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I'm Levar Burton. And this

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is Levar Burton. In

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every episode I have hand picked

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a different piece of short fiction.

1:21

Then read it to. The

1:23

only thing these stories of and in

1:25

common is that I love. I

1:29

hope you have to.

1:36

This is indeed the final episode

1:38

of Season thirteen that Levar Burton

1:40

regio. But here's the thing. You.

1:43

Know. How much I love

1:45

reading aloud And so rest assured

1:47

I'll figure out how to continue

1:50

to. Engage. With

1:52

you. In. Storytelling Bed.

1:55

We. Love. And

1:57

as it's the final episode, it really

1:59

made sense to read something today by

2:01

one of the greats. A

2:03

speculative storyteller whose work

2:05

has endured for decades.

2:07

The great Ray Bradbury.

2:11

Ray. Bradbury is stories are so

2:13

powerful and appeal to so many

2:15

people, partially because. They

2:17

are lyrical and colloquial.

2:20

Often playful while. All.

2:23

the time engaging with

2:25

difficult true. Story,

2:28

but I've chosen for the day

2:30

as one of Bradbury Tales about

2:32

time travel. I think it's about.

2:34

Human destiny. And. Hope

2:37

for the future. More

2:39

than anything. I think

2:41

it's about the power of human story

2:43

telling. The

2:45

Toynbee Conductor was written in Nineteen

2:48

Eighty Three and first published in

2:50

Playboy Magazine, less later featured in

2:52

a collection of short stories by

2:55

the same time at Toynbee Convective.

2:58

And it's still. In print to.

3:01

Go. As

3:04

one of the characters explains

3:06

that Toynbee in the name

3:08

refers to the historian Arnold

3:11

Jack Toynbee who said any

3:13

group. Any race any

3:15

world the did not run to

3:17

seize the future and shape it.

3:20

Was. Doomed to dust a way

3:22

to the grease in the past.

3:26

Can wait for you to hear this story. Still,

3:28

find a content advisory for this

3:31

story in the written episode description

3:33

and. Now if. You're

3:36

ready! Let's

3:38

take that d. S.

3:59

The Tories. Be conveyed. By.

4:03

Ray. Bradbury. Roger

4:18

Shumway flung himself into

4:20

the says mogul himself

4:23

and read the rules.

4:25

And Christie is Dragonfly

4:27

Super Six helicopter up

4:29

to blow away on

4:31

the summer sky, heading

4:33

south toward noise. How

4:37

lucky can you get for he

4:40

was on his way to with

4:42

incredible me. The

4:44

Time Travel after a hundred

4:47

years of silence had agreed

4:49

to be interviewed. He was

4:52

on this date one hundred

4:54

thirty years old and this

4:57

afternoon at four o'clock sharp

4:59

Pacific time. But. The

5:01

anniversary of his wounds

5:03

and own journey in.

5:10

Large gas. One hundred

5:12

years ago, Craig Bennett

5:14

Styles had waved, stepped

5:16

into his immense clock

5:18

as he called it

5:21

and vanished from the

5:23

pressed. He was

5:25

and remains the only man

5:27

in history to travel into.

5:30

And someone was the one

5:32

and only reporters after all

5:35

these years. To be invited

5:37

is for afternoon. And

5:41

stuff possible announcement of

5:43

a second and final

5:45

trip through time traveler

5:47

had hinted at such

5:49

a trip. Oh

5:52

man said shumway Mr.

5:55

Bennet styles. Error.

5:58

I'd. Immediate.

6:06

a fever see a when and

6:09

wrote it down. Asked. The

6:12

old man was there waiting for

6:14

on the roof of the time

6:16

lemme Seretse at the rim of

6:18

the hang gliders cliffs in La

6:20

Jolla. The air

6:22

swarmed with crimson, blue and lemon

6:25

kites from which young men sell

6:27

his wild young women's call to

6:29

them from the land. Style

6:33

for all his one hundred

6:36

thirty. Years not. oh his

6:38

face. Blinking up with the

6:40

helicopter was the bright face

6:43

of one of those hang

6:45

gliding Apollo fools veered off

6:48

as the helicopter. Some

6:52

way over to his craft

6:54

for a long lost safe

6:56

for the links. Below

7:02

him was a face

7:04

that had dreamed architectures

7:06

known incredible love, blue

7:08

printed mysteries of seconds,

7:10

hours, days then die

7:12

this to swim upstream

7:14

through the centuries. a

7:16

sudden burst face celebrating

7:18

his own birthday. For

7:22

on a single nine. One

7:24

hundred years ago Craig many

7:27

styles freshly returned from times

7:29

had reported by Telstar around

7:32

the world the millions of

7:34

viewers and told them. Their

7:37

future. We.

7:41

Made it. He said. It

7:45

the future is ours.

7:47

We are rebuild the

7:49

city's fresh, the small

7:51

towns clean, the lakes

7:54

and rivers was the

7:56

air. Save The

7:58

Dolphins increased the way. Stop

8:01

The wars. Dot

8:03

solar stations across space to light

8:06

the world, colonize the moon, moved

8:08

on to Mars, then Alpha Syn

8:10

Tours. With. Short.

8:14

Answer. And Stop

8:16

Death. We did

8:18

it go Lord much thanks.

8:20

We did it. Oh

8:23

future's bright and beauty

8:26

aspires her eyes. He

8:29

showed them pictures, he brought some

8:31

samples studied them a sense L

8:34

P Reckless film and sound to

8:36

sense if is vendors round the

8:38

bend. The

8:41

world. With mess with

8:43

your. It

8:45

ran to meet and mates sets

8:47

you to clean up the cities

8:50

of promise, save all and share

8:52

with a piece of land and

8:54

sea. The

9:00

old man's welcoming shout Team

9:02

Up with. Some

9:04

weight shouted back and let the brag

9:06

and fly simmer down in it's own

9:08

some with. Craig

9:11

Benny Stuff one hundred

9:14

thirty years old, screwed

9:16

forward risks and incredibly

9:18

healthy young reporter Out

9:20

of his crash so

9:23

suddenly still. Me

9:25

that this includes. And.

9:31

Some we said. You

9:34

are. And

9:36

known to. Mask

9:38

the time trump. Any

9:41

day now I may just fall

9:43

apart and blow. Wish. Floods

9:47

very. A

9:50

parade of one styles marched off

9:52

under the fluttering road or shadows

9:54

that made him seem a flickering.

9:57

News is a few true that

9:59

some. Last. Someone

10:02

like a small dog after

10:04

a great aren't first. What

10:08

do you want to know as the old

10:10

Man as they crossed the roof double time.

10:14

First guest some

10:16

keeping. Vice,

10:19

Have you broke his silence

10:21

after a hundred years seconds?

10:23

Why to meet thirds? What's

10:25

the big announcement you're going

10:27

to make this afternoon at

10:30

four o'clock The varies our

10:32

when you're younger self is

10:34

due to a ride from

10:36

the past wins. For a

10:38

brief moments you will appear

10:40

in two places: Parents the

10:42

person you were man. He

10:44

was used in one dorries

10:47

our for us to some.

10:50

The old man's. Suit

10:53

to go off. Suits.

10:56

Sorry shumway blushed.

10:59

I'm Ruth that last night's.

11:02

Well. Those are questions.

11:07

Use you have your hips the

11:09

old man should his elbow tenths.

11:12

Oh and. You

11:17

must excuse my excitement set some.

11:21

After all, you are a

11:23

mistress. You're. Famous

11:25

Moral: the claims you went

11:27

saw the future combat told

11:30

us then. Went. Into

11:32

seclusion. Oh sure.

11:35

for a few weeks he traveled the

11:37

world and Ticker Tape parade showed yourself

11:39

on T V routes One book. You

11:42

students with one magnificent two hour

11:45

of television. Some. This.

11:48

Ship. Yourself away. Here.

11:52

Yes, the time machine is on exhibit

11:54

below. The crowds are allowed in each

11:56

day at noon to see and touch

11:58

with you. Refused

12:01

a. Lot

12:04

so. The.

12:06

Old man let him along

12:08

the roof below in the

12:10

gardens. Other helicopters were arriving

12:12

now bringing T V equipment

12:14

from around. the worst to

12:16

photograph the move in. The

12:18

stuff that moves when the

12:20

time machine from the past

12:22

would appear shimmer, then wander

12:24

off to visit other cities

12:26

before it vanished into the

12:28

past. I

12:31

have been busy as an

12:33

architect helping build that very

12:35

future. I saw his young

12:37

man Iraq in our goals

12:40

To me. He

12:43

stood for a moment watching

12:45

the preparation villain. Fast

12:48

tables were being set up

12:51

for food drink dignitaries would

12:53

be arriving soon from every

12:55

country of the world's to

12:57

thanks for a final time.

13:00

Perhaps this fable is almost

13:02

missing traveler the years. Said.

13:08

Would. You like to come see his

13:10

time machine. No one

13:12

else ever has. To

13:15

be. No

13:18

answer with. The

13:20

old man could see that the young

13:22

man's eyes were bright. Vet

13:26

said deals. Dear

13:29

be fair, there. A

13:35

glass sick and took them

13:38

below. Let's out. pure white

13:40

least. We

13:42

stood in. Their

13:48

styles touch the button in

13:50

a plastic shell that had

13:52

for one hundred years in

13:54

case the time machine. Slid.

13:57

Aside. The

13:59

old man. Not and. Go.

14:03

Sit. Some

14:06

way move slowly toward the

14:09

machine. Styles

14:12

touched another buddies and the

14:14

machine lit up like a

14:16

cavern of spiderwebs. He breathed

14:18

in years and whispered. fourth

14:21

remembrance posts were in it's

14:23

crystal veins, a great God

14:25

Spider had woven it's tapestries

14:27

and a single night it

14:30

was haunted. Ended was a

14:32

lie. Unseen tides came and

14:34

went and it's machine. Sons

14:36

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14:39

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14:41

autumn. Blew away in tatters,

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their winters rind and snows

14:45

drifted in. spring blossoms to

14:47

fall on some of. The.

14:53

Young man sat in the

14:55

scent of it off unable

14:57

to speak. gripping the on

15:00

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16:41

Still, Man. Study this.

16:44

Know. I can

16:46

see you wouldn't You looked

16:48

like me one hundred years

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ago. This desks damned if

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you are, buys. Honorary

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young man said his eyes

17:01

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17:03

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17:05

machine some all about promised

17:07

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17:14

What do you think of my Toynbee?

17:16

Some that said the old man first

17:18

to break the spell. He

17:21

cut the power. Young

17:23

man opened his eyes. Zeus

17:26

twin be to set

17:28

during the first more

17:30

mysteries. The. Great

17:33

Toynbee. That's fine. just story.

17:35

Who said Any group, any

17:37

race, any world that did

17:39

not run to seize the

17:42

future and shape it. Was

17:44

doomed to dust away in the great.

17:47

In the past. The

17:49

he sees as. Or

17:52

some such. he did. So

17:55

what better name for mimosas?

17:59

Toynbee. Wherever. You are.

18:01

Fears your future seizing

18:04

device. He grabbed

18:06

the young man's elbow and steered him out

18:08

of the machine. And

18:11

love of that. It's. Lake.

18:14

Almost. Time for the great arrival!

18:18

And that are seeking final

18:20

announcement of that old time

18:22

traveller stuff. Jump.

18:27

Back on the roof they look

18:30

down on the gardens which were

18:32

now swarming with the famous and

18:34

the near famous from across the

18:37

world. The nearby roads were jammed,

18:39

the skies were full of helicopters

18:41

and hovering biplane hang gliders had

18:44

long since given us and now

18:46

stood alone the cliff rim like

18:48

a Mama Frank terror attack. Winning

18:51

schools it's adds up staring at

18:53

the class with. The

18:58

old man. The

19:05

young man checked his walks. ten

19:07

minutes to for and counting. Almost

19:09

time for the great a Rice

19:11

sorry that's what I called it

19:14

when I wrote you up a

19:16

week ago for the news. That

19:18

moment of arrivals and departures in

19:20

the blink of i win by

19:23

stepping across times you change the

19:25

whole suits or of the world

19:27

from like today. Dark delight. I've

19:32

often wondered. Why?

19:35

So many studies discuss. With

19:39

you with a history into. Didn't

19:42

know one see will run did

19:44

anyone happened at all to look

19:46

up the you know and see

19:48

your device hover in the middle

19:50

of the air tier and over

19:52

Chicago. a bit later and in

19:54

New York and Paris no one.

20:00

The inventor of the Toynbee

20:02

conductor I don't suppose any

20:04

was expecting. And

20:07

if people saw it, surely did not

20:09

know what in blazes they were looking.

20:11

That. I was

20:13

careful not to linger too long.

20:17

Either the only time to

20:19

photograph to rebuild city he

20:21

sees and reverse the fresh

20:23

snow. Three a. On

20:26

fortified nice, saved and

20:28

beloved me. I

20:31

moved. Photograph Smith

20:33

and ran back down the use

20:35

of. To. Day.

20:40

Stuff. Millions.

20:42

Upon millions of mobs of

20:44

eyes will be looking up with

20:46

great expectations. he will glance,

20:48

will they not? From a

20:50

young fool burning in the sky

20:53

to the old school year.

20:55

Still, Glasses Try. He

20:58

will. Said Trump. Dish.

21:06

Apart. From

21:08

way turned from surveying the crowds on

21:10

the nearby seals and crowds of circling

21:13

objects in the to see that Styles

21:15

had just opened a bottle of champagne.

21:19

Our own private toast And

21:21

our own price. So this.

21:25

He held their classes are

21:27

waiting for the precise proper

21:29

must to just. Five

21:32

minutes to for and kept. Said

21:37

the young reporter. Did no

21:39

one else ever crap. I

21:43

put a stop to myself. said

21:45

the old man leaning over the

21:47

roof, looking down at the craft.

21:51

I realized. Days.

21:55

I was reliable of course. know. Any

22:01

one rolling about the bowling

22:04

alley, time horn, or the

22:06

hits? Nothing. ten pages at

22:09

most. Frightening. nice something citizens

22:11

somewhere else, fiddling with Napoleon's

22:14

lifeline behind or restoring sisters

22:16

Cousins ahead. Snow. And

22:20

governments course agrees. know in

22:23

system and we put Toynbee.

22:25

Can vectors underseas, block and.

22:29

Today you were the

22:31

first and last single

22:34

his. Guard

22:37

has been heavy and constant for

22:39

tens of thousands of days to

22:41

prevent the machines beast. Somewhere

22:48

glanced at his watch, took in

22:51

his breath. One

22:53

minute counting. Do. He

22:57

counted. The. Old me. Stay

23:01

Raise their champagne. Nine.

23:04

Eight. Seven. Of. The

23:08

crowds below were immensely silent.

23:10

The. Sky whispered with expect

23:13

the Tv cameras swung

23:15

up to scan and

23:17

search six. Ah,

23:20

They. Cling to their

23:22

glasses for three

23:25

to. Pay.

23:27

tourists. One.

23:30

They drink their champagne with. alas

23:33

they look to the skies, the

23:35

golden air above the La Jolla

23:37

coastline. A

23:44

moment for the great arrival was

23:46

here. Now

23:49

crime young reporter like a

23:51

magician giving orders. Nothing.

24:08

Five seconds. Companies

24:10

to didn't he. Didn't.

24:16

Have reached. Twenty

24:20

seconds. At

24:26

least some way to to stay here

24:28

and wonder the old man. My you. Looked.

24:34

From he said. You

24:40

what cried some. The

24:44

crowds below sisters uneasy. With

24:49

least said the old me

24:51

since. Oh.

24:55

Oh. With yes, send

24:58

a time traveler. I

25:00

never when. I

25:04

stayed good lead. it's. There

25:08

is no time machine Slowly

25:10

something that looks like. To

25:14

squash cried the young men bewildered, holding

25:16

on to the real at the edge

25:19

of the reasons. Why?

25:24

I see the you have

25:26

a tape recording button about.

25:29

Thirty know. This day.

25:32

Every. The.

25:40

Old man finished stamps. And

25:43

themselves. Because. I

25:46

was born and raised in a

25:48

time. Sixties,

25:50

Seventies and eighties when

25:53

people had stopped believing

25:55

in themselves. i

25:57

saw that disbelief the ring

26:00

that no longer gave itself

26:02

reasons to survive and was

26:04

moved, depressed, and then angered

26:07

by it. Everywhere

26:10

I saw and heard doubt.

26:13

Everywhere I learned destruction.

26:17

Everywhere was professional despair,

26:20

intellectual ennui. And

26:22

what wasn't ennui and

26:24

cynicism was rampant skepticism

26:26

and incipient nihilism. The

26:31

old man stopped having remembered something. He

26:33

bent and from under a table brought

26:35

forth a special bottle of red burgundy

26:38

with the label 1984 on it. This,

26:43

as he talked, he began to

26:46

open, gently plumbing the ancient cork.

26:50

You name it, we had it. The

26:53

economy was a snail. The

26:56

world was a cesspool. Economics

26:58

remained an insoluble mystery.

27:02

Melancholy was the attitude. The

27:05

impossibility of change was the

27:07

vogue. End of

27:09

the world was the slogan. Nothing

27:13

was worth doing. Go

27:15

to bed at night full of bad news

27:17

at eleven. Wake up in the

27:20

morn to worse news at seven. Trudge

27:22

through the day underwater. Brown

27:26

at night in a tide

27:28

of plagues and pestilence. For

27:34

the cork had softly popped. The

27:37

now harmless 1984 vintage was ready for airing.

27:42

The time traveler sniffed it and

27:45

nodded. Not

27:48

only the four horsemen of the

27:50

apocalypse rode the horizon to fling

27:52

themselves on our cities, but a

27:54

fifth horseman worse than all

27:56

the rest rode with him. Despair.

28:00

Wrapped in dark frowst, deceased

28:03

frying only repetitions as as

28:05

disasters present safe future helps

28:08

bombarded by dark task and

28:10

know right see what sort

28:13

of harvest was there for

28:15

a man to the latter

28:17

part of the and credible

28:20

twenty sensors. Has

28:23

gone He forgot the

28:25

red landscapes of Mars,

28:28

the great I've Jupiter,

28:30

stunning rings of Saturn,

28:34

Refuse to be comfort.

28:39

To resume our time. Time.

28:46

Was that with months hundred

28:49

years ago asked some required

28:51

to be. A

28:56

time traveler held up the wine

28:58

bottle as if it contains. Ski

29:01

poured some into a glass.

29:03

I did inhale, didn't went

29:05

on. Us

29:08

seems nice ring to read books

29:10

of that time. You

29:13

know it all. Worth

29:15

of you right? Mood swings

29:17

soft delivered the world's children

29:19

to life or or the

29:21

night when eagle landed And

29:23

that one great step for

29:25

mankind. Try to move. In

29:29

the mines and and the mounds of

29:31

many. Doctors.

29:37

Were high hopes it some

29:39

seemed of is winning so

29:41

all would need. Normally satisfied

29:43

with their predictions of dogs

29:45

or right from stay wants

29:47

to the self fulfilling prophecies you

29:49

to click. does

29:52

hundred and appeared to lie

29:54

down. You

29:57

couldn't. The

30:00

young Reporter. He

30:02

nurse. So

30:07

you built the Toynbee Conductor.

30:10

Not all at once. It

30:12

took years, To food. The

30:18

old man pause to squirrel

30:20

the dark why gaze at

30:23

it and same eyes closed.

30:27

Meanwhile. Nine

30:29

Draft I despaired. wept silently

30:32

late nights. Think: what can

30:34

I do to save us

30:36

from ourselves? How to save

30:39

my friends, my city, my

30:41

state. I can see the

30:44

entire world from this obsession

30:46

with do. It

30:50

was in my library the one

30:53

night that my son searching lung

30:55

cells touched at last on an

30:57

old and beloved book by H

30:59

T with. His

31:02

time device cost ghost

31:05

down the years. I

31:08

heard. I

31:11

and stuff. Die

31:13

Truly list. Anime

31:17

blueprint it it's I

31:19

built traveled are so

31:22

it seemed. Rest

31:24

is you know. The

31:27

sisters. Your

31:30

time traveler direct is why.

31:34

Opened his eyes, Winokur

31:47

for believe it is unfair. I

31:50

recently completed you get it your

31:52

own. You. Access

31:59

order. The vacation from your

32:01

family you can always gets around

32:03

only the kids with grandma. Says

32:06

to Texas. So go

32:09

to travel to act as.coms last gets her own

32:11

for the only to detect is that matters. Yours.

32:18

Here. You are Bps. As.

32:29

An. Id and year plans detail

32:31

ah images that the bubbles down

32:33

life able plants. It's. A miracle.

32:36

Grow is full. Of essential nutrients Tesla, Skip

32:38

and he has earned can and bed and

32:40

conceding and bigger more beautiful plans is kind

32:42

of like a sports drink. Say a plan

32:44

you may have to suffer from heat Are

32:46

your plans? Do not. Bow.

32:51

Risk factors. Young

33:01

Reporter whiskey. And

33:06

honey. There

33:10

was an immense some low regard

33:13

who's now in the fields? Be

33:15

on and on the road and

33:17

Elite will still we The. Winter

33:21

was the great rice. Said

33:28

the was man filling another glass of wine

33:30

for the young reporter. Aren't

33:33

I? I

33:36

mean, she's. Deal

33:38

miniature cities, lakes, ponds

33:41

sees erected vast architectures

33:43

against crystal water sky.

33:47

Talked to dozens

33:50

wheels take tests

33:52

pathology. Jesus.

33:57

Years of sweaty. Preparation

34:01

for i know, my

34:03

departure list. Team

34:06

back to good use.

34:09

A drink the rest of the vintage? Why? There

34:13

was a home of who says, oh,

34:15

the people below are looking up at

34:17

the rules, the time travel ways. To.

34:25

Italy Now it's up to you

34:27

from here you have the tapes

34:29

my voice on just freshly baked.

34:32

Two or three more tickets with

34:34

for thirty years of film cassette

34:36

history of my whole inspired fraud.

34:39

Is a final manuscripts to take

34:42

it off. And you know. I'd

34:45

nominate you as son to

34:47

explain the fuck. Did.

34:52

I filled in the elevator once more.

34:54

somewhere felt the world far away. but.

34:57

He didn't know whether to laugh

34:59

or cry, so gave had last

35:02

agreed. hooked. The old

35:04

man surprised own and with him

35:06

as they step down below and

35:08

advanced upon the Toynbee conduct. Sliced.

35:17

Has always been lying to

35:19

ourselves. As boys,

35:21

young olds as girls

35:23

may Women Stooges League

35:26

last season prove the

35:28

like true. To

35:30

we've dreams and put brains

35:33

and ideas and flesh And

35:35

the truly real A nice.

35:37

The tourists every finally is

35:39

a. Promise. What?

35:42

Seems a lot is a

35:44

ramshackle nice wishing to be

35:46

both tier that sense so.

35:51

He pressed the button and raised

35:53

the plastic see pressed enough started

35:55

the time soon. Correct

36:01

himself into the connectors, Throw

36:04

the final switching move. Your

36:09

thinking: if the time is seen

36:11

as a fraud, it will work.

36:14

What's the use of throwing a

36:16

swift vs. Throw

36:18

it in. This

36:20

time. Is

36:23

will. Some

36:29

we turn found Control Smith

36:31

Ram hoof and look great

36:34

in his sons. I

36:37

don't understand. Where are you

36:40

going? To

36:43

be one with the ages of course.

36:46

To exist now only in

36:48

the deep. How

36:51

can it. Believe

36:54

me this time, he

36:56

will. Be

36:59

my dear Fines nice

37:01

young me. The

37:04

most. Me: tell

37:06

me my name. What

37:09

state? My name and

37:12

throw the switch. Time

37:14

Traveller? Yes. The

37:19

young man he discussed

37:21

the machine on long.

37:23

Blazed without. Said

37:28

the old man said his

37:30

eyes mouth. And.

37:39

Just. Generally

37:41

yes, veins. it's often need for

37:44

terrorists to strapped binding the old

37:46

man in his device. In the

37:48

midst of so doing, he stopped.

37:51

Felt the time travelers risk but his

37:54

fingers under the neck to test the

37:56

post. and graft

38:00

He began to weep. The

38:05

old man had indeed

38:07

gone back in time, and

38:10

its name was Death. He

38:15

was traveling in the past now,

38:18

forever. Chumway

38:22

stepped back and turned the machine on

38:24

again. If the old

38:26

man were to travel, let

38:28

the machine symbolically

38:32

go with it. It

38:34

made a sympathetic humming, a

38:37

fire of it, a bright sun

38:39

fire, burned in all its spider

38:42

grids and armatures, and lighted the

38:44

cheeks of the vast brow

38:46

of the ancient travels, whose head

38:48

seemed to nod at

38:50

the vibrations, whose

38:53

smile as he traveled in the

38:55

darkness, and the smile of

38:57

a child was

38:59

satisfying. The

39:07

reporter stood for a

39:09

long moment more, wiping his

39:11

cheeks with the backs of his hands, then,

39:15

leaving the machine on, he

39:18

turned, crossed the

39:20

room, pressed the button

39:22

for the glass elevator, and

39:25

while he was waiting, took the

39:27

time traveler's tapes and cassettes from

39:30

his jacket pockets, and

39:32

one by one shoved

39:34

them into the incinerator

39:36

trash flue set in the

39:38

wall. The

39:42

elevator doors opened. He

39:45

stepped in. The doors shut. The

39:49

elevator honed now. I

39:52

get another time device, taking him

39:54

up into a stunned world, a

39:58

Waiting World. Lifting

40:01

him up into a

40:03

bright caught a future

40:06

land of ponderous and

40:08

surviving post. That

40:11

one man. With

40:15

one last. He

40:17

created. A

40:39

lot of people ask me. Why

40:42

Science Fiction? I mean, what's

40:44

your what's your thing about

40:46

speculative fiction? Film.

40:52

For me is the hopeful nature

40:54

of the genre. You know,

40:59

The idea that we can

41:01

rise. To our highest level

41:03

of expressions as a species the how

41:05

that that. In.

41:08

Six years. So.

41:11

Much good as come

41:13

from our. Natural

41:16

inclinations to look up. The

41:19

others that image in the story

41:22

where millions of people are looking

41:24

up. Hurry. His

41:27

life has given me of a lot

41:29

of wonderful opportunities. I've actually become friends

41:32

with her home in a May Carol

41:34

Jemison. She was the first African American

41:36

woman in space on the Space shuttle

41:38

and she's got a project this has

41:41

been working on for several years and

41:43

I've been a tangential part of it

41:45

called the One Hundred Year Starship and

41:47

it's an effort that gathers together however,

41:50

all kinds of experts in all kinds

41:52

of seals and and they discuss what.

41:55

It. Will take in the year

41:57

now for us to create a

41:59

future. that will enable

42:02

us to be a space-faring

42:04

race. And

42:06

the idea is that it's not gonna happen

42:09

today. It's not gonna happen for us. We

42:11

are planning for the next 100 years. And

42:16

one of the things that May says

42:19

about this journey that we're on,

42:22

she stresses how important it is

42:24

for us to

42:26

look up, right? To

42:30

actually connect to the

42:32

stars, to acknowledge that we

42:36

come from them and that

42:38

there is a calling that

42:41

lives inside of us to return to

42:44

that which we came from. And

42:48

this story and

42:50

the very, very brilliant Ray

42:52

Bradbury reminds

42:56

us of that calling.

43:00

As I've talked about on our way

43:02

to now, this

43:05

is indeed the final episode

43:07

or the final season of the Varburton

43:09

Reeds. It has been my extreme and

43:12

joyous pleasure to be with

43:15

you on this

43:17

journey. It has been, well,

43:19

the honor of my life, genuinely.

43:23

To share these stories with you and sometimes

43:25

my thoughts and feelings and

43:28

to feel your response. I

43:32

feel seen by you all

43:35

and I thank you for that. As

43:39

my final words, I

43:43

just wanna encourage you to keep reading,

43:45

keep expanding, keep living in your

43:48

imaginations. That is the fuel that

43:50

is going to power the

43:54

commitment necessary to dream

43:56

big And

43:59

change the world. Keep

44:02

looking up. Your. Coffee

44:07

and next guy. But.

44:11

You know, How

44:27

are producer on this episode of

44:29

Levar Burton? The is Julia Smith.

44:32

He is the best in the

44:34

business. Long are fabulous researchers. L.

44:37

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44:39

born my sister. We had additional

44:41

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44:44

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44:46

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44:49

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44:52

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44:54

Bradbury for allowing me to read historic.

44:57

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