Hello, and welcome to what is sure to be an insightful conversation about getting business results with cloud transformation. My name is Dave Vellante, and I'm here with James Miller, chief technologist for cloud and infrastructure services and Jay Dowling, America's sales lead for cloud and infrastructure services, both with DXC technology. Gentlemen, thanks for your time today. Welcome to theCUBE. Great, thanks for having us. Thank you, Dave, appreciate it. So let's get right into it. You know, I've talked to a lot of practitioners who've said, look, if you really want to drop zeros, like a lot of zeros to the bottom line, you can't just lift and shift. You really got to think about modernizing the application portfolio. You got to think about your business model and really think about transforming your business, particularly the operating model. So my first question, Jim, is what role does the cloud play in modernization? Well, there are really three aspects that the cloud plays in modernization. You mentioned multiple zeros. One is cost optimization, and that can be achieved through business operations, through environmental, social and governance, also being more efficient with your IT investments, but that's not the only aspect. There's also agility and innovation, and that can be achieved through automation and productivity, a speed to market for new features and functions, improvements in the customer experience, and the capability to metabolize a great deal more data in your environment, which the end result is an improvement in releasing of new things to the field. And finally, there's resilience, and I'm not really talking about IT resilience, but more of business resilience, to be able to handle operational risk, improve your securities and controls, deal with some of the talent gap that's in the industry, and also protect your brand reputation. So modernization is really about balancing these three aspects, cost optimization, agility and innovation, and resilience. So thank you for that. So Jay, I got to ask you in the current climate, everybody's still concerned and there's not great visibility on the macro. So Jim mentioned cost optimization. That seems to be one of the top areas that customers are focused on. The two I hear a lot are consolidating redundant vendors and optimizing cloud costs. So that's top of mind today. I think everybody really understands the innovation and agility piece, at least at a high level, maybe realizing it is different. And then the business resilience piece is really interesting because prior to the pandemic, people, they had a DR strategy, but they realized, wow, my business may not be that resilient. So Jay, my question to you is, what are you hearing when you talk to customers? What's the priority today? You know, the priority is often overused term of digital transformation. You know, people want to get ready for next generation environments, customer experience, making sure they're improving, you know, how they engage with their clients and what their branding is. And what we find is a lot of clients don't have the underlying infrastructure in place today to get to where they want to get to. So cloud becomes an important element of that. But you know, with DXC's philosophy, not everything goes to, not everything necessarily needs to go to cloud to be cost optimized, for instance.  So there's a lot of dependency on infrastructure, but there's a lot of elements to it and we advocate for, you know, there's not a single answer to that. We'd like to evaluate clients' environments and work with them to get them to an optimal target operating model, you know, so that they can really deliver on what the promises are for their departments. So let's talk about some of the barriers to realizing value in a context of modernization. We talked about cost optimization, agility and resilience, but there's a business angle and there's a technical angle here. We always talk about people, process and technology. Technology, oftentimes, CIOs will tell us, well, that's the easy part. We'll figure that out, whether it's true or not. But I agree, people and process is sometimes the tough one. So, Jay, why don't you start? What do you see as the barriers, particularly from a business standpoint? I think people need to let the guard down and be open to the ideas that are out there in the market from the standards that are being built by best-in-class models. And there's many people that have got on cloud journeys and been very successful with it. There's others that have set high expectations with their business leaders that haven't necessarily met the goals that they need to meet or maybe haven't met them as quickly as they promised. So there's a change management aspect that you need to look at with the environments. There's a skill set environment that they need to be prepared for. Do they have the people to deliver with the tools and the skills and the models that they're putting themselves in place for in the future versus where they are now? There's just a lot of different elements. It's not just that this price is better or this can operate better than one environment over the other. I think we like to try to look at things holistically and make sure that we're being as much of a consultative advocate for the client for where they wanna go, what their destiny is and based on what we've learned with other clients and we can bring those best practices forward because we've worked across such a broad spectrum of clients versus them being somewhat contained and sometimes can't see outside of their own their own challenges, if you would. So they need advocacy to help bring them to the next level. And we like to translate that through technology advances which Jim is really good at doing for us. Yeah, Jim, is the big barrier skills issue, bench strength, are there other considerations from your perspective? Well, we've identified a number of factors that inhibit success of customers. One is thinking it's only a technology change in moving to cloud when it's much broader than that. There are changes in governance, changes in process that need to take place. The other is evaluating the cloud providers on their current pricing structure and performance. And we see pricing and structure changing dramatically every few months between the various cloud providers. And you have to be flexible enough to determine which providers you want and it may not be feasible to just have a single cloud provider in this world. The other thing is a big bang approach to transformation. I want to move everything and I want to move it all at once. That's not necessarily the best approach, a well thought out cloud journey and strategy and timing your investments are really important to get it maximizing your business return on the journey to the cloud. And finally, not engaging stakeholders early and continuously, you have to manage expectations in moving to cloud on what business factors will get affected, how you will achieve your cost savings and how you will achieve the business impact over the journey and reporting out on that with very strict metrics to all of the stakeholders. You know, I mentioned multi-cloud just then. We had in January 17th, we had our SuperCloud 2 event and SuperCloud is basically, it's really multi, what multi-cloud should have been, I'd like to say. So it's just creating a common experience across clouds.  So, and one of the takeaways from this event and talking to customers and practitioners and technologists is, you can't go it alone. So I wonder if you could talk about your partnership strategy, what do partners bring to the table and what is DXC's unique value? I'd be happy to lead with that if you'd like. Great. I, you know, we've got a vast partner ecosystem at DXC given the size and the history of the company. I can use several examples, one of the larger partners in my particular space is Dell Technology, right? They're a great, you know, partner for us across many different areas of the business. So it's not just a storage and compute play anymore. They're on the edge, they're, you know, they've got intelligence in their networking devices now and they've really brought, you know, a lot of value to us as a partner. And, you know, there's somebody, you could look at Dell Technology as somebody that might, you know, have a victim, you know, effect because of all the hyperscaler activity and all the cloud activity, but they've really taken an outstanding attitude with this and say, listen, not all things are destined for cloud or not all things would operate better in a cloud environment.  So they're an ideal model of somebody that's resourced as well, partners with us well in the market and we continue to grow that relationship day in and day out with those guys. And we really appreciate, you know, their support of our strategy and we like to also compliment their strategy and work, you know, work together hand in hand in front of our clients. Yeah, you know, Jim, Matt Baker who's the head of strategic planning at Dell talks about it's not a zero sum game.  I think initially people felt like, oh, wow, it's, it is a zero sum game, but it's clearly not. And this idea of, of whether you call it super cloud or Uber cloud or multi cloud, clearly Dell is headed in that direction. And I've, you know, look at some of their future projects. There's their narrative. I'm curious from a technology standpoint, Jim, what your role is, is it to make it all work? Is it to, you know, end to end? I wonder if you could help us understand that. Help us figure this out, Jim here. Glad to expand on that. One of my key roles is developing our product roadmap for DXC offerings. And we do that roadmap in conjunction with our partners where we can leverage the innovation that our partners bring to the table. And we often utilize engineering resources from our partners to help us jointly build those offerings that adapt to changes in the market and also adapt to many of our customers changing needs over time. So my primary role is to look at the market, talk to our customers and work with our partners to develop a product roadmap for delivering DXC products and services to our clients so that they can get the return on investment on their technology journeys. You know, we've been working with these two firms for a while now, pre-dates, you know, the name DXC and that transformation. I'm curious as to how you would respond to what's unique. You know, you hear a lot about partnerships, you guys got a lot of competition, Dell has a lot of competition. What's specifically unique about this combination? I think- I would say our unique approach, we call it cloud right. And that approach is making the right investments at the right time and on the right platforms. And our partners play a key role in that. So we encourage our customers to not necessarily have a cloud first approach, but a cloud right approach where they place the workloads in the environment that is best suited from a technology perspective, a business perspective and even a security and governance perspective. And the right approach might include mainframe, it might include an on-premises infrastructure, it could include private cloud, public cloud and SaaS components all integrated together to deliver that value. Yeah, and Jay, please, it was a complicated situation for a lot of customers. Chime in here. And if you were speaking still specifically to Dell here, like they also walk the talk, right? They invest in DXC as a partnership. They put people on the ground that their only purpose in life is to help DXC succeed with Dell and arm and arm in front of clients. And it's not a winter take all thing at all. It's really true partnership. They brought solution resources. We have an account CTO, we've got executive sponsorship. We do regular QBR meetings. We have regular executive touch point meetings. It's really important that you keep a high level of intimacy with the client, with the partners and the GSI community. And I've been with several GSI's and this is an exceptional example of true partnership and commitment to success with Dell technology. I'm really extremely impressed on the engagement level that we've had there and continue to show a lot of support, both for them. There's other OEM partners, of course, in the market. There's always going to be other technology solutions for certain clients, but this has been a particularly strong element for us in our partnership and in our go-to-market strategy. Well, I think too, just my observation is a lot of us about trust. You guys have both earned the trust kind of over the years, taking your arrows over decades and that just doesn't happen overnight. So guys, I appreciate it. Thanks for your time. It's all about getting cloud right, isn't it? That's right. Thank you, Dave. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. JJ, great to have you on. Keep it right there for more action on theCUBE. Right back.


Naix Biha iara Chris Naix for inviting me So, maybe we could just start off If you could just introduce yourself to the audience and let us know a little bit about how you got involved in farming Right I was actually born and bred in the Littleby Pace Kotaerau in the middle of the Waikato I used to think that Auckland was the northern, most suburb of it but it's a population of about 800 people I left school then, went down to Christchurch Wai te neikraft engineering apprenticeship. So i became a qualified aircraft maintenance engineer. Ngai had 15 years doing that. And the land always kept on taking on us. So ended up buying a farm. It was just coming out of the soft prices that land had gone through after rojonomics, which was a major change in the New Zealand economy. So we bought just on 360 hectares of land and it had irrigation with it and we thought, oh, this is neat. How do you do that? So we got involved with what irrigation was, which was border diking, was water flowing down the paddocks between levees. And New Zealand had just come to a new act of parliament, which was the Resource Management Act, the new, I think it got rid of about 60-odd acts of parliament and put our resource-sustainable planning all together. Our resource consents came up as the first lot to the Environment Canterbury, who were just newly formed out of catchment boards. So it was really going into the unknown. So I got a little bit involved in water politics from that and then sort of moved through farming, then living right beside a small river. So there's a community river liaison group and that's where there's a rating district and community voices on how you do protect what's going on in the riverbed where the flood protection works. And then sort of moved through the School Board of Trustees and finally got into a bit of government politics through farming. So that was into the local branch of federated farmers and there's 26 branches up and down the country and wrong place, right time sort of thing, or right place, wrong time. Provincial presidents, job came around as just a consequence. So I thought I'd grab that and ran with that.  So all that was happening as I was provincial president. So the environmental space came right to the forefront. So I was looking after that from our federated farmers mid Canterbury perspective. But I was also looking after North Canterbury, South Canterbury and some of that stuff because there's another leadership layer that we have within federated farmers. And then at the right time it sort of came about. We had a zone committee that was in the Ashburton area. So I've now got myself actually, I'm on the zone committee as a community member. Some think I'm there because I'm federated farmers. I'm not. I'm there as a community member to represent the interests of their community. Just so you can see it while I'm from federated farmers. But of that there's 10 targets that we're trying to look at. There's cultural targets, there's biodiversity targets, there's water quality, water quantity, a whole range. All trying to be done simultaneously are really hard discussion. And then the job came up where in federated farmers nationally, we ended up in a position where there was an at-large position. We don't represent, these two of us don't represent an industry group. So there's a dairy section, there's a meat and fibre, there's a cropping section, or could be bees or whatever. So I'm at-large. And coming through with a bit of an environmental background, I've picked up the environmental space. But that doesn't include climate change as my portfolio. We've got water, quality, quantity, biodiversity, all that sort of things are in my space. So over the last 12 months through the Land and Water Forum, I've spent a lot of time in that wonderful city called Wellington. And the Government are just announcing tomorrow some of the initiatives that have in the time I've been on the Land and Water Forum will hopefully be coming into policy with some caution hopefully. So that's where I've come from as my journey and how I've sort of got involved with water and from a farming perspective. So is it fair to characterise Federated Farmers as sort of an industry trade group that represents farmers from throughout New Zealand? It's a completely voluntary organisation. There is no levies on anyone, but there's a voluntary membership. And off that membership we supply all our advocacy people. There's 70 policy advisers from one end of the country. They're out in the provinces. There's a few that are in Wellington, but generally we're a provinces-based grassroots uptype organisation. We're not just about lobbying Government or district councils or regional councils. We're actually a really good-sounding place. A problem is actually halved when you talk about it. When you go along to your Federated Farmers meeting and you've got a problem on your farm and it might be nothing to do with the environment. It might be nothing else. But it's true and that there's a great voice of that. Where we have droughts or those adverse events, it's a network of people coming together like-minded trying to come up with solutions. And you mentioned water as an area that you've focused. And obviously water and farming are two sides of the same coin and interlinked so deeply. And there's been some challenges that we've faced throughout New Zealand, especially in the rivers and algal blooms and the like. Could you comment on some of the initiatives that are happening around water quality and things that are going forward to help address that issue? One of the things we're working on at a national level, and it's been all farmers should be operating a good management practice. So what is good management practice? Well, Canterbury, through water quality, they decided they wanted to go down this good management practice approach. So they got the industry groups where you do play levees and they set a level for what is a good management practice at what your peers would reasonably expect you to be able to do. So farmers are already doing it. It's not like it's a policy boffan who's come up with an idea and says you should be doing this. And to get everyone on that even playing field. But we started farming 20-odd years ago where we were doing certain practices. Those same practices now as new techniques come forward, so old school. Some people are still doing them. Most people are thinking for economic reasons I'm now doing the right things. But a good management practice is something really simple like that you've got a crop that you're growing. You want to grow a certain yield. What's the soil test telling you where you at? What's the yield you want to do? How much fertiliser do I need to put on? Not that my grandad used to put on 300 weight and I'm just going to carry on that sort of technique. So some of these good management practices are something that we're trying to get national policy and that's put through the Land and Water Forum to get that all farmers are on the same field. But we need to have good entrepreneurship of those out front who are actually really pushing the bounds. 10 years ago, if someone told me I would be putting moisture metres in the ground to work out when I should be scheduling my irrigation, I would have said to the bonkers, why would you be doing that? I could go out there, put a spade in the ground, feel the dirt and say it needs some water. All right, that's fine. Now we can look at two lines on a graph where we've got moisture probes and say, well, if we irrigate now, we're going to go to full capacity in the soil. When it rains, we're going to end up with a bigger drainage event. But if I keep it in this band here, I can save water, I can save energy and I can save quite a bit of time and maintenance.  But I'm a little bit ahead of the mainstream, there's a lot of people who aren't yet. But I've had to convince my wife that it's a good idea, it's not cheap, but at least I can actually look at my phone now and see should I be irrigating or not. Cool. So you mentioned the desire to create some national policy around these best practices. Does that mean as of now that there is no direct regulatory body that enforces these kind of best practices at a national level? The good management practices were established last year. That sort of work's done. It's how do you review them? How do you ensure that everyone does them? That there's the discussion that's going on with the Ministry for the Environment and Ministry for Primary Industries trying to work out how do you put that into a regulation framework. Most things are common sense, that's a good common strategy of how you actually encourage people to do it and then stick behind. So you just got to convince the benefits of doing it because we've got water quality issues we need to manage and lower our environmental footprint. So if the decisions are being driven largely from an economic basis for some of these practices, what benefits do you think might entice farmers to... So for example, we just purchased this dairy farm right here and I would say it wasn't being operated to the fullest best practices in previous ownership where the river ways weren't planted. The cows would just walk right through the river putting their effluent in their waste directly into the waterway which is, as my understanding, not sort of best practice where you would never really have them fenced. The reason why that was done was simply economics. So what can we do as New Zealand to create more buy-in from farmers who admittedly often just don't have the money to put in the fencing to do all the planting to take all these action steps which require time, capital, education and effort? The one thing I think we get a bit too focused on the sides of the rivers and whatever, we've got farmers who have come through a whole lifetime. They've been to university, they've learnt how to do their farming but farming systems, knowledge of the environmental impacts is growing and being learnt and like you guys are pushing the frontiers we've got to actually bring those guys along so that we're all heading in that same direction. We hear that all the time we should actually have waterways fenced and planted. If it's done the wrong way, you actually make a bigger mess than you started with and it's probably a bit provocative but an example is you fence it and you put a nice tall shelter belt right beside it. The stock used to go down and have a drink into the hills. Now you've given them the shelter right beside the waterway when it rains, all the nutrients that were sitting on the ground there have now flushed straight into it rather than come all the overland path down the waterway. So we've got to be really careful how we manage our footprint but encouraging good practices and through doing that we've got to make sure that we invest the time, the effort to understand what's going on. And make sure the actions that we take actually get the results that we're looking for and don't have these unintended side effects. We're not just looking at stock exclusion for the sake of it. We just want to make sure we make a difference to what is the endgame and it's good water quality. And how do we measure that as a nation and as an industry? How do we know if we're making progress on water quality? There's the usual way which we can actually go out there and take a water sample. I think one of the... The one thing I really believe in is having good consistent reporting from our district and regional councils. So the first thing I say is why haven't we got national swimming quality data? Well I think for the ministry environment haven't been able to actually get it consistently from the regional councils so they can report it nationally. Because some do it this way and some do it that way. So we're encouraging the ministry for the environment to go to the regional councils and district councils and get it standardised so you can report is that swimming hole where I used to swim always up to swimming standard. So we've got to make sure that we've got good data and environment aid to your roa as a report that was put out last year. A massive amount of work. We're a little bit of critical and one of two things that had some shortcomings, but it's a really good document to actually have a good basis for that. So we've got to look at that. We've got some really good introduced species of algae that Diddy Moe's a classic one. We've got to make sure that the stuff doesn't come to the North Island. It comes from the South Island and it really thrives where the water's cleanest and that there's getting right up into the mountain rivers as well. So by security across the strait here make sure you don't end up with here because look after what you've got. As a side note, if you get a chance to jump off the big high dives in Wellington Harbour I highly recommend it. The water is clearly safe. This provides I think a good opportunity to segue to talk about the innovation in farming. There's a lot of people here who work in high tech industries and the like and I think one thing that I've seen in my time living in New Zealand is that there's quite a bit of opportunity to bring new ideas and new technologies into the agricultural industry. I'd like to hear your thoughts on recent trends in agricultural innovation and where you see things going into the future. I've got a son who went through Lincoln. He did a year there. He's keen on doing IT type stuff and gizmos and electronics. So he's also brought up on a farm and he understands farming but he also understands code and apps and that sort of thing. And to me the innovation that we're starting to see the short term gain at the moment is that we need that data effectively and just a few years ago we had national regulation that said that we needed to have, for what our irrigation takes, needed to be meted. Well there was a bit of a thing we went up in the air and everyone said what's this going to cost us. Then there was talk about it had to be telemetred. Back then no one knew what telemetry was and how it was going to work or whatever. We've put an irrigation gate in that cost about $30,000. We could have bought a new car and whatever but this gate now I can operate it for my cell phone which my wife this morning said can you just alter the irrigation gate. So I can do that easier from Wellington or I could do it easier from California last year than I could actually from home. It used to take five minutes to log on to the computer and whatever because we needed an internet. But all those sort of things start adding up and then when you use telemetry at the same time as we're using it with moisture probes but putting the information in a format that we can all understand and we can start making some really informed decisions. At the moment we're using patch up type making systems that we're never really designed for to do a job that we need to but we also need that other real good science innovation and it is it the drought tolerant grasses do we mention genetic modification do we not mention genetic modification do we wait for things to evolve them up a lot but what we're finding on our farm is there's a lot of natural selections actually been improving and we can make some really good productivity gains but a few years ago we were talking about growing lambs at 200 grams a day on pasture, clover or whatever now with some of the brassicas that we're putting into our crops we're actually really cranking those things up but we've just got to make sure that we've got good evolution coming through on all the crops that we need but science, soils if you really wanted to invest in something soils what do we rely on for agriculture what do we need for nutrients what do we need for carbon sequestration all that stuff we don't have enough information on what our soils are doing and what the impacts they have because we want to be maintain ourselves as the most efficient producers in the world so your investment in that sort of technology is where I really be encouraging you guys to go yeah cool certainly agree investing in our soils is a good area of focus because we did mention it genetic modification certainly a topic that is in the zeitgeist and often quite controversial so of course we'll tackle it now I would like to hear from your perspective what is the state of genetic modification with regards to New Zealand farming whether that be from kind of splicing genes together or just very aggressively breeding or very specific traits and what do you see as the trend for GMOs in New Zealand one thing I will say that is right outside my field of expertise the GMO stuff but I'm actually involved in the feds through the biodiversity space and we all talk about our pests and to me that affects every farm every property in the country if we could use something that we could get away with some of the poisons but we could actually naturally stop some of our native and introduce pests from breeding whether it be rats, whether it be poisons but I don't think the Australians would like to hear too much about that but if we could stop these things from actually eating or destroying our native biodiversity I think there could be an opportunity there to do something the right way but are we ready for that discussion or I don't know what stage the technology is at but do we always have to talk about genetic modification for pasture species or animals or whatever and when we talk about it for reproductive inefficiency so that these animals don't actually become such a burden to our biodiversity I think that's something we'd need to start talking about but I'll just sort of put that idea out there Cool, I'm just taking the chance to connect the two nodes that last time that Lou from Department of Conservation spoke about how the introduced pests were a huge threat to the ecology and the biodiversity and now another voice of expertise is saying that pests are a huge issue for the economy of the country as well yet again the interlinking of these things where our planet and our economy are really one and so interconnected Let me just bring up my questions here Another question just bringing it a little bit to current events there's been a precipitous decline in the price of dairy over the last year I'd like to hear your thoughts about given that dairy is such an important part of the New Zealand farming industry and economy what do you see this doing to the farmers that you speak with in Christchurch and Canterbury and throughout the country what's this going to do to the industry? There's massive hardship for an individual farmer whether it be a husband or wife partnership whatever that's massive tension so we've got to keep an eye on that and the banks are a big part of supporting those guys the byproduct where you'll see it is in rural New Zealand it's the cities, other townships the schools, whatever the dairy farm might be employing another staff member that staff member might have one child or two children less coming to the local school it puts school roles under a little bit more pressure local business in Ashburton for example they might be selling the TV sets they might be selling the occasional new car all those things are going to start building up, the essentials will always be bought, the groceries and whatever but at some of those more discretionary spends will put a massive pressure under the rest of the communities now look for example in Ashburton which is halfway down the South Island it's a township of about 15,000 new sports centres gone on swimming pool, five courts whatever as people's jobs become not as much overtime and whatever and the rates burden whatever the less time to go do a bit more swimming so all those things that and it puts more and more pressure on our district council to where do they get their funds from it won't be coming from the rural community because everyone's got their backs against the wall that is where I say it'll be an insidious problem but then again it could turn around just like that but what I'm seeing is in California 18 months ago we could see the price of oil was through the shale fracking whatever was and America becoming more and more sustainable for the oil, we could see more grain was becoming surplus, it was going down the throats of dairy cows and producing we could sort of see that picture starting to build up and then with the Europeans now being able to come on line with export so we're going to be around for we-walt and now we've got the Saudis and whatever, they even got the managers spend on the meat so that's now actually another consequence that we're having coming through to the meat industry, so everything's all connected and the New Zealand grain industry so we're all connected in this one together but we haven't really got a big up at the moment except for beef which is going well and a lot of the horticultural products are going pretty well Glad the horticultural has been there to balance that Great, well thank you so much for your time and your contribution Thank you


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everyone and welcome my beaver babies to Jurassic world and we are back way way sooner than I ever anticipated I had a quick look wasn't that long ago when we played the last battle royale and we had about maybe 80 80 creatures it was 70 to 80 it was around about that because now if we click on a hatchery and we jump in we have 107 breaking dinosaur this is in including everything when it's came to mods because if I put every single mod there was a individual species in this game we would be unlike a hundred and forty or maybe even a hundred and thirty different creatures in the game however some of you know some more just like oh it's a bionics but it shaped a tiny bit different and it's a different color I kind of want to just like you know if it looks quite a bit different like the the Breva pa pa pa pause it's got a lovely skin coloring to it however it probably won't make much of a difference when it comes to doing the the battle arena because it's a sauropod and you know sauropods don't really don't really fare that well when it comes to taking on something like an endominus Rex or even surviving on anything it just dies of endominus Rex is here three hundred and seven different creatures oh my god they have all been modified this is open from the previous save so all the skins that you have seen all the skins that you have seen and in the last video are different so you're gonna see something else and we also have a different texture pack from the updated terrain texture I think it's the most it's the most downloaded and most endorsed I should say that is on the nexus website and it's it gives everything a different color there is also a reshader which looks pretty cool but I don't want to double into that just yet I'm also got so we've got the logs back we've got different rocks back look at that it's a completely different one that's gorgeous and part of the model which I haven't installed is like a cave where it's sort of build up so you know dinosaurs go into it which looks awesome so are you ready for acro alberto alo and at a tight angle dog I took out the original pack around the source and put in this one because I think it looked better in my in my personal opinion look it looks better so so many ops oh god it's gonna be another one those videos where I miss parents everything save it to take a cat I wrote what's up there's a chain good plan anyway that thing is also here too so that took me a hell of a long time I was here for almost half an hour just going changing all the genetic code because all these dinosaurs are completely random and they have all been a modded so they're not all base genome so now you won't be like oh and almost like it's gonna win now we don't know what could win exciting so now give me a second while I just release everything it's gonna take me probably another half an hour to do all this oh god there he is already there's a regular t-rex okay so guys would you place your bet see who do you think is going to all there it is look at that look of Duke how can I say no to a parcel office that looks like this it's gorgeous okay so what do we have here this is one of the new hybrids kind of just looks like a alasaurus with a bit more stripes added to it what the heck is this thing what are you you're an anooka source okay you've got a lovely green head on you okay let's have a look how many oh god the they're all still coming out oh this is the new Swarapod oh that looks so cool oh it's tiny little t-rex but you could so just have this in your game as like a baby t-rex they're all well by no clinic you know be interested and see how that goes because I don't know whether some of these things can actually fight I think they might be able to and normal oh look at the smiley don't know if it goes we've still got more coming out here we go we got these sorenny ops there walking about we got another indominus well we got a indominus oh of course I forgot about that thing oh yeah this is a rare resource oh a rare resource is as a class as is or is that the actual concavenator we might have two concavenators here and the ankle logic is this the chunky bars are all of us lambiosaurus the indoor raptor there Kendra so they are we do it we've got to come came in and we got the saltisaurus who's a good a lovely blue hey always fine with these with with dresser world evolution it's always so blooming dark on the dinosaurs hard to get a good view on them cuz like one side's quite light then you turn the other way is black the chill into your source we got the diplodocus as well so now in total we should have 107 dinosaurs all rare and ago we got the woolly rhino there too we got toast over here as well as a regular velociraptor I thought it would have feathers on never mind no not you I want this one the torano Titan did very well last time I think it did pretty much every base dinosaurs here and a new the wall I was not really you because it was in the last one a natto Titan Zalmoxies we have yet to see the over raptor where the oh is that it oh no this is the one of the lasties from walk with dinosaurs oh cool looking for the over raptor I feel like it's gonna be hiding in here that's this is what's this one this is just did the tyrannous running around that every no no that's a Becky that's a feathered oh my god I didn't realize we had one of those brilliant are you the oh Archeonathomimus is already an over raptor so we got two over raptors not that it really gonna make much of a difference I've got to be honest the Draco Rex there we've a blue in the raptor oh god he's going to be crazy maybe he's gonna win oh dinner cherish that's why you're the acrocanthosaurus okay that's good I'm happy with that oh the Gigantoraptor looking pretty nice there with a different skin usually it's quite like red white and black but that looks quite nice what made that noise that whoa that sounded like something from Disney's dinosaur it's like alladol and we got triceratops there with a different skin I think that is jagged fangs design there's the mosasaur hiding here running about okay without further ado guys place your bets who do you think's gonna win who's gonna survive here we go and they're off who will be the first fatality are we able to actually go look there's the cosmoseratops where's the copies it's so hard to actually see because they're so flippin small I kind of want to go can you see the copy can use it can you spot like where's where's that damn compi logo he should be here I feel we got native we got a few pteranodons there a first fight is breaking out between a sauron acro and a first dead dryasaur taking down by the the new over raptor there oh it must be it must be a raptor okay we all salmoxies is falling another salmox we've got a poison dinosaur and we've got what is this we got the guavasaurus against the drako rex barionics against spider after we got a t-rex taking on the torrano titan oh all the fights are breaking out I was going crazy oh the new hybrid against Yoshi no I think Yoshi's gonna die oh is that it yeah this new hybrid is actually really tough it's quite interesting because when you can mod your own dinosaurs people normally just give it the best we got the ick the overnator against a toast and it's not looking good for toast hopefully toast we'll get another bite in we've got the Jurassic World alive hybrid taking on a giga looking really good for the the spine over a giga not faring too well and dominoes rex taking down and killing I think there's the cosmos seratops yes is the cosmos seratops is taking out guanlong killed by monolapasaurus that oh I've never seen that kill I mentioned before and I'd never seen medium and dinosaurs against you we got a scutosaurus against a metric and the source it looks like scutosaurus is gonna probably tie that and we got interrupted against the smilodon I feel like interrupted might win this though what animation is that oh okay oh that they're just moving around each other up there there goes a trodon oh is that smile no smile it on taken out oh bless it yeah it got kicked destroyed oh my god fights everywhere concave and a dad taking on the mosasaurus oh god oh I don't know I oh he's just he's just imploding most saw did not stand a chance apparently completely carried by concave and a dad we've got my jungle source taking on the sea scorpion who are the fight of the century 44% of the sea scum a jungle source on 80% V-rex taking on something the over after also taking on something what we got going on over here over after taking on oh it's the mvr what's it called it's the failed Jurassic Park for plot or the original Jurassic world plot with the excavation raptor or something it was something like that the raptors that are supposed to dig and attack people oh we got the bull there just a lot oh Spinosaurus taking on the new Torvo sorus teneri 99 against 37 looking good for for Spinosaurus however taking a bite interrupt a feasting on the Niger source the Draco Rex dying because it water oh that's such a shame how oh my god everything's dead oh no what do we have left oh hold on hold on let me have a zoo yep it looks like everything's dying or dead V-rex killed the Torah source my soul still around how is that happening as so running ups taking on the Chilanta source we also go the new hybrid on a hundred percent taking on sorrow Fagnac Fagnac acts and it's killed it oh cut this new hybrid being with a chance our survey says very likely as it looks like it basically kills its cousin it's like literally the same well you're one are you happy no I got a notification every two seconds the scuto against the T-rex and I think this scuto has died no to the scuto and the scuto killed yes he killed the friggin metric of the source and then gets killed by the baby T-rex didn't stand a chance there it looks like the the raptor actually got free I don't know how that happened Garfield did no Garfield fell velocity after dying to poison from the trodon velocity after gone and concavenator killing a the suski tyranus or sorry the Haram resource and oh no so Akasuka's losing to the ick the old bone we need to whatever it's called not a crocodiles day-to-day and the oh he must have got the kill my a sore taken down by good Jira source and good Jira source also taken down by a concavenator oh there we go we have the outcome for that one we've got a excavator eating the chillanteo source I was a KLN I guess it oh a clinic in against the the what's it called the Toronto time it looks like the clinic it's gonna win oh we need to see this oh we need to see this who's gonna win oh oh saying that though oh I don't know there's another hit coming on in from oh they're calling it off they're calling it off never mind the calling of what's going on so triceratops was killed by the drosser world alive hybrid as you come I was might be dying over there what else we got oh god we need to get up no so much death oh to love a source dead as well what is that hold on hold on is that the gigantoraptor oh it's a saltis source we've got the toe what's this thing the tour of a source taking on the gigas spinosaurus oh no he's stuck you stuck okay we're gonna have to fix this gigana spinosaurus is the one of the only dinosaurs that has this glitch where it just kind of like I don't know it just it just gets stuck and that's it that's what happens oh modern oposaurus has taken down the walk with dinosaurs on the Thalestes then spina raptor taking on Krytonosaurus I'm assuming that spina raptor would win that how we're with 80% help oh that's it he talked about I think spina raptor is just gonna collapse now I don't miss a killing animation but there he goes what it worked on a bigger dinosaur but doesn't he know what you're gonna do another fight we go oh hold on we got my jungasaurus losing to the whole and kingdom allosaurus there oh we got the fight here the Jurassic World alive hybrid taking on these sorenotes for the 55 percent it looks like it might be quite an even battle we had a little fight over here the oh the fake concave and they're taking the excover raptor we're seeing what dinosaurs really have the most genetic changes and who's gonna win the hyposuka mouse which you haven't even seen it looks like it's squaring up to the indoor raptor sauropalda against a hundred percent Corolla source probably gonna lose that once we got over here oh the bull the bull taking on the the Toronto time the Toronto time was on low health oh it's like a blue moon you never see this is it gonna actually do the kill animation oh it is oh it's basically fantasy and when the Jurassic World alive spider also kills these sorenotes over there in Domino's Rex Finching or at least eating the Pachyrhinosaurus we've got a oh no Bellarus killed by the actual concavenator there and we got a fight the indoor raptor taking on the world probably a favorite however indirectly looking a lot stronger maybe oh saying that though 66% don't know how that's gonna end there might be two more attacks coming in we've got the polar counts on 38 against the T-Rex at a hundred percent it's not looking too good for that guy I think the T-Rex is probably gonna win that the sinus air tops taking on banana source and Sino loses because terrible the lovely looking a stegoceratops that's basically an azuto seratops oh the Indominus Rex hunted and killed the Colombian mammoth we started at a hundred and seven dinosaurs and we are now on 35 it has been a quick ball royal no dinosaur really hanging about getting stuck in there whether they want to live or not well I don't think it really matters to them apparently oh we're gonna nobody you post after us which is hungry already oh no it's facing up against it 87 Allah source that if the UFO sephalus was probably on a hundred percent that 87 would have made the difference but because UFO sephalus was starving it looks like it's probably gonna die and there's the finishing bite there well whoa stegosaurus against an 80 43% stegosaurus I think is probably hungry stegosaurus also hungry taken down one percent didn't even stand a chance against that thing completely killed what we go over here ex-cover after against the model of a source both of these are kings of the mini-cup however model of a source did not stand a chance against the hybrid and oh oh oh not a good fight for Kryptonosaurus to pick their drew the in-spin under raptor and picking an easy fight so come on this is actually alive and has made and oh it's made for kills that's quite impressive I was not expecting that and we got one of the sauropods left or look at hold on let me get a close look at that head oh that looks sweet they look so cool I love the way the head looks oh you're good it are you precious hopefully you're not gonna turn around because interrupter wants to kill you but I get the feeling that might be what you're doing yep you're gonna present your butt the butt is being presented for endowment yes sauropods can't really do anything they just turn around domeswax is like oh you ready now okay I'll kill you whoa one of these saurotopsians killed by the ick the overnator whatever it's called it's like the irritator kind of hybrid oh no it's walking away never mind and don't look seems to be stuck there the ick yeah ick the overnator ick you know so come I was taking on a stegoceratops is that a really good idea 41% though is it hungry starving no it's it's pretty good 26% from 100 from the stegoceratops they're calling it quits the stegoceratops is still being able to heal but he really needs some food one of the best fighters that the herbivores has and it almost killed it oh okay there you go interrupter taking down the ankle all that armor all that genetic splice did not mean anything here and is taking out oh kokavenator now taking on the oh it's poisoned whoa who has poy wait who's poison kokaven is poison excavator's point they're both poison they both oh no they're both dead no matter what happens here I think they're both gonna die there will be no winner of the small cup because they're gonna kill each other however the excavator is on 61% and has actually won kills it the the hyposuchamimus there just them eating the dead monolophosaurus all right I guess maybe the excavator wanted to stay here maybe this is where he was gonna win he's on home turf because he's killed two things now now will he survive from his poison probably not he's probably gonna die oh the new hybrid taking on interrupter interrupter poisoned does this also have poison can we just choose what has poison apparently so it looks like they are probably gonna well interrupters gonna lose that one we have the ick the overnight against the baby t-rex what happened to t-rex I don't even know didn't even see it but it looks like it's no longer here and it's a battle to the to the end there with those two sukomamis take it or trading off against the new address will live hybrid not wanting to face up against stegoceratops anymore and unfortunately made the wrong decision and gets killed by the new hybrid giving his stegoceratops that much needed oh god oh it's faded oh it's against the the vastatosaurus who will win this one this will be interesting the the vastato actually has 2% extra on the health it could be a close one there might be a collapse here that means that no one none of them really killed them they just kind of got so low than they collapse I think that might happen here a lot of sauropod still knocking around the indric aetherium still there 26 percent let's see are they calling it off oh 16% stegoceratops would flip in win that is crazy is there any feeders for him I oh no spinosaurus starved to death oh bless it I will actually place down a feeder just to kind of make it fair for that stegoceratops because he will start to be losing help now although there is one here he's panicking because of I have no idea how many dinosaurs do we have left we have 17 dinosaurs we have lost 90 in the first 20 minutes all the doors were killed the pterosaur is now making its way to killing the rest of the herbivores that would luckily that very breviper source is is eating so it's not going to be picked on and who do we have left as the final ones we have the nannooka source who's uh you're right there buddy you're okay have you even killed anything nope and you are oh oh I would say you're dead okay okay well fair enough oh oh interesting I think I'm both oh no no wonder calisaurus is winning because he can poison even if they call this off which oh they haven't it's a kill it's a kill the new hybrid gets the kill against this thing I can't remember what it is but it doesn't matter because it's dead it'll be really interesting to see because this is one of the hybrids that is a big carnival and also has a poison because I think mainly it's a small oh hold on ALS who freaking killed the hypo succubimus as the aliso did the aliso honestly kill it I think it might have no way coffee is still alive wait a minute he's also broken I think we might just have we have like two tea-posing dinosaurs against each other I think the nukasaurus went to kill the compi probably at the start and the compi glitched them well compi's gonna make it to the end apparently oh the excavator raptor is still poison and it looks like it's gonna die I think we can safely say the excavator excavator raptor has one I feel like I do want to heal it I do want to heal it because there is no point in having it die it can't really do anything I was it's gonna die when when something gets poison in this game it pretty much just it goes till zero health and just die aliso did kill him actually was you was your combat if 1200 and has killed four dinosaurs seem to be maybe an average don't know it's for all wait did you kill anything in indoor in Doris Rex he honestly just stay like how many killed six I'm sure those are just six sauropods as well we've got the venato Rex taking on the the ichthyo venator the only herbivore that seems to be still in the fight and can actually fight back is the nozudo seratops which has slowly recovered health however it's now gonna need water it really needs to get it up the the chunking a source died to ISR who's ISR all the banana Rex killed by the ichthyo venator who were for a fish eat it with a tiny snout killed it oh there's ISR who's ISR where is it oh oh oh wait what no what it's this dressable life spino hybrid and not only that it took out the Coralosaurus which was like it killed five things and was crazy 211 attack 140 defense how much did this guy have 215 attack oh wait no no 243 and 173 attack whoa but the thing is it's poisoned so will it it's gonna die oh oh in any normal circumstance I don't think anything oh there's the most other muscles got enough and it's going to kill the final sore or the final sauropods in any normal circumstance if this thing in in spino raptor whatever it is hadn't have been poisoned right now it could have been in with a shot of becoming first the only thing that it might actually stand a chance with is if it can kill the remaining carnivores before the poison kills it oh oh oh oh it's picking a fight it's picking a fight with the ichthyo venator will it go for even at 74% it gets to attack first no way is it gonna kill it I wouldn't be surprised guys I wouldn't be surprised if it actually kills ichthyo venator there it goes yeah dread notice another chunk oh I never knew what happened to my parochunk yeah there's only one giant herbivore left and that is that that thing oh no stick of sauropods no it died to allosaurus this also died the ichthyo venator managed to die to a poison just a little life hybrid I can't know what it's called the endo spina bleh bleh bleh bleh bleh bleh how it was 20 it was on a hundred percent and this thing was 25% off it was on 75% health didn't even get a hidden it did okay we have now only nine dinosaurs left entering what appears to be the final waves actually it's not even nine because because these guys are um or dead they well they should be dead I'm gonna class these as dead I'm just gonna sedate them class them as dead all my men just saw us no one of the second last I don't think in Thomas Rex has actually fought against anything it's just went after giant herbivore after giant herbivore it doesn't care doesn't care about taking on any of the other big carnivores you've just got a poisoned this guy left you've got the allosaurus as well now and that's it I think that's all we got because this guy would have done so good but he's poisoned I think you would have won who to I didn't see that come and even though the other one could poison yeah we're gonna have to delete those tasks okay okay sorry mr. Ingen helicopter who you are also in mod I'm pretty sure it's a mod yes I think you are a mod I'm gonna have to call you off because there's no saving these dinosaurs I can't even move them can't even today and can't do anything to him whoa okay allosaurus taking on the in spinal raptor now I honestly think out of all of these allosaurus deserves to I think out of anything in Domino Rex has done nothing is not for anything except the sore parts however allosaurus has actively went out of its way to take on other carnivores unfortunately it had well it was one the dinosaurs fortunately that wasn't poisoned so I think in normal circumstances this guy would have won eight kills allosaurus has six kills including this one 227 attack against 82 defense against 243 173 oh that's crazy yeah he definitely would have won definitely would have won so now we have seven dinosaurs however really we've only got five we have the Kamara source the the other big sore pod we got allosaurus indoor raptor and there should be another one knocking around somewhere oh yeah the excavator so the excavator one you know he won he deserves it he deserves to be healed not killed by poison so you get that win so the finale is between allosaurus which is just waking up and in Domino Rex now if allosaurus loses then so do the the remaining two herbivores look at that a lot looks so good looks so freaking good allosaurus don't do it you need to kill the Dominus Rex it looks like in Domino Rex actually it in Domino Rex has eyes for only one thing and that is sauropods it's already trying to line up the this guy the breviparapus breviparapus breviparapus you have the weirdest are you real yes you probably are breviparapus I also out of curiosity want to see what a mosasaur looks like when it's trying to be carried because I think this is a deploy as the diplodocus so it should be the same let's have a look oh no he's after the end of catherium that's what he's up to no run you fool well if that ain't a shot I I don't know what is that looks amazing taken out that's it's only one herbivore left and if in Domino Rex has its way breviparapus don't stand much of a chance unless allosaurus can save you I really don't know who would win allosaurus or in Domino Rex you shouldn't be here look so dirty all right you know I'm not gonna question it yeah I don't have the the mod on that allows all of oh allosaurus gets to go first he's been eager he's like you bloody what you've been taking on all of these sauropods that can't fight back you deserve to die oh I'm rude for allosaurus I don't know about you I don't know about you I feel like allosaurus deserves the win deserves the W feel like what in Domino Rex is probably gonna bite here that's probably gonna yep there it comes okay okay so maybe they evenly matched they might be evenly matched and then it's gonna come down to who regenerates first unless in Domino Rex is dead now no no it's gonna be two bites from each I think yep now is it gonna be oh low health there notification for allosaurus so is it possible allosaurus is on low health oh this could be it this could be the final round who's gonna win allosaurus gives it a good roar oh I don't know a hybrid genetically made modified to be one of the most dangerous creatures against just a regular allosaurus who's gonna win oh is that it is that it yes allosaurus wins and look the celebratory Duparaparaparis is in the background allosaurus gets the win there you go well deserved and takes out in Domino Rex through look and attack and defense I assume this guy managed to not be attacked by anything that could poison him and he wins completely and so the final overall win is or actually the Duparaparapis we actually have a sauropod who won no other sauropods in it you did it buddy how'd you feel no no true words have ever been spoken allosaurus was 57 okay let's have a look what were the random so 162 against 83 again oh so and then one more defense but 162 against 227 attack so was what like 45 almost 60 extra attack again one of these guys wouldn't have stood a chance against that that Jurassic world alive hybrid what is it again it's a spinosome thing yeah this thing so whoa Indorakta would have been in Domino Rex that time like how many how many modifications did you have on you look at that when it's a custom dinosaur like you know people can just put on whatever they want as opposed to something like a poor old humble triceratops when you look at what you can add for modifiers for that now there was a mod that I used to have on that would allow you to actually unlock everything for every dinosaur so all of the modifications that we could have for Bina whatever we could put on triceratops now I need to still make that work I'm not exactly sure how I get that to work so look at that the two victors there drinking from the same pod a mutual understanding winners in their own right the sauropod for managing to survive and watching his fellow brother and all die that was the mammoth the Garfield even the giant Moses so all died and the allosaurus for navigating you know it didn't have the strongest attack it didn't have the best defense but it didn't manage and it may be a carefully planted out to take on the Espino Raptor thing we that was so quick we had a hundred and seven the biggest battle arena we've ever had I think legitimately now of all different species apart from you know it to concave and it isn't too over raptors but who cares it was really the only concave in it that made a difference the horror source but anyway guys that is gonna have to wrap up the video leave a like if you enjoyed it did your favorite win let me know what you would like in a future drossigal evolution video or even a battle royale video and until next time I'll see you cuties later oh bye bye


Family Theater presents Richard Widmark, Barbara Hale, William Bendix, and Rod O'Connor. The Mutual Network in Cooperation with Family Theater presents Barbara Hale, Richard Widmark, and Rod O'Connor in God and a Red Scooter. To introduce the drama, your host, William Bendix. Thank you, Tony LaFranco. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention the practice that must become an important part of our lives. We are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. Tonight, Family Theater takes great pleasure in presenting God and a Red Scooter, starring Richard Widmark as Ed, Barbara Hale as Jeanne, and Rod O'Connor as the narrator. Sleep is beautiful. Sleep is a soft hand smoothing the frowns and frets on the tired faces of men. Sleep is a mother hand rocking the cradle of the world, rocking it softly, rocking men and women and all the little children to sweet silence and peace. That's what sleep is. Do you want to know something? I pity the man who does not know how to sleep.  I love children like Eddie. Eddie knows how to sleep. Before he went to bed tonight, he was having a talk all by himself down there in the garden. This is the way he spoke this afternoon as he sat dropping pebbles into a milk bottle. And you know what I said, God? You know what I said to Daddy? I said, God did hear me. That's what I said. And God, remember when I said, please give me a Red Scooter like Stevie and Tony's got? Remember when I said that? About the Scooter? Didn't you hear me, God? Huh? Didn't you? Look, God, I got lots of pebbles, a whole million. See what I mean? See why I love little children like Eddie? He wanted a Red Scooter. He went to sleep dreaming of a Red Scooter. And did he get the Scooter? Well, I shall have to tell you the whole story. In a manner of speaking, the story begins with grapes. From this hill, you get a pretty good idea how it looks, Jeannie. The vines are beautiful in. Nice and dark green. Is that our land all the way through? Yep. Straight ahead, clean over a route 99. That's 26 acres of good grapewood, Jeannie. Don't make you feel kind of glad just to look at it.  It's nice to own something. Yeah, sure is. Cost plenty of jack, too, but it's worth it. When will grapes be growing, eh? Oh, about three years. Takes at least three years. Seems so long to wait. I mean, you'd think they'd just pop out. Oh, no, no. Not grapes, Jeannie. You gotta build up grapes. You gotta work a vineyard. Then after three years, you know what it's gonna be like down there? What? They're gonna be out there on the wire trellises, those grapes. They're gonna be hanging thick and heavy near the redwood stakes. When the harvest comes, we're gonna be packing in over 200 tons of the best red emperors in California. Gosh, 200 tons from only 26 acres? Yes, sir. Oh, it's almost like a miracle, Ed. Sure. And little Ed, he'll be three years old when we start picking our grapes. He'll be walking. Yeah. It takes time for kids and grapes to grow. These plans, these husband and wife plans spoken in sunny places are delightful. Invariably delightful. But I must repeat, I pity the man who does not know how to sleep. Just listen to him. Maybe I made a mistake. It's whiskey business. It's a gamble putting all your money into grapes. The man is worrying, mind you, at one o'clock in the morning. Could be a shrinkage. Could be a bad market. I just can't afford to bump a tough market. Look at him, fidgeting with pencils and papers and dots. Emperors should sell. Months and said emperors was a good grape. I don't know, maybe I should have stacked up with muskets or rapes. Norton did all right last year with rapes. All this at one o'clock in the morning when he should be asleep with his wife and babies. You'd think the gentleman might allow himself the gentle privilege of getting tired. At least by one o'clock in the morning you'd think he might yawn and go to bed. Why doesn't he stop fretting? Why doesn't he relax, the poor fellow? I pity the man who does not know how to sleep. You're not getting enough rest, Ed. Now, don't start fussing again, Jean. Well, you know what the doctor said. All this worrying will only make you... Worrying happens to be a part of a grape deal. Besides, a fellow's got a right to get excited. Over his first harvest, we're picking in three weeks. But you're losing weight. Oh, golly. Eddie, grapes aren't everything. Not if you're going to keep losing your health and everything.  Yes. Well, look, Jeannie, I'm trying to figure this thing out. Maybe 15, 20 years from now, we'll want to take it easy. We want a better house than this. And the kids, they've got to get an education. College. Every kid we have goes to college. Yes, sir. And then maybe some day you and me we'll take a trip, Jeannie, all the way to Holland, maybe. You always said you'd like to see kids in wooden shoes. It's so nice to hear you talk like that. Okay, that's the picture. Now, do you know what's painting that picture? What? Grapes. You see those grapes out there? Uh-huh. I put four years into them. Every cent we own is in those grapes. And right now, right this minute, I figure we've got over 230 tons on those vines. Now, if anything goes wrong with those grapes, Jeannie, it's going to put an awful big dent in things. Nothing's going to go wrong with those grapes, Eddie. A lot of things could go wrong with them. The trouble with you, Eddie, is you haven't got enough faith in God. Oh, now, don't go into that again. Maybe if you got down on your knees once in a while... Now, listen, Jeannie, you do the praying and let me look after the grapes, will you? Well, that's the way it is with some people. Their heads are forever spinning plans and projects. You'd think Edward might have a little more confidence in me. You'd think he'd stop worrying for the space of a quiet sleep. Let me look after the grapes. For I do have a way with grapes, with vines and branches. Understand me, I'm not against plans and projects. I find no fault with the sweat on a man's brow. For labor is a magnificent and courageous thing. I'm talking rather about something that is more courageous than labor. I'm talking about relaxation, about confidence, about trust and faith in me. I like the man who sleeps. I love the man who relaxes and who like a child rests easily in the arms of my providence. Not so with Edward. Edward is too full of plans, as if the plans of men were merely the plans of men. Listen to him. Sure, I'm ready to start, Campbell. My grapes can't wait. Where are those pickers you promised me? We're coming up the valley fast as we can, Ed. Don't blow your top, man. You got enough pickers for me? All you need. Only give me time. Well, how soon do you figure to make it? We'll be cutting your vines by the 17th. I'll guarantee that. Okay. Only make it fast. I like vineyards, vineyards in the fruit of the vine. I bear no grudges against vineyards, having regard for the littlest grape. But once in a while, by design, clouds will gather for reasons sufficient to the ultimate purpose of things. I gather a breeze at Burbank and scoop a cool breath off the high sierras. Northeasterly, my gales go playing with the canyon dust and the sea sands at San Diego. And quite suddenly, quite perceptibly, there's a mist in the Midlands, in the valley of the San Gabriel. And out around the mountains, and down from the mountains, down around the flatlands of San Fernando. Nor is it any surprise that there is mist also in the eyes of a woman in Fresno. It won't rain, Ed. Don't keep staring out that window. You heard what it said on the radio. But this is just mist, Ed. You know how it is with mist. They can come and go. It'll be dry tomorrow. The grapes will be dry, wait and see. It's only a little flurry of rain. Listen. God won't spoil everything by letting it rain now, Ed. I know he won't. Oh, God, don't let it rain. Oh, Eddie, don't let it hurt you. Three days. Three days to harvest and look at it. I know.  A washout.  Believe me, I hold no crudges against vineyards. I like vineyards. But more than all the vineyards in the world, I like man. I love man. I know man well, yet never do I cease to wander at him. He's capable of so much of kindness, of charity and of sacrifice. And yet so often he is incapable of hope. All things you can ask of him at times save this. A little faith. A little confidence. It was so with you, Edward. It was so with you those nights. But Tony and Steve's got scooters, Mom. Yes, I know Eddie, but you don't want a scooter. I want a red one. Maybe on your next birthday you'll get one. But Tony and Steve's got scooters? No, no, baby stuff.  You just pray to God and next year he'll send you a scooter. God, send me a scooter tomorrow like Steve's got. A red one? I don't want to wait till next year, God. Hurry up and send me a scooter. Did he hear me, Mom? Hello, Ed. Hi. Daddy, did God hear me? What are you talking about, Eddie? I asked God to send me a scooter. Did he hear me on account of my birthday tomorrow? I wouldn't know, Eddie. I wouldn't know too much about that kind of a scooter. It's a red one. Tired, Ed. Maybe God left it in the yard already. You've been giving him ideas about birthday presents? He's been asking for that scooter for over a year, Ed. You know that. Well, tell him to stop asking. Ed, you've changed so much lately. Yeah, sure. I know enough now not to go around asking God for scooters. Maybe I should ask him for a rebate on 26 acres of slip skins. Suffer's right. Okay. I saw Campbell today. Oh, did you? We're ready to pick in a week. My second harvest. It'll be a good one. Maybe I'm not counting any grapes until I get them off the vine. I'm only banking on red emperors, Jeannie. Not red scooters. What are you so jittery about, Ed? Heck, man, you're going to do all right. You got a nice crop out there. Yeah, I had a nice crop last year, too, Campbell. Well, forget last year. Well, looks at them, binds, Ed. I'm guaranteeing you'll be cutting 300 lugs a day. Okay. I'll be seeing you tomorrow, Campbell. Right. Oh, Ed. Hmm? What's between you and me? Yeah.  Jeannie? Yeah. What? The kid looks plenty tired out. She's worrying about a lot of things. Oh, there's nothing wrong with Jeannie.  If you don't start praying at the drop of a hatch, you think God was going to come up and kick you in the pants. Well, that's Jeannie. She's a straight man. I don't know, Ed. If I were you... Now, listen, Campbell, I understand, Jeannie. Hmm? All I need is just one good harvest, and maybe we'll do a little celebration. That'll fix her up. Yeah. Yeah, I suppose. Well, there's still good harvest. Jeannie? Hey, Jeannie. Got a surprise for you and the kids. I wonder if she's lying down again. Oh, I knew I'd find you in here, lazy bones. Hey, Jeannie, I want to take you in the... What's the matter? Tired, Ed. You don't look good. You don't look good at all. Well, maybe I better get Doc Hanley for you, huh? Oh, wait a minute, honey. It's funny. Somehow I've always had a feeling I'd be lying here like this, talking like this, telling you sooner or later that... What are you talking about, honey? Ed, I'll be leaving you for a while. What? Oh, oh, no, no, look here, Jeannie. You just run down, that's all. Doc Hanley will fix you up in a jiffy. Come here, Ed. Sit down in the bin. Sure. Now look at me. Do I look scared? No. You don't look scared, but you look kind. All right, now. Now listen to me. The sheets are in the closet downstairs and the kid's laundry. You better send it out every week. What are you talking about, Jeannie? Hey, Ed, you better start praying for me. Jeannie, darling. Don't leave me alone, Eddie. Don't ever leave me alone. Don't worry, I won't. Just keep praying for me, and... Jeannie, darling. And, Eddie... Maybe we'll still take that trip someday, you and me. Oh, sure. We'll go first class, huh? Sure. All the way to Holland to see the tulips and the kids with the wooden shoes. What about it, Doc? As far as I know, and remember, I'm only one doctor. There's nothing much that can be done for Jeannie yet. Okay, I'll get her the best specialist in this country if I have to. You go right ahead. And by the way, you can go in and see her now. She's conscious again. Okay. Hello, Jeannie. Hello, Ed. Well, you're... You're looking pretty good, Jeannie. Your face...  The kids. How are the kids? Good. Listen, Jeannie, I was just talking to Doc Hanley. I know, Ed. It's all right. I'm going to get you the best specialist in the country, honey. Ed. What? I ask you to do something for me once. Remember. Okay, Jeannie. You asked me to pray. Hey, look, I'll get down on my knees right now. Do you really want me to start praying? Not that way, Ed. Now, look, honey, if I have to kidnap a half dozen of the best doctors, I'm going to do it. You're going to get better. You hear me, honey? Mm-hmm. You're going to get better. Yeah. You'll be out of here before you know it. Excuse me for barging in like this, doctors, but what did you find? We're doing everything possible. You'll just have to be patient. Yeah, that's what everybody says. Be patient. Why don't you go home and rest? Get a little sleep. Sleep? No, not now. I can't sleep now. I ask you to do something for me once. Remember. All right, Jeannie. I'll do it for you right here in this church. I'll do it for you. Are you listening, God? I don't know the words you're supposed to use, but it's from the bottom of my heart. I'm praying for Jeannie, my wife. I can't lose her, God. Not now. We've got kids, God. Three kids. We're trying to make a go of it with grapes. You've got to hear me, God. You've got to make Jeannie well. Please, God. I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart. I'm sorry to keep troubling you like this, doctor, but I had to come over. What's your chances now? Well, I'm sorry. I think you would better be prepared for the worst. You mean there's no chance of... She's getting weaker. I'm sorry for that. I see. I understand. Okay, doctor. What's the matter, Daddy? Nothing. Mom's sick, huh? Yeah. Well, Daddy, why don't you ask God to send Mommy home, huh? You want me to ask God for you? Huh, Daddy? Maybe God's got cotton in his ears, Eddie. Cotton? Yeah. You can't hear so good with cotton in your ears. He can hear me? Is that so? Yep. Well, once he didn't hear you, Eddie. When? Remember when you asked him for that scooter? Yeah, a red scooter. Well, God didn't hear your prayers then, Eddie. Yes, he did. God did hear my prayers. Come on over here.  Now, what did you say? I said God did hear my prayers. What did he say to you? God said, he said no. Sometimes God says no. Huh, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? What's the matter, huh? Hello. Is this the residence? Oh, yes, yes, doctor. What's the news? Well, we wanted to let you know that... Hello, doctor. Doctor? Operator, I've been cut off. Operator, will you please get me Mercy Hospital? The line's dead. Look, you stay in the garden with the kids, Eddie. I've got to go to Mom. I ask you to do something for me once. Remember? I tried, Genie, so help me, I tried. You can't die, Genie. Not alone, not up there in that room.  Sometimes God says no, huh, Daddy? All right, all right, God. You got me where you want me. Now listen to me. Please, you've got to listen. Sure I wanted, Genie. When you love somebody, you don't want to see them die. You want to have them, God. You want to have them close enough to put your arms around. Okay, maybe I did want it. Maybe I did want you to say yes, just like I wanted you to say yes to that first harvest. Sometimes God says no, huh, Daddy? All right, sometimes you say no, too. If that's the way it's going to be, all right. You're the boss. I'm admitting it, you're the boss. Only please listen to me. I don't want Genie to die all alone without me. You hear me, God? I can take it, I can take anything. Only don't let it be all alone for Genie. I'm asking you, God. Honest, God. I'm asking you. Genie! Hello, Eddie. Well, you're... You're not your... You're all right. What's the trouble, Ed? You're smiling at me, Genie. And you're looking at me, you're talking to me. I'm really feeling much better today. Come here and put your arms around me. And stop looking like a baby. Darling, maybe... Maybe God is saying yes. Maybe he's saying yes. Night to night is beautiful over California. For the first time in a long time, a tired man sleeps. Resting at last in the shadow of my handy sleep. I might have said no. I have said no to some of my loveliest children, my best beloved. But know this always, Edward. Sometimes when my refusals are necessary to a plan, you cannot understand. The little Eddie being wiser in his innocence seems to understand that storm upon your vineyard, that storm that drew your curse, was a blessing to a thousand other Edwards. In pasture lands, parched by the drows 600 miles to the north. So tragedy, the tragedy today is but the pruning and the preparation of a lovelier tomorrow. Yes, there are times I have said no. As many fathers have said no to their dearest, their best beloved children. But tonight, Edward, tonight I have said yes. Rest lightly on the tired eyes of the man. And concerning Eddie five years old, listen to him mixing his prayers tonight. The Lord's worthy. Our blessings is a fruit. And give us this day, daily bread. Never, never remain. Couldn't send me a scooter like Stevie Scott?   The small lips of a child fumbling with a prayer, getting it mixed up, getting it tangled and sweetly muddled with sleep. Listen to him. And all the while the soft fingers of sleep are smoothing his eyelids, closing them easily. Red scooter. Oh God. All right, Eddie. It'll be a red scooter. I've willed, Eddie. A red scooter. Now sleep, Eddie. Sleep. This is Bill Bendix again. We of Family Theatre have been proud to present the story of a man and his newfound faith in God. Now that may sound strange coming from me. Like the hundreds of guests who have appeared on Family Theatre, I spend most of my time trying to make people laugh. Trying to make them take their minds off themselves. But that isn't enough to make them happy. Sooner or later, people have to stop laughing and start thinking. They have to put their minds on themselves. They have to reflect. Yes, reflect on how each of us is lost, unless we have faith and hope in a God to whom we can bring our troubles and pray for help. That's the reason for Family Theatre. Just a weekly reminder that all of us, and especially our families, need God and should pray to Him. If you've been neglecting prayer, why not start today with your family about you in the circle of your home? Find out for yourself that the family that prays together, stays together.  Family Theatre has brought to you Barbara Hale, Richard Widmark and Rod O'Connor in God and a Red Scooter with William Bendix as your host. Others in our cast were Michael Chapin, Herb Blitton, Michael Hayes and Stan Waxman. The script was written by Timothy Mulvey with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for Family Theatre by J. F. Mansfield. This series of Family Theatre broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this type of program by the mutual network which has responded to this need and by the hundreds of stars of stage, screen and radio so unselfishly given of their time and talent to appear on our Family Theatre stage.  This is Tony LaFranco expressing the wish of Family Theatre that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home. And inviting you to be with us next week at this time when Family Theatre will present Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan in The Lady with the Land. Join us, won't you?