No matter what it is, it's a case for Nick Carter, Master Detective. Yes, it's the case of the make-believe robbery. Another case for that most famous of all man-hutters. The detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master Detective. So Assistant Director, well how about putting me in this picture too? Why should I pay you 10 bucks to see you ain't no cop, or ain't I, I says to him? I'm Wild or McGlynn, that's who I am. I don't wear no uniform, but I'm the best dog gone detective in this town. Well, when he hears that, he says, OK, give the other cops a hand, holding back the crowd, then. Well, why don't you give me? Quiet, quiet, everybody, quiet. We're ready to start shooting. Each one of you policemen knows the job we're going to do. The crooks get out of the car, walk into Ryan Gould's jewelry store, and go straight through the store to the offices in the back. The camera will follow them as they go. We're not taking any sound now, that'll be dubbed in late. Crooks come out of the store again, they'll get in the car, and drive up the street. The sound truck and camera will follow them for some other shots later, is that clear?  Yeah, I know. All right, stand by, everybody, the scene act natural, please, and don't look at the camera. Don't shout, take it easy, will you? Jean McGlynn, this is exciting, being part of a real moving picture. Oh, I don't know, it's all right if you ain't never done it before. Have you ever been in a picture before? Have I been in a picture? Have I been in a picture? That's what I said, have you?  Ah, I bet you've never been in a picture. Hey, those are pistol shots, come on. Hold it, you dope, those are part of the moving picture, remember? Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to find out what you do. Oh, you kid. Look, when I was out in Hollywood, I used to be in a town... To follow you for the other scene, now get going, we'll be right behind you. You'll get your checks at headquarters tonight. Thanks, I haven't been in so long. That's that, I sure wish I could make Ken books. Absolutely! But hey, what is it, lady? The gas. Easy, lady, he ain't dead, this was just a... At least one of your cops wasn't bright enough to have seen through this phony moving picture business. Oh, don't rub it in, Nick, please. Was headquarters ever approached at all? Never. The individual cops were the only ones they contacted. One million dollars away, the beautiful stones, they took right out of the main safe and killed my cashier. Don't you carry insurance on your jewels, Mr. Reingold? Sure, I carry insurance, but I lose all my stock stones. Did you know about this moving picture business in advance? Sure, I did. About 11 o'clock this morning, a guy who said he was Fred Harlan, a director for colossal pictures, come in and asked me, could they use my store for making a movie? Said they wanted a one-story building like mine, not too big, but important. I said, would the sign over the store show in the picture? And he said, yes, so I told him okay. Did this man who said he was Harlan have any credentials? Oh, sure. Sure, his papers was good, colossal pictures, it said. Who was here with you at the time? There was me, my nephew, Mr. Green and my cashier. What did this Harlan look like? A little bigger than me, blonde hair, good looking, about 45 maybe. It was wearing sunglasses, the Hollywood kind. You keep the safe open or closed during the day? Always, it's closed, so much jewels it contains. When we want something, we unlock it. Take out what we want and then click, close it and lock it again. Who had the combination? Me, my nephew Lester and my cashier, nobody else. Keep the burglar alarm on or off during the day? Always, it's on. We have a button to turn it off and we want to get in, see right here. Look, the alarm is still on, but didn't it go off when the safe was open? The alarm wasn't turned off, we can be sure the cashier didn't open the safe for them. See. Huh, here's why the alarm didn't work. What you got, Nick? The alarm wire's been cut, piece taken out of it to make sure it stays cut. Hey, Nick, since the safe wasn't forced open and the cashier didn't open it, that means the crooks had the combination. Mr. Reingold, you say only the three of you knew the combination? Yeah, that's all right. And one of you three helped in this robbery and the cashier's dead, but lets him out, I should say. But then you think me a lester if he should rob ourselves? I've been done before. Oh, come in, come in. I got here as quick as I could, Mr. Reingold. Who are you? Well, I'm Mickey Armbruster, the store detective. What were you doing while they pulled off this fast job? Well, I'm off on Monday, Sergeant. I work Sundays as watchman and Lester takes over for me on Monday. Oh, Mr. Reingold called me, so I came right down to see if there's anything I could do. I don't think so, thanks. By the way, where is Lester? Since the robbery, I ain't seen him to no good. Well, let me know when he comes back, will you? I'd like to talk to him. Sure, sure. Right away, I'll tell you. Waldo, was the sound truck a colossal truck? Well, no, Nick, I noticed it came from the Kramer Sound Equipment Company, why? That's strange. Should think that if Colossal was doing the job, they'd furnish their own truck. Colossal had nothing to do with it, Nick, we checked. That part was as phony as the rest of it. Maybe there ain't no Fred Harlan, neither, Nick. That's the odd thing about this, Waldo, there is a Fred Harlan. Huh? Well, there was, years ago, used to be top director in the colossal lot. Maybe this wasn't that Harlan, Nick. That thought occurred to me too, Maddie. Well, we've done all we can here. We said there were no fingerprints. My men couldn't find one anywhere. Oh, it was a slick job. And let's go. See you later, Mr. Rangold. Yes, sure, sure. Maddie, I suggest you have some of your men check up on this Rangold and this nephew of his, Lester Green. Yeah. Also check the Kramer Sound Equipment people and see if they can help us. Waldo and I are going to drop in on Scubby and see what he can dig up for us and Fred Harlan. Right, Nick. Me seeing it. Now, Mr. Kramer ain't here now. When'll he be back? I don't know. Look, have you seen a fellow with blonde wavy hair around here in the last couple of days? Blonde wavy hair? Yeah. Wish my hair was wavy. I tried my sister's hair crown stuff, but it didn't do no good. Did you see that guy around? Maybe I should have wore a hair net like she does. Look, dimwit, can you answer me a plain, simple question? Sure, well, go ahead. Ask me a question. Ask me a question. Look, has a guy with blonde wavy hair been around here lately? The fellow directed the movie this noon had wavy hair. That's the one I mean. Have you seen him? Yeah, he was directing the crooks.  I'm too smart. Yeah, yeah, I'll see you. She said somebody had been killed, but I knew better. A man was killed. That's why I'm- Well, you, huh? Well, maybe you've never been to the movies. I shoot a guy, and blood runs all down his face, and he falls down.  I read about in the book.  You ought to be- What are you doing here, honey? Oh, it's just hanging around.  I told you not to hang around the office. I won't, buddy. Hey, you Ted Kramer? Yes, here I am. What can I do for you? I'm Matheson, homicide. You seen a man with blonde wavy hair around here recently? Well, you must mean Fred Haaland, the movie director. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, sure, he was in here yesterday. Hired my soundtrack. He, uh, tell you anything about himself? Well, he said he was an old-time director and showed me his credentials. Said he was doing a job for a colossal, but they weren't furnishing the truck because the job was too small. He had to furnish the cameraman, too. Know who he was? Yeah, he's a friend of mine. I recommended him and Haaland hired him. Don Goodman, too, does a lot of picture work. What does this Haaland look like? Oh, about 5'10". Good looking. A man of about 45, I'd say, who wore big Hollywood sunglasses. But it was raining yesterday. Yeah, yeah, I know. But you know these Hollywood nuts. All right, did he tell you anything about the job he was going to do? Yeah, he did. He was all excited about it. Said he was just shooting a few scenes, but it would give him a chance to show that he was still a good director. Just trying to make him come back, he said. Your truck's not back yet. No, no, he said he'd probably keep it all day. Well, OK. Thanks, sir. See you later. Here, Nick, this is everything I can find in the files about Fred Haaland. Thanks, Scobby. Hey, look at the bunch of stuff he's got there. That Haaland must have been quite a guy. Well, he sure was. Here, Waldo, you take these clippings. OK. Scobby, you take these. Yeah. I'll go through these others. OK. Oh, here's a picture of the guy, Nick. Oh, let me see. That's the guy, Nick. That's the lad who directed the movie this morning.  Yes, it's the date of this. Taken 15 years ago. No change in his looks in 15 years? I wish I could do that. Nobody can do that, Scobby, and that's what interests me. Well, Nick, he had his horoscope told, too. Well, anything for publicity, Waldo. Yeah, I see. Here's an article about him and his fingerprints, too. He didn't miss a trick. Let me have that, Waldo. Yeah, sure. Oh, here are the last ones, Nick. Reports of his accident and the follow-up stories. Accident, huh? Serious? Almost fatal. Doctor said he suddenly cracked up while he was driving. Went over an embankment and was badly broken up. Let me see those, will you? Oh, sure. Here you are. Thanks. Reds broken, arm broken two places, leg cracked, bad cuts on head, long jagged cut under right here. Cut under right here. Yes, I seem to remember seeing a scar like that very recently. You mean Harlan still has it, Nick? I've never seen Harlan, Scubby. I've seen that scar somewhere today. Where in it? I'm not sure. Spent months in the California Medical Hospital under the care of Dr. Edward Wilson. That all, Scubby? Yeah, that's all. He dropped out of sight after that. All right, thanks. That helps a lot. Now I'll call the office and see what's happened there. Then we'll look up Harlan himself if we can find his address. And if there is such a person. Isn't anything new? Oh, not much, Patsy. The boys, there we go. Oh, one moment, Sergeant. Nick heard his office, Patsy Bowen speaking. Patsy, Nick. Have you heard anything from Maddie yet? Well, he's right here. You want to talk to him? Yes, put him on. Nick wants to talk to you, Sergeant. Oh, thanks, Patsy. Hello, Nick. Maddie, anything new? Well, the boys just found the sedan the crooks used about six miles out of town near the river. The sound truck is in the river. They're hauling out soon as the crane gets there. Any reports on Ryan Gold or Lester Green yet? Yeah, we've been working fast. Nothing much on Ryan Gold except that he had his stuff completely insured so he won't lose a nickel. But this nephew of his, this Lester, seems to have been quite a lad in days past. That's wrong. Yeah, has a long record with the Hollywood police. Oh, nothing serious, just some studio brawls and several arrests for reckless driving. Lost his job at the studio because he was so wild. You mean he worked in a studio? Yeah, he was a bit actor for a while. And he'd know the movie technique, wouldn't he? What? My golly, Nick. He sure would. Has he turned up yet? No, he hasn't. But we got the boys watching for him. Good. Going out to have a look at the truck when they get it out of the river? I'm on my way there now, yeah. Now take Patsy with you, will you? Why, sure. What do you want her to do? Put her on, I'll tell her. OK. Here, Patsy, Nick, want you? Thanks. Yes, Nick? Patsy, listen. I want you to go with Maddie. Get the license number of the crooks' car so we can trace it. Get copies of any fingerprints, Maddie Fines, and any other dope you can get. Bring them back to the office. All right, Nick. Call Dr. Wilson at the car here. I want to see Carter. Hold it, Nick. I'm sorry, but Mr. Carter's not in just now. Who are you, please? I'm Lester Green. Lester Green. Just the boy I want to see. Who are you? Sergeant Matheson, homicide bureau. Oh, so you're the guy. What the devil do you mean by telegraph in Hollywood? Check it up on me. We wanted to find out what kind of a guy you are. And we did. So I get into a couple of jams out there. What's up to you? Plenty. Right now? Well, I was just a kid when I was in Hollywood six years ago. I'm different now. Says you. You got into jams out there. Now you're in a jam here. Who says I'm in a jam? I do. You want to poke in the nose? Just one little poke, Mr. and you'll find yourself behind bars. OK, Nick. I'll take care of everything. Now then, what do you know about the robbery of your uncle's store? The store? Yeah. Robbed? Yeah. When? Oh, I suppose you don't know nothing about it. Well, no, I don't. Huh? Well, then you won't mind answering a few questions for me, will you? Gosh, no. Well, that's better. Now, I got to go out to have a look at that truck. So suppose you come along with me. On the way, you can tell me everything you've done since you got up this morning. We'll be out in the sticks by now. Are you sure we're going right? That's what the cop said. Straight ahead to the next gas station and turn right. Maybe this address we're going to is a fawny, Nick. Just because Harlan gave it to the man he rented the sedan from, though, don't prove he really lives there. Doesn't prove he doesn't either. There's a gas station up ahead, Nick. One of them little one-pump places. Good. That must be it. I hope he's got something to eat there. I'm starved. How many you want, please? Fill it up. Should take about five gallons. OK. By the way, do you happen to know if a man by the name of Fred Harlan lives around here? Harlan, sure, King. Lived about half a mile up this road, seen him lots of times. Good-looking, Harlan. Blonde, wavy hair, about my height. Where's big sunglasses? Yeah, that's the Harlan. Does he always wear those sunglasses? Oh, sure, all the time. Oh, once he took them off to ride them, I've seen he had a bad cast in his left eye. Guess he don't want nobody to see his poor life. Anybody live up there with him? I never see anybody. Always alone when he come in here. You want anything else? Well, you better look at the oil. OK. You know anything about his business? Well, yeah, he was here a couple of days ago. Told me he was moving director. Said he was going to have chance to make a picture and get his yacht back again. It's the same guy, all right, Nick. And it is Harlan. Maybe. Have you seen him in the last few hours? No, he went out to here this morning early. I ain't seen him since. Well, his dog is still there, though. I hear him barking while back. It's a mean crate of that dog. Harlan told me once I'd better keep away from his place if I didn't want to get it up. I see. How much oil? Well, six gallons gas is $1.20. Your oil's all right. Here you are. You got anything to eat here? Got some hot dogs and some candy bars. Hot dogs? Them's for me. Give me two. You want mustard or cold slaw on them? Put them both on. I ain't for see. And a pickle, too. Give me two hot dogs, no mustard or anything. Not even a roll, just the plain Franks. Two? Without no rolls? No nothing? A used plain? That's right. Well, it seems to me you've been crazy for this your business. I thought you never ate them things, Nick. I don't. I'm buying them for a friend. I hope he likes them. Nick, it's almost dark here under these trees. Yes. It is in a very attractive place, Harlan is in. That must be the dog he told us about. Yes, the dog. I hope he don't decide to take a bite out of my leg. Well, if my plan goes right, Walter, this dog won't take a bite out of either of us. Now, let's see if Harlan is home. Seems to be no one here but the dog. Well, let's see if we can get this door open. This was easy. Now what? Now I open the door just to crack like this. And give Mr. Fred Harlan's dog the two minis I bought for him. Nice doggy. Bet you're hungry. Here, see how these taste.  You're crazy, Nick. Perhaps, and perhaps not. You're feeling chai, doggy? Well, I don't take a little nap. That's the way. I'll close your eyes. What are you doing, Nick, hypnotizing him? And now we can open the door all the way and walk in. What a holy mackerel. That hound is dead to the world. What did you do to him, Nick? Just fed him the two hot dogs he bought at the gas station, that's all. You mean them two weenies? Did that to him? Those two weenies, Waldo, had a couple of knock-offs drops in them.  Now, let's see what we can find here. Now, this room hasn't been used recently. Try the next one. Oh, this one ain't either. Dust is thicker than the rug. Says the kitchen. Yeah, may use this room all right. What a mess. If you start hunting for clues in this place, you've got yourself an all-night job. And I can't spend that much time on it. Well, let's have a look upstairs. Yeah. You know that the guy at the gas station said he never spent much time here. Maybe he just lived in one room in the kitchen. I think you're right, Waldo. Yes, and this is undoubtedly the room he used when he was here. Nick, do you suppose the crooks talked Harlan into a deal and then bumped him off when they were through with him? Waldo, the fact that the man who ran this show looked like the Harlan of 15 years ago leads me to believe that there's been an impersonation. Yeah, but who impersonated who? That's what I'm trying to find out. Now, first, let's pick out some good fingerprints. Should be plenty of them on this dressing table. Yeah, here and here. Lift them off of the files. You mean the way you showed me the other night, huh? Yes, use the clear scotch tape. Oh, kitty, Nick. Hey, did you notice all the makeup he's got here? Yes, and there's several pictures here that look like those taken 15 years ago. You notice? Yeah. Looks as if they've been used as models for making up. And here, what's this? Huh, hairs. Blonde, wavy hairs. That's what we're looking for, ain't it? Yes. Uh-huh. Now we're getting somewhere. Waldo, these hairs didn't come out of a head. They came up a wig. Off in a wig? How do you know? Have no roots on them. Nailed up in a wig, yeah? Now, I know that was an impersonation. Oh, Nick, Nick. Just happen to see it is here in the wastebasket. What is it? It's a piece of wrapping paper from Rein Gold's jewelry store. And do you see what it says on it here? To be carred for. Yes, and look at the name of the one who was to do the calling. Yeah, well, what's the connection between him and Harlan, Nick? A very strong one, I believe. You got any ideas? I have. Right now, we're going back to the office to figure out what loose end we can. And you're going to bring Harlan's dog along with you. Bring the dog? Are you crazy, Nick? Maybe I am. And bring him along just the same. All the truck up out of the river, they found this megaphone in it. And it has fingerprints on it. You mean the water didn't wash them off? Water doesn't hurt Prince Waldo. Batsy, did you get a picture of them? Uh-huh, Sergeant Matheson gave me one. Here. Now, where did I put that news picture? Ah, yes, here it is. The prints on the megaphone match the picture of Harlan's prints exactly. Then by golly, Nick, it was the original Harlan who did the job. Is that good or bad, Nick? Anything could help solve the case. It's good, Batsy. And if Harlan himself did it, it's certainly one step nearer the end. Nick Carter's office, Batsy Bourne speaking. Oh, yes, just a moment, please. I'll put Mr. Carter on. And Nick is Dr. Wilson at the California Hospital. He's the one who treated Harlan after his accident. Oh, yes. Hello, Dr. Wilson. Yes, I see. Wouldn't have recognized him, huh? Yes, of course. Well, Doctor, do you know where he went after he left the hospital? Oh, he did. I see. Well, thanks very much, Doctor, for taking the time to call me like this. I really appreciate it. Goodbye. Well, Nick? Just as we suspected, when Harlan left the hospital, it would have been difficult for even his old friends to have recognized him. He'd badly cut about the head and had lost over 50 pounds. Dr. Wilson said he was in pretty bad shape. And he came back here to live. Nick, Nick, I'm getting all balled up here. If Harlan actually is Harlan, he couldn't look the way he did 15 years ago before the accident. But if he does look the way he did then, it can't really be Harlan, which it is. Oh, boy, you are tangled up, aren't you? Batsy, call Mary and tell him to meet us at Rangol Store. Waldo, how's the dog? You're still sleeping, Glory Bee.  OK, put him under your arm and let's go.  It's all I can do to lift the brute off the floor. No, don't cry, Waldo. Just be glad it isn't a great day. A great? Oh, nuts.  Hi, Maddie. Hello, Nick. Ah, so you brought Lester too, huh? Excellent. Yep, I thought we might as well all be here for the fireworks. Hello, Mr. Cardi. You got news first, yes? I have, Mr. Rangold. I have news, the solution of the case and the name of the murderer. You hear that, Mickey?  The way you should catch more people stealing in my store, maybe. Well, how'd you do it, Mr. Carter? I didn't mind learning something when I came. I studied the facts and found out more facts. I discovered that this robbery today was the result of years probably of careful planning, of leading a double life, of the killer being himself half the time and somebody else the rest. I learned that a man was so badly broken down through a nervous collapse in an automobile wreck that his own friends wouldn't have known him. And he traded on that fact, got himself a job of trust and confidence. In fact, he became an employee of a jewelry store. He was a store detective. Well, what do you know about that? Carter, are you insinuating that? I'm insinuating nothing. I'm giving facts. You got yourself this job here, watched and schemed and planned, and when you were ready, pulled this phony movie set up and robbed the safe. That's hard to believe, Nick. Has he got proof? Well, no. Let the dog in. OK, Nick. Glad I am to do it. Hey, hey, what's all this, Nick? Why, the door gang? That dog belongs to Harlan. He also belongs to Mickey, as you can see, by the way he greets him. For a while, I thought somebody impersonating Harlan had done this robbery, but I finally realized that the man who impersonated Harlan was Harlan himself, now known as Mickey Armbruster. Well, a man mixed up. You got not proofed in a dog, Mr. Carter? I have. When Matty takes Mickey's fingerprints, you'll find that they match the prints of Harlan's I found in a newspaper. And they'll match the prints found in the megaphone the phony movie director used. And you'll find Mickey knew the combination of the safe also. It took time to get it, but he was in no hurry. I was here in the store Sunday watching. He cut the burglar alarm wires as a safety precaution. And he wore the dark glasses while he was playing Harlan to conceal the cast in his eye, which, as Mickey, is so plainly evident. Well, Mickey, am I right? Yes, Carter, you're right. I thought my plan was foolproofed. By impersonating myself, as I looked 15 years ago, I'd throw you all off the track. My jewels. Mickey, you bum, they're my jewels. Why, you'll never see them. My pals will take care of me when the time comes. Who worked with you, Mickey? You don't really expect me to tell you that, do you? They're friends of mine. I'm going to need friends before this is over. You don't have to tell us who they are, Mickey. We'll find them without your help. As a movie director, you should know better than to take moving pictures of your pals and then not destroy the film. That's the best evidence in the world. The camera was on the soundtrack when we drove it into the river. It was, but it just happens that the camera was watertight and the film is still good. It's being developed right now. And when we get a look at it, we'll be able to pick up your pals and recover all of Ryan Gold's jewelry. The movie you were making may have been a phony, but the film you took was real. And your conviction is going to be real, too. You can depend on that. Melnick, before you give us a peek into your story for next week, I want to talk for a moment to the young men of America. You know it is no longer true, if it ever was, that men join the army only if they can't get jobs anywhere else, or if they're not fitted for some other job, or if they're too lazy to look for one. The new American army of today is a compact, carefully chosen group of skilled technicians with brains and ability. Young men seeking to enter the army today must be able to understand and profit by technical training that is second to none. The skills that the men in the new American army acquire no matter what branch of the service they may be in equals and often exceeds that demanded by many of the best paid civilian trades. You can do no better for yourself in your country than to join the new American army and become an informed technician in at least one of the many specialized fields offered. Excellent advice, Ken. Well, Lake, what about your story next week? Well, next week, Ken, I'm going to tell you about an adventure I had recently when an explosion of unknown origin burned down a warehouse. An alarm clock missing from an ex-oldier's trailer proved that the fire was in Fendi area. And a bit of green paint on a crowbar led us directly to the fire bug himself. Who wasn't a fire bug at all, but a crook who wanted to get rid of some very incriminating evidence. What do you call this story, Nick? I call it the case of the missing alarm clock. Nick Carter, master detective, which is produced and directed by Jack McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. Pictured stories of Nick Carter appear in every issue of the Shadow Comics. In the broadcasts of Nick Carter, Master Detective, Lon Clark is starred as Nick, Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy, Mattie is played by Ed Latimer, Waldo by Humphrey Davis, and Scubby by John Cain. Original music is played by George Wright. Script is by Jack McGregor and Peggy Mayer. Any resemblance in these programs to actual persons living or dead or to actual places is purely coincidental. Nick Carter, master detective, is presented over most of these mutual stations each week at the same time. This is Ken Powell saying so long until next week. The program was heard in Canada through the facilities of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


Ladies and gentlemen, from yesterday, members of parliament from the pier have been staging a siren protest, a protest to have styled as the Nixon-Chilangwa sitting protest. This is the Nixon-Chilangwa sitting protest. This protest was necessitated by the manner in which the house has been, or is being handled. It's been two years, our sitting has been of opposition and indeed the whips. We've had a lot of pressure from the members concerning the treatments that they are receiving, they've been receiving from the house. We've tried in the background to engage the presiding officer. Clearly, nothing has changed. Members of parliament are responsible citizens. They are representatives of the people. That is why there are only 156 such individuals elected out of almost 20 million people. And to come to parliament, to be reduced to a schoolboy, because comrade Moses Moyo feels so powerful and he thinks he can just be pointing at him and sit down, stand up, don't talk, simply an accent. Sitting as a member of parliament, he said, comrade Moyo, you must remind. We are senior members of that parliament, we've been in that parliament. And we're hoping that by now you could have learned how to handle members of parliament. Ladies and gentlemen, in the last parliament, I was privileged to say as government chief, what I remember, that most of you remember, is that discipline of the house was mostly channeled to them. Speaker Matibini, who always called upon the way he sweeps, can we have order in the house? Speaker Matibini did not find it necessary to engage members directly. He respected the established channels of handling the house. And those channels, if you go and read in our study on it, what the functions of the whips are, their job is to maintain discipline. And the reason why it's been like that in our commonwealth parliament is to ensure that members of parliament are respected. Coding out to names of members of parliament by the presiding officer is a new practice that we are seeing only in this parliament. It doesn't exist anywhere. It's not very long ago, I'm sure, if you refresh your memories. Speaker Matibini will always say, whips maintain order, can we ensure that we have order in the house? It's because if the presiding officers demand order and decorum in the house, it must start the presiding officers. It was not very long ago I was having a chat with somebody who had gone to the Gandham parliament. When they came back, we were having a casual chat. The people in Uganda, MPs in Uganda, who were chatting with our members of parliament that included UPND members of parliament, described our parliament as a most useless parliament. I didn't want to talk about this, but that's how we are viewed on the outside. And why did they call parliament useless? They said members of parliament have no freedom in that parliament. For those of you that speak elementary French, like I do, parliament comes from the word parlay to speak. Members of parliament come to that house just to speak and represent the people. Like Honourable Kapiangat pointed out, we don't bring more advanced views or ideas. We speak on behalf of the people that related us. Now can you imagine, you're coming with 50,000, 60,000 voters behind you. And because Comrade Monizmoyle does not like your hairstyle that much. He doesn't want you to speak, he just says sit down. For how long, colleagues, are we going to go on like that? Members of parliament asked me, they said you want us to go and debate, talk about what? With all the research that we have done, we can only take one Monizmoyle over the president officer to interrupt at every juncture. But guess what we did? What we agreed was for us to me present a clear case to the Zambian people. Can we allow only the UPND members of parliament to participate so that we see whether the speaker will interrupt any of them? And there it is, they played in our thoughts. Did you watch parliament today? We had members of parliament giving foundations and backgrounds to the question. Even up to three minutes, an interrupted. Did you hear the president officer stopping any member to say no, go to your question. And this leads to the case of biasness and mistreatment of PF members of parliament or opposition members of parliament. Let me just remind you. Four days ago, my dear sister and friend, comrade to Ishikasa and the Minister of Information, first was given a ruling in a matter that happened some time back where it was alleged that she is suspected, madam speaker. We remember what happened on that day. She walked across the floor and waved her hand against the president officer, went against any form of guidance and walked through the door. Total disregard of the house. Did you see what happens to her? She was merely reprimanded from her seat. Are we together? Four days ago, check your facts. Given Katuta, first a similar offense. Today, given Katuta's been given seven days. She was called to stand behind the bar and she's been sent out for seven days. It's the same parliament, same standing orders and same rules, different treatment. So when the members are saying we are being treated, what happened today? Thank God, in the case of Katuta and indeed parliamentary business throughout this morning. No one was interrupted. Kawata member of parliament stood and was giving a background of three minutes. He was just looked at and deposed as possible. That has never happened to a single member of the PF or the position. Is that mistreatment that the members are now saying enough? We want earlier, we say we will start the process of exposing this parliament for 180 years. We are representatives. We are not subjects of madam's speaker and I want to make it very clear. We are not subject of any presiding officer. Those presiding officers are mere ampires. Just to regulate debate for purposes of order.  Find out how many times presiding officers speak. They speak more than members of parliament. The time allocated for this parliament is actually a kwanzumbia presiding officer. That does not happen in any parliament anywhere. I've been to Ghana. We went from madam's speaker to Ghana and we were watching. You would think the house has no speaker. We watched the speakers four times. Short addresses to parliament. We were in Kenya, we were in Morocco, we were in Uganda. It's only this parliament. This is a parliament for presiding officers and not for members of parliament. Countrymen and women. This is a very serious indictment on our parliament and the management of the presiding officers. This parliament is a house for members of parliament. That was made very clear. It can't be the other way around. The fact that we've been very civil and respectful should not in any way give anybody an impression that we're weak because we are elected members of parliament. And that parliament has no power to expel me. No power, can you imagine? So we've just been civil. Because they have no power to expel me. They're most against these 30 days. Now can you imagine if we're not civilized? We can cause chaos every day and be suspended for 30 days every other time. What does it matter? Nothing. But we decided to be respectful and offer credible checks and policies. So our silence and respect should not be taken for granted. You've all been there. Most of you have covered parliament for a very long time. Go to Standing Order 65, for instance. The rules say a member debating on the floor of the house must ensure that the information they bring on the floor of the house is both factual and verified. A presiding officer can change the rules anytime and say a minister is right all the time. The minister has spoken that before. So the people that break the Standing Order are presiding officers to start. Speaking as a lawyer, the moment the presiding officer does that, it means those standing orders are now at large. I can't obey them. They aren't applicable. Because what the presiding officer has done, if they are faced through these standing orders, they don't apply anymore. So we can just apply our own arbitrary rules. And that's a difficulty. There's never been a time in this parliament when it has been so difficult to manage that parliament. But I want to tell you that I think the management of parliament is a challenge. Every day members are being corrected every other time when capacity will ever be built in that parliament because we're being affected. I've been a member, I'm not new. I understand the rules as they start. Out of respect, even when the house has fallen into contact, we've kept quiet. But we can't continue. What is happening now is that the representation of our people is being affected. We have three mandates as parliament. One is to legislate those. Two is to offer oversight, providing checks and balances and approving the budgets. Now, in the first place, when bills are presented, the order of parliament is that they are referred to committees. Committees interrogate these bills and invite stakeholders such that the report of the committee is what helps parliament to either proceed with the bill or make the necessary amendments. In some cases, bills that were drawn by our nation. The bill, the National Prosecution Authority view, came with the negative recommendations of the committee. From practice previously, what we saw and have been given in the do is to draw that view and consult fail because the stakeholders submitting to that committee are stakeholders who are carefully selected. These are stakeholders who are likely to be affected by the enactment. In this particular case, for the record, the lower association of Zambia, the law development commission, the DPP, the public protector, they all oppose those amendments and many understand those. The question that we had on the fourth house is for who benefit then are we enacting this law? Why that is very important for you to know is that if that house is going to exist for academic purposes, then we must hope you are ashamed because then it doesn't matter what bill the executive bring, it should go through anyway meaning that all those processes that will set out, that could purify, that could scrutinize a mayor academic exercise as the president also told me about fire. So this is the kind of parliament that we have. Now this always happens when you have an executive that stretches its finger in the other organ. Last week I was telling that when we collapse government system, parliament now is gone. It's gone. I hope you can see that. We can't even enact laws properly. It becomes an academic exercise. Why? Because someone is scared of the mighty president Hakka hindi ichilema baini. He called the train mind everybody. Even those that should enjoy it are so scared and terrified. They make mistakes every day. Even when we tell them we are independent, you are independent amount of government. They are so scared of this mighty Hakka hindi ichilema. It's a shame. That's a shame. Can't tell ourselves into a country of cowards I refuse to be part of a class of cowards. He's just part of a mortal human being who was also amenable before the law. He must also follow what the law provides. Why then should this then change as in everybody? People can't preside. They want to think what is he going to think. Conference registered as an accomplished lawyer. 30 years experience. We can't speak on a bill because they're dead scared that he's going to tear it apart. He's ignored. I can't talk about anything to do with the finance who's going to tear it apart because of one individual. You idolize one individual turning him into a devil god that is scared as everybody. That is not right. President Hakka hindi ichilema. You should say no to that because God firms upon such machinations. I want to when you are president I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. All arms of government are so scared. There are no judgements now. They live much better. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know if somebody is going to do it I want to know what is going on. I think the lot has been said we thought we could put a point across that our parliament na wiki Wiki III to ...and the legislature through those channels. So if such a meeting was desired, we can have it here. Why? Because one of our view will be protected by standing orders and we enjoy his amenities and privileges. Can you imagine a meeting at Mungushi and Comrade Sanga asked very difficult questions. He may ask a difficult question to the president. The following day he will be abducted. So our MPs are insecure. They are saying we cannot have any meeting outside this parliament because what will follow will be a series of abductions. People are accusing members of disrespecting the president of Mungushi. We as members of the patriotic fight, we have always respected the public and president because that's the office that must be respected. When there is a roam in that office we point it out but at no time everybody is respected at office and yet the overzealers officers out there may misunderstand a difficult question and mistake it for information. So we have declined that invitation but we remain open to discuss the CDF with the structures within parliament. We understand the functioning of CDF and I think we have tried to advise many a time nothing much has come out. Very quickly I think our minister of mind in the shadow cabinet on El Pavuma talked about Medanta and we all know the story of Medanta. I think before we went to elections there was a report that bought vehicles for the UPMD, Maindras and Toyota Hiluxes and also released some money at some point they had released $100,000. It was an appeal by the president of the party then to say why don't you increase it to $300,000 because when I get it to power I'll give you back the mind. I'm not sure you all remember that story. That story was given to us by His Excellency the president then was in office and says I have these few comments that these people have received money they are asking for more money and they promise to give back better. There was a meeting in Cape Town I almost remember this where Medanta made to the president we asked on the floor of the house to give us the details of the meeting we never told. In the background the minister of mines kept on saying the data will never come back they are gone. So the question is what has changed? What has changed? Have you been told what has changed? So remember that we told you corruption is not the mayor giving for receiving of prize it will come by policy, administration so whatever policy they have on on this year let's wait, let's wait it against what we know about the relationship that UPND has so is it payback time? Is the deal between government and Vendata in the best interest of the private citizens or indeed the public? Your guess is as good as mine this will benefit the UPND what is to happen to the people in the Cova Belt and this is the personal definition of corruption so if anybody wanted to know what corruption is the deal of giving back the data is corruption don't call it by any other name that is pure corruption why? because our friends in the UPND received money and vehicles from the data before so with all the problems that they left on the Cova Belt most of mines only before you must say they were chased by the people, government simply implemented so the offenses and atrocities they cause against our people were never addressed but they've given them back the money it's payback time and somebody must tomorrow cause somebody else corruption are you sure? with this Vendata deal which everybody can see is less with corruption so colleagues I think that we all have to open our minds don't leave any details behind everything is connected 2021 money was received vehicles were received late 2021 2022 a meeting happened in Cape Town today Vendata has been given back the money I think you want to say you are looking for corruption elsewhere why are you looking for corruption elsewhere? get it in this one so I think we it's been along there Golden we are talking about this we need a dance I am worried too we are going to the third year we gave our 3 billion kwacha peye to these mining houses I don't want you to forget that we made minoroy that's deductible and we are losing 3 billion kwacha peye in exchange for a ramp in production to 3 million dance now the production is going down haven't you been cheated? those mining houses now they are supposed to be recording an increase in the output in the mining sector because we acted to a detriment by giving them no compensation but now we are being told the production is going down and they are still looking out for miscorab colleagues they are still looking out for miscorab if these details that we are able to bring out off the cuff if we are given time it's deductible I think I'll end here because I sometimes get affected in such high level of corruption so colleagues thank you very much for your attention


All right, I'm gonna bring up our sponsor. This guy's a free real estate coach. He's crazy. He's all the way from Alabama. Ricky Caruth is Zero to Diamond. What's up everybody? So I'm gonna do this a little differently today. All right, so let me introduce myself. I'm Ricky Caruth. I'm gonna be your host this morning. All right, here in a little while, I'm gonna introduce our sponsor, Ricky Caruth from Zero to Diamond.com who paid for this event. And then after that, I'm gonna introduce the keynote speaker, Ricky Caruth. All right, how's that sound? Listen, guys. Before we go any further, let me just act through them. If you guys, tell me if you've ever been at a closing. Okay, you're at the closing. You're with your clients, the title company's there. The title company passes out the closing statement. We're looking at it. Everyone's looking at it. Your clients are looking at it. We're looking at it. We're making sure all the numbers are right. We'll go through the first page. We flip over to the second page. We go to the top left of the page and we see the commission. And I see the commission, and I don't know if you guys are like this, but sometimes when I see that commission, I think, ooh, wee. I'm fixing to be walking out of here with how much money? These people are about to give me what? Guys, where I came from, roofing houses for $250 a week, every single deal that I do, I look at that like that is a lot of money. $2,000, $5,000, $15,000, $30,000, $50,000, whatever it is. It is a lot of money. As soon as I do a deal, as soon as I get a listing, right, do you guys take out a calculator and start calculating exactly how much money you're gonna make on that deal? I've always done that. I've calculated. I'm looking at the money I wanna make. I calculate all my pending deals. Okay, I got this much coming. Even though I know a lot of them, some of them are gonna fall through, I've always been like that. I'm sitting there, and now I'm trying to maintain composure for a totally different reason. Now I'm thinking, they ain't paying me enough. And we do. Real estate agents do so much behind the scenes, so much more than what the general public thinks that we do. General public thinks that we wake up in the morning and from in our bed upside down, we're docusigning some stuff and make $10,000. That's the way they view it. That's why they try to bring you down on your commission. That's why they talk about, well, there's this flat fee company that does it for $2,500. You guys aren't worth $15,000. Why are you worth $15,000? There's a huge misconception in the industry about what we do behind the scenes through the deals. And let me tell you something. What we do behind the scenes is not gonna be replaced. We're not gonna be replaced as much as Zillow, as much as you think. I don't even think they're really trying to replace us, but as much as people wanna think that companies like that are trying to take us out, they can't replace what we do that really nobody see. So I want you to understand how solid of an industry and a business that you're in. All right, I'm gonna bring up our sponsor. All right? This guy's a free real estate coach. He's crazy. All right, he's all the way from Alabama. Ricky Kruth is here at a diamond. What's up, everybody? How we doing? I really broke down every single piece of why I do what I do, how I do what I do, right? And how I'm gonna continue to do what I'm doing. You guys really need to go back and watch that, but my goal is, okay, since a lot of you didn't watch that, is to reduce the failure rate in the real estate industry. One agent at a time. And I'm doing it, I'm accomplishing it, okay? Because I get messages from agents all the time who tell me, I just talked to a gentleman a minute ago, where's Cole? This guy just started in the business in March and he's already closed five or six deals and he said it's all my stuff. Just hearing stories like that, right? But it goes deeper. So many agents have messaged me saying I was about to have to quit the business until I found you, until I found your content, until I started to implement what you're talking about in your videos and your program, right? And I never charged them a dime. And here they are, they're telling me, now they're getting listings every week. They're closing deals every month. And they have some momentum and a nice foundation built that they can build on. That's why I do what I do, guys, to get the messages from you saying this is helping, right? This is helping. That's what keeps you guys motivate me to keep doing what I'm doing. And this is not, this is for me to you here, a gift. I have a new Discord server. I don't know if you guys know what Discord is, but it is better than a Facebook group. Complete 100% transparency. Facebook, when I go there to the Zero to Diamond Facebook group and I'm scrolling through to look at you guys' daily results, I don't see all your daily results because of the Facebook algorithm showing me what they want me to see. Discord is chronological order in the exact timeline that things were posted. I can scroll all the way back through and see every single thing. So if you join that Discord, the Zero to Diamond Discord, and you go there and post your daily results, I will see them. And you can connect. There's already 2,000 agents there and it's a great place to connect, referrals. And we also have a cold calling room.  If you go there right now, you'll see there's probably 10 to 20 people in that cold calling room right now making calls. You can go in there and watch them make calls. You can talk to them. You can make your calls. I'll tell you a few things about my wife really quickly. Number one, most amazing person I ever met and incredible mom, but she pushes me every single day to get better. And since the moment that I met her 11 years ago, she has been pushing me ever since, right? We met each other at Remax, okay? Funny story, when we met at Remax, we started at Remax on the same month. And we were new, so we didn't know who all was working there before or anything, so we later on, like three or four months later when we actually said hi, we realized that I thought she had been there for years and she thought I'd been there for years, right? So we became friends, we were friends for a long time, but what was very interesting and one thing that sticks out in my mind about that period of time was she was a W-2. She was my broker's assistant. And as a W-2 worker, you can leave at five o'clock.  Every single night, she was in her office, I was upstairs in my office, we had only two cars there, till eight or nine o'clock every day. I mean, this is when I was trying to get back in the business, I'm working 15 hours a day, I'm looking up phone numbers, I'm doing mail outs, I'm doing everything I can do, trying to really hack the system here, I'm trying to really make it. And she could leave at five o'clock, but didn't. She was there until nine o'clock because there was still work to be done. She wasn't worried about the five o'clock thing.  All right, this guy, he is a real estate agent. He is a coach, he is an author, he's everything and anything. Let's bring him up, Ricky Karuth. Thank you guys so much for coming. For real, that means a lot. Let me ask you this, show of hands. How many people here, okay? If given the opportunity, all right, would do business with me? Keep them up, keep them up, keep them up. I wanna see this, I wanna see. That's everybody, right? Does anybody, who here would not do business with me if given the opportunity?   How powerful is that? Do you guys see what I'm doing here? Do you understand the concept? It's very, very extremely powerful and important for you to understand how this whole thing works. Because mainstream training, okay? Mainstream training, right? High pressure sales. Only go for motivated people, right? Is killing your business, all right? Now, we need to start thinking about how we can do what I just did in this room in our each individual local markets for our real estate business.  Now we're doing it once a year. Maybe it goes to a thousand, and maybe somehow we still find a way to call those people once a year. But at some point, your database gets to the level that you can't call them. You're too busy closing deals. That's the progression. And you want to do the twice a year as long as you can until you can't anymore. I mean, I do things as long as I can until I can't anymore. I'm still showing properties. I'm still going to listing appointments. I'm still going to closings and inspections and negotiating repair endems and stuff. I stretch things out way farther than I should. A lot of people argue, get a showing agent, do this, do that, get out of that, do your coaching, that's whatever. That's just not how I'm built. I'm gonna stretch it out. You guys need to think the same way. As long as you can do something to show personability, personability in your business, you need to do it as long as you can do it until you can't. And if you can't, that's for a reason because you're closing deals. Market crashes, deals slow down for a month or two. What do we do? Dive back into our database. Call them, see how they're doing. Any opportunity you get if there's a slowdown in the business. But back to the value proposition that we have to give our local market to create this scenario where everybody wants to do business with us. Let's just work together. What do you want to do, right? What do you want to do? So when you combine and listen, if you're from a high pressure mantra, right?  And you can't, it's hard to go cold turkey. When I started to realize that I had to start bringing value and actually care about people, care about what people wanted and how I can help people, it wasn't like I just flipped a switch and I was just all of a sudden just Mr. Low Pressure. No, I was 50-50 for a minute. When I got back in the business in 2008, I was 50-50. I was having better conversations. They were feeling like they were part of my family. But there was still a part of me that was trying to close deals too, right? But let me tell you something. The more and more, I'm still trying. I'm not even 100% there yet as far as completely relationships over transactions. I'm not all the way there. I'm striving to get there. And the more and more I let go of trying to close the deal or trying to make money, the more transactions and money I make, right? Does everyone agree with that? That that's the number one reason why someone chooses a real estate agent? Because they feel like they're a friend that they trust that's gonna take care of them. So our object, the objective needs to be how many friends can we make in the market? Not how many sales we can make? That's gonna come out of the friendships because you lose so many deals going after the deal. Because people smell it a mile away. They smell that you're trying, that's what you're trying to do and they're out because they don't trust you now. And the smallest little thing will throw them off because you might really care about them.   So that's one thing I want you guys to think about really hard today, all right? So think about this. Next time you're talking to your mother, your spouse, your best friend, your brother, your cousin, fellow agents that you feel really comfortable with, right? Today, so because you guys are gonna forget this tomorrow, today, when you're talking to somebody you're really comfortable with, I want you to take just a second during that conversation and just pay attention to what's happening in the conversation in terms of how comfortable they are with you, how comfortable you are with them, your tone, right? The entire, I want you to screenshot that moment in your mind and I want you to think about, okay, I feel very comfortable here, they're very comfortable, listen to my tone, speed of voice, pitch, I wanna emulate that exact moment with my prospects. If you can talk to your prospects like they are your family, I promise you your business is gonna go to an entirely different level.  I promise you your business is gonna go to an entirely different level.