I have to Tiger knee that. Oh my god. Nice. How's he going everybody? Dato do it here back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighters Rank Matches. This time we're playing a suggested team of Vegito Blue, Goku Black, and Fuusamasu. And it's been a little while since I've played any of these characters, so I'm kind of just hoping that they're up to snuff. Oh, our defense is looking a little okay. Stagger pressure there. I'm just gonna be a Vegito main. Why not? I like the idea you just block all of that and then just put some lights. Get up in there with the face. Nice use of the dive. I was hoping she would just fall so I could get her to block. Or, I mean, if it hit, I wouldn't have been too... Alright, now here's the thing with my Zamasu, right? I have practiced like some good Zamasu stuff. Unfortunately, it's only... Oh, look at that! Look at that, dude! Like right there, right? That was not good. It was a while ago that I practiced. Basically was what I'm gonna say. Why did I keep bat? Yo, I was sliding across the stage. Alright. Oh, that was interesting. Okay, keep him down to M? No, he didn't down tech. But if he had, I would have looked like a genius. Now, if he kept throwing out beat... Keep blocking. Why did I stop blocking? I think I might have accidentally started keycharging as well. I don't know if that's what the animation was, but I did feel my finger go on not the buttons I would... I'm dead. I'm dead. I just... I just got caught by a low. It's done. It's not even gonna take three bars. It's gonna take a solid two and he chooses... Uh-oh. Goku GT in point. We're down a beam assist. And arguably the assist I would more want as the... Arguably the character I want to have the assist is out front. Let's change that. Spirit Sword. Alright, just keep it classic. Keep it nice and classic. Try to get the run up. I'm a light. Yeah, I got a mash. You know, if the saying is true, if there is a chance to mash, I have to mash. I don't even know how that hit. Alright, well, we don't even have to waste vanish right now. Just get him back in the corner. Oh, baby. What? I'm almost sure that that's what I usually do. Grant, that I probably could have worked something better out, but I thought that combo would hit for sure. Down tech. He's getting out, dude. He's getting out of the game early. Oh, we gotta bring back Trunks. That's way too much blue health. I won't be able to think about anything else. Also, we should probably spark now. Let's go. Wow, Goku GT. Thinking similar things to me.  I switched in the wrong person. Why did you stop blocking? Oh my god. What am I doing this version for? Oh, I did run out. No, how do I kill this person? Oh, no, no. There he is. Okay, that's not too bad. A vanish ain't too bad. He is going to try to change my future, which I'm not entirely comfortable with. Domasu, take him out. Look at it clashing with beams. Oh, that didn't work. Down heavy. How did that not work? Oh, I couldn't vanish off that. Oh, it's getting way too intense, dude. I'm not comfortable with this. Speaking of not being comfortable with this, I am going to have to get comfortable with the fact I'm spending three bucks. I could have spent one. That did so much damage. I didn't take into account scaling. I didn't take into account how much... Oh, look, because his health is so low, sparking is going to be pretty... The sparking health regeneration is going to be pretty negligent. Also block low. Oh my god. Oh, no techs, and that's the end of Vegeta. I'm not too concerned with losing Vegeta now, because Domasu has a decent bit of health on him, but he has to use two bars. The weaker character comes in, boys. If we can just outplay the neutral. What Domasu neutral look like? Domasu players, feed me some info. Oh, it definitely don't look like that. It definitely don't look like that either. That was supposed to be a quarter circle special. Okay, we're good. We're good. We're good. A well-timed super dash is always nice. Okay, Goku GT, this character is a menace. If I get tapped once, I'm pretty dead. Yeah, like that. Like that, dude. And he got a vana. He didn't get the property, though, which is interesting. He got the two. Oh my god.  And now he's going to deal with the mix. No blocks. No blocks, but does it truthfully matter to anybody, dude? Take this. Oh my god. We barely win. By the skin of our teeth, we won that match. Not the cleanest. We dropped a lot. Neutral was looking pretty whack. But, you know, we got a win, which is all that really matters on the PC version. We're trying to climb up the ranks. And it's the Super Sam blue. So the points are pretty negligible. Points are pretty negligible here, but we got to keep winning anyway. Yep. And I was super dashing like a menace that last set. I can't really be upset at that. I kind of just have to dial back the super dashes. I did that because I'm literally panning. Whoo. What are you doing? What are you doing now? Let me get this vanish and then just toss you back. Oh, dude, you got out. Damn. I didn't want to go full lights. I did want to send out that second one. Maybe a little bit faster than that. My only regret is that I switched out into it too heavy. That's a 2-H, not the best strat. Oh, why am I switching? Thomas, I'm sorry you got snapped there, buddy. I'm more sorry for Vigito, though. All right, let me try to take out it.  Dragon run. I know you got the instinct to... What? How did we not win that? I thought for sure that was our turn.  He has to go for 2. They didn't get it. The works got free in my book. That was mad nice. It only made sense for him to go with what you called there. I should have won with level three. Didn't think I'd get the bar. I mostly was doing it for the switch up, though. Oh, come on. That would have been nice. Got him, dude. He disrespected the rage. He was like, let me just click a little bit of buttons anyway, because what's the worst that could happen?   You're getting blown up from that range by go... You know what? Let me be a Goku Blackler. It doesn't work out for all of us. Life ain't bright for all of us. Also, I got to get my beam assist out. Maybe not with a character that dies upon first impact. Probably not the best idea. And Goku Black, bring it back, buddy. The camera wants to see more of you. Let me take the stage front and center. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Barely blocked it. 6M barely blocked that as well. Puget, don't mix me. Didn't mean for that to rhyme. Please don't judge me for that rhyming. I know you're not supposed to level three down here, but whatever. I'll do it. Do it for the mix. Oh, it's too heavy. It would have been so sick. We should spark as well. We should spark as well for sure, for sure, for sure. For sure. Why? This is bizarre. Why the knockdown? Oh, because he wants to kill. Wow, I did not have a lot of health. What the? I got him. That might be death. Yup, that's looking a little deathy. Might have wasted that. I hate myself. I hate myself. It's the other super. Oh, it's the other. All right. It's not over. It's not over. Zamasu was in this situation last time. It's the other super. Oh, no. How did I forget? I literally was like, and now for the orb. Or if you're wondering why I did that, because I forgot I didn't have air heavy in the air is what I'm talking about with Zamasu. I was sick though. Oh, that was nice. I got the tiger knee that. Oh my God. Nice. I didn't even know she could throw it up like that. I don't think I've ever been hit by that. I don't think so. Anyway, let's be real. It could have happened a while ago. That shouldn't have hit game. If you want my personal opinion, none of that should happen, but let's get it. Zamasu. Let's go, dude. None of that should have happened. Less wild. PC version is just cheating. Nobody knows what's going to happen on the Wild West PC version. Also, it's only been two matches and it's been going for a while. So let's try to make this a clean three.   Not too much. Nothing to write home about. But just enough to get me going with black. Send them down. Keep them there. Ah, that's a death. That's death already. Slicer.  I might put time into learning and dude, it's been a while. The Goku Black hype has long died down, but maybe it's time for me to pick them up. Oh God, don't prove me wrong already, man. I love this move so much. I'm so glad that's what they decided to buff. Get me away from this menace. All right, going up. Man, why is Goku GT so scary in this game? He's just absolutely wild. It lags pretty bad there. I don't know if you saw that. I didn't even have words for it. And I messed that up. So whatever, sliding here we come. I don't see any need to switch them out now. Wow, what a whiff. Okay, that's good. Oh, follow up. Super Dash. He knew I was whiffing that. And I also didn't get the Super Dash out in time myself. We are falling below the sparking line, which means we can be taken out by three bars. That's only if there you go. Oh, I tried to down heavy him. They didn't work out in this game is actually pretty even. It went from having a decent lead to now he pops bark. So we just kind of have to defend a little. Okay, come on, dude. Oh, we had it. We had it. This guy really likes using extinguishing his assist with six ends and then going in for the Dragon Rush. That's I know people are like, damn, he never text Dragon Rush.  Fuck. Okay, I can't do it. I couldn't do it. I think we're also maybe no, we're not dead. We're probably going to die though. It was almost a reset. Boom. He exit. Oh, no, I don't want this character out. I need him for sparking. I guess we could just always spark level two sparking into worse. Is he gonna snap? Oh, he heard my prayers. Oh, no, I don't think he heard my prayers at all. I think he's just a menace. I backdash too much this set. I might I should have mastered actually good adaptation on his part though. And now the long journey to a comeback begins. And it's a long one. I told you it's a long one. Never mind. Never mind. We just get we got a big massive step up there. Guard cancels were Oh my God, in the clutch, the frame has entered the building. It has said enough fun fun has been detected and will be terminated on site. Oh, no, dial it back. This is why I try to I this is a yellow bar on PC. I try to stick the greens on here because let's just say the bars on here are much, um, oh, no, the bars on here are much more drastic than on ps4. Thank God. Oh, keep the damage. Oh, no. All right, we got him. We got him. We got him. Wrap it up. Call it a day. The frames did calm down eventually. Dude, every storm passes. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. It was kind of a weird one. There's a lot more chill. Maybe that's on me because it is super late where I am at. And I don't really know too many intense combos with this team. Zamasu, I actually do know some stuff, but mostly with different assists. You know the ones. Yamcha Super Saiyan Goku. But regardless, I do hope you guys enjoyed it, especially the guy that suggested this scene. Seriously, dude, thank you for the suggestion. And if you have any suggestions of your own, feel free to leave them down below in the comments. And while you're down there, leave a like and subscribe if you did enjoy the video. Other than that, if you want to watch some more videos right away, there should be some up on your screen. So give those a watch if any of them catch your eye. I have been Dr. Doia. Thanks again for watching to the end of this video, and I will see you in the next one.


Hello, good evening everyone. I hope you are all doing well. I am sitting at the moment trying to my best to ignore what I can only describe as a travesty. Travesty that's taking place in Washington at the moment. Where a couple of woke warriors are being sworn in as fake president and vice president of the United States. I am not going to watch, I haven't watched a minute of it. I refuse to participate in this travesty, I refuse. But I did have a quick glance on Twitter just before I came on and I could see some video clips flying around and the celebrities are all lining up as you would expect. It's genuinely nauseating, nauseating. So we are going to have a woke puppet in the United States in the White House and he is already pledging to undo what the sanity that Trump had brought. He's going to be a complete front man for the climate change, nonsense, the not the real environmental issues of course, not pollution or anything real. I mean we talk about pollution, we have to look at China. The world's most vile polluter and he's not going to. He's going to be a puppet for that, he's going to be a puppet for the Black Lives Matter, Communist violence. A puppet for the insane trans agenda here, he's already planning on letting every Tom Dick and Harry into women's dressing rooms. And he's going to stop the wall and allow the southern border of the United States to open again and encourage illegal immigration and lawful behaviour in other words. Completely transforming the United States into something completely different. Now I'm on a telegram page with the people that I met when I went to Long Island a lifetime ago and it's interesting actually to watch them talk to each other. And a couple of, it's a mixture, a mixture of feelings among them. They are somewhat devastated because their rightful president has been stolen from them but there's even talk of breakaway states and I think there's an awareness that their guns are going to be an early target of a Biden White House and a lot of states just won't take that, they won't put up with it. So you're going to have potentially a lot of trouble in America in the coming couple of years. But woke is what we're going to get. Further censorship, further smearing, further alienation of anyone who won't go along with the woke tyranny. And what can you call it? Other than socialism, communism. Identity politics is going to come to the forefront. We'll have anti-white sentiments. I don't know whether they'll continue to call it the White House. We'll see. But that's what we're getting. That's what we're getting in America and I've no doubt that the Chinese Communist Party are having a wonderful time today because they had one opponent to their tyranny. Speaking of China, their economy grew in 2020. Can you believe that? Isn't that absolutely sickening? They have had no blame for this disease that they have unleashed upon the world and I looked at pandemics from the past and it seems to me that almost all of them, I would say all of them but I don't want to be factually incorrect so I'm going to go with almost all of them, come from China. And even the Black Plague, going back that far, even the Black Plague is believed to have originated in China. And there was a documentary on last night which I was going to watch and I sat down to watch it and I couldn't watch it because it showed the wet markets and the animals in the cages and I thought I'm not looking at this. I can't bear to look at this. But in any case, even if it wasn't for showing images of animals trapped in these tiny cages in these disgusting wet markets, I still wouldn't have watched it because you could tell from the first few minutes that there was going to be no responsibility by China. No one was going to say anything negative about China despite the fact that it unleashed this on the world.  And speaking of flatlining, today I'm reading that there's talk of this vaccine not being as effective as they thought it was. And when the politicians start to admit this and start to talk like this, then you know where we're going with this. This was, according to them, the light at the end of the tunnel. This was our way out of our lockdowns and now they're starting to say it's not effective. So this is the light at the end of the tunnel. It's no longer the light at the end of the tunnel. And what that means is they're taking away once again. They keep moving the goalposts. They keep telling us one thing on Monday and other thing on Tuesday and something else on Wednesday. And now the savior vaccine is no longer a savior. So you know where they're going with this. Then we're hearing that it'll be at least Easter before they can begin to lift restrictions. We could be looking at another year of this. And I have to say most days I manage to keep myself quite uplifted and quite, you know, there's no point in letting this stuff drag you down. You've got to find a way to stay positive, to stay optimistic or else what's you just give in, don't you? But I have to say today, I don't know whether it's the weather. It probably doesn't help. It is raining, raining, here in the northeast. So much so that I can't even walk the dogs. My dogs won't go out in the rain, little princesses. So one of the things that keeps me sane throughout lockdown is going for nice long walks with the dogs. But it has been raining for days. So that's out the window as well. So pretty tough, pretty tough day. Lockdown, still no end in sight. Weather is awful. And to top it off, you have a video clip, which I wish I hadn't seen as I was rummaging around Twitter. But I did, of Jennifer Lopez at the inauguration crying. Poor Jennifer Lopez. Such an emotional time for her. I mean, I could cry as well, but for very different reasons. But I won't. I refuse to refuse. I refuse to let it drag me down. I absolutely do. So I have done something I do regularly, which is retreat into either into work or to books. So that's what I've been doing today. I managed to get out of the house once today to the post office. Mia, your book is on its way. I'm so sorry. And to my mother, if you're watching, your Christmas present is also on its way. I was told not to send them before Christmas. The lady in the post office said, look, this is going to cost you a fortune to send. And it probably won't even get there. So if I were you, I'd wait because I'd packed up this box of presents for my family. I was all excited about it. And she said, if I were you, I'd wait until after Christmas and send them over separately. And so that's basically what I've decided to do in the hope that they'll get there. But one other thing I did do today, and I was wrong when I said I only went to the post office today. One other thing I did do today was go to my lovely, lovely gray hands. I spent the morning with my gray hands this morning. They're not my gray hands, but I'm calling them my gray hands. I've completely fallen in love with these dogs. They are beautiful, beautiful animals. They're gentle little souls and very playful. And we'd, after we'd cleaned out the kennels, it was time to take them out for a bit of a run. And it's, it's, it's a sight. It really is. You bring, there's this long sort of track thing that they run up and down. And when they realize you're taking them there, they get all excited and they're pulling on the, on the lead. And as soon as you take this thing off their necks, they are gone. The speed of them is incredible. And they love it. They absolutely love it. You can see this freedom in them. And they're, they're so fast. And they're, you can just, their ears are back and it's, freedom is the word that springs to mind. And I was looking at them and they came back home to lockdown, to miserable weather. And I thought, at this time, those, the gray hands are freer than we are. Now they may live in kennels, but their instinct, their love, their joy, where they get their energy from is running.  Whereas we have to sit in the house looking at the rain or worse, looking at Joe Biden getting sworn into the White House, which I didn't look at. I'm not going to, as I said, not, not going to engage with it. I was flicking, I don't watch television, television. I don't watch, certainly don't watch a great deal of it. I will watch the odd bit of Netflix or the odd documentary on, on YouTube. But today I was in order, I just flicking, flicking around the telly. And I came across an episode of friends. And I watched an episode of friends, well, almost a full episode of friends. Memories in that one is quite funny. It is quite funny. It's a little bit data, I think now. But it is quite funny. I'd forgotten how funny that was. That was quite enjoyable. But otherwise, I have been either working or reading. And I want to just say to Lawrence as well. And Lawrence, if you're watching, thank you for sending me this, because I'm doing a little bit of work on the changes that I'm going to make to the manifesto at the end of the month. And Lawrence sent me these pages of brilliant policy ideas and things. So I've been having a little bit of a read through those today. And trying my best not to think about the things we ought not to let drag us down. So what, what did I mention last week? Oh, yes. I mentioned that I was going to do some learning about art, or at least try to. So I've got this book that teaches you how to read art, some of the great western artists. And the first one was The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. A painting I'm familiar with, not overly familiar with. And, yeah, I've read about this, this painting, interesting, a little bit pretentious, I thought. But interesting. And then at the end of it, it said this, this painting is currently held in a museum in Vienna in Austria. And I thought, well, won't be seeing that won't be seeing Vienna, I've never been to Vienna, actually, but won't be going anywhere to see anything. And at the end of it, he talks about next time you're in a gallery, I hope that this book will be able to sort of expand your thinking when you go, next time you go to an art gallery, and you can look at the painting and see beneath the layers and all this sort of stuff. And I thought, remember art gallery, remember art going out. It really is very tough. It really is very tough. And I don't think we pay enough attention to how psychologically difficult it is for us to be deprived of just about everything, just about everything. I haven't seen family in a long time since Christmas 2019. I haven't seen my mother or any of my other, any of my siblings, or any other family, actually. Lots of friends I haven't seen in a long time. I really, really miss the party members. I miss going to meetings. I miss meeting with people. I miss going out. I miss going to just anywhere really. And I'm not a great one for shopping. But we can't even do that. It's asda and back. That's that's the extent of life at the moment and has been for some time. We had a little sliver of life back for a few months. But that was soon gone. And I think and I don't want to I don't want to get glum about things. But I do think it's important that we mention and take into account just how psychologically, mentally, emotionally, draining and difficult this really, really is. We are being deprived of life. And I have to say as well, these face masks, I find them really, really difficult. I'm really struggling with them. I struggle to I'm not I mean, there's nothing wrong with me. I don't have any health problems. But I'm finding these things and I have basically these this is the this is all I've managed to stretch to these things here. And I've noticed that unlike the first time, it's gotten very you've got it's gotten very strict. You've got people at the at the doorway going into the only place we go now, which is supermarket to get some food. They're not letting you in unless you have your face covered. And this is the this is what I have taken to wearing. And I'm finding it really difficult. I went to the to bring the to bring Jenny to the vet yesterday. She's got a little infection in her gels. And so to bring her to the vet yesterday, and I was more than half an hour waiting in the waiting room. And of course, there are no seats in the waiting room, because heaven forbid, we should be able to sit down and you have marks on the floor and where people can stand. And we're all standing good distance away from each other. And I stand there for over half an hour standing there, waiting to get into the vet with this thing on my face. And by the end of it, I just I felt I had a headache that I can't. I'm really struggling with these face masks. This is and you're struggling with it for it's for so many ways. I like, I like smiling. I like, I like, I like to, you know, if you meet someone you like to smile. And I like to see a smile. And you know, but these are basic human things. I was talking to David Vance recently on his his live stream. And he was telling me about his young grand, he's got a new granddaughter. And you know, the people, her introduction to the world is to see people with their faces covered in these masks. And I'm seeing them also thrown around and strewn around the place. And it's, it's disgusting, actually. It's, it's to me, medical waste thrown around the streets. It's pretty disgusting. But as David was telling me his granddaughter, her introduction to the world, you know, if they take her out for a walk, and they see people, this small child is locking up.  This child's introduction to the world is covered faces. Now I've heard about, I haven't read it yet, but I'm going to cover it. I might actually cover it this week on the book review. I was going to cover something else, but I think I'll do this instead. However, of course it risks getting me thrown off YouTube, which I don't want to do. But Vernon Coleman has written a PDF, which he says he will prove that masks do more harm than God. So I really, I really want to read that because to me it rings true. Not just for social issues, but for medical, for basic health reasons. None of this makes any sense to me. And I am actually struggling with wearing these things. And I avoided wearing them for as long as possible, but you just, you can't go buy food. And I couldn't take Jenny to the vet. If I hadn't got this thing on my face, it is difficult. It really, really is difficult. But I'm going to try and cheer myself up a little bit now. I'm going to, in what time is it? It's 20 past five, so at seven o'clock, I'm doing Wake Up UK this evening. And I'm going to be talking about something I haven't talked about for a while, which is Halal. And I've got a guest on who is a ardent, ardent opponent of Halal. So for a break from the disaster in Washington DC, the disaster that is locked down, we will talk about something else for someone that's hardly cheerful, is it Halal? But let's not forget about these things either. So I've got that at seven o'clock. In the meantime, I will have some dinner, do a little bit, so 20 minutes or so of meditation. One of the things that is keeping me sane, I have to say, or relatively sane, is meditation. I don't know where I would be without it, especially now that I'm not able to walk the dogs in this weather. But there is something that, also that I mentioned last week, which has cheered me off a bit today. And I'm very, very lucky. I'm very lucky anyway. And I do feel very lucky, and I do feel very blessed with my life. And this is this thing that I mentioned to you last week, which I was going to go through this book, The Art of Japanese Living. And I find Japan and Japanese culture absolutely fascinating. I always, always have. So I started it today. And I'm going to, every week on this stream, I'm going to take you through chapters of it. And the chapter that I read this morning, now I don't, I was meant, I meant to Google this to see how to pronounce it before I came on here and talked about it. But I didn't, I forgot. So I'm going to have to mispronounce it. And if there are any Japanese people watching, my apologies. Please correct me if I'm pronouncing this wrong, which I no doubt I am. Ikegai, Ikegai. I'll show you the spelling. You're Ikegai. So what Ikegai is, is the sense of purpose in our lives. Something that makes us happy and makes our lives feel full. Something that spurs us to get out of bed in the morning. The Japanese have a word for this feeling of purpose, Ikegai, which translates roughly as a reason, a reason for living. It's a core belief of feeling that characterizes who you are and what's most important to you. And it goes on to say, how do you find your Ikegai? And part of a way to find it is, all of the questions would be, what would you do if money was no issue to you? What would you, what is it that gets your heart beating faster? What is it that you get your energy from? A little bit like the Greyhounds get their energy from running up and down the track. So what is it? And one of the questions that jumped out at me is, what could you do if you could do anything? And I realized that I'm already doing it. And that actually, like I say, that cheers me up no end. It really does because I feel very, very lucky. Now the thing, the question, one of the questions was, what would you do if money was no object? I've never ever been motivated by money. And I'm not trying to sound like a saint. I just haven't. I've never wanted to be rich. I want a warm, nice, cozy place to live, a car to drive. And that's pretty much it for me. I've never, never, ever wanted to be rich. But even if, even if I was, and I'm not, believe me, even if I was, this is still what I would do. I would do what I do. I say all the time, you know, particularly when people are feeling down and feeling hopeless and with the situation that we have it, that we're up against liars and cheats and we are. Well, first of all, a quick point on that, are liars and cheats strong or are they weak? The answer to that, to me, is obvious. They're weak. If you were strong, you wouldn't have to lie and you wouldn't have to cheat. So let's just, you know, if you look at the, the, the Biden and Trump situation, they do lie and they, the press, social media, the Democrats, that awful rotten Pelosi, they're lying, lying about Donald Trump. He did not incite violence. Democrats, on the other hand, have done with Black Lives Matter and all these other communist agitators who've been burning down cities all over America for months and months. Anyone who has to lie is not strong. These people are not strong. They're weak. Strength isn't telling the truth. And I really do believe that. But I say to people when, when they're feeling hopeless and there's no point in doing this, look, even if you're, even if you were going to lose, and I don't think we are, even if you were going to lose, surely the fight is still worth it. Surely to make your mark, to mean something, to do something meaningful and worthwhile with your five minutes on this planet is worth it for its own sake. Stand up to these people for its own sake. That's what I'm doing. I refuse to do nothing. No matter how much more powerful they seem, I refuse to do nothing up against these liars and these cheats. I stand up for the sake of standing up for life's purpose because life must have a purpose. And I am absolutely blessed in so many ways. But I'm blessed and in reading this Ika guy, I realize again how blessed I am to be able to devote my life, my energy, my time to something I really, really believe in. And if I had millions of pounds in the bank, I don't. If I had millions of pounds in the bank, I would still do every single thing that I'm doing now. That makes me blessed. I'm very, very lucky. Okay, I'm going to have to get ready for my stream at seven o'clock. I've just seen a message come in from Simon. Hi, Simon. I hope you're doing well. So, the Biden inauguration was painful to watch. Basically, it's a Disney production. That's such a good description. Biden said something about unifying all Americans, just like every president says in their inauguration speeches. Then he said, feigned some patriotic stuff that sounds weird and insincere to win over the Trump supporters, I suppose. He chucked in lots of social justice, racial inequality, white supremacists, blah, blah, blah, because Democrats are addicted to it. Yep. Yep. Painful. Painful is the only words. My favorite parody on social media, my greatest parody of all time, the fantastic, wonderful Titania is no longer a parody. Titania McGrath is now in the White House. And they'll do all they can to keep it that way. Okay, so I'm going to end with my quotes, the three inspirational quotes that will, to cheer us all up, I hope. Round number 18. Now, there are 100, just to let you know again what I'm reading from when I do this. It's a book, Words of Wisdom, inspirational quotes and thoughts on optimism. And Mark Recklow is the author. And actually, I've picked up a few of his books lately. They're excellent. It's Recklow's pronounced or spelled R-E-K-L-A-U. I get all these on Kindle Unlimited, by the way. His books are really, really great. He's a lovely, lovely writer. And I've got currently, currently, one, two, three, no, yep, four. I've currently got four of his books sitting on my Kindle. That is really, really good. So these Words of Wisdoms, let's get on with number 18. This, the next few focus on what really does make me feel a great deal better in the midst of all this gloom. And I know it's hard, but that's really when you need it most, when it's hard. When it's hard to find things to be happy about, that's when you most need to find things to be happy about. So I've focused a lot on things that I have to be grateful for. When things are as gloomy as they are. So number 18. Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency and you will attract much better things. That's Rhonda Bond. She's the author, I hope I might read this, of The Secret and those other books that followed on from it. I think The Secret is a good book. I read it years ago. I like it. I don't know what people think of it, but I like it. I probably can't remember it wholeheartedly or by heart. But it is essentially what I've been talking about for months on this stream, you know, gratitude, belief, optimism, etc.  Okay, let me read the accompanying script. Gratitude is without a doubt one of the most powerful forces of the universe. And I've gone through this in some detail and even medicine and science now is starting to agree with that and understand that. And I've read medical journals which emphasise or talk about the importance of gratitude in helping mental health but also physical health. It's also good for the immune system. It's good for the heart. It's good for you. And yes, if you count your blessings, you will see or attract more things to be grateful for because what you concentrate on, you'll see more of. The benefits of writing down three things you are grateful for are countless. It's even scientifically proven that that attitude of gratitude leads to increased optimism, increased happiness, better sleep and better relationships. Grateful people are also less prone to depression or anxiety. If gratitude came in pill form, we'd all run to get it. Yet we can have all these benefits, simply sitting down for a couple of minutes every day and counting our blessings. I cannot recommend that enough. I've been doing that for years now, writing down things that I'm grateful for. Next one. A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. That's Confucius. Actions speak louder than words.  If you want to impress people, stop talking so much about what you're going to do and start doing it. Let your actions and results do the talking. Don't brag about how generous you are but donate to charity. Don't talk about what a great spouse, daughter or son you are but be one. Don't tell your boss what a great worker you are but let your work and your numbers speak for themselves. This is so, so true. Some bosses can't see you a great job so you may have to brag about it but that's the exception of the rule. Be modest in your speech and generous in your actions. That reminds me of one of my absolutely brilliant quote of if you have to say you are, you aren't. Now you'll find that people who do a lot of talking, a lot of boasting are often the people with the least to boast about. I find and I also find that if you are what you say you are then you don't need to boast about it. People will see it for themselves and you will also not come across as a, nobody likes a boaster. Do they? I mean have some common sense. Do you want people to like you or not? And if you are going around boasting about how wonderful you are, A, it rings hollow and B, no one likes it. If you have to say you are, you aren't. Okay, final one.  I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get done in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them. George Bernard Shaw. Circumstances are overrated. We often use our circumstances as an excuse for not getting something or even worse not even trying. It is scientifically proven that our outside circumstances make up only 10% of our lives and happiness. Where we live, where we are from and who we are with only have a small influence on what we make of our lives. So you have two choices. You can complain about your circumstances and not do anything or you can go out and make your own circumstances. If you look at successful people that's what they did and you can do it too. Look to the people who are where you want to go. Look at how they made their circumstances and then do the same. I really do love these. I really do. And I find that they cheer me up now and on days like this when there's little to be cheerful about on the outside world in the world out there which sometimes I think has gone completely mad. Try and keep yourself saying in your own world, your own little world in here. Okay I'm going to dash because I've got to get some dinner, do a little bit of meditation and get myself ready for my stream. Wake up UK at seven o'clock this evening. Thank you for joining me on this. I do enjoy doing this stream and thanks to everyone for watching. I shall see you on a little bit more of a we're going to go back to the not so positive stuff. I've been seeing a lot about what previous years when we had NHS beds at the NHS is at breaking point crisis in the NHS, NHS is running out of beds and these are going back years. And the rhetoric from the press for these on these stories is pretty similar to what we're hearing now. So what I want to do for my live stream, my work live stream next week, next Monday is gather together articles that from years past where we've had influenza crisis killing up to 12,000 people a week where we've had NHS beds crisis and by the way we've lost about 17,000 beds from the NHS in the last decade. That doesn't seem to be being mentioned either. So I want to talk about that on my and rather more serious work live stream next week. Okay. Thanks everyone for joining me. Have a nice evening. Try not to get bugged down in the travesty in Washington or the travesty here in the UK or any of the other travesties. Try and have a nice evening. I shall see you all very soon. Take care of yourselves and I mean that.


Bartolo Cologne you pitched against him that was your first MLB star you were five years old when he made his major league debut Did you collect his baseball cards or or anything like that when you're little? I'm sure I had his card at one point Yeah, but I'm sure it like all the other stuff that I had as a kid got messed up So yeah, that's that's a funny fact that I read after the game and it was kind of crazy to think about that five years old It's nuts You retweeted a video of Jose Ramirez playing a virtual video game. Would you ever get into that kind of stuff? I mean, I'd try it. Yeah, for sure, but I couldn't sit there and do it every day. That was a funny video. I Couldn't stop laughing You like to retweet a lot of people can we expect more tweets from you or Instagram posts? I'll try and tweet some more for you. Just just to just to make you happy Will Carlos ever get his own Instagram account Yes, I think he might actually already have it almost positive that he already does So you gotta be the next big French Bulldog on Instagram you think? Well, I don't know he could be We've seen your jumping skills You get up pretty high. Can you dunk a basketball easily? I can yes It's not hard because I can do it two hands off of one foot a little easier for me But I can do it for two feet You got a nice looking truck is that your baby? It is my baby, but you know in baseball It's kind of hard to to stay in touch with her when you're going back and forth from place to place all the time So she is my baby and she's at home parked in the garage at the apartment in Salt Lake City We've seen some hiking photos of you online. Are you big-time hiker? No, but my girl is so I kind of have to do it sometimes when when we have some off-time because she deals with you Know my time-consuming season. So she wants to go hiking one day I'll sacrifice a little time and a couple legs to go hiking. So it's not my first thing I'd pick to do it all you know, I don't even like driving, but I'll go I'll go walk around in a mountain for If you could add one event to the all-star game That's like the Homer and Derby. Do you have one and it could be anything? Let's do pump pass and kick competition Football, you know just throw something different in there. You got some football background, too I feel like you'd be pretty good in that. Yeah, I like pump pass and kick competitions I do they're fun If you could ask anybody a question and you're guaranteed a yes What would the question be and who would you ask it to? Oh Man, I would probably ask John Carlos Stanton for his contract


The CUBE presents KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, brought to you by Red Hat, the CloudNative Computing Foundation and its ecosystem partners. Welcome to, but let's say Spain, and we're at KubeCon, CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. I'm Keith Townsend, and my co-host, Enrico, senior at, Enrico's really proud of me. I've called him Enrico, instead of Enrique, every session. Senior IT analyst, GigaOwn. We're talking to fantastic builders at KubeCon, CloudNativeCon, about the projects and the efforts. Enrico, up to this point, it's been all about provisioning insecurity. What conversation have we been missing? Well, I mean, I think that we passed the point of having the conversation of deployment, of provisioning. You know, everybody is very skilled. Actually, everything is done at day two. They are discovering that, well, there is a security problem, there is an observability problem. And in fact, we are meeting with a lot of people and there are a lot of conversation with people really needing to understand what is happening in their classroom. Why it is happening and all the questions that come with it. And the more I talk with people in the show floor here, or even in the various sessions, it's about, you know, we are growing. So our clusters are becoming bigger and bigger. Applications are becoming, you know, bigger as well. So we need to understand better what is happening. This is not only, you know, about cost. It's also about everything at the end. So I think that's a great setup for our guest Max Provo, founder and CEO of StormForge and Patrick Brinkstrom. Berkstrom. Berkstrom. I spelled it right, I didn't say it right, Berkstrom. CTO. We're at QCon, CloudNativeCon, where projects are discussed, built, and StormForge, I've heard the pitch before, so forgive me. And I'm kind of torn. I have service mesh. Why do I need more? Like what problem is StormForge solving? You want to take it? Sure, absolutely. So it's interesting because my background is in the enterprise, right? I was an executive at UnitedHealth Group. Before that I worked at Best Buy. And one of the issues that we always had was, especially as you migrate to the cloud, it seems like the CPU dial or the memory dial is your reliability dial. So it's like, oh, I just turned that all the way to the right and everything's hunky-dory, right? But then we run into the issue, like you and I were just talking about where it gets very, very expensive very quickly. And so my first conversations with Matt and the StormForge group and they were telling me about the product and what we're dealing with, I said, that is the problem statement that I have always struggled with and I wish this existed 10 years ago when I was dealing with EC2 costs, right? And now with Kubernetes it's the same thing, it's so easy to provision. So realistically what it is, is we take your raw telemetry data and we essentially monitor the performance of your application and then we can tell you, using our machine learning algorithms, the exact configuration that you should be using for your application to achieve the results that you're looking for without over-provisioning. So we reduce your consumption of CPU, of memory and production, which ultimately, nine times out of 10, actually I would say 10 out of 10, reduces your cost significantly without sacrificing reliability. So can your solution also help to optimize the application in the long run? Because yes, of course, the low-hanging fruit is optimize the deployment. But actually the long term is optimizing the application, which is the real problem. So we actually, we're fine with the former of what you just said, but we exist to do the latter. And so we're squarely and completely focused at the application layer. We are, as long as you can track or understand the metrics you care about for your application, we can optimize against it. We love that we don't know your application, we don't know what the SLA and SLO requirements are for your app, you do. And so in our world, it's about empowering the developer into the process, not automating them out of it. And I think sometimes AI and machine learning sort of gets a bad rap from that standpoint. And so we've, at this point, the company's been around since 2016, kind of from the very early days of Kubernetes. We've always been squarely focused on Kubernetes, using our core machine learning engine to optimize metrics at the application layer that people care about and need to go after. And the truth of the matter is today, and over time, setting a cluster up on Kubernetes has largely been solved. And yet, the promise of Kubernetes around portability and flexibility downstream when you operationalize, the complexity smacks you in the face. And that's where StormForge comes in. And so we're a vertical, kind of vertically oriented solution that's absolutely focused on solving that problem. Well, I don't want to play, actually, I want to play the devil's advocate here. And, you know... You wouldn't be a good analyst if you didn't. So the problem is, when you talk with clients, users, there are many of them still working with Java, with something that is really tough. I mean, we loved, all of us love Java. Yeah, maybe 20 years ago, yeah, but not anymore. But still, they have developers, they are porting applications, microservices, yes, but not very optimized, et cetera, et cetera. So it's becoming tough. So how you can interact with this kind of old hybrid, or anyway, not well engineered applications? Yeah, we do that today. We actually, part of our platform is we offer performance testing in a lower environment and stage. And like Matt was saying, we can use any metric that you care about, and we can work with any configuration for that application. So the perfect example is Java.  And one of the things that really struck me very early on about the StormForge product is because it is true machine learning, you remove the human bias from that. So like a lot of what I did in the past, especially around SRE and performance tuning, we were only as good as our humans were because of what they knew. And so we kind of got stuck in these paths of making the same configuration adjustments, making the same changes to the application, hoping for different results. But then when you apply machine learning capability to that, the machine will recommend things you never would have dreamed of. And you get amazing results out of that. So both me and Enrico have been doing this for a long time. Like I have battled to my last breath, the argument when it's a bare metal or a VM, look, I cannot give you any more memory. And the argument going all the way up to the CIO and the CIO basically saying, you know what, Keith, you're cheap, my developer resource is expensive, my are bigger box. Buying a bigger box in the cloud to your point is no longer a option because it's just expensive. Talk to me about the carrot or the stick as developers are realizing that they have to be more responsible. Where's the culture change coming from? Is it the shift in responsibility? I think the center of the bullseye for us is within those sets of decisions, not in a static way, but on an ongoing way, especially as the development of applications becomes more and more rapid in the management of them, our charge and our belief wholeheartedly is that you shouldn't have to choose. You should not have to choose between cost or performance. You should not have to choose where your applications live in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment. And so we want to empower people to be able to sit in the middle of all of that chaos and for those trade-offs and those difficult interactions to no longer be a thing. We're at a place now where we've done hundreds of deployments and never once have we met a developer who said, I'm really excited to get out of bed and come to work every day and manually tune my application. One side. Secondly, we've never met a manager or someone with budget that said, please don't increase the value of my investment that I've made to lift and shift us over to the cloud or to Kubernetes or some combination of both. And so what we're seeing is the converging of these groups at their happy place is the lack of needing to be able to make those trade-offs. And that's been exciting for us. So I'm listening and it looks like your solution is right in the middle in application performance, management, observability, and monitoring. So it's a little bit of all of this. So we want to be the intel inside of all of that. We often get lumped into one of those categories. These used to be APM a lot. We sometimes get, are you observability? And we're really not any of those things in and of themselves, but we instead have invested in deep integrations and partnerships with a lot of that tooling because in a lot of ways the tool chain is hardening in a cloud native and in Kubernetes world. And so integrating in intelligently, staying focused and great at what we solve for, but then seamlessly partnering and not requiring switching for our users who have already invested likely in a APM or observability. So to go a little bit deeper, what does it mean integration? I mean, do you provide data to this, other applications in the environment or are they supporting you in the world that you do? Yeah, we're a data consumer for the most part. In fact, one of our big taglines is take your observability and turn it into actionability. Like how do you take, it's one thing to collect all of the data, but then how do you know what to do with it? So to Matt's point, we integrate with folks like Datadog. We integrate with Prometheus today. So we want to collect that telemetry data and then do something useful with it for you. But also we want Datadog customers, for example. We have a very close partnership with Datadog so that in your existing Datadog dashboard now you have the StormForge capability showing up in the same location. So you don't have to switch out. So I was just going to ask, is it a push pool? What is the developer experience? When you say you provide developer this, resolve ML learnings about performance, how do they receive it? Like what's the developer experience? They can receive it. So we have our own, we used to, for a while we were CLI only, like any good developer tool. And we have our own UI. And so it is a push in a lot of cases where I can come to one spot. I've got my applications and every time I'm going to release or plan for a release, or I have released and I want to take, pull in observability data from a production standpoint. I can visualize all of that within the StormForge UI and platform, make decisions. We allow you to set your kind of comfort level of automation that you're okay with. You can be completely set and forget or you can be somewhere along that spectrum. And you can say as long as it's within these thresholds, go ahead and release the application or go ahead and apply the configuration. But we also allow you to experience the same, a lot of the same functionality right now in Grafana and Datadog and a bunch of others that are coming. So I talked to Tim Crawford who talks to a lot of CIOs. And he's saying one of the biggest challenges or if not one of the biggest challenges CIOs are facing are resource constraints. They cannot find the developers to begin with to get this feedback. How are you hoping to address this biggest pain point for CIOs? Yeah, developers. Yeah, absolutely. So like my background, like I said at UnitedHealth Group, right? It's not always just about cost savings. In fact, the way that I look at some of these tech challenges, especially when we talk about scalability, there's kind of three pillars that I consider, right? There's the tech scalability, how am I solving those challenges? There's the financial piece because you can only throw money at a problem for so long and it's the same thing with the human piece. I can only find so many bodies and right now that pool is very small. And so we are absolutely squarely in that footprint of we enable your team to focus on the things that they matter, not manual tuning, like Matt said. And then there are other resource constraints that I think that a lot of folks don't talk about too. Like you were talking about private cloud, for instance, and so having a physical data center. I've worked with physical data centers that companies I've worked for have owned where it is literally full, wall to wall. You can't rack any more servers in it. And so their biggest option is, well I could spend $1.2 billion to build a new one if I wanted to, or if you had a capability to truly optimize your compute to what you needed and free up 30% of your capacity of that data center so you can deploy additional namespaces into your cluster, like that's a huge opportunity. So I have another question. I mean, maybe it doesn't sound very intelligent at this point, but so is it an ongoing process or is it something that you do at the very beginning? When you start deploying this, maybe as a service, once in a year, I say, okay, let's do it again and see if something changes. So, one spot, one single, you know. Yeah, would you recommend somebody performance test just once a year? Like so that's my thing is at previous roles, my role was to performance test every single release and that was at a minimum once a week. And if your thing did not get faster, you had to have an executive exception to get it into production. And that's the space that we want to live in as well as part of your CICD process. Like this should be continuous verification. Every time you deploy, we want to make sure that we're recommending the perfect configuration for your application in the namespace that you're deploying into. And I would be as bold as to say that we believe that we can be a part of adding, actually adding a step in the CICD process that's connected to optimization. And that no application should be released, monitored, and sort of analyzed on an ongoing basis without optimization being a part of that. And again, not just from a cost perspective, but from cost and performance. Almost a couple of hundred vendors on this floor. You know, you mentioned some of the big ones, Datadog, et cetera. But what happens when one of the up-and-coming's out of nowhere, completely new data structure, some imaginative way to click, to elementary data, how do you react to that? To us, it's zeros and ones. Yeah. And, you know, we're really, we really are data agnostic from the standpoint of, we're not, we're fortunate enough to, from the design of our algorithm standpoint, it doesn't get caught up on data structure issues. You know, as long as you can capture it and make it available through, you know, one of a series of inputs, one would be load or performance test, could be telemetry, could be observability. If we have access to it, honestly, the messier the better from time to time, from a machine learning standpoint. It's pretty powerful to see. We've never had a deployment where we saved less than 30% while also improving performance by at least 10%, but the typical results for us are 40 to 60% savings and, you know, 30 to 40% improvement in performance. And what happens if the application is hybrid? I mean, yes, Kubernetes is the best thing of the world, but sometimes we have to, you know, external data sources or, you know, we have to connect to external services anyway. So can you, you know, can you provide an indication also on this particular application, like, you know, where the problem could be? Yeah, and that's absolutely one of the things that we look at too, because it's, especially when you talk about resource consumption, it's never a flat line, right? Like depending on your application, depending on the workloads that you're running, it varies from sometimes minute to minute, day to day, or it could be week to week even. And so, especially with some of the products that we have coming out with what we want to do, you know, partnering with, you know, integrating heavily with the HPA and being able to handle some of those bumps and not necessarily bumps, but bursts, and being able to do it in a way that's intelligent so that we can make sure that, like I said, it's the perfect configuration for the application, regardless of the time of day that you're operating in or what your traffic patterns look like, or, you know, what your disk looks like, right? Like, because with our lower environment testing, any metric you throw at us, we can optimize for. So Madden, Patrick, thank you for stopping by. We can go all day because day two is, I think the biggest challenge right now, not just in Kubernetes, but application, replatforming and transformation, very, very difficult. Most CTOs and EAs that I've talked to, this is the challenge space. From Valencia, Spain, I'm Keith Townsend, along with my host, Enrico Signoretti, and you're watching the Q, the leader in high-tech coverage.


I have a couple of quick nuts and bolts questions about writing and your process. Your prose is very much characterized by restraint and economy. And I'm curious what kind of writer you are.   And my other question is you write often of nostalgia and longing. And I'm curious how you avoid sentimentality. Well, that's nice to hear. I'm glad that that's the case, in your opinion. You know, I think I write about loss. I write less about nostalgia, I think. I mean, it's connected, of course. But that's really what the writing, you know, everything I've written has that at its core, the idea of loss. And as for how I write, I just, I mean, I don't know how I write.  So, you know, the idea of writing a sentence that's, you know, that's all set to go and then moving on to the next one is the opposite. Whatever the opposite of that is, that's how I work.


By the horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hail silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now those thrilling days of yesteryear, from out of the past some of the thundering hoof beats of a great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. The Lone Ranger was busy preparing the evening meal in the camp which he shared with his Indian companion, Tonto. The masked man looked up expectantly as Tonto who had gone to the mission on an errand approached the camp at a fast pace.  How are you, Kimosabi? How are you? Had a quick trip, Tonto. Ah, Padre have led her for Lone Ranger. Him say it may be important. Let her come yesterday. Oh, thanks. Well, from St. Louis. See, well, this is important, huh? What'd it say? This is from a Mr. Farrell, a high government official, taught her. She's in St. Louis and wants me to meet him there as soon as possible. Oh. And how we go to St. Louis? There's a cattle train leaving early tomorrow. They need cowhands to go along. I'll wear a disguise and we'll get jobs for the trip. We'll be able to take silver and scout along them. That's good. I'll get busy with that disguise and we'll ride to town and make a deal. As days passed, Mr. Farrell, the government official in St. Louis, began to doubt that the Lone Ranger had received his urgent message. Then one evening, as he sat in the library going over official papers, a man's servant entered the room. What is it, Charles? A man to see you, sir. Looks like a cattleman or rancher from the Western Territory. He said to tell you the podry delivered your message, sir. Show him in at once, Charles. Yes, sir. Right away. Mr. Farrell, we'll see you, sir. Good night, dear. Thank you. You at last. But I was told you wore a mask. I've disguised myself as a rancher to avoid questions, Mr. Farrell. Good idea. Do sit down. Thanks. Well, sir, why have you sent for me? They told me in Washington I could depend upon you to help in a matter of vital importance to our government. I'll do all I can to help. Now, if you'll explain to us what... I'm going to ask you to want to take a very dangerous mission that will take you to New Orleans, sir. New Orleans? That's a little out of my territory. But of course, if the government has... There's a great importance to our country. I see. You'll excuse me, I know, but before I go into detail, may I ask if you have the letter with you, the letter I sent to the podry? Well, yes, I have it right here. Yeah, fine. Since you're in disguise, I wanted to be sure. I understand. This is the situation. Yes? I have a very important document that must be delivered to the governor in New Orleans. Others know of this document. One courier has been killed because of it. Go on, please. There's known to be political intrigue in that territory. An open move against it would, no doubt, be effective. But the ring leaders would escape apprehension. With this document in his hands, the governor can act quickly to apprehend those men who are named therein and to safeguard his office. I see. My every move is watched. I knew of no one else to whom I might entrust this valuable document, sir. I'll do my best to deliver it, Mr. Ferrell. If it becomes known that you carry it, your life will be in constant danger. I understand, sir. The river packet leaves at dawn. Yes.  Here is the document I spoke of. I'll do my best, sir. My friend, not only does that envelope contain the names of the ring leaders, but it also contains vital and secret communications to the governor from the president himself. It must not fall into the wrong hands. It won't if I can help it. It wouldn't be wise for the governor to send a conveyance to meet you at the boat landing, so you'll have to find... I've got my own horse with me, sir. Good. Go directly to the governor's mansion from the landing. Yes. The governor is a French descent. In a duel with a noted swordsman, he lost a finger from his right hand. See. Make sure he alone receives that envelope. I'll make certain the man I give the envelope to is the governor. Be careful, sir. Very careful. The men who would keep you from succeeding are clever and extremely ruthless. So be on guard constantly. Thanks for the warning, Mr. Farrell. I'll leave now. I want to get aboard the packet as soon as possible. You'll have no trouble in that disguise. Many ranchers and merchants travel on the packet with their mounts. Goodbye, sir. And Godspeed. Thank you, Mr. Farrell, and goodbye. Easy, sir. You board the river boat down to the landing. I'll ride on a head and book passage for me in silver. You follow and do the same for you in scout. Ah, me do it. I'll start. Bloody close. Yes. They're in goal. We follow, maybe. No, let him go, tunnel. There's no time to follow. That was a warning that my mission is already known. Now on anything can happen. Come on, sir. Get him up to count. Two days and nights passed uneventfully as the river packet made its way down the Mississippi toward New Orleans. The Lone Ranger, to all appearances, a gentleman of wealth, spent his time lolling about the upper deck or resting in his cabin. But never for a moment did he relax his vigilance. Meantime, Tonto wrapped in a blanket on the lower deck, kept his ears and his eyes open for signs of trouble. Each night, unobserved by others and moving like a shadow, Tonto made his way to the Lone Ranger's cabin where they compared notes. It was the evening of the third night that Tonto had something to report when they met.  Well. And stop. Look at silver. And then hurry up stairway. The only man who would recognize silver would be the one who shot at us in St. Louis. Ah, now right. The man you saw must be. Ah, it's not good him on board. Knowing that he is on board isn't our favorite, Tonto. Oh, that's right. I'll be on guard more than ever. You'd better go below now. Ah, you go. But watch out, Kimosabi. Don't worry. I won't be taken by surprise. Be ready. I'm waiting for him. It was almost midnight when the tall half-breed Tonto had mentioned was in a cabin not far from that occupied by the Lone Ranger. He was talking to a smooth-looking individual who might pass for one of the gamblers who frequented the river boats to that day. Well, I am most sure the one I point out to you is the hombre who comes from Senor Farrow's blocking. What makes you so sure, Ramon? The big white stallion which he ride. She's on this boat. Already I have seen him. I guess that's the hombre we want, then. She is. You know the cabin he's in, don't you? Senor. And I got from the cabin boy a key to open the door to that cabin. Good work, Ramon. But how do you expect to get the document he carries? He looks like a strong hombre to me. Ramon is also strong, Senor Blocky. Also, he has a plan to not have trouble with the big Senor in the cabin. He should have a gun. Or sicko demente. But guns, she's of no use to nobody who can't shoot it. What do you mean? This knife. She will quiet the big Senor while he sleeps. Then Ramon gets the papers and brings them here to you. And you're planning on to work, Ramon. Within an hour, the boat will dock at New Orleans. We can get ashore long before his death is discovered. Most of the passengers sleep on until daybreak. Seriously, that is right. Now, the big Senor, he will not expect trouble now, since so far he has been saved. That's right. Now, Ramon, he go to the cabin of the big Senor. We will get the document. And because of his little knife, he will never, never long. Except for the muffled, throbbing sound made by the moving boat, all was quiet in the Lone Ranger's cabin. The moonlight filtering through the shuttered cabin window vaguely showed the outline of the figure under the blankets on the bunk. The faint click of the lock and the slight creak of the opening door were the only indication that someone was entering stealthily, moving like a snake. Moving like a soundless shadow, Ramon went slowly toward the bunk. His eyes made out the outline of the figure. And in the darkness, a sadistic smile played about his lips as he surveyed his would-be victim. In the moment he stood beside the bunk, slowly he raised his arm high above his head. And a gleam of moonlight momentarily struck the blade in his hand. Then in a fanatical surge of strength, he plunged the sharp blade downward. Ah, he's stunned. Ramon, that's one. All right, we just have to try it again. What? Don't move your coming. Put the figure on the bunk. I'm prepared for you, killer. And tightly rolled, bedding under the blanket. Who will do for the moment? Not enough for me to get the drop on you. But wait, sir, you'll wait. It's a big mistake. Quiet. Now, while I have this gun in your backpack, I'll use the other hand to light the lamp. Get a match. There. Guess I'd better better reach, Mr. and bring quickly. Well, no, you'll have a partner, uh, Senor Blocky, who comes just in time. I was afraid you might get into trouble, Ramon. Now, while I keep the zombie covered, search him for that document. Well, of course, I have most forgot. Well, first, Ramon, he gets back in line. Let's dabble with a knife, Ramon. Search him for that document. These big Senors have discoveries, but they're smart only. Folks getting ready to document the audience. Get the document. See, Senor Blocky, now, I make the search. But I am being most careful, so big Senor, not like for the problem, Ramon. With his knife held close to his side like this, and with this hand, I search into his pockets, so one moves, Senor, and the knife, she perhaps make one big slit. See, documents, she is now ours, Blocky. Good. Now that you've found it, let's get away from here, Prado. No, that is not good. What do you mean? These big Senors, it is better that we make sure he not try more funny business, no? You have a document, what more do you want?  This time, the knife was striking through your heart, and we thought you went into the river, so you'll bother us no longer. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. As the Lone Ranger stood with hands upraised and looked into the evil face before him, he knew that the next few seconds meant life or death. His gun was still in his upraised right hand, but he knew that any move to forestall Ramon's intention would bring a bullet into his back from Blacky's gun. At that moment, a strange sound came from the doorway behind him. The Lone Ranger immediately recognized Tonto's signal. Without hesitation, he suddenly brought his gun down hard at the back of Ramon's head. Good work, Tonto. Get a arm around him. That's enough, Tonto. Tie both of them up and leave them here. Never notify the captain. He'll have them taken care of by the sheriff. We'd better hurry to the boat's docking. Blacky, you came along, Tonto. I had the document back and nothing's to stop me from delivering it to the governor. All right, let's hurry. After turning Ramon and Blacky over to the custody of the captain, the Lone Ranger met Tonto on the lower deck, deciding that there was no further need to hide the fact that they were together, they left the boat leading Silver and Scout. How are we going to ride, Tonto? He's a big fellow. Ready. Oh, Tonto, come up, Scout. The captain said the governor's mansion is straight ahead, about a mile. Soon mission be finished, Kimusavi. Yes, I'd be glad to hand over the document. Mission was much more simple than I expected, Tonto. Not right. Come on, Tonto, come up, Scout. Oh, Tonto, come up. He's a big fellow. Easy, man. Get out of here, Tonto. It's good we get the place for a governor's day. You're not having any more trouble, Kimusavi. I'd be glad to give this envelope to the governor. Well, I'll go inside now. I won't be long. Within a few minutes, the Lone Ranger, whose features were still carefully disguised, was admitted to the large hall of the governor's mansion by a servant and was asked to wait. Soon he was approached by a tall, dark man. Well, monsieur, I have been told that you wish to see the governor personally. That's right. I must ask you to explain the nature of your business. I brought an envelope, which I'll deliver only to the governor himself. So then you must be the emissary he is expecting. Perhaps. Will you take me to him? But of course, monsieur. There is one thing you must do before I take you to his excellency. Oh, what's that? You are wearing guns, monsieur. No one is permitted to carry firearms into the governor's presence. It is customary force to take such precautions, monsieur. I'm sure you understand. Well, I. His excellency has many enemies. If you are the person you say you are, you should not object. You can leave your guns here on the table and pick them up on the way out, monsieur. I will. I notice you are a sword. Oui, monsieur. It is part of my uniform, as one of his excellency is military aides. Now, if you'll follow me up the staircase, I'll take you to the governor's executive chamber. Meantime, in the executive chamber, behind the governor's desk, a wiry yet forceful man sat glaring at the stockily built uniformed aid who stood before him. Are you certain the boat has docked, fellow? Oui, monsieur, you pray. I made certain before I rode here with the news. Then we may expect a courier who is bringing the document. Oui? Before the morning is gone, he should arrive here at the mansion. Preparations have been made for his arrival? Oui, monsieur. Francois is waiting below to receive him. Excellent. Remember, if matters do not go as we expect, there must be no gunplay. He must not arouse the servants. Our swords can take care of any emergency, monsieur. Well, Francois, you bring news? Oui. The courier is outside. Show him in at once. The governor will see you, the lad. Thanks, I'll be very glad to see him. Oh, monsieur, it is good to see that you have arrived safely. The governor was quite concerned about you. Most certainly, that is so, my friend. As a matter of fact, governor, the trip was almost uneventful. That is most surprising. I am to assume that you, monsieur, have brought a certain document from San Louis, which is to be delivered to me, Nespain. Yes, that's right. I did bring such a document. Then I congratulate you, my friend. I offer you my hand, monsieur. Of course. Now, without further delay, you may deliver the document you carry. It is of the utmost importance. Yes, I know. I understand it's important to quite a few people. Oui, oui, of course. You do have it. Yes, but... But, of course. Fellow, wait outside. We must hear. I shall be waiting outside. Now, my friend, we are alone. I know, but I'm still not giving up the document. Pre-Posterous. Well, you're not directed to deliver that document to the governor and your audience? Yes, that's what I intend to do, sir. What do you mean by that? You aren't the governor.  Your hand. The governor has a finger missing on his right hand. Something you overlook, my friend. I'll leave. Not today, monsieur. You draw a sword against me? But, of course. My friend, you must not think of going without giving up the document you were sent to deliver. I am thinking of just that. As the lone ranger, unarmed, stood facing the unsheathed sword in the hand of the determined man before him, he realized that his life depended upon quick thought and action. Out of the corner of his eye, he noted that crossed swords decorated the space above a large mantle on one side of the room. Stalling for time, he slowly backed toward the mantle as he spoke. Well, since I'm unarmed, I don't seem to have much of a chance against you. So you'll back away, mon ami. It is right that you fear a sword in my hand. I'm an expert swordsman, I assure you. You don't have to be an expert against one who isn't armed. I'm determined to get that document, monsieur. Backing away will not help you. You cannot escape. Maybe not, but I can defend myself with this. So you'll treat me. But you will be no match for me, monsieur. Give me that document or take the consequences. I have decided to keep it. Then I will take it from you. No, you won't. You are sorry now. You have not your gun, my friend. I need this practice, monsieur. Then fight you fool and learn of your mistake. This has gone far enough. Take that, and that, and this. No. I am disarmed. I'm down. Mercy, please. That sword pointed at your throat says you'll tell me where the governor is. I will tell you. He's safe here, sir, but he's wrong, monsieur. Where is that room? They put it in their main staircase. I swear it, monsieur. Take me to him. Oui, monsieur. Come. Attande, do not let him escape. Why you. No, I didn't belong with him. As a Lone Ranger crossed swords once more, this time with two adversaries, both of whom seemed to be experts, he realized that he was fighting for his life. For it was plain to see that these men, enemies who had gone so far as to actually invade the governor's mansion itself, were pressing for every advantage and would show no mercy. The Lone Rangers, one thought, was to force his way to the governor's room at the foot of the broad curving staircase. He pressed ever forward along the hallway, forcing the two panting men to the stairway. Then, gradually, by the swiftness and dexterity of his blows, and by the use of a brilliant and continual frost and parry, his amazed and sweating foes were forced down step by step. First one, then the other of the two expert swordsmen marveled at the superb technique. They were amazed by the speed and skill of the Lone Ranger in handling his sword as he pressed them ever downward, step by step. He is a devil incarnate, but he is not supposed to be a swordsman. He is from the Western Plains to pray his head soar. There is mistake somewhere. I'll try to prove you made the mistake, you fools. For a few minutes more, the Lone Ranger beat back the two men, and lunging forward, he sent the sword of one of them flying through the air.  Feed him back and run him through. No, no, no, I give up for sure. We ask mercy.  Come, come, come here. He quit. No, no, no. That's a pretty good fight. Hello. Watch him a moment. Me watching. Who are you, monsieur? I have heard the fighting. Here, let me untie you, Governor. This knot's not bad. This one, this one. There you are. Thank you. Thank you very much. I just noticed your hands, sir. My missing finger, perhaps? It is nothing. It proves you're the Governor. We, we, I am the Governor, monsieur. Just to pray he was my secretary. I trusted him. The others, they were my aides. I suspected intrigue. When they heard of the document, it would be proof against them. Here, here are the documents, sir. Excellent, excellent. You are a brave man. This document names those who were plotting against the state. Yes. And tells where they have hidden arms and ammunition. I shall notify the troops and spoil their plans once and for all. I see. Now I want to see those whom you have vanquished, monsieur. All right. Come with me, Governor. That man is not the one we heard about. The man from the Western Plains would bring us a secret document. We were misinformed for twice. He's a devil himself, you know. Monsieur, who is the one who stands guard? The Indian. He is my friend and yours, Governor. I... There are many osmonds stopping outside. Me send Cook, tell him to get soldiers and then come. Good. And me bring your guns from Hall Table, Kimosabe. Thanks. It's went on. Now that everything is taken care of, Governor, we'll be leaving. Gantaro, adios, sir. Yeah. He outweighed us and outfought us once more. Oui. And to pray for the courier was to be the one from the Western Plains. He was much mistaken. He is indeed the one from the Western Plains. Out there, he's known as the Lone Ranger. 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So, welcome back, after having seen the LV saturation line, after seeing the table 1 and table 2 from the steam tables, now let us try to understand, how do we classify a particular system in different zones, taking the help of LV line. So, once we know P-SAT and P-SAT from the LV line, how do they help us to identify a particular system that it lies in this zone or that zone and that is very important to understand. Let us try to understand zones on the PT diagram using table 1 first and we will repeat the same exercise using table 2 because both table at table 1 and table 2 actually help us to identify a particular thermodynamic system to identify the zone in which it lies, alright. So, let us come to the PT diagram as you can see from here pressure temperature diagram and a LV line which goes from TP to CP, you have got a L region and V region over here. On the right side of this LV line, what we have is a superheated vapor zone, it is shown over here. On the left side is the subcooled or compressed liquid zone as shown over here. So we know this critical point coordinates and when the pressure and temperatures are beyond the critical range that means pressure is beyond the critical pressure and temperature is beyond the critical temperature, we lie in a supercritical fluid zone as shown over here. And also we know that if the system lies on this line, saturated line, we know that it is a two phase zone, it could be saturated liquid, saturated vapor or two phases in equilibrium and that is what we see when this system lies on LV line. So, these are different zones, subcooled compressed liquid zone, superheated vapor zone and supercritical fluid zone. The question is if I am given the PT coordinate of any thermodynamic system or state, how do I identify where it is at lie, which zone it belongs to and that is the question right now. So, let us start answering this question and let us take the reference of table 1 in this case and when I say table 1, we know now that temperature is the base in that case. So, for any given system now, we have got its PT coordinate, the pressure and temperature coordinates are known to us. We know that the state lies on at a particular pressure and particular temperature and this is the only given data to us. If we take temperature as a reference, because we are using table 1 right now, I will take temperature as a reference and corresponding to this temperature, I will be able to find out P sat T alright. So, first step is to find P sat T for that given temperature. Once we know this P sat T, the next operation is to compare this value of P with this P sat T and that is very simple thing and with this comparison only, one can find out in which zone the state lies. How do we do this thing now? So, I have got different possibilities which I have shown under different serial numbers and then I do the comparison and identify the zone in which this state lies. Let us say the first state, the first case is here that P is equal to P sat T. So, for a given temperature, I found out P sat T and we found that P is equal to P sat T. What does it mean? It means that for a given temperature, the corresponding value of P sat T lies over here. That is why the pressure happens to be P sat T over here. It also means that this T is T sat P, is not it? And the coordinates of this state will be P sat T and T sat P and therefore, we say now if P is equal to P sat T, the state lies on the saturation line as shown over here. So, this P T point, this state of any thermodynamic system lies on the LV line. So, it could be a saturated liquid, saturated vapor or it could be a two phase mixture in equilibrium and that is what we can predict as soon as we know the temperature, find out P sat T, compare this and come to the conclusion that it lies on saturation line as shown over here. The next case is if I find this P is less than P sat T. So, the given P is less than P sat T, this is P sat T and you can find out from here that if such a thing exists that P is less than P sat T, this state lies in a super heated vapor zone now, it is in this condition and correspondingly we can say that the serial number 2 case is a super heated vapor zone, this state lies in a super heated vapor zone. The third case will be P is more than P sat T, if the pressure, given pressure is more than P sat T, it lies in a sub cooled or compressed liquid zone. It can lie anywhere in this zone actually, is not it? And therefore, we say that it lies in a sub cooled or compressed liquid zone. So, we have identified all the three possibilities, the super heated sub cooled as well as two phase zone. The other one is we have already mentioned about that thing which is a super critical fluid zone when the P is more than P critical and T is more than T critical, the state lies in a super critical fluid zone that is in this part over here. Here in this case, the temperature has to be more than 373.946 degree centigrade and the pressure has to be more than 22.064 MPa meaning which you are lying in super critical fluid zone. So, this is the way that after referring to table one from where I get the value of P sat T for a given temperature and I compare given P with this P sat T and come to different conclusions in order to know in which zone the given state. Thank you very much.


the challenge of the Yukon. The Wonder Dog King, swift distance-hungest of Eskimo lead dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of northwest-mounted police who preserved law and order in the new northwest country where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in spite of the odds against them, Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog King met that challenge and justice ruled ployumphant. Sergeant Preston stretched his feet toward the fireplace in Father McLean's cabin in Dawson. King, his big lead dog, lay down close beside him and watched the flickering flames through half-closed eyes. Father McLean eased his portly figure into the chair- Giving is no excuse for eating as much as I did today. That dinner was too much of a temptation. Well, this is a wonderful meal, Father. That cook of yours is a prize. I feel like I'd swallowed a whole deer. It's a good thing Thanksgiving Day comes but once a year. You were awfully nice to let me share your dinner with you, Father. It's not often I get food like that. People in my church are very thoughtful of me on holidays. They bring food that one doesn't expect to get way up here in the North Country. You know, Father, two years ago I had dinner with another priest on Thanksgiving. Nothing like this one, though. His congregation was very bitter about him at the time. Bitter? Had he done something wrong? Well, they thought so. It's rather a long story, Father.  The priest was Father Haley. He left this part of the country before you arrived. He's the one who started the Mitten and Dawson. Oh, yes, I've heard of him. It was before they built the churches there now. At the time, Father Haley was busy raising funds for it. He was a lovable old man, a big fellow with twinkling blue eyes and a good sense of humor. He was very fond of dogs, too, and King was a big favorite of his. I'd been on a patrol north and was coming back to Dawson. Out ten miles from town, I was mushing along the trail, and suddenly I heard a dog. Hello, King! Hello, you muskies! Stay here, King. I'll see what's happening. Well, fellow, what's wrong?  He was a gentle dog, Father. Part Sutter and part Shepard. We never found out who owned him. Father Haley's cabin was on the trail near the outskirts of town. It was evening when I reached it. Father Haley held the door open while I carried the dog in. Take him over there by the fire sergeant. I'll bring a lamb so we can have a look at him. Well, lie down here, fellow. That's it. Well, you got that handy door, didn't you? Yeah, now we can see. There he's looking nice and clean, hasn't he? Yes, I guess he can take care of it better than we can. I'm afraid he's going to lose one or two toes, though. Well, I guess there's nothing more we can do for him, except for him. It'll heal up, Father, if he stays off it a while. You're going to leave him here with me, aren't you? What? That'll be fine if you want him. I have to leave town again tomorrow. I'd be glad to have him. He's a nice dog. If he is older, doesn't show up. I'll keep him permanently.  He's wagging you still. Maybe that's his name. That's as good a name as any. I'll call him that. He seems to like it. Now, let me warm up a cup of tea. Oh, no, don't bother, Father Haley. You have enough to do taking care of Shep. Anyway, I'd better get into town.  Yes, I'll be away quite a few weeks, I think. Well, did you have Thanksgiving dinner with me, Sergeant? Oh. You think you'll be back by then? It's three weeks off. Well, that's nice of you, Father. I'll do my best to get back. We've been raising funds to build a new church. And I hope to have enough by then to war to special Thanksgiving celebration. Well, that's encouraging. This town can certainly use the church. I'll try and get back for it. Now I guess I'd better go. I have to make a few stops in town before bedtime. Hello, Sergeant. Glad to see you. Hello, boys. How are you?  We're taking up a contribution for the new church that Father Haley is planning to build. Well, that's fine, boys. Butch started it by giving a whole bag of goldest. Gold nugget buys a funny place to be doing it, but I'm all for it. I think maybe you won't pry quite so long, I think. We're going to need another half. This one's full. Sergeant, you better take this money out to Father Haley. Sure, I'll be glad to. I'll take it out if you're too busy. I'll be going past his house tomorrow. I can drop it off. Can't you stand in town for a while, Sergeant? I have to make another patrol, Ben. I'll be leaving tomorrow or the next day. Well, there's the money. There's a lot of money here. That's not in the money he'll have in a week or two. This is just a started going. The whole town's chipped in. Yes, sir. I left the gold at Father Haley's cabin the next day. The collection had netted about $2,000. I was quite surprised that Butch Harvey had started such a thing. Butch was a newcomer in town, and I hadn't liked him from the first time we met. I see. There's nothing I could put my finger on, exactly. You monies must get quite good at judging men on site. Oh, I've been wrong about a lot of men, Father. My judgment isn't always right. We all make mistakes. I decided I'd been wrong about Butch, and maybe he was doing this to prove to the town that he was all right. And, uh, was he? No, Father. I left town the next day after leaving the money with Father Haley. My trip took me far south, and I wasn't around while the church fund built up. As I learned later, Butch and his partner, Ben, were very active getting collections printed. Three days before Thanksgiving, Father Haley had raised over $15,000. He was putting some gold into the box that evening when Shep scratched on the door. Father Haley put his park on. Well, you want to go after your workshop? I've been so busy today, I didn't take you for your walk. All right, boy, go on out. I'll put on my things right away. I'm coming, boys, as soon as I put this box away. Good evening. Hey, Butcher, I'm sorry. I didn't hear your knock. Hello, Ben. No, Father. Sit down, boys. I was just going for a walk with Shep. Wait till I put this box away. Don't put the box away. Did you bring another contribution? Not exactly, Father. This time, you're doing the contributing. What do you mean? Get the box, Ben. Sure. Butch, you? You don't mean you're taking with you. That's not all we're taking. You're coming with us. Here's the box.  Don't keep me waiting. Father Haley went with them out into the dark. They tied him to the sled and drove off. Nobody noticed, old Shep. The dog watched the sled disappear and then limped after it. The team outdistance him quickly, but he kept on through the night following the sight. Did they intend to murder Father Haley? Well, butch would have, but Ben wouldn't agree with it. They argued about... You're crazy, Ben. You can find his way back, I tell you. It's getting light and you can see the trail. We're going to turn off the trail, ain't we? Well, you can see landmarks. You can follow our tracks back, too. What's wrong with taking these glasses away from him? You can't see without him? All right. We'll turn off here and head for the mountains. I'll take his glasses off. We'll lose him in the hills. And I don't see the difference. You'll die of starvation or freeze to death. I got back to town the following day. The weather had been clear and I made a special effort to spend Thanksgiving with Father Haley. Had anyone discovered he was gone? Oh, yes. The whole town was in an uproar. Some of the people thought Father Haley had run off of the money. Pete Darcy met me just as I came into town. He was very excited. Sergeant Preston! Sergeant Preston! Okay. What's wrong, Pete? I'm sure glad you'll come back, Sergeant. Father Haley has disappeared with all the church money. Disappeared when? The day before yesterday. People think maybe he ran off with it. Maybe he wasn't a priest at all. That's ridiculous, Pete. He'd never go away unless someone forced him to. People have been in and out to see him. He lives near the trail that's well used. Yes, I know. Everybody's given a lot of money to that fund. Come along, Pete. We'll go to his cabin now and look it over. You see, Sergeant, his park is gone, his fire's out and the money's gone. I wonder what became of Shep? Shep? The dog he had. He certainly wouldn't try to travel. Nobody thought about the dog. He ain't had him very long. We can still find Shep's tracks. Your own dog has made tracks all over. Oh, here are Shep's. You see that front foot? He's lame. He doesn't put much weight on it, and it's crooked. Here, King. These tracks, boy. Can you find him? I'm afraid the trail is cold by this time, Sergeant. It hasn't snowed for two days. These tracks lead away from town. We could probably pick them up if the snow hasn't been trampled. I'm going to try it, Pete.  Why, uh, no, I'll go alone. I'll take what supplies I can find in Father Haley's cabin here. Can't stop for more. Maybe a long trip. My team was tired, but we kept going. After a while, the trail of the dog was easier to follow. Shep's foot had started to bleed where the snow and ice had broken open the freshly healed cut. You mean that dog kept right on going in spite of it? He'd become very fond of Father Haley. When the tracks turned off the trail, it was easy to follow them. My team was going on three legs. When did you find Father Haley? Well, not until the next evening. Shep had found him the night before. They were huddled together in a clump of spruce trees at the base of the mountain. Father Haley had no idea where he was. Your father put this blanket around her. I'm glad you built a fire. It isn't much of a fire. I had some matches in the pocket of my pocket. Who did all this, Father? But you did. Oh. It took my glasses from me and I couldn't find enough wood. If Shep hadn't come that effusion, we'd kept each other warm. I found you by following Shep's tracks. Yes, poor fellow. To drop when he found me, he dragged himself to me his... his poor foot. All bloody. Feed him first, Sergeant. I will, Father. Now, you relax and don't worry about the church funds. I'll tell the Gravich and Ben's description of the border they're headed for Eagle City. And now I'll get some food ready. It's... it's not the Thanksgiving dinner we had planned. Is it, Sergeant? No, it isn't, Father, but it's funny to be thankful for. Were the two thieves Butch and Ben caught? They were caught at the border by one of our men. Most of the money was returned. As Father Haley said, that must have been a rather slim Thanksgiving dinner you had that night. But it's one I'll never forget. We sat at the bait of the towering modern. The moon glistened on the snow. It was deathly still. Father Haley sat beside the flickering fight in his lap. He hadn't eaten for two days. But when I put his food in front of him, he didn't eat it once. He bowed his head and gave thanks. It wasn't a short prayer. As he ended it, I, Father Lump, I thank the Lord for sending ship to me. Please grant me the faith and courage that is His and help me to follow Thee with an equal love and trust. These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of WXYZ Detroit and all characters, names, places and incidents used are fictitious. They are sent to you each week at this time.