In this gripping episode, we delve into the haunting narrative of George Stewart's novel, "Earth Abides," brought to life through a dramatic performance. The story unfolds in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious virus has decimated humanity, leaving behind a handful of survivors. Isherwood Williams, the protagonist, navigates this desolate landscape, reflecting on the remnants of civilization and the challenges of rebuilding society from the ground up. As the years pass, the survivors grapple with the harsh realities of their new existence, facing threats from within and without, and striving to create a new beginning amidst the ruins of the old world.
Through the eyes of Isherwood and his companions, we explore themes of survival, community, and the enduring human spirit. The narrative takes us on a journey from the silent streets of San Francisco to the fertile lands where hope for a new future begins to take root. As the survivors confront the loss of loved ones and the emergence of new threats, they are forced to make difficult decisions to protect their fragile community. This episode is a poignant reminder of the resilience of humanity and the enduring power of hope in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Tired of the everyday routine? Have a dream of life and romantic adventure? Wanna get away from it all? We offer you Today with the performance of john baner as isherwood william, escape brings you one of the most unusual and terrifying stories of recent years. George steward's powerful novel, earth
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abides.
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If you should awake some morning, not a morning, let's say. If you should awake to a man dead world where virtually all of human life have been destroyed in the face of the earth. Leaving behind only buildings, bridges, machines. If you should awake to such a world tomorrow morning, what would you do? Where would you go? This is the year three. My name is Isherwood Williams. Three years since I returned from the lonely mountain country of Northern California to find the mankind that virtually vanished in the earth. Some unknown virus had scourged him from his high place among animals.
The great cities were tombs. The dire civilization was crumbling. I toured the emptiness that had once been called America. From the silent towers of Manhattan to the Golden Gate Bridge, I saw in all 10 human beings still alive. In the fourth month after my return to San Francisco, I saw a light on Nob Hill. There, I found him who became my wife. Year one passed. We call it the year of the baby. Year We call it the year of the right. Now it was year three. And Not wrong, ma'am. There's no private property anymore. This city, this grocery store, don't have ours now. Look.
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Look at this place.
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The rats left their mark here all right. There's the answer to that. They ate all the food they could get at and they ate each other. Oh, that's a familiar pattern. And species grows, dominates the earth for a short time, then dies. Oh, come on. Don't take a look at the bottles in the can good. It's just the labels are done. Please don't. Yeah. Well, just want to try to guess at the contents by the shape of the can.
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Look at it all.
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Tundra it. We could live in this beast forever. Oh, no. And we can't be scavengers forever. That's why the rats died. And we've got to grow things. We have to bring something new into the world. Oh, come on. Let's get some stuff home. During that year, him and I found whatever we needed for ourselves, a baby in the empty, violent floors of San Francisco. We lived on the spoiling surprise of the million people. One evening just after dusk, I suddenly noticed this strange wavering glow in the sky over the downtown area of the city. I called them to the window with the smell of smoke in the air. Fire, ma'am. Ew. San Francisco is on fire.
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This is something I can do? No.
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The world Must be three square miles of flame. Well, what started at this? You'll never know. Early rides in basements and gas explosions exploded and could be in one of a thousand causes. Will it reach the house? No. I don't think so. Wind's blowing it away from us. It'll burn himself out in a day or two.
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What come away from you?
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Em. Mhmm. And did you smoke gas?
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Mhmm. I smelled like it to me. Open the door of the hall. Yeah.
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Hey. Hey. Hey. The hall is filled with it. First lady got out of here.
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Alright?
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Yeah. It's all open. We're gonna be all right. We moved to another section of town that had been spared by the crowd. The days passed, days in the weeks. Mom and I were going tired with the canned food and we wanted some fresh vegetables and fruit. Our new tires have replaced the lot of ones that Jesus has been standing on. Will it work? No, after two years I have to say it. I have no mechanics.
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All the cars to choose, I'm a whistle something like this. I always wanted a convertible. Maybe a Cadillac. Well, a little
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Be more useful and more durable. So I'd totally need alright, Em. Try it. Step on the center. No? I'm not right. Come on. Come on. Start. Start. Start. One night several months, to end shift new weight. I'll be alright. I'll come with you. Stay here. I'll be right back. Who's there? Who's there? Girl, come here. I want it. Come here. What are you doing? Where are you from? I'm home. Well, come on. Come on inside. I am. I am. I've been looking all over for you. I mean, where you've been? Okay, miss. You can put that hammer down. I ain't gonna hurt you. Oh, sure. Sure. Come on inside. And and someone's here. Yes. Eileen and me. She's my adopted daughter. About a year ago, I found her on Main Street in Los Angeles. She was starving. Can't forage for herself. Eileen can't, so I gotta take care of her.
She can't think so good. How long you've been here? About two days wandering around the city. Nice city, the San Francisco. We've had to visit here when it had people. Reckon I really coulda had myself a time. I'll ask you too some need. Well, that's that's mighty nice. By the way, I show on a embolite. My name is Ezra. I don't believe I talked to her, Isherwood. This is m. Well, I am happy to know you. Irene, looks like we met up with some real nice people. He's alone. Ezra has taken up for his wife. June ninth, year five, our second son was born this day.
He named him Joey. You better come with me. What's the matter? The water. It stopped running in the faucet. Well, maybe it's just a broken pipe in your place. No. I checked. And it ain't just my place. I've checked the whole house around and there ain't any water running in there. Maybe it's a water man under the street. I don't think so. You know what I think? What? I think the water stopped way up in the mountain someplace. It's San Francisco who's going dry. Two weeks. Not a drop of rain. Ezra, we can't go on boarding the water forever. If we're going to live, we've gotta get out of here. Yeah. But they're still all in 10 good. That's what's wrong as we've been living off the old instead of building something new. Look. We've got to forget that water ran out of faucets and vegetables come in cans. We've got to start growing things ourselves. We will when the time comes, what I reckon. You better come, Chris. What is it, ma'am? Eileen. What's the matter with her? She must have been drinking polluted water.
High point. What does Luke say? What are we gonna do? Isolate the others? They both can do asylie. What do we do for her? What's the treatment? And you can't shorten the disease. It says all you can do is help make it less severe. Now don't worry. Yes, sir. We'll do our best. I'm mean, she's so helpless. She don't understand. And if you move in with us, this thing spreads again, wipe out all of us. Who is it? George. Moving in with Eileen. Get another friend there. You won't have to. What do you mean? Eileen dead. This is the year six, a year of disease and death.
I went to the drugstores walking the misty, dark streets of the city armed with my medical tech, my hammer. I raided the dusty shelves in the long warm refrigerator for the pharmaceutical department. The hunger drugs had long since rotted in their vials, some sulfur was still potent, and I use it liberally. In a case that's a case of type where it broke out, some lived, most died, including our firstborn. A little community upon which I had pinned the hopes of a new birth of mankind that dwindled from 12 persons to seven. Five adults, only two children.
You've got to get some sleepers. How many of us have left them? Count them for me.
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Ezra, George, Noble. My second son, Joy, and Ezra's born. You and I. Oh, Anne.
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And what's the good of starting again? We're being exterminated from the earth. Every small being of it so things can become green again. There are seven of us each.
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Once there was only me and once there was only you alone and separated. There's still seven.
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Oh, Em. Em, what would I do without you? I don't see. Now you won't make the mistake a second time. Hope any looking back, you'll forget the train that used to run into tall buildings and a soft spoon and go back to the Earth, back to the Earth. We left San Francisco. We survivors. We packed only the essentials. Machines, the conveniences. We left on, we'd work in the soil. The decay of the old times was behind us now. We went south and east until we came to a watered land, green, growing things. This would be our season. Here, without the memories of a dead people about us, we would begin mankind again.
Come here, Joy. Yes, sir. Joy? Yeah. Sit down here next to me. Hello? I wanna ask you some questions. Sure. Now,
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first of all, what year is this? Oh, that's an easy question. Year fifteen.
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Joy, did you do your reading today? Sure. You like to read? Yeah. So, Eve, there's something I wanna tell you. You know, there were once a lot of people like us on Earth, millions. You know that, don't you? Yeah. I read about them. They could fly. That's right. Well, someday there'll be millions of people again. And they'll fly again years, years from now. But after I'm gone, there won't be anybody to show them the way. That time depending on you. What am I supposed to do? Learn, read, study. You're going to leave them someday, Joey, after I'm gone. Don't let them go back.
You don't understand. I think I do. Oh, you will. Oh, look. Let me show you what I made this morning. It's called a bow. Guns won't be good much longer. The powder will get rotten. Guns will get rusty. You can hunt with this, kill animals for food. You know, look here and see. I tied out of Willow, then I strung strips of cat hide from one end of the boat to the other. And now watch this. See here. This is the arrow. I
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tried. Let me try. I hear.
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What, please? I tried. Now I'm gonna pull back. Hard. No. No. No. No. Hard. Hard. Here. Let go.
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Yeah. That's where? Can I get outside and play with it? Sure. Be careful with it. Hey, Billy. How's that? Hey, Billy.
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It took thousands of years for man to pass from the spear to the bow and arrow. I've just done it in five minutes. This is the year '19. I have gray hair. It's hard to think of myself as an old man. Well, I'm not really 51. There are 19 numbers in a smooth piece of rock in the meadow, and I shift in with my hammer and chisel. My hammer. What would I do without my hammer? Everything is going along well. Quite a farmer now. Community is growing. There are 45 of us. Rangers are twisted in. Baby's born. Maybe man is something you can't quite kill off. A stranger named Charlie came in today.
I don't like him. He's gruff and hard. And his eyes I don't like his eyes. Sure. Three men at a time. She tried. How'd you do it? I grabbed two of them and banged their heads together. They cracked like coconuts. Then the other one I knocked down and stepped on his face. Was much less than after I got to. It's time for a bed, Joey. I'll try and tell one more, dad. Maybe some other night. Okay.
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Good night, dad. Good night, Kyle. Good night, Joey. Will you come tomorrow night? Maybe.
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Great kid you got there. How'd you do in the old times, Charlie? Oh, a lot of things. While I was a stickman in Las Vegas, used to be a fighter too. Lot of things. You name it. You intend to stay? Sure. I intend to stay. Why not? Not a place to go. That's the only good sized group of human beings I've seen. And believe me, I've been around. Sure. I'll stay. Really works. That's the only way we can live? Listen, you. If I wanna stay, I'll stay. I'll stay on my own terms. I don't ask anything from anybody. I live my own way. Better understand that right now. And you better understand something before we go any further, Charlie.
I've been elected to leadership in this town, and we aren't a bunch of independent individuals doing what we please. We're a community working together. Either you accept that or get out. We ain't gonna get along, mister Isherwood, William. And I'm staying, deny? I don't know. I don't know. Where is he? Right outside. What's the matter? It ain't a Hey. Down that gun, you crazy fool. Shut down. Put down. Put down. Yeah. You're alright. Never mind me. Get the gun away from it. Get George. Yeah. Where's George? Bring George. Let's see George take this gun away from me. Hey, George. Come on. Try to take this thing away from me. Hey. What's going on?
Charlie. Give me that gun. Always taking my gun away. It's mine, Charlie. Well, it's mine is mine. Stay away. Give me that gun. Stay away, George. Stay away. George. George. He's dead. How are you? You've done enough damage with that thing. Send it over. There's only one answer. Death. Death. You mean killing? Murder him? No. It's not murder, m. You, Mabel, Ezra, and I, we're the government now. We've been elected to the council of four. There isn't any government but us. It's it's not a matter of punishment. It's protecting the community from a menace and that's what Charlie is. But he was told. All the more reason he might do it again. Prayed to tell him. We can't take a chance. Well, I could sure. That's right. We've got all the facts.
The vote's been called. Any questions? Is is it right? Is it right to take a human life? To save many lives. Yes. And it's got to be right. We'll take a voice vote. You first, Mabel. What do you say? Death. Ezra? Beth? M? Or how is the road m? No. It's anonymous. We'll carry out the sentence tomorrow
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morning.
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The council of four has made a decision. This was not killing or rage or hatred. This was a deliberate insane elimination of an enemy. Early in the morning, we tied Charlie to an oak tree. Ezra took Charlie's revolver. Charlie stared at him with childish disbelief. He gasped, slumped into his ropes, his mouth fed with blood, his eyes swollen in death. The power of a new state was born. Yes, Carl. New Year. Stay here. Carry my hammer for me. No. Do you not hurt you? Throw my hammer here. Why not? Magic. My hammer. My force is your hammer, Magic.
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She's the moon magic.
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Oh, that is just a plain ordinary hammer, an old noun.
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Kyle, don't be afraid. Lord's magic. New magic. That's,
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hello, Joey. Carl. Go and play. Sure, dad.
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Goodbye, grandfather.
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Joey, what's the matter with them? It's, magic. My my hammer is magic. You're a legend, dad. You're the only one left out of them all. Ezra, George, Mabel, mother m, all gone now, only you. Hammer's a symbol. Symbol of leadership. Yes. Yes. That's the way things happen. You're the only one that's lived through from the old times. The only one. The only one. Go in. Yes, dad. I'm old. Very old. I can't see very well. Did I make the numbers clearly? Yes, dad. Forty eight. The year '48. All all begun again. Life, generation, generation.
O n. If you could have lived to Just once more. The bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge. What are you there, dad? How? How does it look during this time? How does the Golden Gate Bridge look? It's old and rusty, but it's it's wonderful. It's beautiful. Is there a car? Small car on the bridge? Yes, sir. It's still where? Can you still see the wings across the water? Only a few of that. Mostly all across. But the hills behind the city are beautiful today. Good. Joey, here. Here's the hammer. Yes. You are the new leader now. The hammer has always been the symbol.
Pass it on the best of them. And, Joey, don't let them make out art of you. Let knowledge be the watchword. Oh, when you understand, Joey. I understand that. Know the earth, Joey. Know the earth.
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Yes.
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Men go and come, but the the earth of mine. You have just heard Earth Abides by George Stewart. And frankly adapt for Escape by David Ellis. John Boehner will start his age with Peggy Webber as m. And firstly adapted for Escape by David Ellis. John Boehner would start as eight with Peggy Webber as m.
From taco night in Tulum to sushi in Tokyo, every bite is rewarding and pulse worthy with MX Gold's four times membership rewards points at restaurants worldwide. Wherever you dine, points are piling up. So bring your friends along for your next course because it's not all about the posts. It's about the company and the memories. How can gold from Amex sweeten your next food moment? Learn more at AmericanExpress.com/explore-gold. Terms and points cap apply.
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Tired of the everyday routine? Have a dream of life and romantic adventure? Wanna get away from it all? We offer you Today with the performance of john baner as isherwood william, escape brings you one of the most unusual and terrifying stories of recent years. George steward's powerful novel, earth
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abides.
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If you should awake some morning, not a morning, let's say. If you should awake to a man dead world where virtually all of human life have been destroyed in the face of the earth. Leaving behind only buildings, bridges, machines. If you should awake to such a world tomorrow morning, what would you do? Where would you go? This is the year three. My name is Isherwood Williams. Three years since I returned from the lonely mountain country of Northern California to find the mankind that virtually vanished in the earth. Some unknown virus had scourged him from his high place among animals.
The great cities were tombs. The dire civilization was crumbling. I toured the emptiness that had once been called America. From the silent towers of Manhattan to the Golden Gate Bridge, I saw in all 10 human beings still alive. In the fourth month after my return to San Francisco, I saw a light on Nob Hill. There, I found him who became my wife. Year one passed. We call it the year of the baby. Year We call it the year of the right. Now it was year three. And Not wrong, ma'am. There's no private property anymore. This city, this grocery store, don't have ours now. Look.
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Look at this place.
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The rats left their mark here all right. There's the answer to that. They ate all the food they could get at and they ate each other. Oh, that's a familiar pattern. And species grows, dominates the earth for a short time, then dies. Oh, come on. Don't take a look at the bottles in the can good. It's just the labels are done. Please don't. Yeah. Well, just want to try to guess at the contents by the shape of the can.
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Look at it all.
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Tundra it. We could live in this beast forever. Oh, no. And we can't be scavengers forever. That's why the rats died. And we've got to grow things. We have to bring something new into the world. Oh, come on. Let's get some stuff home. During that year, him and I found whatever we needed for ourselves, a baby in the empty, violent floors of San Francisco. We lived on the spoiling surprise of the million people. One evening just after dusk, I suddenly noticed this strange wavering glow in the sky over the downtown area of the city. I called them to the window with the smell of smoke in the air. Fire, ma'am. Ew. San Francisco is on fire.
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This is something I can do? No.
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The world Must be three square miles of flame. Well, what started at this? You'll never know. Early rides in basements and gas explosions exploded and could be in one of a thousand causes. Will it reach the house? No. I don't think so. Wind's blowing it away from us. It'll burn himself out in a day or two.
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What come away from you?
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Em. Mhmm. And did you smoke gas?
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Mhmm. I smelled like it to me. Open the door of the hall. Yeah.
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Hey. Hey. Hey. The hall is filled with it. First lady got out of here.
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Alright?
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Yeah. It's all open. We're gonna be all right. We moved to another section of town that had been spared by the crowd. The days passed, days in the weeks. Mom and I were going tired with the canned food and we wanted some fresh vegetables and fruit. Our new tires have replaced the lot of ones that Jesus has been standing on. Will it work? No, after two years I have to say it. I have no mechanics.
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All the cars to choose, I'm a whistle something like this. I always wanted a convertible. Maybe a Cadillac. Well, a little
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Be more useful and more durable. So I'd totally need alright, Em. Try it. Step on the center. No? I'm not right. Come on. Come on. Start. Start. Start. One night several months, to end shift new weight. I'll be alright. I'll come with you. Stay here. I'll be right back. Who's there? Who's there? Girl, come here. I want it. Come here. What are you doing? Where are you from? I'm home. Well, come on. Come on inside. I am. I am. I've been looking all over for you. I mean, where you've been? Okay, miss. You can put that hammer down. I ain't gonna hurt you. Oh, sure. Sure. Come on inside. And and someone's here. Yes. Eileen and me. She's my adopted daughter. About a year ago, I found her on Main Street in Los Angeles. She was starving. Can't forage for herself. Eileen can't, so I gotta take care of her.
She can't think so good. How long you've been here? About two days wandering around the city. Nice city, the San Francisco. We've had to visit here when it had people. Reckon I really coulda had myself a time. I'll ask you too some need. Well, that's that's mighty nice. By the way, I show on a embolite. My name is Ezra. I don't believe I talked to her, Isherwood. This is m. Well, I am happy to know you. Irene, looks like we met up with some real nice people. He's alone. Ezra has taken up for his wife. June ninth, year five, our second son was born this day.
He named him Joey. You better come with me. What's the matter? The water. It stopped running in the faucet. Well, maybe it's just a broken pipe in your place. No. I checked. And it ain't just my place. I've checked the whole house around and there ain't any water running in there. Maybe it's a water man under the street. I don't think so. You know what I think? What? I think the water stopped way up in the mountain someplace. It's San Francisco who's going dry. Two weeks. Not a drop of rain. Ezra, we can't go on boarding the water forever. If we're going to live, we've gotta get out of here. Yeah. But they're still all in 10 good. That's what's wrong as we've been living off the old instead of building something new. Look. We've got to forget that water ran out of faucets and vegetables come in cans. We've got to start growing things ourselves. We will when the time comes, what I reckon. You better come, Chris. What is it, ma'am? Eileen. What's the matter with her? She must have been drinking polluted water.
High point. What does Luke say? What are we gonna do? Isolate the others? They both can do asylie. What do we do for her? What's the treatment? And you can't shorten the disease. It says all you can do is help make it less severe. Now don't worry. Yes, sir. We'll do our best. I'm mean, she's so helpless. She don't understand. And if you move in with us, this thing spreads again, wipe out all of us. Who is it? George. Moving in with Eileen. Get another friend there. You won't have to. What do you mean? Eileen dead. This is the year six, a year of disease and death.
I went to the drugstores walking the misty, dark streets of the city armed with my medical tech, my hammer. I raided the dusty shelves in the long warm refrigerator for the pharmaceutical department. The hunger drugs had long since rotted in their vials, some sulfur was still potent, and I use it liberally. In a case that's a case of type where it broke out, some lived, most died, including our firstborn. A little community upon which I had pinned the hopes of a new birth of mankind that dwindled from 12 persons to seven. Five adults, only two children.
You've got to get some sleepers. How many of us have left them? Count them for me.
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Ezra, George, Noble. My second son, Joy, and Ezra's born. You and I. Oh, Anne.
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And what's the good of starting again? We're being exterminated from the earth. Every small being of it so things can become green again. There are seven of us each.
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Once there was only me and once there was only you alone and separated. There's still seven.
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Oh, Em. Em, what would I do without you? I don't see. Now you won't make the mistake a second time. Hope any looking back, you'll forget the train that used to run into tall buildings and a soft spoon and go back to the Earth, back to the Earth. We left San Francisco. We survivors. We packed only the essentials. Machines, the conveniences. We left on, we'd work in the soil. The decay of the old times was behind us now. We went south and east until we came to a watered land, green, growing things. This would be our season. Here, without the memories of a dead people about us, we would begin mankind again.
Come here, Joy. Yes, sir. Joy? Yeah. Sit down here next to me. Hello? I wanna ask you some questions. Sure. Now,
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first of all, what year is this? Oh, that's an easy question. Year fifteen.
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Joy, did you do your reading today? Sure. You like to read? Yeah. So, Eve, there's something I wanna tell you. You know, there were once a lot of people like us on Earth, millions. You know that, don't you? Yeah. I read about them. They could fly. That's right. Well, someday there'll be millions of people again. And they'll fly again years, years from now. But after I'm gone, there won't be anybody to show them the way. That time depending on you. What am I supposed to do? Learn, read, study. You're going to leave them someday, Joey, after I'm gone. Don't let them go back.
You don't understand. I think I do. Oh, you will. Oh, look. Let me show you what I made this morning. It's called a bow. Guns won't be good much longer. The powder will get rotten. Guns will get rusty. You can hunt with this, kill animals for food. You know, look here and see. I tied out of Willow, then I strung strips of cat hide from one end of the boat to the other. And now watch this. See here. This is the arrow. I
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tried. Let me try. I hear.
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What, please? I tried. Now I'm gonna pull back. Hard. No. No. No. No. Hard. Hard. Here. Let go.
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Yeah. That's where? Can I get outside and play with it? Sure. Be careful with it. Hey, Billy. How's that? Hey, Billy.
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It took thousands of years for man to pass from the spear to the bow and arrow. I've just done it in five minutes. This is the year '19. I have gray hair. It's hard to think of myself as an old man. Well, I'm not really 51. There are 19 numbers in a smooth piece of rock in the meadow, and I shift in with my hammer and chisel. My hammer. What would I do without my hammer? Everything is going along well. Quite a farmer now. Community is growing. There are 45 of us. Rangers are twisted in. Baby's born. Maybe man is something you can't quite kill off. A stranger named Charlie came in today.
I don't like him. He's gruff and hard. And his eyes I don't like his eyes. Sure. Three men at a time. She tried. How'd you do it? I grabbed two of them and banged their heads together. They cracked like coconuts. Then the other one I knocked down and stepped on his face. Was much less than after I got to. It's time for a bed, Joey. I'll try and tell one more, dad. Maybe some other night. Okay.
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Good night, dad. Good night, Kyle. Good night, Joey. Will you come tomorrow night? Maybe.
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Great kid you got there. How'd you do in the old times, Charlie? Oh, a lot of things. While I was a stickman in Las Vegas, used to be a fighter too. Lot of things. You name it. You intend to stay? Sure. I intend to stay. Why not? Not a place to go. That's the only good sized group of human beings I've seen. And believe me, I've been around. Sure. I'll stay. Really works. That's the only way we can live? Listen, you. If I wanna stay, I'll stay. I'll stay on my own terms. I don't ask anything from anybody. I live my own way. Better understand that right now. And you better understand something before we go any further, Charlie.
I've been elected to leadership in this town, and we aren't a bunch of independent individuals doing what we please. We're a community working together. Either you accept that or get out. We ain't gonna get along, mister Isherwood, William. And I'm staying, deny? I don't know. I don't know. Where is he? Right outside. What's the matter? It ain't a Hey. Down that gun, you crazy fool. Shut down. Put down. Put down. Yeah. You're alright. Never mind me. Get the gun away from it. Get George. Yeah. Where's George? Bring George. Let's see George take this gun away from me. Hey, George. Come on. Try to take this thing away from me. Hey. What's going on?
Charlie. Give me that gun. Always taking my gun away. It's mine, Charlie. Well, it's mine is mine. Stay away. Give me that gun. Stay away, George. Stay away. George. George. He's dead. How are you? You've done enough damage with that thing. Send it over. There's only one answer. Death. Death. You mean killing? Murder him? No. It's not murder, m. You, Mabel, Ezra, and I, we're the government now. We've been elected to the council of four. There isn't any government but us. It's it's not a matter of punishment. It's protecting the community from a menace and that's what Charlie is. But he was told. All the more reason he might do it again. Prayed to tell him. We can't take a chance. Well, I could sure. That's right. We've got all the facts.
The vote's been called. Any questions? Is is it right? Is it right to take a human life? To save many lives. Yes. And it's got to be right. We'll take a voice vote. You first, Mabel. What do you say? Death. Ezra? Beth? M? Or how is the road m? No. It's anonymous. We'll carry out the sentence tomorrow
[00:24:15] Unknown:
morning.
[00:24:21] Unknown:
The council of four has made a decision. This was not killing or rage or hatred. This was a deliberate insane elimination of an enemy. Early in the morning, we tied Charlie to an oak tree. Ezra took Charlie's revolver. Charlie stared at him with childish disbelief. He gasped, slumped into his ropes, his mouth fed with blood, his eyes swollen in death. The power of a new state was born. Yes, Carl. New Year. Stay here. Carry my hammer for me. No. Do you not hurt you? Throw my hammer here. Why not? Magic. My hammer. My force is your hammer, Magic.
[00:25:44] Unknown:
She's the moon magic.
[00:25:47] Unknown:
Oh, that is just a plain ordinary hammer, an old noun.
[00:25:53] Unknown:
Kyle, don't be afraid. Lord's magic. New magic. That's,
[00:25:58] Unknown:
hello, Joey. Carl. Go and play. Sure, dad.
[00:26:03] Unknown:
Goodbye, grandfather.
[00:26:05] Unknown:
Joey, what's the matter with them? It's, magic. My my hammer is magic. You're a legend, dad. You're the only one left out of them all. Ezra, George, Mabel, mother m, all gone now, only you. Hammer's a symbol. Symbol of leadership. Yes. Yes. That's the way things happen. You're the only one that's lived through from the old times. The only one. The only one. Go in. Yes, dad. I'm old. Very old. I can't see very well. Did I make the numbers clearly? Yes, dad. Forty eight. The year '48. All all begun again. Life, generation, generation.
O n. If you could have lived to Just once more. The bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge. What are you there, dad? How? How does it look during this time? How does the Golden Gate Bridge look? It's old and rusty, but it's it's wonderful. It's beautiful. Is there a car? Small car on the bridge? Yes, sir. It's still where? Can you still see the wings across the water? Only a few of that. Mostly all across. But the hills behind the city are beautiful today. Good. Joey, here. Here's the hammer. Yes. You are the new leader now. The hammer has always been the symbol.
Pass it on the best of them. And, Joey, don't let them make out art of you. Let knowledge be the watchword. Oh, when you understand, Joey. I understand that. Know the earth, Joey. Know the earth.
[00:29:01] Unknown:
Yes.
[00:29:07] Unknown:
Men go and come, but the the earth of mine. You have just heard Earth Abides by George Stewart. And frankly adapt for Escape by David Ellis. John Boehner will start his age with Peggy Webber as m. And firstly adapted for Escape by David Ellis. John Boehner would start as eight with Peggy Webber as m.
