I'm LJ, a Time Tripper, and this is Cambot, my robotic camera sidekick.
Together we time-trip through history and beyond, but just remember the rules of
time-tripping don't mess with the natives and leave stuff like you found it.
Greetings, trippers! Last week we saw the beginnings of technology. This week we're
gonna learn about something a bit more mysterious... magic. Hey, that's pretty good
Cambot, but can you do this? Ta-da! You know, you at home saw that I did that with
movie magic rather than the trip clock, which is real, but how did they do
magic before science? Well, I'll tell you, let's trip back to see how they did it
and watch the greatest magic trick of all time, the great Harry Houdini doing the
impossible with bare hands. Now, Houdini's time, Cambot, over here, come on, over here, come on, come on, in Houdini's time, awe-inspiring technology
reinvented everyday life, but for Harry, the really awesome stuff wasn't our
machines. That's right, it was ourselves. Now, you can tell from the design of the...
The clocks, well hey, those clocks don't belong to this time period at all, that's clocks.
Cambot, you can go check out the clocks while I go check out the clock with this...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Harbors, Houdini!
Before it began, when the mountains still drooled lava and coughed poison.
Excuse me, you magician, because every time I look at you, everyone else disappears.
High up above, angels and demons slaughtered one another for the dominion of a planet
God called, Earth. When the angels won, the mountains first cried for water, the winds
first flew with air, and it was then that God gave reign of this planet to the plebber
monkeys that he called, Man. For generations thereafter, there was no
science. What's your name? Mrs. Pinchbottom. Misses. There was match. Mind if I
call you Miss, Pinchbottom? Actually, call me Kitty. Kitty?
But then, one day, the last of the purple men died, and men of science rose up on machines
of steel and steam to stand between man and crew.
That's Kitty, Earth. I'll tell you what I tell my dear husband.
Love, sweetheart, is above the waves, jealousy is below the waves.
Well, that's my happy spot. And that was the day, man was forever seduced by reason,
and forgotten of man.
But rejoice, for I, the great Dundee, am here to restore wonder.
After that great war between angels and demons, God realized that to thwart hatred, he must
give man pain.
God is wrong, man will like pain. Oh, my, that's so cool.
Louder, burn your blood.
I need to volunteer.
When mortality did not stop hatred, God created me.
Ladies, gentlemen, and cyborgs, I will now take this man's life.
Holy shit.
Ta-da! Okay, drippers. Well, that was a real sticky situation, wasn't it?
Kiki, have LG come by my office? We need to chat. It's about time.
Right away, Mr. Archway. Thank you, Kiki.
