Make sure we're coming in live. And there we are. Nice, nice, nice. Hello everyone. This is Chichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today is February 1st, 2021. Who thought we were going to be here doing comic book readings? And that is what we're going to be doing today. I picked out five comic books in the last batch of comics that we're doing reading for and we've got two left to do. We're going to do one today, we're going to do one tomorrow. And it's going to be sort of, we're going to run a poll again to see which one we're going to read today and which one we're going to read tomorrow. Or we might, I should have just brought a coin to a flip, right? Because today and tomorrow we're going to get these two done, right? And then after that we're going to pick five more comics and we'll introduce five new comics. Some of them will be from our comic book reading set number four that we put out. But we picked 32 comics that we're going to read and slowly, and I think I, you know, we picked those comics out in 2018, maybe three years ago probably now.  And we've done a lot of those readings actually. And we're just going to continue doing what we're doing, right? Pick five comics, most likely three will be from that reading set and two will be just random from comic calls that we picked up. So we get to get a chance to read some of the comics that we're seeing in the comic book calls, right? Now, until notification as it goes out, while we wait for notifications to go out, sometimes they're quite slow. I'm going to let you guys know what this is all about. I am on Patreon, patreon.com forward slash chico, c-h-y-c-h-o. If you want to follow this work, if you want to support this work, Patreon is a great way to do so. I don't put anything behind paywall. Everything is creative commons and layered on mathematics. 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Carbon, carbonate and shrew. Carbon, carbon, carbonate and shrew. How are you doing? Welcome to a comic book reading. Scamalicy. Comics, comics. Yo, Tyson. Young Tyson. Not yo, Tyson. Young Tyson. How are you doing? Uncharted days. Hello, hello. Hope you in chat are having a great day indeed. Indeed. Hope everyone's having a great time. Cheryl. How are you doing? Hi, Chicho. Hi, all. So ready for comics. Me too. Wow. I'm liking the setting of the strings where we're doing, we're either starting off light and ending heavy or starting heavy and ending light. And it's after this one it feels really good to be ending with comic books. This set of strings anyway. Lonely Piggy, how are you doing? What's up? How are the kittens treating you? Very, very well. I remember having trouble sleeping in the early, early days. For us, for some, like one night, they were really restless in the middle of the night. But the way it's working out, I give them a workout when they wake up and they wake up with me in the mornings, early morning. And then at night time, I give them a nice workout. And then I let them do their own thing and they pass out around maybe 12 or so. And that's about the time, you know, I pass out sometimes, usually, generally, right? So usually our sleeping pattern is we're at bed by 12, one o'clock in the morning and up and about by around 5, 5, 30. I have, I sleep like a cat, I guess. Oki, oki, oki, oki, one. How are you doing? How is life? Ken Wolf. Hello, hello from India. Hello, India. How are you doing? Welcome to a live stream. I'm in Vancouver, or sorry, Victoria, west coast of Canada. Hope you guys are doing well. Good. I like comics. Me too. Carbonite. Oh, man, I should have known that. Carbonite is true. I hope you are good. I am, I am. Thank you very much for the correction. If I'm spelling, if I'm pronouncing people's names incorrectly, please let me know, okay? I'm trying to improve the way I pronounce names, as you know, when dealing with comic books. Felix, I've been having a pretty rough time and quarantine here in the UK. These live streams are really keeping me going. So thank you to my pleasure, Felix. And yeah, some parts of the world, the lockdowns are pretty, pretty ridiculous as far as I'm concerned, but we'll leave that on politics, streams, rage, love of love. I'll snow it in today. Wow, wow. Good time to sit back and enjoy a comic book stream. Awesome. I'm actually missing the snow. I hope we do get some snow here. We haven't yet. It's been a mild winter, but I wouldn't mind getting some snow. And I want the kittens to see snow, to see what they're going to be like. Oh, my God, how are you doing? Yes, it's been a hard time for me as well. Yeah, it would be a hard time for me if I was in the UK as well. Cheryl, me too, for comics. Message deleted. Leon Tyson, you posted something nasty? Within the hojo, I don't even know. I keep on forgetting how to pronounce your name. We didn't. We didn't. Hi, chichou and chat. It's a while ago. I got to a stream. How are you and the cats? They're doing fantastic. Super fun. They're having a snooze now. They just passed out again about half an hour ago. I have a Shiba Inu who's loving the snow right now. Nice. I haven't seen snow since 2017, really. I just put message deleted. Oh, I just put message deleted. Thank you, mother. How are you doing? I just captured the video game moment I will be sharing. Someone shot a rock at Titan. This is a Titan Titan, which tied their health in the last millisecond of the round, making it a draw. Literally photo finished. Unbelievable. Frame perfect. Tf2. Gang, I do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live. Titanfall too. Last standing. Okay, cool.  And we do have a Discord page that people are sharing information. And if you join the Discord channel, as soon as we go live, Discord should be sending out a notification that we are live. What are we reading today? We're reading headline comics. Either we're reading, there's two choices, headline comics from 1947, headline comics number 27, covered by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Okay. And art by Bill Drute. And it's sort of a gangster comic book. And Superman, Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane, number 70, I believe, from 1966. And it's the first Silver Age appearance of Catwoman. And we're going to run a poll. We're down to two. We've got to run a poll to see which one we're going to read or read. Be right back. Yeah, I'm trying to say this message was blocked by fact checkers. Felix Chico, have you caught up on attack on time? I'm on episode four of the season. Oh, I'm loving the perspective they're giving. And it reveals so much, so good. Do not watch this last episode if you haven't watched everything else before. And I by the way, I rewatched the last starting from episode six of season three. So I rewatched two, no, three quarters of season three to remind myself what was going on. So I could watch this season. So I did a rewatch of all those episodes again. I remember you saying you prefer dubbed, which came out a few weeks ago. So far, it's the best season. It's fantastic. Even the first season was fantastic. To me, it was like, what the hell is going on? The first time to tighten this attack, you're like, oh my God. Jack Kirby is a beast. A beast indeed. Jack, how are you doing? Jack Leskovar. Hiya, Chico. Good to see you. Hey, chat. Good to see you as well, dragons damn. Chico got the Carrie Fisher pinky nail. I got two of them. That episode last night needed some time to think after. I'm on episode four, so please don't give any spoilers, gang. Please don't. I'm watching the dubs, right?  I think they're up to episode six or seven, but I'm not finding the dubs. So there's a little delay in the dubs, I believe. So I'm on episode four. Please don't give any spoilers. Please. Okay. Lonely Piggy Attack on Titan keeps increasing in absolute madness, and I'm all for it. As a manga reader, I'm loving. As someone who appreciates the arts and loves science fiction and human imagination, and what we're capable of and where we can take a story, absolutely brilliant. Felix, I read the manga last week. I promised you that when we get to the end of the season, you'll met a fork lift. No, no, no. Don't say it. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I'm not going to read any more Attack on Titan comments. A, I'm new. Man, see your great system without a story. I look forward to the stream. Awesome. Awesome. Milsey, welcome to our live stream and system without rocks, man. Rocks. Sorry. Sorry. What's your attack on Titan, Elder God? Super good, man. You'll love it. Yeah. No spoilers. Any Attack on Titan fans in here? Yeah, please. My last chat is true. Yeah, Attack on Titan, Elder God. Super good, but man, it's such a good show. It only goes up in quality. Season four is, yeah. I read no more Attack on Titan stuff, man. Gang, for live streams where we don't have any visuals, we will be uploading the audio to soundcloud.com.com. Those podcasts should be available on your favorite podcasting platform, including Spotify and iTunes. And we will be uploading this video to SensorTube, to Bitshoot, to Rumble, and if we had enough points to Odyssey. Okay. And what I did last time with the reading that we did for Solar Man on the Atom number 10, and it was a fantastic reading. What a comic book, right? That was the last comic book reading we did. I just cut out the reading segment, and I uploaded that to YouTube and Bitshoot, right? Now, I haven't released the full video, live stream of that, and I will at some point, okay? But I'm assuming for this one as well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut out the segment where we're doing the reading and just upload the reading part. And then when I, you know, if I have a little bit downtime, maybe during a little mini billhicks break, I'll upload the full live streams just to keep the content going on these four platforms. And if you want to catch everything that we're creating, that we're putting out, you want to join Bitshoot and Rumble. That's where I'm uploading everything that we're doing here on Twitch. Okay. If you want your Chico content censored, so no politics, okay? No current events, aside from anything related to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, right? Because that's going to go everywhere. So if you want to stay away from the current events and politics, then sure, SensorTube is a good place to be, even though I do put out little segments, little teasers in there, okay? And obviously, we just need more coins to be able to upload there. I just couldn't get it hooked up for me to upload anymore. You know, buy coins and stuff like they just wouldn't link up with the phone and all that jazz. Trinkus, Trinkus, thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub. Appreciate it. I'm going to take these things down gang. And Cheryl, Chico, I have my laptop and can run the poll if you like. Yeah, for sure. Cheryl, gang, we're going to run a poll for two comics. Headline Comics, number 27, from 1947, prize publications. We bought this during a comic book haul in the last couple of months, two or three months, okay? This comic book plus number 44 of Headline Comics, okay, cost us $66, Canadian, $52 US, and the majority of that was for this one, okay? Headline Comics, 27. It was graded at four, okay, which is pretty good grade for a comic book from 1947. The cover is by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. So the pencils are Jack Kirby and the inks are Joe Simon, and the artwork is done by Bill Drute, Drot, okay? And it's a sort of crime drama, and it's a story, the main story anyway, is about Stella May Dixon, sort of a Bonnie and Clyde team. That's the wife and I guess the husband somewhere. Could be that one. I don't know if it's that one or not. I don't know them. So it's sort of a Bonnie Clyde thing, right? So it's a crime drama that we're going to take a look at. And we're going to do a comic book reading today and one tomorrow. So both of these are going to be read either today or tomorrow. And this one here is Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, number 70, okay? And this came out in 1966 and it's the first Silver Age appearance of Catwoman, right? Which is pretty trippy because Silver Age began in 1956, right? So for like 10 years there was no Catwoman, which is very trippy. And here's a little keycap with the Superman cape, right? And the artwork for this is the cover is Kurt Schofenberger, okay? Apologies about brutalizing the name. And the story is Leo Dorfman. There's a whole bunch of people that worked on this. There's multiple stories in this, I believe. But basically Henry Bonteliff, Vinteliff, Bob Oxner, Carmen Infantino, Irv, Novak, and a lot of these people. The Leo Dorfman. He worked on a lot of DC books, a lot of Superman related books, okay? So these are the two comics that we have. And we're going to run a poll. You can do a two-minute poll, I guess, and decide which one is going to win for us to read. And Cheryl, I'm assuming any time you want, you're going to run the poll. Trengras, Aichi Cho, how are you doing today? Doing fantastic. Thank you very much for asking and thank you for the Twitch Prime sub. Gang, the poll is up. We got two comics to choose from. We've got headline comics number 27 from 1947, and we've got Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, number 70. I should have brought a coin just in case there isn't time so we can flip the coin, okay? Headline comics has got three votes right now, and Lois Lane is down is only two votes right now, okay? So whichever gets the poll wins the poll today is going to be the reading today, and the other one we're going to read tomorrow, okay? Headline comics is four Lois Lane is four. What are the odds of a tie? Hilarious, hilarious. So we've got headline comics is four, Lois Lane at four. That's where we're sitting out right now, gang. That's where we're sitting out right now. Comic books, comic books on Friday days. Oh, wait, I have watched some of it, but a while back, Allerga says. So we've got headline comics that's six votes right now, and Lois Lane is stuck at four. Headline is at seven, headlines, headlines, headlines going ahead of the headlines going ahead of the, we've got about half, we've got about a minute, about 45 seconds left. Lois Lane has a five votes right now. We've got seven and five, seven and five. We'll see where this goes. I'm saving my vote to the end. We can't have a tiebreaker. We gotta, we gotta get one of these done. I didn't bring a coin here, right? We've got seven votes and five votes, seven and five. We've got seven and six. Oh my, I remember last time someone did a last minute vote to make things a tie. We've got eight votes for headline comics, eight votes, golden age of comics. We've got about 10 seconds left, gang. Seven votes for Lois Lane. Gang, I'm throwing my vote. I'm throwing my vote. Headlines cut nine. Lois Lane's got it. Oh my God. Headline takes it. Headline takes it. Nine votes, eight votes. Lois Lane Catwoman. You're going to be doing it. We're doing a reading of this one tomorrow. Okay. Who was the sneaky little bugger that was putting in the vote at the end to tie things up? Make sure those cutie kittens are locked up. Yeah, they're sleeping right now. So we should be good. We should be good. Anyone not voting for headline is a traitor.  I could go either one of those one, me too. Cheryl says ready, I'm behind the chat, of course. Vote with your conscience. Vote with your conscience. Lois Lane is super kitty for the win. Headline comics. Oh my, I know Cheryl. So close. I threw in my vote. I threw it for headline. Had to be done. Had to be done. Must be the tie breaker. Next time I'm going to bring coins gang. We're going to flip. We're going to bring dice maybe. Dice would be better. Just in case it's a three-way tie. Right. Close race. I'm gripping my seat, Cheryl says. Oh my God. About F and time. And the other guy has been voting for this for like five streams now, right? The election was rigged. The election was rigged. It was. I'm an insider voting, right? This is so much better than going to work. Awesome. Awesome. Reading comics is always better than going to anywhere. Stop the steal. And it's all electronic. Where's Diebold? Right? Hilarious. Gang, let's do the reading. I'm going to turn off notifications.  Wait for the mail-in votes. Yeah, wait for the mail-in votes. And I think 2 p.m. Everybody votes for the other one. Oh, this is a good one. Oh, so too. I think it should be pretty good. The cover is beautiful. And golden age comics are. You know what? Most of the golden age comics we've read, they've been pretty fantastic, man. Pretty fantastic. Like, very impressed. Very impressed. So let's have a read through this. Gang, let me turn everything off so we can do this guy. Chats off. The real crime are usually quite good. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Gang, I'm turning off my camera and we're going to go with the reading. Hi, everyone. This is Chichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading today. Today is February 1st, 2021. And we're doing a live stream reading of headline comics, number 27, from 1947. Okay. And we just ran a poll. We had a choice between two comics and this is the one that won. And the next reading that we're going to do is going to be the second comic that we had a choice to read, which is Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, number 70, with the first Silver Age appearance of that woman. So that's going to be our next reading. But for now, we're going to read the FBI in thrilling action headline comics. Okay, from November, December, right? Crime never pays. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. And this is a comic book that we picked up in a comic book haul like a few months ago. And this comic book, headline comics number 27 came with headline comics number 74. And we ended up paying $66 Canadian, about $52 US for it. And this comic book is was graded at around 4.0. The seller was grading her about 4.0. And I think, I believe we took a look at it. We're going to take a look at it right now and decide if we agree with that grade or not, which I think we will. This seller we've bought before. Okay. And I'm going to take this off and I'm going to tell you who did the cover for this. So we don't get the glare from the Mylar on it. So we get a better look of the cover. And the cover for this was done by the pencils is Jack Kirby and the inks is by Joe Simon. And Jack Kirby and Joe Simon are the duo that brought us Captain America plus a ton of other characters. And Jack Kirby basically had a hand to playing, creating a huge percentage of the Marvel characters that we enjoy today. And the artwork inside is done by Bill Drott. And I believe he did the pencils. He might have done the inks as well. It was difficult to find out who everybody that worked in Golden Age of comics anyway, who everybody is that has worked on these comic books. But it's a beautiful cover indeed, indeed. Let's take a look, see if we can get a nice focus going on this. Very nice cover. And the main story of this is based on Benny and Stella Mae Dickinson and their sort of depression era outlaw and bank robbers sort of like a Bonnie and Clyde deal, right? Stand back. What is she saying? What does she say? Is it really overcast here right now? So the lighting that we have is hopefully you'll stand back. You saw bones. I'm operating on this copper. Only you won't be alive after I give them the lead treatment. Sounds like she was a real mean bugger. She was a mean, very mean, beautiful cover though. Really. All true famous detective cases. All true based on what the FBI says, right? And his prize publications, which is a publishing company, which is really sought after. Prize publications, number 27. As far as the grade goes, indeed, I would definitely agree. I would even give this a little bit higher than a four personally. Just there's no breaks on the spine, which is fantastic, right? The edges are not bad. Very good. There's no cuts on the cover anyway. Nice cover. Nice cover. There's a break here on the back, which is okay. A little bit of a little chunk missing here. Cut here. A little chunk there. Four, sure. Let's give it a four. Four, four point five. Four would be the lowest I would go on this. On a muscle, muscle add. And we've seen a lot of these muscle adds. There's a little bit of bleaching here. I don't know what it is. Some kind of staining or something. Sure, a four. Oh, there's a little chunk missing here. I didn't notice that. So there's a little chunk missing there. Sure, we'll give it a four. Nice and tight. Oh, look at her. The Bobby Socks Bandit Queen Stella May Dixon. Check that out. Let's take a look at the front cover at first. Advice to comic readers for bad skin. So as you can tell by the way, gang, just from the advertisements, we know who the audience for some of these books were, right? So a lot of these crime and suspense stories or horror stories weren't really for geared towards little kids. Advice to comic readers for bad skin. Stop worrying how now about pimples, blackheads, and other extremely, extremely cost skin troubles. Just follow skin doctor simple direction. Now the skin doctor has some serious advice here, right? Now we're not going to read all that. That's pretty detailed, advisable skin care. And then at the last paragraph there, it has the just mail your name and address to Betty Memphis, care of New York skin laboratory. Wow, cool. And there's a whole bunch of stories here. I forget how many stories this thing had, but we're definitely going to read the first one. This is beautiful. Awesome. Let's read the fine print on it, and we're not going to skip through it. We're just going to read the stories as they come up. Maybe we'll get a chance to read everything. And if we don't, we're definitely going to flip through the whole thing. Let's take a look at this. Let's read this. As that's second class, second class matter, November 25th, 1942, 1942 at the post office at Buffalo, Buffalo three, New York under the act of March 3rd, 1879. Entire contents, something smeared. I'm assuming copyright. Copyrighted 1947, so 1947 it came out by American Boys Comics Incorporator. So that's prize comment. Volume three, number three, November, December 1947, trademark registered in U.S. A smear. Something. Right? Cool. Let's take a look at this. And this artwork should be bill drought. So our first story, Stella Mae Dixon, the Bobby Sox bandit queen. Let's see what she's saying. The first one who makes a move while my husband rifles the vault gets a bullet between the eyes. Get me? She says. Oh, she's tough. Tough cookie. The amazing true story of a teenage girl who terrorized the nation until the FBI stepped in. Wow, she was a teenager. Nice cover. Or nice cover, nice panel. Not all notorious criminals are captured in sensational and dramatic fashion. Many front page arrests attract little attention even when they occur in full view of the public. It was early evening in Kansas City. On April 7th, 1939, the object of Chuck's observant eye was a beautiful teenage girl who didn't seem at all different from any other of her Bobby Sox sisters. Bobby Sox sisters. It's a matter, Chuck. Ain't you talking? Taking a check out tonight? Could be, Harry. Say, look over there, will ya? Read the evening polls for five cents. Chuck, eh? Let's check it out. Boy, what a number she is. You know, Harry, maybe I will be taking a check out tonight at that. But as the girl approached the street corner, two men emerged from a car parked near the curb to engage the girl in conversation. Looks like you're too late, Chuck. Well, how do you like that for a break? Like, serious? Oh, wow. You can't work fast enough for good lookers, Chuck. There's always two other guys ahead of ya. This certainly proves you're right, Harry. She's getting in the car with them. Oh, well. Golden age, eh? Zoom! The car drives off. There she goes. Gosh, if I'd only been a little quicker on the uptake. Don't ball, Chuck. These guys must have been waiting for her. She probably had a date with them. Harry was right in a way. The men had been waiting for the girl, but they were FBI agents. For the girl did have a date, but it was with the justice. Chuck and Harry were unaware that they had witnessed one of the most widely discussed incidents of 1939, the capture of Stella May Dixon, the Bobby Socks bandit queen. Youthful public enemy taken into custody by FBI, the paper reads. Get your paper. Read all about it. G-Men capture Stella May Dixon extra. Love that face. Look at that. Love the hat. She's behind bars. She doesn't look happy. She looks mean. Look at that. Yes, this unspectacular action by the FBI had brought to an end one of the most amazing carry careers in criminal history. This 17-year-old girl, hardly more than an adolescent, was considered as dangerous and destructive as the most hardened of the nation's public enemies. Stella's fantastic story began in a roller skating rink in the summer of 1937 when she was just Stella May Irwin and only 15 years old. Say you're great with those skates. How about a few fancy turns together? The name's Benny Dickens. Dixon. Okay, I don't see why not. It might be fun, she says. Benny Dixon. That's the guy. An evil star must have shown brightly that night. Benny Dixon and Stella Irwin have found each other. Being mutual types, they found themselves in a whirlwind romance. Gosh, I wish this place wouldn't close so early. I could skate until morning, Stas says. Like that, kid? Benny says. Mind if I see you home, baby? I got my bus outside. What do you say? Stella says I like you, Benny. You're different from most fellas. I know you're a good company. Shall we go? Benny was different. Benny was different, and Stella soon found out why, from his own lips. How do you like this new car, baby? I got it for the anniversary of our fifth date together. This is an awfully expensive car, Benny. How can you afford it? She asks. Listen, baby, a smart operator can get anything he wants. Snatching this convertible was only a little thing compared to what I could get for you. Benny, you mean you stole this car, Stella says. Don't act surprised, baby. You're thrilled, and you know it. You're just like me. You want money, clothes, and excitement. Well, stick with little Benny. I'll show you how to get all that the easy way, he says. But Benny, aren't you afraid of the police? I'm too smart for him, I tell you. Always a step ahead. I'm no amateur. I've served time, the pen. I know the ropes, he says. It wasn't long before Stella was going steady with 27-year-old Benny. Stella, I got to blow town fast. As soon as I'm set up, I'll send for you. Make it soon, Benny. I'm going to miss you, she says. Not long after, Stella joined Benny in California. It's so nice being with you again, Benny, she says. It's great to see you, baby. Come on, we're going to get hitched first thing. Wow, they're going to get married, look at that.  Imagine that California judge saying you were too young to be married. Well, we'll head for my parents. Some are home in Minnesota and get spliced as soon as we arrive. So the judge didn't marry them. Benny, Benny did marry Stella in his parents' home. His father, a high school teacher, offered Benny the opportunity to study. But young Dixon possessed a restless spirit. This steadying business is pretty dull. It bores me stiff, he says. Forget that old book and give baby a great big kiss. You know, Benny, this place is awfully quiet. I'm getting to feel like I'm buried alive. Say, I've got an idea to break the monotony. What do you say to some target practice? You mean shooting with guns? She says. Sure, I'll make an Annie Oakley of you in no time at all. Benny says. Where are you children off to? The father asks. We're going to do a little hunting pot. Stella and I could use some fresh air. These guys is hunting hats on. But instead of hunting, Benny taught Stella the use of a firearm and Stella brought reality to Benny's predictions.  There's six bull's eyes. Good shooting, Stella. Now let's see what you can do with the rifle. Wow, all of them dead center. You're natural, baby. You've got talent, baby. Real talent. And little Benny's going to plan big things for us both. Oh, Benny. I'm so thrilled, she says. Benny wasn't kidding. He began formulating plans almost at once. It wasn't long before he told Stella about them. Baby, I've lined up the little bank in Lecton, South Dakota. Think you're ready for a crack at it? Sure, Benny. That would be fun. But aren't you afraid with the police record you have? She asks. I learned all the angles. I learned all the angles while doing time in the Missouri Penn kid. We won't miss. Okay, Benny. What do you want me to do? She says. A couple of love birds. Thanks to her love birds. On August 25th, 1938, the day before Stella's 16th birthday, she set off disguised in male attire with her husband to take part in her first crime. Wait here, baby. I'll be right out. Be careful, Benny, she says. There's the bank. This is a stick up. Open your vault and get that dough out. We can't. The vault's on a time clock, time lock, and won't open for another half hour. The guy says. That's all right. I'll wait. Oh my. But the first one who tries any tricks gets hurt bad, Benny says. Stella became worried when Benny didn't reappear on time. She decided to check on the situation. Benny, what's wrong? Got the wait for the time clock. Help me cover these fish. The bandits waited 30 minutes. As new patrons came in, they were added to the growing group of prisoners. The vault's open. Keep them covered while a clean house, Benny says. Okay, okay. All of you, get inside the vault quick. You heard what he said. Get moving. The guys got it. Benny's got a bag of money. Fool hardly as their 30 minute delay seemed. Benny and Stella escaped, arrest, and made their getaway to a farm in Minnesota belonging to a relative of Benny's. The robbery victims were later rescued from the vault, where they almost suffocated. How did we do? Stella asks. How did we do? Not too well, baby. $2,174.64. But the Rob Bank had been insured by the federal deposit insurance company, which brought the crime to the attention of the FBI. Benny and Stella had committed a federal offense. You can rest the shirt, sir, that will have those two in custody in good time. Our agents are already at work on the case the FBI agent says. Meanwhile, Benny and Stella went to Detroit. Benny bought a car and Stella some new clothes. On their way back, Benny completely wrecked the new sedan near Osage City. Crash. The car's out of control. Look out. The lucky pair miraculously escaped with their lives. However, Benny and Stella soon had another car. They stole it in Kansas City. Say, this bus runs smoother than our last car, baby. Better keep your eye on the road, or we'll end up the same way, Benny. She says. The Dixons were inactive for a while. Then, on the morning of October 31st, 1939, they appeared in booking South Dakota. Now, baby. Good. He's just opening the bank. Into the back of the bank, pop. No peeps. Now, or a crook. She says. I'll stay here and nail the other clerks as they come in. Benny says. When the last clerk to report for work entered the bank, he joined the others under the steady muzzle of Stella's gun. Here's the last one, Benny. Swell. I picked up two grand, rifling these cages. But this is small change. When does a vault open, mister? Ten-thirty, the bank teller says. Ten-thirty. Ten-thirty. Benny knew business would be a full swing then. He thought fast. Listen, you blank bank clerks. I'm going to let you do a little honest work. Get in your cages and take care of the customers when they come in. I'll even lend you a few hundred for petty cash. I cut the wires in the joint, so don't try to call for help and keep your noses clean with the trade. Just remember, we're both dead shots. None of the 40 depositors that morning became suspicious. Finally, ten-thirty arrived and the vault door slowly swung open. Ten-thirty, Benny, should be a... Benny should be in the vault by now. Huh. If these yokes only knew a robbery is going on under their very noses, get another guy and carry this swag out to the car. Oh, that's a big bag of money. That's a big vault. Take these guys and the dough out to the car. I'll be along in seconds, Benny says. Before Benny joined Stella and their hostages, he casually strolled towards the teller's cage and left a final frightening order. We're taking two of your men with us.  The bandits once more made a clean getaway. Better dump these two characters, Stella. We're nowhere near a telephone. The police will get... The teller's waving his hands. The police will get you rats, yet you won't get away with this. What a sweet job that was, Benny. It went like clockwork. Benny and Stella got away with almost 50 grand. During the month that followed, during the month that followed, they lived in grand style. On Thanksgiving Day, they were preparing to leave a tourist cabin where they had made a brief stop. The local cops got a lead through that hot car I ditched. We'd better move fast than Stella says. There he is. That's Dixon. Dixon, stop. You're under arrest. You'll have to catch me first, copper. Look at a bolt. There goes Stella in the other direction.  Cops are going for their guns. Stella beat it in another direction. I hope she makes it, he says. In the head. I don't think he'll get far. Oh, wow. Did he get him in the head? Oh, he did too. Look at that. Oh, the dirty flat foot.  Despite his wound, Benny managed to escape arrest. The next day, he found Stella at a pre-arranged rendezvous where she hid under a bridge all night. Did he give you much pain, Benny? Stella asks. Ah, it's just a flesh wound. Finish up and let's get back to the car. I'll fix those cops, Benny says. Wow. I think it's smooth sailing again, baby. Now we can spend some of this dough. Save it, Benny. There's a patrol car chasing us. Hang on, baby. I'm putting her down to the floor board. I'm hit. But keep going. Keep going. I'll get him. Oh, they just nailed her. Nailed her. The side of Stella's head was bleeding profusely, but with an earring aim, she blasted away at the pursuing car with her rifle. Bam, bam, bam. Crack. I'll get their front tires. That'll stop them. Nice shooting, Stella. And nailed them. You nailed them. They went right down the ditch. Look at that. The Dixon's decided to abandon their car and appropriate a new one from the first passerby. Unlucky enough to cross their path. You call that junk box the car? Who has a new car around here? My neighbor down the road has a new model. They're sticking them up for this little old beater. They're being picky. They don't even like the car. Look at that. You two young no-gooders. Regret this. Kidnapping is a serious offense.  Hey, Seed. Watch those rubes closely, Stella. Late that night, Benny and Stella raced along the highway in the neighbor's car, taking the two farmers along to keep the alarm from spreading. So they kidnapped both farmers. Look at that. At daybreak, the Dixon's found they needed a faster car. They got one by using their usual nefarious method. There's no room for the new bird in here. Okay, I'll stick him in the trunk. Oh no. They're like a three-people kidnap now. When it was considered safe, the outlaws roughly dumped their hostages on the road. The Dixon's later left the stolen car and bought an old second hand model. Where are we headed for now, Benny? Dixieland, baby. I'm setting the course for New Orleans, he says. The G-Men will never find us here in New Orleans. Well, they Benny, she asks. They're probably running in circles following crummy leads, baby. Ha, ha, ha, ha, Benny says. Benny was right. The FBI was an idol. They were tracking down every lead that presented itself in any part of the nation. In California, how long did they stay here? The FBI asks, why just a few days if I remember rights? In Minnesota, when did they leave? Oh, I'd say about a week after they came here, the guy says. In Kansas, did you know Stella May Irwin? Yes, but I don't know where she is now. Are you one of her old boyfriends? In South Dakota, that was on October 31st. Yes, one of my bank clerks and myself were thrown out on the road by them after they were well out of town and in Indiana. Then what happened? Can't rightly say, mister. I saw the car tear plump crazy like toward the highway. The FBI investigation was through. No detail was uncovered. The trail of the Dixons was clear, clear now. The G-Men were ready to close in. Yep, here it is in this bag of pairs. Where did you get this little girl? A pretty young lady with yellow hair paid me to deliver these groceries. Stella May Dixon. The note found in the groceries was a message from Benny Dixon, arranging a meeting with a pal. It became instead a rendezvous with justice. Hamburgers. It's Dixon. Careful, he's dangerous. Let's get him. The FBI got him cornered. Hamburger place. Harry's hamburgers, I think. Oh, look at this. All right, Dixon. We're FBI. Let's go. Don't try anything. You'll be sorry for. You'll stop lead before you take me in, Dixon says.  Just destroyed him. Stella was in a nearby car and saw Benny die. She quickly drove off and later abandoned the vehicle to catch a bus to Kansas City, but the G-Men were right behind her. Stella, unlike Benny, went quietly. Her spree of violence was over. Stella May Dixon, you've been found guilty as charged. Ten years in prison was Stella's sentence. That was on August 21st, 1939, just five days before she reached 17. A young girl who who saw thrills in crime. She soon found out that crime never pays. I wonder how much of this is actual true story. Nice storytelling.  For 15 years old, she got married to a 27 year old. There's a little rip here. Yeah, and Cheryl on our chat and our live stream saying all true FBI style. The guns on Jesse James. What? We got a Jesse James story here? No way. You gotta be kidding me. We gotta read the Jesse James story. Look at this. Look at this. Oh yeah, let's read a Jesse James story gang. Oh yeah, look at this cowboy lamp. Let's do, let's do. Very cool. Guns of Jesse James. Liberty, Liberty, Montana Bank, I guess? M.O. Bank?  Love the guns. Look at that. Bank. Look at that guy scared. Where is he shot? I think he's just scared. Looks like this could be M.T. supposed to be Montana from people are saying in the chat. So it could be Missouri? Liberty, Missouri Bank. Interesting. Let's check it out. The guns of Jesse James. Love the sex shooter. Look at that. I'm breaking up a slew of little tin heroes. Cousins pay, cousin, cousins pay attention. What's he doing? He's a cop. You can have little toy men. Tin heroes, long dead characters who were all bad vets. But to whom the passing years have handed out halos? For example, take Jesse James. Today he's often thought of as a Robin Hood of the West. Oh, so he's telling us a story.  Jesse was born in Missouri. Nice. In Missouri in 1847. At the age of 20, he organized a gang of desperados and appointed himself leader. He specialized in male train robberies. Look out. It's ready to blow. Jesse says. I'm assuming that's Jesse. Jesse James was a terrorist. He carried out his lawless plundering completely without regards for the lives of innocent bystanders. He created train wrecks which killed or maimed countless passengers. That'd be really destructive. A hold up. It's the James gang. Just shot him. Kind of noisy, ain't you pop? Start with the male car. Pronto. Right, Jesse. Robbers cut through his help. That's a passenger and passenger car. Look at that. Hanging out the window. Bad idea. Bad idea. Look at that. It's not a good idea. Oh yeah, they took him out. Ruffians murdered. Hang out the window. They're robbing the train. The James crew turned the bank jobs and turned to bank jobs and their victims mounted. This FBI guy, police guys, tell us a story. You scoundrel. You, uh, bam. Right in the head.  Get the safe boys. That's beautiful. Look at the artwork on this. Look at that. Like an expression and a half. Good shot, Bill. Bam. Oh, they're just killing him. Jesse's most trusted friend and henchman was a boyhood chump named Bill Ford. Bill was a crack shot. I never miss a one, Jesse. You know me. The gang, the gang numbered six, Jesse, his brother, Frank, Bill Ford, and the three younger brothers, everyone a killer. After dozens of jobs, the boys grew bolder. They decided to invade new territories. That, as the events developed, was the beginning of their downfall. Hornfield, Minnesota sounds like a watering trough. We'll haul in plenty, huh, Ford? It's about time we branched out, Jesse. We've about cleaned out Missouri. All right, gather around and we'll go over the map again, Jesse says. Main Street Bank. Fork in Street. That's a detailed map. Bridge. Northfield, Minnesota. Northfield, Minnesota. X and X. I guess that's where they're going to be stationing people. And there's going to be one person. There's an X on the bridge as well, right there. So I'm assuming they're going to be stationing someone there as well. Let's check it out. Now one man guards this bridge for the getaway, two stand guard outside the bank, and three of us go in for the dough. Perfect, Jesse. Perfect. What could go wrong with that detail of a map, eh? It was a hot day in 1867 when the big fracas got on their way. Fracas got on their way. Here's the, here's the bank up ahead. Now work fast. Hop to it, boys. Raise them high. This is a stick up. They burst into the bank. Ah, they're just killing people left and right. It was a little, little guy by the name of Marv Albert, who started all the trouble for the James boys. No, I won't open the safe. Not for Jesse James or anyone else.  Oh no. He's going to get blown away. Ah, blam. Smart fella. Real smart. Meanwhile, across the street in the dentist's office. Ah, take it easy doc. Dentist. Blam. A shot from the bank. If that's the sheriff. What? What Jesse hadn't figured on was that Northfield was a town of hunters and everyone owned a gun. Nice. Here Sam, grab a gun. It must be a hold up. Awesome. Everybody's armed. Bad idea to go create chaos.  It's the James gang. Robbers, murderers. They're coming after them. It was then that the shot from the dentist's office started a small scale war between the gunmen and the irate townspeople. What the, they're shooting at us. Ah, one of the James gang members. Ah, blam. Taken out. Bam, right in the back. Look at that. Look at that. These yokers mean business. Let's make tracks out of this town. Let's go Jesse. Are they coming out with the money? They look like they got bags. Yeah, they got bags of money. They're coming out shooting. Every merchant in town opened fire. The James gang suffered disastrous casualties. My back. Ah, they got Lippy. Lippy's down. Look at all the guns coming out of the windows. Aw, we got the little kitty cat wanting to come in. Woke up.  Meow going on. Cold hard cash. Cold hard cash. Look at this. Look at this. Meow. Reading Jesse James kitty cat. Look at this. Look at this. Bam. That is drawing. Nice panel, by the way. Look at that. That's beautiful. Look at the face of the horse. Nice panel. Jesse, we dropped the cash. Oh no, they dropped the cash. Do we see a drop in here? No, but they dropped the cash. Jesse, we dropped the cash. What?  Come on. Ride. Hit leather. Out of this hornet's nest. They're firing backwards. Only the two James brothers and Bill Ford survived that jammery, but Jesse didn't have long to stay in the social swim. This guy's got some nice toy men here. Seriously. Telling the story. Let's check it out. On April 3, 1982, Jesse bought a home in St. Joseph, Missouri and undercover moved in. He was a hunted man at this time. Look at that poster from the governor himself. That's a hog's heat head of money. All right. What are they post? What are they post? $10,000 reward. Dead or alive, Jesse James. Back then, 1887. $10,000. That's a lot of dough. That's a lot of dough. Oh man. Bill Ford. Bill Ford, Jesse's most trusted friend, was one of those who saw the poster. $10,000. A lot of money. A powerful lot. Jesse James. Dead or alive. Well, Jesse. Well, well, well. What's he gonna do? What's he gonna do? Meanwhile, Jesse was enjoying the role of Lord of the Matter. If I'm gonna have my own home, I might as well fix it up. Put some junk on the walls. Haha. He's got a little thing. God bless this happy home, he says. Oh my, oh my. Ha, ha, ha. What a tear joker. The Kiosk forgot to dot the I. Did they forget to dot the I? Ah, they forgot to dot the I. Jesse James. Oh man. Look at what's going on. Jesse, can I see you a minute? That, you Bill Ford. Wait a minute. I'll come down. Never mind. I think I like this angle better. Oh man. Look at that. It takes out Jesse James, his best buddy from childhood. You'll make a beautiful corpse, Jesse. Look at that. And this was the amazing climax to the story of Jesse James. The bullet that pierced his scheming heart had also gone through the sign. Haha. And the I had finally been dotted. That's like Hollywood drama right there. The I was dotted. Look at that. That went through his heart dotted the I. Definitely Hollywood screenwriter. Funny. And here is the copper telling us the story. And that's how Jesse cashed in his worthless chips. Not like a knight in shining armor. Not like a hero. Not like a Robin Hood. Scratch. He's gonna lie his pipe. And he throws the Jesse James doll or soldier into the garbage bin. But like a two-bit killer, a stumble bum whose best friend thought enough of him to drill him through the back. Not a tin hero, but a tin horn. A genuine tin horn. Jesse James. I wonder if that's true. Just his best friend took him out.  He was also wanted. How's that gonna work? Fun. Fun, fun, fun. How are we doing for time? We got about half an hour left gang for reading. What should we read? 20 men saw him die. Yet there was not one witness to tell of the death of the gambling king, gambler king. Look at this. Gambling story. That's not bad. If we read a gambling story. What else we got? That's one story. Look at the phases here. That's trippy. Look at that. It's almost doing psychedelics and doing some artwork. Look at that. Here's an ad. The spark converter by Alan Stand. Oh, look at this one. Bring me his corpse. So he got this story. We've got a lady in the story. Oh, what's this one? Spirits Windler. I was the front for the merciless spirits windler. The bring me, the corpse looked pretty cool. Oh, there's a little rip here. This one is a longer story. These comic books were well worth the money. Lots of stories. Camera ad. What is this one? America's greatest zipper billboard bargain. Billboards are printed in breathtaking color. What is this? Never seen this before. That's weird. What is that? Sensational value. A handmade all round zipper billboard brightly decorated in stenciling color. Illustrations show here with our faithful reproduction showing the beautiful color scene embossed on these billboards. Can't rub off other exclusive features include built-in zipper, change purse, deluxe pass case, and roomy currency compartment. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. Rush your order and pick your choice on the coupon below. So I guess these are wallets. It's a wallet. It's a wallet. So it's a wallet with designs on it. It's the first time we're seeing this ad. What is that? Losing weight ad? A camera? Scoop complete. Taking picture taking picture making outfit. Cool. Let's read the let's read this story. What was this one? Britney is corpse. Let's read this one and we'll end this reading with this story. So there's two stories here we're putting aside. Whoa. This is a violent story. Look at that. The panel in this corner, but we'll take a closer look at it. Let's take a look. And it's a beautiful rainy day gang gang. Seriously. So nice. Bring me his corpse. 1922. August. Let's see what this is about. How good how good a detective are you? Here's a chance to match wits with the nation's best. See if you can find the same clues as Detective Sam Carter did when he trapped a cold-blooded killer. Me his corpse. What is this one? Call me crime. See if you can solve it. Okay. Let's check it out. I'll take care of this Tigris. Now get going and bring me a corpse. It was three o'clock in the morning of August 13 1922 in Lakehurst, New Jersey when two railroad workers were startled by the screams of a woman. Did you hear it? A woman scream? It came from that flat over the grocery store. Let's go. When the workers arrived, they found the door locked. It was locked from the inside by automatic safety hatch. Please help. Break in the door. I can't get to it. This is the apartment. The door won't budge. Together now. Great Scott. Look, they cracked open the door. My husband. Oh my poor husband. She's suffering from shock. I'll untie her. You look through the rest of the apartment. When the railroad workers reached the bedroom, he was shocked to find the body of William Giberson, owner of a local taxi company. Oh no. He's been shot. A bullet through the base of his skull. Better call the police. Oh no. Focus it on that. I guess the merger scene is blurry for us. Oh, is that feeding on top of the bed too? Poor guy. The local authorities were summoned and the widow described a grisly, grisly crime. It was a little after 3am. I was awakened by a noise from the front of the apartment. Go on, Miss Giberson. I walked into the kitchen to investigate and discover two men. Help. Help. Cut that screaming, sister. Better gag the dame before she wakes up her husband. The guy says, One of the men bound the gag. Bound and gagged me while the other drew his gun and get into the bedroom and take care of the old man. We don't want any fuss. Oh, that's what he was saying. Bring me the corpse. He was telling him to go kill the guy. Oh man, look at this. That's pretty violent. Then I heard a shot. As you know, my husband died instantly.  Now let's find the loot. I see Miss Giberson. Then the thugs found $700 in cash and fled. Yes, my husband had sold a taxi cab a few days ago. The marauders must have known about it. Then Sam Carter, chief of detectives in Burlington County, New Jersey, was called in to investigate. Carter had, during the past 33 years, sent more than 100 murderers to the chair. He was noted internationally as a master of solving crimes by using psychological approach. This is the Giberson apartment where the crime was committed, Carter. I see the guy smoking a pipe. Anybody smoking a pipe must be like a true detective. It's impossible for anyone in the kitchen to see anyone in the bedroom, although one can hear sounds from one room to the other. Yes, sir. That's the layout. The cop says, Mrs. Gibson's told Carter the exact story she had told the police after the murder. Then tell me, Mrs. Giberson, what kind of voice did these men have? Low or gruff? Why yes, how did you know? Low and gruff. Why yes, how did you know? She says. They usually do. Now, when did they do their talking and what did they say? They didn't do any talking until Bill, my husband, was shot. And then the man who held me in the kitchen shouted to the other man, why did you shoot him? And the man in the bedroom shouted back, I had to. He was waking up. She says, and this man who was holding you, what did he do then? He tied me up, then joined the other man in searching the place. Carter puffed reflectively on his pipe. Then he glared at the calmly widow. Tell the truth, Mrs. Gibson.  You admitted it in a short time ago, but you didn't realize it. The smoke rings come up. To the reader, Detective Carter had trapped Mrs. Giberson in her own trumped up story. What mistake had she made? Oh, I don't know. Did you guys catch it? How did Detective Carter know she was lying? This is your chance to test your abilities as a detective. Yes, Mrs. Giberson, if a robber had been binding you in the kitchen and had heard a shot in the bedroom, he wouldn't have shouted to his partner asking why he had shot Giberson. He couldn't see what was going on in the bedroom, so he would not have known who fired the shot. Your husband must have had a gun under the pillow. Of course, even an inexperienced robber would have feared her husband might have shot his accomplice. He'd hurry to investigate. Ah, smart. That's what pipe smoking gets you. Confronted with his reasoning, Mrs. Giberson broke down and confessed, yes, yes, I killed him. I just grew tired of my husband and thought I could get rid of him, and so get his money. Oh no, not a nice person. Mrs. Giberson later produced the murder gun. At a minute she had bought a widow's outfit more than a week before the killing. She was sent to the Penitentiary at Trenton for 20 years. Crime never pays. For reasons of security, the name Sam Carter is fictitious. Oh really, Sam Carter. Sam Carter is the detective with the pipe. Right? I believe so. Yeah, right there. Sam Carter was the detective with the pipe. Pleasant lady indeed, someone says. Cheryl says.   Yikes. Like, look at the poor guy. His feet still on the bed. Like, what a ruthless human being she was. Fun read, fun read. Gang, let's call it there. We did three stories out of five, I believe, from this comic, which is great. And, you know, it's a testament to Golden Age comics, really, that there's so many stories in these books. And my little kitty cats are away, kind of jumping around. First time reading a, doing a comic book reading with kitty cats around. Someone mentioned that during the chat and the live stream, Chi Cho's mistake was first time with cats. I'll have to arrange it so we could do comic book readings without kitty cat interruptions, right?  We're almost finished at the allowed time for the reading as well, right? A little bit of chaos with the kitty cats reading a crime story from the 1940s, right? Golden Age of comics. Fantastic. I hope you guys enjoyed the reading gang.  Fantastic. Great buy. Very happy with the spy. I'm going to throw this into the bag and I'm going to turn on chat and get back to the live stream and see if people enjoyed the reading. I definitely did. And these crime comics from the 19, from the Golden Age of comics are absolutely fantastic before the comic code authority kicked in because there's absolutely no way. I absolutely no way. Don't think the panel we saw with the guy being shot at the back of the head with the blood splattering out would have been approved by a comic code authority. Absolutely not, right? So it's good to see some of these comics in their raw form without censorship kicking in. Aside from that, thank you for joining us for another reading. I'm going to turn on the chat. I'm going to turn on the video. Fun reading. I love these Golden Age reads, man. These are fantastic. Awesome reading. Awesome reading. No, I'm going crazy. The one that was meowing was via. He's like, what are you doing in there? What are you doing in there? What are you doing in there? Can I get in there? Because I've closed it off. We have our little reading area closed off and it's where my, what do you call it, crystals and minerals and stuff like this. So the kitty cats can come in here and they'll knock the living daylights out of these things, right? Gang, thank you for the follows. Thank you for the subs. Apologies about me not catching them. I wanted to stay focused on the reading. And then now what's going on?  That's Sal waking up and they're going at it. Now the God, the silent generation, we're so calm as well. Cheryl, Chicho, has it rained yet since you had them? Are they used to the sound of it in your home? Oh yeah, they're pretty comfortable with it, Cheryl. Yeah, they're really comfortable with it. They really, like the breeders that we got them from, they did a really good job. Like the cats are very, very well behaved. They listen. They play together a lot. They're loving, like mad. Like they're cuddling all the time. And they play fantastic together. And they don't really meow too much. Like via meows when he's, he wants to know what's going on or wants you to pick him up and pet him. And he's just conversational. Sal, Sal is a calm, cool cat.  He only gets involved when he needs to be involved in all that jazz. Servitory. Pope Grimy, I was waiting for a cat club to help you turn the page.  We've closed off this area. Partitioned the house into cat safe areas, kitty cat safe areas, kitten safe areas. And there's areas that my workspace and my comics, they're not allowed and certain area that we've got too much stuff laying around for little kittens to be around. The meows made me happy. Also Cheryl, also, yes, that's me. Sal is a true warrior.  And he's like relentless when chasing the toys. Super cool, super cool. Gang, should we call the stream? But before we do, don't forget, free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capital as power to humanity. Support him and WikiLeaks. For more information, you can go to WikiLeaks.org and you can check out our playlist on YouTube where we got a lot of videos, readings of the leaks, as well as discussion of what's been going on with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Such a good read, fantastic read. Very happy that we got this comic book. And I think it was a it was a fantastic deal. It was definitely contained a panel that definitely would have been censored after the comic code code kicked in. Jack Kirby, Joe Simon cover, Bill Drott, artwork from prize publications, graded in mid grade from 1947 and graded at four. I can't go wrong. I want to keep my eyes on these types of comics. I do have a handful of crime comic books, as you know, but I'm going to keep my eyes. I don't think I have any more headlines other than this one. And now the number 74 that we ended up getting. So I'm going to try to get my hands more of my more of these comics, right? Someone was decapitated. Whoa. Okay, we're going to leave that stuff a little later. That's all the time we're fast. This is a typo, right? Music to music. Lowest lane tomorrow. Lowest lane tomorrow game. We're reading the first Silver Age appearance of Catwoman from DC Comics, right? In lowest lane. Superman's girlfriend, lowest lane. And gang, we're not going to be running a poll. So if you want to be on this reading from the get go, we're probably going to start the reading within 15 minutes of going live 10 to 15 minutes of going live because we don't need to run a poll, right? Awesome. I'm surprised this ended up being the last comic book we're reading to tell the truth. Plus seeing a Jack cover that's not Marvel or DC is cool to see indeed. And Jack Kirby did a lot of romance and a lot of crime comics, a lot of romance comics. And we've got our hands on some of those as well, right? But Catwoman tomorrow game. I hope you guys have a fantastic day. And tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. PST, my time, 22 hours from now, we're going to read this baby. Bye everyone. And Cheryl, thank you for running the poll. Oh, hold on. I got to do my little outro. Speedy Gonzales style. Where are we at? Gang? I am on Patreon. We are live streaming on Twitch. I do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on Mines, Lovk, Gab, Parler when it comes back online and Twitter. And we do have a Discord page that you can join and participate in the discussion that a lot of people are participating in, sharing information. And you can come to our Twitch channel anytime you want. And in the chat type and exclamation mark social. Thank you very much, Elder God. And all the links will pop up, including the link for Discord that you can join for live streams where we don't have any visuals. We upload the audio to SoundCloud as a podcast and it should be available on your favorite podcasting platform, including Spotify and iTunes. And we will be uploading this live stream to SensorTube, BitShoot, and Rumble. And if you have enough money, we'll load it up to Odyssey as well. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to take out the segment where we did the reading and upload that first. And at some point, I think we'll upload the full stream. Gang, I hope you have a fantastic day. Bye everyone.


Oh yeah, what's up guys? This is Chris Pike. My friends call me Banksy! I'm back again guys, and today I got some game giveaways. Oh yeah, we got keys. We got this. We got three games we're going to feature this week and they're pretty awesome. So let's skip the foreplay and get right into this. Game number one. All right guys, the first game is called Visera. Clean up detail. Oh yeah, you guys are looking at this and going, oh, not another first person shooter. Well, guess what guys? This isn't no first person shooter.  No, this game, they bring out the big guns. They bring out the artillery. I'm not even talking tanks, man. I'm talking mop and bucket.  You didn't see that coming, did you? Well, guess what? Nobody did. But in this game, you got to walk around and you got to clean up messes, man. We're talking blood, feces, vomit, effulence of all different types guys. Don't catch any infectious diseases. Hell, just do this guys. Get your mop and bucket. Get your clean on. Game number two. All right guys, the second game is called Meridian New World. All right, you're playing some guy named Daniel Hansen and I guess you are some sort of dude that pilots a ship and you hear a call, a 911 or some sort of beckon from a planet that's apparently uninhabited. Yeah, I'm not buying it either. Anyways guys, you go down to the planet and then all of a sudden there are things there and it turns into an RTS guys. This game looks like a ton of fun. It's been out for a while now. We got some keys. I suggest you check it out. All right guys, and the third and final game is called Monochromo. No, monochroma. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. Guys, this is the third and final game this week. This is a game that takes place in the 1950s.  Now, if you're looking at this game, you're probably thinking, hey, that looks like limbo. Yeah, it kind of does. I'm thinking that's where most of their visual inspiration came from. But anyways guys, you got to check this out. It has a pretty cool premise.  And when you're not doing that, you're trying to thwart evil corporations that sell robots to good people. Bad robots, good people. All right guys, enough of that stuff. This is it for this week guys. This is your boy Bigsy. Go to the link below. Get on this man. Get on the turtle. We got some games. We got some giveaways. We got some free swag. Let's do this guys. You like this video? I got a few more coming up. It's your boy Bigsy. Check it out.


Welcome back from that one. Now the central bank's decision to intervene in the Forex market suggests it is now ready to provide a steady supply of Forex in the official market, a situation that could strengthen the exchange rate at the black market. Well, I have the President of the Association of Small Business Owners, Aspen, Dr. Femi Egbeshula, joining me now to discuss further. Good morning to you, Dr. Egbeshula. Thanks for joining us on business insights. Good morning and thank you for having me. All right. When the CBN imposed the ban in 2015 of June, it clarified that it was to conserve scarce foreign exchange and encourage domestic production, self-sufficiency and export. But right now do you think this move is what is needed with all that we have going on in the Forex regime? Well, from our point of view, the policy has not really achieved its intended purpose. Because those products that are under banned, sorry, those products that are under banned for Forex are still everywhere in the markets. It means that the importers are still looking for the parallel markets to search for foreign exchange to bring in these goods and the products. And that means that it is going to have more stress on the Naira. And that's why we have Naira depreciating every day to the point we have it today. But more professionally, we will have expected that there should be what is called a policy impact assessment being doled out to be able to actually justify the benefits or otherwise of that policy for the past eight years to date. That will have been able to give us a direct approach to know if really the policy has been impactful or not. But for CBN to come out in their wisdom to now make a U-turn with the policy, it's an indication that they have also realized that it has not really worked. To some of us, CBN should be more concentrated on monetary policies rather than fiscal policies. Putting a ban on 43 items to us is more with fiscal policy issue as we live to the physical authorities to handle, not for CBN. But we are happy that eventually this ban is being lifted because we feel that it will reduce inflation at the end of exercise. We also believe that it will also improve the Naira because the downward fall of the Naira now is unabated and something needs to be done and they need it. Beyond that, we also feel that the private sector feels that CBN now should be thinking more of how to increase the availability of dollar in the market. There are more innovative ways of making dollar more available in the market. There are so many ways to do this and we want CBN to concentrate more on that. We also feel that maybe one best way to go will have been removing those items of the ban list gradually and the best way CBN can know what to lift now and what to leave for some time will have been a consultative engagement with the organized private sector which did not happen before this takes place. Speaking about the organized private sector, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry also reacted to this and says that the new FX policy of the CBN on banning the items that were excluded from accessing FX at the official market they said these are market-friendly steps towards unifying exchange rates and is expected to curtail inflationary pressures in the short term. I don't know if you agree with that some line of reasoning. Yes, actually it is expected to reduce inflation in the short term but be that as it may we also must realize that we have stakeholders in the economy of our country and everybody should be brought on board when critical policy decisions like this need to be taken. For example, some companies because of the ban has done some backward integration to look at how they can localize their input instead of importing into the country because of the former ban and this has cost them a lot of time, money, energy and resources. So coming up to now lift the ban without prior engagement may have a lot of stress on this company and put them at a loss at the end of the day which may also result into job losses. So we think that when policies like this are to be made there is need for government, particularly agencies of government that are specifically in that position to do such policies to engage more with the private sector so that it will be a win-win solution and win-win situation at the end of the day. According to the central bank, this action will boost liquidity in the Nigerian foreign exchange market and it is saying that they are going to be intervening from time to time stating that this intervention will decrease as our liquidity improves. This means that the CBI will now be selling FX once again or just how? Well, it is expected to increase liquidity if it is annexed and implemented the right way. In this part of the world, we have wonderful policies in the past but monitoring and implementation has been one big challenge and when it comes to having positive impacts in terms of liquidity bringing the official market to the parallel market to be at par. A lot of things still needs to be done. If we still have corruption, it will be difficult for us to have a parallel exchange rate because those who are involved in corruption will not go to the bank for forex they will still go to the parallel market. Those who are also involved in different kinds of vices, maybe drug trafficking and the rest will still rely on the parallel market for their exchange. So CBI needs to go beyond just lifting ban on the 43 items to see how they can creatively and innovatively bring out possible solutions to be able to really hit the fall of the nera at the tip. And this needs to be done with quite a lot of engagement with stakeholders like I mentioned the other time. We also have the opinion that when it comes to these 43 items some of them need outright banning, not just ban from forex. We have some products that are on that list that have been manufactured locally here that we need not encourage to be brought to the market at all. For example, toothpicks, why must we go to the bank to get forex or to see better their forex or bring toothpicks to the country? Why must we go to the bank or to the foreign package to bring in chicken or turkey to the country? Some of these things are to be an outright importation ban not just forex ban. So there's a lot that needs to be done. There's simply for us to have more engagement on this issue so that we can have a situation whereby everybody will own the policy who sees it as a working solution and we will be able to get it better so that inflation can be arrested, liquidity can improve and our issue with the LC can also begin to work out. There's probably a lot of backlog of credit now because the dollar is not there. So all of this can only be addressed if we have a holistic solution by bringing everybody together on the table to talk about it. Alright, you represent the small business owners in the country now. It's a good thing that you have mentioned some of this item that should not even be talked about. In the first instance, toothpick and chicken even rise as it were. But my question right now would be this policy, the back and forth as it were what impact does it have on the small and medium scale enterprises? It's not that a negative impact. It's not that a negative impact because policies affect the more those at the bottom of the current and this time the nano micro small and medium businesses. They are more impacted because they have less power to cushion the effects of some of the negativities of these policies. Like I did mention the other time, because there was a ban some people have invested so much in making an alternative. For example, toothpicks. We have some small business owners who are now producing toothpicks and are selling into the market. Now if the forest is opened up, it means that there's no ban or the importation ban on the products. It means that toothpicks will begin to add their flow into the country and begin to compete with the micro small businesses that are already doing this toothpick. You should know that the packaging method and some of the other things included in some of these foreign products makes it more attractive to our local consumers and now have a negative impact on the local manufacturers who are already doing it and finding ways to improve day by day to be able to meet with international standards. It means that if these people are affected or impacted negatively we will continue to have more job losses and it will also mean that small businesses may continue to fizzle out as we are having at the moment. Research and statistics shows that we have lost about three million businesses in these last two years. It may increase if nothing is done. And that's why some of us feel that it's good as intervention has been mentioned. But when you mention intervention, it should not be just in the world intervention. We must know what it takes, how it is going to be, the kind of intervention that is coming, what are those that are going to benefit and the other dynamic that is associated with this. That is when we can really know that yes, if this intervention actually sees the light of the day it will be able to address some of the challenges that this new policy will have on smaller micro-businesses. Alright, it's a good thing again that you have mentioned the subject matter intervention. People are wondering because it is unclear how much demand this new policy will drive to the official INE window. And do you really think the central bank has the capacity to meet this demand in the short term until liquidity returns as it claimed? I really don't think so. I really don't think so. Our foreign reserve has been depleted by day. The country is already in depths. I really don't see the kind of intervention that is coming now that can have an wholesale effect on the economy, particularly on the business sector. At the moment, we have quite a lot of interventions even on ground that are not yet being impactful. One of which is the IoT 200 that CBL launched in 2022 just last year that is expected to have more value to importer so that they can do more export, sorry, to exporters rather, so that they can do more export and bring foreign exchange into the country. How many people have been able to access this fund? Is the terms and conditions for accessing the fund accessible to micro and small businesses? The answer is no. So that's why there is proper emphasis that should be placed on engagement with stakeholders so that CBL itself can come to understand what really is the business climate from the point of the players and actors in that sector, not from what are theorized in the book or office. There is need to also make sure that the intervention gets to the right beneficiaries of this intervention, not political business owners. These are facts that needs to be worked upon if we really want the intervention to be successful. The next question is what is the extent of the intervention? Some of the intervention we have had in the past impacted maybe 2, 3% of the business sector. So if I have an intervention that is expected to go around 40 million entrepreneurs at the counter at the moment and we have it back in just 500,000. What's the volume of 500,000 compared to 40 million entrepreneurs? These are some of the things we need to look at. And when you are talking about intervention, it must be well spread out. Those that are expected to benefit must know all the terms and conditions from having issues. And they must be able to now prepare themselves to be able to take advantage of this. This at the moment we don't know how the intervention is going to come, when it is going to come, the format is going to take and the rest of it. All right. Also interesting is that the most supply currently goes to the black market and will remain so if the exchange rate disparity remains above 5%. The Sibian also has a forex backlog of around 8 billion dollars and another 20 billion dollars in swaps with Nigerian banks. How do you think all of this will really play out? I am just beginning to imagine. Really. That's the more reason why our narrative is falling because more people now go to the parallel markets to source for forex and that's just too bad. As of today, particularly since February of this year, foreign investors and foreign exporters to our country have been rejecting our LC. They no longer have trust in Sibian. They no longer have trust in our banks. They no longer have trust in Nigerian businesses because of the several backlogs of LCs that were unattended to. And that means that everybody that has to now go to the bank will now shift into the black market or the parallel market. The implication of that is that Niger will continue to fall because it is an issue of demand and supply that is simple economics. Niger will continue to fall and when Niger keeps falling, it means that inflation will continue to rise and that's what we have been experiencing for the past eight months now. Nigerian inflation is at its highest peak now where about 6% inflation rate in the country and it means that the consumers will have less disposable income even by whatever they want to need be it consumer goods or services that they require, they have less capital, less funds to purchase it and that also implies that the companies will sell less of what they have been selling before. When they sell less, it means they have to contrast their production process, reduce their staff, increase joblessness and the rest of it. When joblessness is there, those who are jobless must find a way to keep ends meet. One way of keeping ends meet is involving themselves in crime in cyber crime and the rest and that's not good for economy. I'm tempted to just chip in one more question as we round off now because I'm thinking about the CBN lifting these items from its bundles now to the fact that some of these items are still on the customs bad list. So what's the synchronization? I mean, how do we play out all of them? How do we begin to understand if the CBN is saying that it is no longer part of items on the list and those items are still on the customs on the bad list? That's one of the challenges where they need to be a synergy between all arms of government particularly when there are major policies like this. If you go to the market today you see imported vegetable oil that is expected to be under import ban. You see rice that is also expected to be under import and forage ban. You see many of these commodities. You now begin to ask yourself how do they find their way into our shores? How do they end up? It means that there's a gap somewhere. Gap somewhere in our security system gaps somewhere in our enforcement and monitoring system and other gaps that can be ended to fight. That's why we keep admiring on the fact that for things to work every stakeholder must be brought to the table to make policy from an issue and city implementation. Thank you. I'm sorry, I'm out of time. I didn't mean to just bought in there but then we do appreciate all of the useful inputs that you have brought specifically the issue of having a bit of synchronization between the regulators. We do appreciate your time once again. Dr. Firmin Egbershola is the president of Asbone Association of Small Business Owners of Nigeria. And that's the size of the show for today. I am Justin Akadunin. Many thanks for being there.


Welcome to the Control and Reporting Facility Migration video. In this video, you will see how to migrate existing Control and Reporting Facility Report definitions into the new Control and Reports, and how to replace and update jobs that run these reports in Control and Client. In Control and Immunversion 918, you can no longer run Control and Reporting Facility Reports and Jobs, so instead you need to migrate to Control and Reports. You don't need to migrate the BMC Supply Reporting Facility Templates, only your own templates need to be migrated. New BMC templates are included in Control and Reports, such as Alerts, Active Jobs, Job Definitions and so on. Control and Reporting Facility Migration is a three-part process which consists of the following. Part 1. Pre-installation planning and installation of Control and Immunversion 918, including Control and Automation API. Part 2. Migration of your old data and reports into Control and Reports, and about three job definition. You need to define a job using Automation API, and then update the Jobs and Control and Imclient using the command Defined in Automation API. Before installing version 918, we need to plan the migration by using the RF Jobs Analyzer Utility, which comes with the installation CD. The Utility generates a report which contains the following information, identification of hosts that run Reporting Facility, detailed information about each job that runs these reports which will need to be updated, and view general warnings about the migration process. To start the process, from the installation DVD, go to Setup, Underscore Files, Tools Reporting. Move to Reports, Underscore Jobs, Underscore Analyzer folder to a specific Control MEM server where we want to run the Utility. In this case, you will see we have moved it to the Desktop Reporting directory, but it can be anywhere on your EM server. Let's open a Kappan prompt. Go to the Reports, Underscore Jobs, Underscore Analyzer folder and type the following command. Run, Underscore RF, Underscore Jobs, Underscore Analyzer and press Enter. A summary appears on screen. To see the details of the report, open the text file, the location of which is mentioned here. Let's open the text file. In this example, you will see at the top of the report there is a general summary which shows we have two jobs running on the host. If we scroll down, you can see a breakdown of both jobs. The first job is a Control M OS job. You can see the job name, folder name and other details including the command which will need to be updated later. The second job is a Control M Reports job. Again, you can see the job details. Finally, note the general warnings. Need to check if there are OS jobs containing scripts which run EM Reports CLI. Let's remind for us that EM Reports CLI EXE is no longer supported. These two jobs need to be updated which we will deal with later. Now we can proceed with installation. The next step is to install Control MEM version 918. Ensure that we do not upgrade the Control M client running the EM Reports CLI EXE until the migration process has ended. Now we can proceed with the migration. The next step is to migrate reporting facility report definitions to the new Control M Reports. Need to run the EM Reports CONV CLI EXE utility. This utility converts existing reporting facility RPT files to Control M Reports JSON files. On the CD, go back to the same directory as before and this time move the report conversion CLI folder to the reporting facility client machine which we identified in the RF jobs and aligns utility report. You will see we have placed it in the reporting folder but it doesn't have to be in any particular location. Before we start, we need to find out where the RPT files are located. By default, the files are in EM installation, default, data, reporting and templates. We've also created a new file for the new reports, reporting conversion CLI, converted reports. Now let's convert the folders by running the utility. Go to the report conversion CLI folder and type the following. EM report CONV CLI.EXE-S source folder where the RPT files are located, hyphen D destination folder where the new files will be located. Press Enter. You can see both the Alert Sample Report and Job Definition Sample Report have been converted. There is also confirmation of the source and destination folders. To check, let's open the destination folder and you'll see both reports are now in the folder plus a report conversion summary. Let's open this file and you'll see details of the conversion. Now we can import those reports into CTRL-M reports. From the V918 client, open CTRL-M reports. Click report and then select load from file. Navigate to the converted reports folder. Firstly, select Alert Sample Report and click Open and then click Save. Review the contents and verify the output. Let's do the same for the Job Definition Sample Report. Select load from file, click Open and then click Save. Again, review the contents and verify the output. The reports have now been migrated into CTRL-M reports. As like any other report, you can edit, generate or delete the report as you wish. For more information, see CTRL-M reports online help. Part three, Job Definitions. In CTRL-M Client, the following job types no longer run. CTRL-M Report and OS Jobs running the EM Report CLI command. These jobs need to be updated by doing the following. Define a new command in Automation API. Ensure that you have already installed a configured Automation API before you start. For more information, see Automation API online help. Then you need to manually update the jobs in CTRL-M Client with the new command defined in Automation API. Let's define a job in Automation API. In this example, we have two reports that we have defined and want to run in Automation API. Alerts underscore sample underscore report and Job underscore definition underscore sample report. Let's start with the Alerts sample report. Open a command line and type the following. CTM reporting report, get. Then the name of the report we want to order, which is alert underscore sample underscore report. Then the report output format is PDF-O and the full name of the output file, which is C-Temp Alerts PDF. Press Enter, and you'll see the output has now been generated. Let's do the same for the Job definition sample report. Again, let's type CTM reporting report, get Job underscore definition underscore sample PDF-O C-Temp Job definition PDF, press Enter, and you'll see that Job definition output file has been generated. Now go to the temp file and we can see both files. Click Alerts file and then do the same for Job definition. The final step is to update report jobs and control them client. Open the client and you'll see we have two jobs that run reports that need to be updated. OS jobs running EM reports CLI, and this example runs the Job definition sample report and control them report job type, and this example runs the sample alerts report. For the OS job running the EM report CLI EXE, we need to update the command. So in the command field, delete the current command and replace it with the one defined in Automation API, which is CTM reporting report, get Job underscore definition underscore sample PDF-O C-Temp definition PDF, and then click OK. As the control them report job type doesn't run, we've created a new OS job type. Open the OS job type and you will see we have copied the details in the command line at the command that we defined in Automation API. CTM reporting report, get alerts sample report, PDF-O C-Temp alerts PDF, then click OK. You can then delete the control them report job type. You can edit or change any of the other definitions as usual, ensure that the environment where you run the new report jobs is set up correctly and has access to all the environmental variables required to run Automation API. Check in the jobs and then click order. Let's go to the monitoring domain and we can see that their jobs ended okay. This now concludes the migration process. For more information about reporting facility migration, see the reporting facility migration online help.


Kind of crazy, but I've been in a wild game before. While you play the full game, we had our chance of still at the end of the game, which was crazy. The way we started the game in the first half, but we fought back in the second half. We just can't start that slow. Yeah, what do you think led to that slow start in your words?  Their last five possessions, no touchdowns. Right, I mean, they were clicking. They were clicking. They came up for losses like I did. So they have the Super Bowl teams last year for a reason. They got some good players over there. But we did as well, but we just can't start that slow. It's tough to see everything exactly from our angle, but it looked like after they go up 28-3, it looked like Coach Pease might have kind of called everybody over. What was that message from him there? Just keep fighting, just keep fighting. You know, this is what you see a character. And the guys fought, we had some turnovers. We forced three turnovers, scored on special teams. So I just like the way we fought that. You mentioned turnovers, take us through your pick. Oh, man. Matt just tried to miss the ball, look to me. Give me a chance to get the ball. He came back to me like, man, I don't know what I was thinking. I was just trying to base play, man. I was playing against Matt so many times. It was my fourth time picking Matt, though. For real? But he scored on me a couple of times, just like he scored today. So we're kind of like even with himself. Just real quick, Tori, but with the way you guys built the lead last week, with the way you guys came back this week, what does it say about this team? I didn't say we need to finish. We need to find a way to finish the game. No matter we down or up, we got to find a way to finish the game. We got another opportunity next week against a good Seattle team. So we got to find a way to finish these games. And we will. No, again, going back to this team, still confidence in me and just the people I am during the day. And I love it. Drinking out, you probably got asked about it already. But to score your first touchdown to do it so close to your hometown where you play college ball, what does that mean? Yeah, that's amazing. It was really, really cool. I was going to touchdown right down the street. First time in the stadium. And I scored, so it's pretty cool. How do you describe the final eight minutes and 20-something seconds or so of this game? Crazy. It's real. It's a dog fight. That's what every week in the NFL is like. And I'm getting to learn that really, really quick. But it was fun and cool. You just got to pull it on. Come on. Thanks, Drake. Explain. There's something that will kind of sap there. That explains why I have got my ball thrown away. I just thought we'd find out how the people in this is not always designed to go to meet them. Arthur has said a couple of times when asked about your target. He's like, Kyle's doing a lot of things that doesn't necessarily mean receptions or catches that help us convert first down to whatever it may be. How do you see that? What are you doing that maybe fainting the ball and don't see it? Just being selfless. Because, like I said, the ball's not coming out. It didn't come out wings. But I may have had the block to help spring someone else open or run around to get somebody else open. So it's just selfless ball. Did you feel like you're up for more than just the ball is going to start coming away? It's something that you've got to go through. I don't mean to assign a weird way, but just like after a few games, you can add to that. I'm just wondering what your complex that was that's going to change. Oh, no, it's still hot. I mean, it's a lot of ball left. It's on the game, too. And like I said, it's a long season. You know, we'll bounce back. Oh, and you guys are down 25. You know, it couldn't be easy to not roll over, but kind of just play out this game. Was something said on the side? Does Marcus say something? Does Coach say something to kind of keep guys in? I mean, we never give up. That's not in our repertoire. So just fighting to the last whistle. That's what we are going on every day. That's what we did. What did you learn? I know nobody likes moral victories, whatever. What did you learn about this team from the way you guys played last week all but the very end and the way you guys played this week at the very end? Kind of the same as last week. You just need that one more play to get up at the hump. And I think it's kind of... Yeah, I mean, is there something I know you guys see the film and you guys got to get back to work, but is there something that is standing between you guys and getting that finish? I want to say it's anything specific. It's just small plays that may have changed in the game. Appreciate it, Kyle. Thank you, guys.