Welcome, everybody back to the independent investor channel we're coming into earnings week this week for highly on holdings give you an update here. It's some of my thoughts and forecasts here on what to expect. What I'm going to be looking at on the upcoming earnings where we currently are in the current environment not for my closing thoughts here. Before we get started, I do want to comment on the Stephen Tobin article that came out this week, found it to be surgically timed for sure. Right before earnings call. I thought it was a well written article. And with that said, there was some areas of really some overreach, for sure for Mr Tobin.  I think we get a little bit too hypersensitive around, you know, understanding a piece that's put out there that I thought was sourced well. There was some convenient omissions to some of the facts out there. And that's, that's okay. You know this, this is one of those situations where everybody's entitled to what they want to say to be honest with you I'm hungry for any information and we still seem to be in a landscape where highly on is being very close to the best with regard to the information that they release I, I think that's unfortunate. I think it speaks to the desolate landscape that we are in right now with regard to information and pushing those timelines to the right. And we just don't have a lot. But you know I thought a couple things that take away from me and I do encourage you guys to all read the article I know some of the folks in the discard I know Rick commented at the bottom. And also the real Christopher who I have the utmost respect for in their holistic understanding of highly on and that's what it takes to invest in this company let's be real. We're investing on paradigm shifts in the industry that that's for, for certain, whether or not highly on is going to be the sole dominant player in the industry, or, or a participant in the paradigm shift is yet to be seen and I think, making premature predictions as Mr Tobin seemed to imply in the article is probably in some accounts irresponsible, and I think I, I don't question whether or not there's a motive or not. You know, I think he's, he's doing his job as a writer to generate churn in, in an, in an environment where if I was going to pulse the thirst of highly on enthusiast I would say that most of us are thirsty for information and I think there's some somewhat of a susceptibility there by putting out any information at all to try to garner a reaction, and, and certainly there was some reactions there to Mr Tobin's presumptions on the cash burn, seemingly saying that the company in 2022 is going to have is going out of money. This is not true. This is part of what the overreach and a good writer is one that is going to step over the line. In order to generate churn, you know those articles that are just completely fact based and statistically back nobody reads those. Okay, people want to read controversy, and they want to disagree and they want to engage in the conversation and those those presumptions are made with a singular objective to generate churn. That's it. Mr Tobin understands that highly on it's not going to run out of money in 2022. He came out with an elegant spreadsheet that he manipulated the numbers to provide some percentage of increases where I just, it's, it's mathematically impossible to come to the conclusion that those percentages of increases across the board are going to render highly on insolvent at the end of 2022 it's impossible, sitting on 485 million of accessible cash left out a huge huge swath of accessible cash. And really it's not going to burn all of their cash buckets all at the same time they may draw upon them. Right, but strategic initiatives to draw down their cash burn as indicated on the q3 call. Last time around from a projected 120 to 130 to around 110 puts them at about a 25 million on the low end 27 and a half million per quarter burn. I just don't see it happen and I don't see this company frivolously burning through money. I don't know where Nicola and highs on which Nicola was seemingly again put on a pedestal for everything that they do as gospel. I guess that's what it takes just lie your way to the front until you can, you know, make it fake it until you make it right. I just find it interesting you know with with the range that Nicola is declaring they've they're already being dubbed the winner at least you would get that impression by reading through Steven Tobin's article, talking about you know that you know the 350 miles of range in quotations which means those are unproven statistics and that they've already got sales out there and they're already running product it's it's interesting not to identify the real drawbacks with Nicola being also an unproven technology and to dub them the winners right now which the article seemingly implied I may have got the wrong impression and Steven seemingly has a response for everybody if you read the comments. You know, he did comment back which I give credit for, but there was some staunch disagreements with his presumptions in the article and it was very presumptuous. No doubt about it. The second was that they would sell nothing. That that was a far cry to focus in on a product that is not ready for sale and saying that they won't sell said product. I found that interesting and to bridge the gap between what was previously disclosed. As far as sales projections and making the connection now that they won't meet those projections without providing any context around those missed sales, ie supply chain issues and shifting the schedule to the right that that's a normal occurrence guys. That happens. If you think for a second that every company out there when they release the best information that they have at the time, and then political or the environment changes that would impact those meetings of those timelines can change. It's kind of very unfair to make those assumptions on a product that basically Mr. Tobin is making the conclusion that they're not going to sell the product, and it's kind of like a no kidding. I'm saying that if they score less runs in a baseball game than the other team that they're going to lose the game is kind of just speaking the obvious. And it ignores the fact that highly on has its EX product that's been validated over many, many years coming to a head here and I found the article, the timing of the article to be somewhat suspect as well. I'm still coming out with it just a week before earnings. Nobody's buying the stock right here. Nobody's selling the stock institutions are continuing to add to positions and really trying to manage positions there's a little bit of trimming going on coming into earnings because there's a big question mark surrounding these earnings that are about to hit the books here in q4. The expectations are at zero. I don't I don't know what what's going to happen and it just goes along with my bucket of, you know, for a lack of better terms frustration in in owning this company. It's really tough to have the conviction that I have in the prospects of what it's trying to achieve in their vision, and how things have transpired up to this point, and I'll speak about that at the end of my video with regard to where I think we are currently in this current landscape. And the last, the last thing that Mr. Tobin said in the in the article that I thought was really interesting as he kept saying that highly on has no sales. I want it to be very misleading in that technically, okay, highly on has no sales. Okay, but I think you need to back that up and say that they have 1590 orders of back orders that need to incur a file final sales agreement with these companies. When you dig below the surface, it's more than nothing. And by saying it's nothing and then leaving it open ended like that makes readers that don't understand the highly on story understand that they have multiple orders. And these orders aren't to be discredited agility is one of the largest shipping and logistics companies in the world. It's just not to be understated. The 250 orders that have been put through by a and G represents the shift and move in sentiment toward renewable natural gas and the very fueling infrastructure that's going to be used to put that RNG through or the CNG to whatever trucks are needing to serve us over the long term so it's really a play on the existing infrastructure it's not so much about the 250 although I do think that that's a bullish signal for highly on I think that's a real positive, but I think it's a stretch from the truth to say that they have zero sales. Okay, these are non binding orders so technically Mr. Tobin is right, but I understand what he's trying to do and generate that churn and provide for that controversy within the article. I'm partly done. I thought it was a well written article I just thought that as a highly on bowl in the company I thought it was suspect in its timing. And I thought some of the presumptions that I've laid forward for you guys were really something to question is really really false that they're just that they're not going to play out in reality and he tried to backtrack at the end of the article by putting a more realistic he called it a less bearish thesis, and I did appreciate that, but the damage had kind of been done in the top end of the article when I read through it and, you know, a lot of the comments picked picked him apart and multiple capacities just like they did on the first article, which was a very successful article for the author so it's no surprise to me why the author doubled down on putting out a follow up to that article. I'm really doubling down on what I feel like is a fairly vulnerable community right now, there's nothing, nothing in way of sentiment that is going to allow investors to rely on a stock price that has gone down peak to trough 90% over the previous it's just that simple, and then that's why I say it's somewhat vulnerable. And it's really kind of exploiting said vulnerable vulnerabilities by the timeliness of the article now, you know, I'm hoping that highly on blows out the number I really do I hope they say something I hope they have a rabbit up their up their sleeve hope hope hope. This is no way to invest. There's no way. This is speculating at this point. There's no doubt about it and I'm hanging in there in the pocket for you guys. But I'm also trying to be realistic as well with how bad the situation is with regard to the position and the lens of how highly on is looked at in the eyes of the stock market. So my questions will be will be being posed here. I had Jay Mac investing on last Friday he invited the opportunity for us to offer a couple of comments to Thomas one on behalf of myself, one on behalf of the community because you know he said some kind words like you know Ryan you're kind of a leader in putting out highly on content. You know that that's all great and plenty guys I really appreciate that but it's a lot more simple than that. It really is. It's a shift a paradigm shift away from traditional reliance upon a diesel industry over the last 100 years and the said industry has been built and predicated upon that as the fuel of choice and it still is 90% dominated in fuel and I think the timing is now to start that paradigm shift is it going to happen overnight. Absolutely not it's not, but I think education is the key. I think education through awareness is the key. And if I can provide that small piece of education certainly there's other channels that are providing fantastic awareness and even go so far as to say product validation in the field. You know drive mix game doing a good job and some of the other YouTube channels Wall Street engineer rat pack stocks Jay Mac investing, as well as RP music. So those are some of the few and a couple others dividend bloodhound doing a good job to I'm trying to think everybody because I don't mean to omit those folks out there that are putting out some some some content on highly on I try to do it on a frequent weekly basis, because I think the the awareness and the education pieces is crucial at this point with understanding the holistic opportunity, which when you read an article like Steven Tobin has put forward. It kind of leaves out the thesis of what type of environment we're stepping into and puts highly on in a box to say that if highly on burns all of its cash and it doesn't sell anything it's going to zero I, I'm not really sure I understand how I believe that is, and it's really going to be extremely fulfilling for those folks to eat crow in a good way. I think the world is a better place with solutions like highly on and many others Nikola, and, and he's on. I'm critical of them, I'm critical of highly on as well, but these changes and shifts in sentiment need to happen. If you've ever been to Southern California, you know, I believe it's, it's a special place. I used to work down there in the Port of LA. I used to work right there at Terminal Island, you know, right there in San Pedro. I used to work right there. And I had a good buddy of mine say, you know, it's not smog Ryan it's a it's a marine layer. You know, I'm like I'm from Oregon and we don't have marine layers nor do we have smog that is constantly around and it's almost as if you're in a dream. It's really sad. And that is specifically to our number one polluter on this earth and I think when Mr Tobin writes an article like that. It fails to acknowledge the potential. Now, these things might not happen in reality, just like as he implies that highly on is going to burn through 600 million and cash in one year, you know, cash and cash equivalents right that that somehow the government is not looking at this problem that the industry might drive some of these solutions forward that the very industry that highly on is looking to serve is not looked at as an enemy in this rather a partner in this whole thing and what gets missed all the time when talking about how highly on is not only the companies that are looking to revolutionize and provide solutions to the marketplace to said fleets, what gets missed all the time is the customers of said fleets, who are also very important in having a voice in this initiative going forward to make sure that it's it's kind of a shared responsibility. There could be some incentives there that we cannot quantify right now, as bullish shareholders in the company. Okay, highly on is probably on a lot of different avenues with regard to some of those catalysts. I talked about the TURP program last time that's the state driven incentive program for some of these companies to step in and take their old equipment and upgrade them with products that highly on has available to the open marketplace. Now, those products could be put in the hands of fleets for almost free of charge or at least a significant percentage of discount through going through the TURP program and that's a state run program for environmental standards and quality and taking old equipment and using them with newer products that are less harmful to the environment and that's on the state level and then you've got the federal government with regard to incentives and you know if nothing else he pointed out the 120,000, 120 million of ZEV credit that Nicola has achieved its certification for. I think that's a win for the industry highly on has not achieved their CRB approval and OSHA and EPA certifications, but but is it, is it suffice it to say that they're not going to achieve those certifications into the future. I think it's it's a testament to the industry as a whole. And Nicola was first to market for them to kind of, you know, be that trailblazing company that it that achieves that and is actually, you know, being awarded these 120 million dollar credits to the customers to the company that get their their products if nothing else for me that validates that highly on is on the right track that those incentives are out there on the horizon to be had. Right. Is the company going to run out of money over the next year and be ineligible to reach what we know in reality to be there on the horizon to pursue in way of state and federal government incentives for the initiative that we're looking into right and address what I feel like is a huge problem in the transportation industry, and I don't think highly on is going at this alone. I don't think that there's not a shared responsibility from the very fleet owners looking to put these solutions to work for themselves. I think there's an undercurrent of support there that is really difficult to quantify, but it is absolutely part of my bullish thesis to say that if patience is what is the necessary ingredient at this point to put into this equation to allow some of these things to inspire over the short to medium term. I'm totally willing to do that because I think this is going to be a multi year rollout of of introducing the marketplace or really getting that cooperative engagement with fleets and customers as highly on really integrate with the the fleets out there. Now my question and I would encourage you guys to pay attention. It's probably going to be rolled out through J Mac investing and ask directly of Thomas Healy on my behalf. So I'm really stoked that I'm getting my questions. Put put to Thomas. I would like it to be me that asks the question because I, I'm pretty good at framing my intent. It's a little more difficult when somebody takes somebody else's question and they try to pose it Jason will do a good job, but, but to frame it in a way to pull some with Thomas and understand what's going on on the OEM hub front. That is the key to mass scale, and that is the key from going to from low volume production to a mass scale up and production and if he can allude to any type of progress that's being made with any of the other OEMs out there other than Peter built. I think that's going to be a huge catalyst that that for me guys is number one. It is number one this is all for not if they cannot integrate. It's not to be able to produce mass scale in in their evolution and provide that breaking point from low volume to high volume production sales if they can't integrate and get the OEM hubs stood up and and get these folks in agreement with them. It's more of a cold type of call right now, because what I foresee happening is this, and this is actually in the investor presentation the original one. Okay, where there's churn provided in the marketplace. Test units are put out to the fleets the fleets love it, the fleets love it it performs well, they get to do their internal validation on it run the numbers for themselves and understand look. This, it solves everything that the industry is asking for. At this point, with regard to reducing charging time with regard to providing that bottom line payload increase, right which is a problem of the Bev community right now, never gets talked about Thomas Healy just tweeted it this week and I don't think a lot of people picked up on that if you imagine an electric truck rolling down the road and going up a hill it's going to burn more power off of just a standalone battery system, and those charges and ranges are going to be affected by that. If you don't have an onboard solution to recharge that battery. I'm not really sure why it's so crystal clear to me as to why that makes so much sense, but if you're going on a standalone type of an application. You're going to burn that battery quicker and it's going to reach require you to find that charging station. It's going to require you to find the charging station more often. And I would go one further and double down on Thomas's really tweet of emphasis on the deficiency of the Bev application. And that is the capability of the battery system as the system ages over time. There's no battery that gets better over time it gets worse over time. Okay, and it starts to degrade and it's ability to hold a charge that that's just realistic application if you think about it, and you think about these companies that are deploying the Bev applications. It would be interesting to me what the useful life of the battery system would be over its forecasted life, let's say seven to in some cases 10 years, which is the time frame of owning the asset that they're using to the bottom line total cost of ownership right so so really important there on the upcoming earnings I just want to go over a couple things that I'll be looking for ex sales. I've already talked about this on my sales video I talked about the 35 that should be on the books from last year. So that's 12 months from last year to as I'm releasing this video here. The 20th a couple days before this Q for earnings to close out 2021 years in December 31 of 2021. So it'll be nice to put that in the, in the, in the, in the books and get it taken care of. I think sales is something that I'm going to be interested in Steven Tobin talked about the projected sales for 2022. I thought that was interesting because I thought my video was much more in detail on addressing highly on acknowledging that it was going to be low for a while on the onset and 2021 only forecasted 3000 units it was supposed to jump up to 4100 units in 2022. So I think between the lines is where you need to focus in that highly honest projecting a catalyst increase at some point. The catalyst increase is why I'm asking the question that I am on the OEM hubs. It's, it's, it's very specific to that and I believe that to be the very catalyst that that we're talking about once these products are available and in, in the hands of the customers. Customers are going to put that kind of that back pressure on the OEMs specifically to allow these products to be turned out off of the OEM lines. And that's where those discussions will really get serious. And deals will start to get inked to where those OEM hubs will come to reality. And to Thomas is specific to any progress that's being made on that front, but ex sales, are they going to come out with 150, which would be half of the 2021 projections. Now if it's half of the 21 21 projections in, in the face of everything that's gone on over the last six months to to one year would be remarkable with supply chain issues and highly on zibility to to deal with those circumvent real headwinds. I think it's been a really tough environment and I think that's going to be important to focus it on. Is it going to be 89. Is it going to be 50. Is it going to be 35. I, you know, if it's close to that projection that was turned out as far as units in the hands of customers there's customers all over.  These hybrid units sent up to the Northwest for testing and validation. You know, did they purchase follow on orders did did Oregon come through and provide any grants and says incentive for them. You know, a lot of these companies, you know, hey, they're hybrid products ideal ease right I just can keep going and going and going. And across all of these fleets that represent many many tractors out there on the road. I find it hard to believe that they're going to report 35. Now I'm looking in between 35 and 150 150 on the top end would would would be extremely bullish for me if they could realize half of what those projections were in 2021. And 2022 is a new year. It just started. So again I found that a little bit presumptuous and that we're not we're just finalizing two months into the new year. And with the geopolitical risk going on right now inflation rates on the rise stock market fear has crept back into the market. I just thought it was a it was suspect with regard to the timing of the article but you know good on him for playing the game, and that's typically what it's all about. And that's typically why I come out with the independent investor channel I identified this week as my voice is being the number one asset of my channel. It's just that simple because when I come to read articles like that. I see as a community have a voice to fight back, and it was nice to see Rick and Christopher actually on their challenging those notions in the article, because some of them I'm trying to be nice here. Some of those presumptions were just wrong. They were just wrong. And were they were they not true, were they untruths. It doesn't matter anymore. You know, people come out and they say as scathing as a thing as they possibly can to make themselves, you know, make themselves known to provide themselves notoriety. You know, this is the wheelie house that you have to work on and I think Steven Tobin would love to have the opportunity to have an audience like me. He doesn't. It's mine. This is me. And perhaps maybe it's an attempt to generate churn for himself. I don't know. I'm not going to speak to the motives of the individual. All I can do is go off of the merits of the article that I read and criticize and or compliment as appropriate. Okay, hiring going into the earnings is going to be of interest to me. They've been on a hiring spree the last three, four weeks. It's been impressive. And that is the question that made it on behalf of the independent investor community is speaks along the lines of what I feel like, when Thomas Healy is forward with some of these bullish improvements in the company, hiring being one of them. New relationships with companies roll out of media day, all these things right speaks to a bullish conviction for the future right bullish bullish I've never seen Thomas stray away from what he believes to be his vision for reducing the carbon emissions through the burning of renewable natural gas and burning of methane to provide that fuel rather than off gas it into the atmosphere he stood fast in this mission. He's hiring new new product developments, you know, testing on the horizon things like that that he's always foot stomping. Okay, and it defines that bullish thesis, I think with highly on holdings. Okay, the question is specific to the disconnect between that bullish conviction, what allows Thomas Healy to arrive and define that bullish conviction for him and the company that he represents in the face of a stock market that is pricing highly on at liquidation value at best. So my question is, in lieu of the disconnect between those two things. What is he hearing from industry. What is he hearing from the government. What is he hearing from fleet customers. What is he seeing in way of competition that can help him arrive at this bullish thesis and remain so steadfast on it in light of or in the face of a stock market that is valuing the company right now at liquidation. Okay, the disconnect between the two are very, very real. And so my question to Thomas is to have him speak on what gives him that bullish conviction going forward what defines that. And I want him to speak on what he's hearing behind the scenes, you know, what he's hearing from the needs of customers, what he's hearing from the needs of fleets. What is range anxiety, a thing is everybody just going to fall off tilt and go full Bev. Highlands done, if that's the case, they're not a Bev company. Okay. They are a powertrain company, an electric power train company that brings the charging mechanism with them. Okay, they are not one of those things that are going to rely on the infrastructure outside of the fuel that fuels the onboard generator that fuels the proprietary battery system that drives the electric motor that drives the rear axle. Okay, what defines that bullish thesis what he's hearing to help him arrive at that bullish thesis to have him be so steadfast on continuing the hiring, continuing the add editing additions to the upper management and the additions to the Board of Governance as well so that speaks to the second question that we're going to hopefully get posed when Jason goes down there and represents the community and has the opportunity to tour the plant, sit down with the CEO and ask him those questions will be interesting to see the renderings from that I'm hoping for some good stuff. I'll be closely monitoring amended timelines going forward. The timelines were horrible on the q3 because they were bad, extending into 2023 here, winter testing and validation which I just don't understand what I can't do now, drive them up north to Canada I'm sure they can find some snow. I'm sure there's some snow in Wisconsin, go to the UP in Michigan do what you got to do. And I just I don't understand it's a real, it's a real constructive criticism that I have on this is that are they in a hurry to get the just doesn't seem like there's any, there's any angst that there's any rush to do anything and I'm, I'm not saying rush, as if to do it carelessly. I'm just saying that in business, you have to run at the speed of business. You're always pressed whether or not you like it or not. That's the environment. If you want to come in and just tiptoe through the tulips and blase about everything that you do and I'm not saying highly on is. I'm saying that the perception is there, because there's criticisms put out there over the environment to say, geez, isn't there an alternative solution.  Are we going to be next year and you're just going to use the same well we're going to do it next year if you do that in business, you're done. The majority of your business is going to make be made on the fringes, where you're having to identify alternative strategies to make the vision a reality. It's just that simple. I'm not sure if I'm so satisfied on the sense of urgency with with highly on at this particular point so the amendment to the timelines is going to be key for me maybe even moving it to the left a little bit would be a little bit more of a catalyst to say look, we can deliver we previously said this, now we can kind of over deliver on those promises and make it maybe sooner than later. That's a strategy that can be put out there and if played correctly can work to your favor if played correctly in that those timeframes hurt the stock bad. The stock really really sold off off to the last earnings, and we were down to four bullets left I mean we're going to be down to, you know, 25 cents if they're not careful I just don't know how long they're going to play the game or if they're even playing the game at this point, or if they're basically just saying it cannot happen sooner than what we're projecting and I just in business that that's not reality. I'm not going to change so dynamically from quarter to quarter that I'm looking for an update to the positive. I'm looking for some positive news. This time we got enough negative news on the q3 quote call. I'm looking for some actual good news here, we're highly on starting to pull this crap together, and they're starting to connect the dots with the networks that they put in place to work for them. This is what I'm talking about, specifically is what I'm talking about, hiring these sales directors that are doing what do something. Okay, start connecting the dots, you should be on the phone with Amazon every single day, every day, have them deny you the ability to talk to them about your solution. Very well I'll talk to you tomorrow, hang up the phone, call them directly. Everybody wants to resort to this email garbage you want to know what email does for a lot of people it gives you a cop out. You can email them, I can't really. When was the last time you flew in there for a meeting, fly into Amazon corporate.  Walk through the door, their people to shake their hand, introduce them to the product very very simple not hard leave. Thank you very much. You know, let me know if I don't hear from you for three days expect to hear from me. Right. A little bit of a sense of urgency, we'll see I'm hoping that they're doing those things. There's only one way to do it right. There's a thousand ways to do it wrong. The right way is, does it turn out results? And as of now, highly on has not put forward results. They haven't. Okay, they just haven't. And I'm sorry for my bullish community that'll disagree with me all up and down and yeah they've produced all kinds of no they haven't. They need to sell. It's that simple. They should be solidifying the back order right now. They have 1590. They've provided all kinds of proof that they can garner a back order of non binding orders that should come to fruition at some point in the future. Outside of the last Monet order for 40. I have heard nothing. And so we need another big order 5060 7080 100 to 50 right of trucks to solidify that back order and show that there's going to be an order book to draw on to help really start to supplement that cash burn that that Mr. Tobin did refer to. There is going to be cash burn. It's just that simple. The question is at what accelerated rate and what are going to be the offsets to that. You just can't say that everybody at highly on is going to take the year off and they're not going to sell a thing and there's not going to be any progress toward going into 2023. That's I don't know I've got my two feet firmly in this real world. Sometimes I wonder about others who write stuff like that. Any new customers of course we're going to be looking at and then any potential developments with the hyper truck ERX. We're not at a finalized product. So that's simple. So when you product developments any product improvement, any type of certifications that could be potentially garnered up front in in in advance of them turning it out for the the potential for scale up and getting those fleets with their trucks in hand so they can start that validation going forward. All right. The current landscape garners this stock prices at $4 a share. Okay $4 a share pretty anemic it's embarrassing there's nothing good about it. It's bad. It's horrible. People are like yeah it seems like your emotion is being worn on your sleeve. When you do these videos. Mm hmm. Yeah, that's good. I think one could paint on a happy face and come on and you know talk about a company that I have 100% conviction on this this is really this has really been trying for me. I know what to look at companies and I've been wrong on this is according to the stock. I've been wrong company. I'm right, right. And it's that speaks to that disconnect that I talked about between the two the goings on at the company and the goings on with the stock it's just that simple. The environment is garnering and even with some of the geopolitical risk diesel is at an all time high. The Russia situation in Ukraine is actually driving crude oil up to record highs now actually records over the last. It's been really dismal. I mean crude got down to 17 bucks a barrel there. Just a short time ago and now this geopolitical race is putting a tight tight squeeze on on oil. I believe it's a political move. I do. I think and it's working. And as it always works. Diesel seems to be and the price of Brent crude anyway West Texas and Brent and, you know, the price of barrels of oil are very subject to geopolitical risk. And you know, when are we going to start to acknowledge that there are other alternatives out there. The fact of the matter is those alternatives are there and highly on brings one of those solutions to bear amongst many. Yes, there's competition out there. But is competition going to be the end all be all demise of this company. Not really sure why this company always has a target on its back. I have my own presumptions about why that is. It's because I think they hold the goods. That's why I think, and I think for somebody like Steven Tobin, if he thought that the company was going to zero, then why write about it. Right. Things to think about the demand is super intense right now over alternative types of solutions. As quickly as these young technology companies can bring these technologies to bear. I think the better off will be range anxiety is very, very real if the hyper truck ERX can perform at 1000 miles plus plus of range. Game over game over. You are talking about the ability to engage in long haul trucking with a fuel that is on par diesel with the gallon of diesel equivalent for R&G right at a price that is less than that. The ability to carry more payload over the long term, and the ability to work for those extended ranges, and be good for the environment and be able to fly the flag of environmental stewardship be awarded a carbon emission score at net negative neutral and this is this is huge at negative zero. But these are the huge pieces to this whole puzzle. And the range anxiety thing is huge. And that's why I don't understand the discussion right now of dubbing winners. When we are just way too premature. We need to allow these horses to run within the fleets and allow, you know, kinks to be worked out the metrics to be run to the actual bottom line benefit to these fleets. And then finally our current environment still renders us deficient in our charging capability infrastructure yes, but really the downtime necessary to charge these batteries. It's just that simple. You're going to incur 30 to 45 minutes maybe in some cases, a per charge, and then the time in between charges on on an anemic range of 350 450 even 500 whatever it is, and that 500 subject to the amount of payload being carried in other words the payload goes up, the battery life goes down, and the mileage that you can run off of that battery runs down. This is why I'm not heavily invested in Bev. This is why I'm not heavily invested in Tesla. This is why I'm not heavily invested in those full electric solutions where I do think they'll have a place in the industry. I think the real focus here in investing in highly on as you are invested in class eight right now. There's some schools of thought that I've that the highly on solution could be across the board, a solution for mid class, right applications, I totally agree with that totally agree. The solution is not bound just a class eight but for right now. That is the very market that highly on is going after Thomas Haley has been very clear on this. We are going after long heavy haul tandem trailer. Worst case scenario for the worst environments to engage in long haul trucking in, and they are looking to tackle that market and put their solution in the hands of that particular transportation. My closing thoughts are really really simple. The landscape right now with the stock is horrible. It's just horrible. What does that mean. The loss of pain and suffering. The stock has never went up outside of its fall from grace from $58. It has been in a channel, a downward channel for many, many, many, many months and going on a year, a year, year and a half. Okay. We fast forward to now. Would you invest in the company knowing what you know now if the company had just come public and it came public at $4? Probably not. You would look at this opportunity and say, well, it's a penny stock. It's a $4 stock and, you know, you must assume that because it's a tiny company that's going to fail like all the rest of them. It seems like the speculative growth is really, really tough because the majority of those companies, man, you invest in them and you lose money. It's just that simple. But the flip side of the coin is if you looked at it here at $4 and you understood what the bullish investors who have taken this ride with this company understand about the opportunity. It looks a lot more attractive when you look at it at $4 a share, which is, which is anemic and I can't say at this point, I'm right. Because as up to this point, I have been wrong, wrong. And I wish more people would talk like me.   Okay, it's bad. Okay, for you guys that are naive for you guys that are oblivious companies do and can go out of business. They can. Okay, some of the things that I talked about in this video with regard to highly on having a target. Not really operating with a sense of urgency. At least that's my perspective. Other schools of thought would say you're wrong Ryan they are. Okay. Okay, we'll agree to disagree. If I sensed that there was any progress on the landscape at all with regard to solidifying their order book, or moving up timelines, or winning new business or progress on the OEM hubs. I wouldn't ask the questions. Now would I. Right. But we are deficient of this information. And therefore the stock has suffered immensely. And there's been some schools of thought that I think if they had been a little bit more or a lot more forthcoming. And they could be, they sure could be. And again, this is just where my independent thought I know people who watch my video sometimes they cringe a little bit there. I know Rick probably sits there and he's like, I liked it when Ryan was talking about the vision for the future and net carbon negative and it's going to do really well in class A I get that it's it's reassuring when people hear that the reality in stock market investing is is a staunch reality staunch that business requires you to operate at a certain level. It requires you to do certain things. If you're going to play with the big boys. And there are companies that I cover that have $30 million market caps that make more money than highly on. Yeah, I sit with CEOs every week. And they're starving. They're hungry. They are up all hours of the day and all hours of the night. Because they believe wholeheartedly in their vision. Okay. Do I see that level of ambition. No, I don't. Do I think it's probably a lacking a character trade of the CEO. Do I think it's a deficiency of course not. Would I expect more. I don't expect anything out of anybody that they are incapable of delivering. What I'm telling you is the pedigree that is necessary to make it in business. And when I look at some of these companies that are 30 million. Right. Highly on has a market cap of $750 million. Mr. Tobin's point, and it's one that I cannot dispute technically. They have sold zero up to this point. Don't you think that that would maybe generate some anxiety. Don't you think that that would generate some level of ambition to really make sure that you're uncovering all the stones out there on the landscape. Maybe they're doing it. And I hope, remember I used the word hope three times at the top of this video. I hope they're doing that for the good of the company for the good of the mission. And specifically for the good of the stock, because I'm one of those guys that tell you you don't make an investment. Okay, to just lose money every time you make an investment to make money. And sometimes it takes an immeasurable amount of time necessary to hold said investment to realize that end. But this is, this is burning at both ends for sure. This is really flickering. It's it's smoldering. All we have are smoldering coals at this point with regard to what has been a horrendous stock ride in 2021. And here's to better times into 2022 and especially 2023, as we look to eventually turn the corner with this company because that's what it's going to take. An eventual turn of the corner where something happens that neither I or any of the other bears or bulls in this community could have foresaw to realize the vision of this company and to rely on something other than hope, but to rely on something that is actually tangible, and that we can really earmark to say look we're proud of this we understood the mission before when it was at its most questionable point. I think we are there right now. We are there right now. It is absolutely in a vulnerable stage in the company. And I'm just hoping that all of this frame the work that is publicly available with regard to the inner workings of highly on is actually working frivolously to make sure that they can write this ship because it is writable. It is writable. It is not right right now. Okay, this is just where me and some other of my close community members, man. They may disagree with me and say they're doing everything that they can possibly do.  They are not. They need to do better. And they know it. And they can. And I believe that they will. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to the message. Make sure and subscribe to the channel. Leave your comments at the bottom of the video. Share the message. Share it on Twitter. Help me out. Share it on Facebook. Do what you got to do. 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Yes, of course, it's a very good idea to have youngsters also now take the mantle in all our key industry associations. And it's not that the seniors haven't tried to muster support from youngsters or enlist youngsters into committees. But what we do find is that either the youngsters themselves are not inclined because there's a lot of exciting things happening inside the industry rather than in the industry bodies or the youngsters don't have the time because you know when you're younger you know you do have daily deadlines to meet and you do have pressures of work So it's not always possible for the youngsters to pre-commit their time and attend meetings on certain pre-fixed dates and things like that. So there are challenges. Having said that, I think it's a very good idea for industry bodies to sort of have at least induct a few youngsters every year into the committee because that's a great way to prepare for future leadership. So I think training youngsters is a very good thing. I genuinely believe and I think there is a fundamental way. So it's not only ASCII, any industry body needs to bring youngsters in. Youngsters don't necessarily mean freshers. It would be people with 10 to 15 years experience and I have a solution and it's not my own idea but I'm going to recommend it whichever board I sit on. So there's something called a shadow committee. So what you do is use handpicked youngsters and they work with board members. So suppose for example on a particular industry body there are 10 board members or 12 board members. You handpicked 12 people from different companies who are mentored by each of the board members. So they come in straight at the board meeting, they observe, they also work with each of the individual board members to understand what the issues are. So they get trained and then they will go back to the organization and talk about the industry body. So I think this idea of bringing youngsters on is a great idea because they feel left out just now and they will probably the future of the country with young people. So I think it's a great way forward. I'm making one suggestion. It could be five other ways it could be done. Now I don't think there are any challenges. I think the issue is to keep them motivated because finally decision making will be when you create something like a shadow committee which I'm recommending then what will happen is that they'll be watching. They'll have a role to play but decision making still may not be with them. So they'll take them some time to learn and I think giving time because we are at a stage in our life and we want to give back to the industry. So all of us have made our careers and they are still running after their careers. They still want to make a mark. So I think time pressures could be there but some people are smart and understand that finally you have to give back to your industry. They will come on board. You know industry bodies it's pretty tough because you have to get the whole industry to agree to anything especially because it's so competitive it's not easy. So you need stalwarts there who can actually affect change and bring change about in the system. While you know what needs to be changed can be pushed by or you know asked by the youngsters I think the effect change you need senior people. I'm not sure it actually can be managed by youngsters. Should youngsters have a separate set of body which they drive something else and they are able to participate in industry forums. I'm sure yes. I think there's enough and more work for everybody to do. There's enough and more forums that should be created for different sets of people to actually participate in. I don't think it's a matter of one or the other. If the current you know Zenaski has a body actually you have to see how responsible advertising works how what is the right thing to do then you need maturity and you need the sensibility to be able to take that forward. Let's say if you need new systems technology new things that needs to be done in the industry and I'm sure that you need different roles from youngsters because I'm probably they will be able to think better than maybe people who have far more experience and of the older method of working. So yeah I don't think it's one or the other you can have different sets of things for different people. The advertising industry is actually a young man's and young woman's industry and no matter what your age or experience is I think those who survive in this industry or those who are young at heart and have the energy and spirit to keep going on. One of the initiatives we've taken a group M was to create a body called the Waiko which in a way is a platform to give those who are you know young and in their 20s a platform to voice their opinions give us feedback give us a lot of inputs on policy and a lot of stuff. So it's actually helped cut through all the hierarchy and get the senior management a lot of useful input from the youngsters. So this is something which has worked extremely well for us over the last five years and maybe it's time the industry looks at creating their own Waiko because I'm sure that a lot of industry events where we can get a lot of useful inputs from them the advertising festivals for example that we organize they really need to be relevant for the youth of today. So it's I think a high time to get them on to some of these bodies in maybe a decision making capacity.


This part two to our watch something of car one to like poop If you're seeing this on YouTube you're seeing a very cut a version Yes, you see a full-on cut version, so you can have a patron. I'll pull the ship's rope in the whole month I'll check that out. Go see it. Let's just get back in look at your fun, right? Let's dive in he had constipation last time we saw him. It's true His character is so well-written Another fun actor who would give a completely different take on it But be equally as engaging would have been to put Pankaj in this role Yeah, Pankaj would have been a lot of fun too Totally different feel totally different vibe. Yeah Oh Don't go pretending he doesn't know Malayali Yeah You can walk around here. You can walk around here. There's a place ahead for the princesses. They've all gone to some function. Function? Will you get food? Come on, man. Come on. This guy just trusts anything anybody says. Yeah, he does. Could not be me. What is this? I don't even have a shirt. I won't go to the wedding. You won't go to the wedding? You won't go to the wedding? I won't go. Just a wedding attire. Something is going on with Irfan's character, though. Yeah, remember we had the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, he's leaving. There's nothing to check. But the wedding is going on. Mashallah! How is my wedding? My wedding just got cancelled. Mine too. And re-scheduled not cancelled. Look, I don't wanna fight. Just do me a favour. Ask your friends to get ready for the start. And I hate to say this, but they don't care about the death of your dad's sister. I've opened the door half and half. I'm lost. What do I do? How do I control it? He's in his own world. Is that Boman? No. They met at the airport. Oh, that's a relief. Chacha, by the way, if you're up for a drink, the boss will open. Okay. Take all the gold, the silver and the pearls. You're eating nothing until today. What?  Did he say a duffer? Don't you get it? One of my favourite earphone rolls. I was just thinking that. Bro, we should get out of here right now. What?  This place is the secret lair of the devil. Hi, I'm Avinash. You have to go to your mom with me. Do you remember? Of course. Not very much. Come on, Avinash. Come on, buddy. It's my wedding day. But we don't know you. It was my wedding day. Look at my friend. I fell in love with Angu's daughter. I'm not him. That's not your real dad.  That was a nice shot. Are you calling me irresponsible? Maybe.  How can you argue? You don't even remember your grandma's death. And you think I'm not affected by it? No. Because after a few hours, you were doing the same. You moved on very quickly. Can you please just stop judging me? Don't teach me a lesson, uncle. Let me guess. Did your dad leave you? Oh, wait.  My dad had cancer. But I was it. In your face. Ouch. Dad soon after. Assume he's my mom. My mom loves me a lot. Brother Rahmat was asking if he had any mood to pay. He was asking for money. I was going to pay immediately. When? Tariq also left. Brother. What's up, Tara? Okay. I'm going to have to give him money too. Thank God. From here, 40 or 50 kilometers from here, someone has spotted a van. They're following up. We'll find out in the morning. Do you think this girl is your sister in law? She's like your sister in law. I can't understand this shocker with you. Shocker? I'm just sick. I don't know how long I'll have to keep quiet. I can't sleep. Let's sleep together. Hmm. Nice, huh? But the frame can get a little better. What's the problem with Instagram now? Photography fans are playing with apps like this. Click on anything, put a filter. And everyone's like, wow. The royal family knows all about that right now. Everyone's thinking about photography. Am I right, corporate? Yes. For sure. You know what I really appreciate is his characters. Clearly somebody who is Muslim and he's not being vilified. Even though he's got some pretty, you know, some rigid beliefs and he's quite Victorian. He's not, he's still very an endearing character. And I'm appreciating what he finds beautiful about her right now. You know? He's very pretty. Wait. Don't move. What is it? It's a stick. Is it a lizard? No, he's gonna... It's a hate lizard. He sees a good shot. What for? Indians hate lizards. It's so weird. The light is great. Okay, now take a drag. Hold on that phone. And you get a toothbrush. A shot. What is this? It's a poem. It's a poem. Pregnancy test? Yeah, I can see that, but why? To test pregnancy, you know? I do know, but is this for you? No. It's dirt. It's cool. I'm not so sure. It's cool. Thanks, uncle. What are you, 18? This is normal and it's healthy to be open about it. Do you have any advice? Believe it or not, I don't have any. He was way cooler than you will ever be. Thank you. If you were a bit open-minded, you'd be happy. You don't have so many problems.  If a girl comes close to you, you'll lose. It's not that you're awkward because you're in hormones. Trigger him. He was about to like his instincts ticked over. Yeah, he was about to be physical. He's a good guy, though. I bet he's going to apologize. No, he's terrible. I hate him. Earphone on the other hand. He's who I want to be physical with. The girl who came with me, did you see her anywhere? I probably just want to be around you right now. I really shouldn't have. And I wasn't going to. I personally talk very less to people. And you'll learn. That's why I was awkward. Not because of... The smart framing of the shot, the distance between the two of them. Oh, wow. Good insight, Rick.  That's why I spent so much time with him. You're actually part of my wife's batch. And in fact, we're friends. At least, I hope so. You're in all of his college pics. Your wife? And Rubana Salim. Rumi. Exactly. How's Rumi? Did you go and ask him at home? At home. No. Meet somebody. Come over. Couldn't be me. I hope she's dressed. Wait, who is that? Why do I know that face? French toast! Corbin's excited. It was going to be Indian food. I wasn't expecting to see... Something of my breakfast. It turned out to be a lot of fun. Your group isn't that big, is it? No. It's a problem with the crowd. Nice. Yeah, I'm guessing they were once like a couple at that point. I wonder if she ever took a pregnancy test. Yeah. So why'd you just disappear, Avinash? Graduation can be... I mean, I just thought of it without telling you. We don't have to talk about it, are we? No, I want to. Aren't you a little young? I mean, whatever makes the two of you happy, I just... Rumi, this isn't my girlfriend. Her dad's body went to her mom's. And we were taking her grandma's body. Sometimes when I talk to her, I react like my dad. Angry. Unreasonable. Old fashioned. It's a never-ending cycle. They say that until a son realizes that his father was right, his own son is the one who thinks he's wrong. I'm very happy for my daughter. I'm very happy. I'm going to show her my real clothes in the back. I met her. She's my wife. She's my wife. She's my wife. Oh, no! Yeah, that's all that coming. My third wife. My third wife. You look fresh.      I think he's going to look for himself. What's the matter? You don't have the right name. Rumi. Go. Damn it. Yeah, casting is uniformly wonderful. Okay, he's so believable. Couldn't get a bigger car. Let's go. We have a place to go. Okay. Let it be. Taira is waiting for us. She's been waiting for us for 30 minutes. You can't go anywhere else. If you didn't go for the money today, your people would have taken away my van. So, the money has been arranged. Where are you going to get the money? Did he say, oh, shit? Will you show your manliness to a poor man like me? Are you happy to ruin my van? Give me my bed.    You're thinking you're one superman.  Should we start the car? Don't you want to get in? Not today. I haven't talked to anyone since the war. I'm not talking to you. Look, you're like Kashmir's problem. My father took a lot of money from many people in the past. I'm more than that. Wait a minute. Father? But you said that you never met your father. My mother used to think Maharkhand was my mother's duty. So, one day, I gave it to father. So, instead of thanking my mother, she took me out of the house.  That's why I tell people that I gave it to my father. Hey, don't you make angels? If you had a daughter, you would have got a wife. Wife? Third. Wife? Third. Hi, mom. Hi. He's my friend, Shaukar. Hello. Hello, brother. It's your turn. So sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm very sorry. I'm sorry. What? I'm sorry. I can't fit in. Those are philodendrons. Nice. I have a wife who's obsessed with plants. Oh, and I learn of things. Well done. I don't want to put a leaf on my brother. I don't want to put a leaf on my brother. I don't want to put a leaf on my brother. I don't want to put a leaf on my brother. Avinash, I have some things for my dad. I'm sure he'll find something in it that a dad always carried. A picture of him. Yeah, something in the earring. Something. Yeah, like his photos, he secretly loved his photography. That would be a nice touch. Bad news? Good thing. And good news? That I'm pregnant. The best news is that you're smart.   And he leaves his mother somewhere else. She accepts this too. Then the rest of her life comes to mind. Oh, and probably he was riding on the bus.  He wanted to take pictures, and I refused. I also wanted to try the music field of Piano Seek. But in those days, I was so scared to see the poor. I was thinking of coming and meeting them. And I said, I'll work for a few years and take the retirement early. Then I'll take pictures. But I can't afford it. I'm scared of his hatred. We didn't have much love between us. But I understand a few things only with time. And now that I've understood all this, I don't have time to spend with him. I don't know if my father was a good man. But I know now that he wasn't bad. Nice one. And in today's world, not bad is a big deal. The score has been so good. Take pictures. For the return journey, click good pictures and email me. I'll teach you how to color correct. Oh. You'll need music for the return journey, right? And it won't disturb you. Thank you. You're welcome. He died. Told you. Now we have part two reaction to Karwan. Dos. Dos. If you saw this on YouTube, you saw a very cut-up version. If you like see a full-on cut version that you can ever do on Patreon, up on the link in the description. Check that out then. Let's get back into this. I mean, yeah. What? What? Autopod 3.


Ladies and gentlemen the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent Your detective sergeant here signed a robbery detail a gang is hijacked and robbed a bank truck They've stolen over a hundred thousand dollars. There's no lead to their identity your job. Get them Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime for the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles police department You will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files From beginning to end from crime to punishment dragnet is the story of your police force in action Was Thursday June 5th was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out a robbery detail my partner Frank Smith The boss is chief of detective staff Brown. My name is Friday. I was on my way back from the business office And it was 10 52 p.m. When I got to room 27 a robbery It's again. Yeah, there's a gun. You got the double-edged buck.  No, we ought to be hearing pretty quick nothing from Herman and Benson, huh? Last we got from they were over on Hobart. No action there nothing. I got it probably fighting Yes, ma'am That's right. Well, when was this? No No, that's a burglary. If you'll hold on just a minute. I'll have you switched them. Yes, ma'am. Hold on just one minute Would you give this call to 2524 please? That's right burglary. Thank you Woman wants somebody to come out and talk to her about her husband's work pants being taken from the clothes line You should have gone out. Yeah, you got a cigarette. I'm fresh out here. Yeah, ma'am. Yeah, thanks Well, you might as well sit down take it easy. You got no idea how long we're gonna be here. Guess so You know, I'm still not real sure about how this tip came in you want to fill me in Call came through this afternoon man. She used to give his name just said he had some information He thought we'd like to have no idea who it was. I know said it wasn't important Went on to say that he could tell us where to pick up the man who held up the bank truck Well, well, I figured it might be a crank So I asked him how we could be sure the story was true How'd he answer that said he could prove it said he had some of the serial numbers on the stolen bills But check out. Yeah, any of the numbers from 10 of the 20s. I checked the serial numbers. They're good And that's when he said he'd call back, huh? Yeah, said he'd call tonight around 10 and give us the address where we could pick up the man It's late now about an hour.  We got to be here when the phone rings No way of getting an idea on them. Uh, none. What do you say about the men? They heavy and the way he tells it They're loaded get all the guns and ammunition they need to hold out for a week Knows that why couldn't you give us the address this afternoon? He said he wanted to put a lot of distance between him and the rest of them See how many there were not right out where he talked to we figure there's three any names No, I said he tell us where to pick him up said when we blew the whistle late tell us I'd be a little tight-ticking them then if the way they handle the guards on the truck is any indication It isn't gonna be a picnic. How many men we got permanent Benson We can call them in Murph and Rafferty Stewart and Creasy where they now Well, I saw Murph and Raft out the business office just a minute ago said they'd be right in I get it Probably Friday. Yes, it is Where yeah, I'll put them through Call from San Francisco operators at a station to station might be our boy You'd have to fly up north to get there this fast airlines don't ask for recommendations when they sell a ticket just a minute this Friday Who's this? Okay, that's the way you want it. Yeah, give me that address All right, let me read that back to you 1657 Garfield Place apartment 408. Is that right? Okay, why don't you tell us your name? I won't do any Hello Hello I'll have a business office get out and see if they can come up with a number got the address Yeah, I got that yeah the way he put it job might be tougher than we figured what do you mean? Well, I asked him his name I told him wouldn't make any difference if he told us yeah He said make a lot of difference so they'd kill him if they find out that he finked on them that figures Yeah said that when he reads in the papers that they're dead, then he'll come in when they're dead Yeah, he says we won't take him alive Ten days previously on Thursday May 26th three men had stopped an armored truck on its way to the Federal Reserve Bank The truck had stopped for collection on Wilshire Boulevard The three holdup men had approached the truck and produced sought-off 12-gauge shotguns at gunpoint Two of the men forced the driver to go out to the San Fernando Valley the third followed in another car on a side road south of Ventura Boulevard the suspects had tied and then beaten the driver and the guard The two men were placed in the back of the truck and after stealing all of the cash in the vehicle The thieves had driven off As soon as the theft was discovered men from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were notified together with them Frank and I followed down every lead The crime lab went over the truck but found nothing that would help us in getting to the thieves Lightened fingerprints were able to come up with nothing the driver of the truck and the guard had been shown the mug books But they were unable to make an identification The method of operation was checked through the stats office But when the leads that developed were checked out we were in the same position as when we first got the call We had no idea of who the thieves might be Descriptions obtained from the two victims were broadcast to the entire nation, but there were no kickbacks The FBI weighed and sifted all evidence in its Washington headquarters, but they came up with the same results We had nothing The phone call from the informant was the first concrete lead that we've gotten there were nine men from robbery division and three teams from the FBI in the operation from the information We had we knew the suspects were armed and they were dangerous the people in the building were gotten out of their apartments The building itself was completely surrounded 136 a.m. We moved in boys in the street or set. Let's go. All right. Did you check the manager? Yeah Descriptions that the men in the apartment match the one we got from the driver the truck checks out to be the same guys the manager Say how many there were three. She's not sure they're all in Sounds like somebody's moving around in there. Well, you're ready. Yeah, let's go Police officer stand still. What are you doing in here? You hear alone? Yeah alone. What are you looking for a convention? Where the other two what to nobody else Joe closet over there looks like an arsenal loaded with guns couple of sought-of shotguns The guys got the right to come in here like this. I know what you're looking for, but you're gonna find your name Hank Peterson you rent this apartment with two other guys manager tells us that the Harvey Fitzgerald and Lou Colton. Is that right? Yeah, they live here. Where they now? I don't know. Maybe don't move. I don't know when do you expect them back Look, they're big fellas now. They don't have to get me to sign a report card. They do what they want They went out. I don't know where they didn't tell me they also didn't tell me when they'd be back But what's this all about would you get those guns in the closet? I don't belong to me Who do they belong to one of the guys which one why are you coming in here and asking all these questions? I ain't done nothing. You've got no beef with me. I don't anything about the guns Maybe Lou likes to hunt. I don't know they belong to Colton. Yeah, he brought him You don't know where he is now. I told you if I knew where he was I'd tell you I don't want any trouble. I don't like to have people pointing guns at me Would you put that one away turn around why I said turn around get over the wall Put your hands up on it Big deal what happens now you kick my feet out. I fall down and still They've got to find nothing on me. I tell you I'm clean Nice try Peterson. There's a 38 cold Joe had in his belt You're going pretty heavy for a fella doesn't want trouble. Don't you I carry a lot of money Sometimes I think some guys are trying to take it away from me. I got to protect myself Anybody's got the right to protect themselves. Yeah, you got a permit for this gun. No, I didn't get around to it yet I'm going to the right away. I'll get one. You know how it is you mean to do something But you forget it can I stand up straight now. Yeah, come on Peterson get your hands behind you Maybe you guys will tell me what this is for. What are you looking for? We'll tell you downtown.  I sure you really call this one wrong. You're dragging innocent man I'm clean. I made a mistake when I didn't register the gun or cop to that, but that's the edge I don't go past there. You got it wrong Peterson read me how we got you going in for the bank truck robbery You and your two friends you're gonna stand for it keep talking about my two friends. I got no friends I move in with a couple of fellas all of a sudden I got a piece of some action there And you got it wrong cop you aren't gonna tell us you happen to be here at the wrong time are you look I'm from Chicago I got a lead on a job out here. It gets cold in Chicago in the wintertime I don't like the cold get a lead on a job out here in California So I put an ad in the paper telling how I'd like to drive out with a guy share expenses Tell of the answers the ad wants to leave when I got to go as Luke Colton I took a third of the tab driving out we got into town. He's got this apartment line up This one right here. I got no place to stay so he says for me to pad down with him That's it the beginning the middle the end Anything outside of that I don't know if you got trouble with Lou then take it up with him But don't make me fit in I got no part of the action. I don't want any what about the gun the gun you had on you I tried to explain that I meant to get a permit for it. I didn't get around to it yet What about the ones in the class? I'll talk to Lou they belong to him. Maybe he's gonna open a museum. All right Let's get out of here. Come on. Let's go But you did to the door breaking it up like that. No reason all you had to do was knock Landly is gonna be pretty sore about it. I'd let you know if you're to knock breaking up a door like that She's gonna be a real sore probably won't talk to me Well, it's gonna be a while before she's got the chance While Frank and I took Henry Peterson downtown the other officers from robbery maintained the surveillance on the apartment Because of the construction of the building it was impossible to wait inside of the room. However, all of the entrances were covered 240 a.m. We checked the suspect through our and I but we found that he had no record in Los Angeles His fingerprints were taken and forwarded to Washington for checking It was printed and mugged and then placed in a cell in the felony section at the main jail The rest of that night the watch in the apartment continued without results The following morning Frank and I met with Lieutenant Smires at a special show off of the suspect for the driver in the guard of the armored car Without hesitation they both stated positively that Peterson was one of the men who'd held them up The kickback arrived from Washington with the information that Peterson was wanted for escape from the state penitentiary in New Jersey He'd been convicted on a charge of murder and robbery and given a life sentence The record showed that he'd escaped from the prison on Friday May 9th two weeks before the truck had been robbed 415 p.m.  Yeah Here's a match What do we got going now same thing? We want to know about the robbery of that armored car You figured there's something I could tell you on it, huh? We wouldn't be here otherwise I'll make you do we don't make them now. I'll hear me out. You might go for this We can't promise you anything you're asking me to come over to your side Seems like you'd be willing to come a little closer to the line. What do you get to say? How bad you got me nailed steep as it can go for real. That's right lay it out all of it. Yeah We got the kickback from Washington. We know you're wanted for escape We checked the guns from the apartment find out they were taken in the burger in Chicago Tuesday May 13 Go ahead. We checked with the Chicago papers the ad you told us about asking for a ride out here It was never run guys are sure through the victims of the robbery identified your picture. They sure they're sure no chance for a mistake No chance if I cop out. Where am I gonna do the time? We don't decide then you think they'll send me back to Jersey I told you we got no saying that it's so cold back there. It's nice here in California I like to stay here nothing you guys can do so I can take the fall and Quentin up nothing Anyway, you hear it. I'm nailed up. That's right Okay, maybe it's marked down that I copped out. They'll let me stay in California. It'll be put down that way Okay, what do you want me to start try the beginning good of places any you're worth a hold up, huh? Yeah, how about the other two you picked them up yet? No them come back to your apartment Might be good if they didn't when you come up with that heavy real heavy one of the names Luke Colton Harvey Fitzgerald knows the names in the mailbox. Are they real far as I know you're not sure I know Part of what I told you is true I broke out of a jail in Jersey then beat it to Chicago Later on for a couple of days and started look for some action. I was broke. I needed a score to set me up Sitting in a bar down a state street one night and I met low and Harvey They took me to the job out here.  This was their part of the deal. I told him going in. I wanted to stay out here Didn't make any difference to them We all figured that if we cut up a hundred thousand dollars score, none of us was gonna look bad for all I know they might be on the way back now their clothes were still in the apartment You know how many suits you can buy with a third of a hundred thousand dollars. Let's go ahead Yeah, well after the job we made to split Talked it over and decided to dig in for a few days and then take off at least they decided to leave didn't say when I told you Now they might be on the way back now. Who else knows you're in on the job? Huh outside of you three Colton Fitzgerald Who else knows about it? Isn't anybody but where's your part of the money? Got it down the bus people got it in the locker down there. How long's it been there? Since day before yesterday often do they clean out them lockers every 24 hours There's 33,000 dollars floating around in the check room. You got the key to lock him. Yeah, where is it? In my shoe, I got a tape of the soul inside. You want to give it to us? No, but I don't guess there's any other way. No Okay You spend any of the money you mean the stuff we stole that's right. No, not a dime Why do you ask that who else might know the serial numbers on the bills? Well, nobody nobody but us and I guess the guys at the bank they got a record of my guess How about Colton Fitzgerald? They spent any of their part I don't know you got to ask them that the car you drove out after the armored truck Who'd that belong to? Colton. It's the one we drove out here and what kind of car is it? Plymouth 1952 what model sedan color light blue. You know the license number. No, I never paid any attention to it What state's it out of Illinois who drove the car when you went on the hold up Harvey Fitzgerald, huh? Yeah, he drove the car and Lou and I went in the truck either them been arrested before I'm not sure but I think Lou fell in New York. I'm not sure though. How about Fitzgerald? No, at least he never said anything about it Only way I knew about Lou is that he talked about the food in Singsing That's the way I knew about him. You know what he fell for armed robbery I think and there was a kidnap rap too, but he beat it. He out clean I don't know seems like you played a job with two guys that you didn't know very well, doesn't it? I was hungry and I was cold I wasn't about to ask for a life story when they offered me a part of the action how'd they pick you I Told you I was in a bar in state Lou and Harvey came in both of them were carrying a load I was sitting there drinking beer just to three of us in the place and Lou was drinking pretty heavy He gets in a beef with the barkeep and I saw the role he was carrying so I figured that if I could take his side in the brawl Maybe I can make a touch They walked out of the bar and he offered to buy me a meal next thing. I know I'm on the way to California I'm a partner in a piece of goods that looks safe all that time in the car And you didn't find out anything about your two partners We drove straight through and we weren't driving we were sleeping anyway. I wasn't a solid member of the club I wasn't about to get my nose mashed in for having it someplace where it didn't belong I figured if they wanted me to know something they tell me you go with them for the guns No, they already got nose when I fell in you knew they were stolen guys turn up with that kind of muscle and can't come from anywhere else Sure, I knew it was stolen Coltman Fitzgerald have any friends out here. No, not in LA anywhere on the coast Well, I hear Lou's got some people up north where maybe San Francisco and Marin County I don't know might even be Oakland somewhere around the Bay area. They say anything about going up there. No First they might have way Lou likes to eat coming out here He'd go 10 miles out of the way because he knew a place that had a good chili size make nothing of it Ever saw anybody who liked to eat so much real gourmet only with him It was glutton. He mentioned any names of people he knew up north. No, just said he had people anything about the car They're driving it would make it easy to spot. What do you mean? Well, like a dented fender a scratch anything to identify it Yeah, yeah, I might be something there's a kind of scratch in a back left fender I think woman backed into us in the way out here cut right through the metal You think of any reason why they might ditch the car? No, we kept a close tab on the papers right after the job And look to see how much you had on it when we didn't see anything we figured the car was all right I don't think they ditch it be pretty easy to trace Lou owns it outright I see want to try to grab cold plates.  Oh, yeah There it is Probably some money do on the package. I'll have to owe you What's that 33,000? I haven't got the door to bail out the package and it works out even flat You'd have no place to spend it An immediate APB was gotten off carrying the names and descriptions of the two suspects also a description of the car A radiogram was sent to DMV at Illinois requesting the license and description of any car registered to a Lewis Colton While Eleanor Eastlack took Peterson Statement Frank got in touch with the telephone company They'd finished checking the phone call we've gotten from San Francisco But the information they gave led us no farther toward apprehending the suspects the call had been made from a pay booth in the Ferry terminal building We got in touch with the FBI and fill them in on the developments as a result of Peterson Statement the number of men Maintaining the surveillance at the apartment on Garfield Place was cut to one team working days and one team working the night watch We put a call into San Francisco and talk to chief of inspectors James English We filled him in on what had happened. He assigned inspectors Sutton and Zimmerland to work with us on the case 546 p.m. We checked out a trip car. We left for San Francisco Took us a little under 10 hours to drive the 405 miles between the two cities at 403 a.m We stopped in Oakland and put in a call to the San Francisco police department how much? Yeah, just a minute Frank you got a quarter. Yeah. Thanks. They are 264 please. Oh, it's Joe Friday. Yeah, you got a message there for me from Charlie Sutton or Jules Zimmerman. Yeah. No, no, we just got in. Yeah. Oakland. But just a minute. You see that street sign up there. Yeah. Fifth and poplar. Fifth and poplar. Yeah. No, we're coming right over. When was this? I see. Well, if Charlie calls in and tell him that we're on the way, will you? Right. Thank you. Well, they're almost too late. What do you mean they got a lead? Sutton and Zimmerland called in 30 minutes ago. Yeah. They got the car waiting for the suspects now. You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. The address the business officer had given me on the phone was a large garage located at the corner of Union Avenue and Lynch Streets. When Frank and I got there, we met with inspectors Sutton and Zimmerland. They told us that when they'd gotten the APB, a call had gone out immediately to the officers in the city to be on the lookout for a 1952 blue Plymouth with a dent in the left rear fender and carrying Illinois license plates. The suspects had parked the car in a no parking zone on O'Farrell Street between Taylor and Mason Streets. At the peak hour of traffic, the car had been towed away from the parking place and left in the garage. While it was in the garage, the information on it had been received from our department and an immediate stakeout was placed on it. They felt reasonably sure that the suspects would return for the automobile. They had no reason to think that there might be anything wrong. The address of the garage had been left so that they might find the car. All it would be necessary to release it would be the payment of the fine for overtime parking along with the towing and garage fee. The garage itself was a large building. It provided four stories for parking. The suspect's car was on the basement level. We were able to keep watch on it from a small office near the exit ramp. The attendants were instructed to act as if nothing was wrong when the suspects came in. Once we knew that they were in the building, the entrances and exits would be blocked and they would be taken into custody. There was nothing to do but wait. 5.30 a.m. No sign of Colton and Fitzgerald. 6.15 a.m. Frank went out and brought back some hot coffee. 6.45, 7 a.m. People began to come into the garage to get their cars but not the two suspects. The later it became, the more difficult it would be for us to take the two men into custody. If there was going to be any shooting, we'd be in a bad position with civilians in the range of fire. 7.30, 8, 8.04 a.m. Somebody coming down here. Yeah. You see who it is? No. Jules. You and Charlie want to cover the other side? Right. And watch it. We should be able to get a pretty good look at them. Yeah. What kind of town is this? They got a sign. You should have put it in the garage. You and your smart idea. You read what you see the sign. It's Colton and Fitzgerald. Yeah. You see Jules and Charlie? Wait a minute. Yeah. Over by the Gray Merck. Looks like they're all set. Let's go. Now, let's get this crate out of here. Can I have some breakfast with the rope if you can? You know the cost of it. I'm sure it would be annoying me. I'm sure there's a bright thing to do. Look, you don't have to think. If I wanted somebody for that, you'd still be back east. You know one of these days you're going to open that mountain for a little too wide. You know what you guys want? Police officers.  I'll get them. This isn't the way out. The doors are blocked. Colton, you're in here for good. We got you for robbery. Don't make it any more. Joe? Yeah. He's over in the corner. How about Fitzgerald? He's got an unzimmer on the gun. Two of their guns in their lap. One no part of trouble. Colton doesn't figure it that way. I'll try to get around him. I'll watch yourself. Keep those people back out of the doorway. Go on, Frank. I'll cover you. Three more, Colton. You're going to get by all of us. Your partner, Quit, might not be smart like him. All right, Colton. I'm coming to you. You do it. You'll be dead if you get here. Go down there. Never should have taken us. Better take it easy, Colton. Your hit work shows. Never should have taken us. Two of you, two of us. You got it wrong, mister. Huh? You were outnumbered going in. The story you just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. Harvey, Ned Fitzgerald and Louis Jeffrey Colton were tried and convicted of kidnapping, robbery in the first degree, and violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Act. They were found guilty and sentenced as prescribed by law. Kidnapping is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from one to 25 years in the state penitentiary. Robbery in the first degree by imprisonment for a term of not less than five years. Violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Act by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of not less than five years. Henry Vincent Peterson was remanded to the authorities of New Jersey for completion of his sentence. A hold was placed on him by the state of California in the event he is paroled. You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action, and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.