,054
You gotta be able to see
the whole town from up there,
968
01:02:35,055 --> 01:02:36,143
I bet.
969
01:02:37,362 --> 01:02:39,798
If you went up there,
970
01:02:39,799 --> 01:02:43,715
you might see a lot more
than you wanted.
971
01:02:43,716 --> 01:02:45,283
That's why it's locked, Chucko.
972
01:02:45,979 --> 01:02:49,026
Every month is one and
a quarter billion years long.
973
01:02:49,374 --> 01:02:52,158
Each day represents 40 million years.
974
01:02:52,159 --> 01:02:54,814
He wanted to ask what Grandpa meant.
975
01:02:55,336 --> 01:02:59,165
But the adult part of him,
not there in person,
976
01:02:59,166 --> 01:03:02,429
no, not at 10, but something
that had begun to speak
977
01:03:02,430 --> 01:03:04,910
on rare occasions, told him
978
01:03:04,911 --> 01:03:07,173
to be quiet.
- At this scale...
979
01:03:07,174 --> 01:03:09,829
Be quiet and wait.
980
01:03:10,787 --> 01:03:14,137
But all of human history
would occupy an area
981
01:03:14,138 --> 01:03:15,313
the size of my hand.
982
01:03:16,227 --> 01:03:19,751
We're just beginning to trace
the long and tortuous path
983
01:03:19,752 --> 01:03:21,361
which began with the primeval...
984
01:03:21,362 --> 01:03:23,495
You know what style
of house this is?
985
01:03:24,496 --> 01:03:26,018
Victorian.
986
01:03:26,019 --> 01:03:27,064
That's right.
987
01:03:28,326 --> 01:03:30,283
And not pretend Victorian either.
988
01:03:30,284 --> 01:03:33,244
It was built in 1885.
989
01:03:34,375 --> 01:03:37,421
It's been remodeled
half a dozen times since.
990
01:03:37,422 --> 01:03:41,034
But that cupola was there
from the start.
991
01:03:42,340 --> 01:03:44,863
Been here since '71.
992
01:03:44,864 --> 01:03:47,561
And in all those years,
I haven't been up
993
01:03:47,562 --> 01:03:50,260
to that damn cupola half a dozen times.
994
01:03:50,261 --> 01:03:52,089
'Cause the floor is rotted?
995
01:03:53,742 --> 01:03:55,657
'Cause it's full of ghosts.
996
01:03:57,224 --> 01:04:00,271
...around 10:30 p.m. on December 31st.
997
01:04:00,924 --> 01:04:03,273
- Y-You remember Scrooge?
- Yeah.
998
01:04:03,274 --> 01:04:04,796
That Scrooge movie we watched?
999
01:04:04,797 --> 01:04:06,276
I remember.
1000
01:04:06,277 --> 01:04:08,627
Do you think of that as a ghost story?
1001
01:04:09,933 --> 01:04:11,629
I-I-I guess so.
1002
01:04:11,630 --> 01:04:14,111
Heard someone say it was a ghost story.
1003
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,811
Christmas Yet to Come.
1004
01:04:19,725 --> 01:04:21,509
11:59:20,
1005
01:04:22,075 --> 01:04:24,685
evening, last day of the...
1006
01:04:24,686 --> 01:04:26,775
Jefferies boy was a month later.
1007
01:04:28,865 --> 01:04:30,431
Henry Peterson,
1008
01:04:31,824 --> 01:04:33,086
that took longer.
1009
01:04:34,566 --> 01:04:38,351
Four... maybe five years on.
1010
01:04:38,352 --> 01:04:40,615
And by then...
1011
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,055
I almost forgot what I saw up there.
1012
01:04:47,492 --> 01:04:48,885
Almost.
1013
01:04:51,975 --> 01:04:54,586
Said I'd never go back
up there after that.
1014
01:04:56,631 --> 01:05:00,157
And I wish I hadn't because of Sarah.
1015
01:05:03,508 --> 01:05:06,337
Because of your Bubbie, Chucky.
1016
01:05:08,513 --> 01:05:10,210
Your sweet Bubbie.
1017
01:05:12,430 --> 01:05:13,779
And the bread.
1018
01:05:15,346 --> 01:05:17,609
Every person we've ever heard of,
1019
01:05:18,784 --> 01:05:20,002
somewhere in there...
1020
01:05:20,003 --> 01:05:21,656
It's the waiting, Chucko.
1021
01:05:24,094 --> 01:05:25,877
That's the hard part.
1022
01:05:25,878 --> 01:05:28,097
Everything in the history books
1023
01:05:28,098 --> 01:05:30,100
happened here
1024
01:05:30,970 --> 01:05:33,537
in the last 10 seconds
of the cosmic calendar.
1025
01:05:33,538 --> 01:05:35,104
Ooh!
1026
01:05:35,105 --> 01:05:36,802
It's getting cold out there.
1027
01:05:37,237 --> 01:05:39,936
Vera says hi.
She says thanks for the soup.
1028
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:43,765
She laid the gossip on me,
laid it good.
1029
01:05:44,288 --> 01:05:45,984
Of course...
1030
01:05:45,985 --> 01:05:47,377
that's why we have a Vera, isn't it?
1031
01:05:47,378 --> 01:05:49,379
So, what's the latest?
1032
01:05:49,380 --> 01:05:51,163
Well, I don't know if you've heard,
1033
01:05:51,164 --> 01:05:54,732
but Trish is saying
Karen and Matty are in therapy.
1034
01:05:54,733 --> 01:05:57,126
- Again.
- Who's Henry Peterson, Zaydee?
1035
01:05:57,127 --> 01:05:59,084
...the universe that made us
1036
01:05:59,085 --> 01:06:02,349
or we can squander
our 15 billion-year heritage.
1037
01:06:03,002 --> 01:06:04,960
And get some pancake mix.
1038
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:07,223
Yellow box, not the orange box.
1039
01:06:07,224 --> 01:06:09,181
- You got all that?
- I got it.
1040
01:06:09,182 --> 01:06:11,402
- Do you need me to write it down?
- I got it.
1041
01:06:11,968 --> 01:06:13,316
Don't you think about driving.
1042
01:06:13,317 --> 01:06:15,100
The walk will sober you up.
1043
01:06:15,101 --> 01:06:16,580
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1044
01:06:34,729 --> 01:06:36,122
He'll be back with some groceries.
1045
01:06:37,471 --> 01:06:39,168
Then, how about tonight,
1046
01:06:39,169 --> 01:06:41,823
we do some s'mores in the fireplace?
1047
01:06:43,347 --> 01:06:45,218
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1048
01:06:47,351 --> 01:06:49,309
Was he blabbing to you
about his ghosts?
1049
01:06:51,050 --> 01:06:52,399
The ones that live in the cupola?
1050
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:55,968
Yeah.
1051
01:06:56,621 --> 01:06:58,014
Well, are there?
1052
01:07:00,059 --> 01:07:01,017
What do you think?
1053
01:07:02,409 --> 01:07:04,629
I wouldn't pay too much
attention to Zaydee.
1054
01:07:05,064 --> 01:07:07,892
He's a good man. But, sometimes,
1055
01:07:07,893 --> 01:07:11,896
well, sometimes, he drinks too much.
1056
01:07:11,897 --> 01:07:13,376
Then he rides his hobby horses.
1057
01:07:13,377 --> 01:07:14,725
I'm sure you know
what I'm talking about.
1058
01:07:14,726 --> 01:07:16,597
Who was the Jefferies boy?
1059
01:07:21,385 --> 01:07:22,299
Well...
1060
01:07:23,343 --> 01:07:24,866
that was a very sad thing, kiddo.
1061
01:07:26,738 --> 01:07:28,782
He lived on the next block over,
1062
01:07:28,783 --> 01:07:31,133
and he got hit by a car
1063
01:07:31,134 --> 01:07:33,005
when he chased a ball into the street.
1064
01:07:34,311 --> 01:07:35,747
It happened a long time ago.
1065
01:07:38,663 --> 01:07:40,968
And if your grandpa says
he saw it before it happened,
1066
01:07:40,969 --> 01:07:42,188
he's mistaken.
1067
01:07:47,367 --> 01:07:49,065
He just drinks too much.
1068
01:08:00,598 --> 01:08:04,080
You know, I could take those
to Mrs. Stanley if you want.
1069
01:08:05,298 --> 01:08:07,299
Oh, that's very thoughtful of you.
1070
01:08:07,300 --> 01:08:08,649
I bet Vera'd love that.
1071
01:08:09,868 --> 01:08:10,869
Mm.
1072
01:08:11,870 --> 01:08:13,479
Just wonderful.
1073
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,133
Your, your grandmother is an artist.
1074
01:08:15,134 --> 01:08:16,743
Thank you for bringing them over.
1075
01:08:16,744 --> 01:08:17,745
Was that your idea?
1076
01:08:18,311 --> 01:08:20,051
- Be honest.
- It was.
1077
01:08:20,052 --> 01:08:21,575
Well, can I make you a cup of tea?
1078
01:08:22,141 --> 01:08:24,491
Um, I don't drink tea, but, um,
1079
01:08:25,101 --> 01:08:26,711
I wouldn't mind a glass of milk.
1080
01:08:28,756 --> 01:08:30,062
Well, your grandmother's a saint.
1081
01:08:31,150 --> 01:08:32,716
And what about your granddad?
1082
01:08:32,717 --> 01:08:34,457
Did he have that thing
on his back looked at?
1083
01:08:34,458 --> 01:08:37,155
Yeah, the, the doctor
took it off and had it tested.
1084
01:08:37,156 --> 01:08:38,331
Tell me everything.
1085
01:08:38,853 --> 01:08:40,420
It wasn't one of the bad ones.
1086
01:08:41,552 --> 01:08:42,814
Thank God for that.
1087
01:08:43,293 --> 01:08:44,207
Yeah.
1088
01:08:45,860 --> 01:08:48,079
He, um, he was talking to Grandma
1089
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,735
about someone named Henry Peterson.
1090
01:08:52,606 --> 01:08:53,911
So awful.
1091
01:08:53,912 --> 01:08:55,608
You know, Henry was a bookkeeper,
1092
01:08:55,609 --> 01:08:56,915
just like your granddad.
1093
01:08:57,350 --> 01:08:59,177
He did a lot of
the other businesses in town.
1094
01:08:59,178 --> 01:09:00,613
The ones that your Zaydee didn't do —
1095
01:09:00,614 --> 01:09:02,050
How did it happen?
1096
01:09:04,705 --> 01:09:06,750
I don't think you want
to hear about that stuff.
1097
01:09:06,751 --> 01:09:11,102
Um, w-w-well,
Granddad said it was, uh, peaceful.
1098
01:09:11,103 --> 01:09:12,583
Peaceful?
1099
01:09:13,279 --> 01:09:15,499
He killed himself. Hung himself.
1100
01:09:16,195 --> 01:09:17,848
His wife, you see, she ran off
1101
01:09:17,849 --> 01:09:19,893
with this younger man,
barely old enough to vote.
1102
01:09:19,894 --> 01:09:22,114
And she was in her 40s.
What do you think of that?
1103
01:09:23,463 --> 01:09:25,029
- Wow.
- Damn right, wow.
1104
01:09:25,030 --> 01:09:27,119
And then, I heard that —
1105
01:09:32,994 --> 01:09:34,431
What's happening at school?
1106
01:09:36,172 --> 01:09:38,477
Who's smooching who?
1107
01:09:38,478 --> 01:09:41,567
"Talk honestly,
for no one else hears you
1108
01:09:41,568 --> 01:09:43,787
and I stay only a minute longer."
1109
01:09:43,788 --> 01:09:46,051
"Do I contradict myself?
1110
01:09:46,791 --> 01:09:47,966
Very well then,
1111
01:09:48,793 --> 01:09:50,055
I contradict myself,
1112
01:09:51,578 --> 01:09:52,666
I am large.
1113
01:09:53,972 --> 01:09:55,582
I contain multitudes."
1114
01:09:56,017 --> 01:09:58,323
On the last day of sixth grade,
1115
01:09:58,324 --> 01:09:59,933
Miss Richards,
1116
01:09:59,934 --> 01:10:02,066
a sweet, hippie-dippyish young woman
1117
01:10:02,067 --> 01:10:04,547
who had no command of discipline
1118
01:10:04,548 --> 01:10:06,766
and would probably not last long
1119
01:10:06,767 --> 01:10:09,421
in the public education system,
1120
01:10:09,422 --> 01:10:12,076
tried to recite for Chuck's class
1121
01:10:12,077 --> 01:10:16,342
some verse of Walt Whitman's
"Song of Myself."
1122
01:10:17,778 --> 01:10:20,303
"Failing to fetch me at first
keep encouraged.
1123
01:10:21,260 --> 01:10:23,436
Missing me one place, search another."
1124
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:38,973
That went well, don't you think?
1125
01:10:40,148 --> 01:10:42,586
Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry about that.
1126
01:10:44,370 --> 01:10:48,418
What does he mean
when he says, "I am large,
1127
01:10:48,940 --> 01:10:51,159
I contain multitudes"?
1128
01:10:54,380 --> 01:10:55,686
What do you think he means?
1129
01:10:56,730 --> 01:10:58,992
All the people he knows.
1130
01:10:58,993 --> 01:11:00,081
Yes.
1131
01:11:00,865 --> 01:11:02,301
But maybe he means even more.
1132
01:11:03,781 --> 01:11:05,261
Here. Come here.
1133
01:11:09,308 --> 01:11:11,744
What's in there? Between my hands?
1134
01:11:11,745 --> 01:11:13,572
My brain.
1135
01:11:13,573 --> 01:11:15,836
No, um, that's not exactly what I mean.
1136
01:11:16,794 --> 01:11:17,925
What's in there?
1137
01:11:18,491 --> 01:11:20,319
Right between my hands right now.
1138
01:11:22,016 --> 01:11:23,104
I don't know.
1139
01:11:23,670 --> 01:11:24,932
All the people you know?
1140
01:11:26,107 --> 01:11:27,108
I guess.
1141
01:11:27,805 --> 01:11:29,197
Just the people you know?
1142
01:11:31,809 --> 01:11:32,984
Everything you see.
1143
01:11:33,767 --> 01:11:35,160
Everything you know.
1144
01:11:36,466 --> 01:11:38,510
The world, Chuck.
1145
01:11:38,511 --> 01:11:41,296
Planes in the sky.
Manhole covers in the street.
1146
01:11:41,297 --> 01:11:44,429
Every year that you live,
that world inside your head
1147
01:11:44,430 --> 01:11:48,304
will get bigger and brighter
and more detailed and complex.
1148
01:11:49,130 --> 01:11:52,002
You will build cities
and countries and continents,
1149
01:11:52,003 --> 01:11:55,832
and you will fill them
with people and faces,
1150
01:11:55,833 --> 01:11:57,268
real and imagined.
1151
01:11:57,269 --> 01:11:58,836
Do you understand?
1152
01:12:00,359 --> 01:12:01,794
Don't stop there.
1153
01:12:01,795 --> 01:12:03,927
You fill the whole thing
1154
01:12:03,928 --> 01:12:05,625
with everyone you ever meet,
1155
01:12:06,191 --> 01:12:07,540
everyone you ever know,
1156
01:12:08,106 --> 01:12:10,456
everyone you ever just imagine.
1157
01:12:11,588 --> 01:12:13,241
It'll be a universe.
1158
01:12:14,765 --> 01:12:18,290
A whole universe
right between my hands.
1159
01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:22,860
You contain multitudes.
1160
01:12:26,167 --> 01:12:27,212
So...
1161
01:12:28,996 --> 01:12:31,869
what happens to that universe if someone...
1162
01:12:33,261 --> 01:12:34,741
I don't know,
1163
01:12:35,438 --> 01:12:38,745
hits a patch of ice
and goes off an overpass or...
1164
01:12:41,922 --> 01:12:43,707
Don't worry too much
about those things.
1165
01:12:44,795 --> 01:12:48,407
Just remember that
you contain multitudes, Chuck.
1166
01:12:50,322 --> 01:12:51,584
Isn't that wonderful?
1167
01:12:54,152 --> 01:12:56,458
Now, go on.
You were such a good boy.
1168
01:12:56,459 --> 01:12:58,330
I've really enjoyed having you in class.
1169
01:13:20,134 --> 01:13:22,135
Chuck did enjoy his summer
1170
01:13:22,136 --> 01:13:23,703
until August,
1171
01:13:24,443 --> 01:13:25,618
when Bubbie died.
1172
01:13:30,449 --> 01:13:32,276
It happened at the grocery store
1173
01:13:32,277 --> 01:13:34,452
down the street, in public,
1174
01:13:34,453 --> 01:13:37,150
which was a little undignified,
1175
01:13:37,151 --> 01:13:39,239
but at least it was the kind of death
1176
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:40,850
where people can safely say...
1177
01:13:40,851 --> 01:13:42,330
Thank God she didn't suffer.
1178
01:13:44,071 --> 01:13:45,420
The other standby...
1179
01:13:45,421 --> 01:13:47,204
She had a long, full life.
1180
01:13:47,205 --> 01:13:49,207
...was more of a gray area.
1181
01:13:50,121 --> 01:13:53,167
Sarah Krantz had yet
to reach her mid-60s.
1182
01:13:57,041 --> 01:13:59,869
Once more,
the house on Pilchard Street
1183
01:13:59,870 --> 01:14:02,655
was one of unadulterated sadness.
1184
01:14:04,091 --> 01:14:07,790
Albie wore his mourning band,
and lost weight,
1185
01:14:07,791 --> 01:14:10,227
and stopped telling his jokes
1186
01:14:10,228 --> 01:14:13,753
and began to look older
than his 70 years.
1187
01:14:21,326 --> 01:14:22,675
- That's it?
- Yeah.
1188
01:14:24,372 --> 01:14:25,852
Buck 75.
1189
01:14:28,376 --> 01:14:31,597
Um, that lady who was
in here a few weeks ago,
1190
01:14:32,555 --> 01:14:34,426
the one who died.
1191
01:14:35,340 --> 01:14:37,995
Where was she when it happened?
1192
01:14:38,474 --> 01:14:40,301
That's a little creepy, kid.
1193
01:14:42,347 --> 01:14:43,696
She was my grandma.
1194
01:14:46,003 --> 01:14:48,004
She was getting a loaf of bread.
1195
01:14:48,005 --> 01:14:49,832
Pulled down almost everything
1196
01:14:49,833 --> 01:14:51,574
on the shelf when she collapsed.
1197
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:56,056
I'm sorry if that's too much information.
1198
01:14:57,754 --> 01:14:58,972
Nah.
1199
01:15:00,496 --> 01:15:01,671
I already knew that.
1200
01:15:57,422 --> 01:15:58,858
- No!
- What?!
1201
01:16:00,164 --> 01:16:03,602
- Get away from there! You get away from there.
- What? Hey, hey!
1202
01:16:26,973 --> 01:16:28,105
Give me that.
1203
01:16:30,368 --> 01:16:32,239
Give it to me. Give it to me.
1204
01:16:32,936 --> 01:16:34,110
Give me it.
1205
01:16:38,550 --> 01:16:39,898
Oh.
1206
01:16:39,899 --> 01:16:41,858
Oh, I'm sorry.
1207
01:16:42,423 --> 01:16:44,033
I'm sorry.
1208
01:16:44,034 --> 01:16:45,730
Are you okay?
1209
01:16:45,731 --> 01:16:47,341
What did you see?
1210
01:16:49,561 --> 01:16:51,649
What did you see?
1211
01:16:51,650 --> 01:16:54,566
I'm sorry. It's just, you can't.
1212
01:16:55,611 --> 01:16:57,656
You can't do that, Chucky.
1213
01:16:58,570 --> 01:17:00,266
You just can't.
1214
01:17:00,267 --> 01:17:01,790
Oh, I'm so sorry.
1215
01:17:01,791 --> 01:17:05,794
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
1216
01:17:05,795 --> 01:17:08,013
I'm sorry.
1217
01:17:30,254 --> 01:17:31,385
Come on, little brother.
1218
01:17:32,299 --> 01:17:33,736
Let's dance.
1219
01:17:49,882 --> 01:17:52,667
Hello, twirlers, and hello, spinners.
1220
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:55,321
What do you know?
Three boys this year.
1221
01:17:55,322 --> 01:17:56,758
It's a new record.
1222
01:17:56,759 --> 01:17:58,455
You gentlemen might find yourselves
1223
01:17:58,456 --> 01:18:00,152
being teased for your new hobby.
1224
01:18:00,153 --> 01:18:02,677
I assure you,
you are the smartest young men
1225
01:18:02,678 --> 01:18:04,026
in the whole school.
1226
01:18:04,027 --> 01:18:05,332
You'll soon see what I mean.
1227
01:18:06,072 --> 01:18:09,118
For those who don't know me,
I am Miss Rohrbacher.
1228
01:18:09,119 --> 01:18:11,207
And when I'm not
teaching the girls phys-ed,
1229
01:18:11,208 --> 01:18:13,775
I am what a few students have called,
1230
01:18:13,776 --> 01:18:15,473
"The Dance Monster."
1231
01:18:16,474 --> 01:18:18,301
Nothing? Alright.
1232
01:18:18,302 --> 01:18:19,824
You have chosen what might be
1233
01:18:19,825 --> 01:18:22,174
the best club this school has ever had.
1234
01:18:22,175 --> 01:18:23,915
'Cause if we didn't have girls volleyball,
1235
01:18:23,916 --> 01:18:25,264
we wouldn't have nothing.
1236
01:18:25,265 --> 01:18:27,353
No, no, no.
1237
01:18:27,354 --> 01:18:30,923
Back, Mr. Mulford, you are mine now.
1238
01:18:32,751 --> 01:18:34,666
Waltz.
1239
01:18:36,363 --> 01:18:37,713
Chuck knew it.
1240
01:18:41,455 --> 01:18:42,674
Cha-cha.
1241
01:18:44,502 --> 01:18:45,590
Chuck knew it.
1242
01:18:48,027 --> 01:18:49,811
Swing.
1243
01:18:49,812 --> 01:18:51,595
Triple step. Rock step.
1244
01:18:51,596 --> 01:18:53,292
- Triple step. Rock step.
- Chuck knew it.
1245
01:18:53,293 --> 01:18:56,208
Triple step. Rock step.
1246
01:18:56,209 --> 01:18:57,950
Samba.
1247
01:19:00,953 --> 01:19:02,127
Don't know that one.
1248
01:19:02,128 --> 01:19:03,650
He was, by far,
1249
01:19:03,651 --> 01:19:05,391
the best dancer in the little club.
1250
01:19:05,392 --> 01:19:07,698
So, Miss Rohrbacher mostly put him
1251
01:19:07,699 --> 01:19:09,483
with the girls who were clumsy.
1252
01:19:09,962 --> 01:19:12,747
He understood she did it
to make them better,
1253
01:19:12,748 --> 01:19:14,445
and he was a good sport about it.
1254
01:19:15,185 --> 01:19:17,752
Near the end of their two hours, however,
1255
01:19:17,753 --> 01:19:20,493
The Dance Monster would show mercy
1256
01:19:20,494 --> 01:19:23,105
and pair him with Cat McCoy,
1257
01:19:23,106 --> 01:19:24,933
who was an eighth grader
1258
01:19:24,934 --> 01:19:27,763
and the best dancer of the girls.
1259
01:19:28,894 --> 01:19:31,157
Chuck didn't expect romance.
1260
01:19:31,549 --> 01:19:33,550
Cat was not only gorgeous,
1261
01:19:33,551 --> 01:19:36,075
she was a full foot taller
than he was.
1262
01:19:36,641 --> 01:19:39,251
But he loved to dance with her,
1263
01:19:39,252 --> 01:19:41,080
and the feeling was mutual.
1264
01:19:41,602 --> 01:19:43,953
...three. Out, two, three. Switch.
1265
01:19:44,431 --> 01:19:45,519
And stop.
1266
01:19:46,259 --> 01:19:48,870
In, two, three. Out, two, three.
1267
01:19:48,871 --> 01:19:51,176
Turn. Now box.
1268
01:19:51,177 --> 01:19:56,921
One, two, three. One, two, three.
1269
01:19:56,922 --> 01:19:59,271
I don't know what that is.
1270
01:19:59,272 --> 01:20:00,882
Oh, my God.
1271
01:20:00,883 --> 01:20:03,710
Okay, 10 minutes freestyle.
1272
01:20:15,767 --> 01:20:18,813
♪ Ooh, my little pretty one, ♪
♪ my pretty one ♪
1273
01:20:18,814 --> 01:20:21,380
♪ When you gonna give me some time, ♪
♪ Sharona? ♪
1274
01:20:21,381 --> 01:20:23,295
Hey. Watch this.
1275
01:20:23,296 --> 01:20:25,559
♪ Ooh, you make my motor run, ♪
♪ my motor run ♪
1276
01:20:29,215 --> 01:20:30,434
Show me how you did that.
1277
01:20:31,087 --> 01:20:32,565
Ready?
1278
01:20:32,566 --> 01:20:35,134
Slide, slide, slide.
1279
01:20:35,700 --> 01:20:37,570
Here, ready?
1280
01:20:37,571 --> 01:20:39,746
Try it with me.
1281
01:20:39,747 --> 01:20:41,966
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona ♪
1282
01:20:41,967 --> 01:20:44,360
- Um...
- Uh, kick off your shoes
1283
01:20:44,361 --> 01:20:46,711
and do it in your socks.
- Aye-aye.
1284
01:20:48,887 --> 01:20:50,628
Now, slide.
1285
01:20:51,281 --> 01:20:52,543
Slide.
1286
01:20:53,065 --> 01:20:54,806
Yeah. There you go.
1287
01:20:55,633 --> 01:20:57,896
Hey! Show me.
1288
01:20:59,985 --> 01:21:03,554
Pop. Slide. Slide. Slide.
1289
01:21:04,163 --> 01:21:05,512
Yeah, again.
1290
01:21:06,557 --> 01:21:07,731
Pop. Slide. Pop.
1291
01:21:07,732 --> 01:21:09,124
♪ Woo! ♪
1292
01:21:09,125 --> 01:21:12,344
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona ♪
1293
01:21:12,345 --> 01:21:14,216
Twirlers and Spinners let out
1294
01:21:14,217 --> 01:21:16,218
half an hour late that day.
1295
01:21:16,219 --> 01:21:17,960
♪ My Sharona ♪
1296
01:21:18,308 --> 01:21:19,656
That's so rad.
1297
01:21:19,657 --> 01:21:21,266
You figured that out by yourself?
1298
01:21:21,267 --> 01:21:23,268
Well, I just kept rewinding and rewinding
1299
01:21:23,269 --> 01:21:24,880
til I figured it out.
1300
01:21:27,578 --> 01:21:28,796
We should do that at the Fling.
1301
01:21:30,929 --> 01:21:35,237
Uh, not as a date or anything.
1302
01:21:35,238 --> 01:21:36,892
I'm going out with Dougie Wentworth.
1303
01:21:37,893 --> 01:21:39,415
You know that, right?
1304
01:21:39,416 --> 01:21:40,591
Yeah.
1305
01:21:42,985 --> 01:21:44,550
But that doesn't mean
we couldn't show them
1306
01:21:44,551 --> 01:21:45,900
some cool moves.
1307
01:21:47,380 --> 01:21:49,339
I really want to. Do you?
1308
01:21:50,209 --> 01:21:51,558
I-I don't know.
1309
01:21:51,994 --> 01:21:53,473
I'm a lot shorter.
1310
01:21:53,909 --> 01:21:56,389
I think people will laugh.
1311
01:22:12,057 --> 01:22:14,450
- That totally works.
- It totally does.
1312
01:22:14,451 --> 01:22:16,756
- Are you sure?
- Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
1313
01:22:16,757 --> 01:22:18,455
Well, they feel great!
1314
01:22:19,282 --> 01:22:21,371
Uh, just a little big.
1315
01:22:24,635 --> 01:22:26,244
That should be enough.
1316
01:22:26,245 --> 01:22:27,637
- Little more.
- Maybe one more.
1317
01:22:27,638 --> 01:22:28,944
How's that?
1318
01:22:31,468 --> 01:22:34,036
Floor feels like ice.
1319
01:22:34,688 --> 01:22:36,080
You put scratches on that floor,
1320
01:22:36,081 --> 01:22:38,082
the janitor is gonna beat y —
- Timmy.
1321
01:22:38,083 --> 01:22:39,866
There won't be no scratches.
1322
01:22:39,867 --> 01:22:41,652
He's too light on his feet to leave any.
1323
01:22:43,175 --> 01:22:45,264
Almost perfect.
1324
01:22:49,790 --> 01:22:51,357
Take another run at these two.
1325
01:22:53,620 --> 01:22:55,274
You don't need to sigh.
1326
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:57,232
You're good at this, you know?
1327
01:22:57,233 --> 01:22:58,885
You're really good at it.
1328
01:22:58,886 --> 01:23:00,758
Yeah, but it's boring.
1329
01:23:01,454 --> 01:23:04,065
Boring? What, you mean math?
1330
01:23:04,066 --> 01:23:05,414
Yeah.
1331
01:23:05,415 --> 01:23:07,633
I wonder if maybe next semester
1332
01:23:07,634 --> 01:23:10,071
you might want to try
Math League after school.
1333
01:23:10,072 --> 01:23:12,334
I did it all high school, in fact,
1334
01:23:12,335 --> 01:23:13,900
and it was so great.
1335
01:23:13,901 --> 01:23:15,729
I'm doing Twirlers and Spinners.
1336
01:23:17,209 --> 01:23:18,297
Yeah.
1337
01:23:20,169 --> 01:23:22,649
Hey, hey, put that down
for a second, will you?
1338
01:23:23,650 --> 01:23:25,174
Just a little about math.
1339
01:23:26,044 --> 01:23:28,089
Because people start out thinking
1340
01:23:28,090 --> 01:23:29,394
it might be boring,
1341
01:23:29,395 --> 01:23:31,223
and that's their first mistake.
1342
01:23:31,963 --> 01:23:35,705
It's used in every career,
in every job,
1343
01:23:35,706 --> 01:23:38,273
in every facet of life on this planet.
1344
01:23:38,274 --> 01:23:40,841
That's a fact. Hell, the planet.
1345
01:23:41,494 --> 01:23:43,844
How do you think we figure out
how long a day is?
1346
01:23:44,802 --> 01:23:46,847
Everybody knows how long a day is.
1347
01:23:47,326 --> 01:23:49,676
- How long?
- Twenty-four hours.
1348
01:23:50,155 --> 01:23:52,723
People say it's 24 hours,
but they're wrong.
1349
01:23:53,419 --> 01:23:57,335
There are 23 hours and 56 minutes
1350
01:23:57,336 --> 01:23:58,902
in a stellar day.
1351
01:23:58,903 --> 01:24:01,688
Plus a few odd seconds. Math proves it.
1352
01:24:02,515 --> 01:24:04,951
How do we know how old the Earth is?
1353
01:24:04,952 --> 01:24:08,085
How old the universe is,
how long people have been here?
1354
01:24:08,086 --> 01:24:10,479
Or how to build a bridge or a skyscraper
1355
01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:12,482
or how far apart the stars are?
1356
01:24:13,004 --> 01:24:14,831
How did we land on the moon?
1357
01:24:14,832 --> 01:24:16,659
The stars themselves.
1358
01:24:16,660 --> 01:24:18,835
Why they burn,
why atoms split and fuse,
1359
01:24:18,836 --> 01:24:20,881
and all the rest is just math.
1360
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:24,885
Hey, stars are just math.
1361
01:24:25,625 --> 01:24:27,539
When you look at the night sky,
1362
01:24:27,540 --> 01:24:29,628
you're seeing the greatest equation
1363
01:24:29,629 --> 01:24:31,240
in the universe.
1364
01:24:31,631 --> 01:24:34,459
Heck, your dancing, that's math too.
1365
01:24:34,460 --> 01:24:37,462
I mean, what's the language of dance?
1366
01:24:37,463 --> 01:24:40,596
How do you learn your steps?
It's even in the name.
1367
01:24:40,597 --> 01:24:42,989
I mean, they call it "the count."
1368
01:24:42,990 --> 01:24:44,687
One and two and three and four.
1369
01:24:44,688 --> 01:24:47,516
What's a waltz?
One, two, three, one, two, three.
1370
01:24:47,517 --> 01:24:49,736
Just numbers, just math.
1371
01:24:50,694 --> 01:24:51,869
And more than that,
1372
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:54,480
there's an art to it.
1373
01:24:55,612 --> 01:24:58,092
What I do, all these files here,
1374
01:24:58,093 --> 01:24:59,485
all these folders,
1375
01:25:00,573 --> 01:25:03,271
these are all people's lives.
1376
01:25:03,272 --> 01:25:05,100
Every choice they made.
1377
01:25:05,970 --> 01:25:07,928
Last year, last 10 years.
1378
01:25:08,494 --> 01:25:10,539
Everything that's important to them.
1379
01:25:10,540 --> 01:25:13,716
Every weakness they have,
every vice, every dream,
1380
01:25:13,717 --> 01:25:16,981
it's all here in numbers.
1381
01:25:17,677 --> 01:25:20,157
Some schmuck comes in,
takes those numbers,
1382
01:25:20,158 --> 01:25:23,422
does the math without artistry,
someone loses their house.
1383
01:25:24,162 --> 01:25:27,339
I take those numbers, do a little art,
1384
01:25:28,166 --> 01:25:29,559
I save someone's life.
1385
01:25:30,603 --> 01:25:31,648
That's what I do.
1386
01:25:32,257 --> 01:25:34,477
That's what accounting is.
1387
01:25:35,347 --> 01:25:37,566
Well, maybe they should teach that,
1388
01:25:37,567 --> 01:25:39,481
the cool stuff,
1389
01:25:39,482 --> 01:25:42,485
and not just all the boring stuff.
1390
01:25:43,268 --> 01:25:44,226
Hmm.
1391
01:25:51,755 --> 01:25:54,713
Math is something else too.
1392
01:25:54,714 --> 01:25:57,412
Some math,
math that's called statistics
1393
01:25:57,413 --> 01:25:58,718
or probability,
1394
01:25:59,545 --> 01:26:01,939
it can tell you stuff about your future.
1395
01:26:03,462 --> 01:26:05,203
It could tell you, for example,
1396
01:26:06,596 --> 01:26:08,423
you're more likely to be drafted
1397
01:26:08,424 --> 01:26:10,468
by a major league sports team
1398
01:26:10,469 --> 01:26:13,037
than to make a real living as a dancer.
1399
01:26:17,041 --> 01:26:20,131
The world loves dancers, it truly does.
1400
01:26:20,784 --> 01:26:25,135
But it needs accountants,
so there's much more demand,
1401
01:26:25,136 --> 01:26:27,704
so there's much more opportunity.
1402
01:26:29,009 --> 01:26:32,099
I know that might hurt,
but it's the truth.
1403
01:26:33,057 --> 01:26:37,061
Math is truth. It won't lie to you.
1404
01:26:38,062 --> 01:26:40,803
It doesn't factor in your preferences.
1405
01:26:40,804 --> 01:26:42,675
It's pure that way.
1406
01:26:43,981 --> 01:26:46,331
Math can do a lot of things.
1407
01:26:47,985 --> 01:26:49,247
Math can be art.
1408
01:26:51,380 --> 01:26:53,120
But it can't lie.
1409
01:26:53,730 --> 01:26:54,687
So...
1410
01:26:56,428 --> 01:26:58,212
take another run at those two
1411
01:26:58,213 --> 01:26:59,388
because, Chucko,
1412
01:27:00,563 --> 01:27:02,391
you are good.
1413
01:27:03,522 --> 01:27:06,743
You... have art in you.
1414
01:27:13,097 --> 01:27:15,055
♪ Hugging me like skin ♪
1415
01:27:16,361 --> 01:27:18,188
♪ And I'll sweat it clean ♪
1416
01:27:18,189 --> 01:27:20,582
♪ Until I can taste ♪
1417
01:27:20,583 --> 01:27:23,412
♪ The oxygen ♪
1418
01:27:24,543 --> 01:27:26,589
♪ Oh ♪
1419
01:27:49,002 --> 01:27:51,177
Hey! You look great!
1420
01:27:51,178 --> 01:27:53,224
Thanks. Uh, you too.
1421
01:27:55,313 --> 01:27:57,314
Wanna show 'em how it's done?
1422
01:27:57,315 --> 01:27:59,970
Uh, I don't know. I kinda, um...
1423
01:28:01,145 --> 01:28:02,712
I kinda hurt my leg.
1424
01:28:04,366 --> 01:28:05,758
You hurt your leg?
1425
01:28:06,324 --> 01:28:08,587
Maybe, maybe let's,
let's wait for a better song.
1426
01:28:18,467 --> 01:28:20,773
♪ Today I changed the picture ♪
1427
01:28:21,252 --> 01:28:23,515
♪ In our old oak frame ♪
1428
01:28:26,039 --> 01:28:29,347
♪ To a painting ♪
♪ I made of a photo inside... ♪
1429
01:28:30,783 --> 01:28:31,915
Hey, kiddo.
1430
01:28:33,133 --> 01:28:34,178
Hey.
1431
01:28:36,223 --> 01:28:38,051
Thought you were gonna
tear it up tonight.
1432
01:28:40,184 --> 01:28:41,490
I don't, I don't know.
1433
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,230
My shoes feel all funny,
1434
01:28:44,231 --> 01:28:47,800
and... I hurt my leg.
1435
01:28:48,801 --> 01:28:50,368
Oh, you hurt your leg?
1436
01:28:51,674 --> 01:28:52,544
Yeah.
1437
01:28:53,197 --> 01:28:54,503
I'm sorry to hear that.
1438
01:28:56,331 --> 01:28:57,983
So, you came stag, huh?
1439
01:28:57,984 --> 01:28:59,769
- Hmm?
- No date.
1440
01:29:00,509 --> 01:29:01,814
Nah, I...
1441
01:29:02,293 --> 01:29:05,034
That'll change. Believe me, it'll change.
1442
01:29:05,035 --> 01:29:06,732
Just give it some time.
1443
01:29:07,951 --> 01:29:09,169
None of this, none of —
1444
01:29:09,779 --> 01:29:12,650
None of that out there
really means anything.
1445
01:29:12,651 --> 01:29:15,349
It's all just, just a scrimmage.
1446
01:29:15,350 --> 01:29:17,002
Just a practice.
1447
01:29:19,484 --> 01:29:21,833
Hey, this is perfect. Come on.
1448
01:29:21,834 --> 01:29:24,183
Nah, I'm still, uh...
1449
01:29:24,184 --> 01:29:25,707
My leg's still wonky.
1450
01:29:25,708 --> 01:29:27,186
Chuck, come on.
1451
01:29:27,187 --> 01:29:28,666
We're gonna blow the roof off.
1452
01:29:28,667 --> 01:29:29,842
I'm sorry.
1453
01:29:30,887 --> 01:29:32,367
It really hurts.
1454
01:29:46,903 --> 01:29:50,210
You know, I've been dancing
since I was eight,
1455
01:29:50,646 --> 01:29:52,038
and I teach PE,
1456
01:29:52,691 --> 01:29:55,127
and I've seen when my kids get hurt.
1457
01:29:55,128 --> 01:29:56,912
I see how their walk changes.
1458
01:29:56,913 --> 01:29:59,393
I see how their posture changes.
1459
01:29:59,394 --> 01:30:01,396
And don't mind me saying,
but you look...
1460
01:30:03,223 --> 01:30:04,660
Well, you look fine to me, Chuck.
1461
01:30:06,401 --> 01:30:09,534
I'm not saying that you have
to dance with the girl.
1462
01:30:10,143 --> 01:30:12,188
It's up to you. I'm just saying
1463
01:30:12,189 --> 01:30:14,452
dance or no dance,
you don't have to lie.
1464
01:30:16,193 --> 01:30:17,455
Tell her the truth.
1465
01:30:20,458 --> 01:30:21,503
She can take it.
1466
01:31:26,002 --> 01:31:27,698
♪ Well, my temperature's rising ♪
1467
01:31:27,699 --> 01:31:29,918
♪ And my feet on the floor ♪
1468
01:31:29,919 --> 01:31:32,791
♪ Crazy people knocking 'cause ♪
♪ they're wanting some more ♪
1469
01:31:33,183 --> 01:31:35,967
♪ Let me in, baby, ♪
♪ I don't know what you got ♪
1470
01:31:35,968 --> 01:31:38,144
- You ready?
- Yeah. Let's do it.
1471
01:31:39,450 --> 01:31:42,018
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪
1472
01:31:43,236 --> 01:31:45,324
♪ So glad we made it ♪
1473
01:31:45,325 --> 01:31:46,675
♪ You gotta ♪
1474
01:31:46,979 --> 01:31:48,371
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1475
01:31:48,372 --> 01:31:50,286
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1476
01:31:50,287 --> 01:31:51,635
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1477
01:31:51,636 --> 01:31:53,507
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1478
01:31:53,508 --> 01:31:57,163
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪
1479
01:32:16,443 --> 01:32:18,488
♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
1480
01:32:18,489 --> 01:32:20,359
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪
1481
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:22,013
♪ You better take it easy ♪
1482
01:32:22,014 --> 01:32:23,885
♪ 'Cause the place is on fire ♪
1483
01:32:23,886 --> 01:32:26,931
♪ Been a hard day ♪
♪ and I have so much to do ♪
1484
01:32:26,932 --> 01:32:29,543
♪ We made it, baby, ♪
♪ and it happened to you ♪
1485
01:32:29,544 --> 01:32:32,242
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪
1486
01:32:33,635 --> 01:32:35,810
♪ So glad we made it ♪
1487
01:32:35,811 --> 01:32:37,246
♪ You gotta ♪
1488
01:32:37,247 --> 01:32:38,682
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1489
01:32:38,683 --> 01:32:40,684
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1490
01:32:40,685 --> 01:32:41,990
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1491
01:32:41,991 --> 01:32:43,905
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1492
01:32:43,906 --> 01:32:45,428
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1493
01:32:45,429 --> 01:32:46,995
♪ Every day ♪
1494
01:33:05,144 --> 01:33:07,102
♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
1495
01:33:07,103 --> 01:33:09,191
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪
1496
01:33:09,192 --> 01:33:12,108
♪ You better take it easy ♪
♪ 'cause the place is on fire ♪
1497
01:33:12,456 --> 01:33:15,327
♪ Been a hard day ♪
♪ and nothing went too good ♪
1498
01:33:15,328 --> 01:33:18,548
♪ Now I'm gonna relax ♪
♪ like-a everybody should ♪
1499
01:33:18,549 --> 01:33:21,030
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪
1500
01:33:21,465 --> 01:33:22,596
♪ Hey-hey ♪
1501
01:33:22,597 --> 01:33:24,685
♪ So glad we made it ♪
1502
01:33:24,686 --> 01:33:26,556
♪ You got to ♪
1503
01:33:26,557 --> 01:33:28,123
♪ Gimme some a-loving ♪
1504
01:33:28,124 --> 01:33:29,603
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1505
01:33:29,604 --> 01:33:30,908
♪ Gimme some loving ♪
1506
01:33:30,909 --> 01:33:32,824
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1507
01:33:34,173 --> 01:33:36,306
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1508
01:33:37,220 --> 01:33:39,396
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1509
01:33:40,484 --> 01:33:42,616
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1510
01:33:59,068 --> 01:34:01,722
One more time! One more time!
1511
01:34:01,723 --> 01:34:05,117
One more time!
1512
01:34:05,857 --> 01:34:07,684
They may have been young,
1513
01:34:07,685 --> 01:34:10,339
but they were smart enough
to know when to quit.
1514
01:34:18,914 --> 01:34:20,392
Thank you, guys.
1515
01:34:20,393 --> 01:34:22,046
Six months before he died
1516
01:34:22,047 --> 01:34:25,702
of a brain tumor
at the unfair age of 39,
1517
01:34:25,703 --> 01:34:28,967
and while his mind
was still working, mostly,
1518
01:34:29,446 --> 01:34:32,535
Chuck told his wife
the truth about the scar
1519
01:34:32,536 --> 01:34:33,885
on the back of his hand.
1520
01:34:35,757 --> 01:34:37,627
When they'd first started dating,
1521
01:34:37,628 --> 01:34:39,542
he told her he'd gotten it
from a boy
1522
01:34:39,543 --> 01:34:41,544
named Doug Wentworth,
1523
01:34:41,545 --> 01:34:44,416
who was pissed about him
dancing with his girlfriend
1524
01:34:44,417 --> 01:34:46,157
at a middle school formal
1525
01:34:46,158 --> 01:34:48,290
and pushed him into a chain link fence
1526
01:34:48,291 --> 01:34:49,508
outside the gym.
1527
01:34:49,509 --> 01:34:50,902
I lied about that, though.
1528
01:34:54,036 --> 01:34:55,297
Oh, my.
1529
01:34:55,298 --> 01:34:57,603
A man of secrets,
1530
01:34:57,604 --> 01:34:58,823
even still.
1531
01:35:01,043 --> 01:35:02,870
What happened, love?
1532
01:35:02,871 --> 01:35:04,916
When our fabulous dance was over, I...
1533
01:35:05,569 --> 01:35:07,789
I was sweaty and I was so hot.
1534
01:35:08,746 --> 01:35:10,878
I-I felt like my cheeks
were gonna catch fire.
1535
01:35:10,879 --> 01:35:12,140
You were great.
1536
01:35:12,141 --> 01:35:13,577
- Thank you.
- What a star.
1537
01:35:14,883 --> 01:35:16,187
All I wanted in that moment
1538
01:35:16,188 --> 01:35:18,494
was just darkness,
1539
01:35:18,495 --> 01:35:19,801
cool air,
1540
01:35:20,845 --> 01:35:22,238
and to be by myself.
1541
01:35:26,982 --> 01:35:28,853
There were millions of stars that night.
1542
01:35:30,725 --> 01:35:31,987
Millions of them.
1543
01:35:32,596 --> 01:35:34,293
And millions more behind them.
1544
01:35:35,338 --> 01:35:39,081
And sure, m-may —
Yeah, maybe they were just math.
1545
01:35:40,299 --> 01:35:42,823
But they also danced.
1546
01:35:42,824 --> 01:35:45,740
I know 'cause I saw one of them.
1547
01:35:47,872 --> 01:35:51,527
And I remember thinking,
the universe is large
1548
01:35:51,528 --> 01:35:53,964
and, and it contains multitudes,
1549
01:35:53,965 --> 01:35:57,403
but it-it also contains me.
1550
01:35:58,578 --> 01:35:59,928
And in this moment...
1551
01:36:01,668 --> 01:36:03,235
I am wonderful.
1552
01:36:04,671 --> 01:36:07,195
And I have a right to be wonderful.
1553
01:36:07,196 --> 01:36:09,111
Oh!
1554
01:36:12,767 --> 01:36:14,377
Why lie about that, silly?
1555
01:36:16,161 --> 01:36:18,250
You're a strange wonder, my dear.
1556
01:36:20,078 --> 01:36:22,297
He doesn't offer more
1557
01:36:22,298 --> 01:36:25,649
because the scar was important
for another reason.
1558
01:36:26,998 --> 01:36:29,566
It was part of a story he couldn't tell,
1559
01:36:30,175 --> 01:36:32,916
even though there was now
an apartment building
1560
01:36:32,917 --> 01:36:35,179
on the site of the Victorian house
1561
01:36:35,180 --> 01:36:37,443
where he had done
most of his growing up.
1562
01:36:38,749 --> 01:36:41,403
The haunted Victorian house.
1563
01:36:41,404 --> 01:36:42,405
Mm.
1564
01:36:42,971 --> 01:36:43,928
No reason.
1565
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,323
Funny thinking, I guess.
1566
01:36:48,106 --> 01:36:50,151
The scar meant more,
1567
01:36:50,152 --> 01:36:52,154
so he had made it more.
1568
01:36:52,632 --> 01:36:56,462
He just couldn't make it
as much more as it really was.
1569
01:36:57,072 --> 01:36:59,290
That made little sense.
1570
01:36:59,291 --> 01:37:03,034
But as the glioblastoma
continued its blitzkrieg,
1571
01:37:03,687 --> 01:37:06,036
it was the best his disintegrating mind
1572
01:37:06,037 --> 01:37:07,168
could manage.
1573
01:37:39,897 --> 01:37:41,637
Chuck's grandpa,
1574
01:37:41,638 --> 01:37:42,769
his Zaydee,
1575
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:45,380
died of a heart attack
1576
01:37:45,381 --> 01:37:49,471
five years after the Fall Fling dance.
1577
01:37:49,472 --> 01:37:52,039
Chuck was a junior in high school
1578
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:55,172
singing in a band and dancing like Jagger
1579
01:37:55,173 --> 01:37:57,175
during the instrumental breaks.
1580
01:37:57,828 --> 01:37:59,830
He made all the arrangements himself.
1581
01:38:01,223 --> 01:38:03,224
Came in a few weeks ago
1582
01:38:03,225 --> 01:38:05,574
just to make sure
everything was to the letter,
1583
01:38:05,575 --> 01:38:07,620
which I thought was strange.
1584
01:38:08,404 --> 01:38:10,231
Not many people bother to do that.
1585
01:38:10,232 --> 01:38:11,841
Most people,
1586
01:38:11,842 --> 01:38:14,323
they come here once to set it all up.
1587
01:38:15,150 --> 01:38:16,847
They aren't anxious to come back again.
1588
01:38:18,414 --> 01:38:21,546
Next time I see 'em,
they're in their Sunday best,
1589
01:38:21,547 --> 01:38:22,722
if you get me.
1590
01:38:24,942 --> 01:38:27,989
He was a great man and a good friend.
1591
01:38:29,555 --> 01:38:32,296
He's been doing our books for 23 years
1592
01:38:32,297 --> 01:38:34,646
and saved our skin more than once
1593
01:38:34,647 --> 01:38:35,910
when the tax man was coming.
1594
01:38:38,738 --> 01:38:41,305
So, do I owe you any money?
1595
01:38:41,306 --> 01:38:42,959
Not a penny.
1596
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:46,180
He took care of that too.
Settled his tab
1597
01:38:46,181 --> 01:38:47,617
that same visit.
1598
01:38:48,705 --> 01:38:49,706
You know...
1599
01:38:50,968 --> 01:38:52,317
the strangest thing.
1600
01:38:53,057 --> 01:38:55,842
And this will sound strange,
so bear with me.
1601
01:38:56,408 --> 01:38:58,976
See, I, uh,
1602
01:38:59,498 --> 01:39:01,847
dreamed of being
a television weatherman
1603
01:39:01,848 --> 01:39:03,110
in my salad days
1604
01:39:03,111 --> 01:39:04,590
with maybe one of the networks.
1605
01:39:05,852 --> 01:39:07,115
Wasn't in the cards for me.
1606
01:39:08,290 --> 01:39:11,902
But I did spend a summer at WKNB.
1607
01:39:13,121 --> 01:39:15,818
Well, there was a guy
1608
01:39:15,819 --> 01:39:17,951
at KNB who they said
1609
01:39:17,952 --> 01:39:19,953
could feel a storm coming
1610
01:39:19,954 --> 01:39:21,694
two solid weeks away
1611
01:39:22,217 --> 01:39:23,826
without the radar.
1612
01:39:23,827 --> 01:39:25,610
Had a sixth sense.
1613
01:39:25,611 --> 01:39:27,396
Damnedest thing I ever saw.
1614
01:39:28,049 --> 01:39:30,354
Uh, used to make this face,
1615
01:39:30,355 --> 01:39:33,836
this face when people talked
about their travel plans,
1616
01:39:33,837 --> 01:39:35,925
if he knew something they didn't.
1617
01:39:35,926 --> 01:39:39,102
Not... not a smile, per se.
1618
01:39:39,103 --> 01:39:40,930
No joy in it.
1619
01:39:40,931 --> 01:39:44,065
Just a... knowing.
1620
01:39:45,370 --> 01:39:47,111
"Weatherman Stare," I called it.
1621
01:39:48,286 --> 01:39:50,984
And I didn't have it, not me.
1622
01:39:50,985 --> 01:39:53,335
So, I'm here, not there.
1623
01:39:56,207 --> 01:39:59,122
Your granddad had that same face
1624
01:39:59,123 --> 01:40:00,646
when he was in here.
1625
01:40:01,604 --> 01:40:05,042
Like... he knew it was gonna rain.
1626
01:40:05,738 --> 01:40:08,132
And I was just a guy
selling him an umbrella.
1627
01:40:10,526 --> 01:40:11,831
Weatherman Stare.
1628
01:40:12,832 --> 01:40:14,312
I'm sure of it.
1629
01:40:15,835 --> 01:40:16,923
The strangest thing.
1630
01:40:19,187 --> 01:40:21,449
Albie left him everything.
1631
01:40:21,450 --> 01:40:24,670
More than enough to pay
for his college education.
1632
01:40:25,149 --> 01:40:27,890
And later on,
the sale of the Victorian
1633
01:40:27,891 --> 01:40:30,980
paid for the house
he and Ginny moved into
1634
01:40:30,981 --> 01:40:33,375
after their honeymoon in the Catskills.
1635
01:40:35,464 --> 01:40:38,422
He flatly refused to move to Omaha
1636
01:40:38,423 --> 01:40:40,643
to live with his mother's parents.
1637
01:40:41,252 --> 01:40:43,166
- Look, I love you guys...
- He said.
1638
01:40:43,167 --> 01:40:46,561
...but this is where I grew up
and want to stay till college.
1639
01:40:46,562 --> 01:40:48,172
I'm 17. I'm not a baby.
1640
01:40:48,694 --> 01:40:51,087
So, they, both long retired,
1641
01:40:51,088 --> 01:40:52,741
came to him
1642
01:40:52,742 --> 01:40:54,656
and stayed in the Victorian
1643
01:40:54,657 --> 01:40:57,528
for the 20-odd months
before Chuck went off
1644
01:40:57,529 --> 01:40:59,531
to the University of Illinois.
1645
01:41:01,925 --> 01:41:05,146
They weren't able to
be there for the funeral, however.
1646
01:41:06,669 --> 01:41:09,279
It happened fast, as Albie had wanted,
1647
01:41:09,280 --> 01:41:11,325
and his mom's folks had loose ends
1648
01:41:11,326 --> 01:41:13,110
to tie up in Omaha.
1649
01:41:14,329 --> 01:41:16,896
Chuck didn't really miss them,
if he was honest.
1650
01:41:17,897 --> 01:41:20,073
His Zaydee hated a fuss
1651
01:41:20,074 --> 01:41:22,337
almost as much as he hated a crowd.
1652
01:41:26,689 --> 01:41:29,473
A day before they were scheduled to arrive,
1653
01:41:29,474 --> 01:41:31,910
Chuck finally opened the envelope
1654
01:41:31,911 --> 01:41:33,651
that had been sitting on the table
1655
01:41:33,652 --> 01:41:34,740
in the front hall.
1656
01:41:36,177 --> 01:41:38,874
It was from Sam Yarborough,
1657
01:41:38,875 --> 01:41:42,965
owner and chief undertaker
at Yarborough Funeral Home,
1658
01:41:42,966 --> 01:41:47,275
and inside were Albie Krantz's
personal effects.
1659
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:46,784
In this room,
Chuck's grandpa had seen
1660
01:43:46,785 --> 01:43:48,177
the Jefferies boy,
1661
01:43:48,178 --> 01:43:50,224
body broken by the car.
1662
01:43:52,008 --> 01:43:54,967
He'd seen Henry Peterson
hanging from the ceiling.
1663
01:43:56,230 --> 01:43:58,928
He'd seen his own wife lying dead.
1664
01:43:59,363 --> 01:44:01,886
And likely, Chuck supposed,
1665
01:44:01,887 --> 01:44:05,064
perhaps the night
Chuck had stolen his keys,
1666
01:44:05,978 --> 01:44:10,330
Albie had even seen himself
crumpled to the floor,
1667
01:44:10,331 --> 01:44:12,333
still clutching his upper arm.
1668
01:44:13,899 --> 01:44:16,162
"It's the waiting," he'd said.
1669
01:44:17,555 --> 01:44:19,164
"That's the hard part."
1670
01:44:20,776 --> 01:44:23,213
Now Chuck's own waiting would begin.
1671
01:44:24,954 --> 01:44:26,651
How long would that wait be?
1672
01:44:27,913 --> 01:44:31,655
Exactly how old was the man
in the hospital bed?
1673
01:44:36,966 --> 01:44:39,489
There was a final bip...
1674
01:44:39,490 --> 01:44:41,275
...from the unseen monitor
1675
01:44:42,188 --> 01:44:44,016
and then that was gone too.
1676
01:44:46,976 --> 01:44:48,846
The man did not fade,
1677
01:44:48,847 --> 01:44:51,720
as ghostly apparitions did in the movies.
1678
01:44:52,634 --> 01:44:54,375
He was just gone.
1679
01:44:55,289 --> 01:44:58,466
Insisting he had never
been there in the first place.
1680
01:45:00,381 --> 01:45:02,208
- He wasn't...
- Chuck thinks.
1681
01:45:02,774 --> 01:45:04,385
...and I will insist he wasn't.
1682
01:45:05,864 --> 01:45:09,346
And I will live my life
until my life runs out.
1683
01:45:11,522 --> 01:45:12,741
I am wonderful.
1684
01:45:14,830 --> 01:45:16,353
I deserve to be wonderful.
1685
01:45:19,225 --> 01:45:21,097
And I contain multitudes.
1686
01:46:00,571 --> 01:46:03,705
♪ Of all the money I ever had ♪
1687
01:46:05,620 --> 01:46:09,624
♪ I spent it in good company ♪
1688
01:46:10,625 --> 01:46:14,411
♪ And all the harm I've ever done ♪
1689
01:46:16,195 --> 01:46:20,025
♪ It was to none but me ♪
1690
01:46:23,420 --> 01:46:25,553
♪ And all I've done ♪
1691
01:46:27,337 --> 01:46:29,687
♪ For want of wit ♪
1692
01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:36,041
♪ To memory now I can't recall ♪
1693
01:46:38,653 --> 01:46:43,266
♪ So fill to me the parting glass ♪
1694
01:46:44,049 --> 01:46:48,967
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪
1695
01:47:12,295 --> 01:47:16,865
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪
1696
01:47:17,605 --> 01:47:21,478
♪ And drink a health whate'er befalls ♪
1697
01:47:22,523 --> 01:47:26,831
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪
1698
01:47:27,658 --> 01:47:32,620
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪
1699
01:47:56,208 --> 01:48:00,125
♪ Of all the friends I ever had ♪
1700
01:48:01,083 --> 01:48:05,217
♪ They're sorry for my going away ♪
1701
01:48:06,262 --> 01:48:10,919
♪ And all the sweethearts I ever had ♪
1702
01:48:11,485 --> 01:48:15,663
♪ They would wish me one more day to stay ♪
1703
01:48:18,753 --> 01:48:20,885
♪ Since it fell ♪
1704
01:48:23,192 --> 01:48:25,020
♪ Into my lot ♪
1705
01:48:27,065 --> 01:48:31,505
♪ That I should rise and you should not ♪
1706
01:48:34,290 --> 01:48:38,512
♪ I'll gently rise and softly call ♪
1707
01:48:39,425 --> 01:48:44,692
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪
1708
01:49:08,019 --> 01:49:12,546
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪
1709
01:49:13,155 --> 01:49:17,246
♪ Drink a health whate'er befalls ♪
1710
01:49:18,116 --> 01:49:22,425
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪
1711
01:49:23,252 --> 01:49:27,952
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪
1712
01:49:28,562 --> 01:49:34,829
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪