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Strange Morning, by Arch Oboler · Lawrence University: Theatre of the Air

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  00:27 --> 00:36 - This year's Radio Drama Festival explores the macabre twists and stunning range of one of radio's most popular dramatists, Arch Obler. 00:40 --> 00:51 - This is your host, Heidi Wermuth. On behalf of the staff and students of the Department of Theatre and Drama, we welcome you to Mr. Obler's moving radio play, Strange Morning. 00:51 --> 01:00 - First broadcast on March 5, 1945, Strange Morning imagines the day when the Allied forces prevail over the Axis powers. 01:00 --> 01:07 - A day of celebration, for sure, and a day to imagine the future. Our future. 01:07 --> 01:16 -First broadcast on March 5, 1945, Strange Morning imagines the day when the Allied forces prevail over the Axis powers 02:13 --> 02:20 - This is a story of victory. It was born in the air battle of Britain. It grew through Stalin. 02:20 --> 02:33 - Stalingrad, Tunisia, Casino, the beachheads of Normandy, up the Rhone Valley, across France, through the Siegfried Line. This is a story of victory. 02:50 --> 02:53 - Hey, hey, what about Hitler? 02:54 --> 02:55 -Hey, Joe, tear down the war map. 02:55 --> 02:56 It's all over. 02:56 --> 02:58 - Yeah, put up the map of Japan. 02:58 --> 02:59 - Hirohito, here we come. 02:59 --> 03:01 - Boy, if I could get into a B-29. 03:02 --> 03:04 - I wonder how soon my division will head for home. 03:04 --> 03:05 - I'd like a crack at the Japs. 03:05 --> 03:07 - What are you going to do, put a 75 on your wheelchair? 03:09 --> 03:10 Funny, man. 03:10 --> 03:12 - Hey, I'm going to be out of here in a week. 03:12 --> 03:12 Who told you? 03:12 --> 03:13 - Hey, listen, you guys. 03:14 --> 03:15 - They say that Stalin _ew to Berlin. 03:15 --> 03:17 Hey, hey, here comes Miss Stewart.
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  03:18 --> 03:20 Oh, my God. 03:20 --> 03:21 Hiya, Scotty. 03:22 --> 03:25 - For she's a jolly good fellow. 03:25 --> 03:27 - For she's a jolly good fellow. 03:27 --> 03:29 - Now, men, men, not so noisy. 03:29 --> 03:30 - The rest of the hospital. 03:32 --> 03:34 - How about a B-day date, Scotty? 03:34 --> 03:35 - The heck with a date. 03:35 --> 03:36 - Let's get married. 03:36 --> 03:36 Come on. 03:36 --> 03:37 - Oh, yeah, me too. 03:38 --> 03:39 - All right, all right. 03:39 --> 03:41 - Here comes the doctor. 03:42 --> 03:45 - For he's a jolly good fellow.
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  03:47 --> 03:49 - For he's a jolly good fellow. 03:50 --> 03:52 - So say all of us. 03:54 --> 03:56 - At ease, man, at ease. 03:56 --> 03:57 Hiya, Doc. 03:57 --> 04:01 - You're not going to think I'm such a jolly good fellow when I tell you you've got to quiet 04:01 --> 04:01 down. 04:01 --> 04:04 - After all, this is a hospital and all this excitement. 04:04 --> 04:06 - Doc, how soon can I get out of here? 04:06 --> 04:08 - My squadron will be moving to the Pacidc. 04:08 --> 04:09 - How about me, Doc? 04:09 --> 04:10 - You say in the week. 04:10 --> 04:10 Come on. 04:10 --> 04:11 Oh, my. 04:11 --> 04:11 Yeah, me too.
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  04:13 --> 04:13 Men. 04:14 --> 04:14 Men. 04:15 --> 04:19 - Now, supposing you have one more song and then all of you back to your own wards. 04:20 --> 04:21 All right. 04:21 --> 04:23 - Okay, let's go play a game of chess. 04:23 --> 04:23 But, Doc. 04:23 --> 04:26 - Germany out of the war and you expect us to sit around? 04:26 --> 04:27 Okay, fellas. 04:27 --> 04:28 - He's the doctor. 04:29 --> 04:30 - One more song, he says. 04:31 --> 04:32 How about... 04:32 --> 04:35 - Happy days are here again. 04:35 --> 04:38 - The skies above are clear again. 04:38 --> 04:41 - Let us sing a song of cheer again.
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  04:45 --> 04:47 - Happy days are here again. 04:47 --> 04:49 - It's very exciting, isn't it, Doctor? 04:49 --> 04:50 - Yes, Miss Stewart. 04:50 --> 04:52 - I'd hate to take their temperatures now. 04:52 --> 04:54 - They've waited a long time for this day. 04:54 --> 04:54 They... 04:54 --> 04:56 - Happy days are here again. 04:56 --> 04:58 - Doctor, did I say something wrong? 04:58 --> 04:59 No. 04:59 --> 04:59 No. 05:00 --> 05:04 - I was just thinking that no one told them. 05:05 --> 05:05 Them? 05:06 --> 05:06 I... 05:06 --> 05:08 - I don't know how.
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  05:11 --> 05:12 - I don't know how. 05:13 --> 05:13 Should I? 05:14 --> 05:14 These men. 05:15 --> 05:18 - They know that soon they'll be with their own outdts or going home. 05:18 --> 05:18 - But those others... 05:18 --> 05:20 - Doctor, I said that I'd tell them. 05:21 --> 05:21 You? 05:22 --> 05:22 Yes, please. 05:23 --> 05:24 All right. 05:25 --> 05:25 All right. 05:26 --> 05:27 - Thank you, Miss Stewart. 05:30 --> 05:55 Who is it? 05:55 --> 05:57 - It's Miss Stewart, Freddy. 05:57 --> 05:58 How are you?
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  05:59 --> 06:01 - May I sit and talk to you? 06:01 --> 06:02 I'd like that. 06:02 --> 06:02 Thank you. 06:03 --> 06:04 - Sleep well last night? 06:04 --> 06:05 Yes. 06:05 --> 06:06 - I was hoping you'd come in. 06:07 --> 06:07 I'm sorry. 06:07 --> 06:08 - I couldn't come sooner. 06:09 --> 06:09 There's... 06:09 --> 06:11 - There's been all sorts of excitement. 06:12 --> 06:12 Excitement? 06:12 --> 06:15 - Well, you see, Freddy, it's dnally happened. 06:15 --> 06:17 - Germany is out of the war. 06:18 --> 06:19 - Freddy, did you hear me?
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  06:21 --> 06:21 I... 06:21 --> 06:23 - I thought you'd like to know. 06:23 --> 06:24 Yes, thank you. 06:25 --> 06:27 - Is there anything about it I can tell you? 06:27 --> 06:29 - No, I guess not. 06:29 --> 06:31 - Did it rain last night? 06:31 --> 06:32 Yes. 06:32 --> 06:33 Yes, it did. 06:33 --> 06:34 - I thought I heard rain. 06:35 --> 06:36 - I guess they're underwater. 06:37 --> 06:37 What? 06:37 --> 06:40 - The 40 acres down by the creek. 06:40 --> 06:46 - My father tried to drain that land ever since I was a pup, but it's full of cattails and frogs. 06:46 --> 06:47 One bullfrog.
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  06:50 --> 06:51 - called him Sitting Bull. 06:52 --> 06:54 - We could hear him all the way up to the house. 06:55 --> 06:57 - Mother said he was better than the church organ. 06:57 --> 06:58 Oh, Freddy. 06:58 --> 06:59 - You know something? 07:00 --> 07:02 - We drained a swamp in Saipan. 07:02 --> 07:04 - In three days, the forts were landing there. 07:05 --> 07:08 - Three days, and my dad's been trying for 20 years. 07:09 --> 07:10 - The soil was good on Saipan. 07:11 --> 07:13 - You planted a seed, and overnight it was up. 07:14 --> 07:17 - We had almost five acres, even tomatoes and corn. 07:17 --> 07:18 - I was in charge. 07:19 --> 07:20 It's so funny. 07:20 --> 07:21 What, Freddy?
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  07:23 --> 07:25 - All I think about are things like that. 07:26 --> 07:27 - Green things and black dirt. 07:28 --> 07:28 - That's very funny. 07:29 --> 07:31 - Back home, I never paid much attention to it. 07:32 --> 07:34 - I did my chores, that's all. 07:34 --> 07:37 - But now I only seem to want to remember what was growing. 07:37 --> 07:39 - I don't know why I think about it. 07:40 --> 07:41 I just do. 07:41 --> 07:50 - Maybe, maybe it's because now that it's so dark all the time, I've got to think about things 07:50 --> 07:51 growing in the sun. 07:51 --> 07:54 - Maybe it's because that was the most wonderful thing I ever saw. 07:55 --> 07:58 - That the earth was good, even on an island in the middle of the ocean. 07:59 --> 08:00 - Did you say it was victory? 08:01 --> 08:01 Yes.
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  08:05 --> 08:07 - I can show him how to drain the land. 08:08 --> 08:09 - I know how to do it now. 08:10 --> 08:10 Forty acres. 08:11 --> 08:13 - There will be so many more to feed now. 08:13 --> 08:35 Sam? 08:35 --> 08:36 Yes, ma'am? 08:36 --> 08:38 - I have something to tell you. 08:38 --> 08:38 I know. 08:39 --> 08:39 You do? 08:40 --> 08:40 Yes, ma'am. 08:40 --> 08:41 But how? 08:41 --> 08:44 - Through the window, I could hear them singing. 08:44 --> 08:45 - It could only mean one thing. 08:45 --> 08:46 - Am I wrong again?
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  08:47 --> 08:48 - The word just came. 08:49 --> 08:49 That's great. 08:49 --> 08:50 Yes. 08:50 --> 08:52 - The doctor told me not to turn my head. 08:52 --> 08:53 - Are you sitting down? 08:53 --> 08:54 - You want me to? 08:54 --> 08:55 - If you have the time. 08:55 --> 08:56 Of course. 08:57 --> 08:59 - Because it's today, will you tell me something? 08:59 --> 09:01 - Whatever you want to know. 09:01 --> 09:02 - How long will I be here? 09:03 --> 09:04 - I don't know. 09:04 --> 09:05 Honestly? 09:05 --> 09:06 Yes, Sam.
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  09:07 --> 09:09 - I didn't ask for the same reason that others do. 09:10 --> 09:13 - I ask because I want to know how much longer I can stay here. 09:14 --> 09:15 Stay here? 09:15 --> 09:16 Yes, ma'am. 09:17 --> 09:18 - You want to go home? 09:18 --> 09:18 No, ma'am. 09:19 --> 09:20 But why? 09:20 --> 09:22 - By the time you're released, you'll be all right. 09:22 --> 09:24 - New healthy tissue, hardly a scar. 09:25 --> 09:26 Yes, ma'am. 09:26 --> 09:27 Tell me, Sam. 09:28 --> 09:28 - What good would that be? 09:29 --> 09:31 - Do me some good, perhaps. 09:31 --> 09:34 - Of all the boys on this _oor, I've known you the least.
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  09:36 --> 09:39 - When I was born, I had all the world. 09:40 --> 09:40 - Yeah. 09:40 --> 09:42 - Little black baby owning the world. 09:43 --> 09:44 - I lost it fast. 09:44 --> 09:46 - Get out of the way, nigger. 09:46 --> 09:48 - No black boys want it. 09:48 --> 09:49 - You know the story. 09:50 --> 09:52 - Soon, I wasn't even in the world. 09:52 --> 09:53 Then the army. 09:54 --> 09:57 - For maybe a crazy hour, I thought I was part of things again. 09:57 --> 09:59 - But do I have to tell you? 10:00 --> 10:05 - And then that Nazi _oating around up there saw me in my old truck riding the red ball express. 10:05 --> 10:08 - He went into a dive and got me in his sights and pressed the trigger. 10:09 --> 10:10 - Then there was nothing.
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  10:12 --> 10:13 - I was in a bed. 10:14 --> 10:15 - Others all around me. 10:15 --> 10:16 - And nobody said, get out, black boy. 10:17 --> 10:17 - One side, nigger. 10:18 --> 10:19 - Somebody said, nice going, fella. 10:19 --> 10:21 - And the guy next to me stuck a cigarette in my lips. 10:21 --> 10:23 - And someone else lit it. 10:24 --> 10:25 - And I was back in the world again. 10:25 --> 10:27 - And I've been there ever since. 10:27 --> 10:28 - On the hospital ship. 10:28 --> 10:29 - And the train. 10:30 --> 10:31 - And had to talk to me. 10:31 --> 10:33 - Sam, what's your opinion of this? 10:33 --> 10:34 - Sam, how about that?
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  10:35 --> 10:35 Me, Sam. 10:36 --> 10:37 - So hoorah for that day. 10:38 --> 10:39 - But I want to stay here. 10:39 --> 10:40 - I want to stay here. 10:57 --> 11:00 Tom? 11:00 --> 11:00 Tom? 11:00 --> 11:02 - Tom, may I talk to you? 11:02 --> 11:02 What? 11:03 --> 11:03 Who? 11:03 --> 11:04 Miss Stewart. 11:05 --> 11:05 Dorothy. 11:06 --> 11:08 - No, it's Miss Stewart, Tom. 11:08 --> 11:08 - Where have you been? 11:09 --> 11:09 - I...
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  11:12 --> 11:13 - I'll tell you something. 11:14 --> 11:16 - I was going to be angry with you, but I'm not at all. 11:16 --> 11:17 Angry? 11:17 --> 11:19 - Dorothy, don't ever keep me waiting again. 11:20 --> 11:20 - Please. 11:21 --> 11:21 - Oh. 11:21 --> 11:22 - Did you get all this stuff? 11:23 --> 11:24 Why, yes. 11:24 --> 11:25 - It's going to be a wonderful day. 11:25 --> 11:26 - 've looked forward to it. 11:26 --> 11:27 Have you? 11:27 --> 11:29 - Now stop worrying about Marianne. 11:29 --> 11:30 - She'll be all right. 11:30 --> 11:30 - Of course.
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  11:34 --> 11:35 Look at me. 11:36 --> 11:36 No. 11:37 --> 11:38 - Let's look at the timetable. 11:39 --> 11:40 There it is. 11:40 --> 11:40 11.10. 11:41 --> 11:43 - In about three or four minutes, and we're off. 11:44 --> 11:46 - Dot, why don't you say something? 11:47 --> 11:49 - I'm glad we're going. 11:50 --> 11:51 No. 11:51 --> 11:52 - You didn't say that. 11:53 --> 11:54 - You didn't say that. 11:54 --> 11:56 - You said something else. 11:56 --> 11:57 - Dot, say what you said then. 11:57 --> 11:58 - Say it.
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  12:00 --> 12:01 - I see you. 12:02 --> 12:04 - I know you're here, but your voice is so far away. 12:05 --> 12:05 I'm here. 12:06 --> 12:07 - Is the train coming? 12:07 --> 12:08 Not yet. 12:09 --> 12:11 - Dot, I love you so much. 12:11 --> 12:12 - All right. 12:12 --> 12:13 - Let them put a bronze tablet here. 12:13 --> 12:17 - On this spot, June 6, 1940, a man made love to his wife. 12:18 --> 12:18 - End quote. 12:19 --> 12:21 - Why do I have to make a joke about this? 12:22 --> 12:25 - Is there something wrong with loving you more than two years ago? 12:27 --> 12:28 - Stand close to me, Dot. 12:29 --> 12:31 - No, there's no one around.
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  12:35 --> 12:35 - Isn't it? 12:36 --> 12:37 - Yes, Tom. 12:37 --> 12:38 - Lift your face. 12:39 --> 12:39 - Yes. 12:40 --> 12:43 - If you weren't here, I couldn't stand it. 12:44 --> 12:45 - It's been terrible, Dot. 12:45 --> 12:46 - My face. 12:46 --> 12:48 - I keep thinking, aren't we a handsome couple? 12:49 --> 12:50 - Aren't we a handsome couple? 12:51 --> 12:52 - Why do I keep thinking that? 12:53 --> 12:54 - What's wrong with my face? 12:54 --> 12:55 - Try to sleep, Tom. 12:55 --> 12:57 - I can hardly hear you. 12:57 --> 12:57 - I can hardly hear you.
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  12:58 --> 12:59 - Your face. 12:59 --> 13:00 - So close. 13:00 --> 13:01 - I can feel you. 13:02 --> 13:02 - Warm. 13:02 --> 13:03 - Sleep, Tom. 13:04 --> 13:05 - Such a handsome couple. 13:06 --> 13:07 - Such a handsome couple. 13:08 --> 13:09 - Such a... 13:10 --> 13:10 - Dot, don't. 13:11 --> 13:12 - Don't come too close to me, Dot. 13:12 --> 13:12 - My face. 13:13 --> 13:14 - Not too close, Dot. 13:14 --> 13:14 - It's all right. 13:15 --> 13:15 - Is it?
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  13:18 --> 13:18 - Yes. 13:19 --> 13:20 - The handsomest couple? 13:21 --> 13:22 Yes. 13:23 --> 13:23 Ah. 13:24 --> 13:25 Your lips. 13:26 --> 13:26 Kiss. 13:27 --> 13:28 Yes, Tom. 13:44 --> 13:49 Hiya, Scotty. 13:49 --> 13:50 Come on it. 13:50 --> 13:51 - Good morning, Larry. 13:51 --> 13:52 - Larry darling, Scotty. 13:52 --> 13:53 - Always Larry darling. 13:53 --> 13:55 - You need nice pack. 13:55 --> 13:56 - I need to talk to you.
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  13:57 --> 13:58 - That's why I'm here. 13:58 --> 13:59 - I knew it was my lucky day 13:59 --> 14:00 - the minute I opened my eyes. 14:00 --> 14:02 - Why, I bet even the custard 14:02 --> 14:03 - will taste good today. 14:03 --> 14:04 Yes, Larry. 14:04 --> 14:05 - Something has happened today. 14:05 --> 14:06 - Happened? 14:06 --> 14:06 - What? 14:07 --> 14:08 - Germany's out of the war. 14:08 --> 14:09 - Absolutely. 14:09 --> 14:09 -Absolutely. 14:10 --> 14:10 - Well, what do you know? 14:11 --> 14:12 - It's very wonderful, isn't it?
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  14:13 --> 14:14 - Are the fellas tearing the place apart? 14:14 --> 14:15 - Just about. 14:15 --> 14:16 -Boy, oh boy. 14:16 --> 14:17 - I can just see them back home. 14:18 --> 14:19 -What a time they must be having. 14:19 --> 14:20 - Running around. 14:20 --> 14:21 - Tonight they'll be dancing. 14:22 --> 14:23 - Larry, don't. 14:24 --> 14:25 -No, you don't understand. 14:26 --> 14:27 - I'm okay. 14:27 --> 14:28 - The fact of the matter is 14:28 --> 14:29 - I'm better than that. 14:29 --> 14:30 - I've got it all laid out 14:30 --> 14:31 - like a blueprint.
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  14:34 --> 14:34 - That's all I've got 14:34 --> 14:35 - and that's all I'll need. 14:35 --> 14:36 - Sure. 14:36 --> 14:37 - A right arm to hold a girl? 14:38 --> 14:39 - To write a check. 14:40 --> 14:41 - No, Scotty, no, 14:41 --> 14:41 - don't look like that. 14:42 --> 14:43 - I tell you I'm dne. 14:43 --> 14:44 - And what you just told me, 14:44 --> 14:45 - why, that makes it even better. 14:46 --> 14:46 - I'm going to be 14:46 --> 14:47 - a check writing boy, 14:47 --> 14:48 - didn't I tell you? 14:48 --> 14:49 - No, you didn't tell me.
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  14:52 --> 14:53 - With the money that's coming to me 14:53 --> 14:54 - when I get out of here, 14:54 --> 14:55 - all those GI checks 14:55 --> 14:56 - I never got a chance to spend, 14:57 --> 14:57 - I'm going in business 14:57 --> 14:58 for myself. 14:58 --> 15:00 - That's, that's wonderful. 15:00 --> 15:01 -Yeah, I'm wonderful. 15:02 --> 15:02 - Have a card. 15:03 --> 15:03 - Larry Edmonds, 15:03 --> 15:04 - General Sherman's, 15:04 --> 15:05 - and Jeeps 15:05 --> 15:06 - repaired while you wait. 15:06 --> 15:07 - Amphibious tanks a specialty.
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  15:08 --> 15:09 - And filling stations. 15:10 --> 15:11 - Notice I said stations. 15:11 --> 15:13 -The way I got it doped out, 15:13 --> 15:14 - the minute they take gasoline off rationing, 15:14 --> 15:15 - The whole United States 15:15 --> 15:16 - is going to get into the automobile 15:16 --> 15:17 - and start going. 15:17 --> 15:18 - And they're going to keep going 15:18 --> 15:19 - until they wear out 15:19 --> 15:20 - all the ants in their pants. 15:20 --> 15:22 - I, I mean... 15:22 --> 15:23 - I understand. 15:23 --> 15:24 - What I mean is, 15:24 --> 15:25 - everybody's built up
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  15:26 --> 15:27 - Yeah, like me. 15:27 --> 15:28 - Every day lying here, 15:29 --> 15:29 - I've been walking 15:29 --> 15:30 - every street I ever walked 15:30 --> 15:31 - and visiting every place 15:31 --> 15:32 - I've ever gone to. 15:33 --> 15:33 - You know? 15:33 --> 15:34 - Yes, I know. 15:35 --> 15:36 - So, I've located just the corner 15:36 --> 15:37 - where I'm going to put in 15:37 --> 15:39 - The first super service station. 15:39 --> 15:40 - And I know just the guys 15:40 --> 15:41 - that used to be in my outdt 15:41 --> 15:42 - to turn the pumps
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  15:43 --> 15:43 - One station, 15:44 --> 15:44 - and if it goes okay, 15:45 --> 15:45 - as it will, 15:45 --> 15:46 - I'll start another one, 15:46 --> 15:47 - then another one, 15:47 --> 15:48 - then... 15:48 --> 15:49 - Gosh, the fact of the matter is 15:49 --> 15:50 - I'm going to be one of them 15:50 --> 15:51 - tycoons. 15:51 --> 15:52 - Of course you will. 15:52 --> 15:53 - And I'd like to get in 15:53 --> 15:54 - on the ground floor. 15:54 --> 15:55 - No kidding? 15:55 --> 15:55 - No kidding.
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  15:58 --> 15:58 - haven't I? 15:58 --> 16:00 - To get places to... 16:00 --> 16:01 - Sure, sure I have. 16:01 --> 16:02 - I'll sit behind the desk 16:02 --> 16:03 - and use the brains I've got 16:03 --> 16:04 - instead of worrying 16:04 --> 16:05 - about the legs I haven't got. 16:05 --> 16:06 - And I'll dgure out 16:06 --> 16:07 - new ways and shortcuts 16:07 --> 16:08 - to keep the automobiles going 16:08 --> 16:08 - the way I used to 16:08 --> 16:09 with the tanks. 16:09 --> 16:10 - I'll build up a big business 16:10 --> 16:12 - and keep spreading out and...
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  16:13 --> 16:13 - I can't. 16:15 --> 16:16 - Uh, can I miss, Stuart? 16:32 --> 16:37 - Hello, Captain. 16:37 --> 16:38 - Go away. 16:38 --> 16:39 - But I want to talk to you 16:39 --> 16:40 - about something... 16:40 --> 16:41 - told them no one 16:41 --> 16:42 - was to come in here 16:42 --> 16:42 - but the doctor. 16:43 --> 16:43 - I told them... 16:43 --> 16:44- Please, Captain. 16:44 --> 16:45 - For God's sake, 16:46 --> 16:47 - can't I be left alone? 16:48 --> 16:49 - Haven't I earned that at least?
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  16:50 --> 16:51 - Haven't I? 16:51 --> 16:51 - No, please! 16:51 --> 16:52 - Why don't you leave me alone? 16:53 --> 16:53 - Stop! 16:53 --> 16:53 - Stop! 16:56 --> 16:57 - What's the matter? 16:59 --> 17:00 - I'm... 17:00 --> 17:01 - I'm sorry. 17:02 --> 17:02 - Tell me. 17:02 --> 17:03 - I want to know. 17:05 --> 17:05 - It's... 17:05 --> 17:07 - It's been a strange morning. 17:08 --> 17:08 Why? 17:09 --> 17:10 - The reason I came here.
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  17:12 --> 17:13 - News? 17:13 --> 17:14 - Germany. 17:14 --> 17:15 I- t's over. 17:16 --> 17:17 - When? 17:17 --> 17:18 - We just got word 17:18 --> 17:19 - a little while ago. 17:20 --> 17:22 - And you've been going around 17:22 --> 17:23 - on this floor 17:23 --> 17:24 - telling us? 17:25 --> 17:25 - Yes. 17:26 --> 17:27 - I'm sorry 17:27 --> 17:29 - for what... 17:29 --> 17:30- It's all right. 17:31 --> 17:32 - Are they tearing up
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  17:32 --> 17:33 - and parading up 17:33 --> 17:34 - and down the streets? 17:34 --> 17:35 - I haven't been out. 17:36 --> 17:37 - So it's really here? 17:37 --> 17:38 - Yes. 17:39 --> 17:39 - Doug. 17:40 --> 17:41 - This would have been 17:41 --> 17:42 - a day for Doug. 17:43 --> 17:44 - He'd have buzzed 17:44 --> 17:45 - unter der Linden itself. 17:46 --> 17:47- Doug's day. 17:47 --> 17:48 - Not mine. 17:48 --> 17:49 - Of course it is. 17:49 --> 17:50 - No.
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  17:51 --> 17:51 - it was a game 17:51 --> 17:52 - that ended 17:52 --> 17:53 - at the goalposts 17:53 --> 17:53 - of Berlin. 17:54 --> 17:55 - Maybe if I got 17:55 --> 17:56 - my throat cut 17:56 --> 17:57 - outside Aachen 17:57 --> 17:58 - the way he did, 17:59 --> 17:59 - it would have been 17:59 --> 18:00 - his day too. 18:01 --> 18:01 - Oh. 18:01 --> 18:03 - But I lasted 18:03 --> 18:04 - a little longer 18:04 --> 18:05 - than that.
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  18:06 --> 18:06 - to see a mountain 18:06 --> 18:07 - of shoes. 18:07 --> 18:09 - Hundreds of thousands. 18:09 --> 18:10 - And every pair 18:10 --> 18:12 - meant a human being 18:12 --> 18:12 - that had been 18:12 --> 18:13 - shoved into 18:13 --> 18:14 - an incinerate 18:14 --> 18:14 - for the crime 18:14 --> 18:15 - of daring to live. 18:16 --> 18:16 - I lived long enough 18:16 --> 18:18 - to see row and row 18:18 --> 18:19 - of quiet children 18:19 --> 18:19 - where the flame
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  18:21 --> 18:22 - I lived long enough 18:22 --> 18:22 - to see Doug 18:22 --> 18:23 - with his hands tied 18:23 --> 18:24- behind his back 18:24 --> 18:25 - and his throat cut. 18:26 --> 18:28 - I hate this day 18:28 --> 18:29 - because now 18:29 --> 18:31 - we'll stop killing them. 18:32 --> 18:33 - The sentimentalists 18:33 --> 18:34 - will begin. 18:34 --> 18:36 - They'll stand on righteousness 18:36 --> 18:37 - and wave the words 18:37 --> 18:38 - of charity, pity,
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  18:41 --> 18:42 - And the grass 18:42 --> 18:43 - will grow over the murdered 18:43 --> 18:44 - and the cities 18:44 --> 18:45 - will be rebuilt 18:45 --> 18:47 - and the torn throats 18:47 --> 18:48 - and the whipped backs 18:48 --> 18:49 - and the screams 18:49 --> 18:50 - and the bloody marks 18:50 --> 18:51 - on the walls 18:51 --> 18:52 - will be forgotten. 18:53 --> 18:53 - Yes. 18:54 --> 18:55 - Forgotten 18:55 --> 18:57 - because only a few of us 18:57 --> 18:57 - saw those things
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  19:00 --> 19:00 - Forgotten 19:00 --> 19:02 - because our people 19:02 --> 19:03 - never had hatred 19:03 --> 19:04 - poured into their veins 19:04 --> 19:05 - with the death 19:05 --> 19:05 - of their wives 19:05 --> 19:07 - and their children. 19:08 --> 19:09 - Yes. 19:09 --> 19:11 - I hate this day. 19:12 --> 19:12 - For now, 19:13 --> 19:14 - forgetting begins. 19:14 --> 19:34 - Miss Stewart, 19:34 --> 19:35 - I've been looking for you. 19:37 --> 19:37 - Yes, doctor.
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  19:40 --> 19:41 - Yes. 19:41 --> 19:43 - I should have gone myself. 19:43 --> 19:44 - I wanted to go. 19:46 --> 19:47 - When the news came, 19:47 --> 19:48 - it was hard to believe. 19:49 --> 19:51 - What we've waited for. 19:51 --> 19:53 - The war in Europe over. 19:53 --> 19:54 - But it was true 19:54 --> 19:55 - and suddenly everything 19:55 --> 19:56 - seemed wonderful 19:56 --> 19:57 - in a way it hadn't been 19:57 --> 19:59 - for a very long time. 20:00 --> 20:01 - We'd beaten Germany. 20:02 --> 20:03 - We'd finally beaten the Huns.
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  20:04 --> 20:05 - to the peace commissions 20:05 --> 20:06 - and the governmental experts 20:06 --> 20:07 - and the statesmen. 20:08 --> 20:09 - Freddy, Sam, 20:10 --> 20:10 - Jones, Tom, 20:11 --> 20:11 - Larry Edmonds, 20:12 --> 20:12 - the captain. 20:13 --> 20:14 - I wanted to bring them 20:14 --> 20:14 - the news 20:14 --> 20:15 - because they'd paid 20:15 --> 20:16 - with their bodies 20:16 --> 20:17 - for this day 20:17 --> 20:18 - in terrible ways. 20:19 --> 20:20 - So the happiness
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  20:22 --> 20:23 - I thought that... 20:23 --> 20:24 - But doctor, 20:24 --> 20:25 - they don't need today. 20:26 --> 20:27 - We need it. 20:27 --> 20:28 - This day is for us. 20:29 --> 20:30 - Those of us in America 20:30 --> 20:31 - who lived through a war 20:31 --> 20:32 - and knew no pain. 20:33 --> 20:34 - I was crying before, 20:34 --> 20:35 yes, 20:35 --> 20:35 - for that soldier 20:35 --> 20:36 l - Lying up there 20:36 --> 20:37 - in the dark 20:37 --> 20:37 - and telling me
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  20:39 --> 20:40 - Hated it because 20:40 --> 20:42 - now we'd begin to listen 20:42 --> 20:43 - to those self-seekers 20:43 --> 20:44 - and sentimentalists 20:44 --> 20:45 - and begin to forget. 20:46 --> 20:46 - Doctor, 20:46 --> 20:47 - that can't be true. 20:47 --> 20:48 - We've got to start remembering 20:48 --> 20:50 - the face of the enemy 20:50 --> 20:52 - that tortured and murdered. 20:52 --> 20:53 - The face of the enemy 20:53 --> 20:55 - that twice in our lifetimes 20:55 --> 20:56 - tried to destroy 20:56 --> 20:57 - our civilization.
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  20:59 --> 21:00 - Every face, 21:00 --> 21:01 - every name, 21:01 --> 21:01 - so that there'll be 21:01 --> 21:03 - no place left on earth 21:03 --> 21:04 - for them to hide. 21:05 --> 21:06 - To cry out for a mercy 21:06 --> 21:07 - that would make the dead 21:07 --> 21:08 - rise up in protest. 21:17 --> 21:18 - But above all, 21:19 --> 21:20 - we've got to remember 21:20 --> 21:21 - our responsibilities 21:21 --> 21:22 - in a world that's 21:22 --> 21:24 - grown as small 21:24 --> 21:25 - as the house we live in
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  21:29 --> 21:30 - We've got to remember 21:30 --> 21:31 - we can only live together 21:31 --> 21:32 - with them in fairness 21:32 --> 21:33 - and mutual decency. 21:35 --> 21:36 - I think we've got enough 21:36 --> 21:37 - remembering to do 21:37 --> 21:39 - for the rest of our lives 21:39 --> 21:41 - and the lives of our children. 21:43 --> 21:43 Yes, 21:44 --> 21:45 - this day is for us. 22:00 --> 22:15 - You've been listening 22:15 --> 22:17 - to Strange Morning 22:17 --> 22:18 - by Arch Obler, 22:18 --> 22:19 - brought to you by
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  22:20 --> 22:21 T - heatre of the Air. 22:30 --> 23:00 - is brought to you by 23:00 --> 23:02 - the Department of Theatre and Drama. 23:03 --> 23:04 - Timothy Troy is our producer 23:04 --> 23:05 - and artistic director. 23:06 --> 23:07 - Strange Morning 23:07 --> 23:08 - by Arch Obler 23:08 --> 23:09 - starred Kaylee Marr 23:09 --> 23:10 - as Nurse Stewart. 23:11 --> 23:12 - Also featured in this program, 23:13 --> 23:14 - Zach Johnson, 23:14 --> 23:15 - Tim Sullivan, 23:15 --> 23:16 - Arthur Freeland, 23:17 --> 23:17 - Devin Schaaf,
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  23:19 --> 23:20 - M0madou Malagi, 23:21 --> 23:22 - - Brad Lindert, 23:22 --> 23:23 - Aaron Sherkow, 23:23 --> 23:24 - Chris Worman, 23:25 --> 23:26 - and Anna Gonzalez. 23:27 --> 23:28 - Music for this episode 23:28 --> 23:30 - and Lawrence Theatre of the Air 23:30 --> 23:31 - theme music composed 23:31 --> 23:32 - and conducted by 23:32 --> 23:33 - Kenneth Hemba 23:33 --> 23:34 - and performed by 23:34 --> 23:37 - The Lawrence Radio Orchestra. 23:37 --> 23:38 - Miranda Wardell, 23:39 --> 23:40 - Patrick Davis,
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  23:42 --> 23:43 - Jonathan Jacobson, 23:43 --> 23:44 - Elliot Dupuis, 23:44 --> 23:45 - and Scott Palmer. 23:46 --> 23:47 - Sound effects by Chad Close. 23:48 --> 23:49 - Our sound engineer 23:49 --> 23:50 - is David Owens. 23:53 --> 23:55 - For Lawrence University, 23:55 --> 23:56 - Theatre of the Air, 23:56 --> 23:57 - this is Heidi Wormuth 23:57 --> 23:58 - reminding you that 23:58 --> 23:59 - three out of four 23:59 --> 24:00 - Lawrence students 24:00 --> 24:01 - and faculty said 24:01 --> 24:03 - they prefer their radio drama live
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  24:05 --> 24:06 - and we'll see you next time. 24:06 --> 24:07 - Thank you. 24:07 --> 24:07 - Thank you.