August 29, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We present now a special transcribed Christmas message from the
President of the United States to the American people.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
My fellow countrymen.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
All over our country and in many other parts of
the world, men, women and children are preparing to celebrate
the birthday of Christ. Never before in our lives has
a Christmas seemed so important. I am not thinking of
turkey dinners and stacks of gifts. I mean the quiet,
reverent celebration of faith, hope and love born in a
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manger in Bethlehem. Across all the continents of this world.
Peace loving people today feel apprehension and loneliness and fear.
Many have forgotten the humble surroundings of the Nativity, and
how from a straw littered stable shone a light which
for nearly twenty centuries has given men strength, comfort and
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peace peace of mind. At this Christmas time, we should
renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in
which God came to man. It is fitting that we
should turn to him. Many of us are fortunate enough
to celebrate Christmas at our own fireside, but there are
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many others who are away from their homes and loved
ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on
the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of
us at home, at war, wherever we may be, are
within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray.
All of us should pray. We should ask the fulfillment
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of God's will. We should ask for courage, for wisdom,
for the quietness of soul, which comes alone to them
who place their lives in His hands.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We should pray.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
For a peace which is based on righteousness, already is
in the midst of a crusader prayer. On the last
Sunday of the old year, there will be special services
devoted to a revival of faith in God. I call
upon all of you to enlist in this common cause.
I call upon you, no matter what your spiritual allegiance
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may be, We are all joined in the fight against
the tyranny of communism. Communism is godless. Democracy is the
foundation of faith, faith in one's self, faith in one's neighbors,
faith in God. Democracy's most powerful weapon is not a gun,
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a tank, or a bomb.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
It is faith.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Faith in the brotherhood and dignity of man under God.
Let us pray at this Christmas time for their wisdom,
the humility, and the courage to carry on in this faith.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Ladies and gentlemen, you have just heard President Truman's Christmas
message to the American people. This is NBC, the National
Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
In answer to many thousands of requests from its listeners,
the National Broadcasting Company is happy to bring.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
You adventures in time and space, transcribed in future. This
is a story of Reestling, the singer of the spaceways.
You've probably sung his songs in school in English, French
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or German. The language doesn't matter, but it was an
earth tongue. But the real story of Reestling is not
found in the footnotes of a scholar's critique or a
publisher's biography. It is in the memories of the old
time spacemen. The pioneers pushed the thundering, old fashioned rockets
to the far strange ports that are our commonplace heritage.
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These men know the true story of Wriestling.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
The arching skies, calling spacemen back to their trade. All
handstand by free falling of the lights below was face.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
I'll ride the suns of terror far.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
Drives, the thundering jade of leaves, the race of over, out,
far and.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
On were.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
When I first met wrestling. He was hustling drinks in
the Twin Moons.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Bar at Dryer Water Mars.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He'd want a guitar off a Chinese barkeep at Luna
City by cheating at one plump, and he made his
whiskey by singing in the bar and passing the hat.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Listen to erz Yuchi drum pretty like a sixteen year
old guy.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
Now, how much you collect on that last song?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Three dollars marsha and a slug. I grabbed it from
a bill. You don't trust me.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
No more funny.
Speaker 11 (05:25):
Never did have no luck with hound dogs in a
Martian barking.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Hey, reestly, look over there by the bar.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
There's an institute for stripper giving him the eye.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Know, I'm Captain Hicks off a goss hug.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Are you sure giving you the once sober?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Maybe he's got a job they don't make Never no
mind to me. I've been blacklisted.
Speaker 11 (05:45):
Hicks logged me for making up a song on watch right,
fine song too, I'm holding Here.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Comes the brass on.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
I've been looking for you.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
I've been right here, skipper. You saw to that.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
I need a jutman on a gossaw.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Interest real interest, Well, I got news for you, Skipper.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
You blacklisted me, Remember well you've kept your nose clean,
and then we need an experienced man.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Been a little changing down after the Cosshawk.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Ain't the Skipper? How do you know that you got
that new atomic pile drive? Last three of them tea
kettles blue somewhere in the asteroid.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
Look, it's double pay.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
But if you're scared, scared listen, fell but double pay.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'd jump off the top of the helm and tower
if you allowed me rubber heels for the lens.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
All right, then you show up tonight to sign the book.
Sober got no choice.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Skipper money and me is total strange.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
We lived at eleven thirty miles time. Sober, you want
to stand reasoning you're taking.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
The job, Well, that gashawk is one steaking old tongue,
Her engine's got more bugs and a beagle dog in spring,
and that new drive is about as safe as a
pretty gallon the Oza.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
But I reckon she'll do for one more trip o.
Welcome home, Wriestling, Hi Jimmy Leggs.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Meet my friend Hurtson.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
He's signing on as a waters What happened?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
This is Jimmy Leggs.
Speaker 11 (07:17):
Casey, he's boasting, can't hold his liquor.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
No on the seeing, poor boycing you sober enough to
sign my book? Uncle sober and make my mark stand
aside three x's.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
It took me a middle leave.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, you two lay below an herdsman, Isaac. Get him
sobered up before the skipper makes round.
Speaker 11 (07:42):
Jimmy Leggs, I'm sober as a hanging judge.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, well you can leave that bottle here. What ball
went in your back pocket? Glass buttons?
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Maybe give it.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Here, Jimmy Leggs.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I swear I'm gonna write a song about you. Oh
head threatened me blow We raise ship in thirty minutes.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Hi, Skipper Raasling, What the devil you're doing up here
on the bridge without permission?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Figure, I'd take a little stroll.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Reasoning, get big before I hold on, Skipper, That gold
bridge is crawling up your arm.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I'm up here on business. Well, that number two jet
ain't fit. Tad me and dampers are wolf.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Why tell me call the chief engineer, he.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Says, they'll hold Well, he's wrong, he's wrong.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
He's got a Harriman Institute degree in power electronics and
some trunk space rats says he's wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Caper hours damp and jets with that shirt tail tadwarf
pins for.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
But I've got no time for you reasoning, casey, sound
take off.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I sure I'm telling.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
This skipper that number two jet's gonna blow dampers wolf
cooked like a turtle's back.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Raisling, rag, you te head out of here at all,
Go ahead from control Tar captain, all right, the fire one.
I'm four.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Walk fass Thumper had to blast for three watches before
going into free flight racing, and I had the second watch.
Damping was done behind in those days with a mother
flying Bernier and a danger paper, and as long as
the peeper ticked off slow and steady, we knew the
ship was safe.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
For a while.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
He recently, you might have stole that guitar. If Jimmy
Lakes catches it, he'll blow a guess.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
And don't worry.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I can damp this tea kettle in my sleep. I
was number two, all right, Sofa, did you ell me
hear that song about Hicks, the one that got me blacklisted.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Whole?
Speaker 12 (09:54):
The skipper is the father of his crew, A gentle
guiding light to me in you, but on mis he
likes as women if they walk, or if they're swimming,
or if they've got six arms. Has did it too? Hey,
this second versus better now.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
The skipper likes his liquor by the cord.
Speaker 12 (10:16):
Yes, he goes fromise of Venus forest nord hildriger rocket
fuel a.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Hell high skip. Didn't see you come in.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
You were too busy, Eh, who's watching the gauge?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
I got an eye on it, don't you fret nutasy.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
I'm going to fix it so you can't get a
berth on a rocket powered pogo stick. Report the casing
under arrest.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I don't rightly think, oh, will you what you kind
of forget, skipper? According to space code, you can't remove
a jetman until the end of the watch.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Right now, Look, your corn fed space lader is at
a ruler ated crazy. Your ship is over at twenty
three hundred, and I'll see you right the rest of
the way and slop locker.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Maybe maybe in the mean time you clear out of
my power room.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
I gotta make me up a third verse from a song.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I got it our room damn number two a point
number two.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Right, Hey, let me have that Mike gimme legs. Is
that force dry? Boil up there?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Give me that casey reasoning. I take a jute about
it enough.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I've got a little news for you, Skipper number two,
jettis bulging like a fat lady in a satin skirt.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Russ on your prown bd Jipper.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I think I'm gonna junk my song and start over.
I can do much better on you.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Last time, I say, damn number two, A pointy sure,
I got hurt.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I'll take you watched the gay check.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now I need to hear.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
She's fucking a little preestling.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Get the emergency she won't get him. Get that bore
tack on the lights.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Pre slin preese flings.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Lay down behind the backle I've gotta take.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
A look at radio active Look on, I've got a
past stuff than too going on down there.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Shut up, Jimmy Legs down busy.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, she's tight. Now what happened? Number two? Blew your
lunkheaded space around you?
Speaker 10 (12:32):
All right?
Speaker 8 (12:33):
A little sunburn?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The lights are gone it what's the matter of the
emergency circuits? Rastling, Jimmy Legs, get some lights down here,
it's dark.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Get the emergency light on.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They're on racing. They went on after the blast the
lights sorrow, what are you.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Talking about, Jimmy Leggs. Jimmy Legs, turned on the lights.
It's dark, turn on the lights.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That blue radioactive glow from the jets was the last
thing Reasoning ever saw. His optic nerve was burned out
in an instant.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
He was in Sick Bay.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
On the rest of the trip, and on the swing
back we set Estling down the dry water Mars look
after the cable Recling, Thanks hurt.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Hey, Reastling.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Let you Jimmy Leggs, hold up a minute, will you?
Who were resling?
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Jimmy Leggs?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I promised I'd write a song about you, didn't I sure?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Recling sure can't seem to sing like I used to
look reasing.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
The men up in the bridge few kind of bad
about this. Yeah, why didn't they think of that when
Reestling told him that damper was shot and now hurts
him not tall over? Sure sure that's all forgotten racing,
Like sir, let's get out of the twin before I
Skipper feels pretty bad about the whole thing recently, kind
of late to that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Jimmy Lynx feeling.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Sorry, don't hold no corn boys passed the hat skipper
kicked in half a month's pay.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Didn't they?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
And on Princeville, I suppose I ought to tell him
the stuff it back up the jets.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
But you can't buy no drinking whiskey on Principal.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I'll take it here, I'll get it. I'll be seeing
you recently. Sure, Jimmy ly, Sure, come on, hurtsman, let's
get that drink. That was all just another space bum
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who didn't have the good sense to finish before his
luck ran out, racing hold up at the Twin Moons
till his money was gone, and he hooked a ride
on a crawler over to Marsopolis. There was a boom
town then, with an industrial district mushrooming between the Lesser
and Grand Canals. I ran into Wristling about two months later,
playing his guitar on a jetty that ran out into
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the canal.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
He had a dirty rag.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Tied over his eyes with a jetment snot, and his
hat was on the wharf beside him.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Priestley, who's there?
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Wait a minute?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It hurts me?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (15:26):
How are you being passable? See?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Is this a Venusian dyned ah?
Speaker 8 (15:30):
It's a slug, I've figured. Or how's it going? Singing again?
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Some working saloons mostly if I've been thinking some funny songs.
Hurts me the words come out different than the Houston.
Come on along the canal with sure.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Here take my arm. I know the way.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
That's a funny thing.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Hurts me.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I figure I know it better than other folks.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Look back there towards the city.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
What do you see factory towers? Ach smell them from here,
But it don't seem that way to me.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
I remember they moved buildings old before Bible times on earth,
thin and graceful, like the ferry palaces my grammy used
to tell about down home on the hills. I have
torn them down now or else blocks them up with
cinder bricks.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Hurtsman.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
When I stand out out here on the canal, I
can see it the way it used to be, the
water ice blue, with the stars shining up out it.
Way off there, the city, with the towers sweeping up
like a bird of flying off a tree.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
I can see.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's the dirtiest stinkhole in the system.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Not almos depends on how you see it.
Speaker 12 (16:40):
Bon Tome, the race that ras the towes for.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
God, the lor.
Speaker 13 (16:54):
Long gold, gold, to shade the cheese that lave these
Christal shot.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Slow. It's the time worn.
Speaker 14 (17:13):
Of Mars beneath this iciscar, the thing w first blessly
that Wallly.
Speaker 15 (17:33):
Masnu, you'll make that up. Why don't you go home
racing home Earth. I've been thinking about that, hurtsman.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
When I was a youngster down in the oz Ox,
I used to climb a big old oak tree.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
My daddy had the door.
Speaker 11 (17:56):
You could see the hills from miles, green and cool.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I've been thinking about that. Why don't you go back there?
I couldn't see them hills no more.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Now.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
I couldn't stand to see black when I knew they
was lying all around me, cool and green in the sun.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Good.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, well, let's get back to town today. I made
three and a half dollars much, and i've as had
to drink it down before dawn come on. I lost
track of wriestling after that. I shipped out on a
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slow freight of the Condor class for Luna, and he
hitchhiked to ride at Venusburg on an oar ship in
the triplanet run. So he beat around the system, Venusburg
to Layport, the dry Water, the New Shanghai and back.
Any spaceport was his home, and no skipperd refused to
lift the extra mass of Wriesling and.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
His battered guitar.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
He made up his songs sitting out watchings down in
the power rooms with old shipmates, while the monotonous speed
of the jets shook the hull lings.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Here the jet hear them snarl at your back when
you stretched.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
On the rack.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Here the jets just feel the pain, and your ship feel.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
The strain and your grip.
Speaker 12 (19:17):
J Fieler Rise, feeler drives train still come alive on
a jet.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Little by little, his songs began to travel along the
space ways ahead of it, raw spaceman songs, the titles
like since the Pusher Met My.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Cousin and the space sat built for two.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But more and more we began to hear a different
kind of song, strings, sad songs, the ones you find
printed in the Centennial editions, Dark Star Passing Death, Song
of a Woods Cold, and then finally agree Hills of Earth.
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It grew for twenty years, That's all they say. It
started way back when Riesling was down in the labor
camps on Venus, singing for the intention man.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
Now, samone, kindly pass a bottle. It is not much
reasoning here, it'll do, eh.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
What is that stuff?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You canna make him good?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Here on Venus?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
What are you use?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Scottag Bush?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Home?
Speaker 11 (20:28):
It is.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Home?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It is different.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Where are you from? Son, Tosco maker? It's a long
way from here, see a long way. How'd you come
to sign on? The man comes out of the village,
from the city and the shining on the movie.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Le very big. He says, there is work. You signed
the paper for ten years and you work. Yeah, work,
there is.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Work here all right, ten stinking hours in the jungle
and machete right.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Tell you when I get home to earth? Well you do? Son?
What is the use? We aren't getting home. You know
how many men die out down this swamp today?
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Ten men?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Ten? What is the use? My mother she's dead.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
My father don't care?
Speaker 10 (21:19):
A girl, she says, she waited time. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Shure you you sing some more? Recy we drink you
sing maybe a new song.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Son. We ride in the molds of beerers.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
We read her taded bread, foul, her flooded joan girls a.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Crawling with on clean bed.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Let U.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
What is the matter? Finish the song? Reason?
Speaker 11 (21:56):
I can't, can't yet it it just don't come. I'll finny,
we should when I go home.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
When I go home to the hills.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now past that bottle, they don't whistle, don't blow for
four hours.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
That's where the Green Hills started.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
And I was there when it was finished.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
It was twenty years after day and there wasn't a
man flying or on the beach.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Hadn't heard of Riesling.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
And his songs. He was getting old now for a spaceman.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
He was a familiar figure through the whole system, Tall
gaunt and with that dirty bandage tied across his blind eyes.
I was chief jetman and on the old Falcon we
were cradled at Benis Alasile, scheduled for a direct jump
to Great Lakes, Illinois.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
On Earth, I was taken in Gunnage.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
When reesely felt his way up the gangway and came
through the line.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Recently, who's that, Mike?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Hurtsman?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Hurts me, hurts me?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Well, what are you doing on this whole long you
figure that rider back here Earth?
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Are you going home racing?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I thought you were never going to make that run.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They've been hankering to sit foot in the ozarks again.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
How about those hills. I've been singing about him so long, Now, Hurtsman,
I got to finish the song. I got to set
foot in the door and hear the wind through that
oak tree. But the last thing I'll be doing I
got to get home before it.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Raceling.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Hare's a new company policy, you see, Hertsman. I'm getting
just a little old bristling.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Listen, no more dead head rides.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
The new codebook is in, folks.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
I've seen codebooks come and go.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Skipper's one of them youngsters, fresh out of Harrowman Institute
cadet training.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
He's liable to throw the book at you and me.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I've been around space as long as Hallie's comet and
bruised his ridge. I'm going back to Earth, the cool
green hills over. I'm going home, Heran, What are you
doing here? That's breestling, Captain Raceling. I am dragging it
back to Earth. Captain, not in this ship. Heart'smann.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Have his man removed?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Funny thing, Captain, I'm spraying my shoulder suddenly. Look, Skippy,
you're a youngster, You're pretty new out here.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I'm going home. You don't know what that means to
an old man going home.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I can't take it against the harreman co No look, Skippy,
you can slide me by into the distressed spaceman's clausing
that code book. Distressed spaceman in my eye, even bumming
around the system for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Skippy, you make me do something I've ever done for
knowing before. I'm an old man, old blind man, and
I want to go home. I never crawled in front
of a forest dripper in my life, but you gotta
let me drag home, Low says. A man's got a
trip coming to him.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
You can stretch for a.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Poor old blind man, now, can't you.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
You got a skipper, all right, the old space rat.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Let's keep out of the way. I run on the
fishing ship, and I don't want.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
No trouble nose, there's no trouble. Lead down to the
power room.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Kind of like to be near the jets when they
blast off for her, sit.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Down, reasoning, take a load off.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Your feet, thanks man, and by the left stand by,
best seat in the system power room and an old
hawk pass all.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
On fire frame.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I say, the cool green hills of Earth, still singing
that resenting some I changed her a little, gone to
finish her now, man gone home to finish it. Yeah,
have you seen those new automatic dampers reasoning you don't have.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
To do nothing but sit and watch?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Hey, where's the people turned off? She's all automatic?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You have it solved nowadays. When I was twisting her tail,
he had to stay awake. You've got an old hand
damning plates on.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
All but the lynx and them. They cover up the dials.
You might need them now. The automatics handle everything.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well, you're finally going home recently, Eh, won't seem the
same out past the moon.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
I have been waiting for this a long time.
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Man's gonna be good to get home.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I reckon the arching skies, call and spacemen back.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Hey, hey, heck you all right?
Speaker 10 (26:26):
I got the emergency, the hand hamper, square.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
The lynk, Hey, head till if you're on the water.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Here something.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I don't power. What's the alarm?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
A magusis squad coming ahead, and stay out. The place
is hot, radiation glass, stay behind the battle.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I got the leek shift I can hand hammer.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Now I's going out of there. I'm doing get free.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
And that's McDonald.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
McDougal is dead.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
This is reasoning on what phrase Ling, get out of there,
you'll kid yourself.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Don't worry, Skipper, I know this power.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I can get inside of my shirt. Somebody's out of game.
But raising, I'm sending in a crow and no, no, no, no,
use the whole room with the hunt for now and
the other get float home, Skipper.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Throw on the recording tape. Throw on the recording tape.
I want to get something down.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
Tape on raising, stop it raising. The radiation will burn
you down.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Reckon pretty sharp, Sundery. Pick me out of here with
dom bar. I'm gonna let you come. Okay, Stick, she's clean, say.
Radiation is getting brighter.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I can almost see bride Rosie like the sunday, like
the sun over the huge down home.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I got my song figured right now.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Here it comes, he pray, Oh, one last land.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
On the globe that gave us fur.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Raios rest eyes.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
On the plea skies of the cool green hills of her.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I can see him now, hills, my son, I can
see the sun.
Speaker 10 (28:23):
That's the way he died.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Gestling, the blind singer of the Spaceways, singing of the home.
They never reached the cool, green hills of Earth.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Next week, we bring you another story many of you
have requested that we repeat. It's the strange tale of
man's first visit to another planet and why he decides
that Mars is Heaven.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Be with us at the same time.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Next week, or another adventure into the unknown world of.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Dementa. This program was transcribed now Dynamic.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Tallulah Bankhead brings you The Big Show on NBC
We present now a special transcribed Christmas message from the
President of the United States to the American people.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
My fellow countrymen.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
All over our country and in many other parts of
the world, men, women and children are preparing to celebrate
the birthday of Christ. Never before in our lives has
a Christmas seemed so important. I am not thinking of
turkey dinners and stacks of gifts. I mean the quiet,
reverent celebration of faith, hope and love born in a
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manger in Bethlehem. Across all the continents of this world.
Peace loving people today feel apprehension and loneliness and fear.
Many have forgotten the humble surroundings of the Nativity, and
how from a straw littered stable shone a light which
for nearly twenty centuries has given men strength, comfort and
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peace peace of mind. At this Christmas time, we should
renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in
which God came to man. It is fitting that we
should turn to him. Many of us are fortunate enough
to celebrate Christmas at our own fireside, but there are
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many others who are away from their homes and loved
ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on
the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of
us at home, at war, wherever we may be, are
within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray.
All of us should pray. We should ask the fulfillment
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of God's will. We should ask for courage, for wisdom,
for the quietness of soul, which comes alone to them
who place their lives in His hands.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We should pray.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
For a peace which is based on righteousness, already is
in the midst of a crusader prayer. On the last
Sunday of the old year, there will be special services
devoted to a revival of faith in God. I call
upon all of you to enlist in this common cause.
I call upon you, no matter what your spiritual allegiance
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may be, We are all joined in the fight against
the tyranny of communism. Communism is godless. Democracy is the
foundation of faith, faith in one's self, faith in one's neighbors,
faith in God. Democracy's most powerful weapon is not a gun,
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a tank, or a bomb.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
It is faith.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Faith in the brotherhood and dignity of man under God.
Let us pray at this Christmas time for their wisdom,
the humility, and the courage to carry on in this faith.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Ladies and gentlemen, you have just heard President Truman's Christmas
message to the American people. This is NBC, the National
Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
In answer to many thousands of requests from its listeners,
the National Broadcasting Company is happy to bring.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
You adventures in time and space, transcribed in future. This
is a story of Reestling, the singer of the spaceways.
You've probably sung his songs in school in English, French
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or German. The language doesn't matter, but it was an
earth tongue. But the real story of Reestling is not
found in the footnotes of a scholar's critique or a
publisher's biography. It is in the memories of the old
time spacemen. The pioneers pushed the thundering, old fashioned rockets
to the far strange ports that are our commonplace heritage.
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These men know the true story of Wriestling.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
The arching skies, calling spacemen back to their trade. All
handstand by free falling of the lights below was face.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
I'll ride the suns of terror far.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
Drives, the thundering jade of leaves, the race of over, out,
far and.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
On were.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
When I first met wrestling. He was hustling drinks in
the Twin Moons.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Bar at Dryer Water Mars.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He'd want a guitar off a Chinese barkeep at Luna
City by cheating at one plump, and he made his
whiskey by singing in the bar and passing the hat.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Listen to erz Yuchi drum pretty like a sixteen year
old guy.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
Now, how much you collect on that last song?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Three dollars marsha and a slug. I grabbed it from
a bill. You don't trust me.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
No more funny.
Speaker 11 (05:25):
Never did have no luck with hound dogs in a
Martian barking.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Hey, reestly, look over there by the bar.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
There's an institute for stripper giving him the eye.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Know, I'm Captain Hicks off a goss hug.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Are you sure giving you the once sober?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Maybe he's got a job they don't make Never no
mind to me. I've been blacklisted.
Speaker 11 (05:45):
Hicks logged me for making up a song on watch right,
fine song too, I'm holding Here.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Comes the brass on.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
I've been looking for you.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
I've been right here, skipper. You saw to that.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
I need a jutman on a gossaw.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Interest real interest, Well, I got news for you, Skipper.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
You blacklisted me, Remember well you've kept your nose clean,
and then we need an experienced man.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Been a little changing down after the Cosshawk.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Ain't the Skipper? How do you know that you got
that new atomic pile drive? Last three of them tea
kettles blue somewhere in the asteroid.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
Look, it's double pay.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
But if you're scared, scared listen, fell but double pay.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'd jump off the top of the helm and tower
if you allowed me rubber heels for the lens.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
All right, then you show up tonight to sign the book.
Sober got no choice.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Skipper money and me is total strange.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
We lived at eleven thirty miles time. Sober, you want
to stand reasoning you're taking.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
The job, Well, that gashawk is one steaking old tongue,
Her engine's got more bugs and a beagle dog in spring,
and that new drive is about as safe as a
pretty gallon the Oza.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
But I reckon she'll do for one more trip o.
Welcome home, Wriestling, Hi Jimmy Leggs.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Meet my friend Hurtson.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
He's signing on as a waters What happened?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
This is Jimmy Leggs.
Speaker 11 (07:17):
Casey, he's boasting, can't hold his liquor.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
No on the seeing, poor boycing you sober enough to
sign my book? Uncle sober and make my mark stand
aside three x's.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
It took me a middle leave.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, you two lay below an herdsman, Isaac. Get him
sobered up before the skipper makes round.
Speaker 11 (07:42):
Jimmy Leggs, I'm sober as a hanging judge.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, well you can leave that bottle here. What ball
went in your back pocket? Glass buttons?
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Maybe give it.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Here, Jimmy Leggs.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I swear I'm gonna write a song about you. Oh
head threatened me blow We raise ship in thirty minutes.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Hi, Skipper Raasling, What the devil you're doing up here
on the bridge without permission?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Figure, I'd take a little stroll.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Reasoning, get big before I hold on, Skipper, That gold
bridge is crawling up your arm.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I'm up here on business. Well, that number two jet
ain't fit. Tad me and dampers are wolf.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Why tell me call the chief engineer, he.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Says, they'll hold Well, he's wrong, he's wrong.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
He's got a Harriman Institute degree in power electronics and
some trunk space rats says he's wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Caper hours damp and jets with that shirt tail tadwarf
pins for.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
But I've got no time for you reasoning, casey, sound
take off.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I sure I'm telling.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
This skipper that number two jet's gonna blow dampers wolf
cooked like a turtle's back.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Raisling, rag, you te head out of here at all,
Go ahead from control Tar captain, all right, the fire one.
I'm four.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Walk fass Thumper had to blast for three watches before
going into free flight racing, and I had the second watch.
Damping was done behind in those days with a mother
flying Bernier and a danger paper, and as long as
the peeper ticked off slow and steady, we knew the
ship was safe.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
For a while.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
He recently, you might have stole that guitar. If Jimmy
Lakes catches it, he'll blow a guess.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
And don't worry.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I can damp this tea kettle in my sleep. I
was number two, all right, Sofa, did you ell me
hear that song about Hicks, the one that got me blacklisted.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Whole?
Speaker 12 (09:54):
The skipper is the father of his crew, A gentle
guiding light to me in you, but on mis he
likes as women if they walk, or if they're swimming,
or if they've got six arms. Has did it too? Hey,
this second versus better now.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
The skipper likes his liquor by the cord.
Speaker 12 (10:16):
Yes, he goes fromise of Venus forest nord hildriger rocket
fuel a.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Hell high skip. Didn't see you come in.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
You were too busy, Eh, who's watching the gauge?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
I got an eye on it, don't you fret nutasy.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
I'm going to fix it so you can't get a
berth on a rocket powered pogo stick. Report the casing
under arrest.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I don't rightly think, oh, will you what you kind
of forget, skipper? According to space code, you can't remove
a jetman until the end of the watch.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Right now, Look, your corn fed space lader is at
a ruler ated crazy. Your ship is over at twenty
three hundred, and I'll see you right the rest of
the way and slop locker.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Maybe maybe in the mean time you clear out of
my power room.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
I gotta make me up a third verse from a song.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I got it our room damn number two a point
number two.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Right, Hey, let me have that Mike gimme legs. Is
that force dry? Boil up there?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Give me that casey reasoning. I take a jute about
it enough.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I've got a little news for you, Skipper number two,
jettis bulging like a fat lady in a satin skirt.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Russ on your prown bd Jipper.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I think I'm gonna junk my song and start over.
I can do much better on you.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Last time, I say, damn number two, A pointy sure,
I got hurt.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I'll take you watched the gay check.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now I need to hear.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
She's fucking a little preestling.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Get the emergency she won't get him. Get that bore
tack on the lights.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Pre slin preese flings.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Lay down behind the backle I've gotta take.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
A look at radio active Look on, I've got a
past stuff than too going on down there.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Shut up, Jimmy Legs down busy.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, she's tight. Now what happened? Number two? Blew your
lunkheaded space around you?
Speaker 10 (12:32):
All right?
Speaker 8 (12:33):
A little sunburn?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The lights are gone it what's the matter of the
emergency circuits? Rastling, Jimmy Legs, get some lights down here,
it's dark.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Get the emergency light on.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They're on racing. They went on after the blast the
lights sorrow, what are you.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Talking about, Jimmy Leggs. Jimmy Legs, turned on the lights.
It's dark, turn on the lights.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That blue radioactive glow from the jets was the last
thing Reasoning ever saw. His optic nerve was burned out
in an instant.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
He was in Sick Bay.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
On the rest of the trip, and on the swing
back we set Estling down the dry water Mars look
after the cable Recling, Thanks hurt.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Hey, Reastling.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Let you Jimmy Leggs, hold up a minute, will you?
Who were resling?
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Jimmy Leggs?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I promised I'd write a song about you, didn't I sure?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Recling sure can't seem to sing like I used to
look reasing.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
The men up in the bridge few kind of bad
about this. Yeah, why didn't they think of that when
Reestling told him that damper was shot and now hurts
him not tall over? Sure sure that's all forgotten racing,
Like sir, let's get out of the twin before I
Skipper feels pretty bad about the whole thing recently, kind
of late to that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Jimmy Lynx feeling.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Sorry, don't hold no corn boys passed the hat skipper
kicked in half a month's pay.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Didn't they?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
And on Princeville, I suppose I ought to tell him
the stuff it back up the jets.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
But you can't buy no drinking whiskey on Principal.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I'll take it here, I'll get it. I'll be seeing
you recently. Sure, Jimmy ly, Sure, come on, hurtsman, let's
get that drink. That was all just another space bum
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who didn't have the good sense to finish before his
luck ran out, racing hold up at the Twin Moons
till his money was gone, and he hooked a ride
on a crawler over to Marsopolis. There was a boom
town then, with an industrial district mushrooming between the Lesser
and Grand Canals. I ran into Wristling about two months later,
playing his guitar on a jetty that ran out into
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the canal.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
He had a dirty rag.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Tied over his eyes with a jetment snot, and his
hat was on the wharf beside him.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Priestley, who's there?
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Wait a minute?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It hurts me?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (15:26):
How are you being passable? See?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Is this a Venusian dyned ah?
Speaker 8 (15:30):
It's a slug, I've figured. Or how's it going? Singing again?
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Some working saloons mostly if I've been thinking some funny songs.
Hurts me the words come out different than the Houston.
Come on along the canal with sure.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Here take my arm. I know the way.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
That's a funny thing.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Hurts me.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
I figure I know it better than other folks.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Look back there towards the city.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
What do you see factory towers? Ach smell them from here,
But it don't seem that way to me.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
I remember they moved buildings old before Bible times on earth,
thin and graceful, like the ferry palaces my grammy used
to tell about down home on the hills. I have
torn them down now or else blocks them up with
cinder bricks.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Hurtsman.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
When I stand out out here on the canal, I
can see it the way it used to be, the
water ice blue, with the stars shining up out it.
Way off there, the city, with the towers sweeping up
like a bird of flying off a tree.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
I can see.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's the dirtiest stinkhole in the system.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Not almos depends on how you see it.
Speaker 12 (16:40):
Bon Tome, the race that ras the towes for.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
God, the lor.
Speaker 13 (16:54):
Long gold, gold, to shade the cheese that lave these
Christal shot.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Slow. It's the time worn.
Speaker 14 (17:13):
Of Mars beneath this iciscar, the thing w first blessly
that Wallly.
Speaker 15 (17:33):
Masnu, you'll make that up. Why don't you go home
racing home Earth. I've been thinking about that, hurtsman.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
When I was a youngster down in the oz Ox,
I used to climb a big old oak tree.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
My daddy had the door.
Speaker 11 (17:56):
You could see the hills from miles, green and cool.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I've been thinking about that. Why don't you go back there?
I couldn't see them hills no more.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Now.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
I couldn't stand to see black when I knew they
was lying all around me, cool and green in the sun.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Good.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, well, let's get back to town today. I made
three and a half dollars much, and i've as had
to drink it down before dawn come on. I lost
track of wriestling after that. I shipped out on a
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slow freight of the Condor class for Luna, and he
hitchhiked to ride at Venusburg on an oar ship in
the triplanet run. So he beat around the system, Venusburg
to Layport, the dry Water, the New Shanghai and back.
Any spaceport was his home, and no skipperd refused to
lift the extra mass of Wriesling and.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
His battered guitar.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
He made up his songs sitting out watchings down in
the power rooms with old shipmates, while the monotonous speed
of the jets shook the hull lings.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Here the jet hear them snarl at your back when
you stretched.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
On the rack.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Here the jets just feel the pain, and your ship feel.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
The strain and your grip.
Speaker 12 (19:17):
J Fieler Rise, feeler drives train still come alive on
a jet.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Little by little, his songs began to travel along the
space ways ahead of it, raw spaceman songs, the titles
like since the Pusher Met My.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Cousin and the space sat built for two.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But more and more we began to hear a different
kind of song, strings, sad songs, the ones you find
printed in the Centennial editions, Dark Star Passing Death, Song
of a Woods Cold, and then finally agree Hills of Earth.
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It grew for twenty years, That's all they say. It
started way back when Riesling was down in the labor
camps on Venus, singing for the intention man.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
Now, samone, kindly pass a bottle. It is not much
reasoning here, it'll do, eh.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
What is that stuff?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You canna make him good?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Here on Venus?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
What are you use?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Scottag Bush?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Home?
Speaker 11 (20:28):
It is.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Home?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It is different.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Where are you from? Son, Tosco maker? It's a long
way from here, see a long way. How'd you come
to sign on? The man comes out of the village,
from the city and the shining on the movie.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Le very big. He says, there is work. You signed
the paper for ten years and you work. Yeah, work,
there is.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Work here all right, ten stinking hours in the jungle
and machete right.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Tell you when I get home to earth? Well you do? Son?
What is the use? We aren't getting home. You know
how many men die out down this swamp today?
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Ten men?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Ten? What is the use? My mother she's dead.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
My father don't care?
Speaker 10 (21:19):
A girl, she says, she waited time. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Shure you you sing some more? Recy we drink you
sing maybe a new song.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Son. We ride in the molds of beerers.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
We read her taded bread, foul, her flooded joan girls a.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Crawling with on clean bed.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Let U.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
What is the matter? Finish the song? Reason?
Speaker 11 (21:56):
I can't, can't yet it it just don't come. I'll finny,
we should when I go home.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
When I go home to the hills.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now past that bottle, they don't whistle, don't blow for
four hours.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
That's where the Green Hills started.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
And I was there when it was finished.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
It was twenty years after day and there wasn't a
man flying or on the beach.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Hadn't heard of Riesling.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
And his songs. He was getting old now for a spaceman.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
He was a familiar figure through the whole system, Tall
gaunt and with that dirty bandage tied across his blind eyes.
I was chief jetman and on the old Falcon we
were cradled at Benis Alasile, scheduled for a direct jump
to Great Lakes, Illinois.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
On Earth, I was taken in Gunnage.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
When reesely felt his way up the gangway and came
through the line.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Recently, who's that, Mike?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Hurtsman?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Hurts me, hurts me?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Well, what are you doing on this whole long you
figure that rider back here Earth?
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Are you going home racing?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I thought you were never going to make that run.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They've been hankering to sit foot in the ozarks again.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
How about those hills. I've been singing about him so long, Now, Hurtsman,
I got to finish the song. I got to set
foot in the door and hear the wind through that
oak tree. But the last thing I'll be doing I
got to get home before it.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Raceling.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Hare's a new company policy, you see, Hertsman. I'm getting
just a little old bristling.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Listen, no more dead head rides.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
The new codebook is in, folks.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
I've seen codebooks come and go.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Skipper's one of them youngsters, fresh out of Harrowman Institute
cadet training.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
He's liable to throw the book at you and me.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I've been around space as long as Hallie's comet and
bruised his ridge. I'm going back to Earth, the cool
green hills over. I'm going home, Heran, What are you
doing here? That's breestling, Captain Raceling. I am dragging it
back to Earth. Captain, not in this ship. Heart'smann.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Have his man removed?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Funny thing, Captain, I'm spraying my shoulder suddenly. Look, Skippy,
you're a youngster, You're pretty new out here.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I'm going home. You don't know what that means to
an old man going home.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I can't take it against the harreman co No look, Skippy,
you can slide me by into the distressed spaceman's clausing
that code book. Distressed spaceman in my eye, even bumming
around the system for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Skippy, you make me do something I've ever done for
knowing before. I'm an old man, old blind man, and
I want to go home. I never crawled in front
of a forest dripper in my life, but you gotta
let me drag home, Low says. A man's got a
trip coming to him.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
You can stretch for a.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Poor old blind man, now, can't you.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
You got a skipper, all right, the old space rat.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Let's keep out of the way. I run on the
fishing ship, and I don't want.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
No trouble nose, there's no trouble. Lead down to the
power room.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Kind of like to be near the jets when they
blast off for her, sit.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Down, reasoning, take a load off.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Your feet, thanks man, and by the left stand by,
best seat in the system power room and an old
hawk pass all.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
On fire frame.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I say, the cool green hills of Earth, still singing
that resenting some I changed her a little, gone to
finish her now, man gone home to finish it. Yeah,
have you seen those new automatic dampers reasoning you don't have.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
To do nothing but sit and watch?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Hey, where's the people turned off? She's all automatic?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You have it solved nowadays. When I was twisting her tail,
he had to stay awake. You've got an old hand
damning plates on.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
All but the lynx and them. They cover up the dials.
You might need them now. The automatics handle everything.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well, you're finally going home recently, Eh, won't seem the
same out past the moon.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
I have been waiting for this a long time.
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Man's gonna be good to get home.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I reckon the arching skies, call and spacemen back.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Hey, hey, heck you all right?
Speaker 10 (26:26):
I got the emergency, the hand hamper, square.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
The lynk, Hey, head till if you're on the water.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Here something.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I don't power. What's the alarm?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
A magusis squad coming ahead, and stay out. The place
is hot, radiation glass, stay behind the battle.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I got the leek shift I can hand hammer.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Now I's going out of there. I'm doing get free.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
And that's McDonald.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
McDougal is dead.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
This is reasoning on what phrase Ling, get out of there,
you'll kid yourself.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Don't worry, Skipper, I know this power.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I can get inside of my shirt. Somebody's out of game.
But raising, I'm sending in a crow and no, no, no, no,
use the whole room with the hunt for now and
the other get float home, Skipper.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Throw on the recording tape. Throw on the recording tape.
I want to get something down.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
Tape on raising, stop it raising. The radiation will burn
you down.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Reckon pretty sharp, Sundery. Pick me out of here with
dom bar. I'm gonna let you come. Okay, Stick, she's clean, say.
Radiation is getting brighter.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I can almost see bride Rosie like the sunday, like
the sun over the huge down home.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I got my song figured right now.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Here it comes, he pray, Oh, one last land.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
On the globe that gave us fur.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Raios rest eyes.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
On the plea skies of the cool green hills of her.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I can see him now, hills, my son, I can
see the sun.
Speaker 10 (28:23):
That's the way he died.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Gestling, the blind singer of the Spaceways, singing of the home.
They never reached the cool, green hills of Earth.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Next week, we bring you another story many of you
have requested that we repeat. It's the strange tale of
man's first visit to another planet and why he decides
that Mars is Heaven.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Be with us at the same time.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Next week, or another adventure into the unknown world of.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Dementa. This program was transcribed now Dynamic.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
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