May 9, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M hmm, Calm down for blast off x minus five
four three two x minus one fire. From the far
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horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions
in time and space. These are stories of the future
adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
on a thousand, maybe Worlds. A national broadcasting company in
cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction,
presents heck.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He minus minus minus minus one one, The Night Story,
the Green Hills of Earth, the men who pioneer the
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trade roots of the world, the sailors of the clipper ships,
the whaling men, railroaders, black gangs on the tramp steamers,
all have their own stories and song about dangers and
struggles of their lives.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
This is the story of Riesling, the blind singer of
the space Waves. When I first met him, he was
hustling drinks in the Twin Moons.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Bar, Dry Waters Mars.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
He'd won a guitar off a Chinese bar keep at
Luna City by cheating at one thumb, and he made
his whiskey by singing in the bar and passing the hat.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Hell listen to Hertzman, Don't you Sing Pretty? Sixteen year
old goal.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Hey, Rasling, look over there at the bar, there's an
institute for stripper giving you the idea.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
You know, manner of speaking, cole looking scounder. Lady who
he's the idea? Graduated Harriman Space Institute. Three men above
Saint Peter who is he? Captain Hicks off the gushow.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
He should gives you the ones over. Maybe he's got
a job.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
That don't make Nevan no mind to me. I've been blacklisted.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Hicks loved me for making up a song on Watch right,
fight song too.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Oh, this skipper is a bother to his career.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well hold on, here comes from.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
The restaur Oh, Rasling, I've been looking for you.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
You've kept your nose clean, and we're gonna give you
another chance to get back to deep space.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Be a little changing.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Down after the guars shock, ain't the skipper? How'd you
know that you got that new atomic pile drive? If
there's been a leak at the shops? I take it easy, skip,
You'll have that gold bridge is to crawl and right
up your arm where.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
It's stalling, Rasling, Take it or leave it. It's a
loop trip to Jupiter with the standard release.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I reckon, double pay when you get back. If you
get back, last few.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Of them atomic tea Kettle's blue somewhere in the asteroids.
If you're scared, scared, well, that goshawk is one stinking
old tub Rangel's got more bugs and a beagle dog
in spring and I knew drives about as safe as
a pretty gallanty Oh's dogs. But I reckon she'll do
for one more trip. Welcome home, racling hid Jim eggs
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people friend hurts me he can't hold liquor.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
No more to see it, poor boy wrestling you sober
enough to sign.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
The book Drunker's sober and make my mind stand aside.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Three axes took me a middle name. Ha ha you
two label?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Are that hurtsman?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (03:50):
Get him sobered up before the skipper makes rounds. Cargo stowed,
captain fuel lines when ready?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Good casey? What's that?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What it?
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
That's a guitar?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
I guess.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
If it's that shoeless hill billy, I'm gonna tell him
high kimmer recently, what the devil you're doing up here?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
At number two?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Jed eight fits came and dampers who walked quickly like
a turtle's back.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Why tell me tell the chief engineer I did.
Speaker 11 (04:26):
He says, they'll hold.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Well, he's wrong.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Oh he's wrong.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
Eh, he's got a Harremann Institute degree in electronics and power.
And some drunk space rat says he's wrong.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Jipper, I was damp and jets on that shirt tail
tad wop pins for button.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
I got no time for you. Recently, stretch your name.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Off the book.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I don't get excited.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
Well are you shipping or not? I reckon, I wreck,
then get below. That's all casey, sound take on, I sir.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
On a Hawk class clunker.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
In those days, damping was done by hand with a
multiplying vernier and a danger peeper. Jentman slept with one
ear tuned to that, and as long as the paper
ticked off slow and steady, we knew the ship was
saved for a while. Recently, you better stow that guitar.
If Jimmy Les catches you a blow a gasket.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Don't worry. I could damp his tea keead of them asleep.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And that was number two.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
All right, so far, say Jimmy.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Hear that song about Hicks, the one that got me blacklisted.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh, the skipper is the father of his crew.
Speaker 11 (05:37):
A gentle guy.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Light to me and you on Mars.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
He likes his women if they walk, or if they're swimming,
or if they got six arms instead of two. Second
verse is better. Yeah, And the skipper likes his liquor
by the court. Yeah, he go from Mars to Venus
forest North, he'll drink.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
A rocket fuel and well, high skipper didn't see you
come in.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
You were too busy, Eh, who's watching the gage?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I got an eye on it, don't you, fred Nunn.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Reasonally, I'm gonna fix it so you couldn't get a
space berth on a rocket powered pogo stick.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You're locked, report the casing under arrest.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I don't rightly think I will skipper you what you
kind of forget skipper recording a space code.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You can't remove a jet man till the end of
the ward.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Right you tell me, Resling, your ship is over at
twenty three hundred, and I'll see.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
You right the rest of the way and slop locker.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Maybe maybe in the meantime you clear out of my
power room.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I'm gonna make me up a third verse from a song.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Now I got it, power room damn number two a
point number two.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I hold on, hurts Jimmy leg does that force dry?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Boil up there?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Give me that.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Not taking about enough from you?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
And I got a little news for you.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Skipper number two jet is pulging like a fat lady
in a satin skirt. Listen, you'll clown damp number two
a point a sure.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Look out, hurtsman, I'll take it. You watch the gauge.
Now you're riding easy here. It's sucking a little wrestling.
Hit the emergency.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
She won't damp, it's walk Yeah, they go the lights
duck her laugh raising raising, They don't be heard the packlight.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I gotta take a look at his radioc.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
You look out.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I've gotta fish the hot.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Stuff out of the tube.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Got off.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Jimmy Lang's not busy, she's tight.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Now what happened number two?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Blue?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Your lunkheaded space rasp you all right? Her little sunburn
lights a con what's the matter of the emergency circuits.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Jimmy leggs. Get some lights down here, it's dark. Get
the emergency light on. But they're on recling.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
They went on right after the blast of lights are on.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Be talking stark, Jimmy lights.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Jimmy lights turn on the lights, Turn on the lights.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That blue radioactive glow from the jets was the last
thing Riestling ever saw.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
His optic nerve was burned out in an instant.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He was in Sick Bay and the rest of the
trip and on the swing back we set Esling down
at the dry water. I ran into Recenting about two
months later, playing his guitar and a jetty that ran
out into the canal.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
He had a dirty rag tied over his.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Eyes from the jetman's knot, and his hat was on
the wharf beside him. When he finished, we walked out
along the canal.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, I'm doing right fine, working saloons mostly, I haven't thinking.
Some funny songs hits me. The words come out different
than he used to. Come on along an hour with me,
Stark here take myrm. I know the way. That's another
funny thing hurtsmon. I figure I know it better than
other folks. Look back there towards the city.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What do you see? New factory buildings. You can smell them.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
From here, and I still remember them, old Martian towers
all before Bible times on earth, thin and graceful actor
like a ferry palace is my old Grammy used to
tell about down.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Home in the hills. Tore them down now, or else
blocked them up with cinder blocks, Hirtsman.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
When I stand out here in the canal, I can
see it the way it used to be, the water
ice blew, the stars shining up out of it, way
off there, the city with a tower sweeping up like
a like a bird of flying off a tree.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I can see now it's a dirty stinkle in the system.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Not to me listen hurts me.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Bone tie the race, Raise.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The tis for God. Not are they lost? Long?
Speaker 12 (10:10):
God, the God who shade the tears that laugh these Christal.
Speaker 13 (10:20):
Shows, slow beats, the.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Time worn hot of Mars.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Beneath the sigh scy the thin.
Speaker 12 (10:38):
Wispers voicelessly that all live.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Mass stars.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I can't figure myself.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
I never put words together like that before I reckon.
It's just that I got time to study the words
and shine them up my head till he sing true.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Why don't you go home? Recently on earth, I've been
thinking about that hurts me.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
When I was a young and down in the Jsux,
I used to climb a big old oak tree my
daddy had in the dooryard. You could see the hills
from miles green and cool.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Let me thinking about that. Well, why don't you go
back there some day? Somebody hurts? Mean, I couldn't face
those heels now. I couldn't stand to see black.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
When I knew there was lying all around me, cool
and green in the sun.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I couldn't stand there.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yeah, well, let's get back to town.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Hurts Mean.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I made three and a half dollars marching day. Now
I'm all set to drink it down before dawn. Come on.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I lost track of recling after that. I shipped out
in a slow freight of the contract class for Luna,
and he hits the hike to Venusburg and ship in
the triplanet run. So he beat around the system Venusburg,
lay Port and dry Water to New Shanghai. In facts,
any spaceport was his home, and no skipperd refused to
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lift the extra massive briestling and his guitar. He made
up his song sitting out watches down in the power
rooms with old shipmates, while the monotonous beat of the
jets shook the hull plates.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
Here the jets, here the chest.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Hear them snarl at your back when you stretched on
the rack here the shell, feel the.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Pain and your ship.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
Feel a strain and your grip a s feel a rise, feeler, drive, strain,
and steel. Come alive on her Jat's on her jest.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Little by little, his songs began to travel along with
spaceways ahead of them. There are spacemen songs, a different
kind of song, strange sad songs like the ones you
find printed in the centennial editions. Well, there's one called
Dark Star Passing and Death Song of a Weed Cold
and then finally the Green Hills of Earth.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
It grew for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That song, they say it started way back when Reesling
was down on the labor camps in Venus, singing for
the indentured man when reserved, well, when he hit Venus,
he'd always head out for the backwoods to sing.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
For him first.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
If someone will kind of pass a bottle or it
ain't much reason here, it'll.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Do Oh oh, what is that stuff? Takia. You can't
make him good here on Venus. What do you use
bush homedies? M It is different.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Had you come to sign on?
Speaker 14 (13:52):
When a man comes out the village from the city,
he says, it's work. You sign the paper and you work, work, work,
ten stinking hours in the jungle and machete?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
How long he signed for? Then?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I only speak of Spanish.
Speaker 14 (14:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The paper says ten years, ten years? How long you
got to go?
Speaker 14 (14:15):
What's the use? We ain't getting home? You know how
many men die out there in the swamp today?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Ten men? Ten? What's the use? My mother she's dead,
my father? Don't care? Girl now, she says, she waits.
I don't know you.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
You sing some more recently?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Were drinking? You sing? Eh? Maybe a new song?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Son.
Speaker 11 (14:46):
We are in the mold of theess.
Speaker 15 (14:52):
We read chat tamed bread, see foul flooded, jump girls,
crawling with.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Long clean day.
Speaker 12 (15:10):
We've tried, eat space, in space, smote and reckon.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
It's too work.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Take goes back to the homes of men and the.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Cool green eares of earth.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Tape goes back.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
What's the matter?
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Finish the song?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Racing? I can't, I can't chet. It just don't come.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I'll finish it when I go home.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
That's it. When I go home to the hills.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Now pass that bottle, don't whistle, don't blow for four hours.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
That's where the Green Hills started, And I was there
when it was finished. It was twenty years after that,
and there wasn't a man flying or on the beach,
and hadn't heard of Reestling and his songs. He was
getting old now for a spaceman. He was a familiar
figure through the system, tall gaunt with that dirty bandage
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tied across his blind eyes. I was a chief jetman
then on the old Falcon. We were cradled at Venus
Ales Isle, scheduled for a direct jump to Great Lakes, Illinois.
On Earth, I was checking in down edge when Reestling
he called his way up the gangway and came through
the lot.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Hey, Reestling, who's that my hurtsman? Hurtsman? What are you
doing on this old hogboy?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
And I figured I'd ride it backer you're going home?
Speaker 11 (16:52):
Recling. I thought you were never going to make God run?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
What changed your mind?
Speaker 14 (16:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I've been hankering to set foot heels acts again.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
How about those hills?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I've been singing about him so long? Now hurts and
I gotta finish the song. I get to hit foot
in the dooryard and hear the wind for that oak tree.
That the last thing I'll be doing. I gotta get
home before ye.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Look, there's a new company policy in effect now, no
more deadhead rides and new code books in forest.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Oh that don't bother me. Now I'm riding the back
to Earth. I'm gonna finish some song.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It's got to be there.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Let the skippers, one of them youngsters fresh out a
heroin institute cadet training.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
He'll throw the book at you and me.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I've been around space as long as Haley's calm and
Bruce is rich. I'm going back to Earth. O bean
heels of Earth. I'm going home.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
I was the cured Hurts.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Answer, what are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
This is a reling captaining Huh.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I'm dragging it back to Earth. Captain not in this ship.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Take a legg and get out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You wouldn't begrudge old man a trip home.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
I can't do it Space precautionary code CLSs sex.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I come on, clear out.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
One looks skip, but you can slide me buy onto
the distray Spaceman's coals in that cold book.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Distressed spaceman my eye.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
You've been bumming around the system for thirty years. Skipper,
You're making me do something I've never done to no
one before.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I'm an old man, old blind man. I want to
go home.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I never crawled in front of a four drop in
my life, but you gotta let me drag home. The
law says, the man's got a trip coming to him,
and you can stretch for a poor old blind man. No, no, no,
can't you.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
You got to skip her.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
All right, you'll space rat, but keep out of the way.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I run an a fishing ship and I don't want
any trouble, no trouble.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'll just lay down to the power room. I'd kind
of like to be near the jets when they blast off.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Bird sit down raisly, heay, load of.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
P thanks man m fire three.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I said, have you seen these new automatic tampers?
Speaker 11 (19:17):
Reason don't have to do nothing, just sit and watch you.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Where's the peeper turned off?
Speaker 11 (19:21):
It's all automatic?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Youngsteers have it soft. When I was twisting her tear,
you had to stay away. Hey, you got the old
hand tamping plates on all of the Lynx.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I unshipped them. They come up the dials and I
need them power.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
The automatics handle everything.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Well, you're finally going home recently?
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Don't seem the same out past the moon? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I thinking this long time market. It's gonna be good
to get home.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Reckon the art in skies, cold and spacemen.
Speaker 15 (19:51):
Back to that trip.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Back. How got your che to see it? I have
tampers here, the leaks back back. Well, Christ, they want
to be on the wall somewhere here. I got him
a stay alive emergency squat coming in and I stay out,
stay at The place is hot, the radiations last.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I got the link shipped, I get the hand damper.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Now I'm spilling Jet three.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
McDougal's dead. This is priestly on water freshly. Yeah, I'll
kill yourself. Don't worry. Skipper. I know this power room
like the inside.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Of my shirt.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Somebody's got the dampering. I'm sitting in the close, no use.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
The whole room will be hot for an hour, and
the other jet's wood hold hot, Skipper, Skipper throwing a
recording tape, throwing a recording tabe.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I got a song to finish, and I gotta take
it right down. I can hear it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I'll bring you down.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
She's clear now, Skipping, you'll burn out cleanly, braceing you
all right. I reckon pretty shop sunburn you pick me
out of here with tongs Barrimanna.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Let se coffers radiations getting bright.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I can almost see right, Rosie, like the sun, Like
the sun.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Oh, he hes down home. We pray for one.
Speaker 15 (21:35):
Last landing, hung the globe.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
That gave us birth. Let us rest.
Speaker 15 (21:50):
Our eyes on the fleecy skies of the cool, green.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
Green mules of Earth.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's the way he died, Griestling, the blind singer of
the space race, singing of the home he never reached
the cool green hills of Earth.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You have just heard X minus one transcribed by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
of Astounding Science Fiction. Tonight's story The Green Hills of
Earth written by Robert Heinlein, adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
Featured in the cast were Ken Williams as Riesling, Nelson
Almstead as Hertzman, Matt Crowley as Hicks, Wendell Holmes as Casey,
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Bill Griffiths as Rodriguez, Bill Lipton as the Skipper, and
William Zuckert as McDougal. Original music for Eestling songs was
written and sung by Tom Glazer. You're announcer Fred Cowins.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
X minus one was.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Directed by Fred Way and is an NBC Radio Network production.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And now next week the strange story of Doctor Grimshaw's
sanitarium and of a patient there who suddenly found himself
involved in a game of cat and mouse. But the
man had actually been reduced to the size of a mouse,
while the cat remained full size. What happened then you'll
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learn Next week, convicts tell their true stories on The
Loser Tonight over most NBC radio stations.
M hmm, Calm down for blast off x minus five
four three two x minus one fire. From the far
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horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions
in time and space. These are stories of the future
adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
on a thousand, maybe Worlds. A national broadcasting company in
cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction,
presents heck.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He minus minus minus minus one one, The Night Story,
the Green Hills of Earth, the men who pioneer the
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trade roots of the world, the sailors of the clipper ships,
the whaling men, railroaders, black gangs on the tramp steamers,
all have their own stories and song about dangers and
struggles of their lives.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
This is the story of Riesling, the blind singer of
the space Waves. When I first met him, he was
hustling drinks in the Twin Moons.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Bar, Dry Waters Mars.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
He'd won a guitar off a Chinese bar keep at
Luna City by cheating at one thumb, and he made
his whiskey by singing in the bar and passing the hat.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Hell listen to Hertzman, Don't you Sing Pretty? Sixteen year
old goal.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Hey, Rasling, look over there at the bar, there's an
institute for stripper giving you the idea.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
You know, manner of speaking, cole looking scounder. Lady who
he's the idea? Graduated Harriman Space Institute. Three men above
Saint Peter who is he? Captain Hicks off the gushow.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
He should gives you the ones over. Maybe he's got
a job.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
That don't make Nevan no mind to me. I've been blacklisted.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Hicks loved me for making up a song on Watch right,
fight song too.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Oh, this skipper is a bother to his career.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well hold on, here comes from.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
The restaur Oh, Rasling, I've been looking for you.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
You've kept your nose clean, and we're gonna give you
another chance to get back to deep space.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Be a little changing.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Down after the guars shock, ain't the skipper? How'd you
know that you got that new atomic pile drive? If
there's been a leak at the shops? I take it easy, skip,
You'll have that gold bridge is to crawl and right
up your arm where.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
It's stalling, Rasling, Take it or leave it. It's a
loop trip to Jupiter with the standard release.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I reckon, double pay when you get back. If you
get back, last few.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Of them atomic tea Kettle's blue somewhere in the asteroids.
If you're scared, scared, well, that goshawk is one stinking
old tub Rangel's got more bugs and a beagle dog
in spring and I knew drives about as safe as
a pretty gallanty Oh's dogs. But I reckon she'll do
for one more trip. Welcome home, racling hid Jim eggs
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people friend hurts me he can't hold liquor.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
No more to see it, poor boy wrestling you sober
enough to sign.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
The book Drunker's sober and make my mind stand aside.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Three axes took me a middle name. Ha ha you
two label?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Are that hurtsman?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (03:50):
Get him sobered up before the skipper makes rounds. Cargo stowed,
captain fuel lines when ready?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Good casey? What's that?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What it?
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
That's a guitar?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
I guess.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
If it's that shoeless hill billy, I'm gonna tell him
high kimmer recently, what the devil you're doing up here?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
At number two?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Jed eight fits came and dampers who walked quickly like
a turtle's back.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Why tell me tell the chief engineer I did.
Speaker 11 (04:26):
He says, they'll hold.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Well, he's wrong.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Oh he's wrong.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
Eh, he's got a Harremann Institute degree in electronics and power.
And some drunk space rat says he's wrong.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Jipper, I was damp and jets on that shirt tail
tad wop pins for button.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
I got no time for you. Recently, stretch your name.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Off the book.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I don't get excited.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
Well are you shipping or not? I reckon, I wreck,
then get below. That's all casey, sound take on, I sir.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
On a Hawk class clunker.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
In those days, damping was done by hand with a
multiplying vernier and a danger peeper. Jentman slept with one
ear tuned to that, and as long as the paper
ticked off slow and steady, we knew the ship was
saved for a while. Recently, you better stow that guitar.
If Jimmy Les catches you a blow a gasket.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Don't worry. I could damp his tea keead of them asleep.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And that was number two.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
All right, so far, say Jimmy.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Hear that song about Hicks, the one that got me blacklisted.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh, the skipper is the father of his crew.
Speaker 11 (05:37):
A gentle guy.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Light to me and you on Mars.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
He likes his women if they walk, or if they're swimming,
or if they got six arms instead of two. Second
verse is better. Yeah, And the skipper likes his liquor
by the court. Yeah, he go from Mars to Venus
forest North, he'll drink.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
A rocket fuel and well, high skipper didn't see you
come in.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
You were too busy, Eh, who's watching the gage?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I got an eye on it, don't you, fred Nunn.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Reasonally, I'm gonna fix it so you couldn't get a
space berth on a rocket powered pogo stick.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You're locked, report the casing under arrest.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I don't rightly think I will skipper you what you
kind of forget skipper recording a space code.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You can't remove a jet man till the end of
the ward.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Right you tell me, Resling, your ship is over at
twenty three hundred, and I'll see.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
You right the rest of the way and slop locker.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Maybe maybe in the meantime you clear out of my
power room.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I'm gonna make me up a third verse from a song.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Now I got it, power room damn number two a
point number two.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I hold on, hurts Jimmy leg does that force dry?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Boil up there?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Give me that.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Not taking about enough from you?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
And I got a little news for you.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Skipper number two jet is pulging like a fat lady
in a satin skirt. Listen, you'll clown damp number two
a point a sure.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Look out, hurtsman, I'll take it. You watch the gauge.
Now you're riding easy here. It's sucking a little wrestling.
Hit the emergency.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
She won't damp, it's walk Yeah, they go the lights
duck her laugh raising raising, They don't be heard the packlight.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I gotta take a look at his radioc.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
You look out.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I've gotta fish the hot.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Stuff out of the tube.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Got off.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Jimmy Lang's not busy, she's tight.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Now what happened number two?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Blue?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Your lunkheaded space rasp you all right? Her little sunburn
lights a con what's the matter of the emergency circuits.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Jimmy leggs. Get some lights down here, it's dark. Get
the emergency light on. But they're on recling.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
They went on right after the blast of lights are on.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Be talking stark, Jimmy lights.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Jimmy lights turn on the lights, Turn on the lights.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That blue radioactive glow from the jets was the last
thing Riestling ever saw.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
His optic nerve was burned out in an instant.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He was in Sick Bay and the rest of the
trip and on the swing back we set Esling down
at the dry water. I ran into Recenting about two
months later, playing his guitar and a jetty that ran
out into the canal.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
He had a dirty rag tied over his.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Eyes from the jetman's knot, and his hat was on
the wharf beside him. When he finished, we walked out
along the canal.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, I'm doing right fine, working saloons mostly, I haven't thinking.
Some funny songs hits me. The words come out different
than he used to. Come on along an hour with me,
Stark here take myrm. I know the way. That's another
funny thing hurtsmon. I figure I know it better than
other folks. Look back there towards the city.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What do you see? New factory buildings. You can smell them.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
From here, and I still remember them, old Martian towers
all before Bible times on earth, thin and graceful actor
like a ferry palace is my old Grammy used to
tell about down.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Home in the hills. Tore them down now, or else
blocked them up with cinder blocks, Hirtsman.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
When I stand out here in the canal, I can
see it the way it used to be, the water
ice blew, the stars shining up out of it, way
off there, the city with a tower sweeping up like
a like a bird of flying off a tree.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I can see now it's a dirty stinkle in the system.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Not to me listen hurts me.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Bone tie the race, Raise.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The tis for God. Not are they lost? Long?
Speaker 12 (10:10):
God, the God who shade the tears that laugh these Christal.
Speaker 13 (10:20):
Shows, slow beats, the.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Time worn hot of Mars.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Beneath the sigh scy the thin.
Speaker 12 (10:38):
Wispers voicelessly that all live.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Mass stars.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I can't figure myself.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
I never put words together like that before I reckon.
It's just that I got time to study the words
and shine them up my head till he sing true.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Why don't you go home? Recently on earth, I've been
thinking about that hurts me.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
When I was a young and down in the Jsux,
I used to climb a big old oak tree my
daddy had in the dooryard. You could see the hills
from miles green and cool.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Let me thinking about that. Well, why don't you go
back there some day? Somebody hurts? Mean, I couldn't face
those heels now. I couldn't stand to see black.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
When I knew there was lying all around me, cool
and green in the sun.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I couldn't stand there.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yeah, well, let's get back to town.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Hurts Mean.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I made three and a half dollars marching day. Now
I'm all set to drink it down before dawn. Come on.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I lost track of recling after that. I shipped out
in a slow freight of the contract class for Luna,
and he hits the hike to Venusburg and ship in
the triplanet run. So he beat around the system Venusburg,
lay Port and dry Water to New Shanghai. In facts,
any spaceport was his home, and no skipperd refused to
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lift the extra massive briestling and his guitar. He made
up his song sitting out watches down in the power
rooms with old shipmates, while the monotonous beat of the
jets shook the hull plates.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
Here the jets, here the chest.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Hear them snarl at your back when you stretched on
the rack here the shell, feel the.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Pain and your ship.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
Feel a strain and your grip a s feel a rise, feeler, drive, strain,
and steel. Come alive on her Jat's on her jest.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Little by little, his songs began to travel along with
spaceways ahead of them. There are spacemen songs, a different
kind of song, strange sad songs like the ones you
find printed in the centennial editions. Well, there's one called
Dark Star Passing and Death Song of a Weed Cold
and then finally the Green Hills of Earth.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
It grew for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That song, they say it started way back when Reesling
was down on the labor camps in Venus, singing for
the indentured man when reserved, well, when he hit Venus,
he'd always head out for the backwoods to sing.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
For him first.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
If someone will kind of pass a bottle or it
ain't much reason here, it'll.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Do Oh oh, what is that stuff? Takia. You can't
make him good here on Venus. What do you use
bush homedies? M It is different.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Had you come to sign on?
Speaker 14 (13:52):
When a man comes out the village from the city,
he says, it's work. You sign the paper and you work, work, work,
ten stinking hours in the jungle and machete?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
How long he signed for? Then?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I only speak of Spanish.
Speaker 14 (14:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The paper says ten years, ten years? How long you
got to go?
Speaker 14 (14:15):
What's the use? We ain't getting home? You know how
many men die out there in the swamp today?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Ten men? Ten? What's the use? My mother she's dead,
my father? Don't care? Girl now, she says, she waits.
I don't know you.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
You sing some more recently?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Were drinking? You sing? Eh? Maybe a new song?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Son.
Speaker 11 (14:46):
We are in the mold of theess.
Speaker 15 (14:52):
We read chat tamed bread, see foul flooded, jump girls,
crawling with.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Long clean day.
Speaker 12 (15:10):
We've tried, eat space, in space, smote and reckon.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
It's too work.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Take goes back to the homes of men and the.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Cool green eares of earth.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Tape goes back.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
What's the matter?
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Finish the song?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Racing? I can't, I can't chet. It just don't come.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I'll finish it when I go home.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
That's it. When I go home to the hills.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Now pass that bottle, don't whistle, don't blow for four hours.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
That's where the Green Hills started, And I was there
when it was finished. It was twenty years after that,
and there wasn't a man flying or on the beach,
and hadn't heard of Reestling and his songs. He was
getting old now for a spaceman. He was a familiar
figure through the system, tall gaunt with that dirty bandage
(16:25):
tied across his blind eyes. I was a chief jetman
then on the old Falcon. We were cradled at Venus
Ales Isle, scheduled for a direct jump to Great Lakes, Illinois.
On Earth, I was checking in down edge when Reestling
he called his way up the gangway and came through
the lot.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Hey, Reestling, who's that my hurtsman? Hurtsman? What are you
doing on this old hogboy?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
And I figured I'd ride it backer you're going home?
Speaker 11 (16:52):
Recling. I thought you were never going to make God run?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
What changed your mind?
Speaker 14 (16:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I've been hankering to set foot heels acts again.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
How about those hills?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I've been singing about him so long? Now hurts and
I gotta finish the song. I get to hit foot
in the dooryard and hear the wind for that oak tree.
That the last thing I'll be doing. I gotta get
home before ye.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Look, there's a new company policy in effect now, no
more deadhead rides and new code books in forest.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Oh that don't bother me. Now I'm riding the back
to Earth. I'm gonna finish some song.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It's got to be there.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Let the skippers, one of them youngsters fresh out a
heroin institute cadet training.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
He'll throw the book at you and me.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I've been around space as long as Haley's calm and
Bruce is rich. I'm going back to Earth. O bean
heels of Earth. I'm going home.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
I was the cured Hurts.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Answer, what are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
This is a reling captaining Huh.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I'm dragging it back to Earth. Captain not in this ship.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Take a legg and get out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You wouldn't begrudge old man a trip home.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
I can't do it Space precautionary code CLSs sex.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I come on, clear out.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
One looks skip, but you can slide me buy onto
the distray Spaceman's coals in that cold book.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Distressed spaceman my eye.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
You've been bumming around the system for thirty years. Skipper,
You're making me do something I've never done to no
one before.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I'm an old man, old blind man. I want to
go home.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I never crawled in front of a four drop in
my life, but you gotta let me drag home. The
law says, the man's got a trip coming to him,
and you can stretch for a poor old blind man. No, no, no,
can't you.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
You got to skip her.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
All right, you'll space rat, but keep out of the way.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I run an a fishing ship and I don't want
any trouble, no trouble.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'll just lay down to the power room. I'd kind
of like to be near the jets when they blast off.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Bird sit down raisly, heay, load of.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
P thanks man m fire three.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I said, have you seen these new automatic tampers?
Speaker 11 (19:17):
Reason don't have to do nothing, just sit and watch you.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Where's the peeper turned off?
Speaker 11 (19:21):
It's all automatic?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Youngsteers have it soft. When I was twisting her tear,
you had to stay away. Hey, you got the old
hand tamping plates on all of the Lynx.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I unshipped them. They come up the dials and I
need them power.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
The automatics handle everything.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Well, you're finally going home recently?
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Don't seem the same out past the moon? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I thinking this long time market. It's gonna be good
to get home.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Reckon the art in skies, cold and spacemen.
Speaker 15 (19:51):
Back to that trip.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Back. How got your che to see it? I have
tampers here, the leaks back back. Well, Christ, they want
to be on the wall somewhere here. I got him
a stay alive emergency squat coming in and I stay out,
stay at The place is hot, the radiations last.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I got the link shipped, I get the hand damper.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Now I'm spilling Jet three.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
McDougal's dead. This is priestly on water freshly. Yeah, I'll
kill yourself. Don't worry. Skipper. I know this power room
like the inside.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Of my shirt.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Somebody's got the dampering. I'm sitting in the close, no use.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
The whole room will be hot for an hour, and
the other jet's wood hold hot, Skipper, Skipper throwing a
recording tape, throwing a recording tabe.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I got a song to finish, and I gotta take
it right down. I can hear it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I'll bring you down.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
She's clear now, Skipping, you'll burn out cleanly, braceing you
all right. I reckon pretty shop sunburn you pick me
out of here with tongs Barrimanna.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Let se coffers radiations getting bright.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I can almost see right, Rosie, like the sun, Like
the sun.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Oh, he hes down home. We pray for one.
Speaker 15 (21:35):
Last landing, hung the globe.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
That gave us birth. Let us rest.
Speaker 15 (21:50):
Our eyes on the fleecy skies of the cool, green.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
Green mules of Earth.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's the way he died, Griestling, the blind singer of
the space race, singing of the home he never reached
the cool green hills of Earth.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You have just heard X minus one transcribed by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
of Astounding Science Fiction. Tonight's story The Green Hills of
Earth written by Robert Heinlein, adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
Featured in the cast were Ken Williams as Riesling, Nelson
Almstead as Hertzman, Matt Crowley as Hicks, Wendell Holmes as Casey,
(22:56):
Bill Griffiths as Rodriguez, Bill Lipton as the Skipper, and
William Zuckert as McDougal. Original music for Eestling songs was
written and sung by Tom Glazer. You're announcer Fred Cowins.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
X minus one was.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Directed by Fred Way and is an NBC Radio Network production.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And now next week the strange story of Doctor Grimshaw's
sanitarium and of a patient there who suddenly found himself
involved in a game of cat and mouse. But the
man had actually been reduced to the size of a mouse,
while the cat remained full size. What happened then you'll
(23:45):
learn Next week, convicts tell their true stories on The
Loser Tonight over most NBC radio stations.
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