on Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad I found it. I'm really glad I found it. I'm glad I got here. Look at this. I can put the whole story right here. This. Now, I've got to play with this thing for a little while. Oh, now, the light came on. And there's weird language here. I don't know what any of this stuff says. Must be some kind of ancient civilization artifact stuff. And that's what I saw up there today. Things were the collections for the solar energy running down here to make this work. There ain't nobody around. I looked for a really good all day long after the crash. And I was hurt and bleeding and crawled up out of that hole in the side of the mountain and got into this place. Not before I'd fight this big black beast, though. He took a chunk out of my leg. But I'm going to leave this record for a future. Whoever. Whoever. If there is any who and any ever, ever get to listen to it. I think. I think what I'm doing is putting my voice on this thing. And if that's what I'm doing, then I hope somebody gets to hear it someday. Because I'm the only one left, you see. Ain't nobody else. I flew around this planet a couple times the last few days looking for signs of life. I didn't see any. I didn't see any. I didn't see any. And I don't know. And I don't know if there's anybody left. I tried to get here as quick as I could. And I've been traveling for so long. Long time, you see. Long time. I've been just flying through the universe trying to get here. Because I knew it was going to happen. I knew it was going to happen. I knew it was going to happen. Because it happened. It happened to us a long time ago. And I've come from a long time ago. I've been traveling a long time from way in the future. And I finally got here. I didn't know how to work this darn thing, though. And it was a hell of a mess, I've got to tell you. Tore up the whole place out there. I'm lucky. I can still talk. But I'm going to tell you the story of what happened to us. I used to live on this planet, you see. Not this planet, but this other planet. And it's a red planet. In fact, you can still see it if you, you know, if there's anybody alive that ever gets this message. You can see it. You look up in the sky. Because I've seen it tonight. It's up there. It's red. I don't know what you call it. I don't know who you are. I don't even know if you are. I don't know if I'm the only one left. I might be the only one left in the whole universe. See, we had a... We were a great civilization. Ancient peoples. And we finally came to grips with all the things that plagued us and hurt us and made us hate each other and war and all kinds of things. We finally came to grips with all of that. We knew what the answer was. It was something really, really far out, man. It was far out, man. The first time I heard about it, I was blown away. I was blown away. I was amazed. The whole concept was just so far away from anything anybody ever understood that it was amazing. It took a long time for people to really understand it and grasp it and know and know and know. You know? You know, man? It was hard. It was hard. But when you got it, when you got it, when you got it, when you really, really got it, when you got it, when you really, really got it, then you really, you really, you really got it. you know I don't know what you'd call it I don't even know if you are going to understand what I'm talking about but we called it freedom freedom and what we did man was we set everybody free we set everybody free we set them free we set them free I was free man nobody bothered me and I didn't bother nobody after a while I didn't even know how to bother nobody I was having such a good time just being free man I could do or say anything I wanted anytime I wanted as long as I didn't hurt anybody else it was wonderful the hardest people to convince were the were these these dudes you know these guys that these guys that were always just telling people what to do making them do stuff and manipulating and grinding and shooting and mooring and raping and pillaging and stealing and and and and and and and lots of stuff that you know I don't know man I don't know I don't know I don't know but even they you know turned around once they got a taste of it but and it created this society that was so far out man it was it was weird and wild and crazy and cool and fun and serious and and and everything you can think of all at one time and it was it was a blast it was the greatest thing that ever happened to any of us and I was I worked in this place you see I was my job was to clean this big long hallway that's all I did all day long and just clean the hallway clean the hallway shine the hallway wash the hallway I cleaned my buckets I cleaned my broom I cleaned my mop I cleaned my hall that was my job and I was proud of it and I had my you know I had my my reward for that you know and there was never another hallway and the whole world looked as good as that and I was free and I knew I didn't have to do it and that's why I did it so good I did it better than I ever would have ever done it because I was free to do it or not to do it and so I did it I did it good I did it better than anybody ever dreamed it could ever be done and it was clean man and I walked by these rooms and sometimes the door would be open and I'd hear these people talking really important people they'd be in there talking man talking and planning things and getting ready you know but I wasn't supposed to go in those rooms because I didn't have the whatever it was you're supposed to go in or what sometimes you know I'd get interested in the conversation I'd walk hey hey hey hey hey anybody want to go for a cup of coffee oh man you should have seen them to get all excited and throw me right out of that room they had nothing to do with freedom you see it was their job you know what they were doing what they were doing was trying to come up with an answer for what they knew was going to be the end of everything they knew a secret you see that nobody else knew they wasn't and nobody knew it but me because I cleaned the hall you see I was cleaning the hall and I walk up and down this hall with my broom and with my mop and with my buckets and all my sponges and I'd be dusting and all this kind of stuff and I hear them talking in those rooms and I heard it everything was going to come to a stop on a certain day because somebody forgot to program something in a computer well I didn't know what no computer was I didn't have nothing like that in my closet I went back and looked just to make sure you know I had all kinds of good stuff in there I had cleaning powder and I had cleaning soap and I had cleaning liquid and I had my mops and my brooms and my sponges and my rags and some towels and I had all kinds of stuff in there I had tool kit and some nails and stuff like that and looked all over couldn't find nothing nothing that even even I didn't even know I don't know I don't know but there was nothing in there that I didn't know what it was and there wasn't no computer I can tell you that but I was getting scared you see because I kept hearing all the whispering and carrying on in these rooms about this stuff and they wasn't telling nobody and I thought maybe I better tell somebody maybe I better tell somebody when I go home tonight I'll tell them there's something wrong with the computer and so I did I went home that night and I was walking on the street and I I saw this man sitting on the curb drinking out of this bottle you see so I sat down beside him and I said did you hear the news he said no man what news what are you talking about here you want a drink I said well don't mind if I do and I took this paper bag it had big bottles and I took a drink oh boy oh man that was some of that really good stuff from the southern polar region where there's a hole that goes into the hollow center of the planet you know and it was they got these real really nice weird looking people got 14 eyes and 6 legs that make this stuff but it's good and I took me a swallow and I said there's something wrong with the computer he said what I said man there's something wrong with the computer he said what computer I said I don't know I don't know I just know there's something wrong with the computer he said well what are we going to do about it I said well why don't we have another drink and talk about it I said have you ever seen a computer he said no he said you ever seen one? I said, no. He said, well, what's this computer thing? I said, I don't know. I don't know, but there's something wrong with it. He said, how do you know this, man? Why are you trying to scare me like this? I'm getting scared. Something wrong with the computer. I said, well, I don't know, man. I just, I work in the, I keep the hall clean, you see? You see, I keep this hall clean and I just clean it and I'm, it's so, it sparkles and I'm so proud of this hall and I walk up and down and I clean it and I clean and I pass these doors. He said, doors? What doors? The doors, man. There's doors all along this hallway and there's people in these doors and they're important people and they know things, man. And I heard them say, I heard them talking about it, there's something wrong with the computer. He said, give me back that bottle. He took that bottle away from me and he didn't want to talk about it no more. So I got up and walked down the street some long. I saw this girl. Oh, she was a pretty young thing. She was. And I stopped her and I said, did you hear the news? And she said, what news? There's something wrong with the computer. The computer. The computer's all messed up, man. And we gotta, we gotta do something about it because everybody in the rooms are talking about it. He said, what rooms? The rooms. All along the hallway, there's rooms, man. And I'm walking up and down and I'm cleaning, you see? And I'm buffing the floor and I'm, and I'm cleaning and every little, I see a little speck over there and I go over to get it and it's right by the door and I hear them talking and they're talking about something wrong with the computer. And I don't know what's going on. I think something wrong with you, man. Why don't you go wait a little long? So I did. I went home. I didn't stop anybody else. I wasn't having any luck, you see. I went home and I went to bed and all night long I dreamed about something was wrong with the computer. And in my dreams I could see this thing, you know. I knew what it was in my dream. I mean, it was pretty. It was a pretty thing. And it was big. Yeah. Yeah, it was big and it was pretty and it showed movies on the side and, and, uh, and, uh, and, you know, served drinks and all kinds of things. And, and if you wanted to, you could push a button and the food would come out right in your hand. And it was a great marvelous thing, but something was wrong with it. And I woke up in the morning and I got dressed and I went back to work and I looked down the hallway and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all, all of a sudden, I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't, I don't know. But the hallway didn't look the same to me at that morning. It looked strange. It was scary. And I was scared of my own hallway where I was so happy and took such pride of my work. And I started to, to go to my closet and get my cleaning things out and, and change my clothes and put on my work stuff. And, and I just didn't, didn't feel like doing it. Cause if something was wrong with the computer, man, if something was really wrong with the computer, what was the use of doing it? You know, what, why was I going to do it? But I got my stuff out and I went to work cause that's all I knew. I didn't know nothing else. And I started cleaning the hall and I'll get close to the doors and I tried not to get close to the door cause I didn't want to hear anymore, man. I didn't want to know. I didn't want to know. And I didn't want to, and I don't know. And I don't, and I don't know. And I don't know. You see, that's the whole problem. I don't know. One day he's, this fella come out and he looked at me and he says, you know, he says, you really do a good job on this hall. I said, well, thank you. Thank you, sir. He said, you do such a good job on this hall. He says, you know, where did you, where did you learn how to do this? And he said, I just, I told him I just do it cause it, I wanted it to be the best hallway in the whole world, on the whole world. I wanted anybody that came in that hallway to be, just feel so good and clean and safe and comfortable in there. And that's why I've done it. And he said he, he understood that. He asked me if I wanted to go on a long trip. I said, what do you mean? He said, we need somebody to save the world, man. And we need somebody just like you that knows how to keep a hallway clean and is really proud of it. And somebody who can take warning and tell people that all this complicated, see, you don't know nothing about all this, do you? And I said, no. He said, you ever seen a computer? I said, no. He said, did you ever drive a Robinel Jeep knock boat? I said, no, I never drove one of those in my whole life, man. I don't even know if I ever seen one. I walked to home and walked to work in the morning. He said, do you have a transponding inducer, a picture originator in your house? And I said, no. I don't even have that. I just have this little room, man. He said, you're the one because you know what it's all about. I said, man, you must be mistaken. I don't know what it's all about. I just told you, I don't know nothing. I don't know anything about this stuff. I ain't never seen no pewter. Never seen none of this stuff, the thing that, you know, I never drove nothing. I never heard of what you're talking about I'm supposed to have in my house, did the picture originator. I don't know nothing about them. He said, that's good. That's good. You're just the man for the job. I didn't know what he was talking about until just a little while ago, you see. He took me out to this place and he showed me this big giant, oh man, it was, it was like this needle pointing up into the sky. He told me this was, this is a, oh man, I don't want to, and I don't, I don't remember, I don't remember, I don't know. It was big and it was long and it pointed directly up in the sky and it had all this smoke coming out of it and all kinds of stuff and everything was, was really strange, I've got to tell you. And I looked up there and I couldn't even see the top. The top was poking up in the clouds. It was big. He said, you're going to go on a trip. And I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know what he was talking about. But he wanted me to go on some trip and he told me it was important. And so if it was important, I was, I was all ready, you know. And I went home and packed my bag. And I came back and he looked at my bag and he said, you won't be needing that bag. And I went to my closet and I got my toolbox and all my cleaning stuff and my mops and my brooms. And if I'm going to take a trip, I better take this stuff, you know, so I cleaned the hall. They've got to have a hall where I'm going. I'm going to clean that. I'm going to keep it clean. He said, looked at me and he says, you ain't going to be needing all that stuff where you're going. You see, you're going to save the world. I said, what? He said, you're going to save the world, man. You are the one. The one what? You know, all kinds of things going through my head. And mostly carrots and cabbage and things like that because I was hungry and I didn't know what he was talking about. And leaving my brooms and my mops and my buckets and all the, all the stuff behind, I would, what would I do? What would I do? What would I do? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what I do. That was my life, you see. And I told him, I said, that's my life. What am I going to do? He said, that's why we're sending you on this journey. Because you know what to do. You know exactly what to do and nobody else knows what to do. And he told me that and I was so confused. I was confused. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what he was talking about. And I started wondering if there was something wrong with him, you know. But he was an important person and people came down the hall and they stopped and, you know, and they talked to him very serious and called him sir and got out of his way and all kinds of things like that. He said, of course, you know, you're a free man. You don't have to go. You don't have to clean this hall. I said, I know it. I know it. I said, tell me something. Look at me. Tell me something. Is this really, really important? He said, it's very important. It's the most important thing you're ever going to do in your entire life. Now, I don't know if anybody's ever going to hear this. And I don't know whether I'm late or if I'm on time. I didn't see no signs of life, nowhere. And I've come such a long, long way for a long time. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how long it was, but it was a long time. A long time ago. Way in the future is when I left, you see. And I come to save the world. Not my world, you see. It was too late for my world. I couldn't save my world. My world was too far advanced, you see. Everything, everything, everything, except my room in my hallway was technocraticized and computerized and dipped to lose and electrified. And it was, you know, on this wire fried. And everything was connected together. And the high bone and the feet and the, you know, the toes sticking out of the thing. And everybody was, you know, playing with these little buttons and all kinds of stuff. And you couldn't go five feet without, and bumping into all these things. And it was too late, you see. And they knew it. Long time ago, in the future, they looked across this big gulf out there, you know, this highway that I've been traveling on. I didn't even know it was there. I never looked up, no how. I didn't even know what was out there. I didn't know you guys was here, if you're here. I still don't know if you're here. I don't know if I'm in time. I don't know if I'm in time. I don't know if I'm in time. I don't know if I'm in time. I don't know if I'm in time. And they knew there was people living here. They saw things. And they heard things with these gadgets they got. And he told me this story. He said, they knew there was people here, like us. He said, hell, the people on that planet might have even come from here. They might be us. And that's why you've got to save the world, you see. So there'll be somebody left. One day they took me in this elevator ride up to the very top of this thing. And I walked out and it was all pretty and metal and shiny and clean. And somebody there was like me because it was all clean and pretty and shiny and everything smelled fresh and clean. And they opened this door and the side of this big giant needle somewhere up near the top. We were in the clouds, you see. And I couldn't even see down to the ground. But I knew it was a long way because that elevator took a long, long time to get there. And they told me, go ahead, go ahead, get in there and then take a look around and sit down and see how it feels. And so I did. I got in there and I looked around. There's buttons and switches and lights buzzing and blinking and going off. And there's little things that you could see on the screens and stuff. And pretty soon I was mesmerized and I forgot to sit in and I was looking at all this stuff. Then I looked around to see if there was any windows. And there were a couple of them, little bitty round windows. And I felt better because I could see out of them things, you see. And then the whole lady, I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know later. It didn't make no difference. Couldn't see nothing out of them things anyway. So, then I sat down in this big chair. Man, that was the most comfortable chair I ever sat in in my whole life. And I sat there and I leaned back and it just, oh, it felt so good. And it just sort of, it just sort of, just sort of rolled up around my body while my body just sort of sank down into it. That chair felt so good and I didn't want to get out of it. I didn't want to get out of it. I didn't want to get out of it. I wanted to stay there. And he told me, that's good, you like that chair because you're going to be sitting in that chair for a while, you know. I said, no, I don't know. I don't really know. I don't, I'm just, you know, if this is a good thing to do, then I think I might do it. Next thing I know, no warning, no nothing. They slammed the door and locked it. And I could hear what sounded like drills and them. Meek, meek, meek, meek. And I ran, jumped up down the chair and ran over and tried to open the door and the door wouldn't open. And I got scared and I looked around and I said, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what's going on here. Next thing I know, this thing started vibrating and wiggling back and forth. And my feet were bouncing up and down off the floor. And I ran over and got in the chair real quick. And then the smoke and the flames I could see outside the window, I thought I was going to burn up. And then, then something invisible started pressing on me. And my face got all, all out of shape. And I looked for a little bit. And my eyes were popping under my head like this. And I didn't know what was going on. And I said, ah, help! Ah, help! Ah! And nobody came. And then, all of a sudden, it was quiet. It was so, so quiet. And I didn't know what was going on. And I got up and went over to the door. And I tried to open the door. And then, all of a sudden, my feet came off the floor and started floating up into the room. And I'll be darned. I can't. And I'll be darned. I can't. I can't stay down no place. And then, I got sick. And that was, I got to tell you, that was the worst thing that I ever did, was get sick in that thing. Because it all just floated all over the place and just got all over everything, got all over me. And I don't know. I don't know. And I didn't know. And I still, that, ah, what to do, you know. And I started pushing these buttons and pulling these levers. And lights started blinking and things started coming on. And then I heard somebody screaming in my head, don't do that. Stop it. Stop it. Don't. Don't touch it. Don't touch it. And so I did. And I pulled myself over to one of these little windows and looked out. And by golly, all I seen was streaks of light going by. Way off and close and everywhere. Streaks of light going by so fast. And it was beautiful. But I didn't know what it was. And I didn't know where I was. And I sat down in the seat. And I strapped myself in with these straps they had there. And then somebody started talking in my ear. And they told me, it's happening. I said, what's happening? He said, it's happening. Civilization as we know it is disintegrating right before my eyes. And you're the only one who has escaped. What man, Tim? Tell me. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. You know. He said, a long time ago. We became too smart for our own britches, he says. Well, he didn't say that. But that's, you know. That's what I know about it. We just got too darn smart. And we took some shortcuts and stuff. And there's something wrong with the computer. I said, what man? What are you talking about? He said, well, you don't have to worry about it, you see. Because you have just skipped out of the space-time compendium and dates don't mean nothing where you're at. You're going faster than the speed of light. He said, go look out the window now. I went and looked and I couldn't see nothing. No streaks of light. No nothing. There was nothing out there. Nowhere. There was nothing. And so I went back and sat down again. Faster than the speed of light. Are you? You know what? I never could. I'll go to the door and turn on the light. I couldn't get to the bulb before it went on. Nobody could. He said, that's right. This morning, he said, the computers opened up the plugs at all the bottoms of the beautiful water courseways and the lakes and the rivers and the canals that we have here on our beautiful red planet. And all the water drained into the center of the planet. People were running out, he said, and getting water and everything that they could get it in and taking it back and trying to hoard it. And pretty soon, there won't be any water. We'll all die. And everything's stopped. Nothing works. Doors don't even open anymore. I said, what do you mean? You know, you used to just push the button and the door would open. Not anymore, he said. Your job is to save the world. And he talked to me for several days and I listened to him and he told me the news of what was happening and how many people were dying and the bodies were piling up in the streets and nothing was working and some people were locked in some places. And things fell out of the sky and things fell out of the sky and stopped running in the streets. And pretty soon, I could hear his voice was getting really weak. And he told me, he says, you have the answer when you get there. You know, they're just like us. And he says, I know they are. They're going to do the same thing. You can help them survive if you get there in time. I said, oh man, tell me what I'm supposed to do. He says, you know what to do. And then I never heard from him again. And he got lonesome in there. And I was flying through the universe. And I didn't even know it. I didn't know it. I didn't know it. It wasn't until later that I pushed this button on this thing in front of me. And I saw these pictures of stars and planets. And I saw my planet. I saw my beautiful red planet there. And then I saw where I was going. Where I was going was the third planet from the sun. It was blue and green. And white things floating all around it. It was really pretty. Looked just like where I come from. Except ours was more red, you see. We had green expanses and beautiful blue waters and lakes and rivers and oceans. According to what he told me, that was all gone, you see. Because we got too big for our britches. And we thought we knew it all. And we didn't. So I just sat there. Watching. Learning from this thing on the front of me that kept telling me stuff. And it just kept telling me stuff. And new stuff. And I was learning all the time. And I learned what it was like before we had all these things. Before we had all the stuff that, you know, I used to clean the hall and make it shine and beautiful and pretty. There wasn't any halls, man. And there was nothing to make it shine and make it pretty. There was people living in the simple life. And then I understood. And I thought about that long time. That's my journey. We couldn't. It was a long time ago, you see. It was a long time ago in the future when I started traveling. And I traveled for a long, long, long time. Long, long time. I don't know how long it was. But I know that I'm older now. And I'm not as pretty as I used to be. You see, I was a young man when I left. And according to this thing in this screen in front of me, we had to go a long way around to get there. Because of the time of the year that we left and all kinds of things that I really don't understand. It just took a long time. But I'm here now. And I got here and just flew around this planet a couple of times and looked and I didn't see no life. I didn't see nothing. But you know, it was way high up and maybe I just couldn't see nothing. Maybe I didn't know what to look for. And then I fell into this mountain. And this big black beast come up at me and took a bite out of my leg. And I had to get away from him. And I run into this building here. And there's nobody here. But I'm up on top of a mountain. And I'm in this place. And all these things are here. And it's all solar powered. And I know about that, you see. I learned it from my journey. And I saw the panels up there. And I looked. And I've been investigating for a long time. And then I walked in this room. And I didn't know what it was at first. But I finally found out. And I'm leaving this message for you. If there's anybody left. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Is there anybody? Am I the only one? If I'm the only one? Then... That'd be one hell of a thing, I've got to tell you. That'd be a story to tell. Maybe I'll tell that story someday, too. But right now, you see, I'm bleeding. And I crash into this mountain. And I've been feeling my life draining out of me all afternoon. And I know I ain't going to last too long. I hope I do. I hope I'm not the last one, you see. I hope there's a hallway here that I can clean. I really, really like to do that, you see. But I'm the man they sent to save the world. And I don't know if I can do it. And if there's nobody left, then I can't do it. And all I've got to do to save this world is just tell you a few little simple things that I know you haven't thought of before, you see. Really simple things. Easiest things in the world. But first, I've got to tell you what happened back there. You see? They were trying to cut the corners in the early days of the computer. And somebody decided to make the date shorter. And so they did. And they never thought that I would catch up to them. They weren't thinking that far ahead. They were just thinking of programming and making stuff work. And I don't even know what all that means. But it caused big problems, you see. And I don't know. I don't know how the date could make that happen. But now, you see, when I was nearing the end of my journey, I found this thing that I could point back to where I came from and look through it, and there's nothing there. There's no clouds. There's no water. And there's no people. And I saw the wind blowing the dust all around the planet. And the only thing that I really saw that even reminded me anything that I used to know was there was still some ice on one of the poles. I could see that. And now I'm here on this beautiful planet, and that's going to happen here too, I can tell, because, you know, I learned a few things in my journey. I learned what a pewter was. And there's a whole bunch of them in here. A whole bunch of them. All kind of stuff in this place. And there's nobody here but me, you know. And I don't know. I don't know how to work all of it. But I'm trying. I'm trying. Anyway, they called it Y2K. I learned that. They called it Y2K. Y2K. And I said, why? Why? Y2K? He says, are you trying to be funny now? And I told him, yeah. And he told me to shut up. And so I did. But I've got to deliver my message that's come all the way across the universe to give you this message, you see. And I could feel my life draining out of me. And I'm just so tired, you know. And I couldn't find nothing that I'm used to eating. And it's cold here. It's really cold, you see. And I've been bleeding all day long. And I don't know how to stop it. I don't know how to stop it. I don't know how to stop it. And I don't know what to do. And I'm going to give you the message. You've got to. And I know you did the same thing we did. I know you did it. I know you did it. Didn't you? Yeah. You did it, didn't you? Well, you see. The answer is really simple, you know. And that's why they sent me. That's why they sent me. It's because I don't know. I don't know. And I'm not into all that stuff. And I never got into it. And I wasn't mesmerized by it. I just know if I'd have stayed, it would have killed me too. But now I'm here, you see. And I know how to stop it. I know how to stop it so nobody gets hurt. If I'm not too late. Did it already happen? Well, you see. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And that's why I'm leaving this message. And I don't know if anybody's going to listen to this message. I don't know if anybody's even going to care about this message. I don't even know if anybody is alive but me here. Nobody came. When the needle burned. It just didn't burn the needle. I mean, it set a whole bunch of trees and bushes and things on fire. And there's a big fire out there. I've got to tell you. And I'm getting weaker and weaker. I'm going to tell you what the answer is. All of us folks, we get all caught up in stuff and things and we forget what it is just to be a simple man. Just to be simple, you know. I bet if you go back in your own history, you see, you'll find. I don't know now. I don't know. But I bet if you go back in your own history, you'll find that there was a time when you didn't have all this stuff. When you didn't have it. When you didn't have it and it couldn't hurt you, you know. We even had machines, you know, where I come from. That you couldn't turn off. Sometimes something would go wrong with them and they would do terrible things. And then we learned, hey, man, we forgot to put the switch in there to turn it off. And you see, that's the key to the whole thing. You don't need all this stuff, man. You don't. It's not necessary. So before it happens, here's what you do. I'm going to tell you now because I can feel I'm fading away. And I'm getting weaker and weaker. Here's all you've got to do, man. Here's everything that you've got to do. You just go around everywhere. If you didn't do what we did, then you start turning everything off. Just turn it off, man. Just turn it off. Turn it all off. Turn everything off. Go back to living the way you used to live when things were simple and not complicated. Life was a lot happier. Everybody had a place. There was nobody that couldn't fit in someplace, you know. Not like it is now. And not like it was on my planet where things got so complicated a lot of people couldn't fit in like me. The only thing I could do was clean the hall, you see. It's a good thing. I really like to do that. Otherwise, I would have been an outcast from my own society. And I know that if there's anybody still living, there's people like that. You don't fit in. Where before, a long, long time ago, everybody fit in someplace. There was something to do for everybody. And life was very simple, you know. And you don't need all this stuff. You don't need it. I go around in this building right here. I've been exploring it all day long since I got burned in the fire. And the beast took the chunk out of my leg. And I get all cuts and a couple of deep ones over here. And I stick my fingers way down in there. And it hurts, man. And it's just bleeding. And it's all coming out. But I know the answer. Turn it off. Just turn it all off. And turn your back on it. And walk away. And don't go back to that stuff. Because it really don't make your life any better. It really don't make your life any better. You just think it does. Where I come from, my friend told me, he says, you know, this is the happiest people I ever met were people just like you that led a simple life. And that's what we should have done. But it's too late, he said. Well, if you're still living here, if there's anybody that's going to listen to this, if I'm not too late, then it's not too late for you, man. You know? You know? You know? It's not too late. It's not too late. You can turn it around, man. You can really do it. Just turn everything off. Just turn it off, man. And walk away from it. And don't mess with that kind of stuff again. You don't need it. You don't need it. Life will be better. You know where I come from? Nobody ever talked to anybody. You heard in my story how hard it was to talk to anybody. Everybody was busy, man. They were busy. And when they weren't busy, when they weren't working, they were busy. They were busy always looking at something, always doing something. Always. Always. And nobody ever talked to nobody, man. Nobody. Nobody ever talked to anybody. Nobody knew anybody. Nobody knew me, man. I didn't know nobody. I'd walk in the room one day, hey, anybody want to go have a cup of coffee? They'd throw me out, man. Throw me out. We were free. Oh, we were free. I don't know if you're free here, but you need to be free. Let me tell you what all that stuff does to you. If you want to be free, you can't be free unless they... actually, intentionally don't do stuff with it to keep you free. Because they can know everything about you that there is. They can track you. They can follow you. They can do it all, man. They can take it away from you. They can hurt you, man. On my planet, before we became free, if there was somebody a thousand Dumalons away, that's halfway across the planet, man. Halfway across the planet, man. If there was somebody over there that just whispered something that they didn't want anybody to hear, they could push a button and kill him in a second. But that's how advanced we were. But we became free. We learned how to solve that problem, you see. And we unprogrammed all that stuff. And nobody was doing that stuff anymore. Nobody knew if I was in my hallway or if I was in my room. Nobody knew if I was sitting on the street talking to the guy with the drink or if I was talking to the girl on the sidewalk. Nobody knew. Nobody knew. I don't know. I don't know how they could have known because it wasn't going on that way anymore, you see. And I was so tired. I've come a long way just to tell you this. And I hope you just understand that they sent me because I really did understand. But I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know I understood. I didn't know. I was just happy in my little hallway there, you see. But that's the answer. Just turn it all off. Just turn it off. Just turn it off and walk away. That's all you've got to do, man. I don't know about nothing now. See, I don't know much of nothing except the less complicated my life is, the happier I've always been. And always had. Always had my hallway, you see. And I was really happy in my hallway. I hope I didn't do this for nothing. I hope I didn't do this for nothing. I hope I didn't do this for nothing. I hope I didn't do this for nothing. I hope I didn't do this for anything. That's what this taking is. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.