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(00:00):
How chaps it's Mark from Englishon command.
And today, finally we're going to read a new book that's just a
book but the best book of all times.
It's called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's the best. It's the favorite book of Elon
Musk when he was a kid. He loved it so much.
And today I'm going to read it to you.

(00:23):
Now, this is the first time I'vewritten is so I'm going to stop.
I'm going to make mistakes but I'm also going to explain you.
All the words which are hard to understand or maybe a grammar
constructions and more. Okay, so buckle up and let's go
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hitchhiker.

(00:44):
Who is that, hitchhiker is a person who travels usually
somewhere in u.s. to Candor Europe, it's quite popular
between cities. What you do is you take a
cardboard, you write down the destination you stand by the
roads. And you hope someone's going to
stop and pick you up and we'll drop you off at another Point.

(01:06):
Usually it's for free. Sometimes it's paid but most the
time is free. So this is Hitch.
Hiking traveling for free by catching different rights.
How about you? Have you ever done it?
I think I have once or twice butit's not no, it's not a big fan
of that, but anyway, let's move on with the book.
Now, the preface preface also means introduction So let's go

(01:33):
far out in the Uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable
end of the western spiral arm ofthe Galaxy eliezer's.
Mo unregarded yellow, sun orbiting this at a distance of
roughly and two miles. I'm sorry, million miles as an
utterly insignificant, little blue green plant whose ape

(01:56):
descendant. Life-forms are so amazingly
primitive that they still think that That digital watches.
I pretended idea the plan has orrather had a problem which was
this most of the people in the world and happy for pretty much
all the time. Many solutions were suggested
for the problem. But most of these were largely

(02:18):
concerned with the movements of small green piece of paper which
is odd because on the whole it wasn't a small green piece of
paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remains
Hello. It's of people were mean and
most of them were miserable. Even the ones with digital
watches. Many were increasingly of the

(02:39):
opinion that they were all made a big mistake in coming down
from the trees in the first place.
And some said that, even the trees had been a bad move and
that no one should ever have left.
The oceans. And then one Thursday, nearly
2000 years after one man had been nailed two three, four,

(03:00):
five. I said how great it would be to
be nice for people for a change,one girl sitting on her own and
small Cafe and rickmansworth. It's in Great Britain.
Of course the suddenly realized what it was that had been going
wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could
be made a good and happy place this time.

(03:22):
It was right. This time it would work and no
one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly. However, before she could go to
the phone and tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid,
catastrophe occurred and the idea was lost forever but this

(03:43):
this is not her story but it's astory of the terrible stupid
catastrophe and some of its consequences.
It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy. It's not a nerve book, never
published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe

(04:04):
occurred never seen. I heard by any Earth, man.
Nevertheless, wholly remarkable book.
In fact, it was probably the most remarkable book ever to
come out of the great publishinghouses.
That were some minor Of which noEarthman of course had ever had

(04:24):
heard either. Not only, is it a wholly
remarkable book. It is also a highly successful,
one more popular than the Collision, Homecare Omnibus but
it sounded 15 more things to do in zero gravity and more
controversial than Moon. Koufos, Trilogy of philosophical
Bug Busters, where God went wrong on some more of God's

(04:47):
greatest mistakes and who is this?
God person. Anyway, In many of the more
relaxed civilizations on the outer is to Maryam on the
Galaxy. The Hitchhiker's Guide has
already supplanted the great encyclopedia Galactica as the
standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom for though.
Has many emotions and contains much that is Apocrypha Co and or

(05:11):
at least wildly inaccurate it scores over the older more
pedestrian, working two important respects. my first it
is slightly cheaper and secondlyit has the words don't panic
inscribed in a large friendlieston its cover, but the story of

(05:32):
this terrible stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary
consequences and the story of how this concept is are
inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book, begins
very simply It begins with the house.
All right, chapter 1, the house students slide rise just on the

(05:57):
edge of the village. It's student is owned and looked
over a Bros rather West Country Farm that not remarkable held by
any means. It was about 30 years old
Scottish squarish made of brick and had four Windows set in the
front of a size and proportion which more or less exactly fails

(06:18):
to please the eye. The only person for whom the
house was in any way. Special was Arthur Dent, and
that was only because it happened to be the one he lived
in. He had lived in it for about 3
years ever since he had moved out of London because it made
him nervous and irritable. It was about 30 as well

(06:39):
dark-haired and never quite at ease with himself.
The thing that used to worry. Most was the fact that people
always used to ask him about What he was looking or worried
about, it worked in the local radio, which he always used to
tell his friends was a lot more interesting that they probably
thought was, it was too. Most of his friends worked in

(07:03):
advertising, the having proper register with Arthur that the
console, or the study wanted to knock down his house.
I'll build a bypass Instead at 8:00 on Thursday morning,
Arthur, Didn't feel very good. He woke up.
Literally got out, wondered really around his room.

(07:25):
Open a window. Saw a bulldozer for his slippers
and stormed off to the bathroom,to wash toothpaste on the brush.
So scrub scrub, scrub shaving mirror point in the sealer here,
just to do it for a moment. It reflected as second bulldozer
of the bathroom window properly,adjusted, the reflected Arthur
dance bristles. He shared them off Wash dryer.

(07:48):
Some of the kitchen to find something pleasant to put in his
mouth. Carroll Park Flashman a coffee.
Yo, the word, bulldozer wonder if trick is mine for a moment in
search of something to connect with the bulldoze outside.
The kitchen window was quite a big one.
He started it. Yeah, he thought and stormed off

(08:12):
back to his bathroom to get dressed passing the bathroom.
He stopped to drink, a large glass of water.
And another, he began to suspectthat he was hungover.
Hanover means when you drink a lot.
The next one, you are an over. Why was he on over?
Had he been drinking that before?
He supposed that, he must have been.

(08:36):
He caught a glint in a shaving mirror, yellow.
He thought and stopped on to thebedroom, you stood, and thought
the pub, he thought, oh, dear the pub, he vaguely someone
remembered being angry angry about something that seemed
important, I've been telling people about it, telling people

(09:00):
about it. At Great length, he rather
suspected his clearest visual recollection was of glazed,
looks of other people's faces. It's nothing about a new bypass,
he had just found out about if been in the pipeline for months
or no one seemed to have known about it.
A ridiculous, he took a swig of water, it would sort itself out

(09:22):
here, decided no one wanted to bypass the I didn't have a leg
to stand on. It was sort itself out.
God, what a terrible hand over the header and hit him through.
Now, in looking himself, in a wardrobe mirror.
He stuck out his tongue yellow, he thought the words yellow

(09:44):
Wonder trick is mine in search of something to connect with 15
seconds later, he was out of thehouse and line in front of the
big yellow, bulldozer was advancing up his Garden Path.
Mr. El profesor was as they say only human, there are words.
It was a carbon-based life-form descended from an ape more

(10:07):
specifically. He was 40 fat and shabby and
work for the local custom curiously enough though.
He didn't know if he was also a direct mail and send of King is
can Oh, that's fun. It's the Mongolia, right?
Oh owner. It's our or ruler or something.

(10:28):
He killed many people. Well yeah, they'll intervene in
generations and racial mixing hats, so jug is G that he had no
discernible Mongoloid characteristics.
And the only vistage has left a mr.
Prosser of his mighty ancestry were pronounced, stoutness about
the Tom and pretty legs. Action for a little fur hats.

(10:53):
He was by no means a great warrior that he wasn't nervous
worried man. Today I work he was particularly
nervous and worried because Sofia had Garcia's the wrong his
job. It was to see that ourselves.
Then house got cleared out of the way before the day was out
come of it. Mr. Damn.
He said you can't win, you know you can't learn from the

(11:15):
bulldozer indefinitely and he tried to make his eyes, blazed
fear? But they just wouldn't do it
after laying in the mud and school chat him.
I'm game. He said was they harassed first?
I'm game ends. Well like the game is are like
Sherlock Holmes. Used to say well I'm afraid
you're going to have to accept it that mr.

(11:37):
Prosser group play his fur hat and rolling around the table is
at this bypass has got to be built and it's going to be built
first of first of Heart of it said Arthur why?
Is it going to be built mr. Prosser shook, his finger him
for a bed and stall and put it away away again.
What do you mean? What's going to?

(11:58):
Be really sad, it's a bypass. You've got a bill bypasses,
bypasses are devices, which allows some people to drive from
point A to point B, very fast while other people that should
burn me to burn a very fast. We believe in a point.
C being a porn direct line between often given in wonder

(12:19):
what's. So Great about point, a that's
70 people of point B are so Keento get there.
And what's so great about point B, that's so many people of poly
a are so Keen to get there. They often wish that people
would just once and for all wereall work out where they are how
they wanted to be. Well mr.
Prosser wanted to be at Point D.Point D, was anywhere.

(12:42):
In particular, was just any convenient point, a very long
way from point, A, B and C. You have a nice little cottage
at Point D, axis of the door andspend a pleasant amount of time
at Point e, which would be the nearest pub at Point d.
He is. Why of course Walnut climbing
roses but keep one axis. Could you know why like access

(13:07):
your flushed hotly water? Under the derivative green so
the bulldozer driven He shifted his weight from foot to foot.
My was equally, uncomfortable image.
Obviously, somebody had been a poor lonely incompetent.
I hope to God. It wasn't him, mr.

(13:28):
Prasad you are quite entitled tomake any suggestions a protest
at the appropriate time. You know, appropriate time who
did Arthur appropriate time. The first Turn You by was when a
workmen arrived my home yesterday, I asked him if he'll
come to Clinic. No, thank you said, no.
He'd come to demolish the house.You didn't tell them is straight

(13:50):
away. Of course, don't know.
First, you wiped a couple of Windows and charged me a fiver
then he told me but Mr. Dan the plans have been available in
local planning office for the last nine months.
Oh, yes. Well as soon as I heard I was
straight round to see them yesterday afternoon.

(14:11):
You haven't exactly gone out of their way to call attention to
them. Hajdu.
I mean like you actually tellinganybody or anything but the
plans weren't a spy on this play.
I've actually had to go down to the cellar, to find them.
Let's do this, the department. Well at with the torch well the
lights had probably gone, so hadthis tears but look, if I know

(14:35):
it. Han Jin Joo.
Yeah said Arthur. Yes, I did.
It was on this plane. The bottom of the locked.
Filing cabinet. Stuck in a disused love.
Very with the sign. On the door saying Beware of the
lip part. A Cloud passed, overhead cast a
shadow over the artist then the delayed propped up on his elbow

(14:58):
and a cold mode. It cost a shadow of the artists
and house mr. Prosser fried it it's not as if
it's Children as house. He said, no, I'm sorry, but I
happen to like it, you'll like the bypass, oh, shut up.
There are sedan shut up and go away and take your bloody bypass

(15:18):
with you. You haven't got to Lexus turn
on. You know it mr.
Process mouth open and close a couple of times with his mind
was for a moment. Filled with explicable, the
terribly attractive Vision sources, dense house, being
consumed with fire, another himself, Elf running screaming
from the Blazing ruin with a list.

(15:39):
Free have two Spears protruding from his back.
Mr. Prosser had often bothered with visions like this and they
make him feel very nervous. He started for a moment and then
pull himself together. Mr. Dent he said, hello?
Yes, Sir Arthur some factual information for you.

(16:01):
Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would
suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?
How much that hurt. None of those say mr.
Prosser and strong. Nervous.
Laugh wondering why his brain was filled with a thousand,
Harry, Horsemen Ultron him by a curious coincidence, 90 is

(16:22):
exactly how much suspicion they were 10.
Other than had that one of his closest friends was not
descended from an ape. I wasn't in fact, from a small
planet in the Virginia of bettergifts and not from Guilford as
he usually claimed, Arthur, Dan had never ever suspected this.

(16:44):
This friend of his had first arrived in the planet, some 15
Earth years previously and he had worked hard to let himself
into Earth Society with it must be said, some success.
For instance, he has spent those15 years pretending to be in the
out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

(17:05):
He had made one careless, blondedu dôme because he had skimmed
debate on his preparator research information.
He had to gather it had led him to choose a name Ford, prefect.
As be nicely, inconspicious inconspicuous, it was not
conspicuously tall. He was his features Were

(17:28):
Striking but not conspicuously handsome.
His hair was wiry and Ginger Asian brushed back Strong to
Temples is skin seemed to be pulled backwards from the nose.
It was suffering, very slightly odd bottom.
It was difficult to say, what? It was perhaps it was that his
eyes didn't blink often enough, or when you talk to him for any

(17:52):
length of time your eyes beginning was usually to water
on his behalf. Perhaps it was that his smile
lightly to broadly any gay people and unnerving impression
he was about. To go for their neck.
He struck most of his friends hehad made her as an eccentric,
but harmless one and unruly Boudreaux is an oldish habits.

(18:17):
For instance, he would often Gatecrash, University parties,
get badly, drawing, and start making fun of any as to
physicist. He would fire until he got throw
him, sometimes you will get C's of oddly distract distracted
mood, and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone
asked him, what he was doing. Then she will start guilty for a

(18:40):
moment to relax and green. Oh, just looking for flying
saucers. I saw it first, I can plate.
It also means is alien ship sorcerer.
Yo, Joe in everyone would laugh and ask him what sort of fun.
So this goes looking for green ones here.
Apply over the wicked green, green smile, your teeth laughs

(19:01):
wildly for a moment and then suddenly launch for the nearest
bar and pie, Norma, strong, the drinks.
It is like this. Usually earned it badly for
would get out of his skull. Whiskey Highlander corner with
some girl explained her it's lured.
Fat is honestly the color of theflying sources in the matter

(19:24):
that much really All right, we're going to stop here, guys.
The next part will be about well, about actually the whole
world being demolished. But, well, you're going to find
out why so you can stop here. I hope you enjoyed this part.
I'll see you in part 2. Bye bye.
Have a great day. All right, we're going to stop
here, guys. The next part will be about
well, about actually the whole world being demolished.
But, well, you're going to find out why so you can stop here.
I hope you enjoyed this part. I'll see you in part 2.
Bye bye. Have a great day.
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