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He's said a lot of stuff here about race that is, unfortunately, still very relevant and true. If you've watched his Twilight Zone series, you can see this passion for justice in his writing as well. Real genius whom I respect greatly.
@@paulb9769😊 Paul ❤You are so right. Things are looking difficult at the moment. If we have dialogue, communication between ourselves , we can survive and live together. Communication, speech,communication. Don't stop talking. Don't stop communicating And for God's sake Don't stop arguing This new generation is the brightest and most intelligent and most informed to lead us to a better tomorrow. "This isn't the best of possible worlds, but it's hope lies quite intact"
As a professional writer and man of conscience myself, Rod stands for me as really the only TV / teleplay writer worth speaking of. He is a Muhammad Ali of concepts and ideas. What an intellect-stirring speech!
No, he wasn't¹ - he was talking about his time, the time of this lecture. The thing is ... nothing has changed. I mean, they have but in a leopardic way "so they remain the same" 1) I consider him ahead of his time in his work - a giant - but in this lecture he was talking about the 1960s.
Thank you for your reply! I appreciate your knowledge and understanding about this remarkable man who had insight into the cultural, economical, and societal issues happening at that time period. I do believe he was “forward thinking” in terms of the challenges, and possible changes in society (at that time) and the impact it had on the country. Thanks 😊
Thank you for your reply! I appreciate your knowledge and understanding about this remarkable man who had insight into the cultural, economical, and societal issues happening at that time period. I do believe he was “forward thinking” in terms of the challenges, and possible changes in society (at that time) and the impact it had on the country. Thanks 😊
Isn’t it ironic that a man who was a genius and a wizard with metaphor adeptly and without hesitation strips away all metaphor, innuendo and double talk of popular language and speaks directly to an issue with profound and pointed observations. This was indeed a tumultuous time. The Vietnam war approaching its peak, disruption on college campuses, a new Black and Proud generation making demands for equality in the streets and a Cold War raging with Russia, just to name a few of the current events. He could see clearly and wasted no words and used no euphemism to point out what the disease of racism had done, was doing and would more than likely continue to do. Im thinking it was very refreshing and a relief to get these thoughts off of his chest without having to fashion his thoughts into something palatable to the sponsors, and masses. It certainly was refreshing to hear him speak that way. Thank you for posting.
Good observation of Rod Serling and his legacy. He is the author of the first original screen play 'Planet of The Apes.' The intention behind the story and screen play, obviously, was to depict Caucasians in the role of the oppressed and dehumanized as black people have been for centuries now here in America and else where. In order to get the film funded and into production at the time of his writing it (the late 1960's), he substituted or replaced BLACK characters with apes so that it would be palpable to studio executives as a science fiction film as opposed to or rather than a drama making a statement about the subject of race. According to one of the biographies written about him, he sold the rights to the story after his failed efforts to get it into production himself. Very creative writer and humanitarian. 😔
I'll post this for the young not only to introduce the gift of who he was (remains) as a writer- but more importantly, as a 'thinking' man. He spoke out, as he does here, on political, philosophical, social, educational and common-sensical approaches to the great difficulties that plague us as a race. His reflections remain as important now as they were then. If you take the time to listen to this speech to a campus crowd from the 1960's, you may marvel how much of it resonates in staying sharp today. A gift of a lecture from a gift of a talent that doesn't shine twice.
***** Actually he paints a fantasy world where whites are only interested in oppressing blacks, and blacks are only interested in justice. In today´s reality whites at most just don´t want to be too heavily discriminated against, and blacks are trying to play the system as much as they possibly can. Whites are taught to look out for the interests of non-whites and defer to them. Blacks are taught to always and shamelessly look out only for their own tribal/racial interests.
kaunas888 I think you need to watch (and read) Rod Serling because you're not reflecting what Serling was writing about or how he 'felt' 'at all'. As to where we all stand in regards to race relations- I don't share your take on either the white or the black motivations- and I personally believe we meet each other as people on a daily basis, we form relationships and friendships and even acquaintance-ships on the basis of how we behave ie: share, exchange, listen, speak etc. I think the future will brighten and enlighten if we remember and learn from the past, grow and change as a result of it, and we don't concentrate on what separates us but what is common to all of us. The right to live and not merely exist being paramount to the case.
@@kaunas888we are clearly two different species that shouldn’t live together. From my vantage point this was the reason for the bringing the two species together. Always to destroy the humans and replace the earth with voodoos. The cult destroyed Europe to cause mass migration and the same cult brought the Africans from Africa. Forcing them together and constantly causing friction. For my money the voodoo “any means necessary” has been as much behind the “slave trade” and controlling major events as has every other cult in the Hidden Hand. It is Satan’s goal to destroy humanity, compassion, care and right to property. We are two different species. I don’t believe the percentages of death in Vietnam. Tell us the percentages in WW2. Ten thousand to one human to voodoo. No voodoo fought in the pacific in WW2 . What was the ratio of deaths in WW1? Zero blacks dead? Who created those wars and why! To kill-off humans. And civil war as well. Create situations to get humans to kill each other. The voodoo are the Hidden Hand and the masons are their servants. The Zionists and Jesuits serve Satan. All the cults hate Christ; which is that they hate TRUTH. He is right about the censorship . he talks AGAINST A megalithic government. The voodoo and the various human species are different. Humans need self determination and not to be repressed by Zionists, voodoo, masonry, homosexuals and all the coven that needs to repress humanity because it can’t compete on an even playing field. The money system is death to humanity. Good call on Vietnam: Who wants us there? Who benefits and who is the enemy? I believe the death of Kennedy was very Probably a hoax because with the martyrdom of Kennedy it was much easier to push through all legislation that would’ve otherwise met with more resistance. Johnson didn’t act Like a Texan, he’s a mason; in the Hidden Hand. He does what he’s told as all of them do. Left , right Biden Trump they are owned by the same coven and the same agenda gets pushed. Enslavement and complete control of humans and perhaps the death of most or all of humanity. The hell-on-earth today of evil and hoaxes is the outcome of the Hidden Hand working world events all through history. He doesn’t want self determination for humans or doesn’t understand how evil the voodoos are. Atheists, socialists and communists. George Wallace was correct. Except their atheists are Satanists and even more evil than Serling understands. But then, he’s in television and even then one must’ve HAD to have been in the cult: mason, Jesuit, Zionists…to have been working in television. The Irish were being starved-out and robbed of their lands and forced to migrate to the United States mid century of the 1800s yet their ancestors get blamed for slavery yet the masons, synagogue of satan and the Africans themselves do not catch any blame for the so-called slave trade. Yet obviously they are the money controllers and must be the ones that created the chaotic hell that was mixing of two extreme opposite creatures. The New Left was preoccupied with LSD. That was another agenda for the destruction of humans and now it’s fentanyl and xylazene. He might TRULY not understand what the civil rights’ TRUE motive was. I can appreciate his appreciation for the right of a person to speak their mind.
Don't worry Jackie, I think that would be practically impossible. No historian studying this span of time could not be exposed to his work.as it has had such an impact on culture.
I recall seeing him addressing an audience I was priviledged to attend about two years after this date. I even asked him some question afterwards probably about one of the "Twilight Zone" zones.
Rods writings are as relevant today as they were then. Brilliant, and creative. A man before his time. A writer with more relevance than anyone today. A great American writer.
Great speech and Q&A session! Thanks for posting this! I've been going back and watching some of the original Twilight Zone episodes recently, and the messages espoused by both those and Rod Serling here still apply to today's politics and current events, as well as tomorrow's U.S. mid-term elections, some 50+ years later, in a somewhat eerie sense. We can all do our part to restore our great country's democracy by voting tomorrow, if you have not already done so!
It was a great speech, Rod was a highly intelligent individual, his command of language makes him a very effective communicator, and he's got a great mind worthy of communication. I guess I marvel at this because now me, at age 57, this strange man named Rod Serling, who I sat and watched as a child in the sixties introduce his show, and he smoked, ah, was a strange guy, and Twilight Zone was a really strange show, but I must have thought that because the show made me think about such strange adult situations, it challenged what I knew about my world from reality, I don't suppose tha Twilight zone would have been carried by Disney and packaged as a kids show, to the contrary it came on late at night, yes making it even more mysterious to me, such a curious show, and it was so because this guy named Rod was writing it and he was a genius.
Rod Serling indeed was a brillian genius who was not afraid to challenge social issues of the time through his " The Twilight Zone" series. His kind of genius is something that will probably not bee seen again, especially in these times.
So true because of political correctness nonsense and what not and rod serling was brilliant and ahead of his time look what we go through now well he knew about racism growing up because his nationality was Jewish he was raised depression and ww2 era and fought in 2nd world war and was just 5-4 but it didn't stop his ambition and he was right about equal time law about politics still that problem today 54 years today
This man is Iconic.....his quiet grace and dagger like intelligence is so sorely needed today. Sadly we,as an audience and as citizens have devolved rather than progressed over the years. This is 1966 for christ sakes....yet this man has more cashe' than most politicians of the past 5 years. Plus, the audience is actually engaged with his remarks...open minded and reflective in their awe of this humble man.Where are our Rod Serlings???Gone too soon...his Twilight Zone lexicon is just as thought provoking today as it was in the sixties. RIP Mr. Serling.
During the 1958-59 school year, Rod Serling was the PTA President at Roosevelt Elementary in Santa Monica, CA. At the fall school carnival he wore his iconic suit/tie he is seen in Twilight Zone. The school principal asked him to help him get a glitzy gold lame gown, long blond wig, and all the trimmings to dress up in complete drag for the carnival. . I will admit it was a bit unnerving to see the principal in full drag at the school carnival. But Santa Monica has always been funky....even in the 50's.
katylake212, not if he refers to blacks as "negroes" or "coloreds" and is such a restrained liberal whose speech is absent of profanity as it was at this assembly. One wonders how Mr Serling would react to the fascist liberal antifa garbage that eventuates these days. By any logical extension, he would decry these current day escapades with as much energy and vigor as he did the unfair oppression of "negroes" in 1966. If not, then he would be correctly be described as hypocritical.
I always loved Rod Serling. I thought he was a decent, moral, and thoughtful man. That being said: I agreed with much of what he said but not all of it. I am conservative, he was not, though he held many conservative views. I think that if he spoke today he would amend some of his comments and be more critical of the, “progressive, liberal,” movement, and negative toward both the radical left and the radical right. All-in-all, I enjoyed hearing him speak, and to have him unapologetically be transparent about who he is and what he believed. What I liked most about his talk was that he believed we should be united, embrace law and order, and speak our minds and hearts, even if we disagree about some things. We should talk with each other, not fight and claw and scratch at each other. He was for getting to the root cause of problems and issues that divide us and try to find the common ground, get the job done, then talk some more and follow the same process. Unfortunately, I could hear the telling, hacking cough, that was probably the announcement of the cancer that sadly killed him. I miss him. God bless and keep him.
I watched Twilight Zone as it first aired, when it was the most exciting, most profound, most meaningful thing in my life. TZ was so very far ahead of its time, and RS was my guru.
He should’ve been posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame since his death in 1975. Nice speaking voice and speech he delivered at UCLA. Because of his legacy, I created him in Sims 4, sim fans!!
I darn well wish the questions were audible. Fortunately, Serling answered in such a way that the questions could be surmised. The only one is the one he declined to answer. The announcer had said he'd resort to a better arrangement if there was a problem; apparently he couldn't tell.
One of the pioneers bringing the race situation to TV in his absolute brilliant, brilliant writings. Of course I'm sure ... unless he's nuts, didn't realize how whacked out it would become in the 21st Century! But damn this man was a great speaker, I could listen to him all day, even though 30 percent of the time I'm trying to play catch up with what he's talking about. Thank God we have youTube videos to stop and rewind. Brilliant man!
There are a lot of comments here that need to take in mind the year this speech was made... that this speech was made in the midst of the Civil Rights movement. Context is important, people
I've been wondering a lot lately what Rod Serling would think of today's political climate, because everything he's said here resonates. Circulate this to every politician, Republican and Democrat, in Washington.
Eloquently insightful and prescriptive......prescient but alas not everyone was listening or acting on his instruction....we are still stuck in the Twighlight Zone
A nation is not ruined because a group of people happen to think it is ruined. People are forever attempting to blame anyone but themselves for the ills of said nation.
29:12 "let me suggest whereas this is not the best of all possible worlds its potential remains quite in tact. and I think this potential stems form the very thing we've been discussing the business of talking out of dissenting, of arguing, and rebutting. that's the universal language: speech, dialogue, communication. therein lies the hope: communication. that's the highway between men's minds that guarantee as long as men talk they will not fight. and as long as they do not fight, they survive. so I would leave you wtih this thought: dont stop talking. and stop thinking. and don't for god sake's stop arguing."
In another video of Serling on here from 1971Serling is asked about The Outer Limits and applauds its creator Joseph Stefano as a quite talented writer. Which i thought was pretty cool.
I don't subscribe to that ... he said that about Americans and Jim sang about subscribing too. I listen to the doors all the time in my car radios just don't play the doors it bothers them
excellent speech on reality of integrity and truth of blacks whites and all peoples,honor yourself,your community,your family,your neighbor,,,,a great truth in this talk by artist and human being, rod serling. good day and good work to all peoples.
This interview was less than two years before the Mexico Olympic Games and the black Power Glove Salute during the US National Anthem, while both Tommie Smith, after setting a World Record in the 200 Meters, and John Carlos, stood on the Olympic Games Victory Stand in Gold and Silver foundations. We are not very modern, are we? No. 2020 has revealed that we are not very far removed at all in time,. to our improvement over November, 1963, the day we killed President Kennedy.
In any case, I really admired Rod Serling for his work and his convictions. I think one of the greatest tragedies is he never expanded his work relationship with Ray Bradbury. TZ probably would have gain more ground and lasted a bit longer. I know he said it was a finance issue but maybe the demand for it would have gone up with a boost from Bradbury's other writings such as Martian Chronicles (my fav) or Illustrated Man. Never be now . . . both are gone.
Ray Bradbury said that he was angry with Rod Serling for cutting 1min. of his Body Electric script and declared he would never write for TZ again. Bradbury had a history of being Egotistical. Rod was a very fair man who always paid/credited authors for their work. Bradbury's script just ran too long for the time allotted.
+Martin Sage Bradbury could be a real blowhard, particularly his later years. I don't think many networks wanted to deal with him after what went on with Martian Chronicles.
Scorchy666 I think he did admit to his own arrogance later on. Just that by then, it stifled some potentially wonderful ops. A few days late, and many dollars short.
Rod was ahead of his time on race relations. Racism is a learned not innate evil that will always be in society. Jesus is only redemption for racists. He can deliver you and save your souls from hell
My mom would not let my friend Kim into our house when I brought him home from school, to play Army men. Sets. How he must've felt!!! And so kind about it. I have had to re program F@#$@#!!! Thoughts that my mother tried to implant upon me . Don't teach your Children to hate.!!! Scott LaVoie
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OMG...I am weeping through this. We need his voice and his principles here and now and forever!!!
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Liberals always appeal to emotions, instead of facts.
I agree.
You have every opportunity to embody them within yourself.
Now! 2023! Died way too soon! Smoking 🚬 ugh 😩
He's said a lot of stuff here about race that is, unfortunately, still very relevant and true. If you've watched his Twilight Zone series, you can see this passion for justice in his writing as well. Real genius whom I respect greatly.
And still so very present here in 2020. Such an limiting measurement of how far we... have NOT come as a specie. I am unhappy at our failures.
@@libradragon A SPECIE???? I'm a nice specimen!
2021
He was much more than a great writer and orator. As for the TZ , i have been watching it and reading about it for 60yrs. A great man.
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So relatable it gives you chills.
He was a rare human being.
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luckily
Definitely
@@mr.blackhawk142 if govt and population were full of Rod Serlings, there’d be more people who know what’s actually going on. And fewer robot people.
He'd be disappointed today.
But he'd still be optimistic.
Lovely man
No his dream is happening.
@@paulb9769😊 Paul ❤You are so right. Things are looking difficult at the moment.
If we have dialogue, communication between ourselves , we can survive and live together.
Communication, speech,communication.
Don't stop talking.
Don't stop communicating
And for God's sake Don't stop arguing
This new generation is the brightest and most intelligent and most informed to lead us to a better tomorrow.
"This isn't the best of possible worlds, but it's hope lies quite intact"
@@fluorosco Do you think he would have supported the Palestinians?
@@paulb9769 I will have to inform myself before I answer Paul 👍
No, he would see the wrong the left have turned too. And would point it out, whether anyone liked it or not. Wrong is wrong. A decent human.
As a professional writer and man of conscience myself, Rod stands for me as really the only TV / teleplay writer worth speaking of. He is a Muhammad Ali of concepts and ideas. What an intellect-stirring speech!
The Great Rod Serling Speaks.
No more needs to be said.
Thank you for the post.
More, more, more!
Mr.Serling made another talk at UCLA in '71. It's on youtube.
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@@MartinSage "Rod Serling speaking at UCLA 5/17/1971" ruclips.net/video/vqlhGgsamro/видео.html
Mr. Serling was way ahead of his time and much more than a writer!
I hear you! 💃🏼
No, he wasn't¹ - he was talking about his time, the time of this lecture. The thing is ... nothing has changed. I mean, they have but in a leopardic way "so they remain the same"
1) I consider him ahead of his time in his work - a giant - but in this lecture he was talking about the 1960s.
Thank you for your reply! I appreciate your knowledge and understanding about this remarkable man who had insight into the cultural, economical, and societal issues happening at that time period. I do believe he was “forward thinking” in terms of the challenges, and possible changes in society (at that time) and the impact it had on the country. Thanks 😊
Thank you for your reply! I appreciate your knowledge and understanding about this remarkable man who had insight into the cultural, economical, and societal issues happening at that time period. I do believe he was “forward thinking” in terms of the challenges, and possible changes in society (at that time) and the impact it had on the country. Thanks 😊
@@JM-cf5yn absolutely!
Fascinating. Thanks for allowing us to listen to the man himself.
" ill meet you outside young man. We'll take a drag together" - Rod Serling
we love you rod serling.
This is still relevant, even more so today.
Isn’t it ironic that a man who was a genius and a wizard with metaphor adeptly and without hesitation strips away all metaphor, innuendo and double talk of popular language and speaks directly to an issue with profound and pointed observations. This was indeed a tumultuous time. The Vietnam war approaching its peak, disruption on college campuses, a new Black and Proud generation making demands for equality in the streets and a Cold War raging with Russia, just to name a few of the current events. He could see clearly and wasted no words and used no euphemism to point out what the disease of racism had done, was doing and would more than likely continue to do. Im thinking it was very refreshing and a relief to get these thoughts off of his chest without having to fashion his thoughts into something palatable to the sponsors, and masses. It certainly was refreshing to hear him speak that way. Thank you for posting.
Good observation of Rod Serling and his legacy.
He is the author of the first original screen play 'Planet of The Apes.' The intention behind the story and screen play, obviously, was to depict Caucasians in the role of the oppressed and dehumanized as black people have been for centuries now here in America and else where.
In order to get the film funded and into production at the time of his writing it (the late 1960's), he substituted or replaced BLACK characters with apes so that it would be palpable to studio executives as a science fiction film as opposed to or rather than a drama making a statement about the subject of race. According to one of the biographies written about him, he sold the rights to the story after his failed efforts to get it into production himself.
Very creative writer and humanitarian. 😔
Enjoyed listening to his wise words here. Exceptionally intelligent man.
I'll post this for the young not only to introduce the gift of who he was (remains) as a writer- but more importantly, as a 'thinking' man. He spoke out, as he does here, on political, philosophical, social, educational and common-sensical approaches to the great difficulties that plague us as a race. His reflections remain as important now as they were then. If you take the time to listen to this speech to a campus crowd from the 1960's, you may marvel how much of it resonates in staying sharp today. A gift of a lecture from a gift of a talent that doesn't shine twice.
***** Actually he paints a fantasy world where whites are only interested in oppressing blacks, and blacks are only interested in justice. In today´s reality whites at most just don´t want to be too heavily discriminated against, and blacks are trying to play the system as much as they possibly can. Whites are taught to look out for the interests of non-whites and defer to them. Blacks are taught to always and shamelessly look out only for their own tribal/racial interests.
kaunas888 I think you need to watch (and read) Rod Serling because you're not reflecting what Serling was writing about or how he 'felt' 'at all'. As to where we all stand in regards to race relations- I don't share your take on either the white or the black motivations- and I personally believe we meet each other as people on a daily basis, we form relationships and friendships and even acquaintance-ships on the basis of how we behave ie: share, exchange, listen, speak etc. I think the future will brighten and enlighten if we remember and learn from the past, grow and change as a result of it, and we don't concentrate on what separates us but what is common to all of us. The right to live and not merely exist being paramount to the case.
Rod was a true patriot and loved the people in this country.
@@burkepota Amen
@@kaunas888we are clearly two different species that shouldn’t live together. From my vantage point this was the reason for the bringing the two species together. Always to destroy the humans and replace the earth with voodoos. The cult destroyed Europe to cause mass migration and the same cult brought the Africans from Africa. Forcing them together and constantly causing friction. For my money the voodoo “any means necessary” has been as much behind the “slave trade” and controlling major events as has every other cult in the Hidden Hand.
It is Satan’s goal to destroy humanity, compassion, care and right to property.
We are two different species. I don’t believe the percentages of death in Vietnam. Tell us the percentages in WW2. Ten thousand to one human to voodoo. No voodoo fought in the pacific in WW2 .
What was the ratio of deaths in WW1? Zero blacks dead? Who created those wars and why! To kill-off humans. And civil war as well. Create situations to get humans to kill each other. The voodoo are the Hidden Hand and the masons are their servants. The Zionists and Jesuits serve Satan. All the cults hate Christ; which is that they hate TRUTH.
He is right about the censorship .
he talks AGAINST A megalithic government.
The voodoo and the various human species are different. Humans need self determination and not to be repressed by Zionists, voodoo, masonry, homosexuals and all the coven that needs to repress humanity because it can’t compete on an even playing field.
The money system is death to humanity.
Good call on Vietnam: Who wants us there? Who benefits and who is the enemy?
I believe the death of Kennedy was very Probably a hoax because with the martyrdom of Kennedy it was much easier to push through all legislation that would’ve otherwise met with more resistance.
Johnson didn’t act Like a Texan, he’s a mason; in the Hidden Hand. He does what he’s told as all of them do. Left , right Biden Trump they are owned by the same coven and the same agenda gets pushed. Enslavement and complete control of humans and perhaps the death of most or all of humanity. The hell-on-earth today of evil and hoaxes is the outcome of the Hidden Hand working world events all through history.
He doesn’t want self determination for humans or doesn’t understand how evil the voodoos are.
Atheists, socialists and communists. George Wallace was correct. Except their atheists are Satanists and even more evil than Serling understands. But then, he’s in television and even then one must’ve HAD to have been in the cult: mason, Jesuit, Zionists…to have been working in television.
The Irish were being starved-out and robbed of their lands and forced to migrate to the United States mid century of the 1800s yet their ancestors get blamed for slavery yet the masons, synagogue of satan and the Africans themselves do not catch any blame for the so-called slave trade. Yet obviously they are the money controllers and must be the ones that created the chaotic hell that was mixing of two extreme opposite creatures.
The New Left was preoccupied with LSD. That was another agenda for the destruction of humans and now it’s fentanyl and xylazene.
He might TRULY not understand what the civil rights’ TRUE motive was.
I can appreciate his appreciation for the right of a person to speak their mind.
I do not want Rod to be forgotten !!!!!................
Don't worry Jackie, I think that would be practically impossible. No historian studying this span of time could not be exposed to his work.as it has had such an impact on culture.
Ive seen all the twilight zone series and all his other great things. He was a compassionate genius
I recall seeing him addressing an audience I was priviledged to attend about two years after this date. I even asked him some question afterwards probably about one of the "Twilight Zone" zones.
Rods writings are as relevant today as they were then. Brilliant, and creative. A man before his time. A writer with more relevance than anyone today. A great American writer.
Alot of people intrigue me, and this guy is one of them. Much respect Mr. Serling❤️
Holy crap! It's like it was recorded yesterday, unfortunately.
Rod Serling's words are beautiful, if not musical, and seemingly eternal in their breadth and meaning.
I’m really glad this is archived
Great speech and Q&A session! Thanks for posting this! I've been going back and watching some of the original Twilight Zone episodes recently, and the messages espoused by both those and Rod Serling here still apply to today's politics and current events, as well as tomorrow's U.S. mid-term elections, some 50+ years later, in a somewhat eerie sense. We can all do our part to restore our great country's democracy by voting tomorrow, if you have not already done so!
It was a great speech, Rod was a highly intelligent individual, his command of language makes him a very effective communicator, and he's got a great mind worthy of communication. I guess I marvel at this because now me, at age 57, this strange man named Rod Serling, who I sat and watched as a child in the sixties introduce his show, and he smoked, ah, was a strange guy, and Twilight Zone was a really strange show, but I must have thought that because the show made me think about such strange adult situations, it challenged what I knew about my world from reality, I don't suppose tha Twilight zone would have been carried by Disney and packaged as a kids show, to the contrary it came on late at night, yes making it even more mysterious to me, such a curious show, and it was so because this guy named Rod was writing it and he was a genius.
Dave Green Actually Serling did not write most of the TZ episodes, but he hired great writers, like Matheson.
@Jim LaGuardia: Serling did in fact write the majority of Twilight Zones having penned 92 of the 156 episodes.
All these years later, his words still ring true.
Man this guy was brilliant and highly articulate...he created the Twilight Zone due to wanting to convey stories of social issues cloaked in fantasy
U R JOKING RIGHT???
And make a little cash?
@@mr.blackhawk142 whaju talkin bout Blackhawk?
well said
How I wish I could have had the privilege to attend any college writing or literature class taught by this man.
You do, it's right here before you!
@@fromthepeanutgallery1084 that's the beauty of the internet age
Way ahead of his time. What a great mind he had.
In Rod We Trust
Rod Serling indeed was a brillian genius who was not afraid to challenge social issues of the time through his " The Twilight Zone" series. His kind of genius is something that will probably not bee seen again, especially in these times.
J Michael Straczynski comes pretty close.
So true because of political correctness nonsense and what not and rod serling was brilliant and ahead of his time look what we go through now well he knew about racism growing up because his nationality was Jewish he was raised depression and ww2 era and fought in 2nd world war and was just 5-4 but it didn't stop his ambition and he was right about equal time law about politics still that problem today 54 years today
This man is Iconic.....his quiet grace and dagger like intelligence is so sorely needed today. Sadly we,as an audience and as citizens have devolved rather than progressed over the years. This is 1966 for christ sakes....yet this man has more cashe' than most politicians of the past 5 years. Plus, the audience is actually engaged with his remarks...open minded and reflective in their awe of this humble man.Where are our Rod Serlings???Gone too soon...his Twilight Zone lexicon is just as thought provoking today as it was in the sixties. RIP Mr. Serling.
During the 1958-59 school year, Rod Serling was the PTA President at Roosevelt Elementary in Santa Monica, CA. At the fall school carnival he wore his iconic suit/tie he is seen in Twilight Zone. The school principal asked him to help him get a glitzy gold lame gown, long blond wig, and all the trimmings to dress up in complete drag for the carnival. . I will admit it was a bit unnerving to see the principal in full drag at the school carnival. But Santa Monica has always been funky....even in the 50's.
That's pretty strange .... welcome to .... The Twilight Zone!
Really good talk. I wonder if Rod Serling were alive today if he'd be allowed to speak at UCLA.
katylake212, not if he refers to blacks as "negroes" or "coloreds" and is such a restrained liberal whose speech is absent of profanity as it was at this assembly. One wonders how Mr Serling would react to the fascist liberal antifa garbage that eventuates these days. By any logical extension, he would decry these current day escapades with as much energy and vigor as he did the unfair oppression of "negroes" in 1966.
If not, then he would be correctly be described as hypocritical.
@Numinous123 So how does the ad hominem cookie-cutter attack help further your point again?
Numinous123 How do you know? Do you know this RUclips user personally?
He can back as Ben Shapiro!
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Thanks so much for posting this. Very interesting. Loved it.
Outside of the names of various political figures, I'd swear Serling were talking about 2019.
I agree. It is sad that everything he spoke of stands true to this day. Ge
True and unbelievable.
He wouldn't believe it himself if he could see the way prejudice and injustice still exist so strongly
And about 2021. I suspect this speech will remain relevant 10 years from now in 2031.
@@profnachos So true.
What a fantastic speech it is
@@nickdavila8795 Its unbelievable
Informal coffee hour with Rod Serling! Wow, what an opportunity.
I always loved Rod Serling. I thought he was a decent, moral, and thoughtful man. That being said: I agreed with much of what he said but not all of it. I am conservative, he was not, though he held many conservative views. I think that if he spoke today he would amend some of his comments and be more critical of the, “progressive, liberal,” movement, and negative toward both the radical left and the radical right.
All-in-all, I enjoyed hearing him speak, and to have him unapologetically be transparent about who he is and what he believed. What I liked most about his talk was that he believed we should be united, embrace law and order, and speak our minds and hearts, even if we disagree about some things. We should talk with each other, not fight and claw and scratch at each other. He was for getting to the root cause of problems and issues that divide us and try to find the common ground, get the job done, then talk some more and follow the same process.
Unfortunately, I could hear the telling, hacking cough, that was probably the announcement of the cancer that sadly killed him.
I miss him.
God bless and keep him.
You’re assuming a lot.
His picture shows him wearing a Hamilton Ventura watch!! The coolest watch for the coolest guy...
I often woder how Rod Would react to this current situation in august 2020. God bless him.
He’d be even more aghast over AmeriKKKa post-11/5/24.
I love that you can listen to this even now and have a slight feeling that this happened recently.
Because it is happening. It's completely relevant.
I first heard this speech several years ago. I was taken a back at the time how relevant it was then. In 2020, it sounds even more relevant.
I watched Twilight Zone as it first aired, when it was the most exciting, most profound, most meaningful thing in my life. TZ was so very far ahead of its time, and RS was my guru.
"...he'll be next door in the Men's Lounge." LOL
He should’ve been posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame since his death in 1975. Nice speaking voice and speech he delivered at UCLA. Because of his legacy, I created him in Sims 4, sim fans!!
I darn well wish the questions were audible. Fortunately, Serling answered in such a way that the questions could be surmised. The only one is the one he declined to answer. The announcer had said he'd resort to a better arrangement if there was a problem; apparently he couldn't tell.
Very much ahead of his time. A brilliant speaker .
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I love this man.3/4/23
This NEEDS to be shown in EVERY history class! Hmmm....sounds familiar in 2020 doesn't it?
This man is the BEST classical Liberal EVER!
It’s not liberal to me. It’s just awareness and compassion.
One of the pioneers bringing the race situation to TV in his absolute brilliant, brilliant writings. Of course I'm sure ... unless he's nuts, didn't realize how whacked out it would become in the 21st Century! But damn this man was a great speaker, I could listen to him all day, even though 30 percent of the time I'm trying to play catch up with what he's talking about. Thank God we have youTube videos to stop and rewind. Brilliant man!
I love his political and social comment.
I wonder if Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who then was a sophomore at UCLA was in the audience
THE GREATEST, Mr. Serling.
There are a lot of comments here that need to take in mind the year this speech was made... that this speech was made in the midst of the Civil Rights movement.
Context is important, people
Yes, you’re right. Listening today it sounds way out of context.
Thank you for sharing this information. Now that I know more about Him, I love him even more. He is Wise...He is Great!
He was just a man with the opportunity to express his ideas millions of other people didn't get that
Damn good speech, regardless of what spectrum you are on.
One of my biggest inspirations!
I've been wondering a lot lately what Rod Serling would think of today's political climate, because everything he's said here resonates.
Circulate this to every politician, Republican and Democrat, in Washington.
Well said, Mr. S
Eloquently insightful and prescriptive......prescient but alas not everyone was listening or acting on his instruction....we are still stuck in the Twighlight Zone
The best comment so far! Even Rod is in a way a hypocritical just like anyone else
A nation is not ruined because a group of people happen to think it is ruined. People are forever attempting to blame anyone but themselves for the ills of said nation.
You can write and speak because your stomach is full of food! Poor nations will forever blame the rich nations
29:12
"let me suggest whereas this is not the best of all possible worlds
its potential remains quite in tact.
and I think this potential stems form the very thing we've been discussing
the business of talking out
of dissenting,
of arguing,
and rebutting.
that's the universal language: speech, dialogue, communication.
therein lies the hope: communication.
that's the highway between men's minds that guarantee as long as men talk
they will not fight.
and as long as they do not fight,
they survive.
so I would leave you wtih this thought:
dont stop talking.
and stop thinking.
and don't for god sake's stop arguing."
In another video of Serling on here from 1971Serling is asked about The Outer Limits and applauds its creator Joseph Stefano as a quite talented writer. Which i thought was pretty cool.
as a 22 year old in college during 2024 hearing “tuition-free university.” shook me to my fucking core at 1:15
I could hear the questions he was asked at the end. Is it possible you can make another video with the questions being heard?
He wouldn't fare well today because of what he said about letting everyone speak even if they were offensive.
You think he was anti freedom of speech?
OMG. That is your biggest takeaway of all the powerful points he made? LOL.
Legend
24:00 holy shit! Where he talks about the "new left". As you can see this is 1966. Take what you will from that.
As a young man he tested parachutes for the military and ejection seats
Jim Morrison - was going to UCLA - in 1966 😎.
I don't subscribe to that ... he said that about Americans and Jim sang about subscribing too. I listen to the doors all the time in my car radios just don't play the doors it bothers them
I wonder what that question he didn't want to answer was. I couldn't hear it
Mr Serling was a great man who left us too soon.
this is deep
excellent speech on reality of integrity and truth of blacks whites and all peoples,honor yourself,your community,your family,your neighbor,,,,a great truth in this talk by artist and human being, rod serling.
good day and good work to all peoples.
He was a profoundly deep thinker. 🤔
Can anyone make out what question he declined around the 53:00 mark?
I believe he may have been asked about his views on the Warren Report. He referred to this @ 1:04
that would be a Boeing aircraft identification black box from air craft Mi SIGMA KH20 OMNI
this could have been given in 2023 in terms of campus speech, etc.
Brilliant mind
😂😂 I like the term “ A lesser breed of cat 🙋🏿♂️🙋🏾♀️ who cannot be trusted “ 🙇🏻💥🤛🏿
Is there a transcript of this speech available?
We currently don't have enough funding to provide transcripts, but are hoping to add them later.
@@UCLADrasninArchive Thank you for letting me. This resource in itself is quite amazing. Thanks for it.
@@UCLADrasninArchive play it with microsoft and can record the speak
just take forever....... oh, yeah, a STORY TELLER...
this could have been given in 2023
Fukkk yeah Rod! You always spoke truth to power and you're a real and true American hero.
aMAZING SPAEKER.
This interview was less than two years before the Mexico Olympic Games and the black Power Glove Salute during the US National Anthem, while both Tommie Smith, after setting a World Record in the 200 Meters, and John Carlos, stood on the Olympic Games Victory Stand in Gold and Silver foundations. We are not very modern, are we? No. 2020 has revealed that we are not very far removed at all in time,. to our improvement over November, 1963, the day we killed President Kennedy.
"we" didn't kill Kennedy, an individual did.
In any case, I really admired Rod Serling for his work and his convictions. I think one of the greatest tragedies is he never expanded his work relationship with Ray Bradbury. TZ probably would have gain more ground and lasted a bit longer. I know he said it was a finance issue but maybe the demand for it would have gone up with a boost from Bradbury's other writings such as Martian Chronicles (my fav) or Illustrated Man. Never be now . . . both are gone.
Ray Bradbury said that he was angry with Rod Serling for cutting 1min. of his Body Electric script and declared he would never write for TZ again. Bradbury had a history of being Egotistical. Rod was a very fair man who always paid/credited authors for their work. Bradbury's script just ran too long for the time allotted.
+Martin Sage Bradbury could be a real blowhard, particularly his later years. I don't think many networks wanted to deal with him after what went on with Martian Chronicles.
Scorchy666 I think he did admit to his own arrogance later on. Just that by then, it stifled some potentially wonderful ops. A few days late, and many dollars short.
Ray accused Rod of being a cheater and a beater. It’s pretty well known he cheated on his wife but I don’t know about the beating part.
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Shid, what famous man hasn't cheated on his wife?
Rod was ahead of his time on race relations. Racism is a learned not innate evil that will always be in society. Jesus is only redemption for racists. He can deliver you and save your souls from hell
1966? Sounds like 2020.
WHEM ONE SPEAKS TO HIMSELF. EVERY ONE LISTENS....
This shouldn't be as relevant today as it is. Humanity is a broken record.
Rod is so funny.
1:14:09: 50% should go to figuring out causes.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (The Gospel)
My mom would not let my friend Kim into our house when I brought him home from school, to play Army men. Sets. How he must've felt!!! And so kind about it. I have had to re program F@#$@#!!! Thoughts that my mother tried to implant upon me . Don't teach your Children to hate.!!! Scott LaVoie
when did sterling die?
Rod Serling died of a heart attack in 1975.
UCLACommStudies I thought he died of lung cancer I mean he did smoke like a freight train
He had several heart attacks, possibly due to his smoking, and died of a final heart attack while on the operating table during open heart surgery.
ok thanks
UCLACommStudies Specifically - June 28, 1975.
he was rich , thats how you get a grin like that
❤💫
Man I wish liberals in 2023 were more like him.
Was he really scared of Regan's election?