Kraft presents the Great Gilder Sleeve. Hee hee hee hee. The Kraft Cheese Company, who also bring you Bing Crosby every Thursday night, presents each week at this time Harold Perry as the Great Gilder Sleeve, written by John Whedon and Sam Moore. Here from the Great Gilder Sleeve in just a moment. Meantime, let me tell you what a friend told me the other day. She said, we tried spreading parking margin on our bread for the first time last week and we were certainly surprised why it's really delicious. Well, I don't know why anyone should be surprised that parking margin tastes so good because parking margin is made by Kraft. Yes, and made to be just as good tasting and nutritious as all of Kraft's fine foods. Parkae's flavor is delicate and appetizing, just right for a really satisfying spread for bread. What's more, parking margin adds important food values to meals. It's an excellent energy food, one of the best you can serve. And besides, every pound contains 9,000 units of important vitamin A. Yes, parking margin is both nutritious and delicious, and it's wonderfully economical too. So why not treat your family to parking margin tomorrow? Just ask your food dealer for Parkae, P-A-R-K-A-Y. Parkae margin made by Kraft. Now let's see what the Great Gilder Sleeve is up to. For a week, he's been strictly on the job at the water department, and today, with everything running smoothly, he's been able to give a couple of hours at lunch to laying out future strategy for Eisenhower MacArthur. So we find him now at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, returning to his office to sign some letters before proceeding to the barbershop. Hello? You still there, Mabel? So then we hung around for a while, and wait, I think somebody's coming. I'll call you back. You there, Bessie. Oh, hello, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. I was so busy finishing these letters, I didn't hear you come in. They're not done yet. Oh, but three, Mr. Gilder Sleeve, and I'll have those for you right away. But I only gave you four? Any phone calls? No, sir. Oh, yes, there was one from the newspaper. The indicator. What did they want? Well, it was kind of personal, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. What do you mean? Who called? The editor? No, sir. He said he was a society editor. What did he want? He asked when you were going to get married. Oh, well, the date hasn't exactly been set yet. What did you tell him? Oh, I didn't tell him anything, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. Good. I just said what you told me to say when people called up and I didn't know what to say. Huh? You did what? Well, I just said what you told me, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. He asked when you were going to get married, and I didn't know. What did you say? We regret there's been a slight delay owing to the shorty demand power. That's all, brother. That'll fix it nicely. But, Mr. Gilder Sleeve, these letters... I'll sign them in the morning, and if the phone rings, don't answer them. Oh, that's Bessie. I'm going to have to let her go. Are you living at this barbershop now, Hooker? Every time I come in here, you're here. Every time I'm here, you come in. Well, just give the judge a quick trim, Floyd. There's no use trying to make him look good. Gilder Sleeve, go over there and sit down. Will you, and keep out of my hair? Very good. I was just saying to the judge here, Mr. Gilder Sleeve, I can't imagine you a married man. I'd like to know why not.  When none of us get any younger... Maybe you're not. By the way, Gilder... When are you and Lila planning to get married? Why do you want to know? Just interested, that's all. Well, we haven't set the date yet. What's the matter, Gilder? Is she giving you the run around? Why do you ask that? Well, you've been engaged quite a while now. People are beginning to talk. You're getting to say, what about this? Is she going to marry him, or isn't she? Of course she's going to marry him, me. We're just waiting till... Well, we thought we'd wait a while, that's all. Well, that's women for you. Try to pin them down, and they'll give you the slip every time. Now, maybe I shouldn't say this, but I made the mistake of going with a girl for three years. That was before I met my present wife. Everything was lovey-dovey from the start, but there was always a million reasons why she couldn't possibly marry me till the day after tomorrow. So in the end, what happens? A cattleman from Kansas moves in, and I wind up married to my present wife, which is okay. We've got a nice little place there. Now, you take my advice, Mr. Gildesley. Don't make the mistake I made. Pin her down, get tough. Floyd, you know, you could be right. Get tough. What's more, they love it. Why, 20 years ago, if I'd known as much about women as I do today, it would have been a different story. You'd have married the other girl? I wouldn't have got married at all. Wait a minute now. You got me confused. Another way to treat women, all right. Now look here, Lila Ransom. I've stood all the chili shally, and I'm going to. I want an answer, and I want it now. Lila, never do that to people. It's liable to stunt their growth. I'm sorry, Throckmorton. Come in, won't you? Thank you. I was coming in anyway.  I've had the most wonderful news. It'll have to wait. Lila, I demand to know when we're going to be married. For goodness' sake, is that all? All? Isn't it important to you? Of course, but I've been trying to tell you, Throckmorton. My only sister, Winfield, is coming to visit me tomorrow. That's fine, Lila, but what's that got to do with our wedding day? Well, I wouldn't think of getting married without having Winfield at my wedding. And besides, I wouldn't want to rush into anything without consulting her. I hope she likes you, Throckmorton. I hope so. What if she doesn't? That just couldn't happen, darling. I'm sure it couldn't. Because when you try, you can be so charming. You will try, won't you? Well, of course.  But he's the handsomest man I ever saw in my whole life. I hate him. He's an engineer, and he's doing some secret construction work for the government at Camp Fuller. So naturally, Winfield and little Michael wanted to be near him. Michael? That's their little boy. He's just about me, Roy's age, but he's not likely Roy at all. Well, that's something. Look, Lita, I'll be good to your sister and I'll be good to her little boy. But answer me one thing. When are we going to get married? I'll tell you, Throckmorton. I'll let you take us both to lunch tomorrow, and we can ask a van. Oh, mercy, that reminds me. Here it is almost nine o'clock, and I've got to get up and meet a six o'clock train tomorrow morning.  I'll meet the train. Oh, that's sweet of you, Throckmorton, but I'd rather. All right, I'll go. Throckmorton, you're not going away angry. No, I'm going home and think about the Romo plan. That's different. I'll be right down. OK, I'll see you. Wait a minute, Leroy. What do you want? My cake will get cold. Never mind. I have something important to tell you. You've certainly picked the clumiest times to give out with the old Milwaukee. This is not Milwaukee. Boom!  I heard that, Leroy. I meant turn on the heat. Yes. Well, listen to me, young man. Mrs. Ransom's sister is coming to visit her. Is she good-looking? You're getting too fresh. The lady is arriving this morning, and I want you to make a good impression on her. OK, what do you want me to do? Stay out of sight. She has a little boy, and when the proper time comes, it may be all right for you to play with it. But until I say so, don't you go near it. Good morning. Good morning, Marjorie. I was just about to get up. I sent Leroy up because Birdie's making buckwheat cakes, and now Leroy's cakes are cold. Oh, I'm sorry, my dear. I was telling him how to behave himself while Mrs. Ransom's sister is here. Oh, when did she come? This morning. I'm eating him for lunch today, but we'll have him here soon, and I want everybody to be as nice to her as possible. Well, I'll certainly do all I can, Uncle Roy, and I'll keep an eye on Leroy. Oh, sure. Let's all keep an eye on Leroy. No, young man. You'd better start keeping an eye on her. If you know what time she came in last night... Leroy, mind your own business. Mr. Gilliam, what's the matter with this family? Good morning, Birdie. I've been cooking here a long time, but this is the first time my buckwheat cake's ever run into a boycott. Yes. Now, Birdie... It's discouraging, Mr. Gill, please. All this year's buckwheat cakes are wonderful, Birdie. Maybe they are, and maybe they ain't. All I know is that you and Leroy walk down on them, and your uncle won't even get out of bed to try samples. But Birdie, I was telling him about Mrs. Ransom's sister. She and her little boy are coming to visit Mrs. Ransom, and all of us must do our very best to make them happy. Yes, sir. That gives me an idea. What's that, Birdie? I wonder, do they need a good cook? Nope. Gangway, everybody. Let's go upstairs and plow into those buckwheat cakes. Nice windy corner I picked to wait on. Why can't women be on time? Stragmorton! Oh, Stragmorton, are we too frightfully late? Only about three-quarters of an hour. Oh, good. And Stragmorton, I want you to meet my sister, Winfield. Winnie, this is Stragmorton. Oh, how do you do? How do you do? Why, darling, he's the spitting image of Harvey Deepenback. He was thin. Well, isn't he? I'll see what you mean. I don't. Oh, gee. Well, this little man must be Michael. How are you, Mike? I'm very well, thank you. And you, sir? Huh?  Well, I'll bet you're a pretty tough customer. You want to fight, Mike? Put up your dukes. Well, no, thank you. I'm not allowed to fight. Oh, Winnie, I'm so glad to hear that we're just like old times, won't it? You know, Leela and I were always together. People used to call us the heavenly twins. Oh, really? Well, you don't talk alike. Oh, well, Winnie's been up north so long, she talks like a Republican. Oh, old days we were more like chums than sisters. Remember when we used to go on dates together? We had dress alarm. Oh, you remember the summer at Virginia Beach when we switched balls? Yes, and remember the summer I was so crazy about Tubby Walker, till the day of the picnics? Speaking of picnics, ladies, how about a little lunch? Oh, gracious, here we are rambling on like a couple of schoolgirls and forgetting all about Strathmoreton. You know, I can't get over how much he looks like Harvey Dieffenbach. Who on earth is Harvey Dieffenbach? Who is Harvey Dieffenbach? Well, Harvey was an old bow of mine that I got engaged to once when I was young and foolish. Oh. I lie if every time I think of him. You were dead serious at the time, though. Oh, gracious, yes. And Winnie couldn't see him for dirt. She did everything in her power to break it up. Oh. Well, how about a little lunch, huh? I don't mind telling you, I'm starved. Old Strathmoreton, I hope you don't mind, but we've only got five minutes to get to the hairdresser. But I thought I was taking you to lunch. Well, that's terribly nice of you to do. Well, we thought if you didn't mind, you could take little Michael to lunch while we have our hair done. Don't you think that would be a good idea? Well, what about the question we were going to ask you?  Isn't he a lamb, Winnie?  We've got to run. Be a good boy, Michael, and do what Uncle Strathmoreton tells you. Oh, come on, Mike. My name is Michael. Michael, come on. We're going into the hotel and have lunch. But I'm not hungry. Well, I am. I've been waiting an hour. It's the best hotel in Summerfield. I've been in bigger ones. Sorry it doesn't measure up to your standards. Let's sit here. Yes, sir. Now, how would you like to eat, Michael? I see they've got roast beef today. Well, I don't like roast beef, thank you. You don't like roast beef? What boy doesn't like roast beef? Well, how about pork chops? I'm allergic to pork. What? It makes me break out. Oh. Well, how about a poached egg? You think you can handle that? Look, Michael, how about a nice bowl of milk toast? Let's go away from here. Just a minute. But I really don't see anything. Sit down, you. I'd like a little something to keep body and soul together. I'm going to have roast beef, baked potato, peas, suck-a-tash, and pie a la mode.  You can sit there and watch me eat it. The Great Gelder Sleeve will be with us again in a few seconds. I'm sure you mothers and housewives have noticed that when you cook or bake something especially good for your family, it disappears mighty fast. Well, the same thing often happens to a food product that's exceptionally good. 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Well, lunch is over now and a couple of hours have passed and we find gilder sleeve plotting up the front walk to his house still with little Michael. Come on, what are you waiting for? Why are we going in here? This is where I live. Oh, it's kind of funny-looking, isn't it? Listen, I know it's not much, but it's home to me. Now come on. Whose bicycle is that? That's Leroy's bicycle. He doesn't. Well, no, he doesn't. But he's a good kid. I'm just beginning to appreciate him.  Bertie, has Leroy come home from school yet? I'll do that before I make the dinner. I don't know much for dinner, Ron. All right, my boy. If you're hungry, it's a sign you need food. I like to see a boy eat anyway. Huh? Leroy, this is Michael. Hi. Michael, meet Leroy. How do you do? I've been looking forward to meeting you. Now, Leroy, remember that Michael is your guest. My guest? Yes. I thought it'd be nice if you two boys played together all afternoon. Ah, but Uncle was just going over to Piggy. She's expecting me. Leroy, I'm asking you as a favor to me. Don't you tell me to keep away from my little punk.  Mother says it's not polite to whisper. Yes, and you're right, too, Sonny. Here, Leroy, here's a dollar.  OK, come on, Mike. Where are we going? Down to the drug store. Do you like comic books? Oh, Mother doesn't allow me to read comic books. That's all right, Michael. You go with Leroy and have a good time. Oh, but Mother... Mother will never know. Chocolate raspberry soda. Sorry, Son, but we have a rule here. Only two of those to a customer. I suppose you think if you make me another one, I'll be sick. If I make you another one, Sonny, I'll be sick. Well, my mother lets me drink all the sodas I want. If you will bring me a note from your mother to that effect, I'll be glad to fill the prescription, whether or not I wouldn't care to take the responsibility of myself. Listen, you have no right. Hey, why don't you stop hollering and finish the Saudi you've got? I don't want to. I paid for it.  I don't want to. Why not? I don't think I feel very well. I'll finish it. To give us a name? Leroy, where in the world are you two been? Right here. You know what time it is? Michael, your mother's been looking all over the place for you. She's just about crazy. I'm afraid our young friend here is overindulged a bit, Mr. Gillis. Yeah, what do you mean? I don't feel very well. Oh, my goodness, look at him. Spots! Well, now there's nothing to be alarmed at, Mr. Gillis, leave. I'd say it was just a simple case of hives. Nothing to be alarmed at. I'll get the blame for this. What's he been eating? He's under the influence of a couple of raspberry sodas. A couple? Pee-pee, what kind of a joint are you running here? I'm just trying to run a respectable duck store, Mr. Gillis. You know what you're running? A public nuisance. Well, I wouldn't say that. You ought to know better than to stuff a kid with sodas. How is this going to look for me? I'm supposed to be taking care of this little twerp.  What am I going to do? Well, a little calm and lotion might relieve the irritation. Oh, goodbye, Pee-pee. It's you, Throckmall. I won't come in. I just wondered if little Michael is better today. A little better, I think. Fine. Keep him warm. Leela, I wondered if you'd care to go to the movies with me tonight. Being Crosby and something or other. Oh, I'd love to go, Throckmall. But Winfield's crazy about being. Why don't you take her and stay? Well, that'll be all right only. Oh, thank you, Throckmall. And I know she'll have a lovely time. Hello, Leela. I have two tickets to the subscription concert this evening. Would you be able to go? But I want to see you. Oh, you can see me anytime. When, for instance, I got these tickets just for you, Leela. I know. Go. Leela, you're going out to dinner with me tonight. But Throckmall. No, I won't take no for an answer. I haven't seen you alone for a week. Well, I'd love to, Throckmall. But I just don't like to go out and leave Winfield alone. I got that all taken care of too. Judge Hooker's going to take Winnie to dinner and the movies. Oh. Now will you have dinner with me or do I have to kidnap you? Oh, Throckmall. You're so masterful. What can a girl say? All right. And I'll be expecting an answer to a certain question you've been putting off too. Me a wonderful dinner. Well, I'm glad you liked it. Oh, but it's nice to be home here with just you. I hope Judge Hooker took Winfield to a nice place. Yeah, don't worry. The judge is a spender. They're probably at the movies by now.  What shall we talk about, Throckmall? Well, I've been trying all evening to get you to answer one question. Oh, Throckmall, you're not going to stop that again. I'd like to know why not. Well, you're so unromantic about it. Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, let's talk about you then, huh? You know what I think is the cutest thing about you? No. What? Your ears. Your ears are so pink, and they stick out. What? What's Throckmall? From under your hair, I mean. Oh. You know, there's something I've been wondering for a long time. What? If you kiss a person in the ear, do they feel it or hear it? Yeah, and I know how to find out, too. Uncle Flushman. I wish that kid was Leroy for five minutes. Gracious, Michael. Why aren't you asleep, honey lion? Well, I got nervous upstairs, Aunt Lela, so I thought I'd come and sit with you for a while. But, Michael, don't you want the Sandman to come and take you to the land of Nod? Oh, no. I never go to sleep until Mommy comes home. You don't, huh? Well, now that's no way to grow big and strong, Michael.  I don't like stories, thank you. Oh, you'll like this one. Now, Throckmall, don't boast the time. Yes, I won't, Lela. Now, let's just try it, shall we, Michael? Just come upstairs with me, and if you don't like the story, you can come down here again. Is that a pharmaceutical Throckmall? Cross my heart and hope you die. I die. All right, but I'm warning you, Lela. Yeah, suit yourself, my boy. No animal stories. I'll be back in a moment, Lela. And I don't like stories. And I really can't stand them. Never mind. Ah, young man, let's come to an understanding. I want you to get in your bed and stay there. But I don't want to. All right. What do you want most of anything in the world? Kids. Well, next to that, be reasonable. I want a chemistry set. Sucker. What do they cost? Two dollars and a half, I believe. All right, here's three dollars. Now, do you think you can go to sleep? I think so. All right, sweet dreams. Hi, Lela. I have a way with children. I didn't realize you were such a story teller. You'd be surprised. Oh, don't stop playing, Lela. That was beautiful.  What? And put you to sleep, too? I bet it wouldn't tell me a story, Throckmont. All right, I'll tell one just for you. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Lela. She was the prettiest princess in the whole world. Is the princess asleep for a hundred years on account of a witch? That's right. And what does it take to wake her up? A kiss. From a prince? No, from a water commissioner. Lela. Yes, Throckmont. Lela. You know everybody. Well, all of this is the last straw. What do you mean, Throckmont? You know what I mean. I wanted an evening alone with you, and here she is again. Well, I'm sorry, Throckmont.  You and your sister planned this. But Throckmont, we didn't. I'm not blind, Lela.  I'll be deep in back. I'll be deep in back. I don't know what you're talking about. She's been keeping us apart, tearing me down, trying to break off our engagement. It's a conspiracy. Throckmont, give her sleep. I've never heard such talk. It's not just talk, Lela.  You can choose between us right now. Mr. Gilda Sleep, I will not deny my own flesh and blood for you or anybody else. Please consider our engagement. But what? Your lipstick. Oh! Ladies and gentlemen, here's a special bulletin from Washington. 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Hello everybody. I'm Marsha Martin and I am here today with still representative Jonathan Singer and he and I are going to get inside the ballot box about the constitutional amendment about charitable gambling and because this is the time when all the names and numbers change I am going to ask Jonathan first to tell us the official nomenclature right here and then tell us a little bit about what the constitutional amendment does and why it's important. Absolutely. So I've got a great mnemonic device for all of you and first of all, Marsha, thank you for having me on because this is going to be a very busy ballot this year. We're going to see a lot of different issues that are going to come up but this is amendment C. Just think about C for charity because that's what this is about. Bingo proceeds can't be done on a for-profit basis which means that it goes to your after-school programs, your veteran service organizations, swim clubs and high school marching bands and so just remember amendment C for charity and you'll be on Easy Street. That is wonderful and then what are the details about this because it's not just bingo, we got raffles, we've got all that stuff and then there is language about how people who work on the event can be paid or not paid. Sure, no well this does two very simple things and so first thing that it does and actually I'm going to rewind real quickly and just tell you it is ridiculous that in the 21st century bingo games are regulated in the Colorado State Constitution. That's the reality that we live in. I can't tell you why because I don't know it was maybe a good idea a hundred years ago but now it is regulated in the Constitution which means any changes we make we have to go to you the voters. I always like to set things up that way so this does two things and you now know why it requires a constitutional change. The first thing is right now your bingo callers can't get paid it's unconstitutional and so we're allowing them to receive reimbursement for up to the value of minimum wage so if you're driving two three four hours sometimes in rural areas to get to a bingo hall to raise money for your four-age club you can get reimbursed for gas you can be given a hamburger or you know if you need a small cash stipend it is now constitutional to do that that bingo game is not going to get shut down. The second thing that this is going to do is it deals with it deals with timing so right now if I start a non-profit tomorrow to help out with the COVID crisis I can't get a bingo or a raffle license for at least five years. Wow it's once again it's in the Constitution it boggles my mind and so what we did is we said you know what instead of five years let's do three years and then let's just take that out of the Constitution going on from from here on out. So in three years assuming everything goes well if people want to get a bingo or raffle license the legislature can lower that from three years to two years to one year or raise it from three years back to five if for some reason that's the magic number. So really once again two simple things let let your bingo callers get reimbursed for the things that the things that they're doing to help raise money for charity and two let's let volunteer service organizations be able to get a license a little bit sooner. Okay not rocket science it's low-hanging fruit it's bipartisan it got one no vote in the state house I obviously I wasn't the one no and we had urban rural and suburban people supporting this for all the right reason. Sure because every church likes to do that all summer long right or they did. So why is why is the reimbursement limited to minimum wage? Well this is this is this is where we get in the weeds and I find this fascinating. So the only opponents of this and and they're actually no longer opponents of this were the for-profit gaming institutions better known as casinos and they really see bingo and raffles as competition and and their argument was well you could be paying people six or seven figures a year to be going to run these bingo um bingo games which you know is a little ridiculous and so the you know the the bingo hall folks said you know what we just want to be able to give people a shift meal we want to be able to reimburse gas or help them out with their day-to-day duties because you know what um it's a real skill it's a real skill you know people who are good bingo callers people will come back for that it's it's more entertaining it's more fun and so um what we did is we said okay you know what the the bingo folks are saying they're not going to be paying people out the nose and the opponent said well then just put that in the constitutional amendment and we'll drop our opposition and so we did so so that is that's sort of the I won't say the short version but that's the medium version of the conversation is um we didn't want to make this into a fight we wanted to make this into something about common sense and consensus right that is a good story though I'm glad I asked um you wonder what I do at the Capitol all day it's that kind of stuff so well I I mean I know that you have that kind of stuff I mean your whole history at the Capitol has been finding gaps and patching them pretty much you know I mean that's not a very dignified way of saying it but that's the way it's worked so um the other thing I'd like you to explain more is this expiration date I mean that seems to be kind of a new idea that there's something in the Constitution and it's going to expire and fall out of the Constitution so so yeah I mean when I said two parts technically you know part two has an A and a B and so the the part that expires is this this heavier limit that's going down to with a three-year or not limit but entry point for nonprofits we're just ripping that out of the Constitution in the next three years and and long story short the reason that we're ripping that out of the Constitution over the next three years is because once again for-profit casinos said look you're going to get some fly-by-night organization they're going to set up a bingo front and really they're going to do it for nefarious purposes that doesn't to be honest with you pass my smell test I don't see a lot of bingo fronts out there but what we said is okay we'll meet you halfway instead of just saying we're not going to have a time limit on there we'll we'll compromise the Constitution says five we want zero let's just land in the middle and hit three and after three years let's let's just make it up to the lawmakers casinos if you think we're doing a bad job go in there and write a bill you don't have to appeal to 55 percent of the electorate and vice versa bingo uh bingo charities if you think that three years is way too long to wait because we're the middle of a crisis and we've got nonprofits that would like to raise money without raising taxes then maybe it could be two years or one year or zero right and of course that's not tremendously helpful for the ones who are trying to do that right now I happen to be talking to several people who are trying to start nonprofits and they've got three three years to wait fortunately there are other kinds of fundraising they can do but bingo is clearly the most fun um letters and numbers it is clearly the most fun yeah right um so uh has this ever been done before the idea that something gets moved from constitutional to statutory that's an excellent question um I should have asked you in advance no no no that's okay I I appreciate you you're getting the real honest answer here um I don't know I I don't know that for sure we certainly repealed things yes and I assume if you repeal something in the constitution someone could by law put it back in or modify it in some way and put it back in um and so that's kind of what this is is it's a repeal um and so you know we've repealed things like slavery amendment right we've repealed um and so um you know I've seen repeals I don't know I mean this is sort of a modification and a repeal this this is like the fun stuff that you know adds as wrinkles to your brain so okay so it'll be repealed is the creation of the of a three-year statute automatic or does that have to be taken up all new by a subsequent legislature so um the way that I read it and and obviously constitutional lawyers may feel differently and I don't know how many constitutional bingo lawyers we have but we'll find out um is there may need to be some enacting statute next year someone may have to write an enacting law to get this all the way through the process but um typically things are presumed to be constitutional until they're challenged in court and so my guess is is you may see a bill next year that sort of codifies and implements this um but really the idea here is to make to cut the red tape make this simple and and let things just sort of pass the smell test all right that sounds good um what brought this to your attention is you were the sponsor of this bill correct yeah this is this is kind of a fun nerdy heart heartwarming story but um so eight years ago when I was first in the house I was approached by someone from the moose club and please don't elks folks please don't get mad at me right now uh but he came to me and he goes Jonathan um I've been doing a progressive raffle uh which is has nothing to do with politics the the pot progressively gets bigger yeah until somebody wins so um so anyway he said you know I called the secretary of state they regulate this he told me it was okay but he just called me up the other day Jonathan and he said you know what I'm sorry guys this is actually technically illegal um today will be your last day to do this just fyi you're not in trouble because it was my bad call but we have to stop doing progressive raffles um so anyway he called me up and I and I told this guy you know look we're already halfway into the legislative session it's my year I don't really I don't feel qualified yet to run a bill on this issue but I'll make you a deal if I win my election in November um I will this will be the first bill that I run next year and so this guy's retired he doesn't know anything about the law we bring him down to the Capitol he works with our nonpartisan billwriters we write this bill and uh the very first thing I remember is uh we brought him down to the Capitol and had him testify on this and he really didn't agree with me on most of my politics he would actually kind of challenge me you know I was working on an electric vehicle tax credits like you know those electric vehicles they're they're just going to add wear and tear to the roads and we're not getting gas tax money from them I don't know why you're doing this um in the second but so but we found a way to work together and the second thing that I got from this was when I want to say it was the United Veterans Committee came to me and they said hey representative singer we love your bill and I'm going what bill are you talking about and they said raffles are the VFWs the American legions these groups raise money and it's hard but bingo's raffles they do this and so without raising any taxes we're going to be able to do this we passed that bill almost unanimously my first full year at the state capitol and then I was the only one left with institutional knowledge because of term limits on bingo and raffle issues and so I became the go-to person on all issues related to bingo and raffle it's my claim to fame okay well I think you probably have some different ones too but um but yeah no you were talking about a different raffle bill before because that was your first year because I was confused at this point yeah that was my first year it was it was a progressive raffle and and it turns out like I said progressive raffles were illegal um and so we just clarified in state law that if you want to do a raffle where the pot of money gets progressively bigger there's no winner necessarily the first day you can do that um fortunately that part was not in the constitution that was a statutory change we were lucky there there you go just a clarification of what was in the constitution um but now you know whether you're moose elk or rotary or your church group or your temple or mosque um you know you you've got another option to be able to raise some money for your for your charities um and once again that's the thing about bingo and raffle is the winnings either there's a winner but also on top of you know whoever walks away you know gets a little extra money for for their gambling but on the flip side the the remainder of those dollars really go to really good organizations that are trying to help people sure sure they had to qualify as a charity for five years so yeah okay well I can't think of any more questions about this particular subject um that pretty much covers the story and we are right at five uh 20 minutes excuse me um so again it's see for charity and jonathan singer endorses the bit the constitutional amendment correct on your ballot and it's going to be way at the bottom of your ballot so while you're looking down the ballot to find it vote on all of the things in between that's a good idea um and anything else you want to say before I thank you and excuse you you know we're going to see a lot of controversial issues on the ballot it starts with the presidential race but we'll be debating abortion tax cuts tax increases the national popular vote um but if there's one thing that's going to bring people together this year it's going to be this bipartisan push that I ran with a rural republican to make sure that charities have the ability to raise money for their own organizations without raising taxes this year so vote yes on amendment c for charity and don't hesitate to reach out to me and hopefully in the comments section um marcia you can put in the website and people can go click on the link and um go interact with this a little bit and hopefully we'll do some good things for a good cause absolutely thank you for being willing to do this representative senior um good luck with your next career and um I always enjoy talking to you so give me a call if there's anything you would like to be interviewed about um I I appreciate that and you know I'm sure there's a lot to do it a lot to talk about my I look forward and you know through the end of the year of continuing to represent Longmont Lions and Allens Park but I also look forward to be becoming a resident and a constituent and a citizen again and um you know I'm going back to the most important job which is an engaged electorate there we go I'm not that you're not I mean you're still a citizen still a resident and still engaged correct that's true I just won't be my own boss so yeah okay thanks again representative singer um and uh I I really appreciate um everything that you've done for us all these years and appreciate you being here to get inside the ballot box with us


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This is this is a refined circle Okay And I think that it what it what it what it sort of emphasizes is this idea that there's You know, so so no one else in this room is a rhythmic guy So you don't know what figure of eight reentry is but it's a big it's a it's a it's a big deal in my world And this is the one reentrant loop that you actually don't want to interrupt But so I leave it at that There's this feedback that goes on all the time between clinical and basic research and between and that goes on in the in the in the In the in the in the electronic record environment as well as anywhere else. So so Plans for me meeting was the real slide Terry and I and a bunch of other people thought about this problem last night and And we thought about themes for the meeting we thought about So what what are the barriers to executing this vision of genomic medicine? We all sort of seem to have in in in and at the 50,000 or 500,000 foot view We sort of share it and when you get down to the 1,000 foot view We all have different ideas of what that vision actually looks like but but the notion was to to focus the next meeting on On Barriers to executing that kind of vision so Let better navigating it's this one. So here's the the slide that Terry thankfully made up for me The original the original theme was going to be standardizing formats and and we we talked it through last night We've talked it through today, and I don't think we're ready to have a day and a half long meeting on standardizing formats And and these are so this is a proposal. This is not I don't think this is written in in Stone this has been bothering me the entire meeting this this electricity keeps on bouncing back and forth on this laptop so the notion was to focus on the barriers and how how we might Address them one of the barriers that we keep on hearing about But I don't think we have a good sense of how that how it really works in in real time is the payers I added the pharmacy benefits people to this list after we had spoken last night, and then and perhaps CMS is the sort of ultimate payer We talk a lot about clear and what that means but we thought it might be useful to hear from people who actually set those standards and then And then some of the genomic reference expertise as a as a as a way of dealing with again another barrier to Incorporating genomic information into the flow of clinical health care the notion of Seeing some early deliverables at the May meeting Is written down on this slide. I won't say who wrote it down Because we all take we all I'm standing here presenting it. So so I have to take some credit for it. I already see Debbie Notting her head. No Well, so so I think the the the way to think about this is to think about what it is we want to accomplish as a group and What it is that? What we could what we could Do is to think about the barriers to Executing the visions that we have and then deal with them so that was the proposal and and I think I'm open to comment for a for a I was about to say you're not even mark retain has anything to say but that was I spoke too soon mark So maybe maybe from the University of Wisconsin to start with right? I Okay, so I mean actually Yeah, Dan, I mean I'm getting back to the awesome Tiffany standards and the question really is We had come up with an awful lot you know in terms of Not only the sequencing data analysis, but also and what is actually Quite a substantial undertaking as you know The phenotype standards. Did you include the phenotype? Is that included in the Tiffany standards and how should we think about this between now and May? I'll answer that question. Good because I'm glad somebody's gonna Oh, so so so the well You were in the room last night So we talked a lot about that and and it wasn't a major focus of how he's talked this morning But I think it is part of what we want. We want to get accomplished now that that said I'm not sure that Tiffany standards, and I'm not sure where that I'm not even sure that where that word came from although we talked about I get it I get it I Get it I get it for those of you who weren't in the room It was not a well lit bright room with a table It was it was a little dungeon down in the third subbasement with a bunch of chairs around the edges and bad fluorescent lighting And that was it no pictures on the walls or anything Well next meeting what next time next time we're gonna meet in the ladies room so so so the Tiffany standards, okay Now I got I get it You know would probably include a section on phenotyping But I guess If we're gonna develop those kinds of standards somebody needs to start to work on them and and then they can present to us wherever they are When they are there and I will talk about that next steps, so we Debbie I think there are a couple things here. I mean I guess Clea and cap certification and experts would be interesting to engage them in the Tiffany Standards kind of thing. I mean because you develop a set of standards if they don't meet any guidelines then you're in trouble and We've heard that some people are considering the laboratory guidelines, but maybe not the analysis guidelines So I think it would be good to have some of this discussion ahead of time The other thing is I'm not really sure I understand engage Thousand G and genome reference is this genome centers. I just want to be More precise on that Yeah, NIST Yeah, so the I thought the idea came up in the breakout last night and also I was talking to Howard before Just it's not it's some of its genome center expertise But some of its analysis analysts that are with with various consortia So for example the thousand genomes analysis group have They have variant callers that they've actually compared to each other and they actually understand the performance and How it said well So So so I would make it more you had you had your chance. I was like really weird. I would make it more specific So experts experts engage experts on base calling indel and CMV calling and What is the the reference sequence that all that everything's compared to can I call it very much more?  I might even make this a little more specific So I think like these ten genomes that people are talking about. I mean, I think one of the things that we've discussed At length in various sections of this meeting is the fact that we want to be able to combine data sets from numerous places that are generating You know cancer genomes for diagnostic purposes for treatment purposes and If we could get a set of ten genomes that we would ask everybody to Include so if they're using the Illumina platform It would be ten Illumina platform genomes if they're using the solid then it would be ten solid platform genomes That they would include in their analysis so that eventually there will be the collection of these from various sites I imagine at some point in the future and then when we could it's going to be difficult to take that information That we get from people and standardize it But if everybody had run through the same ten genomes through their pipelines Then we would have at least an idea of where missing data and stuff of that nature might be Yeah, so I mean this is really a recommendation of the sequencing working group and if I could get my computer to work I'm having problems, but Let me just try to see if I get my thing loaded up here and then address that question We shouldn't have got we shouldn't have gone out of order that mess things Cap cert certification experts. I'm happy to have them attend, but the AMP and a CMG laboratory guideline development groups around Exome sequencing whole genome sequencing are probably the more expert group So you want to include them and often There's overlap in the individual people HMP Sorry You got all this done and a CMG in addition to clear cap So towards those the issue about the thousand genome project And to follow on what Adam was was talking about This comes out of a conversation Scott and I had last night in in the bar After you're all in bed, so it was alcohol need alcohol induced But the issue was One of the things that's happening is part of thousand genome project and maybe other discussions that there's weekly discussions every week About analysis strategies and so for those of us that are interested in leveraging that information We'd like to be sitting right behind that So as those analysis strategies get firmed up and I'd love to be in a position where we could use those in the clinical type Laboratory and so I think that was one of the discussions around what Adam was saying is that how do we roll this down the Pipeline so that it goes from thousand genome project type doesn't have to be just thousand genomes down towards clinical So On the thousand genome side those weekly calls do have comparisons and what happens is immediately People who don't do as well start to make changes and so one of the things that you emphasized was Cassava 1.8 is 1.8 whereas gh2k has you know, you can do a nightly amp belt and the virgins change quite a bit and Then getting the message of burgeoning and some of the needs that you might have would be something That's important because I don't think they think about what you might be wanting on a clinical side They think nightly bills are great. So that if we're not involved in the discussion, there's not some freeze points that could be then Evolved downstream that could be used so so continue evolution is great But if there could be some freezes just like anything else that we freeze in the genome project that then enables those of us that Want to start implementing having that so some discussion around how to do that. I think is what we were trying to capture I think there are certain things like snip calling. That's already very good on say g atk And they could freeze that in Dell development, you know Is maybe 80% accurate right now and we're gonna have to keep changing until it's a hundred percent And then as fees is even you know further away from that I think also the kinds of things you're interested in are not The the genomics community is calling on a thousand individuals at once and getting probabilities of getting genotypes at low pass That's different than taking the entire genome of an individual and calling it in the way that you're suggesting for all variants So I think we need to be pretty clear on what we're asking for Information on but it's not doesn't mean that those things can inform this calling but But I do think that it is a different issue