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[school bell ringing]

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Student: "It is not chaos or death.

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"It is form and union and plan.

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"It is eternal life.

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"It is happiness.

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"The past and present wilt.

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"I have filled them, emptied them,

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"and proceed to fill
my next fold of the future.

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"Listener up there! What
have you to confide to me?

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"Look in my face while I
snuff the sidle of evening.

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"Talk honestly, no one else hears you,

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and I stay only a minute longer."

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- [sirens wailing]
- "Do I contradict myself?

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"Very well then, I contradict myself.

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I am large, I contain multitudes."

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[whispers] My God.

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What is it?

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Clearly something more
interesting than Whitman.

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California. There was another earthquake.

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A huge chunk's gone
from Santa Barbara to Fresno.

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- Student 2: It's ****ing crazy.
- Into the ocean,

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- just like that.
- Teacher: Alright, alright.

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Settle down.

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Got no connection.

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Anybody else have one?

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- [students muttering]
- student: No.

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Teacher: Oh, eh, sorry.
Network's still down.

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I've got his file here, though.

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Uh, Dylan's been diving lately.

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I mean, this semester, he's gone

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from As and Bs to Ds.

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You keep hard copies?

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When the network started acting up,

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a lot of us started keeping hard copies.

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What do you think? I mean,
you think it's coming back?

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Well, I don't, I don't know.

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Dylan's mom: I remember
the world before the internet.

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Why is it so hard to imagine
carrying on without it?

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It is, though, isn't it?

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How do we go back? How-- Can we go back?

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What if it's down for good this time?

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Internet's still down.

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Teacher: Yeah, but lucky for us,

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I've got hard copies for each student.

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Parent: I think this might be it.

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I don't think it's coming back this time.

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You might be right.

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But I do think we should talk about Emily.

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Her attendance has really fallen off.

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Her attendance?

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Absenteeism's at an all-time high

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all over the world.

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We got doctors and pilots and cops

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and everyone's just pissing
the **** off, right?

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But you, you want to talk
to us about Emily?

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Parent 2: How are they
supposed to study, anyway?

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Web's been on the fritz for eight months.

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Half those sites are just garbled.

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I mean, I get it, sites go dark.

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But what about all that other stuff?

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Like, sites are there,
but all the punctuation's wrong.

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Words spelled wrong.
How do you explain that?

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Well, I can't,

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but Brian can still prepare for class.

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I mean, the library's
still here. Internet or not.

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Yeah, I, uh,

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I-I-I had noticed that. Yeah.

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Sorry if Bri's been any trouble.

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It's just me now. His mom...

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she left, I don't know where.

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That's been happening a lot more I hear,

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people just ghosting.

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Hers was some star-crossed
boyfriend from high school.

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They dated a month.

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Goddamn month. She's gonna throw 20 years

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in the trash to chase down a month.

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I guess she never stopped
thinking about him.

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I guess we've all got someone like that.

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I mean, I get it, if it really is the end,

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like those kooks in the purple robes say,

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then who do you want to be with for it?

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But to leave her son?

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Uh, she says she'll be back.

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I don't know. Um...

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What if that never comes back?

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****in' tragedy.

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I mean, even if it is
the end of all things...

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that's just ****in' mean.

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[both laughing]

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- Sorry.
- Yeah.

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Reporter: It's a scene of devastation

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and heartbreak in California,

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as rescue workers sift
through what remains

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of the northern portion of the state.

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Reporter 2:
350 dead in North Yorkshire

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as water levels continue to...

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[reporter speaking French]

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[reporter speaking Spanish]

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[reporter speaking German]

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[reporter speaking Japanese]

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[reporter speaking Italian]

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Narrator: The day Marty Anderson

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first saw the billboard

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was just before the internet
finally went down for good.

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[horns honking]

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It had been wobbling for eight months,

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but other problems,
like fires, earthquakes,

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and whole species of birds
and fish dying off

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had taken priority.

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Newscaster [on radio]:
...till today, thought to be

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the largest wildfire
in United States history.

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["Gimme Some Lovin'"
by Steve Winwood playing]

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♪ Well, I feel so good

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♪ Everything is getting high

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Narrator: Ordinarily,
Marty would've driven home

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by way of the Turnpike bypass,

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but that wasn't possible

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due to the collapse of the bridge

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over Otter Creek.

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♪ So glad we made it

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♪ You gotta

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[horn honks]

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♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

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♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

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♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

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♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪

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♪

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NPR host [on radio]: Well,
with what happened in California,

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that officially makes Nevada
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populous states in the Union now.

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NPR host 2: The thing that
must be said here is...

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Narrator: Felicia Gordon is a nurse

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at City General.

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Though for the last few weeks,

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she's felt more like an undertaker.

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The staff, whose numbers
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since late summer, have begun referring

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to themselves as the Suicide Squad.

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NPR host [on radio]: We'll be
back to talk more about this

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and, uh, also about the fires
in the Midwest,

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speaking of water scarcity,
back after this break.

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[upbeat jingle playing]

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Announcer [on radio]:
We'd like to say thank you

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to Charles Krantz

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for 39 great years.

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Thanks, Chuck.

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[jingle continues]

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Man: Hey.

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Heard you got another one.

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Yeah. One more.

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Nurse: Mine wasn't so lucky.
Slit wrists, so...

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what were we supposed to do really?

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Hear about Marilou?

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No. What about Marilou?

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She left!

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- Her ex. Remember Pedro?
- Mm-hm.

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He showed up, and I don't know
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but she walked out holding his hand.

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And I remember how bad that divorce was.

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- Do you remember?
- Yeah, I remember.

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Well, I guess that's all bridge water

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'cause off she went.

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Reporter [on radio]: ...sinkholes
that have been opening up.

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Nurse: I wonder what the stats are.

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You think more people are splitting up

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or getting back together?

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I mean, do you think marriage rates are up

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- or divorce rates--
- Marriages.

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- You're an optimist.
- No. [laughs]

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Divorce takes way longer,

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and I don't think anyone's filing.

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Why bother? Six months
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Probably more.

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Marriage license is one page

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and it takes an hour or so.

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I'm gonna guess marriages.

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Man [on TV]: Missed you for
lunch, missed you for dinner.

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What's the matter? Don't you eat anymore?

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Woman [on TV]: Well,
I wasn't hungry tonight.

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Man: Weren't you hungry
this morning either?

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- Woman: Who stole my nylons?
- [phone ringing]

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Egads! The very... Not very.

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Man: Too much rehearsal last night, huh?

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Woman: It was kind of a workout.

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Man: That why you slept late?

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Woman: Oh, I didn't sleep late.

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- I went uptown.
- [phone ringing]

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- Man: Shopping?
- Woman: No.

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Hey.

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Felicia Gordon [on phone]: Hi.

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You hung up?

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Felicia: Yeah.

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But then I figured
you probably saw it. So...

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How are you?

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Marty Anderson [on phone]:
I'm okay, I guess.

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How are you?

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I was, um, thinking about you today.

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We were at work talking
about marriages and divorces.

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Like, which are happening more now--

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Marriages, I bet.

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Ain't nobody waiting on a divorce.

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Felicia: What about remarriages?

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You want to buy a guy a drink first or...

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Felicia: I bet those are happening.

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I mean, it makes sense.

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People wanting something comforting and...

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familiar.

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So... how was your day?

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You're just going right
for it, aren't you?

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Humor me.

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Marty: It was, um...

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It was a day, I guess. [clears throat]

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You know? Weird.

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Parent-teacher sessions,

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felt like pissing in the wind.

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You know about California, right?

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Marty: Yeah.

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I know they're saying most
of it was already evacuated,

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but I heard today
there are hundreds of thousands

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of refugees trekking east.

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Did you know Nevada is one of the most

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populous states in the Union now?

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I heard a, a scientist on NPR say

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California is peeling away
like old wallpaper.

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And another Japanese reactor
got inundated this afternoon.

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And they're saying, you know,
it was shut down and all's well,

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but I just, I, I don't
think I believe that.

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Marty: Cynic.

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Well, we're living
in cynical times, Marty.

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I mean, some people think
we're living in the last times.

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Not just the religious
crazies either. Not anymore.

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And you are hearing that
from a member in good standing

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of the City General Suicide Squad.

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That's what we call ourselves now.

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No lie.

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We lost six today, but there's 18 more

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we dragged back, mostly with naloxone.

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But supplies of that
are getting very thin.

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And I heard the head pharmacist say

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we might be completely out
by the end of the month.

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That sucks.

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Felicia: Yeah. Yeah. [laughs]

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Yeah, that sucks. It, it really sucks.

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The internet's down,
and California's hanging

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by a thread.

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There's fires and famines

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and plagues and all the rest.

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I mean, it just

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the center doesn't hold.

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It just won't let up.

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How long is this gonna go on?

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How much can we take
before the whole thing...

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before the whole thing goes apart, I mean.

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[sighs]

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I'm teaching the kids
Carl Sagan right now.

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You ever hear what he said
about the cosmic calendar?

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Uh... I don't know. I don't think so.

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Well, the universe
is 15 billion years old.

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And if you took all of that,

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all, all 15 billion years

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and compress them into
a single calendar year,

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then the Big Bang happens in
the first second, January 1st.

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And, and today,

264
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oh, right now, we're in
the final millisecond

265
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of the last minute of the last day,

266
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December 31st.

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But if you go back to the start,

268
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if the, if the Big Bang happens

269
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at midnight, January 1st,

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then each month of this calendar

271
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is one and a quarter billion years long.

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Hey, nobody told me
there was math on this exam.

273
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Marty: The universe starts January 1st,

274
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but the, uh, the Milky Way didn't form

275
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until May.

276
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Our sun and our earth,

277
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they don't show up until mid-September.

278
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Life appears soon after. But not us.

279
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No. No, no, we don't appear
for guess how long?

280
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Again, I was told there'd be no math.

281
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Marty: December 31st.

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Last day on the calendar,

283
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and the very first human beings on Earth

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made their debut

285
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around 10:30 p.m.

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10:30 p.m. on the last day.

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And, um, every minute since then

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is 30,000 years.

289
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So, 11:46 p.m.,

290
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only 14 minutes ago, humanity tamed fire

291
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and now we're out of minutes,
we're into seconds.

292
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11:59 and 20 seconds,

293
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the domestication
of plants and animals begin,

294
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an application for the
human talent for making tools.

295
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11:59 and 35 seconds,

296
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agricultural communities

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evolved into the first cities.

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Our recorded history,

299
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everyone we've ever heard of,

300
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every single thing in any one
of our history books...

301
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happens in the last 10 seconds.

302
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The last 10 seconds

303
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of the last minute

304
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of the last day on the calendar.

305
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December 31st.

306
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So how long is it gonna go on?

307
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I don't know, Fel.

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If you're right, and you might be,

309
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that this really is the, the last times

310
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and the universe is dying,

311
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and let's just say it's a fast death,

312
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even if all of this is happening in the,

313
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the last split second,

314
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microsecond,

315
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who knows how long that'll last.

316
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Maybe seconds, maybe eons.

317
00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,763
Maybe all this is happening
as the cosmos burps out

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its last breath.

319
00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,202
Maybe it's all happening in the last

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single solitary heartbeat.

321
00:13:30,610 --> 00:13:32,450
Jesus, Marty.

322
00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:35,749
Yeah.

323
00:13:36,783 --> 00:13:38,318
[sighs]

324
00:13:42,222 --> 00:13:44,570
Listen, Fel, I should go. I've, um...

325
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I've got tests to grade.

326
00:13:50,163 --> 00:13:51,640
Felicia: Marty...

327
00:13:53,133 --> 00:13:54,467
the world is going down the drain,

328
00:13:54,467 --> 00:13:56,169
and all we can say is, "That sucks."

329
00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:59,172
So, maybe we're going down the drain too.

330
00:14:00,140 --> 00:14:01,608
Marty: Maybe.

331
00:14:01,941 --> 00:14:04,244
But, you know, Chuck Krantz is retiring.

332
00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:06,120
- So...
- [Felicia laughing]

333
00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,648
...I guess there's a gleam
of light in the darkness.

334
00:14:08,648 --> 00:14:10,350
Yes. Thirty-nine great years.

335
00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:11,951
Marty: Oh, you saw that weird billboard?

336
00:14:11,951 --> 00:14:13,953
No, it was an ad on the radio that, um,

337
00:14:13,953 --> 00:14:15,889
[clears throat] that NPR show
I was telling you about.

338
00:14:15,889 --> 00:14:17,457
Marty: If they're running ads on NPR,

339
00:14:17,457 --> 00:14:18,258
it really is the end of the world.

340
00:14:18,258 --> 00:14:19,592
[Felicia laughs]

341
00:14:19,592 --> 00:14:21,261
Tell me, how does Chuck Krantz

342
00:14:21,261 --> 00:14:23,129
rate this kind of coverage?

343
00:14:23,163 --> 00:14:25,665
I mean... looks like an accountant.

344
00:14:25,665 --> 00:14:26,800
I've never heard of him.

345
00:14:27,901 --> 00:14:29,703
Used an old photo too, I guess.

346
00:14:29,703 --> 00:14:31,604
I mean, the guy barely looks 40 at all,

347
00:14:31,604 --> 00:14:33,940
let alone 40 years on the job.

348
00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:35,608
The world is full of mysteries.

349
00:14:37,510 --> 00:14:40,213
And, hey, no hard stuff, Marty.

350
00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:42,115
Okay? Have a beer instead.

351
00:14:44,517 --> 00:14:45,685
You got it.

352
00:14:49,656 --> 00:14:51,558
Newsreader [on TV]:
The Ohio EPA has now issued

353
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a code red air quality alert

354
00:14:53,293 --> 00:14:54,961
for Cleveland and its surrounding--

355
00:14:54,961 --> 00:14:57,970
- [switch clicks]
- [upbeat music playing on TV]

356
00:15:05,872 --> 00:15:08,408
[continuous beep]

357
00:15:14,681 --> 00:15:18,418
[beeping]

358
00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,156
Oh, shit on a stick.

359
00:15:23,156 --> 00:15:26,559
[upbeat jingle playing]

360
00:15:27,761 --> 00:15:29,262
Announcer [on TV]:
We'd like to say thank you

361
00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:30,663
to Charles Krantz

362
00:15:30,663 --> 00:15:33,733
for 39 great years.

363
00:15:33,733 --> 00:15:35,301
Thanks, Chuck.

364
00:15:39,706 --> 00:15:40,707
[jingle stops]

365
00:15:41,408 --> 00:15:42,976
[crackling]

366
00:15:42,976 --> 00:15:45,245
[continuous beep]

367
00:15:50,250 --> 00:15:52,252
[birds chirping]

368
00:15:56,990 --> 00:15:58,291
- [keys jingle]
- [groans]

369
00:16:02,929 --> 00:16:03,863
Marty: Gus!

370
00:16:05,131 --> 00:16:07,167
Oh. Hey, Marty.

371
00:16:07,801 --> 00:16:09,350
Where's your car?

372
00:16:09,636 --> 00:16:11,304
[Gus chuckles] It's... it's on,

373
00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:12,739
it's on the sidewalk halfway down

374
00:16:12,739 --> 00:16:14,808
Main Street Hill with a hundred others.

375
00:16:14,808 --> 00:16:16,376
I finally just had to turn around.

376
00:16:16,376 --> 00:16:18,211
**** it, I walked...

377
00:16:18,211 --> 00:16:19,746
What do you think it is,
like, three miles?

378
00:16:19,746 --> 00:16:21,281
I just walked three miles.

379
00:16:21,715 --> 00:16:23,917
Oh, you're going to school. Hold on a sec.

380
00:16:23,917 --> 00:16:27,754
Uh, real quick, you gotta, you gotta go,

381
00:16:27,754 --> 00:16:29,756
listen to me, you gotta go out Route 11

382
00:16:29,756 --> 00:16:32,920
and then hook back on, on, on 19.

383
00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,361
Yeah. There's gonna be plenty of traffic.

384
00:16:34,361 --> 00:16:35,829
You gotta go out at least 20 miles.

385
00:16:35,829 --> 00:16:37,330
You might make it before lunch.

386
00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:39,766
- I wouldn't count on it.
- What happened?

387
00:16:39,766 --> 00:16:41,968
Giant sinkhole opened up
on Market and Main.

388
00:16:41,968 --> 00:16:44,700
Man, the-the thing, it, uh, it's huge.

389
00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:46,339
All the rain probably had
something to do with it,

390
00:16:46,339 --> 00:16:48,108
lack of maintenance maybe more so.

391
00:16:48,108 --> 00:16:50,410
But it's not my department, thank God.

392
00:16:50,410 --> 00:16:52,780
But, yeah, there's, there's gotta be

393
00:16:52,779 --> 00:16:54,481
- 20 cars at the bottom.
- [Marty scoffs]

394
00:16:54,481 --> 00:16:56,282
And some of the people
in some of those cars,

395
00:16:56,316 --> 00:16:57,851
they ain't comin' back.

396
00:16:57,851 --> 00:16:59,919
Jesus, I was, I was just there last night,

397
00:17:00,754 --> 00:17:02,255
backed up in traffic.

398
00:17:02,255 --> 00:17:03,556
Thank God you weren't there this morning.

399
00:17:05,580 --> 00:17:06,493
I assume you know about California.

400
00:17:07,660 --> 00:17:09,362
I didn't turn on the TV this morning.

401
00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:10,563
- Oh!
- Is there something new?

402
00:17:10,563 --> 00:17:12,198
The, the rest of it went.

403
00:17:13,533 --> 00:17:16,202
I-I mean, th-they're saying that
20% of Northern California

404
00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:18,838
is hanging in there, which
probably means, what, 10%?

405
00:17:18,838 --> 00:17:21,508
But the food-producing regions
are-- they're gone.

406
00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:24,711
And with the Midwest turning to charcoal

407
00:17:24,711 --> 00:17:26,413
and Florida flooding, that's like

408
00:17:26,413 --> 00:17:28,214
all the food-producing regions

409
00:17:28,815 --> 00:17:30,884
in the country just gone.

410
00:17:30,884 --> 00:17:32,285
And the same thing with Europe.

411
00:17:32,285 --> 00:17:33,853
I mean, it's famine time in Asia.

412
00:17:33,853 --> 00:17:35,288
There's a million people dead.

413
00:17:35,288 --> 00:17:36,956
They're saying it's the bub-bublonic,

414
00:17:36,956 --> 00:17:38,124
- bubonic plague.
- Bubonic.

415
00:17:38,124 --> 00:17:40,930
Bu-Bubonic plague. Yeah.

416
00:17:40,930 --> 00:17:42,395
And the bees, I mean, they
were in trouble a decade ago,

417
00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:43,863
but they're completely gone now.

418
00:17:43,863 --> 00:17:45,980
I mean, there's a couple
of hives or whatever

419
00:17:45,980 --> 00:17:46,566
down in South America,

420
00:17:46,566 --> 00:17:48,468
but there ain't no honey, honey.

421
00:17:48,468 --> 00:17:50,837
And without those little guys,
like, what's gonna pollinate

422
00:17:50,837 --> 00:17:52,272
all the crops we have left?

423
00:17:52,272 --> 00:17:53,306
I mean, I can't do--

424
00:17:53,306 --> 00:17:54,674
Excuse me. One sec.

425
00:17:54,674 --> 00:17:55,975
Yeah, yeah. That's-that's cool.

426
00:17:55,975 --> 00:17:57,844
A-Andrea? Are you,

427
00:17:57,844 --> 00:17:59,713
are you Andrea from Midwest Trust?

428
00:17:59,713 --> 00:18:01,748
I'm Felicia Anderson's husband.

429
00:18:01,748 --> 00:18:03,917
Ex, actually.

430
00:18:03,917 --> 00:18:05,452
I think you and Fel know each other.

431
00:18:05,452 --> 00:18:07,253
We met at a, a, a game night at David's.

432
00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:08,988
- A few game nights.
- Yeah, sure.

433
00:18:09,723 --> 00:18:10,990
What do you want?

434
00:18:11,324 --> 00:18:13,593
I just had a long walk,
and my car is stuck,

435
00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:14,994
and the bank is,

436
00:18:15,562 --> 00:18:16,563
it's leaning.

437
00:18:17,931 --> 00:18:18,932
Leaning?

438
00:18:19,499 --> 00:18:20,567
Yeah.

439
00:18:21,340 --> 00:18:22,435
It's on the edge of the sinkhole.

440
00:18:23,937 --> 00:18:25,505
Guess that's the end of my job.

441
00:18:25,505 --> 00:18:27,173
Marty: Hey, I'm curious
about the billboard

442
00:18:27,173 --> 00:18:28,708
on the bank building.

443
00:18:28,708 --> 00:18:30,100
- Have you seen it?
- How could I miss it?

444
00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:32,946
And I saw the ads too, on TV.

445
00:18:33,413 --> 00:18:35,749
No more ads for cars
or discount furniture.

446
00:18:35,749 --> 00:18:37,951
Just, "Charles Krantz,

447
00:18:37,951 --> 00:18:40,487
39 great years. Thanks, Chuck."

448
00:18:40,487 --> 00:18:42,550
Marty: So, he doesn't work at the bank?

449
00:18:42,550 --> 00:18:44,657
He's not retiring from the bank?

450
00:18:44,657 --> 00:18:46,526
I don't know Charles Krantz.

451
00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:49,896
I think it's just a prank.
Performance art.

452
00:18:52,465 --> 00:18:53,466
Take care.

453
00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:01,808
Gus: They look like refugees.

454
00:19:03,430 --> 00:19:04,440
Marty: Yeah.

455
00:19:06,446 --> 00:19:07,981
No one looks that concerned.

456
00:19:08,915 --> 00:19:10,684
[groans] What good would that do?

457
00:19:10,684 --> 00:19:12,485
All was concerned at the start.

458
00:19:13,219 --> 00:19:15,550
Remember the protests? You remember...

459
00:19:15,550 --> 00:19:16,923
they knocked over the fence
at the White House,

460
00:19:16,923 --> 00:19:18,825
and all those students got shot?

461
00:19:18,825 --> 00:19:20,560
- Yeah.
- And the overthrow of the Russian government.

462
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,196
You got the Four Day War
between Pakistan and India

463
00:19:23,196 --> 00:19:28,100
and the ****ing... the volcano in Germany.

464
00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:31,504
There was a volcano in Germany.
That's, that's crazy.

465
00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:34,507
And we just kept saying,
"Oh, it's gonna blow over."

466
00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:36,676
That doesn't look to be
happening, though, does it?

467
00:19:39,546 --> 00:19:40,980
No.

468
00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:43,249
I think that suicides will slow down.

469
00:19:44,851 --> 00:19:48,922
I think people will just... wait.

470
00:19:51,424 --> 00:19:52,826
For what?

471
00:19:53,593 --> 00:19:54,661
The end.

472
00:19:57,397 --> 00:19:58,798
This is the end of everything.

473
00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:02,235
I mean, we're, we're going through

474
00:20:02,235 --> 00:20:03,603
the five stages of grief.

475
00:20:03,603 --> 00:20:05,171
Don't you get it? I mean, we just,

476
00:20:05,171 --> 00:20:07,374
we just landed on the final stage.

477
00:20:07,974 --> 00:20:09,109
Acceptance.

478
00:20:11,111 --> 00:20:12,145
The waiting...

479
00:20:14,748 --> 00:20:16,182
I think that's the hardest part.

480
00:20:18,318 --> 00:20:21,154
And the whole thing, it just,
it-it came out of nowhere, right?

481
00:20:21,154 --> 00:20:23,823
I mean, everyone knew there was
trouble with the environment.

482
00:20:23,823 --> 00:20:25,892
I mean, I think even
the right-wing nutjobs

483
00:20:25,892 --> 00:20:27,327
were secretly, they got it.

484
00:20:27,327 --> 00:20:28,728
But this...

485
00:20:30,330 --> 00:20:31,464
[voice breaking] this...

486
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:37,404
this is just 60 different
varieties of shit.

487
00:20:37,971 --> 00:20:40,974
It's just so much shit that happened fast.

488
00:20:41,441 --> 00:20:43,877
It's like a year, man. Fourteen months.

489
00:20:45,712 --> 00:20:47,313
[sighs] Sucks.

490
00:20:49,916 --> 00:20:50,884
[sniffles]

491
00:20:52,152 --> 00:20:54,921
Yeah. Sucks. [laughs]

492
00:20:54,921 --> 00:20:58,910
[airplane droning]

493
00:20:58,910 --> 00:20:59,590
Huh.

494
00:20:59,659 --> 00:21:00,860
Skywriting.

495
00:21:04,970 --> 00:21:06,533
I haven't seen one of those
since I was a kid.

496
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,103
Oh.

497
00:21:11,671 --> 00:21:12,872
What the ****?

498
00:21:14,607 --> 00:21:18,345
My sentiments... exactly.

499
00:21:21,314 --> 00:21:24,751
- [helicopter whirring]
- [sirens wailing]

500
00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:27,921
[horns honking]

501
00:21:33,226 --> 00:21:35,662
[curious music playing]

502
00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:50,243
[lights buzzing]

503
00:21:50,243 --> 00:21:52,245
[panting]

504
00:21:53,213 --> 00:21:54,948
Whoa, whoa, whoa, where have you been?

505
00:21:54,948 --> 00:21:56,116
Are you kidding?

506
00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:58,251
[panting] I had to run here.

507
00:21:58,251 --> 00:22:01,287
The traffic's insane,
and half the cars are empty.

508
00:22:01,287 --> 00:22:02,422
Dr. Winston's MIA.

509
00:22:02,422 --> 00:22:04,124
- What?
- Yeah.

510
00:22:04,124 --> 00:22:05,425
He walked in this morning,
and he looked around

511
00:22:05,425 --> 00:22:06,493
and he walked out again.

512
00:22:06,493 --> 00:22:07,994
And now I can't find him.

513
00:22:07,994 --> 00:22:09,396
He dropped his pager when he walked out.

514
00:22:09,963 --> 00:22:12,265
[panting] Okay. I'll scrub in.

515
00:22:12,265 --> 00:22:13,566
The beds are empty.

516
00:22:14,601 --> 00:22:16,169
Most of them walked out. I-I-I transferred

517
00:22:16,169 --> 00:22:17,837
the last of the stable ones.

518
00:22:17,837 --> 00:22:20,573
But, Felicia, there's something weird.

519
00:22:20,573 --> 00:22:23,710
[monitor beeping steadily]

520
00:22:23,710 --> 00:22:24,978
What is that?

521
00:22:28,982 --> 00:22:32,385
[beeping continues]

522
00:22:37,757 --> 00:22:39,292
What's wrong with the monitor?

523
00:22:39,993 --> 00:22:41,995
That's the thing, it-it's,
it's not just that one.

524
00:22:46,766 --> 00:22:50,403
[monitor beeping]

525
00:22:50,403 --> 00:22:51,771
[sighs]

526
00:22:58,178 --> 00:23:01,414
[monitor beeping]

527
00:23:02,882 --> 00:23:06,319
[multiple monitors beeping]

528
00:23:07,153 --> 00:23:09,756
I don't know, Fel. I don't know.

529
00:23:10,623 --> 00:23:13,760
I mean... I might want to get out of here.

530
00:23:15,128 --> 00:23:17,364
I might wanna go home.

531
00:23:17,364 --> 00:23:18,765
I don't think I need to be here anymore.

532
00:23:18,765 --> 00:23:21,735
[beeping continues]

533
00:23:22,869 --> 00:23:25,205
[continuous beeping]

534
00:23:26,206 --> 00:23:28,742
[changing channels, all beeping]

535
00:23:30,877 --> 00:23:31,778
[static glitches]

536
00:23:32,946 --> 00:23:34,381
[TV switches off]

537
00:23:38,818 --> 00:23:40,530
[sighs]

538
00:23:44,958 --> 00:23:47,627
[line ringing]

539
00:23:47,627 --> 00:23:48,661
[call failure beeps]

540
00:23:50,663 --> 00:23:51,765
[sighs]

541
00:23:58,672 --> 00:23:59,706
[phone beeps]

542
00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:04,377
[phone beeps]

543
00:24:06,813 --> 00:24:07,947
[phone beeps]

544
00:24:10,650 --> 00:24:11,851
[sighs]

545
00:24:21,561 --> 00:24:22,629
[phone clatters]

546
00:24:37,644 --> 00:24:40,580
[solemn music playing]

547
00:24:45,819 --> 00:24:49,522
[birds cawing, tweeting]

548
00:24:56,463 --> 00:24:59,399
[airplane droning]

549
00:25:02,268 --> 00:25:03,837
[coughs]

550
00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:05,305
You okay, sir?

551
00:25:06,239 --> 00:25:08,608
Yeah. Just taking a rest.

552
00:25:08,608 --> 00:25:10,143
[distant sirens wailing]

553
00:25:10,143 --> 00:25:13,413
I walked downtown to look at the sinkhole

554
00:25:13,413 --> 00:25:15,448
and take a few pictures with my phone.

555
00:25:15,448 --> 00:25:18,785
Thought one of the local TV
stations might be interested,

556
00:25:18,785 --> 00:25:22,220
but they all seem to be off the air.

557
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,858
Except for pictures of Krantz.

558
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,729
- All Krantz all the time.
- [chuckles]

559
00:25:30,997 --> 00:25:32,866
- Any idea who he is?
- None.

560
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:39,172
I've asked two dozen people,
at least. Nobody knows.

561
00:25:39,172 --> 00:25:43,643
Our man, Krantz, is the Oz
of the apocalypse. [chuckles]

562
00:25:43,643 --> 00:25:45,745
- Our last meme.
- [chuckles]

563
00:25:46,446 --> 00:25:48,815
- Where are you heading?
- Harvest Acres.

564
00:25:48,815 --> 00:25:50,817
Nice little enclave off the beaten track.

565
00:25:52,152 --> 00:25:53,386
I'm heading there myself.

566
00:25:54,587 --> 00:25:56,560
- My ex lives there.
- Huh.

567
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,390
Well...

568
00:25:57,390 --> 00:25:58,591
I can walk with you if you like.

569
00:25:59,959 --> 00:26:01,161
What do you do, Sam?

570
00:26:02,620 --> 00:26:03,730
If you still do anything, I mean.

571
00:26:05,498 --> 00:26:08,768
Owner and chief undertaker
for Yarborough Funeral Home.

572
00:26:08,768 --> 00:26:10,503
Oh, man! [chuckles]

573
00:26:10,503 --> 00:26:11,771
Yeah.

574
00:26:11,771 --> 00:26:14,207
We had a boom.

575
00:26:14,207 --> 00:26:15,508
It's hard to feel good about it,

576
00:26:15,508 --> 00:26:16,743
but business was never better

577
00:26:16,743 --> 00:26:18,178
than it was a few weeks ago.

578
00:26:19,646 --> 00:26:24,500
But my real interest's meteorology.

579
00:26:25,318 --> 00:26:27,787
Dreamed of being a television weatherman

580
00:26:27,787 --> 00:26:30,123
in my salad days,
maybe even one of the networks.

581
00:26:31,324 --> 00:26:32,826
But n-no.

582
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:34,761
I keep up, though.

583
00:26:35,495 --> 00:26:36,830
Read the journals.

584
00:26:36,830 --> 00:26:38,640
[helicopter whirring nearby]

585
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,566
And I can tell you

586
00:26:40,367 --> 00:26:42,802
something amazing if you want to hear.

587
00:26:42,802 --> 00:26:44,204
[Marty chuckles]

588
00:26:44,637 --> 00:26:48,241
You know how people say
there are 24 hours in a day?

589
00:26:49,642 --> 00:26:50,777
Well, they're wrong.

590
00:26:51,578 --> 00:26:55,810
There were 23 hours and 56 minutes

591
00:26:55,810 --> 00:26:56,249
in a stellar day.

592
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,725
Plus a few odd seconds.

593
00:27:06,260 --> 00:27:07,594
Marty: There "were"?

594
00:27:07,594 --> 00:27:10,597
Based on my calculations,
which I assure you

595
00:27:10,597 --> 00:27:12,432
I can back up, my math is good,

596
00:27:13,533 --> 00:27:18,304
there are now 24 hours
and two minutes in a day.

597
00:27:18,905 --> 00:27:20,807
Do you know what that means?

598
00:27:20,807 --> 00:27:22,976
Well, you're saying the
Earth's rotation is slowing down?

599
00:27:22,976 --> 00:27:24,244
Exactly.

600
00:27:25,578 --> 00:27:27,881
Lot of folks think all of these disasters

601
00:27:27,881 --> 00:27:29,716
are 'cause of what we've
done to the environment.

602
00:27:29,716 --> 00:27:31,918
Not so.

603
00:27:31,918 --> 00:27:35,155
I'm the first to admit,
we treated our mother,

604
00:27:35,155 --> 00:27:38,124
yes, she's our mother,
all of us, very badly.

605
00:27:38,925 --> 00:27:41,394
Certainly molested her,
if not outright raped her.

606
00:27:42,195 --> 00:27:44,998
But... we're puny

607
00:27:44,998 --> 00:27:48,134
compared to the great
clock of the universe.

608
00:27:49,402 --> 00:27:50,403
No.

609
00:27:50,870 --> 00:27:52,500
Whatever's happening

610
00:27:52,505 --> 00:27:55,475
is much larger than
environmental degradation.

611
00:27:56,409 --> 00:27:57,610
The math says so.

612
00:27:59,790 --> 00:28:01,581
And, and math can do a lot of things.

613
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,150
I mean, math can be art...

614
00:28:05,618 --> 00:28:06,753
but it can't lie.

615
00:28:13,326 --> 00:28:14,928
You know what?

616
00:28:14,928 --> 00:28:16,763
I think I'll sit

617
00:28:17,764 --> 00:28:19,666
and enjoy the sunset

618
00:28:20,233 --> 00:28:23,536
while I wait for the arthritis

619
00:28:23,536 --> 00:28:25,710
to settle a bit.

620
00:28:25,472 --> 00:28:26,506
You care to join me?

621
00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:30,176
[distant siren wails]

622
00:28:30,176 --> 00:28:31,344
[sighs]

623
00:28:31,745 --> 00:28:32,779
I think I'll go on.

624
00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:37,350
The ex. I understand.

625
00:28:37,350 --> 00:28:40,687
Well, it was nice speaking
with you, Mr. Anderson.

626
00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:56,236
[ominous music playing]

627
00:29:07,847 --> 00:29:09,849
♪

628
00:29:22,862 --> 00:29:23,863
Hey.

629
00:29:24,698 --> 00:29:25,832
Hey.

630
00:29:26,566 --> 00:29:29,302
Don't worry. I'm going to see my ex-wife,

631
00:29:29,302 --> 00:29:30,670
Felicia Anderson.

632
00:29:31,705 --> 00:29:33,807
I think she's back to Gordon now.

633
00:29:34,407 --> 00:29:36,409
She lives on Fern Lane, number 19.

634
00:29:37,510 --> 00:29:39,446
Yeah, I know Miss Gordon.

635
00:29:41,381 --> 00:29:42,582
What are you doing out?

636
00:29:44,117 --> 00:29:45,618
I wanted to go skating.

637
00:29:48,321 --> 00:29:49,589
I used to love skating.

638
00:29:51,157 --> 00:29:52,425
Then you should go skating.

639
00:29:53,259 --> 00:29:54,427
[chuckles]

640
00:29:55,462 --> 00:29:57,300
Maybe I should.

641
00:29:57,300 --> 00:29:58,898
Why do you see Miss Gordon
if she's your ex?

642
00:30:01,134 --> 00:30:02,335
I still like her.

643
00:30:03,690 --> 00:30:04,404
Girl: Do you fight?

644
00:30:05,638 --> 00:30:06,740
We used to.

645
00:30:08,575 --> 00:30:10,577
We get along better now that we're exes.

646
00:30:10,577 --> 00:30:13,346
Miss Gordon gives us
gingersnap cookies sometimes.

647
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,649
I like Oreos better, but...

648
00:30:16,649 --> 00:30:19,285
That's just the way
the cookie crumbles, right?

649
00:30:19,285 --> 00:30:20,787
Gingersnaps don't crumble.

650
00:30:20,787 --> 00:30:21,988
At least not until you crunch them--

651
00:30:21,988 --> 00:30:24,240
[loud boom]

652
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,625
[booming echoes]

653
00:30:26,793 --> 00:30:28,762
[ominous music playing]

654
00:30:32,732 --> 00:30:34,167
You better go home, I guess.

655
00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:39,939
It's too dark for skating
without streetlights.

656
00:30:41,441 --> 00:30:44,744
Is everything gonna be okay?

657
00:30:47,380 --> 00:30:48,615
Sure it is.

658
00:30:52,485 --> 00:30:55,388
[ominous music intensifies]

659
00:31:23,650 --> 00:31:25,510
Go home.

660
00:31:26,152 --> 00:31:28,355
Go home to your Mom and Dad.

661
00:31:30,657 --> 00:31:32,125
Do it now.

662
00:31:53,646 --> 00:31:55,849
[music softens]

663
00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:58,451
[melancholic music playing]

664
00:32:05,658 --> 00:32:06,593
Huh?

665
00:32:08,828 --> 00:32:10,960
[panting]

666
00:32:10,697 --> 00:32:11,898
[Felicia sighs]

667
00:32:11,898 --> 00:32:14,434
Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.

668
00:32:15,335 --> 00:32:17,170
- Thank God.
- Marty: They, they just...

669
00:32:17,170 --> 00:32:19,606
[both panting]

670
00:32:20,740 --> 00:32:23,610
They just, they just started showing up.

671
00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:25,450
No, I know, I know, I saw.

672
00:32:26,413 --> 00:32:27,614
Is it just here?

673
00:32:28,481 --> 00:32:29,783
I think it's everywhere.

674
00:32:32,419 --> 00:32:34,788
I think it's almost...

675
00:32:39,492 --> 00:32:40,493
Yeah...

676
00:32:41,695 --> 00:32:43,290
Yeah, I think it's almost...

677
00:32:45,650 --> 00:32:46,299
[exhales deeply]

678
00:32:52,806 --> 00:32:55,750
[melancholic music continues]

679
00:33:01,810 --> 00:33:03,717
[monitor beeping]

680
00:33:03,717 --> 00:33:05,618
[music fades out]

681
00:33:08,955 --> 00:33:10,924
[beeping continues]

682
00:33:30,643 --> 00:33:31,644
[sniffles]

683
00:33:38,118 --> 00:33:39,119
[sniffles]

684
00:33:42,288 --> 00:33:45,625
[somber music playing]

685
00:33:48,995 --> 00:33:51,231
[monitor continues beeping]

686
00:33:59,105 --> 00:34:02,750
[melancholic music playing]

687
00:34:24,798 --> 00:34:27,330
Marty: It's the brightest
I've ever seen the stars.

688
00:34:32,706 --> 00:34:34,541
Just look at that.

689
00:34:36,910 --> 00:34:39,746
There's Aquila the eagle.

690
00:34:39,746 --> 00:34:40,714
Mm-hm.

691
00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:42,749
There's, uh...

692
00:34:43,350 --> 00:34:46,453
Cygnus the swan.

693
00:34:52,250 --> 00:34:54,270
♪

694
00:34:54,270 --> 00:34:55,261
You see it?

695
00:35:09,175 --> 00:35:10,477
And there's the North Sta--

696
00:35:14,848 --> 00:35:15,915
Did you just see that?

697
00:35:17,217 --> 00:35:18,284
Yeah.

698
00:35:22,389 --> 00:35:23,923
[loud echoing boom]

699
00:35:23,923 --> 00:35:25,525
There goes Mars.

700
00:35:29,662 --> 00:35:32,499
[multiple loud booms]

701
00:35:41,410 --> 00:35:42,342
I'm scared.

702
00:35:44,110 --> 00:35:45,945
- [shaky breaths]
- [loud booms]

703
00:35:45,945 --> 00:35:47,213
I am too.

704
00:35:47,881 --> 00:35:49,215
Chuck's wife: It's okay, honey.

705
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:51,618
[monitor beeping]

706
00:35:51,618 --> 00:35:52,652
You go on.

707
00:35:55,422 --> 00:35:56,990
You go on ahead, okay?

708
00:35:58,910 --> 00:35:59,225
[exhales weakly]

709
00:36:01,610 --> 00:36:03,396
[monitor beeping steadily]

710
00:36:03,396 --> 00:36:06,660
[crying] Just thirty-nine years.

711
00:36:12,839 --> 00:36:14,708
Thirty-nine great years.

712
00:36:14,708 --> 00:36:17,410
[monitor continues beeping]

713
00:36:22,916 --> 00:36:24,284
Thanks, Chuck.

714
00:36:25,652 --> 00:36:28,655
[loud rumbling]

715
00:36:32,459 --> 00:36:35,128
["Gimme Some Lovin'"
by Steve Winwood playing]

716
00:36:35,128 --> 00:36:36,696
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

717
00:36:36,696 --> 00:36:38,932
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

718
00:36:38,932 --> 00:36:40,734
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

719
00:36:42,435 --> 00:36:44,704
[music distorting] ♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

720
00:36:50,577 --> 00:36:51,945
- [trembling breath]
- I love y--

721
00:37:06,126 --> 00:37:09,262
[voices speaking indistinctly]

722
00:37:16,202 --> 00:37:18,338
Narrator: With the help
of her friend, Mac,

723
00:37:18,338 --> 00:37:20,600
who has an old van,

724
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,709
Taylor Franck sets up her drum kit

725
00:37:22,709 --> 00:37:24,177
in her favored spot

726
00:37:24,177 --> 00:37:26,780
on the Eighth Street Promenade.

727
00:37:26,780 --> 00:37:28,281
[people chattering]

728
00:37:29,616 --> 00:37:31,718
It's Thursday afternoon.

729
00:37:31,718 --> 00:37:34,654
The weather is ****ing gorgeous,

730
00:37:34,654 --> 00:37:36,456
and the streets are thronged with people

731
00:37:36,456 --> 00:37:38,625
looking forward to the weekend,

732
00:37:38,625 --> 00:37:41,594
which is always better
than the weekend itself.

733
00:37:41,594 --> 00:37:43,630
- All good. Taylor?
- Yeah, thanks.

734
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,660
Ten percent is all
the thanks I want, dude.

735
00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:49,436
Narrator: Taylor, and Mac too,

736
00:37:49,436 --> 00:37:51,370
work part-time

737
00:37:51,370 --> 00:37:53,106
at Doctor Records on Castle Street.

738
00:37:53,907 --> 00:37:55,475
- But on a good day...
- [van door closes]

739
00:37:55,475 --> 00:37:57,744
...Taylor can make almost as much busking.

740
00:37:57,744 --> 00:37:59,245
[van engine starts]

741
00:37:59,813 --> 00:38:02,949
Busk-drumming isn't what
her parents saw for her

742
00:38:02,949 --> 00:38:05,385
when she enrolled at Juilliard,

743
00:38:05,385 --> 00:38:07,954
and they don't know yet
that she dropped out.

744
00:38:08,955 --> 00:38:12,258
Juilliard wanted you to think
about what you were doing,

745
00:38:12,258 --> 00:38:15,362
but as far as Taylor is concerned,

746
00:38:15,362 --> 00:38:19,766
the beat is your friend
and thinking is the enemy.

747
00:38:19,766 --> 00:38:22,502
[slow-tempo drumming]

748
00:38:25,205 --> 00:38:29,420
She starts warming up,
going easy at first.

749
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:31,277
Slow tempo, no cowbell,

750
00:38:31,945 --> 00:38:35,480
not minding that the magic hat stays empty

751
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,117
except for her two crumpled dollars

752
00:38:37,117 --> 00:38:39,386
and a quarter flipped contemptuously

753
00:38:39,386 --> 00:38:41,154
by a dude on a skateboard.

754
00:38:41,154 --> 00:38:42,422
[coin clinks]

755
00:38:42,922 --> 00:38:46,126
There is time. There is a way in.

756
00:38:46,726 --> 00:38:49,529
Finding the in is half the fun.

757
00:38:49,963 --> 00:38:51,965
Maybe even most of it.

758
00:38:51,965 --> 00:38:53,660
[drumming stops]

759
00:38:53,867 --> 00:38:56,703
Janice Halliday is on her way home

760
00:38:56,703 --> 00:38:59,806
from seven hours at Paper and Page,

761
00:38:59,806 --> 00:39:01,841
and may walk all the way to the ocean.

762
00:39:02,976 --> 00:39:06,613
Her boyfriend of 16 months
just broke up with her,

763
00:39:06,613 --> 00:39:08,982
and he did it the modern way.

764
00:39:08,982 --> 00:39:10,517
Mother****er!

765
00:39:10,517 --> 00:39:12,118
Narrator: It was totally unexpected,

766
00:39:12,118 --> 00:39:14,888
like having a door slammed in your face

767
00:39:14,888 --> 00:39:17,230
just as you were getting ready
to walk through it.

768
00:39:17,557 --> 00:39:19,125
- It was...
- ****ing bullshit!

769
00:39:19,125 --> 00:39:20,694
Narrator: ...****ing bullshit.

770
00:39:20,694 --> 00:39:22,529
She isn't in love with him.

771
00:39:22,529 --> 00:39:24,964
Never even kidded herself that she was.

772
00:39:24,964 --> 00:39:26,833
- But still it...
- ****ing sucks.

773
00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:29,169
Narrator: ...is a dismaying
shock just the same.

774
00:39:30,136 --> 00:39:32,539
She supposes she'll have some wine

775
00:39:32,539 --> 00:39:34,174
when she gets home and cry.

776
00:39:35,175 --> 00:39:37,911
Maybe queue up one
of her big band playlists

777
00:39:37,911 --> 00:39:39,913
and dance drunk around the room.

778
00:39:40,613 --> 00:39:43,160
She loved to dance in high school.

779
00:39:43,416 --> 00:39:46,319
Maybe she can recapture
a little of that happiness.

780
00:39:46,319 --> 00:39:48,722
- ****ing really?!
- Passerby: Excuse me.

781
00:39:48,722 --> 00:39:51,240
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Not you, not you.

782
00:39:51,858 --> 00:39:53,560
[sighs] ****!

783
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,290
Barista: Got an oat milk latte for Chuck.

784
00:39:56,996 --> 00:39:58,465
Narrator: Charles Krantz,

785
00:39:59,299 --> 00:40:00,800
Chuck to his friends,

786
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,870
is dressed in the armor of accountancy.

787
00:40:03,870 --> 00:40:07,730
Gray suit, blue shirt, blue tie.

788
00:40:07,474 --> 00:40:11,511
His Samuel Windsor shoes
are inexpensive but sturdy.

789
00:40:12,479 --> 00:40:14,914
He's here for a week-long conference

790
00:40:14,914 --> 00:40:18,318
titled "Banking in the 21st Century."

791
00:40:18,752 --> 00:40:22,489
He's been sent by his bank, Midwest Trust,

792
00:40:22,489 --> 00:40:23,890
all expenses paid.

793
00:40:24,391 --> 00:40:28,261
Chuck has enjoyed
the speakers and the panels.

794
00:40:28,261 --> 00:40:29,829
He was on one panel

795
00:40:29,829 --> 00:40:31,931
and is scheduled to be on another

796
00:40:31,931 --> 00:40:34,901
before the conference ends
at noon tomorrow,

797
00:40:34,901 --> 00:40:38,710
but has no wish to spend
his off-duty hours

798
00:40:38,710 --> 00:40:40,774
in the company of 70 other accountants.

799
00:40:41,274 --> 00:40:43,430
He speaks their language,

800
00:40:43,430 --> 00:40:45,812
but likes to think
he speaks others as well.

801
00:40:46,646 --> 00:40:48,381
At least he did,

802
00:40:48,381 --> 00:40:51,840
although some
of the vocabulary is now lost.

803
00:40:52,485 --> 00:40:55,622
Now, his sensible Samuel Windsor Oxfords

804
00:40:55,622 --> 00:40:58,124
are taking him for an afternoon walk.

805
00:40:58,525 --> 00:41:00,393
His life is narrower

806
00:41:00,393 --> 00:41:02,562
than the one he once hoped for,

807
00:41:02,562 --> 00:41:04,197
but he's made peace with that.

808
00:41:04,964 --> 00:41:07,000
He understands that narrowing

809
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,202
is the natural order of things.

810
00:41:10,303 --> 00:41:12,105
He has a wife, Ginny,

811
00:41:12,105 --> 00:41:14,941
to whom he is scrupulously faithful,

812
00:41:14,941 --> 00:41:17,310
and an intelligent, good-humored son

813
00:41:17,310 --> 00:41:18,378
in middle school.

814
00:41:19,790 --> 00:41:22,115
He also has only nine months to live,

815
00:41:22,115 --> 00:41:24,117
though he doesn't know that yet.

816
00:41:24,117 --> 00:41:26,453
[drum music playing]

817
00:41:29,122 --> 00:41:32,392
Taylor has been on the job
for 10 minutes now

818
00:41:32,392 --> 00:41:34,461
and has nothing to show for it.

819
00:41:37,464 --> 00:41:39,733
She sees a Mr. Businessman type

820
00:41:39,733 --> 00:41:41,434
coming toward her

821
00:41:41,434 --> 00:41:43,970
and something about him, God knows what,

822
00:41:43,970 --> 00:41:47,273
makes Taylor want
to announce his approach.

823
00:41:49,109 --> 00:41:51,611
She slips first into a reggae beat,

824
00:41:51,611 --> 00:41:53,346
then something slinkier.

825
00:41:53,780 --> 00:41:57,884
And for the first time today,
Taylor feels a spark

826
00:41:57,884 --> 00:42:00,987
and begins to whack
the cowbell on the downbeat.

827
00:42:01,755 --> 00:42:03,560
It's pretty cool.

828
00:42:03,623 --> 00:42:06,326
The groove has arrived,

829
00:42:06,326 --> 00:42:09,929
and the groove is like
a road you want to follow.

830
00:42:10,430 --> 00:42:14,200
She could speed the beat up,
get some tom in there,

831
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,569
but she's watching Mr. Businessman

832
00:42:16,569 --> 00:42:18,605
and that seems wrong for this dude.

833
00:42:19,706 --> 00:42:23,610
She believes Mr. Businessman
will just go on past

834
00:42:23,610 --> 00:42:26,212
on his way to the business hotel,

835
00:42:26,212 --> 00:42:27,814
and when he's gone,

836
00:42:27,814 --> 00:42:29,883
Taylor will switch to something else.

837
00:42:32,385 --> 00:42:35,622
But instead of floating on by...

838
00:42:35,622 --> 00:42:37,891
[upbeat drum music playing]

839
00:42:45,165 --> 00:42:47,300
♪

840
00:43:04,217 --> 00:43:07,320
♪

841
00:43:15,695 --> 00:43:17,197
[drumming stops]

842
00:43:24,804 --> 00:43:26,806
[drumming resumes]

843
00:43:41,654 --> 00:43:44,457
♪

844
00:43:52,699 --> 00:43:54,701
♪

845
00:44:06,446 --> 00:44:07,547
Onlooker 1: Woo!

846
00:44:11,851 --> 00:44:13,853
♪

847
00:44:16,289 --> 00:44:17,624
Onlooker 2: Yeah!

848
00:44:17,624 --> 00:44:20,126
♪

849
00:44:35,508 --> 00:44:38,345
♪

850
00:44:38,345 --> 00:44:40,800
[people exclaiming]

851
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,284
♪

852
00:44:49,522 --> 00:44:51,758
- Onlooker: Woo!
- [crowd cheering]

853
00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:54,361
Come on.

854
00:44:55,962 --> 00:44:57,300
Come on, little sister.

855
00:44:58,980 --> 00:44:59,232
Let's dance.

856
00:44:59,232 --> 00:45:00,867
Dance.

857
00:45:00,867 --> 00:45:02,902
[people exclaiming]

858
00:45:04,104 --> 00:45:06,390
- Yeah!
- [crowd cheering]

859
00:45:06,390 --> 00:45:08,174
I'll lead you. I got you.

860
00:45:08,908 --> 00:45:11,745
♪

861
00:45:28,561 --> 00:45:31,664
♪

862
00:45:37,937 --> 00:45:40,240
[crowd cheering]

863
00:45:49,816 --> 00:45:51,151
[crowd cheering]

864
00:45:56,990 --> 00:45:58,158
Uh.

865
00:46:03,129 --> 00:46:06,399
It's okay. It's my glasses.
It's my glasses.

866
00:46:07,867 --> 00:46:10,870
[crowd cheering]

867
00:46:16,443 --> 00:46:19,846
♪

868
00:46:26,152 --> 00:46:28,388
[crowd cheering]

869
00:46:40,433 --> 00:46:43,870
- [fast-paced beat playing]
- [crowd cheering]

870
00:46:55,749 --> 00:46:58,651
♪

871
00:47:10,463 --> 00:47:12,465
[crowd clapping rhythmically]

872
00:47:16,770 --> 00:47:18,738
[drumming intensifies]

873
00:47:31,518 --> 00:47:32,686
[drumming stops]

874
00:47:32,686 --> 00:47:35,689
[crowd cheering]

875
00:47:42,395 --> 00:47:45,650
[cheering intensifies]

876
00:47:47,367 --> 00:47:48,501
What are we doing?

877
00:47:49,269 --> 00:47:50,337
I don't know.

878
00:47:58,812 --> 00:48:02,215
[cheering continues]

879
00:48:07,220 --> 00:48:08,722
Taylor Franck: No more today, folks.

880
00:48:09,389 --> 00:48:10,623
No more today.

881
00:48:11,358 --> 00:48:13,493
No more today. We gotta
quit while we're ahead.

882
00:48:13,493 --> 00:48:14,728
[crowd groans]

883
00:48:17,630 --> 00:48:18,865
Chuck Krantz: Do you
need a-any help at all or...

884
00:48:18,865 --> 00:48:20,400
Mac: Here, can you, uh, take this?

885
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,100
- Sure.
- Just, just spin the thingy here.

886
00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:24,700
But watch out for your fingers.

887
00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:25,872
It'll, it'll, it'll get 'em good,
you know what I mean?

888
00:48:25,872 --> 00:48:28,108
- Yeah, yeah.
- [indistinct chatter]

889
00:48:28,108 --> 00:48:30,276
Janice Halliday: What just happened?

890
00:48:30,276 --> 00:48:32,278
That was incredible.

891
00:48:32,278 --> 00:48:33,713
Mac: You dance for a living?

892
00:48:33,713 --> 00:48:35,448
Chuck: No. [laughs] Oh, no. I...

893
00:48:35,448 --> 00:48:37,450
- No, I do not, sir.
- What do you do for a living?

894
00:48:37,450 --> 00:48:39,386
Chuck: Oh, no, I think I--
Did I-- I didn't break it, did I?

895
00:48:39,386 --> 00:48:40,820
I think he broke, I think he broke it.

896
00:48:42,822 --> 00:48:44,424
Taylor: Let's hit the pond.

897
00:48:44,424 --> 00:48:46,159
Mac: We'll never find
parking by the Common.

898
00:48:47,270 --> 00:48:48,940
We will today.

899
00:48:49,429 --> 00:48:50,430
Today...

900
00:48:51,998 --> 00:48:53,133
is magic.

901
00:48:58,171 --> 00:48:59,606
Where did you learn to dance like that?

902
00:49:00,407 --> 00:49:03,777
[indistinct chatter]

903
00:49:07,681 --> 00:49:09,916
Oh, no, no, no, that's yours.

904
00:49:09,916 --> 00:49:11,551
Nope, we split it even.

905
00:49:11,551 --> 00:49:12,719
By myself, I wouldn't
have made half as much

906
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:13,753
if I drummed till midnight.

907
00:49:15,555 --> 00:49:16,690
[chuckles]

908
00:49:24,931 --> 00:49:26,132
You okay?

909
00:49:28,168 --> 00:49:29,302
Yeah.

910
00:49:31,438 --> 00:49:33,206
Yeah. Just one of my headaches.

911
00:49:35,875 --> 00:49:38,345
Oh, no, no, no. Come on.
I don't need it. You keep it.

912
00:49:38,345 --> 00:49:39,913
Come on, man, you earned it.

913
00:49:40,780 --> 00:49:42,349
Buy yourself dinner.

914
00:49:42,349 --> 00:49:44,584
Give it away. But I'm handing it to you.

915
00:49:50,156 --> 00:49:51,925
You could do this for a living, you know?

916
00:49:51,925 --> 00:49:53,893
- [Janice laughs]
- Chuck: I don't know about that.

917
00:49:53,893 --> 00:49:55,962
I really think we could busk
our way to fame and fortune.

918
00:49:55,962 --> 00:49:57,630
[both chuckle]

919
00:50:00,266 --> 00:50:02,736
What made you stop in front of me?

920
00:50:04,104 --> 00:50:05,105
[Chuck sighs]

921
00:50:05,538 --> 00:50:06,806
Why did you start moving?

922
00:50:09,409 --> 00:50:12,178
Narrator: He could say it
was because he was thinking

923
00:50:12,178 --> 00:50:15,982
about his old half-***ed band, The Retros,

924
00:50:15,982 --> 00:50:18,551
and how he liked to dance across the stage

925
00:50:18,551 --> 00:50:20,253
during instrumental breaks.

926
00:50:21,921 --> 00:50:22,956
But that's not it.

927
00:50:27,930 --> 00:50:28,228
I don't know.

928
00:50:31,998 --> 00:50:33,500
Mac: Taylor, we gotta roll,

929
00:50:33,500 --> 00:50:34,701
or you're gonna end up spending your take

930
00:50:34,701 --> 00:50:35,702
on my parking ticket.

931
00:50:37,504 --> 00:50:40,573
So, you guys don't want a career change?

932
00:50:40,573 --> 00:50:42,509
Chuck: Career change? How... I mean...

933
00:50:42,509 --> 00:50:43,943
Taylor: We'll make a name for ourselves.

934
00:50:43,943 --> 00:50:45,110
[Chuck laughs]

935
00:50:45,879 --> 00:50:47,414
You got to get in here before you go.

936
00:50:48,515 --> 00:50:50,583
- Group hug.
- Oh, oh, okay.

937
00:50:50,583 --> 00:50:51,985
- Taylor: Group hug.
- Chuck: Okay.

938
00:50:51,985 --> 00:50:53,520
- [Taylor laughs]
- Chuck: Go.

939
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:54,788
- Taylor: Come on.
- [Janice chuckles]

940
00:50:55,588 --> 00:50:57,957
[gentle music playing]

941
00:51:01,394 --> 00:51:02,796
Buskers forever.

942
00:51:03,396 --> 00:51:04,964
Mac: Yeah. Buskers forever.

943
00:51:04,964 --> 00:51:07,233
We gotta roll before
the meter maid shows up.

944
00:51:07,233 --> 00:51:10,904
♪

945
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,708
Chuck: I'm so sorry.

946
00:51:15,575 --> 00:51:16,843
That sucks.

947
00:51:16,843 --> 00:51:18,812
Janice: It does suck. [sighs]

948
00:51:19,446 --> 00:51:20,980
I thought he was a nice guy.

949
00:51:21,414 --> 00:51:23,683
He was a pretty good lover,
and we had fun and all that.

950
00:51:25,185 --> 00:51:27,153
If I can find a video of us dancing,

951
00:51:27,153 --> 00:51:29,889
which I'm gonna look
because I bet we go viral,

952
00:51:29,889 --> 00:51:32,125
I'm gonna send it to him with a text,

953
00:51:32,125 --> 00:51:35,462
a text that says,
"This is what you're missing."

954
00:51:35,462 --> 00:51:36,896
[Chuck laughs]

955
00:51:44,700 --> 00:51:45,338
You're gonna be fine.

956
00:51:47,574 --> 00:51:49,476
I don't know a lot, but I know that much.

957
00:51:52,912 --> 00:51:55,150
You got a bright sunbeam in front of you,

958
00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:57,217
and you're gonna step
right into it, I can tell.

959
00:52:00,587 --> 00:52:01,621
But yeah.

960
00:52:03,923 --> 00:52:06,192
It sucks. Not much else to say.

961
00:52:09,162 --> 00:52:10,530
Everything goes down the drain,

962
00:52:10,530 --> 00:52:12,232
and all we can say is, "That sucks."

963
00:52:12,232 --> 00:52:13,967
Mm. Yeah.

964
00:52:15,535 --> 00:52:16,970
Maybe we're going down the drain too.

965
00:52:19,472 --> 00:52:20,740
Maybe.

966
00:52:23,176 --> 00:52:24,110
I'm this way.

967
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:28,815
Uh, I'm that way.

968
00:52:34,754 --> 00:52:35,922
Thank you for the dance.

969
00:52:38,358 --> 00:52:41,610
[gentle music playing]

970
00:52:41,610 --> 00:52:42,620
[Janice chuckles]

971
00:52:55,275 --> 00:52:56,976
[music fades out]

972
00:52:59,790 --> 00:53:01,140
[people chattering]

973
00:53:17,797 --> 00:53:19,799
[curious music playing]

974
00:53:31,544 --> 00:53:33,130
Narrator: As he passes the place

975
00:53:33,130 --> 00:53:34,881
where Taylor set up her drums,

976
00:53:34,881 --> 00:53:36,983
those two questions recur.

977
00:53:39,819 --> 00:53:41,888
Why did he stop to listen?

978
00:53:43,823 --> 00:53:46,559
And why did he start to dance?

979
00:53:49,562 --> 00:53:50,964
He doesn't know.

980
00:53:52,832 --> 00:53:55,402
And would answers make
a good thing better?

981
00:53:58,738 --> 00:54:01,775
Later, he'll lose the ability to walk,

982
00:54:02,442 --> 00:54:04,911
never mind dancing with little sister

983
00:54:04,911 --> 00:54:06,179
on the promenade.

984
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,183
Later, he'll lose
the ability to chew food.

985
00:54:11,651 --> 00:54:14,154
Later, he'll forget his wife's name.

986
00:54:15,722 --> 00:54:19,590
Later, he'll lose his grip
on the difference

987
00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:21,194
between waking and sleeping

988
00:54:21,661 --> 00:54:24,864
and enter a land of pain so great

989
00:54:25,331 --> 00:54:27,901
he will wonder why God made the world.

990
00:54:28,601 --> 00:54:30,670
♪

991
00:54:30,670 --> 00:54:33,606
What he will remember, occasionally,

992
00:54:33,606 --> 00:54:37,610
is how he stopped
and dropped his briefcase

993
00:54:37,610 --> 00:54:41,810
and began to move his hips
to the beat of the drums.

994
00:54:42,215 --> 00:54:43,817
And he will think

995
00:54:43,817 --> 00:54:46,319
that is why God made the world.

996
00:54:48,355 --> 00:54:49,489
Just that.

997
00:54:52,492 --> 00:54:54,494
[music fades out]

998
00:54:58,980 --> 00:55:02,102
[voices speaking indistinctly]

999
00:55:06,106 --> 00:55:08,108
[distant toy train horn blows]

1000
00:55:08,108 --> 00:55:10,343
[children playing]

1001
00:55:13,580 --> 00:55:15,115
Narrator: Chuck was looking forward

1002
00:55:15,115 --> 00:55:16,783
to having a baby sister.

1003
00:55:17,484 --> 00:55:19,486
Of course, he was also looking forward

1004
00:55:19,486 --> 00:55:21,488
to having parents,

1005
00:55:21,488 --> 00:55:24,257
but none of that worked out
thanks to a patch

1006
00:55:24,257 --> 00:55:27,827
of well-hidden ice on an I-95 overpass.

1007
00:55:28,595 --> 00:55:31,970
- [train whistle hooting]
- [exclaims]

1008
00:55:31,970 --> 00:55:33,666
Chuck wasn't in the car when it happened

1009
00:55:33,666 --> 00:55:36,436
because his parents
were having a dinner date

1010
00:55:36,436 --> 00:55:39,873
and he was being babysat
by his grandparents,

1011
00:55:39,873 --> 00:55:43,143
who, at the time, he was still
calling Zaydee and Bubbie.

1012
00:55:43,810 --> 00:55:45,378
He was seven years old.

1013
00:55:45,378 --> 00:55:47,800
Excellent job.

1014
00:55:47,714 --> 00:55:50,160
Narrator: For a year
and a half, it was a house

1015
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,180
of unadulterated sadness.

1016
00:55:53,586 --> 00:55:56,456
Albie and Sarah Krantz had not only lost

1017
00:55:56,456 --> 00:55:58,324
their son and daughter-in-law...

1018
00:55:58,324 --> 00:56:00,260
Why're you not eating?

1019
00:56:00,260 --> 00:56:01,995
Narrator: ...they had
lost the granddaughter

1020
00:56:01,995 --> 00:56:04,164
who would've been born
just three months later.

1021
00:56:04,164 --> 00:56:05,865
Young Chuck: What's going on?

1022
00:56:06,299 --> 00:56:08,601
Narrator: The name had
already been picked out...

1023
00:56:08,601 --> 00:56:11,370
- Her name is Alyssa.
- Narrator: ...Alyssa.

1024
00:56:11,370 --> 00:56:14,574
When Chuck said that
sounded to him like rain,

1025
00:56:14,574 --> 00:56:17,344
his mother had laughed
and cried at the same time.

1026
00:56:18,645 --> 00:56:20,130
He never forgot that.

1027
00:56:22,349 --> 00:56:24,417
Albie processed his grief

1028
00:56:24,417 --> 00:56:27,320
by turning to his two absolutes,

1029
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,756
numbers and alcohol.

1030
00:56:30,724 --> 00:56:33,226
Sarah, though, could find no joy

1031
00:56:33,226 --> 00:56:35,610
in her usual pleasures.

1032
00:56:35,628 --> 00:56:38,640
She loved the flavors of life,

1033
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,500
music, art, and food,

1034
00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:43,360
but now, found the world quiet

1035
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,739
and gray and flavorless.

1036
00:56:47,941 --> 00:56:50,100
Some of the good feelings came back

1037
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:52,379
into the house with time.

1038
00:56:52,379 --> 00:56:54,470
There were a lot of takeout meals

1039
00:56:54,470 --> 00:56:56,160
after the accident,

1040
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:57,951
but around the time Chuck turned 10,

1041
00:56:57,951 --> 00:57:00,353
his grandma started cooking again.

1042
00:57:01,254 --> 00:57:03,757
She liked rock-and-roll
while she was cooking.

1043
00:57:03,757 --> 00:57:05,692
[music plays on radio]

1044
00:57:05,692 --> 00:57:08,228
Music Chuck would've thought
much too young for her,

1045
00:57:08,228 --> 00:57:10,330
but which she clearly enjoyed.

1046
00:57:10,930 --> 00:57:12,632
["Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung playing]

1047
00:57:12,632 --> 00:57:14,901
♪ Take your baby by the hand ♪

1048
00:57:15,502 --> 00:57:17,203
[tapping rhythmically]

1049
00:57:17,203 --> 00:57:19,906
♪ And make her do a high handstand ♪

1050
00:57:21,641 --> 00:57:24,210
♪ And take your baby by the heel ♪

1051
00:57:26,546 --> 00:57:28,114
♪ And do the next thing that you feel ♪

1052
00:57:28,114 --> 00:57:29,716
[chuckles]

1053
00:57:29,716 --> 00:57:32,786
Come on, little brother,
let's dance. [chuckles]

1054
00:57:32,786 --> 00:57:35,622
♪ We were so in phase

1055
00:57:35,622 --> 00:57:39,920
♪ In our dance hall days

1056
00:57:40,226 --> 00:57:43,630
♪ We were cool on craze

1057
00:57:45,650 --> 00:57:47,500
♪ When I, you

1058
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:50,637
♪ And everyone we knew could believe ♪

1059
00:57:51,137 --> 00:57:54,700
♪ Do and share in what was true ♪

1060
00:57:54,700 --> 00:57:55,141
♪ Oh, I said

1061
00:57:58,144 --> 00:57:59,879
♪ Dance hall days, love

1062
00:58:04,170 --> 00:58:06,386
♪ Take your baby by the hair ♪

1063
00:58:08,822 --> 00:58:11,124
♪ And pull her close
and there, there, there ♪

1064
00:58:13,393 --> 00:58:16,129
♪ And take your baby by the ears ♪

1065
00:58:18,310 --> 00:58:20,967
♪ And play upon her darkest fears ♪

1066
00:58:22,168 --> 00:58:24,270
♪ We were so in...

1067
00:58:24,270 --> 00:58:27,307
[upbeat music playing on TV]

1068
00:58:30,410 --> 00:58:31,978
Sarah Krantz: You could
learn those moves, kiddo.

1069
00:58:32,746 --> 00:58:33,747
You're a natural.

1070
00:58:34,714 --> 00:58:36,316
Wh-Where did you learn?

1071
00:58:36,316 --> 00:58:37,717
Sarah: High school.

1072
00:58:38,585 --> 00:58:39,986
Chuck: What were you like in high school?

1073
00:58:41,855 --> 00:58:44,190
- I was a kusit.
- [both laugh]

1074
00:58:44,190 --> 00:58:46,590
But don't you tell
your Zaydee I said that.

1075
00:58:46,626 --> 00:58:47,794
He's old school, that one.

1076
00:58:47,794 --> 00:58:48,928
[snorts]

1077
00:58:48,928 --> 00:58:50,230
[both chuckle]

1078
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:52,699
Narrator: Chuck never told.

1079
00:58:54,167 --> 00:58:56,302
His grandparents' house became

1080
00:58:56,302 --> 00:58:58,304
every inch his home

1081
00:58:58,304 --> 00:58:59,606
with one exception.

1082
00:59:00,807 --> 00:59:02,575
The cupola on the roof.

1083
00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:05,378
[switch clicks]

1084
00:59:05,745 --> 00:59:08,882
Chuck was forbidden to go into the cupola.

1085
00:59:09,449 --> 00:59:11,785
That was his grandfather's rule,

1086
00:59:11,785 --> 00:59:15,889
and it was absolute, emphatic.

1087
00:59:15,889 --> 00:59:19,259
Albie wasn't a stern man in other matters.

1088
00:59:19,259 --> 00:59:22,162
He was downright gentle in most respects.

1089
00:59:22,595 --> 00:59:24,364
But on this point, he was rigid.

1090
00:59:27,801 --> 00:59:29,936
Chuck asked about it, of course,

1091
00:59:29,936 --> 00:59:31,104
and more than once.

1092
00:59:31,771 --> 00:59:33,373
What was up there?

1093
00:59:33,373 --> 00:59:35,775
What could you see from the high window?

1094
00:59:35,775 --> 00:59:39,412
And the big question,
why was the room locked?

1095
00:59:41,470 --> 00:59:43,116
- Grandma said...
- Because the floor isn't safe

1096
00:59:43,116 --> 00:59:44,984
and you might go right through it.

1097
00:59:44,984 --> 00:59:46,820
- Narrator: Grandpa said...
- There's nothing up there

1098
00:59:46,820 --> 00:59:48,521
because of that rotten floor.

1099
00:59:48,521 --> 00:59:50,623
And the only thing you can
see through the windows

1100
00:59:50,623 --> 00:59:52,492
is the shopping center.

1101
00:59:52,492 --> 00:59:55,261
Narrator: He said that until, one night,

1102
00:59:55,261 --> 00:59:57,831
just before Chuck's 11th birthday,

1103
00:59:57,831 --> 01:00:00,533
when he told at least part of the truth.

1104
01:00:00,533 --> 01:00:02,302
Carl Sagan [on TV]: The cosmic calendar

1105
01:00:02,302 --> 01:00:04,537
compresses the local history
of the universe

1106
01:00:04,537 --> 01:00:06,539
into a single year.

1107
01:00:06,873 --> 01:00:09,109
If the universe began on January 1st,

1108
01:00:09,642 --> 01:00:12,379
it was not until May
that the Milky Way formed.

1109
01:00:12,379 --> 01:00:15,248
Narrator: Drinking is
not good for secrets.

1110
01:00:15,248 --> 01:00:17,584
And after the death of his son,

1111
01:00:17,584 --> 01:00:20,687
daughter-in-law, and granddaughter-to-be,

1112
01:00:20,687 --> 01:00:22,589
Alyssa, who sounds like rain,

1113
01:00:23,390 --> 01:00:26,260
Albie Krantz drank a great deal.

1114
01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:27,994
Sagan: Everything humans have ever done

1115
01:00:27,994 --> 01:00:29,963
occurred in that bright speck

1116
01:00:29,963 --> 01:00:32,866
at the lower right of the cosmic calendar.

1117
01:00:32,866 --> 01:00:34,701
Chuck: I'll bet you could see

1118
01:00:34,701 --> 01:00:36,669
way past the Westford Mall

1119
01:00:36,669 --> 01:00:37,804
from the cupola.

1120
01:00:39,472 --> 01:00:42,575
You gotta be able to see
the whole town from up there,

1121
01:00:42,575 --> 01:00:43,677
I bet.

1122
01:00:44,878 --> 01:00:47,313
Albie Krantz: If you went up there,

1123
01:00:47,313 --> 01:00:51,251
you might see a lot more than you wanted.

1124
01:00:51,251 --> 01:00:52,819
That's why it's locked, Chucko.

1125
01:00:53,486 --> 01:00:56,556
Every month is one and a
quarter billion years long.

1126
01:00:56,890 --> 01:00:59,693
Each day represents 40 million years.

1127
01:00:59,693 --> 01:01:02,328
Narrator: He wanted to
ask what Grandpa meant.

1128
01:01:02,862 --> 01:01:06,700
But the adult part of him,
not there in person,

1129
01:01:06,700 --> 01:01:09,936
no, not at 10, but something
that had begun to speak

1130
01:01:09,936 --> 01:01:12,439
on rare occasions, told him

1131
01:01:12,439 --> 01:01:14,708
- to be quiet.
- Sagan: At this scale...

1132
01:01:14,708 --> 01:01:17,344
Narrator: Be quiet and wait.

1133
01:01:18,311 --> 01:01:21,648
But all of human history
would occupy an area

1134
01:01:21,648 --> 01:01:22,849
the size of my hand.

1135
01:01:23,750 --> 01:01:27,287
We're just beginning to trace
the long and tortuous path

1136
01:01:27,287 --> 01:01:28,888
which began with the primeval...

1137
01:01:28,888 --> 01:01:31,240
You know what style of house this is?

1138
01:01:32,250 --> 01:01:33,526
Victorian.

1139
01:01:33,526 --> 01:01:34,594
That's right.

1140
01:01:35,862 --> 01:01:37,797
And not pretend Victorian either.

1141
01:01:37,797 --> 01:01:40,767
It was built in 1885.

1142
01:01:41,901 --> 01:01:44,938
It's been remodeled
half a dozen times since.

1143
01:01:44,938 --> 01:01:48,541
But that cupola was there from the start.

1144
01:01:49,876 --> 01:01:52,379
Been here since '71.

1145
01:01:52,379 --> 01:01:55,810
And in all those years, I haven't been up

1146
01:01:55,810 --> 01:01:57,784
to that damn cupola half a dozen times.

1147
01:01:57,784 --> 01:01:59,619
'Cause the floor is rotted?

1148
01:02:01,254 --> 01:02:03,189
'Cause it's full of ghosts.

1149
01:02:04,758 --> 01:02:07,794
Sagan: ...around 10:30
p.m. on December 31st.

1150
01:02:08,428 --> 01:02:10,797
- Y-You remember Scrooge?
- Chuck: Yeah.

1151
01:02:10,797 --> 01:02:12,332
That Scrooge movie we watched?

1152
01:02:12,332 --> 01:02:13,800
I remember.

1153
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,136
Do you think of that as a ghost story?

1154
01:02:17,437 --> 01:02:19,139
I-I-I guess so.

1155
01:02:19,139 --> 01:02:21,641
Heard someone say it was a ghost story.

1156
01:02:24,377 --> 01:02:26,346
Christmas Yet to Come.

1157
01:02:27,247 --> 01:02:29,150
Sagan: 11:59:20,

1158
01:02:29,582 --> 01:02:32,218
evening, last day of the...

1159
01:02:32,218 --> 01:02:34,287
Jefferies boy was a month later.

1160
01:02:36,389 --> 01:02:37,957
Henry Peterson,

1161
01:02:39,359 --> 01:02:40,593
that took longer.

1162
01:02:42,950 --> 01:02:45,865
Four... maybe five years on.

1163
01:02:45,865 --> 01:02:48,134
And by then...

1164
01:02:49,936 --> 01:02:52,572
I almost forgot what I saw up there.

1165
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:56,409
Almost.

1166
01:02:59,479 --> 01:03:02,115
Said I'd never go back
up there after that.

1167
01:03:04,150 --> 01:03:07,687
And I wish I hadn't because of Sarah.

1168
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,860
Because of your Bubbie, Chucky.

1169
01:03:16,290 --> 01:03:17,731
Your sweet Bubbie.

1170
01:03:19,966 --> 01:03:21,301
And the bread.

1171
01:03:22,869 --> 01:03:25,138
Sagan: Every person we've ever heard of,

1172
01:03:26,306 --> 01:03:27,507
somewhere in there...

1173
01:03:27,507 --> 01:03:29,175
It's the waiting, Chucko.

1174
01:03:31,611 --> 01:03:33,413
That's the hard part.

1175
01:03:33,413 --> 01:03:35,615
Sagan: Everything in the history books

1176
01:03:35,615 --> 01:03:37,617
happened here

1177
01:03:38,485 --> 01:03:41,540
in the last 10 seconds
of the cosmic calendar.

1178
01:03:41,540 --> 01:03:42,622
- [door slams]
- Sarah: Ooh!

1179
01:03:42,622 --> 01:03:44,324
It's getting cold out there.

1180
01:03:44,758 --> 01:03:47,460
Vera says hi. She
says thanks for the soup.

1181
01:03:49,229 --> 01:03:51,297
She laid the gossip on me, laid it good.

1182
01:03:51,798 --> 01:03:53,500
Of course... [laughs]

1183
01:03:53,500 --> 01:03:54,901
That's why we have a Vera, isn't it?

1184
01:03:54,901 --> 01:03:56,903
So, what's the latest?

1185
01:03:56,903 --> 01:03:58,672
Well, I don't know if you've heard,

1186
01:03:58,672 --> 01:04:02,242
but Trish is saying Karen
and Matty are in therapy.

1187
01:04:02,242 --> 01:04:04,644
- Again.
- Who's Henry Peterson, Zaydee?

1188
01:04:04,644 --> 01:04:06,613
Sagan: ...the universe that made us

1189
01:04:06,613 --> 01:04:09,883
or we can squander
our 15 billion-year heritage.

1190
01:04:10,517 --> 01:04:12,485
Sarah: And get some pancake mix.

1191
01:04:12,485 --> 01:04:14,754
Yellow box, not the orange box.

1192
01:04:14,754 --> 01:04:16,690
- You got all that?
- Albie: I got it.

1193
01:04:16,690 --> 01:04:18,925
- Do you need me to write it down?
- I got it.

1194
01:04:19,492 --> 01:04:20,827
Don't you think about driving.

1195
01:04:20,827 --> 01:04:22,629
The walk will sober you up.

1196
01:04:22,629 --> 01:04:24,970
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1197
01:04:24,970 --> 01:04:26,766
[insects chirping]

1198
01:04:30,537 --> 01:04:31,504
[door closes]

1199
01:04:42,248 --> 01:04:43,650
He'll be back with some groceries.

1200
01:04:44,984 --> 01:04:46,686
Then, how about tonight,

1201
01:04:46,686 --> 01:04:49,356
we do some s'mores in the fireplace?

1202
01:04:50,857 --> 01:04:52,726
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

1203
01:04:54,861 --> 01:04:56,830
Was he blabbing to you about his ghosts?

1204
01:04:58,565 --> 01:04:59,933
The ones that live in the cupola?

1205
01:05:02,402 --> 01:05:03,503
Yeah.

1206
01:05:04,137 --> 01:05:05,538
Well, are there?

1207
01:05:07,574 --> 01:05:08,541
What do you think?

1208
01:05:09,943 --> 01:05:12,145
I wouldn't pay too much
attention to Zaydee.

1209
01:05:12,579 --> 01:05:15,415
He's a good man. But, sometimes,

1210
01:05:15,415 --> 01:05:19,419
well, sometimes, he drinks too much.

1211
01:05:19,419 --> 01:05:20,887
Then he rides his hobby horses.

1212
01:05:20,887 --> 01:05:22,255
I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

1213
01:05:22,255 --> 01:05:24,124
Who was the Jefferies boy?

1214
01:05:28,895 --> 01:05:29,829
Well...

1215
01:05:30,864 --> 01:05:32,399
that was a very sad thing, kiddo.

1216
01:05:34,267 --> 01:05:36,302
He lived on the next block over,

1217
01:05:36,302 --> 01:05:38,638
and he got hit by a car

1218
01:05:38,638 --> 01:05:40,540
when he chased a ball into the street.

1219
01:05:41,841 --> 01:05:43,276
It happened a long time ago.

1220
01:05:46,179 --> 01:05:48,481
And if your grandpa says
he saw it before it happened,

1221
01:05:48,481 --> 01:05:49,716
he's mistaken.

1222
01:05:54,888 --> 01:05:56,589
[weak laugh] He just drinks too much.

1223
01:06:08,134 --> 01:06:11,604
You know, I could take those
to Mrs. Stanley if you want.

1224
01:06:12,806 --> 01:06:14,808
Oh, that's very thoughtful of you.

1225
01:06:14,808 --> 01:06:16,176
I bet Vera'd love that.

1226
01:06:17,377 --> 01:06:18,378
Mm.

1227
01:06:19,379 --> 01:06:21,140
Just wonderful.

1228
01:06:21,140 --> 01:06:22,649
Your, your grandmother is an artist.

1229
01:06:22,649 --> 01:06:24,250
Thank you for bringing them over.

1230
01:06:24,250 --> 01:06:25,251
Was that your idea?

1231
01:06:25,819 --> 01:06:27,587
- Be honest.
- It was.

1232
01:06:27,587 --> 01:06:29,890
Well, can I make you a cup of tea?

1233
01:06:29,656 --> 01:06:32,250
Um, I don't drink tea, but, um,

1234
01:06:32,625 --> 01:06:34,227
I wouldn't mind a glass of milk.

1235
01:06:36,262 --> 01:06:37,597
Well, your grandmother's a saint.

1236
01:06:38,665 --> 01:06:40,233
And what about your granddad?

1237
01:06:40,233 --> 01:06:41,968
Did he have that thing
on his back looked at?

1238
01:06:41,968 --> 01:06:44,671
Yeah, the, the doctor
took it off and had it tested.

1239
01:06:44,671 --> 01:06:45,839
[whispers] Tell me everything.

1240
01:06:46,373 --> 01:06:47,941
It wasn't one of the bad ones.

1241
01:06:49,750 --> 01:06:50,343
Thank God for that.

1242
01:06:50,810 --> 01:06:51,711
Yeah.

1243
01:06:53,380 --> 01:06:55,615
He, um, he was talking to Grandma

1244
01:06:55,615 --> 01:06:58,251
about someone named Henry Peterson.

1245
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:01,421
So awful.

1246
01:07:01,421 --> 01:07:03,123
You know, Henry was a bookkeeper,

1247
01:07:03,123 --> 01:07:04,424
just like your granddad.

1248
01:07:04,858 --> 01:07:06,693
He did a lot of
the other businesses in town.

1249
01:07:06,693 --> 01:07:08,128
The ones that your Zaydee didn't do--

1250
01:07:08,128 --> 01:07:09,562
How did it happen?

1251
01:07:12,232 --> 01:07:14,267
I don't think you want
to hear about that stuff.

1252
01:07:14,267 --> 01:07:18,638
Um, w-w-well, Granddad
said it was, uh, peaceful.

1253
01:07:18,638 --> 01:07:20,106
[mouth full] Peaceful?

1254
01:07:20,807 --> 01:07:23,900
He killed himself. Hung himself.

1255
01:07:23,710 --> 01:07:25,378
His wife, you see, she ran off

1256
01:07:25,378 --> 01:07:27,414
with this younger man,
barely old enough to vote.

1257
01:07:27,414 --> 01:07:29,649
And she was in her 40s.
What do you think of that?

1258
01:07:30,984 --> 01:07:32,552
- Wow.
- Damn right, wow.

1259
01:07:32,552 --> 01:07:34,654
And then, I heard that--

1260
01:07:40,527 --> 01:07:41,961
What's happening at school?

1261
01:07:43,697 --> 01:07:45,999
- Who's smooching who?
- [chuckles]

1262
01:07:45,999 --> 01:07:49,102
Teacher: "Talk honestly,
for no one else hears you

1263
01:07:49,102 --> 01:07:51,304
and I stay only a minute longer."

1264
01:07:51,304 --> 01:07:53,573
- [students chattering]
- "Do I contradict myself?

1265
01:07:54,307 --> 01:07:55,475
"Very well then,

1266
01:07:56,309 --> 01:07:57,577
"I contradict myself,

1267
01:07:59,112 --> 01:08:00,180
"I am large.

1268
01:08:01,481 --> 01:08:03,116
I contain multitudes."

1269
01:08:03,550 --> 01:08:05,852
Narrator: On the last day of sixth grade,

1270
01:08:05,852 --> 01:08:07,454
Miss Richards,

1271
01:08:07,454 --> 01:08:09,589
a sweet, hippie-dippyish young woman

1272
01:08:09,589 --> 01:08:12,580
who had no command of discipline

1273
01:08:12,580 --> 01:08:14,294
and would probably not last long

1274
01:08:14,294 --> 01:08:16,930
in the public education system,

1275
01:08:16,930 --> 01:08:19,599
tried to recite for Chuck's class

1276
01:08:19,599 --> 01:08:23,870
some verse of Walt
Whitman's "Song of Myself."

1277
01:08:25,305 --> 01:08:27,807
"Failing to fetch me at first
keep encouraged.

1278
01:08:28,775 --> 01:08:30,944
Missing me one place, search another."

1279
01:08:31,778 --> 01:08:34,714
- [bell ringing]
- [students chattering]

1280
01:08:44,824 --> 01:08:46,493
That went well, don't you think?

1281
01:08:47,660 --> 01:08:50,960
Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry about that.

1282
01:08:51,898 --> 01:08:55,935
What does he mean
when he says, "I am large,

1283
01:08:56,469 --> 01:08:58,672
I contain multitudes"?

1284
01:09:01,908 --> 01:09:03,209
What do you think he means?

1285
01:09:04,244 --> 01:09:06,513
All the people he knows.

1286
01:09:06,513 --> 01:09:07,614
Yes.

1287
01:09:08,381 --> 01:09:09,816
But maybe he means even more.

1288
01:09:11,317 --> 01:09:12,786
Here. Come here.

1289
01:09:16,823 --> 01:09:19,259
What's in there? Between my hands?

1290
01:09:19,259 --> 01:09:21,940
- My brain.
- [chuckles]

1291
01:09:21,940 --> 01:09:23,363
No, um, that's not exactly what I mean.

1292
01:09:24,330 --> 01:09:25,432
What's in there?

1293
01:09:25,999 --> 01:09:27,834
Right between my hands right now.

1294
01:09:29,536 --> 01:09:30,637
I don't know.

1295
01:09:31,204 --> 01:09:32,439
All the people you know?

1296
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:34,641
I guess.

1297
01:09:35,342 --> 01:09:36,710
Just the people you know?

1298
01:09:39,346 --> 01:09:40,513
Everything you see.

1299
01:09:41,281 --> 01:09:42,682
Everything you know.

1300
01:09:43,983 --> 01:09:46,190
The world, Chuck.

1301
01:09:46,190 --> 01:09:48,822
Planes in the sky.
Manhole covers in the street.

1302
01:09:48,822 --> 01:09:51,958
Every year that you live,
that world inside your head

1303
01:09:51,958 --> 01:09:55,829
will get bigger and brighter
and more detailed and complex.

1304
01:09:56,663 --> 01:09:59,532
You will build cities
and countries and continents,

1305
01:09:59,532 --> 01:10:03,336
and you will fill them
with people and faces,

1306
01:10:03,370 --> 01:10:04,804
real and imagined.

1307
01:10:04,804 --> 01:10:06,373
Do you understand?

1308
01:10:07,874 --> 01:10:09,309
Don't stop there.

1309
01:10:09,309 --> 01:10:11,444
You fill the whole thing

1310
01:10:11,444 --> 01:10:13,146
with everyone you ever meet,

1311
01:10:13,713 --> 01:10:15,480
everyone you ever know,

1312
01:10:15,615 --> 01:10:17,984
everyone you ever just imagine.

1313
01:10:19,119 --> 01:10:20,754
It'll be a universe.

1314
01:10:22,288 --> 01:10:25,825
A whole universe right between my hands.

1315
01:10:27,861 --> 01:10:30,397
You contain multitudes.

1316
01:10:33,700 --> 01:10:34,734
So...

1317
01:10:36,503 --> 01:10:39,406
what happens
to that universe if someone...

1318
01:10:40,774 --> 01:10:42,275
I don't know,

1319
01:10:42,942 --> 01:10:46,279
hits a patch of ice
and goes off an overpass or...

1320
01:10:49,449 --> 01:10:51,217
Don't worry too much about those things.

1321
01:10:52,318 --> 01:10:55,922
Just remember that you
contain multitudes, Chuck.

1322
01:10:57,857 --> 01:10:59,920
Isn't that wonderful?

1323
01:11:01,661 --> 01:11:03,963
Now, go on. You were such a good boy.

1324
01:11:03,963 --> 01:11:05,865
I've really enjoyed having you in class.

1325
01:11:10,537 --> 01:11:13,506
[melancholic music playing]

1326
01:11:13,506 --> 01:11:16,543
[students chattering]

1327
01:11:27,654 --> 01:11:29,656
Narrator: Chuck did enjoy his summer

1328
01:11:29,656 --> 01:11:31,224
until August,

1329
01:11:31,958 --> 01:11:33,126
when Bubbie died.

1330
01:11:33,693 --> 01:11:36,563
[indistinct praying]

1331
01:11:37,964 --> 01:11:39,799
It happened at the grocery store

1332
01:11:39,799 --> 01:11:41,968
down the street, in public,

1333
01:11:41,968 --> 01:11:44,671
which was a little undignified,

1334
01:11:44,671 --> 01:11:46,773
but at least it was the kind of death

1335
01:11:46,773 --> 01:11:48,375
where people can safely say...

1336
01:11:48,375 --> 01:11:49,843
Thank God she didn't suffer.

1337
01:11:51,578 --> 01:11:52,946
Narrator: The other standby...

1338
01:11:52,946 --> 01:11:54,714
She had a long, full life.

1339
01:11:54,714 --> 01:11:56,716
Narrator: ...was more of a gray area.

1340
01:11:57,650 --> 01:12:00,687
Sarah Krantz had yet to reach her mid-60s.

1341
01:12:04,557 --> 01:12:07,394
Once more, the house on Pilchard Street

1342
01:12:07,394 --> 01:12:10,163
was one of unadulterated sadness.

1343
01:12:11,598 --> 01:12:15,301
Albie wore his mourning band,
and lost weight,

1344
01:12:15,301 --> 01:12:17,737
and stopped telling his jokes

1345
01:12:17,737 --> 01:12:21,274
and began to look older than his 70 years.

1346
01:12:22,575 --> 01:12:24,744
[peppy music plays in store]

1347
01:12:28,848 --> 01:12:30,183
- That's it?
- Yeah.

1348
01:12:31,885 --> 01:12:33,386
Buck 75.

1349
01:12:35,889 --> 01:12:39,125
Um, that lady who was
in here a few weeks ago,

1350
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:41,961
the one who died.

1351
01:12:42,862 --> 01:12:45,532
Where was she when it happened?

1352
01:12:45,999 --> 01:12:47,834
That's a little creepy, kid.

1353
01:12:49,869 --> 01:12:51,204
She was my grandma.

1354
01:12:53,540 --> 01:12:55,508
Clerk: She was getting a loaf of bread.

1355
01:12:55,542 --> 01:12:57,344
Pulled down almost everything

1356
01:12:57,344 --> 01:12:59,790
on the shelf when she collapsed.

1357
01:12:59,913 --> 01:13:03,583
I'm sorry if that's too much information.

1358
01:13:05,285 --> 01:13:06,486
Nah.

1359
01:13:08,210 --> 01:13:09,189
I already knew that.

1360
01:13:11,191 --> 01:13:15,161
[snoring]

1361
01:13:19,866 --> 01:13:21,167
[snoring continues]

1362
01:13:27,807 --> 01:13:30,577
[keys jingling]

1363
01:13:34,514 --> 01:13:35,648
[lock clicks]

1364
01:13:48,628 --> 01:13:49,662
[sighs]

1365
01:13:53,833 --> 01:13:56,236
[door creaks]

1366
01:14:04,944 --> 01:14:06,379
- Albie: No!
- What?!

1367
01:14:07,681 --> 01:14:11,117
- Get away from there! You get away from there.
- What? Hey, hey!

1368
01:14:13,687 --> 01:14:16,690
[dramatic music playing]

1369
01:14:22,729 --> 01:14:25,131
[gasping]

1370
01:14:34,507 --> 01:14:35,642
Give me that.

1371
01:14:37,877 --> 01:14:39,746
Give it to me. Give it to me.

1372
01:14:40,447 --> 01:14:41,614
Give me it.

1373
01:14:41,648 --> 01:14:43,683
[sobs]

1374
01:14:46,860 --> 01:14:47,420
Oh.

1375
01:14:47,420 --> 01:14:49,389
Oh, I'm sorry.

1376
01:14:49,956 --> 01:14:51,558
I'm sorry.

1377
01:14:51,558 --> 01:14:53,259
Are you okay?

1378
01:14:53,259 --> 01:14:54,861
What did you see?

1379
01:14:57,970 --> 01:14:59,165
What did you see?

1380
01:14:59,165 --> 01:15:02,102
I'm sorry. It's just, you can't.

1381
01:15:03,136 --> 01:15:05,171
You can't do that, Chucky.

1382
01:15:06,106 --> 01:15:07,774
You just can't.

1383
01:15:07,774 --> 01:15:09,309
Oh, I'm so sorry.

1384
01:15:09,309 --> 01:15:13,313
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

1385
01:15:13,313 --> 01:15:15,548
- [Chuck sobbing]
- I'm sorry.

1386
01:15:15,548 --> 01:15:18,510
[students chattering]

1387
01:15:19,185 --> 01:15:22,155
[melancholic music playing]

1388
01:15:37,771 --> 01:15:38,905
Sarah: Come on, little brother.

1389
01:15:39,806 --> 01:15:41,241
[echoing] Let's dance.

1390
01:15:48,782 --> 01:15:51,885
[indistinct chatter]

1391
01:15:57,390 --> 01:16:00,193
Teacher: Hello, twirlers,
and hello, spinners.

1392
01:16:00,193 --> 01:16:02,829
What do you know? Three boys this year.

1393
01:16:02,829 --> 01:16:04,264
It's a new record.

1394
01:16:04,264 --> 01:16:05,965
You gentlemen might find yourselves

1395
01:16:05,965 --> 01:16:07,667
being teased for your new hobby.

1396
01:16:07,667 --> 01:16:10,203
I assure you, you are
the smartest young men

1397
01:16:10,203 --> 01:16:11,538
in the whole school.

1398
01:16:11,538 --> 01:16:12,839
You'll soon see what I mean.

1399
01:16:13,606 --> 01:16:16,643
For those who don't know me,
I am Miss Rohrbacher.

1400
01:16:16,643 --> 01:16:18,712
And when I'm not teaching
the girls phys-ed,

1401
01:16:18,745 --> 01:16:21,281
I am what a few students have called,

1402
01:16:21,281 --> 01:16:22,982
"The Dance Monster."

1403
01:16:23,983 --> 01:16:25,819
Nothing? Alright.

1404
01:16:25,819 --> 01:16:27,354
You have chosen what might be

1405
01:16:27,354 --> 01:16:29,689
the best club this school has ever had.

1406
01:16:29,689 --> 01:16:31,424
'Cause if we didn't have girls volleyball,

1407
01:16:31,424 --> 01:16:32,792
we wouldn't have nothing.

1408
01:16:32,792 --> 01:16:34,861
No, no, no.

1409
01:16:34,861 --> 01:16:38,431
Back, Mr. Mulford, you are mine now.

1410
01:16:40,266 --> 01:16:42,202
- [waltz music playing]
- Waltz.

1411
01:16:43,870 --> 01:16:45,238
Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1412
01:16:47,107 --> 01:16:48,975
[energetic music playing]

1413
01:16:48,975 --> 01:16:50,210
Cha-cha.

1414
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:53,113
Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1415
01:16:55,548 --> 01:16:57,317
- [upbeat music playing]
- Swing.

1416
01:16:57,317 --> 01:16:59,119
Triple step. Rock step.

1417
01:16:59,119 --> 01:17:00,820
- Triple step. Rock step.
- Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1418
01:17:00,820 --> 01:17:03,723
Rohrbacher: Triple step. Rock step.

1419
01:17:03,723 --> 01:17:05,458
- [upbeat samba music playing]
- Samba.

1420
01:17:08,461 --> 01:17:09,662
Don't know that one.

1421
01:17:09,662 --> 01:17:11,164
Narrator: He was, by far,

1422
01:17:11,164 --> 01:17:12,899
the best dancer in the little club.

1423
01:17:12,899 --> 01:17:15,235
So, Miss Rohrbacher mostly put him

1424
01:17:15,235 --> 01:17:17,300
with the girls who were clumsy.

1425
01:17:17,470 --> 01:17:20,273
He understood she did it
to make them better,

1426
01:17:20,273 --> 01:17:21,975
and he was a good sport about it.

1427
01:17:22,709 --> 01:17:25,278
Near the end of their two hours, however,

1428
01:17:25,278 --> 01:17:28,140
The Dance Monster would show mercy

1429
01:17:28,140 --> 01:17:30,617
and pair him with Cat McCoy,

1430
01:17:30,617 --> 01:17:32,452
who was an eighth grader

1431
01:17:32,452 --> 01:17:35,288
and the best dancer of the girls.

1432
01:17:36,423 --> 01:17:38,692
Chuck didn't expect romance.

1433
01:17:39,590 --> 01:17:41,610
Cat was not only gorgeous,

1434
01:17:41,610 --> 01:17:43,596
she was a full foot taller than he was.

1435
01:17:44,164 --> 01:17:46,766
But he loved to dance with her,

1436
01:17:46,766 --> 01:17:48,601
and the feeling was mutual.

1437
01:17:49,135 --> 01:17:51,471
Rohrbacher: ...three.
Out, two, three. Switch.

1438
01:17:51,938 --> 01:17:53,390
And stop.

1439
01:17:53,773 --> 01:17:56,376
In, two, three. Out, two, three.

1440
01:17:56,376 --> 01:17:58,712
Turn. Now box.

1441
01:17:58,712 --> 01:18:04,451
One, two, three. One, two, three.

1442
01:18:04,451 --> 01:18:06,786
I don't know what that is.

1443
01:18:06,786 --> 01:18:08,388
Oh, my God.

1444
01:18:08,388 --> 01:18:11,224
Okay, 10 minutes freestyle.

1445
01:18:11,224 --> 01:18:14,940
["My Sharona" by The Knack playing]

1446
01:18:23,303 --> 01:18:26,339
♪ Ooh, my little pretty one,
my pretty one ♪

1447
01:18:26,339 --> 01:18:28,908
♪ When you gonna give me
some time, Sharona? ♪

1448
01:18:28,908 --> 01:18:30,810
Hey. Watch this.

1449
01:18:30,810 --> 01:18:33,790
♪ Ooh, you make my motor run,
my motor run ♪

1450
01:18:34,470 --> 01:18:35,815
[Cat chuckles]

1451
01:18:36,750 --> 01:18:37,951
Show me how you did that.

1452
01:18:38,618 --> 01:18:40,860
Chuck: Ready?

1453
01:18:40,860 --> 01:18:42,655
Slide, slide, slide.

1454
01:18:43,223 --> 01:18:45,910
- [Cat chuckles]
- Here, ready?

1455
01:18:45,910 --> 01:18:47,260
Try it with me.

1456
01:18:47,260 --> 01:18:49,496
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona

1457
01:18:49,496 --> 01:18:51,865
- Um...
- Uh, kick off your shoes

1458
01:18:51,865 --> 01:18:54,234
- and do it in your socks.
- Aye-aye.

1459
01:18:56,403 --> 01:18:58,138
Now, slide.

1460
01:18:58,805 --> 01:19:00,730
Slide.

1461
01:19:00,573 --> 01:19:02,342
Yeah. There you go.

1462
01:19:03,143 --> 01:19:05,412
Hey! Show me.

1463
01:19:07,514 --> 01:19:11,840
Pop. Slide. Slide. Slide.

1464
01:19:11,685 --> 01:19:13,190
Yeah, again.

1465
01:19:14,870 --> 01:19:15,255
Chuck: Pop. Slide. Pop.

1466
01:19:15,255 --> 01:19:16,656
♪ Woo!

1467
01:19:16,656 --> 01:19:19,859
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona

1468
01:19:19,859 --> 01:19:21,728
Narrator: Twirlers and Spinners let out

1469
01:19:21,728 --> 01:19:23,730
half an hour late that day.

1470
01:19:23,730 --> 01:19:25,465
♪ My Sharona

1471
01:19:25,832 --> 01:19:27,167
Cat McCoy: That's so rad.

1472
01:19:27,167 --> 01:19:28,802
You figured that out by yourself?

1473
01:19:28,802 --> 01:19:30,804
Chuck: Well, I just kept
rewinding and rewinding

1474
01:19:30,804 --> 01:19:32,405
til I figured it out.

1475
01:19:35,108 --> 01:19:36,309
We should do that at the Fling.

1476
01:19:38,445 --> 01:19:42,749
Uh, not as a date or anything.

1477
01:19:42,749 --> 01:19:44,417
I'm going out with Dougie Wentworth.

1478
01:19:45,418 --> 01:19:46,920
You know that, right?

1479
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:48,121
Yeah.

1480
01:19:50,490 --> 01:19:52,580
But that doesn't mean
we couldn't show them

1481
01:19:52,580 --> 01:19:53,426
some cool moves.

1482
01:19:53,426 --> 01:19:54,894
[chuckles]

1483
01:19:54,894 --> 01:19:56,863
I really want to. Do you?

1484
01:19:57,731 --> 01:19:59,650
I-I don't know.

1485
01:19:59,499 --> 01:20:01,000
I'm a lot shorter.

1486
01:20:01,434 --> 01:20:03,903
[sighs] I think people will laugh.

1487
01:20:19,586 --> 01:20:21,955
- That totally works.
- It totally does.

1488
01:20:21,955 --> 01:20:24,290
- Chuck: Are you sure?
- Oh, yeah, I'm sure.

1489
01:20:24,290 --> 01:20:25,959
Chuck: Well, they feel great!

1490
01:20:26,793 --> 01:20:28,895
Uh, just a little big.

1491
01:20:32,165 --> 01:20:33,767
Cat: That should be enough.

1492
01:20:33,767 --> 01:20:35,168
- Rohrbacher: Little more.
- Cat: Maybe one more.

1493
01:20:35,168 --> 01:20:36,469
Rohrbacher: How's that?

1494
01:20:38,972 --> 01:20:41,541
Floor feels like ice. [laughs]

1495
01:20:42,208 --> 01:20:43,610
You put scratches on that floor,

1496
01:20:43,610 --> 01:20:45,612
- the janitor is gonna beat y--
- Timmy.

1497
01:20:45,612 --> 01:20:47,380
There won't be no scratches.

1498
01:20:47,380 --> 01:20:49,182
He's too light on his feet to leave any.

1499
01:20:50,684 --> 01:20:52,786
Albie: Almost perfect.

1500
01:20:57,323 --> 01:20:58,892
Take another run at these two.

1501
01:20:59,492 --> 01:21:01,127
[sighs]

1502
01:21:01,127 --> 01:21:02,796
You don't need to sigh.

1503
01:21:03,363 --> 01:21:04,764
You're good at this, you know?

1504
01:21:04,764 --> 01:21:06,399
You're really good at it.

1505
01:21:06,399 --> 01:21:08,268
Yeah, but it's boring.

1506
01:21:08,968 --> 01:21:11,571
Boring? What, you mean math?

1507
01:21:11,571 --> 01:21:12,939
Yeah.

1508
01:21:12,939 --> 01:21:15,141
I wonder if maybe next semester

1509
01:21:15,141 --> 01:21:17,577
you might want to try
Math League after school.

1510
01:21:17,577 --> 01:21:19,846
I did it all high school, in fact,

1511
01:21:19,846 --> 01:21:21,414
and it was so great.

1512
01:21:21,414 --> 01:21:23,249
I'm doing Twirlers and Spinners.

1513
01:21:24,718 --> 01:21:25,819
Yeah.

1514
01:21:27,687 --> 01:21:30,156
Hey, hey, put that down
for a second, will you?

1515
01:21:31,157 --> 01:21:32,692
Just a little about math.

1516
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:35,595
Because people start out thinking

1517
01:21:35,595 --> 01:21:36,930
it might be boring,

1518
01:21:36,930 --> 01:21:38,732
and that's their first mistake.

1519
01:21:39,499 --> 01:21:43,236
It's used in every career, in every job,

1520
01:21:43,236 --> 01:21:45,805
in every facet of life on this planet.

1521
01:21:45,805 --> 01:21:48,375
That's a fact. Hell, the planet.

1522
01:21:49,900 --> 01:21:51,378
How do you think we figure out
how long a day is?

1523
01:21:52,312 --> 01:21:54,381
Everybody knows how long a day is.

1524
01:21:54,848 --> 01:21:57,183
- How long?
- Twenty-four hours.

1525
01:21:57,684 --> 01:22:00,253
People say it's 24 hours,
but they're wrong.

1526
01:22:00,954 --> 01:22:04,858
There are 23 hours and 56 minutes

1527
01:22:04,858 --> 01:22:06,426
in a stellar day.

1528
01:22:06,426 --> 01:22:09,195
Plus a few odd seconds. Math proves it.

1529
01:22:10,300 --> 01:22:12,465
How do we know how old the Earth is?

1530
01:22:12,465 --> 01:22:15,602
How old the universe is,
how long people have been here?

1531
01:22:15,602 --> 01:22:18,400
Or how to build a bridge or a skyscraper

1532
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,600
or how far apart the stars are?

1533
01:22:20,540 --> 01:22:22,342
How did we land on the moon?

1534
01:22:22,342 --> 01:22:24,177
The stars themselves.

1535
01:22:24,177 --> 01:22:26,346
Why they burn, why atoms split and fuse,

1536
01:22:26,346 --> 01:22:28,415
and all the rest is just math.

1537
01:22:30,350 --> 01:22:32,419
Hey, stars are just math.

1538
01:22:33,153 --> 01:22:35,550
When you look at the night sky,

1539
01:22:35,550 --> 01:22:37,157
you're seeing the greatest equation

1540
01:22:37,157 --> 01:22:38,758
in the universe.

1541
01:22:39,159 --> 01:22:41,995
Heck, your dancing, that's math too.

1542
01:22:41,995 --> 01:22:44,998
I mean, what's the language of dance?

1543
01:22:44,998 --> 01:22:48,101
How do you learn your steps?
It's even in the name.

1544
01:22:48,101 --> 01:22:50,503
I mean, they call it "the count."

1545
01:22:50,503 --> 01:22:52,205
One and two and three and four.

1546
01:22:52,205 --> 01:22:55,410
What's a waltz? One,
two, three, one, two, three.

1547
01:22:55,410 --> 01:22:57,243
Just numbers, just math.

1548
01:22:58,211 --> 01:22:59,379
And more than that,

1549
01:23:00,513 --> 01:23:02,150
there's an art to it.

1550
01:23:03,116 --> 01:23:05,618
What I do, all these files here,

1551
01:23:05,618 --> 01:23:07,200
all these folders,

1552
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:10,790
these are all people's lives.

1553
01:23:10,790 --> 01:23:12,625
Every choice they made.

1554
01:23:13,493 --> 01:23:15,462
Last year, last 10 years.

1555
01:23:16,290 --> 01:23:18,640
Everything that's important to them.

1556
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,234
Every weakness they have,
every vice, every dream,

1557
01:23:21,234 --> 01:23:24,504
it's all here in numbers.

1558
01:23:25,205 --> 01:23:27,674
Some schmuck comes in,
takes those numbers,

1559
01:23:27,674 --> 01:23:30,944
does the math without artistry,
someone loses their house.

1560
01:23:31,678 --> 01:23:34,848
I take those numbers, do a little art,

1561
01:23:35,682 --> 01:23:37,830
I save someone's life.

1562
01:23:38,118 --> 01:23:39,152
That's what I do.

1563
01:23:39,786 --> 01:23:41,988
That's what accounting is.

1564
01:23:42,856 --> 01:23:45,910
Chuck: Well, maybe they should teach that,

1565
01:23:45,910 --> 01:23:46,993
the cool stuff,

1566
01:23:46,993 --> 01:23:49,996
and not just all the boring stuff.

1567
01:23:50,797 --> 01:23:51,731
Hmm.

1568
01:23:55,935 --> 01:23:57,237
[gulps]

1569
01:23:59,272 --> 01:24:02,242
Math is something else too.

1570
01:24:02,242 --> 01:24:04,944
Some math, math that's called statistics

1571
01:24:04,944 --> 01:24:06,246
or probability,

1572
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,449
it can tell you stuff about your future.

1573
01:24:10,984 --> 01:24:12,719
It could tell you, for example,

1574
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:15,955
you're more likely to be drafted

1575
01:24:15,955 --> 01:24:17,991
by a major league sports team

1576
01:24:17,991 --> 01:24:20,560
than to make a real living as a dancer.

1577
01:24:24,564 --> 01:24:27,667
The world loves dancers, it truly does.

1578
01:24:28,301 --> 01:24:32,639
But it needs accountants,
so there's much more demand,

1579
01:24:32,672 --> 01:24:35,208
so there's much more opportunity.

1580
01:24:36,543 --> 01:24:39,612
I know that might hurt,
but it's the truth.

1581
01:24:40,580 --> 01:24:44,584
Math is truth. It won't lie to you.

1582
01:24:45,585 --> 01:24:48,321
It doesn't factor in your preferences.

1583
01:24:48,321 --> 01:24:50,190
It's pure that way.

1584
01:24:51,491 --> 01:24:53,860
Math can do a lot of things.

1585
01:24:55,495 --> 01:24:56,763
Math can be art.

1586
01:24:58,898 --> 01:25:00,633
But it can't lie.

1587
01:25:01,234 --> 01:25:02,202
So...

1588
01:25:03,937 --> 01:25:05,739
take another run at those two

1589
01:25:05,739 --> 01:25:06,906
because, Chucko,

1590
01:25:08,740 --> 01:25:09,909
you are good.

1591
01:25:11,440 --> 01:25:14,247
You... have art in you.

1592
01:25:18,918 --> 01:25:20,620
["All Been Said Before"
by Matt Nathanson playing]

1593
01:25:20,620 --> 01:25:22,589
♪ Hugging me like skin

1594
01:25:23,890 --> 01:25:25,692
♪ And I'll sweat it clean

1595
01:25:25,725 --> 01:25:28,940
♪ Until I can taste

1596
01:25:28,940 --> 01:25:30,930
♪ The oxygen

1597
01:25:32,650 --> 01:25:34,100
♪ Oh

1598
01:25:51,985 --> 01:25:53,987
♪

1599
01:25:56,523 --> 01:25:58,692
Hey! You look great!

1600
01:25:58,692 --> 01:26:00,760
Thanks. Uh, you too.

1601
01:26:01,361 --> 01:26:02,362
[both chuckle]

1602
01:26:02,829 --> 01:26:04,831
Wanna show 'em how it's done?

1603
01:26:04,831 --> 01:26:07,500
Uh, I don't know. I kinda, um...

1604
01:26:08,668 --> 01:26:10,236
I kinda hurt my leg.

1605
01:26:11,871 --> 01:26:13,273
You hurt your leg?

1606
01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:16,109
Maybe, maybe let's, let's
wait for a better song.

1607
01:26:19,245 --> 01:26:22,782
["All the Time" by We're About 9 playing]

1608
01:26:25,985 --> 01:26:28,288
♪ Today I changed the picture ♪

1609
01:26:28,788 --> 01:26:31,240
♪ In our old oak frame ♪

1610
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,863
♪ To a painting I made of
a photo inside... ♪

1611
01:26:38,298 --> 01:26:39,432
Hey, kiddo.

1612
01:26:40,667 --> 01:26:41,701
Hey.

1613
01:26:43,737 --> 01:26:45,572
Thought you were gonna tear it up tonight.

1614
01:26:47,707 --> 01:26:49,900
I don't, I don't know.

1615
01:26:49,876 --> 01:26:51,745
My shoes feel all funny,

1616
01:26:51,745 --> 01:26:55,315
and... I hurt my leg.

1617
01:26:56,316 --> 01:26:57,884
Oh, you hurt your leg?

1618
01:26:59,185 --> 01:27:00,530
Yeah.

1619
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:02,220
I'm sorry to hear that.

1620
01:27:03,857 --> 01:27:05,492
So, you came stag, huh?

1621
01:27:05,492 --> 01:27:07,293
- Hmm?
- No date.

1622
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:09,329
Nah, I...

1623
01:27:09,829 --> 01:27:12,565
That'll change. Believe me, it'll change.

1624
01:27:12,565 --> 01:27:14,267
Just give it some time.

1625
01:27:15,468 --> 01:27:16,703
None of this, none of--

1626
01:27:17,303 --> 01:27:20,173
None of that out there
really means anything.

1627
01:27:20,173 --> 01:27:22,876
It's all just, just a scrimmage.

1628
01:27:22,876 --> 01:27:24,511
Just a practice.

1629
01:27:24,511 --> 01:27:27,130
[upbeat music playing]

1630
01:27:27,130 --> 01:27:29,349
Hey, this is perfect. Come on.

1631
01:27:29,349 --> 01:27:31,718
Nah, I'm still, uh...

1632
01:27:31,718 --> 01:27:33,219
My leg's still wonky.

1633
01:27:33,219 --> 01:27:34,721
Chuck, come on.

1634
01:27:34,721 --> 01:27:36,189
We're gonna blow the roof off.

1635
01:27:36,189 --> 01:27:37,357
I'm sorry.

1636
01:27:38,391 --> 01:27:39,893
It really hurts.

1637
01:27:45,865 --> 01:27:49,502
["Rock n Roll Boogie"
by The Math Club playing]

1638
01:27:54,407 --> 01:27:57,744
You know, I've been dancing
since I was eight,

1639
01:27:58,178 --> 01:27:59,546
and I teach PE,

1640
01:28:00,213 --> 01:28:02,649
and I've seen when my kids get hurt.

1641
01:28:02,649 --> 01:28:04,417
I see how their walk changes.

1642
01:28:04,417 --> 01:28:06,920
I see how their posture changes.

1643
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:08,922
And don't mind me saying, but you look...

1644
01:28:10,757 --> 01:28:12,192
Well, you look fine to me, Chuck.

1645
01:28:13,927 --> 01:28:17,630
I'm not saying that you have
to dance with the girl.

1646
01:28:17,664 --> 01:28:19,699
It's up to you. I'm just saying

1647
01:28:19,699 --> 01:28:21,968
dance or no dance, you don't have to lie.

1648
01:28:23,703 --> 01:28:24,971
Tell her the truth.

1649
01:28:27,974 --> 01:28:29,900
She can take it.

1650
01:28:30,543 --> 01:28:33,580
[music continues faintly]

1651
01:28:35,715 --> 01:28:37,717
[insects chirping]

1652
01:28:51,564 --> 01:28:52,732
[chuckles]

1653
01:29:17,691 --> 01:29:20,627
["Gimme Some Lovin'"
by Steve Winwood playing]

1654
01:29:33,506 --> 01:29:35,208
♪ Well, my temperature's rising ♪

1655
01:29:35,208 --> 01:29:37,444
♪ And my feet on the floor ♪

1656
01:29:37,444 --> 01:29:40,313
♪ Crazy people knocking 'cause
they're wanting some more ♪

1657
01:29:40,714 --> 01:29:43,483
♪ Let me in, baby,
I don't know what you got ♪

1658
01:29:43,483 --> 01:29:45,652
- You ready?
- Yeah. Let's do it.

1659
01:29:46,986 --> 01:29:49,522
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1660
01:29:50,757 --> 01:29:52,859
♪ So glad we made it

1661
01:29:52,859 --> 01:29:54,194
♪ You gotta

1662
01:29:54,494 --> 01:29:55,895
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1663
01:29:55,895 --> 01:29:57,797
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1664
01:29:57,797 --> 01:29:59,165
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1665
01:29:59,165 --> 01:30:01,340
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1666
01:30:01,340 --> 01:30:04,671
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪

1667
01:30:07,700 --> 01:30:09,309
[all cheering]

1668
01:30:17,117 --> 01:30:18,952
[all cheering]

1669
01:30:23,957 --> 01:30:25,992
♪ Well, I feel so good

1670
01:30:26,260 --> 01:30:27,894
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪

1671
01:30:27,894 --> 01:30:29,529
♪ You better take it easy

1672
01:30:29,529 --> 01:30:31,398
♪ 'Cause the place is on fire ♪

1673
01:30:31,398 --> 01:30:34,467
♪ Been a hard day
and I have so much to do ♪

1674
01:30:34,467 --> 01:30:37,700
♪ We made it, baby,
and it happened to you ♪

1675
01:30:37,700 --> 01:30:39,773
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1676
01:30:41,141 --> 01:30:43,343
♪ So glad we made it

1677
01:30:43,343 --> 01:30:44,778
♪ You gotta

1678
01:30:44,778 --> 01:30:46,212
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1679
01:30:46,212 --> 01:30:48,214
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1680
01:30:48,214 --> 01:30:49,516
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1681
01:30:49,516 --> 01:30:51,418
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1682
01:30:51,418 --> 01:30:52,952
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1683
01:30:52,952 --> 01:30:54,521
♪ Every day

1684
01:30:54,521 --> 01:30:56,690
[all cheering]

1685
01:30:56,690 --> 01:30:59,859
♪

1686
01:31:12,672 --> 01:31:14,607
♪ Well, I feel so good

1687
01:31:14,607 --> 01:31:16,710
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪

1688
01:31:16,710 --> 01:31:19,612
♪ You better take it easy
'cause the place is on fire ♪

1689
01:31:19,979 --> 01:31:22,849
♪ Been a hard day
and nothing went too good ♪

1690
01:31:22,849 --> 01:31:26,520
♪ Now I'm gonna relax
like-a everybody should ♪

1691
01:31:26,860 --> 01:31:28,555
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1692
01:31:28,988 --> 01:31:30,123
♪ Hey-hey

1693
01:31:30,123 --> 01:31:32,192
♪ So glad we made it

1694
01:31:32,192 --> 01:31:34,600
♪ You got to

1695
01:31:34,940 --> 01:31:35,628
- ♪ Gimme some a-loving
- [cheering gets louder]

1696
01:31:35,628 --> 01:31:37,130
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1697
01:31:37,130 --> 01:31:38,431
♪ Gimme some loving

1698
01:31:38,431 --> 01:31:40,333
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1699
01:31:41,701 --> 01:31:43,837
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1700
01:31:44,738 --> 01:31:46,906
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1701
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:50,143
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1702
01:31:50,143 --> 01:31:52,579
[all cheering]

1703
01:31:57,170 --> 01:31:59,652
All [chanting]:
One more time! One more time!

1704
01:31:59,652 --> 01:32:03,560
One more time!

1705
01:32:03,790 --> 01:32:05,625
Narrator: They may have been young,

1706
01:32:05,625 --> 01:32:08,294
but they were smart enough
to know when to quit.

1707
01:32:08,294 --> 01:32:11,331
[all cheering]

1708
01:32:16,870 --> 01:32:18,338
Thank you, guys.

1709
01:32:18,338 --> 01:32:20,600
Narrator: Six months before he died

1710
01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:23,643
of a brain tumor at the unfair age of 39,

1711
01:32:23,643 --> 01:32:26,913
and while his mind
was still working, mostly,

1712
01:32:27,380 --> 01:32:30,483
Chuck told his wife
the truth about the scar

1713
01:32:30,483 --> 01:32:31,818
on the back of his hand.

1714
01:32:33,687 --> 01:32:35,555
When they'd first started dating,

1715
01:32:35,588 --> 01:32:37,490
he told her he'd gotten it from a boy

1716
01:32:37,490 --> 01:32:39,492
named Doug Wentworth,

1717
01:32:39,492 --> 01:32:42,362
who was pissed about him
dancing with his girlfriend

1718
01:32:42,362 --> 01:32:44,970
at a middle school formal

1719
01:32:44,970 --> 01:32:46,232
and pushed him into a chain link fence

1720
01:32:46,232 --> 01:32:47,467
outside the gym.

1721
01:32:47,467 --> 01:32:48,835
I lied about that, though.

1722
01:32:51,971 --> 01:32:53,239
Oh, my.

1723
01:32:53,239 --> 01:32:55,542
A man of secrets,

1724
01:32:55,542 --> 01:32:56,776
even still.

1725
01:32:58,978 --> 01:33:00,814
Ginny Krantz: What happened, love?

1726
01:33:00,814 --> 01:33:02,849
Chuck: When our fabulous
dance was over, I...

1727
01:33:03,516 --> 01:33:05,719
I was sweaty and I was so hot.

1728
01:33:06,686 --> 01:33:08,822
I-I felt like my cheeks
were gonna catch fire.

1729
01:33:08,822 --> 01:33:10,900
You were great.

1730
01:33:10,900 --> 01:33:11,524
- Thank you.
- What a star.

1731
01:33:12,826 --> 01:33:14,127
Chuck: All I wanted in that moment

1732
01:33:14,127 --> 01:33:16,429
was just darkness,

1733
01:33:16,429 --> 01:33:17,731
cool air,

1734
01:33:18,798 --> 01:33:20,166
and to be by myself.

1735
01:33:24,938 --> 01:33:26,806
There were millions of stars that night.

1736
01:33:28,675 --> 01:33:29,943
Millions of them.

1737
01:33:30,543 --> 01:33:32,245
And millions more behind them.

1738
01:33:33,279 --> 01:33:37,170
And sure, m-may-- Yeah,
maybe they were just math.

1739
01:33:38,251 --> 01:33:40,754
But they also danced.

1740
01:33:40,754 --> 01:33:43,690
I know 'cause I saw one of them.

1741
01:33:45,825 --> 01:33:49,462
And I remember thinking,
the universe is large

1742
01:33:49,462 --> 01:33:51,898
and, and it contains multitudes,

1743
01:33:51,898 --> 01:33:55,335
but it-it also contains me.

1744
01:33:56,536 --> 01:33:57,871
And in this moment...

1745
01:33:59,606 --> 01:34:01,174
I am wonderful.

1746
01:34:02,609 --> 01:34:05,145
And I have a right to be wonderful.

1747
01:34:05,145 --> 01:34:07,470
- [fence rattles]
- Oh!

1748
01:34:08,682 --> 01:34:10,717
[groans]

1749
01:34:10,717 --> 01:34:12,318
Ginny: Why lie about that, silly?

1750
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:16,189
You're a strange wonder, my dear.

1751
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:20,226
Narrator: He doesn't offer more

1752
01:34:20,226 --> 01:34:23,596
because the scar was important
for another reason.

1753
01:34:24,931 --> 01:34:27,500
It was part of a story he couldn't tell,

1754
01:34:28,134 --> 01:34:30,870
even though there was now
an apartment building

1755
01:34:30,870 --> 01:34:33,139
on the site of the Victorian house

1756
01:34:33,139 --> 01:34:35,375
where he had done most of his growing up.

1757
01:34:36,710 --> 01:34:39,346
The haunted Victorian house.

1758
01:34:39,346 --> 01:34:40,347
Mm.

1759
01:34:40,914 --> 01:34:41,881
No reason.

1760
01:34:43,750 --> 01:34:45,251
Funny thinking, I guess.

1761
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:48,880
Narrator: The scar meant more,

1762
01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:50,900
so he had made it more.

1763
01:34:50,590 --> 01:34:54,394
He just couldn't make it
as much more as it really was.

1764
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:57,230
That made little sense.

1765
01:34:57,230 --> 01:35:00,967
But as the glioblastoma
continued its blitzkrieg,

1766
01:35:01,634 --> 01:35:03,970
it was the best his disintegrating mind

1767
01:35:03,970 --> 01:35:05,105
could manage.

1768
01:35:05,105 --> 01:35:08,174
[upbeat music playing on TV]

1769
01:35:17,183 --> 01:35:18,284
[switch clicks]

1770
01:35:21,540 --> 01:35:21,921
[switch clicks]

1771
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:28,128
[switch clicks]

1772
01:35:29,629 --> 01:35:33,299
[groaning, gasping]

1773
01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:37,837
[groans]

1774
01:35:37,837 --> 01:35:39,572
Narrator: Chuck's grandpa,

1775
01:35:39,572 --> 01:35:40,707
his Zaydee,

1776
01:35:41,574 --> 01:35:43,309
died of a heart attack

1777
01:35:43,309 --> 01:35:47,414
five years after the Fall Fling dance.

1778
01:35:47,414 --> 01:35:49,983
Chuck was a junior in high school

1779
01:35:49,983 --> 01:35:53,119
singing in a band and dancing like Jagger

1780
01:35:53,119 --> 01:35:55,121
during the instrumental breaks.

1781
01:35:55,789 --> 01:35:57,791
Funeral director: He made all
the arrangements himself.

1782
01:35:59,159 --> 01:36:01,161
Came in a few weeks ago

1783
01:36:01,161 --> 01:36:03,530
just to make sure
everything was to the letter,

1784
01:36:03,530 --> 01:36:05,565
which I thought was strange.

1785
01:36:06,332 --> 01:36:08,168
Not many people bother to do that.

1786
01:36:08,168 --> 01:36:09,769
Most people,

1787
01:36:09,803 --> 01:36:12,272
they come here once to set it all up.

1788
01:36:13,106 --> 01:36:14,808
They aren't anxious to come back again.

1789
01:36:16,343 --> 01:36:19,479
Next time I see 'em,
they're in their Sunday best,

1790
01:36:19,479 --> 01:36:20,680
if you get me.

1791
01:36:22,882 --> 01:36:25,919
He was a great man and a good friend.

1792
01:36:27,487 --> 01:36:30,256
He's been doing our books for 23 years

1793
01:36:30,256 --> 01:36:32,592
and saved our skin more than once

1794
01:36:32,592 --> 01:36:33,860
when the tax man was coming.

1795
01:36:36,696 --> 01:36:39,265
So, do I owe you any money?

1796
01:36:39,265 --> 01:36:40,900
Not a penny.

1797
01:36:40,900 --> 01:36:44,137
He took care of that too. Settled his tab

1798
01:36:44,137 --> 01:36:45,572
that same visit.

1799
01:36:46,639 --> 01:36:47,640
You know...

1800
01:36:48,908 --> 01:36:50,276
the strangest thing.

1801
01:36:51,110 --> 01:36:53,780
And this will sound strange,
so bear with me.

1802
01:36:54,347 --> 01:36:56,916
See, I, uh,

1803
01:36:57,450 --> 01:36:59,786
dreamed of being a television weatherman

1804
01:36:59,786 --> 01:37:01,540
in my salad days

1805
01:37:01,540 --> 01:37:02,522
with maybe one of the networks.

1806
01:37:03,790 --> 01:37:05,580
Wasn't in the cards for me.

1807
01:37:06,226 --> 01:37:09,863
But I did spend a summer at WKNB.

1808
01:37:11,640 --> 01:37:13,767
Well, there was a guy

1809
01:37:13,767 --> 01:37:15,902
at KNB who they said

1810
01:37:15,902 --> 01:37:17,904
could feel a storm coming

1811
01:37:17,904 --> 01:37:19,639
two solid weeks away

1812
01:37:20,173 --> 01:37:21,775
without the radar.

1813
01:37:21,775 --> 01:37:23,543
Had a sixth sense.

1814
01:37:23,543 --> 01:37:25,345
Damnedest thing I ever saw.

1815
01:37:25,979 --> 01:37:28,314
Uh, used to make this face,

1816
01:37:28,314 --> 01:37:31,785
this face when people talked
about their travel plans,

1817
01:37:31,785 --> 01:37:33,853
if he knew something they didn't.

1818
01:37:33,887 --> 01:37:37,570
Not... not a smile, per se.

1819
01:37:37,570 --> 01:37:38,858
No joy in it.

1820
01:37:38,892 --> 01:37:41,995
Just a... knowing.

1821
01:37:43,329 --> 01:37:45,650
"Weatherman Stare," I called it.

1822
01:37:46,232 --> 01:37:48,935
And I didn't have it, not me.

1823
01:37:48,935 --> 01:37:51,271
So, I'm here, not there.

1824
01:37:54,140 --> 01:37:57,770
Your granddad had that same face

1825
01:37:57,770 --> 01:37:58,578
when he was in here.

1826
01:37:59,546 --> 01:38:02,982
Like... he knew it was gonna rain.

1827
01:38:03,683 --> 01:38:06,860
And I was just a guy
selling him an umbrella.

1828
01:38:08,455 --> 01:38:09,789
Weatherman Stare.

1829
01:38:10,790 --> 01:38:12,258
[chuckles] I'm sure of it.

1830
01:38:13,793 --> 01:38:14,861
The strangest thing.

1831
01:38:17,130 --> 01:38:19,399
Narrator: Albie left him everything.

1832
01:38:19,399 --> 01:38:22,602
More than enough to pay
for his college education.

1833
01:38:23,103 --> 01:38:25,839
And later on, the sale of the Victorian

1834
01:38:25,839 --> 01:38:28,908
paid for the house he and Ginny moved into

1835
01:38:28,942 --> 01:38:31,311
after their honeymoon in the Catskills.

1836
01:38:33,413 --> 01:38:36,383
He flatly refused to move to Omaha

1837
01:38:36,383 --> 01:38:38,585
to live with his mother's parents.

1838
01:38:39,185 --> 01:38:41,121
- Look, I love you guys...
- Narrator: He said.

1839
01:38:41,121 --> 01:38:44,491
...but this is where I grew up
and want to stay till college.

1840
01:38:44,491 --> 01:38:46,126
I'm 17. I'm not a baby.

1841
01:38:46,626 --> 01:38:49,290
Narrator: So, they, both long retired,

1842
01:38:49,290 --> 01:38:50,697
came to him

1843
01:38:50,697 --> 01:38:52,599
and stayed in the Victorian

1844
01:38:52,599 --> 01:38:55,468
for the 20-odd months
before Chuck went off

1845
01:38:55,468 --> 01:38:57,470
to the University of Illinois.

1846
01:38:59,873 --> 01:39:03,760
They weren't able to be there
for the funeral, however.

1847
01:39:04,611 --> 01:39:07,213
It happened fast, as Albie had wanted,

1848
01:39:07,213 --> 01:39:09,282
and his mom's folks had loose ends

1849
01:39:09,282 --> 01:39:11,510
to tie up in Omaha.

1850
01:39:12,285 --> 01:39:14,854
Chuck didn't really miss them,
if he was honest.

1851
01:39:15,855 --> 01:39:18,240
His Zaydee hated a fuss

1852
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:20,293
almost as much as he hated a crowd.

1853
01:39:24,631 --> 01:39:27,434
A day before they were
scheduled to arrive,

1854
01:39:27,434 --> 01:39:29,869
Chuck finally opened the envelope

1855
01:39:29,869 --> 01:39:31,604
that had been sitting on the table

1856
01:39:31,604 --> 01:39:32,672
in the front hall.

1857
01:39:34,107 --> 01:39:36,810
It was from Sam Yarborough,

1858
01:39:36,810 --> 01:39:40,914
owner and chief undertaker
at Yarborough Funeral Home,

1859
01:39:40,914 --> 01:39:45,218
and inside were Albie Krantz's
personal effects.

1860
01:40:02,902 --> 01:40:04,237
[inhales deeply]

1861
01:40:04,237 --> 01:40:06,272
[sighs]

1862
01:40:06,706 --> 01:40:07,774
[switch clicks]

1863
01:40:23,256 --> 01:40:24,257
[lock clicks]

1864
01:40:35,402 --> 01:40:37,404
[door creaks]

1865
01:41:10,403 --> 01:41:13,473
- [birds tweeting]
- [dog barking in distance]

1866
01:41:22,349 --> 01:41:25,510
[monitor beeping]

1867
01:41:41,935 --> 01:41:44,738
Narrator: In this room,
Chuck's grandpa had seen

1868
01:41:44,738 --> 01:41:46,106
the Jefferies boy,

1869
01:41:46,106 --> 01:41:48,174
body broken by the car.

1870
01:41:49,943 --> 01:41:52,912
He'd seen Henry Peterson
hanging from the ceiling.

1871
01:41:54,180 --> 01:41:56,883
He'd seen his own wife lying dead.

1872
01:41:57,317 --> 01:41:59,819
And likely, Chuck supposed,

1873
01:41:59,819 --> 01:42:03,230
perhaps the night
Chuck had stolen his keys,

1874
01:42:03,923 --> 01:42:08,261
Albie had even seen himself
crumpled to the floor,

1875
01:42:08,261 --> 01:42:10,263
still clutching his upper arm.

1876
01:42:11,831 --> 01:42:14,100
"It's the waiting," he'd said.

1877
01:42:15,502 --> 01:42:17,103
"That's the hard part."

1878
01:42:17,103 --> 01:42:18,705
[monitor beeping]

1879
01:42:18,705 --> 01:42:21,141
Now Chuck's own waiting would begin.

1880
01:42:22,909 --> 01:42:24,611
How long would that wait be?

1881
01:42:25,845 --> 01:42:29,616
Exactly how old was the man
in the hospital bed?

1882
01:42:29,616 --> 01:42:32,385
[beeping continues]

1883
01:42:34,921 --> 01:42:37,424
- There was a final bip...
- [beeping stops]

1884
01:42:37,424 --> 01:42:39,225
...from the unseen monitor

1885
01:42:40,126 --> 01:42:41,961
and then that was gone too.

1886
01:42:44,931 --> 01:42:46,800
The man did not fade,

1887
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:49,669
as ghostly apparitions did in the movies.

1888
01:42:50,570 --> 01:42:52,305
He was just gone.

1889
01:42:53,239 --> 01:42:56,409
Insisting he had never
been there in the first place.

1890
01:42:58,311 --> 01:43:00,146
- He wasn't...
- Narrator: Chuck thinks.

1891
01:43:00,714 --> 01:43:02,315
...and I will insist he wasn't.

1892
01:43:03,817 --> 01:43:07,287
And I will live my life
until my life runs out.

1893
01:43:09,456 --> 01:43:10,690
I am wonderful.

1894
01:43:12,759 --> 01:43:14,294
I deserve to be wonderful.

1895
01:43:17,163 --> 01:43:19,320
And I contain multitudes.

1896
01:43:27,440 --> 01:43:30,430
[footsteps fading]

1897
01:43:30,430 --> 01:43:33,113
[melancholic music playing]

1898
01:43:35,682 --> 01:43:39,552
["The Parting Glass"
by Gregory Alan Isakov playing]

1899
01:43:58,505 --> 01:44:01,641
♪ Of all the money I ever had ♪

1900
01:44:03,576 --> 01:44:07,580
♪ I spent it in good company ♪

1901
01:44:08,581 --> 01:44:12,352
♪ And all the harm I've ever done ♪

1902
01:44:14,154 --> 01:44:17,957
♪ It was to none but me

1903
01:44:21,361 --> 01:44:23,496
♪ And all I've done

1904
01:44:25,265 --> 01:44:27,634
♪ For want of wit

1905
01:44:29,335 --> 01:44:33,973
♪ To memory now I can't recall ♪

1906
01:44:36,609 --> 01:44:41,214
♪ So fill to me the parting glass ♪

1907
01:44:41,981 --> 01:44:46,920
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1908
01:45:10,243 --> 01:45:14,814
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪

1909
01:45:15,548 --> 01:45:19,419
♪ And drink a health whate'er befalls ♪

1910
01:45:20,453 --> 01:45:24,791
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪

1911
01:45:25,592 --> 01:45:30,563
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1912
01:45:54,154 --> 01:45:58,580
♪ Of all the friends I ever had ♪

1913
01:45:59,250 --> 01:46:03,163
♪ They're sorry for my going away ♪

1914
01:46:04,197 --> 01:46:08,868
♪ And all the sweethearts I ever had ♪

1915
01:46:09,436 --> 01:46:13,606
♪ They would wish me
one more day to stay ♪

1916
01:46:16,710 --> 01:46:18,845
♪ Since it fell

1917
01:46:21,147 --> 01:46:22,949
♪ Into my lot

1918
01:46:25,180 --> 01:46:29,456
♪ That I should rise and you should not ♪

1919
01:46:32,225 --> 01:46:36,463
♪ I'll gently rise and softly call ♪

1920
01:46:37,364 --> 01:46:42,635
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪