00:23Hello out there, I am Peabody.
00:25The one with the newspaper in his mouth is my boy, Sherman.
00:27It's a new trick I just learned, Mr. Peabody.
00:30My heartiest felicitation, Sherman, but in the future, when you fetch my paper, don't
00:33grasp it with your molars.
00:35You've perforated the stock market quotations.
00:37Shall I run out and get another one?
00:38You won't have time.
00:39You see, we are overdue at Aachen, Germany.
00:41Who are we gonna visit?
00:42The man who founded the first news agency, Paul Julian Reuter.
00:46After setting a time indicator for the year 1849, we enter the Wayback Machine, patent pending,
00:51and were immediately ushered to a small hamlet in western Germany.
00:54This was Aachen.
00:55And look, there's Mr. Reuter's news agency.
00:58Suddenly, from an upstairs window, a paper airplane sailed out and flooded its way down
01:02to our feet.
01:03Gee, what a keen airplane.
01:05Yes, but a miserable news dispatch.
01:06I flattened the paper out, and there was a United Press story about a man biting a dog.
01:11The dispatch was supposed to be on its way to London, England.
01:14Hey, what's the big idea of slowing down the dispatch?
01:17Barely, Mr. Reuter, do you honestly intend this paper airplane to get to London?
01:21Well, if the wind keeps blowing, yes.
01:23Is this the way you send your news?
01:25It's the matter.
01:25You got a better way?
01:27Before we could answer, a loud bell began to peel.
01:31And the good citizens of Aachen started running to the other end of town.
01:34Quick, grab a bucket and come.
01:36What is it?
01:36A cow milking contest?
01:37Worse than that, it's a fire.
01:39Sure enough, we arrived just in time to watch a two-story building go up in smoke.
01:43Why doesn't someone call the fire department?
01:45That is the fire department.
01:47There was nothing left to do to toast marshmallows.
01:49If we had had marshmallows...
01:51Oh, what a terrible catastrophe.
01:53Cheer up, Mr. Reuter.
01:54You've lost the fire department, but you've gained the story.
01:57Mr. Peabody's right.
01:58Why not send a dispatch to London?
02:00Because my competition's beating me to it.
02:02Reuter pointed to a gentleman who was busily setting down the details of the recent conflagration.
02:06That's Fritz Grimmelshausen.
02:08He always gets his dispatches to London before me.
02:11How does he do it?
02:13What, you see?
02:14He stuffs the dispatch into the bottle and sticks it in the water.
02:18Then he waits for the tide to go out.
02:20Herr Reuter, I don't like to brag.
02:22Too often, that is.
02:23But I am definitely most positive that with my aid, your communique will reach London before Mr., uh...
02:29Grimmelshausen.
02:30Yes.
02:31The tide was already going out, so we had no time to lose.
02:33Seconds later, we were inside Reuters news agency.
02:36There.
02:37It's all set to go.
02:38Stand back.
02:39We watched in horror as Reuter deftly fashioned another paper airplane and let it fly.
02:44This one got as far as the window, then nosedived to the floor.
02:47Oh, conditions are no good for flying.
02:49I'm afraid it's hopeless.
02:51Herr Reuter, air mailing your dispatches is the right idea.
02:54It's the manner in which you do it that's wrong.
02:56What's the matter?
02:56You think I should put a pilot in the plane?
02:58No, no, no.
02:59You need a different type of aircraft.
03:01I led the way to the roof and there perched on a shingle was a pigeon.
03:04It was a simple matter to tie the dispatch to his leg.
03:07Okay, pigeon.
03:08Fly to London.
03:10He's off.
03:12Congratulations, Mr. Reuter.
03:13You'll beat Mr. Grimmelshausen for sure.
03:15Sherman was a trifle premature for the aforementioned Mr. Grimmelshausen had spotted
03:19the pigeon and quickly mounted the horse took chase.
03:21In one hand, a pigeon gun.
03:23Ooh, that stinker's gonna shoot down my dispatch.
03:27Oh, no, he's not.
03:29We hailed a taxi and gave chase.
03:33He hasn't fired a shot.
03:34What's he waiting for, Mr. Peabody?
03:36He's waiting for the bird to come down and rest.
03:38But in the meantime, there's work to do.
03:40Quickly, take this piece of paper and make an airplane.
03:43Even as I spoke, our feathered friend glided into view and came to a halt on the left shoulder
03:47of the town statue.
03:50He looks bushed.
03:51Never fear, he'll regain his strength in a moment.
03:53Oh, but it'll be too late.
03:55Look, there's that rascal Grimmelshausen.
03:58And he's aiming the gun.
03:59The paper airplane, Herr Reuter.
04:01I'll take it now.
04:02I quickly calculated the wind direction, velocity, and then let fly.
04:07The airplane took off, executed four perfect immelments,
04:11and landed directly in the barrel of Grimmelshausen's gun.
04:15The trigger was pulled, but the bullet had no way out, so...
04:20Two days later, the pigeon reached London, and Reuter was firmly established as a news
04:24agency.
04:24No more paper airplanes.
04:26From now on, I make them out of cardboard.
04:29But he should stick with pigeons.
04:31He will in time, Sherman.
04:32What about Fritz Grimmelshausen?
04:34Well, as you can see, he converted his news agency into a fix-it shop.
04:37He claims he can repair anything.
04:39Unfortunately, anything he repairs doesn't work.
04:42Is that how we got the expression, on the Fritz?
04:46Yes.
04:46And it's also how we got the expression, on the Grimmelshausen.
04:50going crazy.
04:57Well..
04:58There's no way
04:59Hmm.
05:01Yeah, well.
