RECORDING

“Future Man”

ANNOUNCER

Future Man – A Hero out of time

RECORDING

“Future Man” ... Fade

ANNOUNCER

From a laboratory far beneath the fabled Mountains of Time, a black spacecraft flashes across the sky.  With his sidekick Minuteman, Future Man rockets through the space time continuum with a single goal in mind. To change the world.

SOUND

Telegraph key dit-datting away.

CROWD

General sounds of a production office.  Typewriters, presses running, crackling static.

ANNOUNCER

Tonight’s Future Man adventure takes place at...wait a minute, is this right?  I’m having a hard time believing what I’m reading, but tonight’s adventure takes place ... here ... in the WWTF studios. I...

PRODUCER

Just read the lines Kowalski.

ANNOUNCER

Yes...yes, of course.  At WWTF studios, the crack staff of writers, producers, sound men and crew toil busily on the next episode of Future Man.  The announcer and the Producer discuss plot shifts as the voice actors and sound-effect men prepare for the days broadcast.

PRODUCER

So, what do you think of the plot shifts?

ANNOUNCER

Are you kidding?  Is this real, I mean, are we...?

PRODUCER

Live, yeah, and discussing plot shifts.

SOUND

Roar of a Jet Engine...screech of brakes.  Door opens and closes. Window creaks open.

FUTURE MAN

Greetings.

ANNOUNCER

This is the fifty-seventh floor.

PRODUCER

Is that a plot shift, or are you just talking to yourself.

ANNOUNCER

Future man just climbed in my window.

PRODUCER

That’s a shift.

ANNOUNCER

Future Man, why are you here?

FUTURE MAN

I am here to increase your bandwidth.  I am here to take this thing global, baby.

SOUND

There is a thump of boots on the floor.

MINUTE MAN

Sorry boss.  Had to save the window washer.  He saw the ship and panicked.

FUTURE MAN

Good work.

ANNOUNCER

What’s bandwidth?

PRODUCER

Global?

FUTURE MAN

I come from the future. I bring word from the CEO of GOOGLE itself.  If you will include a bit for him now, just greasing the wheels, he’s willing to guarantee a share of the pie when the whole Internet thing hits.

ANNOUNCER

Google?

PRODUCER

Pie?  Internet?

FUTURE MAN

He doesn’t want much.  Just, whenever you are writing my bits and you need to say I’m searching for something, or looking for something, or wish I could search for something...instead of search, say Google.  He wants to get the ball rolling ahead of time.  Of course, I’ll be putting in the copyright papers, but you are free to use it in the context of the show.  He guaranteed me we’ll be indexed and available in multiple formats for generations.

PRODUCER

Is this in the script?

FUTURE MAN

It’s all in the script, I’m afraid.  Pretty unavoidable.  They’ll have cameras on everything this century and all the scripts will be on line.  Not much privacy, but the AVAILABILITY is the thing.

MINUTE MAN

We’re supposed to have that bit up in ... less than a minute.

FUTURE MAN

Right.  Hmmm now where was that disaster.  Let me Google my memory banks for the answer...

ANNOUNCER

I don’t see...wait.  How did those words get on the paper?  What in hell is a memory bank.

PRODUCER

You can’t say that on the radio.

ANNOUNCER

Memory banks?

PRODUCER

Hell

CROWD

Laughter.

ANNOUNCER

Where does it say that?

MINUTE MAN

Wait, let me Google my memory...

PRODUCER

Cue commercial.

FUTURE MAN

That was the commercial.

ANNOUNCER

He’s right.  It says right here, “Google Internet Search bit”

PRODUCER

We have ten minutes of airtime left.  What’s next?

FUTURE MAN

Let me...

ANNOUNCER

Don’t say Google your memory banks.

FUTURE MAN

I was going to say check the Time Scope, but if Google works...

CROWD

Laughter.

PRODUCER

Keep it up, and my foot’s gonna Google your ass.

ANNOUNCER

You can’t say that on the radio.

PRODUCER

Google?

ANNOUNCER

ASS.

CROWD

Laughter

SOUND

Window opens, thumping sounds followed by the closing of a door and rocket engines.

PRODUCER

What just happened.

ANNOUNCER

Google me...

FADE: