Lux presents Hollywood Labor Brothers Company the makers of Lux toilet soap bring you the Lux radio theater Starring Rameland and Colleen Townsend in it happens every spring Tonight the Lux radio theater comes to you from Hollywood as usual, but your producer speaks to you from New York City Ladies and gentlemen your producer mr. William Keely Greetings ladies and gentlemen for weeks excitement and baseball's big league pennant races has been at fever pitch Yesterday, however the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers were crowned champions after two of the toughest fights in years and Wednesday the great national sporting classic the world series gets on the way So tonight the Lux radio theater quite appropriately Presents a delightful story about baseball. It's the 20th century Fox picture. It happens every spring Heading our cast is Rameland in his original role and with him is the charming Colleen Townsend who lends romance to the big leagues Baseball is a great American institution as is our own Lux toilet soap and in Hollywood the big league for beautiful women Lux soap has a championship batting average nine out of ten screen stars use it Now for your enjoyment here is act one of it happens every spring Starring Rameland as Vernon Simpson and Colleen Townsend as Debbie It's a fine spring afternoon and on the campus of a Midwestern college The daughter of the college president is walking with her favorite professor. Oh, yes by far her favorite professor But what is it very and don't you feel well darling? You're acting so strangely I am And what was the idea bringing your portable radio to class tuning in the baseball game in the middle of your lecture? Well, Debbie, I wanted to find out how st. Louis was doing now. Why I don't know just an impulse I suppose I'm not that interested in baseball. I didn't know you were even remotely interested in baseball How bring you've become so that was so terribly vague lately. Oh, not about you Debbie Why you're almost everything I ever think about almost what else can I say something definite burning something? Positive about us. Oh, but that's been out of the question as a professor of chemistry I make barely enough to live on and your father well He's made it quite clear that for anyone in my financial situation We can discuss marriage and he's right any man who thinks of getting married on an income like mine as a Minister society, but just wait until your father finds out finds out what dear my experiment in the laboratory Vernon you mean you've done it. It's finished just about and I haven't told you the best part Debbie My nitrocycline hexane compound will a great commercial value. You'll finish your postgraduate work in two months We get married Debbie will buy a house maybe even a car Oh, but who's going to pay you all this money the Norworth laboratories for years They've been trying to develop a chemical that will keep insects away from wood a biophobic They call it. Well, they seem to think that my compounds the very thing they've been searching for The man who discovered the biophobic. Oh darling, I'm so proud of you Of course, we can't expect any positive results right away, but we Hey, wait a minute. Look over there back at the lab building. They're playing baseball Well, the boys play baseball there every day. They do oh Well, I guess I've been too busy to notice Well, you're not going to stop to notice them now. Come on Vernon. We're going to that lab Debbie look it's even better than I thought Look the white precipitate hallelujah. It's there. Oh Debbie You just don't realize what this means right here right here in this flask as a result of five years of work that Flask holds my fortune Debbie it holds you and money and everything I ever hope No, it couldn't happen it couldn't a baseball they knocked it through the window. Oh, oh Vernon look it smashed half your equipment. Give me a rag darling. I'll let it alone Well, don't you understand it smashed destroyed Everything no, I don't understand you still have your formula now How long would it take to make another solution? How long why just one of those compounds alone took five weeks to crystallize and they're all in Sequence I can't make the second till I finished the first darling. I'm so sorry I ran some of those reactions 30 and 40 times before you get enough stuff to make the next step Now I've got a start from scratch again do it all over step by step. It'll take months and that wonderful Precipitate isn't there any way you could filter it out and save it that liquid why it's just a hodgepodge of compounds I couldn't even figure out what's in it let alone filter it Well, I suppose I better clean up this mess can't I help died rather you run along Debbie It's just another bad break. That's nothing you can say nothing. I can say now darling You mustn't feel that way Debbie, please not now. I'm just not up to it All right, I'll see you later It just didn't write just because some kids knock a baseball through a window why my window why couldn't it have been? That's funny what sort of a baseball is this oh Now wait a minute now. I'm starting to see things What is doing it again? This baseball is allergic to wood What's happened here? What's happened? Notes regarding amazing reaction of baseball baseball had become saturated in mixture of chemicals as I started a clean Laboratory placed baseball on metal table baseball started a roll down the table on table was wooden filing box as Baseball roll toward box. It's suddenly veered off away from wooden box Have repeated process with all sorts of wooden objects It appears that chemical has made baseball repellent to anything made of wood Have salvaged enough liquid to fill two pint bottles in the meranging very interesting experiment for tomorrow morning Oh, yes, come in come in Well, it seems you gentlemen are doing rather sadly in organic chemistry. You're aware of that. Oh, yes I understand you both play baseball Boss of the pitcher and catcher right? Well, I I guess maybe baseball has been taken up too much of our time No doubt.  You see I used to play a little baseball myself Oh, you did how just a little we had sort of a sandlot team back home And then of course in the army Anyway, I thought I'd better give you boys a little tutoring see if we can't improve your grades I say that's a sure swell and then we turn I was wondering if you do something for me and keep it strictly confidential Oh, we'd be glad you professor I then meet me on the baseball field tomorrow morning at five o'clock five o'clock in the morning You heard me. Oh and bring a lot of baseballs Now sit down. I'll try to teach you a little chemistry Boys, I see you're right on time exactly five o'clock. Yeah, a m. Well, I don't want anyone to see us Now here's what I'd like to do is bill take your batten stand at home plate. Okay professor Schmidt put on your catcher's mask I'll try tossing in a few. Okay. Oh sure sure. Okay, so this is why I got us up at five o'clock So we could play pitcher, but he can't really be nuts or they wouldn't let him teach Well, it's one way of passing chemistry.  We got a humor now if you're ready is bell and don't hesitate to hit the ball Oh, don't worry. I'll hit it already professor Right down the groove. Well Yeah, go is there a nice work? Oh never mind professor. We'll get him on this next one feed him another curve, right? That ball go oh too bad. I didn't have an outfield in my class. Why it's over the fence. Yeah, isn't it?  I told you to humor start striking out strike out nothing.  Let's have another one. I Don't let him bother your professor.  Okay, okay Give me old whizzer professor right over the old plate. Ready is bill. Don't worry. I'm ready Wow, did you see the hop on that ball? Hey, that's a regular dipsy dude. You got there professor How'd you do it result of a great deal of scientific research? Okay, give him another let's see the old pepper in there now right down the old groove now professor Again, wow, that's making it happen there prof old boil hit this one. Will you now? He thinks you're faking who's faking? And hit it will you hit it you like that causes pitch and strikes them out You hit three consecutive pitches and you missed three Statistically therefore I've obtained all the information possible unless of course I pitched several hundred more balls Thank you gentlemen and good day Statistics yet. Hey, how do you like that guy? The test was eminently successful Of course what Isabelle and Schmidt did not know was that before making the last three pitches I had placed in my pitchers gloves a little pad of cotton soaked with the chemical solution And that in my glove is a small hole allowing contact of the chemical with the baseball Well, I'd better call and dr. Green leaf right away What emergency I don't understand well a wonderful opportunity has just presented itself dr. Green leaf It may not work out, but I'd like a leave of absence starting immediately leave of absence But for how long I don't know sir indefinitely. I can't explain it dr. Green leaf that that is I can but scientifically I can't explain it at all. You mean it has something to do with your experiment. Yes, sir But unless I get a chance to demonstrate it Illustrations a lectures of some kind. Well, no, not exactly Well, what are you going to take it to some commercial laboratory like the one you mentioned? What was it a Norworth laboratory sir? Well, then why is the time indefinite? Well, dr. Green leaf if I don't leave immediately I'm gonna miss my train. All right Vernon and go on go ahead and catch your train I'll have dr. Fuller take over your class. Oh, thank you, sir. Oh, I guess Debbie isn't awake yet Is she I hardly think so well will you tell her I said goodbye and that she'll hear from me soon? And thanks again dr. Green leaf. Oh taxi. Taxi. Where to mister the baseball park and hurry What's your rush to the game don't start till this afternoon? I didn't come all the way to st. Louis to watch a baseball game. Take me to the manager's office. You mean darling, huh? Hey, you a friend of his chum. Well, I hope to be and be careful that suitcase is some bottles in it But mr. Dolan as manager of the st. Louis baseball team this this can mean a great deal now look look I'm trying to be nice see number one I don't see anybody on days when we're playing games number two I got to get out there and watch bat and practice a number three I'm not asking for favors mr. Dolan. I'm trying to do you a favor and do it get out of my office But you need a picture very badly why I can win the pennant for you. That's no idle boast It's a simple scientific fact. I can win 30 games for you just 30 games. Is that all well? No, no 30 is just the minimum I suppose. Oh, no, no, you're not very screwy.  There ain't more than a dozen pictures ever went 30 games in a season Of course, I do and I can tell you their names if you like Well, all I want to do is show you what can you lose my breakfast is all Hey Mac take this guy away Don't hurt his arm.  Dolan with a chance to win the pennant right in your get him out of here Come on now pal be a nice guy.  Dolan. Well if mr. Dolan would do less shouting and more thinking Hey, what's all the rumpest you mean? Oh, I got another crank in here I think she's a pitcher thinks he can win 30 games. You don't say where's he from? He won't tell me you I take it in mr. Stone. That's right I appealed your intelligence mr. Stone as the owner of a baseball club. Well, I'm perfectly rational and willing to prove any claims I make all I want is a chance to demonstrate my pitching out of these characters get in here I walked in mr. Stone, and I'm about to walk out again When I do the pennant walks right out the door with me come on sonny Jim Take a good look at me mr. Stone all the other owners can't be pig heads You'll see me later in the season for just a minute. So I'm pigheaded am I you walk in here off the street And think you can win 30 games and just I don't think so mr. Stone. I know it know it I have never met such conceit in my life.   I think we ought to teach this fellow a good lesson Teach him anything you like but let me get out of here. We're going with you jimmy. Let him pitch to the boys Let him what young man?  There's the questions of terms of course Terms a yes terms Mr. I got a hand to you. Thank you Now I shall want $1,000 for every game I win otherwise not a penny And when I win a game I am to be paid promptly. I need the money now.  Oh, I'm really going to enjoy this Turns $1,000 holy moses It ain't my idea monk. It's his mr. Stone Give him a uniform he said that guy's a pitcher but he ain't got a prayer jimmy look at him warming up I'll get him over here. Let him start pitching and make sure he leaves that uniform when I throw him out on his ear Okay, you Dolan says you can start pitching now. Oh, thank you. That's fine Look, let me tell you kiddo this baseball racket ain't so hard to see like maybe a rate up out It's got its crummy side too duty trains all the time cheap hotels umpires It'd be a change though. I'm rather looking forward to it. Well jump You want to talk to him jimmy? No, I'll catch him jimmy catch what they're gonna hit every pitch All right, you guys come on top of the batting order Come on kid. Let's show them what you got knock it out of the park johnson Hey, what happened must have been an optical illusion Let me see you throw that one again. Hey monk. What's this guy got anyway? I don't know. We didn't have nothing when he was warming up now. He's got a hop like bonham's flea Hey, yo, come on. Just throw it duck. Come on throw something This is getting monotonous Me and him is playing catch Nice going kid. Keep it up This is incredible jimmy he's pitched to eight batters and struck out six. Yeah, that's right, mr. Stone You sure taught him a lesson. All right, but what's he got? I can't figure it out the ball rides up as big as a lemon pie and just when you get ready to murder it. It jumps away Hey monk bring that guy over here.   Oh, oh, I hadn't thought of it Hadn't thought of your name. Well try hard kid try hard. Well, it's um, it's kelly Oh kelly, huh? Well, that's the first encouragement thing you've said Okay, hang around. Oh, you mean we are ready to talk about the term. I ain't ready to talk at all See it depends upon what happens this afternoon. What's this afternoon? Chicago? That's what we play. Chicago this afternoon I'll get him out of here And this morning mr. Dolan allowed me to participate in the batting practice I again concealed a little pad of cotton inside my glove Saturated with the formula and had no difficulty in striking out most of the batters I find it the source of great amazement as I watched the ball evade the bat The players seem to have a similar reaction But my real test will come this afternoon if mr. Dolan allows me to pitch against chicago No one of course is the slightest suspicion that my skill as a pitcher is due almost entirely to the chemical formula I must exercise every precaution Louis four to seven the chicago team has staged a ninth inning rally and tied up the ball game Manager jimmy dolan's going to put in a new pitcher I can't tell you who he is. His name isn't even on the scorecard, but he better be good You heard me kelly get in their pitch me. Yes, you come on kids start staining a man I got a feeling we ain't gonna have much time. Oh about my contract mr. Dolan if I win this game It counts for me. I expect to get paid. I don't pay you go talk to stone now No, no, there's a ball game going on. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you Hey, you I'm tired. Where is he putting in monk? Who's a clown? We don't need no more clowns with you around sweetheart Guy's name is kelly attention, please kelly now pitching for st. Louis And believe me if there ever was a scared looking rookie kelly is it? I wonder what's in dolan's mind putting kelly in a spot like this and if you want to hear what the st. Louis fans think Oh Well kelly's taken his warm-up pitches and now monk land again the catcher goes out to the mound Look kid just take it easy. Just try and get that ball over the plate. It's my big opportunity I've got to get it over the plate. Just remember. I'm all alone back there, and they don't let me use no step ladder Baker second base now batting for chicago Hey muck where don't find that hooligan joplin high school very scared of head off and back at them make with the jokes Okay kelly let's go kid We've ever seen with the bases loaded and nobody out this unknown rookie pitcher struck out the side And st. Louis went on to win the ball game eight to seven Hurt from him from vernan and look what he sent me an engagement ring verna Something wrong somewhere Well here diamond like that must have cost now father, please when vernan left here four days ago I assumed he was going to the norwith laboratories, and you know as well as I do we never got there That's why the police are searching for india. Well, well, what does he say in that letter? He's so sweet. He's upset because he didn't get to say goodbye to me. But where is he? Well, he says I know you will have faith in me and do what I ask without asking why I ask it Well, that's vernan. All right. He even writes double talk Oh, and then he says he hasn't disappeared as the newspaper claims. Oh, but he has Please call the police and tell them to stop their search at once I cannot overemphasize the urgency of this. Why that in itself is suspicious. He's tangled himself up in some way Now let me finish the letter father My associates are rather rough and ready. Well, he practically admits it But their peculiar skill is a constant source of astonishment skill at what do you I don't know The work is strenuous and exciting, but the financial rewards are quite fantastic Yes, they must be that rain vernan's mixed up with some kind of a racket Father don't jump at conclusions. Well, he certainly got his leave of absence under false pretenses I can't forgive him for that. Well, I'm sure we'll know all about it very soon. No. No, I don't think so, mother He says I won't hear from him again for months. But why not? Well, he says it would be too risky risky Oh dear, this is all very strange and frightening the box the ring came in It's labeled marks and company in st. Louis. Well, I'm going to st. Louis tomorrow I'll take it to the store and find out exactly what it is. No, mother. You won't not well Well, because I don't care if it's glass or not. I'm going to wear vernan's ring Hello, mr. Dolan Oh, what's the matter with you guys? Don't you know the train leaves in five minutes? What do you want us to do jimmy get it early and polish the engine? Some eat the back again. Uh, no, not now. Thank you Well me and the boys were just talking about the guy there putting up against us in chicago tomorrow Well, I'm ski you ain't scared of him. I am well He's still got plenty of stuff last week the pump's like them all over the lot. Just wait until tomorrow We'll kill him.  Well, come on guys. Come on. Get on the train mother now calm down Now now, where did you say you're voting from right here? Well, what did he say? Oh now mother Like him, but I know it couldn't be verdant. Well, yes mother. Goodbye A few moments. We'll bring you act two of it happens every spring And now here's liby Collins our hollywood reporter. What is it tonight liby? Romance comedy both mr. Kennedy There's a new picture 20th century fox's everybody does it a delightful comedy with a dash of romance And if it doesn't put everyone who sees it in a wonderful frame of mind, I'll be surprised There's certainly a happy combination of talent in the picture Celeste home as a career-minded wife who wants to be a concert singer and paul douglas says the husband who tries to discourage If it doesn't know how until linda darnell shows him linda plays an operatic siren and does it in sparkling style You know, it seems to me in everybody does it that linda darnell looks even more gorgeous than usual What really luscious beauty she has and one of her greatest charms liby is that dazzling luxe complexion Yes, john linda has one of the loveliest complexions in hollywood Naturally, she gives her skin the best possible care Like nine out of ten other screen stars She finds luck soap facials really work Tests by skin specialists proved That daily luck soap care does wonders for the skin in three out of four cases Complexions improved in a short time luck soap facials are quick and easy too You just smooth the creamy fragrant lather well in Rinse and pat with a soft towel to dry That's all but see what fresh new loveliness it gives the skin There's a beauty hint from hollywood for women everywhere Be sure to try this fine product of lever brother's company for your precious complexion You'll be delighted with luck's toilet soaps gentle protecting care Act two of it happens every spring starring ray meland as bernand simpson And colleen townsend as debbie Thanks to his chemical formula professor bernand simpson has become the ace picture of the st louis baseball team in pittsburgh brooklyn philadelphia and boston under the name of kelly bernand has proved himself the strikeout king of the league Now in new york he finds that manager jimmy dolin has assigned him a roommate monk lannigan the catcher So that's how come i'm sharing the room with you kelly they uh kind of want me to keep an eye on you Dolan thinks you're somewhat of a screwball or something. Are you kelly? Why no monk quite the opposite everything i do is perfectly logical Hey, is that your girl's picture up there in the dressing? Yes. Yes, it is. That's uh a sweet-looking kid too Uh, what's her name kid? Oh, you wouldn't know her Kg, huh? Okay Hey, what's this stuff this monk monk? No, no put that bottle down Oh, it's eating a kelly all right. It's uh, it's just hair tonic hair tonic. Yes a special prescription It's very hard to get the drugist was a friend of mine Hair tonic. Yeah seems to think you were a lot of good. Oh, yes. Yes has done me a world of good Where are you really from kelly? Yeah, why are you all a mystery? Well, it's um It's my girl's father monk if he ever finds out i'll lose my girl and my job and everything Finds out what what i'm doing. I didn't even think I could do it, but I am and what i'm doing isn't what he thinks i'm doing at all Come again. Well, you see i'm getting the one thing. He wants me to have that I haven't got money by doing the one thing.  Yeah, I keep forgetting.   I don't want any publicity But you gotta talk to those guys them those paper fellas come ruin you exactly One recognizable picture of me in the newspapers and I am ruined Well, I'll just see the wit that I don't pitch anymore no hit games until you'll just see Kelly you mustn't talk like that then forget about the reporters Well, share a kid this time tomorrow. We'll be back in st. Louis Well, that's your home ain't it? It's too close to home Excuse me, monk. I think I'll turn it Morning to you mr. Dome. Where's Kelly? Uh, he went downtown, but don't worry He just said he had something very personal to do downtown. Well, I don't let him forget. He's pitching this afternoon Three days in our home park, and we haven't won a game. We will today Hey, what do you think you're doing? I'm getting dressed. I'm pushing me ahead since when do you use hair tonic this? This bottle, uh, this ain't mine. It's Kelly's just thought I'd buy me a little holy moses Thank you easy. Kelly won't care your big game. Look at your hair there.   Just just sort of waiting. Well seated Kelly's in shape to pitch Give his arm a good massage and make sure he takes a nap Oh, it's you mr. Kelly. I didn't recognize you sir dark glasses and all Well, I came in to pay the balance on that diamond ring. I bought here you are. Thank you, sir Uh, did the lady like the ring? I don't know. I hope so Oh, well, would you care to look at some wedding rings? No, thank you not until the end of the season I mean not until october. I hope you won't forget us mr. Kelly Vernon it's you debbie meeting you on the street after all these weeks And what were you doing in there in that jewelry store? Well, if you must know I no don't tell me I know already Vernon Oh, I read about what happened in chicago You did but you're not going to try the same thing here They've got guards and policemen debbie and don't pretend you're so innocent Besides mother heard you planned the whole thing in the station You and your confederates held up that jewelry store in chicago and now you're here looking this one over debbie But that's absurd. Did you or did you not go to chicago? Yes, yes, I you asked me to trust you to believe in you and you do you're wearing the ring Oh debbie will now trust with both ways if you won't trust me enough to tell me what this is all about Well, perhaps you'd better take the ring back right now. All right. All right debbie. I'll tell you If you must know what I've been doing. Well I'm a baseball player That's not very funny Vernon If you don't want to tell me the truth, just say look buy a morning newspaper. Look at the sports page big headline Kelly the pitch against boston Well, I'm kelly. Oh, you are And I'm madahari when you're ready to tell me the truth Vernon. You know just where to find debbie debbie wait, please Well, I hope you like the seats dr. Greenlee best in the ballpark You know, that's what happens when you're with a man who owns the ball club Well, this is fine. Mr. Stone just fine Do you know this is the first baseball game I've seen in years sit back and relax dr. Enjoy yourself I'll relax after you've agreed to give that donation to the college research fund I'm afraid this is going to be an expensive afternoon for me. I certainly hope so mr. Stone Um, who's uh pitching today by the best picture we have kelly. That's kelly warming up over there Oh He's uh, he's good. Is he good. He's incredible A strange thing dr. Greenlee. He doesn't act like a ball player at all. I'd like to have you meet him. Oh, uh, lannigan Yeah, mr. Stone tell kelly to stop by will you there's someone here? I'd like him to meet Say that again. Will you kelly? I don't think I heard you right I said that I I can't pitch today, mr. Dolan. Why you prima donna.  I'll find him. I'll suspend him. I've got him wrong jimmy Oh kelly's kind of wacky. You're right putting ink. No prima donna. Then what's he walking out again for I don't know Mr. Stone tells me some guy wants to meet him kelly starts walking toward a grandstand and all of a sudden He ducks like you'd seen it go just wait till this game's over just wait like a lot of you get tough with them There's no telling what he'll do. We got along without him before I didn't read look. Let me talk to him Let me see what it's all about It wasn't just a whim monk. I had to get off the field. I saw someone in the stands You mean a copper or something? No, no just just someone who knew me before I joined the ball club But you gotta take that chance kid. It's not able to happen anytime. I know when it does I'll have to do exactly what I'm doing now. I'll see you at the hotel Monk Come in You can turn on the light. Why aren't you asleep getting your rest? I can't sleep Now I just come from stone and doling They have me on a carpet so long. I got four in arches You take a walk and I get pulled out. I guess i'm fired, huh? No, they're letting you off and you can thank your old uncle monk Now what happened kelly? What does that guy understand? Oh, it doesn't matter. It's my girl I'm worried about she's going to find out about me. Why I'll come because I told her Only she didn't believe me But she's bound to know and so is her father My father if he ever learns the truth, I'm really finished He'll never take me back and I can't say I blame him after what I said What did you say? Oh, I was desperate. I certainly gave him a false impression He thought I was doing something entirely different. That's the only reason he gave me my leave of absence leave of absence Where'd they have you in a pen or something? Doesn't matter. You're gonna find out so there's no point in going on. Look, I'm not sure girl. Maybe she won't find out You gotta wait and see wait and see what well if she gets the idea you ain't brevin What'll she do? She'll come out to your next game and see for herself Well, it adds up to on it. Of course it does and that's just why I'm not going to pitch anymore Oh, why didn't I say that? I'm making a way some ways now look kelly You've got to think of us too the rest of the team. We got a chance to win the pennant Maybe even a world series that means something to a lot of guys. Yes Yes, I suppose it does Well Well, give me a little time monk. I'm too upset even to think I'll try to do whatever's right Give me for being nosy heavy, but uh, what's your mind telling me what you're doing? Well, just reading the newspaper father the sports paint you Well, I was interested in a wild statement someone made Father, do you need the car today? I I think I'll drive into st. Louis Another shopping spree. No No, all I want to do is some looking around To me whatever happened to kelly the other day. He's certainly over it now. That's the 10th man. He's struck out. Yeah, he's doing okay, mr. Stoneman come on Kelly come on And lady his name's kelly It is I see him come on No, lady kelly. I told you his name's kelly. So did he but I didn't believe him Just a second miss. What do you think you're going? I want to see mr. Kelly. I'm a friend of his that's the dressing room. You better wait for him here.  I seen you face. Come on sister. We're grabbing a cab wait a minute I want to see him. I'll tell you all about it in a cab lady. Just get out of it So you're mr. Lannigan.  You do. Yeah Kelly's got your picture right on top of the dresser you and his bottle of hair Hair tonic. Anyway, if kelly knew you or anybody else was watching him He'd walk right out of the ballpark while he damaged just the other day Oh, that must have been the day my father was there and if he blows well the team's dead and so is he You don't want to hate a guy just when he's right on top Or do you know, of course not look you want to come to the games? Okay? I'll send your passes only don't let kelly see I'll sit way up in the farthest corner mr. Lannigan And you're not sure of the guy. No, I'm not sure But it is quite a shock to fall in love with a college professor and then have him turn out to be a big league pitcher So that's what he is a professor. Well, now is that so surprising? Certainly on account of that's exactly what I thought he was But maybe I shouldn't have told you that you know something This kelly you're vain and there's quite a character, but he sure can't pick things Lois takes penance kelly 1 30th game of season state lois the face of yorks in world cherry You ever see anybody as lucky as them new yorks? It should have been all over with yesterday instead They tied up three games each why right now Hey kelly, ain't you listening this bottle monk? It's empty.  Oh, yeah, I'm growing a whole new crap. Ain't you even noticed the difference? I had another bottle, but that's gone too Monk, this is serious without that bottle. I I'm sunk. It's just hair tonic. Never mind. What did you do with it? Well, I I give it to jimmy darlin. He's getting a little thin on top jimmy. I've got to get it now right away Father you mr. Donovan, but I'm cute kelly in here in here. I'm just washing up Well kid, how do you feel? I hope you ain't nervous like I am. I'm counting on you Well at the moment I am rather nervous. You see my few hours from now will be world champs Or new york. Well, yes, that's right mr. Dolan Mr. Dolan, I know this is going to sound a little. Look at my hair. Will you even my hair's nervous keeps jumping up Must be a lot of electricity in the air Well, what's on your mind kelly? Well, it's my hair tonic. Huh? Did monk give you a bottle of my hair tonic? Well, yeah, yeah, that's right.  Well, you see it's a very rare solution, mr. Dolan, and I cannot duplicate it. Well, okay, okay I'll pay you for it. Oh, no, no, it isn't that it's my last bottle and I I need it. Ha ha you need it with that mop. Who do you think you're playing for the house of david? Well, it's just a little inusyncrasy of mine and sort of a superstition and especially today Well, I've heard of everything from a rabbit's foot to an elk's tooth, but hey tonic That's a new one. Please mr. Dolan. Have you got it? Sure? I got it. Oh right here in the medicine cow. Oh, oh, oh, no We pause now for station identification This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system in a moment. We'll bring you act three of it happens every spring Our guest tonight is blonde blue eyed in 22 At that tender age, miss gene ruth is a veteran of more than one stage hit and has appeared in several pictures I take it you like hollywood gene very much, mr. Kennedy And it was such fun to be on the paramount lot when they were shooting the how Wallace production of my friend ermah All of us were weak from laughing when they finished I can understand why our neighbor on the radio is equally entertaining on the screen The picture my friend ermah is based on that popular lever brothers company radio program Which follows immediately after the lux radio theater Marie wilson, of course plays ermah. Well, who else having created her on the air Marie just had to do the movie and john lond with his flair for comedy is perfect as al And fans will love that brand new laugh team martin and louis and diana lin is jane ermah's long-suffering girlfriend She's jane to a team mr. Kennedy I used to love to visit diana on the set and she's a darling We talked about everything under the sun including the best way to keep your skin nice for camera close-ups Oh, of course, you know diana's a lux girl, mr. Kennedy one of the loveliest the real american beauty type so fresh and natural looking Yes, and her complexion is really beautiful Diana told me she wouldn't dream of neglecting her lux soap facial She says that creamy leather gives her skin just the care it needs. Yes, lux soap care is so gentle No wonder screen stars depend on it for million dollar complexion It's wonderful.  To st. Louis. Why? To see Vernon father Well, what has he got to say for himself? Well, I I don't know. I haven't talked to him. That is not for some time Oh debbie you're being very difficult Well, all right. I'll tell you now father. You're going to get terribly angry But well, I guess you'll both have to find out sooner or later here. Look at this Well, read it mother the headline Dolan gambles on kelly to cup world series mixed up in gambling, huh? Who's dolin who's kelly? Well, you should know who kelly is father. Oh, yes. Yes, the picture mr. Stone wanted me to meet that time Well, well kelly's more than a pitcher father. He he's Vernon. What? Vernon Vernon's yeah, I don't get excited for him. Oh, no, it's impossible Well, Alfred, don't you have anything to say? I think it's outrageous that he never pitched here for the varsity Oh father, father, then you don't mind. Well, of course I mind he lied to me, didn't he? Left his classes here left his laboratory to to play baseball. What are you going to do, Alfred? Do I'm going into st. Louis and see that ball game. They're all sold out here But it just happens the defendant mine a mr. Monk Leningen On top of the eighth inning in this deciding game of a neck and neck world series The score remains six to six, but something has happened to kelly. He's definitely not himself today He's been in trouble constantly, but those st. Louis hitters have come back strong to save him Well, he's toying the rubber now Hopkins at the plate marconi on second. Here comes a pitch It's a hit. It's a clean single right through shortstop marconi scores and hopkins is safe on first and listen to that crowd Isn't he dear why he threw the ball and made it? It's the bat. Oh, no, mother. No No, he's not doing by ball. Oh, I can't understand it. What's happening? New york league now seven to six There are two outs, but kelly's in real trouble again and there goes monk Leningen out Where's your hot? I haven't got any bone monk. It's gone. You see this little pad in my glove What about the little dry as a bone on a drop left? I'm just a sandlot pitcher again What are you talking about? Are you feeling all right? I feel awful. I look steady down kid So they hit a few there's seven men behind you. They can handle it. They're a great blow club.  I wish it were So you're half aim weekend you and I know it, but them new york batters don't they go up there thinking They're gonna strike out like they've been doing all season any new psychology It's gonna take more than psychology, monk keep laughing. See just give me I were intelligent at ask jimmy dole to take me out, but i'm not going to do it. I hope he lets me stay now Tony just knocked the double richards on fade if pony gets home. We got that game in the back Come on, baby Monk, I may not win. Don't be too sure, but I'll go down fine even if we do Well, you quit talking about losing. We got two men on Retires aside, but st. Louis had a big inning those two runs can settle this world series Yimmy dolin's boys have just three more men to retire and they won themselves the highest honors in baseball And looking down to the st. Louis dug out it appears that manager dolem is going to let kelly stay in the game Come on.  Win or lose. Thanks, mr. Dolem. All you gotta do is hold them kid. Good luck. Monk. Monk, wait a minute. Huh?   Well, maybe there's still a little left on it. Oh kelly Don't go wacky now. Not now, please. It's all right. Come on. Just just for luck Now we've burned and can only contain them Right now we're there and walked up to the plate. He's had two hits already Kelly's rubbing up the ball now kneading into his glove as he usually does He had to signal to lannigan goes into the stretch and here it comes Out of the mound kelly's writing in for it He's posed a rubber now The runner on second makes the pitch he's criminally hanging on to that one run lead Two out now a man on second base and block buster marks comes to bat Marks that three hits off kelly this afternoon. This is your ball game right here folks Top of the ninth two men out a man on second base in the potential winning run at the plate And here's kelly's pitch Aaron is taking a lead there trying to worry him Kelly rubbed the ball he's looking at lannigan. He's stretching on the pitch I want to shake hands with you kelly. Thanks jimmy. Thanks. Oh Hey, what is this? Let me look at that hand How's it feel? Well, it's it's rather painful when you caught that ball, huh? Come on. We better get that x-rayed. Hey mark find the doc.  Okay All right, son. Oh, it's not too bad Where'd doc go? I um I don't know. Well, what did he say when you and dole and talked to him? Monk, you're stalling now. What is it a whole stall? Listen, I want to tell you something. I've been playing baseball since hector was a pup But what's it got me? I mean it don't matter how long you're up there. It's what you do Oh, you've done all right. I'm talking about you. You had a season kelly a season like nobody ever had before Well, I guess I was lucky you could pitch for 20 years yet. Never do no better. You have done it all kid You know, you got nothing to look forward to now. What's this all about? What did the doctor say?  You can't pitch no more Oh Well, I never dreamt my career would end this way you and me both I'm never gonna forget it. I'm gonna spend the rest of my life going around bragging how kelly was my roommate All right, I guess I'll go on to the station monk. I can get a train in 30 minutes. Give me a back. I'm going with you Now look, you'll leave me here for me. See you write me a letter. Oh, sure. All right What do you think you're gonna do kid? I don't know I'd like to get my old job back at the college, but I don't think there's much chance of that No, I know No, not after the way I left and what I've been doing since Oh jump in jubilee. You ain't made it nobody and nothing all you done was play ball And I only did it to get enough money to marry my girl, but even so I haven't much hope But you're gonna know that I don't get it. It don't make no sense to me Well, a lot of things don't make sense monk. I was a chemistry teacher I can tell you that now And the sum of money I received for teaching science to the youth of this state for an entire year Was a little less than I got this afternoon Tossing a five-ounce spear past a young man holding a wooden stick But that ain't right if it went the professor's teaching kids everybody turned out to be dumb clerks like me Yeah, don't all right. I hope you keep on thanks Kelly. Well, I guess I'd better be moving. Uh, How's the hand feel now? Oh, it's fine fine A monk You know, I I never had many friends But you've been a real one You've done a lot for me and I well, I just want to say that I just don't know how to say what I want to say May need this so don't leave us trying. Well, I'll get in touch with you monk. Soonest things are straightened out. So long kid So long She came here phone number. I know she did Yeah, yeah, it's right here. Debbie green leaf west lake eight eight one three. Hope she's back home by now She's gotta be Debbie I I just don't understand You've been here and all these people You were so wonderful darling. I'm proud of you. We're all proud of you.   It's all banny. It's all right. Debbie. Oh, but it's terrible Monk said you'd never put you down monk. Well, yes. He phoned the house Oh, we're pals Vernon. He even got his tickets for the game mother and father and father. Yes, son.  Yes Vernon. I know all about it And what happened to your hop today? Oh I wanted to talk to you dr. Greenleaf to try to explain I mean about my old job. Do you think there's any chance at all? You know better than to ask me that As a matter of fact, dr. Fuller's already taken your place. Oh, yes Yes, that's what I've thought Well, I don't blame you you see the owner of that ball club mr.  I wonder if that stuff really would grow hair The stands are still cheering the performances of tonight's stars And here are Ray Milan than Colleen Townsend for a curtain call Ray, I suppose you'll be leaving tonight for the world series. Well, not exactly bill I know it's hard to believe but both the Yankees and the Dodgers seem to think they can win without me I suppose Casey Stengel figures he can muddle through it with fellas like Joe DiMaggio Well, just in case he's listening. I want to say in all modesty. Casey. I am available Well, while Ray is throwing a curve to Casey Stengel I want to ask Colleen Townsend about her recent tour of veterans hospital Well, it was really a thrilling experience. Mr. Keely the boys in the hospitals gave us a wonderful reception I'm sure they're always glad to see a luxe girl as lovely as you are Colleen Well, thank you. Naturally. I take luxe soap with me on a trip. It's always been my complexion care I wonder if I should wire Casey Oh, well, what's the play next week bill next week we guarantee a home run Ray Because our play is RKO smash it Mr. Blandings builds his dream house and the stars will be Carrie Grant and Irene Dunn The motion picture comedy delighted audiences everywhere and next monday night Irene Dunn and Carrie Grant build their dream house right here a wonderful show bill and good night. Good night and thank you We were brothers company the makers of luxe toilet soap Join me in inviting you to be with us again next monday evening when the luxe radio theater presents Irene Dunn and Carrie Grant in mr. Blandings builds his dream house This is William Keely saying good night to you from new york city It appears through the courtesy of paramount pictures producers of song of surrender starring wandan hendrickson mcdonald carrey Colleen Townsend appears through the courtesy of pluggit sensory fox producers of prince of foxes starring tyrone power Heard in tonight's cast were ted decorsia as monk walley mayor is dolin Ed beglia stone and bill johnstone is greenlee our play was adapted by sh barnett and our music was directed by louis silvers This is your announcer john milton kennedy Reminding you to join us again next monday night to hear mr. 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Cristiano Ronaldo has passed the 800 goal mark for club and country, scoring twice as Munch the United beat Arsenal 3-2 in the Premier League match. Arsenal took the lead in one of the most bizarre goals in league history in the 13th minute. The Munch the United goalkeeper was on the ground in pain when the goal was scored, but the referee did not notice until the ball found the back of the net. United drew level a minute before half time. Ronaldo scored first in the 52nd minute before his second goal from the penalty spot.


Now, more than ever, I think you have to own gold just because of the valuations in the markets between the bond market and the equity market and the valuation in the gold market. Gold markets are still way, way off their all-time highs. They're not even close to that valuation yet, so there's room to grow. And the equity markets and bond markets are banging off of highs. Now, can they go higher, certainly. But the insurance factor that say, okay, buy low, sell high, you're buying low here still. And I think it's important when you say buy gold, what you mean is something that I and my family really believe in, which is buy bullion. Yes, I believe in buying physical gold, buying gold miners, buying ETS, that's a nice trade that's things to do. But if you want the safety of gold, you have to buy the physical bullion. And when we talk about that, we go to you, it doesn't necessarily mean that it necessarily has to be in a U.S. bank. No, not at all. In fact, I would say that I would keep my gold bullion out of banks. I would store it somewhere else outside of a bank and maybe outside of this country or maybe diversify this country and other countries. But not in the ground behind your back. Not in the ground behind your back. I put that out because I had someone who actually did it, an old, friendly friend who did it, a wise, wise person, and they found it. They found it in the back. You always say, I don't trust the banks, I don't trust the bank, I don't do it.


Several pieces of an aircraft that crashed in Russia's Tver region, and which was believed to have been carrying Russia's most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigazin, were seen at first light on Thursday.Reuters footage showed at least three body bags being stretched away from one of the sites of the plane crash that occurred on August 23, which is thought to have killed all 10 people on board, seven passengers, and three crew members. The plane crashed near the village of Kuzenkino and was on its way from Moscow to St. Petersburg. There was no official comment from the Kremlin or the Defense Ministry on the fate of Prigazin, head of the Wagner mercenary group and a self-declared enemy of the Army's leadership over what he argued was its incompetent prosecution of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.


Nigeria is China's most important strategic partners in Africa in a third belt and road initiative forum for international cooperation that will be held in China next week. These were the words of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Nigeria, Yan Yoking, and the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. The event which was held in Lagos had Chinese experts, members of the Nigerian public, and the academician attendants, a correspondent Paul George reports. Gathered at this symposium are Chinese and Nigerians. They are here to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative and how both countries can consolidate their bilateral trade. Speaking about what Nigeria stands to benefit at the forum, China Consulate General in Lagos, Yan Yiting says she is confident that it will be a win-win for both countries. We had made a lot of cooperation, good results in the future in the field of infrastructure, investment and trade, and the education culture and so on. So I'm confident that after the next forum, Nigeria and China will have more cooperation. The Consulate General listed the successes of infrastructure executed by China in Nigeria, reassuring Nigerians of a government's commitment at consolidating on works done so far. Also speaking, the acting director, research and studies Nigerian Institutes of International Affairs, Lagos, Professor FM Ubi, commanded the Chinese government for inroads made in Nigeria. I mentioned that in the past 10 years, the Belt and Road Initiative achieved a lot of landmarks in Nigeria. For example, Lakey Deepsea Port and Lagos Ibadan Highway and Lagos Blue Line. Even here, we built a lakey, free tritone and the Algun, Guangdong free tritone and so on. For every new policy that the Chinese government comes up with, any new initiative I've always been involved in the study on the Belt and Road Initiative. Most of those infrastructures I have been witness to them. Nigeria, China, Africa, relationship has come to stay. Other speakers commented on the challenges encountered in the course of the project. The road of the BRI in these 10 years has not been very smooth. There has been a lot of cancellation of projects. A lot of proposals have been revisited over and over. But nevertheless, one thing remains certain, Africa is gaining from the BRI. In the Belt and Road Initiative, these projects are executed by the Chinese government themselves. Then, let's say the key is handover to you and you use this project to generate the funds. Normally, as it's done, you seek for funds and the money is given to you and the money is diverted. No, it doesn't happen in the Belt and Road Initiative. So, it's zero corruption tolerance free. As the celebration came to a close, Nigerians are hopeful of more infrastructural development in the country. Paul George, Plus TV News.


Disney, creativity, wonder, imagination, decimation, corporatization, domination. A long time ago, a man with the middle name Elias drew a cute little rabbit named Oswald. But rabbits like carrots and sarcasm, and mice like cheese and money spreads. So the mouse grabbed a hammer, smashed the rabbit into a bunch of bits, and began to cut down all the trees while banishing Danny DeVito to the unknown. Then after Mickey the Mouse and Walter Elias Disney ran the world. And to celebrate their victory, I'm gonna crack open a cold one in my lonesome. No friends, no job, no nothing. But it's okay, because I could watch Peter Pan with no distractions. It's been 70 years since I've been in the ice. What's a Marvel? What's a Star Wars?  Why are there strikes? Where is Walter Elias Disney? Why is he replaced by a man named Bob Iger? What do you mean JFK got no scoped? What? Can I get saved now? And when did America get a black president?  Alright, let's do this one last time. Let me be quick. 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With $2 billion, we never got a clock into work. We could go to school, we could all just order pizza, and play Xbox all day with $2 billion goddamn dollars. But we don't have $2 billion.  And neither will Disney soon. So instead of playing NW2 on the Xbox 360, all the worker ants are now making picket lines. Because for the last three years, they've all been getting paid a monopoly money, while Bobby Boy has been making $45 million a year, hitting money spreads, and all the porn damned. And I can lie to you and get some brownie points to say that the main reason I want the strikers to win is so that all the entertainers get a fair pay.  So let's take this back to the beginning. Since Disney is the big dog of the world, they got blank checks, which gives them the ability to buy out anything they want, and when it doesn't go right, they can wipe it off the face of the earth as it attacks right off. In the prime days of Disney, they're in the back shredding documents. Anyone who sued them would blow up an all-paid expensive vacation.  Me even making this video puts me on all my guys in danger. They're coming for us, Mingus! Barricade the door! But now here today, the critics are speaking their minds and the money loss is being made public. What happened operating in the shadows, Disney?   And we got him, Mr. Beast Burger. But how did he get here? What went wrong? Let's reverse the thing in the jigger and go back some bits. Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Disney film and animation are some of the main players for the dough in the bag. And for them to join the Disney army required some cheddar cheese. Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion. They bought Marvel for $4 billion and Star Wars for $4 billion. But why did Disney buy these guys for billions anyway?   All these guys had potential and Disney was taking big gambles and they would rather die before they let the house win. So they got to work.  Animation is what really put Disney on the map. It's why Walter was able to pay the mortgage and cook up his little Disneyland idea where the wait time to get on Indiana Jones is 130 minutes and the 100 degree 37 Celsius California sun. Is it a deliberate hit job to kill me, my boys? I can't say. But as Disney became more powerful they wanted to branch out and be the umbrella for the new and fresh. All these studios made a name for themselves before they got snatched up. George Lucas made six Star Wars movies, some good, some bad, but the good were really good. Like, they changed the whole world of cinema and sci-fi genre levels of good. And the bad had Jar Jar Binks, but it's okay because they also had Watto, so was it really that bad? Hey, there we go.  Disney went to feature film agreement with Pixar in 1991. After making cute little shorts with Turn Down Snowmen where they kept the same sentiment years later with attempted murder to a large and in charge bird with some strong opinions. But when Toy Story was a grand slam, Disney continued the relationship until Cars in 2006. Or instead of being partners, Disney just said, hey, why not be a part of the bigger picture? So they ate Pixar and became Disney Pixar in the same year of 2006. And then they made Ratatouille, so it was off to the races. In 2008, John Favreau makes Iron Man 1 to kick off the MCU. Before this, Marvel had no money and were selling off all their children to avoid getting whacked by the mob. So when superhero started to pop up, it wasn't Doctor Doom or the Silver Surfer playing the bad guy to keep these heroes divided, but rather a group of people more sinister and soulless. It was the bloodsucking lawyers because all the heroes were owned by different companies. Sony had Spider-Man, Fox had X-Men, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, and Universal had the Hulk.  That wasn't until the man in the can got a move that was actually pretty cool. Since Iron Man was a nobody, they got flipped into a somebody. Disney had a light bulb moment. Instead of ever trying to get a sticky dork or a dork on trend, why not just get all the other toys that nobody cares for for cheap and make those things just as cool as the cocksuckers owned by everybody else? Iron Man's end credit wasn't Nick Fury talking to Iron Man about his place in the world. It was Disney talking to Robert Downey Jr. himself. Get the Avengers and start making a world of superheroes that were interconnected to reach a massive boiling point. Make these nobodies into anything and then make the nobodies start crossing over into their nobody's stuff, which then makes them become something. And eventually, you'll make so much goddamn money that you could just buy the competition that you were beefing with in the first place. Lucasfilm is a different animal from the rest because Lucasfilm was full of cobwebs when Disney wanted it. George was done. He hung it up. He loved his six movies and had a thought about continuing, but nah, he didn't want to. Even with its controversial prequel era, Star Wars was so adored in full of imagination and imagery, crafted with wonder and passion, and it was over. It was done. It made its money, but George was not. Revenge of the Sith concluded in 2005 and when he wasn't piloting planes into the ground, Harrison Ford was sitting in his bedroom all alone, getting nostalgic for the glory days of punching Nazis while reminding everyone that everything belongs in a museum. Not able to let the grand old archeologist go, he and George had a talk over a beautiful scrumptious breakfast. Both were down to get Indy on the big screen again, so they talked to skeptical Steven Spielberg who was in the same boat as George with Star Wars who was satisfied with something he loved coming to an end. But who could resist that beautiful Nazi punching face? Eventually, Steven gave in and slapped on his director's cap, which led to the creation of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which at the time seemed like the final end of Indiana Jones. So we thought. George Lucas now closing the book, wanted to venture out and make films that would push the limits and make no money. And they wouldn't make money because they would never be seen. He was making films not to be seen that were losing money.   George weighed the options. He wanted Star Wars to continue out of his hands, but he also didn't. And he wanted to make his own personal movies, but doing so would put like 2,000 people out of work and Disney was willing to pay. The Mouse viewed the Star Wars property as evergreen. They wanted to bring back Star Wars and hype up the next generation of heroes, playing on nostalgia of old Star Wars fans inching for that original charm. The prequel hate bandwagon was still strong. So having an episode seven looked like an episode four, but with wacky new mysterious stuff was gonna make a lot of money. So George put up Lucasfilm for sale and Disney bought it in 2012 for $4 billion.  Disney animation was innovative and beautiful, raising a whole generation of children and adults alike off of passion and actual blood, sweat, and tears, animating song after song and dance after dance.   Live action remakes have been happening since the 90s, but they've had the most success in the last 10 years. So they keep getting spammed out. And the reason they keep getting spammed out is because some of these are box office juggernauts making a lot of money. So why the hell would you stop the gravy train?    Live action Pixar Marvel Lucasfilm all in a downward spiral. You had the game unlocked and you crashed into the ground, Bob. You're just like the Phoenix Suns.    The massive money losses Disney shows how pitiful Disney's been lately with all the buyouts. The only way to make consistent money in any form of entertainment is by having the trust and reputation in said markets. Look at the gaming world, for example. CD Projekt Red made good games and then they promised the world. And because they didn't do anything bad before, everyone trusted them. So they bought the new thing. And when it didn't actually cure cancer, they got mad and now they got to think twice next time. From software to the same thing, but they actually gave the world. So they will continue to make money on future things. Look, I know I just went on a small gaming tangent. To the non-gamers, I still think you get the point.  But hey, at least you got a bag. The Force Awakens broke records becoming the largest domestic movie of all time because, well, Star Wars is back. And I get to be Boba Fett in the game right next to it, so Star Wars is back. They played it so incredibly safe to debut. And once it worked, they chose to play Hot Potato with the directors. There's never a structure or direction.   I made a cool mask.  Hey, dickhead, the mask is back. Look, it's Luke Saber.   Look, new villain.  Well, I have no new villain since he killed a muscle. So help it, scene is back. And while this child's play is going on, someone in the back is making a roadmap for a new Star Wars film every year. The first spin-off was Rogue One, which did well because it was the first modern Hollywood project going back to the original trilogy. And it was advertised as a war film. And hey, look, it made a lot of money. So what do they do to follow up Rogue One? They don't make an Obi-Wan movie that they have planned. They don't make a Boba Fett movie that they have planned. They make a Han Solo movie that Harrison Ford didn't give a single damn about.  So they fired them, kind of restarted, ran up the budget, and released it the same year as another Star Wars project. And uh-oh, it bombed hard. And of course, Disney thinking like they do go, oh no, a movie did bad, now they're all gonna do bad. So they pulled the damn plug and never made a sequel to Solo. Then in 2019, John Favre had a fun idea for their new streaming service. And when Disney saw that the Mandalorian did good on TV, being its own thing without so much scale, what did they do?  They see something do well, and then they copy and paste with no soul and get surprised and blame the system when things don't go their way. Then they see something do good again and the cycle repeats. Mando season one works because it's the box of toys you don't care about.   There's too much, and that oversaturation also doesn't have quality control. The Force Awakens was a big hit because Star Wars was special. The sound of the lightsaber, the X-Wing, the theme song, now it's boring and overdone and the magic is becoming stale. Boba Fett is slowly losing his cool silhouette, Luke Skywalker keeps coming back with CGI. He made Obi-Wan an Anakin lame.  And guess what? It's not just Star Wars, Indiana Jones is back, but without George and Stephen, and you play it safe and boring while over-complicating it too much with new shit in this so-called finale, and now it's a massive flop. Lucasfilm, can you do anything right? We don't even need to talk about Willow because it was so bad that it's getting wiped from history as a tax write-off. Alright, my biggest video on this channel is about why Pixar isn't doing hot, so let's keep this short and brief. And if you really want specifics, you could watch it after. I said after. You don't get to leave.  Pixar was really cool and made really cool stuff. Then they saw a lot of money in the water, so they pumped out sequels that were not as good and made people lose trust, but still made money. And by making money, they thought everything was always going to be sunshine and rainbows, so they stockpiled a bunch of boring projects that cost a lot of money to make. And then the competition started to make cooler stuff like Spider-Man, Pussin' Boots, and Ninja Turtles, and Disney did not make cool stuff, but instead put a bunch of money on not cool stuff and lost a bunch of money. Now, let's talk about the biggest money maker. Marvel picked up pace after the Avengers, and when you do anything in Mass, you're gonna have some misses. But one of those misses led to the creation of Chef, so was it really a miss at the end of the day?  Do you know how my whole staff works?  But the hits, uh, they hit big, like Chris Pratt single-handedly got a career from Guardians of the Galaxy. If we're not counting Andy Dwyer, aka Johnny Karate. What does this do? Captain America got two great sequels, Thor had two boring movies, then got a new Breath of Fresh Air. Black Panther was adored by a lot of people, Doctor Strange was interesting, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was fantastic, better than the first one objectively, Suck My Balls, and then in the third Captain America, Spider-Man appeared because Disney and Sony struck a deal and they got Spider-Man his own movie in the MCU. And oh, and you know that purple guy that's been getting hyped up since the first Avengers film? He's now the main villain of your next Avengers film that has everybody. And then he wins in the end and your conclusion to that story is next year. And while the film next year is not as good, the hype around it made it the biggest movie of all time until the blue bastards got it back. This was in 2019, by the way. In 2020, you got no Marvel movies or shows. And then in 2021 and 2022, you got everything. You got a large dump of poor Marvel stuff. And like Star Wars, the same problems are present. The Marvel movies are pointless, confusing, and inconsistent. Quality control has gone out the window while nothing remains to be experimental except the movies that have nothing to lose. Spider-Man does not need Disney and Spider-Man does not need the MCU.  And with James Gunn, Disney did an uh-oh and banished their best director to the Shadow Realm in the competition bottom.  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is in its own little world doing its own little thing. Both movies are closures to trilogies that focus on being movies rather than being pointless set-up movies with no subtle and proper world building or character building. Black Widow sucks, Shang-Chi was generic and safe, Eternals was... It was Eternals. Then alongside three movies in one year you get five mini-movies disguised as shows because they are not shows. The episodes are short and they're usually six or eight of them clocking into the same amount of time as a Marvel movie. That all follow a similar format of starting off kind of interesting to then get boring, to then throw out the gimmick to become a Marvel action fight. And this even carried to future shows and right now we are at the worst point.  They made Valkyrie's progression. Dr.  Spaconda Forever was a panic project that wasn't as good as the first and Ant-Man Quantum Mania joined the Club of Closing Trilogies.  Maybe if Disney wasn't spineless and had Edgar Wright make the movies it might have joined the club. And with the TV shows you have She-Hulk which is a obnoxious, hypocritical waste of time.   And then you have Disney live action. Lion King was lame as hell and got a belly because people liked the one with actual imagination. Same applies to Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin with Will Smith and the recent Little Mermaid. And it's gonna be happening with Snow White. These are all easy to make because all you have to do is copy the previous homework. And they couldn't even do that right. Mulan was a disgrace for no reason.  Beauty and the Beast.  They're all bad compared to their cartoon counterparts. And where Disney once had the audience in a trance jiggling car keys people are now sick of it.  The most disappointing thing about all of this is that while we have all these great properties fall from grace one by one. Bob Iger is contemplating selling Disney to Apple because Disney has gone against everything it once stood for.   Disney was once seen as a company of imagination but now they are constantly being outclassed by competition as they keep trying to throw money at the problem of their crumbling monopoly and as they keep pumping out slop and making hotels that no one could afford while raising ticket prices to their theme parks that eliminate the working class. They're gonna keep seeing people get more fed up and pissed off because Disney is only where it's at because of the original groundworks that made it what it is. People love Disney but Disney does not love you. I'm Dr. Skipper. Subscribe for Rocket's sake.


Um, hi. My name is Frederick Chen and I make DIY videos to little children. And my DIYs look simple, but in the end they never look the same when you make them. Also, I oversaturate my videos so it looks like I have a tan. Alright, I'm done exposing DIY people. Anyways, we meet again and I decided to make a slime video. So you can click away right now if you really want to.  And if you think I'm going to give you measurements... Right, wait, first I need a bulb. I hope I did that right. Alright, now I need some water. Alright, and yes, this is steaming and you're going to deal with it. So, all slime starts off with glue. And we're going to put in, like, half of this thing. And then you need a one-to-one rig. Fuck, it's hot. I shouldn't have made boiling water, should I? So you need half... So you need half glue and half water.    A new plan. Now we try.  What? This will clean it up. No one will notice that this blanket is wet. So, like a true Asian, I'm going to mix these with chopsticks. And then you're just going to pour it into your bowl. Alright, do you see how red my finger is and how it's shaking? Yeah, that's the boiling water. Now I just want to put in your food coloring, so it looks like piss. And you want to put in your shaving foam. Some body oil, because I saw that as a recipe. Looks like you're pissing right, see? Ow, guys, I shouldn't have burned myself. This actually hurts. Yes, I have lots of lotions. And, of course, you can't forget the glitter. That's probably too much. Guys, the moment you take glitter out of its, like, capsule, it's staying with you until you die. Now I'm just going to mix this together. Ow, my hand still burns. Did I get a first degree burn from that? Wait, first degree is the biggest one. Third degree. So I have borax, and I'm mixing it with the freaking boiling water that burned me. Wait, why didn't I just put the borax into the hot water?  Mix it around. And that was a terrible idea. And now you're going to pour it in slowly, so you don't put too much in.   Wow, this is like noodles, basically. All right, so I don't know if anyone enjoyed this video, but if you did, give this video a like, leave a comment down below, or ready to subscribe because it goes videos every Saturday. And oh my God, I need to go right now because I have a birthday party to attend again, and I'm going to the same place that I got kicked out of, so hopefully I have another story time for you. And I'm going to put this finger on ice because it's actually burning. I love you guys, and everything is less than three. And now I have a shitload of things to clean up. Oh, I don't do this.


This paper proposes a new method called voxel-based marked neighborhood searching, VMNS, to detect and measure street trees from mobile laser scanning, MLS, data. The method consists of six steps, voxelization, calculation of values of voxels, searching and marking neighborhoods, extraction of potential trees, derivation of morphological parameters, and elimination of pole-like objects other than trees. The method was tested on two case studies and showed high accuracy and completeness. The derived morphological parameters, such as tree height, crown diameter, dbh, and cbh, were found to be in good agreement with field measurements. This article was authored by Hongxing Liu, Giant Pain Wu, Yan Huang, and others.