May 2, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
But first, when you hear the hearty laugh and familiar
voice of the Great Guilder Sleep Tomorrow Night, you know
you're in for some hilarious adventures. Because whenever Guildy is around,
somehow things never seem to go as planned. It might
be his impulsive nature, or maybe it's his incurable weakness
for the fairest sex. But whatever it is, the Great
Guildersleeve is bound to keep you laughing for a full
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Nephew Leroy, I'll keep a Birdie and all the rest
of the friendly people from Summerfield as they join the
Great Guilder Sleeve.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
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time again by h Beam Piper.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
M.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It happened during a routine skirmish in the Great War.
Patrols advanced from the defense perimeter under jet cover and
preceded by npalm throwers. The enemy defended in depth and
mocked up with guide that ninety eight fired from forty
miles to the rear. The blast area was ten miles
in circumference, and the medics didn't find much to pick
up over five hundred yards in.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Come on, I'm back it in here.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Look on this lowsy with mud more now cut laught more,
hold it, stretch it.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Come on, travers, get those men out, yes, sir, get
them over, line them up.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Come on, easy, easy, you want to kill them?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Okay, take it away.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And I left those joes where they was half a
more last of the plank comes.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
As long as they're alive, they'll be treated. Get those
tags out, Travers, start taking names.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yes, it's have been a thousand yards in get his dog,
take out a mess here. Hartley Allan, Captain G five
camera search An seventy three D number so two three
eight six nine four oh three dash J.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Hartley Allan Hartley.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh that must be the Hartley that wrote Children of
the Mist and Conquers Road.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Never heard of them, Major, I think maybe he's partly conscious.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Had I better give him another shot?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Go ahead, sergeant. There's much else we can do for him.
So rotten shame? Yeah, and it always okay, Captain, let
me have that on.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Oh, Alan, Alan, Okadh, get up?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Alan, can't stay in bed all day?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I remember that clear as if it were.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Real, hoping at him, hit the deck.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Remarkably vivid, strange.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
All are you all right?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I'm all right? What's wrong with my voice? Ah ah, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
T Why what are you doing practicing singing?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
My voice has changed?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Is that all? You're growing up? Happy birthday?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Happy birthday?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Hey, wake up, don wake up.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm awake. It's impossible. I am awaken.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The way you stepped through that alarm, I'd say it
was impossible. Come on out of bed.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You went to better d edition. Now you could wake
up the next morning. Come on, sound breakfast, waiting all
the better. I'll turn it over.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
All right, all right, it's a dream.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Maybe, but you're wide awake now I am. I'm awake, well,
half awake, anyway, that's the weir.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Let's say, boniface, isn't it? What day is it?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
You?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Forget? Today's your birthday?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
No? No, no, I didn't forget neither, did I?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yes, son, happy thirteenth birthday. You won't guess what's in here?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
A rifle? A light twenty two rifle.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh now, how did you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I remembered?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Did I spill the beans? Sometime? I could have sworn
it would be a surprise. Well, go on open it?
You like it?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah? Yeah, it's perfect dead.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I we'll have to lay down rules about using it,
and i'll have to teach you how to operate it.
I don't believe in letting a boy handle a gun
until he really knows how If I let you play
with that thing before I teach you about guns, you'd
blow your head.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Off, I suppose, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I'll be shaving. Alan, come down to breakfast when you're ready. Well,
it's a big day today. You're almost a man, almost,
so you're still groggy. Snap out of it, Alan.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I will. It's a dream and it's somewhere, but I'm
not sure which what. Never mind, Dad, I'll be right
down for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What you're going to do today, Son, I want to
do some reading this morning. That's always a good thing
to do after breakfast. Suppose you take a walk down
to the station and get me at times. Didn't it
come well at the times or they don't deliver you
a good idea though? Maybe I'll talk to Sam Ashburn
about it. Here's a half dollar Alan, get anything you
want for yourself out of the change. Thanks to finish
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your milk before you go are dead.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Thanks for the money.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You're big enough to handle it. Now, hurry back. I'd
like to finish the crossway puzzle before lunch.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Here are allen one times. Tell your father the puzzle
the stinker this week?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, thanks, mister Ashburn.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
The got with the trucks. When you cross the highway, I'll.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Go across Elton's a lot.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
It's a short cut Elton's. You'll have a hard time
crossing there. Son, there's four buildings on that block.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I thought they burned down.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I've seen him this morning, big as live.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I guess that didn't happen yet. What did you say, nothing,
mister Ashburn, I was just muttering.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
My days youngsters talked up, Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Sir by, mister Ashburn, Monday, August sixth, nineteen forty five.
Okanawa one, I mean Japan.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Hey, Hey Alan, Alan Waite out Hey.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Larry Morton, Hi, Larry Hi.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
El you going to Sunday school?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, I have some things I want to do at home.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Oh, get him fancy pants? Talk things I want to
do at home. Go chase yourself around the block.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Oh, jump in a garbage you can go take a
flying jet to the moon.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Hey, it's a new one, flying jet to the moon.
You thought up a new one. Al Yeah, I wish
I could stay home from Sunday school when I want
to do. How about us going swimming at the canoe club?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
After?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I wish I could. I got to stay home. We're
expecting company, couple of ants of mine. Dad wants me
to stay home when they come. Answer a pain. Nothing
I can do.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
You see the football movie at the Grand Boy. What
a team? Notre Dame. I thought you like Cornell Cornell.
They couldn't beat Fasser.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well you're gonna go to Cornell, aren't you me?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Cornell?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Fat chance? I'll bet you do.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
I wouldn't take your money, Well.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You wouldn't, but you'll go to Cornell, all right?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Cornell far above car UGA's waters.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
There's an awful smell just the same. You all go
to Cornell. Hello, yeah, I gotta go. Well, so long, Al,
I'll see you so long. Larry say you.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Stuck in this corner? A word that mixing? Mm hmm,
see it's fits.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
How how did you know that, Alan?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That I read it somewhere. I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What's you reading now? Tarzan? Again?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
No, not not Tarzan.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's refreshing to see you with a book. Sometimes I
think I order forbid comic books in the house. Hmmm. Yeah,
it must be raising the devil with those bombing raids
in Japan.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
How long do you think the war in Japan will last?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Did?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Oh hmm? I'd say the middle of nineteen forty six,
and I'll have to invade those islands foot by foot.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I don't think so dead. I wouldn't be surprised if
the war was over very suddenly.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How by magic, There's not a thing on earth will
make those Japanese surrender. You expect somebody to make a
pass and it'll be all over by this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
M wish you could a lot of boys dead in
the invasion of Japan, mister Hardley, excuse me please? Oh hello,
mister Goutcha.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's Frank Gotchall dead.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's right. Excuse me, I didn't mean to disturb you.
Mister Hartley's all right. Lovely day, isn't it, mister Gutcher.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
And mister Hardley. The Lord's Day is always beautiful, of course,
mister Gutcher, mister Hartley, I wonder if if you could
lend me a gun and some bullets. My little dog's
been hurt and it's been suffering something terrible.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, that's too bad.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
I want a gun to put the poor thing out
of its pain.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Of course, how would a twenty gate shotgun do? You
wouldn't want anything heavy.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
I was hoping you'd let me have a little gun,
maybe so big pistol, so I could put it in
my pocket. It would look right to carry a honting
gun on the Lord's Day, and people wouldn't understand that it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Was for work of mercy. Of course, I understand you're
a very religious man. The whole world is evil, mister Hardley.
Sometimes it certainly looks like it. Well, I have a
cold thirty eight special from the Auxiliary Police outfit. Well,
that's fine, you've got to bring it right back, mister Gutchall,
I might be called out. You'll have to promise to
get it right back.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Wait a minute, I just remembered, remembered what well on
it to some contridg just left for the luga. Then
you wouldn't be without the cold.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's right. I haven't got a German automatic. I could
let you have that way I wouldn't get stuck. You'd
have to return it promptly, though.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Oh wait that I'll get it high away the contri careful.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Well, mister Gutchall. That sure turned out nice.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Hello place headquarters. This is Blake Hartley. Frank Gotcheler lives
on Campbell Street. That just borrowed a gun from me,
ostensibly to shoot a dog. What no, he has no dog.
He intends shooting his wife. Now listen, he'll walk home.
If you hurry, you can get a man there on time.
What no, But I wish you'd get my pistol back
to me. It's in the First World War, all right,
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All right, then you'll take care of it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Goodbye? There you were? What kept you allen?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I couldn't find the cartridges at first. I'll show mister
gutcher low works. It's all loaded, ready to shoot. This
is the safety. Just push it forward and up. There
were eight shots in.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Did you load the chamber?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Sure it's not safe. Now you understand how it works,
mister Gutchall.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Oh, yes, yes, I understand. Thank you, mister Hartley, Thank you, Soney, goodbye,
good bye.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Mister Gutchall. Return the gun when you're done.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yes, I'll be done with it soon.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Goodbye, Allen. You shouldn't have loaded that gun.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I guess it's all over now. I had to keep
you from fooling with it. I didn't want you to see.
I took out the firing pin. You what gotchall didn't
want that gun to shoot a dog. He's a fanatic.
He sees visions. Here's voices. The voices probably put him
up to this. I'll submit that any man holds intimate
conversations with disembodied spirits isn't to be trusted with the gun.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
While I was at it, I call the police upstairs.
I put a handkerchief over my mouth and told him
I was you you?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh? Why did you have to do that?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I couldn't have told him? This is little Alan Hardy
thirteen years old, and.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Suppose he really wants to shoot a dog. What kind
of a mess would I be in?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Then? No mess. If I'm wrong, which i'm I'll take
the rap for it, dumb kid, Drick, you know. But
if i'm might, you'll have to front for me, give
me a lot of cheap boy hero publicity, which I
don't want.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
This is crazy, and this is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Maybe we'll have the complete returns in twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Minutes, mister Hardley, mister Blake Hartley, that's right.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
I'm Detective Sergeant Kuborski from Homicide.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Here's your lugur. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
I don't know how you spotted that guy, but when
you busted and he was pointing that gun at his
wife and swearing a blue streak.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Because it wouldn't go off, I'm man I was able
to help. You know.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
They may even have some kind of a citation for you,
mister Harley.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't think that's necessary.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
In the department, we figure a little publicity never hurt nobody,
even a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I really would prefer to who kept quiet.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Well, whatever you say, we'll want you to drop around
in the morning for a stay. I'll be glad to well, goodbye,
goodbye son.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Goodbye sergeant.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
M h.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Why don't you take the citation?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Dad? Well, you were right. You saved that woman's life.
Now let's see you put back the firing pin. Sure hum,
all right, Alan, suppose we have a little talk. I
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explained everything you did not yesterday. You wouldn't even have
known how to take this pistol apart. Today you've been
using language and expressing ideas that are outside of everything
you've ever known before. Now I want to know.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I hope you're not tying with the medieval notion of obsession.
Would you say I'm changed? When did you first notice this?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Last night? You were still my little boy this morning?
I don't know. You've been strange all day. There's been something, Alan,
What's happened to you?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I wish I could be sure myself. Did you see
when I woke this morning, I hadn't the least recollection
of anything I'd done yesterday. August fourth, nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Ooh, that's serious, Yet.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Don't a house serious? My last memory was lying on
a stretcher injured by a bomb explosion. I was forty
three years old in the year was nineteen seventy five
nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Let's right, you'll be forty three in nineteen seventy five,
but a bomb. Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
During the Siege of Buffalo in the Third World War,
I was a captain in G five Scientific Warfare General
Staff Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You mean Buffalo, New York.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
There had been a transpolar invasion of Canada. I was
sent to the front to check on service failures of
a new lubricating oil. A week after I got there,
Ottawa fell and the retreat started. We made a stand
at Buffalo and that was where I got it. I
remember being picked up and getting an arctic injection. The
next thing I knew, I was in bed upstairs and
it was nineteen forty five again, and I was back
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in my own thirteen year old body.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Oh, Allan, you just had a nightmare to end all nightmares,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I thought it might be that at first, but I
rejected it. It won't fit the facts.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But it's ridiculous. All this Battle of Buffalo stuff. You
picked up something listening to the radio. All the comment
datas have been going on about another war after this one.
You've just got an undigested hunk of HV Calvienborney. You're subconscious,
That's all.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It isn't everything. I remember four years of high school,
four years at Cornell, seven years as a reporter on
the Philadelphia Record, three novels, Children of the mist Rows,
of Death, Conqueror's Road. You think a thirteen year old
can dream up all that stuff, But it's the.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Only possible explanation.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Maybe, But I can speak five languages today that I
couldn't yesterday, French, German, Chinese, Russian, and the little Spanish,
although I've got a Mexican accent you could cut with
a knife.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But how did it happen? Allan, I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
All I know is here I am. I've been reading
up on time theories. Nobody seems to know much about them.
Evidently time exists parallel as another dimension, and I got
kicked backwards along it. But how It may have been
the radiations from the bomb or the narcotic injection, or
both together. But the fact remains, I'm here with full
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knowledge of my future identity. This this is quite a shock, Ellen,
But you do believe me, don't you?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, I suppose I must. You seem so strange as
if you weren't my son.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I'm your son, all right, same body as yesterday. I've
just had an educational shortcut.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Wait a minute, if you can remember the next thirty years,
suppose you tell me when the war is going to end,
this one against the Japs.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I mean, oh, sure, Well, a Japanese surrender will be
announced at exactly seven oh one pm on August fourteenth.
That's a week from Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Hey, better make sure we have only a grub in
the house by then. Everything will be closed up title
Thursday morning, even the restaurants. I remember we had nothing
to eat in the hospital, some scraps Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And that's pretty sudden, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Not?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
After today?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What do you mean? What happened today?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Plenty?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
What time is it? Dad? That's eleven sixteen?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Is your watch right?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
What the second's way?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
It'll coming exactly eleven seventeen forty? What will come the
radio announcement? What are you getting at something important on
the radio? Well, let's see, Well, don't bother that it
won't work. I remember we had a two brand dot.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
There is something wrong. When is this announcement of yours?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Now? I remembered, I memorized it in journalism school in
nineteen fifty four. What time is it?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Eleven eighteen? Oplock, we're breaking into.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The program now. President Truman has just announced that an
atomic bomb has been dropped on the Japanese industrial city
of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped sixteen hours ago, and
the announcement was delayed to ascertain the results of the explosion.
Man named John Howard Peterson read that announcement from the
Washington newsroom with NBC.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, listen, but that's the burke Plot factory whistle and
the bells of Saint Boniface. Now next the whistle at
the volunteer firehouse.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You like it, then it's true, it's true. Sure.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Then Larry Morton came buy on his bicycle.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Hey, hey, al, now you hear you hear about the
bomb and atomic bomb?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah we heard boy, atomic bomb.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh boy, I gotta go find my Poppey's on the
golf course.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Buy out by mister Harley.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You knew you knew about it.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The next bomb hit Snagasaki.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I thought that stuff about atomic energy was so much fantasy?
Was it was that the kind of bomb that got you?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That was a firecracket to the one that got me.
It was a guy that ninety eight exploded ten miles.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Away, and that's going to happen in thirty years, I remembered,
how about well, how about me? Oh wait, wait, never mind,
I don't think i'd better know when I'm going to die.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I couldn't tell you anyway. I had a letter from
you just before I left for the front. You were
seventy eight then, and you were still hunting and fishing
and flying your own plane.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
But another war and fought on American soil. Oh well,
and I wish this hadn't happened to you.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It happened, I remember it. But if I can help it,
I'm not going to get killed in any Battle of Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
But if you remember it, if time exists as a
parallel dimension, than every tick, we're getting closer to that
Third World War.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
You know what I remembered when Gutschall came to borrow
that gun.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I suppose that you suspected him and more than me.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
No, no, no, that wasn't it. The other time, the
first time, when I was really thirteen, I wasn't home.
I'd been swimming at the Canoe club with Larry Morton
when I get home about a half an hour from now,
I found the house full of cops. But if the
gun didn't fire, what makes you think it didn't got
you'll talk the thirty eight out of you. He went home,
shot his wife four times in the body, once behind
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the ear, and used the six shot to blow his
own brains out.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's what you remember.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yes, the cops traced the gun. They took a very
poor view of your lending it to him. You never
got it back, but here it is not the way
I remember it. But I didn't want you in trouble,
so I warned you, Dad. I found out the future
can be changed.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
One man can't change the whole future.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I stopped a murder on a suicide with thirty years
to work, I can stop a world war. I'll have
the means too, the means unlimited wealth and influence. I've
got a good memory, Dad. I want a list out
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Salt jet pilot citation ponder middle what is this the horses?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
That's a list of Kentucky Derby winners from nineteen forty
six to nineteen seventy You sure I learned that list
on a Better the Eye Offices club in Cincinnati in
nineteen seventy one, Assault paid eight to one. You figure
out what we can take in.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But gambling, Oh, this isn't gambling.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's a sure thing. When we get rolling, we'll make
the Rockefellers look like Piker's.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The saw did they do? M I suppose I quld
scrape up five thousand dollars ten years. That'll make a
lot of money. Any other little thing you have in mind? Ellen, Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
By nineteen fifty two, we start building a political organization
here in Pennsylvania. In nineteen sixty, I think we can
elect you president president. He's not going a little too far,
but why not. Who wouldn't vote for a politician who
was always right? Besides, that's the one thing we've got
to change. In nineteen sixty we had a man in
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the White House who was good to his wife and
sang a nice tenor and that's about all. He followed
up so completely we ended up at war. I think
President Hardley might be a little more trusted to take
a strong line.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But I don't know anything about it. International decisions, I do.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I know all the wrong ones. If we can stop
one murder, we can stop a war. It's worth a try,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I guess, So how do I start?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
As I remember, just after the bomb announcement, you've got
a phone call from the City Fusion Party about the
next election.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
There's a lot of talk about a reform ticket.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
What call is going to be important? Dad, it's the
turning point now, you've got to know there it is.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Well, what do I do?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We'll answered go ahead, but don't worry out tell you
what to do? Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Hello, Yes, this is Blake Hartley, Judge Cribbins. Yes, just
a moment, Allen. He's asking me to run. Oh my Alan? Oh? Alan,
what's the matter Allan? He passed out? Alan? What do
I do now? Alan? Listen to me? Alan, Al.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Captain Captain Hartley, Captain Hartley.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
He was all right, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I gave him a shot and he was all right.
Well he's dead, all right, chargeant make out the tag Hartley?
Allan captain dead. April eighth, nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Alan, Alan, what happened? Alan? Alan? Allen? Are you all right?
I've got Judge Crimins on the phone. What do I
tell him?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
What?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Alan? Are you all right? You passed out?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Sure? All right? Hey, today's my birthday, isn't it what
you give my birthday? Huh?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Don't you remember the Third World War?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
What? Third World War?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
What's the money you're looking at me?
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Funny you don't remember. You're back again, aren't you? Back
to thirteen years old?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Thirteen to day? For corn sake, Dad, you must have
died up there. It was only a mind transfer. That
means I'm on my own. I have to do it
myself without your help.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Help for what if it's a grass I said I'd
cut it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
No, no, it's not the grass. I've got to save
your life. Ellen, I can't let you die that way
in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You're talking about dad? You sound goofy.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I've got to change it all by myself.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Change what?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Never mind? Alan, you don't know yet. Come on, let's
have lunch?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Sure dad? How about my present?
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Would you give me for my birthday?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
In a minute? Sound go on in?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Okay? Well hurry up dad?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Sure? All right? Hm? Now where did I put that
list of horses? You have just heard?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
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Speaker 4 (01:59):
M.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It happened during a routine skirmish in the Great War.
Patrols advanced from the defense perimeter under jet cover and
preceded by npalm throwers. The enemy defended in depth and
mocked up with guide that ninety eight fired from forty
miles to the rear. The blast area was ten miles
in circumference, and the medics didn't find much to pick
up over five hundred yards in.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Come on, I'm back it in here.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Look on this lowsy with mud more now cut laught more,
hold it, stretch it.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Come on, travers, get those men out, yes, sir, get
them over, line them up.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Come on, easy, easy, you want to kill them?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Okay, take it away.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And I left those joes where they was half a
more last of the plank comes.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
As long as they're alive, they'll be treated. Get those
tags out, Travers, start taking names.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yes, it's have been a thousand yards in get his dog,
take out a mess here. Hartley Allan, Captain G five
camera search An seventy three D number so two three
eight six nine four oh three dash J.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Hartley Allan Hartley.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh that must be the Hartley that wrote Children of
the Mist and Conquers Road.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Never heard of them, Major, I think maybe he's partly conscious.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Had I better give him another shot?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Go ahead, sergeant. There's much else we can do for him.
So rotten shame? Yeah, and it always okay, Captain, let
me have that on.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Oh, Alan, Alan, Okadh, get up?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Alan, can't stay in bed all day?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I remember that clear as if it were.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Real, hoping at him, hit the deck.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Remarkably vivid, strange.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
All are you all right?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I'm all right? What's wrong with my voice? Ah ah, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
T Why what are you doing practicing singing?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
My voice has changed?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Is that all? You're growing up? Happy birthday?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Happy birthday?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Hey, wake up, don wake up.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm awake. It's impossible. I am awaken.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The way you stepped through that alarm, I'd say it
was impossible. Come on out of bed.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You went to better d edition. Now you could wake
up the next morning. Come on, sound breakfast, waiting all
the better. I'll turn it over.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
All right, all right, it's a dream.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Maybe, but you're wide awake now I am. I'm awake, well,
half awake, anyway, that's the weir.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Let's say, boniface, isn't it? What day is it?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
You?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Forget? Today's your birthday?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
No? No, no, I didn't forget neither, did I?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yes, son, happy thirteenth birthday. You won't guess what's in here?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
A rifle? A light twenty two rifle.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh now, how did you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I remembered?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Did I spill the beans? Sometime? I could have sworn
it would be a surprise. Well, go on open it?
You like it?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah? Yeah, it's perfect dead.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I we'll have to lay down rules about using it,
and i'll have to teach you how to operate it.
I don't believe in letting a boy handle a gun
until he really knows how If I let you play
with that thing before I teach you about guns, you'd
blow your head.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Off, I suppose, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I'll be shaving. Alan, come down to breakfast when you're ready. Well,
it's a big day today. You're almost a man, almost,
so you're still groggy. Snap out of it, Alan.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I will. It's a dream and it's somewhere, but I'm
not sure which what. Never mind, Dad, I'll be right
down for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
What you're going to do today, Son, I want to
do some reading this morning. That's always a good thing
to do after breakfast. Suppose you take a walk down
to the station and get me at times. Didn't it
come well at the times or they don't deliver you
a good idea though? Maybe I'll talk to Sam Ashburn
about it. Here's a half dollar Alan, get anything you
want for yourself out of the change. Thanks to finish
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your milk before you go are dead.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Thanks for the money.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You're big enough to handle it. Now, hurry back. I'd
like to finish the crossway puzzle before lunch.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Here are allen one times. Tell your father the puzzle
the stinker this week?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, thanks, mister Ashburn.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
The got with the trucks. When you cross the highway, I'll.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Go across Elton's a lot.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
It's a short cut Elton's. You'll have a hard time
crossing there. Son, there's four buildings on that block.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I thought they burned down.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I've seen him this morning, big as live.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I guess that didn't happen yet. What did you say, nothing,
mister Ashburn, I was just muttering.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
My days youngsters talked up, Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Sir by, mister Ashburn, Monday, August sixth, nineteen forty five.
Okanawa one, I mean Japan.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Hey, Hey Alan, Alan Waite out Hey.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Larry Morton, Hi, Larry Hi.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
El you going to Sunday school?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, I have some things I want to do at home.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Oh, get him fancy pants? Talk things I want to
do at home. Go chase yourself around the block.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Oh, jump in a garbage you can go take a
flying jet to the moon.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Hey, it's a new one, flying jet to the moon.
You thought up a new one. Al Yeah, I wish
I could stay home from Sunday school when I want
to do. How about us going swimming at the canoe club?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
After?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I wish I could. I got to stay home. We're
expecting company, couple of ants of mine. Dad wants me
to stay home when they come. Answer a pain. Nothing
I can do.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
You see the football movie at the Grand Boy. What
a team? Notre Dame. I thought you like Cornell Cornell.
They couldn't beat Fasser.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well you're gonna go to Cornell, aren't you me?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Cornell?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Fat chance? I'll bet you do.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
I wouldn't take your money, Well.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You wouldn't, but you'll go to Cornell, all right?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Cornell far above car UGA's waters.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
There's an awful smell just the same. You all go
to Cornell. Hello, yeah, I gotta go. Well, so long, Al,
I'll see you so long. Larry say you.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Stuck in this corner? A word that mixing? Mm hmm,
see it's fits.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
How how did you know that, Alan?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That I read it somewhere. I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What's you reading now? Tarzan? Again?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
No, not not Tarzan.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's refreshing to see you with a book. Sometimes I
think I order forbid comic books in the house. Hmmm. Yeah,
it must be raising the devil with those bombing raids
in Japan.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
How long do you think the war in Japan will last?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Did?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Oh hmm? I'd say the middle of nineteen forty six,
and I'll have to invade those islands foot by foot.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I don't think so dead. I wouldn't be surprised if
the war was over very suddenly.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How by magic, There's not a thing on earth will
make those Japanese surrender. You expect somebody to make a
pass and it'll be all over by this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
M wish you could a lot of boys dead in
the invasion of Japan, mister Hardley, excuse me please? Oh hello,
mister Goutcha.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's Frank Gotchall dead.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's right. Excuse me, I didn't mean to disturb you.
Mister Hartley's all right. Lovely day, isn't it, mister Gutcher.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
And mister Hardley. The Lord's Day is always beautiful, of course,
mister Gutcher, mister Hartley, I wonder if if you could
lend me a gun and some bullets. My little dog's
been hurt and it's been suffering something terrible.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, that's too bad.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
I want a gun to put the poor thing out
of its pain.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Of course, how would a twenty gate shotgun do? You
wouldn't want anything heavy.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
I was hoping you'd let me have a little gun,
maybe so big pistol, so I could put it in
my pocket. It would look right to carry a honting
gun on the Lord's Day, and people wouldn't understand that it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Was for work of mercy. Of course, I understand you're
a very religious man. The whole world is evil, mister Hardley.
Sometimes it certainly looks like it. Well, I have a
cold thirty eight special from the Auxiliary Police outfit. Well,
that's fine, you've got to bring it right back, mister Gutchall,
I might be called out. You'll have to promise to
get it right back.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Wait a minute, I just remembered, remembered what well on
it to some contridg just left for the luga. Then
you wouldn't be without the cold.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's right. I haven't got a German automatic. I could
let you have that way I wouldn't get stuck. You'd
have to return it promptly, though.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Oh wait that I'll get it high away the contri careful.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Well, mister Gutchall. That sure turned out nice.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Hello place headquarters. This is Blake Hartley. Frank Gotcheler lives
on Campbell Street. That just borrowed a gun from me,
ostensibly to shoot a dog. What no, he has no dog.
He intends shooting his wife. Now listen, he'll walk home.
If you hurry, you can get a man there on time.
What no, But I wish you'd get my pistol back
to me. It's in the First World War, all right,
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All right, then you'll take care of it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Goodbye? There you were? What kept you allen?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I couldn't find the cartridges at first. I'll show mister
gutcher low works. It's all loaded, ready to shoot. This
is the safety. Just push it forward and up. There
were eight shots in.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Did you load the chamber?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Sure it's not safe. Now you understand how it works,
mister Gutchall.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Oh, yes, yes, I understand. Thank you, mister Hartley, Thank you, Soney, goodbye,
good bye.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Mister Gutchall. Return the gun when you're done.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yes, I'll be done with it soon.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Goodbye, Allen. You shouldn't have loaded that gun.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I guess it's all over now. I had to keep
you from fooling with it. I didn't want you to see.
I took out the firing pin. You what gotchall didn't
want that gun to shoot a dog. He's a fanatic.
He sees visions. Here's voices. The voices probably put him
up to this. I'll submit that any man holds intimate
conversations with disembodied spirits isn't to be trusted with the gun.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
While I was at it, I call the police upstairs.
I put a handkerchief over my mouth and told him
I was you you?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh? Why did you have to do that?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I couldn't have told him? This is little Alan Hardy
thirteen years old, and.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Suppose he really wants to shoot a dog. What kind
of a mess would I be in?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Then? No mess. If I'm wrong, which i'm I'll take
the rap for it, dumb kid, Drick, you know. But
if i'm might, you'll have to front for me, give
me a lot of cheap boy hero publicity, which I
don't want.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
This is crazy, and this is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Maybe we'll have the complete returns in twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Minutes, mister Hardley, mister Blake Hartley, that's right.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
I'm Detective Sergeant Kuborski from Homicide.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Here's your lugur. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
I don't know how you spotted that guy, but when
you busted and he was pointing that gun at his
wife and swearing a blue streak.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Because it wouldn't go off, I'm man I was able
to help. You know.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
They may even have some kind of a citation for you,
mister Harley.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't think that's necessary.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
In the department, we figure a little publicity never hurt nobody,
even a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I really would prefer to who kept quiet.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Well, whatever you say, we'll want you to drop around
in the morning for a stay. I'll be glad to well, goodbye,
goodbye son.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Goodbye sergeant.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
M h.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Why don't you take the citation?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Dad? Well, you were right. You saved that woman's life.
Now let's see you put back the firing pin. Sure hum,
all right, Alan, suppose we have a little talk. I
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explained everything you did not yesterday. You wouldn't even have
known how to take this pistol apart. Today you've been
using language and expressing ideas that are outside of everything
you've ever known before. Now I want to know.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I hope you're not tying with the medieval notion of obsession.
Would you say I'm changed? When did you first notice this?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Last night? You were still my little boy this morning?
I don't know. You've been strange all day. There's been something, Alan,
What's happened to you?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I wish I could be sure myself. Did you see
when I woke this morning, I hadn't the least recollection
of anything I'd done yesterday. August fourth, nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Ooh, that's serious, Yet.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Don't a house serious? My last memory was lying on
a stretcher injured by a bomb explosion. I was forty
three years old in the year was nineteen seventy five
nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Let's right, you'll be forty three in nineteen seventy five,
but a bomb. Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
During the Siege of Buffalo in the Third World War,
I was a captain in G five Scientific Warfare General
Staff Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You mean Buffalo, New York.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
There had been a transpolar invasion of Canada. I was
sent to the front to check on service failures of
a new lubricating oil. A week after I got there,
Ottawa fell and the retreat started. We made a stand
at Buffalo and that was where I got it. I
remember being picked up and getting an arctic injection. The
next thing I knew, I was in bed upstairs and
it was nineteen forty five again, and I was back
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in my own thirteen year old body.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Oh, Allan, you just had a nightmare to end all nightmares,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I thought it might be that at first, but I
rejected it. It won't fit the facts.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But it's ridiculous. All this Battle of Buffalo stuff. You
picked up something listening to the radio. All the comment
datas have been going on about another war after this one.
You've just got an undigested hunk of HV Calvienborney. You're subconscious,
That's all.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It isn't everything. I remember four years of high school,
four years at Cornell, seven years as a reporter on
the Philadelphia Record, three novels, Children of the mist Rows,
of Death, Conqueror's Road. You think a thirteen year old
can dream up all that stuff, But it's the.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Only possible explanation.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Maybe, But I can speak five languages today that I
couldn't yesterday, French, German, Chinese, Russian, and the little Spanish,
although I've got a Mexican accent you could cut with
a knife.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But how did it happen? Allan, I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
All I know is here I am. I've been reading
up on time theories. Nobody seems to know much about them.
Evidently time exists parallel as another dimension, and I got
kicked backwards along it. But how It may have been
the radiations from the bomb or the narcotic injection, or
both together. But the fact remains, I'm here with full
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knowledge of my future identity. This this is quite a shock, Ellen,
But you do believe me, don't you?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, I suppose I must. You seem so strange as
if you weren't my son.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I'm your son, all right, same body as yesterday. I've
just had an educational shortcut.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Wait a minute, if you can remember the next thirty years,
suppose you tell me when the war is going to end,
this one against the Japs.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I mean, oh, sure, Well, a Japanese surrender will be
announced at exactly seven oh one pm on August fourteenth.
That's a week from Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Hey, better make sure we have only a grub in
the house by then. Everything will be closed up title
Thursday morning, even the restaurants. I remember we had nothing
to eat in the hospital, some scraps Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And that's pretty sudden, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Not?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
After today?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What do you mean? What happened today?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Plenty?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
What time is it? Dad? That's eleven sixteen?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Is your watch right?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
What the second's way?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
It'll coming exactly eleven seventeen forty? What will come the
radio announcement? What are you getting at something important on
the radio? Well, let's see, Well, don't bother that it
won't work. I remember we had a two brand dot.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
There is something wrong. When is this announcement of yours?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Now? I remembered, I memorized it in journalism school in
nineteen fifty four. What time is it?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Eleven eighteen? Oplock, we're breaking into.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The program now. President Truman has just announced that an
atomic bomb has been dropped on the Japanese industrial city
of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped sixteen hours ago, and
the announcement was delayed to ascertain the results of the explosion.
Man named John Howard Peterson read that announcement from the
Washington newsroom with NBC.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, listen, but that's the burke Plot factory whistle and
the bells of Saint Boniface. Now next the whistle at
the volunteer firehouse.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You like it, then it's true, it's true. Sure.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Then Larry Morton came buy on his bicycle.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Hey, hey, al, now you hear you hear about the
bomb and atomic bomb?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah we heard boy, atomic bomb.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh boy, I gotta go find my Poppey's on the
golf course.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Buy out by mister Harley.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You knew you knew about it.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The next bomb hit Snagasaki.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I thought that stuff about atomic energy was so much fantasy?
Was it was that the kind of bomb that got you?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That was a firecracket to the one that got me.
It was a guy that ninety eight exploded ten miles.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Away, and that's going to happen in thirty years, I remembered,
how about well, how about me? Oh wait, wait, never mind,
I don't think i'd better know when I'm going to die.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I couldn't tell you anyway. I had a letter from
you just before I left for the front. You were
seventy eight then, and you were still hunting and fishing
and flying your own plane.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
But another war and fought on American soil. Oh well,
and I wish this hadn't happened to you.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It happened, I remember it. But if I can help it,
I'm not going to get killed in any Battle of Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
But if you remember it, if time exists as a
parallel dimension, than every tick, we're getting closer to that
Third World War.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
You know what I remembered when Gutschall came to borrow
that gun.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I suppose that you suspected him and more than me.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
No, no, no, that wasn't it. The other time, the
first time, when I was really thirteen, I wasn't home.
I'd been swimming at the Canoe club with Larry Morton
when I get home about a half an hour from now,
I found the house full of cops. But if the
gun didn't fire, what makes you think it didn't got
you'll talk the thirty eight out of you. He went home,
shot his wife four times in the body, once behind
(22:06):
the ear, and used the six shot to blow his
own brains out.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's what you remember.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yes, the cops traced the gun. They took a very
poor view of your lending it to him. You never
got it back, but here it is not the way
I remember it. But I didn't want you in trouble,
so I warned you, Dad. I found out the future
can be changed.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
One man can't change the whole future.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I stopped a murder on a suicide with thirty years
to work, I can stop a world war. I'll have
the means too, the means unlimited wealth and influence. I've
got a good memory, Dad. I want a list out
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Salt jet pilot citation ponder middle what is this the horses?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
That's a list of Kentucky Derby winners from nineteen forty
six to nineteen seventy You sure I learned that list
on a Better the Eye Offices club in Cincinnati in
nineteen seventy one, Assault paid eight to one. You figure
out what we can take in.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But gambling, Oh, this isn't gambling.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's a sure thing. When we get rolling, we'll make
the Rockefellers look like Piker's.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The saw did they do? M I suppose I quld
scrape up five thousand dollars ten years. That'll make a
lot of money. Any other little thing you have in mind? Ellen, Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
By nineteen fifty two, we start building a political organization
here in Pennsylvania. In nineteen sixty, I think we can
elect you president president. He's not going a little too far,
but why not. Who wouldn't vote for a politician who
was always right? Besides, that's the one thing we've got
to change. In nineteen sixty we had a man in
(23:46):
the White House who was good to his wife and
sang a nice tenor and that's about all. He followed
up so completely we ended up at war. I think
President Hardley might be a little more trusted to take
a strong line.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But I don't know anything about it. International decisions, I do.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I know all the wrong ones. If we can stop
one murder, we can stop a war. It's worth a try,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I guess, So how do I start?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
As I remember, just after the bomb announcement, you've got
a phone call from the City Fusion Party about the
next election.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
There's a lot of talk about a reform ticket.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
What call is going to be important? Dad, it's the
turning point now, you've got to know there it is.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Well, what do I do?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We'll answered go ahead, but don't worry out tell you
what to do? Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Hello, Yes, this is Blake Hartley, Judge Cribbins. Yes, just
a moment, Allen. He's asking me to run. Oh my Alan? Oh? Alan,
what's the matter Allan? He passed out? Alan? What do
I do now? Alan? Listen to me? Alan, Al.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Captain Captain Hartley, Captain Hartley.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
He was all right, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I gave him a shot and he was all right.
Well he's dead, all right, chargeant make out the tag Hartley?
Allan captain dead. April eighth, nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Alan, Alan, what happened? Alan? Alan? Allen? Are you all right?
I've got Judge Crimins on the phone. What do I
tell him?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
What?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Alan? Are you all right? You passed out?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Sure? All right? Hey, today's my birthday, isn't it what
you give my birthday? Huh?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Don't you remember the Third World War?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
What? Third World War?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
What's the money you're looking at me?
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Funny you don't remember. You're back again, aren't you? Back
to thirteen years old?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Thirteen to day? For corn sake, Dad, you must have
died up there. It was only a mind transfer. That
means I'm on my own. I have to do it
myself without your help.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Help for what if it's a grass I said I'd
cut it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
No, no, it's not the grass. I've got to save
your life. Ellen, I can't let you die that way
in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You're talking about dad? You sound goofy.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I've got to change it all by myself.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Change what?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Never mind? Alan, you don't know yet. Come on, let's
have lunch?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Sure dad? How about my present?
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Would you give me for my birthday?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
In a minute? Sound go on in?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Okay? Well hurry up dad?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Sure? All right? Hm? Now where did I put that
list of horses? You have just heard?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
X minus one Presented by the National Broadcasting Company in
cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science fiction
Tonight by transcription. X minus one has Brought You Time
and time again, written by h. Beam Piper and adapted
for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in the cast were
Jack Grimes, Peter Fernandez, Jodah Santis, Joseph Bell, Clark, Gordon
(27:51):
Herm Dinkin, Dick Hamilton, and James ducas You're announcer Fred Collins.
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