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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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"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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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 fucking 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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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 fuck 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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Pornhub's down.

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Did you know that, Mr. Anderson?

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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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Fuckin' Pornhub.

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What if that never comes back?

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Fuckin' tragedy.

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

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that's just fuckin' mean.

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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
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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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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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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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♪ 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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♪ 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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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
have been dwindling

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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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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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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
what he said to her,

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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
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- or divorce rates...
- Marriages.

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- You're an optimist.
- No.

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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
of paperwork at least.

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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?

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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.

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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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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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What about remarriages?

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

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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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It was, um...

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It was a day, I guess.

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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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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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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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Yeah. Yeah.

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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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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,

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

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of the last minute of the last day,

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December 31st.

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But if you go back to the start,

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if the, if the Big Bang happens

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at midnight, January 1st,

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then each month of this calendar

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is one and a quarter billion years long.

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00:12:55,124 --> 00:12:57,406
Hey, nobody told me
there was math on this exam.

262
00:12:57,430 --> 00:13:00,105
The universe starts January 1st,

263
00:13:00,129 --> 00:13:02,977
but the, uh, the Milky Way didn't form

264
00:13:03,001 --> 00:13:04,481
until May.

265
00:13:04,829 --> 00:13:06,415
Our sun and our earth,

266
00:13:06,439 --> 00:13:10,008
they don't show up until mid-September.

267
00:13:10,356 --> 00:13:12,576
Life appears soon after. But not us.

268
00:13:13,359 --> 00:13:16,469
No. No, no, we don't appear
for guess how long?

269
00:13:16,493 --> 00:13:18,689
Again, I was told there'd be no math.

270
00:13:18,713 --> 00:13:19,931
December 31st.

271
00:13:21,019 --> 00:13:22,649
Last day on the calendar,

272
00:13:22,673 --> 00:13:24,651
and the very first human beings on Earth

273
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made their debut

274
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around 10:30 p.m.

275
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10:30 p.m. on the last day.

276
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And, um, every minute since then

277
00:13:35,425 --> 00:13:37,098
is 30,000 years.

278
00:13:37,122 --> 00:13:41,126
So, 11:46 p.m.,

279
00:13:41,823 --> 00:13:45,652
only 14 minutes ago,
humanity tamed fire

280
00:13:46,784 --> 00:13:49,134
and now we're out of minutes,
we're into seconds.

281
00:13:50,832 --> 00:13:52,723
11:59 and 20 seconds,

282
00:13:52,747 --> 00:13:56,576
the domestication
of plants and animals begin,

283
00:13:57,055 --> 00:13:59,841
an application for the
human talent for making tools.

284
00:14:00,842 --> 00:14:03,235
11:59 and 35 seconds,

285
00:14:04,193 --> 00:14:06,171
agricultural communities

286
00:14:06,195 --> 00:14:08,197
evolved into the first cities.

287
00:14:09,981 --> 00:14:11,243
Our recorded history,

288
00:14:11,940 --> 00:14:14,159
everyone we've ever heard of,

289
00:14:14,681 --> 00:14:17,902
every single thing in any one
of our history books...

290
00:14:19,991 --> 00:14:21,732
happens in the last 10 seconds.

291
00:14:24,387 --> 00:14:25,954
The last 10 seconds

292
00:14:26,868 --> 00:14:28,130
of the last minute

293
00:14:28,870 --> 00:14:30,785
of the last day on the calendar.

294
00:14:32,308 --> 00:14:33,788
December 31st.

295
00:14:38,749 --> 00:14:40,316
So how long is it gonna go on?

296
00:14:41,447 --> 00:14:42,797
I don't know, Fel.

297
00:14:44,189 --> 00:14:46,080
If you're right, and you might be,

298
00:14:46,104 --> 00:14:49,083
that this really is the, the last times

299
00:14:49,107 --> 00:14:51,283
and the universe is dying,

300
00:14:51,936 --> 00:14:53,566
and let's just say it's a fast death,

301
00:14:53,590 --> 00:14:55,394
even if all of this is happening in the,

302
00:14:55,418 --> 00:14:58,116
the last split second,

303
00:14:58,943 --> 00:15:00,249
microsecond,

304
00:15:00,902 --> 00:15:02,468
who knows how long that'll last.

305
00:15:03,078 --> 00:15:06,037
Maybe seconds, maybe eons.

306
00:15:06,342 --> 00:15:09,147
Maybe all this is happening
as the cosmos burps out

307
00:15:09,171 --> 00:15:10,433
its last breath.

308
00:15:12,783 --> 00:15:14,611
Maybe it's all happening in the last

309
00:15:15,220 --> 00:15:18,093
single solitary heartbeat.

310
00:15:23,011 --> 00:15:24,447
Jesus, Marty.

311
00:15:27,058 --> 00:15:28,146
Yeah.

312
00:15:34,631 --> 00:15:36,459
Listen, Fel, I should go. I've, um...

313
00:15:38,765 --> 00:15:40,811
I've got tests to grade.

314
00:15:42,552 --> 00:15:43,552
Marty...

315
00:15:45,511 --> 00:15:46,837
the world is going down the drain,

316
00:15:46,861 --> 00:15:48,534
and all we can say is, "That sucks."

317
00:15:48,558 --> 00:15:51,561
So, maybe we're going
down the drain too.

318
00:15:52,518 --> 00:15:53,998
Maybe.

319
00:15:54,346 --> 00:15:56,629
But, you know, Chuck Krantz is retiring.

320
00:15:56,653 --> 00:15:58,370
So...

321
00:15:58,394 --> 00:16:01,025
I guess there's a gleam
of light in the darkness.

322
00:16:01,049 --> 00:16:02,722
Yes. Thirty-nine great years.

323
00:16:02,746 --> 00:16:04,332
Oh, you saw that weird billboard?

324
00:16:04,356 --> 00:16:06,334
No, it was an ad on the radio that, um,

325
00:16:06,358 --> 00:16:08,249
that NPR show I was telling you about.

326
00:16:08,273 --> 00:16:09,816
If they're running ads on NPR,

327
00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,200
it really is the end of the world.

328
00:16:11,973 --> 00:16:13,646
Tell me, how does Chuck Krantz

329
00:16:13,670 --> 00:16:15,517
rate this kind of coverage?

330
00:16:15,541 --> 00:16:18,042
I mean... looks like an accountant.

331
00:16:18,066 --> 00:16:19,197
I've never heard of him.

332
00:16:20,285 --> 00:16:22,089
Used an old photo too, I guess.

333
00:16:22,113 --> 00:16:23,961
I mean, the guy barely looks 40 at all,

334
00:16:23,985 --> 00:16:26,311
let alone 40 years on the job.

335
00:16:26,335 --> 00:16:27,989
The world is full of mysteries.

336
00:16:29,904 --> 00:16:32,602
And, hey, no hard stuff, Marty.

337
00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:34,517
Okay? Have a beer instead.

338
00:16:36,911 --> 00:16:38,086
You got it.

339
00:16:42,046 --> 00:16:43,937
Newsreader [on TV]:
The Ohio EPA has now issued

340
00:16:43,961 --> 00:16:45,678
a code red air quality alert

341
00:16:45,702 --> 00:16:47,355
for Cleveland and its surrounding...

342
00:17:12,424 --> 00:17:15,557
Oh, shit on a stick.

343
00:17:20,171 --> 00:17:21,627
Announcer [on TV]:
We'd like to say thank you

344
00:17:21,651 --> 00:17:23,020
to Charles Krantz

345
00:17:23,044 --> 00:17:26,110
for 39 great years.

346
00:17:26,134 --> 00:17:27,700
Thanks, Chuck.

347
00:17:55,337 --> 00:17:56,337
Gus!

348
00:17:57,513 --> 00:17:59,558
Oh. Hey, Marty.

349
00:18:00,211 --> 00:18:01,430
Where's your car?

350
00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:03,669
It's... it's on,

351
00:18:03,693 --> 00:18:05,105
it's on the sidewalk halfway down.

352
00:18:05,129 --> 00:18:07,194
Main Street Hill with a hundred others.

353
00:18:07,218 --> 00:18:08,761
I finally just had to turn around.

354
00:18:08,785 --> 00:18:10,589
Fuck it, I walked...

355
00:18:10,613 --> 00:18:12,112
What do you think it is, like, three miles?

356
00:18:12,136 --> 00:18:13,659
I just walked three miles.

357
00:18:14,095 --> 00:18:16,290
Oh, you're going to school.
Hold on a sec.

358
00:18:16,314 --> 00:18:20,120
Uh, real quick, you gotta, you gotta go,

359
00:18:20,144 --> 00:18:22,122
listen to me, you gotta go out Route 11

360
00:18:22,146 --> 00:18:24,472
and then hook back on, on, on 19.

361
00:18:24,496 --> 00:18:26,735
Yeah. There's gonna be plenty of traffic.

362
00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:28,215
You gotta go out at least 20 miles.

363
00:18:28,239 --> 00:18:29,695
You might make it before lunch.

364
00:18:29,719 --> 00:18:32,132
- I wouldn't count on it.
- What happened?

365
00:18:32,156 --> 00:18:34,352
Giant sinkhole opened up
on Market and Main.

366
00:18:34,376 --> 00:18:36,441
Man, the-the thing, it, uh, it's huge.

367
00:18:36,465 --> 00:18:38,704
All the rain probably had
something to do with it,

368
00:18:38,728 --> 00:18:40,488
lack of maintenance maybe more so.

369
00:18:40,512 --> 00:18:42,795
But it's not my department, thank God.

370
00:18:42,819 --> 00:18:44,473
But, yeah, there's, there's gotta be

371
00:18:45,169 --> 00:18:46,842
20 cars at the bottom.

372
00:18:46,866 --> 00:18:48,670
And some of the people
in some of those cars,

373
00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:50,237
they ain't comin' back.

374
00:18:50,261 --> 00:18:52,307
Jesus, I was, I was just there last night,

375
00:18:53,134 --> 00:18:54,633
backed up in traffic.

376
00:18:54,657 --> 00:18:56,257
Thank God you weren't
there this morning.

377
00:18:57,442 --> 00:18:58,878
I assume you know about California.

378
00:19:00,054 --> 00:19:01,727
I didn't turn on the TV this morning.

379
00:19:01,751 --> 00:19:02,945
- Oh!
- Is there something new?

380
00:19:02,969 --> 00:19:04,580
The, the rest of it went.

381
00:19:05,929 --> 00:19:08,560
I-I mean, th-they're saying that
20% of Northern California

382
00:19:08,584 --> 00:19:11,215
is hanging in there, which
probably means, what, 10%?

383
00:19:11,239 --> 00:19:13,893
But the food-producing regions
are... they're gone.

384
00:19:15,417 --> 00:19:17,090
And with the Midwest turning to charcoal

385
00:19:17,114 --> 00:19:18,787
and Florida flooding, that's like

386
00:19:18,811 --> 00:19:20,596
all the food-producing regions

387
00:19:21,205 --> 00:19:23,270
in the country just gone.

388
00:19:23,294 --> 00:19:24,663
And the same thing with Europe.

389
00:19:24,687 --> 00:19:26,230
I mean, it's famine time in Asia.

390
00:19:26,254 --> 00:19:27,666
There's a million people dead.

391
00:19:27,690 --> 00:19:29,320
They're saying it's the bub-bublonic,

392
00:19:29,344 --> 00:19:30,495
- bubonic plague.
- Bubonic.

393
00:19:30,519 --> 00:19:32,453
Bu-Bubonic plague. Yeah.

394
00:19:32,477 --> 00:19:34,760
And the bees, I mean, they
were in trouble a decade ago,

395
00:19:34,784 --> 00:19:36,240
but they're completely gone now.

396
00:19:36,264 --> 00:19:37,458
I mean, there's a couple
of hives or whatever

397
00:19:37,482 --> 00:19:38,938
down in South America,

398
00:19:38,962 --> 00:19:40,853
but there ain't no honey, honey.

399
00:19:40,877 --> 00:19:43,203
And without those little guys,
like, what's gonna pollinate

400
00:19:43,227 --> 00:19:44,639
all the crops we have left?

401
00:19:44,663 --> 00:19:45,684
I mean, I can't do...

402
00:19:45,708 --> 00:19:47,033
Excuse me. One sec.

403
00:19:47,057 --> 00:19:48,339
Yeah, yeah. That's-that's cool.

404
00:19:48,363 --> 00:19:50,210
A-Andrea? Are you,

405
00:19:50,234 --> 00:19:52,082
are you Andrea from Midwest Trust?

406
00:19:52,106 --> 00:19:54,127
I'm Felicia Anderson's husband.

407
00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:56,303
Ex, actually.

408
00:19:56,327 --> 00:19:57,826
I think you and Fel know each other.

409
00:19:57,850 --> 00:19:59,611
We met at a, a, a game night at David's.

410
00:19:59,635 --> 00:20:01,376
- A few game nights.
- Yeah, sure.

411
00:20:02,116 --> 00:20:03,378
What do you want?

412
00:20:03,726 --> 00:20:05,965
I just had a long walk,
and my car is stuck,

413
00:20:05,989 --> 00:20:07,382
and the bank is,

414
00:20:07,947 --> 00:20:08,948
it's leaning.

415
00:20:10,341 --> 00:20:11,342
Leaning?

416
00:20:11,908 --> 00:20:12,952
Yeah.

417
00:20:13,431 --> 00:20:14,824
It's on the edge of the sinkhole.

418
00:20:16,347 --> 00:20:17,890
Guess that's the end of my job.

419
00:20:17,914 --> 00:20:19,544
Hey, I'm curious about the billboard

420
00:20:19,568 --> 00:20:21,067
on the bank building.

421
00:20:21,091 --> 00:20:22,373
- Have you seen it?
- How could I miss it?

422
00:20:22,397 --> 00:20:25,356
And I saw the ads too, on TV.

423
00:20:25,791 --> 00:20:28,118
No more ads for cars
or discount furniture.

424
00:20:28,142 --> 00:20:30,337
Just, "Charles Krantz,

425
00:20:30,361 --> 00:20:32,861
39 great years. Thanks, Chuck."

426
00:20:32,885 --> 00:20:34,428
So, he doesn't work at the bank?

427
00:20:34,452 --> 00:20:37,039
He's not retiring from the bank?

428
00:20:37,063 --> 00:20:38,935
I don't know Charles Krantz.

429
00:20:40,023 --> 00:20:42,286
I think it's just a prank. Performance art.

430
00:20:44,854 --> 00:20:45,855
Take care.

431
00:20:52,731 --> 00:20:54,211
They look like refugees.

432
00:20:55,430 --> 00:20:56,431
Yeah.

433
00:20:58,824 --> 00:21:00,391
No one looks that concerned.

434
00:21:01,305 --> 00:21:03,065
What good would that do?

435
00:21:03,089 --> 00:21:04,874
All was concerned at the start.

436
00:21:05,614 --> 00:21:07,418
Remember the protests?
You remember...

437
00:21:07,442 --> 00:21:09,289
they knocked over the fence
at the White House,

438
00:21:09,313 --> 00:21:11,204
and all those students got shot?

439
00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:11,633
Yeah.

440
00:21:11,657 --> 00:21:12,945
And the overthrow of
the Russian government.

441
00:21:12,969 --> 00:21:15,556
You got the Four Day War
between Pakistan and India

442
00:21:15,580 --> 00:21:20,411
and the fucking...
the volcano in Germany.

443
00:21:20,890 --> 00:21:23,893
There was a volcano in Germany.
That's, that's crazy.

444
00:21:24,372 --> 00:21:26,872
And we just kept saying,
"Oh, it's gonna blow over."

445
00:21:26,896 --> 00:21:29,072
That doesn't look to be
happening, though, does it?

446
00:21:31,944 --> 00:21:33,357
No.

447
00:21:33,381 --> 00:21:35,644
I think that suicides will slow down.

448
00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:41,302
I think people will just... wait.

449
00:21:43,826 --> 00:21:45,219
For what?

450
00:21:46,002 --> 00:21:47,046
The end.

451
00:21:49,788 --> 00:21:51,181
This is the end of everything.

452
00:21:53,096 --> 00:21:54,595
I mean, we're, we're going through

453
00:21:54,619 --> 00:21:55,988
the five stages of grief.

454
00:21:56,012 --> 00:21:57,555
Don't you get it? I mean, we just,

455
00:21:57,579 --> 00:21:59,755
we just landed on the final stage.

456
00:22:00,364 --> 00:22:01,496
Acceptance.

457
00:22:03,498 --> 00:22:04,542
The waiting...

458
00:22:07,153 --> 00:22:08,590
I think that's the hardest part.

459
00:22:10,722 --> 00:22:13,527
And the whole thing, it just,
it-it came out of nowhere, right?

460
00:22:13,551 --> 00:22:16,182
I mean, everyone knew there was
trouble with the environment.

461
00:22:16,206 --> 00:22:18,271
I mean, I think even
the right-wing nutjobs

462
00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:19,707
were secretly, they got it.

463
00:22:19,731 --> 00:22:21,124
But this...

464
00:22:22,734 --> 00:22:23,866
this...

465
00:22:24,432 --> 00:22:29,785
this is just 60 different varieties of shit.

466
00:22:30,351 --> 00:22:33,354
It's just so much shit that happened fast.

467
00:22:33,832 --> 00:22:36,270
It's like a year, man. Fourteen months.

468
00:22:38,097 --> 00:22:39,708
Sucks.

469
00:22:44,539 --> 00:22:47,323
Yeah. Sucks.

470
00:22:50,501 --> 00:22:51,501
Huh.

471
00:22:52,068 --> 00:22:53,243
Skywriting.

472
00:22:56,507 --> 00:22:58,944
I haven't seen one of those
since I was a kid.

473
00:23:01,382 --> 00:23:02,513
Oh.

474
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,255
What the fuck?

475
00:23:06,996 --> 00:23:10,739
My sentiments... exactly.

476
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,317
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
where have you been?

477
00:23:47,341 --> 00:23:48,516
Are you kidding?

478
00:23:48,951 --> 00:23:50,624
I had to run here.

479
00:23:50,648 --> 00:23:53,671
The traffic's insane,
and half the cars are empty.

480
00:23:53,695 --> 00:23:54,802
Dr. Winston's MIA.

481
00:23:54,826 --> 00:23:56,500
- What?
- Yeah.

482
00:23:56,524 --> 00:23:57,805
He walked in this morning,
and he looked around

483
00:23:57,829 --> 00:23:58,850
and he walked out again.

484
00:23:58,874 --> 00:24:00,373
And now I can't find him.

485
00:24:00,397 --> 00:24:01,957
He dropped his pager
when he walked out.

486
00:24:02,356 --> 00:24:04,638
Okay. I'll scrub in.

487
00:24:04,662 --> 00:24:05,968
The beds are empty.

488
00:24:07,012 --> 00:24:08,555
Most of them walked out. I-I-I transferred

489
00:24:08,579 --> 00:24:10,209
the last of the stable ones.

490
00:24:10,233 --> 00:24:12,974
But, Felicia, there's something weird.

491
00:24:16,108 --> 00:24:17,371
What is that?

492
00:24:30,166 --> 00:24:31,689
What's wrong with the monitor?

493
00:24:32,386 --> 00:24:34,388
That's the thing, it-it's,
it's not just that one.

494
00:24:59,543 --> 00:25:02,154
I don't know, Fel. I don't know.

495
00:25:03,025 --> 00:25:06,158
I mean... I might want to get out of here.

496
00:25:07,508 --> 00:25:09,747
I might wanna go home.

497
00:25:09,771 --> 00:25:11,371
I don't think I need to be here anymore.

498
00:26:56,573 --> 00:26:57,705
You okay, sir?

499
00:26:58,619 --> 00:27:01,011
Yeah. Just taking a rest.

500
00:27:02,536 --> 00:27:05,776
I walked downtown
to look at the sinkhole

501
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,821
and take a few pictures with my phone.

502
00:27:07,845 --> 00:27:11,172
Thought one of the local TV
stations might be interested,

503
00:27:11,196 --> 00:27:14,417
but they all seem to be off the air.

504
00:27:15,461 --> 00:27:17,246
Except for pictures of Krantz.

505
00:27:19,465 --> 00:27:22,120
All Krantz all the time.

506
00:27:23,382 --> 00:27:25,254
- Any idea who he is?
- None.

507
00:27:26,211 --> 00:27:31,541
I've asked two dozen people,
at least. Nobody knows.

508
00:27:31,565 --> 00:27:36,023
Our man, Krantz, is the Oz
of the apocalypse.

509
00:27:36,047 --> 00:27:38,136
Our last meme.

510
00:27:38,833 --> 00:27:41,202
- Where are you heading?
- Harvest Acres.

511
00:27:41,226 --> 00:27:43,228
Nice little enclave off the beaten track.

512
00:27:44,534 --> 00:27:45,796
I'm heading there myself.

513
00:27:46,971 --> 00:27:48,427
- My ex lives there.
- Huh.

514
00:27:48,451 --> 00:27:49,776
Well...

515
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,080
I can walk with you if you like.

516
00:27:52,368 --> 00:27:53,543
What do you do, Sam?

517
00:27:54,457 --> 00:27:56,111
If you still do anything, I mean.

518
00:27:57,895 --> 00:28:01,135
Owner and chief undertaker
for Yarborough Funeral Home.

519
00:28:01,159 --> 00:28:02,876
Oh, man!

520
00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:04,138
Yeah.

521
00:28:04,162 --> 00:28:06,576
We had a boom.

522
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,881
It's hard to feel good about it,

523
00:28:07,905 --> 00:28:09,100
but business was never better

524
00:28:09,124 --> 00:28:10,560
than it was a few weeks ago.

525
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,435
But my real interest's meteorology.

526
00:28:17,698 --> 00:28:20,154
Dreamed of being
a television weatherman

527
00:28:20,178 --> 00:28:22,528
in my salad days,
maybe even one of the networks.

528
00:28:23,704 --> 00:28:25,227
But n-no.

529
00:28:25,967 --> 00:28:27,142
I keep up, though.

530
00:28:27,882 --> 00:28:29,230
Read the journals.

531
00:28:30,449 --> 00:28:31,973
And I can tell you

532
00:28:32,756 --> 00:28:35,192
something amazing if you want to hear.

533
00:28:37,021 --> 00:28:40,634
You know how people say
there are 24 hours in a day?

534
00:28:42,026 --> 00:28:43,158
Well, they're wrong.

535
00:28:43,985 --> 00:28:47,442
There were 23 hours and 56 minutes

536
00:28:47,466 --> 00:28:48,642
in a stellar day.

537
00:28:56,432 --> 00:28:58,129
Plus a few odd seconds.

538
00:28:58,434 --> 00:28:59,977
There "were"?

539
00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:02,980
Based on my calculations,
which I assure you

540
00:29:03,004 --> 00:29:04,832
I can back up, my math is good,

541
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,707
there are now 24 hours
and two minutes in a day.

542
00:29:11,316 --> 00:29:13,164
Do you know what that means?

543
00:29:13,188 --> 00:29:15,340
Well, you're saying the
Earth's rotation is slowing down?

544
00:29:15,364 --> 00:29:16,626
Exactly.

545
00:29:17,975 --> 00:29:20,258
Lot of folks think all of these disasters

546
00:29:20,282 --> 00:29:22,086
are 'cause of what we've
done to the environment.

547
00:29:22,110 --> 00:29:24,305
Not so.

548
00:29:24,329 --> 00:29:27,526
I'm the first to admit,
we treated our mother,

549
00:29:27,550 --> 00:29:30,509
yes, she's our mother,
all of us, very badly.

550
00:29:31,336 --> 00:29:33,774
Certainly molested her,
if not outright raped her.

551
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,362
But... we're puny

552
00:29:37,386 --> 00:29:40,519
compared to the great
clock of the universe.

553
00:29:41,782 --> 00:29:42,783
No.

554
00:29:43,261 --> 00:29:44,393
Whatever's happening

555
00:29:44,915 --> 00:29:47,875
is much larger than
environmental degradation.

556
00:29:48,789 --> 00:29:50,007
The math says so.

557
00:29:51,487 --> 00:29:53,968
And, and math can do a lot of things.

558
00:29:54,446 --> 00:29:56,535
I mean, math can be art...

559
00:29:58,015 --> 00:29:59,147
but it can't lie.

560
00:30:05,719 --> 00:30:07,305
You know what?

561
00:30:07,329 --> 00:30:09,157
I think I'll sit

562
00:30:10,158 --> 00:30:12,073
and enjoy the sunset

563
00:30:12,638 --> 00:30:15,922
while I wait for the arthritis

564
00:30:15,946 --> 00:30:17,469
to settle a bit.

565
00:30:17,861 --> 00:30:18,906
You care to join me?

566
00:30:24,128 --> 00:30:25,173
I think I'll go on.

567
00:30:26,391 --> 00:30:29,719
The ex. I understand.

568
00:30:29,743 --> 00:30:33,094
Well, it was nice speaking
with you, Mr. Anderson.

569
00:31:15,266 --> 00:31:16,267
Hey.

570
00:31:17,094 --> 00:31:18,226
Hey.

571
00:31:18,966 --> 00:31:21,683
Don't worry. I'm going to see my ex-wife,

572
00:31:21,707 --> 00:31:23,057
Felicia Anderson.

573
00:31:24,101 --> 00:31:26,190
I think she's back to Gordon now.

574
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,802
She lives on Fern Lane, number 19.

575
00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:31,848
Yeah, I know Miss Gordon.

576
00:31:33,763 --> 00:31:34,982
What are you doing out?

577
00:31:36,505 --> 00:31:38,028
I wanted to go skating.

578
00:31:40,726 --> 00:31:41,989
I used to love skating.

579
00:31:43,555 --> 00:31:44,818
Then you should go skating.

580
00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:49,407
Maybe I should.

581
00:31:49,431 --> 00:31:51,302
Why do you see Miss Gordon
if she's your ex?

582
00:31:53,522 --> 00:31:54,740
I still like her.

583
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,786
Girl: Do you fight?

584
00:31:58,048 --> 00:31:59,136
We used to.

585
00:32:00,964 --> 00:32:02,942
We get along better now that we're exes.

586
00:32:02,966 --> 00:32:05,751
Miss Gordon gives us
gingersnap cookies sometimes.

587
00:32:06,665 --> 00:32:09,035
I like Oreos better, but...

588
00:32:09,059 --> 00:32:11,646
That's just the way
the cookie crumbles, right?

589
00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:13,170
Gingersnaps don't crumble.

590
00:32:13,194 --> 00:32:14,674
At least not until you crunch them...

591
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:26,555
You better go home, I guess.

592
00:32:29,471 --> 00:32:32,343
It's too dark for skating
without streetlights.

593
00:32:33,823 --> 00:32:37,131
Is everything gonna be okay?

594
00:32:39,785 --> 00:32:41,004
Sure it is.

595
00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:17,432
Go home.

596
00:33:18,563 --> 00:33:20,739
Go home to your Mom and Dad.

597
00:33:23,046 --> 00:33:24,526
Do it now.

598
00:33:58,038 --> 00:33:59,038
Huh?

599
00:34:04,305 --> 00:34:06,829
Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.

600
00:34:07,743 --> 00:34:09,570
- Thank God.
- They, they just...

601
00:34:13,140 --> 00:34:15,988
They just, they just started showing up.

602
00:34:16,012 --> 00:34:17,448
No, I know, I know, I saw.

603
00:34:18,797 --> 00:34:20,016
Is it just here?

604
00:34:20,886 --> 00:34:22,192
I think it's everywhere.

605
00:34:24,803 --> 00:34:27,197
I think it's almost...

606
00:34:31,897 --> 00:34:32,898
Yeah...

607
00:34:34,074 --> 00:34:35,423
Yeah, I think it's almost...

608
00:36:17,177 --> 00:36:19,440
It's the brightest I've ever seen the stars.

609
00:36:25,098 --> 00:36:26,925
Just look at that.

610
00:36:29,319 --> 00:36:32,124
There's Aquila the eagle.

611
00:36:32,148 --> 00:36:33,148
Mm-hm.

612
00:36:34,107 --> 00:36:35,151
There's, uh...

613
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,850
Cygnus the swan.

614
00:36:46,423 --> 00:36:47,642
You see it?

615
00:37:01,569 --> 00:37:02,874
And there's the North Sta...

616
00:37:07,227 --> 00:37:08,315
Did you just see that?

617
00:37:09,620 --> 00:37:10,665
Yeah.

618
00:37:16,323 --> 00:37:17,933
There goes Mars.

619
00:37:33,427 --> 00:37:34,732
I'm scared.

620
00:37:38,345 --> 00:37:39,607
I am too.

621
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,609
Chuck's wife: It's okay, honey.

622
00:37:44,002 --> 00:37:45,047
You go on.

623
00:37:47,832 --> 00:37:49,399
You go on ahead, okay?

624
00:37:55,797 --> 00:37:58,452
Just thirty-nine years.

625
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:07,111
Thirty-nine great years.

626
00:38:15,295 --> 00:38:16,687
Thanks, Chuck.

627
00:38:27,524 --> 00:38:29,067
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

628
00:38:29,091 --> 00:38:31,287
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

629
00:38:31,311 --> 00:38:33,138
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

630
00:38:34,836 --> 00:38:37,099
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

631
00:38:42,974 --> 00:38:44,324
I love y...

632
00:39:08,609 --> 00:39:10,717
narrator: With the help
of her friend, Mac,

633
00:39:10,741 --> 00:39:12,371
who has an old van,

634
00:39:12,395 --> 00:39:15,069
Taylor Franck sets up her drum kit

635
00:39:15,093 --> 00:39:16,549
in her favored spot

636
00:39:16,573 --> 00:39:19,183
on the Eighth Street Promenade.

637
00:39:22,013 --> 00:39:24,078
It's Thursday afternoon.

638
00:39:24,102 --> 00:39:27,038
The weather is fucking gorgeous,

639
00:39:27,062 --> 00:39:28,822
and the streets are thronged with people

640
00:39:28,846 --> 00:39:30,998
looking forward to the weekend,

641
00:39:31,022 --> 00:39:33,958
which is always better
than the weekend itself.

642
00:39:33,982 --> 00:39:36,027
- All good. Taylor?
- Yeah, thanks.

643
00:39:36,463 --> 00:39:38,465
Ten percent is all
the thanks I want, dude.

644
00:39:39,509 --> 00:39:41,792
Narrator: Taylor, and Mac too,

645
00:39:41,816 --> 00:39:43,402
work part-time

646
00:39:43,426 --> 00:39:45,515
at Doctor Records on Castle Street.

647
00:39:46,299 --> 00:39:47,841
But on a good day...

648
00:39:47,865 --> 00:39:50,127
Taylor can make
almost as much busking.

649
00:39:52,217 --> 00:39:55,327
Busk-drumming isn't what
her parents saw for her

650
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:57,764
when she enrolled at Juilliard,

651
00:39:57,788 --> 00:40:00,356
and they don't know yet
that she dropped out.

652
00:40:01,357 --> 00:40:04,641
Juilliard wanted you to think
about what you were doing,

653
00:40:04,665 --> 00:40:07,731
but as far as Taylor is concerned,

654
00:40:07,755 --> 00:40:12,149
the beat is your friend
and thinking is the enemy.

655
00:40:17,591 --> 00:40:21,397
She starts warming up,
going easy at first.

656
00:40:21,421 --> 00:40:23,684
Slow tempo, no cowbell,

657
00:40:24,337 --> 00:40:27,403
not minding that
the magic hat stays empty

658
00:40:27,427 --> 00:40:29,492
except for her two crumpled dollars

659
00:40:29,516 --> 00:40:31,755
and a quarter flipped contemptuously

660
00:40:31,779 --> 00:40:33,562
by a dude on a skateboard.

661
00:40:35,304 --> 00:40:38,525
There is time. There is a way in.

662
00:40:39,134 --> 00:40:41,919
Finding the in is half the fun.

663
00:40:42,355 --> 00:40:44,356
Maybe even most of it.

664
00:40:46,271 --> 00:40:49,076
Janice Halliday is on her way home

665
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:52,166
from seven hours at Paper and Page,

666
00:40:52,190 --> 00:40:54,236
and may walk all the way to the ocean.

667
00:40:55,368 --> 00:40:58,999
Her boyfriend of 16 months
just broke up with her,

668
00:40:59,023 --> 00:41:01,350
and he did it the modern way.

669
00:41:01,374 --> 00:41:02,873
Motherfucker!

670
00:41:02,897 --> 00:41:04,483
Narrator: It was totally unexpected,

671
00:41:04,507 --> 00:41:07,268
like having a door slammed in your face

672
00:41:07,292 --> 00:41:09,425
just as you were getting ready
to walk through it.

673
00:41:09,947 --> 00:41:11,490
- It was...
- Fucking bullshit!

674
00:41:11,514 --> 00:41:13,057
Narrator: fucking bullshit.

675
00:41:13,081 --> 00:41:14,885
She isn't in love with him.

676
00:41:14,909 --> 00:41:17,322
Never even kidded herself that she was.

677
00:41:17,346 --> 00:41:19,193
- But still it...
- Fucking sucks.

678
00:41:19,217 --> 00:41:21,568
Narrator: is a dismaying
shock just the same.

679
00:41:22,525 --> 00:41:24,895
She supposes she'll have some wine

680
00:41:24,919 --> 00:41:26,573
when she gets home and cry.

681
00:41:27,574 --> 00:41:30,291
Maybe queue up one
of her big band playlists

682
00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:32,317
and dance drunk around the room.

683
00:41:33,014 --> 00:41:35,408
She loved to dance in high school.

684
00:41:35,799 --> 00:41:38,691
Maybe she can recapture
a little of that happiness.

685
00:41:38,715 --> 00:41:41,085
- Fucking really?!
- Passerby: Excuse me.

686
00:41:41,109 --> 00:41:43,416
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Not you, not you.

687
00:41:44,242 --> 00:41:45,916
Fuck!

688
00:41:45,940 --> 00:41:48,421
Barista: Got an oat milk latte for Chuck.

689
00:41:49,378 --> 00:41:50,858
Narrator: Charles Krantz,

690
00:41:51,685 --> 00:41:53,184
Chuck to his friends,

691
00:41:53,208 --> 00:41:56,230
is dressed in the armor of accountancy.

692
00:41:56,254 --> 00:41:59,475
Gray suit, blue shirt, blue tie.

693
00:41:59,867 --> 00:42:03,914
His Samuel Windsor shoes
are inexpensive but sturdy.

694
00:42:04,872 --> 00:42:07,285
He's here for a week-long conference

695
00:42:07,309 --> 00:42:10,704
titled "Banking in the 21st Century."

696
00:42:11,139 --> 00:42:14,858
He's been sent by his bank,
Midwest Trust,

697
00:42:14,882 --> 00:42:16,274
all expenses paid.

698
00:42:16,797 --> 00:42:20,646
Chuck has enjoyed
the speakers and the panels.

699
00:42:20,670 --> 00:42:22,213
He was on one panel

700
00:42:22,237 --> 00:42:24,302
and is scheduled to be on another

701
00:42:24,326 --> 00:42:27,261
before the conference ends
at noon tomorrow,

702
00:42:27,285 --> 00:42:30,439
but has no wish to spend
his off-duty hours

703
00:42:30,463 --> 00:42:33,161
in the company of 70 other accountants.

704
00:42:33,683 --> 00:42:35,400
He speaks their language,

705
00:42:35,424 --> 00:42:38,209
but likes to think
he speaks others as well.

706
00:42:39,036 --> 00:42:40,753
At least he did,

707
00:42:40,777 --> 00:42:43,476
although some
of the vocabulary is now lost.

708
00:42:44,868 --> 00:42:47,978
Now, his sensible
Samuel Windsor Oxfords

709
00:42:48,002 --> 00:42:50,526
are taking him for an afternoon walk.

710
00:42:50,918 --> 00:42:52,765
His life is narrower

711
00:42:52,789 --> 00:42:54,941
than the one he once hoped for,

712
00:42:54,965 --> 00:42:56,576
but he's made peace with that.

713
00:42:57,359 --> 00:42:59,380
He understands that narrowing

714
00:42:59,404 --> 00:43:01,581
is the natural order of things.

715
00:43:02,712 --> 00:43:04,473
He has a wife, Ginny,

716
00:43:04,497 --> 00:43:07,301
to whom he is scrupulously faithful,

717
00:43:07,325 --> 00:43:09,695
and an intelligent, good-humored son

718
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:10,764
in middle school.

719
00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:14,483
He also has only nine months to live,

720
00:43:14,507 --> 00:43:16,508
though he doesn't know that yet.

721
00:43:21,514 --> 00:43:24,754
Taylor has been on the job
for 10 minutes now

722
00:43:24,778 --> 00:43:26,867
and has nothing to show for it.

723
00:43:29,870 --> 00:43:32,109
She sees a Mr. Businessman type

724
00:43:32,133 --> 00:43:33,806
coming toward her

725
00:43:33,830 --> 00:43:36,330
and something about him,
God knows what,

726
00:43:36,354 --> 00:43:39,662
makes Taylor want
to announce his approach.

727
00:43:41,490 --> 00:43:43,990
She slips first into a reggae beat,

728
00:43:44,014 --> 00:43:45,755
then something slinkier.

729
00:43:46,190 --> 00:43:50,257
And for the first time today,
Taylor feels a spark

730
00:43:50,281 --> 00:43:53,371
and begins to whack
the cowbell on the downbeat.

731
00:43:54,155 --> 00:43:55,460
It's pretty cool.

732
00:43:56,026 --> 00:43:58,701
The groove has arrived,

733
00:43:58,725 --> 00:44:02,337
and the groove is like
a road you want to follow.

734
00:44:02,816 --> 00:44:06,578
She could speed the beat up,
get some tom in there,

735
00:44:06,602 --> 00:44:08,928
but she's watching Mr. Businessman

736
00:44:08,952 --> 00:44:10,998
and that seems wrong for this dude.

737
00:44:12,086 --> 00:44:15,979
She believes Mr. Businessman
will just go on past

738
00:44:16,003 --> 00:44:18,590
on his way to the business hotel,

739
00:44:18,614 --> 00:44:20,200
and when he's gone,

740
00:44:20,224 --> 00:44:22,270
Taylor will switch to something else.

741
00:44:24,794 --> 00:44:28,014
But instead of floating on by...

742
00:45:58,845 --> 00:45:59,933
onlooker 1: Woo!

743
00:46:08,681 --> 00:46:10,029
Onlooker 2: Yeah!

744
00:46:41,931 --> 00:46:44,151
Onlooker: Woo!

745
00:46:45,848 --> 00:46:46,848
Come on.

746
00:46:48,372 --> 00:46:49,417
Come on, little sister.

747
00:46:50,505 --> 00:46:51,612
Let's dance.

748
00:46:51,636 --> 00:46:53,246
Dance.

749
00:46:56,511 --> 00:46:58,402
Yeah!

750
00:46:58,426 --> 00:47:00,558
I'll lead you. I got you.

751
00:47:49,390 --> 00:47:50,565
Uh.

752
00:47:55,526 --> 00:47:58,791
It's okay. It's my glasses. It's my glasses.

753
00:49:39,761 --> 00:49:40,893
What are we doing?

754
00:49:41,676 --> 00:49:42,720
I don't know.

755
00:49:59,607 --> 00:50:01,130
Taylor Franck: No more today, folks.

756
00:50:01,783 --> 00:50:03,002
No more today.

757
00:50:03,741 --> 00:50:05,873
No more today. We gotta
quit while we're ahead.

758
00:50:09,443 --> 00:50:11,247
Chuck Krantz: Do you
need a-any help at all or...

759
00:50:11,271 --> 00:50:12,770
Here, can you, uh, take this?

760
00:50:12,794 --> 00:50:14,380
- Sure.
- Just, just spin the thingy here.

761
00:50:14,404 --> 00:50:16,426
But watch out for your fingers.

762
00:50:16,450 --> 00:50:18,254
It'll, it'll, it'll get 'em good,
you know what I mean?

763
00:50:18,278 --> 00:50:20,473
Yeah, yeah.

764
00:50:20,497 --> 00:50:22,649
Janice Halliday: What just happened?

765
00:50:22,673 --> 00:50:24,651
That was incredible.

766
00:50:24,675 --> 00:50:26,088
You dance for a living?

767
00:50:26,112 --> 00:50:27,828
No. Oh, no. I...

768
00:50:27,852 --> 00:50:29,830
- No, I do not, sir.
- What do you do for a living?

769
00:50:29,854 --> 00:50:31,745
Oh, no, I think I... Did I...
I didn't break it, did I?

770
00:50:31,769 --> 00:50:33,289
I think he broke, I think he broke it.

771
00:50:35,208 --> 00:50:36,794
Let's hit the pond.

772
00:50:36,818 --> 00:50:38,559
We'll never find parking by the Common.

773
00:50:39,429 --> 00:50:40,474
We will today.

774
00:50:41,823 --> 00:50:42,824
Today...

775
00:50:44,391 --> 00:50:45,522
is magic.

776
00:50:50,571 --> 00:50:52,131
Where did you learn to dance like that?

777
00:51:00,059 --> 00:51:02,298
Oh, no, no, no, that's yours.

778
00:51:02,322 --> 00:51:03,908
Nope, we split it even.

779
00:51:03,932 --> 00:51:05,083
By myself, I wouldn't
have made half as much

780
00:51:05,107 --> 00:51:06,187
if I drummed till midnight.

781
00:51:17,337 --> 00:51:18,512
You okay?

782
00:51:20,557 --> 00:51:21,689
Yeah.

783
00:51:23,821 --> 00:51:25,606
Yeah. Just one of my headaches.

784
00:51:28,261 --> 00:51:30,717
Oh, no, no, no. Come on.
I don't need it. You keep it.

785
00:51:30,741 --> 00:51:32,308
Come on, man, you earned it.

786
00:51:33,179 --> 00:51:34,721
Buy yourself dinner.

787
00:51:34,745 --> 00:51:36,965
Give it away. But I'm handing it to you.

788
00:51:42,536 --> 00:51:44,296
You could do this for a living, you know?

789
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,255
I don't know about that.

790
00:51:46,279 --> 00:51:48,519
I really think we could busk
our way to fame and fortune.

791
00:51:52,676 --> 00:51:55,114
What made you stop in front of me?

792
00:51:57,942 --> 00:51:59,205
Why did you start moving?

793
00:52:01,816 --> 00:52:04,534
Narrator: He could say it
was because he was thinking

794
00:52:04,558 --> 00:52:08,364
about his old half-assed
band, The Retros,

795
00:52:08,388 --> 00:52:10,931
and how he liked to dance
across the stage

796
00:52:10,955 --> 00:52:12,653
during instrumental breaks.

797
00:52:14,307 --> 00:52:15,351
But that's not it.

798
00:52:19,486 --> 00:52:20,617
I don't know.

799
00:52:24,404 --> 00:52:25,859
Taylor, we gotta roll,

800
00:52:25,883 --> 00:52:27,078
or you're gonna end up
spending your take

801
00:52:27,102 --> 00:52:28,103
on my parking ticket.

802
00:52:29,887 --> 00:52:32,953
So, you guys don't want
a career change?

803
00:52:32,977 --> 00:52:34,868
Career change? How... I mean...

804
00:52:34,892 --> 00:52:36,328
We'll make a name for ourselves.

805
00:52:38,287 --> 00:52:39,810
You got to get in here before you go.

806
00:52:40,898 --> 00:52:42,963
- Group hug.
- Oh, oh, okay.

807
00:52:42,987 --> 00:52:44,356
- Group hug.
- Okay.

808
00:52:44,380 --> 00:52:45,879
Go.

809
00:52:45,903 --> 00:52:47,166
Come on.

810
00:52:53,781 --> 00:52:55,174
Buskers forever.

811
00:52:55,783 --> 00:52:57,326
Yeah. Buskers forever.

812
00:52:57,350 --> 00:52:59,612
We gotta roll before
the meter maid shows up.

813
00:53:05,836 --> 00:53:07,099
I'm so sorry.

814
00:53:07,969 --> 00:53:09,207
That sucks.

815
00:53:09,231 --> 00:53:11,190
It does suck.

816
00:53:11,842 --> 00:53:13,366
I thought he was a nice guy.

817
00:53:13,801 --> 00:53:16,064
He was a pretty good lover,
and we had fun and all that.

818
00:53:17,587 --> 00:53:19,522
If I can find a video of us dancing,

819
00:53:19,546 --> 00:53:22,264
which I'm gonna look
because I bet we go viral,

820
00:53:22,288 --> 00:53:24,483
I'm gonna send it to him with a text,

821
00:53:24,507 --> 00:53:27,857
a text that says,
"This is what you're missing."

822
00:53:36,476 --> 00:53:37,738
You're gonna be fine.

823
00:53:39,957 --> 00:53:41,872
I don't know a lot, but I know that much.

824
00:53:45,311 --> 00:53:47,376
You got a bright sunbeam in front of you,

825
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,619
and you're gonna step
right into it, I can tell.

826
00:53:52,970 --> 00:53:54,015
But yeah.

827
00:53:56,322 --> 00:53:58,585
It sucks. Not much else to say.

828
00:54:01,544 --> 00:54:02,913
Everything goes down the drain,

829
00:54:02,937 --> 00:54:04,610
and all we can say is, "That sucks."

830
00:54:04,634 --> 00:54:06,375
Mm. Yeah.

831
00:54:07,942 --> 00:54:09,422
Maybe we're going down the drain too.

832
00:54:11,859 --> 00:54:13,121
Maybe.

833
00:54:15,558 --> 00:54:16,558
I'm this way.

834
00:54:19,475 --> 00:54:21,216
Uh, I'm that way.

835
00:54:27,135 --> 00:54:28,310
Thank you for the dance.

836
00:55:23,931 --> 00:55:25,387
Narrator: As he passes the place

837
00:55:25,411 --> 00:55:27,258
where Taylor set up her drums,

838
00:55:27,282 --> 00:55:29,371
those two questions recur.

839
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,289
Why did he stop to listen?

840
00:55:36,204 --> 00:55:38,946
And why did he start to dance?

841
00:55:41,949 --> 00:55:43,342
He doesn't know.

842
00:55:45,213 --> 00:55:47,781
And would answers make
a good thing better?

843
00:55:51,132 --> 00:55:54,178
Later, he'll lose the ability to walk,

844
00:55:54,831 --> 00:55:57,288
never mind dancing with little sister

845
00:55:57,312 --> 00:55:58,574
on the promenade.

846
00:55:59,662 --> 00:56:02,578
Later, he'll lose the ability to chew food.

847
00:56:04,058 --> 00:56:06,539
Later, he'll forget his wife's name.

848
00:56:08,105 --> 00:56:11,433
Later, he'll lose his grip on the difference

849
00:56:11,457 --> 00:56:13,589
between waking and sleeping

850
00:56:14,068 --> 00:56:17,245
and enter a land of pain so great

851
00:56:17,724 --> 00:56:20,292
he will wonder why God made the world.

852
00:56:23,077 --> 00:56:25,969
What he will remember, occasionally,

853
00:56:25,993 --> 00:56:29,973
is how he stopped
and dropped his briefcase

854
00:56:29,997 --> 00:56:33,479
and began to move his hips
to the beat of the drums.

855
00:56:34,610 --> 00:56:36,196
And he will think

856
00:56:36,220 --> 00:56:38,701
that is why God made the world.

857
00:56:40,747 --> 00:56:41,878
Just that.

858
00:57:05,989 --> 00:57:07,489
Narrator: Chuck was looking forward

859
00:57:07,513 --> 00:57:09,166
to having a baby sister.

860
00:57:09,863 --> 00:57:11,841
Of course, he was also looking forward

861
00:57:11,865 --> 00:57:13,843
to having parents,

862
00:57:13,867 --> 00:57:16,628
but none of that worked out
thanks to a patch

863
00:57:16,652 --> 00:57:20,221
of well-hidden ice on an I-95 overpass.

864
00:57:23,485 --> 00:57:26,029
Chuck wasn't in the car
when it happened

865
00:57:26,053 --> 00:57:28,814
because his parents
were having a dinner date

866
00:57:28,838 --> 00:57:32,252
and he was being babysat
by his grandparents,

867
00:57:32,276 --> 00:57:35,541
who, at the time, he was still
calling Zaydee and Bubbie.

868
00:57:36,193 --> 00:57:37,736
He was seven years old.

869
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,458
Excellent job.

870
00:57:40,110 --> 00:57:42,393
Narrator: For a year
and a half, it was a house

871
00:57:42,417 --> 00:57:44,419
of unadulterated sadness.

872
00:57:45,986 --> 00:57:48,834
Albie and Sarah Krantz had not only lost

873
00:57:48,858 --> 00:57:50,706
their son and daughter-in-law...

874
00:57:50,730 --> 00:57:52,621
Why're you not eating?

875
00:57:52,645 --> 00:57:54,362
Narrator: they had
lost the granddaughter

876
00:57:54,386 --> 00:57:56,538
who would've been born
just three months later.

877
00:57:56,562 --> 00:57:58,259
Young Chuck: What's going on?

878
00:57:58,694 --> 00:58:00,977
Narrator: The name had
already been picked out...

879
00:58:01,001 --> 00:58:03,414
- Her name is Alyssa.
- Narrator: Alyssa.

880
00:58:03,438 --> 00:58:06,939
When Chuck said that
sounded to him like rain,

881
00:58:06,963 --> 00:58:09,749
his mother had laughed
and cried at the same time.

882
00:58:11,054 --> 00:58:12,404
He never forgot that.

883
00:58:14,754 --> 00:58:16,775
Albie processed his grief

884
00:58:16,799 --> 00:58:19,691
by turning to his two absolutes,

885
00:58:19,715 --> 00:58:22,152
numbers and alcohol.

886
00:58:23,110 --> 00:58:25,610
Sarah, though, could find no joy

887
00:58:25,634 --> 00:58:27,462
in her usual pleasures.

888
00:58:28,028 --> 00:58:30,441
She loved the flavors of life,

889
00:58:30,465 --> 00:58:32,878
music, art, and food,

890
00:58:32,902 --> 00:58:35,403
but now, found the world quiet

891
00:58:35,427 --> 00:58:38,125
and gray and flavorless.

892
00:58:40,344 --> 00:58:42,366
Some of the good feelings came back

893
00:58:42,390 --> 00:58:44,760
into the house with time.

894
00:58:44,784 --> 00:58:46,414
There were a lot of takeout meals

895
00:58:46,438 --> 00:58:48,372
after the accident,

896
00:58:48,396 --> 00:58:50,330
but around the time Chuck turned 10,

897
00:58:50,354 --> 00:58:52,748
his grandma started cooking again.

898
00:58:53,662 --> 00:58:56,142
She liked rock-and-roll
while she was cooking.

899
00:58:58,101 --> 00:59:00,602
Music Chuck would've thought
much too young for her,

900
00:59:00,626 --> 00:59:02,715
but which she clearly enjoyed.

901
00:59:05,021 --> 00:59:07,284
♪ Take your baby by the hand ♪

902
00:59:09,591 --> 00:59:12,289
♪ And make her do a high handstand ♪

903
00:59:14,030 --> 00:59:16,598
♪ And take your baby by the heel ♪

904
00:59:18,948 --> 00:59:20,514
♪ And do the next thing that you feel ♪

905
00:59:22,125 --> 00:59:25,148
Come on, little brother, let's dance.

906
00:59:25,172 --> 00:59:27,977
♪ We were so in phase

907
00:59:28,001 --> 00:59:31,483
♪ In our dance hall days

908
00:59:32,614 --> 00:59:36,009
♪ We were cool on craze

909
00:59:37,445 --> 00:59:39,858
♪ When I, you

910
00:59:39,882 --> 00:59:43,016
♪ And everyone we knew could believe ♪

911
00:59:43,538 --> 00:59:46,386
♪ Do and share in what was true ♪

912
00:59:46,410 --> 00:59:47,542
♪ Oh, I said

913
00:59:50,545 --> 00:59:52,286
♪ Dance hall days, love

914
00:59:56,420 --> 00:59:58,771
♪ Take your baby by the hair ♪

915
01:00:01,208 --> 01:00:03,515
♪ And pull her close
and there, there, there ♪

916
01:00:05,778 --> 01:00:08,520
♪ And take your baby by the ears ♪

917
01:00:10,434 --> 01:00:13,350
♪ And play upon her darkest fears ♪

918
01:00:14,569 --> 01:00:16,657
♪ We were so in...

919
01:00:22,795 --> 01:00:24,715
Sarah Krantz: You could
learn those moves, kiddo.

920
01:00:25,145 --> 01:00:26,146
You're a natural.

921
01:00:27,103 --> 01:00:28,690
Wh-Where did you learn?

922
01:00:28,714 --> 01:00:30,106
High school.

923
01:00:30,977 --> 01:00:32,369
What were you like in high school?

924
01:00:34,241 --> 01:00:36,567
I was a kusit.

925
01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:38,462
But don't you tell your Zaydee I said that.

926
01:00:39,028 --> 01:00:40,202
He's old school, that one.

927
01:00:43,467 --> 01:00:45,078
Narrator: Chuck never told.

928
01:00:46,558 --> 01:00:48,666
His grandparents' house became

929
01:00:48,690 --> 01:00:50,668
every inch his home

930
01:00:50,692 --> 01:00:51,998
with one exception.

931
01:00:53,216 --> 01:00:54,957
The cupola on the roof.

932
01:00:58,134 --> 01:01:01,268
Chuck was forbidden
to go into the cupola.

933
01:01:01,834 --> 01:01:04,160
That was his grandfather's rule,

934
01:01:04,184 --> 01:01:08,251
and it was absolute, emphatic.

935
01:01:08,275 --> 01:01:11,646
Albie wasn't a stern man
in other matters.

936
01:01:11,670 --> 01:01:14,542
He was downright gentle
in most respects.

937
01:01:14,977 --> 01:01:16,762
But on this point, he was rigid.

938
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,308
Chuck asked about it, of course,

939
01:01:22,332 --> 01:01:23,507
and more than once.

940
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:25,747
What was up there?

941
01:01:25,771 --> 01:01:28,140
What could you see
from the high window?

942
01:01:28,164 --> 01:01:31,820
And the big question,
why was the room locked?

943
01:01:33,430 --> 01:01:35,495
- Grandma said...
- Because the floor isn't safe

944
01:01:35,519 --> 01:01:37,367
and you might go right through it.

945
01:01:37,391 --> 01:01:39,195
- Narrator: Grandpa said...
- There's nothing up there

946
01:01:39,219 --> 01:01:40,892
because of that rotten floor.

947
01:01:40,916 --> 01:01:42,981
And the only thing you can
see through the windows

948
01:01:43,005 --> 01:01:44,853
is the shopping center.

949
01:01:44,877 --> 01:01:47,638
Narrator: He said that until, one night,

950
01:01:47,662 --> 01:01:50,206
just before Chuck's 11th birthday,

951
01:01:50,230 --> 01:01:52,904
when he told at least part of the truth.

952
01:01:52,928 --> 01:01:54,689
Carl Sagan [on TV]: The cosmic calendar

953
01:01:54,713 --> 01:01:56,908
compresses the local history
of the universe

954
01:01:56,932 --> 01:01:58,934
into a single year.

955
01:01:59,282 --> 01:02:01,502
If the universe began on January 1st,

956
01:02:02,024 --> 01:02:04,742
it was not until May
that the Milky Way formed.

957
01:02:04,766 --> 01:02:07,615
Narrator: Drinking is
not good for secrets.

958
01:02:07,639 --> 01:02:09,965
And after the death of his son,

959
01:02:09,989 --> 01:02:13,055
daughter-in-law,
and granddaughter-to-be,

960
01:02:13,079 --> 01:02:14,994
Alyssa, who sounds like rain,

961
01:02:15,777 --> 01:02:18,408
Albie Krantz drank a great deal.

962
01:02:18,432 --> 01:02:20,366
Everything humans have ever done

963
01:02:20,390 --> 01:02:22,325
occurred in that bright speck

964
01:02:22,349 --> 01:02:25,241
at the lower right of the cosmic calendar.

965
01:02:25,265 --> 01:02:27,069
I'll bet you could see

966
01:02:27,093 --> 01:02:29,027
way past the Westford Mall

967
01:02:29,051 --> 01:02:30,183
from the cupola.

968
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:34,946
You gotta be able to see
the whole town from up there,

969
01:02:34,970 --> 01:02:36,058
I bet.

970
01:02:37,277 --> 01:02:39,690
Albie Krantz: If you went up there,

971
01:02:39,714 --> 01:02:43,607
you might see a lot more
than you wanted.

972
01:02:43,631 --> 01:02:45,198
That's why it's locked, Chucko.

973
01:02:45,894 --> 01:02:48,941
Every month is one and a
quarter billion years long.

974
01:02:49,289 --> 01:02:52,050
Each day represents 40 million years.

975
01:02:52,074 --> 01:02:54,729
Narrator: He wanted to
ask what Grandpa meant.

976
01:02:55,251 --> 01:02:59,057
But the adult part of him,
not there in person,

977
01:02:59,081 --> 01:03:02,321
no, not at 10, but something
that had begun to speak

978
01:03:02,345 --> 01:03:04,802
on rare occasions, told him

979
01:03:04,826 --> 01:03:07,065
- to be quiet.
- At this scale...

980
01:03:07,089 --> 01:03:09,744
narrator: Be quiet and wait.

981
01:03:10,702 --> 01:03:14,029
But all of human history
would occupy an area

982
01:03:14,053 --> 01:03:15,228
the size of my hand.

983
01:03:16,142 --> 01:03:19,643
We're just beginning to trace
the long and tortuous path

984
01:03:19,667 --> 01:03:21,253
which began with the primeval...

985
01:03:21,277 --> 01:03:23,410
You know what style of house this is?

986
01:03:24,411 --> 01:03:25,910
Victorian.

987
01:03:25,934 --> 01:03:26,979
That's right.

988
01:03:28,241 --> 01:03:30,175
And not pretend Victorian either.

989
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:33,159
It was built in 1885.

990
01:03:34,290 --> 01:03:37,313
It's been remodeled
half a dozen times since.

991
01:03:37,337 --> 01:03:40,949
But that cupola was there from the start.

992
01:03:42,255 --> 01:03:44,755
Been here since '71.

993
01:03:44,779 --> 01:03:47,453
And in all those years, I haven't been up

994
01:03:47,477 --> 01:03:50,152
to that damn cupola half a dozen times.

995
01:03:50,176 --> 01:03:52,004
'Cause the floor is rotted?

996
01:03:53,657 --> 01:03:55,572
'Cause it's full of ghosts.

997
01:03:57,139 --> 01:04:00,186
Around 10:30 p.m. on December 31st.

998
01:04:00,839 --> 01:04:03,165
- Y-You remember Scrooge?
- Yeah.

999
01:04:03,189 --> 01:04:04,688
That Scrooge movie we watched?

1000
01:04:04,712 --> 01:04:06,168
I remember.

1001
01:04:06,192 --> 01:04:08,542
Do you think of that as a ghost story?

1002
01:04:09,848 --> 01:04:11,521
I-I-I guess so.

1003
01:04:11,545 --> 01:04:14,026
Heard someone say it was a ghost story.

1004
01:04:16,768 --> 01:04:18,726
Christmas Yet to Come.

1005
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,424
11:59:20,

1006
01:04:21,990 --> 01:04:24,577
evening, last day of the...

1007
01:04:24,601 --> 01:04:26,690
Jefferies boy was a month later.

1008
01:04:28,780 --> 01:04:30,346
Henry Peterson,

1009
01:04:31,739 --> 01:04:33,001
that took longer.

1010
01:04:34,481 --> 01:04:38,243
Four... maybe five years on.

1011
01:04:38,267 --> 01:04:40,530
And by then...

1012
01:04:42,315 --> 01:04:44,970
I almost forgot what I saw up there.

1013
01:04:47,407 --> 01:04:48,800
Almost.

1014
01:04:51,890 --> 01:04:54,501
Said I'd never go back
up there after that.

1015
01:04:56,546 --> 01:05:00,072
And I wish I hadn't because of Sarah.

1016
01:05:03,423 --> 01:05:06,252
Because of your Bubbie, Chucky.

1017
01:05:08,428 --> 01:05:10,125
Your sweet Bubbie.

1018
01:05:12,345 --> 01:05:13,694
And the bread.

1019
01:05:15,261 --> 01:05:17,524
Every person we've ever heard of,

1020
01:05:18,699 --> 01:05:19,894
somewhere in there...

1021
01:05:19,918 --> 01:05:21,571
It's the waiting, Chucko.

1022
01:05:24,009 --> 01:05:25,769
That's the hard part.

1023
01:05:25,793 --> 01:05:27,989
Everything in the history books

1024
01:05:28,013 --> 01:05:30,015
happened here

1025
01:05:30,885 --> 01:05:33,429
in the last 10 seconds
of the cosmic calendar.

1026
01:05:33,453 --> 01:05:34,996
Ooh!

1027
01:05:35,020 --> 01:05:36,717
It's getting cold out there.

1028
01:05:37,152 --> 01:05:39,851
Vera says hi. She
says thanks for the soup.

1029
01:05:41,635 --> 01:05:43,680
She laid the gossip on me, laid it good.

1030
01:05:44,203 --> 01:05:45,876
Of course...

1031
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:47,269
that's why we have a Vera, isn't it?

1032
01:05:47,293 --> 01:05:49,271
So, what's the latest?

1033
01:05:49,295 --> 01:05:51,055
Well, I don't know if you've heard,

1034
01:05:51,079 --> 01:05:54,624
but Trish is saying Karen
and Matty are in therapy.

1035
01:05:54,648 --> 01:05:57,018
- Again.
- Who's Henry Peterson, Zaydee?

1036
01:05:57,042 --> 01:05:58,976
The universe that made us

1037
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,264
or we can squander
our 15 billion-year heritage.

1038
01:06:02,917 --> 01:06:04,852
And get some pancake mix.

1039
01:06:04,876 --> 01:06:07,115
Yellow box, not the orange box.

1040
01:06:07,139 --> 01:06:09,073
- You got all that?
- I got it.

1041
01:06:09,097 --> 01:06:11,317
- Do you need me to write it down?
- I got it.

1042
01:06:11,883 --> 01:06:13,208
Don't you think about driving.

1043
01:06:13,232 --> 01:06:14,992
The walk will sober you up.

1044
01:06:15,016 --> 01:06:16,495
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1045
01:06:34,644 --> 01:06:36,037
He'll be back with some groceries.

1046
01:06:37,386 --> 01:06:39,060
Then, how about tonight,

1047
01:06:39,084 --> 01:06:41,738
we do some s'mores in the fireplace?

1048
01:06:43,262 --> 01:06:45,133
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

1049
01:06:47,266 --> 01:06:49,224
Was he blabbing to you
about his ghosts?

1050
01:06:50,965 --> 01:06:52,314
The ones that live in the cupola?

1051
01:06:54,795 --> 01:06:55,883
Yeah.

1052
01:06:56,536 --> 01:06:57,929
Well, are there?

1053
01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:00,974
What do you think?

1054
01:07:02,324 --> 01:07:04,544
I wouldn't pay too much
attention to Zaydee.

1055
01:07:04,979 --> 01:07:07,784
He's a good man. But, sometimes,

1056
01:07:07,808 --> 01:07:11,788
well, sometimes, he drinks too much.

1057
01:07:11,812 --> 01:07:13,268
Then he rides his hobby horses.

1058
01:07:13,292 --> 01:07:14,617
I'm sure you know
what I'm talking about.

1059
01:07:14,641 --> 01:07:16,512
Who was the Jefferies boy?

1060
01:07:21,300 --> 01:07:22,300
Well...

1061
01:07:23,258 --> 01:07:24,781
that was a very sad thing, kiddo.

1062
01:07:26,653 --> 01:07:28,674
He lived on the next block over,

1063
01:07:28,698 --> 01:07:31,025
and he got hit by a car

1064
01:07:31,049 --> 01:07:32,920
when he chased a ball into the street.

1065
01:07:34,226 --> 01:07:35,662
It happened a long time ago.

1066
01:07:38,578 --> 01:07:40,860
And if your grandpa says
he saw it before it happened,

1067
01:07:40,884 --> 01:07:42,103
he's mistaken.

1068
01:07:47,282 --> 01:07:48,980
He just drinks too much.

1069
01:08:00,513 --> 01:08:03,995
You know, I could take those
to Mrs. Stanley if you want.

1070
01:08:05,213 --> 01:08:07,191
Oh, that's very thoughtful of you.

1071
01:08:07,215 --> 01:08:08,564
I bet Vera'd love that.

1072
01:08:09,783 --> 01:08:10,784
Mm.

1073
01:08:11,785 --> 01:08:13,371
Just wonderful.

1074
01:08:13,395 --> 01:08:15,025
Your, your grandmother is an artist.

1075
01:08:15,049 --> 01:08:16,635
Thank you for bringing them over.

1076
01:08:16,659 --> 01:08:17,660
Was that your idea?

1077
01:08:18,226 --> 01:08:19,943
- Be honest.
- It was.

1078
01:08:19,967 --> 01:08:21,490
Well, can I make you a cup of tea?

1079
01:08:22,056 --> 01:08:24,406
Um, I don't drink tea, but, um,

1080
01:08:25,016 --> 01:08:26,626
I wouldn't mind a glass of milk.

1081
01:08:28,671 --> 01:08:29,991
Well, your grandmother's a saint.

1082
01:08:31,065 --> 01:08:32,608
And what about your granddad?

1083
01:08:32,632 --> 01:08:34,349
Did he have that thing
on his back looked at?

1084
01:08:34,373 --> 01:08:37,047
Yeah, the, the doctor
took it off and had it tested.

1085
01:08:37,071 --> 01:08:38,246
Tell me everything.

1086
01:08:38,768 --> 01:08:40,335
It wasn't one of the bad ones.

1087
01:08:41,467 --> 01:08:42,729
Thank God for that.

1088
01:08:43,208 --> 01:08:44,208
Yeah.

1089
01:08:45,775 --> 01:08:47,971
He, um, he was talking to Grandma

1090
01:08:47,995 --> 01:08:50,650
about someone named Henry Peterson.

1091
01:08:52,521 --> 01:08:53,803
So awful.

1092
01:08:53,827 --> 01:08:55,500
You know, Henry was a bookkeeper,

1093
01:08:55,524 --> 01:08:56,830
just like your granddad.

1094
01:08:57,265 --> 01:08:59,069
He did a lot of
the other businesses in town.

1095
01:08:59,093 --> 01:09:00,505
The ones that your Zaydee didn't do...

1096
01:09:00,529 --> 01:09:01,965
How did it happen?

1097
01:09:04,620 --> 01:09:06,642
I don't think you want
to hear about that stuff.

1098
01:09:06,666 --> 01:09:10,994
Um, w-w-well, Granddad
said it was, uh, peaceful.

1099
01:09:11,018 --> 01:09:12,498
Peaceful?

1100
01:09:13,194 --> 01:09:15,414
He killed himself. Hung himself.

1101
01:09:16,110 --> 01:09:17,740
His wife, you see, she ran off

1102
01:09:17,764 --> 01:09:19,785
with this younger man,
barely old enough to vote.

1103
01:09:19,809 --> 01:09:22,029
And she was in her 40s.
What do you think of that?

1104
01:09:23,378 --> 01:09:24,921
- Wow.
- Damn right, wow.

1105
01:09:24,945 --> 01:09:27,034
And then, I heard that...

1106
01:09:32,909 --> 01:09:34,346
What's happening at school?

1107
01:09:36,087 --> 01:09:38,369
Who's smooching who?

1108
01:09:38,393 --> 01:09:41,459
Teacher: "Talk honestly,
for no one else hears you

1109
01:09:41,483 --> 01:09:43,679
and I stay only a minute longer."

1110
01:09:43,703 --> 01:09:45,966
"Do I contradict myself?"

1111
01:09:46,706 --> 01:09:47,881
"Very well then."

1112
01:09:48,708 --> 01:09:49,970
"I contradict myself."

1113
01:09:51,493 --> 01:09:52,581
"I am large.

1114
01:09:53,887 --> 01:09:55,497
I contain multitudes."

1115
01:09:55,932 --> 01:09:58,215
narrator: On the last day of sixth grade,

1116
01:09:58,239 --> 01:09:59,825
Miss Richards,

1117
01:09:59,849 --> 01:10:01,958
a sweet, hippie-dippyish young woman

1118
01:10:01,982 --> 01:10:04,439
who had no command of discipline

1119
01:10:04,463 --> 01:10:06,658
and would probably not last long

1120
01:10:06,682 --> 01:10:09,313
in the public education system,

1121
01:10:09,337 --> 01:10:11,968
tried to recite for Chuck's class

1122
01:10:11,992 --> 01:10:16,257
some verse of Walt
Whitman's "Song of Myself."

1123
01:10:17,693 --> 01:10:20,218
"Failing to fetch me at first
keep encouraged.

1124
01:10:21,175 --> 01:10:23,351
Missing me one place, search another."

1125
01:10:37,235 --> 01:10:38,888
That went well, don't you think?

1126
01:10:40,063 --> 01:10:42,501
Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry about that.

1127
01:10:44,285 --> 01:10:48,333
What does he mean
when he says, "I am large,

1128
01:10:48,855 --> 01:10:51,074
I contain multitudes"?

1129
01:10:54,295 --> 01:10:55,601
What do you think he means?

1130
01:10:56,645 --> 01:10:58,884
All the people he knows.

1131
01:10:58,908 --> 01:10:59,996
Yes.

1132
01:11:00,780 --> 01:11:02,216
But maybe he means even more.

1133
01:11:03,696 --> 01:11:05,176
Here. Come here.

1134
01:11:09,223 --> 01:11:11,636
What's in there? Between my hands?

1135
01:11:11,660 --> 01:11:13,464
My brain.

1136
01:11:13,488 --> 01:11:15,751
No, um, that's not exactly what I mean.

1137
01:11:16,709 --> 01:11:17,840
What's in there?

1138
01:11:18,406 --> 01:11:20,234
Right between my hands right now.

1139
01:11:21,931 --> 01:11:23,019
I don't know.

1140
01:11:23,585 --> 01:11:24,847
All the people you know?

1141
01:11:26,022 --> 01:11:27,023
I guess.

1142
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:29,112
Just the people you know?

1143
01:11:31,724 --> 01:11:32,899
Everything you see.

1144
01:11:33,682 --> 01:11:35,075
Everything you know.

1145
01:11:36,381 --> 01:11:38,402
The world, Chuck.

1146
01:11:38,426 --> 01:11:41,188
Planes in the sky.
Manhole covers in the street.

1147
01:11:41,212 --> 01:11:44,321
Every year that you live,
that world inside your head

1148
01:11:44,345 --> 01:11:48,219
will get bigger and brighter
and more detailed and complex.

1149
01:11:49,045 --> 01:11:51,894
You will build cities
and countries and continents,

1150
01:11:51,918 --> 01:11:55,724
and you will fill them
with people and faces,

1151
01:11:55,748 --> 01:11:57,160
real and imagined.

1152
01:11:57,184 --> 01:11:58,751
Do you understand?

1153
01:12:00,274 --> 01:12:01,686
Don't stop there.

1154
01:12:01,710 --> 01:12:03,819
You fill the whole thing

1155
01:12:03,843 --> 01:12:05,540
with everyone you ever meet,

1156
01:12:06,106 --> 01:12:07,455
everyone you ever know,

1157
01:12:08,021 --> 01:12:10,371
everyone you ever just imagine.

1158
01:12:11,503 --> 01:12:13,156
It'll be a universe.

1159
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:18,205
A whole universe
right between my hands.

1160
01:12:20,251 --> 01:12:22,775
You contain multitudes.

1161
01:12:26,082 --> 01:12:27,127
So...

1162
01:12:28,911 --> 01:12:31,784
what happens
to that universe if someone...

1163
01:12:33,176 --> 01:12:34,656
I don't know,

1164
01:12:35,353 --> 01:12:38,660
hits a patch of ice
and goes off an overpass or...

1165
01:12:41,837 --> 01:12:43,622
Don't worry too much about those things.

1166
01:12:44,710 --> 01:12:48,322
Just remember that you
contain multitudes, Chuck.

1167
01:12:50,237 --> 01:12:51,499
Isn't that wonderful?

1168
01:12:54,067 --> 01:12:56,350
Now, go on. You were such a good boy.

1169
01:12:56,374 --> 01:12:58,245
I've really enjoyed having you in class.

1170
01:13:20,049 --> 01:13:22,027
Narrator: Chuck did enjoy his summer

1171
01:13:22,051 --> 01:13:23,618
until August,

1172
01:13:24,358 --> 01:13:25,533
when Bubbie died.

1173
01:13:30,364 --> 01:13:32,168
It happened at the grocery store

1174
01:13:32,192 --> 01:13:34,344
down the street, in public,

1175
01:13:34,368 --> 01:13:37,042
which was a little undignified,

1176
01:13:37,066 --> 01:13:39,131
but at least it was the kind of death

1177
01:13:39,155 --> 01:13:40,742
where people can safely say...

1178
01:13:40,766 --> 01:13:42,245
Thank God she didn't suffer.

1179
01:13:43,986 --> 01:13:45,312
Narrator: The other standby...

1180
01:13:45,336 --> 01:13:47,096
She had a long, full life.

1181
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,122
Narrator: was more of a gray area.

1182
01:13:50,036 --> 01:13:53,082
Sarah Krantz had yet
to reach her mid-60s.

1183
01:13:56,956 --> 01:13:59,761
Once more, the house on Pilchard Street

1184
01:13:59,785 --> 01:14:02,570
was one of unadulterated sadness.

1185
01:14:04,006 --> 01:14:07,682
Albie wore his mourning band,
and lost weight,

1186
01:14:07,706 --> 01:14:10,119
and stopped telling his jokes

1187
01:14:10,143 --> 01:14:13,668
and began to look older
than his 70 years.

1188
01:14:21,241 --> 01:14:22,590
- That's it?
- Yeah.

1189
01:14:24,287 --> 01:14:25,767
Buck 75.

1190
01:14:28,291 --> 01:14:31,512
Um, that lady who was
in here a few weeks ago,

1191
01:14:32,470 --> 01:14:34,341
the one who died.

1192
01:14:35,255 --> 01:14:37,910
Where was she when it happened?

1193
01:14:38,389 --> 01:14:40,216
That's a little creepy, kid.

1194
01:14:42,262 --> 01:14:43,611
She was my grandma.

1195
01:14:45,918 --> 01:14:47,896
Clerk: She was getting a loaf of bread.

1196
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:49,724
Pulled down almost everything

1197
01:14:49,748 --> 01:14:51,489
on the shelf when she collapsed.

1198
01:14:52,315 --> 01:14:55,971
I'm sorry if that's too much information.

1199
01:14:57,669 --> 01:14:58,887
Nah.

1200
01:15:00,411 --> 01:15:01,586
I already knew that.

1201
01:15:57,337 --> 01:15:58,773
- No!
- What?!

1202
01:16:00,079 --> 01:16:02,518
Get away from there!
You get away from there.

1203
01:16:02,542 --> 01:16:03,542
What? Hey, hey!

1204
01:16:26,888 --> 01:16:28,020
Give me that.

1205
01:16:30,283 --> 01:16:32,154
Give it to me. Give it to me.

1206
01:16:32,851 --> 01:16:34,025
Give me it.

1207
01:16:38,465 --> 01:16:39,790
Oh.

1208
01:16:39,814 --> 01:16:41,773
Oh, I'm sorry.

1209
01:16:42,338 --> 01:16:43,925
I'm sorry.

1210
01:16:43,949 --> 01:16:45,622
Are you okay?

1211
01:16:45,646 --> 01:16:47,256
What did you see?

1212
01:16:49,476 --> 01:16:51,541
What did you see?

1213
01:16:51,565 --> 01:16:54,481
I'm sorry. It's just, you can't.

1214
01:16:55,526 --> 01:16:57,571
You can't do that, Chucky.

1215
01:16:58,485 --> 01:17:00,158
You just can't.

1216
01:17:00,182 --> 01:17:01,682
Oh, I'm so sorry.

1217
01:17:01,706 --> 01:17:05,686
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

1218
01:17:05,710 --> 01:17:07,928
I'm sorry.

1219
01:17:30,169 --> 01:17:31,300
Come on, little brother.

1220
01:17:32,214 --> 01:17:33,651
Let's dance.

1221
01:17:49,797 --> 01:17:52,559
Teacher: Hello, twirlers,
and hello, spinners.

1222
01:17:52,583 --> 01:17:55,213
What do you know?
Three boys this year.

1223
01:17:55,237 --> 01:17:56,650
It's a new record.

1224
01:17:56,674 --> 01:17:58,347
You gentlemen might find yourselves

1225
01:17:58,371 --> 01:18:00,044
being teased for your new hobby.

1226
01:18:00,068 --> 01:18:02,569
I assure you, you are
the smartest young men

1227
01:18:02,593 --> 01:18:03,918
in the whole school.

1228
01:18:03,942 --> 01:18:05,247
You'll soon see what I mean.

1229
01:18:05,987 --> 01:18:09,010
For those who don't know me,
I am Miss Rohrbacher.

1230
01:18:09,034 --> 01:18:11,099
And when I'm not teaching
the girls phys-ed,

1231
01:18:11,123 --> 01:18:13,667
I am what a few students have called,

1232
01:18:13,691 --> 01:18:15,388
"The Dance Monster."

1233
01:18:16,389 --> 01:18:18,193
Nothing? Alright.

1234
01:18:18,217 --> 01:18:19,716
You have chosen what might be

1235
01:18:19,740 --> 01:18:22,066
the best club this school has ever had.

1236
01:18:22,090 --> 01:18:23,807
'Cause if we didn't have girls volleyball,

1237
01:18:23,831 --> 01:18:25,156
we wouldn't have nothing.

1238
01:18:25,180 --> 01:18:27,245
No, no, no.

1239
01:18:27,269 --> 01:18:30,838
Back, Mr. Mulford, you are mine now.

1240
01:18:32,666 --> 01:18:34,581
Waltz.

1241
01:18:36,278 --> 01:18:37,628
Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1242
01:18:41,370 --> 01:18:42,589
Cha-cha.

1243
01:18:44,417 --> 01:18:45,505
Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1244
01:18:47,942 --> 01:18:49,703
Swing.

1245
01:18:49,727 --> 01:18:51,487
Triple step. Rock step.

1246
01:18:51,511 --> 01:18:53,184
- Triple step. Rock step.
- Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1247
01:18:53,208 --> 01:18:56,100
Triple step. Rock step.

1248
01:18:56,124 --> 01:18:57,865
Samba.

1249
01:19:00,868 --> 01:19:02,019
Don't know that one.

1250
01:19:02,043 --> 01:19:03,542
Narrator: He was, by far,

1251
01:19:03,566 --> 01:19:05,283
the best dancer in the little club.

1252
01:19:05,307 --> 01:19:07,590
So, Miss Rohrbacher mostly put him

1253
01:19:07,614 --> 01:19:09,398
with the girls who were clumsy.

1254
01:19:09,877 --> 01:19:12,639
He understood she did it
to make them better,

1255
01:19:12,663 --> 01:19:14,360
and he was a good sport about it.

1256
01:19:15,100 --> 01:19:17,644
Near the end
of their two hours, however,

1257
01:19:17,668 --> 01:19:20,385
The Dance Monster would show mercy

1258
01:19:20,409 --> 01:19:22,997
and pair him with Cat McCoy,

1259
01:19:23,021 --> 01:19:24,825
who was an eighth grader

1260
01:19:24,849 --> 01:19:27,678
and the best dancer of the girls.

1261
01:19:28,809 --> 01:19:31,072
Chuck didn't expect romance.

1262
01:19:31,464 --> 01:19:33,442
Cat was not only gorgeous,

1263
01:19:33,466 --> 01:19:35,990
she was a full foot taller than he was.

1264
01:19:36,556 --> 01:19:39,143
But he loved to dance with her,

1265
01:19:39,167 --> 01:19:40,995
and the feeling was mutual.

1266
01:19:41,517 --> 01:19:43,868
Three. Out, two, three. Switch.

1267
01:19:44,346 --> 01:19:45,434
And stop.

1268
01:19:46,174 --> 01:19:48,762
In, two, three. Out, two, three.

1269
01:19:48,786 --> 01:19:51,068
Turn. Now box.

1270
01:19:51,092 --> 01:19:56,813
One, two, three. One, two, three.

1271
01:19:56,837 --> 01:19:59,163
I don't know what that is.

1272
01:19:59,187 --> 01:20:00,774
Oh, my God.

1273
01:20:00,798 --> 01:20:03,625
Okay, 10 minutes freestyle.

1274
01:20:15,682 --> 01:20:18,705
♪ Ooh, my little pretty one,
my pretty one ♪

1275
01:20:18,729 --> 01:20:21,272
♪ When you gonna give me
some time, Sharona? ♪

1276
01:20:21,296 --> 01:20:23,187
Hey. Watch this.

1277
01:20:23,211 --> 01:20:25,474
♪ Ooh, you make my motor run,
my motor run ♪

1278
01:20:29,130 --> 01:20:30,349
Show me how you did that.

1279
01:20:31,002 --> 01:20:32,457
Ready?

1280
01:20:32,481 --> 01:20:35,049
Slide, slide, slide.

1281
01:20:35,615 --> 01:20:37,462
Here, ready?

1282
01:20:37,486 --> 01:20:39,638
Try it with me.

1283
01:20:39,662 --> 01:20:41,858
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona

1284
01:20:41,882 --> 01:20:44,252
- Um...
- Uh, kick off your shoes

1285
01:20:44,276 --> 01:20:46,626
- and do it in your socks.
- Aye-aye.

1286
01:20:48,802 --> 01:20:50,543
Now, slide.

1287
01:20:51,196 --> 01:20:52,458
Slide.

1288
01:20:52,980 --> 01:20:54,721
Yeah. There you go.

1289
01:20:55,548 --> 01:20:57,811
Hey! Show me.

1290
01:20:59,900 --> 01:21:03,469
Pop. Slide. Slide. Slide.

1291
01:21:04,078 --> 01:21:05,427
Yeah, again.

1292
01:21:06,472 --> 01:21:07,623
Pop. Slide. Pop.

1293
01:21:07,647 --> 01:21:09,016
♪ Woo!

1294
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:12,236
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona

1295
01:21:12,260 --> 01:21:14,108
narrator: Twirlers and Spinners let out

1296
01:21:14,132 --> 01:21:16,110
half an hour late that day.

1297
01:21:16,134 --> 01:21:17,875
♪ My Sharona

1298
01:21:18,223 --> 01:21:19,548
Cat McCoy: That's so rad.

1299
01:21:19,572 --> 01:21:21,158
You figured that out by yourself?

1300
01:21:21,182 --> 01:21:23,160
Well, I just kept rewinding and rewinding

1301
01:21:23,184 --> 01:21:24,795
til I figured it out.

1302
01:21:27,493 --> 01:21:28,733
We should do that at the Fling.

1303
01:21:30,844 --> 01:21:35,129
Uh, not as a date or anything.

1304
01:21:35,153 --> 01:21:36,807
I'm going out with Dougie Wentworth.

1305
01:21:37,808 --> 01:21:39,307
You know that, right?

1306
01:21:39,331 --> 01:21:40,506
Yeah.

1307
01:21:42,900 --> 01:21:44,442
But that doesn't mean
we couldn't show them

1308
01:21:44,466 --> 01:21:45,815
some cool moves.

1309
01:21:47,295 --> 01:21:49,254
I really want to. Do you?

1310
01:21:50,124 --> 01:21:51,473
I-I don't know.

1311
01:21:51,909 --> 01:21:53,388
I'm a lot shorter.

1312
01:21:53,824 --> 01:21:56,304
I think people will laugh.

1313
01:22:11,972 --> 01:22:14,342
- That totally works.
- It totally does.

1314
01:22:14,366 --> 01:22:16,648
- Are you sure?
- Oh, yeah, I'm sure.

1315
01:22:16,672 --> 01:22:18,370
Well, they feel great!

1316
01:22:19,197 --> 01:22:21,286
Uh, just a little big.

1317
01:22:24,550 --> 01:22:26,136
That should be enough.

1318
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:27,529
- Little more.
- Maybe one more.

1319
01:22:27,553 --> 01:22:28,859
How's that?

1320
01:22:31,383 --> 01:22:33,951
Floor feels like ice.

1321
01:22:34,603 --> 01:22:35,972
You put scratches on that floor,

1322
01:22:35,996 --> 01:22:37,974
- the janitor is gonna beat y...
- Timmy.

1323
01:22:37,998 --> 01:22:39,758
There won't be no scratches.

1324
01:22:39,782 --> 01:22:41,567
He's too light on his feet to leave any.

1325
01:22:43,090 --> 01:22:45,179
Almost perfect.

1326
01:22:49,705 --> 01:22:51,272
Take another run at these two.

1327
01:22:53,535 --> 01:22:55,189
You don't need to sigh.

1328
01:22:55,755 --> 01:22:57,124
You're good at this, you know?

1329
01:22:57,148 --> 01:22:58,777
You're really good at it.

1330
01:22:58,801 --> 01:23:00,673
Yeah, but it's boring.

1331
01:23:01,369 --> 01:23:03,957
Boring? What, you mean math?

1332
01:23:03,981 --> 01:23:05,306
Yeah.

1333
01:23:05,330 --> 01:23:07,525
I wonder if maybe next semester

1334
01:23:07,549 --> 01:23:09,963
you might want to try
Math League after school.

1335
01:23:09,987 --> 01:23:12,226
I did it all high school, in fact,

1336
01:23:12,250 --> 01:23:13,792
and it was so great.

1337
01:23:13,816 --> 01:23:15,644
I'm doing Twirlers and Spinners.

1338
01:23:17,124 --> 01:23:18,212
Yeah.

1339
01:23:20,084 --> 01:23:22,564
Hey, hey, put that down
for a second, will you?

1340
01:23:23,565 --> 01:23:25,089
Just a little about math.

1341
01:23:25,959 --> 01:23:27,981
Because people start out thinking

1342
01:23:28,005 --> 01:23:29,286
it might be boring,

1343
01:23:29,310 --> 01:23:31,138
and that's their first mistake.

1344
01:23:31,878 --> 01:23:35,597
It's used in every career, in every job,

1345
01:23:35,621 --> 01:23:38,165
in every facet of life on this planet.

1346
01:23:38,189 --> 01:23:40,756
That's a fact. Hell, the planet.

1347
01:23:41,409 --> 01:23:43,759
How do you think we figure out
how long a day is?

1348
01:23:44,717 --> 01:23:46,762
Everybody knows how long a day is.

1349
01:23:47,241 --> 01:23:49,591
- How long?
- Twenty-four hours.

1350
01:23:50,070 --> 01:23:52,638
People say it's 24 hours,
but they're wrong.

1351
01:23:53,334 --> 01:23:57,227
There are 23 hours and 56 minutes

1352
01:23:57,251 --> 01:23:58,794
in a stellar day.

1353
01:23:58,818 --> 01:24:01,603
Plus a few odd seconds. Math proves it.

1354
01:24:02,430 --> 01:24:04,843
How do we know how old the Earth is?

1355
01:24:04,867 --> 01:24:07,977
How old the universe is,
how long people have been here?

1356
01:24:08,001 --> 01:24:10,371
Or how to build a bridge or a skyscraper

1357
01:24:10,395 --> 01:24:12,397
or how far apart the stars are?

1358
01:24:12,919 --> 01:24:14,723
How did we land on the moon?

1359
01:24:14,747 --> 01:24:16,551
The stars themselves.

1360
01:24:16,575 --> 01:24:18,727
Why they burn,
why atoms split and fuse,

1361
01:24:18,751 --> 01:24:20,796
and all the rest is just math.

1362
01:24:22,755 --> 01:24:24,800
Hey, stars are just math.

1363
01:24:25,540 --> 01:24:27,431
When you look at the night sky,

1364
01:24:27,455 --> 01:24:29,520
you're seeing the greatest equation

1365
01:24:29,544 --> 01:24:31,155
in the universe.

1366
01:24:31,546 --> 01:24:34,351
Heck, your dancing, that's math too.

1367
01:24:34,375 --> 01:24:37,354
I mean, what's the language of dance?

1368
01:24:37,378 --> 01:24:40,488
How do you learn your steps?
It's even in the name.

1369
01:24:40,512 --> 01:24:42,881
I mean, they call it "the count."

1370
01:24:42,905 --> 01:24:44,579
One and two and three and four.

1371
01:24:44,603 --> 01:24:47,408
What's a waltz? One,
two, three, one, two, three.

1372
01:24:47,432 --> 01:24:49,651
Just numbers, just math.

1373
01:24:50,609 --> 01:24:51,784
And more than that,

1374
01:24:52,915 --> 01:24:54,395
there's an art to it.

1375
01:24:55,527 --> 01:24:57,984
What I do, all these files here,

1376
01:24:58,008 --> 01:24:59,400
all these folders,

1377
01:25:00,488 --> 01:25:03,163
these are all people's lives.

1378
01:25:03,187 --> 01:25:05,015
Every choice they made.

1379
01:25:05,885 --> 01:25:07,843
Last year, last 10 years.

1380
01:25:08,409 --> 01:25:10,431
Everything that's important to them.

1381
01:25:10,455 --> 01:25:13,608
Every weakness they have,
every vice, every dream,

1382
01:25:13,632 --> 01:25:16,896
it's all here in numbers.

1383
01:25:17,592 --> 01:25:20,049
Some schmuck comes in,
takes those numbers,

1384
01:25:20,073 --> 01:25:23,337
does the math without artistry,
someone loses their house.

1385
01:25:24,077 --> 01:25:27,254
I take those numbers, do a little art,

1386
01:25:28,081 --> 01:25:29,474
I save someone's life.

1387
01:25:30,518 --> 01:25:31,563
That's what I do.

1388
01:25:32,172 --> 01:25:34,392
That's what accounting is.

1389
01:25:35,262 --> 01:25:37,458
Well, maybe they should teach that,

1390
01:25:37,482 --> 01:25:39,373
the cool stuff,

1391
01:25:39,397 --> 01:25:42,400
and not just all the boring stuff.

1392
01:25:43,183 --> 01:25:44,183
Hmm.

1393
01:25:51,670 --> 01:25:54,605
Math is something else too.

1394
01:25:54,629 --> 01:25:57,304
Some math, math that's called statistics

1395
01:25:57,328 --> 01:25:58,633
or probability,

1396
01:25:59,460 --> 01:26:01,854
it can tell you stuff about your future.

1397
01:26:03,377 --> 01:26:05,118
It could tell you, for example,

1398
01:26:06,511 --> 01:26:08,315
you're more likely to be drafted

1399
01:26:08,339 --> 01:26:10,360
by a major league sports team

1400
01:26:10,384 --> 01:26:12,952
than to make a real living as a dancer.

1401
01:26:16,956 --> 01:26:20,046
The world loves dancers, it truly does.

1402
01:26:20,699 --> 01:26:25,027
But it needs accountants,
so there's much more demand,

1403
01:26:25,051 --> 01:26:27,619
so there's much more opportunity.

1404
01:26:28,924 --> 01:26:32,014
I know that might hurt, but it's the truth.

1405
01:26:32,972 --> 01:26:36,976
Math is truth. It won't lie to you.

1406
01:26:37,977 --> 01:26:40,695
It doesn't factor in your preferences.

1407
01:26:40,719 --> 01:26:42,590
It's pure that way.

1408
01:26:43,896 --> 01:26:46,246
Math can do a lot of things.

1409
01:26:47,900 --> 01:26:49,162
Math can be art.

1410
01:26:51,295 --> 01:26:53,035
But it can't lie.

1411
01:26:53,645 --> 01:26:54,645
So...

1412
01:26:56,343 --> 01:26:58,104
take another run at those two

1413
01:26:58,128 --> 01:26:59,303
because, Chucko,

1414
01:27:00,478 --> 01:27:02,306
you are good.

1415
01:27:03,437 --> 01:27:06,658
You... have art in you.

1416
01:27:13,012 --> 01:27:14,970
♪ Hugging me like skin

1417
01:27:16,276 --> 01:27:18,080
♪ And I'll sweat it clean

1418
01:27:18,104 --> 01:27:20,474
♪ Until I can taste

1419
01:27:20,498 --> 01:27:23,327
♪ The oxygen

1420
01:27:24,458 --> 01:27:26,504
♪ Oh

1421
01:27:48,917 --> 01:27:51,069
Hey! You look great!

1422
01:27:51,093 --> 01:27:53,139
Thanks. Uh, you too.

1423
01:27:55,228 --> 01:27:57,206
Wanna show 'em how it's done?

1424
01:27:57,230 --> 01:27:59,885
Uh, I don't know. I kinda, um...

1425
01:28:01,060 --> 01:28:02,627
I kinda hurt my leg.

1426
01:28:04,281 --> 01:28:05,673
You hurt your leg?

1427
01:28:06,239 --> 01:28:08,502
Maybe, maybe let's, let's
wait for a better song.

1428
01:28:18,382 --> 01:28:20,688
♪ Today I changed the picture ♪

1429
01:28:21,167 --> 01:28:23,430
♪ In our old oak frame ♪

1430
01:28:25,954 --> 01:28:29,262
♪ To a painting I made of
a photo inside... ♪

1431
01:28:30,698 --> 01:28:31,830
Hey, kiddo.

1432
01:28:33,048 --> 01:28:34,093
Hey.

1433
01:28:36,138 --> 01:28:37,966
Thought you were gonna
tear it up tonight.

1434
01:28:40,099 --> 01:28:41,405
I don't, I don't know.

1435
01:28:42,275 --> 01:28:44,122
My shoes feel all funny,

1436
01:28:44,146 --> 01:28:47,715
and... I hurt my leg.

1437
01:28:48,716 --> 01:28:50,283
Oh, you hurt your leg?

1438
01:28:51,589 --> 01:28:52,589
Yeah.

1439
01:28:53,112 --> 01:28:54,418
I'm sorry to hear that.

1440
01:28:56,246 --> 01:28:57,875
So, you came stag, huh?

1441
01:28:57,899 --> 01:28:59,684
- Hmm?
- No date.

1442
01:29:00,424 --> 01:29:01,729
Nah, I...

1443
01:29:02,208 --> 01:29:04,926
That'll change. Believe me, it'll change.

1444
01:29:04,950 --> 01:29:06,647
Just give it some time.

1445
01:29:07,866 --> 01:29:09,084
None of this, none of...

1446
01:29:09,694 --> 01:29:12,542
None of that out there
really means anything.

1447
01:29:12,566 --> 01:29:15,241
It's all just, just a scrimmage.

1448
01:29:15,265 --> 01:29:16,917
Just a practice.

1449
01:29:19,399 --> 01:29:21,725
Hey, this is perfect. Come on.

1450
01:29:21,749 --> 01:29:24,075
Nah, I'm still, uh...

1451
01:29:24,099 --> 01:29:25,599
My leg's still wonky.

1452
01:29:25,623 --> 01:29:27,078
Chuck, come on.

1453
01:29:27,102 --> 01:29:28,558
We're gonna blow the roof off.

1454
01:29:28,582 --> 01:29:29,757
I'm sorry.

1455
01:29:30,802 --> 01:29:32,282
It really hurts.

1456
01:29:46,818 --> 01:29:50,125
You know, I've been dancing
since I was eight,

1457
01:29:50,561 --> 01:29:51,953
and I teach PE,

1458
01:29:52,606 --> 01:29:55,019
and I've seen when my kids get hurt.

1459
01:29:55,043 --> 01:29:56,804
I see how their walk changes.

1460
01:29:56,828 --> 01:29:59,285
I see how their posture changes.

1461
01:29:59,309 --> 01:30:01,311
And don't mind me saying, but you look...

1462
01:30:03,138 --> 01:30:04,575
Well, you look fine to me, Chuck.

1463
01:30:06,316 --> 01:30:09,449
I'm not saying that you have
to dance with the girl.

1464
01:30:10,058 --> 01:30:12,080
It's up to you. I'm just saying

1465
01:30:12,104 --> 01:30:14,367
dance or no dance, you don't have to lie.

1466
01:30:16,108 --> 01:30:17,370
Tell her the truth.

1467
01:30:20,373 --> 01:30:21,418
She can take it.

1468
01:31:25,917 --> 01:31:27,590
♪ Well, my temperature's rising ♪

1469
01:31:27,614 --> 01:31:29,810
♪ And my feet on the floor ♪

1470
01:31:29,834 --> 01:31:32,706
♪ Crazy people knocking 'cause
they're wanting some more ♪

1471
01:31:33,098 --> 01:31:35,859
♪ Let me in, baby,
I don't know what you got ♪

1472
01:31:35,883 --> 01:31:38,059
- You ready?
- Yeah. Let's do it.

1473
01:31:39,365 --> 01:31:41,933
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1474
01:31:43,151 --> 01:31:45,216
♪ So glad we made it

1475
01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:46,590
♪ You gotta

1476
01:31:46,894 --> 01:31:48,263
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1477
01:31:48,287 --> 01:31:50,178
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1478
01:31:50,202 --> 01:31:51,527
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1479
01:31:51,551 --> 01:31:53,399
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1480
01:31:53,423 --> 01:31:57,078
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪

1481
01:32:16,358 --> 01:32:18,380
♪ Well, I feel so good

1482
01:32:18,404 --> 01:32:20,251
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪

1483
01:32:20,275 --> 01:32:21,905
♪ You better take it easy

1484
01:32:21,929 --> 01:32:23,777
♪ 'Cause the place is on fire ♪

1485
01:32:23,801 --> 01:32:26,823
♪ Been a hard day
and I have so much to do ♪

1486
01:32:26,847 --> 01:32:29,435
♪ We made it, baby,
and it happened to you ♪

1487
01:32:29,459 --> 01:32:32,157
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1488
01:32:33,550 --> 01:32:35,702
♪ So glad we made it

1489
01:32:35,726 --> 01:32:37,138
♪ You gotta

1490
01:32:37,162 --> 01:32:38,574
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1491
01:32:38,598 --> 01:32:40,576
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1492
01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:41,882
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1493
01:32:41,906 --> 01:32:43,797
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin'

1494
01:32:43,821 --> 01:32:45,320
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'

1495
01:32:45,344 --> 01:32:46,910
♪ Every day

1496
01:33:05,059 --> 01:33:06,994
♪ Well, I feel so good

1497
01:33:07,018 --> 01:33:09,083
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪

1498
01:33:09,107 --> 01:33:12,023
♪ You better take it easy
'cause the place is on fire ♪

1499
01:33:12,371 --> 01:33:15,219
♪ Been a hard day
and nothing went too good ♪

1500
01:33:15,243 --> 01:33:18,440
♪ Now I'm gonna relax
like-a everybody should ♪

1501
01:33:18,464 --> 01:33:20,945
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1502
01:33:21,380 --> 01:33:22,488
♪ Hey-hey

1503
01:33:22,512 --> 01:33:24,577
♪ So glad we made it

1504
01:33:24,601 --> 01:33:26,448
♪ You got to

1505
01:33:26,472 --> 01:33:28,015
♪ Gimme some a-loving

1506
01:33:28,039 --> 01:33:29,495
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1507
01:33:29,519 --> 01:33:30,800
♪ Gimme some loving

1508
01:33:30,824 --> 01:33:32,739
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1509
01:33:34,088 --> 01:33:36,221
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1510
01:33:37,135 --> 01:33:39,311
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1511
01:33:40,399 --> 01:33:42,531
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving

1512
01:33:58,983 --> 01:34:01,614
all: One more time! One more time!

1513
01:34:01,638 --> 01:34:05,032
One more time!

1514
01:34:05,772 --> 01:34:07,576
Narrator: They may have been young,

1515
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,254
but they were smart enough
to know when to quit.

1516
01:34:18,829 --> 01:34:20,284
Thank you, guys.

1517
01:34:20,308 --> 01:34:21,938
Narrator: Six months before he died

1518
01:34:21,962 --> 01:34:25,594
of a brain tumor at the unfair age of 39,

1519
01:34:25,618 --> 01:34:28,882
and while his mind
was still working, mostly,

1520
01:34:29,361 --> 01:34:32,427
Chuck told his wife
the truth about the scar

1521
01:34:32,451 --> 01:34:33,800
on the back of his hand.

1522
01:34:35,672 --> 01:34:37,519
When they'd first started dating,

1523
01:34:37,543 --> 01:34:39,434
he told her he'd gotten it from a boy

1524
01:34:39,458 --> 01:34:41,436
named Doug Wentworth,

1525
01:34:41,460 --> 01:34:44,308
who was pissed about him
dancing with his girlfriend

1526
01:34:44,332 --> 01:34:46,049
at a middle school formal

1527
01:34:46,073 --> 01:34:48,182
and pushed him into a chain link fence

1528
01:34:48,206 --> 01:34:49,400
outside the gym.

1529
01:34:49,424 --> 01:34:50,817
I lied about that, though.

1530
01:34:53,951 --> 01:34:55,189
Oh, my.

1531
01:34:55,213 --> 01:34:57,495
A man of secrets,

1532
01:34:57,519 --> 01:34:58,738
even still.

1533
01:35:00,958 --> 01:35:02,762
Ginny Krantz: What happened, love?

1534
01:35:02,786 --> 01:35:04,831
When our fabulous dance was over, I...

1535
01:35:05,484 --> 01:35:07,704
I was sweaty and I was so hot.

1536
01:35:08,661 --> 01:35:10,770
I-I felt like my cheeks
were gonna catch fire.

1537
01:35:10,794 --> 01:35:12,032
You were great.

1538
01:35:12,056 --> 01:35:13,492
- Thank you.
- What a star.

1539
01:35:14,798 --> 01:35:16,079
All I wanted in that moment

1540
01:35:16,103 --> 01:35:18,386
was just darkness,

1541
01:35:18,410 --> 01:35:19,716
cool air,

1542
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:22,153
and to be by myself.

1543
01:35:26,897 --> 01:35:28,768
There were millions of stars that night.

1544
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:31,902
Millions of them.

1545
01:35:32,511 --> 01:35:34,208
And millions more behind them.

1546
01:35:35,253 --> 01:35:38,996
And sure, m-may... Yeah,
maybe they were just math.

1547
01:35:40,214 --> 01:35:42,715
But they also danced.

1548
01:35:42,739 --> 01:35:45,655
I know 'cause I saw one of them.

1549
01:35:47,787 --> 01:35:51,419
And I remember thinking,
the universe is large

1550
01:35:51,443 --> 01:35:53,856
and, and it contains multitudes,

1551
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:57,318
but it-it also contains me.

1552
01:35:58,493 --> 01:35:59,843
And in this moment...

1553
01:36:01,583 --> 01:36:03,150
I am wonderful.

1554
01:36:04,586 --> 01:36:07,087
And I have a right to be wonderful.

1555
01:36:07,111 --> 01:36:09,026
Oh!

1556
01:36:12,682 --> 01:36:14,292
Why lie about that, silly?

1557
01:36:16,076 --> 01:36:18,165
You're a strange wonder, my dear.

1558
01:36:19,993 --> 01:36:22,189
Narrator: He doesn't offer more

1559
01:36:22,213 --> 01:36:25,564
because the scar was important
for another reason.

1560
01:36:26,913 --> 01:36:29,481
It was part of a story he couldn't tell,

1561
01:36:30,090 --> 01:36:32,808
even though there was now
an apartment building

1562
01:36:32,832 --> 01:36:35,071
on the site of the Victorian house

1563
01:36:35,095 --> 01:36:37,358
where he had done
most of his growing up.

1564
01:36:38,664 --> 01:36:41,295
The haunted Victorian house.

1565
01:36:41,319 --> 01:36:42,320
Mm.

1566
01:36:42,886 --> 01:36:43,886
No reason.

1567
01:36:45,715 --> 01:36:47,238
Funny thinking, I guess.

1568
01:36:48,021 --> 01:36:50,043
Narrator: The scar meant more,

1569
01:36:50,067 --> 01:36:52,069
so he had made it more.

1570
01:36:52,547 --> 01:36:56,377
He just couldn't make it
as much more as it really was.

1571
01:36:56,987 --> 01:36:59,182
That made little sense.

1572
01:36:59,206 --> 01:37:02,949
But as the glioblastoma
continued its blitzkrieg,

1573
01:37:03,602 --> 01:37:05,928
it was the best his disintegrating mind

1574
01:37:05,952 --> 01:37:07,083
could manage.

1575
01:37:39,812 --> 01:37:41,529
Narrator: Chuck's grandpa,

1576
01:37:41,553 --> 01:37:42,684
his Zaydee,

1577
01:37:43,555 --> 01:37:45,272
died of a heart attack

1578
01:37:45,296 --> 01:37:49,363
five years after the Fall Fling dance.

1579
01:37:49,387 --> 01:37:51,931
Chuck was a junior in high school

1580
01:37:51,955 --> 01:37:55,064
singing in a band
and dancing like Jagger

1581
01:37:55,088 --> 01:37:57,090
during the instrumental breaks.

1582
01:37:57,743 --> 01:37:59,903
Funeral director: He made all
the arrangements himself.

1583
01:38:01,138 --> 01:38:03,116
Came in a few weeks ago

1584
01:38:03,140 --> 01:38:05,466
just to make sure
everything was to the letter,

1585
01:38:05,490 --> 01:38:07,535
which I thought was strange.

1586
01:38:08,319 --> 01:38:10,123
Not many people bother to do that.

1587
01:38:10,147 --> 01:38:11,733
Most people,

1588
01:38:11,757 --> 01:38:14,238
they come here once to set it all up.

1589
01:38:15,065 --> 01:38:16,762
They aren't anxious to come back again.

1590
01:38:18,329 --> 01:38:21,438
Next time I see 'em,
they're in their Sunday best,

1591
01:38:21,462 --> 01:38:22,637
if you get me.

1592
01:38:24,857 --> 01:38:27,904
He was a great man and a good friend.

1593
01:38:29,470 --> 01:38:32,188
He's been doing our books for 23 years

1594
01:38:32,212 --> 01:38:34,538
and saved our skin more than once

1595
01:38:34,562 --> 01:38:35,825
when the tax man was coming.

1596
01:38:38,653 --> 01:38:41,197
So, do I owe you any money?

1597
01:38:41,221 --> 01:38:42,851
Not a penny.

1598
01:38:42,875 --> 01:38:46,072
He took care of that too. Settled his tab

1599
01:38:46,096 --> 01:38:47,532
that same visit.

1600
01:38:48,620 --> 01:38:49,621
You know...

1601
01:38:50,883 --> 01:38:52,232
the strangest thing.

1602
01:38:52,972 --> 01:38:55,757
And this will sound strange,
so bear with me.

1603
01:38:56,323 --> 01:38:58,891
See, I, uh,

1604
01:38:59,413 --> 01:39:01,739
dreamed of being
a television weatherman

1605
01:39:01,763 --> 01:39:03,002
in my salad days

1606
01:39:03,026 --> 01:39:04,505
with maybe one of the networks.

1607
01:39:05,767 --> 01:39:07,030
Wasn't in the cards for me.

1608
01:39:08,205 --> 01:39:11,817
But I did spend a summer at WKNB.

1609
01:39:13,036 --> 01:39:15,710
Well, there was a guy

1610
01:39:15,734 --> 01:39:17,843
at KNB who they said

1611
01:39:17,867 --> 01:39:19,845
could feel a storm coming

1612
01:39:19,869 --> 01:39:21,609
two solid weeks away

1613
01:39:22,132 --> 01:39:23,718
without the radar.

1614
01:39:23,742 --> 01:39:25,502
Had a sixth sense.

1615
01:39:25,526 --> 01:39:27,311
Damnedest thing I ever saw.

1616
01:39:27,964 --> 01:39:30,246
Uh, used to make this face,

1617
01:39:30,270 --> 01:39:33,728
this face when people talked
about their travel plans,

1618
01:39:33,752 --> 01:39:35,817
if he knew something they didn't.

1619
01:39:35,841 --> 01:39:38,994
Not... not a smile, per se.

1620
01:39:39,018 --> 01:39:40,822
No joy in it.

1621
01:39:40,846 --> 01:39:43,980
Just a... knowing.

1622
01:39:45,285 --> 01:39:47,026
"Weatherman Stare," I called it.

1623
01:39:48,201 --> 01:39:50,876
And I didn't have it, not me.

1624
01:39:50,900 --> 01:39:53,250
So, I'm here, not there.

1625
01:39:56,122 --> 01:39:59,014
Your granddad had that same face

1626
01:39:59,038 --> 01:40:00,561
when he was in here.

1627
01:40:01,519 --> 01:40:04,957
Like... he knew it was gonna rain.

1628
01:40:05,653 --> 01:40:08,047
And I was just a guy
selling him an umbrella.

1629
01:40:10,441 --> 01:40:11,746
Weatherman Stare.

1630
01:40:12,747 --> 01:40:14,227
I'm sure of it.

1631
01:40:15,750 --> 01:40:16,838
The strangest thing.

1632
01:40:19,102 --> 01:40:21,341
Narrator: Albie left him everything.

1633
01:40:21,365 --> 01:40:24,585
More than enough to pay
for his college education.

1634
01:40:25,064 --> 01:40:27,782
And later on, the sale of the Victorian

1635
01:40:27,806 --> 01:40:30,872
paid for the house
he and Ginny moved into

1636
01:40:30,896 --> 01:40:33,290
after their honeymoon in the Catskills.

1637
01:40:35,379 --> 01:40:38,314
He flatly refused to move to Omaha

1638
01:40:38,338 --> 01:40:40,558
to live with his mother's parents.

1639
01:40:41,167 --> 01:40:43,058
- Look, I love you guys...
- narrator: He said.

1640
01:40:43,082 --> 01:40:46,453
But this is where I grew up
and want to stay till college.

1641
01:40:46,477 --> 01:40:48,087
I'm 17. I'm not a baby.

1642
01:40:48,609 --> 01:40:50,979
Narrator: So, they, both long retired,

1643
01:40:51,003 --> 01:40:52,633
came to him

1644
01:40:52,657 --> 01:40:54,548
and stayed in the Victorian

1645
01:40:54,572 --> 01:40:57,420
for the 20-odd months
before Chuck went off

1646
01:40:57,444 --> 01:40:59,446
to the University of Illinois.

1647
01:41:01,840 --> 01:41:05,061
They weren't able to be there
for the funeral, however.

1648
01:41:06,584 --> 01:41:09,171
It happened fast, as Albie had wanted,

1649
01:41:09,195 --> 01:41:11,217
and his mom's folks had loose ends

1650
01:41:11,241 --> 01:41:13,025
to tie up in Omaha.

1651
01:41:14,244 --> 01:41:16,811
Chuck didn't really miss them,
if he was honest.

1652
01:41:17,812 --> 01:41:19,965
His Zaydee hated a fuss

1653
01:41:19,989 --> 01:41:22,252
almost as much as he hated a crowd.

1654
01:41:26,604 --> 01:41:29,365
A day before they were
scheduled to arrive,

1655
01:41:29,389 --> 01:41:31,802
Chuck finally opened the envelope

1656
01:41:31,826 --> 01:41:33,543
that had been sitting on the table

1657
01:41:33,567 --> 01:41:34,655
in the front hall.

1658
01:41:36,092 --> 01:41:38,766
It was from Sam Yarborough,

1659
01:41:38,790 --> 01:41:42,857
owner and chief undertaker
at Yarborough Funeral Home,

1660
01:41:42,881 --> 01:41:47,190
and inside were Albie Krantz's
personal effects.

1661
01:43:43,915 --> 01:43:46,676
Narrator: In this room,
Chuck's grandpa had seen

1662
01:43:46,700 --> 01:43:48,069
the Jefferies boy,

1663
01:43:48,093 --> 01:43:50,139
body broken by the car.

1664
01:43:51,923 --> 01:43:54,882
He'd seen Henry Peterson
hanging from the ceiling.

1665
01:43:56,145 --> 01:43:58,843
He'd seen his own wife lying dead.

1666
01:43:59,278 --> 01:44:01,778
And likely, Chuck supposed,

1667
01:44:01,802 --> 01:44:04,979
perhaps the night
Chuck had stolen his keys,

1668
01:44:05,893 --> 01:44:10,222
Albie had even seen himself
crumpled to the floor,

1669
01:44:10,246 --> 01:44:12,248
still clutching his upper arm.

1670
01:44:13,814 --> 01:44:16,077
"It's the waiting," he'd said.

1671
01:44:17,470 --> 01:44:19,079
"That's the hard part."

1672
01:44:20,691 --> 01:44:23,128
Now Chuck's own waiting would begin.

1673
01:44:24,869 --> 01:44:26,566
How long would that wait be?

1674
01:44:27,828 --> 01:44:31,570
Exactly how old was the man
in the hospital bed?

1675
01:44:36,881 --> 01:44:39,381
There was a final bip...

1676
01:44:39,405 --> 01:44:41,190
from the unseen monitor

1677
01:44:42,103 --> 01:44:43,931
and then that was gone too.

1678
01:44:46,891 --> 01:44:48,738
The man did not fade,

1679
01:44:48,762 --> 01:44:51,635
as ghostly apparitions did in the movies.

1680
01:44:52,549 --> 01:44:54,290
He was just gone.

1681
01:44:55,204 --> 01:44:58,381
Insisting he had never
been there in the first place.

1682
01:45:00,296 --> 01:45:02,123
- He wasn't...
- narrator: Chuck thinks.

1683
01:45:02,689 --> 01:45:04,300
And I will insist he wasn't.

1684
01:45:05,779 --> 01:45:09,261
And I will live my life
until my life runs out.

1685
01:45:11,437 --> 01:45:12,656
I am wonderful.

1686
01:45:14,745 --> 01:45:16,268
I deserve to be wonderful.

1687
01:45:19,140 --> 01:45:21,012
And I contain multitudes.

1688
01:46:00,486 --> 01:46:03,620
♪ Of all the money I ever had ♪

1689
01:46:05,535 --> 01:46:09,539
♪ I spent it in good company ♪

1690
01:46:10,540 --> 01:46:14,326
♪ And all the harm I've ever done ♪

1691
01:46:16,110 --> 01:46:19,940
♪ It was to none but me

1692
01:46:23,335 --> 01:46:25,468
♪ And all I've done

1693
01:46:27,252 --> 01:46:29,602
♪ For want of wit

1694
01:46:31,300 --> 01:46:35,956
♪ To memory now I can't recall ♪

1695
01:46:38,568 --> 01:46:43,181
♪ So fill to me the parting glass ♪

1696
01:46:43,964 --> 01:46:48,882
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1697
01:47:12,210 --> 01:47:16,780
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪

1698
01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:21,393
♪ And drink a health whate'er befalls ♪

1699
01:47:22,438 --> 01:47:26,746
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪

1700
01:47:27,573 --> 01:47:32,535
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1701
01:47:56,123 --> 01:48:00,040
♪ Of all the friends I ever had ♪

1702
01:48:00,998 --> 01:48:05,132
♪ They're sorry for my going away ♪

1703
01:48:06,177 --> 01:48:10,834
♪ And all the sweethearts I ever had ♪

1704
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:15,578
♪ They would wish me
one more day to stay ♪

1705
01:48:18,668 --> 01:48:20,800
♪ Since it fell

1706
01:48:23,107 --> 01:48:24,935
♪ Into my lot

1707
01:48:26,980 --> 01:48:31,420
♪ That I should rise and you should not ♪

1708
01:48:34,205 --> 01:48:38,427
♪ I'll gently rise and softly call ♪

1709
01:48:39,340 --> 01:48:44,607
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1710
01:49:07,934 --> 01:49:12,461
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪

1711
01:49:13,070 --> 01:49:17,161
♪ Drink a health whate'er befalls ♪

1712
01:49:18,031 --> 01:49:22,340
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪

1713
01:49:23,167 --> 01:49:27,867
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1714
01:49:28,477 --> 01:49:34,744
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪